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silai in the making

i cant believe i just skipped class to buy carrot and cook soup.

What is Glasgow turning me into?????

a pharmacist's idea of 'masak-masak'

Making tablets is very much like what you do in the kitchen, to be more precise its like baking;

First u weigh out the ingredients u need.

Then u subject the ingredients into the machine to mix them. Together with water. Just like adding water to your all purpose flour. The difference here is that our toys are much more sophisticated than the ones u can find in the kitchen:)

mix mix mix

the y-cone rotating blender.

even the 'i dont camwhore' annabelle succumbed to our fetish:P

3 aunties sieving

Basically, we will leave the wet powder to dry for 24hrs or few days before we granulate them.

When we were all set, we pour our granules into the inlet of the the Rotary Tablet Press aka tablet maker. All we need is to push few buttons and adjust the lever to achieve our desired HARDNESS and weight. chewah. You cant do that with cake do u:P

oo yeah..need a container to catch 'em. they roll fast:P

gobi with his container:p


our beautiful SHINY and HARD tablets (pls ignore the broken ones. it was all mixed together:P)

we used this to test the hardness of the tabs. rejected if too hard:P
think it only applies in manufacturing lab.haha

better get back to my report. been procrastinating wayyy too much:P

lochness day trip

I took off with a teeny weeny bit of hope to see 'Nessie', a monster which inhabited the lake eons ago and hence made the loch famous and a must visit destination for those in Scotland.

But then since luiyan didnt come along, so no monster.LOL

We first stopped in Loch Lomond and bought lunch in a shop which boasts the loo of year award 2008. dun play play!!

the award winning loo:P

Us

yes im a duck paparazzi

a duck, a ship and an overcast sky

Next we passed Glencoe, a place associated with lots of bloody stories dated back to the 17th century. The highlands were very majestic and its spectacular mountain scenery awed us:)

another jumping pic

random strangers who decided to join in the fun

pattern banyak:P

old habits die hard:P

when we finally reached our main destination, we were greeted by heavy rain and strong winds. We were lucky that it stopped right after we got on the boat. Talk about karma..hiak hiak

We went cruisin around Loch Ness. It was so serene and beautiful but basically it looks the same from every direction. I didnt even realise when the boat turned. Imagine that.haha

Fort Augustus from where we took off

serenity

Our last stop was Laggan, and we climbed about 50ft to see the so-called waterfall. I was so excited at the prospect of seeing a waterfall. i think the one u can see frm the tapah highway was much better. This version looks more like a beer waterfall:P but that didnt stop us from camwhoring.haha

zoomed

OK gotta go surprise adel now. Its her bday today btw. HAVE A BLAST ADEL dearie:)

hope u like the cake:)

beginners luck.

the saying is only true to a certain degree. it ends after the fullstop. :P

Went to Gala casino earlier just now. first won 5 pounds then we lost the rest of our money at the blackjack table. ESh. im so gonna stick to machines. at least they dont have cute dealer distracting you from your cards. Im so going back there:P

yea the wind was blowing ferociously

ps: will blog about lochness or video games live one of these days la..first mock pp3 exam this fri. everybody wish me luck!!

renu turns 2*COUGH*3

so yea, my other homies and i baked our first cake when renu had her pp3 session.

words of advice?
PLS pLS do not ever attempt baking cake using ur microwave even though the recipe says so.LOL. it turned out like mocha kuih melayu. tastewise not bad but presentationwise its kinda pathetic. Looked like a lump of some honeycomb brown kuih melayu.

so hmm, we googled and found another recipe for simple mocha cake. but stupid stupid me forgot to check the num of servings and hence did not double the ingredients. the outcome? it turned out to be a super flat lopsided simple mocha cake.LOL

well, thats not the *ahem* worse part. In our attempt to 'decorate' the cake with choc glaze and strawberries, the strawberries just wouldnt stay put and kept sliding off the choc layer. so what we did was remove them one by one and dry them with kitchen towel before plopping them back on the cake.LOL. ok. so far no reported cases of diorrhea so i guess we passed the sterility test:P

aerial view of the cake. no cross sections please:P

went to Counting House the following day. bday=celebration=good food:P

i LOVE my mint lamb burger

that came with white zinfandel rose. oo la la~~

yennee me and bday girl

luiyan kena geletek:P

semua orang:)

hope u had a great time ah nu..MUAKKSSSS!!

victoria park

one thing i hate about glasgow: the erratic downpour. ive walked under the rain for 4 consecutive days. that explaines why my flu never get better:(

rain rain go away:(. yea i know u cant see the raindrops. but theyre there. and also i wana show off flo's photography skills:P

what explains my love for this place: shopping and beautiful parks:)

victoria park was one beautiful park we went to earlier today led my prof jim wilson. it was situated near the jordan hill campus.

see flo was so excitedly cute:P

We were trying very hard to catch up with him as we had to camwhore along the way and the rain definitely did not do us any help.:(

went into the Fossil Grove and was kinda disappointed. Prolly we expected more cos he was raving about how we should rush to the place before it closes. if u want to know more about the place just click here

flo and i bought the same 3 pounds umbrella from Primark. love it to bits. its very handy as it protects us from the rain, wind and serves as a very handy prop to camwhore:P



we accompanied karen to buchanan st earlier so that she can get her handbag. much earlier. even before the shops were open:P

can i teleport myself in there somehow?:P

then we got dumped when she decided to continue shopping. ate fish and chips for lunch before leaving for the train station.

look at the size of that thing!

then off we go!! altho i secretly wish it would continue raining so that i can spend longer time window shopping.LOL.

my homies and i

some of us

us again:P

prof jim wilson

i have better camwhore skills than jase

love the trees:)

loving the flowers

and the lake:)

dengan yieng yang molek:)

then we decided to embrace the inner child in us:P

we climbed

but the kiasu guys climbed higher:P

twosome:P


a lesbo moment:P
so long, farewell

a mandatory jumping pic:P

been a long day. tired but have to prepare for pp3 tmr. its gonna be another long week:(

god bless me