till then, please bear with the temporarily random default banner, lack of updates (well, yeah ^-^; ) and…basically…my utterly nonsensical ramblings!

Not So Strange

I am taking the first bus out of here

I know its dangerous

Don’t have time for a train

I will start a new life

Somewhere between the wrong and the right

Somewhere I feel safe when i dream at night

Somewhere not so strange

M.S. Morrison

communal cooking!

housemate started cooking (officially~) at 6pm…we joined in later and only finally sat down to dinner at 10pm++ LOL…high complexity cooking going on in a kitchen with limited cooking space & ware (ahya, we were also partially lazy because more plates used = more plates to wash later~! )

photo spam now…

mixing the ingredients into the potato mash~

forming small potato patties

and playing with shapes too…my ‘pyramid’ shaped one didn’t do too well in the frying process (T-T)

separating the yolk from the white to use as a coating…

frying her specially shaped pergedel ^-^

cute right? right right?

our full time fryer mummy! (^_____^)

she even washed up lar! feeling a wee bit bad now for playing with the cam as she did that~

i saved my own skin by slicing the chilli padi so finely…lol, taking a bit out of that omelette wasn’t as spicy with the chilli slices so thin (^-^)b

the veggie dish we all needed! i’m absolutely loving fried shallots now~

this was the after dinner treat~ barley water with really thin tofu strips (called fu zhu?) and a little rock sugar…i feel healthier already~

jo was very much a happy camper…i mean~ just LOOK at the food! hahaha…

anyhow~ we also had a really nice sweet chinese soup too. i think ivonne and alya are a bit surprised i don’t and haven’t drunk soups like that regularly…healthy is one thing lar, but the components and all kinda scared me…however…not anymore!

hehehe, i’m learning more about food from my own culture while overseas~ cool right?

i always wondered how these singled out colours thingies worked and well~ now i know!

something good can come out of staying home all day from an evil stomach attack.

xD

ok, ikky weather and tummy (long story later) resulted in one measly picture…but trust me, even if i took any others, all you’d see is a sea of people swaying (either to the music or from the booze). it’s awesome! i just wish some of my peeps were here too~ i mean, it’s as much about the company as it is the music at these festivals! we were there only for abit, but there was a band playing at the stage just outside the museum that rocked! we left only after they played their last tune~ (^_^)b

so anyhoo…i soon HAD to leave because my tummy was just NOT cooperating~ ran to pick up lunch and took a cab home m(_ _)m my moneyyyyyyyy!!!

m(____ ____)m

haix…spent the whole day in bed since..

all because i let my untrained tummy attempt to digest WHOLE MILK (i’m slightly lactose intolerant), COCONUT MILK (not good at all in situations like these) and a ton of spicy but EXTREMELY delicious OTAK!

hehehehe

you heard me!

OTAK!

my housemate managed to put together a HUGE otak for dinner last night (photos will come when i’ve bothered to reach for the camera and my cable) and well…all of that food is still making my stomach turn.

=_= *rolls around* =_=

Here’s the one i’m most proud of. xD

Bread!

and it’s looking like proper bread this time~! i’ve tried a ga-zillion recipes before, but this one is the first to turn out like proper store bought bread (except it also comes with the nice bakery smell that fills your kitchen so i’m doubly excited about doing this again)

the picture in the previous post was one of my housemates waking up at noon and asking if i baked (she could smell it from her room! LOL )

so yeah, bread was one of the things…and just the night before i had made 3 mini batches of milk jam (to go with the bread i was already planning to make (^______^)v )

first up is matcha milk jam~

this one turned out the best flavour wise…i’m definitely gonna be making more of this soon!

Second best was an Earl Grey infused milk jam~ i don’t like earl grey as a tea, but in muffins (and jams apparently) it’s awesome!

this last one…lol…dear god, no more & never again! it’s milo & cinnamon flavoured! hahahahahaha!

it’s just….it just tastes like milo powder + cinnamon stirred into ALOT of condensed milk…not pleasant on toast at all! (^-^);;;

still, i had fun this week with the baking~

this morning…after being awoken by the phone at what was to me an ungodly hour in the morning (9am, but in my defense, i had only gone to bed at 7am xP ), i could not get back to bed and decided to make breakfast…pizza dough for a somewhat mini margherita pizza. the recipe doesn’t require the 2 hours fermentation so it’s perfect for hungry couch potato me…xD

and, because i was half asleep and dragging my blanket around the kitchen, i made a huge mess of it and thus…the lack of photos! (^-^);> i mean, it wasn’t too bad looking (kinda like exhibit A below..haha) but in my daze, i had FORGOTTEN TO SEASON the dough! hahahahaha…i did this only above the melted mozzarella & olive oil dressing so…it was abit…strange? (^-^);>

i’ll have another go soon i suppose~!

…

Exhibit A

:: My very first attempt at pizza making ::

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i’ve been getting ahead of myself recently…

a) been getting ACTUAL work done

b) gotten rid of 3 full bags of clutter i’ve accumulated in the last year

c) stopped with the compulsive digestive munching

and like ridding oneself of any addiction, i tend to go on ‘withdrawal’ and need that distraction to make sure i don’t run to the nearest convenience store and blow my already measly allowance on more biscuits~

so!

hahaha, my method of distraction has successfully managed to accomplish this with the housemate 

well, not really~ but i’ll get photos of my mini-experiments uploaded soon enough ()

now, i’m just hoping the pictured housemates don’t find out i’ve uploaded this photo…LOL!

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I had a brief 鶺鴒 ~sekirei~ (song by Gackt) moment there~

friend got a car today and guess where i got blindly driven to today? FORMBY!

and we made it JUST in time to well…miss the sunset (^-^);> hahaha, ah well, close enough lar~ left after munching on a mango and a granola bar since it was too cold and we couldn’t be bothered to collect wood to build a fire xP

seems like i got the trip out of liverpool that i wanted…sorta~ hahaha!

in other news, while waiting for said friends to arrive…i was confronted by two guys (who i was seriously about to knock the living daylights of) sober friend offered the usual chinese greeting while the drunken friend came RIGHT UP to me to offer me a ciggy and a kiss…dear lord, my fist was inching out of my pocket when i think the sober guy realised it was getting out of hand and yanked the drunken sod down the road. literally a minute later, friends arrived.

safeeeeee~

m(_ _)m

tada~ \(^-^)/

good as new!

i’m reminded of tofu beancurd (^-^);