Gong Hei Fatt Choy!!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! It's the year of the rat this year (which means I'm officially >24 years old :P) but it's another year pass us by so quickly now. Anyway, should be thankful that I'm alive, healthy and well another year gone, and wish for everyone around me to be healthy and well physically and emotionally for the year to come :)

Called home earlier, was quite quiet back home. It's been a quiet CNY here too, not much of a festive mood. Or rather, none at all. LOL. But nothing too unsurprising lah actually, to be expected. We had a nice 'reunion' dinner at home tonight, everyone contributing at least a dish each:





Starting with 'yee sang' to 'loh hei', wishing for a prosperous new year to come







Followed by a yummy pretty realistic pseudo shark fin's soup minus the actual shark fin, by Su Ann





Then we had our own version of longevity noodles with a mixed seafood soup base courtesy of Dipak



THEN only came our main course dishes (which of course, at this point, we were all already saturated and full...but that's besides the point. It's CNY so you have to eat, regardless of how much your stomach capacity can hold normally lol)

My first-time trying to cook a crab dish [chilli crab] and it sorta turned out ^.^ Was quite pleased, and it was actually relatively easy to cook. I bought a whole crab + 1/2 dozen crab claws from the market for about £5.50, which wasn't too expensive actually. Had to whack the crab shells with the cleaver myself beforehand though coz the shells were a bit too tough for our teeth to crack. But it jadi-ed in the end anyway :D Yeay..can attempt to cook this back home next time eheheh. Got the recipe off kuali.com (as usual >.<)











The other dishes that we had were steamed ginger fish by Carolynn and chicken + rice ala chicken rice by Dipak :) All in all, we only managed to finish the yee sang and the shark fin's soup LOL. Wat to do, the amount we cooked was probably enough for 6-8 people, and we only had 4 of us ;p We've got enough for tomorrow's dinner, so all's well.

Will be going for a pot-luck CNY thingy at Edwin's place this Sat evening. Should be more people there :) What to cook?? Anyways, Gong Xi Fa Cai everyone, wishing you all a prosperous, healthy and happy year of the rat!! ^.^

A quiet weekend

What a quiet relaxing peaceful weekend it's been. Lol, not that having some excitement isn't nice, but once in a while it's nice to just chill out and not do anything useful except for things that you like and that destress yourself, body and mind :)

It's been just like that this weekend. My boy, KY & Luke's back in Msia (*tinge of jealousy* haha), Su Ann's down in London and Dr Wai's working long days the whole weekend. So it's just me & Dipak really. Woke up late both days, read manga, watch American Idol, watch movies, ate meals, watch more movies, read more mangas, ate more junk food & slept. Aaahhh that's the life lar ^.^ Only time I left the house was to watch 'Over her dead body' at the cinema, and to the chinese supermarket earlier today.

I'm wayyyy too lazy. Gotto start revising very very very soon :p

Will probably in the near future write about all the interesting mangas/animes/live action dramas that have come up my alley recently >.< Edited some photos from earlier:

Before leaving for Malmaison's on the weekend before my birthday

Dinner at Malmaison's ~ I had lobster and scallops sheperd pie...yummy!

The poser posing at a very nice sofa-like chair at
Malmaisons' lobby while we waited for our cab to arrive

The lovely presents I got for my 25th birthday from minna-san...Arigato gozaimasu ne!! ^.^