Log post: Moena's Adventure in Reality

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Showing posts with label Festivals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festivals. Show all posts

Saturday, June 23, 2012

- My Birthday 2012 -

SATURDAY 
(16TH JUNE)

Early in the morning, my Pickles woke me up and surprised me with a birthday card~!
Aww... Little Miss Sunshine card~ 

She told me she's Little Miss Busy. She even showed me the clip on youtube about that character, lolz!  By the way, I call my sis Pickles and she calls me Mina-chan ^ ◡ ^


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Birthday Breakfast! Nothing special but I enjoyed it :) There's some leftover sushi from the day before, peach, mango, scones, and chocolates!
Scones~~~These are really delicious! Pickles got it from somewhere that's really famous for it, I forgot the name already. It's nothing like the cheap supermarket ones that I'm so scared of XD
Actually today Pickles is supposed to bring me to Alton towers to play! It's a theme park nearby. But unfortunately, it rained T_T

So, during noon time I helped Pickles to clean her house. We also went Sainsbury's and Aldi to get  some ingredients for tomorrow. We even got lots of ice-creams! 

Later we went bowling with friends to make up for the Alton Tower...

By the way, I'm not a good bowler O_O" I think I'm going to embarrass myself >.<;

Ok, let's get the bowling game started~! Oh wait, what is this?
Woah~ a 4 star dragon ball!
Challengers!
Wah, all so pro!

I'm the last for both games! Eh! Same score summore!

(○´∀`○)
Although I got the lowest score, think I bowl quite well today... compared to the last time which was about 50 plus points ^^"

Later we played pool as well as this little machine here:

This is one supper addictive machine... I wasted lots of 10p here! :X
 I think I have to stay far far away from this kind of machine next time...

Next stop, dinner time at T.G.I. Friday~! Yipee~ This is my first time going to TGIF!

There were a lot of people that, perhaps it was a weekend? We were asked to wait 30 minutes which seem like an hour... We were given this while we wait, I'm so curious with this thing...
Beeper?
I got bored of the beeper and then set my eyes on this! Wowzers! It's a Harley Davidson! They use it as a decor? OMG

 After I got bored of the bike, I ran around looking at the interior design. The decorations were amazing! I had to take pictures of them! 

See~ Cool right!

 I ordered an OREO Milkshake! It was so delicious! 

The starter and meals we had.
By the way, I took a photo of everyone's dish except mine! I forgot to take a picture of my super rib dish!!! D: Obviously I'm in a hurry to dig in! It was really a superb dinner! 

After we finished our meal, something happened.... Suddenly it was all a blur! I remembered something like one of the staff came up to me and asked me to stand up on the chair! O_O" In my head I was like 'Did I do something wrong? Why are you punishing me?' 

Turns out, the waiters at TGIF wanted to sing their special birthday song to me! And I was presented with the birthday cake! Although I was really embarrassed... I was really touched~ 

The service at TGIF is really good, the waiters are really polite and considerate. They still pay lots of attention to you even though the whole place was quite crowded!

What a wonderful celebration~! 

Oh wait, there's still more~ 


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SUNDAY 
(17TH JUNE)

BBQ time~!

My relatives came to celebrate my birthday with me at my sis' place. BBQ is really fun! Except it rained occasionally so we kept running in and out the house, lolz! 

My cute aunty~!

My aunt and uncle got this ultimate cupcake for me~! ♥ The candle can even sing by itself! So cool! (☆∀☆)゚  

Family~!

yum yum~!

WOW!!! :D~~~

Burger patties underneath!

Gifts I got from my cousin and my other aunt.

This post explained my fat fat tummy right now...hahaha! 

We did team up for Mario on Wii to exercise our fingers! LOLZ!

After my relatives and friends left, Pickles and I played Mario until midnight... It was so much fun! Then we chatted about games on the bed before we sleep... We reminiscent our young gaming times - we talked about Diablo I, II, and I told her how I was so sad I couldn't play III with my current laptop. She even remembered I was so fond of Icewind dale! Eventually the disc got faulty and I never finished the game, I kept re-playing it until it reaches the faulty part. Aww I miss that game now! I still remember I named those characters Xena, Gabriel, and Hercules! It's a game that plays with six characters which gets too confusing and the characters will run by themselves and get killed sometimes =.=

Thanks to my lovely sis who organised and planned everything for me to have a great birthday weekend!

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Oh ya, this is from last year's birthday but I've never really posted it yet! I was too busy that time, eheh. Book Town took this photo and gave it to me as a birthday present last year:

TaDa~!!! Airin as Miku!!!! ♥  ♥   ♥  
(I edited the lighting a bit)

Good things must be shared(♡´∀`♡)Thanks Eva! 

~ Ciao ~

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

My Valentine Made Me Smile

14 Feb 2012, 8.50 pm I got a call from a lady who is looking for me to deliver something, but seems like she couldn't find my flat. So, I ran out without my jacket standing in the cold streets for a few minutes before the old lady showed up with a paper bag with a bouquet of flowers! I was shocked with the size of the bouquet & the roses itself! They were large and beautiful!

Beautiful flowers from Holland

 Admiring my present more I soon realised there's something else! Inside the bag consist of a box of chocolates!


Lovely box~

Bear-bear & Saru-chan tries to persuade me to share my chocolates with them by looking at me with cute expressions!
A half eaten chocolate. It's fine, smooth & tasty, with liquor in it.


Receiving these gifts landed a big smile on my face! You surprised me again! (♡◕ ‿ ◕♡)

Thank you Bao Bei!

I'm so glad I leave my relationship up to God! Everything becomes so unpredictable and each day I learn new things as well as being pampered by the person I love~

Monday, February 13, 2012

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone~!

Hiya minna~! How's your Valentine's Day? It's not 14 Feb YET (another 30 mins to go) but I'll just post something today because I might be too lazy tomorrow XD

Here's a nice valentine picture for bleach fans out there~!
I think this pic is really sweet, you don't see guys holding chocolates like tat!!!
Which one is your dream date? :P

Me? I've already got a date with Saru-chan ^-^
The person who gave me this gift is at the other side of the world. But I'm not going to feel sad during Valentine's Day >.<

So, as usual, I like to celebrate special occasion with lovely food... 

Saru-chan & I are going to eat something special tomorrow! 

hehe...stay tune for more pics~!

またね!

P.S. I'm a bit lazy to post up London Anime Con 2012 pics & videos at the moment.... hopefully i'll do it after my scary exam on Friday


Monday, February 6, 2012

Chap Goh Meh 2012

It's Chap Goh Meh festival today (6 Feb 2012), marking the 15th Day, the last day of Chinese New Year celebration. Some say it was the Chinese's valentine's day. Normally on this day there would also be a feast with good food. Ok, I only remember about the food part. There would be 'Tang Yuan' for desserts which symbolises unity, a dessert taking on such occasion. I was not with my family so I kinda felt left out. As my valentine was busy with his new Mac Book and was too tired to wait for me for a chat due to me having classes, I took this as an opportunity, think positive and went exploring at the shops around the streets after my class, in search of something special to cook. Well well, look what I found!

Udon! In fresh packs! Not the instant noodle types. It's only 2 pounds with 3 individual packets inside, comes with seasonings! 

The individual packets. I ate one of them already when I took this pic :3







This is the result! I even bought some leeks, chopped some carrots and celery to go with it. It was delicious!

And some grilled chickens in case I'm still hungry. 

Well, I think 1 packet of udon is too much for dinner. I forgot Udon is quite filling. I didn't get to finish my chicken drumstick. At least I get to eat something special and nice this chap goh meh~! Though I miss okasan's cooking, kiu nyuk, and tang yuan. That's all folks~!

Food loving Moena, signing off~! :D~

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Winter Solstice Night

Minna, Happy Winter Solstice Night~ 

It's when daylight was the shortest and my tummy gets hungrier earliest! Seriously! I always feel hungry when the day gets darker. I'm so used to eating dinner at ~7pm in Malaysia where it gets dark the same time all year round. But now when I'm engaged in battles in oxford... my tummy just find it as an excuse to eat more ^^" I ended up eating my dinner at 4.30pm, I played around honed my skills in the kitchen a bit, hehe.

Winter Solstice Night, or like how my hakka family culture calls it 'Guo Dong' (过冬), the actual name was 冬至. The name signifies it well, it was a festival to prepare us for the winter months ahead (like there's any winter in such a hot country in malaysia :X), anyways, it's still an important festival for us to celebrate. Normally families will get together to eat a wonderful home cooked meal and then we will prepare sweetened desserts called 'Tang Yuan' (汤圆which signifies togetherness. However, this year is so different for me... I am away from my family and so I only realised today is the day for us to celebrate when I got a phone call from Isaac >.< 

Well, I don't know how to get the ingredients for making Tang Yuan but I could make myself a very special meal~! 

So, TaDa!

Noodles & chawan mushi! And a bowl of healthy dessert.

I used pasta noodles and the soup base is made from shoyu + sukiyaki sauce + paparika powder with some seasonings leftover from instant noodle packets. Then I decorated the top with fried buta niku and some sweet gem lettuce.

Dessert is made from apple + pear + carrot + salt + squeezed lemon (I often preserve them in fridge like that) 

Here comes the verdict of my noodlee dish, this is also first time trying a soup base dish........ 

*drum rolling*

IT'S DELICIOUS!!!! ^^
Wahh....I'm so happy!!!

Next is the chawan mushi:
OISHII!!!!

I'm so proud of my chawan mushi, it's also my first time making it. To make it, just beat 1 egg + chicken stock + shoyu + salt + pepper + water and some optional butaniku inside. Then steam for about 20~30 minutes.   

It's not a perfect smooth texture, I forgot to lower the heat which caused some bubbles to build up. Well, it's still FuWa FuWa~! :D~

Thank you for looking at the photos of my amateur cookings ^‿^

I think I might be too busy to blog soon so Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year Minna~!