Sweet Surrender (Lovebellbelle) - Based in Kuching, Sarawak

Do You Think You Are Nuts?

August 15, 2008August 17, 2008 sweet surrender No Comments

I’m nuts about Reader’s Digest. I don’t read anything else but this. I will never miss it. Other magazines can come and go but I’ve been reading this for more than 10 years! Every month, never fail.

Here’s one interesting article that I would like to share with you, it’s called Are You Normal or Nuts? Don’t worry if you don’t have a copy, you can always read it online. Go read Are You Normal or Nuts? and then come back here to share your views with me will you?

As many people know, I’m afraid of snake or anything long, slimy and without legs. EWWW!! This is defintely normal, so I’m not nuts. It’s just like you are scare of rats, spiders, cockcroaches and so on.

How about this? One pretty odd one of mine, I would be squeamish when wet hair stuck to my body or hand when I’m wet like when having shower and washing my hair. I must quickly remove them else I feel very uncomfortable. Talking about me with long hair and hair fall is quite common when washing. 😛 I don’t mind dry hair that fall but the wet hair that sticks to me really makes me squirm. So? Is this nuts?

I found this one pretty interesting quirks in the article:

I cannot eat certain big, tricky-to-bite things in front of people unless I know them very well. Facing a huge sandwich at a business lunch is a nightmare. And a floppy wet salad on a date? Forget it. That’s odd, no?

Do you feel this? I’m sure many of us feel this way too! Hehehe… I’m one of them. So are we nuts? Of course not, we just want to take care of our image ;p With those that I know well, don’t care it’s male or female, I don’t care, I’ll just eat as much as I like, no matter how messy it is hehehe…

Just go read the article and find out more. You will know you are not nuts but normal.

Interesting

Kuching Festival 2008 – Part 3

August 14, 2008August 21, 2008 sweet surrender No Comments

Let’s see more food from Kuching Festival. These were taken last Sunday, we bought the food home for dinner. The photos are pretty yellowish because that’s the original lighting of my house and I didn’t use flash. I only use macro to take these photos.

These are o kueh(yam kueh) and pumpkin kueh *LOL* Don’t know how to call them with proper name 😛 This is how we called them at home.

Left: Pineapple rice again… I usually ended up buying pineapple rice if I can’t decide what I want to buy hahaha… The one from Bangkok Thai is still the best. This is from another Thai restaurant because Bangkok Thai’s stall was packed!
Right: Penang assam laksa. Not so bad just that the weather was hot and humid, eating this was really torturing! 😛

Left: Fried emperor noodle, so small portion, so not nice.
Right: Cuttlefish with sweet chilli sauce. Yumm…

Left: Belacan beehoon is belancan beehoon :P.
Right: I don’t remember what this is called, in Chinese it’s “guo tieh”, hahaha… Something like fried dumpling. Not nice.

Last Sunday was my fourth time there. It’s always very hot and humid there. Lazy to go even though it’s quite near to my place hahahah…

Food Porn, Uniquely Kuching

Most Fun Dream Ever

August 13, 2008August 14, 2008 sweet surrender 4 Comments

I decided to post this up after talking to Lee just now hehehe… I told him about the dream I got few days ago. I was thinking of sharing it here earlier but there’s other things to update, now I’m lazy to edit some photos so might as well share it.

Few nights ago, I dreamt that I went to Genting with my friends from college that we always hang out with.

They were Lee, Khoon How, Nick, Ann, Jee, Lee Ling, Audrey, Hui Yee and I. We went to Genting staying in the apartment or a chalet(don’t remember). We didn’t go together though. However, we all met there on the same day. Those came later actually bought some cakes form Secret Recipe, some bought donuts from JCo and Big Apple. Then some of us cook some food in the kitchen. We had all these for dinner.

Then the next day, we went to the theme park and we all had fun! After that, I woke up. Hahaha…

Such fun dream! This is my first time having dream like this. Isn’t it fun?

Hmm… When will we really have the chance to go for holiday in a group like this? It’s been a while, everyone is busy with their own commitments nowadays. It’s been a long time not hanging out together also.

Me, myself and I

Anna Cake Training Centre Free Demo

August 12, 2008August 12, 2008 sweet surrender 15 Comments

Got the free demo class coupon from My Privilege Book and I went to the free demo with my sis. One person needs one coupon, so I asked for another one from Jimmy. Annna.net(has to use this as the owner of the training centre is also Anna *LOL*) was supposed to be joining us as promised months back but she got something to do last Saturday so I went with my sis.

It was not easy looking for the place. I’ve never been to that area *LOL* Asked around and I still didn’t really get how to go there. At the end my father told me how to go there from Kuching Specialist direction and I tried my luck and finally found it! Same row as Sahara Cafe, Eastern Times behind it, and there’s a J&J something-something, not the J&J Cafetaria though. I didn’t know all these places so with the instructions I got, it’s all not that helpful hahaha…

I went there from Kuching Specialist direction instead of from Friendship Park like many people told me. Drove straight up, ignored the first junction(Canna 2) on the left, go straight up and see the second junction(Lorong 2) on the left, turn into this junction and then drive until another junction on your right and turn in. You will see a big market and shops there, it’s located at one of the blocks, very easy to find as it’s not a big commercial centre.

We went in, then we were required to pay RM5 for the ingredients and we would be given takeaway. We were given with the list of recipes, there’s no instructions there, you have to write them down yourself.

I took photos of the workstation with my phone.

After I took the picture on the right, she said that we were not allowed to take any photos during the demo, we could only take the photo of the final product. So… I had to keep my phone and concentrate on what she’s teaching.

The demo for last Saturday was Mango Pudding(not in the photo, forgot to take photo of it), Taiwan Tofu Cake(right), Wholemeal Banana Cake(middle), and Fruity Jelly(left). These were what we got to bring home but in very little portion *LOL* We did eat there as well. Very delicious 😉

I thought it would last from 2pm-5pm but it ended at around 3.30pm. WOW! So fast, 4 recipes done in such short hours, that’s what you call multitasking. Just for one recipe I could spend one whole afternoon to do it and this? Less than 2 hours! WOW! Impressive.

Anna is very friendly woman and she got a lot of achievements under her belt. She provides training for those who are interested in baking. I observed the way she taught her students during the demo as she was doing two tasks at the same time, demo and teaching, she’s really good. She doesn’t spoon feed you but encourage you to discover everything along the way by practical and asking questions. To complete the course, if you are taking once a week class, it will take you 1 year to complete the whole course to get your certificate; if you take up full-time course, it would be about 4-6 months.

I’ll share the recipes with you when I’m free, they are very easy to do 😉

My Kitchen

My Canon IXUS-es

August 11, 2008August 11, 2008 sweet surrender 11 Comments

Hehehe… In this post, I’ll take about my new camera also 😉

Showed you this picture before, my 3 IXUS-es. My whole collection *LOL*

Left: My newest IXUS bought it from Kuching, Canon IXUS 80 IS, the biggest of all! The cheapest of all! Got it at RM999

Middle: Just retired IXUS bought it from KL, Canon IXUS i zoom, I think I’ll ask my bro to assemble it and do some soldering to the wires 😛 That should fix the problem, happened to find out about it last night in a forum hehehe… If it’s fixed, HURRAY! I have two cameras to use 😛 Lasted 2 and half years.

Right: The first generarion IXUS bought it from Singapore and the most expensive one. Lasted 1 year only -.-”

Here’s a combo photos of all the 3 IXUS-es, see the differences of the designs and sizes and of course the colours 😛

I like to take macro shoots and all these 3 served me very well! The photo qualities are always exceptional!

Let’s start with the first IXUS, got this in December 2003 in Singapore. My dad bought it and then I’m the hogger and ended up became mine *LOL* What to do? I’m the one who used it the most, the rest of my family members didn’t use it much, might as well give it to me hahaha… This one doesn’t have optical zoom, just digital zoom. However, it took fantastic macro photos. This is how I discovered the fun of macro, thanks to this camera.

Next, second IXUS, got it at RM1300+ at Low Yat, KL somewhere in January 2006. Gave me tonnes of problem and sent it in and out of Canon to fix as the problem could only be discovered by luck. The battery contact was faulty! Then I found out the macro seemed not working but in fact there’s no problem with it, you can only use the macro when you use optical zoom else it’s just normal photo, it won’t change to macro mode automatically even after you choose the macro mode. Got pretty nervous when it reached the one year mark but good thing it was OK and lasted another 1 and half year. Phew… Then E18 came…

The latest IXUS, RM999 only with tonnes of freebies but not all useful *LOL* Except the SD cards(1GB and 2 GB), neck strap, tripod, screen protector and casing. This camera is very bulky unlike the previous two. It’s quite pain in the ass to bring it around 😛 However, the photos quality is pretty good and with my shaky hands, the IS is really useful and great for taking photos in low light condition. The macro was quite good coupled with the IS. I haven’t use much of it though as there’s not much events going on and do not have any outings to shoot lots and lots of photos. I haven’t camwhored with it too! 😛

These are the freebies that I got from buying this new camera at Sarawak ICT Expo 2008. Hopefully this camera can last me for at least another 3 years. *CROSS MY FINGERS* For your record, I had taken almost 600 photos with it hahaha… All the photos in this post were taken with my sis’ Olympus.