Guilty Pleasure

ooh, hi all.

well actually as u guys may already knew that i made cauliflower soup yesterday, n i used chicken stock as a base instead of vege stock. which was totally fine wif me. however my friend offered the soup to my housemate and she forgot that my housemate is a vegan.
suprisingly, she (my housemate) said the soup was really, really good. anyway i couldn't bring my mouth to say that i used chiken stock so i just asked if she is okay with single cream (which is normally ok for vegeterian but no for vegan)..and she replied...she do eat it sometimes.

to make thing worst..i was in the middle of making another batch of the cauliflower soup and she asked me if that is the same soup. Well of course i said yes n then she asked if she can have some.
How could i say NO...so i just said, yeah..sure..feel free.

I know..it isn't good for not telling her the truth...but if i said i used chicken stock in this soup...its obvious that she will be able to figure out that i used chicken stock in the soup yesterday as well. i dont want her to feel bad..plus she totally loves it. (u guys should see how her face was..)
then she asked for the recepi which thank god that it mentioned vege-stock instead..~fuhhh
I feel guilty know...n i'll used vege-stock for the next time but its such a pleasure u know, when someone likes ur cooking.

luckily...i did asked her what would happen if she eat meat or something that she normally avoid. thankfully she said nothing would happen really. she become a vege-vegan because of her parents not due to any allergies of something. ~fuhh..thank god.

p/s: i bet if i ever cooked some meat and i said its mock-meat..n if she loves it...could it be possible that she will change from a vegan to a normal meat eater. (ok, this is evil talking//i should respect her decision. if she eat no meat or animal related product..then so be it)

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ooh..nway, been to westfield shopping centre at white city london, today. and guess what..i only spent £12!!!!! n i didnt even go shopping on the boxing day yesterday...hahaha!!!

another target for new year...become more silent type kinda person!! yes..i know i keep saying that couple years ago..but obviously it didnt happen..but hopefully it will this time coz i need to practise to speak more slowly esp when teaching.

ok folks...later yeah!!!

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Bemelen and Eindhoven

It was a heavy snow fall starting from 18th night up untill 19th dec. our plan to travel and explore around the area of wan's house were cancelled. But somewhr around 3pm...its stopped and the outside were just nice with white snow covered almost everything and it was deep!!!!

So there goes the 3 chipmunks!!!!

blakang tue umah wan..the one on the left

mempersembahkan....

kampung Bemelen di daerah Margraten.

love the view behind me...

nie dinner mlm nyer..

since xder restaurant yg leh buat delivery due to heavy snow etc..

so..masak sendiri..

shepperd's pie!!!

ok..then the our last day...

round town at maastricht first...

this is city coucil's office

*i think*

another view of Maastrict city by the river side..

have our lunch at KFC...

and finally rushing towards the train station

for the eindhoven part just look thru my photo album in my facebook page ok...

here is the pic of Eindhoven train station

ok..thats' it guys!!!!

thanks for reading!!!

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私は孤独を感じる

hi all...
just feel a lil bit *empty* and lonely at the moment.

gosh..i hate this feeling.

Je voudrais avoir quelqu'un à embrasser et câliner avec ...

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From Bermondsey to Birmingham, Bemelen and Valkenburg

Hi all...
i know its been really a while since my last post. wello, dont blame me...blame the holy-day!!! (its causes me to become more 'malas-er' than usual) :p

anyway, i've finished my last placement on my first school, St Micheals RC Secondary School its a luvly school and i am totally enjoy all my times there. special thanx for the teachers and my fellow students.

p/s: sorry for the explosion on the last day.....but that was nice.


potassium with concentrated hydrochloric acid



mixture of silver nitrate and magnesium powder reaction with water


another thing, i've done couples of demo on 'jumping sodium', which u all can see the video by clicking here
but then on my last day, we slightly change the method, using white spirits instead of gasoline. then we put acetone (propanone) on top of it, which just gonna stay on top instead of mixing with water (due its density). u can lit up a fire on top of the tube since acetone is flammable. however the interesting part come after once it all done. we pretty much sure that everything has reacted then poured all of it in the sink and suddenly the fire came out of no-where. which pretty much shocked. (but luckily the alarmed was covered in a beaker). then after we put off the fire, cleaned up our mess...suddenly an explosion occur!!!! coming from the sink ealier. which then made all of us wet. ~sigh.

after we told the techichan of what was happned, couple more teacher joined n interested and even asked me to do it again the next day!!! hahaha...but sadly it was my last day, so it too bad. but hey..tts was great!!!!!



Birmingham

Oh, i went back to Birm for 4days. Just catching up with my old-friends and juniors/seniors. It was fun plus i do miss them. Went to chemistry department to meet my supervisor and she is pregnant. (ooh...i forgot to get her a card) we chatted a while and had some luch together.
Also went to german-market near the victoria square...n it was still nice. nothing much different from the last couple of years...but you know, when this will be ur last to see it...its kinda sad actually. and had dinner at the handmade burger restaurant in fiveways!!!
Met Ed right before i'm boarding my train. He's working with water company now and still looking for another job that suits him better. but anyway..its a nice thing to catch up with all of them.









yup, this year, its coming bak to birm!!!



Maastricht - Day 1

Finally...I set my foot in this land!!!! Been promised to wan that i'll come over and so there I am. Its actually quite easy to travel from eindhoven to maastricht.

Do u guys know the feeling travelling to a place that u don't understand any single bit of what they are saying or wrote on the signs...its like u landed on an alien planet or something??? well...thats my 1st impression there and I actually enjoyed it. That is what travelling is all about. u go to any place where u have not even a slight idea of what is all about.

met azwan at the train station and rent 2 bikes (thats gonna be our main transport here). Went to maastricht city later in the day until evenin. enjoying the way they welcoming xmass and also the cold weather!!!

there was a blizzard at the evenin' and i was separated from wan n farid on our way back home which then i lost since a took a bloody-wrong turn. hehehe. but thats nothin' to be panicked of since i hv my henset wif me.


Jln2 pusing area2 Maastricht Uni.




These two pics meaning the same thing I presumed...



ok..its totally NOT!!!


an old church turned into a bookstores!!!




Valkenburg - Day 2

Valkenburg is another pretty nice old village and its actually a tourist spot. With a -12 degree on that day tho the sun do came out, never believe its gonna be a warm sunny day especially if its winter.


ok, this is not Valkenburg village. This is sumwhere around 2km after Bemelen towards Valkenburg.



and yes, we all riding a bicycle to get there...so just imagine how freezing it was. but even so...it still enjoyable!!!!!



found a windmill on our way to Valkenburg...nice!!!



At one of the castle ruin in valkenburg. Actually there are around 4 or 5 castles within this area. Dont ask me why it has more than 1 within a place..



I bet u wont find it anywhere else....
the xmass german market is within a cave under one of the castle. (pardon me..i didnt take note the name of the castle)


Then we took a cable ride...and i forgot that farid is afraid of height!!! Just remembered that when we already on top....my bad


ok..found these horses during our way back home. Wan probably reached home by this time but farid and I really took our time exploring and enjoying the place!!!


Just look how far we ride from azwan's house in Bemelen to Valkenburg!!!!





well then...I'll continue the rest in the next post...
it takes too much time to upload the pics..haha

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Non me lo so spiegare

Non me lo so spiegare
(i can't figure it out)

ok, i stumble to this song yesterday and i've keep listen to it over n over again. sumhow i can do a lil bit of sing-a-long without the lyric in front of me.. :p
pretty cute eh this song.

oh, just go to youtube if u want to hear the full song or just download it via 4shared.com. (key in 'non me lo so spiegare - tiziano ferro')

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