CofFEe cHIcKEn

Huhuhu... Came across this recipe on the net yesterday. Since I had no idea what to cook for today's dinner, I decided to give it a try. Yerrr.. I sound more and more aunty liao la... Sob.. XP Anyway, the sauce was supposed to contain Sherry as well de... But, poor Asian students like us do not have such luxurious stuff at home. So, I dengan creative-nya substituted Sherry with brown sauce we curi-ed from Todds' Bar instead, not knowing how the taste would turn out to be actually.. XD

So, I marinated the chicken drumsticks with freshly brewed coffee, soy sauce, brown sugar and brown sauce (See? Brown sugar and brown sauce.. It does sound sensible after all what..) for few hours. Then, I pan-fried the drumsticks while heating up the marinating sauce in another pan. When the drumsticks turned lightly brown, I poured the sauce over and simmered the drumsticks in the sauce, allowing the sauce to thicken by further boiling it together with the drumsticks. Finally when the sauce caramelized, TA-DA!! Chua Pei Ling's first ever coffee chicken was done!! =D

Well, it turned out quite ok, except that the coffee taste wasn't strong enough, and the taste 0f soy sauce was slightly too strong pulak. Haha.. Will try to improve by adding more coffee powder, and less soy sauce next time. =) Anyway, the sauce went well with rice!! Yum... =P According to my housemates, it tasted like Marmite. Haha.. Cookie Monster Su Ann with the strongest threshold among us loved the sauce so much that she thought of dipping bread into it!! Haha.. The sauce tasted just nice to her. She even requested me to cook this dish again next time. It made her felt at home. =D Happy le... Am flattered!! Haha.. Ah Su Ann, it's my pleasure!! Hehe... =D

A picture of my coffee chicken posing...

Oopsy!! Too late..

Wasn't in time to capture a shot before it's gone.. XD

sTErILe L@b

This post was meant to be published right after our sterile lab session last week. BUT, the thought of having to finish studying 200 over pages of FMT1 module notes in few days time finally overpowered the urge to blog. Gosh.. What a nerd I am... Sob... T_T Well, it's not like I have no PP3 protocol to prepare and 200 over pages of FMT2 course notes to study now, but well... just after dinner ma.. still very full lar... cannot study yet.. not good for brain... XD

So, on the 19th of July 2007, I got myself sterilized (Ehem.. as in the free from contaminants type of sterilize, not the other type that you are thinking, OK?!!) and went into a sterile lab for the first time of my life!! Hehe.. Actually the whole process wasn't anything as canggih as it sounds like lo.. First, washed hands, then put on "shower cap", plastic gloves and plastic shoe covers (looks more like expandable plastic bag to me though) to enter the Class C Preparation Room. Then, here comes the interesting part. ALL 6 of us had to get change into the sterile suits TOGETHER in a WELL-LIT SMALL room!!! Even though we did it back-to-back, and kept reminding each other not to look back by saying "Don't turn around, don't turn around ya.. I am naked!! I am naked!!" but honestly, the room was so small that we could still see "parts and pieces" of each other with the corner of our eyes when we changed lo.. Ok.. Am I making things sound slightly bit obscene now? XP So we put on another layer of gloves, boots and head cover on top of the one we already had. Then swabbed our hands with alcohol and crossed over the bench that served as the borderline to enter the Class A Sterile Lab. Huhuhu... We were taught the correct way to handle needle syringe and to reconstitue sterile products. Me and Siao Cha Bo dengan curi-curi lifted up our face masks a few times to "breathe" in the sterile lab.. I hope we didnt contaminate the lab.. Kaka.. very hard to breathe with the masks on ma.. Lack of Oxygen la!!! XP By the way, the lecturer was quite C.U.T.E!!! Kakaka.. A bit round round... Kekeke... It wasn't until he took off his sterile suit that we got to witness his cuteness!!! Then, saliva started drooling down... Kakaka.. Too bad we didnt manage to snap a photo with him... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... =P

Anyway, accident did happen... I shouldnt elaborate more here, just in case Chua Ah Ming gets traumatized for the 2nd time.. Nothing much actually. Just that Chua Ah Ming yelled when her sterile suit fell onto the floor and the concerned Su Ann turned over to ask what had actually happened and saw something that she shouldnt really have seen it... Since Chua Ah Ming claimed that her papamama were the only one who had seen it before ever since she was born, she got super duper depressed after that.. "How? How? Cannot kahwin already la..." and so forced Su Ann to kahwin her.. However, due to her demanding nature (roses everyday and chocs every other day), Su Ann got annoyed and decided to divorce her after 1 week of marriage. Chua Ah Ming didnt really care.. She told Su Ann, "Hmph!! I petik jari beribu-ribu would come for me one lo!!". However, she asked for 200 pounds (can pay by installment) from Su Ann for seeing the **** that she has "cultivated" with Tription Soy Agar (TSA) for 22 years... Well.. Am not really elaborating that much, am I??? Kakaka... XP

Camwhore session suggested by Siao Cha Bo XD

Can you spot me?? Hahaha... =P

*Hint hint: am standing next to the next

Anthony McMillian Award winner. Proud-nya aku!!~*

Geok Ying (left) and Siao Cha Bo (right)

Two potential Anthony McMillian Award winners XD

Me (left), Suok Teng (middle) and Chua Ah Ming (right)

Ah Bi, I guess we DO look like Gong Chan Dang (共产党)

Not Kuo Min Dang (国民党) la!! Kaka.. XD

i M@dE thESe... =D

Procrastinating... Super not in the mood to study even though Judgement Day brought upon by FMT1 class test will soon arrive in 15 hours time. Yes, I know I am a piece of char siew... Had cheesy pasta again ma just now... Too full liao brain cannot function well also de la... (alasan) XP

Anyway, chua ah ming dengan insulting-nya doubted my cooking skill when we had our PP3 lab session today (during which we should really be discussing about the differences between POM and P medicines)!! OUCH!! So here I am, to prove to her that, I can actually cook lo!!! XP Kekeke... But most of all, just wanna share the recipes and hope to get some feedback if anyone has any nice recipe to recommend... hehehe... =P

-Asparagus and bacon roll-ups-

Got the recipe from brother-in-law. Made it when me

and housemates had our first proper dinner in Glasgow.

Finally not frozen pizza nor fast foods anymore... =P

Cooked the three dishes below when Ganas Voon, Ah Xin and Chua Ah Ming happily went cycling on Isle of Cumbrae. Supposed to be Ganas Voon's and Ah Xin's turn to cook, but didnt wanna tire them out and hoped to get them something nice and hot to eat after one whole day of socializing with the lembuS and kambingS on the island. Ooh.. Am I angelic or what?? Kakaka... XD

-Mashed potatoes- =D

-Cheddar cheese cobb salad-

-Canadian bacon and eggplant roll-ups -

And finally, I made this for Ganas Voon's birthday dinner.

-Yoghurt fried chicken- =D

By the way, ALL my housemates are still alive and none of them has had to spend a night in Roya Infirmary before. Thank Goodness... kakaka... XD

*sINfuL*

Yay!!~ One more day to go before FMT1 class test commences... How's my progression? Not even half of the book revised. Oopsy! Think I should say, flipped through instead... XP

This afternoon, in order to motivate myself (alasan) to study hard, I had cheesy pasta for lunch, chatted with housemates, then read Naruto comic online (thought Sasuke was dead!! ceh...), then finally opened up my FMT1 module notes with a big packet ("better for sharing!" as stated on the package) of Walker's Sensation Thai-sweet-chili-flavour chips in my hand, munch munch munch, till I finally realized that 3 quarters of the content was already gone, got a shock and quickly threw it back onto the shelf (just so as I dun feel guilty for finishing it within half an hour time), then tried to focus on Licensing, felt sien and back ache as a result of the stupiak kid-size chair in my room, so I shifted my butt and module notes onto the bed, and dozed off till dinner time... zzZZZzzZZ...

ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What have I done whole day???!! XP

Great!! And I just found out from the nutritional info that it was 30g of F.A.T.S that I had consumed together with the chips this afternoon, not to mention the pasta....

And this blog post just suddenly sound so much like a page from Bridget Jones' Diary when she was still single.. and I happen to be Bridget Chua... *clap clap clap.....* T_T

kIlL mE!!!~

ARGH... my half-an-hour-nap after dinner turned out to be a 4 hours and 30 minutes one!!!

KILL ME!!! T_T

Can anyone pls convince me that I wont fail my FMT even if I cant finish studying in time??? (>_<") YEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!~~

hApPY bIRthDaY gaNAs vOoN!!!!!

(in a loud, noisy & crude way)

wakaka... XD

Study la... ban~~~ (with gema)

c@ll mE cHAr SieW!!~

Wakakakaka.. Thanks to Hansel and Ganas Voon *ahem ahem*, I finally bought Stephen King's latest novel, Lisey's Story about half an hour from Waterstone on the Buchanan Street!! It was selling at half the original price, i.e. 3.49 pounds only leh!! Tell me, how could I resist the temptation??? Even Hansel also struggled so long before he said "NO!" leh... That Ganas Voon la!! Happily told me this half price news yesterday afternoon. So just now after class I ma SHUN BIAN bought the book while I was on the way to get Unitel phone cards lo... Ganas Voon is the culprit behind my char siew behavior!!! PAY ME!!! XP

Anyway, like what chua ah ming promised to her newly ordered Harry Potter in her blog, I W.I.L.L wait till class tests are over then only start reading my newly bought Lisey's Story... Oh no... I can hear it calling for me already.... "Pei Ling... read me... READ ME!!!" Argh... ok ok... Will just flip through a few pages of it then will keep it aside till exams are over... At least I will try la... *God Bless* XP

Trying real hard to superimpose Lisey's Story's

coverpage onto FMT1 module notes. YeW!!~

rESe@RcH sTUdeNt-iNg wITh cHuA hUi mINg

Chua Ah Ming!!!!! This blog post was originally meant to be a sweet and memorable one lo... BUT, after considering the fact that u jatuhkan-ed my image from none to negative 200 with ur blog, and made me utter "Yeeew!!~ Bad taste!!!" right into the face of our dearest Aunty Boyter, this is what it has become:-

So, in resposne to chua ah ming's not-so-intellectual post in her blog, I would like to take this opportunity to stand up for myself, and to reveal her true colour here. Yup.. Finishing tabletting lab 1.5 hours earlier than scheduled was indeed something to celebrate, at least for ppl like us who always kena halau out of the lab by our dearest lab assistant who yearns to go home early lo... And since wearing casual tee and jeans and sneakers beneath our lab coats was something that jakun IMU students like us were never allowed before, chua ah ming and I got super duper excited at our smart-and-gorgeous-post-graduate-research-students look alike appearance (at least we thought we were) that we happily indulged ourselves in a camwhore session in chua ah ming's kitchen (ya, sad case...)

See? We do look like we K-N-O-W something, don't we?

And this is to prove to our papamama that we aren't

just pieces of char siew!! Note that we were actually

FROWNING while reading through British National

Formulary, Medicines, Ethics & Practice and Dorland's

Medical Dictionary. Haih... It's not easy being

a pharmacist afterall... XP

Nerdy look of two knowledgeable(?) Mpharm students

And this was when the poser spirit started going out of control... (>_<")

Yeah!!~ We are simply COOL and IRRESISTABLE!!!
Note chua ah ming's "cool" look... more like "sesat"
I suppose?? XD

Chua Ah Ming proposed for a SASSY look.

I think I scored a 100% for this... =P

chua ah ming? Sigh... "gagal dou mou dak gagal"

Chua Ah Ming's fat hao pose is finally revealed to the world!!

Wakaka... Note the purplish bear-bear socks on her feet.

WAAAH~~ super "sexy" aah!!! XD

And this is the dutch-lady photo I chose lo, chua ah ming!!

Not the 9-months-pregant-milkmaid displayed so

vividly on ur blog lo!!! OUCH!!! T_T

Revenge is S-W-E-E-T, isn't it? Ngek ngek ngek... And Ganas Voon, I hereby forbid u to clap hands while reading this!! Try me and I shall create a post on ur "fairytale" story real soon... Kekeke... Am I evil or what? *wink* XP

ScOtTisH "R@mLy bUrgER"~

Ooh.. we just can't get enough of Ramly burger, can we? Not even when we are a few thousands miles away from Malaysia and find ourselves overnumber by the caucasians.

Me and Chua Ah Ming had a taste of the Scottish "Ramly burger" at a road-side stall/van known as The Vineyard (in case u are wondering, no, they dun sell any wine or grape or whatsoever things to do with a vineyard, except for some bottled fruit juice which we weren't char siew enough to try) during one of our first few sesat attempts in exploring the city centre of Glasgow. As quoted by ah ming, "the price is the same ma, just that one is in ringgit while the other one is in pound..." XP Hmm.. A big bite of scalding-hot-super-sinful-cheese-oozing-out-burger on a cold gloomy drizzling day in Scotland... Ooh... Is there a need for me to further elaborate the bahagia-ness anymore? XD

So last Saturday, me and ah ming got a sudden unexplicable crave (no, in case u are wondering again, we are two gorgeous gals who are still single and available and we are definitely not pregnant) over this "Ramly burger" so much so that we were willing to walk all the way there, not hindered by the fact that it's in a totally opposite direction to that of our shopping destination of the day, i.e. the Buchanan Street. We finally got the burger in our hands and after comforting ourselves that even if we end up having food poisoning due to handling of our burgers by the waitress who sneezed and coughed into her hands and merely wiping them with a piece of tissue after that Royal Infirmary was just across the road, we put the burgers into our mouth, anticipating the chemistry to happen once again...

"Arhm..... munch munch..."

The burger turned out to be slightly cold, and the cheese was falling apart, and apparently the sneezing waitress forgot to add ketchup and mustard (oh ya, and in case u are wondering why I didnt get chili sauce instead, here in Scotland, if u were to ask for chili sauce to go with ur burger, u would most probably end up getting a "Har? Which planet do u come from?" look from the attendant. I kena once before in McDonald. Ouch!!) into my burger... Chua Ah Ming happily said, "yong ge man tai" and was in time to run away before I turned into HANNIBAL... XD Anyway, what a disappointment lor!!! Sigh... what to do? It was a different cook ma... Uncle Ramly was most probably resting at home when we ingested his daughter's bacteria-loaded burger... Yeeeeewww... (>_<")

Still, we finished the burgers within 5 minutes time, although we weren't satisfied at all... Hey, it cost us 1.50 pounds each, ok? Try converting that into ringgit and see how many biji Ramly burger u can get la.. Well... Royal Infirmary didnt have 2 new patients being admitted that day, but Buchanan Street was visited by 2 Malaysia jakuns who swore to catch Uncle Ramly in The Vineyard when they feel like char-siew-ing again next time... XP

Leng lui promoter of The Vineyard XD

aP@ tu???

Well.. I was in the kitchen just now, preparing to make a cup of Neslo and start to "hisap" my cookies... So I took the kettle with some leftover water out to see if anyone of my housemates would like to fill up their water bottle.. Then, when I was in the hallway, I realized that all the room doors were closed. Seems like all my housemates had turned in early today, I thought to myself. Then, this was when I saw the ceiling light in the toilet flickered... My first reaction was to look at the switch on the wall... and, it was on the "off" position!! When I looked back into the toilet, the light had already stopped flickering, as if nothing had happened... Erm... apa tu? Why the ceiling light started flickering for no reason la? My hair stood up all at once... and I went back into the kitchen to continue brewing Neslo, trying to act calm...

Then Ganas Voon came into the kitchen and saw me... Upon hearing the incident, she told me that was not the first time happening already.. In fact, she had seen it flickering few times before and was frightened, too.. Ah Xin saw it once as well... But now Ganas Voon has already got used to the "flickering-light-in-the-toilet" phenomena liao.. Hmm... apa tu la??? I still have to stay here for another year de leh... (>_<")

Pre-PP3 Class Test 1 *scary~*

45 more minutes to my PP3 first class test!!~ Heard from my labby that there is a big possibility that we may get Poison prescription later. Argh... W-H-Y??~ Super duper blur in this area... Now I can't even recall why I looked up Martindale so diligently druing our Poison practice session on Monday... (@_@")

Last minute revision? Nah... Look at what I am doing now.. XP Listening to Sammi Cheng's Mi over and over again at the same time.. Destress!!! Hmm.. never mind la.. As long as I get to learn something from this class test, I seriously dun mind what kind of result am going to get lor.. Huhu... *what a good excuse to skive* XD

Ok la.. time to call up papamama... Good luck to myself and my fellow batchmates!! =)