Sofia Mustaffa

Gyoza (Japanese Dumpling)..bite size 😃

Hey guys!! I made some modification on previous dumpling. Well, nothing much changes, just on the the folding method, and cooking method 😃

So, previous dumpling was, I’m using the whole piece of skin. I’d found out its too big to chew. So, now I modified it by folding it into 2, then cut it into two. Sorry, forgot to take the picture. So, it happened to look like this…😀

Folding Gyoza 😃

Okay, let me cut a paper to show you how to fold it…sorry guys! I forgot to snap the pictures 😅

1. Imagine this is the skin..Im using paper for a demo 😄

4. Okay, here is the part. Firstly, secure with water to glue the side of the cone. Then, you fill the meat. Lastly, secure the curve side with water to glue it.

5. When you glue the 1st side, it will looks something like this. Fill the filling inside, then glue the curve part. 😃

7. Lastly, tap tap all the sides. You don’t need water for this, or it will be too sticky. Just ensure no air bubble in the filling, or else it will pop out when you boil it later 🙂

Cooking method ☺

Okay, you can steam, you can boil, you can deep fry. But I choose to boil first, then stir fry my gyoza with olive oil 😂

Normally, gyoza you will fry the bottom, then add on some water for steaming. But hey, I wanna make my ownself. My own way. My Gyoza, My Rules. Hahahaha 😆

1. Boil Gyoza: okay, I pour water into my pot and let it boil first. Then I put my Gyoza inside, not too long. Just as long as my Gyoza floating, it consider done. Then, I filter the water using net.

2. Stir fry: okay you clean all messy water, let it dry first and put on lil bit of olive oil. Well, like what I said, its my gyoza and its my rule. I wanna use olive oil 😃. Hahaha. So, I put lil bit of olive oil, then let it fry lil bit. Then, switch to other side..then..wallaaa!! 🥰

Final product: tadaaa!!! I ate with soy sauce mixed with sesame oil. Itadakimasu!!! 🥰

Okay, that’s all the modification done. I think this gonna be my fav dumpling ❤

To be continue…

Love, Sofia

The lonely feelings….

The lonely days……reminds me of the memories….

The lonely nights……reminds me of our old memories……

Each days and nights….I taste the pain….alone..without anyone by my side.

Your days and nights…..are always with someone…..who love you dearly….your lonely days always cheer by your friends and families…sometimes it just hurt me…the pain i need to lust each of my breath….

I vow to myself…..will never let you in again…NEVER.

My love to you has died….the moment when.. You Chose Her over Me.

Love, Sofia

The Uncertain Moments and Feelings

Hi everyone. Have you ever feel frustrated in your entire life? Have you ever feel like a bigger loser in your life? Have you ever feel so down that you barely do your routines? Have you ever think to vanish from this life? I’m sure all of us has this kind of feelings, at least once in our life.

Have you ever feel that, there is a time you had chosen the right path, then in the end it turns into opposite side? Have you ever think that you had made a right choice, in the end, it ends up to be the most nightmare choice in your whole life? Have you ever feels like that, even once, or twice or thrice in your whole life?

It’s either you win or you loose. Have you ever holding tight to it, hoping it won’t go, but finally you need to let it go, and watching it ends? Have you ever feel guilty when it ends? Or have you ever feel satisfy when it ends?

Have you ever think of the consequences of your choice? Have you ever have any doubt on your choices? I’m just feeling floating in the air…

Love, Sofia

My “kick off” lift weight plan for Month 1, 2 and 3 🙂

Heyyy everybody!!! How are you doing? Hope you are all fine. 🙂

So, it’s been a month that I’m preparing myself to lift weight again. I started with slow cardio such as belly dance and other slow dance, frequency 3-4 x per day. Then after 2 weeks, Im adding some slow body combat exercise. You will need to know how comfortable your body to add-on the exercises. If you think it’s too intense, try to use slow video and lesser the frequency. So, for me it took me 2 weeks to start my bodycombat exercise (not to intense).

Before that, I have my own equipment for my exercises as below. I have:

A pair 5.0kg plates
A pair 2.5kg plates
A pair 2.0kg plates
A pair 1.75kg plates
A pair 4lb dumbell
Barbell
Step
Small ball – unsure how many grams..i quess about 300gram.

Below are my plan to kick start lifting weight again.

My schedule for month 1:

1st & 2nd weeks – slow cardio (ie: belly dance, slow zumba dance etc) with frequency 3-4x per week, for 30min session.
3rd weeks – replacing cardio with slow bodycombat with frequency 3-4x per week, for 30min session.
4th weeks – adding bodypump with frequency 1-2x per week, for 45min session. [Bodycombat cardio 3-4x + Bodypump 1-2x].

My schedule for month 2:

5th weeks – to reduce Bodycombat cardio 2-3x, Bodypump 1-2x and adding Yoga 1-2x, but to increase the duration from 45min to 1hour.
6th – 8th weeks – to maintain, and keep up 6x healthy meals and snacks. By this 6th weeks, I usually will try to keep an eye on my calorie intake – check on my next post on food preparing 😉

My schedule for month 3:

9th – 10th weeks – to fix 7-8 hours daily sleep, prep meals and to continue exercise.
11th – 12th weeks – repeat and adding some more weight for strength.

Okay guys, I think that’s all I can think off right now. See you later in next post regarding the prep meal, you’ll 😉

To be continue…

Love, Sofia

Awana Genting Highland resort, is it nice? 😃

Hye, so last week I went to Genting Highland. Didn’t go for cable car, just chilling and relaxing 🥳

Well, last time when I went there before the pandemic, it was an old resort (not well maintained). However, when I went there last week, I can see some changes and differences, and there were also some on going renovation in progress. I think it’s pretty nice, open concept resorts. Check this out..

Im not sure what was this, something like glass house? Its still in progress..

It looks like hydrophonic plants..still in progress..

What I like about is…the cafe 😍

Okay, I think the rest pretty normal, just the cafe looks a bit luxury and chilling 😍

They have an open concept cafe, you can seat whenever you want. I love the music they played, it reminds me of the gym I used to go before. Check these out…

The view from inside of the cafe..there is bar outside, beside the pool. I like the concept, if you wanna feel cozy and warm cafe, you can seat inside. If you wanna have some fun, the bar is outside..its versatile concept.

They have some machines…that you can play..

Okay, enough with the lobby, cafe etc, we go to the room…Zoom In…

The hallway..pretty old school…but I think they will change it later..renew the look..

What I like bout this resort is that…it has nostalgia memories when me and my siblings were kids. We came here most of the weekend 🥰❤

There were 2 rooms…check these out…

Breakfast at the balcony….

Okay, that’s pretty much about the resort..we enjoyed it 🥰

Till then…to be continue

Love, Sofia

Organizing “Gadget” for An Organizer Freak 😂

HeLLooOoo everyone!! What’s up? It’s finally here!! So called – My organizing “gadget”…haha..🥰

So, I bought 3 different sizes of Rattan Box storage, to keep my blankets and other stuffs like my hairband, hair clip, sleeping mask, detox patches etc.

Tadaa!!! Cute rattan storage in different sizes – S, M and L 🥰

The reason I don’t buy big basket for my blankets, is that because Im living in a small room – to keep virtual clutters away 😃

Oh, and another things, the grey storage is for my undergarments. I like it to be well organize, soothing in my eyes 😍

The other Organizing “Gadget” I have in my room 😃

1. The Square Storage Box (with zip on top and side) – for *Towels* and *Bedsheets*

2. Medicine Kit – all first aid medicine including Covid-19 swab test 😃

3. Make Up storage – unfortunately, I don’t have much make up. Mostly for my skin care serum, hair serum, backup Parfum, Massage Oil, body lotion, hand lotion, nail clipper, haircomb, contact lens casing etc 🥰

4. Clothes Dust Cover – other than Virtual Clutters free, this cover helps to keep away the dust in wardrobe. Coz, I noticed there are dust at the bottom of the wardrobe and I need to clean it, weekly 🤪

5. Parfum and pins storage – Okay, I have lot of parfums, but these 2 are the most often I used. Easily to pickup and put back, to minimizing the virtual clutters and as a deco too. 😃

6. The humidifier essential oil – Okay, okay, parfum freak in the house..whoott whoot!! 😚 So, I have my fav flavours which I often used – Hotel version: *Banyan Tree, Grand Hyatt, Westin, and Hilton* and typical essential: *Orchid* and *Lavendar* flavour. I do have more such as *peppermint*, *Oranges* etc, but I keep it away in wardrobe to avoid virtual clutters. ☺

7. From the back, Hotel version : *Hilton hotel, Westin hotel, Grand Hyatt hotel, Banyan Tree hotel. Orchid.* From the front: *Lavendar*.

Crystal Collections: To Re-Use?

Okay, Im pretty okay for the rest, there is only something I don’t find the purpose to be displayed on my table – My Crystal Collections.

Well, I used to put some essential oil onto it, coz I thought to make it as a crystal diffuser. But it turn out, not so good compared to wood, plus my crystal out of shapes and colors 🥲

I’m thinking to re-use it for something better and useful, if you have any good idea, you can comment below, thanks 😉

I think, some has changed color and shapes. I used to have emerald green color, but now its gone 😭

Okay, that’s all for today…to be continue…

Love, Sofia

Colmar Tropicale, Berjaya Hills

HeLLoOooooo Everyone!!! How are you all??? This week is a holiday week!! Yeppie! 🥰

So, we went to Colmar Tropicale, Bukit Tinggi, Pahang. I book via online booking, 2 sites – Booking.com and Agoda. It’s a last minute booking, since both my parents wanna join too. 😁

Okay, you will need transportation to come here. It’s kinda far from the city, surrounded by forest. Well, the food kinda expensive here if you compared to the normal price. 1 cup of coffee may cost you around RM 10. I’m talking bout the normal coffee, not starbuck kind of coffee 🙈 So, those who wants to be on budget, I suggest you to have picnic for the 1st day, then you can go for outside eating for the next day.

Registration at Hotel Lobby

Once you reach here, if you are using private vehicle, you may park at basement parking. Don’t bring along your luggage, I suggest you to register first to see which building is your room. You will need to fill-up some registration forms upon check-in.

So, I booked 2 rooms – Deluxe King and 1 bedroom apartment King. I’d asked for both rooms to be close together, you may asked the PIC at the hotel counter (subject to availability). So, I got Deluxe King at Level -1 (underground) and the 1 bedroom King at Level 3. Here are those rooms..its lovely and clean rooms.

The 1 bedroom apartment (King bed)

This room at the highest level, 3rd floor.

Narrow and long bathroom. I think they used the space wisely. Its small, but yet functioning well. ❤

Dry kitchenette. They didn’t really allow you to cook, you can cook instant noodles only 😀

Hurm…spacious dining room..idk why its so spacious here..i think can built the 2nd bedroom here 😃

Okay, that’s all for the 1 bedroom apartment. Now, let’s checkout the 2nd room..which is Deluxe King.

Deluxe King

Dining room and dry kitchenette. They have minifridge inside the cabinet, but I think only suit for drinks.

The hotel building…..🥰

It’s a beautiful france building for the whole hotel. I like it’s unique design..❤

It has the pad lock love too….idk what is the purpose….😃

Some of the view from side of the building..

Okay, I bought rooms with complimentary breakfast. Well, the croisants are much nicer compared to the rice. 😃

Last, but not least. My travel essential 😃😂

I can’t live without parfum…so i bring along the hotel flavour parfum..by Mayci. My fav were Grant Hyatt and Banyan Tree.

Okay, that’s all for now..to be continue….

Love, Sofia

Throwback…the best job ever so far….missing them ❤

Hey everyone!! The weekend is over …now we need to get back to work!

Okay, talking about work, I still remember when I work with Great Eastern, back in 2019-2020. I missed working with them at Great Eastern, the staffs are very kind. I still do remember, each time whenever we have a new staff, they will celebrate and bought a welcome food for us. It’s a really nice environment to work there.

Throwback, I got an opportunity as my recruiter sending me off, to change to another client after 10months joining the company. So, I have to say goodbye to all of them. I bought some cute souvenirs for all the team members. The cute pen 🥰

Then, I made a bouquet flower from the pens. Isn’t cute? 🥰

There is one day, I received a mystery food delivery. When I saw on the paper, it’s written small notes said, “Once arrived, please call Sofia”, from Kak Shera. It was so touching that my manager secretly sending me 2 cupcakes for me. Thank you, Kak Shera. I will do always keep in touch with you. Hope one day we can still work together 🥺

🤤 yummy..bought one for my family recently, and they love it.

Okay, I think that’s all for now..I still have a week to go, before going for my long vacation with my family 🥰

Till then…to be continue…

Love, Sofia

3 things that’s very important in our life 🙂

HeLLoooOoooo everyone!!! It’s weekend again!! I woke up today, suddenly I’ve been thinking bout this…

There are 3 things that very important in our life – Faith to God, Health and last but not least Education.

Why I said so? Okay let’s go to see each of it in details

1. Faith to God

Okay, this happened to me. I don’t believe in miracle before, until this is really happened to me. There is one day, I lost my car key. I find in everywhere, in my room, in living room, in dining room, in my car literally everywhere, but not found. After checking for a week, I started my prayers and asking my God for my key. After not more than 3minutes, I found it in my room. The thing is, I did look for it at the same place, but couldn’t find it before. You imagine I’m looking for over a week. Starting that day, I do believe that prayers can make a miracle.

So back to our story, yes we need to pray to God, coz above of our plans, there is a Greatest Planner to plan our life. If you find difficulties in this life, then repent to God coz only God can turn things into miracle. This life is a test, patience and prayers help us to overcome the stress. Insya Allah.

2. Health

One of the reason why health is very important is that, medicine supply is very low nowadays. There are fluctuate in medicine price over the years, very expensive these days. Recently, one of the doctor i visited told me, our medicine is running out, and we need to find different supplier to replace. Lot of patients lately, and clinics, hospitals are full.

Another reason is, when you sick, you just simply can’t do anything at all. You gonna lay down, do nothing. Eating medicine and not proactive. If you are wealthy, but not fit..you gonna spend a lot of your money for medicine. Wasn’t it waste of money? So, live a healthy lifestyle is very important. I’m not only talking bout physical health, mental health is very important too. Coz I’ve seen during pandemic and lockdown, a lot of people gone insane and some commit suicide. If you don’t have strong faith to God, you will definitely commit suicide when you face a lot of trouble in your life. Differently if you have faith in God, you will repent yourself to God and ask for forgiveness. Ask for miracle, believe me, miracle does happened with prayers 🥰

3. Education

Okay, this is very important. I do understand, some places they don’t have good education system in their countries. But hey, if you had some lessons from your mother, your father, your sister etc telling you do’s and don’ts, that is a part of education too. Not only books, advises are ki nd of education too.

So, why am I saying this is very important in our life? Okay, with educations and exposure, the level of thinking to solve one’s issue is different. The higher you learnt, the more you can see overall issue and know how to tackle the issue by finding the root cause. Comparing to those doesn’t have any education, they only see things from ‘front end’. With education, you be able to see from ‘front end to back end’ and ways how to tackle the issue. So, for those don’t have any opportunities to study in school, don’t worry. Talk to more people. Most of our educations are from people experiences. I did that, I did talk to people and listen to their experiences and advises. It somehow helps me to analyzing problem i faced 😃

If you are trying to find your life partner, try to find somehow who has same level of education with yours. This is very important to avoid conflicts or argument when you face some issues in your life.

Okay, I think these 3 things are crucial to have. When you have these 3, you can try to balance out your life. That’s all for today..

….to be continue….

Love, Sofia

Johnny Johnny…yes papa! Yummy yummy 🤤

Heyy!! Everybody! If you come to Malaysia and you love steamboat, do visit Johnny’s restaurant! And order for their Tomyam soup…slurrppp 🤤 It was my fav steamboat restaurant, so far..

Okay, the restaurant have different kind of food, they do serve steamboat with min of 2 pax steamboat and also they do serve ala carte like ‘Nasi goreng cendawan’ my fav 🤤. It doesn’t cost much, was around RM 40++ for 2pax and with Tomyam soup some extra RM 15. Total I ate was around RM66 (included drink-lime juice). This price was in June 2022 and might change over the months/years 😃

So, I just wanna chill alone that day, and ordered for 2pax steamboat. If you love spicy, I recommend the Tomyam soup, it’s damn nice if you mixed it with the ‘asam laksa’ sauce 😍🥰