新年咯！！

恭祝大家新年快樂！
在新的一年能“牛”轉乾坤！
把坏運通通轉成好運！
並且能事事順心^^
Happy “牛”year!!

Bento #2

Made a bento lunch box again today. I simply love making them and of course, devouring them after that XD.

Made this bento with my sister=)
rice balls, tuna sushi, crab stick sushi


tamago(egg roll)

外婆家

前幾天去了外婆家住。陪陪她，還有幫忙她大掃除。
掃地，洗地，換洗床單… 做些零零碎碎的東東。
其實，我還蠻喜歡去外婆家住的， 因爲阿嬤的家在三春，所以那裏比清靜，而且， 嘻嘻:p… 可以吃到許多阿嬤的拿手好菜。
通常早上，阿公都會去咖啡店（kopitiam）喝咖啡， 所以家裏只剩下阿嬤。
我去阿嬤家去“偷師”，學了幾道菜.

阿嬤家的柚子樹~

柚子樹開花了！黃白色的花散發出淡淡的柚子花香~

紅彤彤的燈籠高高挂,春節降臨了

pickled ginger...腌了後會變粉紅色的哦!~

阿嬤煮素腌鴨肉

new year goodies~

#3rd driving lesson!

Drove all the way to the driving school, learn a new route and drove back home. Phew~ that was surely exhausting!

Had my driving lessons today just right after lunch. Then, after driving one round at the driving center, he showed me the second route (route B) which is the carrefour route. Practiced driving that route two times.

My driving this time was quite smooth except for the turning out of the sloppy T junction part to traffic light at the Jalan Kluang road. Mati enjin two times! Too nervous perhaps... >.< Kept forgetting to press some petrol to move because I need to press the clutch and the break before that to keep the car form rolling backwards.

Oh well... Looking at the brighter side, I learn how to move a little by removing the clutch a little.

I think it's really a great feeling driving a car! Hoping for more improvements during the next lesson!

Lunch^^

Cooked sweet potato soup, mee, fried cabbage and cabbage egg rolls for lunch! For the sweet potato soup, I used two kinds of sweet potato to give it a more attractive appearance! Used purple Japanese Sweet potato and the usual orange potato. Add a few pandan(screwpine)leaves and sugar. Quite happy with the product!

taadaa! Sweet potato soup

Also tried to cook cabbage rolls but it did not turn out very nice because I think I added in not enough eggs. Should have added three eggs so that it wouldn't break so easily. But never mind lah~ as long that it tastes nice right^o^

My cabbage egg rolls
Failure is the key to success.. Will try to make nicer ones in the future!

My First bento!

I've always been fascinated with Japanese bentos. They're simply so nice! So, today I decided to make my own =).

Spend a whole morning preparing the rice, cutting the ingredients. Didn't know it was this tiring. But the effort was worth it when my family said they enjoyed it!:P


Rice ball bento




sushi bentos


Japanese green tea

I love the sausage octopus the most though. XD Learnt it from mitong's blog. http://www.wretch.cc/blog/mitong/20825665.It's quite easily to make.


Mr. Octopus!

*****p/s here's a great side for learning to make sushi for beginners
http://www.makemysushi.com/how_to_make_sushi.html

Mural painting.

Went to my mum's school to help to repaint a mural because the old one has faded. It took about 3 and a half hours to finish it! Here's some pics

Before painting...


In the process of painting...


DONE!



Quite satisfied with the end product. =) I think I'll give myself 70% for the painting!>.<

Terrifying Driving Experience

恐い! 恐い! This is so scary!!!
I'm still having cold hands and feet...
I bet uncle Gan had a heart attack too...

Yup! I had my second driving lesson today...
It was still okay when driving at the driving centre.
I was enjoying myself turning round and round and round there.

Then, Uncle Gan dropped a bombshell.
He wanted me to drive out of the driving school and to the main road.
I was like what the fish...
This is only my second lesson and we're driving on the main road?

Drove on the road along Pacific Mall
Started to relax and drove at 50km/h hehe>.< because the road was straight mah~
Had to keep left because that's the lane for slow cars.

It got difficult at the road along the Sam Choon Old Folks Home.
It was hilly and need to press more oil. Besides, the traffic was heavy and the cars there are moving really fast and always overtaking me(felt a bit like a snail). However, though moving slow, it was a smooth drive until....

THAT STUPID TRAFFIC LIGHT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Ya, I know it's not the traffic light's fault but mine.
I stopped at the traffic light as it had turned red.
Pressed on the clutch and stepped on the brake.
Then, I release the break and the car tergolek (roll backwards)a little. Luckily the car behind wasn't following so closely. If not "bang" lah.
Me, having no experience in driving sloppy places, that it was indeed a scary experience.
Usually after stepping on the break, the car will stop and can release but that's when the car is in flat road and not sloppy ones. I'll remember it at heart from now on.... (I was scolded for this of course)
Then, the traffic light turn green and my engine died off. I was like s***. I tried starting it but as I was to nervous,(palms starts to become sweaty) I started the engine it and died started and died because I release the clutch too quickly and did not press enough petrol. I got reprimanded for that error XD.
p/s***I want to thank the car behind me for patiently waiting behind and not honking me.

The engine died again before I make a turning after Sharp Roxy. Ya, my error again.. release clutch too quickly. Because of all this anxiety, I made to sharp a turn and almost turned into the drain. *sob* That was extremely frightening. made a U turn (first time making one and surprisingly it turned out good.^^) and drove home finally. What a relieve!

Fortunately came back home safely in a piece... Phew~ That was indeed some kind of adventure! Although this driving experience was scary, I'm still looking forward to the next lesson.
Practice makes perfect! GAMBATEH!!


**guess the driving instructor need to be something like this as sitting in a same car with me is a little too life threatening..>.<

Foodie Blogs

Have been visiting foodie blogs recently and my, I must say that I was totally impressed with their blogs! Wished that I can cook like them someday.=) Still trying hard to improve on my cooking skills during this holiday.

Some very superb, awesome, incredible, super food blogs I love to linger....

#The pictures are in this blog are great! Nice lighting and presentation of food. There's some really simple and delicious recipes. There's also some tips on cooking the food. Would try them out someday!:)
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/mitong

#I like this blog's food. I really envy her son and daughter because the food she prepared look really sumptuous and nutritious. (wished I can be like her) There's lots of food-- from brownies to sushi. She also owns other blogs like handicraft blogs. She's indeed an amazing mum!
http://wokkingmum.blogspot.com

#I like this blog though can't understand a word. It's a Japanese blog. But who cares right? Looking at the kawaii bentos just makes my stomach rumble.
http://happyangelite.jugem.jp/


I love reading foodie blogs. It's enjoyable yet torturing at the same time. Torturing because you can only look but not eat. :(


P/s : learning cooking because I do not want to end up like this.... dunno how to cook.... died of hunger because no good food

Vroom... Vroom.... My First Driving Lesson ^^

Had my first driving experience today. =)
I was quite worried in the first place because Han told me that she got scolded!

I was like..
OH MY GOD.......
I know nuts about driving.
The only driving experience I had was at the funfair, driving "碰碰車"XD
I think I will get scolded too!

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I have to admit that I not very good in the turnings.
Almost brought myself and uncle Gan (driving instructor) for a swim in the Pt. Besar drain. That was in the beginning, when he asked me to drive to the driving center. The road was squeezy and I didn't release the steering wheel fully after turning. That's the reason why I got scolded. haha.>.<

However, it gets better when I practice the turnings at the driving center. (about 10 to 15 turnings). Sort of getting the hang out of it.

The second time I got scolded is because I did not stop at the Berhenti sign.
Guess that I too excited (to turn, seeing there's no cars on the left and right )and forgotten all about stopping!

Got to go for more driving lessons before becoming a pro I guess.

Uncle let me drive home after the practice. It was fun and terrifying at the same time. Seeing all the big cars and lorries, Stopping at the traffic light.....

Luckily no limbs loss after reaching home. Thank god! I'm still in one piece! It was quite enjoyable.:)

I think I'm falling in love in driving! Can't wait till the next driving lesson!!

Today's Menu is....

Spaghetti!!! I love cooking spaghetti because it's the only dish I know that wouldn't go wrong. haha... It's quick and easy. It can be ready in 35 minutes (cutting plus cooking).

Tadaaa....^^


ingredients: {celery, carrot, tomato, baby corn, button mushrooms, sausage, onion, garlic(cut them all into cubes)) spaghetti sauce and of course, spaghetti.>,<

Cooking lunch!

Since I'm so free after the SPM. So, why not? Cooked a simple lunch of fried rice and miso soup!


fried egg rice
ingredients: rice, eggs, salted veggie, carrot, soy sauce, pepper.


miso soup^^
ingredients: enoki mushroom, miso, raddish, carrot, tomato.

I think they taste all right. Of course it's not 5 star standard but it's edible lah~ Just that the miso soup is a wee bit salty XD( first time cooking this kind of soup, what do you expect?) Luckily it can be saved by adding some water.

Will experiment other recipe next time>,< Gambateh!!!~

小説..天使棲息的窗口review

天使棲息的窗口
刚看完这本小説，很好看。
但是害得我一把鼻涕一把眼泪的，哭得稀里哗啦。
也許是我太感情化了，看小說也會哭。

這本小説的女主角--安琪，一個從小與哥哥相依為命的十四歲少女，宛如天使般地存在，是她哥哥心中最不可或缺的重量，只是，因為身體患了白血病，她蒼白的面孔,脆弱得彷彿隨時都會從人間蒸發。
她習慣 用日記記錄生活，在潘朵拉的盒子裡，記載了關於對哥哥的每一分愛、對新搬來的鄰居姊弟的好奇與逐日增添的好感、對生命的奢求與渴望、對生活周遭的每一件細微的觀察。
由於身體虛，所以不能長出去，所以她喜歡棲息的窗口看看外面的世界。看見鄰居的陽光男孩，每天拍著籃球。後來那男孩說他喜歡她。但是她一直無法回應那份感情，因爲她不知道自己能活多久。
患白血病的她，因為自己的病痛而感到自卑，她覺得自己不夠完美， 所以喜歡拼圖，希望能在拼圖的過程中找尋心靈遺失的空缺。
身體上的病痛雖 奪走了她的生命，但最後她卻擁有全世界最美滿的笑容以及一對能展翅高飛的翅膀。

感動-ing
讀了這本書過後，我覺得自己知道會死並不是一件可怕的事， 最可怕的是失去了活下去的勇氣，失去了對生活的希望！
因此，我覺得我們些身心健全的人，不應該總是在抱怨身邊的人、事、物，認為自己不夠幸福。
而是用心的去觀察、去體會，才能看到人世間最美好的光景，展現出人世間最美滿的笑容。
我們現在能走，能跳，能跑，應感覺到快樂！
要獲得幸福的就是珍惜你所擁有的，遺忘你所沒有的。 如果能這樣，哪，世界會多美好，人類會多麽的快樂啊！

p/s:有空不妨看一看這本小説哦~