Thursday, September 29, 2005

Foodlog, food blog

Ohh my~ Why do I have to torture thyself. Looking at the food blogs when I am eating crap food, and esp after the following incident.

Few moments ago, I wanted to make bread toast with margarine and suger. I happily toasted the bread, took it out, spread some margarine and sugar. Return it to toaster. Surface turned brown abit. Looks good. Took it out and rested it. I used a knife to spread the sugar more evenly, then I licked the knife.

MMmm.....margarine taste nice. Got salty taste. But its too salty to be margarine. Silly me put salt over the toast instead of sugar. k**.

I burst my own hope of having nice sweet sugar toast.

Oh yeah and the food blogs. It has given ST and me some inspiration to cook for dinner. Some of it is by my sidebar.

Chef Cass
Nibble scribble
Cheat Eat
aromacookery.com

Go, find something you like and cook. Cook one share for me when you have the chance

Over and out!

PS: I did not throw the toast away. I scrapped the salt away on both pieces and ate it all.

Yes. It was a little salty.

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

My house


My house
Originally uploaded by Nerd with love handles.
On google earth

Students in trouble

Student bloggers in trouble with school for flaming teachers on their blogs.

Calling a teacher a prude and old spinster....

I thought I did that when I was in primary and secondary school. Friends used to make writings on the desk, chairs walls, teacher's table. It seemed like old school pranks, carried out on new medium, the internet.

"LAO CHU NU!!" (old virgin in mandariin)

And how did the schools know about this? Teachers so free surf blog?? Give them more CCA to handle!! Or could it be some smarty-pants-try-to-get-into-good-books students telling on their friends:p (bao toh kia)

" t'cher!! got people write something bad about you"

ok i know teacher handle alot of responsiblities already. So don't give them more work lah. if not they really don't have much life left, really become old spinster.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Monsters!!

Still can't get why some human minds would be warped in such a way. Exploiting kids in such a way.

If any of you people who goes out to neighbouring countries for 'holidays', 'karaoke' whatever you call it, try imagining it happen to your daughter or your sister.

And for the rest of you people. Sign It. Its probably the least you could do, while sitting on your chair infront of the computer. Hopefully it gets heard some where up there and something gets done.

The petition here

Monday, September 26, 2005

The Spider Drink

Now I am gonna introduce a new drink to you. Its by Fanta, the people who brought u the Sarsi drink, popular back in the 80s, and 90s. The new drink is SPIDER!!
Spider drink

Its a drink with chocolate taste together with orange taste. Try imagine that. Doesn't seem too appealing. I tried it. She tried it. He tried it. All of them gave me a face which looks like :( Reviews from my panel of judges, no good. I feel...the mix flavour does not complement each other.

The R&D and marketing people in Fanta seem to make some mistake in trying to cater to the taste of the public. Yes people love chocolates! Yes people love orange flavour drinks. But it does not neccesary means that they like something which combines both of it together.

People love to eat chicken, say kfc's. People love to eat chocolate, from cadbury. But you would not chocolate-coat your chicken thigh, which was already cooked/deepfried in other spices(Col sanders say so).

or maybe the problem lies with their food tester. This kind of beverage also can pass.....just whats wrong with their taste bud.

Spider drink
Colour still looks natural. Imagine some trace of brown in it. Supermarket does not seem to sell this flavour. Well they better save the effort and go try create some drinks with nicer taste.

Over and out!!

Golfing on a monday

Today is the day, a holiday, hence a good day to go golf. No worries, no school. So Alvin and me hit the green, as planned.

Ready for golf
Ready to play.

Golfing
Before tee-off

Been awhile since we played, and feeling rusty. All in all we spent about 5hrs on the course. Delayed by a bunch of slow pokes infront of us. Then we stopped for lunch too.

We had a real bad score. 119 for him and 115 for me. Used a putter that was wayy wayyyyyy wayyyyyyyy out of alignment. We figured we can cut our score by shaving average of 1 stroke each hole with a proper putter. I had a rather good game, minus the putting. Hit a few sweet shots. Made a few silly mistakes though, which contributed to the century+ score.

Hopefully maintain my form and <100 is on the way!

Waiting for my dinner now. She is cooking. And it smells nice.

Over and out!!

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Google Earth

I am looking like a guy marooned on a deserted island. Unshaved and all that. Thats because I have not been leaving the house. Just came back from dinner and walk in the supermarket with friends.

Went to Hungry Jacks(aussie version of burger king). We Singaporeans, turn into hungry pigs when we have discount coupons on our hands. 4 of us, cleaned off 8 burgers we bought cheaply using the coupons.

Its been a lazy weekend. Unhealthy dinner. Pizza yesterday, burgers today. Have to cut down on such food.

Booked our tickets to Tasmania already. Will be leaving Tasmania on the 11th November. Almost Immediately after my exams. yeehaaa!!

Ohh and now the new plaything, Google Earth. I must have been abit slow to start with this. Although I knew of this Google Earth, but I was relunctant to download and install it. But it looks like an interesting software. Found ST's house in Singapore. Trying to find where my ass is in frankston, but gonna stop and go sleep soon.

Interesting yes. Still not too sure of what is the purpose of this software is. Maybe in future, the capability of the software will improve. And I will be able to catch someone pissing around in the bushes. Or maybe i could track someone realtime, just like those "Enemy of the state" kind of tracking capability.

You can run, but you can't hide. Big Brother is watching you.

Over and out!

Friday, September 23, 2005

Head quarters!!


Coffee HQ


Kilo One to HQ!! Assignment has been taken down. Mission accomplished! Waiting for further orders. Kilo One over!!

HQ to Kilo One. Move on to next 4 assignments. Over and out!!

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Fighting Machine Hamster



Brilliant idea. Gives me some idea on what to do when i am bored. hur hur

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Lan Choo Tea


Lan Choo
Originally uploaded by Nerd with love handles.
Don't 'lan choo' drink any tea. Must drink lan choo

Monday, September 19, 2005

Weight Loss

Ever since I came over, I lost about 2kg off my weight!! Form 75 to 73 woohoo! Have been trying so hard to cut my weight (ok maybe not trying hard enough)

And this is just thru a change of diet. I did not do much exercise. ST says my diet in Singapore is crap. All the unhealthy stuff and oily and too much meat.

I thought i had followed the food chain well. The greens grow. Cow/chicken/watever-we-eat consumes greens. We consume Cow/chicken/watever-we-eat. Since Cow/chicken/watever-we-eat already consume green, so we no need eat more greens. Apparently my food chain is not the correct food chain to be applied in this case.

ST then gave me a re-education of how food chain works and what i should eat more. Hence I have been eating more greens, less junk food, less oil, less salt, less sugar. This diet is absolutely doing good to me!

Hopefully back in Singapore can maintain. Which I know is near impossible. With the frequent eating out, hainanese chicken rice with the chicken skin, char kway teow with 'hum'. Who can resist?

(ok i know what exactly is the food chain. Trying to play a fool above only)

Complains on a monday

Monday! This semester,i have been dreading Mondays because I have to wake up at 7am sharp to get wash up, grab some brekkie before catching the ever on time shuttle bus to school.

Today as usual, feeling ever more blue from some lack of sleep previous due to unable to sleep (hurhurhur). Got up the bus, sat down, intending to sleep on the hourney to school.

On came two girls, talking on the bus beside me, in their ever clear high pitched 'tehy' voice. Its a nice morning, and it sounds like birds chirping. But i hate sounds of birds chirping loudly and cheerfully when i need some sleep. So eventually they stopped. And i don't think I could 'out-argue' them with my half wake mind VS their chirping. Some women, they could snap your head off by just directing all their energy and yak at you. So ok all its forgiven as they stopped after awhile.

Got back home after lecture and tutorial. Sat at my desk do my work. When someone IM me, asking about some work. Told him that I was not sure of how to go about it and I am looking at my text to get help. Suggested to him why don't he try to do the same and refer to the text or the so-damn-useful-internet and he gave me a 'yah thanks huh' kind of reply.

Why you don't you use the lump of tissues that is sitting right in your thick numbskull? Or should i just do your bloody work for you huh. Damn it! move your brains will ya

Over and out!

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Sunday

Today is a day with sun. Previous days were dark, windy, wet & chilly. It doesn't help that we planned our mid autmn bbq yesterday.

We went down to the BBQ pit at the beach, but we found that it was too windy and cold. So we shift to samada, a student residential area, when none of us stays there. But never mind! Lets start!! Alvin, Cher, ST & me plus a few chinese friends. So a small number. Later Andy, our Thai friend joined us too.

We cooked and cooked, ate n ate but still couldn't finish the food. As per normal, BBQ food usually will provide the following day's dinner for the organiser after the bbq. Had some mooncakes. And the moon was round. Night ended early for a bbq....it didn't help that the night was cold. Some of us i think, were shivering till like they are dancing(ok exagerrating) Pictures later...lazy upload.

*break for dinner*

back from dinner at alvin's place. Finished up our mooncakes, finished the leftover food. Alvin's fried rice is niccccee. Maybe chi-cha stall one no fight. The chicken wings were done to perfection. Hawker centre bbq chicken wing also no fight! They can pack and go home if we come back and sell our food! muahaha.

ST then put up lanterns, complete with candles to create a latern festival mood. Tried to hang the lanterns but the string could not hold the lanterns. End up use cooking spatulas to hold the lantern. Abit out of box but still nice effects hehe.

This week is the week before my term break. Which means have to work harder cos got assignment due end of week. So nowadays write nonsense on this blog, no pictures. So till next time...

Over and out!!

Saturday, September 17, 2005

Damn if you do. Damn if you don't

Have not been blogging, because nothing much interesting happening leh. Everytime dinner at friends place, or friends have dinner at my place. Thats all. Been waiting for my assignment & test marks.

So far got 1 test back only. Cleared my financial modelling, i think. Because the lecturer made quite a few changes, and what she said didn't really tally with the outcome but hey screw it. Get on with the others.

Yesterday i sent a mail to my lecturer asking some questions on my assignment. He replied to me in like 20mins+-.

I was telling ST "wah this lecturer reply my email so fast on a friday afternoon. He got no life ah"

Then i thought back. I send the same email one or two day ago to my tutor and he never replied. I was cursing and swearing too. Hmm they don't do what we want we scold them. They do what we want, also kena commented on. Don't do also die, do already also die.

ST and me were looking for sweet potatoes(besides other stuff) and we walked for hours and have not find it yet.

ST: Why we always can't find what we want.
Me: Yah loh. Since we always can't find what we want, we shall not want it anymore!
ST: Yah. We don't want it any more!

Walked about 5 steps later, saw it on display. sweet potatoes you be damned!!
(in the end we did not want get it haha)

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Overheard on radio

As you all know, Singapore fuel prices is on the rise. Well so is Australia. Normal grade cost abt AUD$1.3+. So that makes it about the same price as Singapore's.

Anyway while on the bus to school today, over the radio was a lady who called into the radio station and she was having a conversation with the DJ about how her car number plates were stolen. She went to the police to report and was told that the stolen number plates could be used by people who put it on their car, go top up fuel at petrol kiosks, then probably drive off without paying.

What creative minds they have. While it is not a good thing to do, and infact a despicable thing to do. You have to admit that they are really thinking out of the box. Beats having to queue on the causeway, cheat on the 3/4 tank rule on the way to JB to top up fuel. With the 'new car plates', you don't even have to pay!

Unless kena caught, then you pay with time in jail.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

The aftermath

Finally submitted my 2 assignments on friday. Feels good to hand in some work. The night before handing in, I suddenly had a rush of ideas of how I could do the assignments in another way. Grrr....no good. I decided to screw it and finalise as I have done. Slept and handed in on friday morning.

I felt I could have done way better in both assignments. Due to my own fault of not researching before I start to implement what ever ideas I had at the beginning. But WTH, hand in already dun think so much!!!

Think so much also like that. Just like a rocking chair. Gives you something to do but doesn't get you anywhere. Write that down now.

Anyway had a lazy day( as usual. all weekends lazy one) I even did my tutorial. Packed my table and room. After assignments always messy, paper lying around. Scribbles, notes etc. So packed the table, cleared the floor. So damn neat!! This neatness has a lifespan of say.....maybe 1 week before it reverts to the usual messiness of paper lying around. Scribbles, notes etc. So appreciate it while its neat!!

My table

And yesterday after dinner at Box Hill, the usual 4 of us shared and bought a box of Mooncake with double york. Waiting for chance to devour the mooncake. Also trying to get people to have maybe a BBQ next week to celebrate Mid Autumn Festival (why not post-winter Festival. Winter just ended). So its all good!!

To end it, observed something during dinner.

Cher: I haven't seen any shrimp in the rice. I want shrimp leh.
Alvin: Nah take. *Passes a shrimp to her*
Estee: I also want shrimp
Me: You want shrimp? *holding up my fork with shrimp* Go find it yourself.
(Of course i eventually passed Estee that shrimp:p)

Difference between a couple together for a month and couple together for a year.

Over and out!!

Tower defence

Now as the warm weather are approaching, I am helping Estee with her fly-screens in her house. We are trying to cover up any holes on the fly screen. Because insects are starting to come out as the weather gets warmer, and she seem to hate and scared of creatures with more than 4 legs. So all these are done to prevent such insects from getting into the house.

Staring at a spider is not the first thing you wanna do when you wake up in the morning. So have to start taking preventive measures now.

Reminds me of tower defence in Warcraft III, where towers have to be erected to create a maze to defend against onrushing enemies.

Haha build tower!! block the spiders!!kill the spiders!! kill spider only!!

Over and out!

Friday, September 09, 2005

Food and such

Yesterday I had dinner with a group of friends. So Estee was the cook. She always is the cook. She is dictator of the kitchen, so she would not allow me to mess up her regime :p ( I am very messy one) haha don't take it to heart lah hor.

So she cooked one of the dishes, grilled bringal with chilli. Alvin eat until no appetite. It wasn't that its cooked badly. But Alvin's tolerence for chilli is relatively low and he do not really like bringal. So he tries to make -ve & -ve into a +ve. Unfortunately it failed.

Why is bringal considered a food or a kind of vege. The colour is quite a turn off, as a kind of vege. Purple. Imagine purple chicken. Wonder who first started having bringal as food. Can decommission bringal as food.

Over dinner, we usually have dessert, courtesy again of Estee ruler of 'kitchen' & sometimes Cherisa. Then the debut of whether the the dessert is sweet enough or not. Now the conflicting point is that, what Estee & Cher finds it sweet, we boys will find it erm......bland. While when its just right for us boys, it will be too damn sweet for the girls already.

So every dessert time, and i mean every, the debut will go on and on. Boys think gers are eating waaayyyy toooo healthy. Gers think boys are eating waaayyy tooooo sweet, too unhealthy already. So fun. Too fun until nowadays i buay tahan the fun. I just say "its ok" and proceed to finish my share of dessert and try grab my 2nd round unnoticed while they are debuting about the sweetness sugar contents. They won't even know what hit them until they saw that the pot of dessert is empty.

As you can see here, i am blabbering nonsense. After doing assignments on a more intensive rate, i find myself still having residues of assignments in my head....what variable link to what? Entity & attribute. So I am talking crap here so as to feel better......

Out.....I need a drink & some drinking partners

Monday, September 05, 2005

Blissfulness is

Sitting in front of the TV with her in my arms, enjoying the show after some ice-cream.






yah....abit mushy huh:p

Over and out!

My fingers are retarded

Just had my financial modelling this morning. No good. All in all, 25 MCQs Could not complete in time. I guess i spent too much time reading the questions. And no, random guesses are no good because of negative marking. Which means you get it wrong, you get 0.2 marks deducted(which idiot thought of this ah!!??). No time to calculate, so instead of anyhow hantam, i can only leave it blank.

I could only hope for a pass. But well, not to fret over it longer. I have done the paper and handed it in. Nothing I can do except wait for the results and move on to the other assignments. All in His hands.

While trying to practise guitar, i discovered that my 3rd and 4th finger(in guitar terms), which means the pinky and fourth finger, are very slow, very very slow. Have not been practising much. Shopping, TV, dinners, soccer and yah studies , taking up my time. But of course my most time waster, procrastination (this has to really stop real real real soon!!).

Ok stop here. Shall go and figure what to do now.

Over and out!

Sunday, September 04, 2005

Yet another lazy weekend and some complains

A bright n sunny sunday morning. Nice day to go out get some sun. Unfortunately my mid-term test. Therefore i have to stick my butt on the chair, and force myself to look at my notes.

Friday I went for a kick around football session. Had a small game. I ended with a small patch of bruise on my hip as a result of a knock. And my whole body was screaming "ACHE!! ACHE!!" when i woke up in the morning on Saturday.

Then friday had my most unsatisfying meal in a restaurant in Victoria. After my soccer game, I bath and went out with ST for dinner. Both of us ordered steak. She had her "porter steak house"(My dear, its porterhouse steak) and I had my rib-eye grilled special. She had her steak medium well while i had it medium-rare. The surface on her steak was burnt. And mine too!

Burnt. Even mine was burnt when the i ordered it medium-rare. But the only outside was burnt lah, so inside still can eat. But...wah! restaurant leh! Busy also cannot come out this kind standard mah. After the dinner, ST so pissed. + I suggested her to have the macca's McFlurry with hot fudge, but last minute she sort of rejected the idea. And went home black-faced

It was only after some ice-cream at home then she felt better. Lucky for me:p

20 freakin bucks!! burnt some more!! I can make it better and nicer loh!

Over and out!

Friday, September 02, 2005

Irritating

Isn't it irritating when every friday he would ask me the same bloody question, make the same bloody remark.

"Come so far for an hour of lecture only?"

And i would reply the same answer, i have been answering every friday morning.

"I find this lecture interesting so i attend."

Ohh Damn it !! I hate to answer him. I don't mind him asking, it doesn't take much effort to listen as my ears are open always. But i have to use some effort to open my mouth to answer his question. And I have been answering this same question for the past 6 fridays. I am so bored of replying the same answer. But still, I just can't seem to get my answer through his thick numbskull, (week after week after week)*2.

And do not call me bro! I only have 1 sister. I have no blood-related brothers. I am not that close to you nor related to you. If you have known me for maybe 10yrs and i like you, then maybe i can call u bro, or u can call me bro. But no. I do not like you and i do not know you well, therefore i am not your bro. So don't call me bro.


Over and out!!

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Conversation Topics

K: Hmm so what should i get as my birthday present?
Al: Get a driver! So i can share with you.(golf driver)
...
Some other conversation
...
K: So that set you are aiming is just an iron set? Steel shaft ah?
Al: Yeah. Just iron.
Cher: Boring
ST: Ehh why you always talk about golf one!!
Al: So what are we supposed to talk about?


So that was a few conversations between me & Alvin about golf. Which sounded boring to the girls, because they think that we always keep talking about golf.

Then alvin to me again.
Al: Your top very nice today. You look good in the top.

eeww....so not GUY

Over and out!

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