Brunei's 27th National Day!

Hey all!

Today, the 23rd February 2011 marks the 27th National Day for Brunei! Hope you all back home could enjoy more or less the festivities and parade haha.

I even gotten around to pull out my flag and fly it on my room lol. I didn't put it up initially cos they have this no-stuff-on-the-walls rule here. But screw it! I'll put it up at least for today!

Patriotic much? Anyway I am indeed proud to be Bruneian :P

Salute!

Edit: Oh and my previous uni, Kent, sent me an e-mail with this photo.

God dammit they know how to make me miss them more and more :( </end of edit>

On a side note, I am hungry TT____TT

~Fox

Chinese New Year Celebration in London 2011!

Hey all!

Hope you all have had a wonderful week of celebration especially those back in Brunei! As for me, on New Year's day I had a lecture from 7-9pm -___-; And thinking that the celebration in London was on Saturday, Shin, my sis and I went to Trafalgar Square only to see them setting up the stage and booths.

We went the next day, on the 6th February 2011. We kinda missed the front bits cause we were late lol. I missed the lion and dragon dance! OMG epic sadface! Anyhoo, the place was packed :S The booths and ideal viewpoints were swamped with people we couldn't see anything and decided to stand far from the stage, slowly inching forwards when people moved out of the way ahah.

They had dance, music, aerobatics, even magic and comedy performances finishing with a finale of fireworks!
Beware this is an image heavy post!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Hey everyone!

Today begins the year of the Rabbit in the Lunar Calendar so I would like to wish all of you out there regardless whether you celebrate or not....

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

GONG XI FA CHAI!

Wishing you all health, prosperity and happiness with friends and especially family!

Here's Woody celebrating too. (I used the pig ang pao (red packet) cause that's the only one I have in my drawer :S Would've been nice to have something more general LOL)

 LoL his face was like this cos of Shin so might as well take one before changing the eyes. 

"Oh boy ang pao get! ahyuk"

 "Wonder how much I got"

 "errr.... 10? It's not even 10 cents!!!!"

"OTL sob sob"

Haha. Sad I have classes in the evening on CNY But I'll make the most of the day I hope :P

Anyways all the best guys!

Best wishes,

~Fox

Food of the end of December 2010

Hey all,

First and foremost,

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!

Hope you guys had a good one spent with family and friends, all the best on your endeavours in 2011!

This is a combination of a much delayed post and something I thought of writing yesterday.

Winter solstice
First of all is whilst I was here in Nottingham, Shin and I made "tang yuan" on the 22nd of December as it was the winter solstice festival I think? Basically these are glutinous rice balls boiled and eaten with a sweet pandan soup base thingie.

I woke up to find Shin had already made the red ones which she filled with red bean paste. And I realised there weren't any white ones and Shin didn't notice there weren't either lol (must've been too tired from waking up early to make the red ones) so we made the white ones.

We boiled water and put the balls in. Then I had a zap of creativity and tried to play around with them and got this. It looked like a face to me and so I modified it a bit.

This looked more like it, yes? Can you see what it is?

....well it's supposed to be the Yin and Yang symbol. I think I did it pretty well and luckily took this photo too. A few seconds later the balls started to cook and were floating.

Then we tasted it and I realised we were supposed to boil the tang yuan in the sweet base itself, not water cos they didn't have the pandan sweet taste :S. So we dumped the rest of the balls into the base.

Like so and sure enough, it tasted sweeter the next time we had it :D

New Year's Eve
On New Year's Eve me, Shin and 2 other friends (Zheng and Chiao Hong) spent a somewhat quiet evening dinner. Shin and I made a chicken-based dinner of:

Steamed chicken with garlic-soy sauce...sauce for

Chicken rice with scallop and shallot!

and chicken soup!

Rocky road cheesecake for desert!

Me and Zheng went to get groceries and I got a bottle of Pimm's cos I was curious to the taste!

We mixed 1 part Pimm's with 3 parts lemonade Schweppes, and apple, orange, strawberry and mint leaves. It did indeed taste refreshing ;D

After dinner we drank and watched Zoolander and Fantastic Mr. Fox while eating chips. Definitely a good way to welcome the new year (b ^.')

Hope you guys had a blast too! With a countdown and all :P

~Fox