Food post - Full English Breakfast and Welsh Cawl Cennin

Speaking of eating, this was what Boy and I got up to today morning.

Full English Breakfast

In England, this is apparently what you have for breakfast. And Boy thinks Malaysians eat too much - that plate is twice the size of a normal plate of food in Malaysia!

It was so yummy. But not yummier than a McD's brekkie however!

And if any of you remembered my stint at cooking the Welsh cawl cennin (lamb and leek stew), this is the resulting photo of hours of chopping, boiling and simmering:

Cawl served with crusty roll.

It actually tasted quite amazing with the crusty roll. Better than just having the stew itself. Yummy! Definitely a winter food though, perfect for cold nights.

But of course, there was enough left over to feed ten others because the recipe I was following (from a Welsh tourism site) did not specify how many servings, so I ended up using three large leeks, a leg of lamb, and more. :x Might want to make a little bit less next time, methinks!

Anyway, time for dinner (KFC!) and we're going to be watching Don't Tell the Bride. :P

More on dresses.

I'm a terrible, terrible person with clothes. Extremely fickle, never able to make up my mind, etc. Also because I don't think clothes fit all that well on me, so I usually end up looking at a lot and never buying anything.

After the two dresses previously that I couldn't imagine spending £150 on, I prowled on eBay for better deals and this is my latest find:

BNWT, currently at £41 and reserve not met yet. I <3 how it drapes at the bottom in waterfall layers.

But regardless of that dress (which bidding ends for tomorrow at around 10ish in the morning whilst I'm at work! I will surely be </3!), I did receive a Ghost dress in the mail two days ago. I ordered it around 2-3 weeks ago before I tried on any of the other dresses because it was only £50 from a designer brand sale. It looked red in the pictures on the site, but to my horror it was more like pink.

Ew.

But it's not bubblegum pink, thankfully, more like cerise or a deep rosy pink, so it's tolerable. It's got a lot of buttons at the back, which makes putting it on by myself impossible, so I had to enlist Boy's help to get it buttoned up. Why do people put buttons at the back where you cannot reach? We're not all practicing yoga, you know.

After we managed to get all the fiddly little things buttoned up, I went to put my highest heels on (my 4" suede black boots, in this case).

I'm too short for it.

Even with my highest heel, the skirt still drag at the bottom. I'll need another inch or two, but where the hell do I find something like that? Platform shoes? Actually, if I decide not to walk around much, I could just stand on a stool and no one would notice, the dress is so long.

Ugh. I need to hit the gym more, I think. My belly fat is showing. Either that, or invest in a really good pair of control knickers and decide not the eat or breathe the whole night of my brother's wedding.

Dresses for a wedding.

Been looking at a lot of dresses lately as Brother #2's wedding is in November and I wanted to wear something suitable. I have a lot of black dresses, but I'm not keen on turning up in a black dress for my brother's wedding. I found a lot that I liked, but none that I can reasonably afford to spend that much on. I mean, it's a dress. One that I probably won't ever wear again. How can I possibly spend more than £100 on it? Such a big waste of money.

But there are just a couple of dresses that are so pretty though. :( These two are examples:

Long silk maxi-dresses. I've actually tried on the first dress, and as plain as it is, it looked great and felt wonderful on (I'm in love with silk now, I think). Blue-green one is £150. Purple one is £225.

*sigh* Why am I not rich?

On the sidenote, this looks gorgeous but I could never wear it unless I drop 4 dress sizes and go to the gym everyday to attain the perfect body:

Hrm, on second thought, maybe a bit too sexy? My parents may have words if I turn up in that. Roffle.

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

So I read Twilight. It was a gift from Brother #3 last Christmas (along with the two other books), and I admit that I have been pretty lax with my reading habit because I've been so tired all the time from work and everything else. I used to read four books a week - that has dwindled to maybe two to three books in a year. In fact, I've started on around six books since last year and I haven't finished any of them. Which is quite sad, really.

Now, about Twilight. I didn't watch the movie because it seems so overhyped and everyone thought the main actor was so handsome and swoon-worthy when I thought he wasn't that much of a looker. I hate his eyes; he always look half-asleep. And so I didn't get around watching it since it's not as important to me as other movies were at that time.

And the book. I struggled to read past the first couple of chapters because I get really annoyed with the protagonist, Bella. God, she's such a whiny brat, I can really strangle her. But I suppose I'm judging her too harshly - she is, after all, a teenager and most teenagers have such problems. I probably was quite a whinger at her age (seventeen). But that doesn't make me like her any more, and not relating to the protagonist makes it difficult to read the whole book because you know you're not going to get any relief from herfor the next 400+ pages. There's no other point of view.

Once I got past the whole being-annoyed-at-the-protagonist stage, the book itself was pretty readable. I liked the plot even if it is terribly unoriginal (but most chick lit are pretty unoriginal anyway), it's decent brainless stuff to read if you like those kind of things. Just don't expect anything to surprise you or any new revelations or mystery or anything that will make you think. I still don't like Bella, and I cannot immerse myself into the book as I normally would due to my dislike for her, so reading it just feels like... reading it. I'm outside of the book, watching. I'm not feeling the book. I'm not lost it in, unable to put it down.

And I think that's disappointing.

It's a book for pre-teens and teens and it is written in that manner. Read it if you have nothing else more interesting to do, but honestly, I think there are other books out there that are more memorable, more interesting, more fun, more worthy of your time. I mean, Harry Potter series was originally written for children, and I think that's more engaging than Twilight.

Conclusion? Borrow it.