Fluffy couscous salad with coriander and chickpeas

Today, we had a farewell party in Chinese for Miss Sun :( Omg no please don't gooooooo.... Miss lam should be the one staying in hongkong -_-  I really don't want her to come back and I think half of the class doesn't want to too. Omg she's so depressing everytime she steps into our class. Like, she expects our Chinese speaking skills to be of background standard. We all don't come from China alright so don't expect everybody to speak Chinese like youuuuuu......She's so annoying, she has something against me. She kept on telling my dad how 'southeast asians had no creativity whatsoever' in essay writing -___- Just say me lah, okay?!?! Don't blame the whole continent.

Come back okay, miss sun! We love you and will always remember you :) Ellen and I were busy conversing with her. She's such a friendly teacher to converse with, like a friend and still a teacher. Ah, she's so amazing really <3 Take care of yourself!!!!!!

So today for lunch, I decided to go healthy! I made a couscous salad with coriander and chickpeas. Turned out rather successful. Was reluctant to try the couscous salad in the morning because I'm just so inexperienced with Western grains. All it said on the packet was 'Pour in boiling water and leave it for 5 minutes for it to absorb all the water.' I was so freaked out. Where is there such a convenient grain?!!!? I didn't even want to try it out. Was just going to be all asian and stick to my rice bento boxes. But well, experiment experiment. And so I tried it out, and this is how it turned out:

Success, no? I thought it turned out prettttty well....LOOK HOW FLUFFY THEY ARE. Or is it just me? Omg. So pretty. It freaked me out so much how fluffy the couscous became after only five minutes of coming into contact with boiling water.

I loved it. Such a healthy salad yet so good for you. Step one to Hyunah's abs...... T___T" Ahah. The coriander was kind of a last minute decision to throw in to make it tastier because there was some leftover coriander sitting around in the refrigerator where my mum keeps most of her herbs. And the chickpeas were convenient because I just rinsed some reduced-salt chickpeas and threw them in, mixed them around.

Yeah. I'm up to my neck deciding what to update. Maaaaaybe I'll show you my growing culinary herb garden?! ^_____^ Yay it's growing well. Right now I'm trying to find bay leaves to grow, as well as lemon thyme. Might try Jekkah's Herb Farm. I can't wait for the day that I go "Oh I need this herb" and I go to a garden filled with pots and pots and pots of different herbs!!! OMG HEAVEN.



Lovely rainy day

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die." - Blade Runner

One of those little films we watched for English, it's one of those films where you have to keep rewatching to understand it. But it's such a neat little film. And that quote has so much insight, I don't even know why....sigh. The replicants didn't deserve to die :( On the other hand, maybe they did because they're probably capable of slaughtering truckloads of people with just one hand.

The weather is really screwed up, seriously. It's hot one moment and then it starts pouring a minute later >< Australian weather, Australian weather......I'm not complaining though :) I'll much prefer this crazy weather than the humid hot weather I get back in Singapore ^__^ Today was a lovely rainy day though, in the morning. Went to school early and met Angela, Saad and I think Andrew? Yeah I saw them in the library. Studying for my biology summative tomorrow!!! Haha, so frightened. Actually so frightened. I hope I do well!

I'll share some photos with you all :)

Haha this was a top my sister got. She loves it with shorts so I wanted to see how it looked like with my jeans. Haha I thought it looked pretty decent like this. Ah well.

When I first left for Australia. I remember this was a day before pammy's birthday. Aha, it was a sad moment. Looking back at this, was leaving a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know whether to smile or cry when I see this picture.

Which makes me come back to realize how much international students in Glenunga struggle to make ends meet and the so many domestic problems they always face with their homestays >< I don't know how they cope....they're just so strong, really. Putting aside their fobby accents, that's just really superficial. Other than that, beneath that cheena accent they're really strong people.

After that, you realize, why make fun of them? You're probably less strong than they are....