Goulash!

Doesn't that sound like a swear word or something you exclaim when you get a shock? Like "Oh my gosh!" or "Goodness gracious!".

It's actually a dish Birdkeeper whipped up this evening for RT and I. Beef Goulash. Pasta with marinated beef cubes, carrots, bell pepper, corn, onions and served with a dollop of sour cream. Delicious.

Now I'm back home catching the FA cup final between Chelsea and Man U. Goulash! No score so far!!!! Can Chelsea please change that?

English 101

Because I cannot stand it anymore and it's really an ear sore!

1) I will _____ with her and get back to you.
a) discuss b) discussed c) discussing


2) Please grab a _____ so that you can sit and chat with me.
a) stool b) stood c) spoon


3) The dress is too long. I need to _____ it.
a) alter b) alternate c) amend


4) We need to have more _______ for this event.
a) enthusiasm b) enthuasm c) elephants


5) An octagon is an ______ - sided figure.
a) eight b) egg c) elbow


The answers are simple right? The (a)s are the correct answers.

Somehow, there are people (it could just as well be just one person la) who choose option (b)s, be it spoken or written. How that happens is beyond me.

Perhaps more interaction with this person(s) will help me assimilate and move into that mode. Afterall, I spend almost half my waking time with these people. Maybe then I can explain it to you the english how come liddat. hahahahha

Mothers' Day

Food overdose.

That very aptly sums up my weekend.

After a week of planning via email, the cousins held a potluck dinner at Kayestercan's house to celebrate Mothers' Day. As with most of our pot luck parties, it was a fusion of east and west. On the eastern side, there was char siew, duck meat, ngor hiang, hokkien mee and char kway teow. Then there was the very western quiche, chicken casserole and potato salad. There was also the very peranakan buah keluak and chap chye. It was really too much food. And then of course, there was the home made Mothers' Day cake, compliments of Geri.


Sunday's dinner with RT's family was another session of food overdose. After the big portion of pho we had for lunch, and the vietnamese rice paper roll (which I ate most of cos RT hates the mint leaves inside), I was really too stuffed to eat anymore. But I did, cos the buffet spread was just irresistable. Japanese, Koerean, Chinese, Thai.

Now I need to run.

To all the mothers out there, "Happy Mothers' Day!" and a big "Thank You" for all you've done and all the sacrifices you've made. :)

The Dogcat

Here are some of the comments I get about my dog:

- So cute. Like panda you know!

- So round and so fat. Shih Tzu meh?

- Look like the lion from the lion dance. Mini one.

- Your dog looks like a gremlin.

- So cute! Like a Furby

- Floor Rug! Come Floor Rug!

- RT calls him The Rambutan and occassionally The Crysanthemum Head.



Judging from his new obsession in the pictures above, I think he might just be a cat. :)

Unplugged

Purple's phone rings.

Ms Irrinoying: Eh, Purples, can you give me ALL the advertisers for ALL the sites for this particular period?

Purples: You need to have an idea what kind of site you want. I have a lot of spaces available.

Ms Irrinoying: You give me all can? Cos client asked for it.

Client ask you to eat shit, you eat or not?? Unreasonable. Stupid.

Purples: Clients' buys are confidential. I can't reveal their campaign details, but I can tell you what's available.

Ms Irrinoying: Ok, can. can give me all that's available so I can give options to the client. Can send within the next hour?

All?? We servicing you alone only issit?? Don't send now you will die issit?



Purple's phone rings

Ms Irrinoying: Purps ah, I just sent you an email. You received or not?

Purples: Nope. Not yet.

Ms Irrinoying: Hmmm....I sent about 10 mins ago leh. I send again.

Purples: ok.

2 minutes later....

Ms Irrinoying: Eh Purps, have you received the email?

Purples: Nope.

Ms Irrinoying: Funny. Is there something wrong with your email?

Purples: Dunno. But I have no problems receiving other external mails.

This went on for awhile till the email finally came in. I ended up with 4 emails from her. Each 4MB in size. And she wonders why it took so long. Sheesh. And how well do you know me har, to call me by a short form??



Cooking Girl's phone rings.

Ms Irrinoying: Cooking Girl, can you give me the availability of all these places for the whole year?

Cooking Girl: ALL these places for the WHOLE year? Don't you have a brief which has more in-depth details?

Ms Irrinoying: Erm, ya, but I need to provide client with options.

I say again, client ask you to eat shit you eat ah?

Cooking Girl: Mmm. Ok.

Ms Irrinoying: Can send now?

Cooking Girl: You've to give me some time to check since you want ALL the sites for the WHOLE year.

2 minutes later, the phone rings.....

Ms Irrinoying: Cooking girl ah, what is the cost of this ah? And that leh?

Cooking Girl: I thought I've given it to you before? Anyway, it's all in the rate book.

Ms Irrinoying: I know I know. But I'm waiting for your email so that I can send it out to client.

Cooking Girl: Ok. I'm in the midst of the email now.

1 minute later, the phone rings again.

Ms Irrinoying: Eh Cooking Girl, I checked. Cannot find in the rate book leh!

Cooking Girl: Then can you gimme 5 mins to get the email out???

This is the same girl who leaves a missed call on our mobiles. A minute later, we get another missed call from her. And then another and another in the next few minutes until our phones display 10 missed calls in a span of 15 minutes!!! Somebody tell me just what she is thinking??? How come people like this exist?

Well anyway, she really irritated the hell outta Cooking Girl today. After repeated ringing of her phone, I heard the volume of her voice gradually increasing, and then this....

Haha. It was damn funny. But for all her laziness and stupidity and no-use of her brain, Ms Irrinoying deserves all the shit and sarcasm we throw her. I could give you more examples, but I shan't waste my time.

Chicken Rice & Mahjong Sesh

It's been a while since I played mahjong. Half a year, maybe? So I got back into it, and, like a seow char bo, had 3 sessions of it in a span of the week.

Today, we started at 4pm. Alien Head, The Officer, The Officer's Wife and myself. Birdkeeper had very kindly agreed to prepare dinner, so he was busy in the kitchen from 4pm. All this while, from the mahjong table, we could hear the sound of sharpening knives and the clanging of pots and pans until we whiffed the fragance of the food he had whipped up at 7pm.

Here's what the chef made...


Chicken rice. All from scratch, except for the century eggs which he had gotten from the famous Yung Kee in Hong Kong. I don't usually eat the yolks of these eggs, but these were surprisingly odourless!

And then of course, there was one of his signature dessert - Chocolate Torte. Yummers.

I know I'm trying my luck, but I'll ask again anyways..."can give recipe or not?".

Korean BBQ & Rubbish Talk

Dinner today was exceptionally late at 9pm because:

1) BFC had to head back to town (while on her way to meet me) to claim her discount that wasn't given as promised

2) Alien Head was being difficult about being invited to dinner even though he had bumped into BFC in town and she had asked him to join us.

3) I was finishing up a mahjong session

Anyway, it was supposed to be just us three (Shades of Pink, Purples, BFC), but we ended up in the company of RT, Birdkeeper and Alien Head (after he managed to squeeze an invitation outta me) as well. Which was just as well, cos we sure had a lot of fun talking rubbish, laughing, eating eating, eating, eating, eating and eating at "Ju shin Jong Korean Charcoal BBQ".

We really just ate and ate and ate and ate.

Barbecued beef, barbecued pork, barbecued chicken, bibimbap, spicy beef soup, spicy tofu soup and a LOT of appetisers. There was kimchi, pickled salad, pickled sotong, tofu, potato sald, dumpling, fish cake, and kimchi water. All free flow except for the dumpling. Mostly yummy; everyone had something they liked and ordered a lot of, except for the kimchi water, which everyone couldn't stomach, citing that it tasted like longkang water or kimchi sai zui (kimchi shit water). Tsk. It's supposed to be good for digestion, you all know or not? My favourite must be the kimchi - the best kimchi I've tasted here.

Oh, right before dinner, we were served these.

Now, make an intelligent guess. What are they?

BFC, Birdkeeper and Shades of Pink thought they were appetisers. RT, Alien Head and I thought they were solid fuel (which I believe was the more intelligent guess).

All in all, it was good food, good company, good rubbish conversations ... we should do this again peeps.

For those of you who like Korean cuisine, you should check this place out. It's at East Coast, just above Burger King. Next to Waraku. It used to be the bowling centre.

Ok, those little white things above? You gotta add a little water to them...

... and then they become these... hand towels!