Ulang Tahun Cece

Hari Jumat kemaren itu hari ulang tahun ceceku. Aku ga ada kado spesial, karena bingung juga mau kasih apa :p.

Tapi Chit Hui ada bikin cake, waah.. spesial benar, bahannya pake kacang pistachio! Jadinya ya bagus ya enak. Mirip sponge cake yang aku suka sekali, kadang-kadang beli di China town, cuma cake yang ini lebih basah dan tidak sekenyal sponge cake.

Thank you, Chit Hui!

Puto

Akhir bulan lalu, tanggal 27 November itu hari Thanksgiving Day di US. Malamnya, aku ada acara dinner, ikutan temen2 PWKI (Perkumpulan Warga Katolik Indonesia) Chicago. Dinnernya itu berupa potluck, jadi ya aku bawa makanan. Liat2 di dapur ternyata ada satu pack tepung untuk bikin jajanan Filipino, namanya Puto. Kubikin deh :)

Ini adonannya setelah dicampur-campur:

Kuenya mesti dikukus, dan cuma bisa beberapa biji sekali kukus :p

Lumayan lah.. jadi juga kok, hehe. Teksturnya mirip kue mangkok tapi tidak sepadat itu, dan mirip roti kukus tapi lebih basah.


Nyam-nyaam!! :)

What's on your wallpaper?

When I worked in SF, I was given the client laptop to use (separate from my company's laptop). I knew I would use it for quite a while, so I started customizing it. One of my favorite things to do is changing the computer screen saver.
As with my other laptops, I set the screen saver to display pictures in My Pictures folder. I want it to display bible verses, instead of other pictures, so.. I have a few templates in Word that I can type in the verses. For each page, I take the screen snapshot and save the picture in My Documents -> My Pictures folder. This is one example:


After a while, I got bored with my wallpaper, too. So I decided to look for a background wallpaper with bible verses in it. Then I found one with this verse in it: Matthew 6:19-21, "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

At first I thought of this only to help me memorize verses. But what happened was.. after I started working from Chicago, my laptop was used by a team mate in SF, and apparently he never changed this wallpaper. Just a few weeks ago he told me that now the only bible verse he remembered is Matthew 6:19-21, the one on the wallpaper!
I am never sure if he is a believer, but regardless, it's great to know that he now remembers one bible verse :)

I bring this up just as an idea. If you are bored with your screen saver or wallpaper, try this idea. You can also pick a nice picture as a template, add a bible verse on it (by using Paint), and use it as wallpaper. This way, you can change it every week or so, and use that to memorize bible verses :)