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Gone Shopping

First of all, I would like to apologise for not being able to update my Melbourne Day 1 post. This is due to the shaped connection I'm having now. 56k connection for 3 people and also 40+ photos to upload, how am I going to update? Anyway, I have something else to recommend to you all.

Do you all still remember Chef Chris who Wok With Kok the other day? Ok, he's neither a chef nor a singer. He's actually an assistant producer in one of the latest Singapore production films, Gone Shopping. Incredible eh?

Gone Shopping.

So, what's Gone Shopping all about? Is it a good film? Frankly speaking, I still haven't got a chance to watch it myself. However, in my personal opinion, it must be a great film judging from its trailer. Moreover, it is starring, gorgeous and famous Singapore TV host, Kym Ng!

Kym Ng as Clara Wong and Adrian Pang as Valentine Tan.

A brief sypnosis I've obtained from Gone Shopping's official website is as follow:

GONE SHOPPING" is a satirical drama of three individuals who escape to various shopping centers in search of a better life. Leading the repertoire is Clara, a tragically romantic 40-year-old 'tai tai' (wealthy lady of leisure) who goes to the shopping center in search of affection, followed by Renu, a feisty 8-year-old girl who goes to the shopping center in search of independence and finally Aaron, an angst ridden 23-year-old 'Gen-Y' boy who goes to the shopping center in search of his manhood.

Unfolding over three days, this motley crew will lead audiences through a journey of love, loss and liberation in the heart of Singapore where they find that their dreams can be bought and broken. In the midst of it all, they will also cross paths with other 'creatures' of the shopping centers, each of them with their own strange retail tales.

Curious about the movie? Want to take a peep at it? Take a look at the trailer which is available both in English and Mandarin.

English Trailer.

Mandarin Trailer.

Not to forget, a music video of the movie of which, Chris did most of the camera work. Due to that reason, the poor him never get to appear in the video!

Music Video.

Now, what are you waiting for? Those who're in Singapore, run to your nearest cinema and catch this movie. For those in other countries, I'm sorry to say that you all have to wait a little bit longer for it. It will be available at your nearest cinema soon. Nevertheless, good stuff is always worth to wait, right? ;)

Chris and Kym Ng.

Now, support Chris, support Gone Shopping!

Pay Per Post (PPP)?

PPP? What’s that? That was my question when I first saw this triple Ps in one of the blogs I hopped to.

After searching up and down, left and right in the search engine, I finally answered my own question. It is no other than Pay Per Post(blog marketing)! “Get paid for blogging”, this was what attracted me to find out more about this.

I was quite reluctant to sign up at first. I thought my blog is mainly for me to ramble and write something interesting. Considering the pros and cons, I finally gave up on my initial thinking to just blog about something random. Moreover, I think my readers would like me to introduce some of the great products or services that I come across in some of the advertisements. So, there I went, filled up my personal particulars and waited for my blog to be approved.

Once approved, I still gave a bit of final thinking before I write my first post (this!) for Pay Per Post. It’s tough but hey, I can finally earn my side income and add on to my “gadget funds”! With the money I get from Pay Per Post, I can even sample more food and post some food reviews on my blog. Cool eh?

I hope all of you will continue to give me support! :)

Wok With Kok (Invited Chef)

Welcome to this week,

WOK WITH KOK!

Today, Wok With Kok invites the famous, Chris Chen a.k.a. Jeffery Huang from Machi, as our invited chef!

Housemate, Chef Chris.

Let us put our hands together and welcome, Chef Chris!

*Clap clap*

Many must be wondering what's the dish for today. I would like to apologise as Chris and I won't be cooking any dishes. We'll make some "easy" snack for you all. Anyone wants to have a guess?

Yes, this pretty girl in pink.

"Have a snack, have a Kit Kat!"

Haha! Chris and I won't be that good to make a bar of Kit Kat! Nice guess though. Thanks! Anymore people want to have a guess?

This gentleman with "Guess" t-shirt.

"You Char Kueh (dough fritter)?"

Good guess but no! Ok, I think I'll just review the snack for today.

It's POPCORN!

It may sounds easy but you'll still need some skill to make good popcorn. First, let me list down all the ingredients that you need to make popcorn.

Popcorn

Popping Corn.

Ingredients

1. Popping corn
2. Sugar
3. Salt
4. Cooking oil
5. Butter (optional)

Like I said earlier, it doesn't seem to be as easy as you think to make popcorn. With two chef here, nothing is impossible. Below are the steps to follow:

• Grab a covered sauce pan.
• Pour in just enough cooking oil to cover the base of the pan and heat up using high heat.
  
• When it's hot enough, put in half a cup of popping corn. If too much popping corn, it won't be able to pop all.
• Cover the pan with the lid and turn to medium heat.
• Wait till the first popping corn pop, quickly add in sugar (to your preference) and butter (optional).

Add in sugar.

• Cover the pan up and shake the pan like the two photo below. This is to make sure all the sugar covers the popping corn evenly and also, not to let the sugar get burnt! (Tips: Sugar get burn easily in heat).
  

Chef Kok shakes the pan gently.

Chef Chris shakes the pan vigorously.

• After 1 minute or so, the popping corn will start popping. Continue to shake the pan from time to time.
• Remove the pan from the stove once in a while. Again, to avoid the popcorn from being burnt.
• Once there's no popping sound, remove the lid and HOLA!

Golden brown, crunchy popcorn!

• Serve it hot!

Kok says it's good!

Chris loves it!

The toughest part in this making popcorn is to make sure the sugar does not burn. Why do I say so? Because, Chef Kok and Chef Chris failed twice before we got it right!

First try, slightly burnt.

Second try, worse!

I hope you all will enjoy this light, yet tasty snack especially in front of the "big black box". ;)

Hey! Not finish yet! Chef Chris invents a new, refreshing drink to go with the popcorn. He names it, "Necter Sprizler". How to make it? Chef Chris will show you.

Necter Sprizler

Ingredients

• Apricot nectar

Apricot nectar.

• Soda water

Soda water.

Preparation

• Pour in half cup of apricot nectar.

Half cup of nectar.

• Add half cup of soda water.

Half cup of soda water.

And that's it! The Necter Sprizler in two simple steps! Best served chilled!

Satisfied.

Popcorn and a cup of Necter Sprizler, the best company for a movie at home!

That's for this week Wok with Kok. Kok and Chris can cook, so can you! Thank you! :)

P/s: I did this post in a rush. Apologise for being quite "messy".
P/s/s: Melbourne post needs more time to write. I haven't sorted out all the photos yet!

Adelaide Day 5 (Last Day)

1st July 2007
I woke up quite early on that day because I knew that's my last day in Adelaide. Not much time left for some of the places which I had not visited.

I asked my sis whether we should have our breakfast somewhere in the city. She declined and suggested that we go to Port Adelaide to look for food.

Little Mermaid and Popeye The Sailorman?

Off we went, Port Adelaide. Once we reached there, we stopped by the visitors centre for my sis to grab the bus timetable. And not to forget, to take some photos. ;)

What am I doing?

After that, we went straight to the tourist spot; Port Adelaide Lighthouse. My sis took a photo of me and it seems like I was blown by the wind or maybe I was practising my Taichi?

Port Adelaide Lighthouse.

To climb up the lighthouse, you'll need to pay a dollar as admission fee. I think it's quite reasonable. I asked my sis to follow me up but she didn't want as she had been up there before.

View from the top of lighthouse.

This lighthouse is so much smaller than the Cape Leewin Lighthouse in Margaret River, Perth. Nevertheless, I was quite satisfied for the beautiful scenery I could enjoy from the top of the lighthouse.

Port Adelaide.

As you can see from the photo, Port Adelaide is not big at all. Unlike Fremantle, Perth, where you can spend one whole day there, here, you'll only need 3 hours to explore the whole place.

Mobile food stalls.

My stomach was complaining after climbing up and down the lighthouse. We didn't have much choice but to settle our breakfast at some mobile food stalls next to the lighthouse.

Gourmet Traveller.

We went around with nothing that attracted us. We stopped by at this Gourmet Traveller and decided to get our food there.

Beef Bun?

I couldn't remember what I bought. It's pieces of beef and slices of lettuce in a bun. My sis and I shared just one of that. Thanks God we didn't order another one as it was not tasty at all. The beef was leather-liked!

Inside the market.

Toys.

Badges.

After filling our stomach, we took some time to went around the market (also next to the lighthouse). It's something like the Sunday Market and seriously, nothing to shout about.

Time was running out for us. It was already about 1p.m. My sis planned to take me to Glenelg Beach. However, I was quite worried if we could make it back to city on time or not as we were going to have a dinner with Melissa, Oliver, Sharon and Danny at 6p.m. Moreover, Danny and I had to catch a bus to Melbourne at 8p.m.

My sis rest assured me that we still have time. So, I called up Danny and asked him whether he want to tag along. Yes, was the answer.

Toot toot train...

Adelaide has the most long straight roads!

We went back to Victoria Square to meet up with Danny and Sharon. There, we caught a train to Glenelg Beach. Notice the word "Glenelg"? You spell it backwards, you'll still get the same word. Interesting huh? ;)

Wakefield

Bright sun.

About 40 minutes train ride led us to the beach. We were quite lucky to find a nice weather there. Before that, it was cloudy and about to rain.

Hungry birds!

Kok with the birds.

We saw an aunty feeding the birds. We grabbed the opportunity to take a couple of photos with the birds. Australia's birds are always hungry, I wonder why.

Don't know what's that building.

Tanjung Lobang, Miri has similar bridge like this!

Wonderful beach.

Whheeee Wiittt! Pretty girls!

Cutie puppies dedicated to Jane.

Too bad we didn't bring along our swimming wears. If not, I'll just change and jump into the sea! Anyway, I don't think I would have the time to swim there though. :P

Glenelg Town.

Without wasting anymore time, we agreed to just roam around the Glenelg Town. Oh yea, Danny and Sharon had not had their lunch yet. When you're hungry, what do you look for?

Oyster Shop.

Food lah, of course! We searched for something delicious and were attracted by this Oyster Shop.

Just a small shop lot.

They are the "Finalist Adelaide's Best Fish and Chips"!

Fresh oysters.

They even have their "Oysters Direct From Our Farm".

Pepper Squids and Fried Oysters.

Danny ordered this Fried Oysters and Pepper Squids which were recommended in their menu. I didn't order anything since I wasn't that hungry at that time. I tried both the squids and the oysters. Shaking my head, I commented, "Small servings, expensive and definitely, not tasty". Enough said.

Andersen's Ice Cream.

Disappointed with the squids and oysters, we decided not to try anymore food. Instead, we wanted dessert.

Forgot-what-berry-ice-cream.

Yes, ice cream! We went to Andersen's Ice Cream to give it a try. I shared a cone of don't-know-berry-ice-cream with my sis. Although that was not the best ice-cream I've ever had, I felt satisfy as the food I had earlier were bad.

Read the words in yellow.

Rush, rush and rush! We had to hop into the bus after we finished our ice-creams. Before I left, I managed to spot this, "The Original Hahndorf Smallgoods Made Here". That means, the Kranski sausage I had was not from German village itself? Not German sausage lah? Haiyo, kena tipu liao (being cheated already)!

Anyway, my sister and I separated from Sharon and Danny later on in the city.

Nice piece of art!

On the way to my sis' place, we saw these people drawing on the wall. I don't think it's just simply spray and paint. You'll need to be good in art to draw this, I guess.

I started to pack once I stepped into my sis' room. A bit of mixed feeling though. Happy because I got to go to Melbourne soon. Sad because I had to leave my sis and the small city, Adelaide.

Finished with my packing, I took a photo with my sis. The photo is with her by the way because she used her camera and I haven't got it from her. :P

Then, we took my bags and went to meet with the rest at B.B.Q. City Restaurant.

B.B.Q. City Restaurant again...

Yes, I had my lunch at this restaurant on Adelaide Day 2. Adelaide doesn't really have much nice restaurant to dine-in eh? When I asked, everyone recommended the same places. Haha!

Beef with Black Bean Sauce Rice.

Roasted Pork and Roasted Duck Rice.

Althogether 7 of us were having our dinner there; Danny, Sharon, Melissa, Oliver, Marina (Melissa's sis), my sis and I. My sis opted for the beef whereas I chose the pork and duck. I can't remember what others had though. Bad memory, I know. :P

The service in the restaurant was bad that night! I've never seen that kind of service before in any restaurants in Australia. It indirectly spoilt our appetites!

After a quick dinner (our table was booked by someone else and we had to leave at 7p.m.), we left the restaurant for the bus station.

5 high school friends reunion.

Kok and sis, look alike?

Kok and best college buddy, Oliver.

While waiting for our bus, we managed to take some photos for memories. It was nice to catch up with Sharon, Oliver and Melissa. And not to forget, my sis too! Here, I would like to sincerely thanks everyone for taking Danny and I around the city of Adelaide. For me, I really enjoyed that trip. It's much more like a gathering rather than a trip. I had so much fun. Thanks sis, Sharon, Oliver and Melissa! I've no idea when will I have such a trip again. I hope, it'll be soon.

At about 8:30p.m., Danny and I boarded on the bus after exchanging hugs and bidding goodbye to everyone. Again, thank you everyone for your company. You all have made this trip a wonderful one for me! :)

Greyhound bus to Melbourne.

Goodbye Adelaide and welcome Melbourne!

Stay tuned for my Melbourne Day 1!

Related posts:

• Adelaide Day 1
• Adelaide Day 2
• Adelaide Day 3
• Adelaide Day 4