A Valentine's Day Cake ?

As you can see I love cakes. Since Valentine's Day is here again, I am quite curious - is there a special Valentine's cake, compared to Christmas log cake or Chinese new year "Nian Gao" ? I checked, well seems there isn't. But people do celebrate with cakes & beautifully decorated ones. Here's one I thought is pretty cute.

So cute Right ?

We should keep the tradition alive & have some Traditional Chinese New Year Cake aka Nian Gao

After the fruit cake success for Christmas last year, I can't help but was wondering about the traditional Chinese New Year cake. Well this is still the CNY period, in fact yesterday I had dinner with some buddies & we had Lo Hei ,Yusheng ( Prosperity Toss ). Yum

Back to the CNY cake. I couldn't help but notice this tradition is slowly waning. I remember when I

I love it!!!

was a kid, mum would buy a couple each year & she would fried it with some egg batter & it tasted heavenly. I missed it.

For the pass 3,4 years, this traditional dish is missing. And no one seems to have miss it :(( In fact I don't even see many stalls selling it.

I figure in say 10 to 20 years from now, it might be completely gone, taken over by the pineapple tart probably :(( How sad!
We should keep the tradition alive & have some Traditional Chinese New Year Cake this year.

An Update of my Christmas Fruit Cakes ....lol...

Ok , I did not bring 3 but 4 fruit cakes to the Christmas Party I was talking about. And they were a BIG HIT.... surprise !!!!! See no one remember to buy any Log Cakes or any cakes for that matter. They had catering but it wasn't that good, probably because it's Christmas & everyone is working their ass off in the catering business!

Anyway....My Log Cakes turn out to be the greatest hit. Thy were snap up pretty fast! Surprise!!! They actually do go very well with the BOOZE .....lol... we were all so drunk in the end! Host kiss me & thank me for the fruit cakes which he claimed save the night ....lol... can you imagine???

 http://1010vitamincjab.blogspot.sg/

What do you bring to a Christmas party? Fruit Cakes ?

If you are invited to a Christmas Party, what's the best gift? My colleague said Booze .....lol.... ya obviously ...... but there's like wine, champagne, hard liquor , liqueur etc... Someone suggested a fruit cake ....lol... That's pretty hilarious, but seriously speaking, I do like fruit cakes- they are nice! Anyway in the end, I just want to be special & have decided to bring 3 different fruit cakes. Now in the midst of the search for the best fruit cakes in town ...lol...

Got this online, look at the fruits ,it also look moist - if only I know where to get it !

 http://1010vitamincjab.blogspot.sg/

Review of BlackHat

For all my love for Chris Hemsworth I seriously did not like this movie- I try to like it, but couldn’t. 

Many people blame it on the miscasting of Hemsworth as the elite hacker, as he’s too good looking. Most hackers are usually nerdy or we expect that. The tech nerds were probably anti-gorgeous-Hemsworth. Problem also because most of us first saw him as Thor & that’s pretty hard to erase from our minds as that character is just too damn iconic ! 

Too bad, he’s a decent actor but the weak & outdated scrip isn’t helping. Not forgetting the directing is pretty bad. And the ridiculous title that everyone hates & very little people understand.

Another big problem is the casting of too many Asians that the Americans never heard of in the important roles. Even I don’t like to see so many of them!!! It’s like rojak …lol… It’s obvious this movie is targeted at the Chinese market, but it’s not easy making a movie that “try” to appeal to both US & Chinese market, which end up appealing to no one. Besides I seriously don’t think Tang Wei is even that popular with the Chinese or Asian market. For one, none of my friends like her. All I know is that she got the press really interested after going nude in a movie ages ago & that’s it. Fans ??? I seriously  doubt there’s any substantial number. I don’t care for Tang Wei, thus the romantic scenes were all lost on me. Imagine those in the west who don’t even know her. Bad casting. 

Wang Leehom, he’s nice & all, but just not charismatic enough plus he’s an unknown in the West. It’s obvious the Chinese don’t really care for these 2 actors, as there’s no support at the box office. Besides they could just down load illegally, for curiosity sake. That’s probably why the movie bombed globally & not only in the US. A good movie doesn’t need to have actors from every single movie market in order to be successful, Look at Lords of the Ring.

In the end it’s clear the director overestimated the appeal of my beloved Chris Hemsworth. Could Hemsworth just end up becoming only associated with the popular character (Thor )and fans abandon him after that franchise? Poor Thing !

Selfie of Adrian Pang & Chris Hemsworth :))

When I saw this I almost died!!!
I love Adrian Pang & he's so lucky to be in a movie with me idol Chris Hemsworth ...drool.. drool...
How I wish it's me in the pic!!!!
Oh, the movie is a thriller "BlackHat" ... can't wait to catch it :))


Selfie of Adrian Pang & Chris Hemsworth.... I'm so jealous...