Archive for the 'Miscellanous' Category

Unpredictable British weather

British weather is so unpredictable. One day it is warm and sunny at 23 degrees, then the next thing you know it starts to rain, and becomes chilly, temperature shoots down to 10 degrees. It changes everyday.
The last time we had a really hot summer was about 5 years ago. I remember the sunny weather lasted [...]

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Just a thought.

I realised in England, especially in the countryside, people are such pet lovers! Almost every household has a pet, either a dog or a cat, some families even have several of them.
People can be quite obsessed about pets, at work, my collegues talk about xmas presents for their pets, pets activities, upgrading pets home, pet insurance [...]

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Emergency call on my day off

Today is my day off. I thought I will be sound asleep till 1pm, but at 10am, I received a phone call from work saying that the pharmacist in one of the stores had a chest complaint, and needed emergency assistance, so was taken by the ambulance to the hospital, leaving the store with no pharmacist.
Well, normally I would [...]

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

A very strange person

The other day I met with a very strange woman in the train station. I was heading towards the empty bench next to this lady. Out of the blues, she started talking to me. She asked me where are you going? And who are you meeting? And what is the first thing you will do when you reach your destination. At first I thought [...]

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Chinese Store in Poole

Im so happy I managed to get a few chinese cooking ingredients when I visited my friend in Weymouth during the weekend. We went to a chinese store in Poole that sells all sorts of asian cooking ingredients, raw food and sauces.

I managed to get White Lobak (they call it Mooli over here in England) [...]

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

Children in need day

This Friday 19th November is Children In Need day. People from all over England will be doing their bit to help raise money for children in need.
As for us, most pharmacy staff will be dressing up i.e. Casual T-shirts, Pyjamas, Funky tops etc to raise awareness to the public about this day. Some of the [...]

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

Tropical fruits in Malaysia – Cempedak

Aug-Sept months are the season for cempedak fruit. Cempedak fruit is similar and often associated with jack fruit, but cempedak is juicier, and tastier. It is my favourite especially when it is fried with flour – cempedak goreng!!

I regreted that I didn’t have the chance to eat this at home. My parents did buy a whole [...]

Friday, November 12th, 2010

Top 10 food I must have when I get home

Guess what is the top 10 food that I must eat when I go back to Malaysia??

Ban Mee!! this is my favourite! I like both soup base and dry ban mee. I will go to Bangsar for the soup based ban mee because the soup is famous there, and will go to TTDI for the dried [...]

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Kim Chinese & Oriental Food Store in Torquay town centre

Are you looking for a Chinese store in Torquay?? I am so glad I found this store in Torquay; I thought I will never be able to buy Chinese goods anymore!! This store is situated next to the Indian buffet place on the high street of Torquay, right opposite KFC.
In fact, there is another Thai [...]

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Nasty insect snacks!

 I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw these. I thought you can only find insects as food in China, but boy I was wrong!! These were seen in Selfridges, London!! And yes, they are for sale.. Do people really buy them?? I am sure they do, because there’s a variety of them displayed on [...]

Thursday, June 10th, 2010