Ogling

Oh my, the hot hot weather here has rendered many a hot sweaty young men to remove their shirts exposing those wash board abs of theirs to its full glory and allowing me to ogle and salivate all over it.

Haha.

Seriously I'm not that horny ya.

Yes but I do admit that taking a walk around Regent's Park, does allow for full cuci-mata/eye-washing/ogling potential ;)

Shopping

These past few weeks, I've been accompanying people for shopping!

I've not bought anything so far during this summer sale.
Except the one time shopping trip after the exams.

Haha I have immense amount of self control I must say!

Anyway been following guys around while they go shopping, and from my own personal observation I realize that guys are just as vain, fashion conscious as the girls are, perhaps even more so. I wonder if I have the tendency to hang out with the new breed of guys who are very metro-sexual and like to look good in what they wear. Hmm.....*ponders*
Although I would like to say I don't think there's anything wrong with guys being vain etc. In fact a quality I would much admire, although not to the extreme. At least they make an effort in dressing up to look good :)

I bet everybody has a secret narcissistic alter-ego hidden deep within. Come on admit it, who doesn't like looking good eh??

Ah.....Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that guys actually have some sort of low self-esteem. I'm not quite sure if I could call it low self-esteem.
Imagine me standing at the side, and the other person standing in front of the mirror preening while uttering things like "I need to lose weight", "I need to go to the gym to work out look good in this top"

Hahhaa. Oh my goodness, words I thought only would come out of a girls' mouth.

Oh not forgetting my close guy friend who threw open his wardrobe to let me have a sneak peek into his clothes, accompanied by a running commentary on where he got his clothes from etc. I gotta say I'm kinda jealous with all the nice and expensive clothes he has. Tsk!

Forgot to mention the one more guy friend who has a HUGE HUGE walk-in-closet.
Eat your heart out Carrie Bradshaw!

And lastly who could forget the most memorable quote of someone's housemate who said he rather not eat use the money to buy clothes instead!

Sweltering Heat

Lately I've been totally consumed by my utmost laziness, and strangled alive by the smoldering heat.
My brains' occasionally well-oiled clockwork has given way to rust and is on the brink of slowing to a stop.

~long interval in between cause was too lazy to write more~


Hey!
It's raining at last.
Cool breeze coming in through the window at long last as oppose to the hot smoky air!
Nice!

Dim Sum Again!

Went out on Sunday for Dim Sum with my senior.

anddd...I've reached the official conclusion that...

LONDON FOOD SUCKS!!!!!!

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh!!!!

I think I'm better off sitting at home and cooking myself!! GAH!!

Lazy lazy

Damn lazy to go out.
I can seriously sit in bed the whole day and facebook, google, youtube and wikipedia.

Korean Restaurant Arang

Since I'm so free now, so I shall continue attempting to entertain everyone by posting more nonsense up.

Okay continuation of my review of lousy restaurant food!

I think in my previous post I've already mentioned about this Korean restaurant.
Shueh Hao actually told me before that the food here is good.
But too bad cause I think the food here sucks!

Let's start off with some obligatory cam-whore photos. Cam-whoring is so much fun! Whee!! (Please note my sarcasm)

Anyway, firstly just to let everybody know, we actually ordered the lunch take-away menu. Cause I am kiam siap and the lunch take-away menu is the cheapest.
This could also be one of the contributory factors of why I thought the food sucks.
My brother's theory was that the lunch take away menu food was catered for the Caucasian crowd, and he thinks that the food in Arang should be quite good as he always see lots of Koreans going there to eat.

Let me tell you the other food in the menu is expensive!
Can't afford..... :(

So anyway this is what we ordered, first up is spicy beef with rice and salad I think. I ate this nearly 2 weeks plus ago so I can't exactly remember the names of the food.
By the way, if you pay extra 50p for the meal you get an additional canned drink :)
Anyway this dish nothing great, just very ordinary. I think I can cook the same the at home too!

This next dish is Cod with Teriyaki sauce.
Anyway it's so YUCKS!
So sickeningly sweet.
YUCKS YUCKS YUCKS!!

What's wrong with the cook? trying to give me diabetes I think.
Seriously, feel like dumping the food on the cook's head and see the sauce dripping from his hair! Argh!



Oh by the way, we decided to bring the food to the park opposite the restaurant to eat.
Ended up sitting on one of the benches beside these two French women who were conversing away in French, and who ended up smoking, with all the fumes blowing into our faces when we were eating. How infuriating.
Hate the smell of cigarettes! Bah.

Anyway my conclusion is, eat the stuff here only if you're prepared to pay more money for the more expensive food. But I honestly think, if they can't even make the cheap food properly, I doubt I would be willing to shell out money for the more expensive food!

Eating....

Since my relatives came over, I've been on some great big eating expedition.
This has resulted in my exponential increase in size of my waist, therefore causing me to be unable to fit into clothes.

Bah!

By the way, only exercise I seem to be getting is walking to find more food to eat!

Gonna keep a count of all the foodie places I've been going to.

- Had Korean food at Arang ( I think the food sucks!). Only reason we went to Arang was because we were trying to look for another Korean restaurant and we couldn't find it and we were walking up and down and were getting hungrier and hungrier by the minute and at last settled for Arang because it was right in front of us and also heard that the food there was good.

- Dim Sum at Phoenix Palace in Baker Street. Originally wanted to go to Royal China but so ex!
Food was very tasty, but I don't think the Chef was skillful enough, an example would be the xiao long bao whereby the Chef made the skin was too thick and there was no soup inside.
Making xiao long bao is a fine art, between making the skin too thick and too thin. If skin is too thin, obviously the xiao long bao will burst easily causing hot soup to spill everywhere!
My cousin Victor says the dim sum food in Royal China is finer but unfortunately you pay a lot more for it too!

- Chinese food ta pau-ed from Royal China. We had Salt and Pepper fried squid, Steam chicken with ginger, and fried beef with pepper and the bill amounted to like 36 pounds (OMG, didn't know it was so ex!!) and the person who bought the food sat the tube all the way to Queensway and back to Russell square just to buy the food (cause he seems to think that the Queensway branch is perhaps the more authentic one out of the other branches). Anyway don't think the food is worth the price! And it was so little food for the price they charged! wtf!

- French bakery shop in Judd Street. OMG. Cakes, pastries all to DIE for!!!! yummmmyyy.....
Was walking with my aunt, and we walked past this bakery and she suddenly decided to pop in and buy one each for everybody. Each cake/pastry was about 2 pounds each. And I was kinda scared cause I thought the cakes/pastries might not be good, cause there was this one time, my friends recommended me this famous bakery which has a few branches in London, Patisserie Valerie, and me and my brother decided to pop in try a slice of the cake. Anyway was so disappointed with the cake! Yikes! Wasted my money!! Scoffs at lousy cake from famous French cafe!

Look so good but taste like crap. What a shame!

I am most certainly NOT impressed with this cake shop! My cousin Victor also thinks the cakes are not great and he wonders why people love the cakes here so much?

- Went to 4 seasons in Bayswater with the relatives to meet their friends.
Oh Thank Goodness there was roasted duck!!
Me, my brother and the two cousins did go over to 4 seasons a few days ago in Chinatown, and there was no duck, and we actually did WALK OUT of the restaurant. Apparently the UK government is having some crackdown on illegal ovens imported from Hong Kong used by the restaurants to make roasted duck.
Anyway, we also had fried squid, ma pou toufu or dunno wad toufu dish (nothing spectacular so can't quite remember what it was), Free soup too, and fatty pork with some black garlic sauce.
Was quite disappointed with the roasted duck. Definitely not up to standard. Tsk!
By the way, bump into like the whole world there! Causing the aunties to think I know the whole world or something. We seem to bump into people we know everything we go to 4 seasons in Bayswater for some reason. I would like to believe that I was fated to meet my friends who I have not seen in ages!! Hehehe :)

- Buffet at Indian restaurant near King's Cross station. Remember I said before that we walked out of 4 seasons in China town, well we ended up eating buffet instead!! My cousin Victor suggested that we try out this Indian restaurant which has buffet on Saturdays at 6.99 pounds. Since my brother couldn't find his oyster card, 4 of us walked all the way from China town which is located near Leicester Square to King's Cross, and we were so freaking tired and hungry by the time we reached the restaurant! Also compounded by the fact that the only thing we had eaten the whole day was peanut porridge which I cooked in the morning, it was soo delicious, cause I put scallops in which I had confiscated from Victor :P also added lots and lots of pork marinated with Kikkoman soya sauce, oyster sauce, pepper. Honestly I swear by using Kikkoman soya sauce! It does add a whole new dimension of flavour to Chinese food, making it so much more tasty. Well worth the money spent on it! Also not to forget, the cheaper soya sauce most probably has dodgy ingredients in it. My mum told me to stop buying cheap soya sauce. I can't believe I spent almost a year surviving on the cheap buy one free one soya sauce which was like 50 pence a bottle bought from the Matthews the ONLY Chinese shop in Aberdeen.
Anyway back to the topic, went into the Indian restaurant, and saw a notice that students will get a 10% discount, so flashed my student ID at them :)
The 4 of us wolf all the food down in a matter of seconds! I think out of all the food, the lamb curry was the best :) Also the naan bread was made at the shop and it was a special naan bread with coconut and brown sugar in between and it was so sweet and chewy.
The service was also excellent, and the waiters and the owner was polite and courteous :)
They also served us sliced orange in the end with warm towels, and initially I was quite skeptical, as usually when you go into Chinese restaurants when they serve you peanuts, towels, whatever, you usually end up having an extra charge mysteriously appearing on your bill. Anyway, Victor says that the Indian restaurant doesn't charge for it.
So anyway, after out 10% discount, each person ended up paying about 6.05 pounds if I'm not mistaken. Very worth it! Food is good! Highly recommended place.

Anyway getting tired of writing about food.
So this is to be continued.......=)

Pass!!!

Yeay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I managed to pass my 4th year exams!!!
I'm a final year medical student now!!
After a long long long hard 4th year.
The end of the road is near.

I was so pessimistic about it all as I thought I had screwed up my Osce.
Thank God!

Anyway took a 12 hour bus ride down to London yesterday and arrived this morning.
The tube ride from Victoria station to Russel square was a nightmare!!
Nightmare in the sense that I was walking around looking for the tube station and then had to walk up and down staircases lugging my big red bag from one line to the next to change trains and have a strange man staring at me, I honestly thought he was going to grab my necklace or something. Yeah, I'm that paranoid.

Anywayyyyyyy...............SOooo great that I can finally enjoy my summer!!
Loving life again :)
*muakssss* to everybody. Love everyone :) especially all those kind, caring people I somehow managed to meet in the past couple of weeks.
All of you are angels!! Heaven sent. I don't know what I'll do without you people.
Going to miss Aberdeen loads and all the great great great people!!!
I find it unbelievable that I managed to find such gems of people among all the rotten stones and dust.
I'm such a lucky girl!!!