Here are some pics I took while I was in London. It was a short weekend trip and a hectic one… ended up basically with loads of sore feet. But its all worth it and I shall be there again some time for more pics. For now, these are the shots I wanna put up. Kinda lazy to blog more abt it… prolly later.
Went out today to take pictures at The Great Yarmouth. Its actually a sea side kinda tourist area in Norfolk county. Yarmouth is located about 20 miles from Norwich City…so Alan, Leong and I took a cool drive there. Sun was up, and the weather was nice and promising.
Alan is a veteran in photography. He brought along his faithful SLR camera…a mechanical one that runs on no batteries and is film based, which is hard to come by these digital days. So, we were really excited on how our photo guru was going to shoot and also the tips he’s about to teach us. With what was in store (or more like what was in Alan’s bag of tricks and tips), I manage to understand the fact that I really need a DSLR camera. My W5 is just not enough to give that wanted punch in the photos that I am taking - it just doesnt have that cutting edge. However, I kinda like the fact that its small enough and easy for me to bring around.
While on the way back to Norwich, we wanted to stop by this national park called Broads. It was about 4pm and the sun was setting. Were were chasing time and light. But somehow, we lost our way and ended up in the middle of the plains - in some village area. So off we went to do some trekking, through grassy plains and there was some sort of river. It was my first real experience of shooting sunsets - and it was breathtaking. I just cant describe how I feel it in here, in this blog. It was simply magnificent!
We couldn’t stay for too long, and that was a sad waste. Had badminton session booked in UEA Sportspark around 6pm plus, so we made a dash back to Norwich by 5.45pm. I guessed we must have missed quite a lot of more chances to shoot great sunset pics. Nevertheless, the sun always rise and set again, and I’ll be back for more some other day.
For now, here’s some of my favourites.
Ok. I have a confession to make. Havent really been a good boy ever since I got here in Norwich. I have done great sin… stooped real damn low.
Temptation is real strong… and resistance is futile…
The scent…
The taste…
The smoothness I could feel flowing down my soul…
C’mon man… who could resist such a temptation? So how am I gonna be above all that and say a big no no and thank you to such a great pleasure - food! The moment I take a peek into my fridge… its looks like heaven… geez.
Tiramisu, chocolate brownies, cookies, Ben & Jerry’s, Hagen Daz and the list goes on. Oh please… someone help me get out of this addiction to midnight snacks!!
Well, its been a while now since i left my blog alone in despair. Geez… I sound like an evil fella. Anyway, we had some sort of chap goh meh celebration at my house a few days ago - last weekend to be more specific. For those who don’t know what is chap goh meh… it is the mark of the last day of Chinese New Year; the fifteenth day of the auspicious celebration.
Anyway, it wasn’t really a grand celebration. Nothing alike what it would be back at home in Malaysia. Alan came over my place and we cooked dinner all together. It was a plan which spanned over a couple of days over before we finally executed it on that Sunday night. So, I had a few dish of my own served, which one turned out to be a real disaster! LOL
We took turns to cook since the kitchen was kinda small. So while Alan was busy making his Oyster Sauced Chicken, I was busy preparing all the ingredients I needed for my Butter & Wheat Prawns and also the Tom Yum Salmon. Leong did helped me out with the defrosting of the prawns and also the salmon fishes. Hehe… and he does what he does best - preparing tea for everyone!
As soon as Alan got his dish done, I started my "master chef" mode. Battering eggs, deep frying the prawns, frying the wheat and all those secret ingridients in a hot mixture of oil and butter… I was practically multi-tasking since I was also cooking the tom yum at the same time. Well it was an easy one cuz its all ready made from the tom yum paste within the bottle - hahaha! Then came the disaster. I was trying to make egg strands which turned out to be a total failure! Apparently I havent got enough oil to fry the eggs into strands, cuz there was like just probably 3mm of oil in the pan. Sigh…!
Nevertheless, I got the taste right… and we all tucked into our dinner right after Hussen cooked his own private vegetarian courses. He doesn’t consume garlic, as well as onions, and he doesn’t eat meat… don’t ask me why ‘cuz I never understood this chap. HE’S SPECIAL AND VERY DIFFERENT TO OTHERS. Haha…!
Food was all right, and everyone practically was full by the end of the evening. Thanks to Leong, we even had some mandarin oranges for dessert! Can’t miss out on mandarin oranges for Chinese New Year can we?! Heh…
So there you go… a chap goh meh posting written on Valentine’s day… how great! I’m just counting my days until I get back to Malaysia… boy I can already taste the dalcha with roti telur! urgghh! Teh tarik satu macha!!
