Rice Cooker Baked Salted Chicken

Ingredients

1 1-1.5Kg whole chicken

Marinade

3 tbsp salt

1 tbsp ginger juice

1 tbsp light soy source

1/2 tbsp dark soy source

6 large slices ginger

1 bunch spring onion (cut into sections)

Seasonings

1/2 tsp ground ginger powder

6 cloves garlic

1/2 tsp Sichuan peppercorn

2 star anises

1 small cinnamon bark

some light soy sauce

some dark soy sauce

2 tbsp hua diao wine

Method

1. Rinse chicken throughly and pat dry. Rub evenly with salt and ginger juice. Rub the skin with light soy sauce and dark soy sauce. Add a few slices of ginger. Set aside for 2 hours.

2. Rub the cavity of the chicken with ground ginger powder and stuff it with crushed garlic, Sichuan peppercorn, star anises and cinnamon bark. Rub more light and dark soy sauce onto the skin.

3. Place spring onion sections and ginger slices in the rice cooker.

4. Put in the chicken and drizzle with hua diao wine. Switch on the rice cooker. Turn it on again when the switch pops up. Continue to cook until the switch can no longer be pressed down. Leave the chicken in the rice cooker without lifting the lid for at least 5 minutes.

5. Remove chicken and drizzle with the juice resulted from cooking. Leave to cool and chop into pieces before serving.

Fried Prawn with Chilli

Ingredients A

500g Big Tiger Prawns

1/2 tsp Pepper Powder

1 tsp Sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup cooking oil

Some coriander leaves for garnishing

Ingredients B

10 Dried Chillies (Soaked in hot water)

1 inch shrimp paste

6 Shallots

1/2 inch Galangal

1 Stalk Lemongrass

Ingredient C

1 tbsp Tomato Paste

1 tbsp Sugar

Salt to taste

Method

1. Marinate prawns with pepper, sugar and salt for 20 minutes and fry in hot oil until the prawns change color, drain and set aside.

2. Heat up oil and fry the Ingredients B until fragrant.

3. Add in Ingredients C and fried prawns, stir well. Fry until dry.

4. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Ants Vs Grasshopper

Older Version

An ant worked hard in the sweltering heat all summer, building its nest and laying up supplies for the winter.

A grasshopper thought the ant was stupid not knowing how to enjoy life. It spent its days laughing, singing & dancing thoroughly enjoying the summer.

Came winter, the ant was warm, comfortable and had no shortage of food.

The grasshopper had no proper shelter, no stored food, and couldn't find anything to eat from the snow-covered ground. So it died and the story ended.
MORAL OF TH E STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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Modern Version

An ant worked hard in the sweltering heat all summer, building its nest and laying up supplies for the winter.

A grasshopper thought the ant was stupid not knowing how to enjoy life. It spent its days laughing, singing & dancing thoroughly enjoying the summer.

Came winter, the shivering grasshopper called a press conference and demanded to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while he was cold and starving.

TV1, TV2 & TV3 showed up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper alongside to a video clip of the ant in his comfortable home with a table full of food.

The majority of the Malaysian Parliamentarians were stunned by the sharp contrast. How could this poor grasshopper be allowed to suffer?

Khairy staged a demonstration in front of the ant's nest.

Nazri went on a hunger strike along with other grasshoppers demanding that they be relocated to warmer climate area during winter.

The Malaysian Government immediately passed a law forbidding all ants from working hard in the summer so as to bring about equality of poverty between ants and grasshoppers.

Hishammudin increased 'More Special Reservations' for grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & Government Services..

The ant was fined for failing to share 30% of his food with the grasshopper. The Prime Minister announced that this was part of the NEP. No ant should question it. (Don't forget, Tax Audits were introduced and targeted at certain individuals who were eventually penalised heavily for not contributing enough to the well-being of the grasshoppers).

Many years later...

Some ants migrated to the US and set up multi-billion dollar companies there.

Hundreds of grasshoppers still died of starvation despite the 'More Special Reservations'.

Losing significant number of hardworking ants and free-loading the grasshoppers, Malaysia remained a developing country, despite its abundant natural resources.
All because the remaining ANTS were still doing their work .............................

Latest findings showed that almost all the grasshoppers in the political arena and civil service were hoarding corrupt wealth which they refused to share with fellow grasshoppers.

MORAL OF TH E STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2011.

Maybank Website, Hacked!

Today at this time, maybank2u.com website was down and defaced by hackers. I was doing my bank transactions and it was hacked at this time. I am wandering how secure is this. Sigh....!

Exceeding Expectation

Satyam a company that was once the proud of People's of Andra Pradesh. She had so many campuses that tought the young one on the technologies as well as the way to set high, aim high and achieve high. One of the most common practice is "Exceed the customer expectation" to make the customer happy. 

This was once of my favourite theme to delight customer with "Exceeding their expectation". However, as i grew older, i started to notice that exceeding expectation is similar to exponential graph of mathematic. It's harder and harder to achieve. 

At the end, you will have to slow down your movement or work just enough to maintain the expectation. Else, you will destroy your entire career and even worse, your family life!

A real life example is the Founder of Satyam. He was famous with his enterpreurship and very less known to people "Exceeding Expectation" practitioner.  

Quoted from Ramalingam's Resignation Letter

The gap in the balance sheet has arisen purely on account of inflated profits over a period of last several  years (limited only to Satyam standalone, books of subsidiaries reflecting true performance). What started as a marginal gap between actual operating profit and the one reflected in the books of accounts continued to grow over the years. It has attained unmanageable proportions as the size of the company operations grew significantly (annualized revenue run rate of Rs 11,276 crore in the September quarter, 2008 and official reserves  of Rs 8.392 crore). The differential in the real profits and the one reflected in the books was further accentuated by the fact that the company had to carry additional  resources and assets to justify higher level of operations – thereby significantly increasing the costs.

Every attempt made to eliminate the gap failed. As the promoters held a small percentage of equity, the concern was the poor performance would result in a takeover, thereby exposing the gap. It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten. 

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Exceeding expectation, a dangerous game!

Exceeding expectation, a good start for business and is like raising a tiger cub.

Exceeding expectation, a good way to have continous business and is like dealing with teenage tiger.

Exceeding expectation, an end of business. Just like riding a tiger without knowing when is your dooms day!

Putra Prima House

Good or bad? Roof quality is damn lousy...rest of it...just nice...

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