Green Park restaurant organised a 3-day CHINESE FOOD FESTIVAL on May 14th, 15th and 16th.

This festival, is not of those festivals you can imagine in Japan with parades, food stalls, lively occasions nor a full day pasar malam.

It is a 3-day in-house (Green Park restaurant only) change of Indian cuisine menu to a Chinese catered cuisine menu.

Reason: Green Park manage to invite a Chinese Chef from Singapore to cook for them for 3 days. The chef’s name is Tan Hoo Meng and he’ll be cooking all the dishes offered and created by him in the menu.

Was excited to hear that a chinese chef was coming to Salem. I called up Green Park restaurant on the 14th to book for a place on Sunday.

This, was our conversation:

Green park: Hello.

Me: Is this Green Park Restaurant?

Green Park: Yes.

Me: Hi, I would like to book a table for the Chinese Food Festival on the 16th, this Sunday.

Green Park: Do you speak Chinese?

Me: Er…yes

Green Park: Wait a minute…

(……)

Green park: Hello, 请问您是哪一位？

Me: Oh…我是郑先生。

Chef: 你好，你好。

Me：谢谢，我想在这礼拜订个位来享用晚餐。

Chef：谢谢您的自持。谢谢。

Me：请问这 Chinese Food Festival 是 buffet 还是 a-la-carte 呢？

Chef：A-la-carte ( explains alot)

Some chit chats…

Me: Ok, 那我要在这礼拜book个桌子，晚上7点钟。

Chef：好的，好的。谢谢，谢谢。再见。

Me：再见。。。

(End…)

Was glad to hear a fellow Chinese whom I completely don’t know talking Mandarin through a local phone call. (For those of us who doesn’t speak tamil, it was surprising to speak to someone with your own language on the other side of the phone.)

Waited excitedly for Sunday to come.

And this was their menu:

Chinese Food Festival Menu

And I ordered this:

Chinese Food!

I ordered Lime Sauce Cod fish, Pan Fried Lamb with chef’s special sauce, Deep fried pork with champagne orange sauce(not in pic) and a Fried Rice with salted fish and chicken cubes.

There are some quite interesting food on the menu like ‘Delightful Coffee Chicken Cubes’. Not sure whether it is usually eaten in Singapore or the chef catered this for the Indians because Indians like their coffee.

The food was ok, but pricey. The Green Park Restaurant was on full-house that evening.

We all know that India is quite proud and famous about their curries, but to go to this extent, it was really jaw dropping.

I present to you:

Curry Puffs =D

Curry In Cream =)

Manufactured by Munchee Buscuits, it costs Rs 40 ===>Rm2.85.

This biscuit made me drop dead in my tracks while browsing through the biscuits section comprising of hundreds of local and imported varieties of biscuits.

I did not buy it though, i did not have the guts to try it though. It was simply too bizarre for me. =DDD

Anyone wants some? =D

Saw this opposite Best Dental Suppliers where we bought our instruments.

The open air-opposing-the-main road toilet is just situated outside Vanivilas women’s hospital.

I prefer writing blogs on the computer where I have much more convenience assessing various vital programmes and resources. But what choices do I have?

My beloved notebook crashed on me few months back and I was in far far away land from home. Was  using a Dell Inspiron 1420 and his motherboard crashed just after my second term exam. I repeat “JUST AFTER”, talking about luck. So, i called up Dell to inquire about the repair cost and service. =D

It cost Rs. 14650 to fix my notebook, and adding another 1 year of warranty for my Inspiron. Damn…it felt like all hope was lost and sure enough, hopes of reviving my dead notebook was gone. I was NOT willing to pay Rs. 14650 => Rm1102. I only had 4 more months here in India until I return home.

Life was boring after my notebook’s sudden departure.

Mundane months pass by just like that, I had only 2 more months till final exam. Few days back, I don’t know how and why, i decided to check up on my blog. I feel like blogging. Using my girlfriend’s notebook I search for how-to-s on how to mobile blog and I have neither Apple’s nor Androids nor Blackberry-s.

Both wordpress.com and blogger provide similar way of writing blogs using our mobile, I considered many stuffs and ta-da i ended up trying to blog using my mobile. Pics aren’t so high end now. =(

Would 3.2mps suffice?

Hope it works because i can attach photos and images using this e-mail client. Cheers!

There’s not much i can do here such like inserting a picture, much to my dismay.

Maybe i’ll try out other methods but i wonder why i always have the urge to blog near finals. XD Moreover i haven’t blogged since ages ago.

Since my last post, many events have occured.

For instance,

PIDC Cup 09 events such as track & field, soccer, basketball, table tennis competitions. Our batchmates have trained very hard for these event. As the captain for my batch I’m very grateful for each and every participants in our PIDC cup 09, “Thank You!”, although we had only acheived 3rd place in our overall score during the whole PIDC Cup 09, I really believe we did our best in the events, and do value those times we trained and competed.

Other than the sporting events, is the Grand Closing ceremony of PIDC Cup 09. It’ is somewhat a prom dinner with dances and sketches performed by each ongoing batch. I still remembered training for a dance till late night, those moments were truely unforgettable.

After the closing ceremony of the PIDC cup is the mundane routine of class hours for a few weeks. Since then, most our my classmates had been preparing for the ongoing Internals I (term exam) which is still currently going. To cut things short, I’ll post a few photos regarding the PIDC Cup events =D.

Many thanks to Mr. Christopher Tan Hong Liang and Ms. Chin Kit Yi (photographers for the PIDC Cup 09 event), Ms. LiewJoanne and Ms. Kelvin Lau for the following photos. Plus, special thanks to those that made appearance in my blog and most importantly my readers. THANK YOU!

Opening Ceremony

PIDC Cup 09 opening venue - Basketball Court

Cheer floor - Basketball court overlooking the teams' tent

Yellow Fireflyz

Fireflyz team tent

Fireflyz' cheer team

Fireflyz' members and tent

Team Fireflyz

Team Fireflyz

Jade warriors, Fireflyz, Charizards, and Violet Tristans

Basketball competition

Fireflyz' female basketball team

Fireflyz' basketball captain vs Jade warriors

Soccer

Fireflyz' male soccer team

Fireflyz' female soccer team

Raj and Shu Zhe. Raj in action.

Volleyball

Fireflyz' female volleyball team

Fireflyz' male volleyball team

Sivam's airtime

Carom game

Serious Gee Yang

Fireflyz' team won a game

Table tennis

Fireflyz' Simran vs Violet Tristan's Sacchin

Badminton

Fireflyz' female doubles badminton team in action

Track and Field events

Fireflyz' Sing Ying running. Supporters ran too.

Females relay event

Track and Field - Team Fireflyz

They won!

Tug of War - Fireflyz mixed team

PIDC CUP 09 CLOSING CEREMONY

Stage and Sivam's speech

Roselyn, Shue Kang and Wee Jian's performance

From left: Quan-Senn, Shu Zhe, Pang Teng, Adric and Me

From left: Quan-Senn, Adric, Pang Teng, Shu Zhe and Me

Fireflyz: Female performers

From left: Quan-Senn, Li Herng, Shu Zhe and Me

"Gee" Dancers

PIDC 6th Batch (Fireflyz) and few VMU students

That concludes the photos for the 1 month PIDC Cup 09.

The one month PIDC Cup 09 truly brought me unforgettable memories and I do cherish them for the rest of my life.

“Dear Fireflyz and other friends: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!. I’m very sorry if I have offended you in any training, games and competitions.”

Sorry for the delay in blogging. Still having my internal exam ( Term I).

Will post more for the following weeks =DDD

It’s has been a long while since I last blogged.

Was quite occupied with assignments, PIDC cup opening ceremony cheers, trip to Pondichery and many other important matters. A lot of things have happened since then.

Wanted to blog last week but the internet line was down for like erm….4 days. It was so boring since then…=(

I sincerely apologize for not posting up stuffs here…

Tonight, was the PIDC Cup 09 opening ceremony, our batch was competing in cheerleading in the event.

We didn’t win but it was a fun time cheering.

To all my batchmates: “Thank you, and  so sorry if there’s anything that I might have offended you.”

I think I won’t blog much for the PIDC Cup 09 opening ceremony, it’ll be a photo (not my photos, waiting for friends to pot and share them) orientated blog, please stay tune.

Me, Adric, Michelle, Kah Vin, Quan-Senn, Shu zhe, Pang Teng  and Kun Mun went to Bangalore for a short trip. For 2 days and 1 night 20/9-21/9.

It was a much enjoyable trip, the only thing stopping us having fun was cash and time. Sad enough. =(

We stayed at te Palms Recidency. Not at recommended place though. I don’t have much pictures about there but trust me. It’s not recommened.

Where we stayed in Bangalore

When we're about to leave

We spent most of time searching for food. Most of the food were expensive but I can say it’s worth it. I cannot find a single dish as near as good as those I’ve eaten in Bangalore here in Salem.

1st Stop: Korean Food

A table of side dishes

I’ve forgotten what’s the name of the restaurant. It’s around the old airport road ( i think).

Rating:4/5

2nd Stop: Brigade Road

Brigade Road, as busy as ever

Levi's square

For 1st timers to Bangalore, this is a must visit place.

3rd Stop: Hard Rock Cafe

Hard Rock Cafe

Interior of Hard Rock

Portraits placed around in the Cafe

Wild Berry Smoothie ( not recommended)

The service, atmosphere and food in Hard Rock Cafe was awesome *thumbs ups*

Rating: 4/5

4th Stop ( next morning): Coffee Day

Coffee World at HM tower

Hot Choco Latte

Sausage Puff

Choco Doughnut with lots of Ice cream

Brownie with lots of Ice cream

Cake (forgot the name) with lotsa Ice Cream

Coffee

Not a bad place, but the menu wasn’t clear enough, the waiter will ask you a bunch of questions which you’ll think that’s in the menu but ended up burning a hole in my wallet. For example my brownie in the menu cost around Rs 50. With those Ice Cream it became Rs. 130. I wasn’t aware of it until the bill came. Unfortunate for me. =(

Rating; 3/5

5th Stop: UB mall, Toscano @ UB city

One of the advertistment poster on a jewellery shop

What's more to say?

Toscano an Italian food restaurant

Starters at Tuscano

Salmon Pizza, taste SOOO Good! A must try

You won't find this in Salem

Pizza Hut's Vege Pizza? No, this.

UB mall is a place for rich people. They have LV, Salvotore Ferragano, Omega, Tag Heuer, Paul Smith etc etc. There are also a variety of High Class restaurant there.

Rating: 4/5

6th Stop: Forum Mall

Raya Holidays at Forum Mall

Packed Transit food court at Forum Mall

Landmark

Forum Mall is a much more local mall that has McD, KFC, Pizza Hut and Subway.

Rating: 3/5

7th Stop: TGI Fridays

Planned Dinner at TGIF

Awesome!

We didn't have enough time to dine so, we taked-away

TGI Fridays, need more explanations? I guess not =DDD

Rating: 3.5/5

Classes: So far, I have attend 1 week of classes.

Hah! First year was definately more enjoying.

Various  second year departments like Dental Materials, Pharmacology, Mircobiology, Operative Dentistry, and Prosthodontics have been scaring us with the toughness of the subject, how many practicals we must hand in by the end of year 2. Plus, every department have been giving us advices on how to tackle the subject, on top of that, they have one advice in common: ” Study your portions DAILY.”

I have a total of 6 subjects in second year, practicals and theory subjects althogther. They are:

1. Dental Materials
2. Operative Dentistry (ODS)
3. Prosthodontics
4. Pharmacology
5. Pathology
6. Mircobiology

I have bought a few of the textbooks needed but it’s still not a complete set yet.

Few classes held in the Medical college like Pathology and Pharmacology are shared between us and seniors. Classes held in Hi-tech hospital are however, confined only to my own batch.

Most of the 1st few classes held were orientation classes where you’ll get to know the department and the lecturers get to know you.  There are, of courses normal classes. We also have been given assignments, tutorials and practicals to do, all of them due next week. It is kinda hectic, a lot of new things to follow and not to mention finishing up unfinished 1st year Dental Material’s and Operative Dentistry practicals. =(

Tooth cavity prepartion on plaster models

Maxillary and Mandibular, Dentulous and Edentulous casts

Apart from attending classes, I need to prepare myself for the coming PIDC cup 2009. It’s an annual sporting event organised by PIDC senior students in Salem.

Activities available:

• Track and field
• Tug of war
• Cheerleading
• Soccer
• Basketball
• Badminton
• Table Tennis
• Volleyball
• Chess
• Carom
• PIDC cup closing night

Cheerleading? Yes, I’ll be holding poms-poms like I did last year. =|

This year, batches will be competing with each other. It is whole lot of fun.

I think I’ll stop here, I still have ODS assignment to complete due Tuesday and I’m leaving to Bangalore later in the Morning. =DDD

Wishing all Muslims Selamat Hari Raya in advance. =DDD