boo!

i am back!!!

this was the simple lunch I made during the royal wedding.
we had japanese curry, steamed salmon with sake, chicken katsu goma salad and okonomiyaki.

steamed salmon with broccoli and shittake with sake broth.

chicken katsu with goma sauce.

yum.

My new name...

Last week, during a session with schizo patients, I was asked to introduce myself.

Nurse: So what's your name again? (I already told her it's Keng)
K : It's Keng.
Nurse: Oh ok. (Enter room). Ok people, is it ok if a medical student join us today. Great. Thanks. Come on in, Kenny.
K : ....ok.. thanks.
Nurse: Ok let's start by doing a short introduction...

Everyone else introduced themselves.
K : Hi, I am ... Ken.....g, a 4th yr medical student.
Everyone else: Hi Kenny!!!

*I give up*
I guess there is no point in correcting a roomful of schizo patients (including the nurse!!!)

This week I made sweet and sour pork, which I had a craving for weeeeekkkss now. I tried a new recipe online on how to make it crunchier and made the sauce from scratch. Tasted really nice. The sauce was good and the pork was crunchy even after stir frying the sauce with it. The secret is to double fry the pork (yes fattening...).

Simple miso spinach soup. I added mirin into the miso soup paste and some sesame along with the spinach. It tasted so much better =)

Cooking PaPa!

After procrastinating for few hours, I decided to take up a cooking challenge. I shall do a new recipe every fortnight (was ambitious to say every week but lets make small steps 1st). Let it be a main course, appetizer, soup or dessert!!

ROOAARR!!

my current inspiration is from this blog http://rasamalaysia.com/

Seafood phad thai! my only mistake was... I mistook spring onion as chives... but overall it taste great!! =)

Want to buy a wife from Setiawan...

Last month, Ada came over to Edinburgh to stay for one month elective.

It was fun to have a '3rd housemate'. It was something that I always wanted to experience that before I graduated.

She cooks (following my instructions), cleans and irons my clothes!!!!
What more can I ask for =)
Although she did used a lot of tissue papers... and her hair was everywhere.....
hahaha joking Ada...

The moments that I will miss is definitely the breakfast. The simple and short 15mins in the morning before I drove to Dumfernline (45mins away) was definitely a good way to start my day!
and also CALIIFOORRNNIIAAAA to Ada~

Well, Chui Munn's mystical dream dish was good too and yes, I think I do miss her constant
chanting of my full name in the house...

And I am eternally grateful for the crash course of Obs that Ada and Chui Munn bombarded me
the night before my mock osce. Definitely an ego and knowledge booster after that.

So Sam, please come prepared ok? I have my psychiatry exams 2 weeks after you arrived and I will demand either curry laksa or wantan mee and even a baby from you. =)

One of our simple dinner, chicken fillet+bacon+brie with BBQ sauce sandwich.

Our full course Japanese meal.

The world famous marmite chicken by Ang Chui Munn (she dreamed of this). Good taste actually.

Ang Chui Munn's famous borvil vegetable soup. Easy to make and no meat!

Ada's famous carbonara =) very nice.

Finally, Ada's family secret nasi lemak with sambal prawn. I shed a tear in my heart.
Reallllllly nice! Thanks Ada and Ang Chui Munn!!!

Gay-friendly restaurants?

Gay-friendly restaurants.. I was just chatting with James on this issue.

What does it mean?
Is it gay-friendly because:-
a) opened by a gay man
b) hired a lot of cute/hot gay staffs
c) Cosmo is the only drink they serve
d) a place whereby gay people can just be themselves
and enjoy their meal without the fear of being spat on!
e) a venue for gay right activists.
f) all of the above

I guess it really is all of the above.
I miss hanging out with my gay friends back home. Somehow, I am more
comfortable with the gay scene back home. =(

Maybe that's why I decided to learn how to make Cosmo at home!! (1st step to opening my own gay-friendly restaurant!)

my 1st degree = no future?

Someone told me that doing science has no future...
"As if you are using your degree now?"
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Sadhu x 3

Malpractice 101

The recent few weeks, I have witnessed and learned quite a few things about medicine... that I should not learn from..

let's start with nurse in the GUM (genito-urinary medicine) clinic.

I was in the clinic, sitting in with the doctor and saw quite a few ladies with STDs.

The sight of a healthy Vjayjay was already disturbing and let alone one with warts or dark brown discharge. After a few patients, the clinical waste bin (this is where all the swabs, gloves & tissues with bodily fluid stains go) was full. The nurse went to change it.

On the top of the clinical bin, there is a label there saying 'don't touch with hand, please wear gloves'.
However, been in the business for so long, the nurse probably developed a strong immunity to bacteria vaginosis and friends. She did not wear any gloves and took out the bag with her bare hands. Then she reached over to open a new bag. After a few tries of opening the bag, she then licked her fingers to open the bag.

Once I saw that, my face was cringing in pain and I think I let out a soft 'URGH?!'

Moral of this story : Nurse is probably the dirtiest person in the hospital.

Cha siew ramen from Marutama, Singapore. This is probably the best ramen I tried outside of Japan to date. The tamago is exactly the same as the one you find in a ramen soup in Japan, hard exterior while it's soft and 'flowy' inside. Yum!

Singapore flooded.

Two days ago, Singapore's Orchard Road was flooded badly.

And yes, it was bad.

I shed a tear for the Birkin.

RIP.

得閑飲茶 (duk han yumcha)

I am sure that everyone has done this before.

Lets say you bump into some old friend and after some small talk, you end it with this polite phrase:
"得閑飲茶."
(Let's do drinks sometimes)
But how often do we end up drinking with that old friend?

Recently, I have been enjoying the comfort of this phrase since I came back to Malaysia for my summer break. Since high school, I have always been the one whom organized house party, group gathering etc. But lately, I am not so much in the mood to entertain.

Yes, there are important friends that I do want to meet and I make sure it's not a '得閑飲茶' session but more like a ‘喂，星期六飲茶咯’。

I used to be more of a control freak whereby I have to confirm drinks, lunch and dinner plans with friends like a million times.
Now if people don't contact me, I will just treat it as a 得閑飲茶..
No fuss, less trouble.

The Chicken Rendang from Madam Kwan (MK). Yes.. I know... why would anyone want to eat there..
Well 5 years ago, it would almost seems like a money sink to go into MK. But nowadays comparing with other eatery such as Delicious, Alexis etc, MK is not THAT expensive and it taste pretty good too.

But nowhere in Nirvana will I pay RM 20 for some 芙蓉蛋!

End of Year 3.

The last time I said something like "wah...imu went by so fast.."
Sam gave me her face and say "where got fast.. U wanna do it again??"

But this time I really think that year 3 Edinburgh Uni was kinda fast and somehow it seems to me that it's not the £££!

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Hopefully in 4th yr I will get to do and see more stuff (except during O&G.. I wont mind see the bare minimum... vaginophobia)

Chicken rice in Edinburgh!! Yummmmmy. And the irony is that I don't like to eat 白雞 in KL...

The cha siew was made by Marc C. Much better than the 1st one because this time no one sabo him.

proverb of the day

家家有本難唸的經。。。。

whats with the hazardous lights during rain??

Can someone intelligent please tell me what's with the drivers turning on their hazardous lights when there is heavy rain??

Marc's secret birthday...

Well since Chow wanted a secret birthday celebration, I can only post the pictures here.

Nick baked the cake and got the ice cream. I cooked dinner and got the diabetic wine (so sweet...).

Dinner was nothing special. Thus no picture on it....
and I burnt the original lamb stew... (so not my day la)

Marc was soooo afraid that we were going to "surprise" him, which we did not.
Except until we brought the cake... and Nick & I were reluctant to sing the song.. we went like

Nick & I : err... haaaaapppppyy..biirrth.
Marc: OK!OK! NO NEED LIAO!

I laughed non-stop. Marc's face was priceless.. lol.

Hope the surprise wasn't too much for you, Chow.

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oh btw happy birthday to you too (Dong Dong)

Reason not to use knife when you are unhappy....

what I am feeling now..

London 2010!

During our 2 hr delay in Marco Polo Airport, Aly & I were discussing on what to eat in London.

And from that moment on, all I can think of is lobster yee mee..... yuuuummmmm...

Lobster Yee Mee

Spicy deep fried eel. Surprisingly, Miss Sim can handle the spiciness...
Well because of the extreme delay, Pei Hua did managed to have lobster yee mee with us and then took the earliest train back to Manchester the next day.

This time, I managed to do a lot of more of the 'touristy' stuff. And within a week, I am in love with London!!! There are so much to do here!

The first few days I stayed at Miss Sim's apartment and it was warm and cosy. She even switches on the heater in the toilet. No wonder my flat is an igloo to her la... =P

Hiro made a new friend, Lumpy!

In this London trip, I ate a lot of Japanese food!!
Ebi tempura don in Misato~ The food quality and price is fairly good. However, the floor was very slippery =(
Tori karage rice =) yuummmm

Ebi tempura teishoku えびてんぷら定食 from Sakura. They have very good lunch set. A bit pricy for dinner.

Roast duck from Four Season and I ate it all by myself. Oink oink. I didn't take rice!! It's part of the no-carb diet!!! I highly recommend the one in Bayswater. It's less busy and friendlier.

Hoo, Sim & I decided to try out Ed's Diner (at Soho). A word of caution, please sit-in and share the milk shake. Take-away milk shakes are reallllly small! The burger was not bad and we even wasted 20p for a song in the jukebox. I thought it is only fair to pick a song that everyone in the diner can relate to, YMCA by Village People! Unfortunately, Chica (gay latino boy) kept wiping our table (the angmou-version of throwing the bill onto the table). Thus we got the cue and left.



BLT Chicken burger.

And what's with leather jacket and Old Compton St??!!! hmmmm...


I watched two musical this time; Wicked and Les Miserable.

Hiro in the Wicked Theatre. Wicked was extremely funny and entertaining. And thanks to Aly, we got cheap tickets £22 for students and it was stall seats!! The untold story of the witches of Oz is brilliant and somehow I don't think believe in Dorothy anymore!! haha

Les Miserable was very classic and touching story. IMO, the vocals were better in Les Mis but the story is very serious plot. So I think both musicals were very good and I highly recommend it!

Note to self, don't watch musical if you are staying in the Malaysian Hall. I barely made in back due to the curfew time!

Besides eating (which was a big part of London), I shopped a storm too!
The 1st shop that I went into was Abercrombie & Fitch. Man, that shop is definitely the most himbotic place ever.. All the salesperson are hot and pretty. The muscular black dude at the entrance was soooo ripped that it looks like a rubber suit!!! And everything in there was soo expensive.
I bought a new pair of Tiger, lime green Crocs, yoga mat, leather jacket, a few clothings from UniQlo. And thanks to my shopping spree, I can only afford £2 coffee for the rest of the month for lunch. =(



I love my black Tiger~ so sexy!!

The great thing about traveling alone with an iphone is GoogleMap.
I was never lost...unless of course when I am out of battery..

Antique shop in Portobello Market

Grass car?!

Samantha, you ARE famous! But you are probably not as famous as Hiro!!

Hiro at the Tower Bridge (Not LONDON Bridge....)

Hiro at the Monument (to commemorate the Great Fire of London). This was where 2 angmou girls came over and asked if they can take a picture with me and Hiro!!!

The Gherkin (the penis-looking building quote from Miss Hoo).
St Paul's Cathedral. £10 admission = siao.
Hiro and sakura tree in front of St Paul.
I love this shot!!

Pillow fight in front of St Paul. I could have joined in the fun but I didn't think Hiro would have enjoyed it.

Of all the galleries that I went to, I personally like Tate Britain the most and unfortunately, I spend the least time there.

The following are art pieces which I took in Tate Modern, that caught my attention.
Suggestive-nya~
I like this too!! Very industrial revolution!

1 week is definitely not enough. I will be back in July!!!
London~~

Special thanks to Hoo & Sim for accommodating me!! Already missing the late night-> early morning chats!! Come up to Kampung E often!!! I promise I will buy the portable heater!!