[Little thought] Some random thoughts

It is now September, meaning that I have been back to Malaysia for almost 2 months. Undeniably, it is always good to be home. I see myself as an extrovert who doesn't like to stay at home but somehow I think I am more of an introvert. I found myself prefer to stay at home, eat at home instead of leaving my house. Well, when everything is being prepared, who does not want it ?!

I only came back during the summer time during the past 4 years of my uni's days. The first two months were always the best while everything to me seemed fresh and new. Things then started to change after that. Parents started to mumble, mum started to get annoyed easily by what I did, feeling extremely uncomfortable with the god damn hot and humid weather and more than that.

Baking is not wrong. That is my passion. I hope I can bake when I want to. However, her stubborn and conservative mind always irritates me. She throws her temper on me when I bake or cook. She gets annoyed when I share my bakes with my aunts or friends. I don't get it. She shows me a straight face when I cook for my sister.

Well well well. It is alright, because she is older than me. I need to be respectful.

It is now September. I think it is almost the time to stay out of my comfort zone and challenge myself. And I think they somehow sick of seeing me now, hahahaha. I need to leave as soon as possible before the 'volcano erupts'. I just hope I can leave peacefully.

God, please lead me to the way that you think suits me. Tell me what to do, give me the direction, I do not want to be lost again. Praise to be Lord. Amen.

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[Baking] Chocolate Cookies

These cookies are a modification of the famous blogger as well as the Youtuber, Tanya Burr's chocolate cookies. Her recipe has been complemented by many of her followers and friends. Therefore I decided to give it a go and it turned out awesome. The texture of the cookie was crunchy while it is not as wet as the usual cookies that I have tried in the UK. The taste got even better after leaving overnight. 

Since I have limited ingredients left in my pantry, I only made half batch of the original portion. The cookies supposed to be made as large as your palm, however, I decided to make it into a smaller version so that it can be consumed more conveniently. 

The original recipe: http://www.tanyaburr.co.uk/?blog=blogs/archive/2015/05/02/my.chocolate.cookie.recipe.aspx 

To make 24 small cookies you will need: 

100g butter 

150g sugar (I reduced to 130g*) 

1/2 egg

138g self-raising flour

38g cocoa powder

a little dash of milk (I added 3tsp of milk) 

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius. 

Cream together the butter and sugar. 

Crack in your egg. 

Stir in the flour and cocoa powder. 

Add a dash of milk if the mixture is too dry. 

Pop it into the oven and bake it for 11 minutes and leave it to cool down for 30 minutes. 

* I would reduce more sugar in the future as some of my friends commented that it was too sweet for them. 

Enjoy and happy baking! 

Love, 

Fia 

 

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[Life] The Fish People Cafe

Me and Giovanna have not been seeing each other for more than 3 months. Since both she and Each has moved out from the student accommodation, I seldom see them at all. Therefore, we decided to hang out after her exam and Betty came along too! 

We came to a nice, cosy restaurant which located just opposite the Shields Road subway station. This was my first time crossing over the River Clyde. The restaurant is smaller than I expected. I think the whole atmosphere will be much better if this cafe is facing the beach. However, the fact is that it is facing a bush. 

I ordered a smoked salmon while Betty ordered a crab salad and Giovanna had Tandoori Sea Bass. All the courses were great and appetizing. I quite like Betty's crab salad. I used to be a fan of Scottish smoked salmon before visiting Sweden and Finland. I found that Scottish's smoked salmon is way too salty for me while Scandinavian's taste fresher than I expected!

Time flies. One of our friends, Milky, has left to Hong Kong today. Although I am not that close to him, we has still spent most of our time together such as Chinese New Year. The opportunity to seeing him in the future is small according to Tze Jean. I hope that he can do well in the future and hope to see all of you someday in the future. 

Love,

Fia

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[Traveling] Spontanueus trip to York

The blog seems to be abandoned for almost 6 months! Not that I didn't want to keep my life recording, it was just simply the overload workload between that period. Things like group projects, dissertation, meeting and etc had accounted 99.9% of my life (Am seriously not kidding).

Since I am pretty done with everything, I said 'pretty' is because I am still waiting for my feedback and grades of the dissertation and some assignments, I have plenty of time to update this tiny little space!

After a few days spending at home, I felt like going somewhere else. So I instantly booked a train ticket to York and decided to spend 3 days exploring the city. Here I am to share some photos that I have taken during the trips. The photos aren't fancy while I am not a professional photo editor, just a few pictures that show what I experienced during the stays. Hope you people enjoy it XD

The weather was really decent as it wasn't raining during those days. Thanks for the dry weather, York! I hate raining especially while travelling. Everything went well and the B&B I stayed in was really nice too. I had a huge room with 3 beds on my own! The railway museum is the place that most excite me while the chocolate factory is a also a nice place to be explored too! I was given lots of chocolate to try and you can also make yourself a chocolate loli by the end of the tour which is a highlight of the tour!

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[Life] Meal recording

Another day with overloading workload. But delighted by the post of timothy tiah and fourfeetnine. Fighter's pictures always make me happy and release my stress. How i hope i am still a baby, eat, sleep, play and eat again. No need to worry about other stuffs! 

Well, i think i should record down what i eat everyday so that i am able to show my parents if i do eat and also eating well. They keep ask me to eat more but my stomach is just that small. I am trying to consume more meat too.

I am not a vegetarian, i just don't like meat. Don't ask me why. But now no more excuse, i should increase the consumption of meat and poultry. So what i made for my lunch today is ....

Stir fried cabbage, grean beans and carrot, pan fried beef, baked brussels sprouts and lots of spring onions. Oh i forgot about the tomato  

The colours are matching so well with each others. The presentation is beyond my expectation until i took the pictures. So i gonna post another photo of it hahahahaha

Ohhh pretty niceeee right  I am so addicted to foods that are crispy like cabbage, cauliflower and carrot. I some how missing rojak these days so so much. Just missing the taste and the crispness of the chinese cruller. Where the hell i can get it in the UK. And i am missing ais kacang (red bean shaved ice)  tooooo wtf How I wish I can have the shave ice machine so that I can just make one here. 

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[Little thought] Looking back to 2014 and New Year Resolution

Happy New Year to all of you and hope 2015 will be a good year to everyone :)

People may have want to know how I spent my New Year's Eve. What I can tell you is that, just a normal day of mine XDD

I was reminiscing the countdown event that I went in London in 2011. It was so fun even though it rained for a while. Meeting friends all around and had my first ever unexpected kiss from a stranger,

And I felt asleep even before the clock passed through 0000 == I didn't hear any sound of the fireworks. I am moving into a healthy lifestyle gradually by going to bed as early as I can. Because these days, I will wake up automatically at around 5 or 6 in the morning and I am actually still feeling sleepy. So, in order to make sure that I can get a fully 7 hours sleeping time, I need to make myself BE ON THE BED at around 2230. Just so you know, playing with phone is unavoidably XDD

My new year was quite boring. I stayed at home, continued on my literature review and methodology. I have been procrastinating!!! I went to Sweden and Finland with my family for two weeks that is why everything has paused. I did bring my laptop over. I was keen to work with my dissertation when I was in Sweden but then I totally gave up after we went to Lapland. The weather was just too cold that you didn't even want to switch on your laptop. You just wanted to stay in bed for all the time and there was no wifi (good, I like it!) too. This is a very serious issue to me. I want to get my things all done before the school starts, otherwise all my timetable will have to be rearranged! Life at school is such as mess. There is always something that you won't expect to be happened... Life too...

I hope I can take some time to share my trip to Lapland since it is so fun <3 Right, I will do it after I finish my methodology by next Saturday!

Looking back to 2014, I concluded that I was living in pain. The pressure on the studies, money issue, parents' expectations and own pressure had turned me from a healthy one to a delicate person. Besides that, the news of friends' decision on moving out had left me heartbroken. I stopped contacting one of my best friends too as the friend is now in the relationship. I saw myself a loser. I felt myself is being abandoned. I just couldn't take it and try to make myself looked stronger in front of everyone especially the girls. I wonder if they will think I am cold-blooded, but I am not. I just didn't want to express on how sad I was. All these matter had troubled me so much and that was the first time I ever wanted to go home as soon as possible. I went home and got sick twice. I made myself fall into health issue which I became underweight due to too much worried and found out that I have B12 deficiency.

Well, those issue have passed. I have hit enough the rock bottom, I need to rebuild my live as I realized that there is so many people out there concern about me so much. I don't want to make the worse to worst. So here is my new resolution of 2015:

1. I want to be healthy. Yes, I need to consume all kind of meat, not only fish.
2. I want to be happy.
3. Get at least a second upper for my Honour degree.
4. Apply for a job in somewhere around the world apart from Singapore and Malaysia.
5. I want to go United States!
6. Learning from the past and never ever gone back again.
7. Exercise more.
8. Get a good grade for my dissertation.
9. Visit Japan with baby Gio and Each.
10. Visit Italy again with Each.

So far these are what I can think right now. I may add more in the future...? I am not sure hahahahaha

Anyway, thanks for those who read or maybe just passed through. At least I know there is someone reading my thoughts and I hope I can be updating the blog as frequent as I can.

Love ya!

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