Sainsbury Supermarket

I must be rather approachable or something because the cashier at Sainsbury supermarket started chatting to me like was her best friend.

Pearl: Hiya! How are you today?
Denzil: Not to bad.
Pearl: Day off is it?
Denzil: No... unemployed... been unemployed for a while now...
Pearl: Go down to the local Job Centre and you might be able to get a job a Sainsbury. But keep looking, and don't let it get you down.
....

I wouldn't mind chatting but Pearl stopped scanning my few items after the first one, and somebody came up and queued behind me. Seeing that Pearl had stopped scanning, the other customer was getting abit irritated.

Hurrying away when I had finished paying for everything, a little girl in pink was sitting in the 'seat' of a shopping trolley. I was thinking what a nice little girl until she stuck her tongue out at me and blew a raspberry at me!!!

Still I couldn't help but walk away laughing. I just find it funny how different people react different to the same person.

Mazipan Sweets at Harrods

Harrod's Mazipan Zoo	Mazipan Babies!!! awwww so cute!

Harrods Christmas Parade

They gave out free Shrek ears!!	Ice Queen prancing at the parade
Noddy at the Christmas Parade	Errrr... its whats his name and Santa!!!

Emergency Nissan Noodle Rations...

11:30am... talking to Eva on the net.. The sudden realisation that I had not sustained myself that morning. My savour would come in the form of our Emergency Nissan Noodle Rations.

... the aroma of fresh instant noodles soon permiates the flat ... a few moments while not watching the pot of noodles as it cooks meant that it almost overflowed twice, and then with much (youthful) vigour I loose half the included packet of seaseme oil in a spray all over the stove top.

For fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Perhaps today is NOT a good day to make pasta".

[Nissan Noodles - a brand of instant noodles that Denzil grew up on and is considered to be the best by many Chinese]

Ambitious Cooking

I caught a clip on a tv show about somebody making FRESH pasta from raw ingredients, ie flour, etc. Feeling kinda inspired to try it for myself. Since I did not see the entire clip, let alone write down the recipe, I googled for one instead: recipe for pasta dough and turning the dough into noodles/fettuccine

Two problems: 1) I just got back from the supermarket with bread making flour - not the sort to use for pasta. 2) I dont have a pasta making machine to cut the flour dough.

I wonder how the pasta would taste with self-raising or bread flour. I remember a documentry on traditional noodle making in Japan. I still remember the theory.. can I put it into practice.

Come to think of if, Steph did send me some pictures of the noodles he made. Wish I could have tried them.

Free Reiki Training!

I paid for my Reiki training, but you can also get it free off the internet here: Reiki Secrets. Apparently it trains you all the way up to Master level which is a level above me. Training with a proper person is still better as a good trainer will provide valuable advice/support during and after the course. Still this is a good way to get a feel for Reiki if your interested without spending alot of $$. Just don't go back asking for a refund :)

It just so happens that the Reiki Secrets website also has the links to spoon/fork bending. Not sure if this helps to legitimise the site or turns it more into a side show attraction... The choice is left to the student as homework....

Bending forks...

#fork-you.com#

People who know me know that I used to do magic. Infact I have bit of a library of book and videos on the subject. One thing I never learnt was how to bend forks properly. This website aims to teach you how to do it with your mind! No magic trickery required!

You can find other links on fork bending here if your interested.

Its strange the things you find when you go looking up reiki on the net!

Moved old blog

Well I finally moved all the old blog posts here. So if you haven't seen the old entries you can now do so by going through the archives section of the blog.

Still haven't figured out what to do with the photo archives yet. Its annoying me no end actually.

Micheal (Lulu's brother) and Sabrina got married in Singapore. It was a beautiful wedding and for their honeymoon they did a tour in Europe and then stayed a week with us in London.

They absolutely loved it.

Denzil can cook #3

I started out in disaster. Yet somehow I managed to get the dough in reasonable shape to produce these wonder Chinese Fighting Bread Rolls. They are heavy enough to smash the bones in your toes if they fell on it. They taste pretty good though.