Why the cake is GREEN???

It has never occured to me than Pandan Cake should be any other colour than GREEN, well that is if you're Malaysian I guess. Today was my turn to bring morning tea for our weekly Wednesday Seminar Programme and I decided to bake PANDAN CHIFFON CAKE . I thought, cake is not so alien to mat salleh's tongue, but yet I can subtly introduced the asian flavour of the cake.I baked 2 cakes, but only brought 1 and 1/2, partly because I selfishly want to keep some for me to enjoy at home but actually it was because my lovely Aiman had peeled and eaten 1/2 of the crust from one cake!

Lakshmi, who is malaysian was the 1st person who saw the GREEN cake in the kitchen and she immediately asked if it was my turn to bring morning tea and did I bring pandan cake. So I said yes.I should have realised then since it was that obvious!!

Then when it came to tea time, Amy 1st saw the cake and she had this weird look on her face and she immediately asked why the cake is GREEN, LOL..Then I realised that whilst it is very common for us to have GREEN bingka, ketayap etc..mat sallehs don't really 'do' green cakes LOL..

Then I had to explain about how we traditionally juiced the pandan leaves to add it to our dessert for flavouring hence we get the tinge of colour

Peter, our visiting teacher even asked me,why the crust is brown, not GREEN?? LOL, I don't know, never thought about that!

At least they all love the cake, to Laksmi's disappointment, not even a crumb left! She was eyeing for some leftover to take home..I need to bake more for our playdate this weekend

Sorry, I am too lazy to take new pictures..you just have to make do with pictures from my foodie blog

Recipe for oral rehydration solution

Ohh boringnya tajuk hari ini..but I thought I'd share this for the benefit of sesapa yg tersinggah kat blog ni..

Hari ni cuti, cuti ganti for the extra shift that I have to do at Anglesea Clinic, so mai la library, nak study la konon..alhamdullilah, not too bad, reasonably productive. Pagi tadi mai library seawal 8 pg, kalau ikut hati nak mai lambat, tapi memandangkan nak mai sekali with incik hubby untuk jimatkan petrol yg $1.96 seliter itewww.., so kena la mai sebelum pukul 8 sebab dia masuk kerja pukul 8

Dan la study seround, then pukul 10 pg pi kuaq minum kopi dgn rina n k hanim, pehtu, balik semula ke library arnd 1pm

Amongst the things that I read today was infective gastroenteritis aka Diarrhoea..

Dalam dok study tu la that I came accross this recipe for oral rehydration solution by WHO (World Health Organization) I guess this recipe is aimed for those in 3rd world country who can't easily get access to medication, but I think it is quite useful for us to know. Very simple

1L of clean drinking water/cool boiled water
8tsp of sugar
1tsp of salt

Just dissolve the salt and sugar in the water and walla..you have your homemade rehydrati0n solution! The only thing is, the 'proper' rehydration solution will replace pottassium as well, but looking at the ingredients I don't think this solution will, but a banana or two (if you can tolerate it) will take care of the pottasium

Don't forget to keep the solution in the fridge!

Reminder to myself..

Weekend ni, sila tengok2:

Dermatomes
Stepwise asthma mx programme
Buat notes pasal hypertensive mx


ETA - Trochanteric bursatis + the anatomy

the list is growing huhuhuhu

Cukup la tu kot..selalu tulis dalam jotter book, tapi beg kerja pun haram x bukak, tau dok bukak blog saja..so baikla tulis dalam blog hahahah

I need therapy

Stress..stress..stress

Aritu lepas easter long weekend rasa macam dah recharged dah..

But now I am back in our usual routine..

I think I need some spark in my life

We bicker a lot lately, about silly things, sapa nak basuh berak la..sapa nak tukaq baju anak etc huhu..both of us have stressful jobs, have exams that we need to study for..kalau la kami x 'kena' amek exam ni semua, x kuasa seh..

Dulu2 time kerja kat hosp,at least we can meet up for lunch..have a nice chat (hi hi jgn terkejut, a lot of our dr couple friends do this, sad kan?? ) but now I am no longer working at the hosp, tunggu balik rumah baru leh sembang2, mana nak tgk anak, masak etc..dah la nak beli pun x boleh


Brain drain..esp after my College visit yesterday

since I am doing a GP training under Royal College of NZ, I was visited by them yest, they sat in my consultations, we had a long discussion etc..

Rasa macam nak pi somewhere nice, tapi malas nak drive jauh2..malas nak pack brg byk2 etc..

Demi masa..

Manusia itu, sentiasa dalam kerugian..

adoila..sangatla betul!!

I have finished seeing my last patient at 3.40, it has been an hour, nak balik x boleh lagi sebab pg tadi mai dengan encik suami, nak kena tunggu dia mai ambik, selalu mai naik legnum, park kat my place, since I finished early, I will pick up the kids and then pick up encik suami..so x dak la masa melangut macam ni.. tapi pg tadi tgk2 legnum abih batery, sebab semalam aliya tutup pintu x rapat kami x perasan, so lampu terpasang la semalam, sebab dah lewat, malas nak jump start keta, mai la naik chrysler encik suami yg daku x berani bwak sebab tersa sungguh gabak huhu..aritu dah abaq dah kat dia jgn beli keta besaq sebab bini dia gayat nak bawak huhu..

so keta parking kat hosp, ekna tunggu dia abih keja dulu la, baru dia bleh p amek anak2..lepas ni nak singgah mengaji pulak..adeh. lambat la sampai umah macam ni..

so dah ada masa ni, x reti2 ka nak study ka, start buat research ka..ohh no..of course la sy berjalan2 ke blog2, berlari2 anak ke facebook, berlari larian dan berlagha-laghaan ke myresipi, cari idea nak masak apa la konon..padahai dah tau dah nak masak apa ptg ni hmm..

I am drowning

IN READING MATERIALS..


huhhuuu..people are handing out reading materials right left and centre

I have piles of papers,articles, journals, books etc cluttering my desk..

I don't even have time to file them..

I've chucked away some of the leaflets..can't be good for the planet huh??

Lost of momentum

Adoila..since my last entry yg malas nak study tu..I haven't studied at all!!!!!!!!
So lack of momentum laa..
Rasanya sebab seminggu cuti dok umah jaga aiman and aliya yg kena chicken pox,so I wasn't in the working mode, tu yg rasa I have no drive to study tu..rasa pandai hahahhaha

Kalau pi kerja, dapat patient macam2, ada yg I can solve ada yg dak, so from there barula terserlah my inadequecy, baru la rasanya keperluan untuk study tu

Ni esok I'm going to Sexual Health Clinic,baru nak terhegeh2 bukak buku baca...

Alhamdulillah both kids dah recover from CP. Aiman especially. Dia punya CP x teruk sgt, x teruk lgsg actually.He just had a few spots here and there saja, gatal2 pun sat saja,overal he was unwell for about 24hrs. Tapi yg kesian aliya, baaaaaaaaaaanyakkkkkkkk sgt vesicles dia.She was literally covered with vesicles. She got it EVERYWHERE. In her ears,on her back,trunk,legs,arms,face,neck, between her natal cleft,genital areas.She was unwell for the whole week. She scratches away non stop,poor thing :( And now she has the scabs all over her body and she keeps scratching the scabs :(

malam ni x study

adoi la..malas betui nak study malam ni..

tapi pg tadi dah baca on measles, HFMD, croup and acute epiglotitis..aci dak itu saja utk hari ini??

Generalist

I am $205 poorer but I am now the proud owner of the above textbook and its companion handbook. As I was browsing the VERY thick book, I wished I had known about the book sooner. Very concise..

Tak tau la macam mana boleh ter 'apply' nak masuk GP training program ni...I am looking forward to it but at the same time takut sebab, baaaaaaaanyaknya nak kena tahu..not necessarily in details..sikit2 la..more or less macam final exam med school dulu la....dah la nak curi2 masa nak baca buku tu punya la susah..

Oh anak2 ku...jangan bg mummy and daddy tension sgt ya this year..we both ada exam huhuhuhuhuhuu.....