Dinner at Est./Establishment.

Hello everybody!

On the 3rd of October, Uncle Roger which is my Singapore uncle took me and my sister out for dinner at this fine dining restaurant called Est. (which stands for Establishment). It was the kinda restaurant where you need to dress up and look classy if not the person outside won't allow you in.

Moving on, we had a five course dinner where we had to choose different dishes such as, "four freshly shucked rock oysters from today's market, mignonette sauce (or 4 each)" or "chicken wing consomme, porcini pearls, herbs, leaves, spiced veal ravioli". It took me so long to choose one dish for each of the 5 courses! Have to look at all the different ingredients in all, but everything was worth it because it was so GOOD!!!!!! Super nice lo. Never in my life have I tasted something so heavenly. I know it sounds a little exaggerated, but I'm not kidding. All the ingredients blended together so perfectly.

All in all, I want to thank my Uncle for giving me and my Sis such a good, funny & happy dining experience. Look and drool over the yummy pictures below...

Oh and by the way, our waiter was a French guy, with a name you simply cannot pronounce. I don't know why I told you guys that but just thought I'll throw it in to make some people jealous.. Hohohoho..


This is my young-looking Uncle Roger. Haha.. If he looks familiar to Singaporeans it's probably because you've seen him on TV doing a chinese cooking show.


Uncle Roger posing with the Est. menu..



My beautiful sister in her black dress.. She's single.. /gg

Of course this is me la.. Check out the nice earrings ah.. Haha surprised that I had nothing PINK on though.. Hmm..



My 1st course:
Sashimi of south Australia kingfish, blood orange, red chilli, fennel and dill. This dish was really nice for a starter, light and sour.



Shirley's 1st course:
Chicken wing consomme, porcini pearls, herbs, leaves, spiced veal ravioli.
Lol geng le the names..

My 2nd course:
Grilled white scallops, asparagus, parsnip and chestnut mushrooms, shiitake vinaigrette.
I had to search the internet for the menu. Lol, no way I did this by memory.

Shirley's & U. Roger's 2nd course:
Parma prosciutto and duck foie gras rolled quail breast, artichoke, broad beans and parsley.
Q: What is "foie gras"?
A: Foie gras is the liver of a duck or goose.

Actually after the foie gras and before the lamb (below), it was our 3rd course but I forgot to take a picture of it because I was too hungry.

For our 3rd course, we had:
1. Crisp skin john dory fillet, broad beans, green peas, macadamias and trompettes de la mort. (Shirley's)

2. Pan roasted south Australian jewfish fillet, grilled white scallop, fennel, borlotti beans and manzanilla olives. (Mine)

3. Steamed baby snapper. (U. Roger's)


My 4th course:
Pan roasted lamb rib eye, artichoke hearts, rosemary potatoes and roast garlic, shallot jus.
Artichoke is a veggie okay, don't think I ate an animal's heart or something.. Eww..



Shirley's 4th course:
Grilled fillet of aged black angus beef, white asparagus, king mushrooms, grated horseradish and parsley.




U. Roger's 4th course:
Erm. He ordered some duck dish that is off the menu, so just see the picture.

Dessert time!! Everyone shared and ate the desserts. No way I could finish all that chocolate alone. Crazy ah!?

Valrhona chocolate and lemon fondant, lemonade confit, chocolate beignets, chocolate sorbet.



Vannila latte cotto, queensland strawberries, spice wafer.






Passion fruit souffle.
Among all the desserts, this one was the winner. Even though we had to wait 20 minutes for it, it was worth it. The top layer of the souffle was crisp and the inside was very light anf fluffly. Eat it with the cream and the passion fruit ice cream!!!





These came with the coffee U. Roger ordered. I forgot the classy name for it, so let's just call them "little cakes". Hehe so cute.




Nice le this pic. I took it with my Sony "pink" Cybershot.




6 small little cakes in a row. So cute..





This picture is for Aunty Katherine. Evidence that Uncle Roger kept his shirt and table cloth area clean and white. It's a miracle people!! Cheers/kampai!!!!

Me holding my uncle's infinite "black/黑" credit card. So cool to just hold it. Can you see the silver words "infinite" on the card? My goodness you can buy a car with this piece of plastic. Amazing..!!

Ideas....

Hey all. The point of this post is to ask you all something.

I wanna change the name of my blog and I need some ideas!! Maybe a name that involves the word "pink" would be suitable. So far I've only come up with "Geek in the Pink" or something.. Haha.. Please drop some ideas in the chatbox!!

Thank you~

Sept 25th!

Hey hey!

I wanna take this opportunity to thank all the people in Sydney and in Kuala Lumpur for remembering and wishing me Happy Birthday. Even last time when I was in KL, I didn't get as many people wishing me Happy Birthday as this year. Ohhh the power of Facebook!!

Okay, so my Sept 25th went like this:
6:45am - Woke up and got ready
7:15am - Pastoral care meeting at College
8:00am - Sisterhood/Serving at Cubby House (Sunday School)
12:00pm - Got home from Sisterhood
2:45pm - Had New Testament Intro Class (2 hours)
5:00pm - Got home from class
7:30pm - Birthday Party at Mo's Place
11:00pm - Came home
1:00am - Went to bed

Thus, this is how my Sept 25th went. Something really sweet happened on that day though. I didn't tell many people at college that it was birthday, but somehow or rather they found out. So at the 7:15am meeting they had a small little breakfast birthday party thing going on for me and Josiah (it was his birthday also..). It was really unexpected! Also, that night some of my closer friends in college celebrated with me. They just asked me to show up and they did practically everything. They made me pancakes and Hawaiian toast for dinner. Haha, so sweet rite?!

For my friends back home in Malaysia!! Of course I didn't forget you all la.. I was thinking about all of you when I was at the party and what presents you guys would have gotten for me. I heard Lynn/onna and Nicole got really good presents.. Haiz, I'm so left out.. T.T.. Nevermind, I'm gonna be home for Christmas then we will sure go out and eat eat or walk walk wan. See how la!! People that went for Onna's birthday party, gimme some feedback here on the chatbox. I wanna know what happened and how it went. I'm gonna post some of my birthday pictures so you guys can have a look see.. Haha so funny..

My friends purposely got me some pink straws for the drinks!!

Lars made us pancakes with cheese and bacon. Not bad ah.. Nice.. Took me so long to get this shot of the pancake in mid air!

Taadaa~!! Looks nice le the pancakes..

Haha.. This is Mo's failed attempt of baking cookies. My goodness, the smell of burnt cookies was everywhere in the apartment.

Lolz, this is Mo.. He got a new haircut for 15 Aussie at Coles..

This is Martapelo on the left and Sneaha on the right. Martapelo is from South Africa & Sneaha is from India.

Me and Sneaha.. Nice le my flower..

Me & Lars..

The food table with the Hawaii toast Mo made and the pancakes.. We ate it with maple syrup.. Good but fattening..

The Hawaii toasts looked like this before it went into the oven.

Ohh.. This is Taneli. He lives in the same apartment as Mo and Lars. I think Taneli is Swedish & Finnish mix.. He walks and eats super fast..

Martapelo playing Lar's white DS.

Lolz.. This pic has a super funny story behind it lo.. Haha, Lars wanted to break dance in the middle of the living room. He was doing a roll and his back hit the wall and broke the wall! Haha super funny lo.. The crack was so loud when the wall broke lo. Hahahaha..

This is the video of Lars singing Happy Birthday in Dutch & Mo singing in German. Sorry if I sound abit Aussie la k? Sometimes I get influenced because I hear it everyday.

This is Antonio singing it in Italiano..

"Yum Cha" in the City..

Here we go.. Sorry I have not blogged for awhile because I've been busy.

Well, this event I'm blogging about did not happen recently, but actually about 1 month ago. We had this once in a blue moon outing to have some "dim sum" or "yum cha" at this restaurant (picture shown below) in the city. It was run by Hong Kong people and the waiters were abit rude la, you know how in Hong Kong they don't like it when you ask for too many things. It was kinda the same treatment here when I asked for the black, sweet sauce thingy. Movin' on..

The "dim sum" here is not bad, but compared to Malaysia of course "dim sum" at home is better. Don't get me started on how good the "dim sum" is at Renaissance Hotel, Malaysia. So I just took some pictures of the restaurant and how the food looked like.

Itadakimasu~~!!



The sign below the stairs leading up to the restaurant.




The porridge was not bad. I give 7/10 (7 out of 10). And the "yao za guai" is crunchy but unhealthy 8/10. "yao za guai" in Hong Kong is 10/10. MAGNIFICO~~

This is the "cheong funn". I found the skin was not thin and springy enough. It was not so good, 7/10.

Yam with pork inside, dunno how to spell it.. The yam around the pork was not smooth enough.. This one I give 7/10.

Pork ribs.. This "dim sum" I have never tried it in KL so I have nothing to compare with. But the overall taste was good so it's a 8/10.

Haha, "siew mai".. The meat inside was fresh and didn't have that weird pork taste. 8/10!

Chinese tea.. Always the best no matter where you go.. 9/10!

Ah ha! This desert looks good but looks can be deceiving. It tasted funny, funny in a bad way.. Erm.. sorry la only 4/10....

On our way out, just saw the staff eating together at the table.. It's good that they keep the Chinese tradition of eating together around a round table..

Cheers...

What is Worship to you?

Hey people reading. Today's post is kinda a little more serious compared to my previous posts. Last week, I heard this message preached on "Worship" and I will post a short outline of the sermon. I'm doing this because I find that it is so applicable to our music team and anyone who feels or goes through this too. Just be open and expectant as you read it, because maybe God could speak to you through a blog post. Don't limit God, anything is possible..

What is worship?
Usually when people ask us, "How was worship or was worship good?" we automatically answer the question based on our experience. We think that worship is GOOD only when we feel good, when we sang til tears were in our eyes, or when we are so touched by God. Is this what a good worship is supposed to be based on??

This is what he says..
Worship is a response to God and not us waiting for a response from God. Worship is not good depending on what we get out of it, instead worship is an act of thankfulness and gratitude to God. Therefore, worship is us saying "thanks" to God!

This is me talking now..
I used to think that worship was good when I felt really good, but after this message my view of worship changed. That's why I wanted to post this as an encouragement to the music team and others.

Let us continually serve God with an attitude of thankfulness. Our gratitude to God can be expressed in being committed to the role each of us play in the music team. For example we can show our thankfulness to God by giving Him our best, like turning up early for practice, preparing ourselves spiritually, and practicing our songs at home so can we bring our best sacrifice of praise.

I really wish this post would encourage and build up some of you, because all these things came from my heart. I grew a little taller spiritually after this, so I want to bring you guys along with me as I grow. I write all this with a smile on my face and love in my heart.

With love,
Sandra.

Lars Birthday~~!!

Lars~~

Here goes.. This is Lars and he's my one and only Dutch friend. Hehe.. It was his birthday so we went to Fox Studios to celebrate it with some college mates. We went to this place called "Strike" in Fox Studios.

Strike is a bowling alley/bar. If you wanna see more of it, click on the link http://www.strikebowlingbar.com.au/. The place is pretty nice with cool neon lighting. Haha, my first time at this kinda places and I ordered water because it was free. I even went back 3 times to get my water glass refilled. Hehe, kinda malu.. Obviously, all the students didn't order anything alcoholic. We all had a good time of nice, clean fun along with Coke, water, and pizzas!! The pizzas were yummy... 4 Aussie dollars for one pizza, which is quite cheap. Yup that's all, see more and learn more from the pics below.

The bowling lanes quite cool le.. Got blue lights and mirrors..

So comfy the leather couches.. While bowling can laze around and wait for my turn.. @.@

The bar where I ordered water.. Lolz..

When I saw this I faster take pic so you all can see.. So cute rite?! In my favorite color somemore.. Wei wei, my birthday coming soon ah.. Get the hint hint ah..

*ahhhhh...* lounging so confortably..

Hehe this guy quite strong to be able to carry Lars. Lars is quite tall.. His shirt got illuminated bcoz of my flash. Hehehe..

My bowling score so low.. Mine is "S".. Hehe, starting very good wan keep winning, then I got zero 6 times in a row.. Malu-nya..

This is my friend Taneli singing Happy Birthday in Swedish or Finnish I think..

This is Josh smacking Lars on the butt. Because in America, you get smacked 21 times if you turn 21 and if you turn 18 you get smacked 18 times. Yeah so this is the video. It's kinda dark and all.. oh well..