Lake tahoe day 3

It freaking snowed at night! Our cars were covered with snow! Had to use water to remove the snow from the windscreen before driving out. Anyway the last day some of the gang were too tired to ski again and so we took one car out for a day of sightseeing and shopping!

Snow-covered cars

View of the lake and snow capped mountains

Sooo windy! My face almost froze

Welcome to lake tahoe....haha

Me and hua doing a communist type pose.


Enjoying the wonderful scenery

Check out wat i found at one of the shops!

So thats it for lake tahoe! Will blog about yosemite later when i get the photos from everyone.

Lake Tahoe day 2

2nd day i went fishing! Left early in the morning to go to the lake and took a boat out to fish! The fishing wasn't great. The captain told us the weather today wasn't good for fishing. Only caught one fish. But the fishing was secondary. It's the view around the lake that was great! But sorry didn't take much pictures though. Hands were full on the rod and it was real cold that day. Hands were shivering. It snowed can!

Heavenly valley. Looks a bit crappy on picture but trust me, it looks great

Me on the boat

Dinner time was bbq! We proved that it's alright to bbq in winter! Everyone else tink that we were crazy to bbq when it's so cold out there but we did it! Even the chalet owner was a bit puzzled when i emailed her about the bbq pit. This is what she said:" People usually barbecues in Summer because they have to do it outside the house, in the back deck, but now it has about 6" of snow, but it is up to you" haha! She must have thought we're some crazy asians. We went around looking for a grill but the stores all say they don't sell them in winter. In the end we make do with an oven rack and alumunium foils. Well...it was sub zero when we bbq but the heat from the charcoals were enough to keep us warm. In fact i think it's better to bbq in winter. Why would you want to bbq in summer when it's already so warm?!?! First time i didn't sweat from bbq! And just look at how much i wear. I din even wear my jacket!

Solution to teary eyes from onions? Ski goggles!

bbq is tiring!!! the pit was too low( had to bend down to grill)

Hot chocolate by the fireplace! woohoo! erm...above pic is posed. the mug is actually empty

Lake Tahoe day 1

As promised, pics from lake tahoe! It's the first time in my life that I celebrated CNY away from Singapore. So i needed to make it special. Chalet by the lake is not a bad idea huh? hehe.. Well... we went there thinking it will be very cold since it's in the mountains and it snows, but we were wrong.The sun was up and it was rather warm. We end up wearing too much on the first day and had to remove a number of layers. Think i was actually sweating in the snow. The rest of the gang went ski/boarding while i waited for them and take pics of them. My shoulder hasn't fully recovered so i can't ski. Original plan was to drive out to the lake to take some pictures but by the time the gang got ready it was rather late so i just decided to hang out for a couple of hours at the resort and take pictures of them in their ski suits. The first day was chinese new year eve and we had steamboat! Not realli a steamboat anyway. We used 2 rather small rice cookers and with 14 people eating the rate at which food came out was just not fast enough! In the end we ended up cooking some stuff at the stove haha.

Group photo @ Sierra at Tahoe ski resort

Marnchi and Minzhi

Stella


Yenling(scary mickey mouse)


Hua

Floris


The gang having ski lessons

Me! haha

Our chalet! It's nice i tell ya.

There's a fireplace! haha

Wanton made by Hua. They look damn pro man!


Our steamboat feast


Chinese New Year reunion dinner? haha

Chinese New Year Video

You can always expect the WAT folks to do things like this. haha. Anyway it's still cny so 恭喜发财 everyone! but sorry no ang pow!

Steak!

Steak is perhaps the most value for money here. But i don't like my steak well done and it's not easy to get it medium done. Its as easy to get it well done as to get it uncooked. After numerous tries and some diarrhoeas, i'm finally starting to be able to get it right!

Nice huh?

Potlucks + food and more food!

This was the first potluck we had some time ago. It was sunday where everyone was free and did not have any plans to go out. Not really planned, everyone just sort of brought what they had in their fridge and cooked. For some, it was the first time cooking. haha

Fried rice. a bit soggy. but still not bad

Wenchun frying chicken. Sort of his first time cooking


Allen cutting onions


Me cutting pork


Fried salmon on the outside......

Sashimi on the inside. How cool is that?!?!

Presenting our first potluck! not a bad attempt! hehe

The second potluck was a big one. It happened the week after the San Fran trip and we invited some of our neighbors as well as other nus students living in other parts of davis. Sort of an international feast. haha. The kitchen was full of people and everyone was trying to prepare all sorts of dishes. The whole process took a few hours to get everything done!

Floris with Dutch garlic soup


Yenling with Malaysian potato salad. haha


Yoora and sis and Youngju with korean bbq! Woohoo!

Stella's Singaporean stir fried sesame chicken


Me and Hanyang's Singaporean roast pork. Yeah, it looks bloody. Grace got stomach flu the next day......


Presenting our feast.....

And happy faces!

Ok. lake tahoe and other pics will be uploaded next week. Will be away in Yosemite for hiking this weekend! It's forecasted to snow! Just hope that it wun be too cold! hehe