Love & Other Drugs (ie J.Gyllenhaal)

M and I just came back (oh ho ho its late- just a bit after midnight) from the cinemas.  We watched two movies:

1. Little Fockers
2. Love & Other Drugs

Heard alot of negative comments re Little Fockers, but I enjoyed it. But I hope it's the last movie.  Another one would probably ruin the entire story.

Anyway, I just really wanted to rave about Love & Other Drugs.  There are so many things I love about this movie.  I should list them below:

• Jake Gyllenhaal
• Anne Hathaway
• Regina Spektor (I squealed with glee inside my head when I heard Fidelity play during the credits) ((PLEEZ COME TO SYDNEY PLEEEEZ))
• Romcom
• Deep-ish. Well meaningful at least.
• The happy ending
• Jake Gyllenhaal

Yes, it is utterly and completely cliche, but I happen to like cliche movies. Don't judge me. =D  If I watched a non-cliche movie (like American Beauty), I'd be "wtf"-ing the whole time.  This movie was really sweet, except for the fact that it had WAY too many sex scenes and it was just too awkward to watch with M. Haaha.  Despite being a non-shallow movie, it's also not very sad?

Anyway, don't know what else to say.

Oh, I'm going to try make yoghurt panacotta tomorrow, to whip everyone back into shape for the rest of the summer.  Will tell you how that goes.

Bye guys :)

not much going on..

Say "HI" grandpa!

Hopefully there'll be a more interesting post up tomorrow night. I need my camera, but my dad's got it !!!

Just wanted to say hi, and that I have drunk chicken in my fridge.

1. Steam whole chicken/or boil it in water (mm chicken soup)

2. Cut up chicken into relatively large chunks.

3. Let it cool and then submerge into Chinese cooking wine.

4. Chill, leave overnight and HURRAH you've got yourself some drunk chicken.

It's normally served as a cold dish in Shanghai, but I just eat it out of the container because I <3 chicken.

good noms.

First day of 2011- HECTI-KUH. not really

Hello all.

I am excited it is 2011. Ready for a fresh start.

Excuse the hair. For I just woke up not long ago. 9.30pm to be precise. Yep.

And no, I didn't have a wild night partying. It was quite tame. Went to bed alot later than I should have- was packing souvenirs for my lucky cousins overseas. They are getting alot of Billabong/Quicksilver stuff. Like they asked...

So yeah. Then got up at 6.30 to get D to the airport and drive back. M was not capable of driving after not driving for 3 weeks & being jetlagged and super sleep deprived.

Trivia: I WAS THE FIRST CUSTOMER AT KINGS SEAFOOD RESTAURANT FOR 2011. Woohoo. We drove into the Ewood parking lot and it was empty. Walked into the yumcha place and it was empty. Looked into the yumcha trolleys and they were empty.

Did a bit of grocery shopping- lots of yawning and bummed around at home (more washing/laundry). After dinner I fell asleep and yep. That was my day.

It went by so quickly.

Currently waiting for D to give us a ring or a buzz on fb/msn. I think he's so excited to be in Shanghai he's forgotten us already D: D: D:

Thanks for the new years wishes guys.  I've set my resolutions for the year (for the second time in my life) and yeah. Nothing interesting. Just more like : BE MORE HEALTHY, LOVE MORE, HATE LESS, BITCH LESS, and alot of other things to lessen.

HAPPY 2011 :D

Goodbye 2010.

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year.

Just came back from the airport- we picked up a very agitated & talkative M from Gate B. Apparently a guy from customs was picking on her and her jars of XO sauce. Haha. We tell her to stop buying that stuff- but to no avail.

So yeah. Finally reunited- for less than 24 hours though, for D is leaving for Shanghai tomorrow morning.

Quick reflection: 2010 was a good year for me. I had more ups than downs, made more friends than I had lost, lost contact with quite a few people but hopefully I'll get a chance to redeem myself before my holidays are over.  I've passed my first year of uni (dumped all my notes in the recycling bin) and have learned an incredible amount of USEFUL stuff at work.  I have gone through almost all the TVB dramas played this year (hawhaw) and my chinese has improved dramatically. Actually- this year's been pretty good.  Don't know why I complain so much.

Hope you guys had a great 2010. I wish for 2011 to be even more spectacular.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sweeties Paradise (Chinatown) or just food in gen

HEY THERE!

Currently waiting for my new quilt cover/pillow cases to do their time in spin cycle, so I have a bit of time to bitch talk about the time I went to Sweeties Paradise.

Don't think I mentioned this in my last post- but what motivated us to walk into this new dessert store was some WOM advice we got from a random walking out of the store.  The old lady said to us "The black sesame dessert is REALLY REALLY GOOD".  I don't know about you, but when old asian people (who look like they make nice traditional desserts) tell me something is good, I usually tend to believe them.

I have learned from my mistake and will never do so again- because the black sesame dessert was absolutely awful.

 Takeaway menu

 Don't think you can actually read what they have on their menu.  Basically just an array of sweet "soup"ish desserts incl sago, red bean, grass jelly, green bean (mung bean?), fruit salads, puddings and iced drinks.

K ordered a Taro & Coconut Milk sago "soup".  A pretty safe option I think- you can't really screw up making sago. It's just coconut + sago + taro.  Price I think was just under $5.

D and I ordered different sesame desserts (sweet potato balls, black glutinous rice), but it looked the same, and we couldn't figure out which was what.

The consistency of the black stuff was just so gross and light and not what it should be.  You could easily tell that they mixed a packet of those black sesame powder with lots of corn starch. Gross. Didn't taste like it at all.

Really disappointed.  But regardless, I will go back and try something different. The red bean pudding looked interesting- and the prices are okay-ish. Sometimes when the queue for Meet Fresh is too long, it's nice to have another dessert place to fall back on.

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I finally tried the Green Tea Latte at Ichiban Boshi.  Since I had that Macha Green Milk Tea at chatime, I have not had the courage to try any green tea + milk combination.  But this latte was SO nice.  The waitress told me the secret was the brown sugar! Strange, eh? I never use brown sugar in my coffee! But I will now :)

My holidays are half over. :(  I'm a bit scared of going back to work because I know there is so much I need to do.  But I'll worry about that later.  Will embrace what I have now.

Spending lots of time with K- rare, I've barely seen her since I started work and I don't eat with her that often. These hols, I've been having breakfast, lunch and dinner with her and I realised her taste/preference in food has changed so much!  Kinda sad because we still live in the same house. Haha..

But I guess some things never change...

Black nails are here to stay.

Have a lovely new year guys!