My Favourite Food

  My favourite is Nasi Kerabu. This because Nasi Kerabu popular for every people in the east coast state of Malaysia such as Kelantan and Terengganu, and now can be found throught Malaysia as well as in Southen Thailand. The Nasi Kerabu does not only can our breakfast and lunch, dinner also make this  Nasi Kerabu.

  This Nasi Kerabu is normally served with Sambal Tumis, grilled beef or chicken,salted eggs as such there are several step to make this Nasi Kerabu. Nasi Kerabu is make from a traditional Malaysian dish that is famous for its blue rice, this filling dish also contains fish, which is the base of the Kerabu or vegetable mixture the other element of typical nasi kerabu are the coconut based sweet and the salty sauce and the garnish.

  Other than, Nasi Kerabu also includes vegetable and a variety of ingredients commoniy used in Southeast Asian Cocking the rice in a Nasi Kerabu is blue because it has been pre-cooked in the blue extract from the dried flower of the Clitrioa ternatea plant. These flower, which are striking vivia shade of blue, are also used to dye rice in other Malaysian disehes such as pulut tai tai and nonya chang. In a typical nasi kerabu receipt, a ratio of 1 cup (237 ml)of cooked rice to one medium fish used.

  Traditionally the fish used for the Nasi Kerabu is mackerel in a typical recipe, the fish is grilled and fraked before being fried together with grated coconut and blended ginger and shallots.The resulting mixture then has sugar and salt added to it. Sometimes dried fish is used in place of fresh produce. In many nasi kerabu recipes, the base for the souce is coconut milk. Other ingrediant normally include shallots, dried chili and lemon grass. The milk is combined with the flavors and set on a store to simmer with salt and sugar being added to the souce as it does so.

  Lastly, I love it because it was a marvellous food. One day, I will learn how to make nasi kerabu from my mother, when my family want to cook something special, I will ask my mother to make nasi kerabu for us. This is because I love nasi kerabu very much and it was my favourite food.

                                                                                             Amir Amirun Bin  Mohamad

My Favourite Food

I am very foodie. I love to eat and cook. Among the number of food Pizza is my favorite food because it tastes and smells fabulous.

In Pizzas too I love cheese Pizza a lot. This is because cheese Pizzas is healthy and makes me strong. I love to cook Pizza at home. My Mom cooks the best Pizzas in the world. I always ask her to make Pizza.

Many times she bribes me with her yummy Pizzas to get work done from me. I can do anything for her as far as I can get Pizzas from her. On every occasion we cook Pizza at home and celebrate the occasion say my birthday, my brother’s birthday, my grandparent’s birthday and my parent’s birthday, anniversaries etc. To create fun we also organize pizza race in terms of who can eat maximum number of pizzas. I can eat many pizzas faster at a time and I always win the race.

My parents always scold me for eating so many pizzas all the time because pizzas are not good for health. Eating pizzas makes me feel glad and happy. I want to go to America once in my life because the country has varieties of ham burgers and pizzas. I hate being sick because whenever I am sick I am not allowed to eat pizzas by my parents.

Like me many people love to eat pizza disrespect of their age. Pizza was a basic part of the Italiand diet and was originated from Italy. The world’s 1^st pizzeria was opened in 1738 in Naples (Italy). Pizzas are now revolutionarized to tomato sauce from just plain dough into four in one pizzas. Today you can buy 4 different kinds of flavors by paying only for one pizza. Isn’t yummy??

I like to eat hot pizzas. Because hot pizzas tastes best when they are crispy at the sides and soft in the middle. Crispy crust pizzas with extra cheese tastes like heaven. Furthermore the aroma is always tantalizes like anything.

No matter how much I have eaten, I never fail to make myself feel hungry when I have my favorite pizzas in front of me. Flavors are felt exploding in my mouth when I take the 1^st bite of my pizza. Those diced vegetables, jalapenos, tomato sauce, cheese and mushrooms makes me eat more and more. My love for my pizzas is eternal and nobody on this earth could ever take this from me until I die.

                                                                                                              NorZahirah bt Abd Gani

My Favorite Food

Hi my name is Aida Fatini and sound good to me discuss about my favorite food. Actually there is a lot of food that I like to eat. Well, since I’m born in Kelantan, let me tell you about the most food I like to eat here which I also can found it in my place where I stay right now, Negeri Sembilan. But. Not as good taste in Kelantan. For my opinion, in Kelantan the general civilian here prefer food which is taste sugary. As for me, I also like to eat food taste sugary. For me, I didn’t like to eat food that taste spicy.

  The nasi kerabu has an age old recipe, which is very unique. To prepare this dish successfully, each and every ingredient has to be taken into serious account. To make nasi kerabu it takes quite a long time because we have to use a lot of vegetables and have to slice. Nasi kerabu made by mother different from others because my mother using recipes passed down for generations. When there a big work at my house, my mother will make nasi kerabu and everyone will praise him.

 The main ingredient used are pickled-fish, concubines, thick coconut, fried coconut or kerisik, fish, coloring likes blue, sweetmeat or sugar Melaka , lemon grass, spices such as ginger, shallot, chilies, garlic, fresh, sugar, salt, and condiment and the important thing is fish sauce or in Kelantan, we call it “budu”. This food is contain 4 types of dishes that we have to eat in one plate. That why we call “Nasi Kerabu”. We mixed them and eat together. Firstly, we have to cook rice. It rice is very strange because their colour is blue. When we want to cook this rice, we must to put ginger, a little bit of sugar and salt, 3 pieces of lemon grass and also colouring of blue.

 Secondly, we should to prepare their sauce. We put a small of ginger, a some of garlic and shallot, chilies, sweetmeat or sugar melaka and a little bit of sugar and salt into coconut milk. Then we have to grind them and then cook them and lastly put in some of water. After that, we have to prepare sauté spicy dish. Firstly, we must to get fried coconut or kerisik. Then, we have to boil fish and then mixed them. Finally, we have to prepare concubines. We can use cucumber, long bean, and bean sprout. We have to cut of them in a small size and look that very beautiful state. “Nasi Kerabu” is already done to eat after 4 types of dishes is done. We also can eat this food with fried chicken, fried fish or eggs to make this food more delicious and fun to eat.

Ayam percik also my favorite food that I like to eat in Kelantan. Let me introduce you a little about this. Here is the method to done Ayam percik. Marinate chicken with the blended ingredients for 1hour. Preheat oven to 180C on the grill setting. Heat wok over medium flame without oil. Put chicken in for 3mins to tighten up. Turn off the heat, take out the chicken and place on a grill or an oven pan. Pour the coconut cream, tamarind juice, sugar and salt in the wok to mix with the marinade left in the wok. Coat the chicken with some of this mixture and put it in the oven. Cook for 40mins. Keep cooking down the remainder of the sauce in the wok as the chicken cooks in the oven. Pour the remaining sauce over the chicken once it’s done.

                                                                                                                   Aida Fatini bt Rozman

Ghost Story

                   My name is Amir Amirun. I want to share to  you about my scary story. It's happened after i finished my work at office. I'm very busy because my student will take a final exam soon. So, i decided to tell my parents that i came late to their house at Kampung Sungai Buluh. I also told them that i maybe arrived at 3 a.m because i will leave at 12 a.m from my home. It was a long journey. I also ask my friend for join me but he can't because he got a dinner with his family.

                   On my way,i was shock because there has something was screaming on my car.I feel very scared. It was scary! I don't know what to do.So,i press down a radio button. I just make like nothing happened just now. Gradually, that scary sound has gone. But i'm still scared because i didn't even going back home lonely. It was my first time. I look at my wacth. It was 1 a.m, i'm very tired. Suddenly, i feel like someone touch my shoulder. But when i looked at the back, its was nothing. My head very fibre. I try to relax but again,someone has touch my shoulder again. It's was demoralize.

                   I stopped my car at the roadside then walked out from my car. I looked around but there's nothing. It's just a darknight. But suddenly, i saw a women that wearing a white cloth with her long black hair at shrubs. She was look at me!! Her face was very ugly and scary! i run away from there then came into my car. I drive my car with high speed. I'm very afraid! when i was driving the car, it's happened again. The woman who wear a white cloth walk alone next to the cemetery on the road.

                   I'm curious don't know what to do ! i recite Surah to remove my heart that beating really fast. On my way to go out from the scary road. My car suddently desist and the woman that i saw at the cemetary run to me. Afterwards, she clow my car mirror, i try to start my car engine. But i can't. She walk around my car. I just closed my eyes until i fall asleep. When i wake, there are many people knock my car. There ask me why. I just shut up and doesn't say anything. I continue my journey after i feel relax.
                   Finally, I'm arrived to my parents house at 8 a.m. I won't tell them was happened last night. I dont want them to get worries.It will be my worst experience ever! I can't forget it until now. Nowdays, if i want to get my village, i won't use that curse way anymore....

                                                                                                       Amir Amirun Bin  Mohamad

Ghost stroy

    There are people who believe in ghosts and there are people who don’t. I myself  was a skeptic a few years ago. All that changed when I had a paranormal experience one fateful Sunday just a year ago.

I had gone to Pahang with my best friend. Raihan, during the school holidays. We went to a quiet village and a relative of my friend’s had made us welcome and offered us the use of one his rooms. The village was a far cry from the city where we lived. There was no hustle and tussle of the rat-race found in the city. The days moved at a leisurely pace and we had lots of fun fishing in the river and climbing trees to pluck rambutans and mangoes. It seemed that life in the village was absolutely carefree.

One day, Raihan claimed thats he had heard that there was a haunted house at the outskirts of the village. He said that the house was very old and was in a badly ruined condition but none of the villagers would go near it. That night, Raihan suggested that we go to the haunted house and prove to the superstitious villagers once and for all that there was no such thing as ghosts.

When we reached the haunted house, we felt an eerie chill, yet on even a gentle breeze was blowing . We flashed our torchlights and made our way to the house. The house had no door and we boldly walked in. There were still bits and pieces of old furniture stewn all over the floor and there were cobwebs hanging on the walls and ceilings.

Just then, we heard a terrifying scream. We had goosebumps and  we looked at one another. Then, a light formed in the middle of the room and a ghostly apparition appeared right before our eyes. The face was that like ugliest woman we had ever seen. Her face had long line of open scars.

For a few seconds, we were dumbstruck and then in unison we fled from the house as fast as our legs could carry. We ran all the way to one of villager’s home. His name is Roslan. We stopped to catch our breath only we have locked ourselves in our room.

The next day, all of us were down with a high fever. Roslan called the doctor and we were each given an injection and prescribed a course of medicine. We were bedridden for three days. When we had recovered, we told Roslan what had happened.

                                                                                                                 Norzahirah bt Abd Gani
 

Ghost Story

My name is Aida Fatini. This true story i never told in print for fear that i would sound mad. It is the version of events as i remember them, so that the tale told by another member of my family might differ slightly in order or timing.

When i was 16 years old, my family moved to Ampang, hidden behind trees, high-ceiling and replete with corridors. This sudden gift of space was not before time. When people asked how many siblings that i had , i tended to chirp "we are too many" or " we are legion" . Ours, in fact, was the perfect situation for a horror story. Three girls of 16, 15 and nine, a boy of 11 and one of barely four years old.

To be sure, our new house had a degree of notoriety. local gossip held that it boasted three "presences" a woman who stalked the ground floor , an elderly doctor forever racing up its stairs searching for a dying grandson and, in its upper reaches, the victim of an argument that had spilled over into murder. There was even what appeared to be the requisite bloodstain that could not be removed, since covered with carpet.

The more credulous would not step upside it. We were not so naive. And yet, there was something unsettling about our new home, a personality a sense that we were installing ourselves in a place already occupied it never felt quite empty. Doors would shut of their own volition, footstep would sound, it felt as if we were being watched, assessed.

Very soon, this phone-war period became the subject of nostalgia. For, when the house kicked off, it kicked off in epic style. Every night 4am, someone - something would tear up its stairs, ratting , then forcing open, the doors in its wake, like all of which required proper turning and thrusting , until it reached my mother's room, entering in a furious door slamming blast. Once comically , but in ghastly , it even seemed to relieve its excess energy with a few stroke on her rowing machine.

                                                                                       Aida Fatini Binti Rozman.

Ramadan

 Islam is quite a simple religion to follow. There is one prominent time of the year when Muslims from all over unite and put aside their worldly issues to become one with God. This time is during the holy month of Ramadan. Muslims around the globe fast, pray, give charity, and engage in spiritual connection with God. At the end of this auspicious month, a celebration is held called Eid-Ul Fitr. This “Holiday” consists of a few main aspects that Muslims concentrate on sighting of the moon, indulging in worship, and last but not least, fasting.

         The Islamic calendar is based on the lunar cycle, this is why the commencement of Ramadan is with the sighting of the moon and it also ends with the sighting of the moon. This is why there is no specific date set for Ramadan to start. Muslims start Ramadan by sighting the new moon which is an event on its own. The night the moon is to be seen there are literally large groups of people that go out to elevations or where there are clear skies, to sight the moon. The groups need to be very attentive and focused because the moon is there for only a little bit before it disappears in a matter of minutes. The person or people who sight the moon are obligated by Islamic law to take an oath of allegiance to an Islamic scholar of that town. There has to be two or more people who go for the sighting of the moon. There are certain characteristics that the person who is in charge of sighting the moon, must possess. He or she must be trustworthy, not a known liar, and they have to be religiously inclined. This tradition of starting this Muslim holiday has been practiced for over 1400 years. If no one sights the moon or is unable to by the end of the month, Ramadan automatically ends on the thirtieth day. The sighting of the moon at the beginning and end of Ramadan is of high importance in Islamic law. This is why there are so many restrictions involved.

     A big part of this month is fasting, which starts before sunrise and ends at sunset. During this period a person is not allowed to eat or drink at all. It is considered a sin if one breaks his or her fast intentionally without a valid excuse such as illness. Having a cold glass of water without realizing he or she broke their fast is not considered as a sin, forgetfulness is not something that can be controlled. A Muslim believer is to not only fast from food and beverages but accordingly abstain from forbidden actions such as lying, cheating, backbiting, shouting, swearing, or fighting of any type. All these actions if done intentionally will void one’s fast. He or she may as well start eating because the person has stopped attaining reward from God. On the other hand, if one asks forgiveness after committing these actions, he or she may be forgiven, depending on the person’s sincerity. The bottom line is to work even harder to abstain from all the vices that the religion requires its followers to abstain from.

      Another thing that makes the month of Ramadan is that the holy book the Qur’an, was revealed to the prophet Mohammed in this month. As Muslims, we are required to read or hear the Qur’an in its entirety during this month. Every night of this month, an Imam (preacher) recites the Qur’an by heart (memorization) in prayer. The Qur’an has 30 chapters with 25 pages in each chapter all written in the Arabic language. Listening to the recitation of the Qur’an and standing in prayer is considered worship. As a Muslim we believe in life after death and all rewards that we accumulate with good deeds will be given to us in the hereafter. During the month of Ramadan all rewards are multiplied by thousands compared to rewards given for good deeds during other months. So a people try to worship as much as they can to get the utmost benefit of this month.

     On the morning of Eid there is a flurry of activity in each household. all Muslims get dolled up in the best clothes that they own, favorably traditional clothes. On that morning we eat something sweet then head off to the prayer hall with family and friends. At the hall a speech is given then everyone prays together. Afterwards everyone greets and meets each other. After that family and friends go out together to have brunch. The whole day is spent meeting people, going to their homes, exchanging gifts, having picnics, and presents are given to children. It is a joyful day for people of all ages. This day is not restricted to Muslims only, people of all faiths are welcome to join in. It is just a wonderful celebration to get together in peace and harmony.

                                                                                                    Amir Amirun Bin Mohamad