Dedicated-Beer-Fridge

My entire life's thus far has been devoted to this. Ever since I was growing up, my dream was to have a mini fridge in my room. And now, thanks to Marcos, we found one outside [being thrown away], and took it :), for free! Hey it's not stealing if it's in the garbage. Anyways, we took it in, cleaned it up, and guess what? It works! This is so fun, so accessible, and so cool to say that I have a mini fridge in my room! And better yet, we've made it a dedicated-beer-fridge! What better to stock it with than The Netherlands' finest beer: Heineken. Very cool!








I've also started cooking a lot, as I said before. Now, i can handle two different meals at the same time ;) the one on top is curry-geera [cumin] chicken, and below is Chinese Szechuan Chicken. All from scratch! It's quite enjoyable and now i know why Kris and Waziq like it so much; it's almost therapeutic.

Tilburg Culinair Festival

I have been in this city for almost 2 months now and I have not seen anything close to cultural [less you call pubs cultural]. I have seen the brief carnival-like parade on the first Sunday that I was here, but it was only for a short moment. I have been intending to visit some of the museums here but I haven’t gotten the time or energy to cycle all the way there.

However, on this night, Minh, Marcos, and I went to the Tilburg Culinair, a once-in-a-year festival with music, food and drink [they even organized a big club-/disco-like tent for partying. It’s an opportunity to taste a selection of dishes from some of the most expensive/famous restaurants in Tilburg, for a fairly cheap price [considering the high quality of meals].

On the familiar location on the William Square, the visitors enjoyed special dishes of top restaurants from Tilburg and surroundings.

William Square is a square that lies in front of the City Hall [a castle like building in the town centre]. It’s supposed to be the tastiest festival in town! We had our fun, going to four different restaurant huts [which are set up in a real classy restaurant style/ambiance], and having sampled 4 different meals: Mussels, Chinese teriyaki chicken, Lobster, and Lamb [which was extremely good]. It was a very small portion, but in the end it was just to taste and have fun.

At least I experienced this cultural event in time, and it was well worth the little money I spend on meals. Next up, museums!

For more pictures please see:

• Tilburg Culinair

3 Nights of Cooking

27 March 2008:
Cooking at home: well, Marcos doesn't cook all the time, i decided to try my cooking skill at some chicken [i guess it was somewhat Chinese-styled] came out really good [not to brag] but well seasoned, healthy, etc. :)



28 March 2008:
Biryani: Indian-Pakistani-style [kris, merie, wasiq, salman]. Tingting and I just watched :). Biryani is a family of primarily South Asian dishes made from a mixture of spices, rice (usually basmati), meat/vegetables and yogurt. It was fun, delicious and exciting and was done in our apartment, since our room mate is now gone :). The stove was hell to clean after, though.







29-March-2008:
assignments, and theAnd finally, IMMIT just had to have another Bar-B-Que, in the midst of exams, and ending of spring with snow still on the ground and temperatures bordering zero, we decided once again to do what we want. [in the third picture you can see Ken attempting Chinese Style BBQ with chop sticks] :|