#232 dearest mother;

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

i baked my mum a cake.

it's a strawberry baked cheesecake, but the base is actually sponge.

but since its under a layer of cheese, the sponge is a little condensed.

it doesn't look that good in the photo.

but i definitely tastes better than it looks.

we ate it just before and she loved it.

she said if i don't take any of it to work tmr

by the time i get home it would be all gone.

:)

i also took her out to dinner in footscray

my mum wanted to go to lentil as anything

but jacky was calling me cheap

because technically you don't have to pay anything there

but it wasn't my fault, she said she wanted to go

though, i ended up taking her out for chinese

roast duck rice and crispy fried noodle

yum!

also, a funny thing that we always do

cos we're an asian family

and we always eat at that same place

we always never finish it and end up doggy bagging

and it'd be dinner for the next day.

always.

but we've been going to that same restaurant for YEARS.

i would say over a course of 10 years

when it was in a different location.

though i know that say sonja's restaurant would hate doggy bagging

but since its a restaurant in footscray

(food is cheap, and the people who eat their are mostly cheap)

you kind of have to offer that service because heaps of asians go there

and if you don't, they go elsewhere.

anyhow, i also gave my mum a present

its a bath robe, but its really soft

and for some reason it took us ages to find one.

side note: why does myer not have soft bath robes? they were quite rough. not a single one. and david jones wasn't much better either. and they are the expensive stores. i ended up getting it from cotton on & it was super soft :)

i rate myself highly as a daughter.

i baked a cake, took her out to dinner and bought a present.

& i think that if i were a boy, i'd make a really good boyfriend.

haha.

♥

#231

today, we went out for clara's birthday

we ate at this indian place in docklands

it was pretty good.

but the serving sizes for the mains were really small.

& a lot of the time i didn't know what i was eating.

though i must admit, its quite fun trying new things.

also, funny story.

so we were checking if any of the stuff had peanuts

since rowie is allergic

but none of them did

though they had nuts

but the boss was pretty anxious about it

because they had an incident with allergies recently.

and was telling her not to eat some of the dishes.

he also made the kitchen make a special chicken dish for her

even though she's only allergic to peanuts

& she was already eating everything else.

and plus its just a mild allergy.

also, we had cake :)

(i baked it)

didn't really take a picture of it

(so i cropped one)

but me, sonja and susan decorated the top with mini m&ms

we wrote

'we ♥ u'

if you can sort of see it.

twas quite fun.

i love catching up :)

& i ♥ these girls to bits.

#219

new layout, again.
i really quite like this one
because it looks pretty pro
:)
and i spent forever on it.

because it originally it looked like the picture below:

but i'm a bit annoyed that i can't change the rate that the thing slides

i think it goes too fast.

but oh well.

btw, my wallpaper came from here

in other news,

i've been really bad this semester

i haven't really done any uni work

except for my research project

and even that i'm not on top of.

and even though i know i haven't done anything

because i don't feel like it

i end up continuing to not do anything.

gah, it sucks.

and i'm definitely a person

that if i'm in the rhythm or in the zone of doing something

i can do it for agesss

but when i'm not

i just can't at all.

sigh.

♥

p.s. HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY CLARA!

i♥you.

CAKE #135

i made a cake today

it looked like this:

pretty successful,

it had a vanilla mascopone cream layer

with semi candied cherries

and a layer of

well it said

'chocolate hazelnut praline mousse'

but it was hardly a mousse

more like a thick chocolate fudge

and tasted a bit like nutella

with praline covered hazelnuts.

the let down was the cake it self though

but i guess

it was the first cake i've ever baked

especially from scratch

and well

at least it was edible

though very dry

but i did manage to moisten it a little

by spreading the cherry syrup over it

&

i will get better at it

eventually

:)

also,

twas sonja's 21st party

had jap food which was yum

& i got so full!

but i missed out on cupcakes from the party.

:(

boo!

#134

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONJA!
love you ♥

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !! #131

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKY!

i love you :)

you're so OLD!

old

old

old

:D

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so today, i feel like i've achieved a lot

even though i really have only achieved a little

well, i did finish an assignment from 9 am to 12 pm

even though i was supposed to do it last night

but decided to take a nap at 2am

and woke up at 6am

so proceeded to sleep to 8.30am

THEN woke at 9am to do my assignment.

luckily for me, it was a relatively easy assignment.

one bit was to pretty much write a resume.

so yes.

i also did a presentation/group assignment thing today.

but that was relatively ok.

but i was only worth 2% of my final mark anyway.

yeah, so i managed to do two assessment tasks today.

but i feel like i didn't do much

because i didn't really put much effort into either of them.

lol.

taking jacky out for dinner tmr

can't wait to go eat dessert

;)

♥

p.s. whoever posted on post #129 surprise, thanks. but it was posted as anonymous, so i don't know who are.

Adventures in IKEA ! #98

so me and jacky decided to go to IKEA today
was quite a fun day.
:)
bought a lamp for my room

:)

also another funny thing was that
we kept seeing rooms that looked like rooms from how i met your mother
actually it was mainly bachelor pads
that look like barney's room
but we did see some things that looked like ted would have
i.e. the architect table thing
(the elevated one)
:)

twas quite fun.
though actually i wasn't as big as i expected
obviously its a hella bigger than most places
its wasn't humunous
(you know?)
but yes. fun fun.

♥

♥ #97

i know this is technically a day late
but its only by an hour

so yay!
anniversary!

:)





















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#90

i find this cute
:)
i found it on the wall outside of one of the bakeries we went to yesterday
thought i'd post it

♥

nicest thing #78

i absolutely love this song
its an old song
nicest thing by kate nash
but i love hearing songs i used to love
and this is one of them
the lyrics are so sad but cute:

all i know is that you're so nice
you're the nicest thing i've seen
i wish that we could give it a go
see if we could be something

i wish i was your favourite girl
i wish you thought i was the reason you are in the world
i wish my smile was your favourite kind of smile
i wish the way that i dressed was your favourite kind of style

i wish you couldn't figure me out
but you always wanna know what i was about
i wish you'd hold my hand
when i was upset
i wish you'd never forget
the look on my face when we first met

i wish you had a favourite beauty spot
that you loved secretly
cause it was on a hidden bit,
that nobody else could see
basically, i wish that you loved me
i wish that you needed me
i wish that you knew when i said two sugars,
actually i meant three

i wish that without me your heart would break
i wish that without me you'd be spending the rest of your nights awake
i wish that without me you couldn't eat
i wish i was the last thing on your mind before you went to sleep

look, all i know is that you're the nicest thing i've ever seen
and i wish that we could see if we could be something
yeah, i wish that we could see if we could be something
i wish that we could see if we could be something.

♥

BIRTHDAY #71

i love getting birthday messages
it makes me feel so loved
i also love cards
especially hand made ones

or notes
with personal messages
ones that make me smile
or laugh

i love you all ♥