The first day of Feb 2011

Have gone to Sainsbury to buy groceries for Chinese New Year today.
Have an early dinner and the fried chickens that we bought from Co-op were really nice!

The thick soft bread with peanut butter or Red pepper Houmous spread on is sooo delicious. The thick bread particularly reminds me of the roti bakar that I ate in Singapore with Otak otak on it.

Have recently fallen in love with baking. How can I live without a lovely oven? Gonna ask my mom to buy an oven when I get back to Malaysia. haha.

Tmr gonna have little Hovis pancakes and a cup of Hot Nescolate ( Nescafe plus hot chocolate ) as my breakfast. Am looking forward to tmr's night reunion dinner too! Yay! 

Good night!

新年，长大了！

新年要到咯！
一考完试后，大家就开始为我们的家来个大扫除，
并且用有限的材料布置我们的客厅。
可是这一点也没有难倒ah JOO和ah Du噢，
她们甚至想到把巧克力硬币贴在墙壁上！**创意加分** 嘿嘿~~

有Mr Tan的贺年卡，有Fuixian好友千里迢迢送来的卡，有Sinyee妈妈的爱心兔和爱心卡~嘿嘿~

已list下了一连串
新年时要弄得甜品，食物
以及为特地从远方到来的Mancunians &Londonians
新年Steamboat的食材。
这一次，我真的觉得
我们都已经长大了！

以前新年我只管开心地玩，
也觉得新年好麻烦要准备好多年货，
可是今年第一次，
我们就像我们的父母一样，
在想要准备买几只鸡，几瓶汽水给大家喝，
要买什么新年糖果给客人吃，
那里比较便宜，
结果昨天tesco的online delivery 前所未有的贵！
我们成功地破了一百磅的纪录 ~ *恭喜大家*
而且我们过后还要去Sainsbury买一些肉
和到华人店去买一些面。
虽然好像很麻烦，
不过其实我们是乐在其中的！
Ah joo还说拜年时大家都要穿旗袍或红色象征性的衣服！
而且会到朋友家去拜年。呵呵。

可是我最近真的吃很多，
大家如果见到脸肿腿肿的我，
请不要见怪，
我现在是在人生中最肥的时刻了！

新年还有花儿的相伴以及“旺来”~

整屋子都有新年的气息噢！
敞开大门，
欢迎大家在新年齐聚一堂
这将会是一个美好难忘的回忆！

半退休生活

花了一整个星期的时间，终于把房间收拾干净了！
考试前天天早睡，考试后天天迟睡。
考完试后真的有如释重负的感觉，
每天待在家当个不折不扣的宅女，
过着悠哉悠哉的半退休生活，
竟然更胜过出去逛街购物的兴奋！
生活节奏慢半拍，又睡至日上三竿才起床，
虽然很宅，但是日子过得还不错我~

考试后第一天和第二天晚上都到不同的朋友家吃晚餐，
看了超无厘头的漫画电影Scott Pilgrim：

在考试期间看完了《王子变青蛙》，没想到这部偶像剧194还竟然看了两遍，而我却是第一次在这里看~ Oh no~
第三天看了感人又好笑的《听说》，晚上咱们就到Brasserie Gerard 吃晚餐，还真的蛮好吃喔；过不久又看了另一部彭宇晏主演的《近在咫尺的爱恋》.噢，还有Wanjoo 介绍的Old Miss Diaries, 在youtube 可以找到几个有subtitle的片断，也是超搞笑的耶！然后hor，经wanjoo 介绍，我们才知道原来啊，Jolin 的特务J专辑的歌是一部三部曲的音乐电影，只可惜金载沅在mv中很快就被女特务给杀死了。


现在正在追看：寻秦记！！！对啦，也是一部轰动一时的连续剧，不知道为什么那个时候我就是没有看叻！古天乐真的超搞笑的耶！最好笑莫过于他和古代人有的没的乱搭的对话！哈哈！


在家里太得空了嘛，于是dudu煮了超好喝的雪耳糖水！
她一直说：“你不会想知道我放了多少的糖！”
Ohmy，after 考试，我的stomach变成了无底洞，对食物完全没有抵抗力了！
只要有吃的，好吃的，吃饱了还是会拿来吃！
这是考完试后的症状吗？只要有吃的都会很开心。哈哈。


星期六到了Oxford去游玩。
还好有Andrew的朋友当我们的tour guide，我们又认识多几个新朋友啦！嘿嘿！
去看了HarryPotter 拍电影的地方，感觉那个hall 好小噢！结果到了傍晚，我们便把整个oxford看完了，于是便决定补买多一张票，早点回家！


昨天兴致勃勃，bake了一些chocolate puddings，然后一起看了刘德华饰演狄仁杰的《通天帝国》。加上《寻秦记》的熏陶，让我对中国的历史起了浓厚的兴趣！
P.S.：原来，完璧归赵的背后是有这么精彩的故事的！大家不妨去找找看。

虽然现在英国的天气超级冷，内心却是超级暖。
有一班超级可爱，超级爱笑的朋友，
每天都感觉超幸福的。

每次遇见如此的大雨就会想起这首歌，以及大马大大粒的雨滴。^^

Desserts

66 West Avenues has getting too bored of reading books and notes. After dinner everyone has a sudden rush of making desserts.
Look at what we did tonight to destress a bit!

 Initially we wanted to cook green bean soup 绿豆糖水, but because of the small volume of water and a lot of sagu we ended up having “绿豆西米露”. Tastes really nice and sweet!!

Beneficial effect:  Green beans help reducing edema.
Source: Jessica

Last time we have found the BBC recipe on making Lemon self saucing pudding. This is how it looks like in the website:

It's really easy to make this pudding as long as u have one lemon, concentrated lemon juice and some, typical baking ingredients: Butter, flour, milk, eggs, etc. The hardest part would be, the effort to whip the egg white and beat the mixture. Tiring~

That's our first experimental pudding! Sorry, it's not visually attractive here as the light is dim, but it tastes really really great!!! With the help of two experienced bakers aka Wan Joo and Sin Yee, we often come out with a success! Just like what Jes said, Miracle often happens during baking! (She said so because I couldnt really believe that the beating of butter sugar and lemon zest inititally will end up smooth and pale. )

No wonder this pudding has got many 5 stars reviews from the readers. Worth a try and believe me, it is really tasty! But dont be shocked when you see the final mixture as a very dilute mixture, it is meant to be so. Here is the link:　http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5781/lemon-selfsaucing-pudding

Okay I don't dare to count the amount of sugar and nuts that I have ingested today!　＞＜

阳光！

终于，整整七天后，我在天空中看见了金黄色的光辉，以及淡蓝的天。

在大马的时候，还真的没有体会过这~~么~~长~~的“不见得光”的日子。不是说我讨厌阴天，只是在我们回来bath以后，已有整整一个星期，每天都从未见过阳光：早上起来，没有日出，一整天的天空是灰色的，没有半点的金黄色洒在天上，就连蔚蓝的天空也不见了。然后到了四点左右，没有黄昏，天色一转，就直接变成晚上了！感觉就好像在南北极过着没有白天只有晚上的日子哦！难怪有些人会有“不见阳光忧郁症”，就连我也生出一点闷气来了。因为阳光总是在那里啊，只是云朵厚得足以把它完全遮盖起来。

今天，难得的，金黄色的光辉！正所谓，一日之计在于晨，而且＋寸金难买寸光阴，大家要好好珍惜今天的光阴啊！提起正念好好活着！（其实是跟自己说，别再懒散了，呵呵～～）

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A tinge of sunlight~

What we did today 3.1.11

There we go. It's me and dudu again in 66 West Avenue. We managed to do some masak-masak today and it's not too bad. ( hahahah. We are really lame chefs! ) So just let the pics do part of the talking:

1. Our lunch the French toast

Finally we have decided to make it our own! Hehe. For a first timer, what do you expect then? We purposely went out to Moorland road to get the milk and the cinnamon powder for this!

2. Tiramisu.

It's not the first time we made it, but I rather said I never make it all by myself. ( I was always the one beside playing around when ppl are making it!) So I asked dudu and she's willing to make the cake with me. hehe.

 The biscuits is a substitute for sponge fingers which is sold out in Co-op. I shall say it tastes better with Sponge fingers on it.

 Taddaaa!!! Not the perfect one indeed, the taste were alright but the rheology..hmmm..can be better. :D
But it is my first cake ley!

3. Dinner

Dudu has an urge to make lemon chicken and there it is. A really delicious one! Thx for the corn flour borrowed from Kenny too. Haha. We are so poor now in 66.  The dinner tastes the nicest although we didnt put much effort in it. :P

A perfect dinner with a Korean drama (恶作剧之吻特别版） More expensive rice really taste different from Sainsbury's. But I can't describe how different it is!

Ends here with a song. Quite a nice acapella though!


Have already had in my mind what kind of good food are going into my stomach for tmr. heheheheh.
Good night! :D