Cheap eat..

I would normally cook during the weekends unless I went back home to savor my mum's dishes.. so this weekend, I have left over loaves of bread going into pre-stale phase and a half-opened can of sweet baked beans with cheese.. And since wasting food is not my option, and I could save for a lunch meal, I decided to whip something out like a sandwich.. but I don't want eggs as I had boil eggs in the morning..

It's so easy with only two option, you just smeared both sides the bread (I prefer thick loaves Gardenia) with salted-butter and fried the bread in a medium heat frying pan. With a cooking spatula, flatten the bread so it'll burnt in the middle and turned crispy on the sides. Next, pour the sweet baked beans into the frying pan, fried with a dash of pepper in medium heat until it becomes goey thick...and viola, kiap your thin crusty bread with the cheesy beans..and it's yummy =)

Yup, as mentioned in previous post, I do miss Taiwan a lot.. I shall return in 2 yrs time perhaps.. In between, I hope to travel somewhere...

Last week was the death of the ruler of my city state (purposely don't want to use any malay word here)..and apparently, all the non-muslim would have to wear a black band around their arm for the grieving period. I heard from ppl that if you disobey, you

'd kena a slap, literally and saman rm300 based on no confederation rules. For whatever reason, I don't think it is right to slap a person at the first place. Anyway I'm considered a half-singaporean so I don't really care because I'm not (and never will be) a taxpayer for my city state..HAHA

BTW, go check out GLEE, the new hot comedy, musical series from FOX. I'm waiting for the downloads! Bring up the L-oser sign!

Hey!

So from the overly gorgeous tribes and mountains in outskirt of Hualien, we moved on to Taichung and Hsinchu and basically just food and shopping along the way! By the way, we manage to stop over at a lavender farm in Taichung thanks to to a nice cab driver who recommended us there..although it's not the first time I see a lavender, but it is a first time on a lavender farm! Smells good along the way, along with the nice cool weather =)

And then we leave for Taipei, yes for the extravaganza 2010 count down at Taipei City Hall. The crowd is just crazy, and the weather was really cold at first before the concert..we're running around for hot food and coffee..but when we get into the crowds..the body starts to warm up. I totally perspire like melting snowman when Mayday was up on stage!! I could only hear my own scream then. Anyway, the fireworks were amazing, but not that amazing..it was still a good experience!! First time new year celeb overseas =)

Long before my time

For the longest time, I'm going to do some updates. First of all, it's 2010 no apocalypse yet! Although not a good start for Malaysia with all the church burning and scarring...what an immoral and disgrace to the country. Anyway, in a selfish proclaim, I don't care anymore! Ha.. I would love to type a gadzillions of stuffs here, but it's going to last me till next morning. In a cap, the new semester have begun! yee ha, gotta take some interesting modules and my first job as a teaching assistant for a module. It's going to be a busy year!

I just came back from Taiwan, and what a wonderful place I must say...the weather, the people, the beauty, the food, and the clothes! I guess we're truly blessed along the journey from Taipei to wherever we went =) The weather is kind to us, it only rain when we left..and along the way we met many kind hearted souls, whom enriched our experiences and memories. =) We took the risk of crossing the Hehuan trench from Hualien to Nantou, hoping to encounter the so-called rare snow..well, we did! It was super cool, literally, and gorgeous whites just filled the mountain sides and pine trees.

(insert snowman pic)

Indigenous tribes in Taiwan are precious group of identities, resembling that of Malaysia's Iban, Dusun, Kadazan..and often it's exciting to actually study them. One of the tribes that we've learnt during our stay in Hualien is the Taroko tribe...anyway you can google em if interested! =)

To be continued..

No Line On the Horizon

Ok..so i forgot to bring my camera to the microbe party, and therefore any interesting and creepy pics can be viewed from Facebook via a friend album who tagged my ugly face in it!...Hah.

Been unduly busy this week..yikes..feel like time zoom pass very quickly in lab..sigh. I shall look forward to my December holidays! It's my second overseas trip with Liren, and well, we shall have many more to come! Talking about hols...me and Liren saw a pair of angmoh couple in JB custom, who looked extremely lost..And apparently, they walked towards the wrong direction to Singapore..So, we approach em telling them they walked the wrong way...well, then we chatted and coincidently they are also heading to Clementi. They are a pair of young French couple, whose English sounded so like my boss..creepy.. but what interests me is that they actually quit their job cuz their sick of it, pack their bags and head to south east asia and just don't give a damn about it. They guy once worked in South Sudan building water pipes for NGOs. Wow. Maybe one day, me and Liren will quit our job and travel to Bhutan or Mozambique for some serious soul searching..who knows, maybe we will! =)

"Stand by me...and darling darling stand by me"

I AM CURRENTLY WATCHING U2 LIVE FROM ROSE BOWL IN YOU TUBE CHANNEL-WOW!

I WISH I WISH THEY'D STOP BY SINGAPORE for their 360 deg tour!!!

Beautiful Nightmare

The department party is tomorrow! This year theme is "Nightmare on Mirobe Street"..chimm.. but as usual, we had fun preparing all the food... our lab is in charge of the Franco-Swiss food (cuz my boss is French), unlike last year where we need to convert the whole seminar room and walkway into a disco room.. This year is much exciting cuz we'll do Halloween! =) Pumpkins craft, witch brew and broomsticks.. As a tradition, we'll have to dress up our boss according to the party theme...It's a secret which will be revealed tmr! Ha, I hope she looks good tmr =)

Here's a little sneak preview of some of the stuffs we made..little blind mice..

Ermm..actually looks more like Jumbo elephant ler..ha

WITCH FINGERS......

Oh shit, my blog header is missing!! Now where did it go?? Urggh, looks like i gotta find one to fill the naked header. Yo fat sis, can you help me do it?? heheh

After all hype that Liren has been psycho-ing me to watch Inglorious Basterds with him, finally we went to watch it! Surprisingly it was a good piece work of Quentin Terantino, well of cuz he's good! A dark comedy, with a pinch of Hitler sarcasm, action, love, betrayal, horror.. all manufactured into a nice story. =) Overall, it's 2 thumbs up!

Postgraduate studies for the past 3 months have been a turmoil, many ups and many downs as well. But, I learnt a lot along the way and that's what education is all about, right? Often, many would assume that postgrad is hell lots of lab work (yes, it's true cuz you'll be handling more than 1 project) but it's also a training ground for you to be independent, responsible of your own project, critical and most importantly maintain good relationship with your labmates although some might pissed you off in between...and that's when your EQ often plays an important role. And, no you don't have to be a smart ass to excel in research. Hmm maybe a knack in presentation skills.. Anyway, one lab I've known with top scholars students produced no results and no publications for the past few years. Well, there is no textbooks or prepared notes in scientific research. You start from nothing, plan and troubleshoot from something, and finally be critical on the bench cuz there's no room for mistakes. Or else you got to start all over again..On top of that, you have to plan to save the lab resources and the environment as well. I have to say, sci research is an interesting job, like I said many ups and downs (negative results, no results, weird results, etc) maybe I'll get bored of it someday, and move on to another science arena..but what's important is the present. Living to the fullest at the present is much effective than dreaming about the future. Really. Cuz everything will fall into place by itself...

Adieu.