Ah Chew desserts

Honeydew with sago



Mango with pomelo

The desserts were nice, despite having mini ice balls inside which made the texture less smooth.

Backtrack - Hay's dairy

A backtrack entry due to my lethargy, this was a visit to Hay's Diary with my Dear dear.

We took the MRT train to Choa Chu Kang, and took bus to the location. The bus trip was really long, but at least it dropped us near our destination. We had fun feeding Alpine grass to the goats. There was a bit of musky smell in the paddock area, which reminded me of the goat milk I drank when I was young.

The goats were fun to watch and play with. There was one goat which made an "Ahhhh" sound that really resembled a human howling. Another escaped out for a few moments of excitement and fun.



Look at that goat! He was so heavy that each step he took made the ground shake as though the T-Rex escaped from Jurassic Park to the farm. He trotted along the path and greeted other goats as if to announce his smart escape to his fellow friends. However, his joy was short lived and once again, he was back into his pen.



Before we left the place, we bought a bottle of chocolate goat milk to try out. It tasted nothing like what was in the past. The taste was like HL chocolate milk, minus the sweetness, with the sweet aroma of chocolate. It was pleasant but a tad expensive compared to cows' milk in the market.

P.S.: I had my digital camera with me, but I forgot to check the battery level. When I reached there, I took 2 pictures and it displayed critical low level and auto shut down. What a disappointment, but it was my fault. Luckily, I still have a spare hand phone camera, even though the quality was poorer.

My Sister's wedding dinner

When will it be my turn? :p


I slanted in the photo with my elder sister due to her ken ken.

Jia Hao slimmed down :p

Pictures of Dom & Co. after watching the movie "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". We settled at KFC to chill out after the show.

The effects of gimp helped Jia Hao and I slimmed down. The effect seemed to be more significant in Jia Hao compared to the rest. Hope this will be a motivation for him to slim down in real life, but if he really don't feel like, well at least photos can be altered to look as though he gave up on his "nua"ness. :p

My recent pics

My humble shots of fireworks from my house window

National Day dinner

The main courses were cooked by me, using the recipe from the cookbook meant as a belated birthday present from my friends, Wenwei and Huiqing. Thank you to my friends once again. There were adaptations. I don't take mutton hence I used beef. Steaks were expensive and still are, hence used roast beef ham to substitute. This was still expensive in comparison to normal pork and chicken ham. I had a lot of red wine in my fridge and hence it came to be useful in making the sauce. The sauce was quite nice.

The tiramisu was bought from the Cold Storage at Leisure Park, from something Swiss company.
It tasted delicious, with the liqueur not overpowering the entire taste.

Photos of animals

Dinner at Stonegrill

This was my first experience using stone to cook food, honestly, I don't really like it. The stone was really hot, big and bulky too, I was so scared to burn my fingers if I touch it accidentally. It made me feel cumbersome trying to navigate my fork and knife on the table.



The soup was not bad with the cheese bread (a surprise to me) and the chicken was average in my opinion. The appetizer which cost $2 was so hard that it made my bracket came off (that cost $20), so unlucky. The potato wedges came in a bowl covered with cheese. Probably due to my braces, these soft wedges appealed to me more than the rest.

Aerin and Qianhu

One fine day, My Dear dear and I decided to go for fish spa. We met at Raffles City to have lunch before going all the way down to Choa Chu Kang to take a shuttle bus to Qianhu.

At Raffles City, I saw Aerin restaurant and roughly recalled it being famous for some dish, but I cannot recall the what dish was that. Anyway, the food tasted decent and I ordered my carrot cake. It was famous for Apple pie or something along that line, and I missed it due to my forgetfulness.

The trip to Qianhu was quite fun. While waiting for the free shuttle bus, there was this old lady who waved her hands about to create way in between My Dear dear and me. We were like looking at her dramatic ways when there was so much space behind me and behind Dom. She purposely want to walk in between us, so we just let her through.
There was so many fishes at Qianhu (being a fish farm, it was expected). A few fishes left deep impression in my mind like the fairy kois (they really looked fairy like), the stingrays (they don't keep still) and the discus which were really colorful unlike what my mother used to had. The highlight was the fish spa, which was the main purpose too.

This was by far, the cheapest fish spa I can find, $10 per 1/2 hr. The sucking fishes which we were familiar given being shown on television were the smaller size. The big ones were scary in a sense. We saw them approaching and I wondered if their bite will engulf my whole toe...
they turned out to be extremely gentle and the image that formed in my mind was like we were king and queen with little servants serving us diligently (haha...). The experience was really fun and I did enjoyed myself a lot.

Japanese food at TM (Hokkaido fair)

Okay, this is a backlog clearing now.
The pictures were taken some time back. The first was a curry bun, followed in order from left to right - crab cream corochan, rice stuffed squids, japanese mochi balls in sweet sauce, with seaweed, with different fillings, sweet potato cake and a rice cake with red bean stuffings.

The squid rice thing was not really worth the queue, it tasted quite salty, other than that, not much special about it. I was a bit disappointed.
The curry bun was normal, but the lack of queue was sort of good.
The crab cream thing was very nice, despite no actual crab meat, the gravy is thick and fragrant. This was one of my favorite food of the Hokkaido fair.
The rest of the snacks were interesting, and those red beans were delicious. The sweet potato cake tasted really sweet potato-ish.

Anyway on my subsequent visit to TM again, I never buy any more of the Japanese food.



The cakes I bought from the Royals shop opposite the NTUC were such gems. They were really delectable. The carrot cake tasted fabulous and the tiramisu also stood out from the other tiramisus I tried in the past. The chocolate mint was nice but could have been better should there be a stronger hint of mint in the taste.

口试的回忆以及感想

不知不觉地回忆起以往的口试，不论是英文或华文，口试对我而言都算是美好的经验。

小学时的口试已经模糊了，只依稀记得当时的英文口试有看图作题。那种图画里的每个角落都要形容，都要做出一些观察让我既兴奋，又怯偎。兴奋的是可以发挥一些创意的联想，畏怯的是创意被局限在一张图画里，不能离题。倘若那张图画说得不够多，老师出题发问时，我就会变得很紧张。偏偏也不知道是学生说不够，还是老师觉得应该要尽考官的责任，似乎每次都会问我问题，搞得我的心七上八下。我在家都用华语沟通，所以华文口试并不太担心，混水摸鱼就混过去了。

中学时口试依然伴随着，格式却比较自在，变成和考官聊话题。中三的华文口试出的话题，若我没记错，是动物虐待。那算是我幸运的一天吗？一听到是我有兴趣的题目，我立刻劈里啪啦地把我所看过的报章报道拿来讨论。考官们的表情也随着变动，挺有趣的。 当然我的心情是雀跃万分的，口试顺利考个distinction。 至于中四的英文口试，话题围绕的是宠物，我的好运持续着。 考官一问：“你喜欢动物吗？”我的双眼立即发出万丈光芒。。。 。。。 口试又顺利过关了。

初级学院也有口试，这次的话题却让我有点措手不及。考官问我关于现代学生穿校服不整齐有何看法，还不时瞄我的校服。他们问起为何学生不爱把上衣整齐地塞进裙子或裤子时，又往桌子底下瞄我的校服穿着，真令我汗颜。当我回答为了舒服和遮丑时，他们似乎感到意外和好笑。当我进一步讲解为了遮盖肚南，其中一位考官竟大笑出来，令我感到有点难堪。不过，成绩揭晓是distinction时，心情好多了。

这些是我考口试的感想，希望准备考口试的，或曾经考口试的人们也有美好的口试回忆。：）

Having fun with Gimp

Tattoos

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Putting real material into Inuyasha pic and edit his hairstyle



The first picture is the original. The second picture is with material collected from the web and added in. ( the part of hair on his head I have no idea how to edit in order to put in. ) The ears, I used Japanese spitz's ears and the eyes I used my cat's eyes. The necklace, I used black beads and dog's teeth. The hair, I used human white hair and clothes were with red and cream silk. Threads, I used a black thread. The third picture is just editing his hairstyle.

*Update* Erm... here is a more complete one, although I really have no idea about human skin and eyebrows.