Sabo king , MOB , Gloomy Bear :P

Long day ... Kena MOB today ... all the way to Tanjong Gul Camp .... damm far sia .... .. , Slient Mob @ 10am ... reach there ard 1pm ... thot sign can go off ... but they said lunch was indent ... sian 1/2 ... ard 2pm ... they say once all arrive then can go off ... ard 3pm ... CSP n CISS went off ... we CCP have to wait ... cos got 1 Sabo king .... he knows that got MOB today ... still die die went ahead to Pulau Hantu to dive .... damm #$%@$%@#% got ppl oreadi told him dun go liao ,he still die die go .. and the best thing is , officers said he ack the MOB @ 10am .... then when they call him ard 3pm ... he say he on the boat ... rushing back .... earliest will only reach @ 5.30pm ... MEANS we had to wait for him until 5.30pm ..... all damm pissed off ... lucky @ ard 4.30pm our PC told us we can out-pro and no need to wait for that F**ker to report ... Heng ... but still waited about 3hrs+ ... waste of time !!! Btw ... that F**ker is called Clement ... dun rem who he is though but i be looking out for him the next in-camp.

Went to Suntec for toys n comics convention ... took a pic with my fav gloomy bear ... and to my surprise , saw the creator of gloomy was there and signing autograph for ppl ( free , cos i think they sold out all their merchandises , if not might have to buy then he sign , i want to buy but no more stocks :( ) so anyway thick skin and get him to sign for me , though he wrote my japanese name wrongly ... but still it's free !!!!! ( some gals with video cam was camming when he sign for me and the gals ask me to wave n show the autograph in front of the big video cam wor ... wonder where my pics will show LOL ) ---- VAIN

Lost some .... Gain Some :)

Supposed to blog yesterday but was toooooo tired after the contest .... slept for about 12 hrs str8 !!! .. CONTEST ? Oh ... for those dunno ,,,, I took part in my first Pastry - related contest !!!! neber thot i had the chance , but YES i took part and .... and ... I LOST !!! ( this is for the Lost some part of the title )

27 June 2008 - I went to BITC with my classmate , Yj n Karen to take part in California Raisins Contest , Me n Yj took part in Plated Dessert and Karen took part in Bread. I was still having cold feet in the morning and kinda of regret i took part ... wanted so much to give up cos .... SCARED !!!! but told myself ... 1) Yj is going to be more freak out then me ,,,, so i must be strong .... 2) Alot of ppl know I m taking part in this ... so abit loser if quit 3) dun wan to disappointed my chefs in skool , cos they really help alot. Anyway back to the contest ... Well there was all 18 ppl in the Plated Dessert ... me n Yj is in the first group .... after we all finished ... i was thinking standard was OK ... the rest was not all very well done ... only a few stand out ... but when grp 2 start ... i see the diff , not only in the final end products BUt when they just started i took a peek and they all look PROs. Well b4 this , heard that F hotel is sending 2 CDP in ... me a trainee against a CDP .... kaoz .... sure die flat flat one ....

Part 1 of pissed off - Was very disappointed the way the contest runs ... cos Yj was 2nd to present ( we had 75 min to prepare and 10 mins more for plated ) but they only told her that she was to stay plateing first cos the 1st one encounted some problem !!! so she didn't even had 10 mins to plate !!! how can they like that ... also Yj wanted to put her chopsticks with the dessert but they dun allow her ... saying they judges got everything inside !

Part 2 of pissed off - I thot will be like in TVs i see , we will present our items to the judges and explained our desserts, BUT NO ... they just took and served ... we dun even had the chance to explained how our desserts should be eaten !!! I had my dessert returned with the RUM I served in my dessert !!!! it was supposed to be drank after the dessert !!! and 2 cups of sauces returned untouched ... it's supposed to be pour n eat with the pudding !!! so sad .... I think I am super sad becos , I might be a trainee ... but i came up with my own receipes ( better then those who used receipe from their chefs and come and complete) I just hope I could have a bit respect for my dessert also .. sigh ... comparing to losing ... this hurts me most !!!

Part 3 of pissed off - I seriously think Karen could have won ... should have a place in the top 3 .... but sigh ... NONe ... Winners are all from top hotels .... and was told ... Karen's marks was dedected for her display ... BUT there was this guy who brought all PRE-BAKE deco show piece ... which we was told ALL deco show pieces have to be made there !!! ( for plated side also got ppl bring in pre made sugar deco ... so not fair !!!!! just think this is kinda of unfair ... not a very pro contest in my view .... not becos I didn't win ... cos me just there for experiences ... I got nothing against any1 and some of the desserts really nice.

Part 4 of pissed off - Think we read too much into the Rules ....They wanted something simple and ingredients to be easy available .... is GOLD LEAVES easily available ? i dun think so ... and all those plated desserts that won .... none of it look simple .... it looks so nice that only served in Fine Dining restuarants ... Kena cheated was the whole feeling ... the main reasons we lost ... we toooooooooooooo 2pid .... to follow all the Rules !!! Sigh

Happy moments .... I m glad that we took part though ... so we can see the dark sides .... also to learnt from all these experience .... AND think my reward for the day was when Chef Fred told me .... though we ( me n yj ) are just trainees with less then 1 yr in this industry ... they way we plate our desserts was much fine n clean then some of the others , who might be yrs in this industry ... ( no offence here but can u imagine ,,,, a green tea color dessert with a HOT PINK deco .... super mismatch !!!! - that was 1 of those who prepared b4 hand !!! ) I think with my Chef's remarks ... it was better then wining ... cos @ least we get his reconigions , to me that is all worth-ed :)

Damm sianz ... heard will kena recall back tomorrow ..... and to Tanjong Gul Camp .... dammmmmm far in the WEST ... sianz and got FULL-PACK inspection .... had problems digging out my stuffs .... blessed me tomorrow ... i hate tomorrow !!!!

Attached is my plated dessert and the 3 of us before the contest start .... so joker rite ... still take pic

My Raisin Soyphiscation
The Trio

Long update again ... ....

It had been a long way since i updated here .... guess i been lazy ... ha ha ... and though there are things that upset me but not strong enuff to blog it here :P anyway few updates thus even though super lazy but me still decided to put it down here.

First of all .... my oreadi completed 3rd term of my studies , 2 more terms to go .... scary ... come to think of it ... it's super fast, if nothing goes wrong ... i should complete my dip in Dec'08 meaning 6 more mths. Term 4 going to consist of alot of breads ... chinese , french , indian ..... think our class might needs to really buck up cos if will be chef F to take us for most of the terms.

Oh had my term break this week , went fishing @ pasir ris pond with Karen yesterday. Arjun and Yj joined us in the afternoon to accompany us ... so sweet of them :P I reach there about 7.45am and decided to settle near the prawn fishing area. Took my own sweet time to assembly my stuffs and then continue to fish alone as karen say she will be late. After a short while i had a bite @ my line , but the fish was eating "inwards" meaning eat n swim @ my direction thus i dun have enuff time to whack it ... and i miss the catch ... so sad ... first bite and i lost it .... was quite dishearten but lucky i got another bite in less then 15 min and this time it was a hit.. soon karen joined me. There was this part which i am really pissed off .... there was this group of "PRO" anglers , who came over our side when they released fishes @ ard 1pm. I mean i am ok with them coming over cos this is very normal when fishes is being released. They got quite a few catches while we got none ... but when karen finally got one on the line , it cross with one of the "Pros" - cos in order to get fishes , they were throwing and crossing other ppl's line. The best thing was , he purposely whack his line and cause karen's catch to drop back into the pond, and the best thing is that cos the fish , think still in coma ... was still at the edge of the pond and i quickly ask karen to bring the net over so we can scoop it back ... the guy heard it and use his rod to whack the water , near the fish , trying to chase the fish away .... sooooooo loser ... he was the one that cause the fish to drop..... totally shamless and a BIG S-Hole .... We ended the day with me 3 catch ( 2 Kbls and 1 MJ ) and karen 2 "net" ( 1 injured KBL and 1 red snapper).

Oh almost forgot .... Me , Yj and Karen took part in a baking related contest and we will only know if we were shortlisted by yesterday. @ 4pm i told them ... aiyah if by 5pm we dun received any calls means no chance lot ... cos office hours mah ...so we waited and really no call came ... we thot no chance liao ... but to our surprise, @ 6pm i received a call and it was to inform me that i was shortlisted .... they were all happy for me ... and 5 min later YJ got the call as well ... and another 5 min later ... Karen also got the call .... so happy all 3 of us got it ... but kinda of scare also ,,, gonna be my first contest. After the fishing , me and Yj brought Arjun to Geylang to get Dim sum ..... think he really enjoys it ... or @ least he was STUFFED very full by us , ha ha until he say he eat until very tired ( think becos of the saltwater @ the pond)

Oh ... i was fully sun-burnt also .... guess skin will be coming off soon .... Btw , my contest will be next friday and also only know today there will be 2 sessions ,,, meaning me n Yj might not be in the same group ... wish us luck , of cos and Karen too. I m really excited and scared @ the same time regarding the contest .... anyway ... what will be will be ... gained experiences more impt ... win or dun win is just a matter of + or - .... :) so after so much toking ... here is the preview of my work , entitled Raisins SOYphistication !!!