Birthday Dinner

I spent the whole day just to prepare this dinner for my hubby!

Made meatball for starter

Marinaded lamb chop and refrigerated it for 5hours

Grilled meatball and made the gravy.

Shredded carrot and lettuce for salad,

baked potato, and grilled the lamb chop!

Our menu:

Starter - Beef meatball with gravy & mushroom soup (I did not made the mushroom soup, it's a prepacked soup. What the heck, I don't care! I dont have so much time ler)

Main course - Grill Lamb chop with baked potato

Desert - None! (Yes, none! I ruined the desert, darn it!)

And of course, couldn't miss out the present. I bought him the JPG parfume. It's no surprise for him cos he knew I'm gonna get him this parfume. We are staying together, there is no where and no way for me to play hide and seek. Instead of guessing what he wants, I brought him to Brown Thomas and let him chose the present himself! It's kinda funny anyway because it's in a X-mas package.

I'm proud of myself that I'm able to prepare a decent dinner as planned (Despite failing the dessert -_-")

Baby, I hope you enjoy the dinner! Happy Birthday!

Baby, I have a request! Could you please have a body like the JPG parfume bottle?

Freezing!

The weather ranges from 4-8C at daytime these few days. It's so cold! It is even colder if it's windy. I have no choice but to wear scarf, glove and headdress once I step out of my apartment. Or else, my ears and hands will be benumbed! No thanks to the gusty wind climate here.

Every part of the body could be clothed and covered up except the face. And my cheeks blush in the cold weather whenever I am out there braving the icy wind. Funny, I never realise that my cheeks so 'colourful' in cold weather before this. It's obviously very rosy, emm, or shall I say reddish.

Too warm, my cheeks blush.
Too cold, my cheeks blush -_-"
With just drops of beer/liquor, my cheeks also blush.

Damn useless! And my friends around would think I'm drunk, but I'm absolutely not!

At night, the temperature hovers around 0-4C.
Worst still, it's not even winter yet. I dare not to imagine how would it be then.

There is summer break holiday.
Why not to have a winter break as well, so that I could hibernate at home (".)

Goodbye

My Singaporean colleague has been sacked! My manager said he is not capable enough to be my senior.

That's funny! He has three year experience and actually went through two interview with them. First interview with the manager and second interview with the director. And they can’t even notice he is not capable during the interview?

My colleague just left without saying goodbye to me. Can't blame him anyway, if I were him, I'll be speechless too. No wonder when the receptionist said “See you tomorrow!" He did not reply anything.

Poor thing, hope he will get a job soon.

Ikan Bakar

Tried to made this yesterday and only one word to describe...

F.A.I.L !!!

Constipation

I’m on diet for three consecutive days! Not because that I wanna lose weight, I am doing it because I have constipation. I can’t shit. I know it’s disgusting, but I am still saying it. My poo-poo is hard like rock. Lately the shit even stained with blood at times. And the blood is not just a little. My highest record is only shitting once in a week. I feel like as if the whole stomach is stuffed with shits.

Ironically, I am actually having more fruits and vegetable as compared when I was in Malaysia. I do eat grape, banana, orange, apple and lettuce every week without fail. I also down a cup of yogurt almost daily. However, my shit is still very stubborn.

The method and the diet recipe were actually taught by my friend – Ming Yee. She said this will help to detoxify the body. When I got to know about the recipe, I seriously didn’t think I would ever wanna try it out. I’m a carnivore…haha, I love eating pork, chicken and seafood. I can’t live a day without meat.

The recipe is fairly simple; carrot & lemon, and lots of salads for lunch and dinner. I could consume biscuit if I am hungry. Thus I have bought some high-fibre biscuit. However, my hubby is not helping me; he secretly ate some potato chips behind me which he promised not to during these three days. Even took my biscuit as his snack -_-"

Today is eventually my last day of the diet programme. I never thought I could persevere to this stage. Hopefully I could flush out the shits in my stomach soon. I don’t want to have only vegetables! I’m not a person that would go for diet, I love to eat!

Shit! Now, could you please come out?

Out Of Order

The lift to my apartment is still out of order!

Baking Addiction

I think I have addicted to baking. I bake a cake after dinner just now.

Stuck

There is nothing for me to blog recently. My life is just so routine! Routine! & Routine! Don’t ask me how routine it is; eat, work and sleep basically.

Nonetheless, on my way back home today… I was taking the elevator back to my apartment as usual. Ding! The lift door slided open and I stepped into the lift. Pressing 2nd floor button where apartment is located, the door shut subsequently. Longing to rest at home soon however, the lift didn't seem to elevate. I pressed the lift button several times again to ensure it had got the signal to move up. It still didn't seem to response. I was starting to be nervous. Okay, fine! I tried to press the "door open" button thinking to scale the stair instead. It didn't response either. Heck, I'm stuck in the lift! I tried, and tried, and soon I'm convinced that I'm trapped and had no way out. Without thinking much, I pressed the emergency alert button, yearning frantically that a hero would come to my rescue.

It was so scary. I waited for about 25 minutes being imprisoned in the small lift! All of a sudden, the 25mins just seemed like years. Being alone, I have nothing to do in there. The air was getting thin and was even difficult to breathe at times. Furthermore, it was very warm too ironically since it's autumn now! I've never experienced such warmth since I came to Ireland. Worst of all, the nightmare was I wanna pee pee!

I was still waiting for my hero (the lift technician) to come. You know when you're alone being confined in a small space, you would start to imagine and visualise things that would not normally come across your mind-ghost & spirit!. Oh god, pictures like a pale-looking lady with long straight hair standing right beside you, and a pretty young lady looking straight to your eyes from the ceiling when you look up started to flash through my mind. It's like a reminiscence to the horror movie, The Eye. I hate my friend who told me the scenes of the movie. I didn't watch the movie, I never want to watch any ghost movie. Because I know that I would start to recall and replay the horror scenes in my mind for a long while. I was getting frustrated and really appalled. Horrified, I was staring front and back, left and right, up and down, checking that no "one" was looking at me. I was not trying looking for ghost ok! I was really petrified at that time.

I was trying to occupy my time. I tried to send a message to my hubby, even though I knew there is no network coverage in the lift… haha =D

After a long 25mins later, to my relief, I heard someone shouting, “Are you stuck in there?” across the door. Oh great, there he was, my hero finally arrived! When the lift door was slided open, there was an angel standing in front of you stretching wide open her helping hands to your rescue. Dream on! Unfortunately that's not the case. The hero whom I'd been waiting is an Irish old man, even slightly bold -_-"

Whilst helping me out, the Irish asked me, “Oh, are you ok? You are lucky! I’m just nearby the area.”

Me: -_-"

Excuse me??? Lucky??? Did I hear you right, Mr old man? You consider an incident of this lucky? I absolutely do not think so dude! If I’m lucky, I won’t be stuck in there, for a good 25mins!

Moving forward from there, now I’m pondering whether should I trust the elevator anymore and use it daily? Or should I painstakingly climb the stair to 2nd floor? ;p The elevator would be a white elephant if the residents at 2nd floor are not utilising it, because there is only ground floor, first floor and second floor is the highest. Hahaha!

Deserts

We didn't do anything for Halloween. We do not want to do anything though =)

Fireworks view from my balcony

I bought some desserts back home after work - Lemon Custard Cream.


And guess what happened? My hubby came back as usual at 6.30pm. He bought me dessert too..haha!

Viennetta Ice Cream

What a coincidence!

Wild Wicklow Tour

About one and a half months ago, Nelson and I went for a day tour somewhere near Dublin - Wild Wicklow Tour. I'm just too lazy to compile our itinerary and photos of the trip. Ok, here u go..but still, lazy to write..so just some caption on the photos lar..

The tour began with sightseeing around dublin city..and the tour guide narrated a brief history of Ireland in the first hour of the tour.

Then, we arrived at a place calls - Dun Laoghaire, the harbour where Nelson always go for fishing.

It certainly is a nice seaside to hang around on sunny days. I've been there several times. Everytime when I was there, surely there'd be seals greeting us on our arrival. For once, I even managed to get a glimpse of a couple of dolphines cruising by the harbour, though they were quite far away.

Early in the morning, around 10.30am, I dont understand why is there an ang moh dressing scantily and sitting on the rock there? Not cold meh? 13 degrees ler? Gila!

Guinness Lake! An impressive lake at Wicklow mountain range in Ireland. According to the tour guide, the lake actually resembles a pint of Guinness and the water is brown in colour. Most of all, the lake is located at lands that belong to Guinness family. That's how the nickname derived. Its formal name is Lough Tay :)

Taking a break, the tour guide brought us a bottle of locally brewed Irish whisky, Jameson.

See. Whenever there is alcohol, my hubby would be very happy! Sooner, he gonna be promoted to be an alcoholic, cos the beers and alcohols here are relatively cheap. Nevertheless, his whereabouts and activities are fully under my observation. Fret not. Hehe...

Round tower at Glendalough. Well, the tour guide talked a lots about the history of this place. Hm... unfortunately, I remember none ;)

Once a church at Glendaough, I guess about a millenium ago.

Glendalough historical site.

Upper Lake at Glendalough. Nothing much to me, it's just another scenic lake ;)

All right. That's all for my Wicklow tour. Hehe...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO EVERYBODY!