built to last

"Cause this is real, and this is good.

It warms the inside just like it should.

But most of all, most of all,it's built to last"

a quote from "built to last" which i found on a fren's wedding blog....how sweet!!
congrats ym!!! =)

13th wkend of chilli crab

being from singapore makes ppl assume that you will have the ability to churn out yummy chilli crabs... that's afterall wat singapore is famous for... chilli crab and hainanese chicken rice.... the latter is pretty easy with the readily available chicken rice paste.... but chilli crab is definitely hard... first we have to kill the fierocious crabs... after which, we have to make the yummy spicy paste... but being a singapore "representative", i got assigned the tasks of preparing chilli crab for my vietnamese fren - giang.... n it has to be chilli crab and not chilli crap (quoted by giang)... heheh....

so on this bright sat morning after grower's market, we headed off the the fish market to get fresh crabs for our amazing task.... n it's a good thing we bump into jeslyn (this EY gal) at the fish market while choosing our crabs... she told us that fish market could kill the crabs for you... yippee!!! cant imagine how happie we were when we heard that.... it means the toughest part of crab cooking was done... how hard could it be after someone kills the crabs for you... dead seafood is definitely easy to handle... hehehe....

so here's the pictures of the DEAD crabs in our sink later in the afternoon....=)
mi and zijia having loads of fun playing ard with the crabs since they are dead and harmless... hahaha....
after fooling ard with the dead crabs, we started the task of cooking.... n oh boi.... it was realli CHOKING..... we have to stir fry the garlic and chilli first... n this was damn jia latz... both mi n zijia were sniffing n coughing away.... almost tot i would die from over-dosage of chilli smoke... n my nose cant stop running... had to block my nose with tissue papers to stop the smoke from going in.....

picture of mi serious at cooking the chilli crab.... this was the first part where we put in the crabs... before pouring in the sauce....
n after pouring in the sauce... n note that we made the sauce ourselves too!!! original from chilli sauce n tomato sauce..... not the usual "paste" stuff that we will use... this is authentic from natural ingredients... hehehe.... n from the 3 chilli padis, you can tell that it's REEEAAALLLIII hot stuff.... but it's yummy good stuff too!!!! =) simply finger-licking good... hahahaha....

n here's all of us with the big feast... tracy (giang's housemate), jing, zijia, mi and giang....

a close up of the amount of food we had.... hainanese chicken rice with roast chicken, vietnamese spring roll n the highlight of the night ->> chilli crabs!!! n the table was sooooooo full.... but overall it was a yummy feast.... so proud of my chilli crabs... hahah....

wkend at bondi

it's the last wkend of summer.. so mi n jing decided to head to the beach before it turns cold... n it's also a post-hawaii-sydrome.. hehe.. thinking back, we havent realli been to bondi n relaxing by the beach... it's alwaz a tourist thing that we do at bondi -> take lotsa of pictures and not going into the water... so it's time for a little sun, sand and sea this wkend....

jing buying train tickets for us to head down to bondi....

at our destination -> bondi junction
at the beach....

2 bondi surfers getting ready to enter the water.....

the cool wave-rider....

and that's mi playing with the waves...it's a nice experience being engulfed by the waves... heaps of fun!!! wished i had a body-board to do a "mini-surf"...

the book that jing was reading while i was sun-tanning... measuring the world....

in the evening while we were walking home (after lazing ard bondi for the whole afternoon), guess wat we saw in the evening sky along darling park...

cool art of magic in the evening sky... alwaz love walking along the pyrmont bridge / darling park to get home in the evening... thr's alwaz a surprise waiting up there in the sky....