Mister-Mister "Si Lai" [2]

Here comes the long anticipated posts of Mister-Mister Si Lai!

Tired of eating 99% preservative-and-flavouring meals every day, one of the Mister Si Lai brightly suggested the idea of trying to be househusbands and enjoy the wonders of self cooking. So by the next weekend, the Hot Plate stove arrived and the Mister-Mister Si Lais walked gallantly to Giant in One Utama to buy the ingredients.

Guys may the Mister-Mister Si Lais be, but they are really housewives when it comes to choosing and picking vegetables, meat and fruit. However, novice househusbands still have a long way to learn in identifying what food is fresh amidst a plethora of unfresh stuff in the supermarket. We failed to differentiate Gao Choi and onion leaves. The worst was buying chicken. They learnt their lesson: Never buy chicken from the aforementioned hypermarket.

Anyway, back to cooking. Here are some interesting cooking adventures we had:

Trying to defrost a chicken with hot water from bathroom heater...

Arguing whether the half porridge rice is due to flooding of the rice cooker or the water have not evaporated.

Opening the Oyster Sauce glass with scissors. The mighty Mister Si Lai L did the arm breaking task of removing the cap. So we save ourselves from Joanne's method by using hammer...

Mr Si Lai Chan scrutinizing at the mushrooms, aka trying to find bones in a chicken egg in the Chinese saying...

Mr Si Lai Mighty L chopping his way into the defrosted-yet-unfrosted chicken

For first day, we cooked from 7.15pm to 8.30pm... It's amazing how housewives can cook single handedly in one hour while we five Mister Si Lais wiping sweat all the time.

Now we know how amazing is MUM!

And own hand cooked food is always eaten with wide earlobe-to-earlobe grins

The dishes served

Oyster Sauce Small Pak Choi

Drunken Weed (Gao Choi) with Egg

Mushroom with Chicken

Day 2:

Three Chefs-For-The-Day: Mr Si Lai Mighty L, Mr Si Lai JK and yours truly.

Now we tell you reason behind the lesson of never buy chicken from Gian*. The chicken is like some roadside kills packed neatly in plastic bags. When they started cutting it and cooking it, the decaying meat, blood and bones smell is unthinkable... It's so horrible that I decided not to photograph it and threw it away after letting the 5 Si Lais to smell... not economically wise, but physically wise...

The other Mister-Mister Si Lais decided to go vegetarian for the day with the most disgusting vegetable - FU GUA!!! That 'orrible bitter gourd!!! Anyway, Mr Daring-To-Try Calvin decided it couldn't be that bad.

It was bitter gourd soup with next door auntie's Sesame Oil. The auntie was generous but she commented: "You guys really know to enjoy eating!" What can I say, Mr Si Lai Chan surely knows what is nice to eat.

Yours truly after 17 years fried for the first time a newly created dish of shittake mushrooms with Gao Choi. Mr Yong's son cooked for the first time. LOL and it's FUN!!!

Ok the dishes:

Shittake Mushroom with Drunken Weed
(yours truly first successful dish, YEAH!!!)

The leftover like
Oyster Sauce with Small Pak Choi

Long Beans with Egg
(don't ask me if this dish can make you grow taller!)

The horrible-terrible-vegetable FU GUA!!!!

This is day ever I ate so much Fu Gua in one dish. It's not that bitter in soup, but it's that tastelessness bitter that I really can't take it.

And Mr Cook Rice till overflow (which is the tallest among the Si Lais) cooked a very bad dish of rice. Failed to follow Un Dex wife's instruction: the Half Thumb High Water Rule... that's punishment for ignoring wise advice...

So the extra rice was utilized for maximum satisfaction of Calvin's stomach. Three plates of rice and I'm still that thin! And as usual creative Calvin has ways to make his plain rice more tasty. He added Tiger Biskuat to the rice, which is acceptable to some but when he poured Chilli Sauce on it, most felt butterflies flying in stomach. Never see people put Chilli Sauce jam with Tiger Biskuat izzit???

So this was the adventure of the Mister-Mister Si Lais,
POTENTIAL FUTURE HOUSEHUSBANDS!!!

See how happy we are presenting our own dishes?

Watch out for more coming episodes!!!

Mister-Mister "Si Lai"s [1]

COMING SOON

[Another rendition of Joanne's Potential Future Housewives]

Meanwhile, for future potential husbands, this is an article for you!

A Loving Husband
For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. [Ephesians 5:25]

Gentlemen, it looks like we have it easy. After all, our wives have to “submit” (v. 22), whatever that means, but we just have to “love.” What could be simpler than that? Flowers from time to time. Chocolates on strategic occasions. Perhaps even a power tool or two she can claim as her own even though we use it most of the time. And if the situation is just right, we might manage a mumbled “I love you” just to make it clear. Submission sounds hard. It involves giving way to someone else. That someone would be us husbands. Does that mean what it seems like it means? We’re in charge? We call all the shots? We give the orders? Well, that would be something!

We’d better check our source again to make sure we’re not jumping to conclusions. Let’s see. If we go back to verse 21, uh-oh, something here about “submit to one another.” That could be a problem. But verse 22 does tell wives to submit. Verse 25 doesn’t tell us to submit; it tells us to love.

That little phrase “just as Christ loved the church” does show us several things. First, it tells us that our examples of loving above don’t really apply. Jesus never sent flowers to the church. He never picked up a box of chocolates on the way home from work as a peace offering. He never mumbled “I love you” through a mouthful of hamburger. Jesus loved by dying. He loved by suffering, hurting, and sacrificing. His kind of love sounds hard—almost as hard as submitting. Maybe even harder.

A dying kind of love that doesn’t leave us dead turns out to be quite a challenge. It might just take everything we’ve got. But here’s the deal. One of the primary reasons our wives struggle with submission is that they often have little real confidence in our love. Genuine love paves the way for submission (not the other way around). Jesus died for the church before the church was around to submit.

Real love (like dying) doesn’t come naturally for us. If you want to learn to love your wife as Christ loves the church, you are going to have to ask questions, observe reactions, and experiment persistently in the area of love. Ask Christ to make you like him so that your wife can experience the kind of love that brings life to her! Figure out how to love her, and you probably won’t have to bring up the issue of submission.

[Extracted from New Living Translation Men's Devotional, click here to subscribe for FREE the New Living Translation Devotionals delivered through email.]

Panjang's panjang-panjang Tag

Rules:
1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they got tagged and to ask them to play and read your blog.

Starting time: 9. 35 a.m.
Name: Calvin Yong Ze Hao
Sister(s): Lydia Yong
Brother(s): Caleb Yong aka Caleb bin Osama binti Laden
Shoe size: Dunno-lah
Height: 189 cm (This one I DEFINITELY know, haha;-)
Where do you live: At the ends of the earth, Kuantan, Pahang, but now in Bandar Utama
Favourite drink(s): Any kind of drink also can, except drinks that make me get drunk.
Favourite breakfast: Cornflakes, but I think the times I have it for breakfast is countable.

Have you ever been on a plane? Yes, to Nicholas Eu's most publicised place...
Swam in the ocean? Can't even float... walked in ocean and swimming pool got lar, an advantage of height finally.
Fallen asleep in school? Close to...Especially Sejarah and Economics...the eyes are wide open, but brain is in coma edi... good students are particularly good at this...haha
Broken someone's heart? Yes
Fell off your chair? Centre of gravity too high... of course lah!
Sat by the phone all night waiting for someone to call? Nope, I dislike sitting...chairs are too low...
Saved e-mails? I thought when mails enter your mailbox, it is automatically saved...???
What is your room like? Lazy to describe...
What's right beside you? My huge 900-page Economics book
What is the last thing you ate? Hmm, Tiger Biskuat...switching from bread to biscuits...
Ever had chicken pox? No, I AM VACCINATED!
Sore throat? Who nevers?
Stitches? Yup, operation...
Broken nose? You mean like the Sphinx?

Do you believe in love at first sight? A bit
Like picnics? YEAH, people faster organise one!
Who was the last person you danced with? Guess it's some SIB people who taught me Sumazau...lol
Last person made you smile? I guess a few simultaneously made me smile.
You last yelled at? Forgot...

Today did you...
Talk to someone you like? Yeah...
Kissed anyone? Nope, the only person I kissed before is my grandma and even that takes lots of courage.
Get sick? Nope...
Talked to an ex? Ex-apa?
Miss someone? Yeah...

Best feeling in the world? Happy and excited.
Do you sleep with stuffed animals? I wished I can. My teddy bear was thrown thanks to the Ghost Heads aka siblings...
Who do you really hate? ... Love your enemies
What time is it now? 9.55 a.m.

Randoms
Is there a person who is on your mind right now? Yeah...
Do you have any siblings? Yeah...
Do you want children? Probably...
Do you smile often? Yeah...
Do you like your hand-writing? Not really...except Chinese
Are your toenails painted? Calvin is a guy...
Whose bed other than yours would you rather sleep in? Those comfy beds with lots of fluffy pillows to start pillow war, don't really care whose one is it... Here comes the Bed Destroyer...
What colour shirt are you wearing? Orange
What were you doing at 7:00pm yesterday? Walking back home
I can't wait till? Astro: I've got time! I've got time!
When did you cry last? RBS
Are you a friendly person? I think so... coz I'm an intro-extro-vert
Do you have any pets? Nope...

Where is the person you have feelings for right now? No idea...
Did the last person you held hands with mean anything to you now? Shaking hands consider hold hands?
Do you sleep with the TV on? Now I can't even watch TV...T.T
What are you doing right now? Entertaining En Wei
Have you ever crawled through a window? Yeah and it's cool!
Can you handle the truth? Yes...
Are you closer to your mother or father? Both
Who was the last person you cried in front of? ...
How many people can you say you've really loved? Uncountable...
Do you eat healthy? Very healthy, can't you see based on my wideness?
Do you still have pictures of you and your ex? No ex, no pic...
Have you ever cried because of something someone said to you? Yes
If you're having a bad day, who are you most likely to go to? Friend...
Are you loud or quiet most of the time? Medium or probably loud due to paternal genes...
Are you confident? Quite...

5 things I was doing 10 years ago..(1998)
Moving to new house, studying and others I forgot.

5 things on my to-do list today:
Update blog, check emails, do Econs notes, read Bible, eat (need to eat right?)

5 snacks I enjoy:
Cloud 9, Mister Potato, the-dunno-call-what-Japanese-salted-ajinomoto-ed-rice-biscuit, let me think more later

5 things I would do if I were a billionaire:
Rewrite my Econs textbooks... throw away the terms scarcity, that mind boggling opportunity cost, ceteris paribus entah apa... elasticity...

5 places I have lived in:
Kuantan, Bandar Utama, Benta, Cameron Highlands (RBS considered living), Australia (haha, in the future)

5 jobs I’ve had:
Student (the longest ever without pay), Typist for father and mother, Evangel Helper, don't think I've any payed jobs before.

5 people I tag:
Joanne, James, Daniel, Jaevon and Jia Yen

22 July

Nothing that special about this day. Just a little pesky reminder post from Mr Calvin Yong who wishes the one month period passes faster. Kena influence by Miss Joanne Jun Lee Sun Sun, first was camwhoring, then the Pong-Pong-Pong stuff, now the FRIENDLY reminder.

It's pretty amazing how many babies are born in August...

August 04 - Justin Lim the Bornean studying in NUS now
August 08 - Sarah Sim the suka kena defamed girl from Subang Jaya
August 10 - Cha Sin Young who's name doesn't mean he sins from young
August 15 - Joel Chan a Penangite studying in KBU now and happen to sit beside me while I post this pesky little post.
August 18 - Ivan Chong the future Copa IBA captainball referee XD

Here comes the August babies cramming the week...

August 21 - Alexis Chew, which I wonder if why I born one day later can be taller than her...
August 22 - Adrian Mak the cute and really can sing guy from RBS; Lai Chien Lee, met this ex-Bible Class classmate at JPA Interview
August 23 - Jethro Wong, which I wonder if I was born on this day can I be a good guitarist like him; Kong Shi Ling, another schoolmate met in JPA Interview, future lawyer...
August 24 - James Lim Yuxiang, my long time friend, housemate, classmate, schoolmate and SAGC-mate...so many mates...; Veronica Thanusha, the first girl who ever ask me to a Viennian Ball through email, cool assistant leader for Nilai mission trip
August 25 - Leong Yong Xin, my Room 6, Student House 16, Jalan BU 6/11 roommate...haha
August 27 - Yong Jin Jin, girl crazy for stars and craps like nobody's business... born nemesis of mine ...the Maggi Mee, the Yong Tau Foo
August 30 - Rachel Diong, the girl who really inspires me with her testimony in RBS
August 31 - Haha, who's birthday huh?

Just want to show you an interesting fact to the question of "I wonder if why I born one day later or one day earlier can be taller than..." the 189 centimetres guy so far I know is the tallest among the August babies...Not boasting, it's a fact!

*Rotten tomatoes flying*
*Whoosh SPLAT on Calvin*

Hinted already what type of cake I want...haha

Passionfruit Flower

Just a picture to relax my mind before stressing up for English classes, where they insists flour is to be pronounced exactly like flower. And just to give you an idea how bad is Calvin's English, I pronounced flower wrongly too!

I'm gonna fail IELTS... T.T

Tebak

After being bread-ish for the weekdays, Calvin decided to have something better at One Utama and to be with...

Yew Hong... the "sweet" te-bak.

We ate at, guess?

Not opened by Wong Kok Thong, he went to HELP already... Seriously funny name for a restaurant... Wong Kok Cha Chan Teng, something like Kim Gary, but way more expensive...

A decent picture finally.Anyway, this guy really knows how to eat and is going to study nutrition too. You can visit his culinary adventures in http://www.green-kiddo.blogspot.com/ .

To Yew Hong: You see I do free publicity for you. Thank me! wakaka!

Man Shall OR Shall Not Live On Bread

Being a college student with limited pocket money, even if sponsored by JPA, has to always berjimat-cermat and be thrifty (but not kiam siap aka selfish though, you see I learnt my morals and ethics and whatsoever...). So Calvin and his roommate bought a big Jumbo size Gard*nia bread, thinking they have made a smart choice...

And on Monday, Mr Jimat found out that the bread's expiry date was on Wednesday. He didn't panicked but applied the principals of economics he learnt in his week of economics. So it was bread in the morning, bread in the night and bread again next morning, just to make sure the resources are fully utilised and not even a single crumb is wasted. However, it was awful!!! Super saver in cost but a super killer in appetite. It was not the economics' problem of scarcity (which he has learnt) but the problem of too much supply (which he haven't quite learnt it all and havent get what is that funny Latin phrase ceteris paribus).

I just can't control myself to declare
MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE!!!
[Deuteronomy 8:3]

No wonder Calvin is so thin, but perhaps is that his secret to tallness? [Don't be silly and think it's a yes] Anyway, eating bread doesn't seem just as plain as it is. Try eating three to four servings per meal and you'll know. It's that choking and dehydrating taste of tastless preservatives that kills!

And this Sunday, as Christians, we break bread together to remind ourselves that Jesus died for us and that He has arisen and will come back again. It's a practice from the Last Supper. And I was looking at the bread. It was that same old Gard*nia bread I had last week. Again?

Anyway, I took the bread and ate. Yeah, it was bread and pretty much like the one I ate. But then, I was reminded of this verse:

"I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty." [John 6:35 ]

It terribly reminded how once I ate the bread to make sure my own money is fully utilised to satisfy my bodily needs, but today I ate it to remind myself that this Jesus' body broken for me on the cross to save me from sure eternal condemnation. This Bread of Life is not the normal, full of preservatives bread, but the bread that preserves my life and gives me the perseverance to finish the race...

God, give us today our daily bread...

The Studious Calvin

THE TIMETABLE... Just to let you know how "free" is my timetable...

Monday
3.30-5.30pm Malaysian Studies

Tuesday
1.00-3.00pm Physics
3.00-6.00pm English

Wednesday
1.00-3.00pm Applicable Maths
3.00-6.00pm English

Thursday
11.00am-1.00pm Economics
2.30-4.30pm Moral Education

Friday
9.00-11.00pm Chemistry
2.30-5.00pm English

See how interesting my days are? All afternoons are packed with lessons, sometimes five SOLID hours of learning. Anyone been to a 3 hour English lesson? Thank God the teacher is interesting, if not I will just have my normal afternoon naps in the class.

Journey to the Centre of the Weekend

Exciting and adventurous. That's my weekend this time.

Had interesting lessons in college and realise how my English sucks. And I have only six months for the IELTS test and I need to get at least band 8. I wonder if I can still go Australia. Anyway, it's a matter of faith and God has answered many of my prayers and undoubtedly will continue to do so.

Watched Hancock last Wednesday. We sat in the second front row and it's amazingly comfortable. Yeah, KL right? Even KL GSCs have better seats than Kuantan. Anyway, back to the movie, it is not really what I expected - an action packed movie more than trying to save a whale by throwing it back into the sea and hit a ship. Pretty complicated and dizzy show. However, it's not that bad. It explores the rarely covered story of how a hero gets despised and the complexity of the emotions. Still I don't get the story, Hancock an angel? The writer is really bad at storytelling...

Then fast forward to Friday, I spent the weekend with my roommate Yong Xin at Puchong, the area which he stays. Really jealous lar of him, every weekend can come back eat home cook food. Now I realise mum's cooking, although quite bad is really delicious. Miss Popo's cooking too. Of course food in KBU is quite good and nutritious. Just the price.

Leong is really a generous guy although as he has to belanja me as a guest...haha. For the first time, I ate something called Bak Kut Teh the real way (not the halal Bak Good Teh). Seriously fell in love with bak kut teh. Being curious and adventurous, I ate chicken leg and pork intestine which taste really different than what I thought previously. BAK KUT TEH rocks! But sorry lar forgot bring camera to record such a momentous event in my culinary adventure.

Ok, no more porcine servings on my blog, sensitive to many of my Muslim friends. Haha. We then watched Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. This is a better show I would say. Cool graphics and a relaxingly funny show.
Wow, I just watched two movies in one week. The previous experience was watching Prince Caspian and Get Smart in two days time. I'm not a movie addict anyway, just trying to watch movies when I still have time to. Most important is hanging around with friends to encourage each other and have fun.

Ok, I lazy to type already and I know you are bored reading texts. Let the pictures roll.

Bon Odori, the Japanese version of Ghost Month (cool it's July!). However, this event in Shah Alam is more of cultural than of religious. Just went there to see cute and petite Japanese girls wearing the kimono. Don't get confuse, Calvin is not finding a Japanese wife...

Those are the girls I'm looking for that day, cute little children... and nothing else...

I suppose the answer to the question of why the chicken cross the road is Jun Jun wants to cross path with Calvin every week. World is really small, this is second time I met him.

Got this pic from Jun Jun's new blog. Really adorable that little girl!

Weird signboard:
WOMEN SHALL NOT KILL THE GRASS...

This is roommate's family, he's standing at the furthest right. They are really generous as you shall see in the next few pictures. Her sis really looks like Japanese and plus she can speak Japanese too =)

For more Bon Odori pics, kindly visit Jun Jun's blog, if you do not know this guy has a blog now.

However, please do not leave my site first. Have pretty more food pictures to tempt you.

After the Bon Odori, Leong's dad (Leong Yong Xin is my roommate's fullname btw) brought us to Klang. The Jusco there is really big and we got lost finding parking. Anyway, his family is really generous and ate dinner at Kim Gary Restaurant, some HongKong restaurant I heard for the first time. The food is a little expensive for timid Kuantan guys like me, but the amount served was really big.

The most refreshing glass of honey lemon I've ever drank.

Simple and relaxing dessert.

Huge French Fries with really savoury cream.

My Swedish Cheese Pork Chop Rice, can't really remember the name, but really smells and taste good.

See how much they put in the serving?

Of course, the archetypal photo of the Si Kurus eating...

And one final announcement:
I'M OFFICIALLY AN SAGC MEMBER!!!
Can't wait for COPA IBA and IBA Unplugged!
See you RBS guys there!

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Proof that 13 A1’s in SPM is NOTHING!

Bright sky, bright sun and bright faces, but not with a very bright brain, off I joined my CF seniors to tour around KL.

The day started off well at KL Sentral with a McD Sundae Cone at the price of RM 0.55. Never have I eaten at such a low price, so, people aim at McD on the first Saturday of the month!

Then off we flew to Midvalley, the biggest shopping complex in KL. There we meet a most unexpected friend. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Jun Jun wanted to go Midvalley… (Warning: Only SABS people will get the joke).

Besides nothing much that interesting except some non-piranha fishes nibbling human flesh and small kids kicking huge ass.

Now comes the proof that 13 A1’s in SPM is nothing. Low Yat Plaza, the most happening place of the technos and gizmos, and where the song Joy To The World, Calvin Is A Fool is sung not on Christmas. Anyway the story goes like this: Once upon a time Calvin wanted to buy an 8 GB Kingston Pendrive to store his stuff. He went searching for a few stores to check out the prices. And this is what he found out:

Level One

Level Two

Level Three

Level Four

Level Five

With the wondrous knowledge that Calvin has long legs,

Which level Calvin bought his pendrive?

Level 1, the most expensive one… lost thirteen bucks in one day! See the connection with 13 A1’s in SPM? I thought it was ok since everyone on level one said it was RM 99 and JiHong’s dad also say about that price. So I bought it and went upstairs to window shopping more. And every level I ascended was a heartache, beating my breast in deep sorrow… Did not put my long legs to advantage and I bought a lesson for thirteen buck… aihz

The picture that brings nights of mares...

Then it was Sungei Wang plaza, the most unwelcoming place for tallies like me. It really hit me hard on the head, figuratively of course when it says “Mind Your Head”. Calvin, why are you soooo stooopid!!!

And now let me introduce to you some of my college friends and CF seniors. Really crazy people yet with a bright mind, unlike me, haha!

Our tour guide on this wonderful day is Mr Jabez, my senior doing AUSMAT and Architecture in Aussieland next year. He looks rather innocent in this picture...lol. Beside him is the random and a little retarded classmate, Nicholas who comes from Kuching.

Later we when to Times Square where we snap a looks-like-a-Tan-Wei-Loon guy.

It’s a really huge place and for the first I walked twelve hours non-stop and squeezing through people mountain people sea in almost everywhere. The monorail is just crowded like mad but I happen to do a community service there because I occupy less precious space. Quite glad I did that. And actually for the first time I did what Moral Education taught us for years – to let someone have your seat. Now I know why so few people does it, especially for people with high centre of gravity like me.

And on the bus, I spilled my bottle water over my shirt, that beloved Penang Bible Camp Shirt with the theme from 2 Peter 3:13 What manner of persons ye ought to be? Well, I learned enough today and there is no point to cry over spilt milk (or bottle water) but to thank God for the day and for the amazing brothers and sisters.