Intended to update last night to wish all Malaysians Happy Merdeka, but was beaten by my laziness and now ended up wishing all Australians 立春愉快!
We don't have a good start of spring here - it has been drizzling since early morning and is freaking cold! Poor NoNe, was so excited to celebrate the arrival of spring and decided to start the first day of spring wearing a thinner jacket, and eventually ended up half-frozen while waiting for tram at Flinders Station. T.T
Btw, I made some steamed moist chocolate cake last night to celebrate Merdeka! Ahh, how patriotic this girl is! (To be honest, I was just trying to finish up gugu's butter, which will expire on 2nd of Sept >.<). The products....err, taste-wise, they were alright...but the appearance...err........imagine, they were so ugly that I didn't want to take any photo! It was supposed to be steamed in a cake mould, but in order to reduce steaming time (and therefore the gas bill), I filled the batter in muffin cups, which were too weak to support the mixture, and all muffin cups came out distorted >.<
Oh, running late for lectures! Tata~
浮生若梦，为欢几何？
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Food again?!
Here comes the long-promised macarons pics =p
Macarons from Lindt Cafe! From left: Pistachio, Champagne, Hazelnut and Passionfruit. The bottom ones are milk chocolate. I've never tried other macarons, but according to ed, the macarons he had in France had a very different texture to the ones from Lindt! >.< Flavour wise, I think all the flavours were good, although passionfruit tastes a bit weird when it comes with cocoa powder. Ah btw, each of that costs me $2.20 >.<
More food :)
Pizza that I can't name it, from Corretto =) We were looking for pizza without meat, and decided to give it a go. It was topped with various cheeses (including goat cheese and Swiss cheese that I've never tried before that <333), sun-dried tomato and spinach. Just gotta love the combination!
Savoury crepe from Aix Cafe Creperie Salon. Aix is located at a charming, cosy laneway that somehow reminds me of old-european street. As Evonne wanted the smoked salmon crepe, I went for a filling of field mushroom, taleggio cheese and spinach. LOVE IT!
Evonne ordered a filling of smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers, lemon juice and rocket. It was much more flavourful than the one I ordered. (Sorry for the lack of description, I had this 2 months ago and pretty much forget how it tastes like =p)
Ahh~Dark Choc Mud Cake. It was moist and rich, while not overly sweet <33333. (Hey what do you expect from a $6 per slice choc mud cake? I could easily buy a WHOLE choc mud cake from Coles or Safeway at $5!)
The very expensive fruit tart~Nevertheless, the best fruit tart I've ever had in my life(I'm not exaggerating - I've never tried a proper fruit tart before~)
A cute dessert called Loukoumades =) (According to wikipedia, loukoumades are a kind of Greek dessert made of deep fried dough, drizzled with sugar syrup) Oh fried dough!!! Mah fav!!!!
Bought a chicken & mushroom pie from Pie Face ^^
Sorry for the moon-surface-like pie face, I put it in my bag to keep warm and squashed it >.< Verdict: The pie is filled with chicken chunks (instead of mince chicken) which were cooked till very tender, but I guess they added HEAPS of MSG in the filling. It tasted much more better than chicken pie I normally had (frozen pies bought from sueprmarket), but a bit too pricey - 5 times more expensive than those bought from supermarket =p
Macarons from Lindt Cafe! From left: Pistachio, Champagne, Hazelnut and Passionfruit. The bottom ones are milk chocolate. I've never tried other macarons, but according to ed, the macarons he had in France had a very different texture to the ones from Lindt! >.< Flavour wise, I think all the flavours were good, although passionfruit tastes a bit weird when it comes with cocoa powder. Ah btw, each of that costs me $2.20 >.<
More food :)
Pizza that I can't name it, from Corretto =) We were looking for pizza without meat, and decided to give it a go. It was topped with various cheeses (including goat cheese and Swiss cheese that I've never tried before that <333), sun-dried tomato and spinach. Just gotta love the combination!
Savoury crepe from Aix Cafe Creperie Salon. Aix is located at a charming, cosy laneway that somehow reminds me of old-european street. As Evonne wanted the smoked salmon crepe, I went for a filling of field mushroom, taleggio cheese and spinach. LOVE IT!
Evonne ordered a filling of smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers, lemon juice and rocket. It was much more flavourful than the one I ordered. (Sorry for the lack of description, I had this 2 months ago and pretty much forget how it tastes like =p)
Ahh~Dark Choc Mud Cake. It was moist and rich, while not overly sweet <33333. (Hey what do you expect from a $6 per slice choc mud cake? I could easily buy a WHOLE choc mud cake from Coles or Safeway at $5!)
The very expensive fruit tart~Nevertheless, the best fruit tart I've ever had in my life(I'm not exaggerating - I've never tried a proper fruit tart before~)
A cute dessert called Loukoumades =) (According to wikipedia, loukoumades are a kind of Greek dessert made of deep fried dough, drizzled with sugar syrup) Oh fried dough!!! Mah fav!!!!
Bought a chicken & mushroom pie from Pie Face ^^
Sorry for the moon-surface-like pie face, I put it in my bag to keep warm and squashed it >.< Verdict: The pie is filled with chicken chunks (instead of mince chicken) which were cooked till very tender, but I guess they added HEAPS of MSG in the filling. It tasted much more better than chicken pie I normally had (frozen pies bought from sueprmarket), but a bit too pricey - 5 times more expensive than those bought from supermarket =p
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
*Heart*
An "eventful" day, LOL~
By 9am: caught the on-time 8am train from Reservoir Station, reached Flinders Station at 8.30am, able to reach lecture hall 15 mins earlier. Miracle from Metro!
9am-12pm: Had 3 hours lectures. Unexpectedly received my 3 reports and a tour report from a subject I did last semester, Food Processing and Preservation. That's why I like Stirk Kyle (the lecturer) so much - he is a very responsible lecturer! He sorted each student's reports, packed them in an envelope and wrote the student's name on it, then passed to our current lecturer to return to us. Putting aside these sorting and naming these boring works, how many lecturers would return the marked assignment to students after the semester ended? He marked the assignment so detail that he noticed my small mistake of subtraction in a full-of-number calculation part. Unexpectedly I got high grades for the 4 reports =) (well I have to confess that to me those marks are high but to fer fer they should just be normal grades =p). Thanks Stirk!
12pm-1pm: Queued for ~20 mins to print out my lectures =.=
1pm - 2pm: Met up fer fer for lunch in Subway! Had my first Subway after living 2.5 years in Melbourne T.T Kesiannya....We got a coupon, 2 six-inch Sub for only $7.50! I had roasted chicken in multigrain bread, topped with mozarella cheese, cucumber, jalepeno, carrot and hot chilli sauce, and with a touch of pepper. =) My creation was yummy and I was satisfied, but my only complain was that the cheese wasn't enough to bring out the flavour.
2pm: Had my haircut at last! $15 for ladies cut - the most expensive haircut I ever had! The hair dresser was so patient to my "shorter a bit please"/ "make it thinner please" demands, I think it worths it lo...
2pm - 3.30pm: Strayed in Melbourne city =p Found a kitchenware supply shop and finally found the ramekins I always want to buy! $2.50 each for the small ones, much cheaper than I thought it would be. Should I buy? Should I? Will I really use it after I buy?
3.30pm: Muahahahaha~Ano's first visit to Lindt's Cafe since their opening in Melb last year! Bought 6 macarons - 2 Hazelnut flavour, 1 passionfruit flavour, 1 milk choc flavour, 1 pistachio flavour and a champagne flavour. Pics should be up real soon. Hohohoho, having heard so much about it, I finally get to try their hot chocolate! I had milk hot chocolate while fer had dark hot chocolate. Mmmmm.....the blend of the melted chocolate and hot milk was just divine! Perfecto! Especially in a cold + windy day like today, finishing the hot choc just warmed up my hard-frozen body. From that moment, I decided to try all famous hot choc in melb, be it max brenner or koko black! Just hang on winter, I still need the extremely low temperatures to indulge myself in a cup of hot choc from Lindt!
A long post it is. My fingers and brain are getting tired. Till then.
By 9am: caught the on-time 8am train from Reservoir Station, reached Flinders Station at 8.30am, able to reach lecture hall 15 mins earlier. Miracle from Metro!
9am-12pm: Had 3 hours lectures. Unexpectedly received my 3 reports and a tour report from a subject I did last semester, Food Processing and Preservation. That's why I like Stirk Kyle (the lecturer) so much - he is a very responsible lecturer! He sorted each student's reports, packed them in an envelope and wrote the student's name on it, then passed to our current lecturer to return to us. Putting aside these sorting and naming these boring works, how many lecturers would return the marked assignment to students after the semester ended? He marked the assignment so detail that he noticed my small mistake of subtraction in a full-of-number calculation part. Unexpectedly I got high grades for the 4 reports =) (well I have to confess that to me those marks are high but to fer fer they should just be normal grades =p). Thanks Stirk!
12pm-1pm: Queued for ~20 mins to print out my lectures =.=
1pm - 2pm: Met up fer fer for lunch in Subway! Had my first Subway after living 2.5 years in Melbourne T.T Kesiannya....We got a coupon, 2 six-inch Sub for only $7.50! I had roasted chicken in multigrain bread, topped with mozarella cheese, cucumber, jalepeno, carrot and hot chilli sauce, and with a touch of pepper. =) My creation was yummy and I was satisfied, but my only complain was that the cheese wasn't enough to bring out the flavour.
2pm: Had my haircut at last! $15 for ladies cut - the most expensive haircut I ever had! The hair dresser was so patient to my "shorter a bit please"/ "make it thinner please" demands, I think it worths it lo...
2pm - 3.30pm: Strayed in Melbourne city =p Found a kitchenware supply shop and finally found the ramekins I always want to buy! $2.50 each for the small ones, much cheaper than I thought it would be. Should I buy? Should I? Will I really use it after I buy?
3.30pm: Muahahahaha~Ano's first visit to Lindt's Cafe since their opening in Melb last year! Bought 6 macarons - 2 Hazelnut flavour, 1 passionfruit flavour, 1 milk choc flavour, 1 pistachio flavour and a champagne flavour. Pics should be up real soon. Hohohoho, having heard so much about it, I finally get to try their hot chocolate! I had milk hot chocolate while fer had dark hot chocolate. Mmmmm.....the blend of the melted chocolate and hot milk was just divine! Perfecto! Especially in a cold + windy day like today, finishing the hot choc just warmed up my hard-frozen body. From that moment, I decided to try all famous hot choc in melb, be it max brenner or koko black! Just hang on winter, I still need the extremely low temperatures to indulge myself in a cup of hot choc from Lindt!
A long post it is. My fingers and brain are getting tired. Till then.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Pre-haircut
A quick announcement:
Going for a haircut in city tomorrow~ :)
p/s: Will be super windy + chilly tomorrow T.T Where is my spring???
Going for a haircut in city tomorrow~ :)
p/s: Will be super windy + chilly tomorrow T.T Where is my spring???
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Hello uni
Time flies, there gone my one-month winter break and this is my second week of uni already >.< Time memang flies, 10 more weeks in melb uni and so long uni life!
To be honest, I'm getting a bit tired working part-time =p I don't really feel like working so many days, but as you know, me, NoNe, won't say no to others...I'm well aware that I'm not working to earn money (although I have to admit that earning money is really fun!), I just want to spend some free time gaining some experience and to prevent myself moulding at home. But it's quite exhausting to work 4 days a week eh! The only good thing about working is that I now have a perfect excuse to day-dream in the class. *yawn yawn* Maybe my brain is still not in the functioning mode, I find it hard to think and focus in the class =p And I decided not to strain my brain too much - I'm still at my young age and am not prepared to suffer from brain damage for the rest of my life! Ah, such a sweet excuse~ <3
Ok, time to leave, got to catch the 2.25pm train, to reach Preston by 3pm~ Ciao!
To be honest, I'm getting a bit tired working part-time =p I don't really feel like working so many days, but as you know, me, NoNe, won't say no to others...I'm well aware that I'm not working to earn money (although I have to admit that earning money is really fun!), I just want to spend some free time gaining some experience and to prevent myself moulding at home. But it's quite exhausting to work 4 days a week eh! The only good thing about working is that I now have a perfect excuse to day-dream in the class. *yawn yawn* Maybe my brain is still not in the functioning mode, I find it hard to think and focus in the class =p And I decided not to strain my brain too much - I'm still at my young age and am not prepared to suffer from brain damage for the rest of my life! Ah, such a sweet excuse~ <3
Ok, time to leave, got to catch the 2.25pm train, to reach Preston by 3pm~ Ciao!
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.
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.
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 =pThat'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
(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
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