Feeling a little sick, but loved =) haha

I was going to check the oz lotto thing, but then I can't seem to connect. There must be heaps of people trying to access it at the moment, so I'll wait a couple of hours for it to die down first. Hm. Shall blog in the meantime.

Going back to last week, Friday. It was a night off and finally, uni is over for everyone~ at least for this semester. Night off means... eating! =D There's the usual night markets on Friday nights at China Town, where there's food ranging from tofu fa, coconuts, dragon beard candy and chocolate coated strawberries, to curry fishball, dim sum, and "wolf meat". TT and I decided to eat at TT House instead for evening tea before wandering the streets. It was a pretty cold night, but we ended up at ten ren and having....

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Shaved ice! =D Triple coloured.

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It had mango, strawberries, kiwi syrup and some kind of jelly. Really nice~

Took a short trip to Hyde Park at around 10.. and saw this little monster:

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XD Rawr~! A possum! It wasn't even scared of us, we got about 10cm distance away from it, and it wasn't even running up the tree.

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Cutest is when it's up on its hind legs with its front paws half bent in front of it. Too bad it kept turning when I tried to take a photo of it from the front.

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Saturday... work... Sunday... work... Monday... work... Was catching my brother's flu and having that really annoying sore throat that itches.

(Ah, TT just called.... stocktake's finished ._. and said we won't win the 90 million lotto.... I know that much! Hmph, trying to ruin my fun... Just to clarify though, today is the very first time I ever went and got a lottery ticket. I've never never gotten one before, because it's such a waste of money with the odds you're up against, but then this is just a one-off fun thing, and of course, we got the really cheap one, haha. Really. I'm not a gambler ^^~)

I digress. Anyway, yea, I was feeling quite out of it, and work on Monday was just terrible... but then since when was work ever not terrible? Arrived to find out that HM was "sick" again, which means, great, we're understaffed. I seriously had customers telling me to tell management to put more staff between 5-6, because people get off work at that time and it's ridiculous just having two counters open. I agree. Why don't they take it up to head office instead of telling me ; ; Highlight was seriously the sweetest thing that anyone has ever done for me. TT came all the way from Rosebay to Pennant Hills, just to hand me a bag with medication and a bottle of Lucozade, together with another bag containing dinner: onigiri and inari sushi... just for that two minutes of seeing me... he brought all that, taking close to 2 hours to get there and another 2 hours to get back... seriously felt so touched. I guess that pulled me through those dreadful hours of work. Honestly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Was feeling bored today when I got home. No one else was home for some reason and I decided to watch Yakitate Japan again. It's a good anime- I forgot a lot of it, so it was good rewatching/skipping through it. Then... still bored, I tried to bake something really simple. And it was really simple- took about 5 minutes to make, and 15 minutes to bake. Simple butter cookies! =D I know, made butter cookies before, but these were different.

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They were supposed to melt in your mouth, but I don't think that really happened. Maybe I didn't cream the icing sugar and butter enough... so there wasn't enough air inside? I don't know.... recipe is really simple though:

Ingredients :
75g butter
25g icing sugar
1/8 tsp vanilla essence
Pinch of salt
70g plain flour
20g corn flour

Method :
1. Cream butter and icing sugar well.
2. Add in vanilla essence, mix well and add a pinch of salt.
3. Mix in plain flour and corn flour.
4. Using a piping bag and a tip, pipe out the cookie into desired shape on parchment paper. If the batter is too stiff for piping, add in a little milk at a time to a more manageable batter.
5. Top with cherries or a chocolate chip.
6. Bake at 160 degrees for 15 mins till lightly brown.
7. Keep in airtight container.

Yields : 30 pcs

Recipe directly copied from here

The shape didn't really hold for me, I think I might have added a little too much milk. But it was still good... I think. My mum thinks that too =) she's been stealing off the tray. As for the "yield 30 pcs" thing, it yielded more like 12 for me, haha. Still, considering how it's so simple and quick to make, it won't be hard to churn out another batch. Slight problem: I'm out of flour....

And I still can't access the lotto site. Hm.