Friday, July 9, 2010

Life in Reservoir

Some photos at gugu's house, as promised.

Rice dumplings that cost me $9.30 - the green threaded one is 咸猪肉粽 ($4.80), consists of pork, green bean, mushroom and salted egg; the red threaded one is 马来西亚粽 ($4.50), the only difference from the 咸猪肉粽 is that it contains lotus seeds...Funny isn't it? I never knew we (m'sian) use lotus seeds in rice dumplings.

Told ya, unlike the dumplings we normally have, they are plain in colour.

The mega huge cauliflower (note the comparison between the cauliflower and the rice dumpling)only cost gugu ~$2. She was so thrilled and asked me to take some photos. She finally realised how cheap things are in melb, e.g. mega huge brocolli for $1+, 5kg of potato for $3, packham pear and sundowner apple that only cost 99 cents per kilo, etc.

Next, steamboat~

Sliced fish and pork.

This photo is pretty self-explained. From bottom: crab stick, tofu fish cake, meat ball. The meat ball - 香菇贡丸 was everyone's favourite!

As well as sliced chicken, sotong ball, fish ball, lamb sliced (everyone except gugu and er gu loves it!), 金针菇 and tofu. We had 2 soup base - tomyam and chicken soup, courtesy of maggi's tomyam and chicken stock cube =p


The first dinner in gugu's house after I officially moved in =) Cauliflower and carrot stir-fry, stir fried potato and chicken in black soy sauce and mapo tofu. The mapo tofu was a success, thanks to the ready-made mapo tofu sauce bought from asian grocery~


The first dinner I cooked for them - anO's spaghetti bolognese. Everything was prepared and cooked by myself~(of course with the help of Dolmio's tomato paste =p). Papa mama don't be jealous, I promise I'll cook for you when I get home =p
That's all for now. Shall update my blog more frequent from now on~

Monday, July 5, 2010

Resurrection!

Opps, 3 months without any entry =p

(As if people will look forward to reading my blog~)

But as responsible blogger, I therefore vow to return my blog to life!

Coming soon: some photos at gugu's house. But you'll have to wait until I fixed my computer =p

Friday, March 19, 2010

Melbourne week 3

Ow~time flies! It has been 4 months since my last entry >.<

Ok, I promise, from now onwards, I'll update at least once a week. (I mean, I will TRY TO update more often...my promise is subject to change base on circumstances~)
Went to dinner at a Malaysian/Chinese Restaurant called Jade Kingdom with ed and mindy~The food was much more better than I expected - the curry laksa tasted like curry laksa (without any spicyness =.=), Har mee tasted like har mee (with kangkong somemore!), and crispy duck(note that this is not a malaysian dish) was good as well, the meat was tender and the skin was crispy. My only complaint was the entree - Lobak...They served the entree after they served up the curry laksa and har mee =.= Apa tu entree? It should be served before the main course la... Ok, fine. The lobak was served with acha (neh the pickle), which totally fail! I didn't expect it to be as good as 外婆's, but at least it should be "crunchy" no? Haih...and the lobak wasn't very nice also, so I only had 1 (super thick) slice. Overall, the food was good and the price was reasonable - ~$15 for each of us.

The Har Mee - with char siew, kangkong, hard boiled egg, prawns and topped with fried onion.

Curry Laksa with yong tau fu and friends (e.g. stuffed egg plant, stuffed fried beancurd, fried lady's finger etc) and lots of bean sprout. Oh, the noodles was a bit overcooked (for me).

The crispy duck. The most expensive dish. The meat was very tender, juicy and flavoursome, very nice.

An artwork on the floor at the corner of Swanston and Bourke Street. Cool. ^^

Saturday, November 21, 2009

时间快转!

I'm soooooo not in the mood to study...T.T

I need my motivation back!!! Lost it after yesterday's Biotechnology paper >.<

Biochemical Regulation of Cell Function and Comparative Nutrition and Digestion, please do me some good and let me have a happy ending with both of you. I've been so kind to both of you this semester, I shall get some reward, shall I not?

Ok, finished ranting, mode changed. Be positive,be positive~ C'mon Biochem, c'mon Comp Nut, I'll fight to my last breath!!! I can do it!!

One of my exam songs, 范玮琪 - 最初的梦想:

如果骄傲没被现实大海冷冷拍下

又怎会懂得要多努力
才走得到远方
如果梦想不曾坠落悬崖
千钧一发
又怎会晓得执着的人
拥有隐形翅牓

把眼泪装在心上
会开出勇敢的花
可以在疲惫的时光
闭上眼睛闻到一种芬芳
就像好好睡了一夜直到天亮
又能边走着边哼着歌
用轻快的步伐

沮丧时总会明显感到孤独的重量
多渴望懂得的人给些温暖借个肩膀
很高兴一路上 我们的默契那么长
穿过风 又绕个弯 心还连着
像往常一样

最初
的梦想 紧握在手上
最想要去的地方
怎么能在半路就返航

最初
的梦想 绝对会到达
实现了真的渴望
才能够算到过了天堂


p/s: Will be in melb airport at this time next sat~~~~come on, just one more week to go....

p/s: Had a hugeeee piece of black forrest cake at 11pm~~weee~Double choc muffin awaiting me~Had so many desserts lately - cheese cakes, muffins, coles blueberry muffins, choc mud cake, apple and custard danish, appricot danish and sticky date pudding~<3

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Countdown: 16 days!

Yaaaaay~~~ Finished ALL my audio lectures~~~

Should start my revision now....not much time left! Jia you ano~! Don't worry papa mama, I'll face this exam super positively (hope so)!

Can't wait going back aa...suddenly thought of ban mian when listening to my biochemistry audio lecture just now...=.= (yes obviously I wasn't paying much attention~~=p). My must-eat-list is getting longer la...(in case you didn't know, I had problem falling asleep past few nights, so I wrote down a list of foods I want to eat when I'm back~). Wonder if my stomach and time allow me to achieve these targets....

The weather is just nice today~^^(I mean yesterday la~since it's already 2am now) It's about 16 degree now -16 degree in Spring, just lovely~^^ Heard from news that we ONLY reached 30 degree today~I didn't really feel the heat today - I guessed we did a great job ventilating the house last night~ As you know, Aus is a typical desert - the temperatures could range between 15/16C - 35C. By letting the cool air come in at night, and it isn't too hot during the day, it should be alright~ Will be 35 degree again on saturday....x.x Ah, did I mention before? I actually enjoy the not-too-cold weather during exam period - I don't have problem getting out of bed in the morning!! Another benefit of warm weather is that I lose my appetite eating choc...>.< Havne't been touching choc for days!!! Such a great achievement from me~*applause*

p/s: (just for fun) Countdown to Tenji - 17 days! ^^

Sunday, November 8, 2009

It's food again~

Sorry, I can't resist~But, don't worry, probably my last food post before going back to m'sia~

We decided to celebrate fer's final week in uni in Dumpling Plus last Monday. As it was a celebration, we decided to order anything we would like to try~ (For your information, the words above are just some excuses for me being 败家~*shy shy*)
御用锅贴~It wasn't as oily as other fried pork dumplings leh~healthier perhaps? =p

The soup (or should it called the broth?) of 羊肉泡馍. I was a bit za dao when I tried the soup - it was just the same as the soup for 西北羊肉汤拉面...=.= The soup was as nice as always.

The 馍~it was SUPER THICK!

In comparison with chopstick... Taste wise - it was totally tasteless....lol~Yeah I know this is probably what it should be, but I would prefer some salty taste with it~As you know, I like pastries, or in this case, could easily deal with plain dough (e.g. plain bread, plain roll, plain pita bread, plain pretzel), but I really couldn't eat this plain....Did the ancient people eat these while they were travelling? Salute! I lose....>.<

韭菜盒子 we've been longing for~ 2 for $5.50! Oh my, I think you can buy a whole basket of chinese chives in Malaysia with RM 16.50. Anyway, we were like 豁出去 that day~Ok, now, the taste: it was SUPER OILY, I used 2 tissue paper to suck the oil. But the fillings weren't bad, and as I always do, I love the pastry~I even helped fer to finish her pastry~lol~

Lol, our table was so full that, according to fer fer, many of the patrons kept looking at us. They couldn't believe that both of us could finish all of them maybe? Geez, we did eventually finish everything! Ok la...we couldn't finish the 馍...
In total, this meal cost us $22.80~Quite reasonable to me la~I was happy with the food~


Last Saturday, pizza night at xiao gu's place~

Big Brothers Pizza - Bigga, Betta, Fresha~ In fact, their pizza was really bigger than normal ones!

First - the not-so-popular BBQ chicken. No one likes it besides Jono~So xiao gu only ordered half BBQ chicken, and no one knows what the other half was~

Capriciosa (not sure how they spell it) - a must for Jono~lol~I like it too!

No sure what is this...I think it's called the Lots. My opinion, the nicest~ Hmm, pizza would be one of the foods I would miss in Malaysia...


Nicely cut fruits - watermelon and melon~The melon was soooooo sweet, the watermelon became tasteless.....

The reason we went to xiao gu's place? Uncle Lou bought Jonathan a Nintendo Wii.....=.= You know Nintendo Wii? Neh...ok, I can't describe, go google yourself~ We had fun playing those stupid games~^^ I was so talented, even Jonathan praised me~~weeee~~The video below was taken when they were playing cycling game~

That's all for this post~Bye~^^

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Spring flowers

This post is all about flowers, but sorry, due to my limited knowledge on botany, I can't name any one of them~

I love this flower! They look gorgeous, don't they?

Their colours remind me of bee - yellow + black

This photo was taken in a windy day, so you could see the 花瓣 isn't in a nice shape, sorry~

This plant is quite interesting, its leaves look like the leaves of Heaven Bird, and its flower is almost transparent~

A super humongous yellow flower - an obese flower~

Ahhh...it has a very pretty colour....Sorry, this is all my camera could do >.<

Another humongous yellow flower~And its siblings~

The flower outside my room~Pretty~(just like me~*shy*)

A pretty ordinary flower

Its colour reminds me of icecream - something like strawberry/raspberry vanilla swirl~

Another humongous flower

And in comparison with my fist
And its siblings. So I made a conclusion - they all have obese gene.

Some fansy-looking flower~