EAT ALL THE FOOD!

To whoever who will be in Malaysia (KL/Penang) while i'm back for the winter, it is your duty to see to it that my greedy apetite's demands are met before the 18th of July 2012.


Breakfast/Mamak
tau foo fa
roti telur
roti canai
tosai tisu
chapati
roti bakar with kaya
kaya pau
hong kong chee cheong fun
tandoori chicken
sotong goreng
roti babi
sup kambing

Hawker Food/Noodles
assam laksa
kari mee
kuih chap
bak moi
wan tan mee
yong tau foo
loh bak
oo chien
hokkien mee
char kuey teow
watt tan hor
ipoh hor fun
fish head noodles
sang har mee
chilli pan mee
pork noodles
hainanese chicken rice
mamak mee
beef ball noodles
chee cheong chok
penang rojak
pasembur
claypot chicken rice

Mains
bak kut teh
dim sum
soft shell crab pasta
roadside nasi lemak
nasi kandar
banana leaf rice
tau eu bak
nasi ulam
shiun lat choy
thai food
steam boat

Seafood Related
end of the world seafood
bkt. tambun seafood
lala chong seafood
balitong
otak-otak
ikan/sotong bakar

Sides
muar chee
apom
ban chang kueh
loklok
kuih talam
kuih bahulu
beh teh saw
yau char kuai

Dessert
leng chi kang
snowflake's bestseller

Fruits
rambutan
mangosteen
longan
dragonfruit
persimmon
guava

No Japanese food, PLEASE.
Bring me to new places too!


i'm gonna be one fat girl when i get back to Melbourne.
may.

it's nearly 4am and i can't sleep.

c'mon brain, don't be a freaking scumbag;
you know the only way i can get well from this month-long cough/cold/flu spell is for me to get rest.

maybe it's stress.

stress from what?


i'm afraid of flunking out in uni.
i'm afraid of getting fatter.
i'm afraid of my face breaking out.
i'm afraid of not being able to buy what i want.


from my inability to save my money.
from my growing habit of not paying attention to my studies.
from my lack of urgency.
from my furniture that may or may not arrive on time on tuesday;
and in the event where it doesn't, would cost me $100, courtesy of Verve Apartments.
from my lack of exercise, which means i'm wasting my gym membership i'm working to pay for.
from my dietary habits that yo-yo from 2 bowls of Aussie sized portions a meal to just 5 small dumplings.
from my job that gives me too few hours, and my second job that's paying me too little.
from my back that's been having pains over the last few weeks.
from my lack of fashion sense (trivial? you try being a fat girl with no fashion sense in melbourne)
from my addiction to 9gag, that makes me slave hours at a time on the net for nothing.

the list goes on and on and on and on.......

not to mention how mediocre my life here in Melbourne.
it's funny how people expected me to go wild or something once i go overseas,
away from my parents who keep their relatively sharp eyes on me.
believe it or not, i'm a lot tamer now despite the freedom i have here, compared to back home.

here?

no car.
no money.
need to study.
need to work.

i don't drink as much.
i don't club.. at all. (one hand is enough to count okay =.=)
everyone knows i won't touch cigarettes.
i've never tried any kind of drug (besides medicine.. true story okay... why the doubt la?)

but, it's not only the bad things that i don't do.

i've limited myself to a 1 km radius around my apartment,
cause i just can't seem to leave my comfort zone.
or at least, i can't afford to.

tram tickets are too expensive.
the good stuff's all further than walking distance.
eat at the same 3-4 restaurants if i eat out.
go to an average of 4 places a week: uni, domino's, chillipadi, coles/woollies/aldi.
i don't do anything besides sleep, eat, go to uni, go to work.

missed out on so many things in the last 6 months,
skiing, cherry picking, skydiving, good food/cafe hunting, visiting other parts of Australia,
or just getting out of the city and visiting the suburbs.

jase has been trying to get me to move for the last 1 month or so,
but after 6 months of sticking to doing nothing, i've just grown.. stale.

every time i think about what my life in Melbourne has come to be, i just get so.. depressed.
depressed that i didn't get to go to UK, like i've always wanted to,
where travelling opportunities there are a whole lot easier to come by,
where chances of meeting people other than Malaysians and Singaporeans are higher,
where uni life is actually a uni life..

and there's me not willing to give up my job(s) cause i know i need the money,
whether it's to sustain my daily spending,
or just to save some cash to treat myself to things i've always wanted but could never have.
even though i know i need to CONCENTRATE on this stupid course that i don't even wanna do.

sigh.

i wish i wasn't the typical whiny teenage girl, but i'm afraid i am.

i'm afraid of money.
i'm afraid of time.
i'm afraid of 'what comes next'.

i'm 20 this year.. i'm no little girl, i'm no teenager no more.

i'm growing up, and i hate it. i hate every aspect of growing up.
i wish my teen life could've lasted longer.

so...... my planned 4 sentence blog post turned into this huge rant that i've been holding in (and jase hearing most of it quite a number of times) for the last 2 months.

i just don't wanna whine anymore. help.

summary of the last two weeks (or less?)

i kinda forgot that i started blogging again. about as much as i've forgotten about my moleskine =x

fail la haiyoh.

so besides taking my time to finish my ATA assignment (had a week and a half to do it, finished it hours before the deadline fakyaaa), jase and i have been bringing his parents around.

now don't get me wrong, melbourne a nice place, but only if you live here. if you're a tourist, 

there's really nothing much you can do unless you bomb your money on $7.60/day for daily tram tickets.

so.... well obviously all we could do is eat around the city. 

(not like jase and i knew where else to go anyway)

chillipadi, where jase and i work at. 

yummy eggplant chips me gustaaaa

nasi goreng special.

curry laksa.

of course it's nothing like the food back home, but we've gotta make do with what we have [/okay].

and as i've promised them, i cooked dinner! not as many times as i hoped though, but close enough.

mushroom soup. not the healthiest thing out there, really.. but they liked it! :D

Jamie Oliver's 'Gorgeous' Greek salad. nothing fantastic, i wouldn't make this again.

Jamie Oliver's spicy fish with lemony couscous. overportioned the couscous :(

all in all, they were pretty happy with dinner.

mama and papa Lim cooked quite a fair bit as well, but i didn't manage to take pictures of it all.

papa Lim's Hainanese pork chop and boiled potatoes.

oh, and if you're in Melbourne, you MUST NOT MISS OUT ON THE COFFEE HERE.

had our fair share of pretty super good coffee like Manchester Press and League of Honest Coffee.

coffee art here is incredible too, but i'd like to see these one day..

hint, jase? *bad poker face.

and cause of the really hot weather over the last few days, we had ice cream. 

too bad we didnt bring them to Freddo's..

(yes i'm over the fact that that woman made me work 4 unpaid hours for her)

passionflower's masterpiece.

max brenner's strawberry and chocolate dip.


Chinese New Year has never been so... pointless.

'celebrated' Australia Day alone while they visited their relatives in the suburbs,

i must say, 2201 has a pretty good view of Fed Square's fireworks.
(wonder what it'll be like at 3001 eh? can't wait to move in!)

it's been a very eye-opening 2 weeks with Lims#2.

and they're getting ready to leave for the airport now.

i guess 2201 will be back to it's quiet, messy state before Lims#2 came 2 weeks ago.

NYANYANYANYANYANYANYANYANYAN

well i'll be gone till the 15th of february (i'll try) cause i've got my ATA exam coming up 

and i certainly want to do well for it so i needa study heh.

maybe i'll drop a picture or two of Levi along the way ;)

dream of para, para, paradise,

may.

brighton beach, and the boy is in the kitchen!

sooooo.. i've been away for a while; haven't had anything to blog about. or i was just lazy.. yea i think i was just lazy.

went to brighton beach for the second time in about a month, this time with Jason's parents who're here for Chinese New Year.


couldn't resist taking a picture of her. ang moh parents dress their babies up so well!


dog following it's owners around the beach. so fluffy. *smothers

more 'us' related pictures..

Jason and the Lim family.


mama Lim.


reminds me of that scene in White Chicks...

8)


papa Lim


brothers.. Justin Y U SO STONED?!!?


*poke*poke*
sea cucumber.. hundreds of them on shore. if i were a chinese businesswoman.......................

and Jase cooked dinner! a fantastic one, at that!


marinated beet root with ricotta cheese.


apsaragus rolled with cream cheese.

aaaaaaannnnnddddddd.........

beef with herbs and sweet balsamic sauce.


feast! :OOOO


it was seriously, the best meal Jase has ever cooked up, and trust me, all his cooking is amazing.
he even impressed me to the point of me complimenting the food all the way which isn't very often =p


Levi's getting so FAT. silly lump of a kitty.

until the next feast (tomorrow/sunday),


chubby :(,
may.

so i hear you like home cooked food..

work and uni's been keeping me relatively busy for the last few days, 

but i've managed to cook a few meals. 

i've been so lazy to cook, and my bank account suffers because of that :(

salted baked salmon, or salmon shioyaki.

just put salt on the skin,

put it on some oiled aluminium foil,

250degrees fan-forced in the oven for about 15-20 mins.

homemade roti john for jase.
note to self: i need to get a wide spatula to flip big omelettes like this =.=

went to noodle kingdon on sunday for a relatively late lunch.

pork dumplings there are super good.


jase's fav: stewed beef brisket with broad noodles.


and my current fav: broad noodle in spicy beef and chilli oil.

got myself two new pairs of shoes cause jason forgot to stop me from spending =p

we didnt do much after that, just grocery shopping for dinner
and i got my skin and flesh sliced off by the escalator. -.-

went to san churros for tea.

mint macarena.


chocolate ice cream sundae, which fetched a lot of attention on instagram to my surprise O.o

napped for a bit then we started cooking dinner. started at 6.30 and we only ate at 10.30 wtf. -.-

finally got to open our bottle of paria bubbly. flat moscato's a whole lot better.


stuffed peppers with roasted vegetables. mmmm i love couscous :)


moroccan style lamb shank. took me 2 hours to cook this,
but i should've left it in there longer for the 'meat falling off the bone' effect.


eton mess with toasted almonds!
i love the strawberries here, they're almost always sweet!
can't say the same about the raspberries though. uggghhh.


all recipes for dinner are by Jamie Oliver!
bought his recipes.. i really couldn't help it.


Levi joined us for dinner and LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring.
he has his own little kitty wet food feast, but he still tried to steal our food.
oh you greedy little monster.


<3 <3 <3 what a fatty.


something about vanilla pods that freak me out.
it's like some shit from Aliens vs Predator or something.

gonna head out to ikea soon,
i can't believe jase and i have been having so many days off :)

NEW FURNITURE FAK YAAAAAA
may.

my apron is cooler than yours.

spent a whole day working today, first at chillipadi, then domino's.

cooked a late dinner.. it's been a while since i actually cooked at home O.o

made assam fish curry with rice (for jase, of course), second go at cooking asian food. it was... substandard. 

but man, it felt good eating ladies fingers (okra).

got myself a lot of new things for the new kitchen, and that includes my first ever apron cause it's cute.

i look terrible but isn't it cute? 

and matching oven mittens too.

sorry la, i'm super amused by the whole pink-ness and muffin-ness of it all :D

just completed the Rush Hour trilogy (?) with jase.

brings back so many childhood memories. never understood some of the jokes till a few days ago.. O.o

and what's been ticking jason and i for the last few days without fail..

is he really saying something in chinese? O.o

rofl.

osheeeet gotta sleep, class tomorrow!

may.