a typical bbq:wings required.potato and corn needed too.lots of soft drinks and satay
something atypical:no wings,juz a few piece of chicken cutlets,lots of fishballs,hashbrowns,nuggets and honey.and wait...some special for the guest of honour.

now my hair's tastier than any normal smoked salmon in the supermarket.yawn...so before i exit,here's a recipe for some of the most stylish steak you'll ever eat,especially from a bbq grill

200g or so hunk of ribeye,striploin or tenderloin(prefably organic.if you can't get French imported ones,go to Cold Storage Bukit Timah or Jelita or Paragon Marketplace,Raffles City or Tanglin Mall for the better Australian beef.those gourmet shops in Bukit Timah also stock great beef)

marinade

it's odd,but there's just 1 ingredient.XO(what we usually call cognac).pour so that everything's covered in the special stuff.marinate in the fridge for 4-9 hours(4 for a hint,9 if you want something assertive),flipping the meat every hour.half way through,jab the meat with a sharp knife and pour some more XO.if it is to be brought to somewhere else to barbecue,wrap it in foil right after the fortification.otherwise put back to fridge

baste

melt some butter,enough to last you the whole bbq-ing process.whip in thoroughly the same brand of XO,a bit of sugar that has been flavoured with the XO(to do so,pour a suitable amount of XO such that it flavours the sugar and makes it moist.flavour again just before starting to put in butter).(note that i prefer a French butter bought from Carrefour.if not any European butter should do the trick)

grilling

a good fire is essential.normal firewood would suffice in all but the most stylish versions,where oak chips would be better.build a fire in the normal way,and when it's quite hot,add more coals.the pyre would be quite hot.careful and put the meat on the grill when the embers are red hot and at it's peak.

cooking

flip the meat every 1-2 mins for medium and 3-4 mins for well done(not so stylish),basting the meat with the butter liberally(be careful of the virulent smoke) and flip for 5-10 times either side.for the last time,baste as per normal,when you flip,add some XO so that it sizzles.turn again,repeat the trick,dish up and serve with potatoes,hashbrowns or just straight

Don't try this at home!

warm a bit of brandy,pour on the steak with the juices,light up and put on a metal plate

here's an unusually hectic wednesday

morning

maths o:duffer cocked and blacked out on seeing the paper.didn't even complete 1/3 of the paper

afternoon:mariott hotel visit.here's the 5 most burning ambitions i want to achieve in my life,according to rank

1)lawyer(enough said about this job)
2)auditor/accountant(i love my numbers so much,i'd wanna end up affixing my name to PWC)
3)politician(PAP Grassroots or revamped opposition taking Parliament by storm.choose)
4)hotelier(surprisingly i might think of starting from the lower end of the industry,but once you do well success is immense)
5)journalist(i need to write well from now on)

evening

victoria concert hall.because of a few kakis there,i've decided to come for their concert.unusual on all counts because i've to pay upfront instead of getting a ticket ready for ushers to check.and victoria has an old style cinema feel...no use sitting on the stalls becuase you get a view similar to the higher circles of esplanade.the hall looks as if we are sucked into a timewarp of the 1960s with all the romanesque pillars...so their repertoire as always...

Russlan n Ludmilla Overture-Mikhail Glinka
anything russian?no.sounds more like a march

Invictus-Philip Starke
stays true to what was claimed.definitely uprising

Sorcery Suite Opus 112-James Barnes
I thought he doesn't read Harty Potter?nvm,cuz the characterisation is quite good,except for Snape's part

Time to Take Back the Knights-Stephen Milillo
RJ did the ghost of medieval knights reference which was lacking in there but amply compensated with a more harder percussion

break
moved out from the stall seats for the circles.this time,getting a stall seat isn't really the best seat as you dun get to get a great view of the stage

Stage Band-basically that was an edit of the Emperor in New Clothes.you know what i mean.something to wake ppl up before the more serious stuff

Magic Overture-Thomas Doss
i missed the second part when i went to eat because i was so famished.from the first part,it's generally ok and well held on by the guy student conductor

Phantom of the Opera-Andrew Lloyd Webber
every band loves this piece.it's slower by half a beat and the main fave part was sorely lagging until nearly the end

NSB Millenium
Part 1 of the Beethoven and Strauss remixes.it looked as if both composers were drowned in techno and they dunno how to swim out of this mess

Dancin Megahits
another remix.but this one's slightly better,though my preference is for more traditional symphonies

very unusual because they played the school song at the end.it's highly unusual actually

encore-forgot piece

oh ya where's shortie!?jerk though misses me alot