CNY Greetings

January 24th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

You may print this on your greeting card.

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I guess I should consider myself somewhat lucky that I’m only here at KLIA on CNY Day 2. I mean it could have been much worse. It could’ve been Day 1. Or even New Year’s Eve.

I’m sitting at a random bench waiting to catch my flight back to JB in about 2 hours because after exhausting the other choices (taking the train to the city and back), I decided that it’s the safest to just sit down and blog. So here I am! :)

The wifi here is freaking slow but I shall not complain.

Something funny (in my opinion) happened on the plane from Miri just now. When about to ask for my meal preference, the air steward had to catch my attention as I was looking out the window (because I haven’t sat next to the window in a long while!). Once I turned towards him, he froze for a moment, unsure of what to say. I saw his gaze running to the middle aged Chinese couple seated next to me and he must have wondered, for a second, if they were my parents because we didn’t look alike at all (they’re not my parents). I guess for some reason after he looked at me he wasn’t sure what language to ask us in LOL. That, or maybe he was astounded by my handsomeness *cough cough*. Or maybe he was shocked by the (many) huge zits on my face T.T

Anyway, the uncle seated at the aisle had to prompt him by asking in Mandarin “What would you like to eat”, on his behalf.  He laughed and proceeded to tell us the choices of food in Mandarin.

(In Mandarin) “Fried rice with beef satay and fried noodles”, the air steward struggled through.

I wanted to ask what meat came with the noodles but I was too lazy so I went with the fried rice although I’m not a fan of satay.

The fried rice was disgusting :( And they no longer serve Baskin Robbins/Haagen Dazs ice cream :(

That’s the end of my redundant story wth.

On a side note, even faster than actually becoming a redhead, I’ve become a brunette thanks to Liese’s Bubble Hair Shampoo (Dark Chocolate) and the fact that school starts tomorrow. It looked really dark after I finished dyeing it last night but when I woke up this morning, I could still see the traces of red and purple. I actually really like it so I’ll cross my fingers and hope no one (uptight) complains!

Here are two of my last few photos as a redhead. The lighting is so amazing it makes my skin look kind amazing too. And of course I have my Photoshop skills as well to thank.

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That’s all!

Cya!

Petty About HK

January 18th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

Hello there!

After a long 12 hours since the cab ride from the hotel to Hong Kong International Airport to the cab ride from Miri Airport back home, I’m finally all cleaned up and ready to go to bed! Well, almost. It’s at a time like this when I wish Miri had an international airport. Transits are such a hassle but at least now I can say I’ve been to Labuan (although I wasn’t even allowed to leave the plane -.-)

Hong Kong this time around was much better than I remember it to be from my last visit over a dozen years ago probably due to the fact that I actually researched about the places to visit this time around. The Hongkongites are slightly less unfriendly than I remember them to be but still not very courteous.

I’m in love with the weather though! Not too cold to freeze my butt off but cool enough to allow me to layer my clothes hehehe.

All I’ve been thinking about since I got home is how I should’ve shopped more T.T I made a mistake of spending most of my money on clothes I can easily find in Malaysia and when I got to those I know I can’t find, I somehow decided to be rational and not buy them because I was short on cash and was reluctant to use the credit card. :(

There’s a few sweaters and cardigans with tribal prints on them which I really liked but decided not to try because I’d almost definitely buy them if I did :( (happens about 90% of the time because I almost only try the ones I actually wanna buy). Which I really should’ve because I know for a fact that I won’t be able to find them at the same price anywhere else cuz they were quite cheap for the quality. But I considered how I would only be able to wear them in a country where there’s winter and the next time I’m in a country with 4 seasons during winter will probably be half a year later and by then it would be so out of fashion and I would look like a total freak wth. Plus it’s already going out of trend now :( But then again if I really liked it I would still wear it even though it’s so last year and besides, Australia’s not the most fashion forward country anyway (no offense) so I probably wouldn’t look like a freak there lalalala. Anyway bottom line is I should’ve just bought more stuff la why am I such a rational shopper wth.

Sorry for being so petty lalalala. The world needs some serious change so register to be a voter now! wth

Gonna go to bed now! Wonder what I should do with this pile of clothes on it though.

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That’s all!

Cya!

My Journey to Redheadom

January 2nd, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

I’ve been trying to go red for quite some time now and figured if I don’t do it now I’ll never get the chance to do it again. Being a cheapskate, I first set out to do it myself because

1) it’s cheaper
2) the salon I usually go to always changes the colour I’ve chosen -.-

So one fine day I went to Guardian and bought the reddest shade of hair dye they had – Revlon ColourSilk Red.

Nyeh, it was quite red but the colour quickly faded to brown.

Discontented, I decided to redye my hair about a month later (which was 2 days ago) (yes I understand how bad it is for my hair) (some more I need to dye it black in less than a month) (hope my hair doesn’t fall off *fingers crossed*).

This time I wasn’t taking any chances so I went to a different salon and picked the reddest of the red shades of colours they had.

And I mean the REDDEST ONE. So red, in fact, the guy told me its actually used for highlights but I went ahead anyway.

The result?
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Dark Chocolate Brownies!

December 27th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

A picture says a thousand words. So here’s a thousand words.

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Hope everyone had a good Christmas!

On Christmas Day I decided to bake brownies because they sound very festive (don’t they?) and also the recipe I found here seemed easy enough to follow. Plus, I had lots of leftover from baking chocolate chip cookies a few days earlier and all I needed was some dark chocolate so I thought why not?

After finding the cookies too sweet, I decided to tweak the ingredients a little. Plus, I stole a bite of the supposed dark chocolate that I bought and found out it was actually quite sweet so I decided to cut down loads on the sugar. So here’s my list of ingredients (serves about 4-5 people):

  • 1 2/3 cups NESTLE® TOLL HOUSE® Dark Chocolate Morsels, divided  2/3 cup Cadbury Baking Chocolate
  • 1 cup granulated sugar  1/8 cup granulated sugar!
  • 1/3 cup butter, cut into pieces
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)  Left them out because I hate nuts!
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Baking chocolate is so expensive :(

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in the oven!

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease 8-inch-square baking pan. Set aside 1/3 cup of dark chocolate.
  2. Heat 1 1/3 cups dark chocolate, sugar, butter and water in small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate and butter are melted. It will look really disgusting before they’re all melted but once they have you would wanna lick it right off the pan!
  3. Pour into medium bowl. (Took me forever to do this because it was all gooey and I didn’t wanna waste any chocolate sauce so I kept spooning it  out :P ) Stir in eggs, one at a time, with wire whisk until blended. Stir in vanilla extract. Add flour and salt; stir well. Stir in remaining 1/3 cup of chocolate. Pour into prepared baking pan.
  4. Bake for 38 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out slightly sticky (for me 35 minutes was overcooking so bring check on them once in a while if you can). Cool in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars.
I think I overcooked the brownies because when it came out of the oven it looked like a freaking desert.
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Luckily the insides were still rather moist.
Best served warm with vanilla ice cream! (Had a lot of trouble convincing my parents this. so pissed -.-)

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Try it yourself!

And just in case you’re scared that my blog’s turning into a food blog, here’s a photo of my face in spasm.

That’s all!

Cya!

Cookies for Christmas

December 24th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

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