Cake session

My company would treat us cakes during tea time whenever there is staff leaving the company, or to celebrate someone's birthday or welcoming new staff!

I just had cake in the office today during our usual tea break session. It's one of the colleagues' birthday.

After some chat, we realised that we gonna have lots of cake these 2 weeks. On the coming Friday, one of the staffs is leaving. Next Monday, it'll be one of the partner's birthday. The following Friday, another staff is leaving.

Good! Cos I always starve around 10.30am eventhough I'd usually have my breakfast early morning.

No electricity

There was no electricity power supply for about an hour and a half. I didn't cook. Hubby and I went to try chinese take-away food nearby our apartment. I ordered "Kung Po Special" with rice.

While waiting for the food at the restaurant, we had a little chat with the owner of the restaurant. She is from Hong Kong. She disclosed that chinese food here are actually watered down to suit ang moh's taste.

She is so right.

My "Kung Po" doesn't taste like Kung Po at all -_-"

Brunch

It's a typical Sunday. Hubby and I went to city centre to do our weekly marketing.

We went to this restaurant called Odessa to have our brunch. They serve brunch every weekend from 11.30am - 4.30pm.

I love the ambience of the restaurant. It's just so comfy and cosy.

My hubby had a rib-eye steak and fresh orange juice for brunch while I ordered a Brunch-Special-of-the-day and a glass of orange juice too. After the meals, we had a mouth-watering dessert - Chocolate Mousse with hazelnut crust. The desert is so delicious =D

I dont have photos to show. The pictures uploaded here are actually copied from Odessa's webpage. What to do, my hubby's camera broke down recently. Also, I dont even have a single photo for my company X-mas party last Friday =(

Hubby had a Irish coffee and I had cappuccino after dessert. It seems like we really know how to enjoy life here aye. Haha, we feel like as if we are eating like European. You know, they must have starter, main course and dessert, at least.

The total bill came up to €50.65.

Hehe. Guess you must be wondering why we splurged ourselves for such a sumptuous brunch?

We actually paid only €5 for the meal! I had a gift voucher worth €50 blessed by my boss. So, I only had to pay the balance of €0.65 and the change was tips for the staff. It's customary to tip here at restaurants, not that we are too rich. Hehe...

We spent a good 2 hours at the restaurant for the brunch! I thought we need not to take dinner that night. We were so So FULL!!!

Oh, I've been tagged! By Zoe. I'll blog later, ok?

I have no problem to blog about that topic. Well, I don't know many friends who blog. I cant tag for like 7 ppl. I have an idea, could I tag the one who tag me? Hahaha =D

Nasi Lemak ^_^

I know it's just unbelievable! I'm addicted to cooking!

Who say I can't have Asian or M'sian food when I'm here. I love browsing through food blogs and trying those home-cooked food recipes.

Recently, I made Nasi Lemak! Hahaha =D

I cooked extra portions. My hubby happily packed a portion for lunch the next day =D

Bringing lunch box to work is no strange thing here. In fact, some Irish pack their lunch too. I like to pack for my lunch because I could have whatever I wanna eat.

Unlike in M'sia, we always have lunch at coffee shops or restaurants. It costs about RM4-5 only.

I'd only go out for lunch with colleagues on every Friday. For the lunch, well, I'd usually order...

Chicken sandwich = bread

Pepperoni and cheese panini = bread

Ham and cheese baguette = bread -_-"

Every each of them costs around €4-€5. If you wanna have hot foods like pasta or lagsane, they cost around €8-€10 each. Everyday eat like that, can die hor!

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This is the cake I made for my hubby on his birthday.

I didn't include this pic in my earlier blog, because the cake is so ugly. I'm sucks in decorating. I ran out of time, I had to make this before he came back from work. So I just sprinkled some choc rices on top and wrote the words. Haha ^^

I also ran out of batter, so I shortened the word from BIRTHDAY to B'DAY...wahaha

I didn't plan to post it here at first because it's really so ugly. Well, then I was thinking this is a blog to keep the memories for myself, I'm sure it'll be good laugh when I read it in future, isn't it?

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.