02/01/2012

Yeah, it's a boring blog title but I thought the date looked kinda cool, with its ones, twos and zeros. By the way if your reading this from the USA, we have our date Day/Month/Year it makes sense to us with the smallest thing first.

So 2012 rolled in quietly for me, just watched some telly with my parents 'till 12 and then went to bed because I was very tired from staying up late (All night) playing games with friends the night before. Since then nothing seems to have changed, 2012 so far is the same as 2011. I have some hopes for the year though, my resolution is to have my first kiss this year so watch out ladies. I have a busy year at Uni coming up, so I have to try and keep on top of it all.

Last but not least is the fact that I still don't have a job. This is becoming serious, I'm willing to work anywhere at this point. The job will have to comence because I want to get a job before Uni and save some money up before I start.

More useless information about my life coming soon!

It's nearly 2012, time to update.

It's that limbo period between Christmas and New Years. It's been quite a long time since I updated, since my last post I completed my CUP course and since then haven't really done anything of note. With CUP, I ended up doing really well passing all my courses with more than a B and Maths with an amazing A+. A+ in Maths! I even got an award for it as top in the maths class.

Since then I've been chilling with friends, playing games and hating the summer heat. I hate summer. Just can't handle warm tempretures, this sucks because I love spicy food but all spicy food originates from hot countries.

Christmas was pleasent though, even though I hate the heat I can appreciate a few days with blue skies, light breezes and the quiet valley of Island Bay. For christmas I was surprised with a new laptop, nothing fancy but perfect for my full-on year at Uni next year.

Ok, I keeping most of this breif because it's been a while since it's all happened over a long period. Now I have my laptop I plan to blog more often, maybe set a goal of every couple of days. This may mean that some of the posts will be short and unrelated to what I did that day.

I'm thinking of doing more food related posts, afterall it's my blog and writing about food is what I enjoy. You can expect some game posts too. Food and Games, prehaps that should be the title of my blog.

Out the other side

So I remembered that I had a blog.
"Stating the obvious there" you may say but lately I been having troubles remembering what day comes after the next. I'm nearly finished with uni for the year and boy has been interesting. I feel so drained and this was just the prep course for just one trimester. I dread to think what next year with three Law papers, two Psych, a Stats, Theatre and Film paper will do to me.

Anyway I've fiddling with my layout and will hopefully be posting some new stuff up here as I do it. examples of things to come are

My CUP (Certificate of University Preperation) results.
Big Halloween: I might be performing in Capital E's Big Halloween
The great Job hunt.
Film projects with friends (Might not happen but I'll say so on this)
Social events (I plan to spend lots more time with friends in a couple of weeks
Games (Yeah I might post some stuff on games over summer. My summer not the american summer)
And of course I love my food so expect some stuff on that!

If there's anything else you want to post, any questions you have for me, ask me in the comments!

Love you all!

Well haven't I been productive.

Ok, maybe only semi-productive. I keep meaning to get on with another blog post but I'm never sure what to put in them, It's not like I ever do anything interesting. Stuff has happened to me recently and I seem to have some plans for the future but none if it ever seemed worth putting on my blog.

Victoria University it seems is daft enough to accept me into thier Certificate of Uni Prep, which means after July 11th I'll be a full-time uni student taking four courses designed to make me fir for tertiary education. I'm excited and oh so nervous because if I get less than a B grade average it'll just be a waste of money and I'll fail the course.

I had my third attempt at the learners theory driving test and I passed. It was nerve-wracking as I got the last question wrong and thought I had failed the test. Major shock to the system to see the green "Passed" on that screen. So now I have a little plastic card that "Officially" says I'm 18 and allows me to drive a car with a full lisense holder in the passenger seat only if I'm wearing my glasses. $400 fine if I forget them... The picture is also two years old but luckily I haven't changed much in two years.

My old kitchen has been demolished by my Dad and his best friend and the builders have built most of the framing and looks like we'll have a room with water and gas in just three weeks or so. I never thought construction could move so quickly.

I'm still meeting up with Corey and Treble every week to lift weights (Yes, the idea of me lifting weights is preposterous). Jayden comes too now and makes me even more inadequate. I'm increasing my weights though, I now lift 10kgs + the bar and increase to 17.5. It's not a lot but it's impressive for me.

Everyone's breaks are starting now and my best mate Sam is coming back from Oz. Can't wait to see him and I hope can manage not to party too hard when we see each other, or maybe we will party hard and worry about the consequences later :P

Giggling on the floor

I've been REALLY slack with posting things on this blog. In the time away I've been busy trying to get some sort of plan for the futeure going. Chasing up the school, trying to find a job. I now have two assesments to do for school, reading logs and a direction assesment for drama. I plan to finish them then go to University for the next Trimester. I helped out at Wellington High with a reuinion weekend, unpaid.
On friday I got drunk for the first time, this was weird. I tried to remember to take photos but had trouble remembering that I had a plate of sandwiches on my lap. I was unable to stand for long as my inner-ear balance was thrown out of wack really fast. I had quite a bit of fun so maybe after I've recovered a bit I'll try it all again, in like a month, or two.

Still Alive

I've kinda been in a slump the last two weeks, so blogging has been non-existant. I'm back and still un-employed. I've been helping my Dad with preparing our house for the demolition of our kitchen, a scary glass-roofed, rotting room that freezes in winter, leaks when it rains, howls when the wind blows and turns into a greenhouse in the summer. By the end of April it will be all gone and building of the new kitchen will commence. I'm very excited for the new kitchen, in particular the lino floor as I'm sick of getting splinters from the weet-bix board floor.

It looks like I'm going to take a course or two at Uni next trimester but first I have to make sure I can get in. This means taking some papers at high school if they'll let me to get University Entrance. My other option is to take a course of preparation at Victoria University. I have some decisions to make, and I have to make them soon.

To bring things back on a lighter note, I've started lifting small weights after being inspired by a visit to Corey's house last week and watching him and Treble lift more than I possibly could. If I don't start working on this, Treble will be able to break out of my death-grip.

Today I gave making a Mee Goreng a go and it turned out quite well, I took photo's of the process so if you folks at home want you can make one too.

These were all the ingredients I used: Noodles, Bean Curd (Deep fried tofu), Fish cake, bean sprouts, onions, eggs, lemon (Wouldn't recomend the lemon), Oil (Ghee is probably better), Soy Sauce, Tomato Sauce (I'd recomend a spicier sauce than watties, or at least find something less sweet), chilli powder and Tumeric powder.

I put the noodles on to cook with some oil and salt, this was only because I used dried pasta but if you have fresh noodles than this step should be skipped.

Next I prepared all the other ingredients, sliced the onions roughly, sliced the fish cake and bean curd into edible pieces, lightly beat the eggs, and just got the bean sprouts out of the bag.

I started on the sauce paste, I had less chilli than the 2 tbsp's I needed so I added some chilli flakes.

Next I added 1 tbsp of tumeric, 1 tbsp of soy sauce and 3 tbsp's of tomato sauce. After mixing that up I added 1 tbsp of water.

The noodles are done so it's time to start frying.

After waiting 'till the the wok was "Smoking hot" I added 4 tbsp's of oil and then the onions. I love the smell of frying onions.

Next I added the sauce paste and let it reduce and thicken.

Next I added the noodles and coated them in the sauce and let the fry for a while.

I added the sprouts, bean curd and fish cake, I let those fry while tossing them around getting it all well mixed.

I pushed all the goreng (Fry) to oe side and poured the egg into the hole after added some more oil.

Cover the egg with the noodles and leave for about a minute to let the egg actually cook.

I tossed the whole mixture together, I broke up the egg and fried for about three more minutes.

I quickly ran outside and grabbed a sprig onion, chopped it up and sprinkled it on top. You may noticed I left out the lemon, that was because it tasted kinda bad. Don't add lemon juice. Just don't. In the end it was quite tasty but the spices weren't right and watties sauce gave it a sweet taste that really wasn't right.

Amateur chef, out!

I'm writing a blog

It seems I'm not doing anything else at the moment. Life's not bad but not good either, the only excitment I get at the moment is from food. Today I made Pancakes and discovered adding melted butter to the batter makes tastier pancakes. That's not exactly exciting but the red food colouring I added was for about ten minutes.

All my mates are in University and other courses and my course was a flop. I was trying to get into a drama group of young actors that actually put on shows for the public. Sadly I didn't get in. So all my friends are busy and I have not much to do but make pink pancakes with more butter than should be allowed.

At an attempt to seem slightly productive, I might just start blogging more. Most of what I'll blog will seem boring and badly worded but it might just make me feel better. Hey maybe I'll get popular! It'd be nice to have more than two followers anyway. Considering food is the most interesting thing in my life maybe I'll post my culinary exploits, WITH PHOTOS! So prepare for posts about games, my best mates, food and whatever else I do with my day.