18 June 2009

choo

last of exams are
OVVVVVERRRRRRRRR.

just reading that makes me smile (:

Jimmy Choo, the British accessory brand best known for its celebrity footwear, is creating a collection for H&M
that makes me smile too (:
source: guardian.co.uk

17 June 2009

coffee prince <3

no, not the drama, though I did have an urge to watch it while ago.

I am officially 83% done my exams.
some caffeine to recharge would be nice. I can see the staff at starbucks knowing me by name in the future. addictive black liquid (with steamed milk of course) D<

one of these babies (found on soompi) would be much appreciated:










dr. seuss much?

16 June 2009

magical carpet


孤單北半球-林依晨

用我的晚安陪你 吃早 記得把想念
存進撲滿 我 望著滿天星在閃
聽牛郎對織女說要勇敢

別怕我們在地球的兩端 看我的問候
騎著魔毯 飛 用光速飛到 你面前
要你能看到十字星有北極星作伴

少了我的手臂當枕頭 你習不習慣
你的望遠鏡望不到我北半球的孤單
太平洋的潮水跟著地球來迴旋轉
我楹心地等 隨時歡迎你靠岸

少了我的懷抱當暖爐 你習不習慣
E給你照片看不到我北半球的孤單
世界再大兩顆真心就能 互相取暖
想念不楣衛 我的夢通通給你保管

15 June 2009

chocolate & ginger

I was worried that I wouldn't have anything to give to my awesome, lovely, wonderful, fantastic, marvelous, amazing, other good things etc, mom for her birthday...until I borrowed a miracle (Donna Hay's Flavours) from the library.

but for now, here's yesterday's brunch.

Lady Brunch Burgers, from the food network.
I'm slightly bad at estimating patty sizes, so I made the first one too small. Had to adjust the 2nd patty's size to even it all out. The leftover meat (mixed with onions and garlic) will probably rot in the fridge.

burgers with tomato and cucumber and passion fruit tea.


well, not really a burger. Bread layered with easy over and burger patty haha.


After exam (which I bombed, stupid math D< ), I dragging shampoo, mary and janice to the library to find a recipe for chocolate cake.
They can't deny the funniness of "Geography and Physics is the original rock and roll" (credit to typetees).
I was planning on going to loblaws and buying some lemons since mom likes lemon cakes the best. However, the store was closed due to mysterious reason (ohhhh~) so I was stuck with the only abundant ingredient that I have: chocolate.


melted dark choco chips with butter. smells heavenly, but hell-like for your arteries.


janice especially separated the eggs for me. lawl @ 2.5 eggs. Both the egg yolks and whites are HAND whipped, grr.


all mixed together~


the lovely finished product. The only time the family ever uses this glass plate is when I make cakes in the loaf pan haha.


close up. Yummy Nutella frosting. Mom said the sweetest was perfect! It's surprising that even though I added too much flour and probably not enough egg yolks that it turned out so well. I'm one step closer to hosting dinner parties ("and 10000 more to go")!


Since I felt that one cake wasn't enough to compensate for the zara giftcard and paper flowers, I decided to cook her dinner. On the menu: chicken poached in ginger broth.


All nice and chopped up. Took me forever to cut the gingers into perfect, thin strands.


Into the wok it goes.


as well as the chicken


then you remove the chickens and add the spinach. The recipe originally calls for snake beans, but those are ridiculously expensive in Toronto. Impressive how the huge pile wilted down to a single layer.


Doesn't the bowl just bring out the colour of the dish (I'm not hallucinating)!


I must say, it turned out delicious. +1 domestic skillz!
Everything was nicely seasoned even though I only rubbed salt on the chicken, no wonder the recipe didn't call for additional salt. The ginger gave it a very nice kick, yummm.

13 June 2009

hachikuro



If I ever go to japan, that'll be one of the first places that I go to *u*
and look what I found!

Both from the lovely mutated field outside my condo. Janice and I found 5 (three was lacking bits of the leafs) in less than half an hour. Too bad I'm terrible at pressing them.

12 June 2009

3/6!

blehhh.
exams are
HALF OVERRRRR!
If english is not included, I'm moderately content, if english is, my friends would be deaf from my spazzing by now.

change of topic, I reaaaaally want to paint my walls, or at least wallpaper it. Unfortunately, my mom would never agree. So I'm stuck admiring these oh so lovely interiors from Jill Crawford:




10 June 2009

year 8025

(warning, image heavy)

here's the promised photos of my yearbook. My camera is really bad at macro shots, so the pics are a bit blurry. I so want a macro lense ;__;

while the photos load, I shall complain about how there is not enough space for signatures, my crappy middle school one had 4 extra pages, Haig's has...all possible spaces added together, 5. Yearbook signing is really hectic, most people just write boring generic stuff, few highlights:
"I had fun breaking your waterbottle" JH
"Weijie is Zzzzing in englis class! Ms Mondrow just lost her yearbook" KL
really, really, really long one by Aida
Ones that take a lot of effort to get are really worth it, beats my entire paragraph pssh. sorry to people that had to cram it in impossibly small spaces~

(just realized I forgot to click upload, waiting some more...)


cover~ 80 is for Haig's 80th anniversary and 25 for Claude's 25th.



Old and New~ The artifacts in the first photo is given by Earl Haig's wife, yes i read the fine prints on the bottom.


I look terrible with long hair ._. 2nd row, 2nd from the right.


HA I SURVIVED THIS. My buddy was adorable haha. 3rd left of the letter M


Not fair that LC doesn't get a coloured spread! I'm under the "o" in promotions.


The oh so awesome main staircase, except the picture on the stair doesn't really show up in b&w.


Art room! I usually sit at the table that's right infront of you (with the ruler).