Wishes for the New Year 2009

Wishing Sphere @ Esplanade

My Christmas Dinner - away from the hustle and bustle

Town was so crowded! but I spent my Xmas in the comfort of my own house... whipping up some simple dishes and indulge in a lot of cakes which I haven't had for quite a while... cake taste damn good when you have not eaten them for quite some time!

Triple Cheese Pizza, Chicken Vegetable Soup, Water Biscuit, Mussels, Smoked Salmon, Assorted Dips, Beef Ribeye, Strawberries, Salami, Ham, Bacon...

Wolf Blass Shiraz 2003

After almost 2 hours...

Triple Cheese Pizza topped with Ham, Salami and Turkey Bacon

Chicken Bradwurst with Cheese - This is huge! Actually, one of this thing in my gut already fills me up 80% already...

Chicken + Beef Stew - This was nice! Beef chunks, macaroni, mussels, assorted veg

Cold Dish Black Pepper Mussels with tabasco

Cracker with smoked salmon and assorted dips - This is my favorite! I fnished every single bit of the dip even when the smoked salmon has ran out! However, I really don't know what is in the dips... My guess is that some has tuna in it, and some with prawn or crab roes...

My favourite dip - I think this is some seafood dip... there's a strong hint of prawn...

A balance meal ends with some sweet strawberries and some sinful whip cream simply for aesthetic purpose. lol

and cheers for a better New Year

Fruit Cake from Food Barn - The cake is not those super dense (but still quite dense) kind of fruit cake whereby lots of molases is used, hence this fruit cake taste less sweet (but still generally sweeter than most cakes). Topped with fruits and Pecans soaked richly in rum, giving the cake a wonderful aroma of rum and fruits...

Browniessss - to be heated in a microwave and served with....

Ben & Jerry new flavour! Cake Batter! Do not expect any chunks in this as you normally would in BnJ ice cream. This new flavor has no chunks at all, but just a very rich and smooth butter-like batter ice cream with swirls of chocolate fudge.

Matcha Swiss Roll from Rive Gauche - This is my favorite cake from the whole series of cakes bought there. It is very light and fluffy, yet the hint of Matcha is just nice... very "xiang", give a very therapeutical effect, very zen... lol. The black black thing is see in the center of the roll, that's Azuki beans, adds another dimension of sweetness to the cake.

Guanaja - I like this too, for it has a bitter sweet to it. The bottom layer is crispy biscuit with layers of chocolate sponges in between. This is supposed to be a hot favourite.

Mango Cake - Refreshing sweet mango slices at the top and bottom, with layers of mango mouss and mango crunch. Everything is really just mango, but mangoes made in different way.

Mont Blanc - The star of this cake is the chestnuts. It has French and Japanese chestnuts in between the layers of sponges soaked with brandy. The top layer of beautiful strokes of cream is chestnut cream.

*burp*

hope everyone had a merry xmas and next a good new year ahead!

Post Exam Steamboat

Exams are actually already over long time ago... but we finally have the common time to meet up for our post exam trauma steamboat gathering. Steamboat dinner for 5!

Tiak snipping away the Hotdogs

as well as the fishcake and Tofu... JJ wanted the fishcake, so we forced him to finish all 3 slabs by himself... haha. and Tiak wanted 4 tubes of Tofu... a bit too much for just 5 person la...

Cuttlefish balls and Prawn Balls

Golden Mushrooms - 4 packets of it... I think we very kiasu la... everything also buy a lot... in the end we have a lot of leftovers...

Crabsticks and Hot Dogs

Cabbage!

Eggs!

Chicken Stock Cubes for the Soupbase

Chicken fillets

Tau Poks

Baby Carrots and Corn

Beef Shabu Shabu - This is like the best stuff! We should have bought more!


There were also Prawns, Fish fillets, Button Mushrooms and Pork Shabu shabu...

Special Chilli Sauce for Seafood

Thai chilli Sauce for meat

Preparation of the soup...

We dumped the prawn head back into the soup to add more flavours to the soup...

Beef Shabu Shabu done medium rare...

Towards the end... The Essence of the steamboat...

We had 3 helpings in total... lol. 6pm we started eating our first serving until 8pm... we were so full by then. So we watch TV until 9pm, had our 2nd serving. Watched TV again until 10pm, then our last serving. Very fullllll... But it was nice... maybe we will have a annual gathering for steamboat in the future!

Beary Xmas Tree

I only recognise Pooh Bear and Hello Kitties

Nuffnang Xmas Bash @ DXO

remember a few weeks ago i was blogging something about Vpost makes me FIT as a competition entry to gain entry for some xmas party... and then I was invited eventually for the party. Given a letter P, i am supposed to dressed up as anything with the letter P. So... I dressed up as... pinocchio,
who have yet to lie, so my nose is still normal, meaning i am dressed as an ordinary person la!

But it was quite fun to see Virgin Bride, Soccer Player, Osama bin Laden, Pilot, Stewardess, Old man, Vogue, Vendetta, Officer, Venus, Vet etc etc...

Sushi King, School girl, Opposite of Emo, Paranoid and Vogue

Whisky Coke

Sprite Vodka

A xmas tree that looks so "cold"

Our dinner! Cannot see la... but there some chicken thing, some fish thing, bbq prawns, the rest i nv take la... carbssss! Catered from 4 seasons.

Marathon Training Prep

The last time I ran long distance (>21km) was like a year back, and the last race I had was the 10k human race, and 10k is really nothing compared to 42k. Physically as well as my state of endurance now, I think i sure "bi jia" (cannot make it) for a marathon la, so today I decide to give myself a trial run to test myself how far i can go.

Ran past RJC, and wahlao... why their JC so freaking big while mine was like a rabbit hole last time??? sad. Witnessed a bike accident too.

As a start, I planned to run at about 80% of my max HR consistently for the whole run. Everything was a breeze for the first hour, until my bodyweight sets it... lol. I think my weight is seriously having a toll on my knees. After close to 1.30 hours, my knees starts to sore, but i still need to make it back home... no money no ez link card... home home... water water... electrolyte electrolyte... my mind is calling for these...

managed to clear the 20k mark... i need to hit 30k minimum! My plan will be short dist, mid dist and long dist run each week. Each week will be only one long distance run and every subsequent week I will increase mileage by 10% until i hit 30!

Wah... so many caolories burned... my arnotts biscuits in the morning all gone already... :) haha... and i was already veryyyyyyyyyyyyy hungry by then... and i was craving for some piping hot sandwiches!

and since I had a lot of leftover chicken breast meat from yester-nite steamboat, I made chicken sandwiches, with egg, ketchup, blackpepper, and cheese when i got home!

I love my sandwiches with all the cheese and ketchup oozing out and charred at the sides... the best sandwich imo. haha.



and motivation picture for the day!