C'est LA viE

I did mention that I helped my friend to proof read her literature review last week, and in return, she sent me this easy peasy banana cake recipe.

So I baked a loaf of banana cake, using the African red-ish brown banana (I pretty sure is from Africa) I bought from the market. The banana itself is meant to be use for baking, I assumed the banana had a higher amount of sugar than the normal one, so I lessened half of my sugar amount for baking.

Turned out, the banana loaf is perfect, thanks to the baking powder, it rise and I am able to take it out clean and easily from the base.

It is all good, the sweetness, the texture, the smell~ This recipe is real good! As soon as I finished one slice, I realized…..oh my, I forgot to add in butter!!! Wow, no wonder in terms of banana cake, this one is not that moist…but guess what? It still taste good, and healthier!

FYI, recipe:

2 eggs

270 g light/soft brown sugar

200 g banana (ripe): 2 big bananas or 3 small bananas

280 g flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp cinnamon

140 g margarine/butter

Method:

1. Beat the eggs and add brown sugar.

2. Add mashed banana to the mixture, mix well.

3. Add the rest dry ingredient into the mixture.

4. Melt the margarine/butter and stir well into the mixture.

5. Pour the mixture into greased loaf tin, bake at 170oC for 1 hour if in a loaf tin, 30 minutes if in muffin tin.

It is a late review, lol, i watched this latest Jonny Depp's movie at Auckland 2 wks ago but my laziness drag the review until now.

Well, i am a fan of Tim Burton + Jonny Depp's production, and had been looking forward for the <dark shadow>!

The movie itself is based on the on the 1966–71 gothic horror soap opera of the same name. Starring Jonny Depp, Eva Green and Helena Bonham Carter etc.

Check the plot online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Shadows_(film)

Well, the review part what i feel about the movie:

As I am a fan, I would have a biased view of the film. No doubt of the performance of Jonny Depp, as well as other actors/resses. If there's thing to be blamed, i will blame the plot itself. I guess Tim Burton really would like to respect the originality of the story itself, and thus, it was an old story, it amazed audience at the past, but perhaps not at the moment.

Thumbs up for the good trailer, i guess it's really made people have high expectation, especially it is Tim + Jonny well known production. However, that's also the dissapointment after watching the movie.

I took it as an entertaining movie, just simply because i do not want to be dissapointed. That's why, I am not going to criticize the weakness of the film. Well, if u are expecting i am going to give comment of this film, sorry about that. =P

Some good scene I like:

After the rising of Johnny vampire, he said I am so thirsty, where can i get food?! Tada! Over 9 billion served~ Mcd!! lol

Johnny Depp, u are so so looking awesome!!! Love u!!!

and another 2 actresses I love so much in this film! Helena and Eva! They have well done performance!!! Especially Eva Green, I never remember her in Bond's film, but this French lady had such good performance that kept me remember her beautiful face in Dark Shadow!

Yes, Nicole is back, and just had a catch-up with her tonight. I can see that she had "recovered" from the tiredness from work, and look refreshed. I also felt grateful that her boss finally hired some people to not keep her too busy and having OTs…

My plum wine....

We had a great meal at Hanamizuki, and I ordered unagi-don. Well, not really like a unagi-don, as they separated the rice and unagi. I guess this restaurant is not really a "wow" for me now, I can see that my first impression was very good because of the "first time" effect. Honestly, the price is shocking as the meal was not very good.

Nicole ordered sukiyaki....i mentioned this in my last blog, see here: http://bluelavender930.pixnet.net/blog/post/88539021

we had green tea ice cream for dessert, this is great, cz in large portion and with good green tea flavor

这4个字，反反复复，说过，也听过很多遍。。

但是我们除了听和说之外，我们不能阻止它发生

所以，我们才学会珍惜当下，但是人，就是不懂得知足的动物

直到身边，真实的，赤裸裸的发生着突发事情，当熟悉的，甚至是一面之缘的朋友或同事发生事情后才来后知后觉。。

最近发生很多不好的事，今天下午更发生了不幸的事。。。

午餐时，我公司停了2辆救伤车，起初大家议论纷纷以为是工厂那里有人受伤了，直到回办公桌后才知道原来某某同事心脏病发。。

后来才知道是谁，因为公司人太多了，加上五花八“门”（部门），所以很多熟悉的面孔，但却不知道名字

不过今天我一定会记住他的名字，下午3点半左右，全公司都收到邮件，4点紧急会议在cafe

我的supervisor说一定是不行了，另外一个同事连忙否定：不会的，不会的，他人很好，没事的。。。

当下我的心真的酸了，不会吧，他明明看起来就很健在，笑容也很慈祥，我还记得他应该是前卫的人，去年还染了一头青发~

后来证实了，果真被我的supervisor讲中，他在送院途中宣告不治。。。就这样毫无预警的离开了我们

大家都在为他惋惜，为他的家人担心。。

我虽然和他可能只见过几次面，但我记得每次说hi时，他也回热情的回应。。

我现在还记得他的笑容，和那个很酷的青发~

我现在真的觉得，人生真的，真的太无常了。即使一个人有多强，他也无法抵抗人生的脆弱

真的要珍惜当下，珍惜身边的每一个人，珍惜每一天，珍惜每一分钟，每一个大大小小的事，每一顿食物，知足识乐~

不容易作到，真的，因为人类太欲望了，太自私了。。

Sergey在会议结束后告诉每一个他看到的人，enjoy the max of yr life~

没错，真的。。。

除此之外，我更加深深的体会，真的要做多点好事，对身边的人都好，少抱怨，少计较，更不应该去评判每个人

说真的易如反掌，做还真的，因为我也是一个有欲望，自私的人类

但我不是在找借口，看，我又在抱怨难度罢了~

哈哈，恩，难过后，还是要更珍惜，活出美妙人生，向前走~加油！

Feel my life threatened now, I heard shocking news today.

My friend, yen, her unit which she just moved in this year was broken in by someone yesterday! Her labtop, and most importantly, her passport which she keeps inside the labtop bag were taken too! Oh my, this was really shocking, especially happened to my friends around.

Since 2008, since the day I arrived in NZ, I dint hear any robbery, thieves news around, if there was, that will be very random, and happened to people who wide spreading his/her properties. Poor yen, she had to encounter so many problems now. I sincerely wish she is strong enough to encounter this.

I was really worried when I heard this from Shirley, before I played squash with her this evening. I worried that if my properties will face the same destiny as my flatmates always don’t see locking the front door necessary. Luckily, it is all good. Well, still worry about the future days tho.

I was told that the police were not efficient, and the manager of my friend’s unit was not responsible. What a world, even in NZ?? I was thinking NZ is safe, as compared Malaysia at least. Well, no place is safe if u is not alert because the world has changed. =(