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It's been a while since I went out with my friends, Raven, Sarah, Avariel and Joelyn, due to school and other schedules. Saturday was the last scheduled 'adventure' day before Raven goes off to Down Under for school. I missed out on the iFly and the Mega Zip since I had to go back to school for a few hours but I met them in the evening for the Luge and Skyline ride. It was a … 
Having to cook for myself when I was studying abroad meant that I usually asked around for easy recipes to cook. One of my favourite beef recipes to do was one that was give to me by my ex's mother, a simple yet spicy soy sauce beef recipe or better known as Daging Masak Kicap (pic). It's my go-to recipe when I feel like having beef and also one of my favourite dishes when my …
Lately, I've been going through my collection of high fantasy novels, taking a break after all that vampire stuff for a while. My current reading list includes the first four books from the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdom series by Mercedes Lackey. This series is basically a re-imagining of the different fairy tales that we grew up with, like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and … 
Image from antwerpenR I love coffee. I love everything about it; the taste, the smell and even the different types of it. Even the effects of caffeination is something I enjoy. I speak really fast. I ramble. I feel like dancing to anything catchy (I would too, if I was alone). I feel like writing. I feel like running around and just doing silly things What I don't … 
It's been a really long while since I posted a recipe for this column. Things have gotten a bit hectic but fear not, here's a recipe for you. Photo by arnold | inuyaki One of the dishes that one must have for Eid is rendang. There are many variations of the dish, using many different types of meat. I have an aunt who makes turkey rendang. Anyway, this dish is rather easy …
A while back, I posted about my modification to the McCormick's chilli recipe. Yesterday, I discovered that I could actually make chilli, without using the pre-mix at all and I have to say, it tastes better too. Dude picked my up from work and I thought, since it was nearly dinner time and what I have at home isn't suitable for his slow-carb diet that he's trying out after …
One of the benefits (downside?) of doing a research project on mussels is that what ever mussels that do not fit the requirement for my project, either too big or too small, I get to take home or give it away to someone else. Since Dude had been helping me with not only the transportation of the darn things, he also helped me clean them and put them in tanks, it's only … 
Tomorrow, I'll be heading down to school to start with my research project. As I lay in bed this morning, thinking of the things that I need to do, I realised that I'm superbly unprepared for it. My tanks aren't set up, I haven't mixed the sea water and heck, so many other minute details that I need aren't even done yet. For the umpteenth time, I wish that I was a full-time … 
Bram Stoker's Dracula was the book that started it all. They made so many movies out if it and of course, so many different shows and stories/novels based on the idea that the dead can come back to life, with a hankering for human blood. I've been wanting to read this book for the longest time. It was while I was reading The Historian that I decided to get a copy of Dracula … 
On May 7th, most of us Singaporeans will go to the polling stations to vote. For some of us, it would be their virgin voting experience. I'm one of the lucky few how had a chance to vote in the last general election, though this time around, it seems to be hell of a lot more exciting. I won't cover what issues that are highly debated during the campaigning, as have talked … 
Some time over the past few weeks, after re-reading Rinaz's post on her veggie lasagna, I couldn't get it out of my mind and I thought, why not attempt to make it. However, the local supermarket did not hate ricotta and thus, I had to no choice but revert to the usual meat based lasagna instead. Ingredients ~ for ragu 250g of mince meat 1 medium onion 1 cloves garlic 1/2 tbs … 
Yesterday, I finally got around to bringing some of the cocoa powder and the large, dark chocolate chips that I had so much of, over to Dude's house. We finally got around to making brownies after talking about it for so long. Dude keeps telling everyone that I made everything, which isn't true since I needed help seeing that we were using his kitchen and I wasn't very …
You don't realise how much something means to you until you don't have it any more. That was what I found out when the supermarket at the mall closed and I was left without a convenient place to do my groceries. The mall near my neighbourhood is currently undergoing major renovations and as a result of that, the Cold Storage supermarket had closed down. Why do I lament the …
Photo by roolrool When I was in uni, I only had a few recipes that I could do well and one of them was curry. For the whole year, I had curry almost every week but I've never done a vegetarian one. Even so, I find that the base or all the curries that my grandmother taught me are all the same. Ingredients 2-3 cloves 1-2 star anise 2-3 cardamom 1-1.5 inch cinnamon stick a … 
Truthfully, this is actually my second attempt at reading this book. I bought it a couple of years back at a cousin's recommendation, read about a third of the book but got distracted by something else. I'd lent the book to Dude but he never got around to reading it so I thought, why not give it another go. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is a refreshing new look at the … 
I'm a comic book reader and I'm proud of it. I may not be a hard-core comic book reader like some of my friends but I do have my favourites, mostly everyone and everything related to the Bat-family. A while back, Sarah introduced me to Powergirl (PG). I've seen her around and about the different Crises series but I don't really know that much about her. I picked up A New … 
Photo by eatallthethings One of my favourite cook books is Cook With Jamie. I love the pictures and the instructions are rather simple to follow. So I decided to try it out. Ingredients For rice base: 3/4 cups of carnaroli rice 1/2 celery, finely chopped 1 small onion, finely chopped 1 tbsp of butter 2 tbsp olive oil 1L chicken/vegetable stock For the Mushrooms: 100g of … 
I found this interesting analysis thing from Harlina's blog and I thought I'd give it a try. I plugged in everything that I wrote from the previous post and poof! I write like Cory Doc …
With the slow, agonizing death of my classic iPod's battery, I've been going around without a music player for a while and I've been missing having music with me. Dude lent me his cute little Creative Zen but at only a 2G capacity, I miss having so much music at my fingertips. The one thing that I do like about this little player is the radio function. It's been a really long …
Photo courtesy of Dude One of the more interesting and yet extremely easy to make desserts that I've tried lately is the microwave cooked chocolate cake. There have been many different recipes out there for microwaved chocolate cake but so far, I don't think that there's any that involves Milo. The recipe is based on this one but Dude made some changes that turned out … 
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