Charcoal BBQ  

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After months of starving ourselves with home-cooked food only, we finally received our precious allowances. and that simply signifies the moment of indulgences of good yummy food. like this. Korean charcoal BBQ.
a newly opened restaurant in the Brisbane District Centre and due to our random cravings for Korean food one day, we decided to hop into this restaurant without knowing what it has to offer us. well, we can never go wrong with food i guess.

Korean side dishes from kimchi to fried kimchi pancake are really yummy especially those in the picture. eerrr in fact it was just everything that was served on our table.
and a lot for just the two of us.


and through this restaurant, i discovered my true love for marinated pork skin. do not give me the ewww feeling. taste it and you will know it. it tasted so delicious and tender. never knew pork skin is that edible. lol.
and who would not love pork belly? i love those to pieces...
especially the 'jelly' part. that's the laidback term i used back home. hahaa.

sometimes it is really just best to forget about being fat to enjoy the best food on earth and you will not regret about it.


xoxo,
i am in love with korean charcoal bbq.

Thumbs Up For Glee Songs  

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american teenage series have always been appealing to the whole world. from one tree hill to the O.C to gossip girl and now glee. and if you happen not to watch any of those series, people tend to label you weird. i hardly watched one tree hill except for a few earlier series and we loved that movie simply because of peyton sawyer!! don't we? gorgeous and hot. O.C (orange country) was pretty boring and i watched that series simply because of adam brody's character only! i loved him to pieces. hahahaa..those growing days of mine. adoring series' characters.
and a year back gossip girl series came to top. i had only started watching gossip girl last month during my spring break. sitting on bed watching whole season 1 and season 2. everyone told me that gossip girl was marvellous and it was true for the first few episodes only . gossip girl series were just an average series for me. every time when i watched gossip girl, i tend to forward many unnecessary parts for it bored me out. and i could never understand why people would love Nate Archibald so much when his character is kinda plain? i love Dan Humphrey jokes a lot and surprisingly i love Chuck Bass the most. despite his flirty playboy attitude, he simply made the series a go and entertaining! =) sorry for nate's fans.
and now the hit series is Glee. Glee glee glee songs are everywhere. the plot could be pretty ridiculous at time but the sound effects, colours and everything make the whole series so catchy. what more with such amazing performances in every episode that i can't take my eyes off glee. no preferences of any characters but i love watching them singing. and my favourite performance from them by far is none other than the mashed up songs- It's my life/ Confession. way much better than bon jovi's or usher's version.
p/s: check out their performances. i could not find any clearer version than this. ignore their quirky faces as that was the after effects for taking pills. hahaha.. enjoy!

Randomness  

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1) i just received my long waited prezzie. 5 pieces of clothes added to my wardrobe. yipeee... yabedabedoo!

2) i have this current huge huge crush on this celebrity chef/ swimmer, Eamon Sullivan. handsome, humble, great cook and amazing athletic talent.. muahahahaha..

3) my mini curried chicken skewers. hahaha so mini compared to the original one.

4) i am in love with Nathan brake's voice from Australian idol. his talents are amazing!!!!!!
support support nathan brake! =).
young and talented.

5) had my last chemistry practical of the semester. my gorgeous local Asian partner, Jessica. =)

6) my table is currently at an extreme mess and i had no intention of cleaning it up. =X

Salvage the Broken One  

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for the past few posts, i have been rambling about my staying whereabouts for next year. and in fact, there is no way i will stop rambling about it after what had happened. i am totally pissed off of myself and also because of the responsible one. i could blame myself for putting the burden on my roommate and relying on her only to do the talking job which is obviously unfair for her.
perhaps if we had done it together, it might have work out better. i am truly sorry for that but i was glad that our friendship was even strengthened after that. i have learnt that everything should be done together. don't we? but what i am totally upset about is the responsible one. i am sorry if i have been treating you cold lately but i can't help it. the moment the responsible one told us that he/she could have other options apart from living with us, i could not bear looking at you at that moment. so would if make any differences if you told us now when we have already rejected the offer? maybe it wasn't your intention at all and it wasn't your fault at all. in fact, in this whole situation there is nobody fault. it just happened for a reason. i have never really been talking about people on my blog but for this time, i cant help it. do i need to remind you how difficult it was to find a house? it is not like a piece of cake. and because you have never went through the whole trouble of finding a house before, you never know how difficult it was. reality check please. i am might be unhappy with you right now and i know it is incredibly wrong to write about it on the blog but i can't bear the faking of pretending that it was fine for us. because IT WAS NOT FINE AT ALL FOR US. not me and not her. i guessed i need time to be fine with you again.

The Unlucky Purple Tree  

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during spring, Brisbane was greeted with the blooming of the purple flowers. everywhere. in the uni, outside my unit, along the roads, at the bus stop and everywhere you could see. i think it might have been a trademark for Brisbane to have that trees growing around. well, it was beautiful i shall say especially those in uni. well,we could generally assume that trees in uni are much more 'stronger' that elsewhere. but there is this funny little joke i heard from my friends about this tree.

according to myth, if the purple flower happens to fall above your head, you are doomed for your exams or in other words you will fail.

however, according to my friends lecturer, we could explain this myth scientifically.

" If the purple flowers fall above your head, you will fail the exams simply because, you party/play/ went out too much and for that, you will have a higher probability of having the flowers on your head. too much partying = failing exams.=)"


so after all, every myth could be explained with a scientific theory. wakkakaaka.

Friendship vs Money  

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so the final decision has been made. and we are are letting go of such a fabulous offer that happened to us. i always complain about endless misfortunes occurring on me till finally something really pleasant happened to us. well, that happiness only lasted for an hour or so. how pathetic could that be.
specifically on the accommodation issues itself,we have been through so many up and downs from being chased out of our rented house to getting endless scoldings from our current bithcy agent. and finally, two lovely seniors of us offered us to stay at their place for only AUS 100 each. that's like freaking cheap including everything. you have no idea how happy we were when we heard that offer.it was like a dream come true. dreams ain't always sweet.
however,things are always not simple for us. and never in that case. and then we remembered we have a friend whom we promised to stay together the next semester. everyone hates deciding between friends and money. definitely not excluding us. i was devastated for sure but there is no one to blame. it is just the reality of life. sometimes we need friends more than money. but do we really need that? yeah, i know i am complaining again. but blogging is the only way i can released my anger and extreme disappointment. as in extreme. just hope that it won't be a wrong decision to make though i know i can't find anything cheaper than that.

A million reansons not to blog.  

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once i was so into blogging and my blog was always filled with frequent updates. but not anymore. i really wonder what halted me from blogging and i could definitely lay out a million reasons. i blogged the most when i had the little Elmo template and i guess it might have been during those period that my blog was known by my intec friends. in fact, i learn to blog from my big sis and recently she doesn't blog anymore and eventually my interest of blogging vanished too. i guess it might have been due to the fact that i started blogging to0 young and to keep up the habit is something difficult for me. but something that didn't change in me was for the fact that i enjoyed reading professional bloggers ranging from dawn yang to Kenny xia to karen cheng. awesome people they are for sure. definitely i could give you millions reasons for my dying passion of blogging (not a million of course to list down):-
a) blogging passion is now taken over by my dear mario nintendo

b) i tend to overuse my Internet limit ( which i totally detest it ) and always have to fork out the extra cash to pay for it ( which i totally detest it too)

c) lately, i spend most of my time browsing through online shopping websites and had lots of fun looking at those clothes, bag and accessories.

d) recently, i am not so-into-cam whoring anymore ( perhaps maturing has taken the most of me) and therefore typical of me, without pictures, i had no idea on what to blog about.

e) instead of blogging, i spend my whole day baking and cooking (something more satisfying perhaps?)

f) with those gloomy weather lately, i rather choose SLEEPING than blogging for sure.

the list could never end and might get even more ridiculous if i were to list more. but that shall be sufficient to convince my dying passion of not blogging. but worry not mates i shall retain this blog till i am old enough to close it for sure. and i will try my best to revive my passion for blogging. ^^. till then, wait for more updates from me perhaps?? hahaha.

My eyes were larger when i was young  

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i have a confession to make and that is i have much larger eyes when i was younger. totally young like fifteen years back. i have no idea what happen to my eyes but the definite changes was my eyes shrinked. to somehow less than a cm in width. unfortunately. =X
my passport picture when i was five. whee.. ain't i am cute?
so chubby and fat. with effortless bigger eyes than now and super well-defined lips.
aren't kids are always prettier than their teenage or adult life?
and that's why i love kids so much. innocent and beautiful.
and from this picture, i realised that i pierced my ears when i was less than five. and i still remember that i had to live with a swollen ear for a pretty long time with smelly coconut oil as treatment.

and that's me for now. do you know how hard it was for me to get a picture of at least with bigger eyes than usual? i am not good in photoshop and i don't think one should photoshop their eyes or body or whatever they have on their faces. but i do believe in angles of taking pictures. how i wish i still had my young eyes where being big is so effortless.

and my all time favourite sister picture ( because i am cuter than her with bigger eyes than her mauahahaa.a.wicked laugh)
but mostly i loved that picture because we had been close since young and don't we look cute acting as twins? hehehee..i miss you jie jie. and that sofa too. lol