YouTube Intermission

Great! It's finally the weekend! And I dunno what to do about it :(

Actually I have powerpoint slides to prepare for Monday's class but I'm terribly distracted by YouTube. Been watching every episode of The Nanny available, streaming 7-minute short clips and piecing random episodes together in no particular order. Love Niles!







Been stuffing my face with Japanese these days - Waruku (best paper hotpot) with Anne and gang, Waruku again (fried ice cream not so good but had a 10% off the bill cos we found out the supervisor was an ex-bandmate!) with Ks, Ichiban (best salmon head soup and softshell crab handroll) with the mister, and Sakae (best.. er.. mascot?) with Liling and gang.


And I totally forgot about Starry's birthday cos the week's been crazy... I'm so sorry dearie..





Starry Starry dear

I'm so sorry I forgot your birthday

Daniel's the important one anyway

You still have the flower I got you last year?



Speaking of birthdays, Fan was on MC on hers. I know you don't want a celebration lady.. b..b..bbbut do you have to avoid us like this??? =puts away noisemakers= you still want your pressie on Monday?? I know you're secretly excited.. you are!

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Eugene was awarded Team Player (Softball) of 2007 last week.

Unglam pic of Team Player after the awards ceremony

The sandwich he made and hid in the glove compartment for me.

Zhng-ing my banana chocolate sundae with Mrs Loh's banana.

Now back to YouTube!

Xiao Long Cu Bao

YAY! We're going somewhere in December!!!


Was half afraid that I'll end up wasting the holidays because of his matches, but today we booked a 4D3N holiday in Bintan's Nirwana Garden for $301 per pax. Had to pay $50 bucks more for the sea view as rooms with a garden view are fully booked. Don't really care for the view; they can paint a window on the wall for all I care and I'd still be happy that I won't be stuck here during term break. Anne and Tricia both enjoyed the place with Kelvin and Renjie :D

Not bad eh :) compare this with Tioman's Tropical Coral Inn which we stayed for an agonizing 3 days

I was actually afraid that Eugene would collapse the bowl cos when you sit on it, it shifts 0_0

Anywhere would be better than Tioman, anywhere!

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Sua ku us went to Ding Tai Feng for the first time.

Me (not looking like myself)

Eugene tucking in

Us

Look at how Eugene fills his small dragon soup bun (xiao3 long2 tang1 bao1) with a lot of vinegar. They should have a xiao3 long2 cu4 (vinegar) bao1 in the menu for him la. If you can't tell what he's saying the monologue is below.

-confused- ".. Why don't you eat..?"

-exasperated and does some funny la1 mian4 action- "... I can't eat with a camera in my face!"

He didnt know he was on video la hahahaha the silly guy :D


Then greedy me wanted to try the grilled bacon-wrapped enoki mushrooms on skewers from this shop beside Peninsular Plaza.

Looks nice hor. I still remember those I had by the roadside in Hong Kong... heavenly!

What we had looked like what you see in the photo, except that the bacon consists of 90% fat and 10% meat. PUI! Poor Eugene looked like he was going to puke after eating just one piece :(

Rushed to Mos Burger and downed 1 large iced milk tea to dilute the fat. The yellow lighting was good so being vain pots we took some pictures :D

He looks great in this one :D

His eyebags are bigger than his eyes la. So cute :D

And now I'm home writing this and having my 2nd cup of chamomile hoping it will remove the fat.. yeah who am I kidding... :(

UGH! No more fat for me for the next 2 weeks else become pui pui like eugene.. ><

Attempting to Feed the Hungry Pitcher

Tick ... CROSS CROSS .. tick.. CROSS CROSS CROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm a marking machine these days - Chemistry and music (yes we have music exam too. Fun to set the paper but not fun to mark) Helped Fan mark her lower sec science too. These students are hilarious -

Answers from our 14 year olds

1. The process describing a sperm fusing with an egg (i.e. fertilization)

Student's answer: sexual intercourse

2. Name the type of cells which you see in the diagram (sperm and a fertilized egg)

Student's answer: bacteria and amoeba

3. Chemical process taking place when heating calcium carbonate (i.e. thermal decomposition)

Student's answer: heat decay (ok this is a rather smart answer, I must admit, but too bad, still wrong! WRONG! WWWWRRRRONG!)

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Eugene said he'll meet me after his training at 10.45 pm to have his dinner. Usually when this happens we'll end up in Dunman Food Centre or Kallang 24 hr Mc Donalds/KFC. But 2 nights ago I offered to cook for him. And so this post is about

The Iron Chef attempting to feed the Hungry Pitcher

(and I tell you, when I was searching online for a chef hat picture, this scary photo popped up and scared the daylights out of me)

~Shudder~

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I had 35 minutes to whip up something decent. No problemo. Gathered all the ingredients in 5 minutes. He hates celery but that's the only veggie I have in the fridge. Too bad ha! (Harwin, it is confirmed that you can't feed ayam brand chilli tuna to cats as it swells their upper larynxes)

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Noodles in hot water chucked in microwave. Celery diced. Canned tuna lid pulled back. No sweat.

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Noodles out of oven, drained and tossed in cold water (like pro) while celery sat in hot water.

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Egg on teflon pan. Celery drained. Blotted fried egg with kitchen towel.

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OMG Just look at this!!! Look like hospital food la!

(started to panic) I need garnishing! I need colour!

If only I had some red chillie and a Ginsu knife. Can make a star or a sotong thingy like in the photo. Quite pro hor. If he didn't like his dinner I might also use the knife to slice him up thinly heh

I don't believe this! We have two freakin refrigerators and all I could find were two sad looking tomatoes way past their prime. My brother saw my butt sticking out from the fridge and cracked up.

"Siao ah! So long zhong for wat?! Wah.. but your egg fry until quite nice la"

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Eugene stepped into the kitchen during my weak attempt to colour the dish. He startled me and in my haste I even spilt some of the curry powder on the counter la .. :( super no skill.. haiz

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With an icepack perched on his shoulder (top left corner), the hungry pitcher devoured his noodles, including every single cube of celery.

-burp-

He was happy.. So was I :D

He pops The Question

Ok I have have to admit it. Facebook can be pretty addictive.

I had so many presents sent to me in just 4 days. Really, the way they make you send gifts at every possible opportunity keeps the site going.

Would you be excited if a friend gave you a bunch of carrots in real life?

"siao ah! go gib your mother la!"

After receiving so many things from your friends, you're obliged to send something back (knowing very well that most of them probably mass-sent the items anyway). So I proceeded to spend 1 hour sending ice-creams, vegetables and eggs. (Those of you who received something from me, it was a personal thoughtful gift. I do not mass-send my items, sompa)

Adopted a panda too and named him Pan Panda. Was even enthusiastic enough to buy a bed, stereo system, ferret and hamster for my room only to be told (after the long meticulous process of choosing and adding the items) that I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH COINS (again).

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GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

Anyway, back to the main story.

HE POPPED THE QUESTION

"Oi.. Why you turn me down...."

Huh?

"I asked you................................................... (meekly) Will you marry me...."

You did??! When?!

"When you were falling asleep on your bed before my (softball) training..."

-scratch head-

"You said No and turned away........................................ and fell asleep" (kua kua kua......)

He calls that A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL?? Trying to catch me when I'm semi-conscious.. sly one!

Anyway when it finally sank in I couldn't stop laughing... he's really really cute sometimes :D

Lots of marking to do now that the exam papers are in... I fell asleep for about 15 minutes holding my red pen and almost drooled on a terrible sketch of what's supposed to be a carbon dioxide molecule:

diao.....

Ok I'm going to go figure out how to feed my panda. Ha! Ciao!

Top 10 Reasons Why Facebook Pisses Me Off

(This post is not about you, Eugene, so you can skip it)

Top 10 Reasons Why Facebook Pisses Me Off

10. Cos everyone wants me to add them on Facebook. Why can't they add me? (yes apparently I have lazy friends)

9. The site is bursting with so many applications they make me dizzy.

8. The useless News Feed: "WWW is now friends with XXX... YYY wrote a sticky note to 2 people... "

zzzzzz....Seriously...would you care if I were to give Starry a great white shark for her Facebook aquarium? huh? HUH???

7. OK, I just found out that I don't have enough coins to send Starry a great white shark. HMPH.

6. Every move I make on Facebook can be seen by all my friends. (see point number 8) I find more privacy in my own blog. Here. Seriously.

5. "Ooh lookie! Someone is sending me a flower! -clicks on link to receive- .. wait.. where's my flower? Oh ok someone called Obiwankanobe made this application.. yes yes I'm adding it so that I can see the flower.. oh I have to send a flower to other people first? No.. no.. skip that.. Wait.. where's my flower? Er... h..h..hello? -clicks around hopefully-"

4. Substitute flower in point number 5 with beer/high5/banana/whatever damn thing that can be sent to you and then mysteriously disappear after wasting your time.

3. The Define Me application says "Nobody has defined you yet. Be the first."
okie.. let's see... -spends 10 minutes defining myself, clicks enter- "Sorry. You cannot define yourself. Only others can define you."

WT...?!

2. I have mysteriously joined Oktoberfest twice at 7.41pm without knowing, and invited myself to join it again at 7.42pm.

1. I wanted to spank Eugene. After sending the spank and reloading my home page, I had also requested for me to spank myself 3 times -_-'''

Kinky.

Saturday Shopping!!

Went out shopping with Fan Fan on Saturday. She drove in her red lil Picanto (bumpy ride as usual, but no near-death incidents this time) and we headed down to Bugis first.

The Saturday crowd was madness!! We stopped outside OG along the row of eateries and I had One Tonne noodles (heehee I still find this funny after I heard the pun from Martin Yan on his show). My char siew wasn't red or chaoda enough, and Fandrie was supposed to have her shredded chicken noodles but it came in huge pieces. Instead of sending it back she said it was alright and proceeded to daintily remove the chicken skin and bones while talking about astrology and astronomy which I don't know nuts about.

We went to OG first and halfway that woman sneaked out giving the excuse that she left her phone in her car.. and just when I was getting worried for her after she's gone for too long, she came back with 2 bags bought from the pasar malam!!

OG got boring, so we headed down to Bugis Village (bag galore!) and I bought TWO bags!!! That's almost 70 bucks spent in less than 15 minutes!! Gah...

But this Little Miss shirt was the best purchase!!! 12 for one piece, 20 bucks for 2!

Fan and I each bought one. She's Little Miss Curious and I'm.......

Actually I think I'm a rather obliging person (am i not?? hmmm at least people tell me I am ..) and far (shi wan ba qian li) from stubborn but she's so round and cute (actually Fan wanted her first and I wanted Miss Curious but our purchases swapped)

Then she wanted her skinny elastic pants (which no one in the whole wide world can wear except her and maybe some starved people in Africa but they won't look half as hot of course) and the entire Bugis doesn't have her size, so we had to either head for Lilliput, or this shop called Bega in Marina Square.

So we went to Marina Square :D

I think the shop actually waits for her to come in and buy cos no one else can squeeze into them. (They gave her a VIP card lo!) She's has killer buns sitting on top of her killer long legs!! And me? Like one ba zhang... haiz




I got her some tops to try (NO WAY it's too YOU! she said). She amused me by trying them on and I could tell that she secretly loves how she looks in them.. hehehe You can't hide your lying eyes Fandrie.... I'VE GOT GOOD TASTE!

In the end she got her skin tight hot pants and no tops (bleah) and she was happy and we headed for Carrefour for pineapple juice for her mom and....

THIS!!!!

This is the best wasabi peas ever! Huge can for under 4 bucks, crunchy and shiok enough! Eugene hates it :D He doesn't know what's good stuff!

Fan bought a can, and I bought one for myself and one for Tricia to thank her for a favor (<3 u gal)


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J..J...J...JUST LOOK at what happened to my can in just 2 days!!!

Totally Cleaned OUT! My sis so nice.. left some pea skins for me... thanks ah...

And I only had some for breakfast lunch and dinner! This is the problem when you live with 5 other people in the house ... grrrr)

The peas are so so so so so good. (Fandrie got so mad with us twice for 1. hiding her peas and 2. really finishing them, so you can imagine how good they are!)


mmm MMMM MMMMMMMMMMM!!!!


I dedicate this pledge to our beloved crunchy peas:

We the Wasabi Pea Lovers of Singapore
Pledge ourselves to be forever lovers of this crunchy savoury snack
Regardless of breakfast, lunch or dinner
To build salty fingers and runny noses
Based on our withdrawal symptoms without them
So as to achieve happiness, sore throats and catfights over who gets the last pea

hahaha I know that was stupid! Anyway I modified it from Mark's We the Potato Chip Lovers of Singapore pledge :D We should say this every morning! Everyone says I look like a zombie before 8am .. Now I have something to wake me up!

Ok it's late, need to invigilate tomorrow.. kinda boring.. oh well.. Toodle-loo!

Mystery body part

I'm kinda sick of looking at the layout of my blog... how do people actually do up their blogs? People actually design their own blogskins right?? Can I rip off someone else's?? :p


Anyway, I had a craving for steamboat recently (mus be due to the super cold weather couple days back) so I suggested one of those Ma La Huo Guo shops in Geylang. He picked me up from school at around 6.30pm and we headed for the place.


"Eh you know how to go or not? Take out the street directory leh.."


Flip flip flip... I searched for the map and we matched map 73 with 56 then 18 then 1747652o9 (why do they design street directories like this!??)


" I know how to go la.. let's go" (I was pissed with the maps... join here join there.. -_- anyway don't start on the typical girls can't read maps thing, cos I CAN READ MAPS K!)


Then he got me started on ranting about work (pity Eugene's ears... but that's what boyfriends are for) and soon we found that neither of us was focusing on the road and we were quite lost.


From Serangoon to Geylang....

How did we end up on PIE heading for TUAS!??

Anyway we took 1 freakin hour to find the shop (but it's a good thing... if a guy knows Geylang inside out then maybe got something wrong le)





Eugene was super happy to find parking at the bus terminal, especially when parking was apparently free!


Anyway, at 15 bucks per pax with fresh seafood, dumplings and free flow of drinks, very reasonable wor!



Should have taken pictures... the crab claws were about as large as a FOOT LONG SUBWAY SANDWICH!



Can you imagine how large the actual crab was?? Bigger than the steamboat pot la!

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?

I still remember seeing it for the first time when I was still a little girl, my maid bending over the kitchen sink washing it. And I thought she was washing a piece of dish cloth.

Compare and Contrast

Well Eugene had no idea what it was! I took a couple of pieces, threw them into the pot and made him eat 2 pieces.


"Eh Bio Engineer... You sure you have no idea what this is??" (poor dearie.... everyone expects him to know everything about every single organism on earth)


"Er... don't know... It's quite chewy though... What is it?"


"Don't tell you... Here, have another piece" (heehee)


(He ate it, looking very confused)


"Ok la... Tell you ...."

IT'S PIG'S ARSE!!!!!!!!!

I swear he flinched and almost spat it out!!!

But that would mean he's HJ right... So he adjusted his composure and said "Oh.. ok... hmmm" and swallowed the morsal.


My poor dearie still has no idea what that is (it's ok... Fandrie the bio teacher doesn't know either)


Shhhh ... You people don't tell him ah!