YUm YuM THai fOOd....~~~

Finally got the chance to try out the Thai restaurant @ pakuranga plaza. NOT with my workmate this time hahaha.. someone else "SPECIAL" muahahahaha.. haha j/k j/k .. haha I think the person reading this will be either laughing OUT LOUD or vomitting hahaha.

Anyway, we tried the spring roll and satay chicken ^-^. Both was FRESH and YUMMY.. the SPRING ROLL was like just perfect, the taste was rich. The chicken satay was a little chewy on the outside and very moist on the outside, and the peanut sauce was like WOW.. yummmm haha...


We had the pad thai share between the 2 of us. HAHA was trying to compare it with EAST... but seeing I haven't been out to EAST for ages now, so can't really remember what it tasted like. We decided the difference was , EAST - BIGGER, LESS AUTHENTIC.



But, overall I will give this restaurant a rating of
8/10

HK STYLE bbq ^-^

Finally sorted out a family BBQ.... nothing much to say.. just a blog to paste up my pictures... ENJOY!!!haha.. some meat got burnt as the fire was abit too STRONG :P

My famous garlic butter prawn... ummmmmmmmm soooo yummy

Mini operation !!

Well I finally went to the doctor to check on the lump on my arm. He said it was nothing harmful, but still best to remove it. So book to get it surgically removed next Friday. Should be a simple small operation, anesthetic on arm, incision then stitch it up >< . Update this after next Friday.

Your car is FLOODED @@~~

Haha, okey... don't be mislead by my title. I don't literally mean my car has been FLOODED *water*. But just learn a new term today during a morning of car problem. Woke up to go to work today, usual procedure of starting up my car, going out to open the gate then driving off. But this time something weird happened. I went to start up my car, it started fine and then the engine DIED @@... ARGGGG... okey calmed myself down and started the engine again.... NOOOOooooo.... all I got was the noise of the fly wheel going round and round but nothing else... my car sounded like it was trying to go uphill with a full load. >< ... heart ponding as this was a new car after all, stuff like this are not suppose to happen to a new car. Luckily dad was still at home, so woke him up and got him to help me check on my baby. @@ SHOCK HORROR.. dad was also dumbfounded by this situation. Car battery was not flat as the wiper, signal etc was still working, everything was working except the main ENGINE. Well already late for work... it was already 830am.. aiii so call in to say I will be late due to *CAR PROBLEM* .... called AA and waited for them to arrive. Would have to say AA have really quick response. Within 15min they were at my gate ^_^ . The dude went through the procedure of asking, "so did you leave any light on??" haha... OF COZ NOT.. I AIN'T THAT CARELESS... *no I did not say that... * .... but haha not believing my word, he went and check on my car battery. Then he started talking in TECHNICAL TERMS @@.. noooooooo.... so the conversation kinda went like this.... CAR DUDE "Your battery has had it." IDIOT " WHAT... My battery has had it, it can't be, I left no light on... " CAR DUDE "No, your battery has had it...it seem like your car is flooded." IDIOT "..... Ha??.... flooded??... water?? *million thought went through mind as to how water got into my car... * ... haa???? ... @@ ....." CAR DUDE "... okey did you recently wash your car this weekend...." IDIOT " WOW HOW DID YOU KNOW @@..... *thinking this guy is really good...*...." CAR DUDE "... it happen to sooo many people during the weekend, its Saturday-idise for car.. haha ..." ... *... once I heard the phrase.. IT HAPPENED TO SO MANY PEOPLE.. i felt less dumb.. :P * CAR DUDE ".. your engine is flooded, which means your engine is flooded with petrol. .. etc etc etc " So on and on he went explaining what engine flooded mean, and I just went eye wide with the new knowledge for the day. ^-^ hohoho..... kinda a great start to the day really, learn something new and hahaha learn something my DAD don't even know about whohoo.... Anyway... because this phrase is soo cool I went and googled it up so that I can paste up the proper explanation. Hope this will help other people who end up waking up one day and having the car not starting up ^_^.

"A flooded engine is an internal combustion engine that has been fed an excessively rich air-fuel mixture that cannot be ignited. This is caused by the mixture exceeding the upper explosive limit for the particular fuel. An engine in this condition will fail to start until the excessively rich mixture has been cleared. It is also possible for an engine to stall from a running state due to this condition.

Engine flooding was a common problem with carburated cars, but newer fuel-injected engines are immune to the problem when operating within normal tolerances. Flooding usually occurs during starting, especially under cold conditions or by pumping the accelerator before or during starting. It can also occur during hot-starting; high temperatures may cause fuel in the carburator float chamber to evaporate into the inlet manifold, causing the air/fuel mixture to exceed the upper explosive limit. This is most often experienced in hot weather.

A severe form of engine flooding occurs when excessive liquid fuel enters the combustion chamber. This reduces the dead volume of the combustion chamber and thus places a heavy load on the starter motor, such that it fails to turn the engine. Damage (due to excessive compression and even dilution of the lubricating oil with petrol) can also occur.

Some Mazda-made Wankel rotary engines are notable for occasionally flooding themselves when turned off before reaching normal operating temperatures. When so flooded they are very hard to start and may require major shop work. "

(reference from Wikipedia)

Another note is, I now have 2 desk at work... ^-^ ... yeyeye.. hehe time to stock up on snack and cubicle weaponry... *need to protect myself from the surrounding guys ><>

"Cockle" bay ~~

Lovely weather today. Had a shower in the morning but then the sun came right out and dried everything haha. Anyway went out again with family today, packed the food this morning and then set off to the beach. Was planning to go to shelly beach, but then couldn't find the road leading to the beach so ended up at "COCKLE BAY". *shelly beach as I had from dad, was where I first had the "tug of war" competition in primary with another school, man those were the days. running around barefooted, screaming random english as I was still learning at that time haha and yet having great fun with the european kids.. haha... mannnnn I think god might have felt sorry for dad not to have any son hahah therefore gave him a daughter with the attitude and personality of a guy hahahaha... oh man thats bad bad bad hahaha... I am sooooo degrading myself @@ ... * Anyway back to the point, went to COCKLE BAY. Had a picnic there which was like great and all but seeing it was low tide, we couldn't really go into the water and play. As we were munching on our food and talking about family stuff haha I notice people going out toward the beach and they were picking stuff off the ground. It finally clicked that, this is the beach where people can pick cockles @@ . haha so off I went with mum with our little plastic bag for a little cockle picking adventure. Dad was not in the mood to join our little fun so he stayed in the car with the dog hehe. Anyway was great fun picking cockle, everyone was allowed 50 cockle each, if you pick more then that then you will either be fine or taken to jail @@ . *sooo not worth going to jail for cockles*
But yea, picked some fat looking cockle, mum got tricked by some mighty fat ones, coz when we got home I found out that most of the FAT FAT ones was dead cockle with their shell filled up with sands T-T .... result of being greedy.
Will cook the cockle later on in the week, as it is always wise to leave the cockle soaking in fresh water for a few days just so they will spit out whatever sand / grim in their system making them nice and clean to CONSUME :p wehhehehe......

*corvette which was parked at cockle bay, took a snap shot of it as it drove by. Man >< onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitZBaS-DDOwqVegd0Gyu-t3WBu6jy-xHmwPRVgJBguED_K-k5DfSQB3eBl8_8f6B_D65MXyu0cjvpg7ipJX9bqzdO6Hev6Ph71JytHSoxgYWiGNFm9bvRTsugpAiPn5GFrxZ_aBQsqBBA/s1600-h/IMG_0233.JPG">
*lovely fat cockle having a detox session in our minature water bath @@ .. haha *

Lantern festival ~~

Went to the Lantern Festival on Satureday. Had lot of nice food, quite alot of satay and some other chinese fried stuff :P
Would have to say that this year's LANTERN were reallly really pretty. Nothing much to add to this, so enjoy the pic ba ^-^




There is heaps more picture, but I will leave them in their album. Once I have it uploaded, then I will paste the link here so everyone can check out the many lantern that was on display that night.

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