The Food Issue..With Chef Justin "Jamie Oliver" Raymond

First off, there's this, a Twin Chicken Chop With Separate Sauces, which consists of brown and mushroom sauces respectively. This was inspired by the neverending quest to find chicken chop here in Melbourne. Like they say, if you can't find it, make it! Below are the other tasty specials that the masterful surprise has cooked up!















Macaroni With Braised Steak & Onion. A lovely serving of macaroni soaked in ox-tail soup tasting sauce with juicy steak and onion bits. A local favorite!















Pasta With Braised Steak & Onion and Baked Crumbed Fish. The beautiful helping of pasta encapsulated with the aforementioned special home-made steak & onion joined by a helping of tastefully baked crumbed fish to delight!















Bruschetta ala Corleone'. The house classic special where specially prepared garlic bread is topped with juicy fresh tomato, onion and oregano!















Meat Pie With Mashed Potatoes, Baked Crumbed Fish & Brown Sauce. Beautiful combination of three lovely tasty meat pies, butter-soft mashed potato and our special baked breaded fish: all topped in a sexy brown sauce!















And in true Kim Gary fashion; Omelette In French Fried With Brown Sauce! Oh what a name! Delicious like crazy! You try! I try! I like!

1m02s

Every Friday seems like a battle with academics. The last time around I had to work 12 hours straight to get everything done with about 30 minutes to spare. This time around it was 1 minute 02 seconds, an adrenalin filled end to Assignment 1 for Interactive Games Structure as internet connection had to be boosted significantly to send the file through to the internet dropbox. Let's hope I get the next one done at least a day before. It's getting crazy.

Let's party.

The Return Of The Masterful Surprise

Not that soon, not that soon...but it will happen, and I do hope it happens according to plan..in a brief burst of nostalgia mixed with a heavy dosage of will to make it coupled with the fact that it's actually 5:08 in the morning, and Jay Chou's been looping on the laptop (Eh?), it suddenly becomes clear what the whole plot is. It's a very different plot from that originally planned (okay, so maybe the fundamentals are the same; but the outlook might be a bit different..), and with that whole project kay becoming a distant memory; along with the original plot pretty much vanishing out the window the moment I set foot on that bus that got all of this madness going in the first place. The past month(s) (has it really been that long?) have been a confused, weird thing really. It's hard to tell which part of this is reality, or indeed a very long dream that I just cooked up from one too many late night snacks. I have trouble believing what I've gone and done. I have even more trouble actually believing it actually happened. It's just gone by too fast. It's just one surreal picture that does not include any room for error. Losing the plot was really an issue. Partly because losing the plot that held up all this in the first place is a very dangerous thing to do. I would like to clarify that the plot is not conventional, nor is it what you think it is. It really is a messed up thing, something that I really don't want to note here. Though I really wasn't clear of the plot to begin with, or what it involved. Which makes losing it kinda hard. That's what The Masterful Surprise really is all about: the ability to astonish, or in this case, the ability to lose something you never had in the first place. However, I think I'm beginning to shape together a new one (a plot that is..); and the funny thing is, the new plot really doesn't really differ from the fundamentals that always was the driving force behind it all anyway.

On another note, (and I think I already told Ian this) it's funny what you miss when you're far away from home. And now, now, most of you ready to say I told you so; then pointing at the ability to have mamaks or whatever normal people miss when they leave home will be very wrong. First off, I do not miss the food. I only miss the chicken chop; simply because the idiots who portray it as western food when it's really a recipe cooked up by some hainanese back in the day gave me no warning of this. Chicken Schnitzel is NOT THE SAME THING. Secondly, I would like to point out, for some very weird reason, I miss driving 180km/h on the NKVE and Federal Highways. I really do. I think about it almost everyday. It's annoyingly weird. I also miss Hartz Chicken Buffet, but that one is understandable..so...but annnyways... there might be a couple of things I miss about home, but those are the main ones..it's weird how they have excellent chicken rice here (and I mean absolutely stunning) with equally excellent waitresses to boot..AND NO CHICKEN CHOP.

Anyways...it's getting late...back to stalking that beautiful japanese girl I keep bumping into in the elevator (cue Harold & Kumar moment minus the nice bits at the end)

The "Wow" Starts With Hypocrisy..

After weeks of campaigning on how Windows Vista is so completely and utterly rubbish, I have gone back and installed it simply because it's so pretty, and a sad realization that I'll eventually have to use it anyway, so why not start now?

As you can see from the screenshot, it's really very pretty; and I hope the system stays pretty much stable. I still blame Bill Gates appearing on The Daily Show for nudging me into my decision to using the Vista CD I have kept stashed away somewhere in the room. As much as I still maintain that he is the work of pure evil and that Microsoft is the end of all things free and lovely for computing as well as the internet, (and your very soul perhaps?) but he seemed like a pretty okay guy. Jon Stewart really did poke fun at him though, and the fact that if The Daily Show did in some weird off-key way promote Vista...it surely can't be THAT bad...or can it? Either ways, it's 4:08am, and the PC's pretty much set up... (I started all this Vista marlakey at 11am) so I gotta go...oh and by the way, to all you avid readers of TMS, we would like to wish you HAPPY EASTER!

Ciao.

Somewhere, Somehow, Someone...

The Masterful Surprise is back. It's been an incredibly hectic 24 hours; with 2 major assignments due, and tons of stuff in between. Now it's easter break, so hopefully it'll be a bit more relaxing.

It's just been one crazy week.

Will post more soon.

+Photo Update

Motorshow Pics Pt.1

Due to connection constraints, we are only able to upload 2 pictures. Individually both very sexy cars, they are made even more so by the fact that they are posted on this interweb!

Incredible! On other news, we at TMS has gone for the Moomba festival @ Melbourne Showgrounds and watched Hot Fuzz amongst other incredibly talented things.

This post might be the last one in awhile as we set up our new office and get the interweb sorted.. so don't worry too much!

We'll be back.

Citations

I'm supposed to practice my citation skills, so I'm going to go ahead and cite Clarkson from his new column.(though in a very wrong format, totally in random, and to be fair it's not really even a citation; more of a quote: but the surprise is masterful, and being masterful also means never being wrong...)

"Yes, you can go round a corner two miles per hour faster in the Ferrari F430, but while doing so, you'll be wearing a rather serious, Autocar test driver face.In the Lambo, you'll be playing Vertigo, at full volume and grinning like a Halloween night pumpkin."

"At petrol stations, people always say to a Ferrari driver, "Ooh, I bet you don't get many miles to the gallon out of that" or "I can get more luggage in my Maestro". But if you have a Lambo, they'll say "My God, it's got orange seats" and "Can we have sex in it?"

Anyhow, I'm at the library again; steady internet connection still evades me like a plague, and seriously having some trouble getting top gear 9X05 (already got 06) because we went and pissed off some cybercafe owner last night who kept insisting that "NO NO NO P2P PROGRAM HERE! YOU SLOW DOWN ENTIRE CAFE! YOU NO NO P2P!"; he looked Korean. I believe I had more right to be in Chinatown than him. But anyways, good thing torrents are resumable, as I got it from another cafe down the road. But really man, you're a bloody internet cafe. That means you sell internet. Those bastards playing WOW or whatnot don't need the bloody bandwith (I might be wrong on that one), but seriously; what else is more important than Top Gear? Poor deluded Korean fool. But 200kbps+ is amazing.

That out of the way, I'd say for some stupid innane reason I've been playing U2's "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" on repeat. Maybe it's the nice euphoric feeling of the instruments. Maybe it's Bonio's echoing voice. Maybe it's just more accepted here. But then again, eternal flame's playing on the ipod at the moment. So then again...maybe not.

The Masterful Surprise at the motor show!

The Masterful Surprise will be attending the Melbourne International Motor Show tonight. We will be giving out nods and kisses to the beautiful honeys all night around; so catch us while you're there!

Remember; the surprise is MASTERFUL!

The Gig In The Sky

The Sun newspaper (UK) has today (Thursday) printed what is an accurate report and interview from the Gig In The Sky and not what was put together by the Mirror newspaper on Wednesday.
"If I was a taxi my light would be off this year. I just want to be doing ordinary things, things I don't get to do like go to the pub or go shopping. I am a free agent which is a nice position to be in. There have been other offers, but there are so many things to consider. We'll investigate a new record label but for now we're busy rebuilding the studio at home."
Talking about the performance on-board the flight he said:
"It was the weirdest thing I have ever done. I have been known to stand up and stagger around on planes but that is usually when I am inebriated en route to Santiago."