iPad is a great piece of machinery from Apple. It’s been widely used in many sectors for entertainment, business, household and many more.  Based on my readings, iPad apps are commonly used for business people to increase their productivity while on the go. For Artists, Photographers and designers to lug around their portfolios. and, for busy mothers or single parent to cook for the family.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Productivity. Portfolio and COOKING. It’s no surprise since food is our major necessity. Everything is about food these days. and yeah, money too. haha

Problem Statement

So, is any of the situations listed below sounds familiar?

1. Everyone’s asking what to cook – Have you ever been asked by your mom, “nak Masak Apa?” or your dad asking, “Masak Apa tu?” or yourself asking, “Masak Apa malam ni?” The key question here is, what to cook?
2. Limited ingredients. (oh no!) – Bachelors and newly weds most probably don’t have ready live stock and all the herbs like a normal household since they’re too busy.. uh.. you know.
3. Super hectic lifestyle – Sometimes, you just want to prepare a snack or a quick meal because you have tonnes of work to do and you don’t really have time to think about what you eat. You just want to slap the kitchen and get a quick meal out of it that probably doesn’t involve mayonnaise and beef pepperoni.
4. Losing the pounds – The most important thing for dieting is counting calories. Per meal should be around 200-300 calories, beyond these figure, it’ll be tough to lose weight. Similar for athletes and performers, they need to be in shape.
5. Tight Budget – For those who wishes to spend less or planning to save money.
6. For Specific occasion – Like cooking a romantic dinner, Hari Raya rendang, Thanks Giving roasts. Surely you’d wanna impress your guests, right?
7. Boredom – *gasps* You don’t know what to do with your iPad anymore! or maybe you just want to try out different recipe.

Please, don’t fret. Grab your coffee, sit back and keep reading.

Solution

Presenting to you the, Masak Apa? App for iPad! It addresses all of the above concerns. So now, you don’t have to worry about losing your hair thinking about what to cook. Of all the problems that you have, huh? 😛

Masak Apa? app

Features

1. Displays pictures of ingredients (in case you don’t know how what type of fish or veggie Hahaha)
2. Choose the type of food you want. Malay, French, Morroco, whichever your taste buds prefer.
3. Plugins for Top Chefs’ recipe (sold seperately), a fail safe approach cooking.
4. Displays number of calories and nutritional values for each meal to help making healthier choices.
5. Tool to edit number of servings complete with conversion from metric to US or vice versa.
6. Shows the estimated time to prepare for the meal.
7. Users can contribute, rate and review recipes (using the Internet). Helps the knowledge sharing among the app users. Or knowing whether is going to taste good or bad or how to make it taste better. There’ll be tonnes of recipe as the app starts to mature. So the developer doesn’t need to worry about manually adding recipe.

Demo:

Recipe search. You may type general ingredients and click on it to select from the picture display.*

Picture display. Recognize the ingredients that you have and select them here.*

Rate, review and get your nutritional info here on the recipe page* (source)

Conclusion

With Masak Apa? app, you have absolutely no reason to live on instant noodles or eat unhealthy takeout food. Heck, you can even have a gourmet burger at home! That being said, you can also impress your spouse instead of that lame trick of buying food at Nasi Campur and claiming you cooked it. Hopefully, this app will be beneficial to improve your lifestyle and diet. Most importantly, it saves time and energy.

Head on over to Maxis to make your iPad useful, anywhere you go!

p.s, I wish Maxis can turn my Masak Apa? iPad app into a reality! 😀

Warning: Slightly immature sense of humor is required. If you don’t have one, go to your doctor get the necessary prescriptions.

These are my latest ‘works’. Aida seemed to enjoy watching me coloring. She kept laughing all the time. hoho

Materials: Newspaper
Tools: Daddy’s multi-color ball pen.

look aat the green eyeshadow! aww, such a pretty boy <3

Now time for sportsmen.

I was feeling a lil’ fat today after all that Pizza yesterday and McD for lunch today. So, I decided that it’s time to get back on track before I completely lost myself. It wasn’t really about losing weight, be skinny yada-yada, (omg, surprise, surprise, I know right!) hahaha but it’s more about getting fit, being healthy and feel good about yourself.

I remember back then when I was active hitting the gym, I was a lot happier. I only lost like 2 kg before I stop losing weight cause I’ve already achieved my ideal weight. I turned my fat into muscles, try to balance out the cardio and resistant training. So, I got fitter, and more toned body.

After my membership ended and I didn’t have the moolah to continue, my exercise stopped altogether, unfortunately. It didn’t only affect my eating lifestyle (because I don’t feel I’m doing anything for my health), but it also affected my alertness, and in return, I have a hard time focussing on my studies because I pretty much felt like I was drained most of the time. I also felt down because I know my fitness level wasn’t as good as it was and that kinda upset myself. Kinda like a self-pride thing, as I was an athlete (way) back in school.

With the guilt of taking my health for granted, I started to exercise tonight. I did some cardio warm up and some resistence to start off. Just light exercises but I can see how much my fitness level has deteriorated . I was doing weights and I could hardly lift the 10kg block. Last time, I’d do 20kg block. I also did some pushups, bicep curls and sit ups. Tomorrow, I’ll most likely run on treadmill and some intense stretches for flexibility. Flexibility is great cause it doesnt only help you perform better, but it also helps to burn those fat faster.

So, that said, there are a lot of benefits of exercising, whether you’re trying to improve your sleep cycle, increase your metabolism, relax your mind, and stuffs like that. For those of you who don’t exercise whether you’re ideal or overweight, you should really try it and see the difference. Plus, exercise is also great when you need to take your mind off something, like your work, studies, your girl problem, man problem, or even if your man decided to keep a mustache or obsessed with HTC. oopss hahahaha.

I was randomly picking up books from the shelf beside my bed and I found the book, bought by my sister, Arina a while ago but hasn’t been read by anybody due to its confusing and boring way of writing. Too many characters with french names. Know what I mean? And guess what it’s turned into. I’ll let you guys observe the cover of the book scanned below.

The Art of Murder how to do mole by Aida. ahahahah!

Until next time, toodles!

P.s, for those who still don’t know, Aida is my 8 y.o sister.

P.s, threw away ALL the patterns I’ve drawn. Almost 2 years of work. Gonna have a fresh start, do everything all over again.