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Saturday, October 2006 (10/28/06) at 04:22 AM GMT :
Cuteness
music: Maybe Tonight - Initial D Vocal Battle song
mood: Amused
Haha, this is the absolute cutest thing ever - apparently Orange categorises its phone plans according to animals! They have Dolphin, Racoon, Canary, and Panther. XD
(Am currently doing some research to see if I can get a cheap phone plan which would be cheap enough to be worth "wasting" the money spent during the months I'm actually not in the UK... wish me luck! :p) [Karma: 3 (+/-)][link]
music: Maybe Tonight - Initial D Vocal Battle song
mood: Amused
Haha, this is the absolute cutest thing ever - apparently Orange categorises its phone plans according to animals! They have Dolphin, Racoon, Canary, and Panther. XD
(Am currently doing some research to see if I can get a cheap phone plan which would be cheap enough to be worth "wasting" the money spent during the months I'm actually not in the UK... wish me luck! :p) [Karma: 3 (+/-)][link]
Thursday, October 2006 (10/26/06) at 04:22 AM GMT :
It seems like my life revolves around food nowadays
mood: Happy and satisfied
Had a really tiring meeting this afternoon as my society met up to discuss the details of the upcoming Nottingham Games - really, I think all of us are going to be so glad when it's over; it's such a huge pain to organise since there all all those problems that keep cropping up and it's such a big event that there's just so much to plan for. Though I think after the games are actually over, we'd probably look back and reflect on it and be glad for the experience of having organised such an amazingly huge event, but I doubt we'll be feeling so fondly about it during the next few weeks (which are undoubtedly going to be incredibly hectic - I have so many things to settle!) and the days immediately following the event when we'll have to have a de-briefing to go through all the problems encountered and how we should have done things better. -_-
Funnily enough, it really does seem as if my life is currently revolving very much around food - I'm in charge of the food aspect of the Games, and it seems like most of what I blog about recently has to do with food. :p
And this time it's no exception; this entry is essentially here for me to crow over another successful cooking attempt. :p
After the meeting, I was feeling rather drained, but for some weird reason I decided to try making the double baked potatoes I mentioned earlier. Maybe it's just because I wanted experience the excitement of trying to make something new, especially since as I mentioned earlier I had pretty much been cooking the same thing over and over almost every night. I don't actually know if that's the real reason or not, but anyway, I decided to do it. So I actually went online to try looking for recipes, but after going through a couple of them I decided it was too much of a hassle to actually follow a recipe since a lot of them called for "fancy" stuff like green onions and sour cream ("fancy" aka I didn't bother buying them when grocery shopping since it didn't occur to me to have them because I don't normally use them in my cooking). That and I was too lazy to accurately measure out everything. :p
In fact, I'm quite surprised at how much of a I'll-take-it-as-it-comes-and-just-do-whatever-randomly cook I am. In the past, I used to wonder how people could cook without following recipes, since to me the concept seemed too alien and risky - I thought that there were so many chances that it could all go wrong if I even so much as missed out one ingredient and the dish would end up tasting horribly. But if there's one valuable thing I learnt from living out in a house, it's that since you have to cook and clean up for yourself, you'll definitely end up doing a lot of impromptu cooking where you just randomly create recipes on the spot or just splash some sauce here and there since it's too much work to use proper measuring utensils and have more things to wash afterwards. *grin*
So yes, I ended up making my own improvised lazy-chef's method of making double-baked potatoes. :p For those who are lazy like me and are interested in making this, here's a very quick rundown of what I did:
1) Grab a couple of potatoes and wash them, then poke holes all over them and stick them in an oven until they're soft. I baked mine for about 45 minutes or so, though they ended up being VERY cooked - I think 30 mins would have been enough. I suppose it really depends on the size of the potatoes; mine were pretty small.
2) While the potatoes are baking, chop up some bacon into small pieces and fry them until crispy. (Lazy tip: They don't HAVE to be crispy, just cooked, but I personally like it better if it's somewhat crunchy)
3) When the potatoes are soft, cut them in half and scoop out the insides, leaving the skin intact and with a little bit of potato lining the sides so that the skins aren't too soft.
4) Mash the potatoes with the bacon bits and some sprinkles of cheese (I used ready grated mozarella); proportions of each depend on how cheesey or bacony you like your food. :D
5) Spoon the potatoes mix back into the shells and put back into the oven and bake for about 15 mins more or until the cheese has melted and the potatoes look nice and lightly browned on top.
And voila! There you have Lazy Chef's Double-Baked Potatoes, with absolutely no tedious measuring out of ingredients needed! Though admittedly this is more labour-intensive than my chicken "recipe". But it's good if you want something nice and warm and cheesey and bacony and potatoey. *grin* And who needs to add cream cheese/sour cream/green onion/etc. when you can make do with the bare necessities!
Pseudo-cooking it may be, but I'm enjoying it! :D [Karma: 1 (+/-)][link]
mood: Happy and satisfied
Had a really tiring meeting this afternoon as my society met up to discuss the details of the upcoming Nottingham Games - really, I think all of us are going to be so glad when it's over; it's such a huge pain to organise since there all all those problems that keep cropping up and it's such a big event that there's just so much to plan for. Though I think after the games are actually over, we'd probably look back and reflect on it and be glad for the experience of having organised such an amazingly huge event, but I doubt we'll be feeling so fondly about it during the next few weeks (which are undoubtedly going to be incredibly hectic - I have so many things to settle!) and the days immediately following the event when we'll have to have a de-briefing to go through all the problems encountered and how we should have done things better. -_-
Funnily enough, it really does seem as if my life is currently revolving very much around food - I'm in charge of the food aspect of the Games, and it seems like most of what I blog about recently has to do with food. :p
And this time it's no exception; this entry is essentially here for me to crow over another successful cooking attempt. :p
After the meeting, I was feeling rather drained, but for some weird reason I decided to try making the double baked potatoes I mentioned earlier. Maybe it's just because I wanted experience the excitement of trying to make something new, especially since as I mentioned earlier I had pretty much been cooking the same thing over and over almost every night. I don't actually know if that's the real reason or not, but anyway, I decided to do it. So I actually went online to try looking for recipes, but after going through a couple of them I decided it was too much of a hassle to actually follow a recipe since a lot of them called for "fancy" stuff like green onions and sour cream ("fancy" aka I didn't bother buying them when grocery shopping since it didn't occur to me to have them because I don't normally use them in my cooking). That and I was too lazy to accurately measure out everything. :p
In fact, I'm quite surprised at how much of a I'll-take-it-as-it-comes-and-just-do-whatever-randomly cook I am. In the past, I used to wonder how people could cook without following recipes, since to me the concept seemed too alien and risky - I thought that there were so many chances that it could all go wrong if I even so much as missed out one ingredient and the dish would end up tasting horribly. But if there's one valuable thing I learnt from living out in a house, it's that since you have to cook and clean up for yourself, you'll definitely end up doing a lot of impromptu cooking where you just randomly create recipes on the spot or just splash some sauce here and there since it's too much work to use proper measuring utensils and have more things to wash afterwards. *grin*
So yes, I ended up making my own improvised lazy-chef's method of making double-baked potatoes. :p For those who are lazy like me and are interested in making this, here's a very quick rundown of what I did:
1) Grab a couple of potatoes and wash them, then poke holes all over them and stick them in an oven until they're soft. I baked mine for about 45 minutes or so, though they ended up being VERY cooked - I think 30 mins would have been enough. I suppose it really depends on the size of the potatoes; mine were pretty small.
2) While the potatoes are baking, chop up some bacon into small pieces and fry them until crispy. (Lazy tip: They don't HAVE to be crispy, just cooked, but I personally like it better if it's somewhat crunchy)
3) When the potatoes are soft, cut them in half and scoop out the insides, leaving the skin intact and with a little bit of potato lining the sides so that the skins aren't too soft.
4) Mash the potatoes with the bacon bits and some sprinkles of cheese (I used ready grated mozarella); proportions of each depend on how cheesey or bacony you like your food. :D
5) Spoon the potatoes mix back into the shells and put back into the oven and bake for about 15 mins more or until the cheese has melted and the potatoes look nice and lightly browned on top.
And voila! There you have Lazy Chef's Double-Baked Potatoes, with absolutely no tedious measuring out of ingredients needed! Though admittedly this is more labour-intensive than my chicken "recipe". But it's good if you want something nice and warm and cheesey and bacony and potatoey. *grin* And who needs to add cream cheese/sour cream/green onion/etc. when you can make do with the bare necessities!
Pseudo-cooking it may be, but I'm enjoying it! :D [Karma: 1 (+/-)][link]
Tuesday, October 2006 (10/24/06) at 04:22 AM GMT :
Principle's of life
mood: Decidedly unsleepy
Am strangely feeling a decided lack of willingness to go to sleep despite the extreme lateness of the hour - I suppose reading through my friends' past blog entries as I do my usual massive all-at-one-shot commenting after not having done so for weeks at a time has made me nostalgic.
Reading one of my friend's blog entries has made me realise that it is possible to formulate one of the most deeply embedded principles/rules in life:
Change always hurts, no matter the speed at which it occurs. And the magnitude of the pain need not always necessarily be directly proportional to the speed at which it takes place.
Now I just need a fancy-schmancy science-y sounding title for it. The First Law of Life? The Theory of Dynamism in Life?
I never claimed to be good at naming things. :p [Karma: 1 (+/-)][link] [No Comments]
mood: Decidedly unsleepy
Am strangely feeling a decided lack of willingness to go to sleep despite the extreme lateness of the hour - I suppose reading through my friends' past blog entries as I do my usual massive all-at-one-shot commenting after not having done so for weeks at a time has made me nostalgic.
Reading one of my friend's blog entries has made me realise that it is possible to formulate one of the most deeply embedded principles/rules in life:
Change always hurts, no matter the speed at which it occurs. And the magnitude of the pain need not always necessarily be directly proportional to the speed at which it takes place.
Now I just need a fancy-schmancy science-y sounding title for it. The First Law of Life? The Theory of Dynamism in Life?
I never claimed to be good at naming things. :p [Karma: 1 (+/-)][link] [No Comments]
Dreams of memories, and memories of dreams
mood: Musing
It's funny how I keep dreaming of those who aren't here anymore. I wasn't as close to them as I wished I could be (and oh how I regret that), yet I keep dreaming of them. And each time I dream of them they seem to be more distant, more not themselves. Is it symbolic of how much further and further away their memories are bleeding back into the past, blurring and dissolving until I no longer remember them the way they were? Am I to lose even the memories of them as well? Or is it just my longing to see them again, to right things and make up for all the lost time, the missed opportunities, the cast away chances when I could have gotten to know them better but ultimately chose not to out of ignorance and selfishness, that conjures up a shadow image of who they really used to be? Is my subconscious mind succumbing to the temptation that a fleeting illusion is better than nothing?
I don't dislike the dreams, though. They make me feel sadness, and regret, but they also remind me of what I had, and how I was lucky to have it, although I didn't treasure it as much as I should have, at least I now know not to create the same regrets in the future.
I miss them. [Karma: 0 (+/-)][link] [2 Comments]
mood: Musing
It's funny how I keep dreaming of those who aren't here anymore. I wasn't as close to them as I wished I could be (and oh how I regret that), yet I keep dreaming of them. And each time I dream of them they seem to be more distant, more not themselves. Is it symbolic of how much further and further away their memories are bleeding back into the past, blurring and dissolving until I no longer remember them the way they were? Am I to lose even the memories of them as well? Or is it just my longing to see them again, to right things and make up for all the lost time, the missed opportunities, the cast away chances when I could have gotten to know them better but ultimately chose not to out of ignorance and selfishness, that conjures up a shadow image of who they really used to be? Is my subconscious mind succumbing to the temptation that a fleeting illusion is better than nothing?
I don't dislike the dreams, though. They make me feel sadness, and regret, but they also remind me of what I had, and how I was lucky to have it, although I didn't treasure it as much as I should have, at least I now know not to create the same regrets in the future.
I miss them. [Karma: 0 (+/-)][link] [2 Comments]
Recap: Birthday Celebrations!
I suddenly realised that I never mentioned how I celebrated my birthday this year. And since I've recently been on a blogging mania, I thought I might as well take advantage of this good fortune and blog about it before I get too lazy to do so - Carpe Diem! and all that jazz. :D
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I suddenly realised that I never mentioned how I celebrated my birthday this year. And since I've recently been on a blogging mania, I thought I might as well take advantage of this good fortune and blog about it before I get too lazy to do so - Carpe Diem! and all that jazz. :D
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Singaporean Nanowrimo
music: Pure Shores - All Saints
mood: Amazed
Wow, the more I learn about Nanowrimo in Singapore, the more I realise how big it is in Singapore... for example, a recent email from the moderator of the Singaporean section of the Nanowrimo forums gave the following stats:
Number of writers participating:
Singapore 104
Malaysia 62
Indonesia 10
Japan 73
Hong Kong 9
China 16
Thailand 8
India 323
Sri Lanka 2
Australia 605
New Zealand 138
Total signed up worldwide so far: 35,361
That's heck of a lot of people! 0_o
And not only that, they've even got their own website, AND a recently published book. (I kind of want to check it out to see what the standard of writing is, but I can't be bothered to buy it. :p) It boggles the mind.
I suppose it's partly because they're being sponsored by the Singapore National Arts Council, and I for one am glad that they are; Singapore's literary scene is in sore need of good writers, as I've been moaning to most of my friends for the past few years, after a couple of extremely BAD experiences with Singaporean fiction. (Of course, I'm not deluded enough to think that I could possibly be one of those good contributors to Singapore literature. But I certainly can try! :p)
Oh, and interestingly enough, from what I've read (or at least from what I've inferred from what I've read), it seems that unlike other regions, a large proportion of the Singaporean Nanowrimo writers seem to still be students. I suppose one contributing factor may be that most people in Singapore realise that it's not a feasible idea to be a full-time writer in Singapore (don't we all know that oh so well), and so it's mostly school children taking part since they have the most time.
So, anyone else interested in joining? It's still not too late to sign up! I've already managed to drag two other friends into this mess, and I'm looking to find more victims. *grin* If any of you are joining, please do tell me! Then I can add you to my buddy list and we can share in the groaning and complaining that is sure to plague most of the month of November. :D Though I actually am doubting my ability to be able to reach anywhere near the goal (50,000 words), especially since the Nottingham Games and plenty of coursework is coming up... but as I said, nothing's going to prevent me from at least trying! :p
(And in other semi-not-so-related news, I keep wanting to pronounce it as NaNIwrimo rather than NaNOwrimo. -_-) [Karma: -4 (+/-)][link] [No Comments]
music: Pure Shores - All Saints
mood: Amazed
Wow, the more I learn about Nanowrimo in Singapore, the more I realise how big it is in Singapore... for example, a recent email from the moderator of the Singaporean section of the Nanowrimo forums gave the following stats:
Number of writers participating:
Singapore 104
Malaysia 62
Indonesia 10
Japan 73
Hong Kong 9
China 16
Thailand 8
India 323
Sri Lanka 2
Australia 605
New Zealand 138
Total signed up worldwide so far: 35,361
That's heck of a lot of people! 0_o
And not only that, they've even got their own website, AND a recently published book. (I kind of want to check it out to see what the standard of writing is, but I can't be bothered to buy it. :p) It boggles the mind.
I suppose it's partly because they're being sponsored by the Singapore National Arts Council, and I for one am glad that they are; Singapore's literary scene is in sore need of good writers, as I've been moaning to most of my friends for the past few years, after a couple of extremely BAD experiences with Singaporean fiction. (Of course, I'm not deluded enough to think that I could possibly be one of those good contributors to Singapore literature. But I certainly can try! :p)
Oh, and interestingly enough, from what I've read (or at least from what I've inferred from what I've read), it seems that unlike other regions, a large proportion of the Singaporean Nanowrimo writers seem to still be students. I suppose one contributing factor may be that most people in Singapore realise that it's not a feasible idea to be a full-time writer in Singapore (don't we all know that oh so well), and so it's mostly school children taking part since they have the most time.
So, anyone else interested in joining? It's still not too late to sign up! I've already managed to drag two other friends into this mess, and I'm looking to find more victims. *grin* If any of you are joining, please do tell me! Then I can add you to my buddy list and we can share in the groaning and complaining that is sure to plague most of the month of November. :D Though I actually am doubting my ability to be able to reach anywhere near the goal (50,000 words), especially since the Nottingham Games and plenty of coursework is coming up... but as I said, nothing's going to prevent me from at least trying! :p
(And in other semi-not-so-related news, I keep wanting to pronounce it as NaNIwrimo rather than NaNOwrimo. -_-) [Karma: -4 (+/-)][link] [No Comments]
Monday, October 2006 (10/23/06) at 04:22 AM GMT :
Sunday Roast
music: Long Juan Feng - Zhou Jie Lun
mood: Satisfied (Feeling full and content! This is the second day in a row!)
Had an amazing sunday roast with my housemates and C today! We had a roast chicken with gravy (stuffed with a gigantic onion. :D), mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, sweet corn, carrots, green beans and broccoli! Quite a lot of stuff to eat! And all of it was really delicious - the chicken was well cooked and the gravy made it taste wonderful, and while most of the veg was steamed and thus slightly bland, it didn't taste all that bad especially with the gravy to go with it. And M was trying to convince me to try a roast potato, which I was rather reluctant to do due to bad experiences with hall roasted potatos (dry and chao-tah, to say the least), but in the end I decided to cave in to her words of wisdom and lo and behold! It was actually quite tasty! Though I still preferred the mashed potatoes - I think it had to do with the fact that when C was making the mased potatoes, she added a LOT of butter and salt. *grin*
M and C did most of the cooking, with S and I helping out a little bit here and there. It was actually quite funny to see the two of them cooking since they were really excited and literally bouncing up and down and squealing in the kitchen about how "grown up" they felt making a roast all by themselves, and then M said that she was glad that she decided to stay out in a house just so that she could make a roast all by herself. As if her only reason for staying out was just for that sole purpose. *grin*
After we had pretty much demolished the food, I (my male housemate) and S and I (me! :p) did the washing up. The amount of washing up was insane, though - even with three of us helping it took quite a while! So tip of the day - if you and a group of friends ever decide to have a nice homemade dinner together, make sure that you do the cooking and that they do the washing up; that way there's less work to do. :p Assuming you can cook well, of course. *grin* [Karma: 0 (+/-)][link]
music: Long Juan Feng - Zhou Jie Lun
mood: Satisfied (Feeling full and content! This is the second day in a row!)
Had an amazing sunday roast with my housemates and C today! We had a roast chicken with gravy (stuffed with a gigantic onion. :D), mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, sweet corn, carrots, green beans and broccoli! Quite a lot of stuff to eat! And all of it was really delicious - the chicken was well cooked and the gravy made it taste wonderful, and while most of the veg was steamed and thus slightly bland, it didn't taste all that bad especially with the gravy to go with it. And M was trying to convince me to try a roast potato, which I was rather reluctant to do due to bad experiences with hall roasted potatos (dry and chao-tah, to say the least), but in the end I decided to cave in to her words of wisdom and lo and behold! It was actually quite tasty! Though I still preferred the mashed potatoes - I think it had to do with the fact that when C was making the mased potatoes, she added a LOT of butter and salt. *grin*
M and C did most of the cooking, with S and I helping out a little bit here and there. It was actually quite funny to see the two of them cooking since they were really excited and literally bouncing up and down and squealing in the kitchen about how "grown up" they felt making a roast all by themselves, and then M said that she was glad that she decided to stay out in a house just so that she could make a roast all by herself. As if her only reason for staying out was just for that sole purpose. *grin*
After we had pretty much demolished the food, I (my male housemate) and S and I (me! :p) did the washing up. The amount of washing up was insane, though - even with three of us helping it took quite a while! So tip of the day - if you and a group of friends ever decide to have a nice homemade dinner together, make sure that you do the cooking and that they do the washing up; that way there's less work to do. :p Assuming you can cook well, of course. *grin* [Karma: 0 (+/-)][link]
Sunday, October 2006 (10/22/06) at 04:22 AM GMT :
Cooking can be fun! (Surprise surprise)
mood: Satisfied (Feeling full and content!)
I think I've managed to master the art of pseudo-cooking. Basically, what I've done for most of my meals so far is cook some rice, and then just use one sauce to flavour both my chicken and veg. So I'd throw the marinated chicken and veg in the rice-cooker - an all in one meal! - or do almost exactly the same, instead just frying the chicken with the sauce and vegetables instead of steaming them. *grin* Now I finally understand what Cheryl means when she says she has "no recipes, only secrets" and what my sis meant by telling me I'd just learn to cook as I went along if I were just thrown into the deep end and had to start cooking for myself with no prior experience involved. :p
Though I've made the discovery that fried shallots add some amazing taste to chicken! I had a lovely meal tonight thanks to that - I definitely should try using more shallots in the future. I've also attempted to make my own version of sambal-belachan chicken, and while nothing beats SAMBAL STINGRAY, I must say I was quite pleased with how it turned out. It's amazing how chicken can taste so different as long as you just use different sauces - especially since I use ready made sauces since I'm lousy and don't know how to make my own "real" sauces from scratch. :p
Seriously, I should attempt to make a list of the type of stuff I've cooked so far - in terms of variety, I think I've really only cooked less than 5 different types of things. And the only meat I've really cooked so far has been chicken and bacon and luncheon meat, though luncheon meat doesn't really count I suppose. :p Yet I've been pretty satisfied with the stuff I've been eating - I suppose there's no chance of me being picky when I cook the stuff I'm eating by myself, since I'm the best judge of what kind of taste I like best. :p And one good thing is that since I'm cooking for myself, I have to consciously make sure that I cook and eat some vegetables for health's sake, so I've at least been getting a semi-regular intake of veg. (Though definitely not as much as a healthy person would eat - but considering that I used to eat little to no vegetables at all... :p)
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My current list of attempted dishes:
1) Chicken steamed/fried with sauce - 6 types - Unagi sauce, Yakitori sauce, Chinese chicken marinade, Oyster sauce, with shallots and any of the above mentioned sauces, sambal-belachan (Eaten with rice and vegetable of the day - either broccoli or green beans cooked in the same sauce as the chicken. :p)
2) Bacon and cheese omelette
3) Omelette Rice
4) Luncheon meat (and bacon) with rice
See what I mean by pseudo-cooking? *grin*
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Next future attempts on the list: Pasta, Breadcrumbed Pork Chops and Double-baked potatoes! Hopefully I can learn to do those things so I can have more variety in my diet. :p [Karma: 4 (+/-)][link] [1 Comment]
mood: Satisfied (Feeling full and content!)
I think I've managed to master the art of pseudo-cooking. Basically, what I've done for most of my meals so far is cook some rice, and then just use one sauce to flavour both my chicken and veg. So I'd throw the marinated chicken and veg in the rice-cooker - an all in one meal! - or do almost exactly the same, instead just frying the chicken with the sauce and vegetables instead of steaming them. *grin* Now I finally understand what Cheryl means when she says she has "no recipes, only secrets" and what my sis meant by telling me I'd just learn to cook as I went along if I were just thrown into the deep end and had to start cooking for myself with no prior experience involved. :p
Though I've made the discovery that fried shallots add some amazing taste to chicken! I had a lovely meal tonight thanks to that - I definitely should try using more shallots in the future. I've also attempted to make my own version of sambal-belachan chicken, and while nothing beats SAMBAL STINGRAY, I must say I was quite pleased with how it turned out. It's amazing how chicken can taste so different as long as you just use different sauces - especially since I use ready made sauces since I'm lousy and don't know how to make my own "real" sauces from scratch. :p
Seriously, I should attempt to make a list of the type of stuff I've cooked so far - in terms of variety, I think I've really only cooked less than 5 different types of things. And the only meat I've really cooked so far has been chicken and bacon and luncheon meat, though luncheon meat doesn't really count I suppose. :p Yet I've been pretty satisfied with the stuff I've been eating - I suppose there's no chance of me being picky when I cook the stuff I'm eating by myself, since I'm the best judge of what kind of taste I like best. :p And one good thing is that since I'm cooking for myself, I have to consciously make sure that I cook and eat some vegetables for health's sake, so I've at least been getting a semi-regular intake of veg. (Though definitely not as much as a healthy person would eat - but considering that I used to eat little to no vegetables at all... :p)
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My current list of attempted dishes:
1) Chicken steamed/fried with sauce - 6 types - Unagi sauce, Yakitori sauce, Chinese chicken marinade, Oyster sauce, with shallots and any of the above mentioned sauces, sambal-belachan (Eaten with rice and vegetable of the day - either broccoli or green beans cooked in the same sauce as the chicken. :p)
2) Bacon and cheese omelette
3) Omelette Rice
4) Luncheon meat (and bacon) with rice
See what I mean by pseudo-cooking? *grin*
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Next future attempts on the list: Pasta, Breadcrumbed Pork Chops and Double-baked potatoes! Hopefully I can learn to do those things so I can have more variety in my diet. :p [Karma: 4 (+/-)][link] [1 Comment]
Much amusing-ness
music: Little Goodbye - Zegapain ED
mood: Amused
Link of the day: Funny NTU Lecturer video. Go watch it. NOW. (And make sure to clear a space on your floor before you do so that you can roll around laughing after [or even during])
And in other OMG news, my friend D and I got picked up (not literally) by two men in a car tonight. 0_o We'd just finished a session of badminton and were walking home when this car that was driving by stopped and one of the guys inside offered to give us a lift back. (Of course we politely declined - no way were we getting into a car with two guys we didn't know!) There was an Asian guy and a Caucasian guy - the Asian one mostly did the picking up; I personally thought the Caucasian guy looked kind of annoyed that his friend was trying to pick up girls, especially since he said in a rather miffed tone, "He wants to talk to you" in response to D's and my very blur "Huh?" response when the guys first called out to us. *laughs*
So apparently they were the guys who had been playing badminton in the same hall as us, though they were 3 courts down so we hadn't really paid all that much attention to them other than to briefly notice that they were really good. The Asian guy was being all nice and friendly and "Oh, you guys are really good at badminton. We should play together sometime" and D and I were just going "Er... help!" in our minds. *grin* I suppose both of us have just been brought up too well by our parents - the "Don't talk to strangers" mantra has been embedded so firmly into our minds that we just get vaguely creeped out by any strangers who try to hit on us. (The way I say it makes it sound as if I get hit on regularly. -_- Rest assured nothing could be further than the truth.) I'm sure the Asian guy wasn't being sleazy or anything; it's just that I'm the kind of person who doesn't feel comfortable talking to strangers. And I also MUCH prefer the idea of meeting my potential significant other after getting to know him as a friend, NOT by having him attempt to pick up a random girl who just happens to be me. :p
I must say it was a rather... interesting experience though. Though I probably won't want to experience it again. *snerk* [Karma: 0 (+/-)][link]
music: Little Goodbye - Zegapain ED
mood: Amused
Link of the day: Funny NTU Lecturer video. Go watch it. NOW. (And make sure to clear a space on your floor before you do so that you can roll around laughing after [or even during])
And in other OMG news, my friend D and I got picked up (not literally) by two men in a car tonight. 0_o We'd just finished a session of badminton and were walking home when this car that was driving by stopped and one of the guys inside offered to give us a lift back. (Of course we politely declined - no way were we getting into a car with two guys we didn't know!) There was an Asian guy and a Caucasian guy - the Asian one mostly did the picking up; I personally thought the Caucasian guy looked kind of annoyed that his friend was trying to pick up girls, especially since he said in a rather miffed tone, "He wants to talk to you" in response to D's and my very blur "Huh?" response when the guys first called out to us. *laughs*
So apparently they were the guys who had been playing badminton in the same hall as us, though they were 3 courts down so we hadn't really paid all that much attention to them other than to briefly notice that they were really good. The Asian guy was being all nice and friendly and "Oh, you guys are really good at badminton. We should play together sometime" and D and I were just going "Er... help!" in our minds. *grin* I suppose both of us have just been brought up too well by our parents - the "Don't talk to strangers" mantra has been embedded so firmly into our minds that we just get vaguely creeped out by any strangers who try to hit on us. (The way I say it makes it sound as if I get hit on regularly. -_- Rest assured nothing could be further than the truth.) I'm sure the Asian guy wasn't being sleazy or anything; it's just that I'm the kind of person who doesn't feel comfortable talking to strangers. And I also MUCH prefer the idea of meeting my potential significant other after getting to know him as a friend, NOT by having him attempt to pick up a random girl who just happens to be me. :p
I must say it was a rather... interesting experience though. Though I probably won't want to experience it again. *snerk* [Karma: 0 (+/-)][link]
Friday, October 2006 (10/13/06) at 04:22 AM GMT :
How spoiled are you?
[x] A cell phone
[ ] a hair straightener
[x] your own computer (Laptop, actually)
[ ] your own car
[ ] good grades (*laughs weakly* I don't see how this is related to beign SPOILED, though)
[ ] chanel sunglasses
[ ] burberry purse
[ ] A boyfriend/girlfriend
[ ] a curling iron
[ ] every fall out boy cd
[ ] something from american eagle
[ ] something from abercrombie
[ ] something from hot topic
[ ] a pet
[x] some type of trophy/award (A Dumex skipping competition trophy. XD And a medal for a badminton competition in which I only got to play ONE game. ^_^;;)
[x] Queen size bed (I think? I can never remember bed sizes)
[x] an ipod (Courtesy of my generous sister)
[ ] a jersey from a professional team
[x] more than $50 in my purse/wallet (Depending on when, though)
[ ] a radio/cd player (Not anymore - my sis is using it since hers broke down and I don't really use it anyway)
[ ] Monster,Full Throttle,Amp,Etc. In Your Fridge (Er, what?)
[x] something related to green day (mp3s. :p)
[ ] xanga
[ ] myspace
[x] make-up (Barely)
[x] a desk in your room
[ ] a hill in your backyard
[ ] DDR
[ ] a pair of skis or snowboard
[x] alarm clock
[ ] a pair of ice skates
[ ] rollerblades (Not anymore, sadly. :\)
[ ] treadmill
[ ] your own phone line
[ ] AIM
[x] Yahoo!
[x] MSN
[ ] ICQ
[ ] perfume/cologne
[ ] bath and body works lotion (Is that a brand?)
[x] necklaces & bracelets & earrings (Which I never wear. :p)
[ ] a journal/diary
[x] toothbrush
[x] peaches in your fridge (I don't usually, but I bought a can of cheap tinned peaches this time round...)
[ ] x's in your screename
[ ] a birthday in january
[ ] famous relative/friend
[x] a relative that lives in a different state
[ ] a disowned relative
[ ] an electric scooter
[ ] your own bathroom
[ ] your own band
[ ] any METAL band shirts
[ ] gamecube
[ ] a guitar
[ ] a hammock
[ ] a basketball hoop
[ ] a soccer net
[ ] batting cage
[ ] a bike
[ ] a mini van/van
[ ] a relative that lives in Florida
[ ] a V.C Andrews book
[ ]a friend who does alcohol/drugs/smokes (This is considered being SPOILED!? 0_o)
[x] bad grades (Ok, I don't get how this quiz works.)
[ ] a locker at school
[ ] a baby
[ ] a pet chimpanzee
[ ] sparkly blue nail polish
[ ] a "vote for pedro" tshirt/hoody
[x] the movie "the 40 year old virgin"
[ ]a promise ring
[ ] a pool table
[ ] swimming pool
[ ] Trampoline
[x] livejournal
[ ] flip flops
[ ] steve madden shoes
[ ] the sims
[ ] a ping pong table
[ ] air hockey table (I want oneeeeeeeeeeee!)
[ ] a basement
[ ] converse
[x] construction paper
[x] markers, crayons, etc.
[ ] coloring books
[ ] a nice singing voice
[ ] XBOX
[x] PS2
[ ] rose red movie
[ ] wife beaters
[x] VCR/DVD
[x] a mom or a dad
[x] an older brother(s)
[ ] a younger brother(s)
[x] an older sister(s)
[ ] a younger sister(s)
[ ] a sled
[ ] a lake/pond
[x] friends who you love
... this is a very American quiz. :p [Karma: -6 (+/-)][link]
[x] A cell phone
[ ] a hair straightener
[x] your own computer (Laptop, actually)
[ ] your own car
[ ] good grades (*laughs weakly* I don't see how this is related to beign SPOILED, though)
[ ] chanel sunglasses
[ ] burberry purse
[ ] A boyfriend/girlfriend
[ ] a curling iron
[ ] every fall out boy cd
[ ] something from american eagle
[ ] something from abercrombie
[ ] something from hot topic
[ ] a pet
[x] some type of trophy/award (A Dumex skipping competition trophy. XD And a medal for a badminton competition in which I only got to play ONE game. ^_^;;)
[x] Queen size bed (I think? I can never remember bed sizes)
[x] an ipod (Courtesy of my generous sister)
[ ] a jersey from a professional team
[x] more than $50 in my purse/wallet (Depending on when, though)
[ ] a radio/cd player (Not anymore - my sis is using it since hers broke down and I don't really use it anyway)
[ ] Monster,Full Throttle,Amp,Etc. In Your Fridge (Er, what?)
[x] something related to green day (mp3s. :p)
[ ] xanga
[ ] myspace
[x] make-up (Barely)
[x] a desk in your room
[ ] a hill in your backyard
[ ] DDR
[ ] a pair of skis or snowboard
[x] alarm clock
[ ] a pair of ice skates
[ ] rollerblades (Not anymore, sadly. :\)
[ ] treadmill
[ ] your own phone line
[ ] AIM
[x] Yahoo!
[x] MSN
[ ] ICQ
[ ] perfume/cologne
[ ] bath and body works lotion (Is that a brand?)
[x] necklaces & bracelets & earrings (Which I never wear. :p)
[ ] a journal/diary
[x] toothbrush
[x] peaches in your fridge (I don't usually, but I bought a can of cheap tinned peaches this time round...)
[ ] x's in your screename
[ ] a birthday in january
[ ] famous relative/friend
[x] a relative that lives in a different state
[ ] a disowned relative
[ ] an electric scooter
[ ] your own bathroom
[ ] your own band
[ ] any METAL band shirts
[ ] gamecube
[ ] a guitar
[ ] a hammock
[ ] a basketball hoop
[ ] a soccer net
[ ] batting cage
[ ] a bike
[ ] a mini van/van
[ ] a relative that lives in Florida
[ ] a V.C Andrews book
[ ]a friend who does alcohol/drugs/smokes (This is considered being SPOILED!? 0_o)
[x] bad grades (Ok, I don't get how this quiz works.)
[ ] a locker at school
[ ] a baby
[ ] a pet chimpanzee
[ ] sparkly blue nail polish
[ ] a "vote for pedro" tshirt/hoody
[x] the movie "the 40 year old virgin"
[ ]a promise ring
[ ] a pool table
[ ] swimming pool
[ ] Trampoline
[x] livejournal
[ ] flip flops
[ ] steve madden shoes
[ ] the sims
[ ] a ping pong table
[ ] air hockey table (I want oneeeeeeeeeeee!)
[ ] a basement
[ ] converse
[x] construction paper
[x] markers, crayons, etc.
[ ] coloring books
[ ] a nice singing voice
[ ] XBOX
[x] PS2
[ ] rose red movie
[ ] wife beaters
[x] VCR/DVD
[x] a mom or a dad
[x] an older brother(s)
[ ] a younger brother(s)
[x] an older sister(s)
[ ] a younger sister(s)
[ ] a sled
[ ] a lake/pond
[x] friends who you love
... this is a very American quiz. :p [Karma: -6 (+/-)][link]
Saturday, October 2006 (10/07/06) at 04:22 AM GMT :
Every cliched cloud has an even more cliched silver lining
mood: Content
Just a quick note since this was brought to my attention by T - Despite the previous seeming proliferation of oh-woe-is-me-i-am-so-depressed-i-must-be-the-most-wretched-person-in-the-universe entries, rest assured that I'm not feeling down any longer and am actually quite fine. It's just that when I feel depressed, I have the urge to spill it all out on my blog in an attempt to make myself feel better, whereas when I'm feeling better and happier and more my normal self, I actually tend to neglect writing entries about me feeling better and happier and more my normal self, since said self is most normal when it's being lazy. *grin*
But speaking of my legendary laziness - with the start of this new year, Operation 改过自新(aka Operation Turn Over a New Leaf for my non-Chinese speaking friends) is now officially underway! I've resolved to not be as lazy a slob this year as I was in first year - among them, my resolutions are to be more studious, to be more active in societies/clubs, and to keep in touch more regularly. So far I think I've been doing pretty well on all three bases, though of course not amazingly - the winds of change aren't quite strong enough to flip my leaf over completely, but hopefully they're getting there. *grin* I've had my fill of rotting during the just-past summer; now it's time to actually make some use of my life! Tally-ho! [Karma: -1 (+/-)][link] [2 Comments]
mood: Content
Just a quick note since this was brought to my attention by T - Despite the previous seeming proliferation of oh-woe-is-me-i-am-so-depressed-i-must-be-the-most-wretched-person-in-the-universe entries, rest assured that I'm not feeling down any longer and am actually quite fine. It's just that when I feel depressed, I have the urge to spill it all out on my blog in an attempt to make myself feel better, whereas when I'm feeling better and happier and more my normal self, I actually tend to neglect writing entries about me feeling better and happier and more my normal self, since said self is most normal when it's being lazy. *grin*
But speaking of my legendary laziness - with the start of this new year, Operation 改过自新(aka Operation Turn Over a New Leaf for my non-Chinese speaking friends) is now officially underway! I've resolved to not be as lazy a slob this year as I was in first year - among them, my resolutions are to be more studious, to be more active in societies/clubs, and to keep in touch more regularly. So far I think I've been doing pretty well on all three bases, though of course not amazingly - the winds of change aren't quite strong enough to flip my leaf over completely, but hopefully they're getting there. *grin* I've had my fill of rotting during the just-past summer; now it's time to actually make some use of my life! Tally-ho! [Karma: -1 (+/-)][link] [2 Comments]
Tuesday, October 2006 (10/03/06) at 04:22 AM GMT :
Release, ever so far out of reach
mood: Depressed
I wonder when I'll ever learn to be able to love just being myself. It seems that the older I get, the more and more things I find out about myself that I hate. All this self-loathing is getting tiring; sometimes I just wish I could stop, but I can never seem to forgive myself. It's not like I actually gain any pleasure from hating myself; it's just something that's been going on for so long that I can't ever seem to claw my way out of it. It doesn't help that more and more things crop up that make me hate myself even more. Or maybe there's just some sub-conscious perverse side of myself that takes masochistic pleasure in loathing herself; I'd like to think that's not the case, but who knows - nowadays I seem to understand myself even less than I used to. Or maybe I've always never understood myself and just never noticed it.
I just wonder how much more self-hate I can take before I break. [Karma: -6 (+/-)][link] [2 Comments]
mood: Depressed
I wonder when I'll ever learn to be able to love just being myself. It seems that the older I get, the more and more things I find out about myself that I hate. All this self-loathing is getting tiring; sometimes I just wish I could stop, but I can never seem to forgive myself. It's not like I actually gain any pleasure from hating myself; it's just something that's been going on for so long that I can't ever seem to claw my way out of it. It doesn't help that more and more things crop up that make me hate myself even more. Or maybe there's just some sub-conscious perverse side of myself that takes masochistic pleasure in loathing herself; I'd like to think that's not the case, but who knows - nowadays I seem to understand myself even less than I used to. Or maybe I've always never understood myself and just never noticed it.
I just wonder how much more self-hate I can take before I break. [Karma: -6 (+/-)][link] [2 Comments]