Food delights

Experimented abit with cooking recently. Tried doing up potato tuna balls with Yisi and Wanping. They got this recipe from some online mum's blog. Just to update...we've came up with a roster for cooking dinner and my group has decided to call ourselves the "Imperial Chefs"! Well..basically cos we usually cook Asian food and we try to "outdo" the other groups in coming up with new dishes...hehe...hopefully this will improve my cooking skills too. Anw just goofed arnd with our food-making session...

Yisi sucking onto the breadcrumbs

My really messy fingers!!

Ingredients needed:
1) Mashed potato
2) Tuna fillings
3) Cheese (we used Laughing Cow cheese!)
4) Beaten egg (1 egg to 3 potato ratio)
5) Breaded crumbs
6) Flour

Did 2 batches...1 with tuna and another plain with potato....kinda messed up with the ratio of the potato filling to egg for the non-tuna batch....so it super looks outta shape....(green plate)..haha

Once done, fry nicely in the pan and voila! Our proudly finished product!

Our very steamboat style dinner for the night! Thanks to Yisi and Jinyang for purchasing crabstick, fishballs and other ingredients in Birmingham!

On a side note, also realised something bad that happened also regarding to food. Just realised that there's a food thief around in the kitchen! Basically, my chicken roll, Ben's ham and Jared's yoghurt all went missing.....at first was just thinking nuthin much cos my chicken roll went out faster than usual...but when the whole packet goes missing and a 500ml yoghurt bottle can disappear by itself...something's really wrong...hmmmm..........

OMG!! Old liaoz la!!

Ok...I have been too busy to really sit down to blog about my Easter trip...it takes me abt 3 hours just to arrange and upload photos for 1 destination onto facebook..i am going to new places even faster than i can upload photos and I prefer to give quite a detailed account of my travels on the blog...so i guess it's gonna be quite sometime b4 i actually start writing....hmm....was thinking of leaving tt when i get b to s'pore...oh well....anw recently a really old friend shows up on facebook and uploaded a very old photo and i was like OMG!!...!! Ok....and now introducing the horrifying picture...

Yeah....i think u can all slowly and easily guess which one i am....dun think i change alot....still have dorky specs plus a small skinny frame...hahaha....but this pic sure brings abt old memories sia.....shit...getting old liaoz....

Care package

At long last...the long-awaited package is here! The order which I made from Amazon...which includes the HDD and a Transformers DVD Set sold only in the UK...sweet...took about a week to arrive...and i must say it's really convenient and cheap to shop in Amazon. Think I'm gonna make the most of it while I'm here...Btw it's really cool to collect mail from the reception at Butler now cos they recently installed this LCD screen where you could check and view any incoming parcels or registered letters. Previously they just stuck a note with the names of those who had mail on the front door...so ahem....I wouldn't realli mind receiving more letters and parcels...get the hint?! hahaha :)

Spring Arrival

Time really flies fast, the season has changed from winter (at the time of my arrival in UK) to spring now. The really good thing is that the weather and temperature is now way way much better and not too cold liaoz...the only problem is still the wind which gets really chilly when it blows right into your face...Anw to prove my point for the spring part, check out the flowers that have bloomed on the tree outside my window...still remembered the tree was really bare when I first came...

A slight digress here....was really surprised tt my roomie tried to pack and clear up his stuff in the room over the weekend...if u notice the first pic posted, there's lotsa stuff hanging arnd, even shoes that were placed by the window! Hey...all these are not mine hor...i keep my things neat and tidy de...but apparently i think becos our room is starting to smell a little musty or more like his gf's coming down to visit him soon...so he did a bit of spring cleaning...lol....i really can't imagine come this june when his gf comes, she's gonna squeeze and bunk in with us...oh well...

Loughborough Shots Again! (19 Apr 08)

A busy week after the Easter trip, so did not make any arrangements to travel out for the weekend. Instead, I spent a lazy and relaxing weekend checking out Queens Park and the Carillon in Loughborough as well as soaking in the market atmosphere. It's quite amazing that after close to 2 and a half months studying here, I have yet to visit Queens Park, one of the top attractions in our sleepy Loughborough town...The whole experience was so laid-back that it just reminded me just how slow the pace of life is over here for the townsfolk in Loughborough...

Entrance to the Loughborough Carillon in Queens Park...It's the first carillon in the UK

Children's playground in the midst of Queens Park










The Carillon is actually a war memorial to the fallen




Inside the Carillon is the Museum of Armed Forces, with a display of several war relics, medals from the 1st World War


The Bandstand, a pavillon for performances for Loughborough














Charnwood Museum....resembles a small manor situated in the middle of the park...ducks frolicking arnd in the pond....fat ducks....obviously well-fed by the town-people










Arrival of spring means more flowers starting to really bloom....what I have always liked about Loughborough is its open green spaces and large, varied nature environment...pack it with a nice slow afternoon and u get a real relaxing combi...


A "mini-Birdpark" in Queens Park, with lots of colourful birds being bred here...kinda surprised as we have never known it existed b4....






There was this couple feeding the birds so had to take a shot of them...it's been a long time since I've seen really colourful and varied birds arnd....(always see pigeons and crows everywhere....yeah....they do have them here in large numbers like in S'pore)


View of the pond from Charnwood Museum




Entrance to the Charnwood Museum. Toured the museum and it's a place where it described the history of Loughborough as well as the Charnwood Forest (which included many of the nearby country parks)...almost forgot that we were in the East Midlands, basically the very heart of England and rural forested areas...quite interesting to discover that there were ancient fossils found right here in the East Midlands so very long ago...










Swan Maze, well...actually not a maze.....dun exactly know y it's named like tt




I think the phrase "ha2 ma4 xiang3 lai4 tian1 er2 rou4" is so damn appropriate here....haha basically it means toad trying to savour the swan flesh.....so this statue sorta made me laugh...lolol :)






Walked arnd in the town centre to enjoy the market atmosphere...things are generally much cheaper at markets, which is the pasar malam we all are so familiar in S'pore...Loughborough markets only happen on thursdays and saturdays...finally had a chance to explore the market cos so far have not been to town on weekends and thursdays are my packed days with lessons...there's much more life than usual on the weekends...








Dessert at the Cheesecake shop! So far most of our cakes were ordered from here (for See Hwei and Jared's bdae)...and the price is considered one of the cheapest in town...


The dessert menu serving...yummy!

All in all, it was a very lazy afternoon and a short but well-deserved break after returning from the Easter trip. Made a few surprising discoveries about our sleepy little town, as well as a bit interested to explore the surrounding countryside in the East Midlands now....maybe will make that a weekend trip sometime soon....hmm....