I passed my test!

I passed my driving license permit test today!

The test so exciting sia. I had to answer 18 questions, allowed to have up to 3 questions wrong. When I was at my 14th question, I had already max-ed out the 3 questions, and I had to take the rest of the test with my heart beating really kan-chiongly.

But I passed my test! Hooray! I can legally learn how to drive alrd. Suddenly feel so mature :)

Psst... the guy who sat beside me tried to cheat during the test. He was scanning his surroundings to see if anyone was looking (I bet he didn't know I was looking!) and then opened the book and tried to flip through the pages. I guess he still failed coz I didn't see him at the end to process his results...

Now, the question is, can anyone above the age 21 teach me how to drive? Pretty please?

I want more more more! - of fallbreak :)

I wonder why some people dislike Asian food? I don't think it's an acquired taste at all. Today we had Chicken Rice at Darius' place. His place smells Asian too after he cooked for the 6 of us. Hahaha.

Darius the chef, trying to chop up a really humongous chicken.

We played Wii while waiting to savour some really good food made by Darius. I'd say the creator of Wii is one hell of a smart fellow. He's earning a fortune because lazy people like you (yesh, i mean YOU who plays Wii sports) and me greatly appreciate the idea of doing fake sports indoors without sweating. What's better than playing tennis and bowling and baseball and boxing just by sitting down!

So like I said, we had chicken rice. Darius is a pro. A PRO CHEF! it's sooooooo delicious. Eating it really made me feel like I was back in Malaysia once again. To top that homey feeling up, we played mahjong after eating, with uber tiny mahjong tiles 1/4 the size of the normal ones. I like how the dice was bigger than the tiles!

Mahjong Kaki.

Darius "lines up" his tiles like this. Haha so weird.

Darius the superboy was trying to multitask by eating, drinking, talking and playing mahjong at the same time =p


And needless to say, I lost, coz I stupidly gave up tiles that I needed. How smart.


My day 3 of fallbreak has been a crazy rush, with me doing a little schoolwork in the morning, then meeting up with the others at Darius' place, then having Korean dinner with Megan and Lu.
Korean food!


This is Lu from China. He's the "lao da" in the group, coz he's the oldest and he's the one driving us all the time. Well, he does look like the "lao da" of some mafia gang.

BBQ Beef and Pork! I miss home!

Given that this was the first Korean meal ever for Megan, I tried to teach her how to eat the beef with lettuce and garlic, topped up with a dab of sauce.

And this is me trying to put across the point to Megan that you have to stuff everything into your mouth, all at one go.

Lastly, Megan and I, trying to imitate Lu with his stick.

Food for thought

Fallbreak Day no. 2

I invited a couple of my Asian friends over to my apartment to have an all Asian night. (minus my roomie. Duh!)

Dinner was supposed to start at 6pm. I started at 240pm by cutting most of the ingredients essential for my first dish - Malaysian fried BeeHoon. First of all, I didn't know that those Vermicelli noodle can expand SO MUCH, and I didn't have enough ingredients prepared to go with it. That's roadblock no.1 for me. I had to put aside a little stash into the fridge.

BeeHoon wasn't that bad coz I've done it before. Next in line was Fried Wanton. Now, that was a challenge. It was my first time making it, so I had to reread and reread the recipe in the book. Can anyone tell me why you have to add flour into the paste??

Wanton paste.

Looking slightly crazy with the unkempt hair.

Third dish was my all time favorite- Sushi. Kuwan brought an uber tiny mat to roll the sushi. We gave up using her mat, so we decided to use our cheater-bug sushi maker!

The legendary mat - it's as long as my face!

Cheating in Sushi making! Add rice, then ingredients, followed by rice again!

We then wrapped the rice with seaweed... If there's Olympics for lameness, I think Kuwan deserves a medal. She was asking if we needed to put a tiny bit of sticky rice in between the the overlapping seaweeds to stick them together. Oh god. I almost died of laughter. To top that up, Qian Hui said to use our saliva! -_-

Me and my proud foodstuff :)

My guests and my Amanda.

So that's the end of my day 2. I'm tired from everything, but cooking keeps me happy :D

My room smells so Asian now. Lol.

~ The end ~

I love my cookies

First of all, I would like to stress that I absolutely love my cookies despite the fact that some turned out to be muffin cookies. Sometime during the last semester, I decided to bake some cookies just to destress a little bit. I didn't have those white baking sheets to lay on the tray, so I used OIL instead. Tadada! My cookies were all burnt in the end. I forced my friends to eat them with milk. So, when it came to my bday, Sean decided to get me a cookie cookbook. To top that up, Teresa gave me a baking tray.

So right now, when Fallbreak 2008 is finally here, I decided to make full use of my 20th bday present and take it easy, do something really low-key in my room... Baking cookies! Well, it wasn't really low key, coz the security guard sitting outside my room asked me if I was baking something, and his eyes "lit up" when I said yes. (How could anyone lie about the smell?) I had to offer him one just to be really nice and polite about it. -_-


So back to muffin cookies. Qian Hui and I were really excited to start, so we just added stuff into the mixing bowl without reading the instructions. As you can tell by the picture, we're really idiots in baking. Who on earth would mix flour and butter first before adding sugar? Yeap, that's how we rule! =p




So our flour, butter and sugar turned out to be like this.......... Dough crumbs??



When we finally bake the dough, they all turned out to be like muffin cookies. Soft inside, hard on the outside. Does anyone have any logical explanation for it? I'm not saying what I did to my dough YET, just in case my muffin cookies turn out to be really popular among my friends and I can then patent the idea and recipe. Muahahaha!



I was the so-called human mixer coz we didn't have the electronic one.


Now this is Qian Hui from Singapore. Duh, like I need to introduce her... She was trying really hard to follow every step on the recipe, including the "drop heaping teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets" part. Like a typical Singaporean who follows the rules religiously, Qian Hui tried to DUMP a spoonful of dough onto the tray. I almost died of shock. How could anyone REALLY do that, like seriously??? I laughed sooooooooo hard, and when it didn't work, Qian Hui decided to give up and line the dough up nicely instead :) She should have done that earlier. lol.


We then decided to use M & Ms in place of choc chips for the second batch. Amanda walked into the kitchen and she suggested putting the M&Ms on top of the dough instead of mixing them together. When she walked away, the both of us secretly and hurriedly did the contrary, just for the fun of it. It turned out to be a bad choice.

M&Ms all lost their shells. They got stuck onto the tray :(


But second batch was sooooooooo much better :) We had a variation too! Milo cookies :) hehehe. First of a kind eh??


yummy! Uhhmmmmmmmmmm delicious!

Poconos Retreat

These past few weeks have been crazy for me. I had a hectic schedule with barely enough time to eat and sleep. Sometimes I wonder if there's any point in doing so many things, accomplishing so much stuff, yet leaving barely enough time for myself to relax... So I decided that this weekend is gonna be THE weekend at the Poconos!

Turns out that the OML Retreat was dominated by the minority in school... I felt really left out at first because most of my peers bailed out at the last minute, citing oft-heard reasons like: no time! mid-terms coming up! lots of work to do etc etc etc.... Yet, I'm kinda glad that I went with Migs and Darius eventually. Besides the discussion about minority life in SJU, I got to admire the pretty sceneries at the Poconos!

Our lodge for the weekend.

The time spent at the Poconos made me realize that I can still find beauty around me...

A 10-20 mins break is enough to make me smile again :)

Despite being grown-ups (well, not exactly YET), we can be silly at times.

Titanic? o_0

Migs, my bro who makes me laugh all the time!


Someone said: "Smile and laugh to keep the vampires away!" Hell yeah!

At the end of the day, it made me understand this age-old adage again:

Don't take yourself too seriously. No one does anyway. Lol. Be happy! :)

I am toooooooooooo blessed in life to be stress!

That's the end of my weekend. There's another week to Fallbreak. I seriously can't wait already =p

The best has yet to come :)

A taste of home

Here's my awesome-est dinner for the week!

Tada! Curry chicken. My first time cooking la, so it's already not bad =p

That's all from me this week.