New suit from Marks and Spencer!

Yesterday, two of my friends and I went to Victoria Square to try the food from Chilis. There are a lot of people in the restaurant and luckily we just waited for 5mins to get our seats. This restaurant is just opened this week so we are not surprise to see a so many people. I have only tried Chilis once in MidValley a week before coming to UK in 2004. I remember so well because that is my farewell dinner with my friends.The food is quite okay. I've ordered the Classics Fajita Chicken. It is a typical fajita chicken that I can get from some restaurant. The different is the sauce and the wrapper. It is much more better than what I got elsewhere. Well, I think I spent about £18 for that which is quite expensive because the Fajita Chicken is about £14. Anyway, the rating I gave is about 7/10. Quite low? because I'm picky..haha.

Okay need to go into my topic. On the way to Chilis, My friend and I went into Marks and Spencer to have a look around for any nice bargain. I found a suit for only £39 +£15 for trousers. The original price for the suits is £89 and £29.50 for the trousers. This is very tempting right?haha. After trying the suit and the trousers together, I found out it is quite nice and eventually bought is all together for £54. Cannot resist the temptation...haha. Ohya, the colour for the suit and the trousers is beige colour. Here are some pics.

Suit + trousers

1st pic

2nd pic

Hm...how do I look like. Okla right? Don't criticised too much okay...haha. The reason I didn't wear tie is because I would like to stay casual. that's the purpose I bought this suit.

Trying to get stronger!

Two weeks ago I have bought a 15kg dumbell from amazon at an astonishing price for only £25. The special things about this dumbell is the steel made from chrome and the retail price is about £50, so it is a good bargain. Well, the reason I bought it is quite obvious, to get stronger..haha. I know it is very easy to get injuries from these kind of training so I bought a guide book together with the dumbell to learn the correct way of using this equipment. Here are some of the pics of the dumbell.

Dumbell container

The crome dumbell

Hopefully I can become stronger and muscular as well..haha.

Chocolato cake!

It has been quite a while again that I left my blog unattended. Well, it has been kinda busy working on my project so a bit lazy to update even I have few things to talk about. Well, I actually kind of reluctant to post today's topic because the results is not satisfactory. Anyway, hopefully won't get too much criticised from you guys..haha.
Okay enough for intro..haha. I have made a chocolate cake last week using a chocolate mix and also the icing which I bought from Tesco. It is quite easy to make the chocolate cake since it only required 3 eggs, 250ml of water and 70ml of vegetable oil. All I have to do is to put all the ingredients + mix into a mixing bowl and stirred (using my hand, a very tiring process..lol) it for about 15mins. Then put it into a baking tray (in this case self-made container from tin foil) and load into the oven. The baking process took about 30mins and the baked cake is shown below:

Chocolate cake.

This cake actually reminds me of the chocolate/pandan cake I bought from pasar malam..lol. The upper layer is very crunchy and is not that sweet. To shape into a cake, I have to remove the upper layer to make it flat. Then, I seperated the cake into 2 layers and applying icing in between. The ready made icing I bought from Tesco can be stirred at room temperature and can be easily applied on the cake. However, it is very difficult to spread the icing evenly on the cake especially at the side. Since, my hand is full of chocolate stains I didn't took and picture (I'm kinds lazy to wash my hands..haha). I have only took the picture of my final product..haha.

A slice of chocolate cake served with strawberry and fresh creams.

Classics again.

Recently, I have been quite lazy to update my blog. My frens and my sis started to ask me why I didn't update my blog. Honestly, it is because I'm lazy..lol. Today's topic is related Lili's blog. Since she introduced some classical songs (i'm just a newbie anyway), I would like to introduce this classical songs boxset that I bought last week.

The title for this boxset is The Essential Classics Collection. I bought this for just £7 from Zavvi. It consist of 6 CDs with more than 60 classical songs. Well, this is really a good deal. I actually want to buy this album from Amazon for about £10 plus delivery. It has good reviews from the buyers so I think it is worth to buy, and indeed it is. Each Cd has it own theme. The themes are Meditation, Ochestral Fireworks, Invitation to the Dance, Nocturne, Pomp and Circumstance and Grand Opera. This is a big compilation of classical songs from famous composers such as Mozart, Vivaldi, Beethoven and etc. I've the picture attached as shown below:

The Essential Classics Collection Album

This album is really for beginner like me. I would really recommend this album to beginner like me or even to other people who are interested in classic musics. Okay, I guess that's all for this time. I try my best to update as frequently as possible. Stay tuned!

It's Jello time!

Okay, here is my third home made dessert apart from my muffins and brownies. This time I will be making jelly or "agar-agar", which is more familiar for some people. The process of making jelly is easy but this time I will be making two layers jelly, and of course it will be more difficult. The ingredients I need are "agar-agar", water, sugar, fruit cocktail and evaporated milk. I believe the most difficult task is to determine the amount of water. I need to make sure the jelly is fully "crystallised". If too much water it will dilute the mixture and it will not get "crystallised".

First, I need to cook the agar-agar and the water. After the agar-agar is melted, sugar is added and the mixture is stirred for another 5 minutes. Next, the mixture is poured into a container which contains the fruit cocktail at the container base. The mixture is left for a while until the upper part start to crystallise. Then, I will start to cook the remaining agar-agar with evaporated milk. As usual, sugar is added after the agar-agar is melted and the mixture is stirred for another 5mins. Finally, the mixture is poured on top of the 1st layer and the mixture is left for a while until it get fully crystallised becoming a jelly. The jelly is stored in the fridge for a while until it gets chilled. At last, it is ready to be served. Here are some of the pics of the jelly.

Two layers cake like jelly.

Manage to make two of them.

A close shot to see two distinct layers.

As usual, I brought some to my housemate and my colleagues and they said is quite good..hehe. Another sucessful product..haha.

Fishy dinner

Since my food allergy is getting better, I plan to treat myself with seafood...haha. Obviously I think it is not the seafood that caused my allergy. It is probably caused by the pizza tomato sauce or the pizza dough, I mean the spices they add. The seafood I bought is actually the Cod fillet from Tesco. Well, all of you know that fish are high in protein so it is good for me...hehe.

After thinking for a while, I think simmer fish will be the best for my dinner tonight. So I simmered the fish with ginger, dried mushroom and some salt for about 10++ minutes. Finally, adding some spring onions for better taste and also to decorate the dish. Here is the finishing product produced by me.

Simmered Cod fillet with ginger, mushrooms and spring onions.

It is always difficult to determine the time to simmer a fish. If you steamed it for too long it will ruined the meat texture and if the time too short some parts are not cooked well enough. Luckily since I've help my mum to simmer fish before, this is no problem for me...haha. Hm...what kind of seafood should I cook next time? hehe...

Arrrrr! food allergy

Today is a bad day for me as I am having an allergy. This is the first time I experienced food allergy except from the skin dryness problems 3 years ago. I suspect is the seafood pizza I consumed this morning. Strange thing is I actually have half of the pizza yesterday night when I am having dinner with my friend in Speranza and nothing happen. Also, I ate seafood pizza before and quite a lot in the past and it doesn't give me any problem. Why now? haiz.....

My friend (Huai) who is currently doing his pre-registration year in Pharmacy told me that the rashes will took up to 24 hours before it shows up. This means that these rashes are from yesterday dinner and I maybe have another rashes attack later today because I ate the remaining half pizza this morning....arrrrrrrrr!

These rashes made me scratched my body because it is very itchy. Hopefully it will gone later. I think should avoid seafood pizza in the future.

Classics Fever.

Lately, I have addicted to classical musics. Since I've downloaded The Most Relaxing Classical Album In The World Ever, I have been listening this album over and over again. I have listened to classical musics before but it never caught my attention but this time is different. Maybe it is because it makes me feel relaxed while listening to these musics. Also, it will bring out some of my memories from the past (bad and good as well).
I have been listening to J. S. Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Edvard Grieg and etc. Well, I guess most people will recognise all these well-known composers. I respected these composers for able to create such excellent masterpieces. I have been posting some of these musics at my Favourite Songs section in my blog. Feel free to listen.