"It's not about the uniform, it's about saving lives"

"I choose to join Kadet Bomba" said by my brother.
"Why don't you join Kadet Polis? The uniform is nicer." my mother suggested her opinion.
"It's not about the uniform, it's about saving the lives of people." my 13-year-old brother replied.

The brother in the house

My younger brother does have a goal. He is ready to chase his dream of becoming an ambulance driver. Why? 
Because he loves to save people. Being a police was his dream too but his heart strongly wants him to be an ambulance driver.

I feel small because I did not have a goal when I was 13 years old. I went to school, met my friends, talked and talked.

Google: Walt Disney was an ambulance driver.

Is he really serious with his goal? Oh Yes...
Whenever I went to the hospital for treatment for months, he would stand at the main entrance, watching every single ambulances came and went. He got so excited and remembered every single car plate of the vehicles.

This brother is good in remembering places and face features of people. So, there was no problem for him to guide my mother from Seremban to Malacca *1 and a half hour journey*. He said he loved and enjoyed doing so because he wanted to be a bus driver one day. From bus driver to ambulance driver.

His goal motivates him to study hard now. Oh that's right...
Everyday, he is so interested in doing his homework in the evening compared to last time. Now, he kept saying the motion of things are influenced by the art of Science and kept explaining to me.

He told me:
"Now I have the heart to study hard because my school is located next to the private hospital."
Not only that, he too said that:
"Sitting 'near' to the medical centre gives me inspiration to be 'smart'."

Perhaps, he has different goal one day. 

Now, what's more important is that, his current goal motivates him to study hard.

Make our oatmeal cookies at home

After trying to make our very first potato cookies at home, Mum and I decided to make oatmeal cookies. I was not that interested because...

I thought that:

1. It's hard to form the oatmeal cookies' shape. Oatmeal cookies look like stones with uneven shapes. *It must be hard*
2. The recipe wrote: Mix sugar without specify brown sugar or sugar. But we mixed them both into the bowl. I prayed everything worked. Else, we made again.

Luckily, mother successfully convinced me to involve in making oatmeal cookies.

As a result, the 'thought' faded away after:

1. Mother taught me that by using 2 teaspoon to drop the mixture of oatmeal cookies on the tray, the shapes were indirectly formed.
2. Mixing both type of sugars did not affect the taste of the cookies at home. I guess, the recipe summarize sugar as brown sugar and normal sugar.

Experience with Potato Cookies at home

Potato cookies are the love of my family members. From mum to my youngest brother, we love it to bits. But the problem is, we only get to eat those cookies once a year.

So, mother and I make a team: Try and bake different type of easy cookies before Chinese New Year arrived in February. Thanks to this blog, we manage to trace the awesome recipe.

How was the experience?
Oh well, it was awesome because I never know that there are few ingredients with few simple steps to produce awesome, delicious and yummy cookies.

Everything went smoothly?

1. We made it like a cute big round ball. Yes, big. We forget that those cookies will expand when heating them in oven! So, there's the first thing we keep in mind when we bake it for the 2nd time.
2. The dough was extremely soft due to the fact that the ingredients are mixed into butter-icing-sugar-mixture when beating. Mother thought it was impossible to make it like a ball shaped initially. But it can that I think that's the unique part of these cookies.
3. Mother taught me to use the fork to press against the cookies to form shape. *Simple thing that I have no idea.*

Mother and daughter potato cookies:)

This is the recipe I found here:

Ingredients:

• Butter - 125g
• Icing sugar - 40g
• Potato starch - 125g
• Plain flour - 80g

Method:

1. Beat butter and icing sugar until fluffy and lighter in colour.
2. Sift in potato starch and flour, mix to form a soft dough.
3. Roll into small ball, arrange on lined baking pan.
4. Press with a fork.
5. Bake in preheated oven at 150C for 20 minutes.

 My brother said it was not bad.

This cookies are special. Because it's so soft until we will eat it non-stop, endlessly, without a big full-stop.

 

Husband and Wife Look Alike?

Teaching job is fun and challenging at the same time. There is no escape for the teachers to look at some parents who look like siblings due to their looks.

Really, some of us even do our 'own' survey and found out that there are more than 5 pairs of the parents who do included in the group of 'husband and wife look alike'.

According to Philippe Rushton, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario, marrying someone who looks almost similar to you can ensure "your own segment of the gene pool is safely maintained and transmitted to the future generations."

One of the students has his father's gorgeous smile.

"His mother's smile is the same too", said a colleague of mine.
"Does that mean his daddy looks similar to his wife?", I asked her instantly.
It was true, they both do look alike.
*That was just one of the many cases happen in the workplace.*

It is amazing that there are so many students' parents look alike in the kindergarten. Besides, one of the many pairs of celebrity couple that shares the similar face features is:

Leann Rimes and Eddie Cibrian

Miss Rimes' eyes are so unique. I always think she has this unique yet natural look. I did not think someone will have the similar Rimes Look in this world.

When I came across a picture of Leann Rimes and Eddie Cibrian, I was stunned because they look alike. I was shocked and still shocked, you know?

What do you think of people who share the same look as their significant other?

With us in Tampin

Granduncle with the grandkids

It was sort of a sudden plan to pay a visit to our dearest granduncle. Usually, we will think of visiting him during the weekend. So, really, Thursday is a 'sudden plan' with our cousin rushing to our house right after his presentation in university and my sister taking a-day-leave....

And we finally started our journey to visit the Granduncle in Tampin.

He is a close granduncle because we always meet him since we were young. I remembered he used to visit us in Johor Bahru, along with his both sisters (one of them is my late grandmother). We went to shopping mall, waiting for someone to drive us back. It happened more than 10 years ago...

When we visited him last Thursday, his mind was still very alert although he is 87 years old now. We, the younger generations lose to him seriously. The way he talked, the way he expressed his opinion, the way he told us the old stories before we were born really impressed us. He is a natural speaker, natural person with absolutely natural vocal variety.

He was the one who used to call me Rainbow because my Chinese name is Rainbow. There are few times he kept saying my name sounded like a guy,sometimes. It had been more than a year since he met some of us. Thus, he could not recognize us. He thought I am my cousin's friend. We changed, our face feature changed, according to him. 

He is still our awesome granduncle who still able to make some jokes during our trip to Tampin.

We took the chance to take pictures on top of the hill.

The short-trip to Tampin is wonderful.

Family is forever. We do not ask for it, we are blessed to be part of them.