Pet Names

Surprise surprise! I found out I have a pet name amongst some. Purely by chance and maybe some mistake of nature. *rolls eyes* Yup, amongst people I don't know well enough but I guess talked about often enough to be able to be bestowed such an honour. I should be flattered.

I wonder, what else am I classified as?

oh well. I should just concentrate on trying to finish my Politics assignment which was due today, but I cant finish it yesterday due to the last minute spirit council meeting in which i was asked to attend.

Sooo toodles, before i live up to my pet name's reputation.

Ramadhan

Its already the 5th day. Hmmm now that I think about it.. its kinda fast. 24 more days to go..

So what did I eat tonight?

Stir fried chicken, egg and rice.

My pantry is running out of essential cooking ingredients. hmph! i lazy lor wanna go grocery shopping. haiz.

I need garlic, chilli, rice, fishball, tauhu, chicken ham, nutella..

shit. i just remembered i've ignored my bread in the fridge. DIE LIAO! confirm green already! haiz. Now I have to add bread to the list. bleargh~

then my light soy sauce, oyster sauce and sesame oil also finishing. -.-" Which means I have to go to the city one of these days...

I need to buy spring onions too.

Wheat flour for my chwee kueh. haiz. this is not gonna be cheap. WAAAAAAA!!! I shall just postpone this in 2 weeks time la when my allowance come in. bleargh!

Of Boyfriends and Birthdays...

Me and my friends... I know too well just how much they will do anything for people who matters. Coz, I do the exact same thing. I guess birds of a feather really do flock together.

You know, when either of us is/are/were attached, we cherish our partners so much that even a slap from a parent doesnt matter. Disapprovals are just countered with challenged biased opinions of our partners even though deep down inside we all know, our parents might just be right. But we ignore that nagging thought and the parental department keep their opinions to themselves after awhile after seeing that maybe their daughter(s) might just be right... But us girls, we never voice out such things. We keep it to ourselves.

I really hate it when I see my friends quarrel about birthday celebrations with their partners about petty issues such as wearing the inappropriate outfit either too revealing or too short.

Truthfully, I find it heartbreaking. Don't you have any idea how much a girlfriend would put into planning a birthday celebration for you?

We plan for months. We survey locations, call up restaurants to see if we can request any change in the menu becoz our partners don't eat it, allergic to it, etc.

We look for presents, locally and internationally. We survey shops after shops. And for presents such as gadgets or things that we are not familiar with, we go to forums after forums and sometimes research too much about it to the point that it appears in our dreams. Coz at the end of the day, what you like matters most.

And some, even save money for months coz where the boyfriend is concerned, there is no such thing as a budget.

We spend hundreds and maybe thousands of dollars to make that one day that happen annually perfect and special.

We search for weeks for the perfect outfit. On the day, we take extra time to look nice, be pretty, smell good and doll up more then usual just coz it is after all his special day and you are his special girl. And you want to see that smile that he feels lucky to be yours... and vice versa.

And how do you think we would feel that after all that, when you see us, you turn temperamental just coz you think our outfit no matter how much you like it is just too revealing and what would pple say...

And even after all that, we still swallow our pride and still smile to salvage watever it is that we can to try and make that day perfect even though inside, we can hear our hearts shattering in disappointment.

and trying hard to keep a smile instead of tears, our thoughts louder then your words. Unappreciated.

You know, we don't even have to hear thank you but a beaming smiling face or a pleasant attitude just on that day would be enough to tell us that it was all worth it.

in 20 minutes time...

I will be breaking fast for the first time by myself away from home.

heh.

If you all wanna know, i'll be eating my nasi lemak and sambal ikan bilis and telor which I made yesterday evening... =)

My attempt at...

Sesame Dumpling with the recipe I found online.. yippee! she's my new cooking idol. Its really damn easy. I was quite surprised myself! I felt cheated for paying all that money to Banquet or any other coffeeshop! HMPH!

check it out! I'm so proud of myself!

And my attempt at making this korean snack Ddeokggochi, its like skewered fried rice cakes la is somewhat a failure. I tried it with Deena when we were going to go karaoke with the girls... So happy lor when we were eating it! I have to remember that next time I shall put it on satay sticks and pan fry it instead of deep frying it. lalalallalala...

Truly Melaka

So yesterday was the cooking spree that i was blogging about rite? So end up we didnt go marketing in the morning, I went to the city for marketing in the afternoon and then waited for mel to pick me up. Yup. HE WAS LATE! but nehmind nehmind, Adelaide peak hours 415pm onwards. -.-" SO I WAITED CAN! haiz. so long lor. he only arrived at 5 i think!!!!

Yesterday, as Mel puts it, was the happy-fying meal. I didnt buy black glutinous rice so we didnt make bubor pulut hitam. I think chendol would have completed yesterday's meal like with a huge big round and smiling full stop. lol!

Reached my place and... wah lau.. we both cook for ourselves like macam party you know.

Lemak Chilli Padi

Tauhu Goreng

Beef Rendang

Udang Assam

after that... we both sat at my living room mcm babi lor.

Anywayz, here's the pics from yesterday... Yesterday is really cook until tired that kind. but not bad la quite fast despite my blur sotongness from being sick and seem to be throwing every other ingredient into the dustbin.

2 down.. 2 more to go!

check out my kitchen!

The chefs of Cashel and Bailey St

Meal ready! I have no idea why the blog is uploading this side ways.

Mel just have a problem with this thing. That thing is btw, my tissue box cover. since I'm having flu, lady bird had to grace the dinner table. He thinks that my lady bird is smiling smugly at him. -.-"

Fruit Tart (Recipe requested by S.C.)

Ingredients

CRUST

22g (8 oz) unsalted butter
150g ( 5 1/3 oz) castor sugar
3 eggs
500g ( 1lb 1 1/2 oz) bread flour

PASTRY CREAM
2 cups ( 500ml / 16 fl oz) fresh milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
4 egg yolks
125 g (4 1/2 oz) castor sugar
50 g (1 2/3 oz) corn flour (cornstarch)
100 g (3 1/2 oz) butter

FILLING
some melted chocolate
fruit of your choice
apricot jam, warmed and mixed with a little water to glaze

*beans

METHOD

1. Prepare crust. Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Add eggs one at a time followed by flour. Roll dough into balls and cover with plastic wrap. Leave to chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours before rolling out thinly to line tartlet tins OR the huge tart pan.
   
2. Bake blind, covered with aluminium foil and filled with beans (you can use nuts - almonds or hazelnuts, for a more aromatic flavour to your crust) in an oven oreheated to 175 degrees celsius fir about 10 mins until crust is golden and base dry. Discard foil and beans. leave crust to cool.
   
3. Prepare pastry cream. In a saucepan, bring milk and vanilla essence to a simmer. In a bowl beat egg yolks, sugar and corn flour into a smooth custard. Slowly add hot milk. Pour custard back into saucepan and continue cooking over low heat until thick and bubbly. Add butter and turn off the heat. Leave to cool slightly before refrigerating to chill.
   
4. Start assembling tarts when pastry cream is sufficiently chilled. Brush melted chocolate over the base of pastry shells. This keeps the pastry from becoming soggy when the pastry cream is added. Pipe in pastry cream and decorate with fruit.
   
5. Brush tarts with warm, melted apricot jam heated with a little water to keep the fruit fresh.

the end. Happy trying SC!

Cooking Spree

I'm going on a cooking spree tmr! With Mel!

Yup yup!

so much so that we're going marketing at 9am before school.

yes you read that right! I. AM. WAKING. UP. EARLY. TO. GO. MARKETING.

to go pasar you know!

totally wth. i know. totally domesticated. cb.

Anywayz, here's the pics of the last time I was too free and made Chocolate Macadamia Cheesecake and some other things. I have a full frontal pic but i'm not gonna upload it, coz I kinda destroyed my perfect round cheesecake when i was trying to get it out of the pan, coz my choc was a little too sticky.

The cheesecake isn't as smooth la.. but wth, this is my first try anywayz. Its yummy tho. Trust me, I don't eat cheesecake. Heh. And Surprisingly easy. =D

My grandmother's Lemak Chilli Padi, but of course, in Australia, the Chillis are temperamental. So normal chilli would suffice. LOL.

my CHOCOLATE CHIP MACAROONS! Yum Yum. I made this while watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on my lappie! LOL! it's that easy!

will update today's escapade with pictures soon!

Anywayz, SC, i owe you my tart recipe rite? Will be up in the entry after! Will post it at a more godly time of the day!

love ya'll many many!

I'm back...

Truthfully, I'm dead tired. But what can I do rite? I'm back rite smack in the middle of an ongoing semester.

Singapore was definitely memorable.

And I've just been gone 6months.

I came back totally random without informing anyone including my mom coz I was still deciding about 10hours before my flight if I really did want to go back. Only 5 people back in Singapore knew I was coming back. Mom only found out about me coming home 20 minutes before i boarded my flight. heh.

I was somewhat at peace.

Truthfully, I thought that I won't be caught up in a back to back meet ups every other day till the day I fly off. I feel the pinch of the lack of salary. haiz.

I haven't been online much for the 2 weeks that I was back. The irony of it all. I came home to unlimited internet only not to use it at all! sheesh.

Singapore was alot of things.

Dramatic was one of it.

Yup boring old Singapore, dramatic. Weird isn't it?

Reminded me why I ran away sometimes. Yup, I ran away.

I've decided, until I put up the 3 things I wanted to put up, till then I'll be part of it. After that, no more. (Dont bother asking me what this is about, only one person know what these 3 things are.)

I'm somewhat happy to be back here to settle into my quiet somewhat boring life of a student all over again.

200 more words to go. 3 and half hours to deadline. Smart me fell asleep this morning.


Oh and Kay, I do not avoid you in front of my friends. If you're thinking why I replied other pple and not you, that's coz they usually txt me to check my tagboard.

And Shah: yup it was definitely memorable. See you end of the year. hopefully.

My cousins drove in over the weekend in hopes of seeing my face before I fly off.

Mawar is doing well. The new job is treating her well I see. Vice President! LOL! happening yo.

The siblings are doing well after all the hoo haa that happened last month and they have kept me updated everyday via Yahoo Messenger. They're growing up. They're good people. yup.

Mawar's gonna get engaged next year. 25. I guess that's a not bad age of getting engaged and 26, married. But then again, marriage isn't the age. Its about whether you're ready or not rite? If a person is ready at 19 then by all means, go and get married lor...

I will be busy driving in and out of Malaysia end of the yr I guess... yup yup... Since she trusts me in deco and even her outfit.. =)

Mom has a new fear. She is now convinced that I will never get married due to certain reasons. She told me about it after she talked to my cousins and then they were telling her about their dream wedding. Yeah. Even the guy knows what he's gonna wear on his wedding day. heh. cuteness.com.

I? I just zoned out and played with my pet on pet society. When they left the room, my mom stared at me. My instant reaction, "what? Am I next in line for the interview? If you have to know, I never thought about how my wedding will be like." And she just laughed. She said, "No... As for you, I'm just worried you'll never get married.."

And the marriage topic has finally set itself out in the open on me.

I hate growing older.

There are many times where I didnt wanna come back here.

Today I was proven right.

Truthfully, Adelaide would be perfect if all of my friends are there with me and my family visited me occasionally.

My mom trusts me more. Why can't everyone else do the same?

Its just been a week and I've started quarreling and crying. I dont wanna think about when I have to stay here for 3 months.

I'm 23 not 5.

The way you talked about things that have happened, lovingly. You know what I call it? Hypocrite.

I came home not to stare at the walls. I can do it in Adelaide. Oh wait, I've been doing it for the past 6 months.

I left the one place I've called home my whole life, ran away from all familiarities because of so many things. Then I realised maybe this was one of those many things.

Kau jangan keluar malam malam. Asal asyik nak keluar dengan kawan kau. Macam perempuan kabaret. Keturunan aku tak der pun perempuan kabaret. Mungkin keluarga kau yang banyak perempuan kabaret. Kau makin duduk jauh makin pandai menjawab makin kurang ajar.

Ye lah nek, agaknye keluarga dee memang byk pun perempuan kabaret. Keluarga nenek kan semuanya alim alim. Ustaz, Imam... Tapi yang nenek takut sangat aper orang fikir pasal dee dee tu kenaper? Nenek ingat dee dee kisah sangat aper orang nak cakap? Orang nak ngumpat, ngumpat la.. sendiri yang dosa.

Of course my friends will be more important to me then you. They dont judge me, they never have. I'm beginning to think that my friends know me better then my own grandmother. Ya well. If all she can see from my face is whatever she has concluded then too bad for her. Here I thought that 6 months would have changed a lot of things. It changed everyone. Except her.

When coming home suddenly felt anything but right.