Christmas 2007

Its already the 3rd day of 2008 and I am here.. still blogging abt christmas. Nothing much to say... the holiday season is over. abit sad. hehe! Let the pics do the toking...

some preperation done before christmas



Caramel corn.. requested by my sis for her office xmas party.




oatmeal raisin cookies to be used as gifts to our guests.


bacon bits to put in my mashed potato on christmas day!

Christmas decorations - excellent job by dad!


he did an excellent job with the decor. Really put the whole hse in the christmasy mood! I jus took a few simple shots of what he did. Dad is the best!! I thnik he gonna cry abt having to take down the decorations tml/sat. hees!

On Christmas Day


Cookies... packed in a rush! Too busy helping to prepare and forgot abt them. Ha! cant pack earlier else will 'become soft'.


assorted nuts as snacks for the guests.


Sausages & chipolatas


The turkey tat occupied the oven for 5 hours! mum woke up at 6.30 jus to prepare this!!


The ham! great job done by mum! love it!! Yumz!!! everyone tabao my ham home... so little leftover ham for me! :(


Korean "nian gao". Din eat it. Cause not christmasy food to me! haha!


Otah from malaysia


some greens.


My dish! mashed potato with bacon bits! I mashed about 20 potatos!

O! and a log cake from Awfully chocolate which i forgot to take photo of! Doesnt matter.. it was pretty ugly. Also, had a bad experience with their service! LOng story! Over it! Cant b bothered to explain!

And you think thats all the food we had.... U R WRONG!!




Pumpkin soup and seafood pasta from my auntie! She also made fried rice, baked tofu and some mushroom with veggie!!! There's too much food! I gave up taking pics!!


Mee siam! made by another auntie. 1 of our usual party fare! this is like our family's 'jia zhuan cai'~ haha!

and there was curry chicken with baguette too! I cant find my pic anywhere!!

there was also fruitcake made by my mum. Thats the bad thing abt me. If its something i dun fancy, i wun rem to take pic about it. Then there were more fruitcakes, tarts, cakes and otahs nicely bought by one of my uncle.

Christmas day was food overloaded! I did not noe where to stay. With so much choices, it was surprising that i din eat much! I think i got full looking at them!

Thank you mum and dad for the wonderful party!! and B for helping with the preparation and for driving all the way to cluny court for the logcake! I love preparing for christmas party! God bless mum and dad with long life and good health so we can always have many many more christmas parties ahead!! hehe.. selfish thot of me!

P.S. and miss pgy ... this is all that u missed for not coming! :P

Little Nat's bdae

Was requested to help take pics for little nat's bdae. Her mother borrowed an SLR from her friend for me to use! My first time using the SLR!! I tried quite a few shot to realise I am fumbling with it. The shots did not turn out pretty. I end up asking the SLR owner to help take pics of the birthday instead. Dun wan to ruin little nat's bdae with my awful shots! Useless me! Used my own camera to snap random shops ard instead.

Enjoy the pics of her fairy themed birthday! Her mama even hired a body art painter! Lucky kids! I wanna be a kid again!!! *pouts*

Shot with SLR:

haha! my little cheeky fairy nat! this is what i call a bad picture! haha!


And every little kid gets to go home with a set of wings and wand!!! such a sight! all the little fairies running ard!! (shh!! i got my own set too... i requested after the party! HAHA!)

Shot with my own cam: (after using SLR, i realise how slow my camera is to capture the human expression)

The food


Cute sandwiches for the kids!


"Wand" fruits!!


Little birthday wishes from nat's friends. Wand and hairband belongs to cute nat. Our little fairy abandoned her gear! Haha!




her fairy-heartshaped- train- grapes- strawberry cake. I always imagine it as a messy disastrous cake everytime little nat describes to me what her dream cake is. I am glad the baker is much more imaginative and creative than i am! haha! Little cupcakes were made by her friend's mum!

Hmm... wanted to show more pics of the little kids and their beautiful body art but i reckon better nt. Wait the kid's parents come and sue me for putting their kids pics online!
Sorry!

I really really wan a SLR!!!! but i think i need to learn more abt it first! the lenses and how to use it....also.. the $$!!!!! ANyone wanna sponser?!!!

Korean Restaurent - Togi

Finally, manage to try out some place new since i started on my new job. My colleague brought me to this korean restaurent called 'Togi' at Mosque Street. This colleague of mine studied Korean Language in Korea for a year plus. So the place she brought me confirm sure will be authentic korean.



Of course, we left the food recommendation and ordering to her. Its so interesting to see her conversing with the lady boss in korean! hehe! Dun worry! You dun have to noe how to speak korean to order. Lady boss noes english and their workers seem to mostly be from China. No language barrier there for me. heez!


After ordering, we were each served some clear soup and barley tea. My colleague sae the soup taste like the one she had when she was studying back in korea.


N of course, we were served with all the little side dishes!! the cabbage kimchi not so nice though we feel. abit sour. the rest are good!



This was absolutely good!!! only 10 bucks only!! its call "ttok ppok ki" in korean! its like korean 'nian gao' (rice cakes) fry with "ramen" (instant noodles to me... haha)!! Love it!! very nice!! Very filling!


N this!! I've heard abt this and been wanting to try it out for a long time! Its korean's cold noodles! Can you see the ice cubes in the soup?! I have seen this on 'Dynamic Korea'!
Interesting right? Have u eaten anything that is icy cold?!
I heard some colleague ate this previously and stomach cannot take it so end up having diahorrea. Oppz!
See the 3 white slices on the side? its pear! nice sweet pear! haha!


The noodles - closed-up view! We were sharing! heez! The soup was salty and light. You gotta add some mustard into in and it taste really nice! I dun like the beef much but the noodles were very very chewy!! ("Q")! But becareful, dun slurp in too fast! abit slippery! wait get choke! haha!
My colleague mentioned the cold noodles here not very fantastic. She had better.


My other colleague's bibimbap! I din eat so I cannot comment! But only 10 bucks too!! Worth it leh! Considering all the side dishes we had. Refillable somemore. Better than eating at food court where the beef is measley and so is the kimchi!!


And I end this post with a lovely pic i took of a small flower which some1 picked on the roadside for me.. Zzzz... HAHA!



My new hp camera not bad hor?

The daily scoop.

My bf brought me and his sis to an really ulu place to eat ice cream. His boss recommended the place to him.

Ok maybe it isnt that ulu but if u never bother to drive through right inside sunset way, you never know that was a shopping arcade there, and that it has a really famous ice cream shop in there.



This ice cream shop is apparently already very well-known. His sis had actually read abt it from blogs and heard raves about it from her friends. I guess I am just abit "sua Ku". But it is really quite surprising to find such a busy shop in a very quiet street.

They serve home-made ice cream at very very reasonable price. They also have tons of unique flavours of ice cream, each tagged with a really cool name. You can check out the website for more information (*scroll to the bottom of the post)


My bf ordered the lychee martini! I ADORE it! its has a light lychee taste and not so sweet!! Yummz!! $2.90 for single scoop!


His niece ordered the sunny strawberry! Its interesting that they have a junior serving! and this only cost us $2!! Awesome!!! The ice cream was good but of course, we still love Haagen Daaz strawberry ice cream more! But for this price, its a perfect substitute!!



His sis ordered the cherry brandy one. She took the junior serving too cause she wanted to try. Lucky! coz we did not like this so much.


N i ordered the butterscotch pecan! with the waffles! Frankly speaking, nothing beats gelare's waffles!! I had the craving for Gelare's waffles while eating this one. Anyone wanna chiong with me to Gelare on a tuesday?! haha! I am not saying the waffles is bad. It was not bad! it was quite "song" (light?). I just prefer Gelare's. The ice cream we love though! yumz! haha!


we decided to try 1 last serving of ice cream before we left! Durian durian!!! Soo rich!! Soooo Creammy! Sooo Goood!!! Last way to end our ice cream outing.


For more details:
http://www.thedailyscoop.com.sg

41 Sunset Way, #01-04 Clementi Arcade, Singapore 597071
Tel: (+65) 6463 3365
Email: icecream@thedailyscoop.com.sg

Christmas 2007 (with friends)

I think starhub heard my ranting and gave me my internet connection back! I can finally upload my pics! Mel.. you can stop bugging me for the pics now. Ha!

We had our annual christmas party early again this year! but its not exactly too early since christmas day is almst here!! As i missed last year's party, i am really looking forward to this year's one. My fwens were looking forward for it too! because of the sheperd's pie... Not me! GEez! Yes. Was assigned to make sheperd's pie again this year.


Cute right?! I wrapped the winnie the pooh on top of my secret santa's gift!! I bought the pooh since my gift did not reach the budget yet and thot it be like a decoration piece for the pressie! I did the same thing for cyn's 21st bdae pressie! A minnie mouse holding the voucher we got her. I came up with the idea cause i thot a voucher doesnt look grand enuff for a 21st bdae gift! haha! I think i gonna wrap all my pressies with softtoys in future now!!



Like my name cards? Hehe! Th jie did it for me! She is gonna do it for her dotter's coming bdae. I told her to print extras for me and we did all the name cards together! Will take pic n show how cute the cards gonna look at her dotter's bdae party! I wanted to use the name cards for my fwens to place on their pressies. Then i realise i forgot to do my own name! stopid!


haha! Our food looks almst the same every year! hehe! Looks little for us greedy gals! The "turkey gal" was late so the turkey was still roasting in the oven. Haha! Then 2 others were also late! so we started ahead without them.


My fwen's sausages. She took the earlier pic. I like to do close up pics! Haha! See the parsley! she purposely buy so that she can take pwetti photos of her food. She is all abt the presentation.


Mel's carbonara. This was suppose to be for 8 person's portion. Think can feed 16. haha!


My sherperd's pie! Actually my bf's, my mum's plus me sheperd's pie! Haha! Mum showed us why our sheperd's pie always lost to her. We never cook the beef as long as her and put enuff corn starch. Thank goodness both of us got another party coming up which we can practise making it again! Haha! Sheperd pie overload!


1 of our late arrival dish! Roasted baby potatoes with olive oil, garlic and herbs! Due to oven space constrain, the potatoes will have tasted even better if it was made crispier cause the skin can get a little chewy.


The other late arrival dish! Salad!! Some of us were surprised to find turnip inside the salad. yx made a funny comment: " eh... you got "hei gou" (prawn paste)... i see "bang guang"(turnip)... i need "hei gou" ".... haha! (she was referring to rojak when the turnip is mixed with the sweet prawn paste).


N finally... the main lead! the turkey is done! it took 2 hours odd because we keep opening and closing the oven to heat food up. Hehe!! Not bad leh the cold storage chilled turkey. I like the sauce! test like wat my mum usually make.

Besides eating, 1 of the guys bought Wii to my place. And so most of us were engrossed playing and looking at pple play. Then there was the secret santa present giving. We took so many pics the guys complain that its like prize ceremony. Haha!

After that, it was dessert time! the dessert highlight of the day was Kon's Vodka watermelon.
What exactly is vodka watermelon? I never knew until Kon mentioned it some time back. Apparently, u make some holes into the watermelon and pour vodka into it. Then let it rest for a few hours and pour more vodka in. Do it until the whole melon is filled with vodka. Interesting right?!! I am so glad he did make and bring it to the christmas party!!


Opening ceremony of our vodka filled watermelon!!


balling the watermelon! This pic was quite funny! Great pic taken by yx! mine all turned out blur!


Dessert is served! I took the first ball which came from the centre of the melon. I nearly died! a ball of pure vodka! Bleahz!! then another fwen keep saying she din taste any of the vodka. In the end we realise because she keep eating those that came from the side of the melon. I told her to look out for those really mashy looking ("nua") melon balls. She did and her reaction was exactly like mine! Haha!!

But its really good when we came to the bottom of the melon. the mix of the vodka and melon was nice.



We ended the night with our early bird present from cold storage: Mango Logcake. I heard last yrs's chocolate logcake was much nicer.



Merry Christmas my dear friends!!