D.I.Y. Burger

Now playing : Luis Fonsi - Tu Amor

Fancy having a burger for dinner but don't really feel like going out to the nearest roadside burger stall, how about a homemade burger. This evening I had a craving for it so I thought I'd make it by myself one using the frozen Ramly chicken burger meat I bought 2 days ago (the fact is the burger bun I bought will expire in a couple of days so don't want that to go to waste either). Well, two's a company so I invited Ding over to try my hopefully 'edible' and 'safe' masterpiece. Let's call this specialty - Mellim Burger. ;P

This is how it looks like taken out from the freezer. I left it on the plate for a couple of minutes. Still looks pale and unattractive for now.












Then I whip out the frying pan to heat it up. Once I think that it is warm enough, I slapped some margerine onto the pan till it turns watery, golden and gooey. I kinda prefer that to cooking oil.












This is the going-to-expire-on-30th-September bun. As the margerine is slowly simmering in the pan, I quickly proceeded to slit each one of the buns into half....abothen...if not how to make burger.












Done with the bun, back to the pan. Now I placed the processed meat into the pan to fry it. After many minutes have passed, and after many flips have been done on the meat. It finally turned golden brown and looks cooked enough. I had to be sure it's cooked so I continued frying it till I felt it is secure enough.












The above shows the halves of the buns split open with margerine spread on top of each half. Then I take each of them and dump it into the frying pan (margerine side facing downwards) for a minute.

By doing what I did previously, I would then get a nice golden colour. This picture looks like 4 eggs. But no, it's the buns.












Now comes my favourite - EGGS~!! I'll fry 2 eggs like that. Well at first it looks beautiful like in the picture, sunny-side-ups. But after some dabbling by me, you won't be able to see the sunny side of it no more.












Here are all my cooked and ready to be consolidated ingredients. Time for magic!












First layer is the cheese, then the egg goes on top. After that, I squeezed some tomato sauce.





















After the egg comes the meat. This is then followed by the final layer of some type of vegetable which I found in the fridge. It's cabbage which I have so 'delicately' chopped up into a train wreck. Since I don't have any mayonnaise, I decided to substitute it with Masterfood's Barbeque Sauce. I love this sauce! There you go...my work is almost done. *DRUMROLL*

I serve to you 'Mellim Burger'. Honestly, it's not too bad. A decent burger and it had some taste to it :P I think it would have been better with some mayo. Anyhoo, everything turned out OK.

Craving for Campbell's

Now playing : Marie Digby - Umbrella

Today, besides tandoori chicken with cheese naan...only one other foodstuff was on my mind. Campbell's soup. I've been thinking about Campbell's soup after Soon Yee 'planted' the thought into my head this morning *GRIN* and have spent the whole day craving for it. :)
After dinner, I went to Giant and bought myself the Clam Chowder soup and the mushroom chicken instant soup by Campbell's. I thought I would like to come home and make myself some soup but I ended up eating half a plate of sliced watermelon. Now I feel so bloated. Maybe if I wake up at 6am tomorrow (which is quite an impossible stunt to pull), I might make myself some good ol' steaming, hot soup-ie.

A Dose of Barry

Now playing : Barry Manilow - Can't Take My Eyes Of You

Who would have thought that I actually would listen to Barry Manilow? Who's he you say? He sang Mandy, I Write The Songs, Copacabana....ring a bell yet?

Anyhoo, he has been releasing a couple of compilation songs from different times with the albums Great Songs from the 50s, Great songs from the 60s and his latest one which was just released recently, Great Songs from the 70s.
I've heard his take on the Great Songs From The 60s. He covered a couple of those oldies tracks which I really loved such as 'There's A Kind Of Hush', 'What The World Needs Now Is Love' and also the party-friendly-sing-along-song 'Can't Take My Eyes Of You'. I've heard a couple of versions for this from different singers but I think Barry's one is pretty cool. There's also another of the evergreen oldie - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head. That is a difficult, difficult tune to get out of my head. It's like an old record that wouldn't stop spinning!

His latest collection from the 70s. I've not really heard it but apparently it's got some interesting list of songs in there which obviously I love..too. There's a duet in there with Melissa Manchester. Familiar name...hold on, let me google her. Ahh yes, she's famous for the song 'Don't Cry Out Loud'. :) The duet with Barry Manilow is another great-party-hand-in-hand-sing-along-song 'You've Got A Friend'. There are many cool tracks in this album such as 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', 'It Never Rains In Southern California', 'Sailing', 'Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word' and many many more classics.

My Fantasy Home - part 1

Now playing : Tyler Hilton - Missing You

Fantasy football, fantasy basketball, now I’ve got fantasy home. Everyone has a dream home pictured in their mind, I’m sure of that. Not everyone will ultimately build their dream home but it sure doesn’t stop one from imagining how it would look like. Fantasizing is a gift. It takes me out of the realm of reality.
I’m not able to picture the exterior of my dream house, it could be anything. But I can picture the interior, although the only interior that crosses my mind at the moment is my music/reading/computer room. My fantasy house has a room that is my little shack, my little world. This room will be where I will have a gigantic book shelf lining one side of the wall – filled with books. Another section of this shelf will be my collection of music CDs and old cassettes. This room will have windows obviously, it’s creepy without windows. And it will be covered by a stylish brownish bronze plain curtain. On another side of the room will be where my personal Hifi set will be placed. Very important piece of equipment. Nearby I will have my own desk where my laptop and other computer peripherals will reside as well as enough space for me to lay my head down and drool. But space is important for me to do my work or in other words doodle. I hate crammy desks although currently my tabletop is pretty messy. Smack in the middle of the room will be a sofa or maybe a reclining arm chair with a small table top at the side where I can place my cuppa steaming hot chocolate. I can picture a small antique clock on the table with a slick looking photo frame by its side.
The room will be painted either sky blue or a nice shade of yellow. And I’m picturing probably a large wallpaper on the wall at back of the room showing Manchester United legends…aka David Beckham and Nistelrooy. Ok, I’m not that corny, I’ll probably just have a large wallpaper showing green meadows or the calm blue sea. Hmm..still, a football wallpaper is irresistible like this one (anyhoo, the football field still looks like a green meadow):

On the ceiling, I will paste glow-in-the-dark stars. Near the sofa will be a small carpet on the floor to rest my feet. I don’t need a tv in my fantasy shack. TVs are meant to be watched together in a nice living room or bedroom instead of my little private room. One corner of the room will be where my Yamaha electronic organ will be placed assuming I still remember how to play it. Now imagine, the curtains are drawn, the lights in the room are dimly lit as I lay on my comfy chair. I close my eyes and listen to the quiet strums of guitar and the crisp clear voice of Michael Buble playing from my stereo system. Ahhh…paradise of my own. Voila~!This is my private entertainment room, I shall call it – My Studio. I’ll need to fantasize other rooms too but I’ll leave that to another time for daydreaming. To be continued…

Sunday Morning

Now playing : Fountains of Wayne - Hey Julie

It's a cloudy Sunday morning and has been raining for 3 days straight. Intermittent but heavy. Yet I like it because it's so cooling. It has been a really long week in the office. I felt rattled and angered at times but who hasn't. Sometimes I would love to tell my troubles out loud but over the years, I've learnt to live without. Not everything can be shared and I've come to realise something over the days. The more we give something out of sincerity, the more they expect us to give every single time. My house is quiet at the moment, peaceful and quiet. Some may think that's awful but I like a cooling weather and a quiet time, curled up on my sofa drinking hot chocolate with marshmallow (I've tried that, it's simply delicious but overly sweet so I won't drink it anymore) Everybody's out, my dog is sleeping and the Sunday paper is waiting for me to read it. Oh, and the sun seems to be peeking out now.

Happy Merdeka

Five For Fighting - Freedom Never Cries

The past 3 days have been somewhat interesting. It's a holiday on Friday in conjunction with Malaysia's Independence Day. Fyi, I didn't do anything patriotic except for contributing to the Malaysia Mega Sale Carnival aka shopping, if you consider that as contribution. I went to Deluxcious for lunch with my parents and I ordered the Chicken Linguini with light cream sauce. It was a delightful meal. I was actually going for a light meal as I wasn't very hungry but I ended up with a huge plate of pasta which I freakishly finished. After lunch, I linked up with Peen to satisfy our shopping thirst. I would declare Peen as the bigger contributor since she bought 2 bags, and I...one. We bought the same Espirit sling bag. :)
I was feeling a little creative and a little wacky so I painted my toe nails as such using the nail polish I bought from The Face Shop whilst shopping with Peen. Pretty colours aren't they?
On Saturday, my brother and I took our dog to the vet. For some time now I thought my dog was fat but apparently it was at a healthy 27kg, down from a fat 30+kg. She behaved well throughout the journey there and back except for some occasion when she drooled a little on my car door. She slept like a little baby on the way back. In the afternoon, I met up with my good ol' buddies that I miss so much. Soon Yee and Yee Leng came back from KL and it was about time we hung out again. So I took them to e-gate for lunch. They kept asking me...why e-gate? Gosh, I really don't know, it was the most convenient I guess. Yee Leng and I ate first while waiting for Soon Yee to come. (Psstt..she got a little lost looking for the restaurant we were in...chuckle) Anyway, we sat and talked for hours and finally left the place at close to 5pm. The cashier must be wondering when these 3 ladies are gonna pay and leave. Heck, Bequadro...the food sucked and the milkshake was so freaking expensive. We took every single cent of the change, took the receipt and Soon Yee was tempting me to take the receipt holder booklet as well...which I didn't. *we should have hor?*
Sunday, Tzu Chi Charity Food Fair day at Pesta. Ding and I reached there about 8.45am and saw that it was already jammed. We went Supertanker to have some Aki Pancake first before going to the fair but decided that we're gonna park at Queensbay and take the free shuttle to the food fair. They had buses and cars to fetch people there and I was heading straight for the Honda CRV at the front of the queue. Too bad some family beat us to it. DANG IT! Next best thing, we hopped into the old version CRV...bahhh...We spent about an hour at the fair. It was packed and the atmosphere was very merry and interesting. It was a fun day. Now that the weekend is over, it's back to work. Party-pooper.