Nothing can ever be as quality-guaranteed as Japanese curry

Japanese curry for dinner tonight. This is probably the 6th time i've made it. The only variation i made was marinating the chicken before stir-frying it. I might've added a little too much water but it'll thicken over time. Hehe... yumm~

I've been addicted to croissants for the past few days. Apply strawberry jam and thick cream to every bite and sipping ice coffee during afternoon tea time has been my favourite luxury. I gotta watch my calorie intake though LOL~


After dinner, i tried to make chocolate chip biscotti since i've never tried making it before. I've already got all the ingredients from my previous baking trials (except choco chip, which i bought earlier in the arvo). However, i cut all the ingredients by half since it's my first time making it and I don't wanna let the extra ingredients go to waste. I'm not sure if this proves to be a smart choice eventually... coz the biscotti were not so successful. They were too dry and I didn't have the appropriate knife to cut the fragile loaf of biscotti, so they ended up quite crushed. Didn't wanna take a photo of failed products LOL~ The taste is still quite awesome, but i guess there are some things that you have to make in bulk.

Dinner tonight

Stir fry eggs with tomato & stir fry chicken with kimchi.

I got these recipes from my friend's mum. They were my new favourite home-made dishes. Whenever her mum comes to visit, i would always hope that she'll cook the egg dish coz i'm huge fan of eggs! However,my re-creation of those two dishes didn't turn out to be successful. I should've added more soy sauce to both dishes coz they tasted quite plain and there weren't enough flavour.

Sigh...i'll make sure to write down the recipe from her mum next time.

First post: sweet and sour day

My friend who recently got into a car accident, invited me and Anne for Yum Cha @ South juniors today because her mum wants to thank us for being there with her in the hospital. The perfect sunny weather & Yum Cha gave me a false impression that it's Sunday today because we normally go to Yum Cha during weekends only. It wasn't until 4.30pm when me, Anne and Evelyn were walking to Maroubra Junction to buy groceries that I realised today's TUESDAY and I have to an afternoon shift of volunteer work tomorrow!!

The walk to and fro maroubra junction was tiring me out... which can only mean one thing: I lack exercise!!! (=_=") Anne got a $10 Coles gift card from nuffnang for putting their ads on her blog, and if she can come up with a creative way on how she spends that amount of money, she might win a $100 voucher from nuffnang. This triggered the ($_$) side of me, especially since i'm unemployed at the moment. So I might come up with another blog, with duplicate postings from this lj since i can't embed 3rd party advertisers on livejournal. This is a pity because I've already established my network in livejournal. My friends are not really avid blog readers so i doubt anyone would ever visit my blog much =P

I dropped by my friend's house again for dinner and got her easyway along the way. I was rushing to catch the 7.27pm 303 bus at UNSW, so i rushed and ran as fast as my stamina could allow me to. However, when i was waiting at the UNSW bus stop, not only was the bus late for 12 minutes, but it didn't even stop!!! There's no way the bus driver could've missed our signals since there were quite a few students trying to hail the bus to stop (it's peak classes-finish hour). It went right past without any signs of slowing down. Some of the students were stunned. One of them decided to take a cab few minutes later. If there are other alternative buses that we could've catched, we wouldn't be so dumb-founded. It's the fact that bus 303 has very different bus routes compared to the rest of the buses that stop @ uni, coupled with the fact that it only comes ONCE EVERY HOUR. It's not my first bad encounter with Sydney buses, it's just that I was really annoyed this time around to do something about it. So i called the sydney buses 131500 to report this matter to them. I bet it would take another million numbers of phone call complaints before they would do something about it, but at least i'm now adding to the counter.

When I was having dinner at my friend's house, 2 police officers dropped by to grab her accountsof the car accident. I have to say they weren't the friendliest kind of human beings, let alone "police officers". The female police officer was so rude and I'm 99.9% sure that she has discrimination towards Asians. 2 minutes into the conversation and she asked my friend (who graduated high school and obtained her bachelor degree in New Zealand, graduated from Master of Commerce in Sydney and is currently working for one of the largest insurance companies): "Can you read English?". For goodness sake, has the conversation between them so far been in Chinese language? She latter argued that it's a procedure that she has to go through whenever she's trying to record down accounts of accidents from all parties. Ok she made her point and I really believed it back then, so i remained silent and decided to listen in to the rest of the conversation without any misconceptions about her. But throughout the remaining conversation, she didn't show any patience or empathy at all. Whatever my friend told her about the accounts of the accident, she couldn't stop hinting that whatever my friend said was all lies. "So did you really see it or not?" " Did you know what kind of poles you hit?" "Can you please describe the pole to me?" "How many centimeters away was the truck away from you". WTF? Who in their right mind would remember such specific details when they had a feeling that they won't be able to live through the car accident? She latter revealed that witness accounts from 2 pedestrians and the truck driver were against whatever my friend was saying. So? This doesn't give her the right to talk to my friend like that. That's what police officers are for aren't they? to investigate the matter further and find out the truth, as well as leaving your personal judgements out of the conversation. Aren't evidences what they care about the most? Some of you might argue that they're just doing their jobs, and that i'm overprotective over my friend. But even if the same thing happens to a stranger, I would've sympathised the one who's being questioned as well. Apparently the same thing happened to my friend's boyfriend before. He got beaten up by some guys at the petrol station and police officers who questioned him back then decided to ignore the blood flowing down his forehead and pressed on with the questionings in even more gruesome attitude. I guess the discrimination that Australians have towards Asians still exist afterall.

To conclude this entry on a sweeter note, here's the lolly-cake that me and my friend recently made again:


My friend brought over the colourful fruit puffs from New Zealand since they don't sell it here in Sydney. There are some other alternatives of course, but the fruit puffs are what make them taste unique (^_^) It's not as sweet as the one i made before so it's perfect even for people who doesn't have sweet tooth.