Living in London

a few coasters and 20++ usables a few hours later, and with help from western's Digital diagnostic program to help check my hard drive for those bad boys. it's finally recovering. and I AM finally recovering from the initial shock of losing my data. but i have to be on the vigilant side. cos that temperamental disk might just decided to act up again. i didnt need to buy a new hdd. hurrah. anywyas, it's almost back to normal. my routine is almost back to normal. will resume my daily life in making cookies, taking pictures, planning, and planning. one more month... or somewhat like that. last nite i burnt my pallet, notsurehowucallit. the thing in my mouth. the ceiling. ate too hot too spicy.. muahhaha. today forgot to bring out those food from the freezer. it looks like it's gonna be noodles again tonite. *grin*

somehow i feel that i'm connected to my computer somehow.. geez.. it's something like out of a sci fi buster movie. whatever happens to my computer happens to me. i need to upgrade. i feel the need to upgrade. an extra 400gb hdd + 2 gb ram should fix me up. oh yeah .. another dvd writer.. my hdd is going bad.. i feel sick. er.. rather.. not sick.. i'm getting pimply face again.. wth.. i feel i can't work cos my computer is in bad shape. i can't eat drink or think.. i think chobits is just the right kind of computer for me. muahhahahah blame it on lotsa bloody work.. my current situation i meant. anywyas, just thought i release some air b4 i shut down for today. i'm hungry. a hungry man is an angry man. an angry man is a hungry man. so i must go home and eat. lalallalalallala

err.. i finished those peanuts from Kudat, sabah before i could take a picture of it. this is because i havent had those kind of peanuts since i left kk. that might be able to say about 16 - 17 years ago. hmmm my aunt brought it for me from there. and yes. they can't eat anything hot. i think i burnt their tongue with the spicy rendang and bombay potatoes. never mind. i'll try another one next time. i brought back 2 suits that her husband didnt want anymore. i have no ideas where i am gonna wear those suits to. i dont even wear that one i brought from g2000. what's more. i left my headphones + mic there. now i can't use my skype anymore till i get a new one. hmmm my hdd is on the verge of dying. 140Gb of data going down the drain if i dont get them out. 140 is about 35 dvdrs sigh. confucius say if i sigh i will look older. man.. imagine those stupid sighs i made. but if i smile i'll look younger. okok.. smile smile.. i got this saying from that small little booklet...

Like doh. this seems to be a box of fish fingers. nooo this is not just any box of fish fingers.. this is one of the best and cheapest fish fingers i've had since i got to london. this brand particularly. it does not tear or crumble or break under my type of cooking. which is basically dump and fry in the frying pan. others i have tried and they have all failed miserably. but this one tops the bill. hehe. maybe i reckon it to my new cooking technique i invented. i throw those fingers into the air and do a double backflip making the fish fingers happy so that they won't crumble while being cooked. er.. yeah .. it's a joke. but hehe. this one seriously tastes nice. here's another one of it showing the back or the front of the box. usually morrisons has a lot of weird cheap fish fingers. so this is just one of them. i know i know.. they are just flour and some parts of the fishes that i dont even wanna know and gone through some weird process to make them come out as fish ...

I've always wanted white teeth. but sad to say . my teeth were never white. they were rather a little bit not white. :P i bought this. they sell this at morrisons for £1.59. which means i saved myself about 60p by buying it from the 99p shop. so far, i havent seen any difference yet.. er.. maybe just a little. well.. i never know. cos i see myself everyday i wouldnt notice the gradual difference. anyways, that's all about that one. it may be just a gimmick or it may not.. but i think my teeth's a little whiter than usual. i don't drink coffee, i don't smoke. if i do get stained teeth, that means i do have big problems with what i'm eating. okies. this weekend, i'm gonna have 2 guinea pigs to try out my cooking. i hope my aunt and her hubby dun ever find out about this site. hahhaha but i must say it's gonna be fun. last nite i had shanghai noodles, carrots, broccoli, some fish fingers egg, and garnished with fried shallots. *drool* other than that, it w...

i got this off my flatmate who thought i liked cookies so much and she asked me to try it. it didnt look like anything i've seen but then when i ate it. yeah.. that reminded me of those japanese rice crackers that i used to buy from carrefour in wangsa maju. muahahhaha anyways, it's too salty, the ones from carrefour. but this one i ate didnt have much salt at all and the white stuffs on the cracker. i have no ideas what it is. finished it in 3 secs. u see.. i was hungry when she gave that to me. anyways, i just figured.. cycling in london is not very safe at all. er.. rather i knew it wasnt safe. but somehow these few days i seem to have come across nice cars with stupid drivers on the road. but i suspect it's the same everywhere in the world which has cars/vehicles. and it dawned upon me if i EVER do get hit by one of those bastards... it wouldn't be a pretty sight. hehe. another thing, i do have thin skin on my hands. somehow it's too soft and i get cuts or poked...

yeah it's about time i posted A photo so i dont get bored of reading myself when i grow old. anyways, this is the muesli i used in my cookies. lazy to show the contents of the package la. but if i really wanna remember how it looks like i'll just do a google image search for muesli. yeah it makes the cookies taste a bit how do i say it. crunchy and healthier. other than that, i have no ideas what's the difference between swiss style muesli or those other brand of muesli. my mom bought alpen muesli last time for us to eat or wassit from some health shop. can't remember. i liked it better cos i like the taste of it in milk cos they have raisins or sultanas or wahtever u might cal it. yeah that's one more.. sultanas and raisins look alike. i'm lazy to google why are they different. bah in fact i do think sometimes i'm a bit lazy . er.. scratch that.. i'm all the time lazy . hehe. dinner last nite was beef rendang, bombay potatoes, rice with celery. speaking...

that's it. that confirms it. i'm a fantastic cook. muahahahaha. ( q: pstt...er.. i think u're talking in ur dreams.) anyways, sunday i tried the bombay potatoes another time. this time it turned out quite lose to what that guy made before. so yes. i would say i am able to make it now. and the rendang, as usual la. i can make. *drool* i'm gonna have a nice week ahead. anyways, about those gremlins i forgot those gremlins did something to my bike on friday as well. my front bike cable broke. the brake cable. buying that replace cable made me £2 poorer. for goodness sakes, it's just a steel cable. sigh. anywyas, i bought a pair of brake pads for £5. and then a cheap set of allen keys. or hexagonal keys as they call it here for £1. fixed the bike. now my brakes are too powerful. or rather powderful !! oh yeah.. each time i brake i almost fly off my bike now. i'm too used to those almost non existent brakes of mine. anyways, fixed that. and this time i made raisin c...

yeah.. something like that.. now i know i SURELY have gremlins in my head... blardy cacated moron. yesterday i went to look for DVDr medias. okays. i tried looking around for Ritek's +r. and all the shops dun carry them. they only got Ritek's -r ( note: it's dash R not minus R). anywyas, i very hiaw (miang, or callitwatumacallit) just plain dumb or ultra smart. i read in google. dvd -r can be used in all writers. or something like that la.. so i thought since the dvd-r £1 cheaper than the other one. so i bought the dvd -r after reading so much about the compatibility issue. Ma hiam !! i tell u .. i go back i tried to burn.. that stupid ho lang kan DVD Drive dun even recognize my disc. diu.. then i tried to google thought those discs were defective. £"$!%$£ turns out that my drive dun support writing in dvd -r or -rw format. it only supports dvd +rw and some weird format i never touch. right i tell myself, this is great. hahaha. i am so smart. all these years i used th...

I used to watch doogie howser MD.. not sure if i spelled it correctly.. yup i spelled it correctly. checked with google. anyways, i thought the fact that after every 25 mins episode that he'll sit down in front of his computer and typed down what he's learnt during that day (or rather episode). so when i was 16 i think or wassit 17, my dad gave me a notebook. 486SX. monochrome monitor. i think it had like 40 MB hdd, 4 mb RAM or something like that i can't remember. but i was too caught up in playing games i killed the screen. hahahhaa dad took the computer from me. i think that was my first computer. then it came the 486DX2-66. it cost about 4k RM i think. sigh... those were the days. then after that the computer stucked with me till i was 22 i think. i played my 30 diskette game CnC from a friend jahch. that was his callsign a long way back. and then i got a CD rom + soundblaster 16 from brunei when dad bought it for me cos i was a whiny little kid that said it wooooooulll...

i missed the rain this morning. when i was awake, the sun was already shining. hahha it's a nice day. quick ones. 1. i ran out of DVD +Rs. 2. i ran out of space in my computer. 3. it's the middle of the month now. hehe. 4. heard from dad, car is still running okay since nobody touched it since mom left for the states. 5. another 13 days before my bulldog connection is cancelled. 6. i guess that's about it. 7. i had pasta(penne) + broccoli + carrots + wontons + celery + chicken. note: there was this weird guy who i almost rammed into when cycling. he was crossing the road. and then i didnt see him. but i wasnt very fast. and then he swore at me. me:sorry. him: f*cking hell, it's a RED light. me: it IS a red light. we both turned to look at the traffic lights. turns out that i was right. we both were right. it WAS a red light. but it was RED for the pedestrians. u tell me.. what kind of ppl swear first before finding out the truth. but usually it's the same everywhere...

yeah .. it was lucky i was out of the house early. it started drizzling about 5 mins b4 i reached my work. at least i never got wet. i'm just too lazy to post pictures i do have them in my phone but i havent got time to switch it to download. that's all because of those japanese drama (jdorama) serials i'm following now. they are okays. i do understand some the story ( they don't have subtitles ya know) and maybe some of the words they are using. but slowly and surely . hehe. it's all because of the dratted beach boys serial. it was in vhs format. quality is a bit old.. but the storyline is just about living life. what would i be doing if i could throw away my watch and not look at the time and then go to the beach and live in a inn doing some carefree life ? hehe. it seems that one of my friends done it. and it was really fun. and he would like to do it again though. but then again.. like they say in the movies, u can only do it for a certain period of time, cos ...

well worth the money i'd say. the duracell batteries especially. i saw some of them selling a 1300 mAh for £5. this one is 1700mAh seems just about the right price. it was going off on clearance.. i was lucky to get a set of it. and for the steamer. right now i'm eating steamed rice and steamed stuffs. it gets rid alot of fat from the meat. i see those fat floating in the water in the drip tray after steaming. other than that, no more nuking stuffs in the microwave. though the rice bowl in the steamer seems a bit small but it is enough for 2. hehe. the vege tastes a bit sweeter.. maybe it's psychological. but then again. it's always fun to try out a new cooking way. now i need to get another bowl that will fit in the 3 tier container so i can have steamed mince pork with egg.

bread.. they have all sorts of bread here. toasties wholemeal brown thick thin medium malt french baguette pita etc etc.. how do i choose.. simple.. i choose the cheapest wholemeal i can use. heh. well.. once i get my hands on something that i can use to make bread.. i'd just buy flour. anyways, i found out that the thick bread suits me for the whole week cos it has exactly 20 pieces including the end pieces which sometimes some ppl don't really like to eat. so with that i pack my lunch and breakfast. or wassit breakfast and lunch. i have no ideas but i am so used to typing stuffs from backwards,. so 2 slices for butter and jam / choco spread and another 2 slices for tuna onion corn mayo sandwich. that lasts me for the whole week. and i found out that if i keep myself hungry enough.. my sense of smell towards food smells is more acute. muahahhaha .. anyways, i jammed myself silly on my biscuits.. i ran out of it.. i tihnk i will have to go to the store to buy margerine to bake ...

half of this and about 500g of meat made me about 30 pieces of won tons. hehe they are sitting in my freezer now. this skin isnt as good as the ones i bought last time. hmm never mind. but it works nonetheless. it's gonna be a busy week. and don't i think it's bloody warm now. geez.. anyways, bbc forecasted today as 9 degrees celcius. no wonder it's warm. hehe. maybe i've just gotten off my bike that's why i'm warm.. anyways, last nite : 1 carrot, half cucumber + 2 eggs. some bacon pieces and luncheon meat. lotsa chillies. AND ... 3 muesli biscuits.. and i got an idea for my cookie mould. i will just have to wait till saturday to try it out. can't wait.

i'm not sure if kept this or not but it was cheap and i bought to try. it was erm. okays. nothing much to brag about when it's only 34p buy 1 free one. heh. anyways, that's it for today. sien liaw.. i was up to my head trying to fix that cookle thingy and finally managed to get it to do what i want. if you do try it, drop me a line for some suggestions though. it has not alot of recipes but i guess it'll do for the moment. i ate wonton soup plus seaweed on friday, carrots, rice, broccoli, saturday, curry pasta on sunday. and oh yeah.. this time i made muesli cookies. *droool* drat.. this is gonna be a new hobby. blardy cookies.. it was supposed to be more more than the butter cookies i made but then i finished half the muesli cookies. it just sooooo tempting.. grumbles.. anyways, i still can make more.. haha.

i forgot where i got this, but i tried it out. it tasted almost a like. i did mention it a while back. but anyways, this the picture of the flour. it's made in thailand. but i won't buy it again. cookies keep longer so i think i'm gonna bake cookies again this weekend. whooopeee. these colgate herbal was bought about few months back i can't rememeber but i know i bought it from those saturday markets and they sold it for about £2.50 for 3. it's a little bit cheaper than in those store so i bought them. so far my teeth did not fall out yet so i guess it's still pretty good. yesterday : won ton + seaweed soup, carrot rice + the last of the beans. couldn't finish the soup. my tummy is getting smaller. it's a friday. muahahhahahah

companies that does not have information on how to cancel or terminate accounts with their company. IT IS ABSO-F*CKING-LUTELY LAME!!! anyways, maybe i was not as smart as i thought i am. i couldnt find a single information on how to cancel the contract or where do i send my letter to cancel the contract.. see how freaking dumb those ppl are ?? or rather how freaking shrewd they are .. heh.. okies.. i shouldnt get all huffed and puffed up about this small matter.. it's just that i'm not as flexible as i thought i would be.. or rather carefree as i thought i am. hehe. i'm going to a vodafone store later. luckily there's one just next to my office. on a lighter note. this is the picture of the stunted long beans i bought for £1. it was actually a lot more but i ate them i think. it looks like those french beans maybe.. not sure what it is called.but yeah it's nice to eat if fried with dried shrimps and chillies and eggs. Speaking of food, i had my 6 wontons + 1 packet ...

Cookiesss !! i made them.. not bad for a first timer who has never made cookies b4. butter ones.. they dont look that good cos i dont have those cookie molds. i just picked the simplest cookie recipe from the web adn then i tried it. smells good i guess. i used unrefined sugar ( healthier :P ) feels weird.. cos when i baked them after 20 mins.. i took a fork and poked them they were still soft .. so i panicked.. i've never done cookies which were soft b4.. anyways, since that's the case i took them out. put them to cool . then i tasted them b4 i put the rest in. hmmm seems good also.. cos it hardens after cooling.. woot woot.. :P 1 slab of butter 250g + some sugar.. no weighing scale and some essence of vanilla plus self raising flour.. ( leftovers , i needed to clear them out. :P and some pastry flour have to finish it mah) mix mix mix.. then it seemed a little weird or wet i mean so i put more flour lor.. but then it came out alright. total cost : i think butter was 53p, suga...