Yeah, I'll do a proper entry this time... so much work from now till the end of uni, it's stifling me =( I've kinda finished a draft speech for Japanese presentation next week... and that's only the first step to it! Now I need to memorise it because we're not allowed to have notes or powerpoint, nothing, we are expected to just stand there and talk. For 5 minutes. In Japanese. As if it's not hard enough in English, this will be one terrible presentation.
Haven't been called in to work, so it's been a well-paced week- so far, considering how it's only Tuesday. Well-paced because I felt like I accomplished heaps by getting this speech written out in the first place. Now there's only two left to go. Haha, only... kidding myself really, coz on top of the two essays, there are heaps of tests and assignments to work on.
It's time like these we need... comfort food. And the sad thing about winter- every girls' (and perhaps guys') lament- we eat more and get fat. =( Look at what I've been eating these days and you'll never think to call me skinny ever again. Ok, so it's a very girly thing, I seem to be getting more and more girly as the days go by. Taken a particular liking to pale pink too, and I get someone laughing at my choice of colour for a headphone rubber thingie... though wouldn't you say it looks so cute being pink... and tied up with my headphone's black cord??
Meet Pinku. Given by mw, it's fast becoming my good friend =P I like it more each time I see it. Thank you~!
Naked Pinku =D Still cute, but something's definitely missing. You need this guy tied up or he looks a little wrong.
First of the unhealthy food. Caramel and macadamia muffin from BB's cafe. It's sweet, yeah, but sooo good, especially when it's still warm and the top is crispy. It's actually quite hard to get through one whole muffin- very filling, and you get sick of it easily too. After eating that, you won't feel like another one for weeks.
Oh pretty flower... I think I only like flowers when they have water droplets on them, makes them look 100x better.
100 points for someone who can tell me where this plant can be found! =D I see it every Thursday, it's right outside the building where I have class, this curious-looking tree looks like a mutated and burnt pineapple tree with two heads and green hair. Now that there's a Y shaped tree, maybe I can go hunting for an L shaped one too, and then a D shaped one...
The Macaroni Cheese obsession starts here. Actually, I haven't gone through them all yet, had no time to make them, but I'll get through them all someday! This is Day 1 of obsession- where I went to Woolworths and got while getting phone credit. Vodafone gets 10% off at Woolworths, and I wanted to get the Save Fuel voucher for my dad, so I got these to make it over $30. So far, I've tried EasyMac and Kraft. The other one is disqualified coz it's not really macaroni cheese.
Look, Easy mac. They now come in bowls too, even simplier coz you don't need to wash up afterwards, except maybe a fork. It's simple enough- add water, and it doesn't even need to be boiling water, and microwave, stir, microwave, wait, eat. It gets a 12/10 for convenience, but taste... I would give it a 3 or 4. Out of 10.
Tried San Remo next. "Delicious and creamy" because I had to add more ingredients, namely milk, water, and butter. And then microwave it for 10 minutes. I had a bit of problem here because I neglected it, left it there to microwave and it bubbled over. Made a bit of mess in the microwave, but didn't smell quite as bad as Easymac. I followed instructions, I really did! It said stir two or three times within the 10 minutes, but even so, it still bubbled a lot.
That's why the bowl looked like this afterwards. Taste was certainly better than EasyMac, so, 5 or 6... I would give it a 6 actually. This thing does take around 10 minutes to prepare, and needs more ingredients, so not too convenient. Not exactly "instant".
Ah... continental. "Great creamy taste!" because it also needed milk, water and butter, but this time, I was smart and WATCHED it while it was microwaving, so end result:
Not that bad and did not bubble over. Saved me from having to clean up. This, in my opinion, tasted the best out of the three that I've had so far. This didn't smell bad at all, and tasted exactly as described- creamy. I think the fact that I added heaps of white pepper to it sort of altered the results, making it taste better, but you can't tell from the photo, since most macaroni cheese look pretty much the same, it really tastes so much better than EasyMac and there's a noticable difference from San Remo's too. Cost- 89 cents. I got this one from Franklins while it was on special =D Rating: 8/10
I haven't tried the others yet, but will do so when I get around to it. =D If you feel like macaroni cheese, go Continental!! (They should pay me for this, I'm promoting their product...)
Back to slightly healthier food...
Made out of the pumpkin that P's mum gave us, we made pumpkin soup. Recipe required beef/chicken stock, water, pumpkin. And a blender, which I got for christmas last year =D It's strange how when asking Asian people for recipes, they'll give you vague instructions, like, add salt, add sugar, water, chop it up and boil, then blend. Western people tend to want the specific details, like, how many tsp of salt, how many mLs of water, how long to boil for, what strength of fire to use, how small to chop it up to... my Chinese teacher was just telling us, a westerner's kitchen is vastly different from asians. Theirs is full of measuring utilities, different sized spoons, jugs, cups... whereas asians don't measure their ingredients and tend to go by experience, by feel, just the fingers grabbing a pinch of this and that.
So when I got the instructions of: boil pumpkin, use chicken stock, and then blend, I was at a complete loss. I needed more specific instructions... but it was a good learning process- to go by feel once in a while. Cooking skills level up~ it turned out good, slightly too watery (because I had no idea how much stock to use), but still good. That's a bread stick btw, sticking out of the soup.
This is Latti-- long time no see, latti. She's looking very grumpy.
She refused to look up at the camera.
Bit of nature there- chrysanthemum... I hope I spelt that right. I remember trying to learn it for spelling test in Primary school. I'm kinda running out of flowers from my dad's backyward to admire...
Getting late! And cold... wanted to finish this blog entry before I sleep but looks like it's not going to happen. Oh well~~ sister's coming back for a holiday on Friday... brother's graduation then and mother's day on Sunday.
Oh yeah... from the last post, the first youtube video isn't there anymore thanks to TBS copyright laws... not that it'd stop me from watching Josou Para, because it's such an awesome game show =P I'm thinking of uploading it into my youtube account and hope it doesn't get found... under a different name... but then I feel a bit bad if I do that... oh well~ see how it goes. Goodnight.
Haven't been called in to work, so it's been a well-paced week- so far, considering how it's only Tuesday. Well-paced because I felt like I accomplished heaps by getting this speech written out in the first place. Now there's only two left to go. Haha, only... kidding myself really, coz on top of the two essays, there are heaps of tests and assignments to work on.
It's time like these we need... comfort food. And the sad thing about winter- every girls' (and perhaps guys') lament- we eat more and get fat. =( Look at what I've been eating these days and you'll never think to call me skinny ever again. Ok, so it's a very girly thing, I seem to be getting more and more girly as the days go by. Taken a particular liking to pale pink too, and I get someone laughing at my choice of colour for a headphone rubber thingie... though wouldn't you say it looks so cute being pink... and tied up with my headphone's black cord??
Oh pretty flower... I think I only like flowers when they have water droplets on them, makes them look 100x better.
100 points for someone who can tell me where this plant can be found! =D I see it every Thursday, it's right outside the building where I have class, this curious-looking tree looks like a mutated and burnt pineapple tree with two heads and green hair. Now that there's a Y shaped tree, maybe I can go hunting for an L shaped one too, and then a D shaped one...
The Macaroni Cheese obsession starts here. Actually, I haven't gone through them all yet, had no time to make them, but I'll get through them all someday! This is Day 1 of obsession- where I went to Woolworths and got while getting phone credit. Vodafone gets 10% off at Woolworths, and I wanted to get the Save Fuel voucher for my dad, so I got these to make it over $30. So far, I've tried EasyMac and Kraft. The other one is disqualified coz it's not really macaroni cheese.
That's why the bowl looked like this afterwards. Taste was certainly better than EasyMac, so, 5 or 6... I would give it a 6 actually. This thing does take around 10 minutes to prepare, and needs more ingredients, so not too convenient. Not exactly "instant".
I haven't tried the others yet, but will do so when I get around to it. =D If you feel like macaroni cheese, go Continental!! (They should pay me for this, I'm promoting their product...)
Back to slightly healthier food...
So when I got the instructions of: boil pumpkin, use chicken stock, and then blend, I was at a complete loss. I needed more specific instructions... but it was a good learning process- to go by feel once in a while. Cooking skills level up~ it turned out good, slightly too watery (because I had no idea how much stock to use), but still good. That's a bread stick btw, sticking out of the soup.
She refused to look up at the camera.
Bit of nature there- chrysanthemum... I hope I spelt that right. I remember trying to learn it for spelling test in Primary school. I'm kinda running out of flowers from my dad's backyward to admire...
Getting late! And cold... wanted to finish this blog entry before I sleep but looks like it's not going to happen. Oh well~~ sister's coming back for a holiday on Friday... brother's graduation then and mother's day on Sunday.
Oh yeah... from the last post, the first youtube video isn't there anymore thanks to TBS copyright laws... not that it'd stop me from watching Josou Para, because it's such an awesome game show =P I'm thinking of uploading it into my youtube account and hope it doesn't get found... under a different name... but then I feel a bit bad if I do that... oh well~ see how it goes. Goodnight.
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hello latti!!
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