Vapiano Italian Restaurant

Happy birthday guysss! Shout-out to Daniel & Jacqueline!

(Well, they can almost celebrate their 2013 birthday already.  This is a really LATE post.)

October kids & November kids!

It was after the Sunday Service, we actually prepared to surprise both of them but somehow we underestimated their intelligence. hmmm, it was during SWOT VAC week and everyone's busy doing revision so we decided to have lunch @Vapiano for the bday celebration.

We were posing for this photo, getting bored while we're waiting for the train.  

Vincent booked the table, thanks yeaaa!

Vapiano serves Italian meals, so there's pasta & pizza for sure! I've once doubted this restaurant because I heard that the food isn't that nice.  However, after trying, I'm pretty sure that's just a rumour (bahhaha!)

 One of the main reason I love this restaurant is because of the interior design.  It somehow gave me a sense of comfort when I was there.  You can choose to sit upstairs and you can have a quick peek at the crowd along Queen Street.

Order, cook & serve on the spot.

Get ready for questions from the chefs!  And they will serve the pasta with your own choices.

Remember to bring along your chipcard! You pay the amount of money shown on the screen during checkout!

Gamberi E Spinaci

Prawns pesto baby spinach in a cream sauce

I can't tell how much I love pasta with pesto sauce.

 and, Caeser Salad

 It's very creamy and after eating half of this, my friend had no place for more.

 Funghi

Mushroom in cream sauce with a dash of nutmeg

Rucola

 that pizza, that healthy pizza

for rocket's lover, tomato base, shave Parmesan & of course mozzarella

That's all for food!

More photos down here! With the birthday boy & birthday girl.

Oh well, ending this post with this funny photo! 

HAHAHA

Nahh, once again wish you guys a very happy BELATED birthday LOLS.

Sunshine VS Rain

Praise the Lord for the sunshine. 

It's been raining in Brisbane since three days ago and some areas are getting flooded. The rain stopped last night and it's getting hot this morning, like super duper real hot. 

Came by just to post this photo LOL

A few random shoots when I was complaining about the hot weather.

Nah, stop complaining.

Please pray for those in flood areas! :)

kay bye, sorting out photos for Daniel & Jacqueline's birthday @ Vapriano's. 

(Which was in Oct 2012. oppps, sorry guys)

Family dinner(s), free food clipart

Most of the hours have been spent with boxes, unpacking isn't fun aye.

Yes, I'm back in Brisbane, safe and sound! (Although it was quite scary on the plane yesterday, due to the bad weather).  I'm so sick these days but always wanting to get myself some really cold stuffs, with the hope that they can at least relieve my sorethroat. I have difficulties swallowing food now!

Free food clipart. Boo.  Just some dishes that will be served during family dinner.

Stir-fry ManiCai with eggs

Anyways, summer holidays has come to an end(for me).  I couldn't access to Internet 24/7 in SI but my holidays was quite fun though.  I was quite free in the afternoon but started getting busy when it was 3pm.  Time to get ready for dinner!  (Fyi, we usually take our dinner around 5-5.30pm)

Melt-in-mouth Peanut Cookies

Doubled up the main ingredients (peanut) since I found lots of them in the cupboard.

Cashew nuts as decoration (Mom loves cashew nuts but brother doesn't, so they co-operate, you get what I mean?)

Oven-baked Salmon

Mom used to pan-fry the salmon but I don't like it cos it's too oily, so I baked them.

Garlic overload hey. (I don't like chopping garlic)

And yea, I love spending my time in the kitchen, especially after moving to the new house, I simply fall in love with the dearie kitchen!

Well well, mom said oven-baked salmon isn't that nice so I've been forced to pan-fry them again.

Purposely poured 'just a little' oil in the pan, lay the salmon on it, cover on, and after a while there's salmon oil in the pan.

So throwing the salmon oil into the sink is definitely a waste, here comes the Salmon fried rice.

The fragrance of salmon accompanied every single bites of rice.

(Geez, the only reason I will get extra scoop, normally I don't eat rice)

Chicken Curry

Accidentally poured the coconut cream into instead of the coconut juice, so accidents can be good sometimes, that creamy chicken curry which my dad loves so much.

Cooked this for the second time before I left SI but it tasted different cos I used coconut juice.

Complaint received. by, dearie dad.

Sometimes I just shut myself in the kitchen, play the music to the max and ignore all the noise outside the kitchen LOL, of course that's when I want to cook or bake something.

Hot and Spicy Beef Tripe

I don't like cooking this dishes but dad somehow loves this and kind of ordering it every morning.

Don't underestimate it, it's real spicy. (For once I chopped 50 smallchillies in, consequently I ended up coughing non-stop in the kitchen)

Stir-fry corn kernel with pork mince

It's in the kids menu, for the kid at my home.

(Can I call a nine-years-old boy a kid?)

Fried rice with homemade sambal

Homemade sambal was a production of my boredom. My sister and I spent three hours in the kitchen for the making of sambal.  Chopping everything is a nightmare nah.

Stir-fry celery with seafood

This was when there was nothing left in the fridge to go with celery, I picked seafood.

Anyways it goes pretty well with carrot, go all-vegetarian.

Last but not least, a random fact of myself: I can't tell how much I/my family loves lamb.  Didn't shoot the braised lamb into my camera, next time.

I'm getting hungry. 

Chilling in my dad's office...

Chilling in my dad's office and writing this...
Snacking on bunches of grapes...

Finally done with my timetable allocations, hopefully I can sign on to the classes based on my plan.  Basically I have classes everyday urghhh. but the good thing is I start early and finish early, the last lecture is like around 5pm. (I have no choices on the lectures offered by this course :/)

Brisbane in 2 days time, I gonna spend one day tidying my own room (I have TOO many stuffs apparently), and of course spend the day watching PPStream TVB dramas (which is definitely a must).

Sorting out the photos for my next post, I'll be back soon!

p/s Dyed my hair in burgundy red. It looks pretty obvious under the sun!!!

Well, a real short post. LOL.

Timetable for an Uni-Student?

Now then I understand why friends' been asking me to enjoy my foundation life to the max.  However, I always thought my foundation year was terrible, as in like I was totally stressed out and chose to give up in order to escape from the stress. :/

It was till I received an email from UQ, started enrolling into courses that I want and arranging my timetable. 

There're like Timetable Version 1; 2; 3 and 4 now in my computer. I managed to get my Tuesday with only one tutorial and the other days finishing before 5pm in my first timetable but it's super hectic during Wednesday and Thursday(no break at all).  I showed it to my mom and friends for advices.  Then I was kind of 'ordered' by mom to re-arrange them.  

I don't think I'm a perfectionist but well, I want to make it my way: Initially I wanted to get one day off  (Somehow that's impossible so let's forget about it); Start off my day early ( if I start my classes only in the afternoon, I will waste my whole morning); Avoid classes around 2-3pm (Fyi, it's the most unproductive hours throughout my day); Attend tutorials on the following day after lectures; etc; etc; etc;

And yea, get home before 6pm.

I know right, nothing's gonna be perfect.  But I'm still trying to re-arrange them.  

Bedtime yea, I still got a couple of days till the sign-on session.  Please drop me some advices!

I know the Lord will make me a way. 

God bless everyone heyy! 

堪称最闷得城市？

这一段看似好长的一段假期似乎快接近尾声了。

下个星期五就要回到这座城市，堪称澳洲最闷的城市-.-

上大学的第一份礼物就是一台新电脑，在清理旧电脑的时候发现了好多照片。

是呀我就是那么地杂乱无章，就差没有把desktop那一面塞得满满的而已。

然后就发现了这一张照片，那一座城市，连Brisbane Eye也不经意地被摄入了。
忘了是哪个角度拍的，记忆中并没有这么一个地方能看见这道似古老的墙和摩天轮。
在开学之前给自己一份作业吧：找出这个地方。

哦，是该装扮自己开始去job interview了。
小孩们的钢琴老师？能胜任吗。
另外一份功课：试着改变吧，2013年开始就是社会新人类了。
再也不是90后的小毛头，瞬间感觉自己变得好老。

朋友！生日快乐！

 有时候真的会哭笑不得，但这就是 朋友吧我觉得 。

当有人在 twitter上公告她的生日就在 这个星期日的时候 我真的是 无奈的 whattheheck

在英文和中文之间游离着，好吧为了把我的情感更丰富更搞笑更煽动地诠释出来，我决定用一粒粒的方块字！

虽然中文真的是退步了很多，但我会很努力很努力地绞尽脑汁透过网络把我对这位朋友的生日祝福在KL上空挥发出来。（写到这一句我真的是词穷了）

好吧，这位朋友，其实一篇blogpost可以只是两个英文字 happy birthday或四个字 生日快乐的。所以看到我写到这里已经累积了 270个字有没有很感动。

好朋友，生日快乐咯！十九岁了耶。

虽然生日蛋糕对你来说有着剪不断理还乱的意义，可我相信你还是希望收到的吧。要是2014年我能力所及，你20岁生日一定一定会有一个特别的蛋糕。吧哈哈，前提是我。能。力。所。及。

猜到是哪位朋友了吗？

她一直说我机车，从14岁说到我18岁还在说，我想她也希望告诉我以后的孩子，他们的妈妈是有多么机车。

她不会对我说很感动的话，但是和她说话聊天我很舒服，嗯应该是大多时候我都是在听，顺便附和着。

她在我很深情款款地和她叙旧的时候竟然批评我的fashion sense，我还误认她在称赞我。

是谁呢？先买个关子好不好。

我想对你说：

我对你有很特别很特别的感觉。

从相遇相识到相知（有种在些告白信的感觉），整整六年的时间耶。

最初我对你的印象还蛮复杂的，就是，哇这位小姐真的好勇敢，敢和老师对抗。

之后同班，好疯狂，口无遮拦地对待我-.-

2009年大家都好努力好努力，除了PMR我没有其他的回忆了。只记得pascaPMR的时候似乎玩得特别疯狂。

之后我的疑心真的有时候会泛滥。觉得你很讨厌我-.-

不过呢，我还蛮喜欢你这位朋友的。

我欣赏你有自己的梦想，然后会很努力地去实践。

我欣赏你直来直往的性格，虽然有时候很多事情都不跟我说。哼！哈哈哈

我欣赏你大喇喇的性格真的，不要装淑女啊。

最后呢，不是说我太感性，我真的真的很开心，因为我们在一年没有交流的情况下还算无所不谈。

最后啦生日快乐！

我并不奢望你之后会对我说什么感动的话哈哈哈！

老实说要是在6月份我能收到一个parcel会很好哦。

Ala ala, I wish you all the best and hope you can get what you want. You know what I mean nahh. Happy birthday in advance! :D

最后来一句很lame的：有些话不用说，藏在心里就好！

Cindy Sim！ 习惯性地让我叫 Ah Simmm! Happy birthday Selamat Hari Jadi！

Dear Blog,I hope you know it..

是啊

就这样伪装

在所有疑团揭开的那一刻，真的真的很感恩

感谢主，我们在您里边，成为了朋友。

2010年到2013年，四年来终于有了朋友的感觉。

昨晚睡了个好觉

Dear Blog,对不起，这个迟来的好消息。

在告诉你之前，其实是个坏消息。嘘，你知道就好。

:)

Lake of Moogerah & Queens Mary Fall Trip

I've promised to blog about my Lake Moogerah & Queens Mary Fall trip last year (YES, last year. sorry for my lack of posting! HAHA), but I lost all the files in my hard disc, files of 500GB! Most of them are my precious photos and Thank God I seek advices from a few friends (I'm a noob computer user anyways) and managed to save my hard disc! However, I lost some videos. :(

Back to the topic, due to the lack of internet data, I can only upload a few photos.  We went on the trip with Young Adults Fellowship.  I remembered we all didn't have enough sleep during the night.  We had hotpot, chit-chatting, playing games until 3.30am and then woke up at 7 so that we could arrived at the church in time.  That's why we fall asleep in the car!

 LOL at my face expression.

with Shirley (a.k.a Ash?) HAHA

 Singspiration session at Lake of Moogerah before we started eating!

 Group photos before we headed to Queens Mary Fall.

 The food!!!

YUMSSS.

 Not to forget the 'jungle-trekking' session to reach Queens Mary Fall.

Me, Shirley and Myra.

Lastly, ending this post with one of my favourite photos of the day.

Everyone's annoyed by those flies but we were all happy!

And We thank Lord for giving us the good weather, the people, and the safe trip!

New Year's Resolution

Hello guys, we're now in the second week of 2013!  Nah I haven't get my new year's resolutions done yet :/ I have lots of thoughts but can't have them all typed in words!!!  

And them, I was browsing Chuckei's blog and came to this post today.  Find three words in this puzzle, there are more than three words, but the first three words that come to your mind will happen on you this year!

I got, firstly LOVE, well apparently it's the easiest to get.

then I got INTELLIGENCE, yes i definitely need this for my university life!

and lastly, I got FRIEND, but at the same time I saw HAPPINESS. LOL

So...

Here's my 2013 resolutions (As I said before, the list goes on and on)

1.  Spend as much time as I can with my family, love them and care them!

2.  Work harder for university!  

3.  Keep friendship on sail always, especially those in Malaysia! :)

4.  Stay happy no matter what happens, have Faith in God!

5. ....

6. ......

Now, scroll up and see what words will you get and share with me! hehee.

loser, I'm a loser.

漫长的假期只剩一半的24小时可以过了，这一个月能做些什么呢？

2012年结束得很好，在跨年的那一刻也过得很好，继而2013年有个美妙的开端。
啊怎么了写到这里，有一大堆的想法就像交通阻塞一样，你推我挤的，谁也过不了那一个红绿灯。

2013年要怎么样呢，大家似乎都在写resolutions，不过我的list是一直不断地增加的呢。
大学第一年我要好好地过，不要把assginments一拖再拖，这样就不用再熬夜了（要说到做到啊T.T)
大学第一年我朝梦想又踏进了一大步，好大的一步。
然而这一步似乎没有把你给跨过去。

我是个很死心眼的人，真的，很固执，也很念旧。
但当时在收拾东西的时候我毅然把那几本收藏了很多很多心情的美中dailyplanner给扔了。
扔之前念了好多好多遍，还把它们给撕了才扔进垃圾桶。
就像有些人在分手的时候去剪短发一样，我在离开之前决定，尘封，说掰。

显然地我失败了。我很开心地和亲爱的她们分享我是怎样地兴奋，同时又是怎样地五味杂陈。
loser, I'm a loser.

没关系，就这样。
我的思绪已经非常地凌乱。
需要一点时间整理，半年吧。就365天的一半。

真希望有个人来跟我说明，给我的那一些猜测与观察定个案。

Hello to 2013

HELLO to 2013.  Actually I don't really plan to write something on the first day of 2013 but it's kinda special for me so I think I should write to keep this in my memory.

I dream big dreams although I kind of knowing that the dream will never come true.  Or maybe I know that there's a gold mine of dreams, abilities and strength hidden, all I need to do is to dig to get it.  Dig deep and go beyond.  Dig down deep, I'm still hoping.

I'm not ready for 2013 New Year's Resolution yet, jotting down some in my super cute owl diary already, more to come, so just gonna wait for any few days.  However, guyss, I'm pretty sure the dream will always be in my new year's resolution just like what I've promised myself two years ago.  So stubborn huh.

Anyways, I love the first day of 2013!  Woke up at 10am and helped parents out on cleaning house.  Then we had our brunch on our dining table, having lots of fun (Bro was so cuteee!).  Started baking pizzas, making mochi and grass jelly.  Monopoly during the night but my brother cried because he bankrupted.

ha, the last day of my 2012 was great, as well as the first day of 2013!