Thursday, April 26, 2012

Survey report


Survey Report
18 February, LH02- a survey was conducted among UTP students on a topic “How frequently students using mobile phones during lecture time?” The survey consists of 58 respondents; 34 male and 24 female students. Survey was completed within a 15 minutes for each respondent.
60% of the total number of respondents answered that whey do use and accessing their mobile phone during lecture time. Most of them responded that they accessing an internet to online. Some of them use their mobile phone to play games, see lecture notes, recording, and listening to music. However, 40% of the respondents answered NO since they were concentrated on the lecture session in front. They also added that by accessing a mobile phone during lecture will cause them to lose focus on the particular topics which were being taught by the lecturer.


Healthy recipe


Healthy Recipe

Grilled Chicken with Fresh Mango Salsa




Ingredients
  • 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
  • 1 (1/2 inch) piece fresh ginger root, minced
  • 2 mangos - peeled, seeded, and diced
  • 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon white wine
  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
Directions
  1. Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat, and lightly oil grate.
  2. Rub chicken breast halves with salt and pepper. Place on the prepared grill. Cook 10 to 15 minutes on each side, until no longer pink and juices run clear. Remove from heat, set aside, and keep warm.
  3. Heat oil in a medium skillet over medium heat, and saute garlic for about 1 minute. Mix in ginger and mangos, and cook 3 to 4 minutes, until mangos are tender. Pour in the cider vinegar and white wine. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in cilantro, and remove from heat. Spoon over the grilled chicken to serve.

Healthy Recipe

Ingredients
  • 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
  • 1 (1/2 inch) piece fresh ginger root, minced
  • 2 mangos - peeled, seeded, and diced
  • 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon white wine
  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
Directions
  1. Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat, and lightly oil grate.
  2. Rub chicken breast halves with salt and pepper. Place on the prepared grill. Cook 10 to 15 minutes on each side, until no longer pink and juices run clear. Remove from heat, set aside, and keep warm.
  3. Heat oil in a medium skillet over medium heat, and saute garlic for about 1 minute. Mix in ginger and mangos, and cook 3 to 4 minutes, until mangos are tender. Pour in the cider vinegar and white wine. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in cilantro, and remove from heat. Spoon over the grilled chicken to serve.

OPINION ESSAY

Mental Problem among University Students


                  Have you heard about the mental hospital? In Malaysia, the mental hospital is situated at Tanjung Rambutan in Perak, Do you know how many people had been sent there especially students? On 2009, Ministry of Health reported that 20,000 people colleague students very stressed and had a heavily mental problem. mental problem can be defined as psychological pattern, potentially reflected in behaviour, that is generally associated with part of normal development of a person's culture. The following statement illustrate about the cause, effect and the solution for the mental problem.

                   When the students involved in mental problem, there are must the reasons that are the causes why the students been in such condition. Firstly, the students must be stressed with the homework given by the teachers. The teachers must be tolerant in giving homework to the students. Games can also the of the mental problem although it is fun. This is due to long terms of playing games that affect the students' brain to become more stress. Then, the habit that bring to stress by students is study overnight. This can bring to lack of sleep. Nowadays, teens that break with partner and do not get partner can also bring to over stress. Then, when someone realised his or her partner having another boyfriend or girlfriend can lead to kill himself or herself.

                    Usually when there are causes, there will be also effects due to the action that had been taken. The students mostly cannot study well because they cannot manage themselves due to stress that are too big for them. Besides that, due to the stress, they cannot study well, then they will become more hopeless to continue their lives. When many students had been burdened with stress, the community will be threaten. Then, the stressed students will be a load to the family.

                     Every diseases have their own cures. This quotation showed that any problems can be solved include mental problem. There are many solutions to overcome these problems. The students can seek for a advise from counsellor in school in how to prevent mental problem efficiently. Then, some people said that a happiness usually from home. So, the family's support is very important to gain the student's morals to overcome mental problem. The schools must also decrease the time of study. With this, the school can make more practical classes that will be give less stress to students. The schools also can make a campaign on preventing the mental problem become bigger to students.

                      To conclude the above paragraphs, the main issue is bout the mental problem that illustrates about the causes of mental problems, the effect of having mental problems, the effect of having mental problem to students and the solution in curing the mental problem. All parties especially parents and schools must take an effective efforts to prevent this issue from becoming more worst.

RECIPE
CHOCOLATE MOUSSE CAKE

Ingredients
1.       4 egg whites
2.        110 g sugar
3.       140 g hazelnuts, finely ground
4.       2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder    
5.       250 g dark semi or bittersweet chocolate
6.       4 egg yolks
7.       70 g sugar
8.         ¼ cup + 1 cup whipping cream

Method
1.       Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
2.       Line a 9 inch cake tin with grease proof or other non-stick paper and grease the tin.
3.       Whisk the eggs whites until stiff and in peaks by using an electric mixer, gradually add the sugar and whisk well each time sugar has been added.
4.       Mix with finely ground hazelnuts and cocoa powder.
5.       Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in centre comes out clean.
6.       Cool the cake.
7.       Melt finely chopped dark chocolate over hot water.
8.       Beat the egg yolks with 70 g sugar until white.
9.       Heat ¼ cup whipping cream to the boiling point, and whisk in beaten egg yolks.
10.   Fold in melted chocolate. The mixture will immediately thicken. Cool to 38 degree C.
11.   Whisk 1 cup of whipping cream. Fold with the egg and chocolate mixture, one tablespoon at a time until the filling becomes soft, then the remaining part of the cream.
12.   Transfer to the cake tin, and place in the refrigerator for several hours.
Simple and easy-to-make Lasagna






During my last holiday with my family, I learnt a few recipes from my mom. One of them is what we called ‘Last-Minute Lasagna’. When I said ‘last minute’ I do mean it. We just need around 45 minutes to prepare this delicious, irresistible lasagna.
Ingredients :
·         1 26-ounce jar pasta sauce
·         1 10-ounce box frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed of excess water
·         8-ounce bag shredded mozzarella
·         1/2 cup grated Parmesan

Steps :
1.      First, we need to heat oven to 350° F. Coat a 13-by-9-inch baking dish with cooking spray and spoon in a third of the sauce.
2.      Then, arrange 12 ravioli on top and scatter the spinach over them. Don’t forget to top with half of each cheese.
3.      After that, cover with another layer of ravioli and the remaining sauce and cheese.
4.      Next, cover it with foil and bake 25 minutes. After the specific time, uncover and bake 5 to 10 minutes more or until bubbly.
5.      Now, you can serve to the guest and enjoy this simple lasagna.

Asparagus Frittata


Asparagus Frittata
My father got bit by the frittata bug this week and made these for us for lunch a few days ago. This is a quick and easy, no-nonsense recipe that makes a terrific frittata in hardly any time at all.

Asparagus Frittata Recipe

  • Prep time: 5 minutes
  • Cook time: 20 minutes

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • 1 small onion, thinly sliced
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 pound asparagus, tough ends snapped off, spears cut diagonally into 1-inch lengths
  • 4 large eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 cup shredded Gruyere or Swiss cheese

METHOD

1 Heat olive oil into a 10-inch oven-proof frying pan over medium high heat. Add onions and salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are softened, about 3 minutes. Add asparagus, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook, covered, until the asparagus are barely tender, 6 to 8 minutes. Pour in eggs and cook until almost set, but still runny on top, about 2 minutes. While cooking, pre-heat oven broiler.
2 Sprinkle cheese over eggs and put in oven to broil until cheese is melted and browned, about 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from oven with oven mitts and slide frittata onto a serving plate. Cut into wedges.