Sleep over

I had a sleep-over with my best girl friends from high school a week ago. Even though we are probably too old for gatherings such as that, we had a blast.

We played paintball (will upload the photos soon), did grocery shopping, cooked up a storm, and battled out in a 3-hour risk game.

I heart my girl friends - Bing, Min, and Ganny.

Here are the food that we cooked! My badly taken photos (plus unedited) with my lousy camera phone (yet again) do not really do justice to the food. Girlies forgive me.

Ganny’s soya - sauce chicken (only because I did not know where my mum placed the sesame oil).

Min’s pot of mixed mushroom. She does it so well.

Bing’s mah po tou fu. Definitely something I can attempt to cook!

Ganny’s baked asparagus with olive oil and pepper. So Mediterranean.

And my one and only dish - sambal stingray (baked, toasted, or steam - we had like 7 slices to cook in 30 min - my friends bullied me by making me the last to cook).

Supper on the other hand, was a very fun affair!

We made (from scratch) tung-yuan. If I had it my way, I would have just bought the ready made ones.

I felt like I was back in art class, and no, I failed miserably at the clay moulding module.

Making the tung-yuan from scratch. A mash of gooey dough. And Gan’s slim model fingers.

I know my friends heart me back too.

Bing and Gan combine effort. I still think dough-in-the-making smells horrid. But oh the love covers it all. Stop laughing my girlies.

Sorry about the yellowish photo. End result of my tung-yuan with filling. See, I told you I wanted to buy the pre-packed tung-yuans. There was a reason why. But, I had ton of fun.

And the 3 hour-risk game ended with a kamakazi move by me, and a back up plan by my ally, Bing, to try and eliminate Ganny. The strongest of us all though was Min, and she didn’t even know it. She was more interested in watching her tv show.

I heart my girlies very much.

Lisa Ekdahl - Slow knowing smile

Give me that slow knowing smile.

Swedish songwriter and singer Lisa Ekdahl, sure knows how to pull a string or two in my heart.

Compared to her previous work, her latest album is more upbeat, jazzy, and with a touch of romanticism. I love ALL the songs in the album (and that is rare).

I sorta feel like I’m back in the knee deep snow days, gazing at the greyish cloud, and looking at the flurries fall. Standing alone in the sparse city space, and laughing as the cold flakes melt on my icy face.

Hope was what I felt.

Warmth from that cup of hot chocolate was what I longed for.

Slow knowing smile.

And at the end, when I’m really cold, and had too much fun making imaginary snow angels. I know my Papa is waiting for me to pass me my pink mittens. And to give me a great bear hug.

Thanks Lisa.