Siapa kata bakal doktor tak pandai buat kuih?

Harini hari cuti sempena Maal Hijrah.. esok dah kelas pulak. So, memandangkan saya dan ahli Beyt Hurul 'Ain, Ayu (nama sebenar dirahsiakan :P) dah lama xbuat kuih sama2, dan adik kepada Ayu jugak mencabarnya untuk menyiapkan kuih2 yang comel ini, maka seawal jam 8pagi, kami memulakan tugas suri2 rumahtangga iaitu 'cabaran menyiapkan sarapan untuk suami anda'. haha

Kuih pertama yang menjadi pilihan hati ialah kuih Keria, atau kuih Gelang.. mengikut negeri dan daerah masing2. Resepi kuih ini di sumbangkan oleh Ayu. Saya hanya menjadi assistant sahaja :))
Ini cara2 membuat kuih keria (khas buat adik kepada Ayu :p)


Langkah pertama: Rebus ubi manis dan tinggalkan kering.

Langkah kedua: Lenyekkan ubi dan letakkan tepung disebelah ubi (back to back appearance :))

Langkah ketiga: Ambil ubi dan tepung dan bentukkan bulat mengikut kebesaran yang dikehendaki.

Langkah keempat: Buat lubang di tengah2 bulatan tadi dengan menggunakan jari kelingking untuk hasil yang lebih comel. hehe

Goreng2 sehingga warna bertukar bronze..

Lepas goreng, roll kuih tadi kedalam gula yang telah di blend, dan hidang!

(seperti yang telah diberitahu, resepi ini milik Ayu, maka versi ini mungkin berbeza dengan versi asal yang menggunakan gula cair)

*Untuk adik kepada Ayu: "Siapa kata kak Ayu xpandai buat kuih keria~~ " ^_^ v

Setelah habis projek pertama dengan hasil yang agak memuaskan, (hehe) kami beralih pula kepada projek kedua iaitu 'cabaran menyiapkan minum petang untuk suami anda'..
Untuk projek kedua, kuih karipap menjadi pilihan!

Mari kita belajar cara buat karipap versi kami..
Ayu menjadi assistant kepada saya dalam menyiapkan cabaran kedua. hehe

Langkah 1: Sediakan tepung, letakkan minyak kedalamnya, dan perhalusi sehingga menjadi kasar (friable).

Langkah 2: Masukkan air garam kedalam adunan tepung tadi dan adun sekuat hati sehingga boleh dibentuk

Langkah 3: Potong2 kan adunan tadi sehingga menjadi bulat2 kecil supaya senang dibentuk nanti


Langkah 4: Tumiskan bawang, udang kering dan serbuk kari dan campurkan dengan ubi yg telah dipotong dadu.

Langkah 5: Masukkan air dan yg seangkatan dengannya dan keringkan.

Bentukkan dan kelimkan dengan kesenian tangan masing2 dan goreng!

Siap dihidang!

*Untuk adik kepada Ayu: "Siapa kata kak Ayu xpandai buat kuih karipap" ~~ ^_^ v
An effort this special just got to be shared! So we did.. hehe I wonder apalah komen mereka2 yang telah merasa kuih kami yang kurang serba serbi ni.

A thing about good food ; It brings folks together from all walks of life. It warms them up and it puts little smiles on their faces :))

p/s: senang je buat kuih. yang penting ada masa dan kesabaran! hihi
and whats more important:

"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach!"

Mari mahirkan diri memasak! huhu

Cerita kita baru bermula

Harini 5 Dec.. hari yang ditunggu2 dan yg telah memeningkan kepala2 student2 sem 8 sejak kebelakangan ni. Midsem exam untuk round Obstetric & Gyne yang kami ambik sejak 2 bulan setengah yang lalu. About the exam~~ hurmmm not that easy I can say. 44 soalan EMQ (extended matching question) & 16 soalan MCQ. Tekejut jugak bila bukak kertas tu sbb soalan pertama pun dah tak sure. Tapi insyaAllah, kita dah usaha sehabis baik. Moga2 semua dapat result yg baik2 belaka.

Ini sticker besar pelbagai kaler yg banyak membantu dalam acara pen'study'an i..kih3





So, sepanjang 2 bulan setengah belajar pasal sakit puan & mengandung ni, apa conclusion yg i dapat? Let me list some.. weird / interesting /unbelievable facts:

#1: Menopause itu bermaksud berhentinya darah period selama paling kurang 12 bulan. Kalau dah xda darah selama 12 bulan, pastu tiba2 berdarah balik, sila lah berjumpa dgn doktor secepat mungkin. bahaya!

#2: Keputihan itu ada yg normal & ada yg x normal. Normal apabila warnanya putih, tidak berbau dan tidak gatal. Ianya banyak apabila tiba waktu subur. Its totally NORMAL bila sentiasa terasa underwear basah.

#3: Tempoh berpantang dalam istilah medik ialah sepanjang 6minggu, dimana organ2 yg berubah ketika mengandung kembali ke bentuk asal.

#4: Wanita2 yang menghidap penyakit kencing manis perlu strictly control penyakit ini selama 2-3 bulan sebelum mengandung untuk mengelakkan kecacatan kepada bayi.

#5: Soya mengandungi hormon estrogen & sesuai diambil untuk mengelakkan osteoporosis dikalangan wanita yang telah menopause.

#6: Pemakaian seluar dalam yg lembab atau terlalu ketat boleh mengakibatkan jangkitan kuman.

#7: Sakit ketika period akan hilang setelah melahirkan anak atau keguguran kandungan.

#8: 50-60% wanita yang mengalami PMS (premenstrual symptom) mempunyai masalah psykologi!

#9: Muntah yg tidak normal ketika mengandung ialah apabila ia berlaku selepas 3 bulan umur kehamilan & menyebabkan perut ibu kosong tanpa makanan.

#10: Once you pernah buat c-sect, other delivery should be conduct in the hospital. Once dah 2 kali buat c-sect, always c-sect afterward.

#11: Wanita memerlukan lemak yg cukup dalam badan bagi menukarkannya kepada hormon estrogen untuk keseimbangan. (kurus sgt xbagus..)

#12: Jus lemon dan cuka boleh digunakan untuk membunuh sperma (bagi tujuan merancang kehamilan)

okaii.. rasanya banyak benda yg interesting waktu belajar dulu, tapi xingat la pulak.. patutnya bila dapat tau, terus share baru tak lupa. :))

Esok start round untuk pediatricss.. Ayeff~ aunty will be studying about u!
*Akak, jgn malas2 update blog ayeff okeh! senang sikit nak stadi, ingat Arif je.

Selamat tinggal O&G buat sementara waktu. .
PEDIATICS.. cerita kita baru bermula :)

taktau nak bagi tajuk apa

Today is the first day of Hari Raya Haji holiday. Cuti Raya di Egypt ni seminggu, unlike Malaysia yg dapat cuti sehari je. yeke? For the time being, i'll be staying home, sehari sebelum raya baru balik kampung (a.k.a Rumah Sabah, Cairo). I'm just not in the mood yet to bukak buku now (after doing the weekly laundry), so here i am jotting down some words.

Yesterday was my 4th time going to the labor ward (ward bersalin).. Every other day, i wasnt lucky that no one is having their baby at the time i was there. Yesterday was an experience. My first time actually, seeing in- labor- mother going through her 1st stage of labor.
Readers.. labor has 3 stages:

1) CERVICAL DILATATION AND EFFACEMENT
where the cervix dilates to give enough space for the baby to be born. It takes 12-20 hours.. which depends on how fast the cervix can dilate. it is here in this stage that mothers will experience pain.

2) FETAL EXPULSION
now, after the birth canal is already set for the baby, they will be born! takes half an hour to 2 hours. what i'm so geram about is seeing this tiny cute baby being born with their eyes close, with perfect calmness and comfort while their mothers struggle to push them out! (tapi xpa, because soon after, they'll have their first cry and started to breath on their own) Doktor2 risau kalau baby xnangis, sebab tangisan pertama ni lah yang membantu paru-paru baby mengembang untuk membolehkan baby bernafas sendiri..

3) PLACENTAL DELIVERY
soon after the baby is born, placental will be delivered (placenta as in tembuni? if i'm not mistaken)

Coming back to the mother in the labor ward. She shouted her throat off, i'm telling u. ( lebih teruk jeritannya berbanding the one i experienced in bone marrow aspiration)

this is one of the site of having the bone marrow sample

notice the large bore needle?!

sample is taken

Really loud that the whole ward in tense of it. I guess this is why people say suara boleh pecah lepas melahirkan.. I asked the doctor about patient's history, and doc said she has been there since last night, thats why she looks so exhausted. (so is the doctor.. tgk kami mcm nak makan org. nasib baik kami xdijerit sekali) and its her first baby..which makes it a more difficult and painful.

We waited an hour and a half i guess, before baby is ready to be delivered. The ward is next to the labor room, so the mother had to walk herself to the next room. Begaduh2 pakai surgery robe, tup tup baby dah lahir! so easy.. doctors have to make episiotomy to the mom.(cutting of the canal to make more space). one of my friend tried to take pictures and record the event but was scolded by the doctor. so no pics then.

Its a baby boy. and he's adorable. His head was a bit oblong, as to fit in the narrow birth canal. (it'll be in normal shape again after weeks). He cried after being slapped by the midwife who handle him. a really soft cry.

After seeing placental delivery, we rush for our next class~

( a wonderful first experience i can say )

so cute!

baby spanked to stimulate respiration

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Enough about babies. There's another interesting something i wanna share.
We learned about technologies emerging to help couples have babies.. There's IVF (in vitro fertilization as we know it/ or so called test tube baby), and others. Learning of the topic, our doctor raised an issue about China with its one child policy.

It has started in the 70's to control population growth in the country and the effects on their economic status. Stating from the web: the economic causes are; to reduce the demand of natural resource, maintain a steady labor rate, reducing unemployment caused from surplus labor, and reduce rate of exploitation.. Guess Chinese is all about business and money huh?

'for a prosperous, powerful nation, and a happy family, please use birth planning'

Thinking about the effects of such law despite to increase the wealthiness of the country; there's increasing abortion rate (possibly because they prefer boys than girls), abandoned unwanted childre, social problems of a precious child (they used to call this very precious one child as the 'little emperor', who was excessively treated, with no ability to live independently), unequality of both sexes, unequal enforcement (rich people can have second child by paying fines-- very unfair!), over-dependent of old people to retirement funds and charity (well.. 4 grandparents with 2 parents and a child.. that's kinda imbalance).. There's also increasing usage of technology for the rich, as the law stated: no penalties for multiple pregnancy in the first birth.

What are they thinking? Aren't there anybody who'll be speaking for themselves about the stupid regulation? Or do they obey because they're born to be dictated by tyranny?