新年，长大了！

新年要到咯！
一考完试后，大家就开始为我们的家来个大扫除，
并且用有限的材料布置我们的客厅。
可是这一点也没有难倒ah JOO和ah Du噢，
她们甚至想到把巧克力硬币贴在墙壁上！**创意加分** 嘿嘿~~

有Mr Tan的贺年卡，有Fuixian好友千里迢迢送来的卡，有Sinyee妈妈的爱心兔和爱心卡~嘿嘿~

已list下了一连串
新年时要弄得甜品，食物
以及为特地从远方到来的Mancunians &Londonians
新年Steamboat的食材。
这一次，我真的觉得
我们都已经长大了！

以前新年我只管开心地玩，
也觉得新年好麻烦要准备好多年货，
可是今年第一次，
我们就像我们的父母一样，
在想要准备买几只鸡，几瓶汽水给大家喝，
要买什么新年糖果给客人吃，
那里比较便宜，
结果昨天tesco的online delivery 前所未有的贵！
我们成功地破了一百磅的纪录 ~ *恭喜大家*
而且我们过后还要去Sainsbury买一些肉
和到华人店去买一些面。
虽然好像很麻烦，
不过其实我们是乐在其中的！
Ah joo还说拜年时大家都要穿旗袍或红色象征性的衣服！
而且会到朋友家去拜年。呵呵。

可是我最近真的吃很多，
大家如果见到脸肿腿肿的我，
请不要见怪，
我现在是在人生中最肥的时刻了！

新年还有花儿的相伴以及“旺来”~

整屋子都有新年的气息噢！
敞开大门，
欢迎大家在新年齐聚一堂
这将会是一个美好难忘的回忆！

半退休生活

花了一整个星期的时间，终于把房间收拾干净了！
考试前天天早睡，考试后天天迟睡。
考完试后真的有如释重负的感觉，
每天待在家当个不折不扣的宅女，
过着悠哉悠哉的半退休生活，
竟然更胜过出去逛街购物的兴奋！
生活节奏慢半拍，又睡至日上三竿才起床，
虽然很宅，但是日子过得还不错我~

考试后第一天和第二天晚上都到不同的朋友家吃晚餐，
看了超无厘头的漫画电影Scott Pilgrim：

在考试期间看完了《王子变青蛙》，没想到这部偶像剧194还竟然看了两遍，而我却是第一次在这里看~ Oh no~
第三天看了感人又好笑的《听说》，晚上咱们就到Brasserie Gerard 吃晚餐，还真的蛮好吃喔；过不久又看了另一部彭宇晏主演的《近在咫尺的爱恋》.噢，还有Wanjoo 介绍的Old Miss Diaries, 在youtube 可以找到几个有subtitle的片断，也是超搞笑的耶！然后hor，经wanjoo 介绍，我们才知道原来啊，Jolin 的特务J专辑的歌是一部三部曲的音乐电影，只可惜金载沅在mv中很快就被女特务给杀死了。


现在正在追看：寻秦记！！！对啦，也是一部轰动一时的连续剧，不知道为什么那个时候我就是没有看叻！古天乐真的超搞笑的耶！最好笑莫过于他和古代人有的没的乱搭的对话！哈哈！


在家里太得空了嘛，于是dudu煮了超好喝的雪耳糖水！
她一直说：“你不会想知道我放了多少的糖！”
Ohmy，after 考试，我的stomach变成了无底洞，对食物完全没有抵抗力了！
只要有吃的，好吃的，吃饱了还是会拿来吃！
这是考完试后的症状吗？只要有吃的都会很开心。哈哈。


星期六到了Oxford去游玩。
还好有Andrew的朋友当我们的tour guide，我们又认识多几个新朋友啦！嘿嘿！
去看了HarryPotter 拍电影的地方，感觉那个hall 好小噢！结果到了傍晚，我们便把整个oxford看完了，于是便决定补买多一张票，早点回家！


昨天兴致勃勃，bake了一些chocolate puddings，然后一起看了刘德华饰演狄仁杰的《通天帝国》。加上《寻秦记》的熏陶，让我对中国的历史起了浓厚的兴趣！
P.S.：原来，完璧归赵的背后是有这么精彩的故事的！大家不妨去找找看。

虽然现在英国的天气超级冷，内心却是超级暖。
有一班超级可爱，超级爱笑的朋友，
每天都感觉超幸福的。

每次遇见如此的大雨就会想起这首歌，以及大马大大粒的雨滴。^^

Desserts

66 West Avenues has getting too bored of reading books and notes. After dinner everyone has a sudden rush of making desserts.
Look at what we did tonight to destress a bit!

 Initially we wanted to cook green bean soup 绿豆糖水, but because of the small volume of water and a lot of sagu we ended up having “绿豆西米露”. Tastes really nice and sweet!!

Beneficial effect:  Green beans help reducing edema.
Source: Jessica

Last time we have found the BBC recipe on making Lemon self saucing pudding. This is how it looks like in the website:

It's really easy to make this pudding as long as u have one lemon, concentrated lemon juice and some, typical baking ingredients: Butter, flour, milk, eggs, etc. The hardest part would be, the effort to whip the egg white and beat the mixture. Tiring~

That's our first experimental pudding! Sorry, it's not visually attractive here as the light is dim, but it tastes really really great!!! With the help of two experienced bakers aka Wan Joo and Sin Yee, we often come out with a success! Just like what Jes said, Miracle often happens during baking! (She said so because I couldnt really believe that the beating of butter sugar and lemon zest inititally will end up smooth and pale. )

No wonder this pudding has got many 5 stars reviews from the readers. Worth a try and believe me, it is really tasty! But dont be shocked when you see the final mixture as a very dilute mixture, it is meant to be so. Here is the link:　http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5781/lemon-selfsaucing-pudding

Okay I don't dare to count the amount of sugar and nuts that I have ingested today!　＞＜

阳光！

终于，整整七天后，我在天空中看见了金黄色的光辉，以及淡蓝的天。

在大马的时候，还真的没有体会过这~~么~~长~~的“不见得光”的日子。不是说我讨厌阴天，只是在我们回来bath以后，已有整整一个星期，每天都从未见过阳光：早上起来，没有日出，一整天的天空是灰色的，没有半点的金黄色洒在天上，就连蔚蓝的天空也不见了。然后到了四点左右，没有黄昏，天色一转，就直接变成晚上了！感觉就好像在南北极过着没有白天只有晚上的日子哦！难怪有些人会有“不见阳光忧郁症”，就连我也生出一点闷气来了。因为阳光总是在那里啊，只是云朵厚得足以把它完全遮盖起来。

今天，难得的，金黄色的光辉！正所谓，一日之计在于晨，而且＋寸金难买寸光阴，大家要好好珍惜今天的光阴啊！提起正念好好活着！（其实是跟自己说，别再懒散了，呵呵～～）

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A tinge of sunlight~

What we did today 3.1.11

There we go. It's me and dudu again in 66 West Avenue. We managed to do some masak-masak today and it's not too bad. ( hahahah. We are really lame chefs! ) So just let the pics do part of the talking:

1. Our lunch the French toast

Finally we have decided to make it our own! Hehe. For a first timer, what do you expect then? We purposely went out to Moorland road to get the milk and the cinnamon powder for this!

2. Tiramisu.

It's not the first time we made it, but I rather said I never make it all by myself. ( I was always the one beside playing around when ppl are making it!) So I asked dudu and she's willing to make the cake with me. hehe.

 The biscuits is a substitute for sponge fingers which is sold out in Co-op. I shall say it tastes better with Sponge fingers on it.

 Taddaaa!!! Not the perfect one indeed, the taste were alright but the rheology..hmmm..can be better. :D
But it is my first cake ley!

3. Dinner

Dudu has an urge to make lemon chicken and there it is. A really delicious one! Thx for the corn flour borrowed from Kenny too. Haha. We are so poor now in 66.  The dinner tastes the nicest although we didnt put much effort in it. :P

A perfect dinner with a Korean drama (恶作剧之吻特别版） More expensive rice really taste different from Sainsbury's. But I can't describe how different it is!

Ends here with a song. Quite a nice acapella though!


Have already had in my mind what kind of good food are going into my stomach for tmr. heheheheh.
Good night! :D

今天，和一位师兄谈天，谈了许久。
每每和他说话，都会有心灵上的启发，也增长了我的信心。
其实啊，人生能有多少个如此的朋友呢？
说的不是无义的话，而是用心去和你交流的朋友。

今天，有一位朋友离开我们家了，因为她要回家咯。
有一些朋友，你感觉到她就是很熟悉，虽然你和她只是认识了三秒钟。
有点夸张啦。哈哈。可那也让我想起了，另一个她，我在认识她的第一晚，就把几乎所有的故事都跟她说了！听起来真的很不可思议！
但是，缘分是真的很奇妙的。

不论是缘深缘浅，都离不开悲欢离合。
也明白，那种不舍得的心情，是不好受的。但是我们生活在这个世界，却不得不一次次地经历这一种难受的感觉。直到我们真的把离合看得彻底的那一天。
师父说的那句话，是如此的深刻。她脸带微笑说：

“今天，大家相聚在一起，嘻嘻哈哈的，真的很欢喜。明天，大家又随着各自的因缘去咯。”

每个人都有自己的道路，各自的因缘要走。可是在此时此刻，我们竟然能够遇见彼此，真的实属难得。趁大家还有缘时，多做些什么吧，别等到大家随各自因缘而去时，空留遗憾。

常常弄丢发夹，便会从这里再取出新的来用。今天我望着它许久，心想：难道我要等到最后一支发夹才学会不弄丢吗？就好像我们的福报，我们不懂自己的存库有多少的资粮。倘若不懂得珍惜，只会取来用，比如，随意浪费食物，浪费水电，任意购买衣物，花钱等，平日却没有好好修福，福报很快会被用完的。

以前持戒清静的僧人，都把自己的日常用品，物尽其用。一个面巾，多么地破烂不堪，只要能够抹脸，就不丢。掉在地上的米饭，只要还能吃来填饱肚子，依然拾起来吃。别人都不明白他们为什么这么清苦，他们只微笑说够用就好。

就好像，如果我一直都好好保管那一支发夹，我就不必常常从这里取出新的。它们就没有那么快被用完，即使我没有钱再买新的。而且我有多的可以借给别人用。^^ 如果没有机会修福报，那么更要懂得惜福。怎么去惜福？用一颗感恩和欢喜的心去接受身边的事物。

有时候，惜福会比享福更有福。

1111

Wow, today is the 1.1.11 oo!!! But today is not a school term, so I cannot write it on my notes~~
Today is a Saturday, today is the 365th day of 2011! ( Like to make it a whole year countdown! )
Weeeeee..sorry for the post-new-year excitation!
The firework and beautiful lantern were still in my mind. And the broad blue sky that brings up all the most glittering stuffs.
As we renew our calendar, don't forget to renew our heart and way of thinking~ A new year is always a good kickstart to all the new things! It's not always too late to find the courage to become someone better than who you are, if you figure out there's sth you wanna change. :)

Have been asking people around their new year resolutions. While I myself haven't been really have one. Okay..let me think..here it goes!

Be motivated and patient to eradicate my bad habits - Being late, being messy, being unorganised...>< ><
Be a best friend of myself, less criticising and more appreciation for who i am and how i behave..Continue the journey of exploring my own self and the truth of the world.
Be a really good friend to all my good friends, because they deserve the love and understanding in return of what they have given so much to me...
Be happier, truly from the heart. Not that kind of happiness that comes from lust and desire, but the joy of having less hatred and being a better person.
Learn to give wholeheartedly and share with the others. I'm still on my way in doing this.
Stop being antisocial. hahaha..that doesn't mean that I gonna be very socialising all around. I just hope that I can know some very true hearted friends during my university years, and I should open my heart to the others. I have some very good role model to learn from. hehe.
Always have a time of a cup of milo, every day, no matter how crazy the workload is.
Follow his teachings, always. Avoid all evils, do all that are good, purify one's mind. 

Okay, that's all I can think now. Ciao~