Foodie IQ

Found this website to test your Foodie IQ

http://recipefinder.ninemsn.com.au/quiz.aspx?quizid=2443

Have a go at it… it’s quite interesting

My score 15/20

What your score means:

1–5: You’ve still got a lot to learn. Why not sign up for a cookery class?
6–10: You’re interested in food and keen to learn more. Try a new recipe today.
11–15: Keep up the good work. You’re well on your way to becoming a domestic goddess.
16–20: Congratulations! Jamie and Nigella had better look out.

A Call fo Prayer

It’s not something I usually do – to put something serious on this blog…. But somehow this situation has struck me and I thought I’ll put this in.

The Taliban is currently holding 22 Korean hostages – Christian workers who were doing medical and relief work in Afghanistan and was abducted by the Taliban. Their leader Pastor Bae Hyung Kyu was executed last week. His body was found on a highway with 10 bullets in him. He leaves behind a wife and a daughter. For more information and current updates on the situation, I found Eugene Cho’s blog extremely useful…..

http://eugenecho.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/prayer-for-korean-hostages-in-afghanistan/

Let us unite now and pray for the lives of these people that something good will come out of all this.

A Blast from the Past

Wow… it’s amazing what the internet galaxy can do these days…. This morning I received a comment on my email with regards one of my posts below and it was from Mona G… and really the only Mona I know and lost contact when I lived in the UK and she moved to the US …. was from way back when I was bumming around for my first 3 months after the ‘O’ Levels and so I replied to her comment to double check if it was her and lo and behold I got an email back from her confirming that it was her!!! Far out… I found my long lost friend…. I’m absolutely stoked!!! Man… we had some crazy times together! Let’s see…

1. we (together with another friend) sent Valentine Day cards to all the guys in our class – that freaked the guys out

2. when Mona and I went to my cousin’s house one day, she ate a piece of the dry DOG FOOD after I dared her

3. we (and half the class) used to sneak out of classes and went to my house to chill and got into trouble…. My dad backed us up though

4. Hanging out at Brannigans in our school uniforms

5. Eating at my grandma’s kitchen

I’m still stoked…. I dont think I’ll be doing much work today

Ssshhh…

Since I’m busy reading the last Harry Potter book… I’ll leave you with a photo of my book holders

Attitude and Tolerance

OK… so for those who know me will know that I have an extreme low tolerance for people… people who I think are ‘dumb’, irritating, gets on my nerves, fake, superficial, etc. For these people, I just put on a fake smile or fake expression that those who know me will be able to pick out when I give these fake smiles or sometimes, I just ignore them. If they can be fake then so can I. There are quite a few people in that category Having said that, I make no apologies for being who I am, friends can either accept me for who I am or dont bother being my friend.

Anyway, last week there was a farewell dinner & bowling night for a friend who will be moving to Singapore for work. Actually he said he will only be in Singapore for one year… so really, to a certain extent I didn’t quite understand the big ‘hoo hah’ abt this farewell that had 50 people attending – the organisers admitted that it was like a mini nightmare wedding…. and we kept getting msn and email reminders that if we bail out of the dinner we still have to fork out $15.

So off I went to this farewell… the only positive thing was that it was just down the road from my house. When I got there, the first thing that irritated me was people who I thought are my friends did not reserve a seat for me at the TS3 table…. but consolation came when I saw J&ST sitting at another table and so I headed off to sit with them. Later on, as the table filled up, but it was filled with some people who fall under the above category of people I find irritating…. so immediately, the fake smile and facial expression lighted up.

As dinner was abt to commence, the organisers realised that we had 12 people on our table and there was 7 on another table… and so they started asking 3 people to move to the other table. OK here’s the stupid part… the 7 on that table, was from another group… so really, wouldnt we be uncomfortable moving to an unknown table – like I said it was like a mini wedding…. but on the other hand, I thought it would be only courtesy that the last 3 who arrived on our table should do the right thing and move to the other table – afterall we actually made room for one of that other 3 people that came last…. but no… they just sat on their arses…

Next, JT tried to get himself and 2 other guys to go to the other table of 7 – but one of the other guys being a total wimp did not want to be moved as he wanted to be seated with his other friend and gf. So that idea was canned. By that time, I was getting seriously sick of the whole thing. Sure I could have said I’ll move, but hey why should I move when I wasnt the last to arrive?

So in the end, nobody moved and then comments were said that since there was 12 of us and food was only for 10 on each table, there might be insufficient food but they will pass down food from the table of 7. So by that time, I got tired of the whole issue and decided to walk out of the dinner. So walked out I did. ST said to me that I wasted my $15 but seriously, I would rather have wasted my $15 than to sit with a whole bunch of hypocrites who call themselves leaders in the church or serve in some aspect of the various church committees. After I walked out I sent txt msgs to 2 people telling them I had left the dinner and they didn’t bother to reply straight away, rather waited till after the whole thing to send me a msg on msn and to reply at abt 11 ish. On hindsight, I think that was a stupid thing for me to have done.

What finally topped it was at cell on Saturday, the same friend that I considered a friend but didn’t bother to reserve a seat for me in the first place commented to me that me walking out showed that I had a ‘bad attitude’ for walking out. However, this person who said that is at the moment battling an attitude of being anti-cell and anti-church which I think it’s worse than me with an attitude of walking out coz I was sick of people… but hey, who am I to comment since I have a bad attitude?

Photobooth attempt

So here’s my attempt at using Photobooth on the Mac Note the dogs just had a hair cut thus not as cute as normal

Back

So I’ve made it back from Singapore… and if you’ve read the comments from Bloh on the post before I left, you would know that I have very satisfactory completed my shopping list….

This trip has been a lot of ‘firsts’ for me….

1.  First GEC

2. First trip to Pengeran for eating

3.  First MacBook

4. First gift from Brazil courtesy of ST

5. First time flying Tiger Air

6. First time hearing EC sing ‘live’

And this is my first post using my new Mac…. I’ll write more later and add some photos – once my tech support arrives and I get to ask all my silly questions

First GEC 2007

So I finally made it back to the annual GEC after so many years. It was pretty full on from the minute I reached home… Finally got to see mission control and how everything is run. In addition, I got to play mentor as well to one of the teams…. and YSF and I got to choose our own teams coz we were given the responsibility to allocate teams Incidentally, YSF’s team won and represented Singapore in the GEC.

The first day and the first hour or so, the kids were all pretty quiet and didn’t really interact with one another. By mid morning things were starting to warm up… by the time the challenge was issued at 5pm, they were already exchanging their mobile numbers and emails, planning an all nighter to hang out and play LAN Games or to work on their challenge. It was an interesting experience to see how a diverse group of students from JCs, Int’l Schools, Poly & ITE can come together as a team and their interaction with one another.

By the next morning, they were all out together going shopping and eating and realising that they have several things in common to talk about. By the time GEC came to a closure, I heard things like “Hey dont forget to stay in touch!” – which I thought was pretty cool. Actually, I think GEC could be the now defunct SDU as we’ve seen and heard rumours of previous GEC participants becoming boyfriends and girlfriends.

So here’s a couple of pics from GEC ….

I’m on my way from misery to happiness today…

OK well that’s abit of an exaggeration… I’m not miserable in Perth – except being deprived of certain foods… but I am heading to Singapore… not today but in a couple of days…. oh just think… days of eating and shopping and eating and shopping and MORE eating!!! Get the picture? And SF has taken the entire week off… and ST in Perth will be back as well… so we can pretty much all pig out together

In the midst of the eating, I’ll be busy shopping and celebrating my birthday… and so, I thought I’ll put my b’day wish list and shopping list on here… the shopping list is so I wont forget and the b’day wish list is…. *HINT HINT*

1. Laptop (ok… I cant decide… to switch to a Mac or stick to a PC)

2. Gym Bag including water bottle & headphones

3. Shoes

4. Bags

5. Whatever else that may catch my eye

I have to admit I’m stressing out that I only have 15kgs to travel back with… yeah… taking Tiger Air…

So, if I have the time and I can be bothered, I’ll do a food diary… that is… if I can be bothered

Control Freaks

OK… back to the church again…. seeing a pattern here?? I think volunteering/helping out in the church is as bad as working in an office – when you have some crazy freaks in there. The only problem is that you cant quite gossip abt these people in church with other church people coz technically we’re not suppose to be gossiping about other people… ah.. what the heck.

Anyway, there are these 2 paedentic control freaks in church… they just insist on being in control of everything especially the spelling and grammar of materials that go out from the church – like seriously, they think their grammar and spelling is tops – big frigging deal…. What makes things worse is that everybody entertains their whims and fancies as well  and usually sides with them when the little ones like us try to say something about them to the higher authorities….  What made it funny is that one week in the bulletin, they spelt “science” incorrectly… that made my day