Muffins are delicious cakes filled with different flavors. A muffin is a type of semi-sweet cake or quick bread that is baked in portions appropriate for one person. They are similar to cupcakes, although they are usually less sweet and lack icing. The flavors could be blueberries, chocolate chips, poppy seeds, raspberry, cinnamon, pumpkin, nut, lemon, banana, orange, peach, almond, carrot, vanilla and strawberry. But, baking the muffins is not that simple. Firstly, you must have a mixer to mix the ingredients. Secondly, you must have an oven to bake your muffins. Lastly, you must have the time to bake delicious muffins because you can’t bake good muffins in one try.
Last Friday, my school invited a teacher to teach us how to bake banana muffins. A few days before baking, we were told to bring utilities to school to bake like mixer, chopping board, knife, wooden spoon and mixing bowl. We brought the items that we were told. The ingredients were provided. The ingredients were butter, castor sugar, self-rising flour, yeast, sodium bicarbonate, banana and 3 small eggs.
There were 6 groups for baking, so we had to split up. First, we measured the butter and cut the remaining 150g into a bowl for later use. Then, we measured 80g of flour and 115g of self-rising flour. Next, we mash the banana into paste.
Firstly, we separate the egg white and beat it up till it was firm and put it aside. Then, we beat the butter and sugar in a mixer till it became fluffy. After the egg white became fluffy, we added the remaining egg york into the mixture. Next, we add the banana into the mixture slowly, after that we add the flour and egg white into to the mixture. After adding everything, the mixture contains everything and will be mixing for another 5 minutes. After beating for 5 minutes, the mixture is complete. We get a mixing bowl and pour the mixture into muffin cups slowly. As decoration, we sliced the banana and put them on top of the mixture. Lastly, we preheated the oven for 45 minutes in the temperature of 180 Celsius. Then, we put the muffins in to bake. It had to bake for an hour.
In the meantime, we washed and clean up the place for the second group to come. Since mother’s day was right around the corner, our teachers told us to make cards for our mothers. We made beautiful cards. An hour passed in a blink of an eye. It was time to check our muffins. We ran down at the speed of light and saw our delicious muffins come out of the oven. We were asked to put them into a bag and paste the card we made as a mother’s day gift.
We had a great time baking with that teacher and gave him some gifts. Before he left, I asked for the recipe of the banana muffins and he gave one, then he left. I appreciate this lesson and will continue to use this recipe to make muffins.
We went to visit the Yakult factory at Seremban. The journey to the place was quite long. It took us about an hour to reach there. When we reached there, we entered the huge factory. While everyone was inside, the tour guide explained how Yakult was being process.
Yakult is a probiotic drink made from Lactobacillus bacteria. It was created by Japanese scientist Minoru Shirota. Yakult claims that the name is obtain from jahurto, an older form of jogurto, the Turkish word for "yoghurt".
First, we visit the Seed room. Skim milk, glucose, sugar and water are the main ingredients. Skim milk powder is mixed with sugar, glucose and filtered, sterilized water to make a sweet milky solution. After the ingredients were being mixed, they are sterilized at a high temperature for a short time, destroying any bacteria that may be present. The solution is then transferred to a 6,500-litre culture tank via a closed system of pipes and valves. The bacteria that makes Yakult comes from Japan and stored in the seed tank to multiply. The temperature of the room is 37 Celsius. The purpose of the seed tank is to breed Yakult-Lactic acid bacteria.
Next, we went to the culture room. The temperature of the culture tank is reduced to 37°C and live Lactobacillus strain from the seed tank is added. The solution is allowed to ferment for about one week until the number of Lactobacillus bacteria reaches an ideal concentration. The concentrate is transferred to a 12,000-litre mixing and storage tank. The tank is chilled to around 2° C. Sterilized flavors, syrup solution, vitamins and calcium are added to the concentrate. Prior to bottling, the concentrate is diluted with filtered, sterile water.
Later, we went to the Moulding room. This is where Yakult bottles are made. Also, Yakult made their bottles by themselves. There are three injection moulding machines. They make 7,000 bottles per hour and the temperature is 250 Celsius. The bottles are made from polystyrene. The bottles are then transferred by a tunnel to another place.
Then, we went to the Clean room. This room is where they do microbiological testing. This room is an air tight room. The outside air will pollute the reading and only bacteria are involved. After that, we went to the Quality Control room(QC). In this place, they check about the quality of the factories production.
Next, we went to the Bottle filing and packaging room. The bottles are wrapped with individual bottle labels. Then, they are filled with Yakult, capped with a foil lid, sealed and transferred along the conveyor belt to the packaging facility. The machine can fill 36,000 of bottles per hour. Before being packed, the bottles are being attached with a straw. Then, single bottles of Yakult are sorted into groups of five and shrink-wrapped in polypropylene film. Ten "5-packs" are grouped together and wrapped again in polyethylene film and then heat shrunk, forming a 'carton' of 50 Yakult bottles. In average, they produce 7,200 packs per hour and 720 cartons per hour.
Lastly, we went to the Refrigeration Room. Finished products are kept refrigerated before delivery to stores. In total, the factory produces 322,000 bottles of Yakult per day. According to research, there are 30 billion live bacteria living in each Yakult drink. Also, there are only 70 workers in the factory due to computerize system.
This trip is really interesting. After this trip, I realized that Yakult drink is good for health and I will start drinking it daily.
I am a golf ball. I am a famous
brand called Titleist. I am
round and bouncy. I am white in color. I have hole
patterns
around my body. I am small in size but heavy. I was made in a
factory
at Florida.
I had been made in a day. In the factory, I
met many friends. Their names are Ping, Taylor Made, Addidas, Bridgestone,
Callaway, Cleveland, Cobra, Footjoy, Greg Norman, Mizuno, Nike, Srixon,
Ashworth and Dunlop. All my friends in the factory are golf balls. After the
production, my friends and I were scheduled to be shipped to Malaysia to be
sold. The journey took two weeks. During the journey, we sang songs and tell
jokes to pass time.
After two weeks, we reached our
destination. We reached the port of Klang. We were then being transported to a
sport outlet in Petaling Jaya, called Royal Sporting House. Sadly, my friends
and I were being separated. They were sent to a sport shop in Shah Alam, while
I was sent to a shop in Bandar Utama. My tears rolled down as I left my best
friends forever.
But, while I was in the shop, I met
new friends like, football, baseball, tennis ball, basketball, and ping pong
ball. Even though they were not the same kind like me, but were as friendly as
my previous friends. We spent time
together in the shop.
As time pass, my friends in the shop
were being sold rapidly, but I was still not bought. One fine day, a young
handsome guy came to the shop to buy sport utilities. While he glanced to find
his requirements, he spotted me and came to me. He picked me up and took a look
at me. After searching the whole store,
he decided to purchase me. As soon as I was being purchased, I jumped happily
and felt awesome.
The young man brought me to his car.
While I saw his car, I was shocked, he had a Ferrari sports car. He was a rich
guy. We reached his house and he brought me into his house. Amazingly, his
house was like a palace. It was huge. Later he brought me to his backyard and I
could see a field of putting green. From the scene of the putting green, surely
he is a golfer. He took me out and placed me on the ground and started
practicing his golfing skills. After busy day, then he stop practicing and took
me in.
In his house he has a golf ball
cleaning machine and I was being washed. At night, he polished me and placed me
in his ball collection. After that, he would go to bed. Daily, I was being used
by him. He used me from dawn to dusk. After a few months, I realized, his name
was Luke Donald. He was a professional golf player. He is ranked number one in
the whole world.
After a few months of practice, it
was the last competition of the year, the master’s golf competition. The day
before the competition, he picked me as his ball for the competition. During
the four days, I performed well and he entered the finals. During the finals,
the opponent made mistakes, but he did not. With a powerful strike, I flew up
in the air and landed on the green. I was rolling rapidly and I closed my eyes,
as I was scared to look at the result. Luke was also worried,
he thought he would lose the competition. Suddenly, I was rolling in the direction
of the hole. In a split second, I heard screams and praises over the whole
field. I opened my eyes and I found myself sitting in the bottom of the whole.
I felt happy as I helped Luke to win the competition. He took me up and said
‘You are the best,’ His word touched my heart and encouraged me to continue to
face more challenges.
From that day onwards, I became his
‘best friend,’ and faced challenges together.
Last Friday, we went to an organic farm in Gombak. We
took a van to the place. It took an hour to reach the place. We didn’t know the
place, so the owner led us to the place. It was a big farm with lots of trees
and animals. The place was at a hillside with forest surrounding it.
The owner of the farm was a environmentalist. He led us
into a hut. We sat on egg racks as chairs. He told us about his understanding
upon the creation of earth. Firstly, he told us that Earth was created by
itself and five elements helped to support the life of Earth. The five elements
are plants, bacteria, fire, animals and humans. These elements progress their
daily work. After few hundred centuries, the work of the elements started to
move faster. This action started to annoyed the Earth, until now Earth has
pollution and became ‘sick’. He told us now to stop pollution to save Earth. He
also so said we have to bow down to ‘respect’ Earth and find ‘inner peace’
through ‘connecting’ with Earth. He also mentioned that we have to ‘connect’
with the nature.
But to me , I don’t believe in these. According
to the Bible in Genesis 1, God created the Heavens and the Earth. How could
Earth just come out from nowhere? There must be
a creator to Earth, and that's our God. Secondly, he said we could not destroy
forest and jungles, or else that's call pollution. But if we don't develop, our
country will have no income and low economy. He also said that we can find inner peace by
connecting with nature. I tell you, it is not true. According to the Bible in John
20:21, it says: “Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent
me, I am sending you.” It is true, only God can give us peace.
After
the sharing, He brought us to a place where food decay and become fertilizers
to let the plant grow well. Then, we went to the place where compost are mixed
with soil and decayed food to become organic soil. Lastly, he showed us the
place where soil filled with compost felt like.
Later, we went to a “hole” to see insects living in it. It was disgusting.
Lastly, we went to feed cows that were in his barn. They were fat and huge. We
fed them happily.
Later,
we said good bye and drove back to school. This was not a really fantastic trip but it is an interesting trip
to me. Today’s lesson about the organic farm that Uncle Ivan shared is also knowledge
about unbeliever’s aspect about the creation of the Earth. Lastly, I would like
to thank our beloved Ms. Amy who organized an interesting trip to an organic
farm in a far place but also gained some knowledge that I never knew in my
life.
Last Friday, our school went to Royal
Selangor Pewters visitor center and factory. We went there in two vehicles, a
car and a van. We were separated into two batches.The trip to the place was
quite long as it was in Setapak.
When we reached there, we were surprised as
the visitor center was as big as a shopping mall. We went to a large tankard to
take photo with it as it was Selangor Pewter’s landmark. The tankard we took
was officially recognized by the Guinness Book Of Record. It was the World’s
Largest Tankard. Its height is 1.987 m (6.46 ft) and it weighs 1557 kg (1.53
ton). It capacity is 2796 liter (615 gal). Royal Selangor Pewter is proud for
its famous tin products.
We went into the visitor
center. We entered into the visitor center through a large archway. Our guide,
Edmond told us about Selangor Pewter’s history. The founder came from Shantou,
China during the Qing Dynasty to Kuala Lumpur, Malay States. He showed us some
picture of the tin mine. Last time, Selangor Pewter was only a shop. It was
visited by the Sultan of Selangor. After that, he showed us the different forms
of money being used and the founder’s utilities like his clothing, his personal
notes. Surprisingly, the visitor center still has sample of ancient ignots and
tin bars in display. The tin bars weigh 40kg.
Then, the tour guide shows us swarf. Swarf
means fine chips of filings of stone, metal, etc. It was the main ingredient to
make these tin products. Later, we saw a dredger. We also saw the actual size
of a dredging bucket. It was huge! In the tour, we saw a mini size twin tower
made of 120 tankards. Later, we saw the the touchmark of Selangor Pewter. It wrote“玉和足锡(yu he zu xi). It means jade, peace, pure and tin.
This touchmark was used by Tong Koon and his brothers from the late 1890s.
After
the tour in the visitor center, our guide brought us to the factory to see the
process of their tin products. Their factory is the world largest pewter
factory. It is built by 5 shop lots. First, we went to see how they do pewter
casting. They melt pewter at high temperature
and boil it into pewter liquid. Then it was
scoop and pour into a metal model to make a cup handle. The process takes about
15 seconds, as it uses 3 seconds to cold into solid tin. Average, they can
produce 500 a day. Next, we went to see how they polish tin cups. The uneven
cups produce pewter shavings. They are as soft as cloths. Then, we went to the pewtersmithing
station. This process requires 6 months of training as well as concentration
and speed. The process is to knock the cup to make small dots as design, so
concentration is needed. We were all given a
change to knock the cup, known as pewtersmithing. Lastly, we went to the place
where they make Selebran jewelry.
Before returning to school, we were brought
to the souvenir place where we can buy Selangor Pewter’s product. Unknowingly,
Selangor Pewter also provides trophy to the Ferrari competitions and the
Shanghai Tennis Rolex Masters trophies. Later, we went back to school.
I learnt about the makings of Selangor Pewters and
origin. I hope to learn more about it next time.
Last Friday, we
went to Mosaic Community Center to learn hip hop dance. The coach was Ms. Eva
Lee. She taught us about the skills of hip hop and the drills of hip hop. The
song we used was “Awesome God.”
First, we do the
warm ups. We did some stretching on our legs, hands and bodies. Then she gave
the starting exercise like doing some step-over and some movement on our hands.
Next, we moved on to the song, Awesome God. The steps are like this:
1. Wave,
facing away from audience.
2. Face
audience and clap.
3. Move
to the side, make arms like shooting arrow.
4. Box
step.
5. Walk
in a circle for one round.
6. Kick
and punch 4 times.
7. Step
and pump twice.
8. Jump
to the left.
9. Jump
to the righ.t
10. Jump
to the left twice.
11. Slide
to the left.
12. Slide
to the right.
13. Slide
to the right, left, and right.
14. Slide
with arms wide open.
15. Freestyle.
16. Hop
and clap.
17. End
with arms crossed.
We practiced for
several times then we got the moves and performed. We did it very nicely. Ms.
Eva the congratulated us for performing so well.
Later, Ms.
Christine taught us about the meaning of dancing in the bible. Dancing means to
move or seem to move up and down or about in a quick or lively manner. There
are many forms of dancing.
For example, a
child joyfully jumping around, moving in a lively and spirited manner when
receiving a present, is dancing. This is similar to David's dancing when
bringing the ark into Jerusalem (1 Ch. 15:29). Usually,
though, when we talk about dancing, we mean a social event where a couple
rhythmically moves to music, such as occurs at a school dance or night club. There
are several examples of dancing in the Bible:
Some people
danced alone, some danced with the same gender in celebration, some danced for
joy, and some danced to praise God. Solomon says, "There is an appointed
time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven --- a
time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot what
is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time
to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to
dance" (Ec. 3:1-4).
In the New
Testament, we also read about dancing. Dancing figuratively represents one's
joyful response to the gospel, which the Jews lacked (Matt. 11:17; Lk. 7:32). There
was dancing in celebration of the prodigal son's return (Lk. 15:25),
figuratively illustrating the joy when a person repents.
There are four
principles we can apply to dancing. We are to glorify God in our bodies, and
exalt Christ (1 Cor. 6:19-20; Phil. 1:20).If a dance inappropriately displaying
our bodies, or includes movements unbecoming a Christian, it brings shame upon
God. We shouldn’t involve ourselves with such dances. We are to do things that
are honorable and respectable in the sight of all men (Rom. 12:17; Phil. 4:8),
obeying God in everything we do (Acts 4:19; 5:29).We must determine whether dancing
in a particular fashion is honorable in our day and age. For example: If our
community deems a particular dance inappropriate, we shouldn't involve
ourselves in the dance.
We shouldn't
engage in lustful and licentious (sensual) behaviors (Rom. 6:12; 1 Jn. 2:16; 2
Cor. 12:20-21; Jude 1:4)."Lust" is a strong desire to sin.
"Licentious" is unbridled lust --- excess, absence of restraint,
indecency, and wantonness. Dancing in a lustful or licentious fashion, as was
the case with Herodias' daughter, is sinful (Matthew 14:6 and Mark 6:22). We
shouldn't engage in questionable behaviors (Rom. 14:23; 1 Th. 5:21-22).We must
be absolutely certain a particular dance is lawful before engaging in the
behavior. If there is any question about participating in the dance, we should
avoid it.
After the
lesson, we now know that dancing is also popular in the bible. Lastly, I would
like to thank Ms. Eva for teaching us about hip hop dance.
Muffins are delicious cakes filled with different flavors. A muffin is a type of semi-sweet cake or quick bread that is baked in portions appropriate for one person. They are similar to cupcakes, although they are usually less sweet and lack icing. The flavors could be blueberries, chocolate chips, poppy seeds, raspberry, cinnamon, pumpkin, nut, lemon, banana, orange, peach, almond, carrot, vanilla and strawberry. But, baking the muffins is not that simple. Firstly, you must have a mixer to mix the ingredients. Secondly, you must have an oven to bake your muffins. Lastly, you must have the time to bake delicious muffins because you can’t bake good muffins in one try. 
