For the first time ever, international viewers will be able to catch the live telecast of Singapore’s National Day Parade via the following link;

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/live

Sucks that it only appears to be working in IE. Blah.

1. Take Chicken breast out of freezer to defrost in the morning. Due to winter, it takes really long to defrost. You can expect it to be fully defrosted in the afternoon.
2. Marinate it with ard 3-8 drops of sesame oil (depending on how fragrent you want it to be), enough terriyaki / soy sauce to cover all of the cHicken, with a little extra(because italian herbs suck up the sauce, & evaporation.
3. sprinkle as much italian herbs as u want over the chicKen, & leave it to sit till you are ready to cook
4. wash the veggies, and cut them up (prob 5 – 10 mins)
5. turn on the oven, -Convection, – 200 degrees, -20 mins
6. leave it on for 5 mins for it to preheat
7. in the meantime, spread aluminium foil over the tray of the oven, making sure that it is larger than the tray, so that you can tuck in the sides & make it tight.
8. add a spoonful of olive oil onto the aluminium covered tray and spread it evenly for all the areas you expect to place food onto.
9. place the chiCken breast onto the area with olive oil (at the side) and place the veggies on the remaining area (with olive oil). sprinkle some italian herbs onto the veg (if you want it to smell nice)
10. Shove it in when you See 15 mins left on the timer
11. Go and do your tutorial / Shower, or do smth productive. Like, FB. until u See that there are 2 mins left.
12. Sprinkle cheese over it if desired. If not, take out the Chicken and cut it into half. If it doesn’t look pink anywhEre, u can eat it. If you think it feels too easy to cut, aka too soft, put it in longer.

Carbonara;

0. Cook the pasta in boiling water, a dallop of olive oil & a pinch of salt. When cooked, drain and set aside
1. heat olive oil in pan
2. throw in onions, ham + mushrooms – until onions turn slightly transparent and mushroom looks cooked. Don’t care abt ham, cos it is already cooked anyways.
3. Pour in 1/4 cup of white wine – don’t have nv mind.
4. Pour in the 200-300 ml cream+egg

DO NOT LET IT BOIL. or the cream will coagulate and become disgusting

5. throw in the pasta (already cooked) and use tongs. YES, TONGS. cos easy to control, to mix it evenly.
6. lower heat & put cheese.
7. turn off heat, put on plate, eat & get fat.

Both recipes courtesy of the immensely intelligent and always helpful Hui Ting.

Lazy movie reviewer day

Makes me kinda wanna start dancing and do all those crazy spins and handstands.

The above passages may contain spoilers.

Rating: 3/5

Is it weird I have no idea what’s going on in this photo?

Woken up at by Jeremy at 5am in the morning, we then left the house around 20 minutes later and with my housemate, making our way to the ferry terminal to meet up with Matt.

The ferry terminal wasn’t open yet and for a while, we were the only ones there. A couple joined us shortly and turns out they were planning on getting their iPhone 4s as well but with the intent of reselling them.

The ferry came and reaching the city terminal gates, the couple started running towards the Apple store where they could probably get their iPhone 4s unlocked, for easy reselling. We took a different path, walking past the insane queue in front of Optus (subsidiary of SingTel!) towards 3.

They were offering a pretty nice deal considering the ones we have in Singapore so we decided to go with them. Furthermore, almost all my friends here are on 3 & Vodafone and calls to them are all free as long we’re on the same telco (something our local telcos should offer as well me thinks).

Fortunately, the queue wasn’t half as long as the one at their competitor and so the wait began. The time was 6am.

Nearly 2 hours later, we see 3 employees streaming into the store. Within the last few minutes, time seemed to slow down.

A short but fit guy in a whole Jean-Claude Van Damme getup ushered in the first group of 15 buzzing customers. Half an hour later, as we see smiling faces strolling out one by one, we were led in by this beautiful aussie girl and after going through the whole process of filling up forms and verification, I was finally the proud new owner of a shiny, black iPhone 4.

What reception issues? Lalalala I can’t hear you.

MURDER!

From left; Jia (20), Min (19), Suzy (15), Fei (23)

miss A is the newest girl group from AQ Entertainment, a sub label of JYP Entertainment. The group is made of two Chinese members and two Koreans.

Catchy song, sultry dance moves. My bet’s on them to be the next Korean sensation to hit Singapore shores.