I told people, thank God they required license to own a gun or else I might be killing people every day.
Actually, I lied.
I might be killing my own self instead.
Ceh, macam berani sangatla kan. Baru tersadung kaki dekat pintu dah meleleh air mata.
Note to God: Can we make peace already? I promise I’ll be good [but I guess you know me more than I do hehe]
Remember my hunt for rose water or air mawar? I found it at the kedai mamak near my house. Punyelah sampai advertise dekat blog, rupanya-rupanya sekangkang kera je dari rumah aku ada jual benda itu. Ceh.
So, why do I need it you ask?
Aha, that is one of the ingredients in the after-so-long-aku-mencarik-dan-kempunan drink, air kathira! Yeeeeeeeeeee aku dah jumpa resepi air kathiraaaaaaaaaaa dan berjaya membuatnya ok!
Thanks to the owner of this fotopages. She’s a Singaporen hence made me believe that the recipe will turn out nice. I wanted to drop a comment to say thanks and that I tried her recipe but somehow I can’t seemed to find the comment publish button. So if one day she happens to read this entry, thank you ya!
Oh, anyway the recipe. I altered it a bit kerana aku adalah penamak.
Ingredients:
2 cups of sugar
9 cups of water
Screwpine leaves [daun pandan]
2 tablespoons of Kathira
15 pieces of kembang semangkuk [apala kembang semangkuk in english, walking dictionary aku tgh tido]
1 tablespoon of biji selasih [or telur katak, I used to call it :P]
1 tin of susu cair
2 tablespoons of rose water
Ehe before I start, I know some of you must be saying, what the fuck is kathirala wey? Mana nak dapat? I used to think mesti susah gila nak dapat kathira ni, tah mana-mana cerukla aku kene pegi, but I was wrong.
Just go to any senseh [chinese herbs shop ] and ask for “getah anggur”. The sinseh told me the chinese name of kathira tapi aku dah lupalah apa. Yang aku ingat shi something or something shi . Kalau shishi tu, kencingla pulak hehe.
It looks like kemenyan, if you ask me but here is a picture of it,also courtesy of the mentioned fotopages.
I know, the picture does not make sense tapi itulah dia lebih kurang. Dan gambar ini telah diperbesarkan.
So, we shall move to the cara-cara membuatnya okies?
Soak the kathira for one night [but I cheated, I soaked it only for 1/2 day aku tak saba!], extract the dirts, tapis. Rinse with plain water and tapis again. Same goes with the kembang semangkuk, repeat the same procedure and jangan lupa buang biji dia.
Kathira yang dah kembang
Kembang semangkuk
As for the biji selalsih, you still have to soak it but ithey only need few hours, sekejap ada. Bila dah kembang, rinse with plain water and tapis.
Biji selasih
Ok, for the syrup, boiled the sugar and 3 cups of water together along with the screwpine leaves. Agak-agak dah mendidih and the sugar is dissolve, turn off the fire, karang terbakarla pulak dapur.
Boiling.blubb..blubb..bubbles
Finally, add all the kathira, kembang semangkuk, biji selasih into the syrup bowl [take note, air ni banyak ok, so make sure sediakan bekas yang besar , aku pakai periuk, boleh?]. Then add susu cair , the remaining glasses of water [6 glasses] and the rose water.
Final result
Last but not least [ayat karangan skolah menengah] add some ice cube and enjoy! If you want to have sirap bandung kahtira instead, change the home-made syrup part with sirap rose.
I would say the taste is not bad although memang tak boleh lawanla air kathira JB, oh, I miss JB! Nak mee rebus, nak pisang goreng kicap cili, nak abc coklat, nakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Extra note about the kathira, the senseh told me, it will cool your body and setahu aku kembang semangkuk pon sama. So now you knowlah kenapa bulan puasa, lepas letih and panas hati [hehe] best gile minum air kathira.
Maka ramadhan ini tak payahlah aku mengadu domba nak cari air kathira lagi.Tak perlulah aku nak berasa kecewa kerana air kathira yang ku beli rasa seperti ketiak arab [macam pernah minum air ketiak arabla kan eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek]
The point is, I am one happy bunny!
Like, yeayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
When I took LDP to go home I will have to stop at the traffic light going towards Giant sec 13 and I will saw this billboard of a girl dripping wet holding her hair, more likely twisting it and the advertisement says something like “Untuk rambut yang bersinar dan kuat”. Not exactly the same but you get the messagelah.
The thing is, bukankah bila rambut basah, tak kirela rambut kau karan ke hitam ke purple ke, they will look healthy, bersinar dan kuat? Dan apakah motifnya mengambil gambar gadis yang berbaju basah itu? Adakah bertujuan memberi kesempatan untuk stim sebarang minit dua semasa menunggu traffic light bertukar hijau?
That’s one.
Another one is the EURO cup advertisement from one of the telco company showing a guy who was in puzzle seeing everyone else had blue hair except for him which after that, audience we told a day before there’s some perjumpaan talking shit about the EURO stuff and suddenly there’s this huge air ballon or something in the air and ..and..ok fuck I don’t know what happened after that because it was totally tah hapa-hapa. But I am pretty sure you have seen this iklan before.
I mean, apa maksud kau demand nak EURO you have tu dye your head blue tiba-tiba? Habis kalau die minat team jersi oren, motifla pulakkan die nak dye rambut die biru. And what’s up with all the perjumpaan poyo and big air balloon. I can not comprehend ok.
Another one yang always bug me is this particular advertisement on the radio about someone who picks up his gf and then his friend on a date in his non-aircond car. Because his car got no air cond he was labeled as a loser but he got the last laugh sebab lepas tu dia akan ada can nak menang hadiah besar sebab dia isi minyak dekat satu stesyen minyak.
Like WTF tak pakai aircond ada kaitan dengan isi minyak? Setau akulakan, kalau kau tak pakai air cond, lagila save minyak. So bila save minyak, kurangla kau isi minyak hence the chances for you to win the big prizes are also slim.
There are lots of other advertisement yang susah aku nak terima dan faham.
Ok, you can blame me for not being creative , for not able to see outside the box[ I fucking hate this phrase] but hello, ads are targeted for audience and good ads should be delivered straight to the audience hearts, even the blur ones like me.
Example, I love one of the paint co ads yang cat dia tuka jadi some cute creatures dan mewarnai satu bandar. It is creative but at the same time it comprehendible and paling penting it works. And I am looking forward to see the iklan again. Totally cute!
There is nothing wrongla being creative. I worked with advertising company before, kadang-kadang these creative people terlalu berfikiran complex, terlalu memaksa diri to be different. I was once called “lament”[motif dia cap aku lament pon aku tak paham] for saying my mind and perhaps I don’t see the things the way they see it. Ok, maybe tapi like I said, not everyone can understand if you don’t present them with the creative rationale, and not everyone has the opportunity to view the rationale.
What I’m trying to say is, don’t try to hard to be so gung ho and trying to hard to impress because at the end, it’s not you who are going to see the ads and decide but it’s the audience.
Bukannya bila orang tengok or dengar iklan tu dia cakap “Ha? WTFlah?”
Note: This is a personal opinion
