Pizzeria da Baffetto, Italy

Is this the best pizza in Italy? Hmm... I suppose so. It is recommended by Fodor's so my friend and I decided to pay a visit to this place.

Here's the description of Baffetto excerpted from Fodor's Rome's 25 Best...

A tiny, hole-in-the wall classic that has retained its atmosphere and low prices. Expect to wait for a table.

Yep, Fodor's is right about the queue. We took a picture of this pizzeria after we finished our dinner at around 7.30pm.

The founder of Baffetto... the old man in specs (see his picture posted on the wall). hehe!

Check out the poster - As good as mothers milk! (^_~)
We ordered one Pizza Baffetto and another dish with bread topped with tomato. The pizza is delicious, it is thin and crispy, and traditionally cooked in a wood-fire oven.

However, I have to admit that the service wasn't that great. You will be yelled by the owner if you pick your own seating. (^_^') The owner will be unhappy if you fold his menu. Also, you may need to share the long table with other couples or family since the long table can accomodate up to 6 persons.

Because we love the atmosphere of this pizzeria, and the food isn't expensive, we went there again on the second day. This time we were treated well by the waiters. We ordered another pizza studded with cheese and ham, and a tiramisu dessert.

The pizza looked burnt but in fact it tasted great.

Pizza Baffetto again... (^_~)

The tiramisu dessert... yummy! And a closer look of the tiramisu (sorry if the picture looks ugly :P)

Baffetto

Via del Governo Vecchio, 114, Rome, Italy.

Daily 6.30pm - 1am; closed in August

法国与意大利之旅 - 感想

法国 - 俊男、美女、美车。。。 聚集一堂的地方。

意大利 - 俊男美女也蛮多，但是，他们的皮肤较黝黑。我想，这都该归功于伟大的太阳公公吧! 以下这张照片就是我在意大利曝晒了一天的结果 - 脚上明显的出现了一个“X”！

如果要我用几个词来形容夏天的意大利，我想应该是。。。 艺术家、雪糕、红酒、还有pizza。无论何时何地，都可看见人人手上均有一杯雪糕。

雪糕的种类琳琅满目，个个看起来都非常的可口，再加上水果片的点缀，真叫我爱不释手。呵呵！

意大利的艺术家，从街头卖唱到运用spray来作画，个个都精彩，都回味无穷。

这次的欧洲之旅，我竟没带防晒油。我从未想过意大利的太阳竟然比马来西亚的还要猛（不好意思，我表达到好像有两个太阳般 :P）。 还有，法国的天气，虽然阳光普照，但它未必是温和或是凉爽，对怕冷的一族来说，有些时候它还是蛮冷的。。。

总结 - Before leaving for the trip... I'm fair like 白斩鸡; after a day in Italy, I become 烧鸡。

Do you know about Pulau Ketam Stray Dogs Rescue Mission?

It has been quite some time since I wrote my last blog. I was tied up with kernel related stuff. I wanted to create a diskless RedHat client so I started from how to compile the kernel, make the initial ramdisk and get the client system to boot. The work wasn't easy as I thought (the steps provided online seem straightforward though). But I did manage to get the client system to boot after a week of struggling for this. Yeah!!!

Ahh, I think I'm too far from the main topic. Did you know about Pulau Ketam stray dogs rescue mission? Have a look at the following website if you haven't heard anything of this...

http://www.mycen.com.my/rescue/index.html


This website has become my daily a must-read website since early May. You can also go to the following link to see the daily update of the rescue work.
http://www.mycen.com.my/rescue/updates.html

Ohh ya, the rescue team currently needs the monetary contributions to pay for the transportation, cages, dog food, vet fees and etc. Kindly check out the website to see how you can contribute.

I found a stray kitten or perhaps a lost kitten

I didn't get a good sleep on Thursday night. A kitten was miaowing pitifully outside the house. I went to the garden but failed to locate the kitten as it was too dark to see properly. I didn't know what to do so I prayed to God for keeping the kitten safe.

On the next day, my mum and I went over to our neighbour's house to look for the kitten. OMG! It got stuck underneath the old fish tank. We slowly helped it to get out of the narrow gap. The poor kitten was shivering and I thought it was starving. It was a male kitten with white fur and two sparkling eyes in blue. The neighbour gave the kitten some water and bun. However, it hesitated to take any, probably fearful of its surrounding. We told the neighbour to bring the kitten to somewhere safe or keep it temporarily. The neighbour agreed and kept the kitten inside a pail. The kitten was still maiowing on and off for a couple of hours. We couldn't do much as the neighbour had locked the gate and never came out. So I told my mum that I would bring the kitten to SPCA on the next day morning.

At late night, my brother heard some noise outside our house. Then we heard the kitten's miaow was now coming from the garage. We quickily went outside and saw the kitten in our house. I was pissed off with what my neighbour did. She shouldn't put the kitten in our compound without our acknowledgement. If she needed help, she should come and talk to us and we are willing to assist. We gave the kitten some leftover rice and fish and we were glad that it finished the food. We put the kitten inside a box and left it outside the door as Oscar was very unhappy about the kitten.

So this morning my mum and I brought the kitten to SPCA Penang. Then I was asked to fill in a form to confirm that SPCA has the full right to keep the kitten and carry out any decision. I understand that the kitten may be put to sleep (euthanised) if it is found to be sick or it isn't found home after some time. But I do believe that I made the right choice by sending him here because it will be taken care by a group of passionate animal lovers and its safety is assured here. I went to the cage to visit the kitten before we left the place. It is very tame and it looks very innocent and adorable. I felt miserable to leave it there but I strongly believe the staffs here will find a loving home for the kitten.

If you are a cat person or you have lost a kitten in Paya Terubong area since Apr 30, do contact SPCA asap to get back the kitten. I forgot to snap its picture but it is a small male kitten with white fur and blue eyes.

http://www.spca-penang.net/index.html

Pineapple tarts

I love pinapple tarts very much. It is delicious yet expensive. So I decided to make my own pineapple tarts.

I went to Sunshine to get all the ingredients needed like the wheat flour, corn flour, custard powder, and pineapple.

The pineapple jam was prepared yesterday. My mum helped me in preparing the pineapple and squeezing out the juice. Then we cooked the pinapple in a pot, added some brown sugar to sweeten it. We also used one cinnamon stick and one anise to flavour the pineapple. I used the brown sugar instead of the caster sugar because I don't want the jam to be too sweet.

I followed one of the recipes to prepare the pastry. However, it is really difficult to form the smooth dough. Finally, I managed to get something out with the help of my mum. Yeah... my mum is the best cook ever! Hats off to you mum!

Here are some pictures of my first ever pineapple tarts. The first picture shows the tarts made at the very beginning. They looked a bit ugly huh?!!

After practising on working with the cookies mould, here is what I got.

The cookies or the pastry is kind of dry. You can see the crack on each of the tarts. I guess I shouldn't have used corn flour since it absorbed water from the dough. Hmm... I think I need to keep practising until I get the right recipe.

Oscar is recovering well

Oscar has been undergoing a series of treatments since his first visit to Dr Gill's vet in late Jan. I decided to change the vet because I was too upset with the irresponsibility of Dr Yxxx!

Frankly speaking, I'm impressed by Gill's medical facilities they have for dogs and cats. They (doctors and assistants) care for dogs and cats just as the owner does and wanted the pets to live a long and happy life.

Oscar was diagnozed with the urine infection and overweight. His weight (6.25kg) was equivalent to the weight of a pug. To control Oscar's weight and the urine composition, we change his diet by feeding him feline prescription diet (maintenance) by Hills Science Plan. He has also been given with lots of tablets to help improving the urine composition.

Oscar is now fully recovered from the urine infection. However, there is still a minor blood cell in his kidney that we need to take an extra precaution of. Most likely we will have Oscar to go for the blood test. Anyway, I wish that he will pass this week's urine test so that he can get rid of taking the tablet soon.

Here is Oscar's picture taken last night. It is a Skype video snapshot so the picture is blurry.

He looks fat, isn't he? But he managed to lose some weight (the current weight is about 5.5kg) after taking the new diet.

Another blurry picture from me...

遇见旧朋友的感觉真好

在天盛的婚礼上，遇见了好久没见的旧朋友，虽然与他们并不太熟悉（他们是天盛的兄弟），可是还是非常的兴奋。数一数。。。 都该有七八年没见了吧！当然不会错过与他们和照的机会；）（把他们说得像是名人似的， 呵呵。。。）

下面的照片是在我十八岁的生日小派对里拍摄的， 也就是九年前的我们。。。 感觉好土哦！:P

我还遇见了从没联络的小学同学。我曾在Ｆ６的补习班里遇见他，可是我们从来没打过招呼（我也太坦白了吧，哈哈）。

我又回到“糊涂的猫迷”了! Yay!

该有一段日子我没有在这儿涂涂写写了。。。 几个星期前，心情有些郁闷，有少许的低落。。。 结果就把blog给搁在一旁。

昨天在庾澄庆的百万大歌星节目里，听到了这首歌 - 一个像夏天一个像秋天。我并不是范范的忠实歌迷，可是我还是超爱这首歌。在听这首歌的当儿，总感觉自己好像年轻了起来！:)

Creative work done by my colleague

I have been away from my cubicle for more than a month. When I got back to my cubicle last week, I saw my teddy bears were queueing up on the cubicle wall.

Jim Poh said I have been away for so long, my bears needed some company. And Edward's Pooh wanted to join the choo choo train. Sounds funny huh?

观音竹开花了

我家后院的观音竹终于开花了！很神奇吧！哈哈，我一开始也以为这是件值得大惊小怪的事。上网随便查了一番， 才发现这一点也不神奇！不过，我妈却感到非常的骄傲，有说不出的满足感。原因是这已是第二年家里的观音竹开花了。 她老人家可是花了十天用心的等待花开的结果呢！

My new webpage =)

Finally, I'm done with my so-called layout customization. Yay! I'll give myself a big clap although the HTML script wasn't originally written by me.

As for the multiply website, I'll still be using it for photo sharing.

http://irenewei.multiply.com/