Infinite Miracles

Okay! It's another year! Can't believe I'm turning 2......0..... years old already! Finally my age is starting with number 2. Feel so weird. Lol. My 20th anniversary on this Earth started with a little suprise. I opened the fridge and reached for the milk, I felt the container has became fatter. When I lifted it up and had a look and.... yikes!! The milk has coagulated on top and left the yucky looking water below and the container was bloated. My first present from the bacteria: tao fu fa milk.

My dearest housemate held half a dozen of cakes from Brunetti in front of me. Brunetti cakes! Omg! Have always wanted to try their tempting chocolate cakes. Yea, so obviously my first choice was this one here. It's like ice cream cake with blackberries inside. A superb morning dessert indeed. Thank you so much, Min Dee Teh!!! =D

It's a very nice weather although it's a bit hot today. Nice time to join the angmo crowd and sit on the grasses.

We brought the cakes along to uni and celebrated with other friends. I really didn't expect those mini candles. Lol.

Enjoying the cakes with my close coursemates. The picture with me in it isn't with me at the moment. So just post this up. Hehe.

Evening, Min Dee offered me vegetarian bibimbap.

I remembered how we ate bibimbap in Korea. Keep adding the sauce until red colour and super spicy. Lol. Thank you again, Miss Teh.

So these are the birthday cards I received. So CUTE right!! Card on the left is from Jess and on the right is from Meaghan. The card in the middle is handmade. Can click here to view more cards made by the person. She really got a lot of cute fancy stuffs. :p

My enjoying day is over. Now I'm back to dating with my two animal health reports. It's the most interesting subject this semester and I enjoy learning about the animal body, but it's very tough at the same time. Aikss...

It's a day I've been looking forward to. A visit to the zoo for FOTZ (friends of the zoo) infomation session. The volunteering jobs they have sound very interesting and excited. Doing some animal enrichment activities in the zoo or wildlife sanctuary is one of my main reason for flying 7.5hrs across the saltwater. However, animal enrichments are carried out during weekdays. So, I've also put down my name on the tour guide list since they lack of tour guides on weekends. Being a tour guide sounds terrifying and I'm pretty sure I will have wobbly feet on the first day doing it. Aikss... At the same time, the F1 racing was going on and this made the tram timetable all messed up. I've waited more than 30 minutes for a tram. Swt... Then I met up with Zhi Ying in the city. It's her birthday! So had dinner with her in Chinatown. The sze chuan pork noodles was not spicy enough.

ZY ordered wat dan prawn rice.

After that, had a little shopping at the asian grocery. There's so many things there. This is the only good thing of living in the city: won't get cravings for asian food.

The Friday night that me and Min Dee have been waiting has arrived! The bak kut teh night! Yay! Min Dee taught me how to cook bak kut teh. We have bought a lot of ingredients from asian grocery store and we are going to make a nice homecooked meal for ourselves. Hehe.

We made vegetarian bak kut teh since I was lazy to cook pork or any other meat. The preparations were simple but it took quite long to cook it and make it tastier. We need to cook in separate pots because we don't have the traditional big claypot. This is Min Dee's pot.

And this is mine. My pot is smaller, so it was filled to the top and can't see the soup. Our ingredients include vege, oyster mushrooms, fu chok, lots of shitake mushrooms and also lots of tao fu pok!! I miss tau fu pok!!

Then we enjoyed our dinner in her room since she has a small table in her cozy room.

Both of us were super hungry after smelling the aroma of the bak kut teh until we ended up finishing everything on the table. Yes, the whole two pots of bak kut teh plus the soup.

The girl beside me had 3 bowls of rice!! That's the normal amount for every meal she eats back home in Malaysia. @@"

Later at night, I made my beloved steamed eggs again and Min Dee was my taster this time.

It's already the third time I'm making it myself and it turned out to be much more better than last time. Finally! I can make the perfect sweet steamed eggs! Haha!

She was already feeling hungry when she started to eat the steamed eggs and that time was only less than 2 hours after dinner. Pengsan. Really wondering whether is there a worm inside her stomach.

It's a very pleasant Friday night with this funny housemate. Lol. :)

The first part of the second year zoology is so not nice. Our first project is insect collection and we need to collect a total of 25 different insects. I don't like catching things that are smaller than my palm as I'm always worried about squashing them. Furthermore, being a cockroach-phobic, I will rule out cockroach in my collection. No matter how you smack me to death, I'm still not going to put my hands on a cockroach. I managed to overcome the cockroach dissection last year because I didn't use my hands to touch it. However, I need to touch the insects to pin them this time. So they are different scenarios.

It was a cloudy and cooling day. Me and Min Dee went off for bug catching.

Bundoora Park is located within walking distance from our house. This was my first time walking into this park eventhough I've already been living beside it for a year. Lol.

The insects sure are fast. It was so hard to catch them. @@" I wish I can be like the chameleon, if not I can catch the insect in less than a second and get my project done in less than 10 minutes. :p

By the way, chameleons are so cute! I should have one as my pet sometime in the future. Hehe. Half way through our bug catching, we saw two cute parrots. They walk like ducks, with their butts swaying left and right. So cute!! Birds always come in pairs. So nice. xD

When we were done with bug catching, we tried out the playground in the park.

I miss the swing swing. It's still so syok to play the swing swing after so many years. Lol.

Some things are still teenager friendly. However, some really disqualified us from the playground. =.="

At the end of the first day of bug catching, the results are quite fruitful. I caught 8 of them. Plus 2 more that I caught in the house. I have got a total of 10 so far. Half way through the collection! :D

Next target will be butterflies. Poor them.

Can't believe my summer holidays left me even faster than lightning. I still remember the moment I landed at LCCT 3 months ago, the feeling of sweating immediately after exposing to the hot and humid air, the feeling of sitting in dad's comfortable car, the feeling of reaching home and saw my precious doggies running around, the feeling of having shower in the familiar bathroom, the feeling of enjoying a nice prawn wantan hor fun and the feeling of watching the brand new tv for the first time in the living room, all these memories are still vivid in my mind. Besides, I also remember some of my thoughts and one of them was "how come the bathroom looks so much older?", or it's has always been like this just that I didn't notice it last time? @@

It seems like just 3 days ago I experienced all these and it's hard to believe it's already happened 3 months ago. I'm going to miss the 3 months of not cooking myself (awesome! xD) and being a full time potato couch (along with dad. Lol).

Definitely, the two super cute boys will be missed to the max! Always can't resist to call their names or kacau their sleep as their faces are toooo cute!

I super love it when he sits like this everytime after scratching. So CUTE right!!!

I love his ears in the picture. Always like to lie down and show his belly, asking me to 'gu jit' him. Haha.

It was exactly 3 months ago since I left Melbourne for Malaysia, and it was also exactly a week ago I left Malaysia for Melbourne. It's back to the grind again. The boring walks, the troublesome cooking and the irritating sound of my alarm clock. However, I'm looking forward to go back to my beautiful and lovely La Trobe Uni despite of the minor boring routines.

By bumping into the cute ducks and geese in the uni can make my day. It's a bit rainy on the first day of uni. Me and my friends were walking on a bridge and saw some geese swimming in the moat. So cute!! :D

Sometimes I really wanted to bang myself to the wall when cute things happened and the camera was NOT with me. I once saw a duck crossing the path right in front of my nose, along with her super cute ducklings, just like a mother teaching her kids how to use zebra crossing and I need to stop because I was the car. Lol. I don't know how to describe how cute the scene was! Was a super lucky day for me! Haha. What a merry uni atmosphere with them hanging around. xD

Last breakfast in Hong Kong. We tried out a very popular shop called 'Australian Dairy'. The first thing that hit my mind was a nice western restaurant, but what appeared in front of my eyes was just a normal 'char chan teng'. Swt!

We took some time to look at the menu but still didn't know how to order. So we asked the people who were sharing the table with us. That guy said it's got only 1 type of breakfast set. The set includes: maccoroni, toast, drink and egg. We can only choose the type of egg: chao dan (omelette) or jin dan (sunny side up).

Dad: I want omelette! Which one is omelette? (we never said omelette in cantonese before.)

That guy didn't answer dad's question. So we took a guess ourselves. For me, I would think jin dan is the fried egg that we normally cook, so chao dan should be omelette. When the food arrived, it's omelette! Yay! My family is so banana-ish, although cantonese is our main language. Haha.

I didn't like the maccoroni. It's tasteless.

The omelette was normal. Out of the 3, I only enjoyed eating the toast bread.

When we were done and walked out of the shop, people were already lining up outside the shop. We really don't get what so special about this shop and why is it so famous. Just like the claypot chicken rice stall, this is another overrated shop. =.=