Wow.. I think I can cook too!!

I was reading my Maria Claire this afternoon, and personally, I don't know the reason as well, love to read from the back to the front. While I flipped through the lifestyle section, the little title "WEB WATCH" caught my attention. It was introducing the food blog which developed by Melbourne foodie Pat Breen and Sean Fennessy. I was dragged into the whirl by the cherry pie picture, therefore I did pay a little visit to

Eat This Food.

Wow!! The site looks extremely attractive.

First thing: attracted by the creative font

I fond of getting perfect font for my designs, always spend most of my time finding the suitable font for each design. Once I saw their font(design), oh I can tell you I totally fall in love with this website. I believe font is always the first thing to keep your audience, as it gives the first impression for the viewers. I told myself, "it must be in my bookmark!" (Just because they have creative font)

Second: attractive pictures and creative design

Look at those pictures!! I really want to jump into the screen and taste those delicious yummy food. There is no complicated, grand setting, but family-like warm frame. It seriously makes me feel like I can make those dishes too!! Great job!!

Lastly(the main point): the variety of dishes

I believe they had just developed the blog for a short time. They do not have hundreds of recipes, but quite a number of them. MAIN POINT: they all sound good and EASY !! I think we can make every of them!!

In all means, I LOVE THIS BLOG !! Its simple but creative design attracts the attention. I believe, it will have lots of fans in no time. Good job:)

With Love, 

Vagrantgirl

Things that you need in your life: Creativity and Challenge

This morning, while I was checking my facebook, this youtube video popped out from a fan page. The comments for it were eye-catching, therefore I clicked it and looked forward to its amazement. Honestly, I rarely watched videos but these guys' creativity just moved me to watch more of their videos. 

They are not really doing something like participants in American Got Talent, The Voice or X Factor, they are just simply street artists. They love playing music, they dare to receive challenges publicly. I love their guts!! Their creativity brings interactions between musician/ artists with the public audiences and everyone enjoys that. This brings not only skill challenges for them, but also the happiness and refreshing experiences for the crowd. It helps people to remember their performance. In the aspect of marketing, their unique idea of music performance will bring them good impression. It is a powerful way of doing advertising for themselves as well as their group. 

Creativity and challenges are necessary in our life journey. The combination of these two elements will create some sparkles which helps lightening up your 'boring' life. But the first question for yourselves is: Do you dare to face challenges? If not, you will just keep following your daily routine, and never can experience the happiness of overcoming a challenge. 

With Love, 

Vagrantgirl 

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Challenging myself

I have challenged myself to work in the apple factory for the sake of money. I know this job is not easy at all because I was warned by my friend, "that's a really boring job" but I do not care because I love money more than anything else at the moment.

My journey of working at the apple factory is quite interesting. The first day I worked there, my whole body was super tired and couldn't even remember how many time I had checked the time from the phone. I was wondering: "Why I work bloody hard but the time still go slowly? I just want to go home!!"

Challenging both my psychological and physical fitness while the clock was ticking, finally it's time to go home, you can't imagine how happy I was. I was just like a kid who was given a lolly. Without having my dinner, I went straight to bed and slept for 15 hours. That's the first time in my life I slept that much. I told myself, "I wouldn't go back to work over there again". However, when my friend sent me a message saying "Trista, can you work in the apple factory tomorrow? " I responded immediately, "yes, I can". I don't know the reason why I replied them instantly without thinking. Perhaps I want to challenge myself again.

This time I know what I should do before going to the apple factory. Firstly, I have to get enough sleep and secondly I have to have enough nutrition :). So I did follow what I think is right to do. I woke up and ate one banana and few slice of banana cake, drunk some water. It seemed like I am strong enough for work :). I got to the workplace and worked for an hour.Suddenly, I felt something wrong in my body. Insisted for a while but I couldn't stand it any more. I went to the toilet and vomited. I looked up in the mirror and I realized my face was so pale like a dead body. I still tried my best to work for the next few hours and waited for the lunch break to come.

At lunch time, my whole body was shaking. I managed to finish my lunch in order to get some energy since I don't want to faint at my workplace. After an hour returned to work, I felt like I couldn't stand on my feet. I run so fast to the bathroom and threw up again. Gosh!!! I just wanted to go home but I couldn't because no one could drive me home at that time. I am so exhausted but I still have to work. My eyes can't open and my arms couldn't move. I felt like dying but the bitch Korean lady who stood next to me didn't realize that. She kept asking me to do everything, urging me to perform the task faster, carrying as many apples as possible... I was so upset and told her, "I can't do it". I was talking to myself in the mind, "if she still annoys me, I would tell her to shut her mouth up and do your job". What's wrong with her? Why didn't she think I'm torturing myself? Sigh...I really want to kill that lady!!So rude!!

Anyway, I got a new experience to tell my family and friends about my life in Australia. My parent probably couldn't believe I had done such job. I am more mature than they thought, no longer a princess when I am away from home. Be strong!!!!

Loneliness

I woke up this morning and felt so lonely. I was thinking about my future and do not know what it gonna be? I am so desperate to find a job however I haven't got any luck till now. Is it because I don't have the ability to perform a good professional skills or the white people don't want to employ Asian? There are so many questions jumped out in my mind and the answers are never found.

What should I do? Stay strong? Believe in the bright future? Why employers don't give me an opportunity to get involved in the industry. I seriously need the motivation to make my life more meaningful.

I am jealous with people telling me they are getting a job. I am not like that before, but why I become so selfish these days?

Morning sadness
10.33 AM

Should love "yum cha" as a hongkie

Home safely, and of course, back to the city which known as shopping paradise, I would not only stay at home. However, overwhelmed by the hustle bustle, I walked around for 2.5 hours after church yesterday, I officially gave up. Better took a good rest at home.

As a 'tradition', every time I came back from Australia, once the flight landed, I would meet my parents in the 'cha lau' ( place especially for yum cha). But since I promised my friend meeting her in the airport and having lunch with her, I did break my routine. And finally, I had a chance to yum cha today. I miss this so much. The varieties of food in cha lau in Adelaide is not as many as in Hong Kong, so as the taste.

We didn't go to the cha lau that we usually go today, although the food is not as wonderful as the one I like, it still delicious. Just me and my mum, so we could not order lots of food. As I remember, once me and my classmates went yum cha during lunch time while I was still in secondary school. We ordered lots of food, I think more than 30 dishes!! I miss those days honestly.

"Cha Lau" usually looks like this. With lots of tables and elderly.

Ordering Sheets, fully of all varieties of food

Below: Some of the dishes that I had and like :)

With Love, 

Vagrantgirl

Stay tuned, I will bring you more interesting things I had in Hong Kong. 

Graduation Card Preparation

If you are my previous reader, I know you would understand how much I love having a craft design project. It, at least, give me the feeling of success.
However, my drawing is not good and I need much mores time than others to prepare. Usually, a project might at least takes me two days to think and finish. For a bigger one, minimum requires three whole days.

I enjoy the pleasure that art brings me. Those abstract ideas are always open-ended. There is no right or wrong in art, depending on how you judge it. The most important thing is YOU THINK IT IS GOOD. If you don't love it, no one will.

As my dearest friend is going to have his graduation while I'm away to Hong Kong, of course, I had to do something apart from trying to FaceTime everyone on that day. Therefore, preparing a card seems a must. And, flowers definitely. Hopefully, the florist won't ripe us off.

Okay, here is process of preparing my 'pure word' graduation card.

Making a cake !

I just got inspired to bake cake from my workmate.....I decided to go to the Asian grocery to buy the ingredients to do it. The hard part of making this cake is kneading the rice flour for 20 minute, this is very good exercise for those who want to lose weight like me hehe,. the rice flour supposed to be very firm after you knead it for a certain time but I do not know why my rice flour is still very watery. I cant do anything with it. My hubby said "you'd better throw the whole things away" cause if i keep doing it i will waste the coconut milk and sugar.....haha.....so bad my dear. .....do not give me a chance to try but I still give it ago....I mixed the rest of the ingredient: the mixture of sugar and milk into the knead dough. Then I put that mixture into the big bowl and steam it like 30 mins...........There you go, my cake turn out perfectly.....

Lesson learnt: never give up....Nothing is impossible......Yummy cake

11.12 pm