Happy New Year 2009

Once again sorry, i did not post on Sunday, neither on yesterday. On Sunday, internet was a bit laggy, i mean VERY lagging. But this is Brunei, so what do you expect right? This will be final blogging for this year. 2008 is near the end, its a real beginning on 2009. A lot happened in 2008, so far so good i would say. I am going on a holiday trip to Kuching so i won't be blogging for this whole week. So i hereby wish everyone



in advance... Hope you had a great year and also planning to welcome 2009!!!



See you next year~

Happy Day~

First i would like to apologise to those who visited my blog on thursday to read comics. I did not update on that day cos i am really busy doing something. And also if you are here today for my blogging about food, then i am sorry once again, i wanted to blog about something else today so you can check back tomorrow, i will post about it tomorrow.

You know, i waited for this day for so long already, the end of my SWE work attachment!!! YAHOO~ After today i am free for one month, which i really need cos i am planning to do something. Something la...

Like i said, today is my last day on attachment, i received a certificate from the Ports Department, this one:



I am glad that i got the certificate cos not everyone on attachment in other organisation got it. And i would like to thank those who taught me things while i am on attachment and also those who care for me.

Other than this, i would also like to congratulate my cousin, Edda engaging to the one she loved. And thanks for the engagement dinner.


I don't have the new pic, so...

So overall today is a busy day, so as tomorrow. So as the day after tomorrow and also the day after tomorrow tomorrow, and so on. LOL

Updated Spawn list

Since i bought the Spawn i.043 last time, I've now taken it down from my most wanted toy list, and in fact i uploaded a few more spawns picture, making them my new target. Chances are very low though cos all three are super duper rare. From which two of the three, are limited edition with the creator's signature.


First, Spawn the beginning, limited to only 1500 figures in the world, half of it being signed. This figure is a historical piece cos it is made according to the first ever spawn comic, which is the beginning as the name explained itself, the beginning of the spawn era.


Then similarly, also limited edition, but only for 1000 pieces in the world, and once again similar, half of it signed and another half without. This figure is definitely badass.


As for this figure, nightmare spawn, it is not as rare as the previous two but it is a hard-to-get figure. Usually, a normal spawn figure can be bought at bout B$25 from e-bay but this figure is 3x more expensive or sometimes with even higher bid. The price gets higher everytime it is put up on e-bay.


Finally, the figure spawn i.109............................................. The figure speaks for itself.

Honey Garlic Chicken for a special event

Have you ever tasted Pizza Hut's grilled chicken wings, those which are over $1 for only half of the chicken wing? Yes, it's really expensive, but fear not. If you want to taste it, then why not try my recipe here, i won't say it's exactly the same as Pizza Hut, but it is almost identical, or even better!



Today's Saturday and as promised i am posting something about food, be it introducing nice dishes tasted somewhere, or some recipe i made up myself. What's better is that tomorrow is the biggest day for Chinese, i don't know what the festival is called but you should know what i mean. So, why not try making this for the event.

First let me explain about the sauces:
you need to separate the sauce into two parts; one for marinade and another for coating. In another word, marinade is for before cook while coating is for after cook.

But before i go further, there is one special ingredient i would like to show, that is the teriyaki sauce. This sauce can only be found at the supermarket below the mall. Cos so far, that's the only place i saw it. Don't even try Hua Ho, i search at so many Hua Ho but yet i never spotted one. This is how it almost looks like:



Notice that i said ALMOST, cos the one i used does not have the label-"roasted garlic" and instead of the label-"with" inside the gold oval shape, the one i bought is labeled "Thick".

Important: you must buy the teriyaki sauce like the one above with the label-"Thick" cos otherwise, you will get a watery teriyaki sauce which is unfit for grilling.

Ingredients:

Sauce for marinade
Teriyaki Sauce
little bit of honey
little bit of salt
black pepper
garlic powder

Sauce for coatings
Teriyaki Sauce
lots of honey
black pepper
garlic powder
finely chopped garlic
few drops of cooking oil or butter (optional)
garlic soy sauce (optional)



Steps:
1. Cut the skin where the joint meets, so that you can stretch the chicken wings when grilling.

2. Marinade the wings with the marinade sauce mentioned above. (The reason why only a small amount of honey is added is just to have the chicken absorb the aroma and also adding too much honey in such early stage will make the skin black and burnt due to the sweetness)

3. Grill the wings with oven or anyhow you like, until the wings are about 85% cooked, then use a brush to coat the chicken wings, as much as possible but enough for all and then put it in again for grilling.

4. Make sure while brushing, the chopped garlic should be stick to all wings so that it will taste better and with stronger aroma.

5. Garnish with a little bit of sesame seed and black pepper if you like after taking out. Then ready to be served.

Finished Product:

Sorry for blurry picture

Tips:
The grilling time depends on what kind of oven you use, if you use a direct fire oven, then i would say 10 mins should be enough. But if you use a heat or microwave oven, then it should be about double the time of direct fire.

Just in case you don't know how to judge whether it is cooked or not, you can use a stick to poke into the thickest part of the wings head, if you can poke through it then it should be okay. Otherwise, you can use the stick to poke at the joint between the head and body of the wing, then look at the stick to see if it is still bloody.

Finally if you want it to be more glowy just to be more attractive, then you can crush rock sugar to be added to the coating sauce.

Note
If you can't get the teriyaki sauce i said, then you can replace it with the combination of abalone sauce with oyster sauce, with the proportion of 40:60

If you have try it, then give me some feedback, i would like to know what you think
~~~~ENJOY~~~~

1st trial to the schedule

Recently i am quite busy doing my report for my SWE attachment. I wanted to finish it before holiday so i can enjoy my holiday. So far so good i should say, the report is more than halfway to completion. And what makes me even more happy is that my attachment working days are left with 5 days only. It's GREAT! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~

Cyanide and Happiness Comics








Before i end the post, there is one thing i would like to share. There is one day when i was surfing e-bay looking for t-shirts, i saw this cool yet weird shirt. It makes me wonder whether it is even legal to produce such shirt and i actually wanted to buy it cos it is the only one available at e-bay. This is how the shirt front design looks like:



What do you think? Cool isn't it?

My plan for my blog

Today, something struck my mind. I have come to a decision that i should make a schedule for my blogging. In another word, i should set what to be posted on certain days. This way, i think its more organised. So this is what i had in mind:

Monday- Varies

Tuesday- Showcase my collections

Wednesday- Varies

Thursday- Random comics

Friday- Either a long post or no post at all

Saturday- Food

Sunday- No post usually

As you can see, on even days, i will post something up unless there is some reason stopping me to do so. As on Monday and Wednesday, i will post if i do have something to share with. On Friday, i usually c my mood, if i feel like blogging then i will make a long post or otherwise no post at all cos i need rest on public holidays too. But once again things may not be according to what i stated here. So do check my blog regularly.

Furthermore, i decided to put up a poll every Monday for voting, be it something silly as in for fun or something serious. Then the voting should end during Saturday night so that i can check the result on Sunday and then create yet another poll on Monday.

Hope you like what i have in plan. Thanks for reading~

Chinese Novels anyone?

Hi everyone, i just wanted to ask you if you have any nice chinese novels to introduce? Cos i would like to read some chinese novels, never try reading at all. Also trying to improve my chinese. So if you have any good book to intro, i don't need you to borrow me, just tell me the name and show a picture of it if you have a picture.

And please, i don't want horror novels. They are boring no matter in what language. Horror stories are nice but horror novels are not. It's just too long.

One most wanted: checked

Sorry for the delay but as i promised, here it is, the post which should've been posted yesterday. The one of spawn model which i wanted the most due to the big size with detailed carving and cool posture with maximum extension of the wonderful cape. Spawn i.043:



This is how the cape looks like before connecting:


This is so far the most expensive spawn i've bought @ B$169.80 on e-bay including postage fee if i've not mistaken. It's sent be priority mail which takes 2 weeks to arrive to Brunei from US, which is considered fast, so charges is high.

Despite the high cost, i think i am quite lucky to get it cos it's very rare to find now. Not even in KL i am able to find it. It also extremely rarely to appear on e-bay. In 5 month i only see it once in ebay which is also the one i bought. Afterall, it is one of the top three in popularity in spawn toys.


The huge base acting as support to the heavy spawn. It is about 4x bigger than usual base.


These are the additional bats. I decided not to add them to display cos i think i looks better without it.

Before and after equipping the cape:


Lighting differences:


Finally, the comparison between a normal size spawn and this huge spawn:

The difference in size is quite obvious in these pictures. The smaller spawn here is 6" inches while it is stated that the big spawn is 12" inches, but if you measure the cape from tip to end, it will become the tallest and largest spawn ever produced for sale.

So that's all about Spawn i.043. Hope you enjoy reading~

Dad is? and Mom is?

Today's a great day for me, the long anticipated model that i look very forward to has finally arrive. Yesterday i called the post office to track for the item and they say it's not here yet, then this early morning i received a call from the post office that it's here.

How is that possible?

Cos the letter arrived this morning at home around 9.30am which means that the item should already been there for few days, just that they haven't issue the letter card for collecting the item. So that means yesterday i called, they did not even check it for me and simply reply saying that "don't have."

Whatever... I am just glad that i got it today, i can't even wait till i get home to see it. Instead, i went home to take the card and went to collect it myself. However, as expected if i do that i will suffer from continuous blabbering; not by my mom but my dad. He is worse than a female, but i am used to it already. It's always him who always "sing" to me cos i think he don't understand me like my mom did. He don't understand my passion for my collection.

My mom knows what i like and what i don't. She gives comment to my toy model collection, whether that it is nice or not instead of just saying it's a waste of money which my dad never miss saying.
My mom knows i like SHE, she will ask me to watch them in tv if i didn't know and also helps to find people who are going oversea if i wanted to ask them to help buy new SHE album. My dad on the other hand, always and i mean ALWAYS complain whenever SHE are on the screen. He always say they behave childishly, he never let me watch them in peace, always complaining.
My mom knows i like cooking, she let me cook as long as i said i will be the one cooking on a particular day. Sometimes she help me out too. My dad ah, sigh... complains again everytime i cook; not on taste but say everytime i cook, it is a mess. Never clean the dishes...

Then there are many more lagi ah. Lazy to type. Actually today's post shouldn't be about these, LOL. But nvm, it makes one extra post for me. I post regarding my new model 2molo then.

Want some bracelets?

My friend asked me to do him a favor, that is helping him to advertise the bracelets he is selling. Those bracelets are good to health, due to the magnetic thing, which i am not very sure myself. But if you like bracelets you can check it out. Here is the site:

http://www.crystal1816.blogspot.com/
(When i posted it as link it won't appear so you have to copy n paste yourself)

If you wanted to buy, you can also ask me to pass the money to him to save trouble and then i will take the bracelet from him and pass to you. I don't charge extra or get any profit, so don't worry.


Note: There is a new poll up here in my blog, please do vote. Thanks

Brunei's Animal Shelter

When i am browsing through blogs today, i found one very ...... erm.... how do i say? a warm-hearted blog i guess. You know i have read that a lot of people were complaining in Borneo Bulletin, about those homeless animals.

Many commented that they are harmful to the society and suggested all should be poisoned or even worse, knocked hard in the head to death, especially to dogs. I don't think i need to state the reason why it is especially dogs cos you should have already understand why. That's all BULLSHIT!!! Why do you have to apply such cruelty to something that have life just like us human. But of course there were also many people defending those poor animal, these people deserve others respect. They treat every life with respect and care. Try to learn from them!

So just like i mentioned earlier, i found this great blog of animal shelter in Brunei, please do check it out:
http://animalshelterbrunei.blogspot.com/

I did not get paid for doing this, i just think that it is worth letting others know, and also it is a right thing to do.



So if you are interested in adopting any pets, do check it out yo~

One day trip to Miri

First of all, i would like to apologize to those who always follow my blog, for not updating the blog for so long. Cos last few weeks i had been haunted by all sort of sickness- sickness after sickness. I dunno why too. Other than that, i am also a bit tired and lazy to update it but i am not deserting my blog, just that i am taking a small rest lol. So today i am back to blog bout my trip to Miri.

Actually there is not much to mention cos it's only one day. All i wanted to buy and also bought are just 2 items; that is a FM/MP3 modulator and also an old SHE concert cd. Both adding together cost Rm 100 sharp.

This is the SHE cd that i bought:


It is an 'old' cd distributed in 2006. Why didn't i buy it earlier??? I also don't know. I knew about the cd but i just don't understand why i did not buy it earlier. It's definitely not cos of money, cos i never have second thought about buying SHE album no matter what the price is. Probably it is because i thought a concert cd will be very noisy due to shouting fans, that may be the reason.

Well, whatever the reason is, i have it now- a superb set of cds definitely worth buying. I bought it for only Rm 40. The price is very fair for 2 cds and a dvd.




Listening to the cds just gave me goosebumps after goosebumps, especially the songs of 爱呢， 花都开好了 and belief. When the music just started, it gives u a very touching feel without any reason. Everytime when i listen i get goosebump. In 'belief', at the part where hebe raise her tone and pull, it makes me feels like crying. It's true. To me her voice is just heavenly. I know some will criticize but that's what i think and feel, if anyone disagree, it's their own problem.

My goddess

Say whatever you like, i don care. Hahahaha

Am i advertising? yes i am cos it's worth introducing. I know u might think that i said it is worth buying cos i am a fans, you are definitely wrong. Buy it and you will understand why. Don't come borrow it from me, i don't borrow any of my SHE collection to anybody. I never lent to anyone except once to someone who i also paiseh not borrowing cos he oledi asked and i used to always follow his car to school. Hahahah... you know who you are right?

Other than those SHE things, as i said i bought an mp3 modulator in Miri for my car. I came back then found out it is damaged, WTH!!! Everytime i poked it into the cigarette ligher place the fuse blow. So i have to spend another B$6 for fuses and B$10 for repair. Sigh...

I also bought this card tricks/magics book:


and

New specs:


It's surprising that my degree did not rise at all after not checking my eyes for 5 years. I still have the same degree as before according to the...... i dunno wat u call, eye checker? I still buy a new spec cos the old one already lasted 5 years and it's bend oledi.

That's all i bought there, i didn't do much shopping either but fortunately i get to taste another new food to me which i always wanted to taste and that is Peking Duck. WOOOOOOOOOOOOO... bye~ I will update soon this week.

First tag

It's been a week without any update to my blog. Then i suddenly received the message that i was tagged. I dunno what the hell that means, cos i am still quite new to blogging and this is also the first time i am tagged. I don't feel like doing it but well, since i don't feel like blogging today, i will try it then.

It starts... NOW!

Instructions: Remove any number of questions from below, and add in your personal questions, then tag any number of people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

1. What do you do most for the time being?
Net, net and net. Sometimes watching anime.

2. What is your favourite animal(s)?
Dog kali...

3. What is your one regret in life?
I don't regret on what i do and did. My regrets were caused by other people and too many to list out.

4. Who inspires you?
A lot oh...

- My uncle inspire me to start collecting models.
- SHE inspire me to learn Chinese because i wanted to read their book, and i am happy to say that i am far better now as compared to last time when i always fail my Chinese test.
- I inspire myself to cook. LOL

That's all i can remember for now.

5. Tell me something I don't know about your family background.
I don't even know.

6. Do you believe you can survive without money?
Can you eat with your ass? What a stupid question.

7. What are you afraid to lose the most?
Everything that is mine.

8. What can cheer you up from sadness?
Food and Music.

9. Have you ever fall madly in love?
Who don't?

10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
good singer, friendly.

11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
Cold mountain type(read in mandarin), cutie is not my type. You will get what i mean if you are my friend.

12. What's the best thing that happened to you?
Don't remember anything currently but i have.

13. What is your ambition?
Businessman.

14. Describe your life in one word.
.......

15. If you had a choice to be rich or happy, which one would you pick?
Rich la, happiness can be found anytime. I am happy ba.

16. If you are told you can enter any university in this world, Oxbridge excluded, what university will you enter?
Not interested.

17. Who is the persons (peoples) that you can share all your problems with?
One of my cousin.

18. How do you see yourself in 10 years time?
I am still me.

19. You accidentally deleted this question. What do you do?
Don't give a damn then.

20. What is your dream job?
Food and model combined into a business, sort of like the owner a themed restaurant.


I am tagging diamond only. Ese ese enough.


The no.10 above is not my answer, that guy force me to put it that way. Cos he is not satisfy with my original answer.

More comics

I haven't blog for a few days. That is because i was rushing to watch One Piece, i can't stop continuing to watch an episode after another and then again and again. The anime is great, should be the best i think.

Another reason is i am still thinking about the buying of the model which i mentioned earlier. I finally decided to buy it cos originally i felt like buying it and after more people suggesting me to buy it too, i will buy it!!! People who i do not expect to ask me buy actually asked me buy, so i felt more encouraged LOL.

Nvm about that for now, the "judgement day" will be at 10 night tomorrow. Whether i win the bid or not will now depend on luck. As for now, i am also lazy to post anything so i will just post more of those stupid comics. It's not easy to find this comic which i think is quite funny, i have to read over thousands of those comics and choose some which i think worth posting to be shown here. So here it is, hope you enjoy reading...

Some of these comics need a bit of thinking before you get it.

Poll

This post is just to inform those who have not notice the poll i made on the right side bar. I have made a poll for my readers to vote. You can choose for more than one choice. So please vote on the poll ya~

To be or not to be? Or is it.......

"To buy or not to buy? That's the question."

The above question is meant for myself. I am pretty confused on what to do now. It's like this, I have always been looking for this particular spawn figure online but my search always ends up fruitless.


This is the figure i had been searching for a long time- model i.043(also stated in my most wanted model wishlist)

After all this time, it never appear anywhere. But today, when i was browsing through E-bay cos i was bored, i NOTICED it was just put up for bidding. I was happy yet sad. That is because it came up at a wrong time... Why? Because i have just started to save money this month for the upcoming trip to Kuching. Cos i estimated that two months allowance of B$600 will be enough for the spending during the trip, not including the air fees.

Now there is where the problem occur. There is a model which i have been looking for a long time and love it, probably the one i most look forward to own now. The current starting bid is at around B$77, which i think will rise to about $150 excluding postage in a few days cos of it's rare. I know that i will regret forever if i let this opportunity slip away. Then on the other hand, i had been eating economy meal everyday with my friend during lunchtime to save money for my first-time experience to ever board a plane after 21 years. I wanted it to be memorable although it is not somewhere far or special. Afterall it is a first time experience.



So what should i do?
Buy it and keep worrying? OR Don't buy it and end up regretting?
I still have 6 days to make my decision before the bid ends. I asked my friend and he said buy it. I asked my mom and she said buy it and not go the trip or she will buy it for me if she kena 4D 2nite, LOL.

HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW~~~~~~
What's your say? Any suggestion?


In case this post is very boring, here are some stupid dirty "Cyanide & Happiness" comic strips for you to read:





Finally i am glad that i have reached 1000 visitors in less than a month. Thanks to all those who read my blog, and specially to those who visit regularly. I hope you all keep visiting and i will make better post in the future.

Spawn V Urizen

Yesterday there was a blackout for about 3 hours so that is why there is no update. And also this post is supposed to be posted earlier, before the Nippon Maru Part 2 but....... Whatever, here it is today:

Today i am showing yet another spawn collection of mine, in fact it is the latest spawn addition to my collection. I bought it the same day i complained about the One Piece toy, cos of the reason stated in my previous post few days ago, i changed my target to this, a boxed-set Spawn V Urizen:



The landscape, and also the battleground of two monsters.



The giant double-bladed scythe used by Urizen.


This is also the smallest spawn ever created standing at only 2 inches tall.


Despite all those great features and also the nice green necroplasma shot and also the green blood of Urizen spilling out, this boxed deluxe figure is not a famous or well-liked figure. The reason for that is, according to the vast internet comment, a lot of people dislike spawn being unmasked, which the spawn in this set is. That is why it is not one of the highest seek figure, instead it become one of the least favorite deluxe boxed edition of spawn.

However, i like this figure, doesn't matter spawn is unmasked or masked, i still like it very much as long as it is a production of McFarlane named Spawn.

My figure at display:


If you want to know the outcome of the battle as in the comic, here it is:

TOTAL OWNAGE

If this picture above is being converted into a figure, then it will be real cool. It will also then be the second dead spawn in all the spawn toy collection series. I will love to own one.