Just Blogging Around

This time (almost) every year, we go down to Araluen Botanic Park.  
We are amazed by the gorgeous tulips again and again. We spent hours taking photos. We chatted, we hooped on the train, we ate nice lunch with friends.

And every year, my favourite tulip still go to the sunshine yellow tulip — happy, cheerful and positive.

Oh, by the way. Check out the cheecky side of me. If you don’t think this is a piece of ’sense-of-humour’ of mine, call it an art. I *heart* the second photo very much

Eh, I don’t like to think that way, anyhow. It’s just that I’ve seen lotsa people/bloggers using Bentos - those sub-zerolly cute Japanese lunchboxes. I admire their creativity, the time and eneryg they’ve spend in a little lunchbox. They make it look amazing and preeeettty!! Rice with smiley face, various colourful fruit and all wrapped up in a pretty cotton wrapper! Oh! so cute!

Anyhoo, back to my lunch box.  The ones we’ve got are from Ikea. Pretty classic shape: square.
I can just whack everything I want and bring it to work.
I sometimes just pack a pack of instant noodle, and we can boil the noodle at work. Pretty easy.

So, this is one of the weekday lunch at work:
chicken terriyaki, alfalfa sprouts with white rice and topped with coriander.

I’ve made the terriyaki sauce from scratch. Soya sauce and Japanese, that’s all. And I got it (quite) right, apprently.
Amazing, huh?

p/s: 

Today is the last day of Olympic game. I hope the closing ceremony is going to be awesome , too. Nice teeth and pretty smiles ;) Geee. Those communists are so strict about their teeth.

Speaking of which (the teeth), I feel sorry for both girls — especially for the little girl with croaked teeth. Eh! No everyone born with perfect teeth and perfect smile. Worst, the Government had to make it official to the World that the girl is ugly and she couldn’t make it to the national telly??? What kind of mentality is that? (Joke cited from Rove’s Live, by the way)

I always looking forward to cook something special for Kian. I use the term ‘always’ very loosely at this stage because I’m very busy with bits and pieces from here and there.
Work is stressful, don’t know why. I work ~6.5 days a week. Practically 9-5 kinda thing. I use 2-3 nights for swimming. Few nights for necessary reading. Meetings. Etc Etc.
So, when I come to preparing dinner, I like something creative, tasty. Most important, not much dishes to do at the end — erm, I’m looking at 2 plates. That’s it.

I decided to make chicken kebab with white rice.
Instead of whacking the white rice next to the kebab, I used a teacup as a mould, shaping a nice and cute cuppa rice.
Abit of spring onion on top to make it look ’sexier’

The main course is the Kebab.
Chicken, onion and capsicum — all satay-ed with bamboo stick.
Chicken breast was cut and marinated in light soya sauce and Japanese rice wine.

The chicken tasted very nice. They were gently infussed with flavour from onion and capsicum. I’m impressed.
I foreseen myself using more capsicum in my cooking thesedays. Yay! Bring more pepper bells.

p/s: I’ve been using quite a far bit of eggplants in my cooking thesedays. Can anyone please tell me how you ‘do’ your eg plants please?? I *heart* eggplants. heaps.

Not.

I was trying to read through at least 300pages of AMH (Australian Medicine Handbook) everynight by Friday.
I still have APF (Australian Pharmacy Formulary) to go thru’ — as thick as grandma’s favourite poo paper brand, Kleenax.

Bugga.

AMH is hypnotic… very very sedating, indeed.
Too much ‘drugs’  , eh?

Me and Kian decided to stay in for lunch. It is quite hectic sometimes to join the crowd for typical Oriental lunch–dim sum. If we rock up at those dim sum place after 12-ish in the arvo, there is nothing much left for us to choose from beside the usual stuffs like ‘har kaw’ (prawn dumpling) and siew mai (pork dumpling).
If we rock up early…Ok, this is not possible. Neither of us is motivated enough to get up from the warm, comfy blanket. We blaim the weather when we can’t get up, heh?

So, what’s on the plate?
 
Lightly toast Turkish bread, buttered and topped with Gordon Ramsay’s stylo scrumble eggs, garnished with alfalfa sprouts. 
I don’t need Sunday paper to make a perfect Sunday morning cos’ I can always go with Clarkson and May

Very hearty bruch. Very funny bunch.