Off to Dublin!

27th September - Liam and Annie's house (Cooking chinese dinner)

The day we had been waiting for... To cook a Chinese meal for Irish people. Sort of a thanksgiving treat for their kindness in bringing us around Ireland.

We still have those Asian cooking condiments with us after the Ciara's dinner treat, so Kym and Julian just went ahead to purchase the frozen food like chicken wings for the curry and others.

Asia Store in Dublin City. DAMN EXPENSIVE.

We met Liam at the Greystones station after taking Dart from Dun Laoghaire. He came to pick us up with his Jeep again. When we reach his place, we started preparing the ingredients before we cook.

Hui Zhen cutting fish cake for the fried bee hoon.

BEWARE. She is dangerous! OOPS. she is smashing the lemongrass for the curry.

Wild berries picked by Joshua and Hui Zhen when they went to flim.

Marinated Curry Chicken

Cooked Tao Po for curry.

Meimei cutting the squirmy mushroom.

Bacon Wrap with Golden Mushroom

Dartsy lying in the middle of the kitchen accompanying us.

Novem pro in cooking already!

Joshua and Bernard frying the chicken for curry.

Tuna in cucumber. Cold appetizer.

Fried Bee Hoon. By Hui Zhen and Meimei

Pan fried bacon wrap with golden mushroom.

Slightly toasted bread for dipping in the curry!

Bread crumbs brinjal

A table full of yummy food

Joshua talking to Jim.

It's Kym's 19th birthday! So we gave her a surprise!

Birthday girl cutting her pie.

CANDID!

Julian was busy eating red bean soup (dessert).

Oh ya! Annie brought out a bottle of Irish Whiskey for us to try! Its called Jameson. Was quite strong, Bernard and Novem loved it as they say that the liquor ends with a sweet tingling taste. Where as the rest just think that it is too strong for us!

After dinner's served and celebrating Kym's birthday, we went ahead to interview Jim. It was getting late so we had to make a move. Liam and Jim were so kind to send us back in their cars as there's no more train back to our hotel.

I guess we were too tired after the cooking.
We slept through the whole journey.

Reached hotel around 12plus am.
Sweet dreams.

Friday, October 10, 2008

28th September - Sunday Market and a good meal day~

Today shall be our last weekend spent in Ireland, so we went to the Sunday Market in People's Park which is about a mile away from our hotel.

dunno why Julian likes to emo one side. *s _ o _ i _ _* fill in the blanks~ *ahem*

THAI CURRY 8EURO. SO EXPENSIVE.

Julian fascinated by the DVDs and CDs.

CHEESE stall.

this is nice! Chocolate something.

the purest Irish apple juice I ever drank.

All chocs. Handmade.

Go Green. Drink juices. :)

After the Market, we went back to hotel to rest awhile before we head out again.
Hui Zhen and Joshua went over to the bay to shoot some nice scenes while the rest were in Meimei's room transferring footages. It was then we realised that there's actually 429 files missing in our hard disk. This means that all those nice shots that Hui Zhen and Joshua took were all GONE. All of us were pretty upset over the missing footages. We called Julian and informed him. He suggested that we should head down to town to get those neccessary shots of city life before we head back to SG with nothing. Our main intention to go down town was to go to a pub to film those traditional Irish musicians' performance. Half-dead, we all went out without a second word.

Headed down to town to do Vox-Pox and we met this ultra friendly lady who offers to help as she thought that we were lost. Such a adorable girl we have met.

BERNARD, she likes you more than others! tsk tsk.
Hui Zhen was like saying this girl made her day after the missing-footages incident. She is really kind. We exchanged contact with her and hope that one day she will come over to SG so we can show her around.

After that, we were all hungry. So we decided to walked to the area where the pub we were going later. We roamed around the area to see if there's any restaurant so we can have our dinner.

We found Mona Lisa Restaurant! Italian cuisine!

JULIAN WITHOUT SPECS!

EVIL JULIAN.

As you can see, the portion for the meal was pretty huge, I had trouble finishing my meal. I guess the rest was rather full too. 1 starters, 1 main course and 1 dessert for 19.95EURO. worth right!
after the full meal, we proceed to the pub where we supposed to go. We ordered Hot Whiskey with blackcurrent. Was quite nice. In such cold weather, drinking a hot whiskey was a brillant choice.

About half an hour or more, took Dart back, Hotel sweet Hotel.

Friday, October 10, 2008