One more week to go!! One last week of exams before the vacation. Can't wait for it man!! This week is study week and i am trying to concentrate on studying, in hope to ace the remaining 4 exam papers.
Today, i just wanna blog about what i did on wednesday and thursday. Well, i wanna take a break from studying, so i went cycling with yong lok, chin seng, Chloe and Deanna on wednesday. Hey, i know we are suppose to study during study week but i need a break. Im only human~
Our target was to cycle 30km and we also decided to rent bicycle at east coast park (ecp). We met with a problem while we were trying to go ecp, we went to the wrong mrt station. We arranged to meet at tampines mrt, thinking that there is a bus there which will head towards ecp. Well, there is a bus heading to ecp, but we have to endure about 20+ bus stops. As we didn't wanna waste time travelling by mrt, so we just took the bus from tampines which we all suffered for 20+ bus stop. Throughout the bus ride, we kinda lost the interest to cycle and became sleepy. Hahaha.
Still, we reached ecp and cycled. The guys all cycled like mad with our goal in mind while the girls cycled slower. Damn the upslope man, my thighs hurt so badly when i cycled up the slope. But downslope was super fun, you do not need to pedal and you will move at incredible speed. Eventually, the guys stopped for water break while we waited for the girls to catch up. Once they did, everyone pedalled at a constant and relaxing speed. At that point, we have already cycled away from ecp and we have reach marina barrage. I didn't know that ecp was actually so near to marina bay.
We ride up another damn slope to reach the top of marina barrage (the place with lots of grass and people flying kites). Its just really beautiful up there. we stayed there for awhile before we continue our journey. We eventually cycled past the ArtScience museum. I have never went into the museum before though, maybe one day i will visit it. Its been awhile since i go marina bay and i don't know why but when cycling along marina bay, i find marina bay to be extremely beautiful. It was breathtaking. We then took a U-turn and went back to ecp so that we will be able to return our bicycle on time. I am so glad that my calf and thigh muscle didn't hurt the next day. I certainly enjoyed myself that day.
On thursday, Cindy, Cheryl, jing wen and I planned to go to a friend's house to study. Yes, we did go to our friend's house with the mindset of studying. But things did not turn out how we wanted...
First of all, we reached our friend's house later than we planned. When we entered our friend's house, we first went into the kitchen to look at our friend's pet rabbit. I forgot the rabbit's name but her rabbit was huge, larger than usual rabbits. Then we sat down on the sofa for awhile before our friend's house tour. After admiring our friend's house, we sat on the sofa again and start chatting. We even questioned the motive of us going our friend's house.
We thought we would study, but we were wrong. We ended up playing "Fun Run 2". Hahahahahaha. I know its a lame game to you guys, but its actually pretty fun when you play with friends. After quite a lot of rounds of "Fun Run 2", we remembered our objective of going to our friend's house. All of us sat on our friend's dining table, took out our laptops and started studying. 30 minutes past and we started to discussed about our dinner. We were considering delivery or cooking our own dinner. Since Cindy and I were once Food & Nutrition students, and our friend knows how to cook, we decide to make our own dinner.
Yeah, so we stopped studying and headed towards the nearest supermarket to get some ingredients. When we got back to our friend's house, we started to prepare the food and get cooking. Basically, Cindy, my friend and I were cooking while jing wen and Cheryl were observing and helping out by clearing the dining table. Sadly, i didn't take photos of the dishes we made. The cooking process was quite interesting and fun. Thankfully our friend's kitchen didn't explode. The food were edible, not a disaster, and it all tasted nice, except the sausage which was kinda salty.
To sum up, we made 四菜一汤. The first dish was some vegetable dish made by our friend. I didn't know what vegetable that was but it tasted quite nice, so i just ate it.
Second dish was eggs with spring onions. Cindy was the main chef frying the egg, while i was the assistant chef, helping her. This was a pretty good dish that i am gonna cook it for my own lunch next time.
Third dish was sausage with tomato sauce. Gosh, this dish was really salty, but luckily we didn't made a lot of it and were able to finish it.
Fourth dish was a weird one. Let me evaluate for you. So, we bought chicken fillet, slice it into cubes. Then our friend marinate it with pepper, salt, cornstarch. Cindy's and my mandible dropped when we saw cornstarch added to the meat. Cindy composed herself then asked me how we should cook the meat, and we eventually decided to stir-fry the meat. As for the sauce, i suggested oyster sauce. So yeah, we proceeded with it. We fry the meat with oyster sauce and some water as it was dry. Turns out that the corn starch was a bad idea as it absorbs the water. So the meat was very dry even though we added a lot of water. At that time, jing wen saw us in crisis, so she asked us to add barbecue sauce. In the end, the dish was "sliced chicken fillet with cornstarch, oyster sauce & barbecue sauce.". The dish looks like raw chicken meat, no kidding, but its kinda delicious.
Lastly, the soup. Its just a regular soup base with crab sticks, mushrooms, meatballs, carrots and tofu.
One of the best dinner ever. I mean, come on, eating and cooking dinner with your friends, how cool is that. HOME-COOKED FOOD ARE THE BEST!! The atmosphere just feels like i was eating dinner with my family.
So, we finished dinner and we studied for a bit before we went home. Lucky for my friend, she's already home. In the end, our initial plan failed miserably, but I had quite a lot of fun. Most importantly, even though I didn't study much, it just feels like i didn't wasted my day at all. The experience i had with them that day was awesome and most probably will stick in my mind forever. However, i now know that no matter what, we cannot study as a group. But if we wanna have fun, of course we can!! Hehe. Ok, thats all, i gotta study now. -End of Blog-
We ride up another damn slope to reach the top of marina barrage (the place with lots of grass and people flying kites). Its just really beautiful up there. we stayed there for awhile before we continue our journey. We eventually cycled past the ArtScience museum. I have never went into the museum before though, maybe one day i will visit it. Its been awhile since i go marina bay and i don't know why but when cycling along marina bay, i find marina bay to be extremely beautiful. It was breathtaking. We then took a U-turn and went back to ecp so that we will be able to return our bicycle on time. I am so glad that my calf and thigh muscle didn't hurt the next day. I certainly enjoyed myself that day.
On thursday, Cindy, Cheryl, jing wen and I planned to go to a friend's house to study. Yes, we did go to our friend's house with the mindset of studying. But things did not turn out how we wanted...
First of all, we reached our friend's house later than we planned. When we entered our friend's house, we first went into the kitchen to look at our friend's pet rabbit. I forgot the rabbit's name but her rabbit was huge, larger than usual rabbits. Then we sat down on the sofa for awhile before our friend's house tour. After admiring our friend's house, we sat on the sofa again and start chatting. We even questioned the motive of us going our friend's house.
We thought we would study, but we were wrong. We ended up playing "Fun Run 2". Hahahahahaha. I know its a lame game to you guys, but its actually pretty fun when you play with friends. After quite a lot of rounds of "Fun Run 2", we remembered our objective of going to our friend's house. All of us sat on our friend's dining table, took out our laptops and started studying. 30 minutes past and we started to discussed about our dinner. We were considering delivery or cooking our own dinner. Since Cindy and I were once Food & Nutrition students, and our friend knows how to cook, we decide to make our own dinner.
Yeah, so we stopped studying and headed towards the nearest supermarket to get some ingredients. When we got back to our friend's house, we started to prepare the food and get cooking. Basically, Cindy, my friend and I were cooking while jing wen and Cheryl were observing and helping out by clearing the dining table. Sadly, i didn't take photos of the dishes we made. The cooking process was quite interesting and fun. Thankfully our friend's kitchen didn't explode. The food were edible, not a disaster, and it all tasted nice, except the sausage which was kinda salty.
To sum up, we made 四菜一汤. The first dish was some vegetable dish made by our friend. I didn't know what vegetable that was but it tasted quite nice, so i just ate it.
Second dish was eggs with spring onions. Cindy was the main chef frying the egg, while i was the assistant chef, helping her. This was a pretty good dish that i am gonna cook it for my own lunch next time.
Third dish was sausage with tomato sauce. Gosh, this dish was really salty, but luckily we didn't made a lot of it and were able to finish it.
Fourth dish was a weird one. Let me evaluate for you. So, we bought chicken fillet, slice it into cubes. Then our friend marinate it with pepper, salt, cornstarch. Cindy's and my mandible dropped when we saw cornstarch added to the meat. Cindy composed herself then asked me how we should cook the meat, and we eventually decided to stir-fry the meat. As for the sauce, i suggested oyster sauce. So yeah, we proceeded with it. We fry the meat with oyster sauce and some water as it was dry. Turns out that the corn starch was a bad idea as it absorbs the water. So the meat was very dry even though we added a lot of water. At that time, jing wen saw us in crisis, so she asked us to add barbecue sauce. In the end, the dish was "sliced chicken fillet with cornstarch, oyster sauce & barbecue sauce.". The dish looks like raw chicken meat, no kidding, but its kinda delicious.
Lastly, the soup. Its just a regular soup base with crab sticks, mushrooms, meatballs, carrots and tofu.
One of the best dinner ever. I mean, come on, eating and cooking dinner with your friends, how cool is that. HOME-COOKED FOOD ARE THE BEST!! The atmosphere just feels like i was eating dinner with my family.
So, we finished dinner and we studied for a bit before we went home. Lucky for my friend, she's already home. In the end, our initial plan failed miserably, but I had quite a lot of fun. Most importantly, even though I didn't study much, it just feels like i didn't wasted my day at all. The experience i had with them that day was awesome and most probably will stick in my mind forever. However, i now know that no matter what, we cannot study as a group. But if we wanna have fun, of course we can!! Hehe. Ok, thats all, i gotta study now. -End of Blog-
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