roasted chicken & beef steak

Every Thursday, I've food styling class, which conducted by MR.A and MR.E...The main purpose of this syllabus included in my degree courses, is to identify the role of food stylist in various media such as editorial, public relations, promotional, print advertisement, packaging etc. to acquire techniques used in food preparation and presentation for camera.

Every week, we all have theory classes before we went to the kitchen. Today, there was an invited guest speaker who taught us about the lighting in photography and also how to use Photoshop photo editor. This software will be so useful for us to edit those pictures that we shoot.

he is explaining about the function of flashlight


teaching how to use photoshop

As for today, we have to prepare 2 dishes, roasted chicken and also beef steak. Its not like what we usually prepared it in kitchen, but, these dishes only for photo shooting purposes. So, there are several tricks and techniques we have to apply, in order to make the dishes look real and tempting to eat. 1st task is to prepared beef steak, we used sirloin steak instead..

The steak have to sear 1st on the both sides, to get the browning color on the surface.. Then, use the metal rode to make the grilled effect. If the color is not attractive yet, you can touch up with some coloring, to make it look caramelized and some burnt colors.

MR.E is searing the steak and heating the rod

use the hot rod to make the grill effect



the final shoot~ sirloin steak

The 2nd task is to prepare the roasted chicken. Unfortunately, we got the 'ayam cacat' one...haha...That chicken seems to 'baring-baring dengan rilex nya di tepi pantai' hahaha.. Dengan gaya senget sebelah...Everything we had tried to make it 'sit' properly on the plate, but we failed...hoho...Biar la dia nak baring-baring kejap :P .....Letih gamaknya..

The whole chicken must be trussing 1st, then soak it in boiling water for several minutes, to get the smooth and shinning skin which looks like it cooked. Then, with painting brush and some thick soy sauce, color the whole chicken, until the chicken look like roasted,then, after you get the correct tone and roasted effect, you may sprinkle with herbs or crush black pepper, to make it looks like the real roasted chicken.

kak aza coloring the chicken



final shoot 'roasted chicken'

give me the strength

Lega~

Today, I've an appointment with my Independent Study's adviser, which is MR.B. actually ,I've suppose to meet him yesterday, but, I'd postponed it to today~...semalam kan still on the journey back here..

So far, he said that my progress on IS is good, still on track..chewahhh....I'm so glad to hear that, rasa macam berbaloi je penat lelah selama ni... bagai nak crack kepala otak untuk siapkan literature review(LR) ni, itu pun baru untuk 1st varaible...there are 3 more varaibles to go.... chiok2 saliza...you can do it~ :D.. due date for submit the LR will be on next week, hurm, lets see I could finish it on time or not...thanks God I get MR.B as my adviser, if nenek T dulu,mampos!
she keeps repeating the same irritating sentence, "you better do your work, if not, u'll die" "do or die"

p/s: I put a new header to my blog, cantek tak? :)

Back to Shah Alam..

After spent 2 days in smallville, today I've to go back to shah alam, my home sweet home rumah sewa..hehe..

I'd took the Eramesra yellowish bus which anyone known their tagline 'eramesra, naik selalu'...seems that I had been cursed by the tagline...adoiyai...hihi

What I hate about the eramesra is that, the bus keeps stop here and there....first stop was at parit buntar station bus, then, bagan serai station bus, followed by 1 more bus station which i cant remember the name.. later than that, baru masuk highway....

The journey was quite smooth, but sometimes rainy here and there..the one who sit beside me, was a boy, which put on the ketayap alL the way to s.a...hihi...both of us keep silent from kulim until shah alam.. :P...masing-masing layan tido je..

I'll update more on the mushroom's progress soon~ 2nd batch dah boleh petik :)

Lil cousins

Here in smallville,I have two lil cousins, which is my chu's kids. The older called Alia, while the youngest called Aiman. Both of them stayed just next to my home, which also known as my granny's home.

Alia is 6 years old and her brother is 5 years old this year. Both of them attending the same kindergarten, Tadika Kemas Cikgu Ani, which was my sister's former kindergarten also..hehe,This year my sister turns 20, so, can you imagine for how long that Cikgu Ani had run the tadika kemas?.. ;p

Here the picture of my lil cousins which taken this afternoon, when they came back from tadika..

aiman and alia

unplanned

Last night, my laptop charger was not working as usual....
Even the battery has its own problem too..I cant operate the lappy just by depending on the battery alone.. huhu

So, for the resolution to my problems, my mom suggests me to come back to 'smallville', take the spare battery charger which my dad bought it several months ago....At last,berbudi juga charger tu kan :D

At 1 pm, my dad fetch me at my flat, S.7 shah alam.... And we safely arrived at smallville at 5.50 pm....best nya..dah lama x balik rumah...nak jumpa my new kittens, which had delivered 1 month ago(anak kak long)..

As for now, my parent have a new activity, planting the mushroom, to be more specificly, oyster mushroom...so, lepas ni, boleh makan mushroom sampai muak la..hihi...suka...suka...suka..

180 bags of mushroom

1st mushroom yang tumbuh

lets start now !!!

Hurmmm.... I had left the blogging world since June last year I guess...hehe...
Not because I'm not on9 frequently...But,the will to update the blog keeps fading day by days..
Not to say that I'm too busy with my study either,but, other stuff like reading others' blog,seems more attractive than updating my own blog...heh....

Reading others' blog became my daily routine nowadays...Even I read those blogs which I'm not really know them personally....

But recently, when some of my friends active blogging, my intention to start blogging again can't stop me anymore. So, for today,I will start my blogging world (again) with a new blog, which have no permanent name yet :D.... I'll decide it later~

P/S: I'm not a good writer @ storyteller @ scriptwriter...Just write it to myself, and those who willing to read...... :P