Mee Rebus

Just got back from our Prague trip yesterday and can't wait to try the Prima Taste Mee Rebus which Naomi & hubby had bought for us. Thanks to both of you. Xiexie.



It's been at least 2 years since I last had a bowl of Mee Rebus....seriously craving for it!! Yummy!! It's very easy to cook by following the instructions on the box and it taste very authentic!!



Still got one more packet and will save it for special occasion only.

More picture .... about our weekend

Sliverstone

Blast shots of the race





Video clip would be nicer so will upload one soon.


Think you can only find such booth at Grand Prix!!!


This booth is a MUST for the summer but we didn't drink any cos Sam was driving and I'm not a fan of beer.


Such a posh event, must also have a champagne bar lar.


Shopping!!! Too much to choose from... What should I buy?? What should I buy????


While I shopping, Sam squeezed into Toyota booth to take this picture!


Bon Jovi

Great turnout for Bon Jovi Concert. We reach National Bowl at about 5.30pm and the Bowl was already packed. Lucky to find a spot and sit down quickly. We were practically baking sitting under the sun from then on and the concert only starts at 8pm.

I was abit disappointed cos my favourite song - Thank you for loving me wasn't included in the concert :(

It ended about 11pm and guess what, we waited for about an hour to get out of the carpark and only managed to reach home at 1.30am!!


Meanwhile on the ride home, our car had finally reach it 6 digits mileage... Poor car.

So what have we bought over the weekend?


Me?? A Ferrari bear and a Honda t-shirt


Sam?? One Bon Jovi t-shirt and three Honda t-shirts

British Grand Prix

We had a deafening weekend at Silverstone. The noise is nothing we heard before and it's nowhere compare to watching it on TV! Glad we went.

The only name that comes to my mind for F1 was Michael Schumacher of Ferrari and I thought he was always the winner. Guess I was wrong. huh.... Fernando Alonso was the champion in 2005 (he was the world youngest F1 champion at age of 24!!).

The points for Alonso and Schumacher so far is 74 and 51 respectively. With 10 races to go, can Schumacher still win back his title??

I will be watching this closing from now on.

Tour around Cambridge

We always go touring around Cambridge when a visitor is here. Yes, Arthur is here for the weekend and so as usual, we went touring around Cambridge and I now had sunburnt!

Here are some nice shots I took which hopefully, stock.xchng will accept.


My favorite picture, back view of Trinity College (with 2 strips of trees)


King College (front view)


King College (Back view)


King College (Back view 2)


King College (Inside view)

Tickets

Got our tickets through the post. So what had we bought???


Bon Jovi Concert tickets for 10 June 2006

The venue was changed from Wembley Stadium (London) to National Bowl (Milton Keynes) and we can't be happier cos we also bought the 3 day event tickets to British Grand Prix (Located at Northamptonshire).


British Grand Prix tickets for 9 to 11 June 2006

This year, there's only a 3 days event tickets for the British Grand Prix, 2 days for practices & qualifying and the 'real deal' on Sun (11/6). We are going to skip Friday practice/ qualifying session, will go on Sat morning and leave in the afternoon to go to Bon Jovi Concert (gate open at 2.30pm but I doubt we'll be there so early). AND Sunday is the most important day of British Grand Prix, of course must go lar. However, I had not manage to book any accomodation near Grand Prix or Milton Keynes, so will drive back and forth. :(

All these make a BIG hole in our pocket, going to eat grass for the rest of the month. The Bon Jovi concert is £40 per person (Standing ticket). The British Grand Prix is about £130 per person (Bronze Plus - General Admission - Copse Terrace).

Hope the weather will be nice to make the money all well spent!

33rd Cambridge Beer Festival



Yes, it's the annual Cambridge Beer Festival again. Time passes by fast, I still remember going to the previous one

But this year, we went to the Beer Fest twice, once on Tuesday (thinking that it will be the only sunny day this week, so better grab the change) and again on Friday (extremely nice weather and it's Friday).

Entrance fee is £2.50 per person and you can bring your own glass, if not, you can buy the glass near the entrance which you will be able to keep as souvenir or return at the end of the night.



With 170+ real ales and 60+ foreign beers, ciders, perries, English wines and mead to choose from, what did we had?? Below are the list of ales we tried, the description from the booklet and our verdict.



1. Greene King - Ale Fresco
Seasonal beer. Golden in colour and hop notes throughout then a lingering fresh finish
Our verdict : I love this drink, it's refreshing and not bitter.

2. Darwin's Downfall
Ruby gold in colour, hoppy, fruity and bitter-sweet in the taste, citrus notes in the aftertaste

3. Olympia
Pale, powerfully hoppy strong bitter with citrus fruit notes and a most refreshing finish.

4. White Dwarf
Full bodied wheat beer, with citrus notes. The finish is mainly dry but has some sweetness.

5. Adnam's - Broadside
Well-balanced premium ale, with a beguiling mix offlavorss and a good blend of malt and hops. Long sustained finish.
Our verdict : This had always been one of Sam's favorite drink.

6. Cambridge Buffet Express
A hoppy fruit beer with some sweetness in the taste and finish.
Our verdict - Too diluted.

7. Crouch Vale - Brewers Gold
Champion Beer of Britain 2005. Honey-toned golden ale with sharp citrus fruit notes throughout.

8. Front Street - Norfolk Spring
A special beer brewed for this time of year using green tea as one of its ingredients.

9. Fox - Beagle
Amber beer made with black cherries and four different hops. Floral aroma leads to a bitter taste, the finish is dry and lingering.
Out verdict - Good

10. Old Stables - Palomino Pale Ale
Subtle hoppy notes with underlying malt flavour make this an easy drinking refreshing beer.

11. Straw Dogs
Pale wheat beer with banana notes in the taste and finish. Interesting combination of flavours kick in when drinking this beer.

12. Bateman's Valiant
Golden beer, clean, dry and refreshingly zesty. Good balance of hop and malt.

13. Porter
Malty with some chocolate roast notes. Subtle dry malt finish.

14. 1648 Brewery - Bee Head
Light gold in colour, produced using local East Sussex Northdown hops and honey from a nearby farm.

15. Chiltern - Three Hundred Old Ale
Strong old ale, with crystal malt and roast character plus hints of liquorice. Deceptively strong.
Out verdict - Good. Sam love it.

16. Grand Union - Honey Porter
Black beer with chocolate and fruit notes in the aroma plus fruit and some caramel notes in the sweet taste and finish.

17. Hogs Back - Summer Capers
Dark brown in colour, fruity and hoppy with malt notes throughout and a bitter-sweet finish.
Our verdict - SHIT!!!

18. Malvern Hills - Priessnitz Pizen
A British-styled lager beer, brewed using lagering hops. Fairly sweet to the taste with delicate hop notes throughout.

Safari

Never been to the night safari in Singapore and thought that we will go there when we go back. BUT tonight the Top Gear show include the 3 presenters driving through Woburn Safari using their "convertible" MPV. It looks exciting and fun driving your own car in your own comfort through the safari. We are definitely planning to go (no idea when yet) to this Woburn Safari and forget about the night safari.

Roundabout

On our way back from Sainsbury, this group of bikers (seems like more than 50!!) were in front of us.


At the roundabout, they did this!!

20 places to see before you die

This week's NOW magazine list the 20 places to see before you die. I had been to 7 places on the list, you???

1. Statue of Cristo Redentor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2. Statue of Liberty, New York, USA
3. Taj Mahal, Agra, India
4. The Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
5. The Colosseum, Rome
6. Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
7. Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, USA
8. La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
9. Great Wall of China, Northern China
10. Sydney Opera House, Australia
11. Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
12. Venice, Italy
13. London Eye
14. The Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
15. The Hollywood sign, Los Angeles, USA
16. Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA
17. Machu Picchu, Peru
18. The Eiffel Tower, Paris
19. The Pyramids, Giza, Egypt
20. Stonehenge, Wiltshire

Bird flu

1 bird flu case occur in UK. Both of us agreed not to eat poultry for awhile to be safe.

Today we decided to buy dinner home instead of cooking so we pop over to KFC and bought a bucket of 8 pieces chicken and some hot wings. Half way through our dinner, Sam turn to me and said "Aren't we suppose not to eat poultry!!"

Damn!!!

We did it again. The same situation occur to us when we were in Thailand which we agreed not to eat poultry. But on our last day of the trip, we had KFC for lunch and it was only after the meal did we realise " Ya hor, we are suppose not to eat poultry hor but we had KFC!!"

Apparantly, our mind don't register that KFC relates to poultry.