Have you been a good girl this year?

It's going to be that time of the year again and I can't wait to spend it in my favorite city in the world!

Did you miss Felix Baumgartner live jump which ended just an hour ago on youtube.com/redbull?

There should be a replay right after the live press conference but in the mean time, here's a quick update for those of you who missed out, or fell asleep on the other side of the earth while waiting for the ascent.

Yes I've sat through the 3 hours from launch till he touched the ground.


massive helium balloon carrying the capsule which contained Felix Baumgartner in it.
11:34pm Malaysian time. 11:34am USA time.


rising up to 9000 ft. Bye world.


temperature inside and outside of capsule at 9900 ft.


world view at double the height - 18,000 ft.


ascending rather slow at 1000 ft per minute. And moving rapidly to the east. Worrying.


Felix Baumgartner's mom. And his girlfriend Nicole sitting next to momsie dear. You can only see half her ear and her existence wasn't mentioned in the live streaming.


Extremely cold weather at -54 degree Celsius outside. Brrr....


Slowing down, still getting colder. It's 13 degree Celcius inside the capsule now.


Pass the till-date (then) world record holder, Joseph Kittinger, 103,000 ft mark. Going higher to set the world's record!


View of Earth through a wide angle lens at 127,000 feet.


Look at the live stream views! 7.2 mil ppl watching at the same time!


1:58am Malaysian time. (1:58pm USA time) 2:30 hours since the launch.
Capsule valve door closed.


Capsule valve door open. Hello world!


Sitting on the edge of Earth, literally. Did you notice icon of capsule has been replaced by a pressurized suit of Felix in the bottom left of the screen? And the capsule is descending at this point at 128,000 feet.


Felixed prayed to God. And jumped.


They had to capture him using infra-red camera. He was dropping so fast in vacuum it was difficult for camera to capture his shadow!


The peak of Youtube live views: 8 million views! WOW! A record!
And he dispatched his parachute. Did not break longest free fall time record that Kittinger set - 4 min 36 sec. Felix Baumgartner did it in 4 min 19 sec.




Well done Felix Baumgartner, who achieved a jump at more than 127,000 feet, and became the first human to break the sound barrier (faster than the speed of sound) at the speed of 706 mph (or 1136 kph).

And well done Red Bull for making this 5 year project Red Bull Stratos happened.


History has been made. 

I love Christmas in London. I love staying in my relatives place and waking up in the morning to smell freshly baked bread or pastries or hot steaming sausages and bacons waiting for us in the kitchen; and to a beautiful view of snow-covered backyard.

One of my favourite 'cheat' item to buy in English supermarket is this ready-made pastry roll you can buy at less than a quid (75 pennies); with it you just need to just roll out from the wrapping and smother whatever your favorite ingredients are, usually mine comes with lots of cheese, roll up and pop it into the oven for 30 - 45 minutes and woila! Your home made pastry done and done!


I glazed the top with egg yolk.





And salmon and foie gras pate are a breeze to get at the supermarket because they're cheap compared with everything else.


Foie gras pate bruschetta with black olives


Smoked salmon bruschetta topped with arugula


Obviously my aunt made a more impressive selection of dishes than me. But you know, I tried. :>