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Second time making the potato pancake. I've learned my lesson - I squeezed out as much water out of the shredded potatoes.

See how much water...

Tried another brand of rice drink. This time it's in vanilla flavour. Bleech. It taste like water with vanilla essence.

Cayenne pepper. One of the few spices I could take in.

A stack of 4 potato pancakes.

Wrapping it up...

For me to reheat as and when I feel like it.

Perfect piece for my evening snack (last night).

Bought a take home pack of Yami Yogurt

My new bedsheets. Now with more thread count.

No more space to hang my frshly laundered cherry shorts.

So I had to improvise!

Preparing to bake the cod steak fillet

In you go, little one.

My broccolini looks sad. There, there...

Garlic bits.

Pan frying the scallops.

Garlic scallops. It's okay, but a tad too salty.

Cod fish with mozzarella..

Seafood 'yin yang' plate.

Dinner in bed. The veggie and scallops were okay, but there's something wrong with the cod fish. It wasn't compatible with one of the herbs (either parsley, oregano or basil). It tasted bitter.

But in the end, it all went down the toilet bowl. Don't know why it happened (I ensure quality control when I'm cooking), but my stomach's empty again.

One Helluva Week

It's been one stressful week, but I'm lucky because it's only a 4- day work week. Friday being Vesak Day.

I'm also blessed, because with everything that's happening now, I got to know the people who truly loves and cares for me.

I saw their anger, their worry and their love, and I'm very grateful.

Bah, this is pointless. I've been trying to write this blog for the past 30 minutes, and I just can't write. Not today, maybe tomorrow.

Must be the flu bug (which my body was able to successfully kick out). I was down with gastric pain since Thursday night till yesterday afternoon. Then last night, I started feeling flu-ish. Stayed in bed till about 4pm today, but found the energy to do some excercise at 4+.

Cleaned my room and cooked dinner afterwards.

I'll just upload the photos.

Not Only in The Movies...

Halfway thru my walk home from the office tonight, my tear ducts suddenly bursted and out came the tears which have been locked up for a couple of days now (without me knowing it). I was crying from Newton MRT all the way to Newton Circus, and ducking my head whenever someone walks by.

It could be the hormones, or it could be sheer frustration, sadness, humiliation, tiredness and everything with 'ness' and 'tion' at the end of the word.

It feels so frustrating, to see all I've worked for just go down the drain.

Out of the 9 good things I've done, would people remember me for that 1 wrong action?

HK Day 4

Day 4. We were supposed to eat breakfast at Cafe de Coral, but decided to skip that and buy some food from Achi Ichiban (to bring back home to Singapore) instead. After buying some food, we saw another tourist holding a carrier bag from the famous bakers of good wife cake, so we decided to go in search of that.

We passed by a porridge place, so we went in and ate a bowl each of porridge and you tiao wrapped in rice thingy. Porridge was okay, but for me, the you tiao with the rice wrap was a bit weird. I prefer eating them separately.

The wife cake was located in Nathan road, the farthest part of Nathan Road.

We walked and walked and walked. But got confused with the numbering. One street shows the even street number, while the other side of the road shows the odd street numbers.

Good thing we got lost too, because we then saw a store selling mahjong tiles.

Ah. The mahjong shop. We went it because my friend needs to buy a set for her auntie.

Woohoo! Finally found the small bakery.

Bought myself a piece of warm wife cake. Mmmm yum. Chewy and sweet.

Afterwards, we went back to the hotel to dump our heavy purchases (Achi Ichiban purchases, Boxes of Wife cake and mahjong tiles ). Then, after resting for about 15 minutes, we went to Central in search for Yung Kee Restaurant.

Found Yung Kee and ordered: Roast goose , Scrambled egg white with crab meat, char siew rice and fried stuff squid with shrimp.

Char siew and the rice were okay. Some pieces were hard, but some where tender.

Ah, the famous goose. As before, it's okay.. taste was subtle and nice, quite tough to chew.. so all in all, nothing spectacular. Oh, maybe the only good thing about it was it didn't stink.

Looks good eh? But taste was mediocre. And it was oh so tough!

After the meal, we went to Beverly shopping centre (if I remember correctly)

Ate yogurt.. I ordered the Philippine mango yogurt.

Didn't buy anything... oh! I bought a can of Shiseido deodorant spray.

We went to Sogo to check out their grocery and tried the milk pudding from Milk Top. Tried the milk and the cheese. The best! Next time I go back to Hong Kong, I'm eating this again. We got to keep the cute bottle too.

We went back to Argyle centre afterwards to exchange some short we bought previously (turns out it was in Newton Mall and not Argyle). We finally had the chance to buy Gong Cha! We've been aiming to try it since Day 1, but that shop always shows up just when were already super full.

We went back to the hotel to dump everything we bought, but ack, by then my head was killing me and the medicated oil could not help me anymore. I remember that I already took medicine while at Yung Kee, but the throbbing kept bugging me.

So instead of the hotpot dinner that was planned for that night, we had to stay in the hotel. I felt real bad about it..Party pooper.

We went out to buy our dinner. I bought porkchops from Cafe de Coral, and my friend bought her stir fried noodles from the resto beside Cafe de Coral.

We went back to the hotel and watched 'Series of Unfortunate Events' while eating our dinner.
That's a goose leg. My friend ordered it as point of comparison against Yung Kee roast goose. This cheaper version is much more tender than Yung Kee's, but it stunk.

Gak, huge servings! I would've loved it if my head wasn't bugging me. But since I'm not in the mood to eat, it took me an hour to finish half of this tray. Sorry! I know I shouldn't be wasting food =(.

That was all for Day 4. Last night in HK, because we were already leaving the next day.