M.I.S.S.I.O.N.

*think of 007 James Bond music as you read on*

I'm on a MISSION !!!!!!!


A girl on a MISSION Am I !!!!!

Pancakes

I remember when I was back home, I used ot wake up on saturday mornings to the pleasent smell of melting butter, and to the sound of liquid sizziling away in a pan....yup! mum would be making pancakes for breakfast!

I suddenly missed pancakes and had to have them..so I called mum up, got the recepie, and made pancakes for brekkie today!

The Ingridients

All mixed up..the soon to be yummy pancakes

Voila! my first stack of pancakes

p.s. they are not the perfect thick circle ones(American) neither are they the round thin ones(crepes) they are somewhere in the middle, big like crepes,and slightly thicker than them. Mum made them that way coz I like crepes, but my bro's liked the thick ones. OK enough pancake history!

What's been cooking?

Well one of the things I have to do as Lady of the house is to cook. My uncle and aunt prepared the main dishes and stored them in the fridge for us,I just had to do the veggie. But for the week-end I need to cook the whole meal. ooo So much fun!! here is what I have done so far.....

Yesterday's Ingridients

The Outcome

Stir-fried beans in garlic with spam and eggs

Today's Ingridients

Today's Outcome

Sambal(chili paste-ish thingy) beans and carrots

Whats up? Christmas Hols!

Well I am the lady of the house from today till Tuesday evening. My aunt and uncle have gone of to NZ for a nice 6 nights 5 day fully paid for luxurious holiday! all courtesy of my two cousins, their sons. That was their gift for them in conjugtion with their 36th wedding anniversary and my uncle's birthday. Hope they have oodles and oodles of fun!! The card I made for them.P.s. my uncle requested their wedding be the same day as his b'day so that he will never forget their anniversary..hahaha good one! ( I call them Ma&Pa,coz its like a short form of the actual term in tamil, I couldnt pronounce the whole thing properly when I was little,but till today I call them that)

Now I am finally looking foward to the Christmas holidays, I wasn't at first because I would be having summer school, and have just 12 days of break! but now thats changed, because yeah I have summer school..but! I will have my family with me! Mum and Dad are coming! yup even Dad can come,and not just for 2 weeks,but he will be here for a good one month together with mum. Somehow he managed to plan out a schedule to finish up his current cases,and has arranged to pass on new ones to someone he will be hiring to take over for the duration. how cool!! excited like crazy, the last I saw him was 9 months ago at the airport.
The celebration will really kick off when my brother and cousin come down from Sydney and Perth and join us. So this Christmas My aunt's whole family, and mine will be all together here in Brissie..NICE!

Semester 3

Well the new semester has started! Semester 3 should be good...my Employment Relations lecturer seems nice..you can tell she enjoys teaching the subject.I am happy to do ER because it gives me smth to talk about with my dad! he deals with labour law, so this is his forte. And I feel a little more confident now with my business statistics subject coz the lecturer is darn good! well at least the first lecture and tute was good! he is an indonesian guy ..but he went to highschool in Aus and has been here for 15 years.However he still has this cool indonesian accent, love it!what a change from the usual aussie accent...hahaha crazy I know,but homesickness does a lot to the brain! but thats besides the point, its not the accent, what's cool is he is really good at explaining! and he is super patient,he is the kind of lecturer who teaches so clearly that 50% of the learning is done in class it self....I need this kind of teaching because my weakest sub is math..numbers and stuff of that sort.
Another motivation for me to do well in stats is that I recently found out it is a very good combo with econs.Therefore I shall try my best to do well, I am hoping to put and end to horrible maths marks! enough is enough! for the past 6 years I have not gotten a decent mark in it,because I never CARED! now I do,GPA at stake as well.

ok thats it about semester 3 ..now everything is happy happy joy joy..lets see how it is going in another 3-4 weeks!!

Sweet..not!

well..besides the sad sad news....there was some ok news that came along ....I got my results for semester two yesterday....and I finished enrolment for my next sem which starts on the 22nd of Oct,such a bummer I have summer classes..when others are gonna go home...dang! hahahhaha. Even some of the peeps over here who will be doing summer classes too are back at home now....lucky ppl...hehehe...I miss mum and dad now coz I guess thinking of not seeing them anytime soon(fingers crossed they come here for christmas) and also the news that I got few days ago has made me think of them so much more..I worry so much of how they are doing...although we talk on the phone..its not good enough sometimes. Anyways, I still believe God is watching over them even if I cant.

ok ok so thats that ..the emo part of this post...hahaha...ok so whats sweet..not? well the little bit of good news was that I managed to not fail miserably in my last finals...although I did not do as well as last sem, mum and dad were happy with my 1 H.Dist. and 2 Dist.'s.. I on the other hand was a little disappointed because I was expecting smth better.. double dang! anyways its over now and it was my faul I did no work harder..so next sem here I come. I am freaked out about next sem as I have to finally face business statistics which is a very innocent name for Advanced MATH!!!!

Bitter....

I was glad exams were over ..and I was relaxing..watching t.v., but the enjoyment of my newly gained freedom from exams,classes,assignments and presentations was put to a suden halt! next thing I knew, the text message that had just been sent to my phone caused tears to roll down my cheeks....although there were tears...I was confused how I felt, there were a mixture of feelings: shock,worry,and sadness,even blankness....
Because I couldn't believe what I was reading... I had to reconfirm..so I scrambled for my laptop and signed into msn, to my dismay..as I started the convo with one of my dearest friends(11 years in school growing up) it hit me ..it was true!! I was not dreaming ...hard cold realisation finally filled my blank head.....

I could not grasp the fact that she lost her mum..her dear mum......the aunty we all knew as the nice lady in dresses who always smiles and talks to us so nicely....the lady who loved my friend so much....why did she have to leave so suddenly we would never know....

But I pray a little prayer for you my dear friend..that in these hard times God will be with you,and he gives you all the strenght in the world...to get up..and look at futre in the face and be brave ....it's hard I know...but it will soon feel better..it might never all go away...but it will surely feel less painful, just hang in there. Remember you have so many ppl who care for you and who are always there when you need them. God Blessed us with shoulders, for others to cry on, to find comfort on ...if I were there I will definately be there with you...to help you through the best I can..but since I am far away...I hope that my prayers reach you.....

My condolences to you and your family....your mum will always be remembered fondly by all who know her.

Back....

Back from a long spell of not blogging...been busy with finals, then busy applying for uni's, then just got results yst...so was busy with erolment and all...so now since all that is taken care of, I have a week of break before I start my 3rd sem a.k.a. summer school!! bummer! well lots has happened since the last post ..some worthy of a mention, some not significant at all....its all very Bittersweet..and the bitter part is damn bitter..I am still in shock.........