Night at Brass Monkey

Penny, Kath, Me

That's Autumn and my manager, lisa

Pretty Iris and Kath (Bestest Buddie)

We had a meeting farewell party for me and Autumn at the Brass Monkey two nights back, it was fun filled especially towards the last part where we all got pretty tipsy, and started dancing around the pub with some random people, took alot of pictures on my Autumn's camera, i'll upload it some time later! Penny brought Iris, we were so surprised, we thought she had left for the farm to work, but she was still waiting for her application for her visa to stay in Australia. Iris is a taiwanese friend at work, i ve mentioned her in my previous post, she is looking as good as before! so happy to be able to meet up with her before i leave Perth.

It was great working with everyone at Ned's, especially my shifts with Lisa, my manager, both of us are always full of sarcasm and snide remarks! totally enjoy it, hard to find someone who appreciates the wicked humour sometimes! i'll miss everyone

Can someone tell me if its dumpling festival?

i saw dumplings today at the chinese provision shop at Broadway, and immediately i bought three, my favourite ones are the yellow original ones, where u dip it with sugar, i bought two of those and one savoury one so i could have them for dinner, and the sweet ones for teatime!

this is the first time i am having Australian made dumplings, not as rich or meaty as those in Singapore though, somewhat it is lacking in flavour, few key ingredients were missing, no roasted chestnut, no triple belly pork (the more fatty the better), no chinese mushrooms, 2 pathetic small dried shrimps only (i think dried shrimps are very important to bring out the rusty fishy flavour). But something unique was that they mixed the yellow beans with the rice, those in Singapore usually have the beans with the meat, i reckon the yellow beans are Tau Suan beans, gives that added texture to the sticky-ness of the glutinous rice.

Despite so much lacking, i am still glad that at the very least, i could savour dumplings like all of u back home, enjoying dumplings with your family! i miss home..

Curry F(L)avour me!

i guess this is what happens when you are away from home for too long, you just miss all of Singapore, especially for me, when it comes to food. Lately i've been having bad craves for extremely spicy food and local delights!

Above is my home cooked hot green curry though doesnt look that green, fused with Nasi Lemak rice and not white rice and with more chilli, nasi lemak sambal! Asian Fusion for you, i guess i probably added a little too much coconut milk, it turn out less spicy than expected, i cut some fresh red chilli padi though to add more flavor..
z is begging me for non-spicy version.. i'll consider tonight.

My exam timetable is out, quite a cramped timetable, given that this is the last semester of my Bachelor's, it's kinda torturing, exams on 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th and i am flying home on the 18th! z will be back from melbourne on the 20th. I am so excited to see all my friends and relatives, especially my grandmother! I hope est, yue and char plan something quickly, i miss sun with moon, had cravings for Japanese food lately that i went to have Kido at Broadway with one of my close friend, C. I miss dining with z, whenever we have Japanese food, i always accompany salmon sashimi and tuna maguro with hot sake.

C, my very wealthy friend, obviously looking very tired after 2 London trips within a mth to visit his gf!

Salmon California Roll

Shabu-Shabu that we shared


Did i mention that winter is here, it's been freezing cold lately, i was freezing when i left home for work at 5 this morning, thankfully kath came to pick me up, i wouldn't be able to ride quickly on my bike, feets and hands would be so numb! This morning after work, kath and i managed to pack up quickly and leave for breakfast at Sugar Bean Cafe, although she was feeling a little sick and has sore throat, she insisted on having the big breakfast, and me, i stick to my favourite pancakes! heh!

Teacher Died of H1N1 in New York

Quite shocking as to how a tiny weeny flu virus could kill, i always underestimated flu and thought it could be passed off with some antibiotic or such, but until z told me the story of the 'Spanish Flu' in 1918, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands, which wiped out so many people worldwide. The next closest flu epidemic that i could ever remember was SARS, in 2002.

From memory, there were people who died from SARS in Singapore back then, and pre-primary schools were shut, i think i was having my O's then and we were hoping that sch would stop but of coz it wasnt severe enough for such a cause. Today i read that there is an increase of H1N1 cases in Japan up to 121 cases, and it took the live of a teacher in NY. The latest WHO data showed 8,451 people in 38 countries confirmed to have caught the H1N1 virus.

No one really knows the origin of such pandemic, i hope there would be some drug that could improve our immunity against such viruses & for those out there, do not pass of flu simply, it could well be something really serious.

Mas Selamat got caught? World Peace? Not yet.

My dad called me yesterday at an awkward timing, he usually calls at night or noon during his lunch hr. i was wondering what good news he has for me, or was it some big expenditure i did that shock him, i was apprehensive in picking up the call, at that point of time i was about to hand in my assignment!

I picked up, the next thing i heard was, 'Mas Selamat kena caught already, 1 mth ago, today then singapore announce'. I almost broke out laughing!

Now what, do we thank malaysia? are they more efficient than our police force out here? who knows, sad case for demoted officers. Hopefully Mas Selamat re-arrest would dampen and demoralise hopes of the remaining JI force.

Went for a walk with steph and our little friend, Wallie, not quite little. Wallie is a friendly goldn retriever, he was so tame and timid at the same time, he was running away from little dogs that came around him. When we were about to go home, Wallie didn't wanna climb back into the car, he looked sad, stef and i had to lift him up the car boot! pretty heavy dog

'Hi, I'm Wallie, really honoured to be featured in your blog'

Doggy Poses (haha)

Mentioning about huge dogs from my previous post, here are some pictures that i took abt 6 mths ago, back in Australia. I was with Kath and were driving down along hampden road and saw this animal, she shouted 'horse!!'..we quickly went down and took pictures with it! it was so mild in nature and loves people touching her. hilariously, i wanted to ride on it!

Random Rants

Weekend team at Neds! Today was ultimately quiet at work and we were so bored, took random shots on my phone, Stef and Adam was so spontaneous to pose for me! Blonde jokes day and food attack at work once again, now i know why i got fatter weeks after weeks.

During Mid day a really massive bear looking dog came strudding into the cafe, i was shocked, never seen such a big dog before, it was black and fat and big, walked so slow, looking for food. The lady with it said that dog didn't belong to her but she was walking it hoping that they will bump into the owner somehow so the dog could go home!

Black bore

Stef, digging into Pumpkin Soup. Camera-shy Adam, trying to smile. He reminds me of z, in the past always getting shy and red so easily!