Thing i cannot live without

After much thought about things i use almost everyday, suddenly it struck my mind what if those things gone.

Those things are:

1. My Lovely computer

2. My Wonderful TV

3. My Amazing Logitech Speaker

4. My Cooling notebook cooler pad

5. My HD set top box

Gum B'day

6th of July. Gum's Birthday.

Today I prepare something special for her thou doesn't look too nice but the taste is not dissapointing..still edible..

The first dish. Brocolli, mushroom and abalone. This is a simple dish to cook but the taste won't be like the restaurant because I don't have dried scallop for the gravy.

I simply use the water in the abalone bottle to cook. Which i reckon is ok standard.

Second dish. Salmon with unagie sauce and and fried onion. As know salmon is very oily fish. Lots of fats. Onion is good to fight oily stuff. So place some onion on the dish will help reduce the feeling of oiliness.

The mistake i make is i forgot to dry the oil of the fried onion before plating the fish. So the dish still very oily and not until my satisfaction.

Fried scallop and deep fried scallop. One thing about deep fried thingy. It is very hard not to make it soggy after it cool down.

Fried scallop is easier thingy. Just to make the flavour inside. Well i use garlic which is my favourite type of "vege". Garlic has very strong flavour, so it's not hard to get the flavour into scallop.

Last but not least. Apple caramel with sesame seed. I learn this from master chef. The caramel is hard and the apple is soft with the batter cover the apple. So the sugar is sweet and the apple is sour so sweet and sour with the sesame seed. Taste quite good.

A celebration is not complete without champagne. And I got a very good champagne. KRUG is the finest champagne in this world and it is the leading champagne maker. Well the one is got is the lowest range since i cannot afford the better range.

Well, after dinner. We are too full to have anymore food. So the cake save till tomorrow.

Little Update

Finish exam and relaxing..However, holidays ain't holidays. Study for next semester and planning for the future is important part of the plan. I'm not sure what is coming in the future, but planning is always needed. Things not always look as it is.

We always took things for granted. We live in a comfortable place, having all the comfort of the 21st century. We turn on our computer and connect the world. We switch on the tv and get entertainment. We pick up our mobile and call anyone we like. Car, public transport, telephone, airplane and many things else. We take it for granted. We never think if something disappear and the day we have to live in a place where there is nothing.

People think graduates from Univeristy will have a good future. That's why people attend Uni and hope for a bright future. Many people will plan from Uni and not from the career. We think of the occupation we want and pursue the job we want. However, no one will stay at the same job forever. After years graduates from Uni, we realise the job we always dreaming of is not as good as we thought.

I always plan from the future and career path. Planning backward is more achieveable than planning forward. Set the ultimate goal in our life and plan the step to achieve it. I know I can't say my theory or method is the correct one because I still haven't achieve my goal. I know many people still think graudaute from Uni will have better future and not graduates from Uni will have less chance of success. For those who did not study in Uni will think working at young age get some money and life will be very good. For me Uni is the crash course of the career path.

Ahh..many things doesn't look as it is. That's the bottom line.

Wan tan mee

Perhaps the most easiet hawker food to cook.

what you need for this dish is wantan.

To make wantan you need mince meat, mix the mince meat with soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper. Well i add some spring onion as well because i like it and i know some ppl add mince prawn to make it more chewy.

n after make wantan i make the sauce, the soup or whatever it is called.

You need soup, for the soup i just use mince pork and spring onion.

Add the soup, thick caremal sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper and oyster sauce.

for the side some vege, choy sum or bak choy is fine. Some shredded chicken add on the top.

TADA!!..wantan mee!!

Loh Mee

Loh Mee...I've tried a few times and finally i find out using slow cooker taste the best. Because using fire will cause burn since the soup is very thick. Here is my recipe

For the Soup/gravy.

I use 300gm of pork bone

3 - 5 star anis

half tea spoon of five spices powder

around 1.7 litre of water (because that's the max my slow cooker can fit)

Boil it for few hours before add

salts (to taste but i add 2 tea spoons maybe more)

thick caremal sauce (Oh Dao Iu)

some soy sauce

Oyster sauce (for the sweet taste, i read some recipe they add sugar which i think is odd)

n of course topica startch (i use my agakration)

Side prepration

Yellow blanch noodle and bihun

and some slice pork

bean shoots

finely chopped garlic (this is for the addind part like chili) add some water and white vinegar to the garlic

n of cz the eggsss (leave it overnight so the egg can absorb the taste) 

for the eggs (of cz you need it hard boiled) and then peel off the shell and put in the water that cointain (star anis, five spice power, thick caramel sauce - for the colour, and salts)

and nonetheless, add some sambal chili and fried onion.

There you have it..a nice bowl of loh mee

小孩的天空

当我们小时，都会想快快的长大。每天都在想，如果长大了，我就可以获得自由了。我可以拥有我所向往的东西，因为父母再也不能管我。这想法是多么的天真阿！时间慢慢的过去，现在已经在硕士了，很快的我就可以拥有大人的自由。不过，我现在根本不想长大。因为现实是很残酷的。

当我看到别人有美丽的房子，豪华的轿车。我都会想，我要如何才能像他们一样。小的时候，根本不会想到这一些事情。因为小孩子都会活在自己的世界里。现在，如果要实现梦想，都要靠自己了。现实真的很残酷！！在这世界上，只有2%的人脱离了rat race。 我要如何成为这2%呢？

当我们一踏入社会，很多人就会为钱而烦恼。不过，很多人只会说“钱不够用”，“那些生意人都是骗人的”，“都是政府不对” 等等的话。但我们就从来没想过，我要如何去赚更多的钱。当别人问我们，“你如何可以赚更多的钱呢？”我们往往对会回答“跟老板要跟过薪水”，“政府减税”，“兼职”，“买马票”。没错，这些都可以行得通。不过，老板会答应吗？政府可能减税吗？兼职能赚多少？马票可能中奖吗？很多人长大了还像小孩子，发白日梦。当一个小孩有天真的梦想，我们会觉得他可爱，当一个大人有天真的梦想，我们会觉得他笨蛋。

很多人往往就长不大，天天都在发白日梦。一直想有一天老板会加薪，有一天会中马票。喂！醒了！发达的人都不发白日梦，而他们是把小时候的梦想变成真的。当然，我们不需要当老板才会发达，因为不是每个老板都赚很多的钱。不过，我们也不可以只打工，以为没有只打工的人发达。很多人发达都是因为，他们会以钱赚钱。少钱就赚少一点，多钱就赚多一点。

很多人一开始就想像有钱人一样的花钱。买名牌，去旅游，驾轿车。这些人大多数都只是先甜后苦。因为往往，我们要的物质生活增加得比薪水快。过了几年我们就会变那些只能看不能买的人了。当然，有些人的父母很有钱，能给他们的孩子这些物质的生活。不过，自己赚钱还是最实际。因为钱的来源不会断。

我知道我不想一般人一样，因为我不会把天真的思想当作梦想。一份耕耘，一份收获。如果没有去做，那什么都不会实现。这个道理很简单，但很多人都不明白。也许，当我们小时候，父母和老师都会对我们说，“读书读好好，将来找一份稳定的工作”。每天都被这样的灌输，也难怪我们的思想往往都长不大。 这些所谓的道理就一代接一代的传下去了。没错，稳定的工作可以由安稳的收入，也有可能会发达。但，有多少人因为这样而发达和要多久，我们才可以看到收获呢？

每一个老师，都是因为要稳定的工作才当老师的。在这很多的老师之中，有很多老师不会以钱赚钱。我们把孩子送到学校去，他们教我们的孩子，那这些孩子要如何成功呢？上梁不正，下梁歪。三岁定八十。小时的教育最重要，因为这些教育就是我们未来做人的原则。当我们踏入这个社会里，我们就会“物以类聚”。如果我们不趁早发现这些道理，让自己和这些人一起发白日梦，我们根本不会有发达的一天。

可能这些化合难听，但，难听的话多数都是金玉良言。

What a week!!

Assignments!!!..back from penang now assignments...everyday busy with assignments and the worst thing is maths!..argghhh...why maths? add minus multiply and division is already enough for daily use!!..why invent to many theory and formula?

Now i need to study maths everyday and i look at it and it look at me!!!..why?...why my life have to stuck with maths?

My wishlist

Things in my wishlist now

apple macbook or ibm lenovo t400 series
42 inch lcd or plasma tv
honda accord 8th gen v6

haha...i don't care whether i can get it or not just things i wish i have.

她

她。。。其实是很简单的人。你看她吃ice cream也可以吃到那么的开心。不需要给她特别的礼物，也不需给她特别的浪漫，只需真真切切地爱她那就可以了。我也是一根简单的人，生活不需要特别的情调就可以满足了。

我们的生活都有很多波折。这些波折一而再，再而三的来。往往我们就被这些波折给打败了。很可惜的，因为当我们回头一看，这些所谓的波折都是一些小小的事情。但为什么我们在当下不能理智得去解决这些问题呢？很奇怪的我们就会在这时候后悔。我的生活里不享有任何的后悔，我要在当我回头一看我走过的路时能对知己说“What a Journey and i never regret of any steps i taken”。

我知道，如果真的爱一个人，我们不会介意她所做过的一切，因为她是你未来的一切。当我们七老八十的时候，她将会成为你的老伴。我很开心我能认识我的她，因为我们向往的生活是一些简简单单的生活，有一天可以不再为生活而烦恼。
第一次的爱是最真的，因为我们都没有谈恋爱过，所以我们都会傻傻的去做一些发制于心里的事。当然，如果我们第二次谈恋爱时，我们就会往往想起以前的事，这使我们很仔细的想了一番才会行动。也许我们这样做是因为我们要保护自己，所以我们每做一件事都会小心翼翼的想。而我，当我抱起她，我就不会放下。我知道这一切都不容易，但我很有信心我能一一面对和打倒一切的阻碍。

她不是完美的，这是因为我也不是完美的。我们都有瑕疵，但如果我们以一个开放的心去面对种种的困难，我的她是完美无瑕的。别人不能否决我的想法，更不能否定我的决心。有谁在这个世界上能更了解自己所向往的东西呢？ 第一天我们到了这个世界，我们就要面对我们不想去面对的事情，很多事情我们也做不了决定。不过，自己的生活，我一定要自己的掌握。

我很珍惜我所拥有的一切，我也很珍惜我的她。不过不能只说说而已。我们现在分开两地，不在对方的身旁。不能为对方分担所有的烦恼。不过，我们都很努力的，因为我们都相信，只要有恒心，铁棒磨成针。我深深相信有一天我们将会回头看着一些所发生的事情和对方说“很开心这世我可以和你在一起”。

新一段的大学日子

刚刚从大学毕业就开始了另一段的大学日子。一开始以为会和以前一样，不过 master 就是比较难也比较挑战。最不喜欢的就是竟然有一个科目是数学！！method of moment??!! agresti coull??!!..这些根本就不是我的语言。读 master 不容易，因为assignment只会叫你做，没有教你如何做。

我看着它，它看着我，时间就这样慢慢的过。本来想继续 advanced diploma of risk management 的，但看来我需要一些时间适应一下。

My Cozy Apartment

Living alone for the first time in my life has been good so far. Moving from a two bedrooms apartment to one bedroom apartment have limit my space on arranging my furniture.

Here you see is my corridor leading to my lounge area. I have to stuff everything at the corridor because the apartment is so small that it could barely fit the stuff left by my sisters and brother. I did not buy the fridge nor the book shelf you see in the picture. Most of the stuff use right now has a "great history".

The picture on your right is my lounge room. I have 3 mattresses that force me to throw away my couch. Because the couch is the least valuable and the most damage item in my house. So, instead of a couch, I use mattresses as my couch. This is also because I have 12 pillows!! which my siblings left for me. So I put pillows on the mattress to make it as comfy as a couch =P. I'm very into visual and audio enjoyment (technology side), therefore I hook up my computer to my tv and my sound system that left the wyre all over the place.


In this apartment, I now only have this tiny kitchenette which only have two cook top. (Used to have 4 in my old apartment which is much more convinient.) Regardless, it hasn't limit my cooking skills because I'm not a chef. Well, if you been wondering how I cook my rice in this kitchenette, you must be wondering does he cook my own rice or does he cook using gas fire? Well, I do have a rice cooker, because my kitchenette is too small,

I've been forced to put my rice cooker on my dining table. Also you can see my toilet is just next to my dining table. How wonderful is that? In and out at the same time. Imagine 4 years of my older sister, 6 years of my older brothers and 1 year of my younger sister stuff have to put inside one cozy apartment. Now you see. I evan have to put stuff under my dining table because I got no place to store them. You see, now I'm alone in this apartment but I have 6 dining chairs that couldn't fit into my apartment. Well, 3 already occupied all the space I have and I have to put it else where.

As for my bedroom, it's stuffed as well. Even the space under my bed is full!! Not to mention my wardrobe. Well, my wardrobe is not full with clothes but with blankets and pillows. I have 6 blankets and not just any blankets, 5 of those are quilt blankets!!..3 blankets and 6 pillows in my wardrobe! If you think this is not much, there's another 2 drawer units and a small book shelf in it to store quilt covers and pillow cases and matress covers.

Of course, with all the matress covers, quilt covers and pillow cases, I need a washing machine. This washing machine cost me 1.3k!! but worth every cents. Let me do my calculation for you.

Wash and Dry at laundry out there is 6 dollars and well, i need to seperate my dark colour clothes and light colour clothes so that is 12 dollars per week. I live there for 40 weeks per year and so that is 480 per year.

One year the electricity cost for this washing machine will be around 300kw where a kw of electricity is 0.16 cents at peak and that is 51 dollars and the water needed per year is around 12kilo litre for and the cost of water is 1 dollar for a kilo litre that is 12 dollars per year for 80 washes and dry. So the running cost of this machine is only 63 dollars per year!! Compare to 480 dollars using commercial laundry. If i use this machine during offpeak electricity time which is only 0.07 cents then the running cost will be even cheaper! I have 5 year warranty on this machine and 10 year warranty on the motor of the machine. This means it cost almost nothing to the repair cost if it breaks down (of course the phone call cost which cost maybe a few dollars). I'll be using this for at least 2 years so that means I will spend 126 dollars on running cost compare to 960 dollars on using commercial laundry. That make a total saving of 834 dollars for the period of my staying.

Well you might say the machine already cost 1.3k. But it has a resell value, so after 2 years of depreciation it will be around 800 to 900 that a depreciation of 600. I still make a save of 234 dollars!!..That just the initial cost. If I use this more, I save more!

Well, that's my apartment!

情人的眼泪

回到墨尔本，我一直在想我未来的生活。如果有一天，我们都不为对方而哭泣，那是不是我们就不再爱对方了吗？如果要家人为自己而哭，那是多么的容易。那情人呢？

我这么想，是因为我身边出现了一些朋友，我想，如果有一天，我的朋友出现了意外，他的女朋友到底会不会为他而哭呢？这一想，我非常得开心。因为我知道我的女朋友一定会。也许，会有人想我是变态，但我想这是真爱。这时，我又想起，有一次，我和妈妈在通电时，她对我说，爸爸有一天忽然来电说她在医院，好像是肚子痛，可又说得不清不楚，妈妈可被吓坏了，因为前几年爸爸开过刀。说不久，电话就断了，妈妈很快的打回去，但电话接不通。这时，妈妈的心忽然间很寒冷，不知所措。还好，过了不久，爸爸打电话回来说，不是他进了医院，是他的朋友。这时妈妈才松了一口气。

每天有千千万万的人发生了意外，但有多少的情人为了这些事儿掉泪呢？我知道，这世界上有很多人为了情人而掉泪，但也有很多人根本不为情人而掉泪。我们不会为我们不认识的人流眼泪，我们也不会为所有我们认识的人而流泪。我们只会为我们在乎的人而流泪。所以啊，要使一个你开始不认识的人为你流泪是多么难啊。可见，情人的眼泪是多么珍贵。

孤单的墨尔本

当我一踏入墨尔本，我就知道这半年来会比以前难过。这还是我第一次在外国升学，孤零零的一个人。我第一年到墨尔本有哥哥和姐姐，过了一年，我又有了女朋友，生活多姿多彩。接下来一年，妹妹又来了，可以说，我是多么的幸福。

但是在去年，个个升学完了，妹妹忽然间会了槟城，在墨尔本只剩下我和我的女朋友。在今年，因为佩珊要停半年，去学习打工，便剩下我一个人了。我觉得一个人的生活虽然有很多的自由，但是当想找个人来做半时便很头痛，因为身边只剩下朋友。朋友再好也不能比上家人。我一直以来都很珍惜我的家人，因为我知道没有家人就没有我了。虽然，女朋友还不是家人，但那种感情是非一般的。那种感情比友情更深，有一点点的亲情的感觉，也有一点友情的感觉。也许，这就是爱情吧。所以我说，我一路来都很幸福。该有的都有了，一直到今年，我才知道，一个人如果没有亲情，没有爱情，只有友情，生活就好像没有了什么意义。

我知道我现在的生活只是暂时性的，不过我一可以深深的体会到如果有一天这世界上没有了我的家人和我在乎的人，生活是可以多么的没意义。我知道，不经一事，不长一智，所以我和佩珊都依依不舍的暂时离开了对方去面对未来的挑战。我相信这半年来我一定能学到更多的知识去面对未来的挑战。

所谓，先苦后甜，在读书的时候不受一点点的苦，未来又如何去面对种种的挑战呢？

Europe Trip - Rome

Roma..Rome..the city with more than 2000 years of history. The day i arrive in rome the first thing they did is send us to the hotel. The hotel looks pretty good in the first place..nice entrance and nice lobby...







What a great view this is?


However, not until you step into the room or the elevator.



Broken lock?..too poor to fix. Also the shower is terrible. But i forgot to take a picture of it. It was so horrible that i couldn't have a nice and pleasant shower




Look at this size of the elevator. How possible fat ppl fit into this? Also, people with wheel chair? Aren't lift suppose to help the disable? D'oh!

Rome is a pretty old city and they intend to keep it that way. They love their city a lot and they enjoy it. Drivng like a mad cow park their car where they like. Just look at the petrol station at the road side. Imagine you waiting for the red light. One more thing you could do, fill up your tank. Efficiency..haha







No worries for running out of petrol because this petrol 'stop' is everywhere in Rome. Well, Rome is fascinating as well, The building are just amazing. Look at their work is more than just an art. All I did last time was listen and through the picture. I thought that the colleseum would be bigger but nevertheless to get this big structure without modern engineering is tough. Just like building the pyramid. I mean it's amaze just to see it. Also the vatican city, st. Petersburg cathedral is very unique and look at the sculpture in the cathedral just make you wonder, how possible that a human posses this power to do it. I mean look at michael angelo sculpture. It's very shinny compare to any sculpture in the world.




Rome is just an amazing place where it fills with history. Even though i stay there for a short period of time, it feels like i walking into the ancient time and immerse myself into their world. It's an experience that i could never forget.

Love Songs

Isn't Love is the best feeling that you could ever feel?...If so, this song is the best.

Well, I personally think song is the best way of expression of my feeling because i'm not a person good with words. Unfortunenately, I do not know how to compose a song. But if I do, I would write her a song that belong to her and put my feelings into it. At this moment, I only can find songs that could express my feelings.

My Very First Post

After Ages of "desire to blog", finally.......

Well, since this is my very first post, I'm gonna describe a bit of myself. (from my perspective).

I'm a guy currently undertaking Master of Science (Information System) in University of Melbourne graduating class 2010. I'm a person who seeking success in every possible way and very optimistic as well. I believe nothing is impossible..=D.

I have a lovely family, 2 sisters and 1 brother and of course my dad and my mom. Also last year, my family has a new member, my brother-in-law. My HOME is in penang living with my granma. But in this my call home, I live here less than a year.

My granma is currently 89 years old! which I'm very proud of her that she still can walk without any help. She's sometimes abit naggy and fussy, but nonetheless, she's a person that keep the family together. Without her, the big family will go into pieces.

I currently in a relationship with a girl from SP which I met during my trinity year (foundation year). She might not be the prettiest girl in this world, but she is the prettiest in my heart. =D. Well, she want to start a blog as well, but she thinks it's too fussy. Well, my start of this blog might get her some motivation..hehe

I spend most of my time sleeping and facing computer which i believe more than half of my life spent there. All my life until now, is sleep and computer. Haha. In the future, I think I'll shift my focus to other things rather than sleep and computer. But at this stage, hmm..

Well, that's about it for my very first blog.