Sago gula melaka

From my cousin's email

I don't really have a proper recipe but gathered bits and pieces of tips on how to make pudding. I had made few failed attempts before. 
Here's what I did this time. 

1) use large pot. 270gm (1 packet) of sago.
2) fill the entire pot with water to cover sago (important to ensure the pot is full and you can barely see the sago underneath or the washing stage later will be laborious)
3) over medium fire, boil sago stirring constantly. 
4) change over to other hand if started with right hand. 
5) keep on stirring till mixture thickens and you don't see white spots in the middle of each bead. Don't stress it will look like glue but this is normal!!
6) pour thick starchy mixture into colander and run COLD tap water over starchy mixture to wash excess glue-yness from sago. 
7) you feel guilty for using so much water. But keep going. 
8) you are flushing starch away. 
9) Lo and behold, you see little individual pearls appear. 
10) Drain off water and scoop pearls into mould. Leave to set in fridge.
11) when ready to serve, drown set sago in coconut milk. Drizzle with Gula Melaka according to sweetness you want. 
12) Yay!