28 days till our 1st paper..

no time for Paris update.

:(

Howth.

So.. The other day (it's always the other day cause we're always so slow at blogging :P), we went out of Dublin to a place called Howth. It's supposedly very popular for seafood. Our first stop was the fresh market. Bought some Baileys fudge and this :

Looks so real, but tasted like flour. :S

We then saw 'wild' seals. Well, they're not in an enclosure, so technically they're wild. But they 'hang' around the same place every day, waiting to be fed by gullible visitors.

'Wild' seals.

Gullible visitor #1.

Gullible visitor #2.

(hah!)

fat ass seal :P

We had really good fish and chips there.. but they only have take-away. After that, we had some calamari and seafood chowder (my first time!! liked it!). We took quite a while to choose a proper restaurant to dine in, since there were like approx. 20 restaurants for us to choose. @.@ We finally settle for The Oar House. We had to wait 50mins for our table cause they had a full house (meaning we chose a good place ;D). The seals entertained us for the next 50mins. ^^

We ordered mussels with white wine and cream sauce, some raw oysters and seafood chowder - again. Thennnnn, Kit surprised me with an envelope (which I tore so quickly) containing a boarding pass to Paris!! Heh Heh Heh!! I don't quite know how to explain how I reacted.. Besides saying 'Seriously? SERIOUSLY?' repeatedly.. and asking for the date. xP Kit videotaped the whole thing though. We were supposed to leave for Paris the day after. So, can you imagine how excited I was? Seriously!

*Thank you, hubbie!!!!!*

Anyway, after all that excitement, we bought some seafood back to attempt to cook ourselves a seafood dinner. Bought 2 salmon tails, 1 medium-sized fish and 3 small lobsters. I was quite sceptical bout the idea at first but you gotta be spontaneous at times, right?

Preparing the lobsters and salmon tails.

Me in action. ;)

Kit's tomyam-stuffed fish. Looks ugly. xD

My lobster sauce.

and my lobsters.

Derrick's salmon tails. 1 with cajun powder, another with black pepper.

Had some chocolates while cooking!

Kit's end product.

MINE!!

Derrick's.

Looks yummy, eh? Turned out to be a good seafood dinner after all. Hoping to go back to Howth again. Tata!

Picnic at the park.

It was one of those days where we just wanna take a break from our routine.. so we decided to go to the park (St. Stephen's Green) after our anatomy class. We packed some food and took our notes along (just incase :P)

our picnic bag : bread for the ducks, biscuits, subway cookies, egg 'n' mayo, yoghurt and some nachos ;) unhealthy stuff :P

view from where we picnic-ed

We were planning to stay at the park for a few hours, so I brought out my notes to study. Unfortunately, it was freezing after a while (although I wore 1 tshirt and 2 jackets) so.. no more studying :P went to feed the ducks (and pigeons.. and some white looking ducks which can fly) instead ^^

there was this cute lil' pigeon which stood in front of us waiting for food! it ran away when I gave it bread :( oh well.. Kit said it came back and took the bread when I wasn't looking. :D

We went back to the park the 2nd time yesterday (much warmer now). Without food and notes. Kit decided to buy 1 whole loaf of white bread (which I told him not to) for the ducks.. cause the previous time we went, we didn't have enough bread for 'em. When Kit tried to feed the ducks.. they just swam away xD haha! Now we have 2 loaves of bread at home ._.

Kit surprised me with flight tickets to Paris at Howth yesterday!! So yep!

We're going to Paris tomorrow!!!!

:* yay! :*

St. Patrick's.

The day where an entire nation turns green! Everyone (well, almost!) had at least one piece of green on themselves. We woke up relatively early for a weekend, made our way to the main road in Dublin and waited for almost 3hrs in the cold for the parade to start. 3hours! Next year, if we do decide to go again, I'll make sure we wake up 2hrs later than this year! The parade was ok I guess. Nothing really spectacular that will leave one in awe or speechless. Have a look and tell me what you think!


This is a pic of us guys. Frome L to R : Joshua, Choon Keat, Stephen, Safwath, Derrick and me.


Me and baby! Exchanging head gear! My head's just too huge. Official size 5 football! No kidding!


The rose among the thorns!


























































































Us! At Madina Restaurant. Serves quite good Indian food!


Our lunch! Vindaloo here is magnificent!

So, verdict? One thing's for sure, I will not be there 3hrs earlier next yr! Hope you enjoyed this post! Till next time!