Saturday, March 5, 2011

March11 - Life in Aberdeen,UK

6/3/11

Just had supper at Saigon, very yummy!!! Chefs cooked Malaysian style curry & mee hoon.

Hope I can work through the night to complete my assignment.

Find unfair...heard from my flatmates, most of them score good marks. Score high is easy but don't apply to my course. Failing rate is high & getting an A is super hard. Why? I really couldn't understand. Thought RGU is lousy uni & should lower the marking scheme. Just it isn't apply to my course.

I cooked pancake n now frozen. I made 6 of them & plan to eat that as n when I feel like eating those. Very yummy...I added banana & raisins.This is UK style...frozen food. easier to manage actually. And even bread..I did freeze it & can consume within a month.
And I fried chicken > it looked great but I don't find too satisfiable though..still need more practice.




Isabel...a super huge rabbit...is Ian's rabbit. Hehe...she eats a lot i.e. fruit skin & grape branch.



Look, during this fine weather, my onion has grow spring onion. I chopped them & plan to use them for cooking...keke.


I cooked Italian sauce a modification of Bolognese sauce> I use red wine. Now my style is..prepare food consumption for few days & finish them within 2 / 3 days. save my cooking time. Somehow, I will watch youtube & discover new recipe. Now I will cook 2 days once. I am fussy ...I have cooked the sauce this morning for about 45min & now storing in container. Estimate to finish it within 3 days. Last week I made sushi & last for 5 days. Within these 5 days, I just add additional serving. i.e. stir fry vegetables. Fairly simple & yummy. I made tempura prawn & sauce...first attempt...not too bad.


11/03/2011(Friday)

Happy belated Birthday to Fei!!! her bday was fall on Thursday, unfortunately all of us rushing for the assignment submission & postpone till Friday. Am exhausted...

Well, my gift to Fei is a BDAY cake specially designed by me. Couldn't understand why innovation of cake by English but cakes in UK not nice. They like to use icing sugar...too sweet lol. Nice to see but not nice to eat..

So I decided to get a chocolate fudge cake & then I heat 5min in microwave ....feeling of melting in your mouth + vanilla ice-cream.all of them like my idea & the cake. I have spent about GBP 6. ( GBP1 Marshmallow+cake GBP 3.38+ sweeties 38P +Vanilla ice-cream GBP 1)



I decorated with Marshmallow+sweeties
 

We have set rule that BDAY girl will have to cook. Hehe..Fei Fei helped by a good chef from China.
Well, China culture is to have all sumptuos dishes ( as many as possible) all on table vs Malaysian culture. Fried Bee Hoon , chicken wing, jelly ...keke.

Well, I really enjoy the dinner. good job!!!

19/3/11

This is Rendang > Malaysia recipe. I got the ready packed spices from the shop.


I can do it myself!!! version of mommy. But with the winter melon...my favourite



My "choa nian gao" with Shao Xing cooking wine + thai curry paste+ dark soy sauce +minced pork. Yummy> my China's flatmate said that.



Flowers yet to bloom!!!  These are wild flowers & it grows almost everywhere. Very nice though...





Red Nose Day 2011 Friday 18th March - Different types of nose on sale for fund raising purpose. School children put on red nose. They look cute...

http://shop.rednoseday.com/Group.aspx?GroupId=30

26/03/11

I am really exhausted...juggle with 2 jobs. I can't cope. Luckily this week, I  am off > Aupair's job. Somehow, I still need to work at the restaurant for 2 days this week. Earning something, better than none.

Yippie...I am so glad with my Banking. Given so tight deadlines, I scored good marks for my task1 Treasury I got 56% & Banking I got 72%. I thought banking would be horrible, who's know? hehe...I remember that I fall asleep & woke up work on it during the week. And indeed, busy week as I force to work long hours at Karen's house. Really grateful ...but I may not be that lucky all the time.

Things getting tougher & tougher lol. Task 2 probably need more more time to think & write.

My contigency plan is perhaps stop working at the restaurant after Easter holiday & just work for the Aupair one. Of course, I may be in deficit position. So I am getting my sister to transfer money from my savings. Which is going to be exhausted soon...sigh. Just a month plan..coz I am going to spend a month to work for 12K words. The Research Method is the most horrible ...