Ski

So, I went Mt Buller again this winter to try skiing and I absolutely loved it! Went previously with Jaey and Hy but didn't have enough time to ski.

In the wee hours in the morning, we took a cab down from Bundoora to the city where the travel agent was. We booked our day trip with ExtraGreen. yes, the cheena one. There were like tons of people (predominantly asians, with very familiar accents) before 6am at Swanston St. Lol @ the motivation to go skiing.

By the time we got there, it was about 10am. However, our bus guide was extremely disorganised and didn't take long to lose us (Yes, she lost us). We were completely lost and didn't know where to go to get our equipments. Eventually, the staff redirected us. But, we wasted so much time trying to get our ski equipment and we were extremely late for the lesson. It takes a whole lot of effort to walk with those ski boots, and we have to carry the super duper heavy skis up a steep slope to where the learning area was. Very tiring...

Well, we got started with our lessons. We haven't mastered anything ie braking and turning and our instructor was more than happy to leave us and dump us there. Now, I don't sound very pleased with the ski trip's experience. We didn't know where to go, so we attempted a slope that looked less steep nearby. However, instructors in that area were very pissed with noobs like us because we didn't know how to brake properly and started crashing into kids learning how to ski in that same area. Sheeeesh!! give us signs to tell us where to go or something instead of reprimanding us! Those instructors didn't even bother to help us up. Meanos... They should kinda allocate areas for beginners like us to practise our skills and recommend areas we can proceed to when we're slightly more confident of our skills. Also, if there's going to be vulnerable kids learning in an area which is for the general public anyway, put up signs telling people to be more cautious or something!!

Since noobies weren't welcomed anywhere... I thought, it's either we ski down the slope to the bottom of the hill or get stuck in the middle of nowhere (our learning spot was like...in the middle of the main ski slope). I spent some time figuring out to brake and i eventually did =D I was quite happy, so I just went for the biggest slope ever for the beginner and skiied down (slowly of course). I crashed and rolled =D haha! it was so much fun I climbed up the slope again and skiied down again. I found a less steep path later, which was pretty much invisible cos it was hidden at the side. I went there and started speeding. I guess that's when my ski trip became more interesting =D





And yes, after that day, I got sick. Didn't know why but I probably caught a cold. The throat was sore for a week and I got a temporary pyrexia couple of days ago. That feeling was awful.

I also had my first attempt at making quiche! It's this cheese + egg baked dish. I added potatoes, spinach and corn in the quiche. Kinda burnt on the top because I didn't cover with aluminium foil. Turned out a bit watery as well because I added milk even though I'm not really supposed to. Oh well, the taste is there!!

Tired of waiting...

For every 2 messages I send, you'd only reply once. I'm sick of waiting for your replies. Therefore, I'm not going to pin up any more hopes on you. Arghhh...

I wonder...

My baking adventures!

All my baking expeditions...not exactly in chronological order. Not that it matters. I feel like having a picture spam at the moment =D

For mother's day. I baked apple pies

Look nice! I used Fuji Apples instead of Granny Smith apples so that I won't have to deal with the sourness by using more sugar. I can have naturally sweet apples and add less sugar =D I used brown sugar as well. Tasted better.

I just made a bowl of soba noodles in soy sauce. simply boiled the noodles, bean sprouts, fishcake and egg together and put it in soba sauce. Simple meal and refreshing.

My first ever apple pie which failed reaaaally badly. I used 4 granny smiths apples and the fillings turned out SO SOUR! The top crust was so hard it was hard to slice into pieces. The aftermath was just disastrous.

Attempted asian style bibimbap with bokchoy, seasoned pork, kimchi, fried eggs and beansprouts. Well, after mixing everything together with the seasoning (gochujang+vinegar+sugar+seasame), the presentation and individual ingredients didn't matter as long as it tasted good.

I made agar-agar, mum-style! I used normal agar powder and added gula melaka, eggs and coconut milk. I loved the ones my mum made and was craving for some.

Oreo cheesecake! I learnt that, to get that ice-cream texture, I'd just need to freeze it. It tastes less creamy but you won't get sick of the cheesecake while having that one slice.

I just decided to play and cut a slice out to make a sundial out of my oreo cheesecake =D

Now this is another cheesecake, for Faezah's birthday and mine. It's a nutella cheesecake, but i didn't put enough nutella in the cream cheese filling so the flavour didn't come out strong. Then I decided to use nutella to design the cake as well. haha! it was fun... I used baking paper to make the cone-shape thing such that i can write with nutella.

My attempt with apple crumble. This was how it looked before baking. Looks really powdery.

The baked apple crumble! The sultanas in the crumble got burnt! For some reason, i preferred eating my crumble cold, so I put it in the fridge overnight before cutting a slice (it was really hard) to eat.

My obsession with salads at Austin Hospital resulted in me attempting to create my own thai sweet chilli chicken salad. I boiled chicken breasts (it'd be great to grill them instead). Then I added celery, corn kernels, red capsicums and apple slices. The salad dressing includes thai sweet chilli, lemon and some honey.

My final product! When I made this, I didn't intend to put so much stuff but the amount in the salad bowl just kept growing. Well, that bowl satisfied a couple of stomachs that night!

I baked this for father's day. It's just a normal apple crumble with nutella words.

When I bought Cadbury choc chips to bake muffins, i came across a cookie recipe on the choc chip package. So I decided to bake the cookies according to the recipe. The cookies turned out SOOooooo crispy it didn't feel like cookies, more like biscuits. That's probably because I didn't add any milk to the batter. Taste good though, with the butter, sugar and choc chips. so sinful...

My cookies just got smaller as i continued baking but they looked nicer as well

I used the remaining cookie mixture to bake one huge giant cookie which i gave to Eshan in the end.

My first attempt at baking banana -choc chip muffins! They looked slightly burnt. I had a huge problem with mashing the bananas because they were not exactly that ripe. The muffin texture was quite chewy but i liked it.

My second attempt at baking muffins! This time, i baked banana-cinnamon-choc chip muffins! My first batch failed because I put too much muffin mix in the cups and the paper cups couldn't support the growing muffin, so part of the muffin collapsed. The ones in the pic are from the 2nd batch and i put much less muffin mix.