CNY ...half way thru..

It was tonnes of eating, singing,gambling and the most important thing is to be with friends, laughing and playing until wee hours, after 2010, don't know when we are able to gather and do these things again since we are going to jump into "hell" real soon...

As usual, let the picture do the talking. I am so lazy and sleepy *yawn*


CNY 1st day 大年初一

 

The food.Scrumptious meal and I bet you are drooling right now.

The overall view of our fiesta. My classmates are muscular, hence they eat like cow, therefore the huge amount of food. But we enjoyed it.

The people who made it happen :)

 

The gambling queens. We play till 2am in the morning.

  

Continuous singing session, more like a singing session with shouting involved. Hopefully the north Indians staying at the end of the corridor don't mind.

2nd round CNY celebration 大年初七 - Steamboat dinner in the KITCHEN. Yes, it's Kitchen you are not mistaken, is Kitchen!!

The food.. Too much indeed. It was enough to feed the entire village, the Yu Shang was really really really good...

After the food, euphoria attack, Maybe he is too full.

  

Sing Hoon is so gonna kill me for this, can pose with the squid one.

Ann Feng got her own "private pot" because she is allergic to chicken.

Love birds on the window, so sweet.

Then we are going to gamble. someone here very excited because got prawn crackers.

While waiting for people... camwhore 1st, even with the prawn crackers

The singing group... Adrian has a good voice. Faster recommend him to sing in CNY gala dinner.

 

Do not disturb. I am losing...

P/s: We've done crazy crazy things together such as eating steamboat in the kitchen, played until 3am, then cannot wake up in the morning for 2nd round leftover steamboat, then everyone walked like zombie..etc etc... the whole point is not about winning or losing, it's about everyone gathering together, laughing at small small things, talking and playing.... these are those that will be printed in all of our memories and keep it for the rest of our lives... *emo-ing*

Really great last CNY here. Wait !!! There is part 2. Stay tuned till then.

Meanwhile, hope that you have enjoyed your CNY too.

CNY cookies.

Gong Xi Fatt Chai. Time flies and can't believe that I am spending my last Chinese New Year in Ukraine and since it is my last new year so we've baked some cookies.

It was really a tiring process, days after day baking and washing, finally it's all done. yipee...
Among the cookies that I baked are: Cornflakes cookies, Pineapple roll and tarts, Peanut cookies and Modified Kuih Bangkit. It really helped me spice up the CNY mood for a bit, really sucks when you are in overseas and can't be with your family members. :(

Anyway, here are the pictures: A picture worth a thousand words.

Cornflakes Cookies:

We are baking cornflakes cookies. Joyce came and join in the fun. Hehe she look so blur in this picture, so cute.

Tadaa, all done. Cornflakes cookies. yumm..

 

Then of course you need to clean up your  house room.

Recipe:

( I forgot where I got the recipe from)

110g butter

1/2tsp grated rind of orange zest

110g castor sugar

1/2tsp vanilla essence

1 egg yolk

100 g cornflakes, crushed lightly

Sift lightly:

125g self raising flour

1 tbsp corn flour

Mehtod:

1) Cream butter, sugar, vanilla essence until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and orange zest.

2) Fold in sifted flour and mix

3) Put mixture into the fridge to chill for 30 minutes or until slight firm.

4) Add in Crushed cornflakes ( I add in raisins too). You can add more than 100g, if you are a fan of cornflakes.

5) Shape the dough into balls and placed on lightly greased baking tray.

6) Bake in preheat oven at 170 degree Celsius for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

7) Cool completely before storage.

The result nice or not. It was delicious

Pineapple Tarts/ roll

Rolling the dough.

It was a very difficult process and it took us the whole day to bake it. Thoughwonder one small jar of tart cost RM 15 in Malaysia.

 The tarts and the roll. Too bad I don't have the mold for pineapple roll, so this is how I do it. Cut it to small small rectangular strands and place the jam on one end and roll it.

 

The day before, we prepared the pineapple jam. There isn't any fresh pineapple here fresh pineapple are very expensive, so we used canned pineapple as a substitute.

  

The product. Very happy and unbelievable that I managed to bake such nice cookies. *thick face, self-praise*

Drooling?? Get the recipe here.

Peanut Cookies

 

This is a typical Chinese new year cookies and it's very tasty. But beware not to over-eat or you will be ending up having good friends with pimples and sore-throat.

Recipe:

1kg of roasted skinless peanuts

1kg of icing sugar

1kg of All purpose flour

Oil

Egg yolk for coating ( 1 egg yolk + 1 tbsp water)

p/s: ratio 1:1:1

Methods:

1) Blend the peanuts until it looks like "sand" and pour it into the mixing bowl.

2) If you don't have icing sugar, use normal sugar but blend it first. Again, mix it with the peanuts.

3) Sift in all purpose flour.

4) Mix well, add oil while mixing. Mix oil until  a dough can be formed.( For 1kg peanuts, I used around 0.5ml of sunflower oil) Do not over-add the oil or else the whole thing will turn to be too oily as peanuts do secrete oil too.

5) Shape the dough into small balls and place it on a greased baking tray.

6) Pressed a halved peanut on top of the ball and glazed it with egg yolk.

7) Baked in the preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius for 15 min or until  brown.

8) Cool completely before storage.

 

Yum yum yum..

The modified Kuih Bangkit

It was one of my favorite CNY cookies and I haven't tried it for 6 years. Can you imagine? 6 years without Kuih Bangkit. So I researched the recipe for Kuih Bangkit and found out that I need Tapioca flour. Where to get Tapioca flour here lar so while I am browsing through Kuih Bangkit recipe, I found this and I think it is the closest I could get ... Aih nevermind, the taste and texture is 80 % more a less the same. I am satisfied. End of story.

 

It was satisfaction...yummm..

I was lazy and I did not make dragon shape so all I did was round shape modified Kuih Bangkit

 

Then we fried these too... 

All heaty stuff, hope after CNY, I don't burn myself with acne and sore throat.

All prepared.. The keropok so little already because I managed to finish it up even before CNY.

Last but not least....

GONG XI FATT CHAI.

虎啸一声山海动，

龙腾三界吉祥来。

恭喜发财

万事如意

Have a prosperous Chinese new year ahead!!

Ski Trip

Finally, finally, finally. After 6 years of med school, I've finally tried Sled, Ski and almost almost snowboard. Oh well, not exactly ski but I tried to ski and fell for around 100 m ok.

It was planned since last year but what we have last year was not snow but bits of ice-kacang since it rained the day before. God was amazing, he gifted all of us ( Final year students) the most special gift ever, a super beautiful winter which will be in our memories for the rest of our lives. He also gave us a special opportunity to go ski and numerous rounds of snow-fight. When I was typing this blog, the snow was already melting. Everywhere was nothing but lots of lots of ice-kacang aka melted muddy snow + water.

This trip was long planned as I say before, it all started last year. Last week, we supposed to go but it was blown once more due to safety reasons because we heard that there were avalanche somewhere near our ski place. Anglasky Pereval is not exactly a ski resort, you don't get what you get in Switzerland, there are no chair lift so you have to drag your heavy equipment and pull all the way up the slope. Man, it was tiring.

The rental was cheap though: For the best sled you can get "MUSTANG" you just need to pay 100 Grvn which is equivalent to 50 RM or lesser and tadaa you are there playing happily for the whole day. Ski set is 80 grvn = 40 RM and Snow board is 150 grvn = 75 RM. Cheap right??

We went with Group 628 and they even bring fire to set up there and bbq. How wonderful, we even can heat up our take-away MC D breakfast  using their fire and can stand by the fire to keep warm. Thanks to them, warm meal for the day.

Ok, I'll let the pictures do the talking .. like I always does.

 

Taken while buying MC D. The girls Cam-whore while the guys buying. 

Sing Hoon "ngam-cham-ing" don't know what and I think he like old man already.

 

We took trolley bus there and it was freaking slow. But worth it only 4 grvn = 2 RM but it took us 1 hour plus to reach the ski resort place.

This is our "MUSTANG" sled which has a steering and cost us 100 grvn for the whole day. It was better than the normal wooden one mainly for us beginners and the friction is more and it can sled more slower and most important there is a break, although functionless.wtf.

While waiting for the guys to rent their ski set. We are timid and decided to stick to sled only because we are super scared of fracturing our limbs as CNY is one week away.

Then we  pull each other and man it was fun.

 

There is a small slope and I decided to test the Sled. Ended up shouting also.Aih hopeless lar.

  

Setting up the BBQ pit. They looked so pro.

 

  

The guys who decided to play snow-board. I think is 100 X more scary then the sled.

  

See.. theory proven. 100 X more scarier than the Sled.

  

Before climbing up the slope have to recharge energy first.

 

Sled-ing down the slope. The heavier you are the faster it goes. The adrenaline rush...... s

Nice or not the scenery.

 

 

After few rounds of up and down the slope everyone stomach grueling. Mc D burger is the way to go. I was having becon burger, something you never ever can get in Malaysia.

 

My darling so cute can pose somemore.

 

After the Lunch, everyone posing for photo

The girls.

 

Ahem, ahem Posing only. I don't have proper shoes so cannot play :(

  

A picture to prove that I did try the Ski, thought is only 100 m.

Can't help it, It's girls instinct to cam whore.

 

Then Jeffrey invented new method to play the snow board. And this is how.

 

Playing the sled once more. It's like you are on a roller coaster or something.

 

As I said, it is not a professional skiing resort so you have to pull your heavy sled up the slope. This is so not good if you are not constantly been exercising --- me, almost died of heart failure.

 

After coming down from the slope. While waiting for the guys to return their things.

 

Walking down the bus-stop. The icicles on the tree is beautiful. 

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful and beautiful is the only word to describe.

Superb trip with my classmates and friends and it will be a memory that will last me for the rest of my life.