Production of Mangosteen

This week, I'll be busy with the production of my mangosteen drink. A lot of things to do such as weighting the raw materials, prepare hot water, mixing of the materials, pasteurizing the juice, bottling (hot fill) & packaging.

Yesterday, Yin Sian was there to help me up with the production but today she gotta go back to UTAR for her antioxidant testing and cocoa extraction I guess. So I kind of gotta do all the thing myself. Fortunately, my sister is free today and she is willing to help me out. LOL. Don't know whether I can finish it all by myself or not. Yesterday, we managed to prepare 106 bottles only. Today, my sister and me so crazy that we managed to come out with 126 bottles. So there is another 68 bottles more. Maybe a few bottles extra for QA.

Just 2 days preparing the mangosteen juice, it nearly kill me. my back is aching now and I'm totally exhausted till I can't explain. I still need to go back to UTAR to check out how to prepare a consent form as well as the sensory profile evaluation form. Thanks to somebody (that she asked me not to mention her name), she did send me a sample of sensory evaluation format to me. This help me a bit in order to prepare my own form.

Currently, I'm still searching for people that are willing to volunteer themselves as my subject to be tested for anti hypertension properties of mangosteen, which in this case, my mangosteen juice. I have 2 volunteers here now, maybe 1 more later. However I still need about 7 more. Hope I can find my subjects as soon as possible.

I just need my subject to meet a few requirement only. First, he or she cannot consume coffee and alcoholic beverages during the period of testing. Next, he or she has to drink the mangosteen juice a bottle per day for 30 days and able to let me take his or her blood pressure once or twice per week. Most important is that he or she have to have blood pressure above 120/80 and below 140/90 to be my subject. God bless me and you.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Just watch the movie. I laughed all my heart out. Really funny especially the air crash part and the part where Alex get to differentiate Marty from the big crowd of zebra by the scar, previously he left on Marty's butt.

Synopsis adapted from Wikipedia:
"All of the main characters from the original film return – Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the Hippo, King Julien and his assistant Maurice, and the penguins. They find themselves in the wildest place of all – the vast plains of Africa – where the zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. While discovering their roots, they quickly find the differences between the concrete jungle and the heart of Africa. Despite long-lost relatives, romantic rivals and scheming hunters, Africa seems like a great place...but is it better than their home in New York?"

This movie, u guys if have some free time, go and watch it...

FYP - Killing Me

Sorry guys, I was kinda busy with my final year project after the finals and my vacations. Didn't blog almost one month already. So, I think it's time for me to get back in track.

Recently, as I post in my shout out, I'm doing my Final Year Project under the supervision of Dr. Haresh, title "Development of Functional Food". Well, I'm doing not really food but instead a drink - Mangosteen Drink. I'm doing the project at Taman Perindustrian Puchong (Furley Sdn Bhd) together with Yin Sian but she is doing cocoa drink.

Well, this project kinda killing me because they want me to do this drink for some functional properties except for antioxidant properties. After changing my directions a few times, I ended up doing the anti hypertension properties. However, I still can't find one free article, journal or what so ever scientific related writing about this property except a brief facts on it.

Still struggling to come out a better formulation for my mangosteen juice while searching the net for any pieces of related article or journal. Today, my supervisor from the company comment on my drink. She said it was OK but the taste doesn't stay too long. She rates the drink and gave me 65 marks. LOL. Like having an exam.

Next week, I gotta try and error again to come out with a better tasting mangosteen juice, hopefully. I'm gonna figure it out the formula again, since I'm thinking of substituting the sugar with sweetener, since it is more health conscious. Below is my latest Mangosteen Formulation photo.

Anyway, Happy Halloween to all of you. Hope that you guys enjoy this special night with your loves one or some horrible person... LOL... Just don't get nightmare after this will do.

Hooray!!!

I have been neglected my blog for almost half a month already. Been busy lately due to final exam, gotta study and doing a lots of things here. So I will continue to post more stuff here if I able to do it. However, I seriously think that will take a bit of time because lately not so much happening stuff around me...

Just one new stuff about me. I have join a fitness center with Bryan lately. Almost half a month already from now and I have been attending the free personal training session from it - just three of it only and I have gone through two of it already. Next Monday will be my last training with Jessica, my trainer. I think right now, I don't think I am going to sign up for the personal training. I don't have the budget now. LOL...

If anyone of you wanna try a day free trial for the fitness center, you can get a pass from me. You have to call me in advance to let me know. I don't have much of the pass available...

You Don't Mess With The Zohan

In You Don't Mess With the Zohan, a comedy from screenwriters Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog), and Judd Apatow (Knocked Up), Sandler stars as Zohan, an Israeli commando that hold a mission of recapturing a key Palestinian terrorist, the "Phantom" (John Turturro). Zohan fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream: becoming a hairstylist in New York.

Zohan land a job in a struggling salon of a Palestinian woman named Dhalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui). After first only allowing the ostentatious Zohan to sweep floors for free, she eventually allows him to be a stylist after he pleases a senior lady with a satisfactory haircut and back room sexual service. Zohan's reputation spreads instantly among the elder women of lower Manhattan, who comment that "besides the sex, he gives a pretty good haircut. Dhalia's business booms, upsetting Walbridge (Michael Buffer), a corporate magnate who has been trying to force out all the local tenants on the block so that he may build a huge mall.

Eventually Zohan is identified by a Palestinian cab driver named Salim (Rob Schneider). Salim convinces his friends to help him exact revenge on Zohan. Meanwhile, Zohan realizes that he has fallen in love with Dhalia. However, Dhalia rejects Zohan's feelings for her after he reveals he was formerly an Israeli counter-terrorist operative. Zohan decides to leave Dhalia and confront the Phantom in a Hacky Sack game. His fight is cut short with sudden news of the Middle Eastern block being attacked by racist white arsonists dressed in Arabic clothing.

As Zohan and Phantom are working together to save the block, Dhalia appears, revealing that she is a sister of Phantom – or "Fattoush" as she calls him. Zohan's personal dossier allows him to discover the arsonists' true identities as rednecks hired by Walbridge. Zohan and Phantom lead the united Israelis and Palestinians of the block to save their shops, defeating the rednecks, thwarting Walbridge's plans, and damaging all of the shops on the block.

With the Israelis and the Palestinians united, the block is transformed into a collectively-owned mall, in which Zohan and Dhalia realize their dream, opening a joint beauty parlor. The Phantom also fulfills his lifelong passion of opening up a shoe store. The movie ends happily as Zohan's parents approve of his Palestinian wife.

Official website at http://www.youdontmesswiththezohan.com/
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It is a nice movie to watch and laugh your heart out. I just watched the movie on Friday night, yesterday. I watched it after watching WALL-E, and I think it's funny. It's more stupid compare to WALL-E.

Overall rating: 7/10
Plot: 6/10
Acting: 8/10

WALL-E

What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?

Academy Award-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton ("Finding Nemo") and the inventive storytellers and technical geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios ("The Incredibles," "Cars," "Ratatouille") transport moviegoers to a galaxy not so very far away for a new computer-animated cosmic comedy about a determined robot named WALL-E.

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL-E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen.

Joining WALL-E on his fantastic journey across a universe of never-before-imagined visions of the future, is a hilarious cast of characters including a pet cockroach, and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.

Filled with surprises, action, humor and heart, "WALL-E" was written and directed by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, co-produced by Lindsey Collins and features original and innovative sound design by Academy Award-winner Ben Burtt ("Star Wars," "Indiana Jones," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial").


Official website at http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/wall-e/
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I just watched this film last night with Bryan. It was kinda nice story, but then it's just robots. So there are not much conversation throughout the film. The WALL-E is kinda cute when it wanna try to hold the hand of EVE. It's another movie that should watch.

Overall rating: 8/10
Plot: 8/10
Acting: n/a

Tansra's Birthday

Today is Tansra's birthday. Happy 22nd birthday Tansra - if you read my blog here. So we,Voon Yuke, Poi Ying, Xing Yi, Suet Ying & me went to McDonald's, Jusco, Setapak there to celebrate. Of course not Nando's again. LOL.

We did make fun of her, especially the piggy logo of a pig on top of the cake. LOL. Voon Yuke's idea I guess. Too bad that I have done the dental surgery so that I can't really eat burger so I gotta take the chicken porridge instead. Well, it wasn't taste bad anyway. It's kinda tasty. We took quite a bit of photos. Just hope that she enjoys her day today.

~The cake that we got for her~

~The 'piggy' logo on it~

~Oh Gosh, she is begging for her wishes~

~Her presents~

~The girls with her~

~I'm the only guy there~

~Tansra is trying to slaughter Voon Yuke~

~Her portion of cake... I can't imagine she can stuff all in~

~She is so hungry that she can eat the whole cake.. LOL~

Toxicology Poster Presentation

Today in UTAR, my course (Biomedical Science) and the biochemistry have out poster presentation for toxicology subject. I think we done the best we can in this presentation. Well, I don't have much to say about this event, just that today, I can't talk that well. My gum still in pain when I talk too much.

However, I think my group done a very good job. My group got the third place after Janet's group consist of Janet, Aki, Suet Ying, which is the winner & Caren, and Lit Teng's group the second consist of Lit Teng, Vivian, Yin Sian & Wie Kee. So I guess I gotta thank my group mate that they have done a superb job. Well done Naresh for his lead, Jun Hou for his idea and arguement, and Jing Yung for his journal and his design of the poster.

For more pictures of the poster, click this link.

~Our poster~

~My Group~

~ The left: 1st place; The right: 2nd place ~

Dental Operation

Yesterday, 8th of August (08.08.08), I went for dental operation at Khoo Dental Clinic (Klinik Pergigian Khoo), OUG. I have an impacted wisdom tooth. It have cause me a lot of inconvenient especially after food. It is hard to clean the area. Food tends to trap there and I gotta brush my teeth very often to keep clean.

My dentist have recommended me to do the operation ages ago but then I don't have the time and the cash to do it. However, I have to do it now cause it started to bleed more often when I brush my teeth. Well, the operation cost me RM700 for one tooth. It really burn a whole in my wallet for this wisdom tooth. *sob sob*

My X-ray

So I've decided to fix the problem. I went for the surgical for my left wisdom tooth that cause me most problem. The right one I will just leave it at the time. I don't print money as you know. So I just fixed one tooth than both. I guess it is a best decision right now because if I pluck out both side, I don't think I'm able to eat anything. Now, I'm only able to eat porridge or something soft. The rest, I gotta chew slowly or else it is painful.

The surgery wasn't really painfully cause I was given anesthetic (painkiller) before it. The syringe the used to penetrate my gum and inject those anesthetic looks horrible to me. LOL. The moment that the dentist (Dr. Peter Liuk) plucking it out even worst. He was like trying to stab the tool into my tooth and get out the pieces of my tooth.

Look at that tool that used to inject the painkiller to my gum...

The tooth that I plucked out... RM700 for this tooth... My $$$ flied away

The broken apart wisdom tooth

So as you can see the parts of my wisdom tooth, that is what RM700 cost for me. To break it apart and get it out, stitch back my gum and a period of inconvenience - especially my eating habit cause I love to eat. I gotta take some medication given which consist 2 antibiotics (Metronidazole & Amoxycillin) and a painkiller (Ponstan). I gotta get back there next week to get rid of the stitches.

My painkiller and antibiotics

For more information about impacted wisdom tooth, check out at this website.

Vicky's Birthday

Yesterday, 6th of August was Vicky's (Wie Kee) 22th birthday. I would like to wish her happy belated birthday once again. I think she should have a lot of fun yesterday. Well, we have planned this day for quite a bit already. Thanks to Lit Teng, Poi Ying, Vivian, Yin Sian etc., they have done a lot in preparing the present for her. Well, this year we got her a photo album that filled with all those photos that we taken before since we laid our feet on UTAR. Furthermore, we make a video of us wishing her birthday and any personal words to her - but I didn't manage to do it.

Although I'm not in the video, I still have some words for you. What I hope is that you (Vicky) enjoy every single bit that we have gone through with her during the days in UTAR - all those sweet and sour memories that we all have walk through together as course mate. I wich you all the best in your future career and life journey. Friends forever!!!

OK. Back to the celebration part, we went to Jusco, Setapak. Poi Ying, Vivian, Tansra, Voon Yuke, Moses, Jeff, Eric and me was there to celebrate her birthday at Nando's. Well, in term of the food, I think you can refer to my previous blog on Nando の Peri Peri. The thing I wanna touch here is the cake's part. After blowing the candle, as usually we played the taking out the candles with the mouth. The evil plan of pushing the head of the birthday boy/girl is kinda a trend nowadays. Just that we didn't meant to be so over this time. Eric accidentally smashed Vicky head to the cake - maybe he was just to hyper that time. However, luckily she wasn't too upset by it. Thank God.

I think she must be enjoying her day to the fullest that day. I knew that she will be celebrating it again when she go back to her house and celebrate it with some of her house mates and some of our course mates. So now, I got to prepare for the others birthday soon. I think I'm gonna be broke this month. LOL.

Wishing time...

Vicky was afraid that Tansra will push her head to the cake...

Kinda scary with all the blueberry on her face...

We all help her to clean up...

Photo album that we get for her...

Some of her sleeping photos that we took last time...

She did shed tear looking at this gift that we get for her... I guess she must be touched...

All of us...

Vicky & me

Nando の Peri Peri Story

This photo of the board with the story of the peri peri or rather the origine of the Nando's specialty was taken by me at the Nando's O.U.G. outlet. I dine there few days ago but then I just have no time to blog it here.

The Nando's logo... Well, this is just a small outlet...

Actually, nothing much to say about it. If you compare the price between McDonald's and Nando's, then you wouldn't be eating here. Anyway, it's totally different things that you are comparing too... So, the best is to compare with Kenny Roger's Roasted Chicken (KRRC). For me, somehow I prefer Nando's. There have a few specialty in its sauces (the spiciness of peri peri chilli). Although the side dishes, Nando's doesn't provides variety choices as KRRC but some other appetizer are much more tasty. They have the peri peri soup which is spicy, peri wedges which I personally love it and maybe a few more. I'll most likely be going to Nando's tomorrow.

Nando's special sauces: tomatoes (not really special), garlic, hot peri peri, & extra peri peri