feel lyke zzzzzzz-ing

Feel so tired. Don't know why :/
I wanna sleeeeeeeep!
But can't.
Need to study :(
Sad student life.

phew

It has been a few months since I last updated my blog.. Been so busy and tired.. So deprived of sleep :( Only slept less than 3hours last night doing project..

I HOPE I WILL PASS F&B OP, cause I don't want to retake this irritating module :(

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I have been so busy with the tutioning, games, making blogskins and meeting ♥, I haven't been updating for quite long.. So much things to say but not sure where should I start..

Maybe I'll start from where I stopped a few months ago.. SCHOOL! Haha. When I still have school.. Which is one week ago? Or has it been 2 weeks? Can't really remember..

No matter what.. I don't think I can update now.. Cause I'm facing a serious problem.. Which is.. I'm falling asleep! Haha.

- to be continued... someday.. -

wake up!

There's people talking
They talk about me
They know my name
They think they know everything
But they don't know anything
About me

Give me a dance floor
Give me a dj
Play me a record
Forget what they say
Cause I need to go
Need to getaway tonight

I put my makeup on a Saturday night
I try to make it happen
Try to make it all right
I know I make mistakes
I'm living life day to day
It's never really easy but it's ok

Wake Up Wake Up
On a Saturday night
Could be New York
Maybe Hollywood and Vine
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
There's something going on anywhere I go
Tonight
Tonight
Yeah, tonight

The city's restless
It's all around me
People in motion
Sick of all the same routines
And they need to go
They need to get away
Tonight

I put my makeup on a Saturday night
I try to make it happen
Try to make it all right
I know I make mistakes
I'm living life day to day
It's never really easy but it's ok

Wake Up Wake Up
On a Saturday night
Could be New York
Maybe Hollywood and Vine
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
There's something going on anywhere I go
Tonight
Tonight
Yeah, tonight

People all around you
Everywhere that you go
People all around you
They don't really know you
Everybody watching like it's some kind of show
Everybody's watching
They don't really know you now
(They don't really know you)
(They don't really know you)
And forever

Wake Up Wake Up
(Wake Up Wake Up)
Wake Up Wake Up
(Wake Up Wake Up)

Wake Up Wake Up
On a Saturday night
Could be New York
Maybe Hollywood and Vine
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
There's something going on anywhere I go

Wake Up Wake Up
On a Saturday night
Could be New York
Maybe Hollywood and Vine
London, Paris maybe Tokyo
There's something going on anywhere
I go
Tonight
Tonight
Yeah, tonight

By Hilary duff (:

im soo tired

Tomorrow need to practice how to make crepe.. -.-"

I've decided to create a website again :) For self entertainment and maybe use for my new shop.. Since holidays are coming.. And semester 2 is going to be more relaxed than now :D

Can't sleep now.. Don't know why.. Though I'm feeling very sleepy.. ZZZZ! There's seriously something wrong with my internet browser.. Internet explorer, Safari and Firefox all have error.. -.-" Is it my computer or what? I think so. I'm so don't feel like sending it for service :(:(:( And facebook seems to have something against me these days.. The pages can't load! Can't even add stuff to it.. -.-

BORED.

Oh ya! I bought a fish turner today XD For the crepe flipping.. Haha. I'm still missing a rolling pin.. =.=

spaced out

Simply exhausted these days.. Get tired easily and so not myself.. Today start with a perfect mood thanks to someone with the initial of ETEK. Haha. Throughout school, our chef is very understanding towards my condition and was very kind to me :) So it was a great day.

Like I said, WAS. Until this stupid bus driver spoils everything. After practising for our commis challenge, I when home and transferred bus. It was already 5 plus, and the weather is unusually hot. This bus 28 was the 3rd bus in queue. I couldn't reach the back cause others was blocking, so I stand at the front waiting for the 1st 2 buses to leave. And I flagged. This blind driver simply drives away. I was very angry. I see the next bus stop wasn't too far away, so I ran with my knife set and heavy bag, and flag again. Guess what? This bus driver drove away without even stopping! What kind of bus service is this? How can a bus driver like him get his license anyway? If he wasn't driving so fast I would have taken down the plate number and lodge a complaint. Cause of him, my side start to pain again. I haven't recover yet this bus driver made me run for nothing. And in the first place, I shouldn't need to run at all cause I'm at the bus stop and I FLAGGED. I seriously don't understand these kind of bus driver. What's the point of driving a bus when you don't stop for passengers? Though not all drivers at like this, but I have encountered quite a number of black sheep already and it makes me mad thinking about my past experience.. ZZZZZ. Spoil my perfect day.

I would have continue to write about something else if I wasn't feeling so tired now.. And we're having this 3hrs long lecture on salmon. Though we have food tasting session during the lecture 3hrs. I'm not sure if ny attention span is that long.. Looks like I'm going to reach home very late tomorrow.. Sad. Tomorrow will also have more vietnamese food to eat! I love Asian kitchen! Haha. We have the best chef there (:

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How to make the titles all come back again? =.="

After editing for so long, I really lazy to change again.. What's wrong with the codes.................

I'm quite lazy to work tomorrow.. Sigh. I wanna sleep! But insomnia. And I have to wake up early! I don't like. Budden.. I'm bankrupt. Seriously in need of a higher pay job. Either that or they gimme a pay rise which is less likely to happen. Sad me.

3 more weeks till happiness. Now I'm just a sad person.

13 july

I'm not going to update about school yet cause I'm so tired.. Besides, I still have quite a few days didn't say.. Anyway.. Just wanna talk about what happened after school..

Today Edison brought me to Singapore flyer! ^^ My first visit!
Ta da. This is the ticket.. Hehe XD

We went to eat dinner at long john silver before walking around aimlessly waiting for our turn.. Haha. Then when its almost time's up, we walked the long path to the entrance.. And went into the container???? Haha. I forgot what's that called..

Anyway. It really moves very slowly.. Besides us, there's two more couples inside.. Busy taking pictures with each other.. Then we're the opposite.. Taking pictures of the surrounding..

Haha. I cut my hair yesterday, ow I feel so light headed. And it looks kinda weird at certain angle.. Even though 2/3 of my hair GONE, no one seems to notice.. Sigh. I pity my hair.. Sobs. Oh ya. That might be one of the reason why I take more pictures of the outside than me. Haha.

I realised that throughout the whole journey? I was taking pictures of the same thing over and over again except that its different angle. And I got different results. Quite cool actually. Here's some pictures..

A piece of the night view at marina.. Some express way.. Haha.. Like watching how the cars zoom across the road.. :P

Another part of the view.. The buildings. Haha. It looks even better when not in picture... My phone, don't know why the quality suddenly drop.. Think I dropped too many times.. Its dying.. -.-

Alright. This is the whole view of the building plus the pretty express way.. Haha. So nice. There's much more but I don't think I have time to add today.

Bet you can never guess what is this.. Haha. I'm so artistic. Haha. You won't believe what is this.. This picture is the combination of the express way, the view of marina barrage and the buildings! Why is it blue and white I not sure.. But that's the 3 places.. Haha.

This is another view of the long express way.. Hehe. Really very nice to look at.. xD

After the ride, we went home.. Can't stay out too late cause tomorrow have school. -.-" Thought of uploading the one and only nicest picture of us taken today.. Budden.. After reviewing and see my ARGH, i think better not. Sigh. Maybe I'll consider putting at facebook with the rest of the pictures.. We shall see..

Signing off now.. So tired.. Sleepy. And I just realised someone ate my whole bar of chocolate! SOBS. And my box of ice cream GONE also. Sad. And I'm broke to buy more.. Take too much taxi recently.. Need start saving again..

Last but not least, thank you, my dear Edi for making me so happy today and the dress! (:

oops

I realised I've missed out 6 days of school stuff.. And I can't really recall what happened.. Haha. Will try to update maybe tomorrow? Very tired today.. Had alot of cakes.. 2 birthday cakes?

Tomorrow will be a very very very long and definitely tiring day.. :(

1 more hour to 7th :)

Day 36

3rd day! Survived half the week.. YEAH~!

Today from the muffins people, I became the bread people.. So start off with making ciabatta? a kind of bread.. Mise en place was already prepared by the previous bread people so just need to measure the water.. However, its at 25degrees.. -.-" I have to add quite alot of ice to reach the temperature.. Dots. Then put into the mixer.. Get scolded again by almost using the wrong machine.. -.-"

After the dough is done, we let it ferment and went to make the tortilla dough.. And roll it into balls.. At first I not sure how to do it, the surface didn't come out smooth enough.. Then chef show me how to do it and it became a piece of cake! Haha.. So fun to roll things.. :)

When the fermentation is done, we fold it and let it ferment again. After that we cut it into 8 parts and let it rest for 10mins.. After that we stretch and put in on hotel pan. And proof it. Then went to do stewarding awhile then move on to bagels.

Making the bagels using the mise en place prepared.. Once the dough is done, we bring it to the table and start to fold and roll it.. Then we make them into long rolls and make a ring to form the bagels. So fun. Just like the tortilla dough, once you got the hang of it. Its really easy to do and you can complete it faster.

Then we prepare mise en place for foccacia. I sliced the onions.. Sad to say, they're not very uniform.. After skills camp and production stock side, I didn't really cut alot onions.. Haha. And I can't cook at home for the past 1 month.. So rusty. Haha.. Anyway I mixed it with the olive oil and roast inside the oven.. That's about all the things I've done today..

We didn't have food tasting today cause we were late for lecture.. Sigh. I was really looking forward to eat all those freshly baked food.. But no choice.. Sigh.. Lecture was quite funny today.. We laugh alot.. Haha..

After that went to see our mentor for comis challenge and listen to the answers for the test.. I realised I got alot of the questions wrong. -.-" My grades sure going to be humilating. I have to rush off earlier from the meeting cause I had something on.. As I was late already, I ran in the rain. Guess what? The so called safety boots that can walk on slippery surface without making you slip, made me fell. Both my knees scratch and bleed. It had been quite long since I last fell, I wasn't enjoying at all. -.-" And my boots one of the tip got chip off. XX -.-" The worst thing is, I can't find my new shoe polish to attempt to cover it..

I'm just so tired and hurt.

Day 35

2nd day.. It is not any better than yesterday.. Still get scolded as much.. Except for different reasons..

Made muffins again today.. Completed in less than an hour.. YEAH~! I managed to turn the tray around without dropping anything.. :) Then after that we were told to do stewarding and the muffin batter..

The batter.. Measuring the amount required is okay.. Except for the part where I mixed up the baking soda and baking powder.. -.-" When it comes to making the batter.. It is really DOTS. We're doing it for the first time so assembling the equipment is already a problem. Same goes for incorporating the mixture.. We didn't know when to add what and the speed for the mixer so naturally we do the wrong things.. And we got scolded for doing wrong things and too slow.. For the batter I think we spent more than 1hour mixing it.. -.-" But at least now we know what to do in the future..

Then I scoop the chocolate cookies dough to form cookies, cut the 1-2-3 dough, prepare mise en place for bagels, and more stewarding.. That sums up the whole day.. At the end of the class, we have food tasting session! Finally.

Chef starts by going through all the breads, muffins, cookies, cakes, strawberry truffle, lemon meringue tartlet, bagel and creme brulee.. Telling us how to see if they're being cooked in the right way.. Then we get to taste them.. All tasted not bad.. I like the flat bread! Extremely nice..(^.^)

Supposed to have baking lectures but we didn't read up on the topics so was postpone to tomorrow instead.. -.-" Which means school will end even later.. Plus have to meet for cc.. Today's lecture on the top restaurants in the world which is quite interesting.. We also watch a video on the world best restaurant.. Felt like going there to eat.. The food looks so interesting and delicious.. I wanna try the apple caviar! But doubt it will be possible.. Only accept 55guests per day.. Just in one day, full reservation for the whole year.. 55chefs serves 55guests.. 1 chef to 1 guest.. You can just imagine the quality of the service.. Sigh. The standard of top restaurant..

Day 34

First day at baking & pastry.. Just half the day I'm already exhuasted.. And I'm sick.. Sort of.. Lucky now feeling better..

Today didn't went as smoothly as I thought it will.. There's so much to do.. I made blueberry muffin with crumble mix as garnish, chocolate muffin with walnut, prepare mise en place for mudslide cookies.. Then go for 30mins lecture.. Sound easy right? So that's a very good question why I'm feeling so tired.. If I "don't really" have much things to do.. -.-"

For the muffin its considered easy cause just incorporate the garnish to the batter which is already done and measure out each cup.. But that took us around 1hour? I think its caused by we don't know where are the ingredients plus we don't really know how to do.. During the process we got scolded a few times.. You can hear the chef keep asking is my muffins ready, is my muffins ready and that question was being asked for more than 15times I think.. -.-" Every 2mins once.. Haha. Then after we put the muffins into the convention oven, the chef now says your muffins are overcooking! Haha..

After that clean up abit and I went to help to prepare mise en place for oatmeal for awhile.. Then I convert to doing soft rolls.. Actually all of us changed to do the soft rolls cause it was the most important thing to do according to the chef.. So we cut the dough which was done earlier by classmates and roll into small balls..

Next is the mudslide cookies mise en place...................... This is also where I get scolded the most.. -.-" I asked questions and somehow cause of the answers I get, I think I asked stupid questions.. -.-" But I really don't know if not why I ask? Sigh.. If I know why should I ask again.. First day already bad, tomorrow I hope will be better..

Lunch I had mee rebus again.. I think by now the auntie know who am I already.. The girl who everyday eat mee rebus cause there's nothing else to eat.. -.-" I miss fish&co.. Haha. Back from lunch I continue doing mise en place.. Measuring the amount is easy.. This is the difference from production.. In production, you get scolded by using hands. Here, you get scolded by using spoons.. Reason is, its faster to use your hands. Quoting from the chef, you won't forget to bring your hands out of your house. Haha XD

So yesterday I was hoping that I'll be handling chocolate today.. And I did. But it wasn't what I had in mind.. I had to hunt the whole kitchen down for 3 different chocolates.. Measure, swop them and crush them.. Its not fun at all... Not when you have 2 huge bowls of big chunk of chocolates.. And you chop them using chef knife.. Next you know what happen? After awhile your hand turned into chocolate.. So tempted to eat them.. 55%cocoa.. Its not easy to do because 1. they are big or there's alot 2. time constraint 3. pressure 4. keep cutting the wrong way cause I don't understand what the chef want.. How to understand when somebody only say one word. It can mean alot things.. I tried 3 or 4 times still wrong then the chef give up and demo for me..

Next time if I don't understand I think I just say chef, can you show me how you want me to do it? -.-" I hope that won't be considered as a dumb question.. But overall the process is fun (: So not that bad I guess.. The lecture also ended early.. At around 3.05pm.. If everyday end this early, that will be great.. But its too good to be true.. Cause tomorrow there's a lecture at 4pm.. And I'm seriously not looking forward to it.. Today so tired.. Tomorrow doing same thing so will be equal or more tired.. -.-"

I just remembered I'm going to dine at top table next Monday.. I just saw the menu.. :( I wanna mix and match the appetiser and dessert.. :( Sad. I wanna make onion soup! Maybe I'll start making my chickie stock.. Haha.. Those instand ones are really salty.. -.-" Can cause hypertension and blah blah blah.. Oh well.. I finally created a facebook.. And the sad thing is I don't really know how to use it.. Its kinda complicated in a way.. I can't change things can't add pictures and I'm not really interested in playing the games there (I got better games to play! & mafia I already level 131 somewhere else.. Too lazy to start over.. Its not that fun anyway).. I'm too tired to figure it out.. Think I'll just add people and let it rot there.. Haha! Till I figure out a way..

Renovation completed

After 3 weeks of renovation, my room is finally done. Now left the unpacking part which is -.-" same as packing the stuff..

Some funny things about my new wardrobe.. I can fit myself inside with lots space left.. And its as tall as my room.. If I want to reach for the top shelf, I'll need a chair.. The shelves above my bed is looking extremely weird.. It was totally different from what I plan.. I requested for those shelves.. Now I'm regretting.. I can't reach it at all.. Too high up. If I place my alarm clock up there, I sure will wake up.. Know why? I have to stand on my bed in order to off it. Thus, the shelves is too high not I too short.. Haha.

4 more days to the end of holidays.. So much to do, so little time.. Felt like playing some sports but I'm a little lazy.. :P

Meeting Mh and Sq on Sunday.. It had been at least 2 years since the 3 of us went out together.. Hopefully, we won't cancel it. (:

Day 31

Day 31, we still don't have much to do today... Yet, I'm still very tired and sleepy..

I woke up late today.. Rush out, missed 4 bus.. Including the 6.30 8 and 59 and 6.45 8 and 59.. -.-" So I waited till 6.50 plus then I board 8.. Throughout the whole journey, the bus kept stopping due to traffic light and moved very slowly.. Make me even more nervous.. I thought today I would be late for the 1st time.. When reaching Eunos, I saw alot of taxi around empty.. At that time, its already 7.25am.. And we've to report in like 20mins time? So I took the risk and went down to flag a taxi.. Luckily, one came just as I hopped out of 8.. Reached school at 7.31.. Spent $6.75.. At least I wasn't late.. Phew.. I broke the record today by finish changing and getting ready to report in 4mins! Haha. Though I can change fast, I think I rather to have more time.. Rushing is bad for my health. Will suffer from heart attack.. -.-"

When we go down to the production kitchen, we measure the rice required for paella and set aside.. Then remove the beards for the mussels.. Remove the intestines from the prawns.. And prepare chicken consomme. Chef taught us how to use the robot coupe today.. Its also known as the food processor.. Quick and easy way to cut brunoise.. 

We add mirepoix, minced meat and egg white to the big pot.. Pour chicken stock and chicken consomme into the pot. (The chicken consomme was being defrosted so we used it, so the consomme we did today is double consomme ^^) It was extremely clear.. We tasted it with and without seasoning, it was very different.. After seasoning with sea salt, the taste was enhanced.

Before break, we tried the seafood paella done by one of our instructors.. As its a spanish dish, saffron was used. I don't really like the taste and smell of saffron so I didn't enjoy the dish.. So I went to steward instead.. Chef show us how to pan fry the salmon for the buffet tomorrow.. It looks very easy but can be easily burnt.. The root vegetables that goes along with it was seasoned with cajun spice.. It was too spicy for me..

After break, chef demo how to make the paella. The most important thing in the dish is cooking the rice well.. You can add any ingredients to it, but its not a paella if your rice fail. Anyway, its a must to taste.. So I tasted the paella, again. Surprisingly, the taste of saffron is mild, I almost couldn't taste it at all, which is great. (: This make up for the lunch I skipped earlier on..

Then we have nothing to do again.. So we prepare the equipment for tomorrow and clean up the area.. Garde manger brought us some caesar salad to taste with croutons. For a non salad fan like me, I find the taste just nice. The dressing is appropriate and tasted good. Tomorrow there's so many salad out there, I think I will be looking forward to try all.. (:

There's so much to see and eat tomorrow.. Can hardly wait! Luckily we were allowed to bring our phone upstairs to take pictures.. I can't find my camera anywhere.. So this is a extremely good piece of news.. Haha. 

10 more days! Hope it will be a happy one..

materialistic

I suddenly have this extremely random question.. If enjoy buying and using branded clothes, bags and shoes, is consider materialistic.. Does choosing the nicer brand of ice cream considered materialistic too? I don't care what brand of clothes, bags or shoes I'm wearing or using.. But I do care about the brand of the ice cream.. Cause some is really a waste of money.. Haha. Not nice to easy at all.. Waste money spoil stomach.. So does that considered materialistic? I don't know why I'm so tired and sleepy still thinking of such question.. Instead of trying to solve the lemon case study.. I still don't really know how to write the recipe.. Though I've written for myself before.. -.-" And my basic entrepreneurship report, though I've submitted at least 3 weeks ago.. I still haven't receive my feedback yet.. T.T I don't want to do last minute work :(

I know its childish but I wanna watch ice age 3!!! I'm not very mature anyway.. XD

Day 29

Though there's nothing much to do today, I felt extremely tired and sleepy.. Sorry kwa for changing my mind about going to library with you :(

Checking of attire during roll call was done very quickly, which is very lucky for me.. I've a small yellow stain on my sleeve don't know why.. -.-" Then we went into the theater and had lecture on classic & modern buffet and how to present the food. The lecture went on from 8am to 11am. I kept myself awake by copying all the words from the slides :D So hardworking of me.. Haha. When the lecturer/chef is changing the slides quickly and the slides are full of words, it really hard not to stay awake.. The topic today is quite interesting too, full of delicious looking food ^^

After eating the up sized mee rebus, we went back to the production kitchen to prepare the mise en place for Thursday buffet.. This week, my group and I are at the Sugarloaf side.. So we'll be preparing all the food for the buffet that is under production.. Except for soups..

There's alot things that we can't do as its too early.. So we just set up the stations for tomorrow, wash the platters and help out with the production.. Plucking the basil leaves! Haha. Basil smell so much nicer than fish.. But I really starting to miss fabrication now.. :C

As I really have nothing to do, I went to take down the menu for the buffet.. Just in case I was being questioned and I have no idea what to say.. The following is the menu for 80pax!!!

Appetizer
- Cured salmon on potato pancakes with mustard dill sauce (GM)
- Scallop seviche in cucumber cup (GM)
- Wrapped shrimp with Asian barbeque sauce (GM)
- Crab cakes with creole honey mustard sauce (GM)
- Chilled vichyssoise with white truffle oil (GM)
- Gazpacho Andalusia (GM)

Salad
- Pomegranate glazed duck breast (GM)
- Lentil and walnut salad (GM)
- Couscous salad with curried vegetables (GM)
- Vietnamese paper rolls with nouc cham sauce (Asian)
- Roasted corn and tomato salad (GM)

Action station
- Caesar salad with parmesan crisp (GM)
- Vietnamese warm beef on cool noodle (Asian)
- Crepe with assorted filling (Pastry and baking)

Soup
- Ginger carrot soup (Production)
- Assorted breads (Pastry and baking)

Main course
- Plain rice (Asian)
- Whipped potato (Top table)
- Roast tubers vegetables (Top table)
- Braised veal cheek in Madeira sauce (Top table)
- Chicken in red curry sauce (Asian)
- Thai seafood cake with cucumber sauce (Asian)
- Seafood paella (production)
- Pan fried salmon with gremolata and root vegetables (production)
- Pan seared cod fish with ratatouille (Top table)

Dessert
- Mini fruit tarts (pastry and baking)
- Mini lemon meringue tarts (PB)
- Raspberry and chocolate mousse (PB)
- Ginger and orange creme brulee (PB)

So much food to eat (^.^) erm, taste.. Haha.. But we only have 45mins! Luckily, its a buffet style.. Thus food will be replenished.. So we don't have to worry about running out of foooood!
PS I wanna be the first to get the crepes! Still can't forget the taste from 2 weeks ago.. :D

additional stuff..

Now then I know that there's red crabs. All kinds of crabs will turn red after cooked, but this is red even prior to cooking. And guess what? You can't eat it. This kind of crab is known as Christmas island crab. I just researched about it online, saw the picture, its kinda creepy.. A least a few thousands of crabs march from forest all the way to the sea to lay eggs. So scary..

Oh. I got "poisoned" by the oyster.. While trying to open the shell, my finger hit against the shell and got a cut. I went to put a plaster and heard that the shell is poisonous? The chef quickly help me clean my small wound before I paste the plaster.. So nice.. Haha.

And I got one of the book from yesterday! One is better than nothing.. I haven't start reading yet though.. Whole day headache.. So tired. But so fun. I wished I can spend longer time in the kitchen :) I wanna make gnocchi this weekend! And use the carbonara sauce left from last week.. :P Hope will be nice~

Tomorrow my cupboard will be tear off.. Then next week whole week I can't use my room.. Will be renovating.. At least it'll be ready before my day! I can start to furnish my room nicely le! Can't wait :) After throwing away so many useless things and old furniture, I realised my house is actually quite spacious :) MH! If your house too noisy can come my house study now.. Haha!

Tonight have ghost whisperer:D But tomorrow have to wake up earlier. 1. working 2. workers coming.. SAD. I'm so deprived of sleep..

Day 27

It is a very sleepy day..

Quite a lot of things to do.. Start the day by having a demo on how to fabricate a whole salmon fish.. Note: Never work with meat that is frozen or semi frozen.

Then I helped garde manger clean up their salmon, remove pin bones, scales and fats while others fillet seabass.. After we're done with the fish, we move on to prawns. IQF prawns.. W learnt how to devein, slice and make tempura..

After break, move on to lamb. Demo how to cut the rack, remove fats and back bones.. Removing fats is very fun, just like pork, the fats can be removed just by tearing. However.... Just it comes to removing the back bones and scraping the fats and meat off the bones, it is really -.-" So hard to do.. Chopping off the bones is still not that bad.. The worst thing is the scraping off meats.. 1. Very difficult to scrap cause it won't come off easily (chef spent average 30sec on a bone, we spent more than 10mins!) 2. Hands very pain.. 3. Blood keep dripping from the meat and stuck onto my palm..

When we finally completed the rack, there's another demo on how to remove bones from the lamb leg.. Its just like the way we remove a bone from the chicken thigh.. Same method.. Just that the bones is so much bigger and heavier..

Next, we cube the chicken thighs and skewer them.. Today's meat structure very funny.. Hard to slice and skewer.. When we're done with everything, just nice time's up. We had a food tasting on seabass.. Then we pack and go to the boring lecture.. Plus I still have apel today..

When I came home, I realised 2 things. 1. The salmon belly is still in the fridge.. We supposed to pan fry them and eat.. But we were so busy that we forgot all about it.. We didn't wrap it up at all.. 2. I don't have the food magazines.. And I wanna read.. So not fair.. Nobody help us take :( Then not enough for everybody..

Seems simple and easy, but when it comes to doing, its a totally different issue.

Day 26

Wednesday.

The crabs have arrived for the ritual on Friday.. We're going to have chili crabs if we're lucky.. There's something funny happened.. We were having a demo when we heard something whistling.. Some people thought is lizard some thought is bird.. Then chef say is crabs. Its only then I realised they're under my feet! Okay, not under, they're in the box.. But still.. We're killing them on Friday.. I scare they run away.. -.-"

Anyway.. This is what we did today.. Skewer the chicken cubes from yesterday.. Then demo on how to remove the bones from chicken with breast meat intact.. And we do it ourselves..

Removing the back bones is quite easy.. But the rib cage is very dangerous.. The bones are sharp, can cut yourself easily. Then remove the thigh and take the bones.. Not a simple task and is time consuming.. After at least 15 minutes of battling with the chickie, all bones are out.. Next, we dice and skewer them..

Next task is pork loin. Basically is just a demo.. We learn about different part of the pork, which I can't really remember now.. And how to truss it. There's two methods, one is the traditional and the other is time consuming.. Haha. Chef show us how to truss using the traditional way, the more common one and told us to demo to him.. It was quite fun to do but as the string is thick, it is difficult to tighten the knot.. Then the loin is being cut into slices and we pound them with tenderizer.. Vacuum packed and freezed.

Then we go for food tasting.. Cream of carrot and ginger with puff pastry.. Love the soup. Reminds me of something my mum cooks.. I like ginger :) and carrot? Then we go for lunch.. I finally found a edible stall.. Malay food! I love mee rebus.. Too bad the serving is too little.. I can't get enough of it.. So sad. Tomorrow I going to try another dish from the stall.. :D

After break, demo on beef tenderloin. There's tornado cut, goulash, and some others I don't know how to spell.. Anyway.. The goulash part was cut into cubes and there's a some sort of steak and we get to pan fry it and taste! We season with the chicken marinate made on Monday.. And chef show us how to pan fry them.. The goulash part quite chewy but taste good. The steak was medium, so tender and juicy. When you bite onto the meat, all the juice flow out..

Following next is the beef strip loin. Chef show us how to remove the fats and explain why we should do that.. Then he cut a sirloin steak for us to pan fry and taste the difference between tenderloin steak.. I can't really tell the difference but I know both taste GOOOOD! Thumb up!

We end the day with forest of mushroom soup with cream. The taste of the soup with and without the cream is totally different. Without, it already taste good, full of mushrooms.. With the cream, the soup taste more complete and has a better taste.. More creamy.. The mushrooms don't taste as raw.. So tired today.. Glad its over.. Tomorrow is a brand new day, a brand new challenge..

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I've just realised that my blog is full of words.. Haha.. Too bad, I enjoy typing.. Hehe. So those who enjoy reading, good for you! Haha.. I'll try to make it more colourful next time.. XP

I wanna learn as much as I can, so that I won't regret in the future :)

Love music ; cooking ; eating

I'm currently addicted to boys over flowers.. Now at episode 12 only.. Not even halfway through.. Love the OST too!

OH ya, I'm cutting my hair again.. This time you will see HUGE difference.. To tell the truth, I'm not really looking forward to it.. If it turn out the way like sec 2, I gonna cry. T.T But no choice, all the gel and spray I used for the past 1 month plus is really damaging my delicate hair.. If I don't cut, I'll go bald soon from all the hair that I dropped and pluck out after they playfully come out during roll call.. On the bright side, the shorter my hair, the curly it'll be. Who knows when it grow longer, it'll recover its original state! I'll be thrilled.

Time now: 12.14am. T.T
Day 21 is starting.. And I'm still awake.. Haha.
Hope today (day 21) will be a better and happier day!!!!