Blabbering

One thing that tells me I need to write new posts is when my internet browser no longer shows my blog address automatically when I type in the first 2 letters.

Which brings me to this post. (Ok maybe not the only reason)

Into my 3rd week of working now, and a sudden realisation one day in office that it has been MARCH!!! and that school starts in September. While this may not sound like a long time, let me break down the 5 1/2 months and perhaps this can explain why:

September: Start of uni
August: Sent over to the uni by the scholarship board for us to get used to the life there
Mid-June to July: Pre-departure courses, training programmes, prize presentation etc.
Mid-May-mid June: Perhaps a trip to visit my grandparents?
March-April: Working at PwC

And alas, I am only left with one month++ to do whatever I want. As one of my seniors promptly puts it:"The next time we are getting a 8-month long holiday is perhaps when we retire."

And here I am, with a long list of things which I want to realise (but somehow always fail to), many aspirations to fulfill, and desperate to catch what remains of my "8-months" holiday.

The past 3 1/2 months were filled with ups and downs, and though I have not done much (most of the time was spent wasting my life away at home), it seemed that I never really had a break as well.

My last A-level paper was finished on the 29th of November, and from then on it has been a never-ending list of scholarship applications/uni applications/uni interviews/scholarship interviews/scholarship talks/more scholarship applications/more scholarship interviews/more uni interviews...the list goes on. In between the many interviews, the greatest achievement that I've had was probably to finish off 3 online novels, 2 dramas and read one of the most highly critised blogs in Singapore (not that we have many to begin with). Oh yes, and maybe chomped off a few books on economics/politics/philosophy in the process.
(To be continued)

桂花酒酿丸子

元宵节一定要吃/要做--桂花酒酿丸子

The multi-coloured wanzi are made from vegetable juice hehe^^ washed my juice extracter at least 3 times cos I didn't want the colours to mix.

Mum loved it though--which is all that I need. :)

Pineapple Tarts

I finally finished baking all the pineapple tarts yesterday! :D

before they go into the oven




finished product!


I'm not sure whether this will be the last year I can stay at home and celebrate CNY with my parents, so even though baking is a really tedious job I still have to do it.

在人生的道路上感到很迷茫、困惑、抑郁时，知道有那么两个人，不用我多说话就能体会我的心情，实在是太幸福了。

我很幸运，因为我有几个很好的朋友。不用我打电话，不用一直花钱去应酬以换来微薄的友情，我只在脸书上写上一句话，她们就明白。开心啊。

Thin crispy biscuits

Ok I "plagarised" the photos and recipes from ziyumama's blog. But you can see the website on the photo right? I referenced too! So I did not plagarise to be exact because I did not claim it as my own work.

Enough blabbering.

Anyway, I made these thin crispy biscuits according to the recipe that I found online and they are VERY nice! And by the time I realised that I need to take a photo to put onto this blog there were only 4 pieces left. And the photos were very ugly. BUT BUT they look the same as the ones in the photo above so oh well I guess I did a good job.

These biscuits are seriously the easiest to make. But one of the tastiest.

尖椒干豆腐

Ok if you know me well you should know that I'm a 东北人! And to be a true blue 东北人 one must eat 干豆腐!

Cooking? cooking!

As promised, here is my first cooking done after the A levels!

土豆西红柿

I put in two HUGE potatoes but there was only one tomato in the fridge. So yepp that explains the lack of red in the photo, cos the tomato literally disappeared. The red piece in the photo is 朝天椒 by the way.

Ingredients: Potatoes, tomamotoes, 朝天椒 (the red stubby chilli that is extremely spicy), garlic, onion, oil
Procedure: Stir-fry in anyway you like :)

凉拌面



Ingredients: 挂面(no idea what it's called in English because it has always been called "挂面" in my house), 榨菜(it's called Sichuan veg, cos it originated from Sichuan according to Baidu), minced meat, dark soya sauce, rice vinegar, Shaoxing wine, chilli oil (just pour hot oil over chilli and you get chilli oil), ginger, leek, salt, sugar
Procedure: Anyone with some elementary level cooking skills should be able to figure out

I cooked the first dish for lunch and the noodles for dinner. My parents started the spring cleaning today and I was the only one free so I volunteered to cook! XD Finished my room's cleaning right after A levels muahahaha