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Story of my 30 years old

In the 3rd year of my collage year there was one subject where my lecturer at that time asked us to write down what things we want to achieve in the next 10 years, a kind of map of life. It was happened when I am at 19 years old. There was one point I still clearly remember that one goal is getting married at my 21 if not push to my 25 if not push to my 27. Oddly all my goal I achieve in that certain time except “marriage thing hehhehehehe.

I take a back and think what probably went wrong? And I figure It out the scenario might occur in that period of time. Let say if Allah had determined that the right time for me to meet my soul mate would be at the age of 30

1.       If I married at 21, my mental age still in baby stage has no idea what really marriage is, probably I’ll get divorce not long from that

2.       The consequence of early marriage probably won’t make me grow up strong mentally

3.       The mental damage of being divorce or fail in marriage in early 20 will affect how I socialize to other people

4.       If I married at 25 , probably I will in stage of “SANDWICH GENERATION” where I have to work while being housewife to pay such and such for my family and that probably will drain a lot of my energy and make me more depressed

5.        If I married at 27 , probably I won’t immediately get offspring , it would be strong and sensitive  issue in marriage life that probably I can’t handle its mental damage.

Things that I learn for my 30 years of life is everything was in place will happen with Allah permission , IF ALLAH NOT GIVIVING ME WHAT I WANT IT MEANS IT IS ALLAH PROTECTION

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Entremet Cake Vs Korean Flower Buttercream ?

Speaking about both type of cake, actually they are high end cake which only found in premium pastry shop or in 5 star hotel. In making both cake are actually the game of left brain & right brain. First is entremet a Left brain game, a multilayer mousse base cake is made with layering multi texture in one .  For making this type of cake we need ultra accuracy weighing every single ingredients,…

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Unusual Jogja - Vacation Undercover Story Part 1.

It has been very long time i never take any vacation. Just stuck in boring life as an employee no adventure and yes no boyfriend at all. Hahahahha. Until one day i decide to search flight to Jogja and yess finally i decide to take leave and get vacation.

At this vacation i decide to visit several city with best recommended vacation place. My first stop is Jogja. Jogjakarta is the city located in central point of Java, it’s special region of java. Known as home culture because of thier kingdom called KRATON Life and home of world  heritage for biggest hindu temple in south east asia PRAMBANAN TEMPLE.

I do visit Pramban Temple as one of my vacation destination, but at this time i’ll tell about the new vacation spot which is pretty good for take selfie , the IG able place callled TEBING BREKSI. NOt far from Prambanan site, about 30 minutes you’ll find tebing breksi, just follow your google map, it will guide you to the place safely. Tebing Breksi is actually dumped breccias mining site. It’s left several giant cliff which now develop to be a new tourist attraction. Currently only 3 cliffs carved, and each cliff has different chracter.

To enter to this location you’ll charged parking fee about IDR 2,000 and donation fee (this fee is depend to your kindness could be more or less, mine just give them IDR 10,000)From this location you can see CITY of Jogja from top of cliff.

Luckily when i visit the place, the whether quite cloudy, so it’s not hurt my skin too much. There will be 3 owl of local own, you can rent them and also give donation to owner (I only give them IDR 5,000 to take selfie with Jhony the owl)

Overall this location recommend for you guys who hunger new adventure place to take vacation.

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Live in late 20′s make me aware that skin aging grow rapidly. Moreover lack of immunity make it even worse. If most women are aware with their make up routine at this ages playing contouring, eye shadow, lipstick, etc, i am more likely care about skin care, with goal to slow down aging by rejuvenate skin specially face skin.

Actually i was once not a beauty enthusiast , i am used to be ignorant with my beauty. I prefer to use less make up as possible. Until i found my self in mirror and look my face skin slowly aging. I am not young anymore.

At the beginning my approach to beauty world, i just know that the important things for face skin is cleanser, i begin to bought cleanser without any hesitation with my skin condition, skin type and my environment. And that’s make my skin even worse, my skin face like oil factory, acne everywhere, white and black head , also black spot can found any where in my bare face skin. Huftttt i am sick of this. And everything changes until i found a beauty blog through pinterest, on that blog explain more KOREAN BEAUTY REGIM.

i like everything about korea but only about their drama, movie and their culinary. i never pay attention with their beauty product, because i think they’re costly, but actually korean skin care are relatively affordable. They have range of brand to offer the customer from economic to premium one. but all range has same result “FLAWLESS”

Korean beauty regim are more likely comple, very complex if comare with western skin care. They are likely to put layering skin care to get better result.

Start from cleansing, exfoliate, toner, emulsion, serum, mask, eye cream, moisturizer, and for day light put some sun block. after all of this you are allowed to applied make up.

Recently i have purchased some korean skin care product in Althea (Korean ritel cosmetic base on internet) they have several brand from economic to premium. What  i bought are :

1. Laneige BB Cushion Pore control 23c

BB Cushion is actually liquid fondation but in complete way contain some shooting agent, sun protection. Since i have oily type skin i bought pore control bb cushion . Laneige is very good brand they are famous with their water bank technology which can keep skin moisturized along day. It’s work well for me since my office environment are likely freezing because a lot of air cond in the room.

2.  Secret Key “ Snail repair emulsion” this is an emulsion product produced by secret key, this is a very good emulsion to keep my skin tighten and moisturized.

3. VC Factor vitamin C serum from it’s skin, is my favorites among others. it help me to brighten my skin and fade away my blemish 

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Have been 5 years become her fans from the very beginning when i start my career in flour milling, i stayed focus to watch her show on asia food channel and continue to follow her recipe in #foodnetwork i grown up become pattisiere because of her recipe inspire me a lot. And finally It's here my own copy Far away from US to Makassar South Sulawesi Indonesia. My latest fudge brownie recipe that i bake several times ago also inspired by her recipe. This is a great baking book chef @chefannaolson very easy to follow your recipe. Thanks to #Amazon for nice service #Book #bakingbook #geekpatissiere #patissiere (at PT. Eastern Pearl Flour Mills (E mill))

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The power of "light thick and pale" finally after vacum 1 half years not making fudge brownie i got my shiny skin back. Can you see the difference of both side? Which one i prefer? I prefer the left side the one with shiny cracky skin 😄😄😄😄😄 One more hint for this shiny skin is butter, the more you add in the more shine will it be. I got trouble with my neck muscle just for doing this treat. It's pain but pay enough to my coriousity #Fudgebrownie #brownies #cake #Homebaking #homemade #homechef #pastrychef #parisserie #bakinglife #trialathome #bakingathome #chocolate

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3 layers filling #tartlet #pies Base Shell : Pate Sucre Filling : Caramel (Dulce De leche) Chocolate ganache Milk Chocolate Cremeux. #Baking #Homemade #Homebaking #pastry #Chocolate #dessert

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When my niece put #koreanfood on her holiday bucket list. And this is what i made for her. #kimbab #김밥 . Yesss this one made with danmuji (a korean pickle yellow radish that i made couple days ago) Katanya sih mo dibawa balik kampung. Karena di majene tidak ada yang beginian. 😂😂😂😄😄😄 *Sayang Ponakan #NadiaPunyaMau

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Trial today in office #Chocolate #Smore #Pie Perfect Triple combo

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My weekend is about baking it's cheesebuttercake petit four #homebaking #homemade #petitfour #Cake #homechef

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Today is my supervisor birthday, as a great supervisor for all my journey in office, she preside more than as section head in office also being our mainstay to face the hard living working in Product Development Section. 

She is quite picky for eating cake, she doesn’t like sweet treat, she tend to choose savory dish rather than dessert. But recently i found her interest in my pastry product. According to her, mine is not make her bellyful, and not too sweet as she said everything just well balance. Therefore i make a Roll Cake as for her birthday present from me, and here it is “Chocolate Log Cake with Chocoloate mirror glaze topped with chocolate filled stick, snicker nougat, hersey’s  cookie cream chocolate and smore”.

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American Style breakfast “Pancake”

a few weeks a go, my office collagues from jakarta (my office representative office) visit canada as a representative of my company, he was visit CIGI one of the largest wheat research center and supplier base in CANADA

He brought me a maple syrup,one of the canadian signature sweetness. This is my first time experience baking with maple syrup. For all this time if i found recipe call the maple syrup  i always replace it with the local palm sugar syrup, and actually it has same flavor with maple syrup, i admit maple syrup has lighter consistency so very easy to used in recipe.

And yesterday i decide to make a pancake with drizzle of maple syrup on top. a night before,  i saw tv program in my cable tv, the entertainer ate pancake and  look so apetite that was my inspired from.

when i woke up i was sneek into moomy’s kitchen, open up the fridge to see what availble ingredients that i can add into my pancake. Best pancake should has fruit as topping, powder sugar on top and also something liquid pour as drizzle. Luckily i have ripe banana on the kitchen table. So i decide to caramelized the ripe banan to serve as my pancake topping.

Here the simple recipe of my Pancake:

Ingredients:

2 Cups of fresh milk

6 tbsp  white sugar

1 tsp salt

2 eggs

1 1/2 cup of Cake flour

1 tbsp Vanilla cream essence

1 tsp Baking Powder (I use double acting).

2 tbsp Milk powder 

1 tbsp melted butter

Topping (optional):

Maple syrup (if available if not can replace with honey)

Powder Sugar

Caramelized Banana (Melt 1 tbsp butter add 2 tbsp sugar , 1 ripe banana)

How to make :

Mix milk, salt, sugar, and egg in to bowl use wire hand whisk. And mix until all incorporated, set aside.

combine all dry ingredient, and slowly pour into milk mixture

mix until there is no lump available

add in melted butter after dry and wet ingredients have completely mixed.

and for the last pour in the vanilla essence, and let it rest for 10 minutes before bake the batter.

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Shine bright like a #pretzels

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Working in flour industry make me explore more about baking good. moreover my baking hobby going way better. 5 years ago when i freshly graduated from college, there was available vacant in flour manufacturing here in my hometown. As the eldest in family with hunger job, was make me brave enough to submit my CV in that factory fortunately i  pass the tested and here i am now, sitting on my front desk working as (product development specialist in cake and cookies) but even more often being an admin rather than specialist. T_T Why? because the demand of cookie and cake flour is not much to produced 7/24 a week. 

But doesn’t mean it’s light off my skill and passion in baking. Luckily when i did something about pastry in my lab none of my supervisor nor my boss forbid me. Talking about baking actually i don’t really interest to bake a bread product, i hate acid flavor produced by yeast on dough, baking  a bread not so interest as baking a pastry products. But doesn’t mean i can’t bake a bread product. Bread product is the first thing i learn in my first year working. i still remember baking bread by using whole sack of flour (25kg ) in just a week. just to fasten my baking ability. And now i can proudly say that i can do everything about baking both bakery or pastry product.

Working in multinational company it’s mean that i have expats boss, here in my factory there is one expats boss originally come from Germany. He loves freshly baked bread, moreover if the bread made by using sour dough. Once he got homesick, he was really miss his mother pretzel, so he came to my lab and my boss whether one of my boss baker could make a pretzel for him. At that moment none of my senior baker willing to make a pretzel for him. Even my senior baker have tried so many trial to fix his pretzel recipe but he reject it. It was not even close with german pretzel, with my super curiosity i decide to do some trial in my lab. I explore so many recipe Homemade Pretzel on pinterest, and as i remember i have 8 recipe collected for Homemade pretzel.

at the first my expats boss, didn’t tell us the detail flavor of pretzel that he really want it, so i made 8 type of pretzel base on the recipes that i collect. And luckily he got one pretzel who close enough with his mommy made pretzel.

Here is the recipe of pretzel that met his german flavor hahaha

i got recipe from this blog,  http://www.sprinklesomesugar.com/homemade-soft-pretzels/

to make a hard pretzel i just double bake the pretzel or baking the pretzel for 8-9 minutes in 200 degree C and than continue bake 15-16 minutes in 185-190 degree C

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A couple of weeks ago, was my brother birthday and that was a long weekend of birthday. As a home amatuer patissiere , making birthday cake for my family member is my duty in the house. 

The very hot weather here in my hometown make me so lazy for craving super fancy brthday cake as usual, and when i open my LINE app on my gadget, i saw an online bakery shop sold a Choux product, and from there i got inspired to make his birthday sweet treat with choux.

Choux is one of the hardest pastry to make by most of home patissiere like me, those who don’t really know the technique will totally creating a chaos in kitchen. And same situation ever happen to me. Don’t ask me how the result of my first trial somehow it turn like a poop cake hahahaha LOL. But since i watch variety program on my cable TV, i found the right and proper technique to make a perfect choux, that show was called “Master Chef Australia 2014″ who doesn’t know MASTER CHEF program? Among the series i adore Australin version, they produce a most talented 5 star chef every year, like Adriano zumbo,  Darren Purchase, and the latest hotest one who originally come from Indonesia and my very Favorite yuppp He is Reynold Purnomo..

Too long story and getting make me confused hahhaha LOL, okay now we’ll back to talk about #CHOUX. How to make choux is actually very easy,

 Eggs, you have to pay attention when mix the eggs in to the dough. Before put in the egg, the dough must cooling down first (but not too cool) until the dough doesn’t emit steam, that’s the perfect time to add in egg. Add in egg should be one by one, if your recipe require 4 eggs to put in, you have to put it 4 times, once at a time. once the eggs are incorporated with dough, stop mixing, do not over mix the dough other wise you will get runny consistency of the choux batter

Baked, baking choux also require a technique, you need to set up your oven 200 degree before baking the choux, bake tha choux for 20 minutes in oven with 200 degree C DO NOT LET OPEN THE OVEN DOOR IN FIRST 20 MINUTES, then continue 10-15 minutes baking in 185 degree C. Once the choux become golden brown take out choux from the oven just let it rest in mold for 10 minutes and you can move them into cooling rack.

It’s so easy isn’t it? You only need to pay attention of above 2 tips and you can make a 5 star quality of choux, and this technique apply for manual method (if you are using wooden spatula to mix the dough) or machine method (if you are using electric mixer to mix the dough)

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Very hectic day when i open the fridge and found this #traditional #dessert of #buginesse. We call it SANGGARA BALANDA. Mommy made this and so yummy. It's actually fried ripe banana with toasted peanut drizzle with caramel sauce. And yessss traditional dessert is really not my specialty. No matter how hard i try to make it them delicious i never beat mommy baking traditional skill 😄😄😄😄

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It's a #maplesyrup far away from #winnipeg #canada 🍁🍁🍁🍁 Thank you pak @yongtjan

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Having gastritic problem and this is what i've got as medicine. Yesss instead of anticide pills i prefer a glass of mix carrot and dragon fruit smoothies. I am trying to change my healing habit from medical drugs to functionaltic food #foodasmedicine #notmedicineasmyfood #smoothies #healthylife #ecolifestyle