last paper on tuesday! =D cant wait its going to be awesome! staying back for summer well i stay back every year la but this wil be first time im actually working over summer instead of playing house and yea... so thats good!
went to queenstown for sky diving before exams...man it was one hell of a trip ahah we were so stressed about exams and some smelly lab report we had to do which was due like today but we still went anyway.
almost didn manage to jump coz the weather was crap X( but it worked out all good! went to wanaka and arrowtown and played archery and shot guns that was fun =D picture was taken in glenorchy about 40km off queenstown where they did some lord of the ring shots :P its like a nobody place so quiet and one school and 3 cafes...small place:P
hope there's more fun stuff happening during the holidays muahah now i can go and say " Meet up after 5..." muahahah
taking a break today coz i have been locked up at home/library to study and not having much sleep hrm...partly my fault but yea its all good. today recharge!
next week exam, bbq, guy fawkes day = play fireworks, and more chilling! =D
oh my blog..how neglected...uni has started...as you can see i don have time to procrastinate...hmm then what am i doing now.. HAHAHAHa
erm...lots of things happening/happened/going to happen. don know which one to focus on..x_X my brain going to die-ded already.
blargh don wana think about it make me sien only...
i shall return to assignmenting!
but yea trip back to malaysia was awesome =D did many things talked until no more saliva har har bought all my fili fala and at the end of the day come back to dunedin.
the weather has been depressing la...but i think i got the hang of it now. need to plan my time to get all the assignments in on time and stuff. so yea...working hard!
finally fiiiiiiiiiinaaaallly after such a long wait i am waiting for tomorrow to come when i will sit my first paper.....im sure everyone has like basically finished already and teh exam period has just started for me.
the past week has been microbe microbe microbe so! in conjunction to that! is my microbe agar plate! it was from the yeast and mould plating for my sauerkraut,..aww....look at that popcorn shaped mould...its so CUTE! XD i feel like squishing it! :P
such an interesting shape....so anyway....its tomoro...afternooon means tomoro more studying before i go for my exam...then another paper on tuesday! busy busy!
lalal i have not blogged for some time so i don really remember some stuff -__-'' talk about getting old! but apparently, wel from my phone i only had one bento last week....ta da~! pesto pasta with stir fried beef and garlic sprouts! mum would never approve of that...no no from china veges...haha but it was cheap and i like it :P so there...hopefully she never finds out! O_O aha
then i was being industrious during the weekend coz it was the last time i could be lazy and fili fala til i need to study real hard for exams! so i made... tada! hmm..the close up shot not too good i think its the lighting! but yea! what is it... macaron macarons~! =DD with white chocolate and black sesame filling! hmm...the filling got kinda hard...well coz there was no cream in it and only chocolate...so i guess since its cold her it became very hard so yea...but it was still yummy! the green tea was bitter and off set the sweetness from the white chocolate! =D since walnuts are in season, i made walnut crispies! crunchy and brainy! apparently walnuts is good for memory! another functional food! munch them walnuts!
i finished my study plan of the day! =D so im happy i thought i didn have enough time but i managed! so tahts good!
starting on micro tomoro...that one arr...hmm...lots of things to do tomoro actually ah well....19 more days till i go home! eks! XDD yay yay
hello hello! its been awhile now hasn't it? haha did that sentence sound ang mo or what?!! anyway...yes i have sadly been busy T__T this has been the most hectic week ever! so i didn update last week coz i was in preparation for this week with 2 major assignments and a report due at the same time it was balrgh....the whole week haha can cough blood one i tell you but its all over now....
i have been over industrious tonight hmm...i think i cook when im stressed so this time is a bit over...but aaaaanyway!
last monday's lunch... i bought a container just so that i can bring sandwich like this to uni....sigh it was on sale so don scould me...haha. erm...what was it...oh yea! mashed egg dressed with mayo and blue cheese! with lotsa salad and some herby thing inside wher eyou cant see. and i got hummus int ehre! =D i love hummus!
oh coz this was special! monday's dinner was bibimbap! home made kimchi, porkbelly saute, carrot and brocolli sticks, fried egg and lotsa gochujang! =D yum yum
tuesday i was....late...so i just dumped rice and kimchi pancake in and off i went :P
had lunch at home on wednesday
thursday wednesday was weiner day! with kimchi and seaweed salad yes i was very blur that week so i didn ahve any flash ideas
friday! i needed to finish my pau...yea that unidentified plastic bag has my pau inside so i can clear my freezer my corn also i froze so yea...trying to get some stuff out for new things! =D
on saturday! we went for the capping show! its some like comedy thing the uni has out done by all the theatrical dept here at otago we had poppa's pizza before we went! =D thaat was yummy!
new week! finally, this week! monday! hmm....i felt like i needed to diet so i cut down on carb...the rice ball is actually pretty small so yea...with fruits, dumpling, vege and carrots cooked with tauhu and miso...hmm very nice combination! coz miso and tauhu are soy products! try it!
tuesday tuesday..hmm..i had...the same thing..gee i didn notice....
wednesday i started late so lunch at home!
thursday! thursday! i had something special! seaweed salad, dumplings and my afro/lion egg! =D made my day! since this week was like blargh...
friday hmm tats today! pasta with pesto! try it so easy and taste so good. get the basil one i like that one =D the sundried tomato's not really my thing coz i don really go for tomato anyway :P
anyway! what happened tonight! well...i was watching tv and had this craving...so i decided to make... green goo...how very exciting.... tada! kaya K-A-Y-A i love kayaaaaaaaaaaaa~~~!!!! yay yay =D i did it the lazy way...instead of standing in front of a double boiler for hours on end stiring this custard i dumped it in teh microwave and it took me roughly an hour for the whole process...then again i did a small batch...hmm ah wells but its pretty good! =D had it on some toast just now XDD
then ive been meaning to try out amelia's banana cake recipe for some time and i just had two black banana's calling me..so i also made banana muffins! =D with peanuts and chocoalte in there so theres an extra crunch! yay yum yum tee hee so today is pretty exciting! and all the assignments are done except for one more report due next week
tomoro im going to help my fren make tau sar pau for some fund raising thing.coz i got the recipe and stuff so tahts pretty cool! then we will be making chang >__< yay yay
chang chang it was lik eyesterday bak chang festival and i didn eat at all T__T coz i was busy with assignments hmm...how many times have i said that....ah wells anyway! i was so excited about bak chang i went to the shop to get ingredients and went home and la la la and then when i got home i was like oh yea i went to the shop to get tau sar for the pau -___-''' wasting my life...guess i have to go back again tomoro :P ah wells
exciting! =D
*ciaossu*
the song is soo cute =D its really summer time...well everywhere else but here :P
blue cheese and egg sandwiches are sooooooooooo goooooooood~! =3 yum yum yum~! =D grilled blue cheese is good too! hail is bad! how am i going to uni? =( ive eaten my whole life time worth of pasta in this one year! O_o... when i thought staying up till 3am to finish an assignment was impossible...it happened last night -__-'''
no...i must not munch...*drinks more water* hahah its so late already still wna munch..my gooness...hmm oh bento! thats right! this was thursday's lunch! i didn put it up then coz i was erm...busy talking to myself and getting ready for my presentation ahah so here it is! broccoli and hamburger beef steak! that my fren's japanese flat mate taught me how to do. interesting its really yummy! =D definitely making it again!
and then! friday i ate wedges :P haha coz i was so urgh about presentation so i decided to hey what the heck...might as well treat myself! friday's dinner! omg...the yummiest pizza ever! XDD i love it! i shall make pizza every friday if i get my hands on some good cheese! its tomato with broccoli which for some reason tastes so good on pizza and olives and the bocconcini i bought the other day and the special weapon! the blue cheese! yum yum! you shud try it...blue cheese grilled on toast or on a pizza like this...it is sooooo good! =p~~ hmm i feel like eating again now T__T
oh yesterday i watched the korean version of hana yori dango and then suddenly i felt like eating bibimbap...so i made bibimbap! haha that was pretty easy too! i was amazed! O_O the only thing missng was tauge...which i didn have but yea...next time i will put extra seaweed salad! =D
got another presentation tomoro and more reports due..but yea...its getting there! im working hard! haha erm...hmm...oh im already thinking about tomoro's lunch -_-''' i think its egg sandwiches with kimchi pancake or vege sticks with hummus...mmm...i *heart* hummus! =D
this week i also have some food safety thing to go to coz im helping my fren with her stall during inernational food festival! guess what are we going to make! =DD we will make pau!! imagine...cold wintery dunedin and comforting hot hot steaming pau out from the steamer into your cold cold hands...yum....haha the only way to eat pay! XDD
but yea before THAT! there's much to do! i shall go and practise for my another presentation thats on tomoro!
hmm...i didn bento much last week. coz i was either at home for lunch or i was too busy to make and eat lunch in uni :P i had an apple on friday if you actually find that interesting...
tuesday's bento! purple potato salad! interesting! the colour is really nice! =D with rice, kimchi and salted salmon...yum yum....
that was the only bento for the week :P sad... on friday thoi went to the supermarket and they had so much stuff on sale! =D i was so excited! so i bought some nice cheese and hummus! then i can make real pizza! with real mozzarela cheese! >__< wellt hat will be for this week i guess
monday this week this was monday's bento! dumpling from last time keeps real long..still tasting good! =D put lots of ginger in the last time and still tasting it!
tuessay hmm i have not been very 'creative' the pass week i think my brain juice has gone to other more important things...but this sushi is pretty good! =D must be the salmon and hummus inside...yes i put a lot of random stuff in my lunch
i have a presentation tomoro talking about my acrylamides :P hope that goes fine and i don prat around like an idiot. im supposed to talk slooooooooowly so yea...shud be fine la...just gota have confidence! what else...we made more pasta this week and today we are going to look at some competitor products for pasta.
so yea...hmm i need to mail the company as well...sigh many things to do...next week will be a killeR! T__T
but, somehow there's always time to do cooking and stuff...guess im planning my time correctly! =D *ciaossu*
sigh....time is flying to quickly! why can't there be more time for me to spend my me-time...back to uni tomoro feeling sien...but at the same time i dono..haha going back to uni and then it will be friday again...lots to do! >_<
monday! here is monday's lunch! remember i made bread during last weekend? well it was sandwich lunch! with salad and canned fish, mayo and coriander! yum yum! its amazing coriander goes sooo well with fish! i just learnt! and my healthy cucumber sticks with hummuS! i LOVE hummus! XDD and my olives and pepper salad thingy!
i brought some cake for my frens to share with in uni! so here it is! with my lunch box all tied up! and my apple a day keeps the doctor away! yes! i eat my 5 a day!
tuesday tuesday was a hmm i realy have no idea what to do day so i just put my olive and pepper salad fish, mushroom from my bak kut teh and cucumber...all convenience foods sitting in the fridge
wednesday! i was more adventurous on wednesday and made the FASTEST sushi roll ever! i was almost late for uni i only took like 15 min O_O cuz this cut that and microwave the rice then roll everything, wash up cut, put in container and then go to uni...i think that set the record for fastest time used to make lunch
thursday! another blur day...just microwaved some weiners! and chucked it in with salad and corn beef and coriander rice! hmm thats good too!
no bento on friday coz i went home for lunch and then back to uni to do my presentation! it was hilarious! luckily it was only a practise run! the teacher and everyone else thought i was talking like f1 but i felt it was my ok speed..hmm...oh wells...
what else...oh! saturday i was very productive! i finally cracked,,,my kimchi! yea! i made kimchi last week! and i finally bought a container for it and then packed it in and set it in the fridge! tell you something interesting! i used chives and spring onion for it right, and then i put it under a anaerobic condition to ferment ie no oxygen so when i was taking everything out to put in the container the chives and spring onion still so green and fresh! i was amazed!! only until i put it in the fridge then it started turning brown like today! so yea..
yesterday i also made some tofu thingy for hot pot! and fry keropok and made bread and i made CREAM PUFF =DD yum yum but i forgot to take photo... this is the photo before its baked :P very happy with it! coz it puffed up and then dried well so the crust was very crunchy! brought it over and we had hot pot and i assembled this baby there! my fren so funny! he wanted to eat the last one and i told him that was for another fren and hes like " i told you to make a lot! i told you to make 10!" so i was like "but i made 12" haha oh wells it was so funny coz like the cream was a bit flowly and i sprinkled icing sugar on it so when they bite into it right, they wanted to suck in the cream but at the same time they inahled the icing sugar so all 6 of us ended up choking HAHAHHA hilarious! it was like killer cream puff...but everyone liked it =D yay...happy!
yea so yea then today i went swimming! and made my mother's day card to send off tomoro! still doing some planing stuff for uni. tomoro got meeting with my lecturer so i need to have some questions to ask her about for tomoro! so yea! okies! im off again! see you next week! =D
i feel so sien...i have so much stuff to do and i have a presentation on friday which i have to do slide shows on and i have not done it yet and info gathering and lab reports and project allocation and sourcing people to come to focus groups..
urgh and im lacking sleep O_O well not really but i feel so tired...and im blargh one of those days...sigh tomoro we are having a full day lab i think i will wear glasses today i was there only like 2 sth and my contacts wana pop out already maybe too dry or my eyes are tired already
just gota get over this smelly phase then i will go all out again..exams are getting nearer and nearer more so for us coz we are having so many assignments and stuff to do time will fly until exams T__T sad...
oh....the stressful week with test and assignments have come to an end! next week is a breather and then full out again with reports are due -__-'' sad...it seems exams are nearer than ever coz we're so busy time flies like flies! WAKAKak ok ok that was soooo lame..
mondays bento! well basically monday was the same thing as sundays dinner...or erm the other day actually...i made a pasta bake! mini! and my gui ling gao! coz i wana gui ling gao dono must be them cravings....haha and golden kiwi! coz it was on special! funny its so hard but its still so sweet...hmm i wonder why i tot have to be squishy then its ripe...oh wells
tuesday! tuesday! was lab day! so i had more rice! with something new...seaweed rolled egg!, pork chop, and konnyaku daikon stew sigh konnyaku the ultimate diet food! haha the seaweed rolled egg was pretty interesting! yum yum...
wednesday! i had to stay back in uni to finish my assignment which was due on thursday and friday so i had some vermicilli thing...erm..you know so called 'slow' release of power kinda food with the filling that was supposed to be in with the noodle but somehow it don wana fren each other so had to put then in separately...and my rolled egg and seaweed! interesting!
the seaweed is just rehydrated and then add some vinegar, sugar, sesame seeds mix! then add sesame oil! and you get the same thing as the ones that they sell in the shops...well the shop one use fresh seaweed la...so yea...
thursday! i had another full day and was sad coz i didn manage to keep up to like my goals of the day the night before meaning i had to do more tonight =( so i had cinnamonoroll! made my day! ahah lunch was my seaweed egg roll, onigiri, kimchi pork, and olive on weiner!
friday! friday! i was so urgh from staying up soo late to finish my assignement i only raelised wen i got to uni that my lunch was all red -__-''' ah wells
today today! erm yesterday i was super busy la with grocery-ing and cutting hair and driving here and there but so yea today! i was very hardworking!
going to bak kut teh for dinner >__< last time i had it was like what...last year?!??!
hmm and three interesting bowls..daikon, cabbage and fermenting dough! guess what i made! haha if you can guess it you are very smart! but erm...the dough is for bread obviously...urgh i don wna imagine daikon and cabbage with the dough O_O
so anyway! i was making the sauce that needed like chilli powder and then i dump it in but not chillie enough! so i put the WHOLE 200g of chilli powder and hey its quite a bit its like..about...1 1/2 cup? 2? sth like that la but hten still not hot enough...smelly korean chilli so i added some other bunch of chilli based stuff and came up with this... but honestly! i tlel you its not spicy! eventhough it looks suicidal...hahah or maybe its just me ... then i added more stuff and black bean paste so its not that red now...and the lighting is different here so yea...chives and spring onion and a bunch of stuff...i wanted to put in fresh oyster too! but then oysters are like $22 for one dozen! T__T im so super poor...last time i could get away with like $13 for second grade now they don even have seconds -__-''
so yea...heres my veges that are salting and sweating their water out! was pretty interesting how you add salt and then suddenly your vege starts sweating...haha so yea! end product! wait...erm...bout a day or 2 and i will check it! kept with micr knowledge arrr~ so that it wont grow mould...hope it ferments nice! =D gave it a lot of love already haha the bread also nice >_< its rice bread! interesting ei? i made it with like rice and water and flour la of course and its chewy and light coz of teh rice giving it a erm...how to explain mochi mochi texture!
oh this is the cake i baked yesterday! it was good too! cheese souffle cake! =D it was not as nice when it was warm but hwen its int he fridge for a night whoa...the difference is amazing...dense and cheese like but the insides are just a little fluffy so its not too rich. the only thing i couldn get right was the cracking =( when it was in the oven it started getting bigger and then cracked..i tried lowering down the temperature but still cracked...hmm need to ask my fren! hes the son of a baker! haha last time i went over to his place and he baked cake! and it was looking sooo perfect but then right the top was burnt! so yea...
aights! i shall erm go and take bath and all see yah!
*ciaossu* ps see i told you! productive week! =D i guess the amount i cook = amount of stress im under O_O amazing....
acrylamides are classified in Group2A carcinogen which may induce carcinogenic effects to humans. this relates itself to neorotoxicity however, there is not enough evidence supporting this. acrylamides are formed within starch-based foods that have the protein asparagine and reducing sugars. when heated, they form acrylamides
sigh how nerdy thats what i need to write about for my essay urgh pretty interesing...indeed too much to fit into a 1200word essay including references....or is it.....
remember the excitement of having a whole week off? i wonder what happened to it O_O its over already and im still wanting to play T__T sigh sigh ah well back to school tomoro i guess i've been bumming a lot and not enought but oh wells ahha made some stuff which i forgot to take photo of :P even went to a frens place to make hamburger beef steak and forgot to take photo...oh the disgrace...haha but! i did remember... my pasta bake from the other day! had a mac and cheese craving so i tot might as well try it out :P and here it is! i had no bacon so i used canned fish i guess it became kinda like fish pie...but yea and i added brussel sprouts in too! =D yum yum! the cheese sauce was pretty good too! i used skim milk so i guess thats why its not too rich and just right then i also made pineapple tart!
yay a bit pale tho...hmm must be the egg wash the jam was yummy! i used canned pineapple coz it was on special and the real ones are too expensive anyway! thats the student budget for you! added less sugar this time so its not taht brown but i still find it too sweet...hmm ah wells
so yea im procrastinating here i ahve a test tomoro and 2 assignments due this week so i better geeiiit a mooove onnn! aight! catcha later!
sup! haha if you are wondering how was my wonderful week at uni it was freaking stress...hahah erm..yea...i had that assignment to do and full day labs and today was the earliest i got home which is before 5 usually i'll be home at like 6 or sth like that O_O but yea easter holidays are here!=D its one week of yay yay then back to uni well...not really for us coz we have SOOOOOO much stuff happening the first week back its not a holiday its a like a free week for us to catch up and study for term tests and course work so yea...with out further ado...lets adjurn to the bentos of the week!
monday! i fried falafel and roasted some pumpkin and kumara during the weekend! so here it is! i was in a hurry and everything didn really wana get squished in...so yea rice and falafel with cherry tomatoes, salad and roasted pumpkin to eat with black sesame sauce! =D
tuesday! tuesday i woke up early for some reason and my classes started late so i had time to fili fala in the kitchen to make lunch! haha so i had cucumber sticks with sambal, my tomato, roasted veg, falafel, some chicken salad! and one sad rice ball coz i only had enough rice in the fridge to make one! :P
wednesday wednesday was my full day! so i had chicken wing and falafel! with roasted veg and cucumber salad! and furikake on my rice! yum! its salty!
thursday! todays one very special dun dun dun its coming.... attack of the sausage alien!! ahha its supposed to be a penguin but when i cooked it i think i cut the arms to wide so it became like alien so i just put some vege stalks on it la hahah today i took my sweet time as well haha coz i started slightly later than usual! today was egg rice! falefal, squeezed erm vege thingy i have no idea what it is i tot it was rocket salad when i bought it from the korean store but when i opened the pack it had like leaves with the stalks so i guess it aint rocket salad! :P oh i added brussel sprouts too! coz they are yum! =D very fresh tasting! taste even better stir-fried XDD
now! the interesting thing of the week! this week we had a microbiology lab again and we have to like plate our microbes found in the sauerkraut we made. every week we do a plate count and see what grew and stuff this week... tada! my agar plate! so cool so cool! the white thing its like a mould and looks like popcorn! i was like eeeeeeeeeeee sooo cute and everyone was like ewww thats dissssssssssguuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhsting =( sad...guess im a freak
then we had a jelly lab for product development! where me and my fren made like coffee agar so coffee and cream! we used like industrial colouring and flavouring and worked with the percentages of what we needed to use with trial and error that kinda thing so that was pretty cool! =D then right
when we were making it somthing went wrong in the first batch and the jelly die-ded so we made shark fin soup! ta da!! shark fin soup! yum yum!!! haahhahah did you believe me?!!?!?! i don think so -___''' its actually the jelly hahah coz the coffee part did not want to coagulate but the cream phase did so we melted the cream phase and like pour in the coffee coz we tot it set already but it didn so we pour and it became like that and i wanted to throw away so put in plastic bag then really look like shark fin soup! O_O amazing! haha can go and con people outside :P
well in the end for the jelly evaluation, we didn win the like best tasting jelly coz some people didn like coffee so they rated ours really low =( so what ever...but in the end we did win a prize! XDD it was coz we made the effort to go the extra mile to make 2 layers coz everyone else did one only and that means when we make two we need to formulate for like 2 products instead of one that means twice the workload but we managed with..erm...minimal technical difficulties :P and this is what we won! tada! when the gave out the prizes, it was a tied first place with some random fruit thingy i don rmember i think ginger beer flavour and feijoa and apple flavour and the teacher each gave them a box of favourites chocolates being the group 'favourtie' haha then she was like this is for the group that went the extra mile to make a two layer one and she pulled this out and everyone laughed! =( they tot it was some random oranges but little did they know... so cool ei? its like orange with like cranberry flavour! it must be like GE food i think cross-breed with orange and cranberry! so cool so cool! ahah and the colour is like pinky in there not really like blood oranges...hmm haha so yea! have not tried it yet! i tot like i'ld wait for saturrrrday!
saturday is our drinking day! XDD yay yay! haha taste it with my team mate! =D
so yea im going to bum for a few days then get to work again beginning next week :P shuucks before the work load suffocates me again :P okies im off to err...bed haha see ya!
last paper on tuesday! =D cant wait its going to be awesome!
