JOanna’s Life

                                  Preparation of Off-the-Shelf Yu Sheng

It is a tradition in my class that we’ll lou hei during CNY. It started in the 2nd Semester of Year 1, when a few friends suggested then during CNY 2006. We wanted to bond and gel, relationship wasn’t strong then and compared to now, after almost 3 years. Since then, my class would organise Lou Hei every CNY without fail.

For the past 2 years, we purchased the Yu Sheng from The Quad, which is a cafeteria located at the basement of our school. $24/box if i am not wrong. For the sake of convenient.

This year, we decided to buy off the shelf from NTUC. Cheaper. We can also adjust the amount of ingredients we wanted in it, like reducing the preserved ginger as some of us don’t like ginger, lesser sour-plum sauce etc. With added home-shreded cucumber, carrot & radish from home, perfect! Obviously, the only lack was it’s vegetarian, meaning no Salmon. Yu Sheng (raw fish) without fish, a little ironic huh?

Our lesson this semester has been conducted in CR 6, which is quite small compared to CR 7. CR 7 used to be our base and Lou Hei place, but taken over by the juniors as their cohort is bigger =(  We resorted to use the study bench located right outside the lobby of SBS. I bet we were quite a scene and disturbance to the students studying there. Annoyed? Amused? Jealous? I wouldn’t know. But we were quite a havoc. The whole air was filled with our loud laughter.

                              The higher you toss, the better you’ll be…

Common phrases like 学业进步、青春美丽、身体健康 were shouted during the tossing of Yu Sheng. Yup, success in our coming FYP was one of my wish i’m currently working towards. It is still a myth if you toss higher, the year will be better for you. But i had fun. Great fun, tossing and dirtying the hands of the one next to you, looking at the wasted Yu Sheng all over the newspaper…

                  My Class Monitor, Ms Goh… A lovely girl~ Who love to take pic~

李老师, Mr. Lee was amused by the Lou Hei that only takes place in Malaysia and Singapore. I’m serioud here!!! You cannot find Lou Hei anywhere else other than here. Not in Taiwan, Not in Hong Kong, Not in China. It is only in Singapore and Malaysia. Probably we should start this trend there to make a fortune? *wink*

While taking a break for our tired Tuesday, with 7 hours of lecture, we took the chance of taking pictures too~

There is a rumour in our school, spread by BS Yr 3 & 4, that the first batch of BMS (my batch) got lots of beauty. Whenever we go into the lecture theatre, the guys couldn’t resist but to turn their head and see. A little exaggerating, but i’m not sure whether it is true. See for yourself and let me know ok? *giggle*

                                         Two cute and pretty ladies in my class….

                                                The Only Brotherhood in my class….

                                       Evil Twin & I together with the Brotherhood…

And Last but not least….

                                                      BMS 05/06

I love my class, i love my friends, i love all of you~

A self-declared Friendship Day, at the wee hours in the morning, on an unexpected day.

Yup, my dearest Ting Ting passed me this at 7+am in the morning. A lovely morning after a good night rest. With the present on my table, there i went to school. Didn’t open the prezzie there and then, it didn’t matter. I was happy. Not because of the present. Just being delighted.

Do you know how much i love my roommate?

Do you know how blessed i am?

Someone who is understanding, loving, caring & patient.

Truly, i am blessed.

Okay, i admit, i’m slow.

Chinese New Year, V day… All Slow~

But still, i wanted to highlight something which touch my heart, something not expected.

                      Ms. ALIEN MADE CHOCOLATE!!!

For all of us…

Thanks dear for being so thoughtful. I know this is not your usual act or how you normally express yourself, but this is so SWEET~! XoXo

ps: Being able to share it out is good, letting people know you care is even better. Keep it up, my dear!

Busy is not a very good excuse for my absent in blogging when i can make this.

I sacrifice 2 nights of sleep to make V day gifts. Golden Photoframe for my dearie in Hall, QQ and best’est roommie, Ting Ting. I’ve made one for myself too~ Because i never use spray paint before, needed one to test it out. So i made myself a Valentine’s Day gift too. *wink*

Spraying unevenly is inevitable. I couldn’t help it. Beginner in using spraypaint. In the course of preparing my V day gifts, thanks Ting Ting for getting the spraypaint for me (of cos, i didn’t tell her what i was doing) and Mr. Taz for helping me to develop photos.

Love is all around NTU. Couples are highlighted with bouquet of flowers. Helium-filled balloons seem to be everywhere too. Unexpected stalk of pink rose was what i got for V day. What about you?

   During my previous visit to the Northern Part of my beloved country, i had the chance of going into Penang island during the crazy period, just before Christmas. I felt like, "WOW! The whole world is heading to little Penang Island!!!" We wanted to take the ferry but the jam was like…Hmm…I shall not talk about it. It was beyond my imagination. Anyway, we used the Penang Bridge which we were caught in a jam too. At least 10 cars broke down at the entrance of the bridge (just after the toll) due to over-heating which worsen the jam.

But anyway, i didn’t want to talk about the jam. I’m not going to tell you about why we went to Penang in the first place. If you know what we did there, you probably would knock on my head *real hard*!

This is about FOOD!!! About authentic yummy-licious THAI food~ Just before we got caught in the never-ending traffic congestion.

Located at Bukit Mertajam, at the small town area, hidden among the double-storey shophouses, who would thought of finding gems there?

Yup, i never thought of it either. But i found it, real GEMS! Glorious Thai Food. *drool*

                                                       Mixed Variety Savouries RM 12

Anyone who’s a lover of Thai food should know this dish very well. Served as a starter, it resembles the Salad in Western cuisine. Roasted Peanuts, dried shrimp, freshly chopped ginger, onion, lime (all in small cubes) and cili padi served with roasted dessicated coconut. It is to be eaten by dipping the specialty sauce after wrapping the ingredients with the leave. One can add the ingredients according to one’s taste. The trick is, include everything! Anything less (like minus-ing the ginger) will somehow loses its taste. I love mine with lots of cili and sauce! Spicy and sweet at the same time, it sends me straight up the rooftop! Whee~

                                                            Green Mango salad RM 12 

I couldn’t escape the fact that i love Thai green mango salad but this came as a disappointment. The taste of the dried shrimp is over-powering. It has got the fishy-smell, probably due to the same reason. The green mango isn’t that crunchy and doesn’t have the sourish taste. Although i love the taste of dried shrimp, but too much just spoilt it all.

                                                            Seafood Tom Yam RM 20

As the waitress served us with this pot of Tom Yam, we though we couldn’t finish. Served in the traditional chinese steamboat pot, the portion is big, broth is sweet and thick with lots of fresh big succulent prawns, squid, thickly-sliced fish, tomatoes and onions. We drank to the very last bit of the soup. We almost wanted to turn over the pot and shake it all out.Haha…

                                                       Pandan Chicken @ RM 1.40 each

I don’t know whether Pandan Chicken originated from Thailand but it’s a highly sought after dish when it comes to Thai Cuisine (just like Thai Fish Cake). Well-marinated Tender Chicken wrapped with Pandan Leaves, grilled over charcoal fire, infusing the aromatic Pandan smell to the chicken, dipped with sweet and sour Thai Chilli sauce, perfect! Except that i don’t know charcoal fire is involved here and it came soaking with oil, or honey? I simply didn’t know. But it was well-marinated, it was tender, it was pleasing to my palate, these were all i knew.

                                                                 Otah-Otah RM 12

This came as another big surprise, a negative one. Its portion was big & looked delectable. Nope, looks can be deceiving. It is a soft otah, way too soft and without texture. Probably too much santan (coconut milk)? One can find fish meat and prawns in it but it wasn’t fresh. You can only get the strong lemongrass smell and nothing else. Not recommended. Utterly disappointed.

                                             Stir-Fried Kai Lan with Siew York RM 12

In order to have a balance diet, one must include greens. It is a source of fiber, Vit K (exists in green leaves veg) which is important in blood coaagulation, minerals and anti-oxidant. So we had Kai Lan with the tender lean Siew York as the highlight of the dish. Even for a non-pork lover like me would shout out loud, "The Siew York is delicious!"

I was eyeing on the dessert of the day which was the Thai Red Ruby which is only available on weekends but i was stuffed to my max. Who said we have a 20% capacity for dessert no matter how full we are??? I think i had just used up all my space for dessert. Mind you, there were only three of us and all the dishes were whipped clean, most of it by me, of cos.

A big THANK Q to Aunty June who drove us to Penang despite the hot sun & expected jam & bringing us around for good food. But your company is actually the best part of the whole trip. *Hugz*

May Tip Thai Food Restaurant                                                                                                    No.28, Lebuh Keranji,                                                                                                              Taman Mutiara,                                                                                                                      14000 Bukit Mertajam.                                                                                                              Penang. Malaysia

Tel: 04-5399910 HP:012-4333910

Operation hours:

11.00am-3.00pm (lunch)

6.00pm - 11.00pm (dinner)