It's almost 6AM and I'm still up, this is the normal time I sleep most of the times but today I'm trying to stay awake till 8AM to call up Expedia and change the hotel dates for my Aunt's trip to Tokyo and what other way to kill some time then to update my LJ.

This week I made Banh Xeo (savoury Vietnamese crêpes). This was my first time cooking them ( Read more... )

I still remember the first time I ever played a video game, it was a tennis game on my cousin's Atari and from that day on I fell in love with video games and consoles.  I use to stay round at my cousin's house when I was young just to play Super Mario on the Super Nintendo.  My first ever console was a Sega Master system II but I only became a ( Read more... )

Barack Obama has won the presidential election and I'm proud to be able to see history in the making.

I might not be American but.............

YES WE CAN!

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I love Vietnamese spring rolls because they remind me of when I was a kid and my Grandma would cook them for us as a treat.  My Grandma is the best cook in the world and it's because of her that I even know how to cook, she's my mentor.

I prepared everything after work last night, I started at 12AM and didn't finish till 4:30AM and there was still ( Read more... )

I'm so bored of my long hair.  It's long, boring and dried out from all the highlighting from before.  I have never been a person who looks after her looks.  The only time I put make up on or style my hair is when I go out on a big night, otherwise I don't even brush my hair and when I do brush it a whole load falls out.  My house got hair ( Read more... )

My back is still killing me, I can't bend over without cursing in pain.  I feel like a old granny, I even had to put on them Chinese brown plaster things on my back which didn't help, it only feel like my skin was burning off! ARGH!  How did I do my back in?  From 'making loveee', I don't know what's worse my back pain or the fact that I just said ( Read more... )

You can smell this fruit from a mile away, they have been known to kill people (no lie), the smell is so bad that it's been banned from many public places in South East Asia.  Who is this bad smelling serial killer?

DURIAN.....*dum dum dummm*


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I made Egg Tarts today........ They came out shit............ THE END. 

I finally got everything I needed to make Takoyaki from the Japan Centre and here's the result...


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Ever since watching 'Attention Please' (a Japanese comedy) I've been forever craving cold soba, so on my latest trip to the Japan Centre I stocked up on soba.  Soba noodles are made of  buckwheat and is popular when it's summer time in Japan.

Today I used Soba noodles with plum extract, you can't really taste the plum but doesn't the pink noddles ( Read more... )