KuKuNehNeh expected some friends over last Saturday and so she decided to whip up a feast for us like she did the last time for me. This bunch of six girls (including KuKuNehNeh) are called “The Nuttz”. The Nuttz consists of the following members in no particular order.
1. Jacqueline the “Zebra”
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2. Yanling the “Monkey”
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3. Audrey the “Rat”
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4. Deborah the “Ladybird”
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5. Ruifang the “Tiger”
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6: Huiwen the “Panda”
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The pictures are actually from our party last Christmas but I stumbled over it and found it so funny that I have to use it in this post.
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! (They are all so going to kill me)
We had 9 people for the party including the six nuttz, and three boyfriends. We had to draw lots to see who would represent an unfortunate animal.
I was one of the 1st to be ‘painted’ and KuKuNehNeh volunteered to do it. She totally messed up and our resident artist, Audrey, had to do some touch-up but the damage was already done.
Guess what animal I was supposed to be?
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I was supposed to be a….
GIRAFFE…
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WAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA!!!
I look more like a man with some skin disease lor.
Tiger eating a very disinterested Giraffe.
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I REALLY DIGRESS TOO MUCH! Anyway, back to last Saturday; We went out for an early breakfast in the morning before shopping for the ingredients and she had a shopping list.
If you see the above, it lists the ingredients for the Soup as,
1. Bah Kut
2. Corn
3. Carrot
4. Red dates
5. DOG???
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Before I explain further, these are the dishes she came up with.
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And of course the focus is on the soup which apparently has ‘DOGS’ in it!
Eh… No dog leh!
Chey!… actually ‘dog’ refers to this lar.
They are actually Chinese Wolfberry which are called “Gao Ki” in hokkien which translates as “Dog’s Teeth”. KuKuNehNeh doesn’t know the former and she only remembers it as “Dog Something”.
KuKuNehNeh loves cooking for family and friends. She loves it when people she cooks for enjoys the food and are appreciative of her effort. Having nobody dying yet from her food also makes her pretty credible.
WAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA!!! (She’s gonna kill me…)
The truth is, she is quite the cook. She doesn’t have the vast amount of recipes like my Mum has yet nor the chopping skills of YAN CAN COOK! SO CAN YOU!, but she has the right passion and love for cooking. It’s hard to find a girl who can cook these days you know! They are such a rare species these days that KuKuNehNeh might be labeled ‘Endangered’ in a few years time. I don’t want to end up visiting her at the Zoo, so can you ladies learn how to cook please!
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WAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA!!! (She’s REALLY gonna kill me…)
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We had our share of fun out BBQ-ing and bowling on Sunday already and we decided to spend Monday at home. Waking up at around 11am like the pigs we were, she went to wash up and worked hard at preparing the meal for the both of us. Seeing her so hard at work, I could notjust STAND BY AND WATCH.
So, I stayed in the aircon room and played with the computer.
WAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA!!! (I am so dead…)
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After an hour plus of ‘battle’ in the kitchen, this is what she came up with. (Since these are from KuKuNehNeh, I can name it whatever I want!)
Dish #1: Flied Lice Velly Nice
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Dish #2: Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and Lands On His Face
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Dish #3: Shrimpy Decabbagelicious
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Dish #4: Fries Lor
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My favorite dish would have to be Shrimpy Decabbagelicious. It was probably the easiest to prepare but I love the simplicity of the taste and how well it goes with the Flied Lice Velly Nice.
KuKuNehNeh’s favorite will have to be the Fries Lor. She loves soggy fries unlike me. I always argue with her over McDonald’s that fries are MEANT to be CRISPY. Why? Imagine a fast food commercial on your TV with a sexy male voice saying, “Come! And try our delicious SOGGY fries!”. Doesn’t make sense right? Fries should be CRISPY!
Of course she ignores me and continue poking at every fries on the tray till she gets all the soggy ones and I get all the crispy ones with a finger dent on it.
I was still delighted with all her efforts and then proceeded to do a happy dance before I wash the dishes.
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Actually, the dance isn’t related to the food lar. But I just find it amusing and so it’s here.
Thank you KuKuNehNeh for all the effort in whipping up the delicious dishes!
My Saturdays are usually planned with one or two highlights like maybe a movie, clubbing, an ad-hoc trip somewhere or maybe a dinner with friends. So, KuKuNehNeh and I were quite worried when we had 3 events lined up for last Saturday.
First up was an ROM ceremony for KuKuNehNeh’s cousin at Swissotel Merchant Court. The couple chose to hold the ceremony at the poolside and the weather was very kind. These couple of weeks, Singapore either had blazing, underwear wet-wet, scorching hot sun or downpours of dogs and cats and whatever animals you can think of. KuKuNehNeh remarked to me that the couple were Christians and they probably prayed very hard for good weather the night before. I am such a free-thinker that Singapore might encounter its first sight of snow if I tried to pray for good weather on my wedding. So, don’t say that I didn’t warn you guys when the day comes.
We lazed on the chairs in the cool, cloudy midday and took some pictures.
After the ceremony, the guests were invited to a high-tea buffet at Ellenborough Market Cafe. The food was pretty good that I promptly forgot to take any pictures of it and gorged myself like a pig who went through 2 years of famine.
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After lunch, we got a lift home from Wee Peng and changed into a more casual attire for a crab feast at Ang Mo Kio Ave 3.
The kind soul treating us is none other than a funny dude called Ah Lee who was celebrating his Birthday!
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY AH LEE!”
Ah Lee with a present from us on the left and a Gucci wallet from the rest.
The sniff test to determine if its 100% cotton
Ah Lee holding the card me and KuKuNehNeh made
Softcopy of the card. “Don’t worry about being ‘too cold’” is a private joke btw…
Oh, Ah Lee is SINGLE! All you ladies better grab him fast! All he asks for in a woman is only ONE THING! And it can be described using TWO NUMBERS and ONE LETTER.
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“36F”
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Ah Fat & Ah Lee
Ah Pui & Shumei
Billy - Don’t let his que-mor(curly hair) and constipated face fool you. This guy can SING!
Ah Lee, Ah Man & Alwyn - One of them tio 4D and I don’t need to tell you who.
Expression #524
Expression #281
Expression #472
“I want 36F! Give me 36F! 36F!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Caught in the act
Why do I look like I have a bf in this pic rather than a gf?
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After saying our goodbyes to this group of friends, we went home again for another change parade and this time it’s down to Orchard Road!
Leon is KuKuNehNeh’s SIM ex-classmate and he invited friends over to Acid Bar to celebrate his birthday.
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEON!”
If KuKuNehNeh is the ‘walking Friendster’, then Leon must be the ‘walking Facebook’. He probably had 1/4 of Acid Bar filled with his friends that night. KuKuNehNeh and I had a round of Erdinger while I waited for the right time to get Leon to drink with me.
Two hours into the night, I decided that it is time and asked Leon to drink with me before we went off. And this is what he said over facebook.
Yeah! Me LOVES FLAMING LAMBORGHINI!
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We took a couple of group pictures as well.
Unknown Leon friend #1, Unknown Leon friend #2, Leon, Me, KuKuNehNeh
The photo above looks normal right. But I noticed something….
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Why is there a big prominent BULGE in my pants facing Leon?
KuKuNehNeh! I am straight! REALLY! That is the PHONE in my pocket! REALLY!!!
After watching episode two of Blogger’s Treat, I decided to write a review on it. After all, the videocast is “created by bloggers, for bloggers and with bloggers”. So, how can a blogger not give his/her 2 cents worth on it?
Blogger’s Treat is a under 10 minutes videocast that features blogger’s favourite and popular food haunt.
It is created by bloggers, for bloggers and with bloggers.
Each episode you will see a guest blogger bring the Blogger’s Treat team to somewhere in Singapore to eat.
As you can see, the “with bloggers” element is very strong here as we often let the guest blogger determine where their favourite food haunt is.
We are limiting ourself to kopitiams, food stalls and small cafes because of budget. Hopefully, we can bring bloggers to high end restaurants in future episode, but I think that itself would be another series.
The youtube videos can be very slow to load and if you can’t wait, the faster loading episodes can be found here(Ep1) and here(Ep2).
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On the positive side of things, it is a great idea by Aaron to create such a show. Who doesn’t like food? And what better way to introduce food online than with bloggers, who are quite the mini-celebrities in recent times. Aaron might have emphasized that the show is “for bloggers”, but I would see that the viewership of the program will extend to the interested readers of the various bloggers who appear on the show. The videos are also nicely edited with a very light and catchy acoustic guitar tune to kick every episode off.
Okay, the stuffs I am going to say next might send hordes of Sabrina fans calling for my demise (or even Sabrina herself) but oh well, it’s just my view.
In both episodes, both the guest bloggers totally outshone Sabrina in terms of presentation, speech fluency, presence, enthusiasm and personality. If I didn’t know beforehand and if Sabrina didn’t introduce herself at the start of the show as the host, I would have easily thought that either Daphne or Hillary were the hosts.
In episode 1, Daphne showed good diction, poise and was very believable as a person introducing a food she really liked. There were moments of awkwardness when Sabrina was introducing the chef and also when making small talk with Daphne. The saving grace of the episode is when the chef performed his ‘la mien’ skills which was very entertaining.
In episode 2, Hillary was much more aggressive compared to Daphne in the 1st episode and it resulted in Sabrina taking a backseat almost throughout the whole episode. I thought Sabrina did pretty well in the 1st 20 seconds of the 1st episode but throughout this one, she appeared nervous and uncomfortable when speaking and disinterested when not. Before tucking in, her reactions to the food were not of interest but of “Ah…. So much food ah. I don’t wanna eat leh.. I scared I will grow fat”. Not that it implies that the food sucks, but it still makes the viewer reduce his/her interest in the food.
I am not asking the bloggers on the show to act till they point where they put food in the mouth and then flip over screaming, “OH MYYYYYYYYYYYY GOD!!!!!!” while having orgasms, but it’s good to show enthusiasm and interest in the food that you are presenting and eat it with gusto.
With that much negatives said about Sabrina, I do have to say that it’s only two episodes so far and she is definitely still nervous on camera. She is very presentable looking and definitely performing way below her potential in terms of hosting.
Evidence of how Sabrina can be more believable is from the video below.
It isn’t the most interesting of videos, but if you watched it till the end, you will mostly likely see the same thing as I did. Sabrina spoke with much more comfort and confidence and thus showed a more believable person that we would want to see on Blogger’s Treat.
Good luck to Sabrina and kudos again to Aaron for producing such an interesting local show. I will look forward to future episodes with anticipation.
I was at Sentosa today with Ruifang’s family today. Unfortunately, there is no pics of her or me in a bikini. I know you guys are dying to see me in one. “See liao will puke blood and die“
After spending half a day in the sweltering sun, my brain gets wonky and such. If you are wondering why do I need to explain for being dazed. Well…….
I was at a Halal Beef noodle store, operated by Muslims wearing Tudongs.
Remember these key words, Halal, Beef, Muslim and Tudong.
Ruifang: “Auntie! Two beef kway teow soups”
Malay Auntie: “Okay! Eating here?”
Me: “Yes!”
(After a while, she grabs a piece of meat with a tweezer and shows it to me.)
Auntie: “Want stomach?”
Me: “Pig stomach?”
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RIGHT AFTER I said that, my mind realized that this is a HALAL store, they serve BEEF and I can SEE MUSLIMS wearing TUDONGS cooking the food.
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