Busy weekends

Last weekend, there was the Hari Raya celebration organised by KUL. I didn't mention this in my last post as I was more preoccupied with the condition of my watch. In a nutshell, there were good food and good company. What I can say is, this year's venue was so much nicer. It is improving every year and hopefully it stays that way.

Photo stolen from Facebook. I brought my camera but with T carrying around a big black SLR camera, who will want to compete with him?

Recognise this baju kurung?

Fast forward to the next Saturday, I was supposed to be helping out at the 'Explorace' event by Malaysian Society, but I don't know how, and I don't know why I ended up being the participant in a group with M. Frankly speaking, my team was at an advantage as we were both in our 4th year in Liverpool competing against all the other freshers. On top of that, a few station masters told me where they were heading off prior to the start of the race as I crossed path with them while making my way to the starting point. Hmmm...it wasn't my choice to know where were they going right?

As you can conclude, we won the race after running around the city centre like crazy. I wasn't even wearing proper shoes to run and my feet did hurt badly after.

After collecting our prize money, we treated ourselves to a nice lunch.

It was chicken kieve served with fries and fresh salad. Delicious food are always fattening. Butter was oozing out as I sliced through the batter to get to the chicken meat. Yummy! For once, I didn't feel guilty as I did run+walk for 2 hours before this.

Sunday was my flat's open house day for Raya. We started cooking on Saturday evening and continued in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Most of the credit will have to go to the other 6 who were involved in this as the worn-out me couldn't really contribute much.

Tadah! At first glance, the yellow flowers were more attractive here in photos but if you're stood there engulfed in all the aroma, you'll definitely notice the food first.

Only 2 and a half dishes can be credited to me.

1. The nicely cut hard-boiled eggs. Boiling egg is not as easy as it sounds. I had to put the eggs in at the right temperature to prevent them from cracking prematurely, boiled them long enough to get to that precise level of hardness (careful not to over-boil or under-boil them as they can't be used for Nasi Lemak then), peel them carefully so that the white still reflects your face nicely when you look into it, and finally, cut in such precision that each portion was exactly 25.000% of an egg. (If one portion ended up 25.1%, it will ruin the proportion of the rest of the egg) Phew, that was hard work!

*all the above were of course expressed in hyperbole

2. The fried ikan bilis (anchovies). This one I must admit that it was my first time frying it. So, 1st batch was burnt a bit, 2nd batch was still a bit soft, 3rd batch was justttt... nice.

I did receive compliments for it and this time, I didn't cry wolf.

3. I was the one who cut all the nasi himpit (I think this is how you spell it. As my friend described, the rice cakes). All were of equal sizes as far as what my judgment tells me.

Chicken rendang. I will gladly lick the plate if the chicken runs out.
Note to self: get recipe from A.

Fried chicken. It was delicious. Don't ask me how many I took.

Colourful jellies! They look so tempting, don't they?

Groupie 1

Me, S, flatmate, and little I. He's so adorable. I'm giving him another plus point for being very photogenic

Groupie 2

In conclusion, it is just impossible to get work done on weekends with this many activity. At least I got a real break from medicine. Now, back to reality. How I wished weekends were longer.