Drawing on the road!

I woke up to the the sounds of children shrieking and lots of noise and movement outside my window yesterday. 7.30am-which child wakes up at this ungodly hour? And this is what I saw when I went out 30 minutes later:

Cool, hey? Swarms of 3-10 year old kiddies, babies, moms and dads were sitting along both sides of the pavement on the main street in Adelaide. I'm not sure what was the event.. hmm,Children's Day? I thought that was in October.

Not to mention, it was sweltering hot as well. I wonder if parents have put enough sunblock for them? Skin cancer incident is extremely worrying in here! Haha.. some kid coloured the metal thingy there! Looks like a football now!

Daddy decide to join the kids as well! I want to draw and colour too!!

It's Saturday-Xmas 2009-Humungous flower

These kids' drawing remind me of the good old days when mom used to hang our drawings up in the kitchen wall after the art class. Friends and family used to play the guessing game whose drawings were they (my bro or mine)? The kitchen area was always my pride and joy because of these drawings =)

Just wanna do a quick shoutout to my beautiful friend, Ee von. Happy 23rd Birthday to you!! I would have posted up a picture, but I realized that all the pictures of you are in the old PC =(

Nevertheless, hope you have a great one and I will come back to celebrate with you.





PS: Just received my IELTS result and it was beyond what I'd expected. Overall, I've received a score of 8 and above for each section , but my most 'bangga' ones were listening and reading - 9 out of 9. Sounds absurd right? I am suspicious if the examiners were marking them correctly though. Even so, I ain't complaining. XD

*throws Medication Management notes in the air*


Yay! One DOWN.


Now for the ultimate > FINAL > LAST EXAMINATION test. Typing it out itself feels overwhelming already. Gosh, I can't believe it as I'm approaching the end of my full time job in 2 weeks time.

Boo.



Ever wonder what people do when they are stressed or demotivated or 'sien ah'? While some prefer to go shopping or blast their music loud or eat a tub of Nutella or ice-cream , I always find myself in the kitchen - a therapeutic place for me to de-stress. To cook up a storm! XD

So, today I decided to get creative and made fresh buttermilk pancakes before burying my nose in books/lecture notes!

My flipping techniques are terrible! I blame the heavy non-stick fry pan. How to flip when its so heavy, eh? * in denial - no skill tsk tsk*

Berries are DELICIOUS (love em'), but my housemate, Ann begs to differ. So, I came out with 2 different plates. In the end, while I was taking photos, I realised that I made one kiddi version, the other adult version XD Haha...

A scoop of creamy vanilla ice-cream would make this dish complete =)





PS: Can't wait for family and friends re-union happening very soon.

Stop and ponder

I read the cue card:


If there was one thing you want to change in your life, what would it be?


How would it benefit you?


Will it be difficult to make this change?


...And then, I was asked to speak for 2 minutes about it.

I wished the examiner could have listened to my sincere reply, something which will come deep down from my heart. But, this was an examination setting. If I spoke my mind, I would not be able to answer the next 2 questions. And I can well predict that I won't be able to score very well in it.

*sigh*

But I thought this was a brilliant question. Something which I haven't been asked for a long time.

Ask yourself.

Cheese Fest 09' @ Rymill Park

Yay! The opportunity to upload pictures of my recent adventure, finally! Just completed my IELTS test this morning. It was amazing to see swarms of people with red or green passports in their hands! International students unite. LOL!

Anyway, last Sunday was Cheesey-licious DAY! There was a variety of cheese and wine stalls from different places-Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Mclaren Vale etc . Afterall, SA is famous for plethora of grapevines XD I should go visit sometime soon. Wait..what was I doing here for almost 2 years? *deep in thought*

Complementary wine glasses

Cheese tasting

Cheese + crackers are the shiznit

Honeycomb!

Sweet treats. Not sure if it really fits in the cheesy atmosphere. Hahaha

Savoury dips

I really like brie out of all the cheeses. Its soft, creamy and smooth. The blue cheese..GOSH!! Too potent... too potent for my liking. The hard cheese, I am sure you are familiar with parmesan, pecorino. Jo and I tried the matured (3 years!!) pecorino cheese. Hahaha.. she said it tasted like sponge. LOL! Zoe and I thought that the Tasmanian Red Square's (washed rind) cheese is very nice tasting too!

Poh Poh's expertise in glass handling. Check out her Marilyn Monroe's tattoo! If there was an Elvis Presley one, I reckon she would have that all over her hands and legs =)

Tried to trick Ann that I was drinking wine. It backfired!

*Ahem* that's green tea ^_^

There are heaps of other photos, but I'm too tired to wait for it to upload.

It was really great to know that there are so many different types of cheese out there. Definitely a good introductory place because I know I can never buy so many different types of cheese and do sample tasting. If I hadn't know how blue cheese tasted like, I might puchase a block out of curiosity, tasted a bite and left it in the fridge and never touch it again-oh, perhaps pass that to Jo piggy. Heeehee (She helps me with my wine, everytime! Such good friend) Yes, cheese is not CHEAP in here by the way >.<