Saturday, June 28, 2008
Why do I need to go on such a special diet? Well, blames to my stomach. I have been having unexplained stomach discomfort for the past two weeks. It drives me crazy. I was hungry but whenever I eat, I will feel indigestion, bloating and even vomit. Even after taking the pill from the doctor, it doesn’t seem to help much. While consulting my friend who is a pharmacist, she suggested me to go for breath test to test out whether I am intolerance to certain food. Certain food intolerance can caused similar stomach discomfort. She sent me the whole list of detail information about this breath test. It was quite impressive how they test out the intolerance but it is extremely expensive! One test costs $65 and if I choose to do the full test, it will be 4 tests all together, means $260!!! The worse thing it, it is not cover my Medicare, which means I can’t claim even a cent from Medicare!!!!! After much consideration and Selwyn’s insistence, I booked with the pathology to do 4 tests and the first test was done this morning.
After one day of fasting with special diet and half a day of water fasting (during the test), I was starving for good food! I went straight to the restaurant for nice Korean Mento with Selwyn after the test. After lunch, I had some bans too and guess what; I even invited our friends over for Nasi Lemak that night (top up with Krispy Kreme as desert!) Yes yes yes, all the “good food” to make up the lost on Friday…hahahah. The result – satisfy, happy but with bloated stomach (again)! However, as a Chinese, life without good food like worse than having bloated stomach at least, hehe.
Nasi lemak with sambal prawn, rendang, fried sardine and sambal ikan bilis
Monday, June 23, 2008
A month ago, I asked Shirley for the recipe of the strawberry mousse cheesecake. However, for the past few weeks, I can't even find time to try out this recipe until last Saturday when I was thinking of what to bring to life group. It is a very simple recipe and the instruction given is pretty easy as well. I went to shop for the ingredients and started to do it on Saturday. Rachel taught me to make my own strawberry puree - it is just the bend of pure strawberry, it is that easy! The whole process of making the cheesecake didn't take me more than 2 hours though!
After chilled overnight, I brought the cheesecake to the life group. Rachel helped me to take out the cake from the baking pan. It looked pretty alright. Too bad there are two pregnant ladies in the group that are unable to eat cheesecake. However, I have the rest of the group to be my Gennie pig! The result? Of course they like it!!! (if not I won't have blog it, he he). I am glad that it turns out well, even though it was not as nice as the one in Shirley's blog. Hope next time I can do a better cheesecake! Anyway, I really need to thank Shirley for her recipe! Thank you sis!!
look from top before pouring the gelatine
Final result...look a bit ugly and weird
Sunday, June 15, 2008
After this series, I started to find other series to watch and this time I found a Taiwanese series. However, it was over 30 episodes! As I am a very impatient person, I randomly selected a few episodes - starting from the last few episodes (just to know whether the ending is good or not. I only watch series with good ending ^_^). Well, it was a good ending! Moreover, this series is also another romantic comedy, so I decided to download the series and and watch. This time, I am not only hocked but also addicted to it! Nearly every night I will be infront of my laptop "chasing after" the series. Ended up I watched the series till midnight everyday!!!! How scary is the power of movies to a person, at least to me! I forgo my devotion, study and sleep because of the series. Gosh, I really need to practice self-control when watch the series. Time for discipline!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Since the time I bought a fruit cocktail cake for Selwyn's birthday, I started to fall in love with this cake. I don't know why, maybe because of the nice fresh cream and the tenderness of the spounge cake.
Friday, June 13, 2008
2 week ago, Uncle Bernard and his family came to Melbourne for their PR first entry. We had the honour to host them for 17 days while they were here. We had a great time and fellowship together and of course GOOD FOOD everyday!
As I promised to make some birthday cupcakes for my boss’s daughter, I took this opportunity to ask the Ooi’s girls – Rachel & Carin whether they want to join me for this cupcakes session. They jumped with joys. They told me finally they are able to make their own cupcakes!
I divided this cupcake session into 3 days so that we won't be too exhausted. First day, we spent a few hours doing our fondant decoration for the cupcakes. The girls were so excited playing with the sugar-paste and doing flowers with the fondant. Second day is the baking session. I gave them the ingredient and taught them how to mix it up with the mixtures. We did two flavours of cupcakes – Vanilla and Chocolate. It turns up pretty well, although there are some odd looking and overflowing cupcakes. We rested for one day and continued our final session – decorating the cupcakes!!! I made some chocolate ganache and butter cream for the toppings then there starts our decorating session! I started by teaching them some basic pipping skills and leave the rest of decoration to them. The girls are so creative, came out with a lot of very nice decoration with stories on each cupcake, it was so fun looking at them enjoying themselves and they even had stories for each cupcakes design they made! Overall, we had a great cupcakes session. Enjoy the laugher and fun we had together even though it was quite tiring.
After they left, we feel so quiet in the house. Started to miss their presence and accompany, started to miss them. Hope that soon they will be able to move here for good, but of course according to God’s will. Anyway, we will be able to see Rachel in a month’s time as she will be coming here for good for her university. More chance to cook for her and bake with her then!
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
It is just the beginning of winter, but Melbourne or rather Victoria has been covered by the thick fog nearly everyday. Sometimes when I walk towards the bus stop in the morning, I barely can see anything beyond 100m. This foggy winter has caused a lot of car accidents on the road and delayed of the flight due to the poor condition to land.
I wonder how cold the winter will be this year. Even in the mid of Autumn, weather already drop down to below 18c, since then I rarely experienced any day above 20c not even 19c. Well, will wait and see, but most of all, have to prepare more clothes for this freezing winter.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
The fun continues…
Sunday after the church service, Uncle Bernard brought us to the Caribbean Market at Scoresby near to church. It was recommended by one of his friend. The market is located at a very beautiful park and there is even Japanese garden in the park. The market is huge; with at least I think 100 stores in it selling all sorts of stuffs from groceries to clothing and the pricing are pretty good. We managed to get some good bargain for the winter clothing. The only set-off point was the weather, it was freezing! However, when we were about to leave the market around 2pm, we finally feel the warm sunshine. We were able to take a short walk at the beautiful park and take some photos before heading for our late lunch. I would want to go back to this market, not to shop, but to spend some relaxing time at the park and perhaps try out the chairlift :)
