Isle of Wight.

So I'm on my 5th week now of Medicine in Practice (MiP) placement at St Mary's Hospital in the Isle of Wight. Things have been going great. Ended last week with a bang at the GP practice I was in for 2 weeks. Did really well on the assessment at the end and my GP was very pleased with me. That's a good start right? (:

Anyways, here are some pics of the island and stuff when the boy came down over the weekends to see me.

The hospital;s main entrance.

Us starting our adventure day (:

Yarmouth Harbour. Pretty sailboats. I want one too if the weather was nicer in England!

The Needles Park, Alum Bay. Pretty lousy gloomy day.

Chairlift down Needles Park :/ Steep!

Olympic Torch relay at the Park. Tried to get away from the crowd of people there.

Ventnor Pier.

Ventnor Beach. Rocks galore.

Local island-made ice cream (: I must've had this like 3-4 times now since I've been on the island.

The Spyglass Inn for lunch/dinner. Recommended by Michelin (:

His: Oriental Style Beef. Super yummy.

Mine: Half lobster with New Potatoes. Fresh lobster. YUM YUM (:

Walking along the coloured sand beach on Ventnor.

Finished the day off with a slice of Chocolate Indulgence from Chocolate Apothecary in Ryde (my GP place).

All in all, a very exciting but short weekend spent on visiting places and eating (: Weather could've been better (Was pretty scary when it started pouring as we were on the chairlift), but I'm not complaining, we still got around.

Missing the boy already. Oh wells..

xoxo, elvyna.

Weekend of food (:

The past weekend was an awesome one. Went back to Southampton to spend some time with the boy. Made lots of nice yummy food to make up for the dull, bland food I had during the week of Anaesthetic placement in the Isle of Wight.

Also had a lovely time starting and finishing a Singapore drama series called The Oath about doctors with the boy. Gosh, talk about drama marathon. The ending of the series was a bit sad though :( Anyways, here are the pics of the food we had over the weekend.

Dinner: Mint Lamb meatballs penne pasta with garlic bread and belleverde broccoli.

Breakfast: Ham on garlic bread with hard boiled egg.

Also baked two loaves of Chocolate Raspberry banana bread/cake to munch on while watching the series. Gave the other loaf to the boy to bring to placements.

My tummy has had a happy weekend (:

Now back to a week of GP placements and tasteless repetitive meals everyday!

xoxo, elvyna.

Chocolate craving.

It's that time of the month again and this time I'm craving for chocolate, so I decided to bake myself a brownie to satisfy that craving! It's a recipe from Donna Hay, which has the awesome-st iPad cooking/baking app I've ever had.

A mixture of dark and milk chocolate.
Because you can never have too much butter, according to Julia Child (:
Favourite mixer at work (:
Extra chopped up chocolate mixed with the final batter to increase chocolatey-ness (:
Transfer time.
Baked and ready to be indulged in. With a bit of frozen yoghurt or vanilla ice cream on the side, it's the perfect end to my Saturday (:

xoxo, elvyna.

Happie Chai-knees Niu Yer! (:

The first few weeks of 2012 just seemed to pass by so quickly. I don't know if it's because I've been busy living a routine life (read:labs and research) but where did the past 23 days of my 2012 go? Ah well. It's my second time celebrating CNY away from home but reunion dinner last night with the group was so awesome I didn't actually feel that sad!

The food was great as well (thanks to the housemate and his awesome culinary skills), we had braised pork ribs with black bean, curry chicken, emperor chicken, kung po prawns, spring rolls (the boy made it and it was delicious!), ma po chicken tofu and of course, I made dessert (as usual).

Was a gruelling process making the pineapple jam from scratch but it was well worth it in the end when everyone loved the pineapple tarts! (:

Made apple streusel cake the other day because I was craving for a crumble. Haha. It's so dangerous to know how to bake something you're craving. Lol. Once in a while shouldn't be too bad right? :P
Can't wait for February when I start placements again! I've had enough of labs for now.

xoxo, elvyna.

Chocolate Chip Cinammon Cookies.

First bake of the year! (: Decided to make cookies because I ran out of my usual Rich Tea and Digestives McVities biscuits. And also cos I have an empty cookie jar container! Hehe. I don't usually bake cookies (cos it's so tedious and takes such a long time with so many rounds of baking), but the picture of the cookies in the book is so mouth-watering I had to (:

Anyways, this is also the first recipe I'm trying out from the Chocolate Bible by Le Cordon Bleu which I bought just before Christmas last year. So excited to try out recipes from the book, everything looks so heavenly!

Yummy!

xoxo, elvyna.

Rainbow coloured things.

Pretty macaroons all the way from London. And 3/4 of it is still in the fridge.

There's something wrong with me of late, I'm losing my sweet tooth! (Does that even make sense?)

I'm getting pretty sick of eating desserts and sweet stuffs but don't worry, I'm no where near being sick of baking'em! (:

Pretty food pictures in food blogs still attract my attention (:

xoxo, elvyna.

A day out.

This happened yesterday. Have to post pictures. haha. Woke Anyi up and made her go with me to KL British council to collect my IELTS results. It was so jammed. Took almost 2 hrs to KL and back. Scored a band of 7.5. Not that good but good enough for IMU. IMU's interview on 29th wasn't that bad. Well, at least that's what I thought. So from KL we went to the curve, anyi and i. Had lunch in Paddington House of Pancakes. We were spoilt for choice as there were so many stuffs to choose from in their new menu. Finally settled with some English breakfast thing and a dessert to satisfy our sweet tooth.
The English Breakfast thingy. was really yummy. The mashed potatoes and the mushroom sauce.yums :)

The dessert! The round things that look like donuts are caramelised apples fried with flour and wrapped beneath the pancake thing are 2 scoops of mouth-watering ice-cream with nuts. We couldn't finish it though . What a waste.

After eating, we watched Enchanted. It was a nice movie. Worth the watch. Alright then, that's it. I'll leave you with a picture of us cam-whoring as usual. Just that Anyi's kinda lost her touch and made the pic a bit blurry. She probably shook or something. This was the best one I could find. haha.

xoxo, elvyna.