Okonomiyaki

Okonomiyaki is a mixture between pancake and pizza. "Okonomi" means "as you like". I had this for lunch yesterday. So I thought to try my own.

The ingredients..

Not too bad huh.. Though this time I only use cabbage, eggs and flour. Next time I'll add seafood in it. Hehe..

Dear Angel

I finally made up my fickle mind on what song to use for mix analysis. This song is by the band April Sixth, song name is dear angel.

Dear angel of mine,
Where do I start to express how I feel?
Well, my love's gone blind.
Now all that I feel is what I hear.
Your words rip and tear,through my heart so weak and pure.
Now, I find myself wanting to die…

I bleed for the second time tonight
Holding all that's in my mind.
If only my love could be with you.
If only this pain, this pain die too!
I'll break you away, away, away from me.

As I sit here alone
Thinking about everything that you said.
You know since I'm alone.
Well, maybe after all, I was better off dead.
Cause without you my life's gone down.
What do I do, when I find myself wanting to die?

And I don't know…I'll break you away!
Said, I'll break you away, away, away from me.
Sincerely Yours.

Interview again

I was on my way to the studio this afternoon and I received a phone call from Melbourne IT. A company which I applied for part-time job 1 month ago. What a surprise! I had the interview at 3.30pm for almost half an hour. I left the studio session earlier. I wasn't expecting any reply, guess you'll get it if you expect the least. Was told that I will be informed next week if successful. Anything will do, really! I don't mind..

I am extreme

24 hours ago, my mind wasn't in a stable condition. Not any psycho activities of course but just some thoughts. I was considering to quit my studies. God knows what the hell went wrong with my brain cells. I never quit, ever. And after I started blasting it all out, I realised that the problem lies in me.

Here's the situation. I'm turning 24 soon. I graduated 2 years ago with an IT degree and now I'm doing sound engineering.. A total different profession. I know its only 4 more months for me to complete the course but somehow or rather I felt that I'm always stuck in the middle of nowhere. When I was studying IT, I really don't quite enjoy it. I don't know much but at the same time I know alot too. See..

Same thing happening now. I wonder why the rest of my classmates know so much. Because they read? Because they knew all these before they were here? I don't know. Maybe I was holding grudge. It was about Terina. She's my classmate, well the one I "buddy" with in class. We don't go out or chat outside class. Solely CLASSMATE. I wasn't happy about her completing the assignment. I didn't mean anything bad. All the weeks I've been spending in the studio, trying to find out how the console work, research etc etc. All she did was asked me to teach her and she completed in 10 minutes. I understand that "Sharing is caring" but why am I feeling that she's stealing? I hope I'm not being selfish here..

Alright, back to the story. I said I was extreme. YES I AM! I woke up this morning feeling so much better and grudge-less though her msgSS woke me up by asking me how to do this and that. No worries mate! I continued on my assignments then. I love music but when it comes to composing.. geez.. I can't! I need to compose 2 songs, each for 2 minutes. He helped me. Hehe.. luckily he can play piano and luckily he owns a electric piano. He carried it all the way upstairs for me because there isn't enough notes to play on my mini keyboard. =)

Thanks!

Men are from Venus

Exactly, they're supposed to be Martians. See, that's the reason why men are so complicated and difficult to understand because we'll never know their origin..

I'm writing about men because HE piss me off. Well, to be exact, he forgot some important dates. I was the one reminding him last year and I thought I've hit his head hard enough to make him remember this year.. BUT no! As forgetful as he always is.

Before I went to bed yesterday, I told him. He admitted that he forgot but he claimed that he remembers the day before. After alot of explanation etc etc and I had successfully made him feel guilty, I forgive him.. haha..

Actually I was just disappointed, not really angry. Whatever it was, I had a great day today. Went for lunch and shop for groceries. I need nothing fancy gift or romantic candlelight dinner, but for you to remember the day will be good enough.

Gotta go take my shower now..

Ouch..

I just fell down from the stairs AGAIN! 2nd time since I moved in! Why why why? Is it a once-a-month thing like period!!? Screw the stairs...

Last month, which was July.. I was going up the stairs while carrying a bowl of hot tomyum noodle soup. When I was told to put it downstairs, I went down and fell and spilled the whole bowl of noodle soup on the carpeted stairs!! It took me sometime to get rid of the smell and the noodles!! Plus my butt hurts too!

And just now, I wanted to go downstairs for some M&M. My butt hurts because it sorta bounced 2 steps downwards. My ankle hurts too because I landed on a tile-floor.. And my hand got cuts too! Luckily its not bleeding..

Why me???? ^~%@*^(*^~!%%&*^X@X#&%^^%~*##$@X

There's something out there

I skipped class this morning. I woke up as soon as I heard the alarm but.. I knew I shouldn't be out today. Have you ever heard something whispering somewhere which told you what you should or shouldn't do? I did today. I was lying on the bed, staring at the window and I felt the messages such as "Stay home", "Don't go out" being sent to me. I don't know why but believe it or not, I just knew it!

I msg Terina then. Just wanna know if she's going in, thank God she said no. Again, I don't know why. Maybe I don't like to be the only one who think I should miss class..

UlcerS

For the past few days, I was moody. Thanks to the 2 giant ulcers.. How could anyone possibly bite themselves the way I did? Biting myself is already bad enough, but bite it with the strength of chewing an apple is not. Worst thing with the mark was the 2 bites were identical. Imagined something like.. " \ / ". I'm glad that they didn't combine, or I'll be singing 2 become 1.. AND I was trying to avoid words starting with the alphabet "F" because it will somehow scratches the ulcers. Whatever..

Curry Vege

I cooked curry today. Yes curry! My first curry! Yoohoo...! I can't believe it!

I was scratching my sculp off (soon) trying to figure out how to cook curry while searching all over the internet for the recipe. Thanks to Ms Lynnette Yap for telling me how! I came across these spices last week while shopping for my groceries and I thought it would be nice if I can cook my own. So I bought corriander powder, tumeric powder, garam masala and curry powder without even knowing what is for what. I picked these 4 because they sound familiar to me not because I know what are they for.

Anyway, I did it. 1 tsp of each except the corriander powder will do. Here are the steps. Just reminding myself.

1. Fry potato until golden brown. Put aside.
2. Fry onion and garlic until soften. Add 1 tsp each of the 3 mentioned powder.
3. Stir-fry vege. (This is vege only curry, meat-less)
   
4. Add potato.
5. Pour in water and coconut milk until the gravy turned thickened.
6. Add salt and pepper for flavor.
   
7. WAIT.
8. Ta-da... that's all!

It wasn't that difficult but too bad not very spicy though I added pepper because I don't have chilli powder. But still.. good try!

Basket

I haven't been playing any sort of sports for the past.. 2 years + if I'm not mistaken. Me and him went for basketball today. Surprise.. I don't know why but somehow I think it'll be good if we can play sports together.

I used to be in the basketball school team, don't play play! Haha.. but I got no idea why I ended up representing the school. Come on, I'm only 5 feet 1 (max) and less than 43kgs. There is no way I can qualify. Well.. The amazing thing was our opponent - Sri Kembangan. OMFG! They were huge in size and had tanned skin and rough AND they were STATE PLAYERS. We knew we're gonna lose no matter what, but at least try our best to break the "0". The final score was 56-2. Hehe.. Our whole team were so happy as if we won the match.. Back to basketball, it was good to play after such a long time. I didn't take any pics of myself today. I was enjoying snapping pics of the others.

A not-even-half-court, 1/12 maybe. Concrete floor. But at least something.

Tennis Court..

Playground!

Tribeca Apartments. Can't really see my unit but its just down the road.



Last pic of the day. My 2 little gold fish - Happy(orange) & Lucky(white)! It was only a month but they grew so much!

#@$%^&*!

Another mood swing day. I woke up at 1pm and started to wash my fish tank since. Took me half an hour. Seeing that 2 little thing happily swimming in the tank, I knew I did a great job.

Since sometime ago, I've already banned to cook chicken at home. But of course I didn't ban him from eating, just don't buy home that's all. I only allow vege in the house. I'm not really a meat person. I can't eat beef due to allergy. I don't like mutton or pork. I used to eat chicken but I decided not to anymore. I will eat if I've got no choice out there or for social purposes. I've turned from chicken to fish since then. I almost puke while taking the piece of fillet out of the plastic bag. It was so smelly. Though I don't know how corpse smells like, but the fish definitely smell like one.

Before washing the fish, I was washing the overnight dishes. And I emptied the rubbish bin and found out it was leaking. No wonder the bin smells funny. I carried the bin up to the basin and flush it. It splashed all over my pyjamas when I turned on the tap!!! Partly I was angry because it was leaking and I turned the tap on to the max. Serves me right.. My first reaction was.. CB!

FINE! I continued on the fish. I accidentally poured all the fish pieces into the basin again. I didn't want to touch it because it stinks but looks like I have to. So I picked them up piece by piece and I.. CCB!

*phew*

Then after dinner, I had apple. I bite myself again. This time I had it printed on my mouth. Its so obvious that anyone can tell that I bite myself! It hurts for sure because I bite it real hard. SO.. I.. MCH! Can't help it.. Just wasn't my day! Luckily I stayed home..

Talk about sounds

One of the assignments will due in September. It requires me to do a mix analysis of a commercially released track. That includes a description of instruments used, processing and production style used. Great, how on earth will I know then.. We had a briefing by Darren on how to do this analysis. Just pick a track but preferably not your favourite because you're gonna hate that song after listening for over hundred times. Then do it that's all.

I was trying to pick a song out of the whole collection of my mp3s. I didn't want to hate any of the songs in there. So I've downloaded 2 alternative albums and plenty more new songs. I haven't been updating my list for quite some time. Lazy perhaps.

I only liked(accept) these few out of 40.. sad huh..

• Foo Fighters - Best Of You
• The Afters - Beautiful Love
• 3 Doors Down - Let Me Go
• The Killers - Mr Bright Side
• Long View - When You Sleep
• April Sixth - Dear Angel
• The High Speed Scene - The Iroc-Z Song
• Acceptance - Over You
• Dishwalla - Collide
• Anberlin - Paperthin Hymn
• Stereophonics - Dakota
  

My ears sorta filtered them for me automatically. Whatever genre it is, I'm fine with all of them really. From oldies to Rock.. BUT no metal please. Somehow I just don't know how to appreciate bands to shout their lungs out while you can't hear a single word of what they're shouting. I think it'll be great to play different genre at different time of the day. Just like I won't play rock in the middle of the night. IT DEPENDS.

Out of the 2 albums, I realised that most alternative bands were male. For this, I agreed that male can do better alternative music than the females. At least until today, I haven't got a single fav female alt band. Back to the assignments, which track should I choose?

He can't be dead!

I just finished reading the 6th book of Rowling's Potter series - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It was officially published on the 16th of July and I got it 2 days after. I thought I would finish reading within a day or so but then I saved it bit by bit. We knows how long it takes to write one. I've waited for 2 years since the 5th book. The last few chapters were so addictive, I couldn't help it but finish off..

As she promised, one of the major character will be dead. Well, she did it. Unbelievable! Dumbledore is dead, no way.. I was almost in tears reading the final chapter while everyones attending his funeral.

*A few week earlier, I came across this site. I sorta get the idea what the ending will be like by the title: Dumbledore Is Not Dead. So that means he will be dead at the end.* I didn't read the contents of this site until today.*

I felt much better after this as it pointed out many hidden clues and the possibilities that Dumbledore might be still alive. This is a site created to help Harry Potter fans cope with the shocking revelations in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

I knew it.. I'm pretty convinced with the clues now. While awaiting for the next book, I shall think that he's still alive.. Afterall, this is the best book of all 6.

Snowyy

It was freezingly freezing today. I could barely feel my fingers while waiting for tram this morning. This winter makes me feel like hybernating all the time. It has been raining for the past few days. The weather is getting chiller everyday. I received this message this morning..

"Mt Buller: 23 cm FRESH SNOW overnight! 17 lifts open, more snow forecast this week; fine weather this weekend! Get up here!"

Though its true that now is the best time to ski, but I shall wait for my mum and sis next month. I'm sure the snow won't melt in few weeks time.

This was taken 2 years ago. I miss snow now.. The little snowman that we made.. From left to right: Renay, me and Hong. One of my best friend wasn't in the pic, though we wished she could be with us at that moment..

It was so windy until I have to hold on something incase being blow off to somewhere else.. Ya rite.. So.. For those snow up there, please don't melt before I see you. I'll be there soon!

Full House

Full House also known as 浪漫滿屋 in chinese is a korean drama which I rated as the best drama of the year.. so far..

Don't know what to say except good. =) Things like this only happen in the dream because in real life, dream on.

You say angry or not

I was supposed to stay in my cosy bed at 8 this morning, but I woke up because I've booked my studio and I didn't want to miss it for the reason lazy. That session was 10 - 12. I thought I'll be able to at least get something done by today. But I spent almost the 2 hours watching the 2 supervisors fixing the console.

Some fuckers stuffed it up again. Why don't these people have a little common sense that you are sharing the studio, don't simply pull out cables and route it for your own convenience or add un-authorized hardware and not fixing it back at the end! Either they can't read the instructions or they're stupid. People like me after your session got no idea what the hell you did before, so we had to check everything again. Thanks to you bunch of assholes.

Anyway, luckily the 2 supervisors were patient enough. Though I didn't get to do my stuff, but I guess I learnt a lil on how to fix it. Not too bad afterall, fair enough..

Tiger Balm

He went for an interview today, hope he did well though he's now blaming himself for being not..

After that we went for groceries, since the food level of the fridge is almost 0. Everything went alright except the last stop. I wanted to buy Tiger Balm.

I don't know why, maybe the smell. So there was this Ah Pek at the counter, I think he was having a bad day because his face is rather "contract". So I speak in english while pointing at the tiger balm. He felt so annoyed and raised his voice: "Gong tong wa la!" which means speak in chinese. Then I kept quiet and let Dan talked to him.

Sigh.. uncle, we are in Australia. I'm just being polite speaking the universal language. How on earth do I know if you're from China, HK, Vietnam or any other jungle? Anyway, its ok. Don't argue with people, especially old ones.

Happy August

I slept at 4am yesterday because I was watching TV because I couldn't sleep because I slept late for the whole week. Surprisingly I woke up before my alarm buzz off. It's 1st of August that's why, I thought. Whatever it is, Happy August..

I got on the tram as usual, and this lady who sat besides me asked me for directions. I'm happy to tell her and said will remind her when we get to the stop. Had a little chat. This lady from Queensland came to visit her twin son in Melbourne which happened that the birthday is this Friday. Etc etc etc..

Oh ya, got my marks for the speech editing and song editing assignments. I did pretty good! Yay! After class, I went to meet up with Dan for lunch. We went Seoul Garden. I wonder why I'm still going to that place since their food taste like MSG, which is good. No doubt the food is great, but I was having the worst mood swing and drowsiness ever! As in from this restaurant. God knows what the hell they put in the food.

Bye Seoul Garden..

Chat with Elaine on MSN earlier. It has been ages since we last spoke to each other. She was the only nice person who happened to stayed in the city during my final year in Deakin who give me free rides to Uni and also a team mate.. Glad that she's doing fine now. Though we didn't know each other for many years, but will catch up when we're free ok! See ya soon..