Homec Restaurant

Alhamdulillah, finally the weekend is here and I am going to enjoy the moment until it is time to finally deal face to face with 5 pending assignments, scary right? Alright, put my workloads aside and now it is time to blog about Homec Restaurant, yummy!

This is a truly exclusive fine dining restaurant in the University of Malaysian Prince (UPM) and it is open only on Thursday from 10.30 AM until 2.30 PM. Homec Restaurant is located at the ground floor level of Block B, Faculty of Educational Studies (Fakulti Pengajian Pendidikan, my faculty!) and is operated by the students of Bacelor Pendidikan Sains Rumah Tangga. These are the students who will be teaching Ekonomi Rumah Tangga (ERT) for secondary schools in Malaysia so I presume that Homec Restaurant is a part of their coursework for this semester.

The theme for last week was Modern Malay cuisines and the set up of the restaurant was fantastic! I can truly experience FIVE STARS service in an intimate setting accompanied by traditional Malay music which actually levitated my desire to taste the food. The appetizer was "tauhu sumbat" and I must admit that it was kind of awkward for me to "attack" the appetizer without knowing which forks and spoons to begin with, funny!

This is the drink for the day, Orange Sunquick juice with Nata de Coco. You can choose two sets of the cuisines;

Set A which comprises of Nasi Keju with Ayam Masak Merah, Dalca Sayur and Papadom or

Set B with Nasi Keju, Ayam Masak Hitam, Dalca Sayur and Papadom. No worries of humiliating yourself once you have accidentally break the rules of table manners! The chicken has already been nicely sliced for our comfort but mind you that "Ayam Masak Merah" is quite spicy for me ;)

These are the Food Critics for the session, Rina, Qing Yi, Yong Cun and me. 

Right after the main course was digested, we were served with puding sagu gula Melaka for the desert, super scrumptious! 

Then last but not least, we were served with either coffee or tea for closure. Please guess how much was the total cost per set for a person? Well, believe it or not...it is RM 11.90 only for a true fine dining experience right in this campus! The price is truly reasonable for students like us so I urge all of you to try this restaurant next Thursday. 

The theme would change every week and next time would be special for Western dishes. My friends and I are seriously going there dressed up for the function and who knows that there will be somebody playing violin right next to our table right? And please reserve your table by calling the number stated above because the seat is selling fast...unless you want to queue up outside, seriously ;0

Glossary

Deal              : menghadapi

Pending           : tertangguh

Workloads         : beban kerja

Aside             : ketepi

Truly             : sangat

Fine dining       : santapan mewah

Located           : terletak

Operated          : dikendalikan

Presume           : menganggap

Coursework        : kerja kursus

Cuisines          : masakan

Intimate          : intim

Accompanied by    : ditemani oleh

Levitated         : membangkitkan

Appetizer         : pembuka selera

Admit             : mengaku

Awkward           : kekok

Comprises         : merangkumi

Humiliating       : memalukan 

Accidentally      : tidak sengaja

Table manners     : adab di meja makan

Sliced            : dihiris/dipotong

Food critics      : pengkritik makanan

Digested          : dihadamkan

Desert            : pencuci mulut

Scrumptious       : enak/sedap

Urge              : menyeru/mengajak

Reserve           : tempah

Extra, SuperSTAR

This is connected to this blog post ;)

Alhamdulillah, the official music video for Najwa Latif's third single is out and fresh on YouTube today! Thanks to my old friend Anam Khazali who tagged the video on my timeline; he managed to make my hands shake while the MV was buffering! I must admit that I am a bit frustrated when I viewed this music video because I made such a major fuss to all of you about my first nationwide debut on screen. It turned out that I cannot even spot myself in the video until I paused it at 2:47; you know how it feels like? 

Well, what a blogger to do? I am just an EXTRA while Najwa Latif is the STAR! Maybe next time I should aim higher though, to becoming a real TALENT in my own TV show right? It was still worthy of an experience, thanks to the production team that actually made me feel like a part of the STARS. At least I am involved in a music video of a hit song; to telling the truth each time I hear this song being played on the radio I giggled deep inside me. You know why? Because I am a part of the music video no matter I am barely recognizable or not :)

These are the video of what happened behind the scenes, at least some part of me is visible.

And please, I am not complaining okay. I am very thankful for whatever Allah has planned for me. At least I managed to achieve another dream right?

Blogger Interview: Jue & Hanie

Hey guys and girls! This is story of an interesting event when my editor, Azham Vsvc assigned me to set up an interview session with TWO best friends + allied blog writers Jue and Hanie from Jue & Hanie's Blog! The meeting point was at Nando's Restaurant KLCC right after these career ladies clocked out from their offices nearby, so busy they were and still are!





Our main agenda was to hang out in real life since the three of us have only seen each other "on line" but somehow it ended up like an interview session. The truth is I was nervous to finally confronting Jue and Hanie for the first time so I sounded very much like a reporter. 

My questions were not steaming hot as these Peri-Peri sauces; it was just a dire curiosity to know how they started blogging and the gist of our interview session has already been concluded by Jue and Hanie in their blog post here. We had fun in getting to know each other and exchange ideas on how we operate and manage our blogs. 

Jue and Hanie are so sweet; no hesitation in sharing their unique ways of "blog walking" and replying bloggers' comments to me at all. To trace back on how our "blogging-relationship" began...wow it would take a while! One thing that caught my attention back then was the fact that both of them run the blog as TWO AUTHORS and they told me that they will not FOLLOW any blog unnecessarily. They prefer "mutual visit" rather than the "I FOLLOW YOU, FOLLOW ME BACK" basis, which I later adopted and applied the idea. 





It was indeed a productive meeting but too bad that another close blogger mate of mine Saiazuan did not have the chance to join us. It is okay, I will try to organize a proper Blogger Meeting and gather other blogging mates in a near future hopefully. Thank you once again Jue and Hanie for the special Nando's treat, I will return the favor one day okay hehe. I really hope that our "blogging-relationship" would last and needless to say...the two of you are AWESOME! Until we meet again, take care and God bless.


:Glossary: 

Assigned          : menugaskan

Set up            : menetapkan

Allied            : bersekutu

Meeting point     : tempat pertemuan

Career ladies     : wanita bekerjaya

Clocked out       : habis kerja

Confronting       : berhadapan

Sounded           : berbunyi

Reporter          : wartawan

Steaming hot      : tersangat panas

Dire              : teramat sangat

Curiosity         : perasaan ingin tahu

Gist              : inti sari

Concluded         : telah disimpulkan

Operate           : beroperasi

Manage            : menguruskan

Hesitation        : teragak-agak

Sharing           : berkongsi

Trace back        : menjejak kembali

Began             : bermula

Back then         : pada masa itu

Run               : menguruskan

Mutual visit      : saling kunjung-mengunjung

Adopted           : mengambil

Applied           : menggunakan

Indeed            : sangat

Productive        : membuahkan hasil

Close             : rapat

Organize          : menguruskan

Mates             : rakan-rakan

Near future       : masa terdekat

Treat             : belanja

Return the favor  : membalas budi

Needless          : tidak perlu