C'est LA viE

I think people who followed my blog would have realized I had been going to gym since March and working very hard on my diet, but at the same time struggling as I am a foodie.

Well, I actually was losing motivation and interests to gym lately, I blame the cold weather and my painful knee. Body –step had been hurting me, I had this old injury on my right knee since 2008 at Dunedin. I have been recovering on and off, as I am a clumsy one, and easily triggered the pain on and off.

Tonight is the les-mills classes relaunch night, all types of the les-mills class will be introduced for average 15 min for each type. I had been interested on the body jam long time ago, as it is a dancing class, and I really have strong interests on modern dance.

Therefore, I gone to nearly 3 hours les-mill classes today! Pheww, it was not that hard as I thought. Yes, my legs are screaming and soaring, but it’s really worth! Body Jam is so interesting and I will definitely join it. Besides, I also discovered some other classes such as Body Attack, CX world are also quite fun!

So at least I have no excuses to not attending my les-mills classes aye? Come on, Vivian, you had paid nearly NZD300 for that!

FYI:

It’s just happened in sudden, my eyes were so itchy while watching my ARASHI shows last night, and my eye lid started leaping….yea, it is.

My Chinese traditional belief stating this is a bad sign, (touch the wood hardly!!! Knock knock, choi!~大吉利是！）

Good to know, but not good to have one. =(

So, I finally learnt to make crème brulee today, thanks to Nicole. We were saying this ages ago, and we made it today. =D

She has this equipment which is useful enough and we made 4 crème brulee. We started baking at 2-ish and chit-chat mean while the crème brulee was baked in the oven. Nicole showed me her photos taken during her Europe trip via her dad’s ipad. This is also the first time I ‘touched’ ipad, well, I couldn’t deny that it is really stylish and useful. Nicole had a great trip in UK, France and Holland. Another friend of mine gone to Eiffel tower again, I am so jealous… ><….

Too bad Laduree was closed that time due to Mayday when Nicole was there in France, well she snapshoot the shop looks coincidently (she didn’t know this famous macaroon shop), and it is a fancy shop!! One of my wish, to visit this famous macaroon shop!

While waiting for the crème brulee set in the fridge, we headed to Rendezvous restaurant at Summer Hill for our dinner. The restaurant was recommended by Nicole, which has a comfortable environment, but quite pricy meal.

We just ordered one entrée, the scallop not too pleasant for me.

However, my main tasted great!: TWICE COOKED BELLY OF PORK (Served on a bubble and squeak mash, steamed broccolini, roast red onion, baby spinach and pine nut salad, topped with a sundried tomato and olive chutney, apple reduction and crackling)

We skip dessert as we already have some in my fridge, tada, there u go!

Nicole is playing with the butane torch, and here come the caramelizing effect~

finally they are done! <3

Actually is a failure, as the crème brulee didn’t set nicely, it very liquid-ish…

I was chatting with my brother a while ago, well, mummy was busy cleaning up the house so I was chatting with him. (Dad was away for badminton).

I used to chat a lot with my brother lately, actually after since I started working.

Reason was because I realized him need attention, and the truth was he did encounter some problems in school. Well, my younger brother is at the teenage rebellion stage now, and he was raised with extra care and great attention (my mum gave birth to him when she was early 40s) consequently contributed to his innocence nature and naïve character. Besides, my family also doubted that my brother has attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) but probably we refused to admit or discover whether if he is or not. However, the world is getting worst now, no longer expect high school life to be happy and innocent, he was being bullied at school.

The stories were unbelievable; I can’t imagine kids nowadays are that scary. They were not physically hurting my brother, but for sure mentally my brother was being hurt. That’s why I am paying attention to my cute brother nowadays, really worried about him and his future.

I am kinda helpless with his problems as I never had this before in my life. I was once being bullied when I was 14, but not a serious one. I was studying in a lower grade class, and my classmates were basically naughty and dislike studying. Well, I got many attention as I was a monitor and I was the number one in terms of study result at the class. Therefore, guys used to tease me a lot and sometimes they did have some bad action towards a girl. However, I am not an easy one, I remembered I always reported what they had done to me to teachers, that’s why some of them do hate me I guess. Whereas other girls, I think many of them jealous of me as well and do judge my scoring skills in exam. Therefore, I studied so hard and got transferred to higher grade class and become happier. The beginning was hard, as there’s still competition around, and they were not friendly, but sooner I emerged with a new gang of mine, and stay ordinary but happy. The problem is my case is different and couldn’t be applied on my brother’s. He hate studying and more likely that he has a different mind.

That’s why I am worried, and really pray and hope he wont get bullied anymore. Most importantly, I really pray he wont get into the darker mind set, and please stay happy, healthy and strong Kai!

You are always loved and blessed!

Some random photos I captured these days:

First time saw this: is this the mushroom in Supermario?? Well, it is called Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), anyways, they are very poisonous. I found them outside my house, but they were pretty much damaged, cz I guess people knew they were pretty but poisonous, and in order to stop them attacting young kids, best way is to step them!

Lunch boxes......Yea, I used to prepare lunch box at work, not that we have no food, we do have a small cafe in our site, but options were not much.. It was difficult and troublesome to go out for lunch as our site is not close to the town, plus I have no car. Most of my colleagues also prepared their own lunch boxes. We have 3 microwaves in our dining place, and also a big fridge.

On the top: simple cold salad (with smoked chicken, pepper, egg and tomatoes); on the bottom: kimchi soup stew on rice. (from food leftover overnight)/

So basically I didnt purposely make a lunch box except for simple salad, most of my lunch is from food leftover. I used to make a huge dinner, then save it for lunch or if possible, another dinner.

Cheese i bought from my working site. Yea, as I work in a dairy company, we do have cheese. But nt cheese produced from our plant/company, it's just complicated. Anyways, we have cheap cheese to sale. This cheese might cost 6 to 7 dollars at supermarket, I only bought for NZD4.80

dumplings and green onion pan cake from Noodle and Dumplings. This actually is my dinner (but not all for sure), I just suddenly craving for floury food today ==