Persian recipe: How to make Khoresht Karafs aka Celery Stew

How to make Khroesh Karafs also known as Celery Stew?

Karafs (Celery) Stew is a favorite dish in Iran. It tastes really good
and because of all the benefits of celery (Karafs) I really recommend
you to give it a try.

What you need? (Ingredients)

- Celery Leaves
- Onion
- Oil
- Dried Greenies (Dill)
- Tomato Sauce

Cooking Process for Karafs Stew

What you need to know about Cameron Highlands Malaysia

Strawberry in a pot at the Bee Farm Strawberries

Some stuffs you should consider when visiting Cameron Highlands in the state of Pahang, Malaysia.

Cameron highlands is not that developed. This means there’s not many restaurants you can dine in.
As for international chain restaurants there’s only one KFC at Brinchang area and a Starbucks coffee shop at Tanah Rata.

On my 2010 visit to Cameron Highlands I noticed the mobile reception for my Maxis line is very bad specially when it came to internet.
There was practically no internet connection at my hotel suite at Century Pines Resort at Tanah Rata and no 3G at other places.

I can’t recall how my Celcom line performed when I visited there for the first time in 2009 when I was still subscribed to Celcom.

You might want to visit BOH tea plantation as well. but keep in mind that the 7km road splitting from the main road is very narrow and only one car can pass at a time and with many trucks passing through to deliver the tea leafs you might get caught in a pretty bad situation and have to find a shoulder to pull over and wait for the oncoming traffic to drive through specially if you are visiting on weekends.

Redbull 7 times more expensive than the market price!

A couple of months ago I went to a night club called papa-something!
at Hilton hotel Petaling Jaya with a bunch of friends to enjoy the time
but the prices didn’t really let me enjoy!

Here is an example of the bill they gave me  :

It came up to 32 RM (Ringgit Malaysia) which converts to
10 USD and it’s almost 6 times more expensive than the
price they’re selling it for at 7Eleven!

Anyway they had live performance which was considerably
good

Cheers…

Test your general knowledge

Want to test your general knowledge?
Then take a look and see how many of the following facts
you knew before you read this post …  :-)

• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
•  The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
•  There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
•  The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
•  A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
•  There are more chickens than people in the world.
•  Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
•  The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
•  On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
•  All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
•  No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
•  ”Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
•  All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
•  Almonds are a member of the peach family.
•  Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
•  Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
•  There are only four words in the English language which end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
•  Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de losAngeles de Porciuncula”-and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: “L.A.”
•  A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
•  An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
•  Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
•  In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
•  Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer
•  The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.
•  The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life.”
•  A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
•  A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
•  A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
•  On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the “1″ encased in the “shield” and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
•  It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON’T try this @ home!)

14 interesting facts you probably didn’t know

Here are some fun, random, interesting facts about various things you didn’t know…

 

• Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
• 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• For every ‘normal’ web page, there are five porn pages.
• A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
• Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!
• Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
• In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. 
• In india it is cheaper to have sex with a prostitute than buy a condom!
• Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
• Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Few reasons to quit smoking

I was smoking heavily for a course of over 2 years and I’ve always been struggling whether to quit or not.
A very good way to find out if something is working out or not is to make a written list of advantages and disadvantages of it and then make a decision based on the comparison.

Here goes my list of pros and cons for smoking;

Cons;
1. in the long run it might cause health problems
2. waste of money (one pack of cigarettes a day costs $80 US a month
3. smells bad
4. the heavier the cigarette the more sleepy i get (people mostly become alert by smoking cigarettes! in my case it’s different!)
5. global warming!
6. always need to look for an ash tray and u can’t stop ashes from spreading around the house

Pros:
1. satisfying an old habit
2. it’s definitely cooler to smoke
3. something to pass the time with, when there’s no reason to stick around

Well,
I guess the list of cons is long enough for me to quite.

Last night I had my last cigarette (around 1AM) and I passed the rest of the pack to a guy whom I bought a alarm clock from at a night market.

wish me good luck,
I’ll update this post with more facts in the near future.

Clamp in Wonderland

Has your car ever got clamped?

Well, a few days ago mine got clamped.

Since early morning I had this feeling that something is gonna
prevent me from following my daily routine like always.

why?

cause I parked my car somewhere at the courtyard instead of
parking at parking lot and that’s because early in the
morning there was no available parking space left

Clamped Kembara being unclamped at Palm Spring Damansara by Condo Security force

After meeting security people they asked me to pay a fine of
100 Rinngit Malaysia equivalent of  29 USD (at the time this is being
written) to remove the clamp.

Later I called the security chief officer and appealed to him for about
25 minutes. The guy was really tough but I’m much tougher

I told him that there are no signs I wasn’t aware of their
parking regulations and convinced him to unclamp the car
and forget about the fine.

Well,
dear reader, the clamping story is not that important what’s
important is the fact that today I lost my blogging virginity and
joined the community of bloggers.

yooohooo…

warmest welcomes to me as the newest member of blogosphere.

talk to you soon