Pictures and French toast
July 6, 2007
Been feeling oh-so lazy today. Sadly, I’ve been lounging more than working on my thesis. I set myself a deadline to hand in a chapter 10 days from now. Hopefully I’ll stick to it. MUST MUST MUST.
Went out with friends a few days ago and camwhored like crazy. We took 114 pictures in under 2 hours. Many MANY candid shots. Not feeling very wordy today so enjoy the pictures.
Kok Yu, the poser
“WHY??? WHY WON’T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE??!!”
With Fiona
With Fiona and just-met-Carolyn (who’s my reader)
First Allen sings…
Then he smiles like a toad 😛
And the REAL camwhoring starts…
Pucker up!
BLEH
Errrrr I see two line for eyes
I look so disgusted
Finally settled with a “normal” pose
Something interesting on the ceiling Alan?
And he smiles for the camera
The boys posing
The boys goofing off
That’s my foot by the way
First I was fine…
Then I looked disgusted again…
Eventually decided to immitate squirrels
Then bunnies of sorts…
I have no idea what we were trying to immitate
Oh yes, just to make you drool here are a couple of pictures of the French toast I made this week; on Monday and today.
It’s pretty easy to make. I don’t follow a specific recipe measurement though. I use one large egg, add some milk and beat until it gets bubbly. Not too much milk though, I would say around 1/4 cup or less depending on the egg you use. Simply put, you still want the egg texture slimey. The milk just makes the toast fluffier. Another thing I add into the batter is cinnamon. I always loved the aroma cinnamon. Anyway, when you got the mixture beaten all bubbly, just dip the bread in and fry both sides in a buttered pan. Voila! You have yummy French toast.
I buy the English bread from Southern Bakery at 2 1/2 mile. I’ve seen bakeries that sell thicker bread slices in Kuching but I just can’t remember which one. Does anyone know? I think if the bread was thicker it would taste better. Then again, what I made tastes heavenly as it is. =D
I put butter on my toast and people usually use maple syrup but I didn’t have any at home and maple syrup is kinda expensive so I substitute with honey instead. It tastes really good! I found strawberries in the fridge and since strawberries are kinda sour in general, the honey makes it sweet. So, a combination of sour, sweet and buttery. MMMMMMMMmmmmmmm delish!
Hungry?
Oklah, I have to work on the thesis. I know this is a half-arsed post but I will write soon.
Sun halo piccies and stuff (Oh how intellectual I sound)
July 3, 2007
Ok I crawled out of the rock.
So here are a couple pictures of the sun halo as promised. Like I said, the pictures aren’t that good because the view of it wasn’t so clear from where I was and the sun was blocked by clouds. The rainbow colored ring around the sun was faint but enough to be noticed with the naked eye.
Over the weekend, my dad took my mom and I to Seniawan (spelling?) for their so-called famous meatball soup. It was like a good 40-45 minutes drive there.
We stopped by a really old town after brunch which I have no clue what the name is. It looked so deserted. My dad said the shops were over 40 years old. He used to go there as a kid because he had relatives who stayed in the shophouses.
Just a couple of cars along the shops
We walked around for a while and realized there was a river along the shops. I had a pleasant surprised when I saw…
GEESE (!) swimming around in the river. Hmmm aren’t they afraid of the crocodiles eating them up?
I love the picture above. I think it’s cute how the geese swim in a line and the “alpha” goose swims next to the queue. How organized of them. Hahahaha. If you noticed the dark brown blackish goose at the back of the line, it’s actually a duck. Rob’s exact words when he saw this picture: “Yeah that’s not racist at all. Leave the black behind.” LOL Yep, leave it to Rob to come up with smartass comments like that.
I know that geese tend to chase people so I kept my distance and used my lovely camera’s 12X digital zoom to capture some shots. (I love my camera!)
Cleaning themselves
Lounging around (if you call it that)
The geese starts to “berlagak” (show off)
The head of the pack was showing me who’s boss. It has the look of “What YOU looking at?”
On the way back, I noticed the mountain. Sadly I have no idea which mountain this is. *hangs head down in shame* Anyway, for some reason I think it looks like a face, like the side angle of someone’s face while laying down.
Doesn’t it?
Right? Or am I hallucinating (AGAIN)?
Badly bruised ego
July 1, 2007
This is quite embarrassing for me to say but…
I fell down today….
into a…
longkang (drain).
Now I’ve always had a hard time imagining how one can be so stupid as to fall into a longkang. Today, I was the stupid one. I really don’t want to go into details because it’s embarrassing but I’m sure some of you out there need something to laugh at, so I shall try to explain the best I can as to how this happened.
I was walking on grassy surface in an outdoor parking lot and to step off the grassy area I had to walk over a longkang. I successfully went over the longkang with my left foot but as I stepped forward with my right foot, I stepped into a hole that was not visible to the eye because it was filled with grass. When that happened my right foot kinda got confused and moved backwards causing my left foot to fall back into the longkang while I lost my balance and slammed the grass with my FAT ASS. Yes, I had one foot in the longkang and another on the grassy side. Also I have to say that the longkang was quite deep. I don’t remember exactly how big this longkang is but let’s just say I could fit in it standing and that it was up to my hips. Just picture me making a number “7” with my legs and you pretty much can see how it looked.
As if that wasn’t enough, this happened with a few people watching and gasping. I seriously didn’t know where to hide my face. So, I got up (albeit very ungracefully) and put on a brave face and acted like nothing happened, and walked into the store.
Here are the results from yours truly’s “mishap”:
Fresh wound
After cleaning with hydrogen peroxide
On the foot
On the finger
I have some bruises on my left hip and lower stomach as well but I’m not going to show the world layers of my FAT. As if I don’t torture you guys enough with my words. =P
Anyway as soon as I came home I cleaned the cuts and bruises with antiseptic and hydrogen peroxide. Me being the “tough” girl I THOUGHT I was didn’t bother to dilute the hydrogen peroxide with water as indicated in the instructions. I applied on the cuts and bruises. Within seconds I was jumping/hopping/cringing/cursing around from the sting. Even my uncut fingers suffered the corroding white effects of the mighty hydrogen peroxide.
Oooo! I can see my fingerprints!
Rob the smartass said this to me today: “have a nice trip…. see ya next fall… I don’t think you understand the gravity of this situation…. its such a good deal I think you should DIVE right in”. Yes, all puns intended. For those of you who don’t get the hilarity of it, re-think the meanings of the italicised words. Ya know, fall can be autumn as in the season and it is also the past tense of fell…get it?
So did you have a good laugh? Have I made your day with my misfortune? I did? Great. Now if you will excuse me, I’m going to find a rock and hide under it until this “incident” is forgotten although I highly doubt it considering I just typed it all out for the whole world to see and to see again and again.
From your friendly tripper blogger, I’m signing off.
P/S I know I said I was going to post up sun halo pictures but would you rather see pictures of that than read about me making a number 7 with one leg in the drain? Yeah, that’s what I thought too.