Tang Yuen

It's one of the Chinese Celebration during the China winter season called 'dung chew jia' or Winter Solstice Festival when sunshine is weakest and daylight shortest. It's kinda big celebration celebrated by chinese. We made 'tang yuen' for the occasion. It's simple and easy. I made one special 'tang yuen' of yinyang effect. Ha!! Nice and yummy!!!

AirAsia to Cathay Pacific

Ha! Am lucky.

I book AirAsia flight back to Malaysia and instead have Cathay Pacific air flight back to KL. Haha!!!

I booked the flight Airasia flight a couple of months back due to it's cheap fare. It's just a trip or rather a journey to destination. If I can save more.. why not. Getting near the flight date, I found out I lost my booking number and any information that I have to check my flight status. I tried calling the AirAsia hotline but they are in the mist of shifting the call centre hub. No luck at all. So all that I can do is just keep my fingers cross that I 'DID' bought the ticket.

Anyway, when I am at the check-in counter. The lady behind the counter informed that the new airbus that was suppose to operate the flight was late in the delivery. AirAsia hired Cathay Pacific aircraft and their crew to operate the flight instead rather then cancelling the whole flight. So... I got full service and tv on board!! Ha!!!

Even so, with it. I am bored. Drank a few glasses of wine in order to force myself to sleep without any success. The flight was draggy and was delayed. Once landed in KL, the first sign that make me realise that I am in Malaysia is the heat and humidity. The next sign is the toilet in Malaysia. It's always wet!!!!! Arrgghh.... Why issit always WET!!! URgghh...

Anyway I was really tired. I just wanna get out and head back home. Dad picked me up from LCCT airport and drove me back straight Ipoh.

Head over to Tambun House and stayed the night. I only manage to get back to my old house in Alkaf the next dayand only then I trully really felt "home sweeeeettt home".

Haa.. am back home :D

The dinner before heading back

Finally, Black Forest Restaurant was the choice made.

I heard about this restaurant since I moved to Greenslopes. Never manage to tried it till now. It's a rough 5 minutes drive away from Greenslopes. By its name itself, its shouts out "German German German".

The food is alright, but there sure is quite a lot of beer selection. German beer :D Hurray! It is quite pricey though. The main dish portion is huge and too many meat meat meat.

Bake Bake Bake

Decided to start baking since I have loads of free time before heading back Malaysia.

The baking definitely need to be done in the morning. It can get pretty hot in the afternoon in Brisbane. I hate the heat here in Brisbane. I have to admit summer is my least favorite season over here. Furthermore, the place I am renting now did not have aircondition and the sun glares strongly in the kitchen area in the the afternoon. So its a N-O to be around kitchen in the afternoon.

My parents bought me a microwave oven that includes convection and grill during their visit here. The old oven provided here is not really a good one and baking in the old oven sucks big time. So with the new oven, I decided to get back into baking. Decided to explore more and bake bake bake.

The Oven



The cooling rack for choc chips

The choc chips will be my gift to my dear dear friends back in Malaysia. What is more better then a gift hand-made with love?? *wiNk*

A woosh and it's December

My bad. I did not update the blog as often as I should have.

Heck! From a graduand to a graduate now. I am officially a Master graduate in communication. Ha! My parents came over to attend the ceremony and stayed for two whole weeks. :D Time flies really quick. I brought them around Brissie (not that there is much to visit). I miss them now that they are back in Malaysia. Lucky thing, I will be back soon. Another three more days, I'll be eating wanton mee and char koay teow. HahAhah!

Au

My parents and I head over the Mount Tamborine during their visit. We come across Au Vineyard. Haha... can't resist and drop by.

Just in case you din know... we are the "AU" family.

Japanese Manga

During my final semester in my studies, I have practically stopped many activities. I refrain from reading my books, anime and tvb series. Heck, the final semester is the hardest of all. Now I am back. Back to the happy and leisure time to enjoy the wonders. While I was busy doing my projects and assignments, I d/led selected Japanese anime (either introduced by my cous or by searching the net) . Gosh! It was really good and amazing. From the anime, I actually decided to get into the Japanese Manga too. After all, the anime was derived from manga. Let me introduce my first ever manga:

Fruits Basket