Happy 2011

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Finally got time to blog. Just reached Kuching 5 hours ago.

How was your celebration?

Nothing much for me, was in Singapore. Spent it in the hotel room packing, showering, and sleeping *LOL* I did not manage to get new clothes or shoes but just some random little things. It feels weird because usually I’ll surely bought at least some clothes since CNY is coming and should be doing my shopping there ;p

The trip was quite tiring, never have a trip this tired hmm… Legs are painful too, walked too much. Surprising, I met so many people that I know on this trip. What’s the odd of having someone you know boarded the same flight as you, stayed at the same hotel(only found out the on the third day, met at the lobby), and went back on the same flight too? Then, met another person that happened to spend her holiday in Singapore at a place you least expected, a coffee shop in Singapore. Next, one of my blog readers was on the same flight but saw her from afar, didn’t manage to approach her.

As if everyone in Kuching was heading to Singapore these few months. Almost everyone I know all visited Singapore these few months. Guess it’s the new attractions and the affordable flight tickets.

As usual… I’ll blog about the trip 😉

Happy new year and hope you have a wonderful year ahead!

Public Events, Randomness

See You in 2011

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By the time you see this post, I’m in Singapore already!!

Will try to blog or update on Twitter whenever I can. Gonna hit the two latest casinos but not going to place any bet there *LOL*

Will be back on 1st January. See you by then!

Enjoy your new year celebration! Have a blessed new year!

Sweet Surrender will have a new look in 2011 but not sure when, definitely before March. I hope… ;p

Going Places

Some Szechuan Dishes

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Thanks to a friend that invited me to the food tasting session many many moons ago but I didn’t blog about it. We tasted the Szechuan cuisines prepared by none other than the friendly and energetic Szechuan ladies based in Kuching. By the way, I don’t know the dishes’ names, I asked that time but didn’t pen it down and now I cannot remember much, even the tastes too. One thing for sure, we feast! Nice!

Just to share the photos with you… If you know the names, do share with me 🙂

As you all know, Szechuan cuisines are known to be very spicy. However, they didn’t dare to make it too spicy as they’re afraid that we couldn’t stand the spiciness. It turned out that we told them that it’s not spicy enough! ;p Can add more chili hahaha…


Left: The Szechuan style cucumber pickles. It’s refreshing. Even though you see those chilies on top, if you are sane enough then don’t go eat the chilies, it’s meant to boost the flavour only unless you can stand eating the chilies only -.-” I definitely will not do that.

Right: There’s quite a number of chicken dishes, this is one of them.


Left: Braised chicken (or is it duck?) with tofu and eggs. It was too salty for our Malaysian tongue but according to them, that’s how they usually make this dish.

Right: Black fungus dish. Don’t remember much but I like the crunchiness of the black fungus.


Left: Szechuan dessert. I forgot the name. There’s egg, glutinous rice dumpling, and snow fungus in the sweet soup. The white thing peeking out from the soup is egg white. It can be served hot or cold.

Right: Lao Ya Tang(老鸭汤), we were a bit shocked when we heard the name. We thought it was “laoya tang” (literally translate, lousy soup in Hokkien). We were like did-I-hear-laoya and repeating the name to each other in disbelief until the niece of the ladies had to translate the word “Lao Ya” to English, it means old duck! It’s not lousy as we had thought earlier. *LOL* Was told that they really used old duck for this soup but they couldn’t find old duck here, so just use the common duck they found in the market.

*Burp*

Food Porn

Christmas Eve 2010

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It’s Christmas eve. Where are you? What are you doing? I’m gonna try to sleep early tonight ;p Tomorrow morning will go to church. Trying to complete my assignment now hehehe…

Didn’t go to many places these few months, most of the time I stayed home. Only some photos to share.

Christmas decor at tHe Spring.


tHe Spring is packed now because of the concert. Went there this afternoon to window shop and was shocked to find that carpark was pretty full, lots of shoppers too. It’s not even 4.30pm! Lucky me. Got one spot immediately after got into the basement parking.


This is the Christmas decor at Boulevard. The decorations were mostly from recyclable materials especially plastic bottles! This is how it looks like under the plastic bottle Christmas tree (or is it a bell?) Hehehe…

First thing in the morning I got a good news!

Left: The HTC HD7 is now mine! YAY!

Middle:
Went to get my IC replaced yesterday, then collected it today. Yesterday was hilarious! It took the officer almost 10 shoots or more(didn’t count) to get my photo right ;p I was at the counter for so long. First few, she couldn’t get the lighting right, too dark or the camera couldn’t focus. Then, she tested some shoots. After that, she thought it should be OK already and asked me to have a look to see if I’m satisfied with it, I noticed that I didn’t look at the camera instead at the mirror hahaha… I asked her, where am I supposed to look. I was looking at the mirror all those time! Funny. *blek* So we retook. Few more, not good too.

Next, I was messing with my hair while waiting for her to do some adjustments, she suddenly asked me to to frame my face with my hair, it will look better. WAKAKA! I thought we must show our ears for IC. No need! Don’t even have to wear clothes with sleeves! OK… Now I know. Again, took the photo and finally she told me to wear the vest for better contrast, two shoots and she asked me to have a look again, I wasn’t quite satisfied with it but since I hogged the counter for so long, I just agreed on that, at least not so bad. Should have use my double eyelid tape then it will look nicer and wear something darker.

Cool! I didn’t know we can now choose our photo for IC ;p The end photo was with the hair framing the face and with black vest which is making me look as if I have very thick hair and made the whole photo triangular 0_0″

I went there at around 4.20pm to collect the IC(you can now get your IC done in one day provided you go there early but there will be tonnes of people! If after 3.30pm then might have to wait till the next day), I thought they are closing or already closed but they they only close at 5pm. Phew… I was so afraid I wasn’t in time.

Useful tips, if you want fast service, go there after 4pm, most likely you don’t have to wait for your turn because the place is practically empty by then.

Right: Finally payment made. What is it all about? You’ll know soon but not that soon. I’m grateful to have a supportive family, thank you very much. I hope things will go as planned and I have less than a year to make things happen the way I want it to be because it’s an expensive feat else I’ll be in serious shit!

Merry Christmas everyone! Play safe!

Personal Events, Public Events, Uniquely Kuching