Bits and Pieces: December 2008

Its been a while.. =)

I've neglected my blog again..this time being more than a month! Of course, without constant pestering from friends and family, that one month could have been extended to maybe after my Semester 1 exams. So here I am, writing this post to update you guys about the few events that happened in this one month period.

Nottingham Malaysian Games 2008

This is quite a big event that takes place every year. Malaysians all over UK and Ireland come to Notts to either participate in the games, support their university team or just to meet up with old friends and watch the games. I, of course fall into the 3rd category. Ok, maybe the 2nd one too but I have to admit, I was there to hang out with friends studying in UK as well. And there were many! Munirah, Hon Sum, Yi Jiet, Pei Xia, Kart..I even saw Grace and Yong Jing after god knows how long. Hanged out mostly with Mun and Hon Sum and spent the day watching basketball at the Sports Centre. Imperial's team was great! Really nice to watch. But I didn't get to watch the finals cause it was getting dark and I had to walk home *frowns* .Yeap, there's no shuttle bus back to St peters court or jubilee campus on weekends *double frown* I had to walk to uni in the morning too *triple frown*. Ah well, good exercise after all the yummy Malaysian food I spammed. Mini doughnuts, NASI LEMAK with delicious prawn sambal!!, Malay kuihs, Cendol...Wanted to try the Durian bubur cha cha but then..I ate too much and had to control heh. Anyway, it was an interesting Malaysian-filled day =) oh oh oh, most of my friends said our campus is absolutely beautiful! *beams*

With Yi Jiet (haven't seen him since high school ended!)

With Pei Xia <3>

Maysum Buffet

My friends and I have been planning to go Maysum, this restaurant that serves Chinese food buffet styled. After much talk of going but never really found the time to go, we finally went there for Benny's birthday! Don't know Benny very well but he seems a jolly person =) And he uses this ultra high tech high megapixels high everything camera that captured quite a number of random pictures of me doing stupid faces (definitely not intentional stupid faces). Anyway, food was great was not too bad (the teppanyaki , chocolate fountain and deep fried beef stripes rocks! <3>

Group piccie after dinner

Group pic during dinner

German Market

Ohhhhh this is goooooooooooodddd!! They should have this more often and not just near Christmas! (or maybe not, cus I might become fat and broke). Obviously, this is yet another market that sells HEAPS AND LOADS of yummylicious temptatious sinfullicious food! It's not really a market market..almost like a fair selling food and those ornaments, crafty items. Obviously, I'm only interested in the former. I loved the market food so much that I went there 4 times, ate the most delicious, juicy german sausage twice, munch and tapau back sweet crunchy nuts god knows how many times (those were fab let me tell you..almonds, pecans, hazelnuts, pistachio, walnuts coated with hard caramel-like shell), had deep fried cheese with mushroom/pepperoni twice, german meal consisting of burger, mushrooms and potatoes thrice....ok the list can go on forever. The german meal was the bomb!!! I can eat it how many times and not get bored with it! Forgive me if this post is sounding more and more like an essay but I can't resist from describing the food =p The burger was superb, the potatoes were crispy on the outside and soft inside, and the mushrooms? HEAVEN. No kidding! Those mushrooms are the best and with the garlic sauce drizzled over it, irresistable. We ate all these in the cold and the warmth the food gave us made it taste even better if that's possible. We nearly froze though, eating outdoors with wind blowing at 3 degrees celcius. Also tried german hot wine (I tried the apple wine) and it has a really thick aroma. Definitely a body warmer. The hot red wine tasted better though. There are so many food I would like to describe but I'll spare you guys the long winded essay and just let you see from the pictures. They also have a skating rink set up at the market, but after the terrifying experience in Pyramid, I don't think I'll dare to ice skate again anytime soon..

The oh so scrumptious foot long sausages

My favourite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marshmellows (NOT NICE DO NOT BUY)

German doughnuts (ohhh these were yummy too!)

Stall selling the german sausages

Stall selling chocolate coated marshmellows and fruits (the choc apple in goose fair was WAY better)

The deep fried cheese sticks!!!!!

Stall selling german alcohol

Me buying hot apple wine hehe

Christmas deco

Sam with his hot red wine, me with my hot apple wine

All of us with our drinksss

The guys

The ladies =)

Yan Mei and I

Us girls with Sam disrupting behind =p

Group photo

Toffee Nut Latte (a great end to a great day)

On a random note, my shipment has arrived!! Hello choc chip cookies. Hello Malaysian food. Hello Maggi mee. Hello hairdryer. Hello electric kettle. Hello ipod speaker. Bye Bye books.