From where I left off

Alright so somewhere in between that winter break where the friend stayed over, I had orientation ... yup I had to go for yet another orientation! why? because I changed uni's. And its for the last time I promise! hahaha...because finally I am where I have always wanted to be! ok so not always.....but yeah since I was old enough to know all this Uni business. ( voila Jenn there is your answer, that was what the countdown and sneek peak was for.... hahahhaa...not a park and pancakes)

So many booklets and information sheets...honestly how many trees wasted? oh well no choice I suppose. And yup they gave us a lollypop! With uni logo wrapping...weird no? but cool nonetheless.

Alritey moving on.. my aunt decided to kick start my birthday festivities early by paying for my entry ticket to Movie World at the Coast, so off I went after like what? 13 years? Some attractions were way cooler when I was littler BUT I loved all the rides I didn't get to do as a kid! those were wickedly fun!

My personal favourite ride.. The Superman Escape!

Batman Wing

If only i was that brave and drove on real roads! in a real car!

Keepsakes from the trip

On another note, did I mention while browsing thru a lifestyle Sunday market with our visiting guest,my aunt was like Prasaaannnaaaaaaa look what I found!!!... and I am getting it for you! hehehe...

Alright I shall continue. Following a hectic,busy, tiring yet FUN filled, adventurous winter break,some of my friends who had gone off to different places to have their break came back.And the very next day I think, we all met up for a lunch hang out session followed by 'Dancing on the street' at Southbank in the city. As usual we were shrieking and laughing and giggling trying to all tell our holiday tales and catch up.
Hmmm lets see then what happened? oh yes then the week-end before uni re-opened my uncle took us to a Chinese Restaurant called Landmark for Yum cha(Dim sum). We had to wait an hour in line to be seated!Yup its that popular! Surely enough the food was good! and the variety was amazing. But it had its flaws..the MAJOR flaw was that the service was utterly horrible!! they couldn't handle the big crowd! On top of that the lunch cost my uncle a bomb! hahahaha...big hole in his pocket!

The looooooooooooooong queue

Food...The fried and steamed stuff...ermmm and I think the freakish tripe is there in the pic...the one thing I would never touch!

Veggies in soy sauce, Roast duck and stuffed brinjal

My personal favourite for the day, Scallop coated in melted cheese

We had all the other traditional yum cha stuff too like prawn dumplings, yam cake,"su mai" and etc. The pictures are really bad because I didn't have my camera with me, they were taken with my phone.

And of course EGG TART the perfect ending

Well people, I think that's all for the overdue posts from winter break. Much has happened since uni has started. It's like week 5 now!! and I will be having 3 mid-sem and one of the 4 mini exams for Micro over the next two weeks! so the birthday post would have to wait! till then, take care all and God bless!

Update from a gazillion years ago

I have been bad with posts really, a seriously long break. I wasnt exactly on a break, but the total opposite actually. It's already week 3 at uni and its proving to be no walk in the park. Watching the olympics(swimming) as I type this.

ok so I shall begin from the beginning of my winter break which is but a distant memory now. Firstly, our home became a 'hotel' for 3 weeks straight as we had my aunts 2 friends and one friends daughter and my one friend stay over in that span. My friend M needed to bunk over for a night because her homestay peeps went to sydney to watch state of Origin match.

The sleepover area

Sleepover companions

Pjays

Yup can you believe it, I watched this movie. Each time they broke into a song and dance I would get up and go do something else

Popcorn is a must!

Then my aunts friends daughter came over, Her name is Reva. She has all the good pics on her camera, I only have bits and pieces. But anyways it was a great 1 week as we both discovered what brisbane had to offer.(the pics I have dont do any justice to the things we saw)

Govenor of QLD's residence

WYD participants backpack I happened to see. Note the Korean Jesus
Below: Pictures from Mt Coot-ha look out
Church in the city

Below: Pictures from city hall (pictures of the clockwork,lift and view not with me)

kids were supposed to guess what the object for that month was and we have above one of the responses...hehehehe(at Museum of Brisbane situated inside city hall)

Below: Pictures from Kangaroo point
And of course food

Last chit chat session before R left

well we went to heps more places like Southbank and the surrounding areas, took a Citycat ride on the river,lifedtyle markets and so much more...pitty I dont have the pictures.

To be continued.................more on winter break and other happenings

Desolee!

Sorry! no time to update!! so busy!

Sneak Peek

Well, I have been counting down the days like some aimless person to 'THE DAY'(a few posts ago). I know its crazy and all, but I am just doing it for my own thrills sake!(aimless or what). Anyways..below are some sneak peek pictures before the eventual unravelling of the places secret identity.

Frozen coke and Mongolian beef and rice


Grass...

Wall carving


And after all that walking around the 'unidentified place'...a good indulgence at pancake house!

When a girl is bored

The first week of my winter break was practically slow moving...did very little.However ,starting from yesterday things have been full-on, and it feels good to be running around and doing productive things.

One such thing, productive or not... that I did was bake....nothing great, just made my own stuffing/filling for puff pastry and put it into the oven. I didnt want to use canned fruits, and I didnt want to just go plain chopped fruit, so I improvised with what ever fruit and ingridients there were at home!

Ingridients

We have above diced green apples(skinless), peeled navel oranges(hard outer skin removed), and cranberries

Cranberries with lime juice, vanilla essence,butter and cloves

Green apples with cinnamon(I added more cinnamon after this picture)

This is my orange filling envolope. I totaly forgot to take a picture of the oranges cooking. I added all spice and nutmeg to the oranges.

Cinammon apple flower

Ok and I am missing a picture of my cranberry rolls. The lack of documentation is caused by my lateness in baking because I wasnt free earlier in the day. I started only at 4.30, and was making them well into dinner time(about 7). So once they were ready I was too excited, and my family members and aunts friend were done with dinner so they attacked the pastry as they came out of the oven. So as I mentioned, I was on my feet till a little after everyone had dinner..so what I did was I put my dinner on a sheet of puff pastry and baked it as well since I was waiting anyways for the others.

Thus we have rice and meat stuffed pastry! it was awesome! the meat cooked further till it was a little crispy on the outside,the rice soaked up flavours from the meat,and coating it crispy buttery pastry! yummmo!!

My aunt's friend had bought a tub of greek youghurt, and that was an amazing combination with the sweet pastry. Can you imagine piping hot pastry with a nice dollop of cold youghurt on a cold night!? hmmmmmmmmm...............

Results

I'm not over the moon about my results...neither am I totaly under !! hahhaha makes sense? no? ok good.
Well a new beginning is in store....and it can only go fowards and not backwards right? (my promise to two very special people)

To You Da

Stay strong ...

YOU have an entire army of people behind you praying for you

God will be there for you, just trust in HIM and know he is GOD!

Let GO let GOD!

I know you can overcome anything and everything

You're so brave and you have a wonderful person beside you to encourage you along the way

You are so special to each and everyone one of us

Wish you all the blessings and peace of heart in the world

Do take care