Bread Making Class #1

My friends and I signed up bread making class at a CC on Saturday.
Total of 4 classes in the month of March.
The class taught us to make healthy bread.

For this first lesson, we made Chrysanthemum Goji Bun and Flaxseed Bun.
We also got a bit of hands-on like rolling the dough, glazing with egg, etc, during the session.
We gotten the recipe from the teacher and we followed what's needed to be mixed to form a dough.

The process of making the Chrysanthemum Goji Bun.



From a big dough, separated into small portion and left it to ferment

Can you see the difference after its fermented?

After glazing the top with egg and leave it to bake, the outcome!

The process of making the Flaxseed bun.
It is actually almost the same as the first one.
Just that the ingredient are different.







The teacher is very kind to us to re-heat the breads he made the previous night for us to eat.
The left one which I ate was Cheese with Ham bread and the right one was Coconut bun.
They both taste really nice! :)
I'm looking forward to the next class!

Queensland - Gold Coast 2014 - Surfers' Paradise

Gold Coast was the first out of Asia country that I travel last July..
For the 7D6N, I spent with one of my ex-colleague (QW) whom was my travel partner.

For Singaporean. traveling to Australia needs to apply for VISA.
For your info, you can Google and search for applying Visa online for Singaporean.
I remembered I did it online for just $10, hassle free and fast.

QW and I traveled by Scoot (price at about $556 per pax) and we took the night flight.
Night flight is really a torture to me!
I can't sleep well throughout the flight.
When we touched down Gold Coast, it was about 8am+ (Australia time zone is 2 hours ahead of Singapore).
First, we went to the information counter to get the maps and buy the Translink which is our EZ-link card.
Then we went to get Optus Data card.




From the airport, we took bus 777 and stopped at Broadbeach south station where our apartment was located.
Actually, when we reached the bus station, we were quite lost and couldn't find our apartment.
So I've to quickly activate my data card to call the owner and also to use GPS to find place.
I think we wasted about 30mins go around the area.
Even the people staying the place couldn't help us.
Luckily, we still found our way at the end of the day.

We stayed at Surfers' Beach Resort One.



After settling down, we got out to the city centre to for lunch and grocery shopping.
From our apartment to the central area is a 15-20mins long walk.

Had lunch at some western shop.


We went Woolworth for buy groceries.
They would be food for the rest of our stay in Gold Coast since eating out is very expensive.
We bought many stuff including bottled water, milk, etc...
Imagine the 2 of us carrying the heaviest groceries back to our apartment!
I wished during this journey there's someone could help us back!




After settling down for the second time, we decided to take a walk at the beach area.
Really beautiful place to be in - the blue sky, fluffy cloud, cooling wind, soft white powdery sands, the sea...










Accidentally caught a fading rainbow too. =D


Then both of us took a long walk down to Broadbeach Night market.













Then we also went to explore Cavill Mall and other area.







Saw this G:Link Tram which we first took it few days later.
Till date, I still don't know how to pay the fare.
Seems like other people also just board it without paying and no one check. Haha..




Going back to Broadbeach, we stayed awhile to enjoy the night before heading back to our apartment.




My first night dinner was maggie mee.
And I ate this for most of the days when I'm back there since I bought about 5packets.
Well I also made salad with penne so its not everyday 3 meals maggie mee. Haha~
Thinking back, I didn't eat rice for a week. =O



The next day, we went Movie World!
I will be back for this post.

爱情，两好三坏

今天在Kinokuniya看书。

看到了九把刀的这本《爱情，两好三坏》。

书上的内容有些句子，读了之后非常喜欢，感触深厚，所以我把它拍了下来。

誰該放手，讓擁有的人留住幸福的微笑？
常常，我們無法一心一意，也無法要求對方一心一意。
常常，我們會迷失，不知道自己究竟喜歡的是誰。
常常，我們會心猿意馬，禁不了誘惑，捱不起考驗。
幾乎，我們無法規定真命天子在第一時間出現。
幾乎，我們也沒有辦法強制喜歡的人也得喜歡自己。
我們就因此停止追求幸福嗎？
You’re the apple of my eye.
我們永遠都在期待，某天深深喜歡的人，能對自己說出這句話。

New Milestone of the Year

Today has to be the new milestone for me this year.
I went to apply for BA (Honours) in Business Management at Kaplan.
Feeling more determined than in the past but I still need more courage and perseverance.
Someone told me this quote "If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done before."
With this, I am going to conquer this 16 months starting this end March!
No more giving up halfway just like the past 2 times.
我可以的！加油加油加油！