2007

Recipe of the day: Vegetable Salad

Its our christmas potluck super dish. First, buy fruits cheap and whatever you can find at sainsbury (local supermarket) we got pineapples, melons, apples, grapes and strawberries in syrup. Then get a packet of corn flakes and some sunflower seeds, and also salad dressing.... oh mayonese (too bad.. free for us cause will, me and ken decided to "use" a brand new mayonese in my kitchen)

HOw to prepare:

Firstly you need to make some croutons which is our ulti recipe. Cut all the fruits into cube sizes and mixed them in a big pot. Then crushed some corn flakes into the pot and further mixed with all the ingredients. Lastly add some croutons on top of the salad... (why some? becoz its so nice to eat, so keep some for urself). haha!

Wow, a dish made by me william and min ken during xmas potluck 2007. Vege salad,idea originated from the cerebral hemisphere of Ken, I modified it.

Figuring here how to insert a stupid equation in my report using microsoft word marked the end of year 2007. Since its near the end of 2007, suddenly I realised that I had gone pass a lot in this year.

2007 has made a big big change to my life. Although I really didnt like this year alot, it changed me. From the dream of being able to study abroad, I woke up here in a cold winter morning in London. Sometimes there is this strong feeling of me still very close to a naive form 5 student who doesnt know what it really means to take care of himself. Its been so long since I stepped out of school, into having to take a stupid 3 times public transport transit from college back home....

I dont like 2007.... I had to face dilemma, problems and make decisions that I never knew before. I feel the need to get stronger and gain power in order to stand still in this game of prey and predators.

My year begun with 2nd term January Edexcel A levels exams. We had to study very hard because if we do well in the unit 3 and 4 that means, the hardest unit 5 and 6 wouldn't treaten our A's . Well, whatever crap, my unit 5 and 6 was actually better.... Then it came to cny, me and tick siang declared our own 1 week break.. hehehe..

Month of February March and April was some pissing off period, where everything was tedious, chaos and even worst met some bitches and son of theirs. I dont understand why people get so birdie once they got money and power. Bad bad months... Emotionally very unstable.

Just that I didnt have mood to study due the previous incidents that happened, final exams was drawing near. Arghh... didnt see the point to study. Seriously went mamak alot especially with zk and will. Only few days before exams, managed to sit down to study. A levels final was taking so long which was more than a month. The only motivation was to get 4A... I didnt managed to get straight A since UPSR.

At last reached July, yay!! A levels exams over. Forget all the idiotic months and have some fun. I remembered I went to One U to shop with tick siang and zk for our A level's ball outfit. From tops to the feet, we were shopping like aunties.

Group photo of A46B taken in the A level's ball. Cant imagine that we had been in a class for actually 1.5 years already! Hm... in this pic ky and seok actually stand together le ... is it fate ? Not long after this ball they pak tor, but cant escape the sharp eyes of ts!!

Then comes the Langkawi trip. It is so fun.. and yea, its our last A46B class trip. That ts say he wouldnt drink, but he drank until hugging toilet bowl as his "one night stand". And we played volley ball on the beach, haha played till everyone got injured by the hard ball. We too went fishing in the dark, till it rain and Ray Mun caught a small catfish. 6 days 5 nights was of course too short for a great time together. Dont forget also, the car we rented, everyone can show off their driving manual skills, or at least prove that they dont have kopi O license. Who used 3rd gear to balance up a slope ? pro sial....

A waterfall in Langkawi, eh y we didnt take any pics near the beach ar ?

Whole family smile! (全家福）

Of course we wont forget brother keng yih, 3 ducklings that was spotted by Ms Lai. Bak Kut Teh time means call ky. I wonder if the old klang road sign is still so "misleading" or not le ?? I wan to eat Bak Kut Teh, although now i got a friend who lives in klang I will still choose to eat bak kut teh in ky's place de.

Wah all dai ko dai lo also in the pic.

Of course I know fun time travels faster than the speed of light. I got to decide where should I be studying. Zk asking me to go Russia, ts said Nottingham.After nights of contemplating, I picked a place I never thought of I can go. SOon, we recieve messages asking us to attend fare well. 2-3 months of fun had ended with movies mamaks, pools..... I remembered first was stephanie, then boon, then jeff, then zk then mine.

F4; non college,school but any other activities + mamak and pool gang.

Genius group. Imagine position 1,2,3,4,6,7, in the class also in tis gang. Genius or not le ? Wa I m the only traitor who left 1st after spm.

Still some of my best buddies in secondary school. Includes tsi ngar joanna uwen william and jeen yi, (not affliated with any groups).

I hope I did include faces of everyone who came to my farewell le. Its time for me to fly away! And thats the last day in 2007 in Malaysia.

Airport without tears, 不流泪的机场。 I have to revert back to those form five short hair look.

Oh.. now a 3 months more in London, so fast le .... dec holidays means report time. I got 3 reports each 2000 words, sien. Anyway trip to manchester!!

Me and will standing in front of University of Manchester Me and boon (Uni of Manchester)
To all MU fans, nah ... we are in old trafford. Will's left hand see see .. middle finger coming out
Me and will in the city centre of manchester
Oh china town! Together with Boon's fren Joshua

Hohoho .. christmas time. I still remember our bbq xmas dinner back in 2005 le. And then bbq in Jacqueline's house 2006. Forget bout setting up fire, getting thinner. No more goin to carefour carrying christmas tree, and no more calling up ppl.

Back in 2005 scene during zk house party.
Of all we planned, we ended up play cards, and its the best party game.

Finally 30th of dec 2007, Melissa's birthday, bye bye 2007 and happy birthday Melissa. Will is in the pic... the only non uk student.

4th of Dec

Recipe of the Day: Croutons

Ingredients: Some bread that you cant finish and it has actually expired but "still look ok??!" , oil, garlic, salt, pepper.

How to prepare:

1. Toast ur bread until it is slightly brown
2. Cut the bread into cube sizes and place into an owen tray.
3. Sprinkle salt, pepper, fine chopped garlics, alot of oil if u wan it tasty and crispy, evenly onto the bread cubes.
4. Place into the owen and bake 100C to 130C for more than 1 hour. ( This is an energy wasting recipe. But i dont pay for electricity bills haha !! )

This is croutons. Some crispy bread tat is sometimes put on salad or mushroom soup. I love to eat it just like dat. Like some garlic crackers, nice!

Nice clean kitchen.

Same nice clean kitchen. BUT its not my floor kitchen. My floor kitchen is way cool!! with leftover of cereals pasta for 1 week or more. If u r a microbiologist or a fungus enthusiast feel free to visit my floor @ LG !


A view from 7th floor of mech eng building in the evening (its 3.00pm only le)

Well this 1 is taken at 4.00pm

Ah wells, hooray for those who finally finished sitting their stpm....

Somehow I remember 4th of Dec is the day we actually finished spm some 2 years ago. That time still, I have to go for a stupid KTJ interview and didnt have a chance to go out celebrate with bunch and bunch of friends.Before interview I have Sabah trip briefing, then rush all the way down to Seremban. The interview was totally crap and i think I didnt know how to talk much, furthermore 1st time talking with angmohs... haha ( which now everyday I can talk to them). Then randomly meet that zk which i think the S class is not tat suang him 1 (last time).. Suddenly coz I neva had a chance to celebrate, we decided to go midvalley to watch harry potter on the following day. What it turn out was, we went midvalley so damn lot of times, ( everytime not becoz the seats sold out or we were too late to watch the show u noe la his pro timing....) at last I get to watch harry potter!.

Some most talkative gang of all time. Headache to all the prefects. And perfect 8gua gang.

Sabah trip! Nice beach!And I caught a fish just below from where we were staying. Haha!

6 Days of trip was so short, 2 years just gone, wah it was just like yesterday.

Then we organised some xmas party... how it turn out?? It was actually a greedy plan of me and zk.( when we were shopping for aaron's birthday party present during form 4 we actually got extra $$ to treat ourselves )*hehehe* Back about the party.. the greedy plan was becoz we will be collecting money from ppl who attend, the more ppl we get the more extra $$ we will get haha ... But end up we got -$$ .... mathematically we got $$ if we only consider the magnitude of it.bla bla... his parents were kind and subsidised us.

Guess?? Ya its fat boy lying on my bed, just before the xmas dinner 2005. Hmm..tat time not quite noe who r u yet.

Things change so much then, I went to HELP, A levels, then without even realising I am now typing this blog in London.

This is my most special form 5 gang. From left, ron who duno swim where already... back to his oceans. The twins bin hao beside me and right hYau. Haha stpm over already, good luck and best wishes to all of us no matter which part of the world we are in.

Miss every1 and things back in Malaysia. You guys will always stay in my sweetest memories and thanks for great friendship that accompanied me in my secondary school life. Well now its time for u all to leave smkb also. Enjoy and we will hope one day we will gang up and meet each other again.

7

7th week away from home....

My room! Computer, bed, and en-suite bathroom..

Recipe of the day: Sweet and Sour + spicy chicken

Ingredients:

Chicken fillets (diced), Fresh Chilli, Onions, Garlics, Ginger, Spring onions

Seasonings:

Salt, Pepper, Sugar, Soy sauce, Dark Soy Sauce, Garlic Chilli sauce, Oyster sauce, Corn starch, Tomato sauce, Honey, Sesame oil, Chicken stock.

How to prepare:

1. Season chicken with salt, pepper, sesame oil, oyster sauce, soy sauce and rub with corn starch.


2. Mix well chicken stock, garlic chilli sauce, tomato sauce, honey, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, dark soy sauce and chickesn stock with some warm water.


3. Heat wok with oil, stir fry cut garlics onions and ginger until just brown. Add chicken dices and stir fry until chicken cooked. Add sauce mixture together with a little bit of warm water, sliced chillies and spring onions. Cook until sauce thickens.
   
   

Sweet and sour chicken! My dish cooked with non-stick wok I bought here, cost me bout 15 pounds, come together with lid and spatula. Now it stick like mad, make u clean like maid.......

Pictures in my room. From top: My room mate's shelf above the study table. (note the amount of alcoholic refreshments he have.) The compare the 2nd pic, my shelf on the left to his... empty le. Nah now see again my room mate's 1...

Yes, I cook alot here le.. Most of the time cook, if not means study. Aih maths exam next thursday again! Now let me tell u my du lan story...

Here, there is a cheaper(Not really cheap) supermarket that we mostly get our groceries there, called Sainsbury. So, yesterday I went there again to replenish my weekly supply with one of my friend. Oh yea we bought vege, sauces, spices( wow chilli padi le 50g for 60pents) and 2boxes of drumsticks cause its cheaper 2 for 3,50. Ok now so many of drumsticks :- about 20 drumsticks wat we gonna do wif it? Got 1 good idea:- that is to debone the chicken and we get our drumstick fillet.

Erm.. I dont have a sharp and proper knife to debone, so I decided to buy a knife. I choose a stainless steel sparing knife bout size slightly larger than a fruit knife. Go to the counter scan everything, till the knife... "Hello sir do you have a professional ID to prove that we can sell this knife to u?" WTF ?? ok *show imperial college card* . "No we dont recognise tis" ( Oh ya now i remember tis is the same bugger who didnt let my friend buy beer the other day. Even when you show them International Student Card, she still say this doesnt show enough prove that u r above 18) @!#%$%&^*&$#@ !! fine.... throw away knife.

Walk away, my friend say try another counter la, becoz previously i bought a small knife they also din check anything. Ok queue up for so long to reach counter; "excuse me can u show me id ?" F*ck ! again. Show imperial card, nope, coz imperial card doesnt shows ur age. STupId,, if I m not 18, how can I come here and study in a Uni and with a college card ? Dulan... Finally, my friend took the knife, go express counter, put knife on the desk, (ditt... scan) pay 3 pounds, get 1 pent change, receipt. done...wat? they didnt ask anything? "no at all!!"

~NO need show ID next time la brudder. Show them your middle finger .. NAh!!~

Ok now for some entertaining 1.

Right, scene from the M floor kitchen. Water is fun, but y not try it during winter? Its a wet kitchen night. I wonder anybody pk tat night. Well I can hear them way down on LG floor le. No wonder tis floor got some ang mohs dulan we all.But most of them are good. haHa!( apparently here 1st floor is called Mezzanine floor, then 2nd floor called 1st floor and so fourth. ). Video taken by kolnauhc_ . All copyrights reserved.

Life 2

Random thought of the day ( I m not seok) Quote of the day ? nts is doesnt blog liao la wat for bother???





Right..


Happy Birthday to "Kowa Xin Ying" last last last last friday i think. Nice surname.


A Singaporean, doing medicine, study A level in (dunno how to spell) ladies college.. yay did edexcel board, wat else to say ? New friend from Imperial!

Me, Melissa Chua, Xin Ying, Ke Lun and Jiun Siang `end`

LifE goes on as usual. Now London doesnt look any special to me... Weather cold warm cold warm. Sometimes sunny sometimes rainy. Lectures, maths alot, computing and electric engineering like shit, medical science the only subject can slack. Weekdays, try not to spend 1 pound and weekend can spend. Lets show you all some example of my spending a week:

Oct 21- 28

• Groceries 9.46


• Shared cooking for a week 20.00


• Dinner on friday 6.00 pounds a meal


• Dinner Sat 10.50


• Bus 1.00

total= 46.96 .......yea tats basically wat i spend and planning to reduce it . Note all currency is in GBP.

Weeks passed through fast...Weekdays wake up,breakfast. go class, lunch break 2 hours cook wash up, class again. Evening come back rest a while, cook, wash up, talk - room work study online, sleep. Then weekend, no need to sleep; have fun. Weekdays again ....

Then u can say my life = a function of time = periodic (coz its repetitive).

Let life, L=f(t)=sin(t), try to change my life with respect to time: f ' (t)= cos(t)

change it again f " (t) = -sin(t)

change third time f ''' (t) = -cos(t), change it once more f '''' (t)= sin(t)= f(t)= L ... thats my same life again.

this implies no matter how time changes, my life is still the same... omg tedious... haha

Even more random pictures aroud London.

Seniors partttttttty......!!!!!!!

Yes, 1st time seniors invite us to their house to have a party. Party means drink alcohol. Any party without alcohol here is not defined as a party. Any alcohol that is more juice and water is not regard as alcoholic. So our party = alcohol, lets just say our seniours invited us to have a night to taste all different alcohols ( strong ones included) that u cant afford it all in once in a night in malaysia. Its drink all u can.

So we reach the apartment, hell lot of ppl, want to walk in also hard, and oh one of the seniors recognised us, 1st thing is not inviting us in.. He went away a while, come back: " Nah, drink 1st" (handing out 1 bottle of carlsberg beer). So I took and tought that was it and we will have a long chatting night. When we reach the kitchen, my frens who were not holding any drinks were given a cup which they filled with black coke like liquid. Oo just some johnny walker and coke.

Ok finished my bottle and put on table. Now hand empty, so wan to try some cool cocktails they've made, and I took a small shot cup, pour some and drink some.Then pour the other flavour and drink some. Another senior saw me,- " Hey y r u not drinking? take tis take tis" (another bottle of carlsberg beer) "eh tis is my 2nd 1 liao" ... "WAT ? 2nd only?? omg. .. take somemore!" . So ended up 1 hand holding carlsberg bottle 1 hand holding a cup of coke + alot of johnny walker. Slowly drink, then finish liao.

Tis time, u can c everybody face turns red, and u noe the 'high' is in everbody. Now hand hold empty cup, see watever, DRinK !! ppl c ur cup empty, pour.. ... until all the ready mixed cocktail finished. But the whole table is wif hell lots of johnny walker ,swing, vodka, wine, orange juice, coke, apple wine, raspberry vodka etc .... wat to do next ?watever we see, we grab, and pour into the cups and drink, see ppl's cup empty, just pour. When u see anybody facing u, shout : DRINK LAH !!

Then there was tis fren of mine guy, who tried not to drink at all. Haha. Got forced to drink shots of vodka, ppl just shouting :"f*cker, y u dont drink?" and hold his mouth, pour. haha.

However, 1.5 - 2 hours later, everybody was too dizzy to stand up. I been to toilet 2 times urinated damn lots of water and alcohol. Bad feeling starts to come. 1st feel dizzy, some ppl KO on the bed or floor. Some talked like mad, some rock the room with music. One of my friend, want to vomit liao. Some dizzy too and try to hold him upright and to the window. Aww... bluer bluer ... things flew out of the window. 20 mins more, I feel more and more uneasy, although drank alot of water. Dont feel like going to the toilet, and I know sth was wrong. 5 more mins, tak tahan... walked towards the window, cough cough, *** ****** *** oops I vomitted my 10 pounds dinner out of the window. Straight away, a girl push me aside, and she too vomitted even more... eww... lol
3am. Ok or not brudders? At last we carried 2 of our quite drunk frens to walk back to the halls. 30 mins back le.. we managed it. Not a bad experience.

Yo! Lets get high...

Recipe of the day: Pork Ribs Dried noodles 排骨干捞面

Ingredients:

Pork Ribs, Mushrooms, fried dried noodles, onions, garlics, paprika(lantern chillies)

Seasonings:

Sesame oil, oil, salt, pepper, sugar, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce.

How to prepare:

1. Boil the dried noodles in boiling water bout 5 mins (until its soft and tender), wash with cold water to make it tender. Pour away water. Leave aside.
2. Heat some oil in a wok, fry chopped garlics and onions. Add in chopped pork ribs seasoned with salt and pepper and oyster sauce.
3. After the ribs are partially cooked, add 2-3 cups of water and add mushrooms. Let the ribs stew. Add more oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt followed by 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and 1 table spoon of dark soy sauce.
4. After the ribs are cooked/dry ( 30mins of stewing) add some chopped paprika for flavouring.
5. Mixed the noodles with sesame oil, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of dark soy sauce and some onion's oil. Pour sauce from pork ribs in arrange ribs nicely with mushrooms. Serve hot.

My dried pork ribs noodles, made in London with a taste of home(Malaysia). I think these kinda noodles only found in Malaysia.

Life

Ah now i've finally finally found a way to upload pics from my hp. (vista SuckS!)

So let me tell you more stories. Once upon a time, on 4th of oct, I went to a boat party on Thames River. It costs, 15 pounds ....=.=" thats the only trip i went ,where they have so many, and seriously cost more than that. Thats quite a big river la, probably the biggest river i seen. Y ? because the 1st river that is not in malaysia that i ever see. Oh ya, our boat docked beside the bank that you can see London eye ! ( u noe the place rise of the silver surfer was filmed)

Its rather long ago, where i dont remember much details of it, but its a nice and enjoyable trip( but not fun coz they all drink and dance on the dance floor and we chat only) Drinks are only free for the 1st cup whether u choose beer - 1 can or 1 small ( really damn fu**ing small) cup of orange juice. And yes we choose OraNge juice! The food? Not much.. just got some smoke salmon wrapping tuna and mayonese, some sandwiches and some sushies.( no unagi, no ebikko, no ebi ten, nth.. got crap!) Imagine we had the party on thursday le, and of course we have class the next day. They all r like dat 1, those medics have dinner on 9 pm till 4 am where classes start 9 am the next morning. Then there was a loop party for malaysian only at 9-10pm on a wed night. Wats wrong wif them ? they wan promote fishing activities!

London Eye !
Me & Wayne, my taiwan friend

Me & Kee Siang(malaysian:-studied in oxford for A level)sounds very geng haha ...

London bridge is falling down falling down falling down.Note: "tis is not London Bridge,becoz it fell down!" Haha, no la tis is seriously not London Bridge, duno wat name it is liao. The real london bridge just like normal bridge u can find in malaysia, nothing special so didnt take a pic of that,coz i only realise tat tat is the london bridge after our boat passed it.

Same as above ^

Ahh... the furthest I went away from my place- London zone 1 is London Zone 5 ! Went to visit my dad's friend with my dad. And I found a place just like home (Malaysia). This place the shopping centre its like selayang mall nia, old old... small. haha mayb smaller. Then you see alot of malay and those ppl who look like those burmese and vietnamese. Surely NASI lemak !! 5 pounds anyone??! Sold by 2 malays. And alot of ppl who seriously look like malaysian.

Look at those pics below, dont be surprise, it is taken in London, Edgware (zone 5). What ?they sell maggi, milo, condensed milk, bihun. bla bla there. Some u can c wat penang address there.

(Somehow it reminds me that the piece of pastry/dessert/dunno wat u called, that I ate on Emirates plane is made and package at pastry pro, taman bukit maluri, kepong, 52100 kl !! Its the shop that zk everyday go there buy flour for his mom to make muffins.)

Maggi! c their price ! =.=" RM 8.40 each packet

Yay! Can make teh tarik liao and milo kao kao.

Nasi Lemak stall.eh, haven got a pic of car u cant find in malaysia. But ho I found tis le, ur favourite car !! Its really rare here, and got 1 "L" sticker there.

I found some pork bones in Cina town... And made ABC soup ! Nice !

Imperial college is certainly crouching tiger hidden dragon. Alot of talented ppl. And alot of really smart until cant describe asses (imagine got ppl claim themselves as nerd: "yes, I am a nerd" omg omg).....

All of my friend (guys) plays piano at least grade 5 le, not to mention most of them 8. Then ... finally i heard the song "secret" played live on piano, and also some ff songs and magna carta ones. Guitar, got ppl got grade 6 le, its a gal somemore. But haha, still cant find a person more geng than me, if not I go bai them as sifu.

quote by me : Cooking is such a nice art, U all must learn. Cook and eat wat u cooked is a pleasure! And of course, a library and knowledge of cooking is out there.