steamboat with juniors ^^

since we were leaving IMU already, our juniors decided to hold us a farewell steamboat party. thanx to all you guys for the meal ya! ^^

the steamboat was held at sunway Yuan restorant. famous for its chicken wings. they actually calculated the time for each batch of chicken wings to arrive - 15 minutes! then they planned the strategy.. oxy would block the way, and the rest would spring into action. ^^

my cute mentee - ray ^^

sweet ^^

the universal symbol

all full and fed

new found 'heng dai's.. hehe

all girls say "cheese"

and everybody say 'hairy dick'!;p

next we adjourned to sunway pyramid to chill at the bistro

the drinks were pretty cool. the fruit punches were nice. i don't really like alcohol, even though the presentation looks nice. the atmosphere was cool too.

after drinks, the four of us went a bit crazy and refused to go home. hence, we went for a late night movie - my first, watching 'jiang shan mei ren'. what a sad show, nice though.

and that marked the end of the day. ^^

moist chocolate cake - best i've ever tasted

chocolate topping - jusco magazine

200gm whipped cream, 40gm butter, 240gm chopped chocolate

heat whip cream till it boils, add chopped chocolate and mix well. add butter and mix well. let is rest one night.

chocolate cake - yi lyn's mom's recipe

A. 2oz cocoa powder (Vanhouten brand), 2oz sugar, 1 cup water

mix together and double boil until sugar dissolves. leave to cool.

B. 6 eggs (egg yolk and egg white separated), 7oz sugar, 8oz self-raising flour, 8oz butter (melted and leave to cool)

beat egg white with half sugar until light. beat egg yolk, half sugar, butter, and 'A' until well mixed. add flour and mix. fold in the egg white. bake (don't fill it up too full)

apply chocolate to middle of cake and as topping.

my brother's chocolatae birthday cake ^^

green pea biscuit (carolyn's recipe)

green pea powder 450g, flour 600g, icing sugar 210g, salt a little bit, soda powder 1 teaspoon, corn oil 380ml.

sieve all, add together, lastly add corn oil and make into dough. roll into 1cm think, use 'acuan' to make it into your shape and bake.

trying to steal my car?!

furtively we crouched beside the car.. i opened the door.. silence.. then suddenly the alarm rang!! frantically we groped under the dashboard with the alarm blaring, checking at all times to see whether the guards would come running to have us arrested for car theft.

course they wouldn't. it was my car after all. the battery of the remote control had died on me, leaving me no choice but to open the door with the key, thus activating my superb alarm and security system which didn't even allow me to start the engine while screaming at me constantly.

for your info, if that ever happens to you, and if you are driving a kelisa, go to the passenger side of the seat and poke your entire head into the hole under the dashboard (you can't see it otherwise). there's a little red button on your left, near the door. really a life-saving button.

a sincere and heart-felt thanks to all my passengers, fiona, shu yin and kelvin, who immediately started to call up everyone they could think of who drives a kelisa. thanx alap, who engaged the help of his brothers and dad. thanx v co, thanx shu yin's friend from sarawak, thanx kar maine. really appreciate all your help and support!=]

王心凌 这就是爱

漂流在爱情海域
你我也曾有过伤心
因为相信让俩颗心贴近了距离
当我靠在你的怀里
所有话题都是多余
眼前的风景都是你给我的美丽
月影遥 天都亮了 星星睡不着
我在你耳边轻轻唱着 你笑了
爱 俩颗星星一片海
牵着的手都明白 再也离不开
爱 轻轻飘进我心海
你是甜蜜的意外 我却逃不开oh~~
当我靠在你的怀里
所有话题都是多余
眼前的风景都是你给我的美丽
月影遥 天都亮了 星星睡不着
我在你耳边轻轻唱着 你笑了
爱 俩颗星星一片海
牵着的手都明白 再也离不开
爱 轻轻飘进我心海
你是甜蜜的意外 我却逃不开oh~~
开始不懂爱 到现在才明白
恋爱中的人都像个小孩
情愿被宠坏 每一天都充满期待
这就是爱
爱 俩颗星星一片海
牵着的手都明白 再也离不开
爱 轻轻飘进我心海
你是甜蜜的意外 我却逃不开oh~~

the secret

it borders on atheist beliefs, but i still find that there are things to learn and apply into our lives.

the secret talks about the Laws of Attraction where everything is made up from energy, and you attract energy to you based on your feelings and thoughts. basically, this is what i got from the 1.5 hr movie:

> focus on what you want, not what you do not want.

> you are the masterpiece of your own mind.

> what you focus on (thoughts, feeling) is what will be attracted to you. you create your own universe as you go along.

> all that we are is the result of what we have thought. be grateful. visualise. the 'feeling' is the secret, not just positive thinking. 'feel' what you want. feel good.

> imagination is the preview of life's coming attraction.

> decide on what you want, believe it is possible for you. visualise having it, feel it, then be grateful for what you already have.

> you can't expect others to enjoy your own company if you don't enjoy your own company. treat yourself the way you want others to treat you. you are the solution to you! love yourself. have a healthy respect for yourself.

> laughter really is the best medicine!

> men becomes what he thinks about. focus on what you want, not what you don't want.

> whether you think you can or you can't, either way you are right – Henry Ford.

Welcome to planet earth. There is nothing you cannot be. Decide on what you want, then focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon it that you will attract it.

Feel good!^^

人的2%不足

每个生命都有2%的不足
因为上天是公平的，他给人这2%不足
让人在自己的人生旅途中填补它。

所以朋友你不用羡慕，妒忌
那些生活比你好，各方面条件比你优越的人，
他们在别的方面并不一定优越于你。

每个人都是不一样的，但每个人都有2%的不足
他们的悲伤你不知道

因此不要让他们看到你的哀伤
用心去填补自己那2%的不足。

chinese new year 2008 ^^

红黄蓝青

三位美女 ^^

帮100 plus打广告

我的‘黄’运

smile!

好姐妹 ^^

新的一年新的地方大合照 =]

还是会回到每年拍合照的地方。。嘻。。

all about food!!

before the chinese new year break, we went to sunway's sushi zanmai.. nice!

the restaurant's nice ambience

steamed rice with chicken and egg

salmon sushi rice

seafood sushi rice

tempura

then, i went to bangsar with shu yin and pui leng to go boutique-hopping. lunch was at a thai restaurant. i loved the starter..



then, during the break, i made green pea biscuits..



gui ning gao from eu yan sang...



moist chocolate cake from yi lyn's mom's recipe...



and on the second day of new year, we had lunch at allson...

the power of thought~

you are what you think you are, are you not?

if you always think that you will fail, most probably you will! coz you have already lost heart from the beginning.

on the contrary, if you think that you can do it, you most probably will too! coz you will be actively thinking of ways to make that a reality.

so, rather than always moaning and groaning about my weaknesses or troubles, why not i take constructive measures against whatever my complains are? if the subject is hard, the subject is hard. so just work harder right? if i always complain that i'm fat etc, then just go exercise right? the solutions to our problems are already there waiting for us to go for it. instead, due to our own laziness, we just sit there and do what we do the best - complain.

i believe that destiny is mine to decide. do you?

为什么...

我只看见别人的好
却看不见自己的好

所看到的，只有自己的不足

outing with jane june and mustaqim ^^

it's been a while since we last hung out with them. jane june? she was my housemate and good pal in intec days. mustaqim? he's the one we always ignore or 'kenakan' since he's so noisy. haha.. anyways, we went to watch alvin and the chipmunks in midvalley. quite a hilarious and entertaining show. i was disturbed halfway through to take the ticket out for mustaqim coz he had to sh** first before coming.

lunch was at sushi king. the food? as nice as every. i'm still crazy over the octopus. this time i ordered something cheaper so that the octopus wouldn't kill my pocket.

mustaq and jane june

mustaqim looks demented.haha..

shame on us. the malay who can hold chopsticks better than me.

ex-housemates

roommates ^^

my food - oyako don RM 9.90

chuka iidako, my all-time favourite RM6

una don RM 13.90

kodomo bento RM 13.90

traffic light rearranged ^^

i don't know when we'll be able to meet again. they will fly off, we will fly off, all heading to different places. but well, as people always say, it's a small world. we'll meet again. i'm sure of that. =]

落叶归根

开了很多朋友的blog，突然听见一首歌，很好听，却不知是从哪儿来。终于找到了，是王力宏唱的落叶归根。=]

Penang – food haven

The first day, as usual, after reaching Penang island, we went to Delima Selera at Island Glades for its ‘char kuey tiao’. Not bad. But not as good as I remembered. We also tried its asam laksa, which was surprisingly very nice. The ‘chee chiong fun’ was also not bad. Penang style chee cheong fun has lots of prawn paste (hae goh), making it an instant hit with me. Hehe.. but its not very healthy, so don’t eat that so much.

We checked in and rested a while before picking up my granma and setting off to visit my aunt in town. We ate near her house at a food court called Cameron. I liked the char quey tiao there. Nice! We also tried otak otak, chun piah (which is fried popiah).

Our hotel

Later at night, we went to our all-time favourite – Song River, for supper. As you can see, I’ve been eating all day long. To go to Song River, just walk from Gurney Hotel to Evergreen Laurel to the food shops ahead. Since we were staying at Evergreen Laurel, we walked there every night. We have been doing that for the past two years. Haha.. The first night, we ate its fried oyster, and lobak.

char kuey tiaw stall at song river

lobak and prawn fritters

Second day, breakfast was at Jelutung market. I really like the market, it’s more like a super big pasar malam in the morning, with lots of cheap stuff for sale including stuff like clothes, food, wallets, belts, raw food etc. I tried the emporer’s mee while my mom ate the hokkian mee aka prawn mee. According to her, it’s one of the nicest. To define hokkian mee as nice, the soup must be tasty and sweet while not being oily. I liked my emporer’s mee too, it’s nice, plus theres chicken and some fried potatoes, all that for rm2.50. After shopping for a while there, we were supposed to go to queensbay after that, we took a wrong turn and ended up on the penang bridge. Oops! So we had to go one big circle and take the ferry back to penang island.

Since we were already in town, we went to swatau foodcourt for lunch. It’s just ok. Don’t go there. After lunch, we went to gurney plaza for a quick walk before heading back to the hotel to rest. Dinner was at a foodcourt near the botanical gardens called Goodall. It was unexpectedly nice! We have never been there, but the hokkian char was very nice. Moreover, they had beef kuey tiaw soup, which is quite hard to find.

Supper was at Song River, of course. Since we were quite full, we only ate char kuey tiaw without egg each, shared its hok kian char while I and my brother ate one chicken wing each. The kuey tiaw is the best in penang, at least that’s what I think. However, the hokkian char is not very nice. Goodall has nicer ones.

Third day morning we ate at the food court beside delima selera. It’s new to us. Surprisingly, the loh mee and hokkian mee there is super nice! And very authentic too! And cheap! Rm2.30 per bowl. After that, we finally made it to queensbay, where I met Kelvin! Haha..

Lunch was a treat by my aunt. They brought us to eat nasi kandar at Kassim Mustafa, the best in town, according to them. It was really nice! We went to see my granma since it was the last day we had there. Lastly, we went to Lorong Selamat for its famous ice kacang and kuey tiaw thing. I really like the ice kacang, especially its ice cream, which tastes of vanilla peanut butter. Plus, there are lots of raisins and other ingredients.

nasi kandar at kassim mustafa

ice kacang stall at Lorong Selamat

ice kacang - with sarsi, syrup, ice cream, kacang, white transparent kacang, etc.. haha..

Bloated, we had a late dinner at Song River, eating for the last time our char kuey tiaw without egg (I think without egg makes it smoother), fried chicken wings, fried oyster, and fried popiah. We even met a very cute little boy selling cakes who sounded like a ‘dua tauke’, until the mother scolded him for playing with the food.

fried oyster at song river

famous chicken wings of song river

my favourite char kuey tiaw - best ever! not really la, the best i've eaten was by some friend of my granma last time, but she has since shifted to somewhere unknown.

All in all, food that I won’t miss if ever I’m in penang is Song River’s char kuey tiaw without egg and Lorong Selamat’s ice kacang!=]

cookie craze

my batch friends have recently started a cookie baking craze. first was carolyn with her green pea cookie. simply delicious. the result inspired ee wan to bake her own chocolate cookies which was as good as famous amos.

since i only managed to get the recipe for ee wan's cookies, i came home and immediately baked a batch for my friends when we went to celebrate my 22nd birthday. so here is what i managed to produce...

recipe: (copyright of ee wan)

Chocolate chips cookies...

butter 250g, plain flour 250g, sugar 120g, almond nibs 200g - mix together

chocolate chips 150g mix with the mixture

shape into irregular shapes and place on tray.

bake at 180C (i used 140 C on my oven) for 15-20 minutes.