I think I now have a bit of time to ramble again... With an inspiration of this picture.

I wonder if Karl Pilkington has seen this.

Pic Source

Gimme back my tongue

One of the lil things that pisses me off the most is when you're happily enjoying your meal... and then your stupid tongue decides to get in the way of your teeth. And your stupid teeth can't tell food from tongue.

Today I bit myself so hard a lil chunk came off. I swear.. I'm not joking. It was the worse one I've ever had in my life. Good thing I had some beer to sterilise the cut straight away. The bubbly effect must have helped clean the cut. I hope somehow that bit of my tongue grows back properly. Right now it's black and purple.

*I'll spare you with no picture on this one

I think I've been studying a lil too much and not sleeping enough...

My very own Engrish collection

Subliminal-Transmission proudly presents its very own collection of the Engrish culture. These pictures of my Engrish encounters were taken using a mobile camera so apologies for the quality inferior to best. Enjoy...


Location: Siam Square, Bangkok

I think they meant please don't bring food into the shop.

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Location: Siam Paragon, Bangkok

Shame..very nice/posh shopping complex..lovely cafes&restaurants..Ruddish?

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Location: Carrefour Soi 26, Bangkok

Isn't it usually the opposite? Either they missed out the 'Don't' or they like their toilets clogged up. Well, I cooperated.

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Location: Tawana Hotel, Bangkok

Ok, may be this one does make sense in a way..But still caught my attention, especially how there was this hairy arabic dude sitting right next to it.

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Location: The 2006 Royal Horticultural Exposition, Chiang Mai

This was a sign this guy had put on one of the steps leading up to a little Thai house. He saw us giggling at the sign so he walked over and said in Thai 'you guys can go up if you want..but do it quick!!'. Hehe.

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Location: Royal Kitchen Chinese Restaurant, Bangkok

May be it's just me but I found this one funny, ok?

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Location: Toys 'R' Us, Bangkok

This one I totally don't get. Did they mean don't count how many barbie dolls there are? But I can't imagine how counting barbie dolls can be bad. Don't count? Any idea, anyone?

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Location: Food Stall, Chiang Mai

They either meant 'All You Can Eat' or everything on the menu is edible.

Best and worst places to get away with your nasty habits

On the way back from the library today on the tram, I was thinking of where the best and worst places would be for some nasty habits, us human can get away with. Don't ask me what got me thinking the topic..'cause I don't know either. Here's what I came up with:

Letting one rip, aka One man jazz band
Best Places..
1. On a friday night in a night club (no one can hear and smell it)
2. In a fertilizer factory, unless your friends can distinguish your smell from the smell of shit in general. This works particularly well for the silent fart.
3. In a swimming pool, as long as you let it go slowly as to avoid that bubble effect on the surface of the water. This is especially good for the wet fart because you're already wet.
Worst Places..
1. In a church or a temple, especially when monks are doing their meditations.
2. In the library. Unless you have mastered the silent fart, breaking wind out loud in the library can have a devastating effect on yourself and the others around you.
3. In the movies, unless you can time your fart with the loud bits on the film.

Burping
Best Places..
1. In a restaurant in China, as a sign of appreciation.
2. At Paris Hilton's concert, again, as a sign of appreciation.
3. At a party, as you and your friends race through the alphabet.
Worst Places..
1. In a packed public transport on a hot day.
2. When you're doing your wedding speech/eulogy on the mic.
3. In an exam. Just like the guy behind me on my Monday's exam, who kept distracting and torturing me with his sausagy burps.

Missing the target (probably most applicable for guys, and in extreme cases for girls)
Best Places..
1. In the toilet at a pub. Since it's already all over the place, might as well contribute.
2. In a bush. You can even set your own target.

Sneezing and spraying
Worst Places..
1. At a subway restaurant, when you're making your customer a sub.
2. On a date, just before your first kiss with him/her.
3. In china in 2003, during the SARS epidemic.

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Got a new book today; 'The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have'. Read through a bit of it in the library, and learnt some pretty interesting stuff from this lil book full of humour. Like, have you heard of this disease called 'SCLERODERMA'? Let me read to you about it..

SCLERODERMA

'You can buy the finest European Moisturizers. Rub yourself with freshly picked aloe. You can take bath in extra-virgin olive oil and pack your face with mud from the deadsea. You can inject pure royal jelly from the hives of South African bees directly into your pores, and it won't do you any good.'

'Scleroderma (skle''-ro-der'-mah) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes hardening and tightening of the skin and its connective tissue... ... results from your body's immune system producing an excess of collagen in your body's tissues... ...in which your skin and organs slowly harden and you begin to resemble a human statue.'

-DiClaudio, 2006

Mm, that doesn't sound very fun. How about 'CAVERNOUS SINUS GRANULOMATOSIS', in which it constantly feels as though someone were driving a nail into your eyeball, or 'CONGENITAL ERYTHROPOIETIC PORPHYRIA' (a very painful sounding name), in which your skin blisters and burns when exposed to the sun. Sounds familiar?

Anyways, I shall have the pleasure of reading through the book once all my exams are over.

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*Big up to Spaceman Spiff for having sold his car, finally.

Assignment Hibernation

For those of you, who are tired of opening my blog and seeing that same plate of tofu time after time, I'll be back with more non-sense rambling soon (anyways, I'm getting sick of tofu, too..been having a lil too much).

Just gotta get these assignments out of the way. I'm on hibernation in a comp lab at uni at the moment. Will be back on in like 2-3 days..

So til then, if you're bored, check some links under 'subliminal procrastination' or something.. or go entertain youself somehow...

I know, here's something for you guys to figure out meanwhile; 'What has 5 eyes, 4 ears, 9 legs and 6 arms and is purple and green.... and pink and goes "rrhhhwwwwaawwaaaaaarhhbbbaaaa *pause* bababububaaddadaaaaaaaaaa boo boo gagagaaa'. I'll be back with the answer after Wednesday..

Til then~~

I heart my firm tofu

I like my tofu

to eat my firm tofu
I like my tofu
white and tight my firm tofu

A bit soy sauce a bit spring onions
a bit rice wine makes my tofu shine
I love my tofu
nice and white my firm tofu
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I also like Martini Rosso (JinMin's fault)

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Tonight's dindin:

Lamb Cutlets with Salad (No tofu this time)
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Anatomy of the Chicken (wing)

Ok..I have always wanted to talk about this. There seems to be a lot of confused people out there about what chicken drumsticks and what chicken wings are. As a chicken lover, I feel it is my responsibity on behalf of all the chickens to get this clarified.

(The following bit's probably not gonna be of use to those of you, who already know the difference between drumsticks and wings.. so piss off until the next blog..I'm joking you can stay.)

So you know when you go to Nando's, TGIF or KFC and you order some chicken wings and you find that there are also chicken drumsticks but you eat them anyways? Well, they actually are wings..upper wings, to be precise. You see, I think a lot of people think upper wings are drumsticks because they are shaped like drumsticks but smaller (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1: Upper Wings (drumettes)

Now, chicken drumsticks are actually what look like chicken drumettes but bigger (Fig. 2). They seem to be a lil less popular than chicken upper wings (may be because upper wings are generally more tender and come in a convenient bite size).

Fig. 2: Chicken Legs (drumsticks)

Kapich? No? May be this diagram from Wikipedia will help

So next time before you go 'Hey, I asked for wings but they gave me drumsticks..', spare a minute or two to figure out your chicken.

Pfft..and you think you know your chicken..



Next week: chicken crop... (check out the egg by the ass)

Nice day today, innit?

Finally... the sun's out and I think it is here to stay for a while. At least until the next winter (hopefully). Everything seems so much better when its nice, bright and warm. Everyone's in a good mood, especially guys. You know why? Because if we were to test for a relationship between the amount of sun there is and the amount of clothes on a girl's body, the result would be a significant negative correlation (check out fig.01).

And it's nice to see the birds are out to play on a beautiful day like this. I think I saw some blue tits today. Or may be they were great tits. Yes, I think they were great tits. A lot of them (I'm still talking about birds).

I saw something else funny today. When I was walking out of Melbourne Central, there was an eggplant just lying there on the footpath. I'm not sure what it was doing there or where it came from but it was there. I actually started laughing at it 'cause it looked so lost....and funny. Didn't have my camera with me so I took a picture with my phone instead (people there must have thought I was weird).


Wonder what it's doing now... may be someone adopted it.

10.09.06: Transmission Begins

One of the many dishes to come.. Chicken breast w/mushroom white wine cream sauce~baby rockets~fries~and beans

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I just love it when my chicken breast is juicy and tender. I think the trick is to butterfly it, pan fry both sides quickly then chuck it in the oven for like 12-15 mins at around 180°C. That way, you don't get the 'oh, it's so tough and dry' chicken breast, which despite it being a good source of protein, is so damned hard to swallow.

A generous amount of extra VIRGIN olive oil when panfrying usually contributes to the tenderness (extra virgin meaning the olives were of the purest form of being virgins when they were pressed..hehehe and thus, being more superior than those olives used for the only 'virgin' olive oil).

Another important thing is the quality of the chicken meat stays nice and juicy only if you can finish it in a meal (please refer to 2nd picture). Say you can't finish it and want to keep it in the fridge for the next day's lunch. It is likely your chicken mushroom white wine cream sauce will be tough and dry, and you will only have yourself to blame (not to mention how soggy your fries will be..but then again most people can finish the fries even if they are full).

So it might be wise to make sure when you obtain your chicken breast(s) at the market (or supermarket..whatever) that the size of the breast(s) are of good standard... by that, I mean not too big, not too small and that it(they) is just enough to make you happy (being too ambitious or too picky with the breast sizes usually brings problems because you won't be able to find any).

Ok..enough nonsense for the day...
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