House Warming Party + Poh Shens Bday

hey guys.. its been a long time since i have blogged.. i seem to be busier this year compared to last year eventhough i live alot closer to campus this year =/ less time spent on my laptop chatting, webcamming, surfing the net and playing games.
it must be the new changes to my timetable. i have decided to make full use of my time in uni by trying out new things that i will not be able to do in brunei. experiences~

• Muay Thai Kickboxing on wednesdays - very enjoyable. it is a real workout!
• Ballroom Dancing on thursdays - what a way to end my thursday lectures with dance from 7-8pm.
• Badminton with Msoc on friday - well, i havent been to any of the sessions so far because of the nottingham game training they are having now.
• Gyming on Mondays and friday - i need to get fit...
• First Aid Skills (soon) -this will allow me to go to EPL matches for arsenal, chelsea n tottenham n other sporting events if i attend the sessions.

On top of all that, i have got 2nd year of mech eng to study plus all the tutorial sheets to do! so far, im coping with the heavy workload (fingers crossed~). This pump design project that is due next friday is a killer.. my group is so behind now.. we need to catch-up. Only way is to go to college on Sundays~ well thats the plan we have.. ohh dear~ hope this turns out good.

Anyways, to the more exciting part of my life.. The 5 at 4 held a house-warming party at our new accomodation.. it was a great success.. we had loads of fun preparing food.. eventhough i woke up at 10:30am n was literally in the kitchen preparing n cooking till 7pm with the rest of the lads. We had been preparing this house-warming party for around a week, deciding on the menu n the number of people to invite... the figure turned out to be around 20ish+?

Whats on the menu u would ask when there are 5 guys planning it...

1. Short-bread with fillings (tuna, sweetcorn n chicken) as starters
2. Curry Chicken
3. Cheesy Mushroom Bacon Baguette
4. Sambal Prawns
5. Carbonara spaghetti
6. Eggtart as desserts

The menu was going to include other dishes such as potato salad, salad, fried vegetables but we decided what we have prepared was more than enough...

Enough said, i shall let the pictures do some of the talking..

Helping yheu-shen prepare his speciality (curry chicken)

Ingredients - Satan, curry paste n chicken!

Looks good ey?

Pro at work...

Breaking eggs n seperating the egg yolk n egg white with eggshells.. u need skills to do that~ lool

i'm gonna kill that potato!

tieng stirring egg-tart mixture

The ming, tieng speciality...

hard at work...

Maybe some posing in between all the hard work?

squirming?

Under surgery~ nigel in pain?

Wow!! Amazing prawns!

The legendary Sambal Prawns! chilli padi, lots of garlic, prawns with a pinch of fresh lemon juice!

Short-bread with sweetcorn, cherry tomatoes n kiwi.. wicked stuff!

Cheesy baguette with bacon n mushrooms.. under construction~

Done with all the preparation n cooking....

Posing in the kitchen before the guests arrived...

maybe one more...

ming with 2 lemons? soothe his hands from cutting chillis?

Hungry Zhern Yong.. im loving this!

admiring our family photo?

Enjoying the food~

We forgot to take a photo of the food all laid out.. this is the best one we had.. some of the food has been eaten though.. there is the ABC soup as well.. Pohshen's special (potatoes, carrots, ikan bilis, dry oyster n some other stuff)

After-party... done with the food...

dave explaining rules to circle of death aka waterfall..

group photo in mings room.. big enough to fit 20 to 30 people.

The guys...

The girls...

Control please~

iqbal is loving it.. nigel on top of the guys..

jason playing with the goat's beard.. haha

drunk nigel licking his biceps..

The clock struck 12am.. HAPPY BDAY POH SHEN! hope u had a surprise when u walked through that door after sending your friend off =)

Bday boy n me...

Shotting his bday glass of orange juice with smirn-off

Cake time!

HAPPY BDAY!

To end the day on a lighter note.. dont end up like this guy..

GONE CASE.. LOOL!

i want more time~

wednesday blues~

snow in london during october? it's getting blistering cold. i can't imagine what weather would be like for the next months to come.

Snow...

Finished lectures at 12 noon today coz wednesday is the day for sports for most unis. went to wilson house for my second muay thai lesson with david pacquette as the instructor. he really does push u hard, yet i enjoyed it. A very nice workout~

Cooked our weekly dosage of food.. lean mince beef with mushrooms n peppers along with tomato sauce n carbonara sauce.

3 pans of spaghetti sauce...

The 5 at 4 family picture is up!!

Pointing to our respective places on the pic.

singing my heart out~

good food~

Attended one of the shell talks regarding about CVs, interviews and the application process as i have no idea how to write one.. this is followed up by a free lebanese dinner!

Awesome lebanese food...

Had dinner in some taiwanese restaurant in china town with chia, suang, shin n chiann. its a new place so we decided to try it out.. food was great!

Braised Pork belly with rice springled with spring onions..

Xiao long pao


nice setting...

To come back with home-made desserts.. even better!

the tieng ming special... egg tart!!

this is legendary man~ enjoying it~

We got visitors at our home at 3am in the morning.

Yong bo, jean, ming, me n nigel

PS, me n nigel at the dinner table

chicken rice with ABC soup (PS's speciality)

We have been longing for fried rice?

watching gossip girl over dinner?

ming is into posing as well!!

thats all i gotta say. everything here is going well so far.. housemates still in very good terms! =D however, work is starting to pile up but thats part of uni life ey? just gotta get on with it..

enjoy while i still can...

The Power of Internet~

FINALLYYY~~ my new accom has internet.. i m finally alive now! live without internet has been a bore.. no blogging, no surfing the net, no chatting, no webcamming, no downloading.. the list goes on..

anyways.. i don't really have time to write such a detailed post now, coz many days have went by n i m just too lazy to write such a long tedious post like the previous one.. so why not let the pictures do the talking this time round....

Attended the freshers-senior dinner organised by ICUBS in kiasu...

Singapore Laksa

Indo-Mee

Fried Kuay Tiaw

Another Cake for president boy!

Ice Kacang...

Cleaned the living room n the floor of my room with what i regard as a useless vaccumm cleaner which was bought from sainsbury.. it doesn't even suck up the dust particles on the floor properly when switched on at full power =/

Had an awesome malaysian/indian dinner at home. Thanks to nigel who ta-pao the beef rendang, chicken, rice back.

Nan~

awesome stuff~

nigel's mum n the 4 flatmates excluding JJ...

Had our weekly cooking.. ming is in the weekly storage PC cooking group now.. so it's going to be the 3 of us cooking from now onwards.

Spaghetti for a week?

As a side dish...

Crispy potatoes baked in lard.. terribly unhealthy but its nice~

Some cool fluid mechanics flow.. a jet in the air! This is some random picture as i was walking back from campus.

Went to muay thai lessons in wilson house. it was my first one. met david from contender asia there.. hes our coach! a very tiring day. however, i enjoyed it!

Went for dancing lessons the day after. Learn the basic moves for tango n ballroom dancing. very enjoyable. i should have experienced this last year.. but oh well.. dont wanna dwell on the past. i sure do regret that i didn't experience enough new things last year. thats y there is a sudden urge to try new things out~

Attended the MSoc dinner at Holidae Villa located in Bayswater. it was a buffet.. i wouldn't say the food is superb but u get what u pay for. its only 8 pounds.

Best family photo we had so far... the 5 guys of Flat 4 in Chamberlain House!

Dinner with the malaysians.. yes that includes ming as well. hehe :P

Went off early at around 9ish pm with nigel n pohshen to go clubbing in King's College. Wicked night there~

Poh Shen, me, nigel n a couple of alok's friends

We need the energy before some hard work...

New recipe of egg omellete with McDonalds beef burger n fries and Asian Spaghetti with black pepper and pepper as the topping.

Toilet Cleaners? the toilet is now spotless clean, with the WC, bath-tub, sink n the floor shining. hopefully it can stay like this for a couple of weeks but i seriously doubt it. With 5 guys including me staying under one roof, its pretty hard to keep it clean~ im not saying we're dirty okay?

A sign of accomplishment~ First time cleaning a toilet~ Phew~ seriously hard work! haha

Thumbs-up

Attended the dochester raya gathering. Nice food~ Especially the desserts! Met quite a number of familiar faces there as well.

Lucky boy who won in the lucky draw.. A shaving set? looks like me needs it more than anyone else.. GET A SHAVE MAN! or do u need to win a shaver as well?

Main Course..

Superb Desserts.. its so dam nice!!

Mali Bali dengan saya.. haha

time to get cracking~