Double choc cheesecake muffin~~

Ingredients

75g cream cheese
1 tablespoons sugar
2 cups flour
3/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chucks
1/4 cup sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 egg, beaten
60g butter, melted
1 cup milk

Method

Preheat oven to 190 C.
Beat cream cheese and sugar together and then set aside. In a large bowl, combine flour, chocolate chips, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt, make a well in the centre. Pour in egg, butter and milk stirring until just moist. Spoon some chocolate batter into each muffin tin and then drop 1 teaspoon of cream cheese mixture on top, cover with chocolate batter.
Bake for 15-20 minutes until springy to touch.

Labour Weekend - Memorial Day

Tiger Pak
1994 - 2007


Rest in Peace dear boy.
The neighbourhood ain't the same without you around patrolling the area.
Say hi to Liemon, Ducky and Lucy for me up there old boy... try not to get into a fight with liemon haha.. he is a cheaky little thing.
Love you heaps and will still love you always.
Going to miss your annoying barking and your demanding attitude so that everything in the house revolves around you.
You have been the best dog I have ever and will ever have.
Love you ALWAYS AND ALWAYS AND ALWAYS.
Missing you already.

the CONCERT of the year ~~

LINKIN PARK - Minutes to Midnight concert... live in NZ.




Lets just say, it was well worth every penny. Chris Connell was good as the guest star, but the band at the back wasn't that good, bass too loud - completely covering Chris with their sound. But that was not important, what was important is the fact that LINKIN PARK ROCK!!!
The lighting was fantastic, sound was good incomparison to the PINK concert. Just a slight mishap at the start when Chester's mic stopped working. (Doubt anyone noticed actually haha everyone was too excited that the show was starting...)
Through the whole night they played song from the album "Meteor" "Hybrid theory" and of coz their latest album "Minutes to Midnight".
The highlight for me was when Chester sang Crawling with no other musical instrument but Mike on the keyboard. It is surprising how he can go from soft to rock in one whole concert with no stress on his voice.
Overall - GREAT CONCERT.. I will give it 9/10... 10/10 if VECTOR ARENA had a big screen so I can actually get close up view of the guys on stage ><

芒果喱夾心鏡面蛋糕

Made a cake for a special someone last Saturday ^_^ . Kinda a promise that did not get followed through with... *SORRRY for the cake arriving like a few week late ><~~*
Anyway, because of the lack of time I had to get ingredient, I had to make do with can mango T_T
"Next time will give you fresh mango for your cake... so please accept this cake as it is for now :P "

Anyway Mango cheesecake with a layer of real Nectarine & Mango hidden in another layer of Lemon jelly ^_^ . The result was quite pretty haha.. but don't see the point of putting jelly as you can't really taste it. The cheesecake taste covers the whole jelly taste.

ENJOY ~~

父親節快樂～n..happy bday 2 aliceeee

Father's day and friend bday clashed on the same day.... so ended up baking 2 cake to celebrate with ^_^. Saying sorrrrryyyy in advance if it doesn't taste good ><.Baked Mocha cheesecake ~~ ( scary thing is... first time making this.. haven't tasted it... plzzz let it taste niceeeeee..... T_T...)
Charlotte Fruit ~~ layer of sponge cake and cherry brandy liqueur mousse with kiwifruit covered top and chocolate decoration. Lady finger side. (great fun making this haha... hope daddy will like it ^_^ ..notice the word "DAD" on top hahaha.. incise no one can see it from all the squiggles etc.)
Another pic of the cake... full size look haha.

食肉獸的天堂～

Went and got my haircut on Friday with ar SUK, as the place was recommended by her workmate. That korean hair-dresser was pretty good, so will definitely keep her as my regular now hoho. Esp when the time we book the appointment was at 530pm, and we actually got there at like 6 =.= poor lady, it was super nice of her to wait for use seeing she usually closes at 530. Anyway, after ward.... it was time to find a place to eat. That didn't took us very long, as we both came to the idea of ANGUS steak house hehehe.... seeing uncle was dinning with us ^_^ so it was a good idea to have some MEAT. hoho. Let just say, I sooo did not regret haha... the place was nice and cozy, salad consist of VEGES haha... (it is a meat eater place after all, so cant expect tooo much from the free salad bar.) But the meat was just WOW... @@ ... it was surprising how big each piece was, and how much some of the people in that place can eat.....

Anyway, we ordered lamb blade, venison, beef (sorry forgot what type we ordered...).
All 3 was cook to the way we wanted, but the lamb was just PERFECTLY done... ^3^.

Will def go again hehehe.

spicy peach and apple muffin~~

Saw this recipe in that "Food in a minute" advertisement show.... quite easy and the result was simply delicious hehehe!!!

中式香蕉糕~~

嘩哈哈～原來好easy咖咋!!!!! yea yea...
唔需要太多STEPS.... ~~ 30min total cooking + prep time... hoho

平静在家的星期天～

Went out to shop shop with parent, watch jap drama AGAIN... *yamaP rulzzzz... wahahaha* and made chocolate cake hehe..

ENJOY ~~

平静在家的星期六～

My first weekend staying home and not going out to "HANG".... Actually was quite nice, its been a while since I have spend the day just sitting around doing NOTHING haha.

Well just to sums it up, I basically spend the day cooking today. Made teriyaki chicken pizza for lunch, 蛋撻 for dessert and for dinner we had steak, potato & pumpkin layer bake with cauliflower. ummmmm haha total FOOD OVERLOAD....

Pizza ingredient: Red onion, mushroom, teriyaki chicken, Camembert cheese, Japanese mayo, tomato sauce, oregano and sweet basil...... *it was yummmmm*

HarryPotter + starbuck + random pic

Went and saw HarryPotter... ummm okey la... neck kinda died after the movie haha. Someone was LATEEEE so end up sitting in the front row lorrrrrr T_T .... *that person owe me dinner hoho* but overall... okey la -.- not really that good, harry all grown up ... not cute anymore hahaha.
Went to dinner afterward @ mentaz... another disappointment, food not nice anymore... service okey but the cook must have changed coz the food was rather BAD....
Atleast we had a nice coffee at starbuck --- expresso brownie... haha don't try, not nice... might as well bake it urself.. atleast you can be sure the coffee used for the brownie would be something that TASTE GOOD.
Anyway overall.. fun nite hehe... always good to go off for some fun after work ^^
Next movie --- DIEHARD4... yeaaaaaaaaaa "yippy ya yey" hahaha...

random pic of nice soup soup and cute looking bread -- gift from a caring friend ...
*thanx thanx.. it was really nice haha esp on a cold cold day at work ne ^_^... and the lemsip really did help alot... cheerssss again*

soft soft 糯米呏

嘩哈哈哈... FINALLY 開次試做中式點心啦… 都可以話係 “success"!!! 食到入口 哈哈哈, 幾日都好“soft" 俾班friend食, 佢地都冇事...呵呵 :P
Anyway, 睇 photo 吧 ～

another CAKE ~~

cake...... the END!! hehe

guitar 開始啦～

yes yes... went to my first guitar lesson today. Class consisted of 14 people, most beginners ^_^ and lot of very very nice looking guitars... eg.. YAMAHA.. @@

Anyway was great fun, learn D G A A7 Am7 etc chord already, and we also learn our first song.....
"YELLOW SUBMARINE" hehehehe

well thats all.. just blogging about my first lesson, left hand finger tip is still numb from pressing on the string, but thats a good sign... hehehehe

日式綠茶芝士蛋糕 + 綠茶蜂蜜磅蛋糕

Nickies Thai Cuisine~~

Went and tried a thai restaurant @ New Market on Satureday.
The Pad Thai was nice but tasted more like tomatoe fried egg @@.
Tom Yum Gon was not spicy enough... (we had the medium hot... should have went for hot HOT)
The rest of the food was nice, but as described by the waitress --- more european thai flavour then original thai flavour.

Overall --- average!!






haha.. after dinner went to play new card game .... and saw a funny shop sign :P
"lets go FING tomorrow ba... @@ ... hahahahaha "

GreenTea Pound Cake

Finally have time to bake something again. GreenTea Pound cake ~~ great to have with a cup of caramel macchiato as afternoon tea
:P hehehe....

my "METAL HORSE" ~~

THANX to the guys + gals on their trip to SYDNEY AUSTRALIA... I got my DUCATI 998S! haha... actually it was a surprise to get a present such as this from AUSTRALIA. Felt like it was a gift from HK :P but the main thing was. I LOVED IT ^_^

A little background here. I first set my eyes on DUCATI at the age of ... ummm .. 12 I think, when dad was still thinking about getting a bike and changing over his bike license.

Ducati is best known for high performance motorcycles characterized by trellis-style frames and large capacity four-stroke, 90-degree L-twin engines featuring a desmodromic valve design. Due to their special desmodromic valve design, modern Ducatis remain among the dominant performance motorcycles available today. ^_^

The one I got is of course the DUCATI 998s ~~ 2002 MODEL. 136 hp, Ohlins steering damper (keeps front end stable), carbon fibre radiator shroud also GORGEOUS Marchesini wheels and pair of Brembo Corse P3/34 four pad calipers grpping new lighter discs. *@.@* waaaaaaaa

To people who want to check out more beautiful design from DUCATI click HERE!!!
ANDDD.. ANDDDD.. hehehehe... I will recommend allll toc check out the 2007 DUCATI HYPERMOTARD.... (picture below... @@ ...)

*muak muak* pretty beauty .... ducatiiiiii......

Yummy Court ~~

Had another great weekend, filled with fun and excitment and of coz not to mention GREAT FOOD :P
Making it a habit now to play as hard as I can on Satureday, ^_^ somehow just feel soooo happy nowadays. Feel like something have lifted and I am now back to what I am suppose to be haha.. yea sound quite weird, I don't even know what I am really feeling now. All I can say is, I am truely HAPPY ~~~~

Anyway need to mention the food location that I have visited lately. Firstly went to shabushabu recently @ the location of New Market (where pearl garden use to be). It had a good atmosphere, can eat all you want and the food was not bad. The Chilli hot pot was yummmmm heheh.. not hot at all but the flavour was quite good :P
Secondly went to "Yummy Court", heard about it from a friend so had really wanted to try it out. It was definitely worth the trip going all the way to Balmoral ... hehe okey fine it was not that far la, and there is quite alot of parking on the side street so not a fussy place to visit.
The siu lung bao is SUPERB, lot of juice and the skin was super thin ^_^ .. thumbs up!!
The wo tip also super super nice, all freshly prepared... ummmm but the best would have to be their tofu fa... @@ mouth watering, and really really smooth. This is a place I am definitely going to be going back again. Probably not anytime soon, but will keep it on my list of place to return to.

Yummy Court650 Dominion Road
Balmoral
Auckland
Region: Auckland

Phone: 09-630 5518

Anyway, night time event basically consist of playing pool for me for the last 2 week. hehehe ...
oh and a odd day of spending 2 hour at uni at like 1130 - 130 hahaha... oh yea thats not am.. thats 1130pm - 130am hahaha... Was actually quite nice, had the whole lab to ourself and we spend the time playing BOMBER MAN hahahaha.. shhhhhhh haha.

Anyway all for now, just logging in my food location. Might continue on this blog later if I feel like adding in more.

Let me end this by some meaningful quote ^_^

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

So stay alert and keep an open eye and open mind for happiness is always around, it just depend on whether or not you want to see it.

" So what do you think? Is the cup half full or half empty???? "

Entering enemy territory @@|||

All I can really say is, went to New Market again today. Visit MISS ALLLL IMPORTANT.. @@...
haha j/k j/k, went out to hand over parcel to take to Aust and to of coz... HANG.. AND CHILL and just laz around not wanting to do work.

Being that we are always on a budget, we went to one of the coffee shop that is within our spending range. @@ (okey fine, we have a buy 1 get 1 free coffee coupon again... -.- .... )

Coffee shop name - BOOST
Location - something on Dominon road.... opposite a shanghainess restaurant @_@ hehehe... yes I remember that ga.. haha...
Price range - $4 for medium size coffee
Rating - WILL DEF GO BACK @@..

hot warm silky smooth liquid that just slides down your throat, enveloping your taste bud with the greatest senses ever. ummmmmmmmmmm.

ummmm just the reminiscence of this experience is enough to bring my mouth salivating.

I shall leave the lengthy description to my dear friend to blog about. ^_^

THE FUZZ IS HERE @@ ... runnnn

Haha.. okey another random event that I need to blog about. During the last hour of a normal day at work, while talking to someone that HATE MY KIND... and of coz WE HATE THEIR KIND AS WELL... anyway while talking to HER... haha... we came up with the idea of ... WHY NOT HAVE A MOVIE NIGHT???? A few thing happen after that idea that help moved us faster toward the conclusion of watching movie.

1. We are both bored, and my squash session got posponed.
2. We feel like we have to get back up to date with our movies T-T
3. There was a 2 - 4- 1 movie ticket deal for telecome customer @@ *****
4. We just wanna go out and have some fun
5. Movie club member have a deal .. $5 for 2 choctop hehehe

So yea point 3 was actually the main influence for our decision.. (hey comeon, we are still just starting in the workforce. Can't just go and squander away our life saving ga... so we ain't CHEAP ... hahahaha..... okey maybe just a little.. :P )

Okey, movie start at 1800hr. Finalise decision at 1720. Left work 1735

1. Me, the all important person carring the discount, left important cellphone in car. T_T...sorrrrrrrry.....
2. Counter person was a trainee, gave us 2 different movie ticket, took ages to give us our movie club card, does not know how to give us choctop special =.= just wasted more time.
   

We finally entered the cinema at 1820 .... T_T~~~

Anyway overall - greatest movie ever, especially at the price we paid to watch it hahaha. Another great Pom movie, with all the Pom humor and accent haha... And the way they make fun of the American movie is just hilarious. There was actually abit more blood and gore then I would have expected, but it was not those kind that will cause you to recoil in disgust and fear. They blend it in well with the humour of the situation so that the viewer will actually just purely ignore the blood and just laugh at the whole situation. eg.. tip of tower through mouth haha.... Now that I have seen this movie, I wonder if "Shawn of the Dead" will be any similar to this one. As they were created by the same producer and also contain most of the same actor/comedian @@ ... ummm worth renting and checking out.

Okey so yea after the movie, food is a must. So went to DEE JAI *got another coupon to use up* to have another taste of authentic PAD THAI. Rating... ummmm ... to be honest, I can't remember T_T which must mean it was not that much good. The prawn toast was too deep fried so you couldn't really taste the prawn. aiiii incomparable to HK restaurant ga la. ><~~
Anyway, had a nice chat at the restaurant. Catched up with lot of event and happening around friends. OVERALL WAS A GREAT NITE OUT ^_^. Will definitely be planning more random event like this one. hehehehehe......