Just have to smile and pretend everything's okay

HAPPY SWEET 16TH BESTIE!

A post right up for you. Happy birthday to the friendliest, greatest yet annoying bestie in the world. Such a big boy now huh! Have a great birthday celebration this Sunday :) We've gone through so much together *cough* but we have both come out stronger than ever because of it. The friendship I have with you is something that I will treasure from the rest of my life. Be a big boy soon, okay?! Stop cracking sick jokes lah - your Singlish is a fail :3  

International day! We took quite a lot of pictures :) The best part was Mr. D's hakka dance. He's quite a toned dude hah. Our cupcake stall was a success too! Mia, Freya and Tamara's cupcakes are the prettiest. I made vanilla cupcakes, and brought along the icing, but it really couldn't compare to their cupcakes at all - so I just hid it underneath the table. I gave them out for free later ^_^ Christina kept complimenting me on my cupcakes. At least someone thinks they're good~ We didn't really do anything. I was dozing off during assembly hehe, and during glenunga idol.

 ♥

Infinite

Probably the two cutest girls you've ever seen? I love you both :) I don't know how I would do without you both. When I went out with the two of you, I can truthfully say I hadn't talked to the both of you in ages. I barely knew what was happening in your lives, being out of Singapore, and the last time I talked to Amanda was two years ago, when we finally moved on to secondary three and forgot about our earlier memories. The last time I remember talking to Rachel was in secondary one where I made frequent trips down to her house, wearing my Superman shirt and dropping her off whenever I could after school. We went out almost everytime together to take stickies with Zemaine, Calanthea....

That's the most I remember.

But I love you both so much in ways I cannot imagine. You two are the only two I can possibly say I am the most comfortable around. We moved on to different groups and cliques of friends, and drifted so much apart - but when I got back, we all talked like we had talked for ages. You're the reason why I want to go back, when I know I can't. It's at times like this where I regret moving over to study in Adelaide.

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Miss Lam came back today :( She's so unbelievably monotonous and dry when she's conducting her lessons. She keeps on picking on Ellen too >:( Ellen's mastery of the Chinese language is amazing so you shouldn't be putting her down >< Well, I think she's amazing. Learning a language at such high levels when you're not even Chinese is something worth applauding. I'm Chinese and my language skills will go down the drain if I don't continue doing IB Chinese. I would just die.

Today was the first day of school~ Saad got well already :D He had a cold sore on his lip too, and I'm just so fascinated by cold sores. Are they contagious? Well, glad he's better already. And finished my english on time with vivian~ >< So difficult. But glad that's already over and done with. Now it's time for research project. Sigh. I wish they made Research Project optional.

71: Into the Fire

Today was such a nice hot day, wearing shorts out to water the herbs has just got to be one of the best feelings ever. Feeling the summer heat on your bare legs as your feet touch the grass feels like heaven after wrapping up your legs all summer in thick leggings, skinny jeans and long baggy track pants :) I was completely basking in the sun today. Did any of you enjoy the fantastic weather today?

So today, we went to the Good Food and Wine Show in Adelaide! ^__^ It was probably one of the best fairs ever, though I've got to say the food booths in the actual Adelaide Show was much more better - but I absolutely loved the dips in olive oil with dukkah and all the yummy couscous and lasagnes! I was like staring at the people auditioning for Australia's Got Talent, and some of them were really talented! Now I can tell everybody I saw Australia's Got Talent's auditions live heheheho.



Yes, that's the French celebrity chef guy ^__^ He's quite a cool dude, wearing skinny jeans and checkered shirts at his age. Quite good-looking lah hehe.

So we went around tasting dukkah and I was dipping breads into olive oil and just gobbling everything up and tasting free samples like a true asian. We missed out getting the goodie bags, so my parents and my aunts, along with my sister - we went to go have a look at the celebrity cooking theatre! Gary and george weren't there :( It would have been great if we saw them there I am an absolute fan of those two roly polies ^__^ They're the cutest middle-age guys around! And they can cook! What else is more attractive than that would you please tell me!!!!!!!



+100000000000 FOR AN ASIAN GUY WHO CAN COOK. Luke Nguyen in person. Such a cool asian hehe. It was so funny when we heard people pronouncing his last name as 'nougat'. My sister and I wanted to die of laughter.

I'M SO HAPPY MUMMY BOUGHT TRUFFLE OIL TODAY! SO HAPPY~
Okay I need to go sleep now. Back to my english heheheheheho.

xoxo

All my love

The school holidays have begun! ^__^ It's been so relaxing. I've been borrowing books from the library and reading up on recipes to experiment with. So far, I've tried a pork, chilli and bean stew from a Woolworths Good Food magazine I got from Burnside library - it was so yummy! 

Omo~ So proud of myself ahah >< It's coriander sprinkled on the top, and there's red capsicums in there as well as chunks of potatoes, and diced pork loin. It was pretty dry though, sad to say. Might try a fattier cut of pork next time :( At the end I threw in a can of chickpeas, a can of pureed tomatoes and some tomato paste, to make it a little bit thicker. My sister added some corn flour in because she said it looked 'nothing like a stew.' So depressing right?! Aha, but I thought it turned out pretty well. Again, self-praise for mahself hehe. 

I didn't really do much today >< All I did today was wake up at 10, complete my depressing pile of homework and then we headed off to central market where I had a little tiff with my mother (again) over vegetables and yoghurt -___- Sigh.