I love to cook!So to keep up with the "wish list" of mine( the one I listed earlier was merely a mini version of it- have a longer one!) I decided to try at least a new recipe every week.And surprisingly this one "wish" of mine  was do-able, as in, I have yet to procrastinate on. In fact, I've been exceeding my own expectations-I've been trying out more than just 1 recipe every week,for the past 4(pat myself on the back :)). I've read somewhere once that the kitchen is actually like an experimental lab, there's no rule in cooking.So each dish you'd cook  is like a new found "thing".I've kept that in mind since then. Right now I'll  just imagine which ingredient would taste great with the other,then just cook them up together.Basically I think a good cook would be someone who'd know and memorize the taste, smell, texture etc. of any ingredient  then come up with something, that tastes oh so good.Hopefully I'd be someone as skilled as that.In the meantime, I'll continue being my kitchen's own little chef. With this I've also started eating out less, hence-MONEY SAVED!(I'm coming Seoul, Milan, Macau, Beijing). Plus I've totally minimize the use of salt and sugar- go go health!Here are some of the dishes I made.I strongly recommend on playing some opera(Cecilia Bartoli-my favourite) or some classical + foreign language songs(right now I'm into Italian), whilst cooking. It never fails to make me feel like I'm in some high class European kitchen and it just gets me in the right mood.

Baracuda grilled with sweet soy sauce+ kimchi + fried cabbage

My own version of Mapo Tofu + sesame chilli fried veggies + rice

Sautéed egg plant stuffed with mashed potato and tofu with my favourite sweet and spicy sesame sauce!  

Kimchi mashed potato

My 1st attempt on dumplings- fried!

Again, dumplings!This time; steamed :)

My very own version of Kimchi jigae(I still need to find out what  it actually means, till then, I'll stick to just that)

Resolution-no, wish list-yes !

It's been awhile since I've posted anything here.Just started new term in college so you could say I had my hands were full for the past few weeks. I've come to realize 2nd year of medicine is no joke or have I realized it so many times before that I pretend it's a new found feeling every time I "re-think" of it-denial at its  best!But right now I'm not going to go all whiny saying I regret for choosing a doctor's life over something I'd like to think more relaxing, something that wouldn't get me so worked up.Because all I know it's too late for me to back down now-and I can proudly say now, more than ever, that I have overcome those feeling of regrets, those months long of mental-battle I had once with myself.I don't know how, but I just started thinking if I was already in this, I might as well make the best of it.Things like these always happen to me, my positivity level shines the best during these times.So yeah, that was the once confused me.I just hope the future me can handle these things well,keep grounded,level-headed and positive at all times.
Well ,just recently I made myself a set of resolutions.It might seem a bit untraditional of me since it's almost the 2nd half of the year-but I believe you can make resolutions everyday if have or want to! In my case I had to.The last time I made new year's resolution was when I was 14?Yup 14! It consisted of things like; lose weight,study harder etc.I can't seem to remember much of them, but they seemed like quite a long and winding list of things to do for such a young me.I jot them down on a bright red paper, stuck some nice moon shaped glitter stuff you'd get from stationary shops, so that all 'had tos' that year looked dreamy and pretty!By the end of that year it actually was just a dream-non of them went my way. In fact I barely actually take the time to take a look for more than 2 minutes of that red paper hanging over my desk.I kind of made up my mind to never make new year's resolutions.It kind of worked!At every end of the year after that I didn't feel like some total failure at the same time I didn't feel as if I've achieved something either.All this time I felt that I've lived too cautiously.Like I said, before I had the habit of making lists of almost everything plus I was a bit uptight for someone my age. So back then I thought why not let my hair down a little.Live spontaneously-that was what I thought,would do me some favour.But recently I've been feeling as if I've set myself too loose.So right now I'm trying to tune the "miss uptight" and the "miss spontaneous" in me and find a perfect balance between them 2 :) So wish me luck- all the best to you Sarah!And here's some of the things I've listed down-my wish list( sounds less daunting than a resolution!):
1. Save up -for TRAVELLING(Italy,Macau, South Korea, China!)
2. Prioritise fitness-loose the EXCESS weight( you can't loose too much) -pilates rocks!Cardios too.
3. Practice + introduce more good daily habits
4. Try to lessen my procrastinating
5. Limit the dreaming, more on acting!
6. Brainstorm for more business prospects (I think I have entrepreneurship's genes :p)

Picasso much?

I love painting!I don't was painted by me.I think those "brushes" in Windows paint are the best thing Windows has ever got to cater me with! Each stroke(of course, strokes created in my mind then translated to the cursor :p) looks unbelievably real almost like the ones you see on real non-virtual paintings.Painting virtually also needs you to have good control of your hands, slight tremble of the hands can mean trouble though easily erasable-or you could just press the 'undo' button. Thus I prefer virtual painting compared to other methods of painting.Here're some of the ones I've managed to take some time to make.Enjoy!Or at least try to okay thanks bye :D

Sand Dance

Fun In The Sun

Ballet Pain

I Might Steal Your Clothes And Wear Them If They Fit Me

T.Ball

Man At The Window

Mod

Purp

Pistachio

Siren

List of Places I Need to Go Before I Die..trti

Amongst  many other things I live doing,one of them has got to be travelling.Also something I'd like to do more of too.Believe it or not back in 4th grade I already had a list of places to go before I die.Unlike other kids my age back then I was a lot mature than them I guess.Instead of cartoons, I'd be waking up early in the morning to catch those travelling shows.I watched a lot with Ian Wright and Samantha Brown in them.I'd be setting my alarm early at 7 a.m  just to catch them both.I'd rush out of bed with my then black leather diary(I'd be carrying it around a lot then).As I watch them I'd be taking note of the places that either Ian or Samantha went to.Even though this sounds wierd, I'd like to think that I was a little different than the other girls my age.I kind of took pride in that now and am thankful I did not followed the crowd:)Then  I got into high school, my travelling "perspective" changed completely! I got hit by the football virus!This all started during the 2006 Fifa World Cup. I don't know how or when but I suddenly had two biases for the game- Italy and Czech Republic(though later Italy knocked Czech Republic out).Even after the games ended then my friends and I would still go on and on "defending" our favourite teams for no reason, acting like obsessed, crazy, die hard fans.Then we developed this unlimited, ultimate love for our favourite teams' countries. I'd finally find out that I had more love towards the Azzuris(this' what the Italian team is called)than the Czechs(it's kind if like a rule for football fans to practice "monogamy" with ONLY one team and ONE team only!Well we,my friends and I even made a pack to learn the respective languages of the countries each of us supported.One started learning German, the other whom is head over heels for the Brazillian team, opt for Portugese and I took up Italian,of course.That was when we were all about 15.But to tell you the truth ,my Italian is still somewhat rusty, not very proud about it.Am still learning though, even thought they're mostly short phrases- something you'd normally hear tourists be saying haha.But still I'm not going to give up on my Italian ,though ,right now I'm also trying to learn Arabic.I've always wanted to be a multi linguist:)My love for footbal,hence my love for Italy carried on ..till I was 19.Till then, Italy was on top of the list of the places I wanted and needed to visit.I fantasized of  being all stalker-like, all over the Italian players' homes-nothing more!I did not need to see the canolas,pisa or milan,all I needed was that-talk about a scary fantasy.And then during my pre-college years I had Korean pop worshippers as room mates.I actually vowed to never be influenced by them, for what I thought,then, as liking  a bunch of singers with good,cute looks on, together with some catchy dance moves and songs was just not my forte.But then one day I got all crazy  over all these Korean pop song!Which never in a million years I thought I would ever. But somehow they do rub on you in a way or the other.And just like that I got caught.But seriously I have no regrets.I especially loved their variety shows that showed me some unique lifestyle which also had me adopting some myself.Like right now I'm learning hoto cook their food too.And I'm getting better with the chopsticks which I use almost everytime I eat.So that's South Korea had knocked off Italy out of my list-sorry Maldini.

Hello!

http://youtu.be/1qnV55LUFVMHere goes- my 1st post! Trying to figure out something superbly amazing to take on right now,since this' the 1st,but I'm just having a difficult time. It's nearly midnight right now and my head's not working as much as I'd like it to...Yet my hand's fidgeting,still keen on completing this. Now this sounds like a homework or something, which is not my real intention to start this whole blogging thing. Nope I'm going to make this as relaxing as I'd want it to be,so I'll call it a night.While I'm at it,here's a song I like to hear to when I'm about to sleep. Right now I'm in to Korean pop- somewhat a current obsession,which I'm never short of. Something about foreign language-d songs give me the thrills..So night2,enjoy!

Off to sleep-sleepy blogger

My current obsession-Big Bang, contemplated at 1st but then found out they're actually good :)