wonderful smell of soil in the spring

A special smell got me woke up early this morning. I couldn't tell what kind of smell's that. Till I walked out from the door to the gym, I finally recognized it's the wonderful smell of fresh soil in the spring. Every once in a while, I enjoy stop and look around to see what's going on in the natural world around me, rather they are smells or sights. Well, I might be weird or strange in that I notice smells, sights those little things in the world around me that many people I think forget to acknowledge in the everyday busy rush of their lives. But I think it's definitely worth taking a try, you will be surprised how wonderful feeling it is to identify smells, sights of the nature, especially here the spring time :)

Yesterday, I suggested going to Ikea for lunch since I missed the old day taking my mama to Ikea shopping and dinner every weekend in Hong Kong. So me and Jing went straight to lunch after the classes over, we were surprised Ikea's actually very close, it only took less than 7 minute drive from our campus. We LOVES the design and decoration of the Ikea restaurant, place's very cozy as well. I ordered Atlantic Saithe crusted fish with broccoli mashed potatoes cake + drink + dessert samplers, it only cost me less than 10 dollars. Food is really delicious!! Me and Jing fell in love with those cake samplers, They are light and not too sweet like typical American desserts. After a great lunch, we shopped around in Ikea then come home. I am glad I took Jing to the place and she likes it :)

Strawberry sponge cake

One day, I came across to Christine's recipes site, saw this nice picture under the recipe, it's a strawberry sponge cake with really delicate decorates. I had this thinking maybe I should try this adventurous baking for myself. So I had my second baking day during my spring break last week- my attempt to make a strawberry sponge cake. Even though this was my first time baking a sponge cake after 10 year, I challenged myself and didn't try to minimize the damage; I stuck with double-layers cake. I think the most challenge part of baking a sponge cake is the timing. On the recipes, it said your cake should be form in 20 to 30 minute. So I checked mine after 20 minute, it's still soggy. I started worried my cake might not turn out alright. And after 5,10 minute, my cake finally form!! I let my cake sit for 50 minute before I started doing all the decorate. I put whipped cream and strawberry slices between the layers, then I decorate the top with a little rainbow icing and strawberries after fix the two layers together. Well, anyhow here's the finished products:

I was really proud of myself somhow I managed to produce a fairly delicious cake that was sofe and fairly gooey, with some nice icing to go with it.

I also made miso grilled salmon and beef eggplant lasagna while I was waiting for the cake. They all turned out fairly delicious :) Shared my cake and lasagna with friends and co-workers. They all enjoyed it throughly. :) I was happy!

haircut at walmart

It's my second time had my hair done at walmart. I remember I was pretty concerned the very first time I walked into walmart to get haircut. Since it's my first time to get haircut in America I don't know any good salon in the area, and I all I know about place to do haircut is walmart. I think walmart is not a bad place to get haircut. It's actually pretty good. Price is cheap, 15 to 35 bucks, depends on the hair style you pick. Though I know stylists at walmart mostly have less experience than stylists from other salon, but I think if customers could provide the picture of the hair they want, they usually can easily do well with your hair. I have been walmart salon twice, so far I have had good luck with them doing my haircuts. They always turned out nice for me. :)

sleepless nights

So I've been suffering from insomnia for few weeks, it's a painful experience and I don't know how long it's going to end. This might sound like I am so weak to you all, but I've been feeling lonely lately, I feel like something's missing in my life and sometimes I feel like I am in need to be someone's own skin. (OMG!) I hate to tell people this feeling because I don't like the feeling of being desperated. :( At the beginning I thought I have ability to overcome my loneliness and insomnia. I mean I am not anti-social, I went out do stuff with friends very often. But it just when it comes to the night-night time, I turned off the light, I just couldn't sleep, tossing and turning for almost 2 or sometimes 3 hours and still couldn't fall asleep. Everything was normal at the beginning; I don't know why all of a sudden I started feeling lonely, as I said I really hate this feeling. I hope my loneliness and insomnia struggle will be fought soon.

Never know that being able to have a goodnight's sleep is such a luxury to me.

All about Puppies

My badminton buddy YuWei kept telling me and my girl friend that there's nice place called "All about Puppies" in Tampa where is open to play with different puppies all day you want. First we thought it must be a pet store, after you play with puppies those sales will end up convincing you hard to purchase one. One Sunday afternoon, YuWei insisted to take us there. We got there we saw the place is quite clean and all dogs looked well. Sales were helpful and surprisely they're not hard sell at all. We saw a little black baby poodle's really cute so we took it into a small play area and put it down to play. They offer dog toy you can play with puppies as well. Though I am a cat person more than a dog lover but I had a really good time playing with puppies. I think "All about puppies" is really a place that you don't need to own one at home and you can play all day you want with all different types of puppies. And if you don't want to play with them, you can also hold and pet them over their open top cages.

Spoke to my mum about this place I visited, she's mocking and said I am making her very jealous. Well my mum is a 100% dog lover and we used to have poodle dogs twice but the first one was lost, when my mum was ordering take out from a restaurant and forgot to take the dog back. And the second one was given away because my mum had a hard time and started getting sick while taking care of the ill poodle puppy. So yeh, My mum is a bit of old to keeping a puppy so now she wish that there's a place like "All about puppies" where she doesn't need to own one and she can play with puppies all day. I too wish there would be a place like that soon, so she can spend time with lovely puppies during the weekend and not to complain about being bored.

banana cake I made

Two months ago, I made my New Year resolution that I have to make a cake this year. (the last time I bake was 10 years ago, I baked a set of different cakes for preparing my home economics exam.) So I finally did it this morning, a banana cake from a easy recipe. Well here's the finished product looks like:

The recipe wasn't difficult at all. I mixed sugar, egg, butter, baking soda and everything the instruction said. then, I added a mixture of all purpose flours stirring all of them til smooth. It might sounds a little dirty; I ended up stir them with my hand since using plastic scrapers to stir was taking like forever. Lastly, I coated a little butter on the inner surface of a baking tray, then put the portion onto that baking tray, cooking immediately.

The end results were not good as I expected. There's a little burnt on a little part of the banana cake. But the finish time seems shorter than the recipe said. The recipe said 1 hour, but it actually fully cooked in 45 minutes. I cut out the little burnt part, and the taste was good! Just like regular banana cake but mine is not so sweet, and that's the way I like it. I don't know what I did wrong that my cake comes out has a little burnt part. I think I will try to email the author who wrote the recipe, hopefully I can find out the solution.

SPRING BREAK!!

Yay! I am officially on spring break. Well, actually half of my spring break has gone. Let’s see what I have been doing :) I met up my new badminton buddies Cherie and YuWei to celebrate St Patty’s day on saturday, it’s my first time wearing all green to celebrate St Patty. After work I had been waiting for my paid so I was a bit late. And when I got there to blue martini, it’s already crowded. Cherie and I wanted dance so we didn’t care and just sneaked into the crowded doing our Asian cheezy dance. Though half of the people on the dance floor are either middle age or senior but we had so much fun! After two hours dance, we had already sweating like pigs, YuWei done sitting alone watching us dance so we decided to move to Bar Louie tried our first GREEN BEER!!

I was so excited when I first saw Green Beer >_<

Cherie and I had so much fun on the dance floor <3

心碎...:(

taste like refrigerator

gahh I felt like to throw up after I had one bite of my veggie pizza. Well it's not the first time i have feeling to throw up what I just ate. Last time I spoke to my friend about throwing up, she mocked at me said i must be pregnant -_- (NO! there's no way I become pregnant! )

 Actually it was few weeks ago when I opened a pack of chips, I finally found out what smell was making me have the feeling want to throw up. It was the "refrigerator smell" then I reheat a box of Indian food my boss made, it has the same smell. Dammit! All food from my refrigerator seems to smell and taste like refrigerator, and I think I have to waste the refrigerator tasted food from my fridge. And I seriously lost my appetite ever since I had a few times eating refrigerator tasted food. Gahh I can totally remember the taste though I just thinking about it >: -(

Hold on for one more day

So I slept my thursday night away, and when I woke up, all I could think of is this song "Hold on" by Wilson Phillips.



And yes, it's constantly playing at the back of my head -_-

So here I am, sitting comfortably in my room enjoying my long weekend. Sadly, I still haven't figured out what I would like to do for the long weekend yet. Earlier I was thinking about going badminton meetup this afternoon, but then I was home getting too comfortable and started lose feeling to go out (lazy poo :-P) But one thing I must have to get it done are the assignments. yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Yesterday when I got home from school, I saw there's a big package sitting on the floor of my kitchen. I was like, hmm this must be my mum's package. So I was rushing to get a scissors to open it. And surprisingly, when i opened the box it was a full of SNACKS!! From chocolate cookies, red bean cakes to traditional crackers. You name it; it has them all in a big package. Damn, I can't believe my mum spoiled me so much like I am still a kid LOL

Weirdly, I sometimes feel bad about being spoiled and having most of the things I want in this stage of my life. Or I should say “feel scared” instead of “feel bad” I have fear that something might going to lose in anytime and I also have fear that rather I can handle the feeling of losing something important. Well I guess I’ve just been thinking too much. I should be more like, have fun and enjoy this moment.

They spoiled me by feeding me all types of food. This is the real colombian food they made for me after the buffet on last sunday :) yummy yummy!

如果感到那些人一点都不在呼自己,那去這旅程是真的一點意義都沒有...












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我覺得呢個人很煩.說所有意見都是負面.成日打电話來,沒接又說我故意,接她的電話不說話又說"dead air"跟她講多了又被她說我話多.我說最近吃了些什麼她就說我怪不得甘肥. 老說我不探訪她我其實已特意去過兩次看她.老不滿意又投訴我profile照片照得很可怕.很奇怪的女人.

好好享受獨處

其實說來,我算是個朋友很多的人,一直覺得朋友很多是好事. 但是隨著年紀漸長,我慢慢享受有個人空間的生活. 很多人總是喜歡生活熱熱鬧鬧,嘻嘻哈哈不能学會獨處,等到一天發現用了很多錢,幾乎個個月無錢淨就發現原來參加了太多朋友聚會.

友人投訴自己变肥,體質變差,現在沒以前好看.我問為什麼不去鍛練?她說沒朋友陪沒有动力.我想那又是不能学會獨處的問題.不會獨處,不夠獨立的人就像被人牽着鼻子走的人,隨波逐流.沒主見,沒思想,反正自己有人陪不會寂寞就好了.

其實人只有學會懂得獨處,享受獨處才會得到比較多的好處.例如可以少花些不必要的錢, 自己可以清醒的想想自己對未來的目標和對自己的增值. 人總不能每日吃喝玩樂嘻嘻哈哈的過.外面的花花世界你什麼時候去他什麼時侯都在.什麼時侯去應酬和跟誰去都是應該自主的選擇控制,不是嗎?

交際應酬不需要多,真正的朋友就算你不跟他們social, 他們依然是你的好朋友.反而學會獨處懂得自己的增值更加重要.

朋友不需常常柴娃娃堆在一起,我欣賞積極正面樂觀的人,不太喜歡懶惰,自憐自艾,隨波逐流,負面,挑剔,耍心機,壞心地,愛說是非,小事化大和無事愛生事無中生有的麻煩人. 我也是個正面積極,愛挑戰戰鬥格的人.喜歡与同樣磁場的人作朋友.然後一起感染對方,一起变得更好 :)

非要討論別人的生活不可

被表姐說我太不可思義有車不開非要走路20分鐘去圖書館,我說整天在室內是憂憂愁愁的主要原因,我認為我躲在車子開車跟躲在室內沒有分別,很辛苦. :-P 她說彿州很多变態佬,我說難不我就上ebay買個防狼器 :-P


看了別人的博客還在自己facebook中把別人的journal在自己的status上大眾討論好像真的不是太好耶...

哎喲這麽無聊不就太太平平在家裡打打電動做做家務,我不明白為什麼非要討論別人的生活不可??難道自己沒有生活嗎? 反正我博客是set了public所以你自己圈子討論都算了還要當眾評論,以為人家不知道你在說誰嚒?

祝大家有個有意義的一年,無聊就去上課或學些東西.別老是釘着人家的情報來"大眾討論".

The most productive week

yay!過了一個充實的礼拜 :)每天跑到圖書館学習,希望繼續努力一個月內將所有這個學期的課本看完.琴日俾表姐鬧我又去歺館揾工,佢今次好嚴厲咁同我講話我再開始返工我個獎学金一定keep唔住.我話我行mall見同學係歺廳返工我又心郁郁想揾工 :(不過佢講得啱嘅,我返工返攰左,學習會開始無心機,而且獎学金嘅錢對我黎講真係足夠有餘.

我啲haiti同學終於唔敢再煩我了^^自從我被迫去左佢地新年party,飲大左唔舒服鬧佢地一歺.的確我唔舒服都係因為你地不斷邀請我,我客氣推下次先,你地又話我放飞機發我脾氣 >:-( 今次我唔鬼舒服賴你地鬧你地真人之常情.對我黎講邀約只係叫客氣一場同學俾面你地班人.睇你仲敢唔敢煩我!!好似我表姐話我真係對人太客氣了^^