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Guess what Pat brought back from the UK?

2 Longchamp bags for the mom and sis.

And now the hole in my pocket is officially beyond salvation.

I hope to be less mean, less impatient and less of a brat.

Dried noodles with minced chicken with cherry tomatoes.

Really simple recipe with soy sauce, pepper and some sugar. Marinate overnight and walla! It only takes about 15 minutes to prepare in the morning!

Project LunchBox will be temporarily stopped for the next few days because my family’s coming over to visit (most likely to holiday la) so I’ll most probably be having lunch with them.

Stay tuned for the next day of Project LunchBox!

Cya!

ps. She’s amazing!

As I promised myself, today marks the beginning of me packing my own lunch to uni! Nonetheless, I didn’t have any morning classes (or afternoon ones as a matter of fact) today sooooo I pretty much spent the entire day just cooking. Although I should’ve read up more for Patho and PBL, which will probably make me feel uber stupid tomorrow.

ANYWAY, the entire point of packing lunch to uni is to… EAT HEALTHY!

And

a) save money

b) not starve because the cafeteria is still empty

c) not have to crack my brain to think of places to eat with

d) not have to drag people and their nerdy asses out of their geeky chairs to have lunch outside the vicinity of lifelessness

e) to try new recipes!

Except you know, the point is to pack easy to prepare lunches to uni because it’s not everyday that I have no 8 am classes. I ain’t gonna wake up at 4 just to make myself an extravagant lunch yo!

So, the moment of truth.

Today’s Project LunchBox consists of:

Fried rice with luncheon meat and long beans, butter chicken and CHERRY TOMATOES!

Have I told you cherry tomatoes are currently my favourite snack?? Yes, so instead of eating potato chips between meals like I used to, I’m snacking on cherry tomatoes now!

Butter chicken is a rather simple dish to prepare actually. The first time I made it, I made an effort to coat the chicken fillets in tempura mix and deep fry them before adding the sauce to the chicken. This time I couldn’t be bothered and just dumped the naked chicken fillets into hot oil and started making my sauce. It turned out okay though. Just that I think it needed a bit more black pepper to cover the milkiness. Took less than 30 minutes to prepare the dish (right from chopping the garlic) so it’s pretty good if you ask me!

In my opinion, I think the fried rice was pretty awesome Luncheon meat and long beans are my favourite ingredients for fried rice and the rice was really fluffy and all (because it was cooled to perfection ahem). The eggs made my face and throat a bit itchy though It’s the same feeling I had the last time I made egg fried rice. So probably shouldn’t eat it so often.

And have you noticed how neatly the food is arranged? Like airplane food? That’s because I LOOOOOOVE airplane food! I love how everything is so neatly arranged and how they manage to compartmentalise the different elements without actually using compartmented containers. I tend to finish airplane food because of that although they kinda suck sometimes.

Bah! That’s all for today. How long do you think I’ll last huh? I’m not sure myself.

Cya!

Hot & Spicy instant noodles and black pepper drumstick

Had a craving for fast food today so I went to McDonald’s and ate my heart out. Which is dumb because the only thing I liked on my tray was the fries. Wasted my arterial lumen space for nothing sigh.

Had a crazy thought of living a disciplined and healthy life all of a sudden. Thought to myself, why not start tomorrow? Which was also the reason why I ordered so much crap at McD’s just now. So tomorrow I’ll start cooking my own lunch and pack it to uni. I’ll call it the LunchBox Project! Let’s see how long it can last.

Had bedside with Dr Shwae today. He’s really awesome, but somehow when he starts talking about surgical treatment, I just zone out. Something in me still tells me that I don’t need to know the details of the surgery because to me, it’s still just cut and join to wherever that’s patent and functioning. I guess I’m still not adapting to my surgical posting yet.

Have no class tomorrow except a one-hour lecture at 5. WOOHOO!

That’s all!

Cya!