Famous Amos Cookies

The recipe for Famous Amos cookies (I've got from an email claiming that she brought the recipe from Famous Amos). I didn't know whether its true or not. Maybe it's worth a try.

Ingredients:

2 cups butter

4 cups flour

2 tsp. baking soda

2 cups granulated sugar

2 cups brown sugar

5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal & blend in blender to a fine powder)

24 oz. chocolate chips

1 tsp. salt

18 oz. Cadbury bar (grated)

4 eggs

2 tsp. baking powder

3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)

2 tsp. vanilla

Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, Cadbury bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.. bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 122 cookies.

Enjoy baking...

August Schedule

I've got a very busy schedule in this month... and i think it will drag to the coming months. No free weekdays and weekends for me.

Starting by today (9 Aug) til tomorrow, I'll be in Perak for meetings. Next week, 15 Aug - 16 Aug will be in Sabah and for the weekend my parent will visiting me and attending a wedding at Bluewave Shah Alam on 19 Aug. On the 23 Aug - 24 Aug, I'll be in Perak again for meetings. The weekend heading to Kuala Pilah for Man's Family Day. To Perak again for meeting on 29 Aug - 30 Aug... but will extend stay for doa selamat at my parents' on Merdeka Day (whoever will be in Ipoh for Merdeka Day... please come to my house, time to be confirmed later).

*So... Azida, right now i still couldn't find any free time to visit your new office... but i promise that i try to find one. On this 12 Aug 07, I'll see you at Insyirah's birthday party.

As i said, the busyness will continue in September, 5 Sept - 6 Sept heading to Perak again and again and again (not that I'm complaining going back home, just i could feel the tiredness) for meetings. The next day, Prasarana's Family Day at Cherating from 7 Sept for the whole weekend (hope this could relax my mind & body). Before starting the fasting season... head to Sabah for a meeting. I think the schedule will be continuous schedule.... never ending.

* We have to organize our breakfast gathering for the fasting season. Anyone please give any suggestion on date and place...hehehehe... planning a month ahead.

My Yahoo.Mail

Yesterday, during clearing my yahoo mail inbox which contain around 400 plus email, i came across an email by my coursemate during univerity. Actually it was a touching love story and i would like to share with all of you....(and maybe you've came across this story before)...

The Salty Coffee

He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, had many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him. She was surprised but due to politeness, she agreed.

They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything; she felt uncomfortable, she thought, "Please let me be back home..." Suddenly he asked the waiter, "Would you please give me some salt? I'd like to put it in my coffee."
Everybody stared at him, it was so strange! His face turned red but still, he put the salt in his coffee and drank it.

She asked him curiously, "Why do you have this preference?" He replied, "When I was a little boy, I lived near the sea. I like playing in the sea, I'd feel the taste of the sea, salty and bitter, just like the taste of the salty coffee. Now every time I have the salty coffee, I will think of my childhood, think of my hometown. I miss my hometown so much; I miss my parents who are still living there."

While saying that, tears started to fill his eyes. She was deeply touched. That's his true feelings, from the bottom of his heart.

"A man who can say out his homesickness, he must be a man who loves home, cares about home, has responsibility for home," she thought to herself.

Then she also started to talk about her faraway hometown, her childhood, her family. That was a really nice talk, also a beautiful beginning of their story.

They continued to date. She found out that actually, he was a man who could meet all her demands: he was tolerant, kind-hearted, warm and careful. He was such a good guy but she almost missed him! But thanks to his salty coffee, she had the opportunity to know him.

Then the story was just like any other beautiful love story: the Princess got married to the Prince and they lived happily ever after. And, everytime she made coffee for him, she would put some salt in the coffee, as she knew that's the way he liked it.

After 40 years, he passed away, left her a letter which said:

"My dearest, please forgive me, forgive my whole life lie. This was the only lie I said to you, the salty coffee. Remember the first time we dated? I was so nervous at that time, actually I wanted some sugar, but I said salt...

It's hard for me to change so I just went ahead. I never thought that could be the start of our communication! I tried to tell you the truth many times in my life but I was too afraid to do that, as I've promised not to lie to you for anything...

Now that I'm dying, I am afraid of nothing so I tell you the truth: I don't like the salty coffee, what a strange bad taste...

But I have the salty coffee for my whole life since I knew you, I never felt sorry for anything I do for you. Having you with me is my biggest happiness of my whole life. If I can live for the second time, I still want to know you and have you as my whole life partner, my dear wife, even if I have to drink the salty coffee again."

Her tears made the letter totally wet.

One day, someone asked her, "What's the taste of salty coffee?"

"It's sweet," she replied.

The moral of the story:

* The moral of this story... Don't judge a person from their appearance. Get to know a person before you judge them... 'Tak kenal, maka tak cinta'. It maybe turn up to be a good thing in your life and maybe not.