Rosti topped with Coarse Pork Sausage

(sided with sour cream, spring onions, & lemon slice)

Sauteed Mushroom Crepe

(accompanied with garden salad)

 Crayfish!

I DIDN'T GET TO EAT IT :(

 Fat (Big) Bro

(He didn't really BBQ at all, only put the food on the aluminum foil & throw it to us. TSK. One of his friends did most of the BBQ which he claims it's his hobby...)

 If you wanna eat, you gotta help out.

So here's Shini, fanning the charcoal!

 I AM IN ACTION

(I was removing the bones from the drum sticks & pierce them thru the bbq sticks (just like satay), so there would be people willing to eat them...)

 Lemon Drizzle Cake

Another shot of her taste testing my brownie!

 & seriously, I'm satisfied with the end product. :D

I've saved some for my neighbour's kid but we didn't see them today so... Mom said we will pass it to them tomorrow. I hope it would still taste as good!! It's so fun baking, like next time when you are confident with your baking skills, you can actually invent your own recipe man! How cool!!

Alright, this marks the end of my virgin baking session & I helped my mom to prepare the steamboat for dinner after that! I must say it was a productive day for me because I didn't really have the time to use the laptop or watch the TV. Loving life like this, time enjoyed wasting is not wasted at all... :D

P/S: This is sort of a random update because I was waiting for my hair to dry before I can hit the sack HAHAHA.

Have an awesome week ahead!

xx

 

Sunset.

Sunday, 070713.

The sunset on Sunday was exceptionally gorgeous! The sky was sort of gloomy, patches of dark clouds were covering the sun but it just didn't rain at all... In fact, it ended the day with a beautiful sunset which I caught it while in the car, on our way out for dinner! It's actually a blessing to view sunrise/sunset everyday, because... Tomorrow is never guaranteed. It is a fact that not everyone can wake up to the next day... Embrace everyday, make every moment counts! :D

So... Today was the 3rd day of school ever since it resumed on Monday, and we had lecturers conducted by the overseas visiting lecturer from RMIT in Melbourne. This is the first time we actually have had such a hip & trendy, Josh Groban lookalike, PhD holder whose age doesn't seem to be over 30, just a super attractive lecturer! Seriously, who wears chino pants of colours such as burn orange, mustard, with stripes or was it checkered shirt, and brown leather shoes, messy curly hair, together with his dark green framed spectacles. He looks really young as well, like probably ranging from late twenties to early thirties? Anyway, he is Dr. Ingo Karpen, gotten his PhD from University of Melbourne in 2011, you can easily access his profile on RMIT website, not that I wanna stalk him, but I wanna show my friends that he really does resemble (maybe not much, but at least a little) Josh Groban!

It's just a waste that he only came to conduct the first 3 lectures for us, because lecturer like him... Would definitely motivate the ladies, maybe some guys too, to attend his class every week hahahaha. There were students today, taking photos with him during break because today was his last day with us and he's really cute LOL but anyhow, our local lecturer seems nice as well. He's Sherman and has an American accent but if I paid attention in class, he did say he is from the States... Oh, but unfortunately... This is a difficult module, as mentioned by Dr. Ingo Karpen... I just hope we can clear this final semester smoothly!!!

After these 3 days of schooling, I realized that studying is really brain-juice depleting. I feel so worn out each time after school, like I could totally use a nap anywhere at anytime as long as I am seated down. Okie, maybe I shouldn't put all the blame on schooling but also 'cos even it's 12pm class, I've to wake up at 8.30am so I can have my breakfast, then prep for school without rushing at all. The funny thing is... I actually had 8 hours of sleep but I still feel lethargic omg, maybe it is true that one could survive as many hours with only minimal sleep, probably only sleeping for 4 - 5 hours, & amusingly, the more you sleep, the more, and easily, tired you will get... I really concussed once I got home on Monday, within 5 minutes of lying on my bed. It's either I was really omgwtfbbq exhausted (also, I travel to & fro from Malaysia to Singapore just for a 3 hours class) or that the bed is really comfy...

Enough of schooling stuffs because... TOMORROW IS ALREADY WEEKEND FOR ME!!! WOOHOOOO, & this long weekend is gonna last until 29 July! My next class is scheduled on the end of the month, this is what happens when we are only left with 2 modules to clear and our timetable is really slack. We study another 3 days, from 29 - 31 July, & next lecture is gonna be on the 5th August, then 14th August, and finally, after that, it's gonna be every Tuesday & Wednesday until the 9th or 10th of October, then it's study break till exams commence!

I REALLY WANT TO SLEEP IN TOMORROW OMG LIKE FINALLY, NO MORE WAKING UP AT 830AM ANYMORE, for at least whole two good weeks YAY to final year students, YAY to marketing students, YAY to super slack timetable but, please please please, let my motivation to finish this semester still be there!!

Okie! It's time to show my face on my blog hahahaha!!!!

Left: KEROPOK, mom's friend fried for us!

Right: WOKE UP FACE from the nap on Monday, super good hair day that day! 

Throwback OOTD on last Thursday!

Janice's 21st birthday with the beach casual theme!

SWING CHAIR FINALLY ARRIVED.

On... I think last Friday?

(It was supposed to be black but then they said... The rat bit parts of the chair and they couldn't deliver that to us, unless we wait till the end of the month to get the new one so... I chose white in the end... I love the floral cushion, it's really nice! I just thought, black one would stand out in my white themed room but now... Another item added to this super white theme family.)

Alright, that's about the short update of my schooling life!

I need to hit the sack real soon, my eyelids are wearing a tonne now omg, like there's elephant marching on my eyelids!!

GOODNIGHT PEOPLE,

TGIF IS COMING SOON!!!

PRESS ON!

xx

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The moment I'm seated down right in front of my laptop, logging into my blogger account can only mean two things:

1. I am bored.

2. I am really bored.

It is the final week of my long break from the school, not exactly THAT long since UOL students are gonna have it longer. Basically, I kinda slacked my whole 1.5 months of holidays away but time I enjoyed wasting is not wasted at all, right?

So... During this school holiday, I did some catch-up with my shows, for instance, HIMYM Season 8, TWD Season 3, Criminal Minds Season 8, a few movies, AND resumed my Running Man variety show which I stopped watching for almost a year. There are still a few series that are uncompleted such as... TVD Season 4, Suits Season 2, White Collar Season 3. LOL THE REASON IS BECAUSE... If I continue watching the finale episodes, I will be left with nothing to watch and they are really nice shows which I don't bear to finish them all hahahaha. You know, the feeling you get when the season is ending and it seems like there would be a hole in your life.

Besides spending time on these series, I did go out with friends occasionally for amazing food, for a trek from MacRitchie to Bukit Timah, training for Mount Kerinci trek, erm, movies... & stuffs like that. Then, I had to pack my stuffs to move into the new house, preparing the equipment for the Mount Kerinci trek, etc. The trek itself already occupied a week of my holidays, and ever since I came back from there, I haven't been stepping my foot again in Singapore.

The moment I got back home from Indonesia (where the trek took place), I had to really start packing the remaining stuffs at the old house since the event of house shifting was gonna take place 3 days later right after I landed. Oh, and that was when I got really busy again 'cos it's not joke having to move house when we did everything on our own. We didn't hire any house movers to aid us in shifting the stuffs we still need from the old house to the new one. My parents drove almost everyday, at least 4 - 5 times, to and fro from the old to the new house to get the stuffs moved for that period of time.

This is when you suddenly realized that you actually collected so many stuffs, it becomes such a tedious job to clean and pack them, relocate them, and stuffs. I abandoned quite a number of stuffs, the stuffs I bought and kept since primary school which I had no idea why would I waste money like that, to buy useless stuffs, also, a bunch of clothing. I have way too many dri-fit tees, even the tees I got during my 3 years in SPA could last me a lifetime. I didn't even bother messing thru the stack of clothing in another cupboard & I just left it there. I guess, it's time to do some donation...

Oh, and when you really do a spring cleaning at home, or in your room, you really do come across some amusing stuffs. Haha, I found letters from my primary school classmates whom used to snail mail me, a couple of handmade accessories, badges, certs, many other plushies that people gave me during various occasions, photo albums, etc... Sometimes, it feels like you've just rekindled the friendship you once shared with the friends who mailed you the letters just by re-reading them and also, reminisence those long-lost memories. I urge you people to do a spring cleaning soon, you will be truly amazed with the things you found during the cleaning up!

It's been exactly a week that I've moved in, my house is still in a mess. Stuffs got delayed, like the dryer, the washing machine, the kitchen ventilation, the ceiling still unfixed, my swing chair, and some other items. Now, my mom still has to wash the clothes back in the old house and then, bringing them back to the new house like seriously. I'm still kinda pissed when the contractors agree to come during the appointed day to get things done but then, they never appear. I just don't get it, why can't they be a little more professional just a little bit? It doesn't hurt at all man... So now, the ceiling above the dry kitchen looks pretty ugly since they haven't get their goddamn people to fix the sliding door, and tidy up the ceiling board.

Also, the technician for the oven & microwave is yet to turn up when he told my mom he would send his technician either on Tuesday or Wednesday. Now, we can't use the oven & microwave since we are afraid that the installation dimensions have some problem and really, dumbass contractor didn't read the installation guide before building in our oven & microwave so now... We have to wait for the technician to see if it's alright to use them without overheating the machine or not. Sigh, this is why you can never get friends to do such a big project for you.

1) They might take advantages of the friendship.

2) When you're unhappy with the results, you don't really voice them out because you don't want to ruin the friendship.

Trust me man, this really sucks 'cos at the end of the day (after the renovation), you still need to spend a lump sum of money to amend, justify, correct the errors. I wonder how much is the additional cost my dad has to pay. It's the same as why close/good friends cannot work together in the same department, controlling the same stuffs. There will always be disputes, different opinions and whatnot, so it's just a matter of time when will both explode on each other & yea, spoiling the long-built friendship in progress.

I just hope... As the loose ends are all tidied up, the house is gonna be fixed in all ways, no more ugly marks left behind, oven & microwave can be used without worrying that it might burn down the whole house, enough sockets in all the room (this happens when contractor insisted that 2 power points/room is enough, & now, we gotta ask people to increase it like seriously, can't they just listen to what the client wants & stop finding excuses that 2 is enough for each room, to the extent that my dad didn't wanna continue talking about it so now, he has to spend extra again to get it down like wtf) So yes, hope in a month's time, all these will be fixed, & the Lim family will live harmoniously and happily ever after.....

Goodnight, people!

Happy Mid-Week!

xx.