Hm i am glad that people seems to enjoy reading my life here. I guess reading about peculiar things in another country is interesting. I am hoping to educate my friends about the culture here etc. It seems that this blog is serving its purpose of bringing my friends in singapore into my life here too. It certainly serves well as a linkage between me and my friends. I actually feel that i am back to my days of telling stories to my friends, except that i do it online now. Although I think i need to blog about more intelligent things to prevent my blog from degrading to a trashy blog.

I hope that my friends can be influenced by the relaxed pace here. I think it will be good to slow down a little.

I made this pro-looking latte in a lazy afternoon. sometimes i will play some music too. Makes me relax. :)

Actually, i added this photo to show off my coffee making skill. hahahahaha.

Ai today in a super blogging mood. I am supposed to be out clubbing now. But i was a little apprehensive about whether the general public here will be acceptance of my dance moves. More importantly, I am feeling a little lazy. But the drinks here are really cheap. My friend was telling me that the drinks are selling at 2 dollars in the club. Anyway free entry tonight if you have ANU student card. Beer is cheap also. I am not in the mood for loud music. I am in the mood for light music in this cold weather and maybe have a latte. Haha.

Another observation here. I mentioned before that the pace of life here is generally slow. So it takes quite a while for the food to be served in restaurants as everyone is generally relaxed and slow. Nobody complains about the slow service thing here because it is their way of life. I guess in Singapore, people would have asked the waiter a couple of times about the food. They would be all ready to see the manager if that is what it takes to get the food to be served. So having such relaxed life, I realised that they don’t really update the online weather report during weekend and public holiday too. FYI, I check the temperature periodically. Strange. People check weather on weekday and not on weekend?

OK yeuai and michelle. both of you are right. It is the daylight saving thing that is so hard to comprehend. So i have been living in another dimension for the past few days. Something like those sci-fi movies, I was living 1 hour faster than my friends. What puzzled me was that none of my hostel friends, nor school friends mentioned anything about it. I watched the news but i did not catch anything about it. I seemed to have travelled through space and time to reach where i am now. I am just glad that everything is over. My exams are over too!! so i will be having a small break. I am preparing to roam canberra with my camera. So prepare to be fascinated with artistic shots of canberra.



So here'a a preview of my artistic shot:



I bought this honeycomb at around 7 dollars. I am not sure whether this is considered cheap cause i don't see this in singapore. But honey is cheap here :)


Anyway, here's my reply to all the action on my interactively fun tagboard!!!


1. Nadya : hey, i can tell you are really busy with school!! haha. good that u come on my blog to listen to my life stories. Anyway, i have not found the shit stainer. He's too discrete and my analysis is too weak. Ai, but i should not be worrying about such trivial stuff. I have more important stuff to worry about, like my hair. i just had a hair cut for $60! it is just a nieghbourhood store near my hall. With such expensive haircut, i may let it grow to shoulder length.


2. Hi shiwen!!! hahaha. quite boliao to say hi to each other on my blog. feel free to make yourself at home on my blog.

i cant believe i am so confused by the time here!! i dunno what time is it now???!!!! my hp shows that it is 1220 but i saw online that it is only 1120. i googled and it seems that on 5 april, they shifted the time here. so i have been living in my own world!!! no wonder when i went for class just now, nobody was there so i assumed that lesson was cancelled. cuz i have a test tmr. n i happily went out to have lunch instead!! haha i cant believe this is happening. i guess after i post this blog, i shld know the time.

I am going to make coffee in a while :) haha i am so boliao.

I have been keeping a secret from all of you for a month. I BOUGHT A COFFEE MACHINE MONTH AGO!! Haha. Actually I didn’t mean to keep it as a secret. Just kind of lazy to upload a picture of my coffee machine onto my blog. I feel that I am not doing my coffee machine justice if I merely blog and not upload a picture of my cool new gadget. Before you start judging me and saying that I am a spendthrift, allow me to justify my spending. I understand that coffee here is cheap. The coffee machine is cheap too!! J I bought it at 64 dollars!! The cheapest one I saw in singapore was 600 plus!! I think it’s because of the coffee culture here that provides the demand for coffee machine and thus, justifies the production of coffee makers and increases domestic supply of coffee machine. I suppose the price of coffee machine has to be competitive to rival cheap gourmet coffee around aussie. Whatever it is, I am just happy that I got it.

Now, I can enjoy coffee whenever I want. I can be my own barista and customize my own drink. Anyway the machine is a small version of the one used in startbucks. It is cool, cute and really useful. Most importantly, I feel pro while making coffee. I never expect myself to make nice coffee at home, given my history of coffee making revolves around 3 in 1 coffee. My coffee is definitely not as nice as the coffee from starbucks etc. However, the standard of my coffee is satisfying and beyond my imagination. I feel quite shy to boast that I actually make better café latte than coffee club express in NUS. I am also shocked by how good I am. I have to admit that the first coffee I made was a disaster. But I always believe in sheer determination. I read lots of stuff online so I picked up quite a bit of coffee making knowledge.

I hope the one day, I can make coffee that are so nice that my ah-mah will prefer my café latte to her all time favourite kopi-O.

wa i just cooked sth that is like Fish n Co standard. And it is really easy. Best of all, i came up with the recipe!! Garlic butter lemon fish!!

Easy. Just..

1. chop garlic (lots of)
2. heat pan
3. put a huge slab of butter onto pan and let it melt.
4. add in garlic and let it sizzle.
5. put fish in and let the skin turn a little crispy. pan fry till the fish is cooked.
6. Add lemon juice and serve.

The lemon juice will make your fish taste unique and healthy even though you added so much butter. Can't believe my blog can actually become a mini food blog. I feel like a chef :)

Note: i didn't add wine to this cause i think it tastes good even without wine. For my fish, i used new zealand fish fillet. White meat. So just use something similar. Don't stupid stupid use ikan bilis.