tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50546282012-01-31T22:20:42.085+11:00Listen... and dance to the music of silenceMidnighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16496202314546602089noreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054628.post-62767757597842936122012-01-30T22:07:00.001+11:002012-01-30T22:07:02.366+11:002012-01-30T22:07:02.366+11:00

So recently BW posted on fb this link for his friend. It was a product on ebay called the PickMaster, which is basically a metal puncher in the shape of guitar picks. It's a lot bigger than the commercial paper shape cutters because it's designed to cut plastic. They recommended bank cards and other uselesss plastics. I actually had a little storage of guitar picks which I kept in my pigeonhole

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Those who skyped me before, or google hung out, would know. My laptop is so dodgily old that it doesn't even have a built in microphone, so I looked into getting a good one. Absolutely not looking for those that are attached to headphones which you use for starcraft :P Found one that costed maybe around 30, a logitech one that apparently picks up words very well. Then I read reviews that said it

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So another one of my obsessions has started. Cheesecake. However, it seems like cheesecake often comes with bad coffee, so I've taken to ordering either just cheesecake, or cheesecake and tea. From rhizome The first was from My Sweet Memory. I did say I was going to come back here and try their cheesecake. Verdict? Meh. The cheese filling wasn't that creamy and it felt like an old cheesecake.

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Hoping that the picture doesn't shrink when I post this. My Sweet Memory cafe opened in Sydney CBD, right next to TomnToms. Having to spend 2 hours of waiting today, I had this coffee there. Slightly burnt... but not to the point of being completely undrinkable. Anyone want to take a barista course with me? :D

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The ultimate comfort food for me at the moment has to be cheesecake. It's just something about the smooth, creamy cheese, sometimes with a tang of lemon, sometimes overly sweet with a caramel topping, other times with fruits or oreo filling. The biscuit base, preferrably hard and crunchy. This New York baked one from starbucks has shredded coconut in its biscuit base. I did try to make cheesecake

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It's almost Chinese New Year, and to us, it's always meant more than 1st of Jan, which we usually spend sleeping. This year, my 1st Jan rolled by with iSketch and google hangout (haha, virtual party with friends), but Chinese New Year won't be the same without some cooking, cleaning, and family feast. This year shall not differ! From CNY 2012 Before typing this entry up, I was actually looking

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All you need: soy sauce, cucumbers cut into quarter inch pieces, nori seaweed torn into quarters. Roll cucumber in seaweed, dip in soy sauce and eat. Those who read Norwegian Wood by Murakami will know that the main character ate this while visiting Midori's dad.

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From rhizome So I shall stop messing around with phone blogging and instead, do a proper "made at home on my pc" entry. Following recipe is compliments of tt, who went to Hong Kong and went all Asian at me afterwards. From rhizome My beautiful 燉蛋 "dun dan", otherwise translated to "Chinese Steamed Egg". This recipe is surprisingly hard to get right actually. From rhizome My first bowl

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Try 3: been going around to two starbucks around city and added to my collection of starbucks cards. There's something beautiful about each one... Too bad I can't go to Japan's starbucks, because they have the prettiest designs and lots of special limited edition ones, some selling at over $50 on ebay.

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The picture can't get any bigger, can it? I shall give up for tonight. Stuff phone blogging, my trusty pc gives perfect results. Will probably be sticking to my computer when it comes to blogging...

Midnighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16496202314546602089noreply@blogger.com2Cherrybrook, Cherrybrook-33.721073 151.04384tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054628.post-38620102138887991902012-01-10T00:42:00.001+11:002012-01-10T00:42:30.827+11:002012-01-10T00:42:30.827+11:00

Phone blogging?

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So the weather yesterday was a scorching summer's day, and it's been a pretty good summer so far as in, 1 out of the 3 months has been just cool "spring" kind of weather, with some rain, clouds and not much heat, but since we're in the middle of summer already, I guess the heat's just starting. From rhizome Ways to cool down? Cold noodles, Korean style, with egg, nashi pear, pickled radish and

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So recently, my high school friends decided to throw this Vegetarian Challenge reunion. Why, I have absolutely no idea, but since I stand by my opinion that it's more of a waste of money to order vegetarian stuff than meat at restaurants, I guess the alternative is to make your own. From rhizome Prior to the meetup, we were sent 4 different clues, set first by the organizer and the winners of

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And it's going to be Christmas everyday. So I didn't manage to squeeze one last entry into last year, but that's ok, here it is anyway, the typical "what I did/ did not do in 2011". Gotta admit though, it was a pretty awesome year and I really cannot complain too much about it. Expect many re-posts of photos as I go through all that I took in 2011. No particular order btw. And lots of randomness,

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From Weeks 29-??? So recently, I visited a vegetarian yum cha restaurant recommended by J.L, my dear high school friend. In my mind, I was thinking... could this place be better than the one at Newtown? To be honest, I love vegetarian food, but never actually could be bothered to have it. They don't seem quite so worth it on the menu in restaurants, and I don't like paying for salads. Maybe

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For the whole week since I started watching Keizoku II: SPEC (Japanese drama with Toda Erika in it, if that means anything to you at all), I've been on an endless craving for gyoza. I've already arranged to have some on Monday with tt, but for some reason, it couldn't wait. From Weeks 29-??? From Weeks 29-??? Then my parents went and bought home two heads of cabbages for no reason. (Digress,

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Some restaurants improve overtime, like TonTon at Regents Place. Others stay and keep their same level of skills, like Wagamama- always the same overpriced dodgy food, or Gumshara- always the same authentic ramen that's worth it despite the price raise. Then there are those that just goes backwards... like... Copo cafe =( It's always unfortunate when that happens because it becomes a huge

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So previously I mentioned a dessert train set up by Adriano Zumbo, made (in)famous by his appearances in Masterchef and the nightmarish recipes he dished out, including the croquembouche and V6 cake. Having been to his cafe in Balmain before it closed down, and then visiting his new "lab" in Rozelle, I was majorly disappointed. All the tarts were gone by noon, so all they were selling were

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Lack of updates despite it being holidays? Blame the kindle. I've got the Song of Ice and Fire series in there, by George R.R. Martin, as well as Murakami's 1Q84 trilogy inside, but I'm only on the third book (out of the 5) and haven't started Murakami yet. Am reading a lot faster though, since it's so convenient to just take out and read anytime. Plus, the battery is lasting amazingly long~ it's

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So the other day, I met up with a couple of friends from high school for a random catch up. I've been owing them a catch up session for ages and BT initiated a cake+catchup time, so when asked for places of suggestion, what better place for cake than Adriano Zumbo's new cake shop at "The Star" (terrible renaming of "Star City", they should have just left it alone...) Interesting thing about

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Random: I watched the movie "Contagion" and remembered a line which Dr. Sussmann said, "Blogging is not writing, it's just graffiti with punctuation". No doubt, lots of bloggers will take offense with that, some actually do put in lots of work and research, especially those blogging about their profession, what they are passionate about, and offer quite deep insight into the topic itself.

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So I actually do feel a bit guilty for not updating this blog. I even missed my birthday, which many of my friends remembered and wished me well, so I shall express my thanks in a post~ =) From Birthday So firstly, my family~ From Birthday My dad, who hardly ever goes cake-shopping because he himself doesn't really eat sweet stuff, went and bought me a cake. The bakery he went to was his

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Lack of activity in October due to finals... exams, assignments, lots of practices and writing and worrying~ But! It's almost all over~ tonight shall be a tiny post about these: From Weeks 29-??? I actually forgot about them... they were from the Brisbane markets when I was there for the AMTA conference. I bought a packet of strawberry and a packet of cherry coated in dark chocolate with plans

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Probably will not be properly blogging for the next month or so, until I get all these assignments over and done with. Final semester PHWAITING! From Weeks 29-??? But first, I gotta show off my new toy. Well, not toy, more like... new... tool... From Weeks 29-??? It's even the same colour as my poor broken psp~ From Weeks 29-??? This entry will have nothing to do with food so feel free to

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Just kidding. I realised I didn't actually take any photos or do any sightseeing on day 4 because it was a full day conference. Was also dead tired that night after the conference, so it was practically back to apartment and sleep. Or attempt to do work, I forgot which. So I thought I'd go back to Hong Kong and finally write up how Stanley got his name, since February =) From Hong Kong Trip

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