Thanks for the work
Our manager bought us each a bottle of wine as a thank you for our work!!! Such a nice gesture to show appreciation. Bet you don't get that in Singapore.

Cold

Very cold last weekend and it doesn't help that I miss the first snow of this winter!!! While chatting to a colleague and a friend, they both separately mentioned 'Did you see that snow on Sunday evening?' My reply 'What snow!!'

Apparently, it was snowing for a while on Sunday evening and because we shut all the windows and the blinds, we didn't realised that it was snowing!!!

Errrrr!!!!!!

MPH Earls Court 2007


Being such a big fan of Top Gear, we thought this is a show we can't miss and thus bought tickets this year to the MPH car show.


My favorite - a hotwheel truck!!


Such a cute car, but doubt both of us can sit in it comfortably.
Hmmm, what's that on the front of the car??


Yes, this was an ice-cream store, cute hor..


When do police even get to drive such a car??


This was the Toyota car that Jeremy and James drove to North Pole in the Top Gear's Polar special.


We bought the tickets that includes the theatre and we chosen some pretty good seats!! The show runs for about 1 and a half hours with some games, performances and introducing cars.


The best was the Suzuki football which makes all our money well spent!! I always wanted to watch that live.

Ipod touch
My Ipod touch had arrived last Friday!!! Been playing with it all weekend, now I can surf the net on the sofa without someone shouting at me for not balancing his laptop properly, etc.

Love every bits of it and had set my favorite picture as wallpaper but how come the ONLY time you can view the wallpaper is only when you try to unlock the ipod touch (how long you get to view it all depends on how slow you slide the bar across to unlock it). The wallpaper where the icons are on is only a black screen and you can't change it. Oh well, I'm sure someone will come up with a hack code, or is no one as bother about it as I'm.

Nasi Lemak

Found the spicy chicken wing recipe online and I thought of trying it out, so here's my treat for Sam for dinner.
Notice the coconut rice is green hor. That's because instead of pandan leaf (which our pandan plants are still small but growing), I had used pandan paste.
Recipe :-
- Spicy chicken wings
- Coconut rice (2 cups of rice, about 150ml of coconut milk, abit of pandan paste & add water to require level to cook the rice)
- Eggs, Spam, Ikan Bilis, just fried separately.
- Chilli, we bought the paste from Singapore, so didn't make it myself. If not, you can found the recipe for the chilli here.
That's it. Next I shall try to source out the fish paste and make some otak!!

New TV

Worked from home today and our new 32" TV had just arrived.
Now got to wait for Sam to come home tonight and install it.

Dinner for one
Sam is working late again today. I can't be bother to cook something for myself so this is my dinner. Easy, simple and extremely addictive (I love saltly butter....). Not good for my waistline though.

The Company Shed

Since Jaster was coming here for the weekend, I thought we can have a day trip, so off we go seafood hunting.

My colleague had recommended me a place in Essex for great oysters so a search on the internet and I found The Company Shed. Great review and you got to bring your own drinks, bread and butter......hmmm...

Long way for Sam to drive us there and with me as the navigator, there's always a chance that we're lost!! Nevertheless, we eventually reach Mersea Island after crossing the Strood. The Strood can flood at high tide, you need to check the tide time before setting off.


It's low tide when we crossed, so was ok. You can see here that it floods. So inconvenient, if it floods, you got to wait for a few hours for the water level to drop. No other mode of transport available.


Finally found the place but there was a queue so need to wait. No advance booking for this place too!! See the big dog next to Jaster, thank God, Jaster offer to switch places with me.....

Can't wait to eat, really hungry.....


Seafood platter for 2!!! Yummy, tuck in!!! A pity that the seafood platter was serve as a cold dish... nevertheless, we finish it all and the seafood were absolutely fresh and juicy!!


Cannot go without hot food, so we order the grilled prawns with sea salt. We love it soo much, this was our 3rd plate.


Scallops with bacons and beds of leaves. Never thought the scallops tasted soo good with bacon. Ordered 2 plates!! Forgot to take pictures of the Oysters we ordered, hopefully Jaster will had took some pictures of it.


Of course, we walked back to our car feeling very satisfied. Think I ate too much, only had some bread in the evening as dinner and this trip had put me off seafood for a while... too much seafood (I guess).

Zestar Apple

It's pink and it's apple juice!! Don't like the taste, too tangy!! Reminder to self, never to buy this apple again.


According to this website for Zestar apple:-

A variety of apple that grows well in cooler climates. Zestar apples are harvested late in the summer season maturing into a bright red fruit with some greenish yellow coloring. Medium sized, the Zestar has a crisp white grainy flesh that provides a slightly tart but sweet and tangy tasting fruit. The sweet spicy flavor of this apple makes it excellent for snacking, as well as for baking pies, bars and sauces. Store it in refrigerated areas to keep for approximately 8 weeks. When kept at room temperature, the spicy and sweet flavors of the Zestar will increase.

Dyson vacuum cleaner
After thinking about this for a few weeks since we are back to UK, we finally bought the Dyson vacuum cleaner (DC08 complete). It's so amazing the way it wrap itself to be so compact. The suction is very powerful and eventhough I just vacuum the flat (using our old vacuum cleaner) on Friday, this new dyson one still picks up alot of dust when I vacumm it today (Sunday)!!!

At the moment, the only bad thing about it is the cost, this cost us £229. Hopefully our flat will be cleaner and will improve my sinus condition