Tuesday, April 14, 2009

COOKING WITH BUBBLES 1

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I FRKN COOKED TODAY HAHAAHAH

ehem*

i never thought cooking was to be SOO tiring. mothers make it look so easy, putting stuff in the pan, multiple pans i might add, talking away on the phone whilst preparing dinner or lunch. then having enough energy to clean up. i was completely exhaused after cooking. i barely haf enough energy left to blog. Luckily, dinner is early tonight; so naturally my energy levels will er be relinquished.

a shout to Belle who's having a hard time @ home with her sister. i'm quite fortunate to have an alright sister. Those who have met Krystal would know she ent really that bad - except now that she's in year 6, she's becoming a know-it-all, lecturing me on how to cook, and taking away the recipe when i started barring her :S

anyways, 

i was planning to make:

1. prawn skewers which i saw on foodwishes.com

Chef John made some really nice orange juicey prawn skewers covered with paccano ham (salty ham) but because my dad did shopping without me this morning, i only had prawns and..that was it..

well he bought tomatos and so i decided to use a recipe from one of mum's cookbooks by Gigi Wong - it's quite good. 

what i ended up making for no.1
was 

Diced tomato and onion tiger prawns with ORANGE JUICE xD (secret ingredient) 
and it made it very nice, a sweet flavour. =)

2. Japanese teriyaki fish rice. 

My mum made this for me during exam time when i was really exhausted and very hungry, of course. It was AMAZINGLY nice and well. stuff happened.

my dad, instead of buying me like john dory type (white meat fish), he bought me rainbow trout - said that was the only fresh fish @ Woolworths (my dad and uncle still call it Woolies *rolls eyes* they sound so fob xD)

wells
so ended up making teriyaki rainbow trout. (quite nice)

3. steak. i made steak. with worcestorshire sauce and some other japanese sauce thing. Added some onions and corn in (which i defrosted =)) yes i remembered shaun xD

Now, before i load the awesome pictures,

PROBLEMS I HAD.

1. tomatoes: 
they said, in the cookbook that, if you scald the tomatos with boiling water and then rinse with cold water, the skin would peel off very easily, doors plus, no fuss. BUT didn't work for me. I boiled the water, and scalded it and almost scalded myself in the process. and guess what. tHe skin stayed exactly as it was. I couldn't even peel it properly, because i have short nails (for piano and cos long nails look disgusting on me)

well, so i decided to cut them into quarters and try again. 
THIS time, some skin fell out, but most of it still stuck on, 
i gave up. and just went on to dice them up. (my dad says I look like Jamie Oliver or some DAI CHOO when i start cutting up stuff xD yay! master chef = bubbles ) xP

2. STEAK.
believe it or not. it takes some skill to do perfect steak. 

now my dad told me that steak required a VERY hot pan. and one thing NOT to do, when you add oil to the hot pan is start using your ladle or whatever and start moving the oil around in the pan. it starts sparkling everywhere and my shirt is like an aboriginal painting now. >_<

my first steak was good. Alfred wanted it well done cos he was sick; so i made it for him and it looked beautiful, a little burnt but it's the nice type, and completely edible. added some worchestershire sauce and damn did it smell nice.

my SECOND steak, for myself. well. the pan wasn't hot enough. I ended up with some type of light light brown, sick looking. Added a bit more oil to make it look darker - i didn't even know what i was thinking. Ended up with an overcooked but still yummy of course, steak. bleh.

my THIRD steak, for my sister. I decided to REALLLY intensifiedly heat the pan. well. too much. it looked really good, but was a medium rare, which Krystal didn't like. =__= ah man. 

well it was a good learning experience =)
and here are the pictures.

btw. prawns were VERY good. so was the rainbow trout. prawns were really good, just had to say it again, cos it really was quite nice. =)
















a bit watery in my opinion, but the sauce was delicious. and the prawns completely soaked up the orange juice. =)




















My lunch. took over 2 hours to make ahah shuddup.

OH ANOTHER PROBLEM

3. RAINBOW TROUT.
i hatechuu for having SOO MANY bones. i spent half the time picking out the bones. and trust me they are hard to pick out. Firstly, they are all lined up in a line (duh), so i cut along that line so it'd b easier to pluck them out. That was okay I guess. but sometimes, they just wouldnt' come out and GARR! very annoying. 

then unscaling them was a bitch as well. luckily, my dad did most of that for me, and i only had to finish off some of the parts where there were scales left. =)

I also learnt how to devein and unshell them. Quite fun to do.

Anyway, i'm tired.

but i still love cooking. Love mixing sauces around, adding flavours and experimenting. gna wash my shirt now. 

=)

I'm your Angel

My favourite, favourite song since year 7 when i discovered Kazaa and spammed downloading songs but accumulating many viruses on the way. Ah well it was worth it =)







youtube didn't let me embed, so metacafe it was. Very good song. with lyrics:

Lyrics :
No Mountains too high, for you to climb
All you have to do is have some climbing faith, oh yeah
No rivers too wide, for you to make it across
All you have to do is believe it when you pray

And then you will see, the morning will come
And everyday will be bright as the sun
All of your fears cast them on me
I just want you to see...

I'll be your cloud up in the sky
I'll be your shoulder when you cry
I'll hear your voices when you call me
I am your angel
And when all hope is gone, I'm here
No matter how far you are, I'm near
It makes no difference who you are
I am your angel
I'm your angel

I saw the teardrops, and I heard you cry
All you need is time, seek me and you shall find
You have everything and you're still lonely
It doesn't have to be this way, let me show you a better day

And then you will see, the morning will come
And all of your days will be bright as the sun
So all of your fears, just cast them on me
How can I make you see...

I'll be your cloud up in the sky
I'll be your shoulder when you cry
I'll hear your voices when you call me
I am your angel
And when all hope is gone, I'm here
No matter how far you are, I'm near
It makes no difference who you are
I am your angel
I'm your angel

And when it's time to face the storm
I'll be right by your side
Grace will keep up safe and warm
And I know we will survive

And when it seems as if your end is drawing near
Don't you dare give up the fight
Just put your trust beyond the sky...

I'll be your cloud up in the sky
I'll be your shoulder when you cry
I'll hear your voices when you call me
I am your angel
And when all hope is gone, I'm here
No matter how far you are, I'm near
It makes no difference who you are
I am your angel
I'm your angel

I'll be your cloud up in the sky
I'll be your shoulder when you cry
I'll hear your voices when you call me
I am your angel
And when all hope is gone, I'm here
No matter how far you are, I'm near
It makes no difference who you are
I am your angel
I'm your angel


=) yawn* nighty night. wine and yakiniku makes bubbles a sleepy boy. 

Saturday, April 11, 2009

CHATSWOOD AGAIN!!

This is a REALLY long blog LOL 

i won't be blogging for a while, depends, i'm getting lazy and i got a whole house to clean up. ahaha sorry fort his blog taking so long to finish ^_^

I'm quite the frequent cwood goer this week - making the best of the free train rides to chatswood from epping. 
the trains are very nice and very quick to chatswood =) 
school today. was meh. 
a frkn person in my maths class ALWAYS pms-es in the morning and it's quite er annoying cos eddy and I just wanna have fun but he sits in the middle sulking and groaning and moaning - welps at least i get some work done ahaha. but i miss chatting with eddy and making random comments as well as listening to his music =D 
learnt Volumes - almost finished the topic. it's quite interesting but EVERYBODY talks too much in maths. feel SO sorry for O'Hare, she's a very nice lady who tries qutie hard for our class, bringing us donuts to demonstrate some volume concept and showing us visual representations of volumes - cos it's hard to visualise sometimes. 
a lot of people just pay no attention, talk and just are being very rude. i wish i was brave. i'd tell them to shut up and listen. so what it's the last day of school, it's the last day of school for her too and if she's trying hard @ her age for us, we should also try hard for her. 
music.
people brought Brawl and played without sound in the music room. i was quite bored, so i asked Mr Wong to teach me something, he talked to me about my composition diary - hopefully i got okay marks for that. and eventually, he told everybody to pee off, cos just cos it's THEIR free/study period doesn't mean it's ours and they should have fun somewhere else. 
we ended up watching Sweeny Todd the demon barber from Fleet Street. it's VERY interesting and i think i'm gna download it very soon. 
am i being quite the hater? lols sorry. just that some people are being very disrespectful just cos they've finished their exams and expect to just bludge around. i mean - i still want to learn.. in fact i love learning. and nobody has any right to take that away from me.
we had recess, and people were playing guitar hero. meh - it looks like a game of much hand coordination - i'm not very good at those...:Sbut i've never tried guitar hero - it seems fun. ahaha mainly repeated my blog from yesterday to belle. 
momo got angry @ nathan for analing him - =S it was quite weird..obviously momo's quite sensitive there hehehe

double english - 
found out Macintosh was leaving 2 be head teacher in Turramurra - shaun was delighted and everybody from her class was very upset and sad. She's a very good teacher and was my roll call teacher this year - very sad to see her leave, they didn't even get to have a party for her...
watched citizen Kane - it's starting to get interesting - seriously. you've GOT to read the film synopsis to know what's going on, to be able to see the true..goodness? of the film. it's quite nice. and very good on the 'human condition' according to Shaun.
gawd - school. i'm gna miss school. just thought i'd put that in. i'm still expecting to go to school tomorrow, but obviously i wont' be..=( i'm gna miss everybody a lot.
ANYWAY, had lunch. and this is well, what happened.
told richard and nathan that eddles' place wasnt available for tennis, because he's gna be going with US to chatswood. ahaha we organised it first, so we have priority, hehe. quite unfortunate nathan couldn't come..=S it was great fun.
ANYWAY, shall not spoil too much of our chatswood fun yet (which smellybelly missed out on xD AGN)
lunch - 

watched jealously at the people who could have enough coordination to play guitar hero. Eddy and Nathan found the GOLDEN EGG and here are some photos to commemorate their..findings =D















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yay! they found the egg..




















nathan laid an egg!! ahaha
and the best picture yet - taken by Leeanne:























haha XD (Alan that's a true XD right there )

well - that was most of lunch - i learnt to make the weirdo star things which i suck at - my fingers are so clumsy when it comes to folding stuff like that - but have no fear i shall learn to fold a rose next ahaha

then it was off to double jap we go.
Alan was our guest japanese student today - sitting thre whilst i chucked tissue @ his head, ahha i swear he didn't notice until he looked through my camera and i had a picture of the back of his head, with tissue balls on top of it. ahhaha 

then we got these awesome maltesers teasers - which were maltesers in the size of an easter egg. played a few games with Alan and that was jap. 

Then, i said bye, happy holidays to everybody and headed off to chatswood.




















Me and Connie sitting together. I swear her butt is quite big too, i could barely fit on the seats on the bus >_<




















GUYS CAN'T YOU LOOK AT LEAST A LITTLE HAPPIER TO BE WITH ME?! ahaha




















stupid alan's fingerrs ahaha .btw alan i'm sorry i didn't say bye properly to you ahah you somehow disappeared mysteriously ahaha i know you like that xD 




















these are the bunch of year 7? or 8 girls who were screaming really loudly until i waltzed in gallantly and bellowed: 
it's alright ladies, I'm here
AND NO - i'm not pedo. 



















EVERYBODY IT'S THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER!!!!

After that, we finally got to Epping station and that's where we met Gilly and Patrick and Joey. oh and Sora as well. It was quite funny cos the elevator voice that says "Going Down" ahaha sounds REALLy like Mrs Mail, the deputy principal from Baulko - even the year 8s from baulko were laughing when Gilly pointed that out ehehe

then eddison saw Pat's hot legs ahaha, panicked and we headed towards the chatswood line with our complimentary tickets...

and connie. ahaha




















ON THE EPPING TO CHATSWOOD TRAIN!!! 


















AHAHa i had to upload this photo of Eddles ^_^ don't worry, you look better in the other ones later on i think..




















I RECKON THIS IS A REALLY GOOD FOTO. very cute ahaha weather it was a luvo by connie or i took it, i forget but it's a really cute photo =)

AND THE CUTEST TRAIN RIDE PHOTO AWARD GOES TO::



















AHAHAHA stupid eddles was NOT wincing. He was trying to stick his tongue out in a =P face but at that moment, his tongue went back in or something...mayb he was just tryna make me feel better AHAH

anyways, we get off @ chatswood and IMMEDIATELY we smell somethign REALLY good, and, cos it was my first time @ chatswood on a Thursday, i was just SOO happy ahaha, i was pretty happy almost the whole day, until i ran outta energy @ the end. 

wels, these are the AWESOME stores that they had every thursday @ chatswood until quite late.













































































welps. that was my little visit to the stalls of Chatswood, until later, where i actually buy stuf from the stores. 

went to Westfield cos Connie had to buy a present for Kerry. She ended up buying a voodoo doll, which had stuff like "stop stealing my boyfriend" "you're such a bitch" or something in it and many er pins ahaha we were gna put Eddles' face on it ahahah



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found a smelly belly reference @ westfield, then smelt the food @ the food court, had to wait for Shaun to change into his mufti gear - i just changed on the bus. well not my pants of course ahaha 

then we just got tOO hungry, well i did ahaha and from that moment we got to the stalls, for 5 hours i was NEVER hungry. those 5 hours @ chatswood, we just kept eating and drinking and having soo much fun ahaha.

We had garlic prawns first with lemons but i was just too hungry to take pictures. That was Eddles' shout. 

Man, the thing i loved abt today was the fact that everybody just shouted each other. Eddles only had ten bucks, so he shouted us garlic prawns =)

ahaha and i'm officially a LEMON eater ahaha, i saw my cousin eating it and he was just liek, nah it's not sour @ all and today i decided to try it out. and well, WHILST eating it, it's not sour but the AFTERTASTE it well, wakes you up =) ahaha

then we bought takoyaki balls, which CONNIE shouted ahaha. 




















here we are, with the awesome balls of food. The store there was Japanese so i pulled off an arigatou gozaimasu XDD how awesome to see Japanese people holding their own stalls instead of Krn or chinese people doing japanese food =__= ahaha




















more photos of us =)




















i have to say, that was one of the best pictures today. nice photo taking Shaun.
never seen eddison so happy next to me in my life ahaha

i was gna buy some lemonade - but it was like frkn 4 bucks for a cup, so i decided not to. we still had lots of time until dinner so we decided to go to Gloria Jeans for a cuppa coffee and talk even more. ahaha i swear, we NEVER ran outta stuff to talk abt, mainly cos connie was there with us. i'm actually quite thankful connie came, could talk to her abt anything. even the dirty stuff XD




















ahhaa we were having a nice chat, and eddison suddenly started kissing his spoon. and he found out he could HOLD it there as well. Well, i was utterly amazed and next thing you know, we were taking pictures of ourselves doing it. But WE KEPT LAUGHING, we couldn't stop laughing everytime we did it ahaha sometimes it was eddison who started us, sometimes connie ahaha but laughed so much i could finally feel my abs the first time this year ahaha
 

oh yes, we found out we could sit quite er funnily on the chairs ahaha likes so:




















ahahaha, oh and me too =)



















ANYWAYS, we finally took soem good pictures of us doing it, without laughing ehehe




















and last but not least, 




















hehe =) well that was gloria jeans. had a chai latte which i found, was REALLY nice, i thought it was gna b some coffee or something, which i don't relaly like drinking much, but chai latte was VERY nice,

THEN WE HEADED OFF TO IWA !!!! YAY!! AHAHA so excited, couldn't stop moving around the whole time, and shaun kept having to make me speak softer...which was quite hard considering how excited we..well I was ahaha




















SEE CONNIE WAS JUST AS EXCITED AS I WAS !!! xD





















and mizzy is just excited that he could have a romantic dinner with me.......and shaun and connie AHAH

shaun and connie were our parents on that trip ahaha, connie was the husband, shaun was the wife and me and eddles were the naughty/GOOD children that ate everything in sight ahaha

we ordered FIRSTLY,

the spicy seafood en patitloute or something i forgot how to spell it. 


















it was VERY spicy. Eddles, being the beast he is, could take most of the spicyness, i could too, but i just didn't prefer eating spicy food so i ate the salad. ahaha which was quite nice also. 

this was our yummy sushi platter ahha and EDDLES had his first time eating cavier. which he found quite nice and colourfull ahaha 







































yes, these are our parents ahaha 

i don't think i can recall much of what we talked about - that's the thing abt me, people talk to me about stuff and somehow, i just forget what it was all about =___="

ONE LAST GOODY FOR DINNER: 

WAGYU SCOTCH FILLET !!!!!

but first, the beautiful stove that made the beautiful wagyu beef beautiful ahaha

many beautiful references there- connie and eddles and shaun would know xDD






































i just realised, that would make me and mizzy brothers !! ahaha YAY !! ahaha



















And this, ladies and gentlement, is the beautiful, marble coloured, juicy wagyu scotch fillet. you'll have to try it to know what i mean buy beautiful. It's just really nice, hardly have to bite into it and it just melts into your mouth, the beef juices just drippin down your throat and and tender texture of the meat softening with every bite you take. ahaha



















CHRIS AU THE MASTER CHEF!!

omg there's actually a show caleld master chef on channel ten soon - starring ME of course ahaha
i loved how they were doing all these stunts whilst cooking, makes it look like kung fu cooking or shaolin chefs ahaha




















then everybody decided to eat their lemons which they got with the wagyu beef ehehe everybdoy except connie just sucked in the juices and was relatively okay. connie, ATE it like an ORANGE and well, she died ahaha

Shaun ended up shouting us dinner - which was around 102.5 dollars, he said it was to be something like his 18th birthday thing, which we selfishly and thoughtlessly forgot. Don't worry shaun, i have your birthday ingrained in my brain for the rest of my life. 

THEN WE HAD DESSERT!!! ahaha 

i seriously didn't know where 2 go. the gelatissimo place was PACKED, so shaun brought us to a little tea shop. which turned out quite nice as well.




















connie and mizzy sharing  menus, looking quite intelligent but me and shaun ended up choosing what we were to have. 




















me and connie ^_^

this is what we ended up gettting.



















from the right: rose milk tea, some jelly thing osthomathus jelly or something, and cups ahaha



















from the right: more cups GREEN TEA ICE CREAM WHICH WAS VERY NICE
and almond tea.

we spent more time talking and talking

oh, i got a shave for a cure form - NO i'm not shaving my head, just my er, facial hair ahaha anybody willing to sponsor me ?! ahaha i'll dye my hair as well !! ahah




















ME AND SHAUN ARE GETTING MARRIED CHINESE STYLE AHAHA




















SHAUN: OH NO IT'S SPILLING CHRIS ahaha

connie's mum soon called her and we REALLy had to get going, it was still quite early, but by the time we got back, it'd b quite late.

so here we are, on the train
VERY DEAD




















eddles was meant to be in the picture, but i was too much of a star ahaha jks
connie just sucked on the camera ahaha jokes hehe




















this is us pretending to be sleeping ahaha you can tell from my smile i'm having a good dream =DD

anyway, 

that's it folks

hope everybody has a REALLY good holiday. make sure you do SOMETHING everyday, like, clean up, do some work, exercise MAKE IT PRODUCTIVE. watching 12 movies in a row i wouldn't call productive but do sOMETHING which you ALWAYS watned to do, ie read a book,write a song, LEARN a song, watever you do, remember to have fun doing it.

a special thanks to connie, mizzy and SHAUN who made my chatswood day very awesome. without them, i doubt i woulda had this much fun by myself ahaha

once again,

happy holidays!!


who's up for kayaking, or easter show, or beach, or cooking?!

i feel like having lots of fun these holidays =)

^_^