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Thursday, August 20, 2009

National Day Celebration (9 August 2009)
Steamboat Session with Housemates

Our house mates and us has been talking about having a steamboat session for the whole winter,and finally on National Day we are eating one...its also our landlady's birthday coincidentally too..so its considered a double celebration ba..

First time I'm having steamboat with so many veges...the two giant plates of salad that the landlady made is so yummy, we cleared the whole plates within the first half hour of the steamboat session and the meatballs too..specially marinated with plum juice..very special..

My housemates..Yating and Shally on the left from Taiwan and Michelle on the right from Shanghai

Its the landlord on the left, his daughter and our latest housemate Anna whose from Hong Kong on the right..who ate around 10 meatballs..lol (she has now gone to a island to work..very high)

Group photo..

The girls...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Baking Time

Traditional Lemon Cake..baked this as Gavin's Birthday Cake..but not too pretty..but taste very nice ok..very lemony taste and fluffy cake..all my housemates all tried it too..

Been using the oven a lot lately..mainly the winter is quite cold..so don really feel like standing in the kitchen in the chilly evening preparing dinner..so I prepare in the afternoon where its much warmer..then pop in the oven during dinner time...

Meat pie and winter veges

My 1st attempt at making Lasagna..San Remo pasta sheets really made a difference to the texture..but a bit too meaty le..next time mix with more vege like mushrooms..but overall quite nice leh...very hearty food for winter..

Chocolate muffins baking away with the tray I bought at Gold Coast.really high quality tray..din even stick abit..Look nice only..not sweet de..abit failure despite using Betty Crocker products..

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Gavin's 27th Birthday
(7 Aug 2009)
Celebration at Ekka 2009 Part 3

Then it became evening very fast le...it's only around 5 pm and it's very windy and cold ..

Ah..the giant soft toys...din manage to win one one though..the piglet is
very cute..

The classic rides..

Finally, it's the end of the day..we sat in the stadium to watch the stunt shows and the fireworks...its too dark to take any more pictures...there are motorcycles and utes doing flips and stuff like that..

Ekka 's great fun..next year I want to go again..

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Monday, August 17, 2009

Ekka 2009 Part 2
Gavin's 27th Birthday Celebration
I like this stall..so country feel..

There's even a quilt competition..

This is the winning quilt..very complicated design..don know spend how much time doing..

I like this one..

Then there is the Brisbane Markets Agricultural Pavillion..

very impressive...the panels behind are all made up of fruits

so many oranges..its so yi li yi li..heng I never go too near it..

It's made up of apples to celebrate Queensland 15oth Birthday... how wasteful..

Giant Pumpkin Contest Winner

Overview of the Yogo Alley (the rides section)

Little Miracles Newborn Corner- they have 'live' giving birth session of the lambs de leh...

Monday, August 17, 2009

Friday, August 14, 2009

7 Aug 2009

Gavin's 27th Birthday Celebration at Ekka 2009 Part 1

Its Gavin's 27th birthday..so we went to the Ekka..which is the Royal Brisbane Show. It's like the event of the year..they even have a Public holiday for the Ekka.

First stop..the Woolsworth Food Pavillion..which is basically a food fair..with lots of food and wine tastings.. .

There's lots of chilli sauces...I like the mango chilli jam..

The choc dipped strawberries are so cute..but its damn expensive...its $8 bucks per stick..

There's Honey popcorn..and honey beer..honey lipbalm..

This inflatable cow is so cute..the winter day is now very quite warm le..almost 25 deg..but at night can drop to below 10..

At the Showbag Pavillion.. haha...my favourite place of...the school kids can even come here on excursion leh...so xing fu...they buy so many showsbags...I pity the parents though..on how much they need to let the kids spend..

I like the Hello Kitty and Sesame Street showbag..but the stuff inside are too childish le...end up I got a Marie Claire Showbag..$20..but the stuff is worth over $100...I even got a Maybelline Mascara free..cos I got the coupon..the mascara already cost almost $20 le..so glad with my purchase..

we even went back a second time..we got the coca cola cooler bag and Super Snack Bag

Cadbury showbag station..

Time for tea break ..Ah..the iconic Dagwood Dog..a giant sausage in deep fried crust...very yummy..

Friday, August 14, 2009