Fish Head Curry Revisited

After the dismal attempt previously, where the fish falling apart/flaky, I tried again during the frist week of ramadhan, (or was it before.. dont remember lah).

Made 1-2

Ingredients:
1 fish head (about 1 kg)
4 pieces tender lady’s fingers
2 tomatoes, quartered
2 sprigs curry leaves
1 green chillies, slit half way lengthwise
1 big onions, pounded
1 cloves garlic, pounded
3 cm ginger, pounded
1 tbsp mixed curry seeds (halba campur)
4 tbsp curry powder for fish (I used BABA)
A glass of water
200ml coconut milk
2 tbsp tamarind
2 tbsp cooking oil


(1) Wash fish head and drain. Season with salt and steam till cooked.


(2) Heat oil in wok and fry the curry leaves & curry seeds for 1 min.
(3) Add pounded ingredients till aromatic, and tad brownish(a bit).


(4) Add the curry paste and coconut milk. Stir-fry till the oil comes through.

(5) Add tomatoes, lady’s fingers and chillies.

(6) Add the tamarind juice, salt and sugar and continue to cook over a low heat. If gravy is too thick, add a little more water and let simmer for 5 minutes.


(7) Add the steamed fish head, cover wok and let simmer till cooked


(Optional) in a seperate fryer, fry fennel seed and curry leaves till aromatic. Pour into the cooked concuctions.


Voila!


Serve with udang masak kunyit and salad.. YUMMY!

Are you one of those 10% of the population?

I Just Found Out

.... that the position I left 5 years ago, has been upgraded to the Vice President positon:

Five years ago:
Famil Sulaiman
Head, Banking System Development

Today, it would have been :
Famil Sulaiman
VP, Banking System Development

A missed opportunity? I dont know.. somehow managing people is not my forte. I always want to be their friend rather than their boss, therein lies the problem.. I'm too nice... hehehehehehe

Plus, kalau aku kat sana idok ler boleh bersosial.. muakakakaka..

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Correction;

Its AVP,
Technology Solutions

Another Kecik Kecik Tak Nak Mampos Moment

When the application was packaged 3 months ago, the user said it was fine. Then got some minor update and they decided to change the option as well.

Previously:


They want it to be like this:


So I did. Just to accomodate that simple change, I had to modify many subcomponents and redifined the Registries:


And now after all done and I already submitted the app to the QA, they came back and ask me to revert back to the old one.

Nelli... I have a question ofr you
Famil Sul... yeah
Nelli... There will be a TS package for this app as well. Would it be possible to have A4 and Letter format at the same time on a terminal server?
Famil Sul... thats what we did last time.. and you asked me to change
Nelli... but did it work for both versions?
Famil Sul... yeah
Famil Sul... but now i have to change for the TS
Nelli... I am sorry
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EEEEE, aku rasa macam nak cekik cekik kasi mampus

Got this aplication on my back for eons.. Its all because what I believe was the DB error, but those DBA and jokers kept on insisiting they are right, and its my application which are problematic.

So after 2 weeks of exhausting every possibilities, I sent them a note yesterday for recommendation.
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Dear xxxxlai/DBA;

The Marquas 7.3.1 app still not launching. We have done the following:

1. Install Marquas 3.7.1 as a replacement for Marquas 7.2.3 - FAILED
   
2. Install a new version of Marquas 3.7.1 into a clean machine - FAILED
   
3. Install a previous working version of Marquas 3.7.1 (prior to recycled) - FAILED
   
4. Install Marquas 3.7.1 from the Media provided by the vendor - FAILED

* FAILED as in the app is still waiting for the db to response until timeout occurs.

The dependency has been installed, and all registries entry has been checked to point to the sqldb1.

Therefore we could ruled out packaging / media issue.

Probable caused
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I did some checking on the SQL setup and found the following:

1. Access to the Server SQLDB1 has been granted correctly
   
2. Access to the Database VOIS2000_DATA has been granted with the correct role (UR_MARQUAS)
   
3. However, access to the application (VoisUser) is not there.

Recommendations
======================
I am not sure wether this is the real culprit, however I would like to suggest the following:

1. Remove user xptst05 from the table VoisUser.
   Add user xtstafs and xptst05
   Grant more access to these users (VesselVisibility = A, ApproveRejectxx= Y)
   xxx to look into this. MarquasUserAdmin are responsible to manage users in the application. I dont know whose in the group.
   Only if this method doesnt work, we will do step no 2 below.
   
2. Remove VOIS2000_DATA from sqldb1.
   Restore/refresh/replicate VOIS2000_DATA from June 01 2009 backup (VOIS2000_DATA_Test) OR
   Restore/refresh/replicate VOIS2000_DATA from sqldb0
   DBA to act on this.

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Complete with diagram and stuff so that they could easily understand.

I were even close to give the exact command like:
insert into xxxx
(LoginName,Initials, RoleID, VesselVisibility )
Values ('xxxx','xx',5,'A')

but that would be insulting the DBA.. as if they dont even know their own job.

DID ANY OF THEM LISTEN OR ACT UPON MY RECOMMENDATION?

Hell no! They keep on doing some troubleshooting and today send an email to the vendor asking for assistance...

And today, we received this from the vendor
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The problem is that the Test accounts are not defined in the MARQUAS
Database.

The following commends would add the User accounts to MARQUAS.

insert into voisuser
(LoginName ,FullName,Initials, RoleID,EmailAddress,ApproveRejectHold,
ApproveRejectLift ,ApproveRejectIncident ,ApproveRejectIncidentReport ,
ApproveRejectFinalReport ,ApproveRejectInspection ,ApproveRejectVPRReport
,VesselVisibility )
Values
('XPTST05','Test Account','TA5',5,Null,'y',
'y','y','y','y','y','y','A')

insert into voisuser
(LoginName ,FullName,Initials, RoleID,EmailAddress,ApproveRejectHold,
ApproveRejectLift ,ApproveRejectIncident ,ApproveRejectIncidentReport ,
ApproveRejectFinalReport ,ApproveRejectInspection ,ApproveRejectVPRReport
,VesselVisibility )
Values
('TST06','Test Account','TA6',5,Null,'y',
'y','y','y','y','y','y','A')


Regards

Roger Kelly

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Pengsan aku!

A$$Hole

Well, an a$$ in a hole that is..

hmmm, an Indonesian would aptly define this...

Three's A Crowd

Hmmm, who could the third person be? In-law? The go-go bar dancer? JAIS?

Indon definition for the Spirit of the Ramadhan

What would happen if they found one????

It's all ebgan when one ang moh who worked for the discovery channel in Singapore made a stupid mistake thinking all South East Asian were the same. For his mistake, he was rewarded a promotion, oh so typical ang moh...

As left two countries in a deep mess, once again.

And oh, if only they (the Indonesians) see this news from BBC, they're going to roll on the street, frothing at the mouth.

YCOM: TimeOut Comedy Thursday

Old entry.. thanks to my lazybumhectic life. This entry was on my draft for months (since July 3rd).
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Attended Young Comedian of Malaysia stand-up performance. It was held on every first Thursday of the month, and the venue is all over the town (Zouk Underground, Shalome Bangsar, urbanattic Chulan Square, etc)

The cover charge was RM20, but being a cheapo's best buddy (Sri), he sent me a link for 50% voucher... So voila.. Preethy, her hubby and I had a great time that night laughing our head off, well mostly.

The verdict?

4 superb
1 mediocre
2 bleargh


but seriously now, I dont remember whose who.. so Im trying my best to do the review based on my archaic memory.


The superb one were:
(1) Jien, the chinese guy with a buckteeth,
(2) Sri, the mek su, seriously! Im not being bias because he's on my blogroll!
(3) Papi zak, with his american accent!
(4) The other indian guy.


The so-so:
(1) A chinese guy.. Or maybe its just me who felt that way.. Because of all his jokes, I'd read them somewhere on the net before. So nothing new lah!


The "OMIGOD-they're so bad, even Nazri Aziz made better jokes then they could!":
(1) Faisal. Enough with the sex jokes already! I were about this close to shout "Hey you, you are soooo Malay, even your jokes are mediocre..." luckily Preethy refrained me from doing so.. hi hi
(2) The other indian guy. Just when we thought the Malay guys was bad, this guy was the worst. No sex jokes though.. Just plain lame.


I swear I had something funny to talk about this pic, but now Ive forgotten about it already.. darn! I shouldnt procrastinate!

Aspalela abdullah...

Hah ngko, 2 bulan bersawang...

Busy ya rabbi.. Right now Im the only one in my team doing the application in AP and europe region. Therefore, I seldom have time to even take a break, let alone blogging. Reached home already too lethargic and drained to write...

As early as 8am, the would be users in Australia asking for assistance, then Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia.. Break for lunch. By 2 Technical contact in Hungary already logged on. Then Checz and UK. If im lucky enough to stay back, I could catch the counterpart in Argentina to handover today's workload...

Good news though.. for the past 3 months I haven't pay a dime for electricity... I wish I am in Selangor so that my water would also be free... but heck with only RM6 for water bill, Im not complaining :p



The bliss of not having to cook and internet...