Tuesday, September 8, 2009

My intermission - Your entertainment

5:20 AM

because blogging is so much more appealing than writing an essay about Marx's alienation and Durkheim's anomie....

Holidays have been fantastic. Apart from the assignmenting bit.

Got invited to Wei-Yuen's last weekend. She insisted on delighting me with lunch and I obliged without much persuasion.

I absolutely love her room. You see. This is why I want to go flatting. So that I can embellish my room with non dull furnishings and make it my own.

Anyway, the hillarious tot made us all (Nath, Mark, me and herself) egg noodles as make shift spaghetti.

And then there was her one of a kind sauce. A tinge of tangerine slammed my tastebuds during initial contact but after a while the taste grew on me, so much so, I'm craving it just as I write this. There were shrimps and tomatoes embedded somewhere within the mound. And she garnished it with parsley, pepper (which we got to grind ourselves!) AND feta cheese. Delish! Aiyo. I want to experiment with my cooking skills. I NEED to. If only i had a proper kitchen and not a communal one where my pots and pans and chopping board AND knives get stolen. bah!

Ah. Classic Nathan. Music and Nath are inseperable. Like peanut butter and jelly. Like adenine and thymine bases on the DNA helixes. Like Nathan and Wei-Yuen. =) Complementary.

more snapshots of her room.

Martha Stewart in the making.

And then on Monday, social officer and long time friend Allan Ooi organized a laser strike event for UMSA. And where there's UMSA, there's the bunch of us crazy souls. And OMG. Laser strike is the ABSOLUTE bomb man. Must try! it's like paintball minus the pain. I didn't expect to have so much fun (or sweat so much....) but I did. And I met all these new faces, never knew they were members to begin with! And the best part of it all was getting to shoot people and run into them without and excuse. So funnnnn. If i had the chance, I'd go again and again and again and again. But one thing's for sure. Go in a gigantic group.

me and my sniper mate for life -Jie Huei. We always end up together. Whether it's washing dishes, acting in skits, shaking our booties and even in games like these. I'd never even imagine that I'd meet here again after BRATs Kuching 07 (where we were in the same group just as well!) but I guess that's the thing about unexpected twists in life. Love you Jie Huei!

Rayvin, Roger, Boon and Akbar. Loved being stuck in a car with these guys. Rayvin and his china apek jokes crack me up. Roger's the one with great advice. Good head on those shoulders man. Boon saves the day. You can count on him to. And Akbar. Ever reliable. Ever supportive. Ever gutsy. Equally crack up material. OMG. you guys should so watch his Vellu Annaa Air Asia X video clip for the ball. Just go to youtube and search vellu annaa. sure to find it. It's some hillarious shit. Swear you won't regret it.
Got back at 3 am after I hung out with the guys at Denny's and had to wake up early the next morning for mini golf with Fran, Sam, Yuen, Noob and Nath.
Yuen and Nath picked me up from Huia and off we went to the pirate themed mini golf course near the airport.

=)

just as close this year as we were last year.

me and sam. before exilation.

Fran and Noob.

My very first attempt at mini golf and I loved it. Loved the course!







love this one of them!



stylo milo noob

turns out, Nath's really competitive when it comes to err, almost everything so when I was winning on beginners luck, it got a little scary. eek. but I'm not competitive, I mean it's just a game so I was cool when Nath took the lead after seriously traumatizing me! But i came in at 2nd place. So yes. Golf may just be my niche.

Happy after finishing all 18 courses. I have no idea why i'm posing like Bozo the clown. Had to think quick. We put the camera on timer.

And then we went to this cafe nearby for a bite.

Perfect end to a perfect day. If only my essays would do themselves. sigh. Can't wait for BFM this weekend. I'm actually looking forward to tumbling in and out of the stage with Allan for our prop stint.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Secret Recipe. A dash of neuroticism. A crap load of chocolate. And walla!

5:05 AM

Man. I am so easily amused. Ordinary day it was, today. But Melitta and I induced some craze into it. We went to St. Luke's and I am so proud of myself for not buying anything. It gets harder each time to tighten those purse strings. Materials weren't on my mind today. It was all about the walking and the talking. A lot of walking and talking. Such joy.

And then we came back and decided to bake coz we've been wanting to do it for ages and we've always been pretty envious of Kailas and Agata for their awesome baking skills. So there we were, toiling in the kitchen, working up a mess of it's own kind. And when we were done, even the sight of the cookies were repulsive so we decided to spread the love and distribute them to our fellow 9th floorers. Again. Such joy.

They weren't the best. Burnt outsides, mushy insides. Amateur icing. But with the secret ingredient and a little bit of lurvinggg all was good.

getting everything set.

creaming without those whipping things was a feat.

and instead of chocolate blocks, we used cocoa powder and water.


the human mixer.

There were a lot of make shift ingredients as there were make shift methods.

Cookie dough comes into formation.

Just before popping them into the oven

and in they go.......

so while we wait, we observe Ronnie making japanese curry for his dinner.

and struggled not to consume cookie dough

and so the first batch of chocolate walnut cookies come out and they are nowhere close to perfect. A tad bitter and there was no crunch to the cookie. But Jacob and Guna said they were pretty good. And we were not about to give up.

So we made a second batch with a brand new recipe and real Dairy Milk chocolate bits.

while the old ones went into keeping

There's our new batch

Melitta gracefully spooning little clumps onto the baking tray

and out they come tasting better than the previous batch although not looking as good.

the cookie cutters. us before going out on a distribution run.

Ronnie.

Shaun.

Asal.

Charlotte.

Michael.
Didn't take pictures of Guna, Andrew, Trish, Jacob and random British guy.

And only after giving them out did we come up with the secret ingredient. A heaven of truffle icing. They made the cookies look even more appealing than..... you name it.

talk about transformation man.

melting the truffles.

o boy. o joy.

after a while, we got lazy to do the whole pattern thing and just chucked chocolate all over the cookies.

drizzle. drip.

yummah. mummah.