More curry puffs - Fundraising Stage 3

Today, I made curry puffs again. I swear I have a backache from standing too long now.. So here I am lying down on the bed, probably gonna fall asleep soon cos I'm always sleepy like that. I still have more dough to roll out another 12 curry puffs, or if my business instincts kick, I might make 16? I have more than enough chicken curry anyway..

So pictures will come up soon. And after procrastinating for so long for this, I'm finally gonna bring the curry puffs over to charlie's or langkawi or (hilan) LOL to see if they can help me sell them. Long story short, I just need a resource to sell them!

Anyway I sold 10 curry puffs to a boy last week so my fundraising total is now ...

345 + 25 = 370 euro

Great, about 1130 euro to go..

Cant give up... and cant procrastinate no more...

Fundraising aside, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to skip the pre-departure workshop on the 4th of July. shite la right.. thats like the ultimate opportunity to go meet the other volunteers and yet I'm not in Dublin right at that date.. hmm...

Vaccinations

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i'm so sleepy right now, cant sleep last night cos i dozed off at 7pm - 11pm, woke up and bathed, and stayed wide awake till 6am. had to get up at 10am for an appointment with TMB (Tropical Medical Bureau)..

so i got my Typhoid + Hep A (Hepatyrix), Diptheria + Tetanus + Polio (Revaxis) jabs today. The doctor was an old lady who made the 50 Euro consultation fees quite worthwhile in my opinion.. i dont know if she was explaining so much to get me to have more jabs or shes just plainly concerned. oh well. benefit of doubt anyway.. i have to go back there again for the Meningitis ACYW, and she recommended the Malaria tablets that I have to take for 10 weeks (!!!!!!!!!!) ZZzzZZ and probably bring some anitibiotics as well since we all know how weak my stomach and lungs are when it comes to infections..

all for prevention, yes i know, thank you Dr Chan. Hospital-acquired infections, Mosquito-borne infections .. all prevention for the greater good. (wait is there such a word as greater good?? haha) dont trust anything i write, my brain's not working and the vaccinations are working its magic on me.. n according to Dr Lucile just now, i'll get short term memory loss n confusion as one of the side effects. after she injected me on both sides, she kept talking and talking and asking me questions so i would answer her. and she asked me if i know why she asked. coincidentally, she was asking me what time is good for her to ring me up for the Men. jab.. so i answered "because ppl usually dont come back??"

duh, how would i know.. but she told me, "i asked becos most ppl by now would have fainted already, or would feel like fainting. so i'm getting u to talk more" i was like, whaaa? and no, i did not have any feeling of such, except now maybe.. i wanna sleep!!

good afternoon (night), people!

Puff - ered

Alrighty, next fundraising effort - curry puffs !

Everyone likes curry puffs, less ingredients needed and more value for money.. why not eh? so i called Jean up and asked her to teach me how to make one of those lil magic..

Here're the pictures -

Jean deep frying them

My turn... my hair looks weird argh.. =\

the resulting curry puffs. wonderful stuff i tell u. ALL hand made, no curry puff moulds all whatever.. loads of effort, fairly tiring.. made 24 and no prizes for guessing who bought 13 of them..

I'm selling them at 2 for 5Euro. Anyone interested, just drop me a message..

the not so exactly food for thought

if u cant bring Mohamed to the mountains,

u bring the mountains to Mohamed !

The Cookfest - Fundraising Stage 2

If u read the earlier post, you would know that I and a couple of helpful friends went on a huge (its huge to me cos we were all burned out by the end of it) cookfest where we prepared 50 portions of boxed meals to sell to the RCSI Malaysian students and also a few UCD-ians. I actually set a modest target of 40 boxes earlier but when I received about 32 orders from RCSI a day before, I knew I just had to up it to 50.

The boxed meal was a portion of fried rice vermicelli - with sliced chicken, properly sliced very proportionate carrots, not-so symmetrical chinese cabbages and spicy sambal - vegetable fritters and banana fritters for dessert. Grace, Fiona and I did the fried rice vermicelli and banana fritters while Yin Ye did the veg fritters in her own home.. I was actually very amazed at how we could pull this off, and the food actually tasted quite good for my standards, and we all know how high my standards can be when it comes to food..

So the meal deal was priced at 5 Euro. Which was very very worth it if you ask me. I would so totally buy 3 boxes of it and save it for 3 meals, serious! At least that was what I did when some of the malay boys sold nasi lemak to us earlier in d semester. I mean, 5 Euro for Malaysian food, and I dont have to cook but just microwave. couldnt get any better.

Now the best part of this all was I actually got all the ingredients sponsored by Oriental Emporium! Thanks Mr Oriental Emporium. Too bad I didnt get his name, but oh well, I'm sure I can ask him when I go back there to get my stock of asian food aka instant noodles. And seafood. So Grace and I were there, just throwing things into the supermarket trolley and at the end of it all, we showed the trolley to him and the packets of bee hoon were covering everything below it. He never even bothered to see what we took, he just nodded his head and said, "okay, u can pack them up!" Seriously, both of us were stunned at his generosity and we were like, "really? really? omg laupan, thank you so much!!"

here's the OE boss/manager.. (OE sounds like Oeding-Erdel huh?)

So we got like 9 huge packets of beehoon (rice vermicelli), 9 boxes of chicken fillet etc etc that it was so really impossible for 2 ppl to carry them, so I called YY n Fiona to the rescue.. Then on the way we went BK for tea. I didnt eat anything cos I had McDs for lunch..

me at Burger King..

the stuffs we got from OE and bananas

Then the next day which was Sunday, it was all work work work.. and some play in between in the form of Wii.. You should totally see Fiona play wii boxing! Hillarious!! I actually got it on video where she *ahem* lost to some old Mii guy, but I think the file might be too big to upload on Blogger.. oh well I'll check it out later! And we cooked until 2am - I checked it was 6 hours altogether my hob was switched on.. *ouch electricity ouch*

So Jon came over and brought dinner for me, such a sweet guy, and hung around abit and soon became my taster ie. he 'prooftasted' kinda like proofread if u know what i mean, the beehoon. And he kept saying it lacked the oomph taste or not salty enough or too spicy! lol.. I think he's forever gonna be my prooftaster cos he prooftasted my curry puffs too, which will be my Fundraising Stage 3.. Good stuff anyway since he has a very good tongue.. err.. i mean tongue for taste, dont get me wrong!

Fiona on the Wii

why you never see me doing work.. is cos my hair's in a total mess!

i need my yearly straightening routine.. yikes!

garlic girl..

carrot girl

Woke up the next morning and brought them food to RCSI, my first time there. It looked very much like a hospital if you ask me.. Go in entrance, right hand side is reception cum security, left hand side a glass case with those RCSI memorabilia, some seats, further left, hallway with doors and some awesome skeleton paintings on the wall with old-ish looking words, right in front of entrance is lift and staircase.. exactly like a hospital!

waiting for the first years to be done with their paper..

All in all, cookfest was a huge success cos instead of my modest 40 boxes, I managed to up it to 50. Although the return wasnt alot and it was really tiring, it is still something. And I'm glad there are many people who are willing to support my cause..

Thank you so much to all who helped out !