"Gold" Fish

Last weekend we decided to have seafood. We headed to a seafood restaurant in the city that we have been before. The place has gone a thorough renovation and looks very classy. We settled down while the hostess eagerly waited for our order. There were several tanks filled with live lobsters, crabs, fish and funny looking sea creature supposedly to be from Mexico. There were also Alaskan crabs and they really look delicious. We decided to have some oysters (fresh), local crabs (black pepper style), noodles and asparagus cooked with garlic. Now for the fish we decided to have it steamed. Their tanks were at the upper level and from the distance I choose a medium size beauty. The price tag reads RM 38 and when the fish was weighed at 500 gm I reckoned it will set me back RM 19. Not bad and I certainly liked to try that beauty. While waiting for the food to be ready, again I decided to take a closer look at the fish in the tanks. Something caught my attention. The tag displayed at the tank from where I selected the fish actaully read RM 38 with a fine print of 100 gm underneath!!. Holy molly!! My head spun when I realised that I am about to have a RM 380 per kilogram fish!!

Hiking

Ready...set..go!!
The downhill trip...packed like cattles to the slaughter house.
Rest...

Well, it's downhill from now on. We are entering into the last term of our course and pretty soon we will hit the final date. 02 Jun will be the day when all of us will graduate. Last friday, we found some spare time. We decided to do some adventure by doing hiking up the Margalla hill. The nine of us really had a fun time. No many of us have experience doing tough hiking up a hill like that, but after almost 4 hours of ardous walk we managed to reach the restaurant at the top of the hill. For the journey downhill, we decided to hire a pick-up van, as it was too hot for us to trek down.

Arabian Night

(All pictures with courtesy of our host)

After performing the Isya' prayer

Casual conversation with Saudi and Omani colleagues

Casual conversation with colleagues from Sri Lanka and Egypt

Getting ready to dig in ... two whole lambs

The feast starts ...

Fantasy!!

Wishing for somebody from Malaysia to come here and set-up nasi daun pisang restaurant (picture from blogg of Aaron John).

Ready,Steady....Cook

Poisson fris a la sel turmeric kerisi - Don't ever wonder how the fried fish end up like this ... Regardless, it taste fantastic. Our prime effort..
Melange legumier - With the help of perencah masakan ikan bilis `Tumix', this dish came out superb
Sepia fris poudre de chili - The source of our inspiration. The sotong was fresh and with our ingenuity, it came out number uno
Brocoli et germe bouillir avec sel - The simplest, yet very delicious
... And the result

Jogging Competition

huff...puff...

The "Mature Group" getting ready for the big race

The Kids getting ready for their turn

Roti Canai

We found frozen ready made roti canai at one of the supermarkets in Islamabad. It is produced by "Dawn" company that also produces bread. It's crispy and taste just as good as the one made at the mamak stall in KL