Chinese New Year Resolution

Well, 1st of all I wish to apologize for the 1 week break I took from blogging. Didn't find anything interesting to write about and still waiting for more polls to pool into my poll HERE. If you haven't vote yet, please do!

Chinese New Year is only 5 days away (if you exclude today).
Time flies way too fast! Faster than I wanted it to be, anyway.
Getting older and older already... few more years and I won't be getting Ang Pau anymore; I will be giving out Ang Pau instead!

Chinese New Year deco. My dad bought it from Guang Zhou

Well, finished spring cleaning for most parts of the house already, left the garage and garden area only.
Nearly finished buying all the stuff needed for CNY as well.
This year really don't have much CNY mood at all, maybe it's my age.
Feels only like any normal day... plus cleaning, baking and occasional CNY songs at supermarkets.
And surprisingly, I am not looking towards the annual house visits I usually do with my friends.
In fact, I feel that it's a very tiring tradition.

Some more deco :D

Aside from all those, I am looking forward to meet and hang out with some of my old friends, classmates and relatives who I haven't seen for quite some time.
Chinese New Year brought them all back here to Bintulu, and that's what I like most about CNY.
I know I said about being sinful and consume food in exceeding amounts, but at the same time I am also looking forward to lots of home baked cakes (cheesecakes specifically, mmmm~~), cookies, biscuits and tid-bits. (Okay, there goes my maintained weight. I am gonna return to Miri as a fat block)

Jade twin fish deco. This one had been here for 9 years!

I made my New Year resolution last year HERE and I am proud to say that I had achieved at least 1 of those resolutions already!

So, for this CNY, I am gonna add more resolutions to the list, which I see fit.

The list from New Year:
1. Stop smoking (Going on strong and hopefully will stay that way forever)
2. Stop drinking (Breached already :P, but no harm trying harder, rite?)
3. Stop driving over the speed limit (Except long distance and so far so good)
4. Stop gambling (MOST IMPORTANT! CNY is always the time to gamble and I always lose! Have to hold on tight to this)
5. Do night driving back Miri/Bintulu (Completed!)
6. Graduate from university, convocation at Perth (ongoing)
7. Get a girlfriend (No progress, lol)
8. Get a job (ongoing)
9. Get a dog (ongoing)
10. Continue my blog (ongoing)

For this Chinese New Year gonna add:
1. Go vacation to at least 3 countries outside Asia (So you see, Australia counts as 1, so 2 more)
2. Make lots more new friends (How come I forgot this for my New Year resolution >.<)
3. Try to pick up a sport (Need to keep in shape and at the same time polish my skills in sports)
4. Try to be more cheerful and keep an open mind (I think last year was a gloomy year for me, time for a change :P)
5. Go on fishing trips regularly (once a fortnight would be best :D)

So how's your preparation for CNY?
Do drop me some comments in the chat box (left panel) or in my comment box :D

Cookie Monster!

Chinese New Year is less than two weeks away now!
Lots to be done before the Big Day, busy as a bee.
Besides the usual spring cleaning (I haven't started yet) and buying lots and lots of CNY stuff, there's also baking!

Lots of yummy photos of yummy cookies here:

After making the dough and shaping, ready to be baked

Can't wait till it's baked

On the cooling tray. Cannot eat straight away coz still sizzling hot and not crispy yet

The final product, Corn Flakes and Chocolate Chip Cookie

I helped my mum in baking all these cookies lor! From measuring to dough, to shaping into size (some might be too big or too small :P), to cooling and to putting them into containers (not to forget testing and tasting).
Baking cookies kinda easy actually, just need a lot of time if you are baking a lot in one go. Mixing the ingredients into dough and shaping them into the appropriate size takes the most time and effort as this is quite repetitive and boring. Not to say cannot even hold anything else since my hands are oily from the butter in the dough.

Baked other types of cookies as well!

Oats and Chocolate Chip Cookies (this one my mum modified from other recipes)

Rock Chocolate Cookie (bought the mixing from a bakery shop, just add butter and egg)

Almond Cookie

Butter Cookie

Made 5 types of cookies in total, only used up 2 mornings.
Welcome to come my house for visiting during Chinese New Year!

P.S.: Been missing from blogging for a week now... coz of Mass Effect 2 and couple of other games, hehe.

1SentenceBlogger want readers' choice!

I am practically doing nothing at home, thus no happenings...

... and I have no idea what to blog about, no inspiration, writer's block, whatever.

So, I am gonna post a poll here... and YOU, the readers, get to choose which topic you would like to read most on 1SentenceBlogger!
Just please don't ask me to blog on my love life, because I don't have one (No.-insert my age- Valentines Day as a single) or about my career, because I don't have that either.



Every input is highly appreciated and will help me in my blogging =)

Thank you! Arigatou Gozaimasu! Komapsumnida! 谢谢！

1SentenceBlogger just had a facelift!

Check out the new look I give to the blog!

Took me some time to find the correct colour combination, the perfect background and I even changed the title description.

Also changed the side-bar from right to left, now it looks tidier and my blogger list won't get blocked by over-sized photos and videos.
I increased the width of the main section as well, so I can now post wider videos and bigger photos!
The too-large video was an eye-sore, glad I got that out of the way.

Hadn't touch HTML coding for like nearly forever and it was a bitch playing around with the code, but nonetheless, the results are satisfying.

Gonna design a banner background next. Anyone can volunteer to help me?

I suck big time in Photoshop...

Local Malaysian Green Day

Heard of the song "Through My Window"?
It was once featured as the background music for TmNet's advertisement, the paper guy one, and was quite famous on radios and MTV channels.

When I first heard it, I seriously thought the song was from an American band, MAYBE even by Green Day themselves.
Their hard rock music, lyrics and I dare say even their voice resembles Green Day's signature all-American loudness and accent.

Well, the band was actually local, from Malaysia, by Malays.
They called themselves Bunkface and produce both English and Malay songs.
Honestly, I am only interested in their English songs and I like these two songs especially:

Through My Window - Bunkface


Prom Queen - Bunkface

Enjoy :)

The bored and the dead

Everyday is a cycle of repetitive schedule.
Wake up - lunch - sleep - wake up - dinner - web browsing/facebook/blog/game - sleep... it goes on and on without a break.
This boredom practically made me a body of animated dead, a zombie: bored life = dead life
I am already sleeping more than 12 hours per day!

The scenery I am stuck with, every-single-day

Maybe I am just used to the more hectic lifestyle as a under-grad student.
Or maybe I am just waiting for something to happen?

I need a new hobby... or a girlfriend!

Sushi King in Bintulu??? =O

I went to Park City Mall and saw that beside Junction Food Court, there is a new shop (well, not so new since it was there for around a week already):

"There's Sushi King in Bintulu! ZOMG!!!!!"

Nope, I did not just said that. Not me who said it anyway, but that's what I thought the people who practically FLOODED to Sushi King would say. I mean, look at this photo:

It is really flooded with people! There's a line forming outside the restaurant and it was freaking 10.30am! Wait till it's lunch time...

It is like a new toilet with golden seats and everyone is rushing to sit on it, even if there's a fee you need to pay for just sitting on it. Sushi King is not cheap to dine at, you know.

Damn it! Now there's a shop in Park City Mall which reminds me of Escapade.