All good

Last Friday the party hosted @ my place was a great success. We had 15 guests coming, bringing nice and tasty yum yum great food. thanks people! It was a great night i would say!Lots of yummy food, lots of laugh, lots of game, everyone had great time...!!!I would like to thanks someone (you know who you are) who helped me to carry those really ubersuperduber heavy stuffs all the way from somewhere far far far to my place, and thanks so000 much for coming earlier to help me setting up the place etc..really apppeciate it!![hugs]!and thanks to Dearie Yandy who dotes on me a lot who insisted to carry those heavy steamboat food for me and i only need to carry some lightweight stuffs.. I am so blessed. (Thanks guys!!!)

Well, here's some photos taken by F's camera of the big nite!!

Us (with some missing*^_^*)

From left to right: Yandy, Elaine, Me, BerniceFrom left to right: Robin, Lina, Sherry and Jovi.

Jovi and Ray

We were helping Frank to test his camera. NIce shot ya?!

Thanks Robin and Lina for the cakes from 85 DEGREE.

Thanks David and Michael for the Red Bean Greentea cake.

Thanks Jovi for the Homemade blueberry cheese cake.

Can't Wait~~

Woohoo i am so excited about Shabu Shabu party Tomorrow! Here's my time plan for dinner party @ 6.30pm tomorrow.

11am

Defrost food from fridge.

Buy raw meat, fresh veges, mushrooms and tofu etc.

1pm
Marinated the meat.

2pm
Soak the dried rice noodles
Prepare dipping sauce.

3pm
Prepare pork and prawn dumplings.

4pm
Prepare steamboat stock.

5pm
Prepare mixed veges
Prepare drinks

5.30pm
Butter and cook the sweet corns in oven.
Tidy up the place. Get ready for guest coming.

hmm [finger crossing] i am still thinking how to make the steamboat soup stock myself-a special and yummy one i am saying here! Any idea anyone?!Mixed Asian veges soup which is healthier? or squid and ginger mushroom soup which taste more aromatic and sweet? hmm... Anyway hope it will be a good one for me and for my guest ! Can't wait can't wait !!!!

Back with updates and more updates

After abandoning my blog for sOoOoOo long, am finally back...Well i got sOoOoOo many things to wanna share here but it's kinda hard, not only would it be too labour-intensive to list all them out but it would be a boring post for my readers.LOL~so i made a slide show! Happy Viewing !!!

E F G

Life being so busy lately..but life never bored when you know that there are friends who always as your back up and support you!!! and they always won't say no to you if you want someone to talk to or doing 'crime' together..lol^^

~~especially dedicate to E and F...and Hurray to E F G friendship!Cheers!!!

oh sweet! letter that keep my heart warm!

Today i received a letter from a friend. i was like really surprised...and touched...i always be thankful to God for this friendship^^

Last word for my dear friend (u know who you are)--- Am treasuring you treasuring the friendship am treasuring every moment we spent together~!!!![super duber warmy hug specially for you]!!!!!cheers to our friendship~!!!

din sleep yesterday~

I am exhausted tired and blur blur ady~dunno~everything seems to be slow motioned...!din sleep yesterday because groupmates & i were rushing on a very hard assignment and very heavy its weight 80% ner no kidding hor..We all stayed overnight rush rush rush...at last...all done!phew~

well i think i better go to bed now...ZZzZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Gracie becomes Single-handed heroin

Today i accidentally cut my middle finger somewhat deep [i nearly fainted seeing so much blood...gosh], it kept bleeding and till now it still hurts tho. well m alright now after housemate Edith helped me to clean the wound and bandaged my finger..she's so sweet...she even cooked chinese medicine drink for me. she said it is good for produce blood or something. HEARTWARMING~!

Okay this is how it happened when i back home today, after took shower, then i wanna prepared something to eat and had something to throw away. Who knows the rubbish bin is already full of rubbish so i tried to compact the rubbish who knows there was a food tin inside and then [grace nearly cried because it was sooooooo painful]. u know how the story went on liao la right? HAHA

So yeap i am now a Single-handed heroin 独手侠 （Elaine 给的称号), i have to take on the world single-handed from now on- assignment-ing, MSN-ing, eating, bathing, and bla bla bla...also cant eat this cant eat that. SIGH~独手“虾”可怜咯， 要戒口了~~~

ohh not forgotten a big warm hug and big thanks to 大美女Elaine, 大帅哥ah Frank陪我聊天分散我注意力。。。我真幸福:D

am living green - [get started]

Cheeky Penguins - Arctic Circle by Alex Hallatt

2008 Alex Hallatt, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Blessed bday!!!

Many many thankssss to each and everyone of you who made my birthday so heartwarming and special!!! A big+warm hug for each of you!!!

Officially 22~

Aw i'm officially 22!and also officially move in my new room! nice nice!!! Unbelievable how fast everything went!!! It's 12.30am now, i' m writing my very first blog post for my 22th. Well a thing that must to be mentioned, thanks to those for the birthday greetings i received on 12am, it is really heart-warming~!Sweet~

This is not just it for my bday...lots more to come...*lol*..I'm looking forward to dinner tonight at Hurricane organised by dearie friends. hmm**wondering how good Hurricane's rib is (never try before) heard many good comments about it. Okay let me try then i'll let u know!!!

WooHOo~CHeerS Cheers to my 22th!!!

Homey room!!!!Loving it!!!!

I have moved again; just to the room next door..lol^^ it was very much worth it tho...i'm loving my new room very much...enjoying the bigger internal space, great sunset view from my room, and must-be- mentioned, a much much bigger study desk which have also provided space for my soft toys and stuffs which i owes kept in plastic bags..haha~

I spent whole day yesterday moving my stuffs and make my room as homey as possible. A big warmy hug and thanks to dearie Elaine with her help and for those who had offered help.

So Long....

Sudden news of my closest housemate Susie will leave us back to Jakarta on Sunday and not gonna back Sydney in short period of time due to an urgent personal matter. I had the feeling of losing a friend to chat with, to share the past experiences, have fun, go shopping together...sad sad...now only left 3 of us in the house...*sob sob* I will miss her dearly...Take care Susie!!!

CHINA have done a GREAT JOB!!!

The 4 -hours Beijing Olympic opening ceremony at the Bird Nest Stadium was a LEGEND.

I watched it live yesterday until 2am this morning. Wow it was really a magnificent and breath-taking spectacular, ranging from the stunning fireworks display, the flying globe, the contemporary dances, piano-play by famous pianist Lang Lang, torch-passes, the flying Olympic torch-bearer and many more. What i like the most is when thousands of printed smiley faces which they collected from all around the world are displayed in the air--thumbs up!!~~and credits for Zhang Yimou, the director behind the Beijing Olympic Ceremony!!and the performers and the back stages people. Well done people!!!

Stay tuned for the XXIX Olympiad - Beijing

i'm so looking forward to China Olympic Opening Ceremony!!!!!!

Song of lovers~~~

Phantom of the Opera soundtracks - All I Ask of You

Raoul

No more talk of darkness,
forget these wide-eyed fears;
I'm here, nothing can harm you,
my words will warm and calm you.
Let me be your freedom,
let daylight dry your tears;
I'm here, with you, beside you,
to guard you and to guide you.

Christine
Say you'll love me every waking moment;
turn my head with talk of summertime.
Say you need me with you now and always;
promise me that all you say is true,
that's all I ask of you.

Raoul
Let me be your shelter,
let me be your light;
you're safe, no one will find you,
your fears are far behind you.

Christine
All I want is freedom,
a world with no more night;
and you, always beside me,
to hold me and to hide me.

Raoul
Then say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime;
let me lead you from you solitude.
Say you need me with you, here beside you,
anywhere you go, let me go too,
that's all I ask of you.

Christine
Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime.
Say the word and I will follow you.

Together
Share each day with me, each night, each morning.

Christine
Say you love me...

Raoul
You know I do.

Together
Love me, that's all I ask of you.

Anywhere you go let me go too

Love me...
that's all I ask of you.

Met Guy Sebastian

i'm soooo lucky...cant believe i met Guy Sebastian in a Japanese sushi-train restaurant today. woohoo~

First broadway musical i have been to---> The Phantom of the Opera

I watched Phantom of the Opera at the Sydney's Lyric Theatre with Elaine, Katherine, Vernon and sis on Thursday night. The performance was simply AMAZING *thumbs up!!*. I love the musical, the lyrics, sets, characters and their singing...it was really stunning and i'm totally been swept away by the romance in this story.

photo grabbed from Sydney diarystar

I think i had read somewhere that it’s been 11 years since the musical was last performed in Sydney. Thanks to Edith for telling me that The Phantom of the Opera is here in Sydney. Then i managed to buy the tickets=P

Great Performance and i enjoyed it very much. So people, on all those criteria i mentioned above, i recommend seeing it, u wont regret!!!^^

等下一個天亮 - 郭静

单纯地喜欢这首歌! 好好听哦~

用起伏的背影 擋住哭泣的心
有些故事 不必說給 每個人聽
許多眼睛 看的太淺太近
錯過我沒被看見 那個自己

用簡單的言語 解開超載的心
有些情緒 是該說給 懂的人聽
你的熱淚 比我激動憐惜
我發誓要更努力 更有勇氣

等下一個天亮 去上次牽手賞花那里散步好嗎
有些積雪會自己融化
你的肩膀是我豁達的天堂

等下一個天亮 把偷拍我看海的照片送我好嗎
我喜歡我飛舞的頭發
和飄著雨還是眺望的眼光

用簡單的言語 解開超載的心
有些情緒 是該說給 懂的人聽
你的熱淚 比我激動憐惜
我發誓要更努力 更有勇氣

等下一個天亮 去上次牽手賞花那里散步好嗎
有些積雪會自己融化
你的肩膀是我豁達的天堂

等下一個天亮 把偷拍我看海的照片送我好嗎
我喜歡我飛舞的頭發
和飄著雨還是眺望的眼光

時間可以磨去我的棱角
有些堅持卻永遠磨不掉
請容許我 小小的驕傲
因為有你這樣的依靠

等下一個天亮 去上次牽手賞花那里散步好嗎
有些積雪會自己融化
你的肩膀是我豁達的天堂
等下一個天亮 把偷拍我看海的照片送我好嗎
我喜歡我飛舞的頭發
和飄著雨還是眺望的眼光

back with updates

Hello i' m back. Last Saturday i was invited to join a church activity which held by an Anglican church in Hobart. I met new friends and some old friends over there. okay here are some photos of the day^^

any comment?haha~speechless???LOL!

More updates are coming up!!!Woohoo~~

FRIENDS

I miss u gals a lot!!!u know who u are!!!!~~

I would say this picture is best picture ever which suit 3 of us best!!!!^^oh well my hair is getting longer tho^^how???lol...

神羔羊 Above All

希望听的人会被这首歌所感动…………

Above all - Amy Sand

至高權柄至高神，
超越全地一切被造萬物。
至高智慧高過人的道路，
唯有你是全知全能神。
至高國度，
至高君，
超越全地一切奇妙豐富。
至尊至貴勝過世界財富，
天上地下唯一的愛慕。
神羔羊，
寶血為我流，
勝死亡，
榮耀地復活。
耶穌，
寶貴神羔羊，
為我受死，
為我復活，
神羔羊。

Pls visit ClayMusic for more nice and touching Christian songs!!!

Blue monday: the need to take action!

Today (Monday) - is the unhappiest day in the entire year (says experts)..hmm~for me it is more likely to be the most troublesome day for me, not that i mean every monday..just today!!!!!Why? Sydney polices kept pestering us to go for suspects recognition and the truth is that we dun even see the face of the thief that nite. They just snatched the bags and ran away like bullets.(sorry Mr. policeman..no offence..i know u are doing your job and i still respect u for your job. U guys are cool!!!true!!!*salute*) ..but hey what i'm saying here is that we dun even see the their faces, how could u expect us to recognise them? We cant help much if we really go to the police station. And what if we make some wrong decisions and poor someone/s will get into trouble?!!!?!

Aah i should stop writing on this. Well let's just say something happy to decolourize the bluish day!!!lol..Tonite i will go out with some "crime partners" including my sis. I have booked table at Nick's Bondi Beach Pavilion. We will have plenty of seafood and BBq for dinner..oh no i'm drooling now coz i'm writing this on an empty stomach!!!!lol

ok i gtg~~need to get prepared go to police station :(

Hip Hip Hoorayyyyyyy!!!!!

I am so glad my finals are over!!!i'm so so so happy AND i' m so looking forward to the Melb and Tassie trip. hmm there are just lots of things to do, and so little time to do them in!LOL~

Focus on HIM

"Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.

Painful moments, TRUST GOD.

Every moment, THANK GOD.
God's Blessings on you today!"

~Rick Warren

We've been robbed!

Cripes! yesterday just wasn't my day!

It was the 1st time housemates and i went out to have dinner together and something terribly annoying happened. We've been robbed by 2 black teen-aged males when we were on the way walking back home and waiting at the pedestrian crossing for the light to go green to cross the street!sooooo bad luck~~~

One of the male snatched Henny's handbag and the other shorter guy snatched Susy's. They lost their mobile phones, wallets (luckily there were not much cash in it), credit cards, ATM cards, I.C., house keys, camera, driving license, 3 tickets to Phamtom of the Opera...

Edith and i were allright because we were standing further away from the robbers. but i lost my favourite bracelet. i think it dropped somewhere. *sob sob* anyway, we both were just shocked and did not even have the time to react because it just happened so fast. Poor Henny fell onto the ground and her hands and left knee are injured and the guy who robbed Susy pulled her hair in order to grab her bag easily. They are eviLLLLL people!

Luckily a friendly lady with kids who saw everything stopped her car and helped us to call the police. And a man from the fruit stall nearby also approached us and offered for help. He asked us to have a sit in his fruit stalls while waiting for the police to come. We were helpless and dunno what do to at that moment but thanks God for the kind people, they are there to offer help. Later, Henny bf came, polices still havent show up, so he drove us back.

When we got home, the police called and asked us to go to the police station. Polices have taken our statements but I am not sure how much they can do..SIGH~~~

Back to normal

Yyyyay!!!Whoohoo!!!Hooray!!!yes!!! All my assignments and quizzes are done for this sem..AWESOME! Now all that's left is finals...*grumbles*

Anyway i feel so released.Finally my life back to normal.y i say this? see i blog, i do sports, i bake, i cook, i watch youtube, i chit chat with fren on the phone for hours and bla bla bla..these are those things that i abandoned during that period. Exams?haha...just leave it aside first let me relax 1st la.

okay happy weekends everyone!!Ciao~

时间等等我

哎~真的有好多东西等着我去完成,想必接下来的日子有好受咯！时间等等我嘛!!!

Puff pastry Egg Tarts recipe

This egg tart recipe is a request from ShaMein and my sis.

Ingredients for puff pastry (Serves 12):

Butter 150g
sugar 1/2 tsp
salt 1/2 teaspoon
cold water 80ml
High protein flour 50g
Low protein flour 150g

Filling:

5 eggs, beaten
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup of canned evaporated milk/whole milk
1 cup water
1/3 cup white sugar

Method:
Pastry:
1. Mix high and low protein flour,sugar and salt in a bowl.
2. Cut butter into 1 cm cube size each, then combine with (1).
3. Stir in cold water, butter still remain in the same cube shape.
4. Rub the butter cube into the ingredients.
5. Divide dough into two, use hands to press one of the dough first, then press the other one separately.
6. Place the on top of each, press them together and fold them 3-4 times.
7. Use cling wrap to cover the dough and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
8. Remove it from refridgerator.
9. Make small balls out of the pastry flour by kneading well.
10. Place them into buttered tart molds.

Filling:
1. Boil sugar and water until the sugar is dissolved.
2. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
3. Strain the beaten eggs through a sieve and whisk into the cooled sugar mixture. Stir well.
4. Add in vanilla extract,evaporated milk/whole milk.
5. Fill the tart shell.
6. Bake in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes at 200 degree.
7. Remove from oven.

Reza's Belated Birthday Celebration

Yesterday, we had belated birthday dinner with Reza at B.B.Q. City Korean Restaurant.



Later we walked to Passion Flower Dessert Cafe for dessert to satisfy our sweet-tooth.



Although we did not have enough belly room for 'extra' food after the dinner, BUT we wont resist when it came to sweets! LOL!!!yum yum~~~

B.U.S.Y.

今天，官清忠传道在崇拜分享信息里，他提到许多现今时代所面对的争议话题，其中我个人觉得最有意思的就是 BUSY 这个字啦。他说道：“人常常说 I'm busy，“我很忙” 等等的..well 到底有多忙叻?

官传道说BUSY这个字不可以乱用，它含义可大了。怎么说？

B - Being
U - under
S - Satan's
Y - yoke

可怕吧？这一切都是撒坦打的如意算盘，它就是透过世俗事让人常常忙东忙西，忙到不可开交，导致人远离神，也牺牲了人与神的时间。

反省吧大家！人本来就只是过客，不属于这世界的。我们应该想念天国的事不是吗?

Puff pastry Egg Tarts

Today i'm free, so i grabbed the opportunity to do some baking . I spent the whole afternoon in the kitchen baking egg tarts. Making the pastry is the hardest part.

tada~~picture taken after i removed them from the oven~

Saturday night

This is where we ended up on Saturday night- I'm Angus Steakhouse, located at Cockle Bay Wharft.

Sandra and i ordered 2 Giant pork ribs. I was shocked when the waiter placed it in front of me. I was like.."oh dear, this is HUGE, how i 'm gonna finish it!" This is definitely not a place for vegetarians!!!


Mable ordered Filet Mignon. Its portion just allright.

Elaine ordered the famous Angus Pie..Looks yummy,tasted yummy too!


Later we finished that perfect evening dinner with desserts at Lindt's Chocolat Cafe which is one my favourite cafe. We ordered 2 waffles. The waffles were served with a pot of melted lindt milk chocolate and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.

Mable ordered a Lindt Excellence tart.


These are my take-away goodies- Hazelnut and dark Chocolate Delices. They are my top favourite. I bought 2 of each. There are also many other flavours available: lemon, coffee, milk chocolate, champagne, strawberry and Pistachio, Well, there left only 2 delices in the box coz i already eaten 2..lol^^

It was so great to hang out with good friends and had a great dining outside. Oh dear~there goes my staying thin plans..i need to do more exercise and eat less this week!!!

A trip to Hobart

Have been abandoning my blog lately. Finally i 'm back with updates, updates and more updates:)

I went to Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania last Monday and spent a week there. Well Hobart is a beautiful island but it's a bit quiet though, good place to study but not-a-very-good place to 'rock and roll'..lol...i would say not much things to do there so, during the stay in Hobart, i spent most of the time stayed at my sister's room to watch HongKong TVB series. But overall, I'm enjoying the time spent there..i love spending time with my sisters. oh i start missing them now!!!

Here's some photos taken in Hobart.

We went to Port Arthur for one day trip. 5 of us went together-Lawrence, Shogo, Wee, Fong & me. I rent a car and drove to Port Arthur. I'm so proud of myself because this is my 1st time driving in Australia.

One of the Port Arthur's historical building as backdrop. oops i forgot the name of the building!

It was pretty windy that day!

From left to right: Lawrence, Shogo, fong, wee and me

We stopped in Eaglehawk on our way to Port Arthur. Tessellated Pavement is the main tourist attraction of Eaglehawk. The picture on the left above is taken when we were on the way walking down the hill to Tessellated Pavement. We walked for 10 minutes then reached the destination.

We spent about half an hour taking photos on Tessellated pavement with a cool sea breeze.

We also went to the famous Salamanca Market which only opens on Saturday. More than 300 stallholders sell Tasmanian products, range from fresh daily fruits and vege to fine Tasmanian arts & crafts, and an array of odds and ends. We strolled around the area and tried the most popular sausage buns, tempura mushrooms, and bought some dried fruit leather. They are all very nice!

Thanks to Stanley and Xin Hui brought us to Fish Frenzy Restaurant to have dinner. we ordered Fish and Chips and a chicken Caesars salad. Then we went to Wrest Point Casino in Hobart. We didn't go there to gamble, just grab some free drinks and walked around!!lol

Delayed flight

Royal Brunei Flight delays AGAIN~

Fong's Bandar Seri Begawan-Sydney flight now delayed by over an hour. Hell on earth is that poor me woke up so early in the morning plan to go airport to pick her up and yet they told me her flight is delayed!!! I wonder how darling sis spent her time while waiting meaninglessly at the waiting lounge in Brunei. ok i am supposed to be somehow thankful that the flight is not cancalled.

We are encouraged to be thankful, don't we?

Start baking again-Chicken Pie

No uni today, i woke up late, then went shopping at Westfield Eastgarden with Susie's mum(S is my housemate), bought a lot of stuffs(mostly food), tired me!!! Anyway my baking alter ego made me bake again! I baked chicken pie right away i got back home.

Hereby presenting~~tada~~~

Just a simple plain looking pie..It tastes pretty good tho~Mind u, i'm 1st timer in making pie ok~i will try on pie decoration on next attempts. There is another same-sized pie I reserved for Chaifong...She will be arriving sydney tomorrow morning~woohoo~i'm soooooo excited!!!!!She's at Brunei airport now and i already sent her the photos of the pie..lol~crazy me!!