Steamboat @ Lesley's Hse
It has been a long time since we had a class steamboat. The last time was at Sharon's place for last year's Chinese New year steamboat. ( I dont count the coca one. ha!) Nevertheless, it's always fun to help out in the kitchen, preparing all the plates of food. This time, we had created quite a mess in Lesley's house and kitchen. (Sorry about that k..) We marvelled at the types and numbers of spices the kitchen has. Amazing.
We bought lots of food back to Lesley's place. 8 packets of golden mushrooms which took me ages to wash the soil off, straw mushroom, shitake mushroom, taupok, tofu, yong taufu, egg tofu, cabbages, pork, chicken, batang fish, sotong, sotong balls, mushroom balls.... and erm.... many balls.
A table full of food! Haha.. and no place to put our own plates.
Our personal Coca waitress...
Our "Min Shang gong"'s delicate gold hand cooking for us.... He specially marinated sotong for us to try and in the end told us that he doesnt like to eat Sotong...diaoz...
Yummilicious pot of taupok, veggie, mushrooms (all kinds), egg tofu....
The 'Sotong' Sausage. Specially cut by Jul.. v creative! And that white thingy on the sotong head is supposedly the eyes.
Election Fire set ablaze
The moment the candidates from both parties were announced, every single lamp post in my estate was plastered with the photos of the MP of my area (my mum said the posters would have been a good 'Darlie' Toothpaste ad.) and you can only spot a few pathetic Opposition posters average about every 10 lamp posts away. It has been a long long time since the residents last cast their votes. According to my parents, they have only voted twice during the whole of 18 years living in this estate. One was the Presidential Election and the other was the General election that took place donkey years ago.
Since yesterday, the MP and his town council have been working really hard. Not only doing walkabout, but also cleaning, scrubbing, painting every inch, every corner of the estate. For the first time in my life, I saw a cleaner coming late at night (10pm!) cleaning the corridor outside my unit with his supervisor tailing him at the back. But this 'strange phenomenon' only comes like about 5, 6 years, i supposed.
It might be nothing new to you if you stayed in a hotly-contested constituency. Finally after 10 years, there is some competition going on in our low profiled estate. Woah. So i expect the candidates will come knocking at my door soon and the truck with the loud hailers 'Pls vote for XXX.....' will come by any moment....
Labels: Gahmen, Singapore. Elections
Life after Exams
... is the bestest and for those going IA (Industrial Attachment), the next time you step into the examination hall will be 1 year later! Although the exams would not end officially until 5th May, most of us have already self-declared holidays. It's so dumb to have our elective papers 2 weeks later. But well.. it dont really matters. Anyway, good luck to those who are still having exams and those NUS peeps for their upcoming exams.
Since yesterday on the way to the school for Unit Ops paper, I have been thinking what I want to do during the holidays so that I wont feel so nervous for the paper and I would feel more "motivated". Haha! Well, the paper was like super duper tough except the MCQs which are unbelievably easy and straightforward. Nah.. shall not talk about it.
It's over anyway!
Okie. When I get back enough sleeps that i missed for the whole semester, my inspirations will be back and my faithful camera will be busy snapping away again!
Open Book Fear
Sigh. Tmr i would be taking the second exam papers,
Chemical Reaction Engineering. Feeling extremely worried. One reason is of course, it's one of the papers hardest to do, Secondly, it's OPEN BOOK. The last time I had open book exam was for Fluid Mechanics (FYI, it's one of the toughest modules in Engineering discipline) . That was absolutely nightmarish especially when you can handle none of the questions. None of the 4 questions are completed and it was simply throwing all the governing equations u can find in the notes. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Maybe tmr i would find myself staring blankly at the questions again? Worst, I heard there's 7 questions for tmr's paper. *Gasping for more air*
- Good Luck to the rest who are unhappily mugging for exams. -
