the sushi diaries

ok.. after the fiasco with the brownie-cookies, this time round i made SUSHI! haha... yeah and it turned out pretty shapely and nice to eat on all accounts!! yippee!

thou i must say i'm simply shocked and err.. a bit humbled by the amazing culinary talents we have amongst everyone here! there's the absolute perfectionist "dun touch my brownies!" guanqing, there's the ba-ku-teh cooker joshie, the cookie maker sheryl, sesame oil champion ernest, pancake maker desmond and so on so forth. (notice my name is missing)

haha.. oh well. it was fun. joshie and sheryl even embakred on baking a chocolate cake which turned out pretty smashing! lol..


sushi making!

steamboat!

sinful chocolate cake!

-frank

present for my sis

eh constance,

i bought 'shopaholic and baby' for you! hardcover! lemme read finish then i send to you kk? haha.. and DUN BUY harry potter. i reserved liao. and oh.. the book counts as your bday present. lol

baking misadventures

ok so of course staying back in school for spring break means food must DIY le.. so we decided to do some baking today after getting a great haul of baking products..

lemme juz say im an absolute noob at cooking and general kitchen stuff cos obviously i was not very bothered to enter the kitchen at home and help *oopz.. and aniwez we had no oven in sg, so no thought of baking and stuff

but aniwez thanks to sheryl and gq, err.. most of the stuff was bought so i just leeched off and tried to bake brownies using instant-mix, which gq called "brownie gameshark" -_- and which sheryl said was "cheapskate"

geez. such friends i have.

well who cares. common knowledge dictates that one should start from easy and work your way up. plus im not as perfectionist as mr gq and as meticulous as him so yeah.. just try try first time.

ok. so obviously u would have gathered that.. er.. i screwed up. i did everything according to instruction EXCEPT that err.. i poured the mix into a much bigger pan than expected and baked it for too long a time.

cry man... when take out it was still looking fine, just charred a bit at the sides. then came the horror as i started cutting it and the brownie started hardening and started to resemble blocks of cookies. *faintz

yah.. so i was very very sad. instant-mix i thought = idiot-proof. so i must be.. sigh.. worse than an idiot. lol. jialat man.. then jo and others tried to console me by saying it was pretty nice and so on.. lol.. haiz.. nothing to say la.. i think err.. i needa AAR and try my hand and cooking/baking at a later time le.. lol

i was gonna go bahamas

i was gonna go bahamas but all i got was


courtesy of coldstone creamery, NYC.


sigh.. as u might have guessed the horrid snowstorm on friday delayed stuff and yeah.. by the time we reached LGA to try and change our tickets etc, we were too tired and err.. i guess too dazed to consider stuff like waiting list and so on and so..

we bummed our way round NYC for half a day to justify to bus cost, then bummed all the way back to Ithaca. -_- well the other group was smart enough to go on waiting list etc and yeah.. hope you're having fun! =) (have fun for us)

oh well.. actually im not too bummed. whatever time is fun time as long as you're happy, and breaks can be taken regardless of where you are.. had quite fun few days cooking, play mahjong, poker, watching tv etc.. lol.. haha.. basically staying indoors till the snow goes away.

yup.. so that pretty much summarizes my spring break. lol. oh and yeah.. the ice cream WAS good. go try it next time! =)


YET another eating picture from NYC.. i realised..

escape to bahamas!

ok.. just when everyone thought it was time to keep their winter clothing with temperatures soaring to 19 degrees, then comes a mini snow storm which has blanketed everything white again and has sent temperatures back to -4 etc.. brrr

well aniwez, who cares.. cos it's SPRING BREAK!! =) yeah.. going to bahamas to 'nua' and soak up the sun.. hee.. (oh and study social psych. -_-)

aniwez juz a few things.. today was dragon day.. where the architects designed a dragon to parade around the school and then burn it at arts quad. the dragon... is pretty sad this time round. looks like it was borne out of discarded twigs and sticks and yeah.. considering that dragon day was supposed to be heralding the start of spring... yeah.. it was quite paltry that the arts quad was whitewashed and snow was persistently falling around everyone..

well that's not the point. the point is.. hehe.. i skipped a whole day's worth of school! haha... and then went to plum tree and devoured delicious sushi aptly called OUT OF CONTROL! hehe..

ok.. needa pack le.. cya in a week!

spring's coming

took a short walk around cornell (in shorts and tee no less - 19 degrees le!) and yup.. snapped a few interesting shots..


mixture of elements of spring, fall and winter - the brown trees, green grass and icy lake..


mist on lake.. darn it.. it was much nicer two hours earlier..


this picture is so sad.. reeks of destruction and desolation


more mist swirls


the setting sun amidst the trees


observatory. looks very end of world-ish somehow. and yeah.. bye bye snow!

-frank

super funny

yet another of sheryl-isms at breakfast today.

"I played Final Fantasy X for 15 hours but on the game only progressed for like 15 minutes!! Dunno why how come I walk around keep hitting and shattering glass then end up fighting people. Why so much glass?"

0_0. shattering glass?!!? ROFL!!

(for those who dun understand.. haha.. go play some form of FF)

its gettin' cold in here

brrr.. SERIOUSLY. how bummerish it is when you are abt to keep your winter clothes and embrace the coming spring when the temperature dips miserably to -22 degrees for 3 days in a row with frigid wind chills and just.. uneathly, unpalatable weather. sianz.

i have a prelim tmr.. but.. hmmz.. a bit sianz.. seems a little short on content this time round so dunno what to do le. lol. life's really really passing like a blur and soon it's gonna be SPRING BREAK.

yeah.. going to nua in Bahamas i think, study for social psych and possible think of what to do for Summer break. hehe.

btw, just a quick gut feel of who i would support this season of american idol: stephanie and blake. the rest of the guys are gruesome and the girls.. hmmz.. all either j-hudson wannabes or carrie underwood wannabes. haha

snowboarding!!

wah.. seriously now badminton + snowboarding makes up life le. SO SO SO FUN!!!

haha.. still remembered first few lessons we were like struggling down alpha slope thinking that turning was shit difficult and crap. now.. lol.. besides err.. some carefree pple, everyone zips down pretty much in 5 seconds flat.

fun. now trying all different slopes, love Karyatis.. thou getting sick of it really soon.. and also trying the blue slopes. thou honestly i think the difficulty is not only in skill, it's also in courage to go faster. else you will just wanna heel everything, which doesn't make sense when going down the blue/black slopes.

so yeah.. one more week left. sianz! today was extra cool cos the weather was a cherry warm of 4 - 0 degrees celsius and the snow at the top was still pretty decent. furthermore, it started snowing yet again whilst we were finishing our snowboarding.. pretty! somehow snow on the ski resorts just look much much nicer. hee

alrite. back to my circuit design.. sianz