Another: Long Time No Post

I don't know how long it's been since the last time I've blogged. I do miss blogging, but finding the time is a pain. It must have been at least two months since my last post - so be prepared for a long, long post. 

Well, I'm back to uni. It was great to see all my uni friends again and meet new ones! I must say, as someone who is used to being the youngest, suddenly meeting all these freshers (where most of them are younger than me): I feel old. Moving on from the age issue, first year really was a doss. It didn't feel like it last year, I feel like I still had to work a lot, but second year is no joke. The economics is on a whole new level and this year I have a good feeling about management, at least I don't feel like crap after four hours (or six continuous hours) of management on a Friday. Maybe it's because we've got better lecturers this year, or... I don't know, it just feels better this year and I'm keen on being optimistic! =D But it's week 4 and I've done nothing. I've opened my stats book now and then but I really am getting behind. Hopefully by week 6 or 7, I shall have caught up on everything. And now I don't dare to miss an economics lecture because I know I will be forever behind (I already am!). 

I am proud to say, that I have been going to badminton once a week! It's about time I got back into this habit. I had plans to go to yoga three times every two weeks, but I'm yet to attend my first lesson. They start at 9:30am (other lesson times include 7:30am (I don't think so), and they do have evening times which sort of clash with everything else) - so 9:30am classes it is! I still haven't woken up early enough to attend any of the classes yet. Plus, it's a 20-25 minute up hill walk to get to the place where they hold the classes. Next Saturday, I am determined to go to the 9:30am class (if I manage to sleep early enough on Friday night). 

Megan will be so proud of me: I've finally joined the taekwondo club! I've wanted to do taekwondo for such a long time! I remember we wanted to join during sixth form but it was way to intimidating, everyone there was a black belt... so we decided to concentrate on our A-levels instead. Then I was determined to join when I' in uni, but last year I was too much a wimp to join on my own. And now I've finally joined =D I thought that if I don't join this year, I'm never ever going to join. And so I did. It was awesome! I had such a busy day and was so ill yesterday, but after tkd, it felt awesome! Two hours of intense exercise did the trick! I do have to say that the warm up was more intense than the actual training... Ah, reminds me of the good old kick-boxing days =) 

Oh oh, I saw a full rainbow this morning! So I know today is going to be an awesome day!! =D I tried to take a photo but the camera on my phone is too inferior and did not do the rainbow justice so I won't even bother uploading it. But it was so beautiful <3 

I must go now. But it was good blogging again! All thanks to my weekly digest of Saar's blog (wego2gether) that I remembered to blog! 

Have a nice day =D 

New Badminton Racquet

I'm happy today =] Besides the awful weather (and we (UNICEF) happened to be doing a cake sale today), everything else is going pretty well. Oh, and besides the fact the only time I actually want to buy a skirt, I can't find any nice ones. But I finally bought a new badminton racquet. I reserve it and went to collect it today. I'm happy =] Shiwaseda! (I hope I spelt it right ^^) 

I feel the need to show off my new racquet - it's not amazingly expensive but I like it =] 

Also, *jumping up and down* (doing my usual spazzing moves), I got a free pencil today. It's one of the most trivial things but it's the small things in your everyday life that makes you happy =]

Well, I've got to go and tidy up because I have a friend coming round... I hope the weather's being nice to you and have a lovely day x

The past week (and a bit) has been super, super busy, hence such an empty blog. There's like a ton of things on my to-do list and my laptop decided to go against my and the internet decided to pretend to be a snail =.="

I've got too much to do so I won't be ranting an essay today. Here's my week in short:

Sushi
I spent two and a half hours making sushi last, last Friday whilst waiting for my mum and sis to arrive in Sheffield

Snow from last Saturday... crazy, snowing in the middle of February T_T

Snowing-at-a-crazy-time 2

The sky was really pretty the other day. The photos don't do it justice because the camera didn't pick up the pinky colour very well

The pinky sky again, it was just so pretty. It was just pink and blue and awesome! ^^

My sister and I decided to have another sushi feast on Friday... my sister made this pretty sushi ^^

The sushi I made... 

Jess' udon... we made udon (from scratch) yesterday. I have this awesome recipe, it doesn't look that good in the photos but I swear it tastes good =D 

This is my udon... I was too lazy to cut them into thin stripes hence some of them are thick as ever... but they do taste awesome =D 

Then today, I took my sister to the train station and put her on the train... it's her first time getting the train by herself. And now I'm just trying to work hard, I was making notes on maths stuff, then I ended up doing Purple Peace stuff... so much stuff to do. And I need to book my train ticket for next week but I'm just waiting for Na... seeing the sushi and udon makes me hungry... I have the same problem every day: what shall I eat tonight? I might just have instant noodles today =] 

Yay! I can officially knit!

*happy* I can KNIT! 

Yesterday, I had trouble knitting because (I discovered today) that I was doing it wrong! Well... during the main bit, I was hooking the wrong bit out, that's why when I try to move onto the next row it goes all weird. But the weirdest thing is, it sort of worked yesterday. That wrong method worked on my first ever scarf wooly bracelet. But today I decided to give it another go and it just wasn't working, so I tried it another and it worked!!! I shouldn't have said 'another way', it should be: I tried it the correct way and it worked! =D 

There was still another problem though... my scarf (or whatever I was knitting, it was just a practice) was getting wider and wider. As you can see in the photo below, the left bit just got wider and wider. But then I finally managed to KNIT IN A STRAIGHT LINE! Wooo! Each row is finally the same width... if I carried on, I think I would have went from 10 stitches to about 30 stitches in a row. 

To be honest, it sort of looks like a half done glove... I'm so talented, my second try and I made half a glove! Jokes. If I was truly talented, I wouldn't have done this, I would have knitted a normal straight line the first time xP 

But I discovered that I could knit so much quicker after I was doing it the proper way. This only took me a few hours xP I had some trouble ending it though... so I might practice ending it a bit more before I work on my mum's scarf. 

I think I know how to make hats... to make a round shape you probably just increase the stitches like what I've accidentally been doing? Who knows. I'll just stick with scarves for the time being =] 

Wooo I can knit ^^ 

I am a cookie cook ^^ ~~ lame, I know

Ladies and gentleman, it's that time of the day again! Procrastination time!!! =D After doing a facial, learning Chinese words, checking FaceBook and doing my nails - I'm actually running out of things to do. I have to resort to blogging to try and delay working on my coursework. It's not that I don't want to do my coursework, it's just that when I start thinking, my brain doesn't stop thinking about economics and it hurts...

Anyway, I made some cookies two days ago and I'll have you know, (some of them) were GOOD! They actually tasted like they were from Millie's cookies! I am on a mission to try and make the awesome-est cookies ever! Well... that may be a little too ambition, but you've got to aim high!

The double chocolate chip ones... well something happened to them. I didn't know how much cocoa powder to put in so I was just guessing... I did even bother using a scale, I was just tipping cocoa powder in and that didn't turn out too well. Plus they were slightly over baked ^^; there's always next time!

The normal chocolate chip ones were AWESOME! I feel a little bit big headed complimenting my own cookies but they were soft =)

The only major complaint is the chocolate chips. First, quality - I bought three packs of chocolate a while ago, it's the Silver Spoon ones (if I recall it correctly) and their chocolate sucks. It's not smooth, it's just not-nice chocolate. Just like the 20p supermarket brand stuff. So I think next time, I'll buy a few different types of chocolate and test which ones are good for cookies ^^ Another thing is, I keep having to chop my chocolate with a knife, and they're different sizes... so maybe I can buy chunky chocolate chips, or just work on my knife work =]

I feel like this blog is slowly moving towards a food journal or something =P

My aweosme and not-so-awesome cookies ^^

P.s. 'COOKIES' now has it's own tag! (I feel so proud and happy for the cookies to officially have a 'cookies' tag *tear in my eye*)

COOKIES

About two months ago, I bought a packet of those ready mix cookie packs... where you only had to add butter and water... let's just say: I knew I shouldn't have trusted them. Using a a ready mix was shameful in the first place and it turns out not tasting so nice. Well, partially because I burnt them, I accidentally left the cookies in the oven for too long; but I strongly believe that they wouldn't have tasted nice anyway xP

Charcoal tasting chocolate cookies

After the failure of chocolate cookies, I did my homework and researched cookie recipes online. Baking from scratch is way better than using the ready mix packets! And the satisfaction you get when you take your cookies out of the oven escalates too! Unfortunately, I didn't have any chocolate chips, so I had to use normal dark and white chocolate and physically cut them into smaller pieces with a knife. I even tried to shape them - though that didn't go as well as I hoped xD

Cookies with dark chocolate

More cookies with dark chocolate

My heart shaped cookie ♥

Another heart shaped cookie ^^ ♥

This was supposed to be a star... I tried to make a few star cookies but they didn't come out too well =[

Happy Birthday To The Happy Kiwi

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIRANDA!!!

I hope you have an awesome day, an awesome year in fact... and actually, I hope you have an awesome life =D May everything go well for you and be happy =D

*soooo cheesy...*

I feel a bit ashamed. I was logging on to blogger to write Miranda a happy birthday post, then I was looking at the updates and I saw Naa's. Mine's not a video or anything fancy =[ But I hope the thought gets through to you hehe ^^

I pretty much said everything last night. So... you're 19. Woahhh so old! I'm joking. 19 is a good number. You're not an annoying teenager, yet you're still a teenager, and you're not just legal, and you're not hitting the 2's yet. I actually no longer know what I'm talking about. I think I'm just waffling now. I'm trying to say something really inspiring and awesome to live up to Naa's video post but I lack in that area. My post title was supposed to be "Happy Birthday Miranda" but Naa already wrote that so I worked really hard to come up with the title above: Happy Birthday To The Happy Kiwi" ^^

Finally, here comes the birthday song:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MIRANDA,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!

♥

NVMM Party Part III: The Presents

I've got quite a bit of blogging to do... I haven't blog for a while - I had no internet or I had no time. Both were annoying.

Here's the next bit. I've just chosen a few photos of the awesome things that three super awesome people bought me.

DUCKIE ~ Ducks can flyyyyy (not general knowledge)

Awesome - you should read it

The first page ^^ So pretty

The B page <3>

Includes many loves: Boys Over Flowers (Best drama in 2008 - I think that was the year); Big Bang (just pure awesomeness); Byakuya (what can I say - I wish he was real... I'm joking, I'm not that crazy); Balloons (one of the happiest songs ever)

An awesome portrait of Gee by Nyah!

Fun times! TEKKEN BABY! Rape him... oops it was break him

Lyrics of one of the craziest songs ever! My favourite line(s) has to be: Insanity controls me, I will eat you forever.

I love this photo, it's sooo cute! Nyah looks like a giant hehe =P

Darling aitakute love, aiena toki, always sora wo mitsume

THE ULTIMATE PRESENT - I LOVE IT!

NVMM Party Part II: Food & Cake

Here comes the food and cake! 

 Miranda's potatoes

My shrimps + amazing sauce

 Megan/Nadia's starter (I think it's Megan's)

 Megan + starter

 Na + starter

Miranda doing something with her hands + starter

 

MY STEAK =D 

Miranda's chicken! 

 Naa's chicken (which didn't have that much chicken O_O) 

 Megan's pasta with lots of chips 

Ooo what's up there =P 

I'm sorry for not finishing my food. God bless the cow

 Cute Miranda xP 

HAPPY =D 

 Megan looking perfect in every photo =] 

Nadia 
Megan took so many photos of Naa, I feel obliged to upload more of them ^^ 

 Megan's photo of Naa 

Another photo of Naa

 

 It's CAKE BABY =D 

 The fireworks on the cake which set off the fire alarm - twice 

 That super fireworks candle is officially the best candle =D *thumbs up* 

Megan ^^ 

Miranda =] 

 The cake after the wax attacked it 

 The cake after attempting to pick the wax out 

 Hehe Megan eating cake 

 Miranda eating the cake - the whole cake pretty much xP 

 I wanted to take a photo of Naa eating the cake, but she had already put it in her mouth xD 

 Eating the cake + the plate

NVMM 

Click for: 
Part I: The restaurant + opening presents + coke
Part II: The presents