happiness!!

This actually arrived long ago.... but looking at it makes me happy!!

Counting down!

back(b)logging - Bundesliga

Heya, been feeling lazy to blog the past few weeks. Everyday i come back from work at ard 6.30, then i'll check mail and sit ard until 7, then i'll be preparing and having my dinner in the kitchen for about 2 hours... After dinner it's a quick shower and then about time to sleep already. So, since today's a saturday, i shall clear my backlog....

I went to watch a Bundesliga match with Kanna and Leungchi 2 weeks ago. Vfb Stuttgart was playing against Hertha Berlin. The atmosphere was AMAZING... just like National Stadium in 1994... with pple cheering and stamping their feet and jumping and..... simply amazing. Stuttgart's best cheer was "Scheiss Berliner Scheiss Berliner!!!!" (f**k berlin f**k berlin) But too bad Stuttgart played terribly and they lost.... Na ja, here're the photos...

^ on the way there! many many pple...

reallly many man pple...


the thing above me is a HUGE banner!!

we want goal! we want goal!!

dream team

deep fried to perfection

Sweet and sour pork ala quanhui

300g pork with fats
2 egg whites
20g flour
4 tablespoons tomato ketchup
1 lemon/2teaspoons vinegar
3 teaspoons honey/sugar
1 red capsicum
1 green capsicum
3 rings of pineapple

method: marinate pork with soy sauce and curry powder, coat the pork in the batter, heat the oil, deep fry to perfection

fry capsicums for 2 mins then add ketchup, honey and water. simmer for 2 mins then add pineapple and lemon juice. Simmer till you think it's ok....
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Heavenly bliss, damn i'm getting fat....

Making Dumplings!

My chinese neighbours invited me for dumpling making on CNY eve. It's a tradition for the Chinese from northern China to make dumplings on the first day of CNY. Since i only know how to eat dumplings, i watched them in anticipation...

Half way through the dumpling making, suddenly all the lights went out! Some fuse or some electrical thing just decided to go kaputt and threaten to destroy our dumpling making session! But thankfully, there's something more reliable than electrical appliances...

Candles in all shapes and sizes

ganz romantisch lah...

I also decided to join in...

The other guy is from malaysia and also clueless on how to make dumplings

In the end after about an hour of work, we all sat down for a nice and romantisch candlelight dinner... The dumplings they made were superb! The skin and the filling was nicely done and it was soft and smooth.... Of course there were a few dumplings that were tough and looked mutated. Wanna guess who made those???

Chinese New Year in a not so chinese place

Happy CNY to everyone! Gong xi fa cai and have a great year of the rat. Phew, i'm in my second cycle of the zodiac already. I took half day leave on CNY eve and did some spring cleaning of my room. Since my room's quite small and i clean it every week, spring cleaning was quite fast and the rest of the day was free. then i decided to be adventurous and i made this

Unglaubich!!

I cannot express in words how that tiny little piece of slightly burnt meat made me sooooooo damn happy!!! All that 45 mins of staring at the oven and constantly turning the meat and all the while smiling to myself.... Pure bliss i tell you... simply heavenly!!

Anw, i had a pre CNY gathering with the Stuttgarters and one Karlsruherin at my place last sunday. We had a feast of rice, curry, Fried Chicken(yes really!!), rosti and also improvised Yu Sheng! I must say that the fried chicken was really quite good. Crispy and tender and juicy! Gracias to Kanna for it! (and to my ikea wok too!)

^manual labour

^check out the wok man!!
^More potatoes

the 3 chefs at work

all set...


^the spread! yummy....

^KFC(kanna's fried chicken) and my improvised Yu Sheng


erm... looks more like salad eh...


Our beer girl for the day...

Great gathering, good food, great friends, all makes for a great CNY!

Snowboarding!!!!

I went snowboarding over the weekend! and it was simply AMAZING!!!! imagine sweating in -7 deg and with snow all around you and adrenalin pumping through your body!! woo hoo!! Bitte vorsicht, photo overload!!!

^on the train at 1 am at night cos we wanna save money...

excited!!!
that's where i wanna be
here's where we rented our equipment... tiny cellar place but great stuff! they even have burton boards!!
Lagi excited!!

Lagi lagi excited!!

Good to go!
snow, snowboards and handsome dudes
lagi handsome.... haha
our coursemates! the guy in red is the instructor... he's been skiing/snowboarding for 25 years... and i think he's like 30 years old? some pple are just born with snowboards on their feet...

Yep, i'm in Germany...
luxus dinner! damn shiok...

really damn shiok!

dinner was so shiok until we forgot about the bus timings and missed the last bus back. So we had to walk back to our hostel and everywhere around us was pitch dark!
it's really dark at night

When we left on friday night, we haven't actually found a place to stay cos the few places we asked were full. So, we planned to go there and look for one and if all else fails, alex and kanna suggested that it's gonna be a long night at the bahnhof which is in the middle of nowhere and it's gonna be nice and warm at -7 deg...

Luckily, this is where we stayed for the night! Sehr luxus und schön!!! all for just 30 eur mit breakfast! phew... no train station for the night!
who said wanna sleep at the bahnhof??

It even comes with a balcony!

and a great view!
handsome dudes after a good night's rest!

all set to go!

looking good!

OUCH!! my ass!!!
Looking good again!

much better!



I'm a pro...

Down the hill i come!

Pro right??

These 2 Malaysians no money to pay, so must scrub all their boards...
(No offense to malaysians! just some healthy cross border humour...)

Feldberg, Schwarzwald



Kanna: "Noooo i dun wanna leave!!!"

I am sooooo going back to snowboard again!!! Look out for more snowboard pics!!!!