tira miss u

A few days back Bel, Tasha and I tried our hand at making tiramisu. Wasn't too bad :p

Some pics here...

I baked the sponge layers the day before.



Caramelised the sugar and coated the almonds with it.



Us noobs furiously slathering the mascarpone on, around and in-between. It was melting fast in the KL heat :(



The aforementioned noobs (minus myself)



Slapping the caramelised almond bits on the sides.



The finished cake after we'd refrigerated it for about 5 hours.

Yummay :p

NOTE: I should mention that I ripped these photos off Annabel's facebook album :D

Swine Flu Bull$#!t

Like SERIOUSLY PEOPLE!!!

This swine flu is practically the same as the normal flu. Just accept it and move on with life. If you get the flu, then all you have to do is take a course of antibiotics, rest, and recover! So what if other people get infected. We don't quarantine people with the regular flu. And that causes more deaths than the swine flu does! Meh.

I think the Malaysian Health Ministry is massively overreacting - closing down schools, quarantining people who've been in contact with infected people, asking students studying in Australia not to return home. But wait, there's more - you could be fined up to RM10,000 or jailed for up to 2 years for withholding health information about yourself... :s

Seriously, I think the resources wasted on all that can and should be used for more important things.

Found these cute little works of art/vandalism in Melbourne. I totally agree with the message that the people who did this were trying to put forth. Basically, there are these cute life-sized sculptures of 3 skinny men in business suits, holding their briefcases and random Melbournians have taken the opportunity to use them as part of their mini awareness-raising campaigns (I once saw them with cigarettes in their o-shaped mouths - so cute!). Here, they are wearing masks. Lol!

Gotta Love Malaysia! :p

First day back in KL and this is what I see:

• Street lights lighting up the roads at 12 o'clock in the afternoon...
• Some random dudes working for a bakery, selling their goods 'market style' i.e. they were yelling at the tops of their voice. About bread. Lol.
• Man sweeping the... (wait for it)... HIGHWAY!!

And for all that, I have only one thing to say - it feels good to be home!

:p

The T-word :p

I bought turkey by accident at the supermarket. Came home, read the packaging for the first time, and realised that it wasn't chicken, but turkey! Meh. Only someone called Shobie could do something as silly as that :p It said 'TURKEY' on the front. But I didn't realise that when I was buying it :s

Didn't want to waste it. So I cooked it anyway. Surprisingly, it tasted good! Probably because it was fake turkey... tasted a lot like chicken... and quite unlike the turkey I usually have... but that's only roast turkey, for Christmas - so maybe it's meant to taste different :p

So having the other turkey breast today. Yumm :)

I think I'm going to start using short sentences from now on. Like this. Hee.

(NOT YET PSYCHO... but getting there... as you can probably tell)


And just a little something on the side - found this printing error on a sign at the Asian grocer's here :)

Australia vs Japan

My first real life football (soccer) match!! :)

Didn't really know what was going on... Spent most of the time laughing at the fouls and referee's antiques and the players' dress sense :p

But it was still fun.

Did the mexican wave ONCE... Missed it TWICE. Seriously, how was I supposed to know there was one going around the stadium (massive as it was) when I was busy keeping my eye on the ball?!?!

Ate some super salty and MSG-laden chips (that tasted awesome nonetheless!). Put myself in the best situation to catch the swine flu... :s One stadium with 70,000 people - at the rate Victoria's going, there must have been a few people with the flu there... Don't want to get QUARANTINED!

Heard the Australian Boys' Choir perform before the match started. Sadly, not many of the other spectators shared my enthusiasm for that performance :( Boo. But they sang my favourite Aussie song, "I Still Call Australia Home"!! ♥ ♥ ♥

Saw Tim Cahill (the 'star' of the Aussie team) score 2 goals - according to my more football-savvy (I fall under the 'football noob' category :p) friends, they weren't exactly awesome goals... But then, both teams had chosen to rest some of their best players.

I've decided that I like Mark Schwarzer!! He made some pretty cool saves :)
(though I think he looks better from afar rather than up close... :p)

That's all for now.

Nyeh.

The crowd at the MCG

Australia scoring their first goal!

Some Aussie fans letting off flares after Australia's first goal... :s

*The pics shown here were taken by my friend, Tai Jia*

I ♥ Glee!!!! :) :) :)

I love love love love love this version of 'Don't Stop Believing'!!!!

It's from a new TV series called 'Glee'.

*sigh!!*



Did I mention that I LOVE IT??? :p

(And also, the main guy is pretty darn hot. Hee :) )

Seeing Ghosts...

I'm trying very hard to study for my first exam on Tuesday, but my mind keeps going back to one thought - triggered by my seeing a certain 'ghost' from my recent past.

I'm usually one who is big on the whole 'forgive and forget' attitude. But as I've only just learnt, some things once forgiven (or maybe not really...) cannot be forgotten. It's like a wound that keeps closing on the surface but never heals properly on the inside. Just ruin the skin covering it, and the wound is exposed once more.

No matter how hard I try to justify certain events that have happened, I keep coming back to this one huge, gaping question that I simply cannot find the answer to - how can there be such cruel, selfish, and hurtful people in this world? How can someone, a totally normal human being, do something so inherently evil and just carry on with their life without an ounce of guilt or remorse for their actions?

It just doesn't make sense.

Or perhaps the remorse and guilt are there... Only that they choose to bury them and not look at them.

But at least I have a cure for the confusion that thinking about something like this brings - think of people like Barrack Obama and Dr. Charles Teo and Elizabeth Gilbert and I feel so much happier knowing that there are still are so many good people around :)

In 'The Sound of Music', Maria sang about raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, and all her other 'favourite things' to make herself feel better when she was down. I guess the people mentioned above, along with my awesome(!) family and friends are MY 'favourite things' :p

That, and 'Sex and the City' :) :)