CURRY......

Curry is a generic description used throughout European and American culture to describe a general variety of spiced dishes, best known in South Asian cuisines, especially Indian cuisines. Curry is a generic term and although there is no one specific attribute that marks a dish as "curry", some distinctive spices used in many curry dishes include turmeric, cumin, coriander, fenugreek, and red pepper. The word curry is an anglicised version of the Tamil word khari , which is usually understood to mean "gravy" or "sauce" rather than "spices". In Urdu, an official language of Pakistan and Noth India, curry is usually referred to as saalan. In most South Indian languages, the word literally means 'side-dish', which can be eaten along with a main dish like rice or bread.

Curry's popularity in recent decades has spread outward from the Indian subcontinent to figure prominently in international cuisine. Consequently, each culture has adopted spices in its indigenous cooking to suit its own unique tastes and cultural sensibilities. Curry can therefore be called a pan-Asian or global phenomenon with immense popularity in Thai, British, and Japanese cuisines.

Malayali cuisine

Main article: Cuisine of Kerala

Malayali curries of Kerala typically contain shredded coconut paste or coconut milk, curry leaves, and various spices. Mustard seeds are used in almost every dish, along with onions, curry leaves, sliced red chilies fried in hot oil. Most of the non-vegetarian dishes are heavily spiced. Kerala is known for its traditional Sadya, a vegetarian meal served with boiled rice and a host of side-dishes, such as Parippu (Green gram), Papadum, some ghee, Sambar, Rasam, Aviyal, Kaalan, Kichadi, pachadi, Injipuli, Koottukari, pickles(mango, lime), Thoran, one to four types of Payasam, Boli, Olan, Pulissery, moru (buttermilk), Upperi, Banana chips, etc. The sadya is customarily served on a banana leaf.

Tuesday,16 of February 2010...

Today, I'm following my parents and my sister to Ipoh. We're going to send my another sister to go back to school.Her name is Nuraiman Syafiqah Bt Musa. She studies at SMT Ipoh at Jalan Brash. She studies at Form 4 and she was the first intake. She starts studying there since last January.

When we come back home I will do my homeworks as they're not finished yet. Unfortunately, I left my Geography notebook. I was very careless. The book must be sent after this Chinese New Year holiday ends. It must be finished until the Unit 6. I just finished until Unit 3. I felt like wanna cry until the holiday ends.

NEW URL

ATTENTION!!!!
To all my classmates,
For your information i've changed my blog URL...
My blog URL is http://aqilah1437.blogspot.com

HOMEWORKS DURING HOLIDAY....

1. Daily Log
-have done @ plan to do

2. Reflection
-personal thoughts

3. Interesting Reading List
-article/newspaper
-give personal comments

MY PATH TO MY FIRST BLOG

In my English lesson at school,my class use a blog to learn English.To make a blog, I must have a Gmail account. So I sign up for the Gmail account first. After I finished my Gmail accout,i went to the blogger address and create a new blog.I fill the form of my details. After I create my blog I starts to create my blog list. I fill it with my friends URL blog. Then I starts to post blog.

REFLECTION

Today, I learn to add my blog to my teacher's blog. First, I sign in to my teacher's blog. Then, I click at the layout of Secangkir Kopi. After that, I edit the 2 jabir 2010 and add my blog url.

CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

Robinson Crusoe - The novel’s protagonist and narrator. Crusoe begins the novel as a young middle-class man in York in search of a career. He father recommends the law, but Crusoe yearns for a life at sea, and his subsequent rebellion and decision to become a merchant is the starting point for the whole adventure that follows. His vague but recurring feelings of guilt over his disobedience color the first part of the first half of the story and show us how deep Crusoe’s religious fear is. Crusoe is steady and plodding in everything he does, and his perseverance ensures his survival through storms, enslavement, and a twenty-eight-year isolation on a desert island.
Friday - A twenty-six-year-old Caribbean native and cannibal who converts to Protestantism under Crusoe’s tutelage. Friday becomes Crusoe’s servant after Crusoe saves his life when Friday is about to be eaten by other cannibals. Friday never appears to resist or resent his new servitude, and he may sincerely view it as appropriate compensation for having his life saved. But whatever Friday’s response may be, his servitude has become a symbol of imperialist oppression throughout the modern world. Friday’s overall charisma works against the emotional deadness that many readers find in Crusoe.
The Portuguese captain - The sea captain who picks up Crusoe and the slave boy Xury from their boat after they escape from their Moorish captors and float down the African coast. The Portuguese captain takes Crusoe to Brazil and thus inaugurates Crusoe’s new life as plantation owner. The Portuguese captain is never named—unlike Xury, for example—and his anonymity suggests a certain uninteresting blandness in his role in the novel. He is polite, personable, and extremely generous to Crusoe, buying the animal skins and the slave boy from Crusoe at well over market value. He is loyal as well, taking care of Crusoe’s Brazilian investments even after a twenty-eight-year absence. His role in Crusoe’s life is crucial, since he both arranges for Crusoe’s new career as a plantation owner and helps Crusoe cash in on the profits later.
The Spaniard - One of the men from the Spanish ship that is wrecked off Crusoe’s island, and whose crew is rescued by the cannibals and taken to a neighboring island. The Spaniard is doomed to be eaten as a ritual victim of the cannibals when Crusoe saves him. In exchange, he becomes a new “subject” in Crusoe’s “kingdom,” at least according to Crusoe. The Spaniard is never fleshed out much as a character in Crusoe’s narrative, an example of the odd impersonal attitude often notable in Crusoe.
Xury - A nonwhite (Arab or black) slave boy only briefly introduced during the period of Crusoe’s enslavement in Sallee. When Crusoe escapes with two other slaves in a boat, he forces one to swim to shore but keeps Xury on board, showing a certain trust toward the boy. Xury never betrays that trust. Nevertheless, when the Portuguese captain eventually picks them up, Crusoe sells Xury to the captain. Xury’s sale shows us the racist double standards sometimes apparent in Crusoe’s behavior.
The widow - Appearing briefly, but on two separate occasions in the novel, the widow keeps Crusoe’s 200 pounds safe in England throughout all his thirty-five years of journeying. She returns it loyally to Crusoe upon his return to England and, like the Portuguese captain and Friday, reminds us of the goodwill and trustworthiness of which humans can be capable, whether European or not.
Sources from:http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/crusoe/characters.html

SYNOPSIS OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

This is a story of a man who lives alone on an island after he is shipwrecked.

Robinson's ambition is to be a sailor.So he runs away from home sets out to sea, against his father's wishes. His first trip was rather succesful but on his second trip he was attacked and captured by Turkish pirates. He was made a slave and during his journey with them a storm strikes his ship and his ship is destroyed. He is the sole survivor shipwrecked on an island.

The resourceful Crusoe creates a comfortable life for himself.One day, he rescues a victim of a cannibal attack, who becomes his friend.Crusoe names him Friday.The story focuses on their friendship.Crusoe is finally rescued by a ship after 28 years.In the years on the island, Crusoe and his friend have many adventures and face many challenges.
Crusoe learns many things while on the island.He learns to grow his own crops, rear animals, make pots, make boats and even sew his own clothes.Being alone, he learns to live by himself without the luxuries of a modern home.
By the time he leaves the island, Crusoe has been on it for twenty-eight years,two months and nineteen days.He settles down in England, gets married and has children. After his wife died,Crusoe visits his island.He is pleased to see that the English and the Spaniards live together as a community.