Lunch at Impressions

Last Thursday, Jake and I went to have lunch at Impressions Restaurant. It is located in the campus of the local polytech (WITT).  It is a practice restaurant and the food is entirely cooked by its students.
We were waited on and the setting is in a restaurant setting with good linen and sparkling glasses.
The waitress looked after us very well, topping up our water, asking how the food is. The theme is international buffet with food like butter chicken, auberigine lasagne, tempura, sushi, roast beef rolls and so on. 

Here's what I took for myself.

Verdict:
5/10 . Very good value for money but the food hm....they need to practice on getting the rice right for the sushi. Rice looks incredibly overcooked (mushy) but when you bit into it, it is still hard.  Maybe they didn't use a rice cooker. The bread was very hard.  If Noel wants his teeth to be wigglier (is there such a word) he should try that piece of bread there or the roast beef roll. 

I like the service and the 2 of the 3 dessert. I really liked the baklavas they serve.

Overall, I had a nice experience, and with more pratice and guidance, I am sure these students will be able to cook very nicely by the time they graduate :)

Week 1

4/9/14
I woke up at 6am and was out by 6:15am. L had reached my place and we started our brisk walk- I got home at about 7:10am. I must have ran 1 min out of the whole time.

5/9/14
L works early on Friday so we didn't have a date. I woke up at 7am and could hear rain outside.

6/9/14
The boys and I and Mil went to the bike park and built in velodrome. While the kids biked,  I  jogged 300m non stop. It was rather windy so we spent only 30 minutes at the park and then went straight home.  I took pic of the cows grazing by the bike park.

Spring and starting a new regime

Spring is here! Daylight is getting longer and I have started waking up early to go for a walk.
Read in many places that getting a buddy keeps each other motivated.
In my case, L at work has been letting me know the weather is warming up and daylight longer. I practically ran out of excuse:P  L lives in my neighbourhood and I decided I will start walking with L.

On day 1 (2nd Sept) we agreed to meet at the top of my street and go round the block. I think I was late and we missed each other. I ended up doing a stroll and got home in 30minutes.
It was really windy, I didn't enjoy it at all. Oh btw, I was out at 6 30am.

On day 2 (3rd Sept) we agreed to start 15mins earlier so I put my alarm 15 mins and really struggle to get out of bed. Nevertheless I can't keep L waiting so I got out of the house and she had walked down my street and so we started walking. We had a good walk. It was really brisk. The weather was really beautiful, not windy. It was the perfect weather to walk with a buddy.

Let's see how well I will stick to this daily walking.

Sock puppet

Last term, Noel learned about endangered animals.  One of the project they did in class was making sock puppet (endangered animal).  The project was postponed as her teacher was sick at the end of the semester.  They then made the puppet at the beginning of term 3. 

 

Here, Noel posing with his puppet. It has a really big mouth and loves to eat burger.

 

 

Nom nom nom, puppet eating burger.

Puppet has big mouth with lots of teeth and the burger of course.

Ingredients :
One socks, goggly eyes, card board for the mouth and a felt for the mouth. Hot glue gun.