Mochi (Microwave Version)

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I’ve been wanting to make mochi a long long time but never get to do it. Finally, few weeks ago, I did it. It’s so easy!

Ingredients:
2 cups of glutinous flour
2 cups of water
2 tablespoons of sugar
Sesame seeds/dessicated coconut/anything that can avoid the mochi sticking to each other (no specific measurement, for coating)

Instructions:
1. Mix glutinous flour and water well.

2. Place it in microwavable container covering the top of the container.
3. Microwave on HIGH (900 Watt) for 4 minutes.
4. Leave it cool for a bit.
5. Roll into ball and coat it with sesame. Do it as fast as you can. The longer it takes the harder it is to shape it into a ball.

Tips: Use plastic knife or spoon cut or scoop the mochi to avoid sticking.

Variations:
Green tea mochi: Mix one teaspoon of green tea powder to make green tea mochi.
Red bean paste mochi: Fill the mochi with red bean paste.
Just be creative! Experiment!

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The Clovey

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Took us quite awhile to decide where to have dinner 3 Saturday nights ago. Finally we ended up at The Clovey since my friends said that he had not tried out the food here. Usually just had drinks here. It’s located at The Clovercrest Hotel, 450 Montague Road, Modbury North SA 5092.


The atmosphere wasn’t bad. There’s live band playing. There’s a dance floor as well.


The place was packed! Lucky us that we managed to get a table. The appetizers are free flow, just take anything you want at the salad bar. It’s my first time having meal at a hotel (many Australian pubs are indeed called an Hotel by their name, they used to have rooms upstair but nowadays most don’t, they just retained the “hotel” word on their name).


Left: I don’t quite remember the name -.-” It’s a lamb dish with vegetables. It was the night’s special. It cost less than AUD15.
Right: This is also the special of the night, Fish and chips, not the exact name but yea… It’s basically fish and chips hahaha… This is around AUD16 I think…

It’s been quite long ago. It’s not in the menu also. The taste? My lamb dish was quite dry but the potato was nice. The fish and chips was not bad. Don’t think will come back here for dinner. It just didn’t leave me with any strong impression, quite average. For drinking and hanging isn’t that bad though.

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Intense Week

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What an intense week!

Exam on Monday night. Wrote till my pinky finger blister! Can you believe that? Hahaha… Don’t ask me why that finger, I myself got no idea also and was surprised by it.

Then, rushed to get my assignment done. Thought I finally got it done on Friday night, so happy! Who knows… My lecturer finally replied my e-mail on Friday night, few minutes before midnight, regarding things that I asked her 2 days ago and I found out I’m not doing what she wants. GOSH! It’s due on Monday. So I had to redo it, luckily the research I did for the past 3 weeks still can be used to certain extent. So I spent about 6 hours in uni to do it on Saturday. First time did my assignment till 10pm. Then, today, skipped church and went to uni to continue again. Finally finish it after 5 hours of playing games and researching ;p Not the best, not that satisfied with it but at least I’m almost on the right track as there are still some parts which I had difficulty incorporating into the assignment. Oh well… At least not as bad as the original one that I did. Hopefully I can get at least a Credit. Guess another Distinction gone…

Also, on the personal front. I decided to clean up my act for a new chapter. I felt bad and guilty for one whole week. Finally I broke the news and still feel a bit bad. Maybe it’s not a big deal but it’s just me, I’m such a kind girl and I’m so afraid to hurt people especially in breaking a bad news.

Hopefully my life will change to a positive direction and this will determine where I will be in my future. Hoping for the best. I have about half year plus here only. Gonna try to apply for PR here for sure.

That’s all for now. Another busy week coming. Next week class will start again. No break at all. At least I’ll be in Brisbane this coming 22 July-25 July for a long deserved holiday.

Half year almost gone… Take care!

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Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop

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Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop, our final destination for our Barossa Valley trip. We had to drive through very bad road to reach here because my friend’s GPS told him to use this way hahaha… So funny.

They came here for the ice cream! *LOL*


Two big pumpkins at the entrance. You can even sample the products.



From fruits to wines to sauces to cookies and more!


This is the said ice-cream. There’s many floavours but my friend recommended us this. Very nice indeed. Not cheap too, small container costs about almost AUD4.


Left: The sun was setting, very nice view behind the shop.
Rigth: On the way home.

That’s the end of the autumn trip. It’s winter now! Brrrr… Getting cold. Actually, it’s already cold ;p

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RIP My Sony Ericsson K800i?

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After more than 5 years going through all the ups and downs with me, finally my Sony Ericsson is official dead in Adelaide last few weeks ago. It’s my very first mobile phone using my own money to buy.

In fact, it already had problem when I was in Korea, had trouble charging it but after a few restarts it would work. It’s been on and off like this until finally last few weeks, it could no longer be charged. I thought it’s my battery problem so I bougth a new battery but after using the new battery for a week, when it’s time to charge, same thing happened.

So that’s the end of my SE K800i. The best part of this phone was its camera. The sound system was quite good too actually.

Oh wait… Think I’ve found some solutions to it, gonna try it after exam to see whether it works or not 😉

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