Eat, Sleep, Play in Siem Reap!

I've been wanting to visit Siem Reap since my return from Hanoi in 2008. So when Red Bird offered cheap fares earlier this year, I got my airfare! Yahooo!

The airfare wasn't exactly cheap when i bought it. You see, the website was darn congested as 53253492049 people around the world were fighting to get the bargains. All i got was error messages! Darn wasting my time and energy so I left the crazy war. By the time I finally managed to get it, the cheap cheap fares were already not cheap.......

That explains why i'm never able to grab any free or cheap cheap fares. I'just don't have the patience like others to spend HOURS in front of the computer or laptop trying my lousy luck. Also, I'm a busy person. I don't have that kind of spare time :P Oh wells, at least this SR airfare is the cheapest overseas airfare I've ever bought from Red Bird * content*

Yayee... Am going to see Angkor Wat with my own eyes. Touch it with my hands! Climb it with my feet! Oooo, so looking forward to it! How much? So much that I even started liaising with a tour guide in Siem Reap half a year before the actual trip! Can u feel my enthusiasm? haha...

Today is the day the tour guide will bring us to see sunset in Angkor Wat. I've heard how beautiful sunset and sunrise are at Angkor Wat. While my friends and other tourists are busy climbing around trying to find the best spot to admire the beauty... I just sit at home IMAGINING it with my great mind!


WHY?!

Because I'm not there in Siem Reap! I'm here. Yes! I donated my hard earned, blood & sweat money to Red Bird, AGAIN. WHY? Because I'm feeling generous! haha...

Oh wells... That's life... Nothing is certain even with proper planning. NVM. I can be happy no matter where I'm. And I'm happy to be home as no place beats home! Right?

The Sunset i miss

Photo taken from someone's website

FINALLY!!!

I'm indeed the Queen of Procrastination. After 2 yrs of delay, I finally did what i was supposed to do loOOOoong ago.

Guess what? I just enrolled myself to do my lOOoooong outstanding exam! I don't have a great feeling about it. I'm willing to WASTE myhard-earned blood & sweat money because I only have 2 choices ~ tore-do all other papers which I'd passed or 'buy' more time. As u cansee, I chose the latter, simply because I don't wanna miss the 2 yrdeadline and repeat all units! I would never ever complete mystudies with my tortoise speed if I'd to restart from scratch! umm.. isthe word 'speed' even appropriate ah? haha~~

I was just being informed that they will need 2-3 weeks to process myexam registration. @&*$!$# SOOoooo long?! Gosh, my deadline for the examis December 2010! That's only 5 weeks away! Hope i could make it in time *cold sweat*

My textbook which i bought 2 yrs ago still looks brand new simplybecause it has not been touched. Maybe not very brand new coz there aredust and spider webs all over it. It has been a decoration on my desk allthis while and sometimes as a coaster, for my cup of tea. Poor book....
I don't have time to study for my exam anymore. What i gotta do now isto learn how to aim properly coz that's one important skill if i want to'shoot the CORRECT bird'.

Wish me luck! My Law lecturer used to say to us that 'luck has v littleto do with it'. Errr... thanks for breaking my illusion, Mr lecturer!

Anyway, I will still keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best! Now,that's the positive attitude i need!

Look and smell bad. How abt the taste?

Guess what this is?

Some weird Chinese wine from China? Hehehe..... Nope. It's homemade fermented bean curds (腐乳） from Taiwan. A friend gave it to me coz she said this is the best fermented beancurds she has ever eaten in her life. 酱厉害？！ Is she exaggerating or not? I gotta try, to confirm.........

When she digged out a piece from the bottle for me to eat, wah, I kept refilling my rice bowls! I ate FIVE bowls of rice! FIVE!! I can't believe that I ate that many bowls in one time! True to my friend's words, the beancurd is darn YUMMY! The best I've ever had in my life too! Got wine taste and very creamy! 真的很下饭呐！

这样下去，我不变饭桶也不行了。。。 哈哈～

Strange strange place

I'm feeling particularly blue today. It must be because of the dark, gloomy, rainy weather outside. How i wish I were at home hiding beneath my warm & cozy blanket & dreaming away! *ZZZzz* Another weekend just came and went. Somehow, time flies during weekend! WHY?!

Had dinner with my long lost friend at the weekend. WW and I were in the mood to be adventurous. We wanted to try 'new' food. New as in both of us have never been before. Although we were starving like mad, we still willingly crossed the deep sea and high mountains to get to a place far far away. We heard from someone that it makes different food. Mannnn, this person better be right!!

The place looked quite filled up from the outside. That's a good sign because crowds usually means good food. Ooo, i can't wait to try! But that eagerness soon vanished when we entered the shop.

Why is it dark inside? I guess the owner probably wanted to conserve energy because the brightness came from the lights at the corridor. NVM. It's good for Earth. As long as we can see what we are eating, I don't care...

Then the ladyboss came to our table and sat down with us. WW and I were waiting for her to introduce their famous dishes but instead, she sat back at the chair lazily not saying a word.

Weird. Has she worked too much that all she wanted to do is rest? Or is she being forced to give up her Saturday night to help out in theshop? Coz she sure didn't look like she wanted to do business. Or maybe because WW & I are 'small fish' so she didn't see why she had to spend her energy to entertain us.

WW broke the silence first and did what any first comer would do and asked for some recommendations. The lady, still v relaxed in her chair said "鱼囉，虾囉，肉囉 （fish, prawn. meat)". She stopped there. Har? Is that all? Such general menu ah? So we asked for more. She replied "菜囉， 鱼囉，虾囉，肉囉 （veggie, fish, prawn, meat)" Full stop again. Err.. what's up with her ah? Then we asked her if there is any non-seafood dish? She replied "雞囉，猪囉，牛囉 (chicken, pork, beef)". I was falling asleep as she went thru her menu, if it was even one *Zzzz* It's indeed different, just like the person said but different experience, not different food. Funny....

ooo, guess what? I'm having ginger milk tea tarik right now. A perfect drink on this cold, gloomy weather.

Instead of keeping my hot take-away milk tea in a plastic cup, i got him to put inside my thermo cup. Such good idea coz it's still warm when i reached office. Somemore I saved a few trees by avoiding plastic cup and also avoid cancer! One stone kill 3 birds. So clever of me! hehe...

How do u eat your mooncake?

It's Lantern Day today!

Lanterns bring back a lot of childhood memories. I still remember the times we hung our colourful lanterns around the house. They looked so pretty in the dark! Once, we hung many lanterns of different colours on a long bamboo stick and paraded around the neighbourhood. Everyone looked at us. They must be admiring our colourful creation! haha...

Lantern party at hip's house last yr
Mannn, has it been a yr?? time flies!
Look at my Pooh Bear lantern. Cute eh?

I wanna ask how u guys eat your mooncakes. Tell me. TELL ME! I ask this question every year after one faithful Lantern Day a few yrs ago.

I've never found anything weird abt the way i eat my mooncake because everyone at my home eats it like this. That day when i was biting into my mooncake in the office, my ex-colleague screamed very loudly. I thought she got attacked by a big black hairy spider! Turns out, she was shocked with the way i ate my mooncake. Then everyone else joined in. Errr.. I don't like attention leh :P

It turns out that nobody eats mooncake like i do. BUT that doesn't mean i'm weird, right? It's just that everyone else were raised to eat mooncakes their way. They are just not accustomed to the way i eat mine and because my way doesn't conform to theirs, so they see me as 'weird'. Actually, I'm just different (& unique) lah haha....

I don't cut into tiny little wedges and eat only 1 or 2 pc and then keep the rest in the fridge for future consumption. It's just too troublesome. Also, the leftover might be left forgotten in the fridge and eventually invaded by some green hairy species (mouldy). Me, I take the whole mooncake and bite it like how u eat a bun. I know. I could've cut into little wedges and eat it piece by piece. More ladylike right? But, why bother? I would have to wash that plate and knife!

Enjoy your Lantern day guys....

I like eating mooncake MY WAY

Busy Sunday

Sunday is supposed to be my lazy day. Just lazing the day away in a hammock with a good book to read or a few comedy movies to watch, a jar of cold cold freshly squeezed orange juice to drink and lots and lots of crispy, full-of-fat chips to eat... ahhhh, that's my kind of Sunday!

I decided to make myself worked like a cow on this particular sunday out of the blue. RARE. No, pigs didn't fly but the weather did change from hot sunny morning to dark, windy, wet afternoon... Hmmm.. I wonder why?

I woke up pretty early this Sunday, like 730am in the morn. Awww... i was really looking forward to waking up late! sigh...

Went downstairs for some juice and suddenly, i felt MOTIVATED (BTW, is this how popeye feel after he takes spinach???) and took out that pack of flour from the fridge and started making my breakfast. In 20 mins, i get my hot and crunchy and a bit chewy Focaccia.

My yeastless focaccia with lots of herbs & garlic! yummm...

So fast and easy to make that even a cooking dummy like me can do

I only do simple food. Anything quick and easy is my kind of cooking, simply because, i'm already a complicated person, i don't need more complications in my life :P ahaha... actually, recipes with complicated ingredients and steps confuse me. I give up even before I finish reading haha...

Then I remembered the black glutinous rice i bought a while ago coz i craved for some black rice porridge dessert. It never got cooked because i was too busy (a good excuse for my laziness hehe...)

Yes, u guess it. I made sweet black sticky rice dessert and topped it with some coconut milk. Yummm...

紫米甜品

U know what? As I write this post, I feel quite impressed with myself. When I'm not in the mood, nothing gets done (like my long overdue exam which is going to expire in 2 months time ZZzzzz...) but when I'm motivated, i can get zillions of things done in one go! Sigh, how i wish i feel motivated EVERYDAY. Then i won't have such a long to-do list to follow! Oh well, life is the way I manage it....

It was a 'foodful' morning. When afternoon came, hunger striked. Since there was quite a lot of coconut milk left from the black rice porridge, I made vegetable curry. Ahahaha.. i think by now everyone of u must be amazed at my abilities haha... I am too!!

Vegetable Curry

Brought some curry for my colleagues to try. They cleaned up the whole pot in 5 mins! That's the silent way of telling me that it was good :P


After making focaccia, dessert, curry and the cleaning up, I was really exhausted by the end of my Sunday. Good thing that my motivation comes visit me only once in a blue moon. Or else i would be exhausted everyday and go mad one day :P

Why so Blue??

Feeling very blue today...

Not only it's monday today, it's also the first work day after 3 joyful rest days... After days of eat, sleep, play, no wonder I am feeling more blue than other mondays! (-_-) I wanna continue to eat sleep play! And all those curries, satays, muruku, masak merah, cake lapis etc that I had during Hari Raya, I want to eat them again!!!

Here is a picture irrelevant to the topic... I posted it just because

- I Like it

- I miss carefree holiday time

- I miss going to bed and wake up whenever I feel like it

- I wanna cheer myself up on this blue blue Monday by looking at happy moments

Eat sleep play do-nothing life

I'm looking forward to another holiday in 3 days time! yayeeeee.... Now i'm happy with excitement! My life is colourful once again! Yipee!

Ha! im so easily satisfied! That's the way to happiness! :P