Little B & mumsy come to town

This post is about a month old, which is pretty good given the rate I have been going this year!
Super duper excited when mum called me one Sunday to tell me she and little B were coming on Thursday, like woah.. that was a quick decision... nonetheless I was delighted to have the thermal blanket come!

Thermal blanket and Mumsy

They arrived at 655AM on Thursday, Mr Broc had kindly lent me his car to pick them up from the airport, I couldn't sleep all night cos I was that excited.

Picked them up and to Chatswood we went for yummy lunch at Vietnamese restaurant and food. Went there since I had Dave's car and I knew the area.

This picture going over the Harbour bridge was taken by the silly Little B, her flash on her camera gave me a shock thinking I got flashed by some speed camera etc... duh.. there's none the bridge.
Lunch spot: I'm so happy to see mum..
Shopping at Chatswood, trust little B to pick the stuff that resembles food!
Mum, little B and me at SushiyaMr Broc joins us for dinner... he did another DIY haircut, not too bad front-on
Photoshop shot by little B of our Japanese dinner, I'm not smart enough to do this, I usually just load picture by picture all 2Mb of it !! haha dad's little techy-idiot.
All our favourites, tempura set, pork spinach set, grilled Kingfish head and clam noodles.. yum another place to go besides Musashi for good value good Jap food!

for more updates on what they got up to (eat&eat) check out little B's blog
www.ekers.blogspot.com

trip back to Singapore 08

Woohoo... in the words of my sister, I'm happy my blog still works, looking back its been more than half a year since I made my last entry and I found out that I have this post with many yummy photos loaded up from my latest trip back home in Feb so don't waste ..

Food I ate in Singapore,

Sun and Moon contemporary Japanese at lane crawford, some tasting platter of many yummy things
Jap food again! Soba set at this place of revamped food area in city hallThis is where I met Lister "new" boyfriend Faizal. He takes good care of Lister miss anyhow throw her wallet.


Some family pictures over CNY





I've been so unbelievably busy here in Sydney, things have taken a totally unexpected but exciting turn in my work.. the field, entirely different from what I have studied for years but non the less challenging and I find it a lot more interesting. Now instead of using my passion food to earn $$, I earn more $$ to enjoy my passion food.. =)

This post will have to do for now, until I have time to collect my thoughts to tell the story of how God can be the God of doing things beyond anything we can ask or even imagine!

Saturday Bush Walk

Originally we'd planned to go bush walking on our 19th month but wet weather forecasts took us bowling in Randwick and 2nd hand books shopping..
So last Saturday Mr Broc surprised me by saying that he'll take me bush walking in blue mountains...

We arrived a little late after having a little stop-over at book kitchen to pick up some yummy bacon and egg rolls and some coffee..

We finally started our walk at 3:25pm. I tried to take a picture of the map.. Its really hard to see anything but Mr Broc was really ambitious and wanted to do the National trail walk. And so we set off.
The first level of falls we were aiming for: the first part of the hike was downwards and was pretty steep..could still be silly and take many photos.. thinking to myself is there a lift at the end to take us back up!? I'll let the pictures speak for themselves, it was breath-taking.. mid point of the falls. There were many people taking the liberty to wade and even swim in pools at the bottom of the falls. MrBroc and I at our first check point, this photo is funny, I caught him in the middle of a sneeze must be the spray coming from the falls. Mr Broc sees a sign " for expert walkers- steep stairs"
Mr Broc: let's go there
Me: No
Mr Broc: c'mon dear let's go
Me: No
Mr Broc: it'll be fun, its not that hard I promise.
Me: No

We went down to the bottom of the falls down this steep track. They actually put up signs for you, that at the steepest point of the climb you have to go down facing inwards. We encountered steel ladder like contraptions that help us get down and even a point where you need to use a rope to climb down the rock backwards.. So much for my " No"

Well in the end, it was worth it, the sight of the bottom of the falls a different world, rainbows forming at the water surface where the falls hit.
Mr Broc strikes a pose: Behind Mr Broc, rainbow water..
We had a nice 20min water break before climbing back up and continuing with the trail walk.
So cute with my 1L tank. Mr Broc looking back on the waterfall we had explored, this part is the walk that snakes around the mountain edge. Going deeper into the mountain-side. More sights along the way, Mr broc told me this it the weeping rock, not quite another waterfall but it drips along the way, very refreshing in fact cools you down on a hot summer day when the water evaporates. I found the way the water fell from this one fascinating as the water droplets seem to fall like a sheet, very slowly, can't quite justify it in a still photo. Then we reached the inner part of the mountain, discovered more waterfalls, the last one here was really beautiful. Didn't take any more photos from here on, too tired on our way up.. the whole hike took us 3hrs.. and we were famished by the time we reached the car, good thing I packed some yummy chicken puffs, grapes, rice crackers and cold Christmas tea.

Got home at 9pm...my room never looked so good.

Christmas Baking

Inspired by many food magazines with Christmas just round the corner, I've decided to bake Christmas cookies and give them away as treats.... Bought star cutters from House and caucous to make these custard christmas cookies,
above: Cookies on the baking tray.
Nova the bova in charge of putting caucous on the stars.

After the cookies were out of the oven, at first I wanted to use the Kikki.K paper bags. (the cute red bags) to give them out in, but I realised that though it was gorgeous it covered up the cookie so Dave and I went hunting for other stuff to put them in.
Cellophane bags, with gift tags and candy canes.. now that looks good.
Jars for the families.

Following Saturday, after christmas shopping Mr Broc and I made white chocolate with cranberries and pistachios.
I was preparing to lead P&W the next day so I left Mr Broc to his own devices. Just told him to follow the instructions in the magazine.

It was pretty easy, first you had to melt white chocolate buttons.
Mr Broc: Hey dear, is this a heat proof bowl??
Me: Urm.. I think I'll come out and help you..
After showing him where things were I went back into my room.
20mins later.. I came out
Me: *sniff* smells nice ..

Mr Broc: Hey dear is this normal??
Me: why is the white chocolate brown?!?!??!!
Mr Broc: still smells ok..
Me: you burnt it lah!
Mr Broc: can I still use it??
Me: of course not..

Good thing we had a 2nd pack of white chocolate buttons around.. This time I melted it
Mr Broc: how come yours look like that?!?!
Me: cos I didn't burn it..
Mr Broc: * grumble *

Well he managed to pull the rest of it off without anymore dramas..
Here is our beautiful result
We also filled a large jar of it for a friend's engagement.
Our hard work at the end of the night. The next thing I'm trying is a Christmas dinner, girls night on the 24th !

18th Month

Time flies.. the last I can remember I was still blogging about my 17th month with Dave..

Finally our one and half year anniversary and the end of the count-down from the day we booked to go watch Billy Elliot the musical at Capitol theatre.

Wanted to take Dave to eat at Mushashi, one of Farmer Chua's favourite japanese restaurants but it was packed out and since the show started at 7:30pm, we didn't have much time.

645pm: we found a seat at Milliore and settled for dolsot bibimbap and a teriyaki chicken, recommended by the waitress to arrive quickly. True to her word, food arrived in 5mins so we didn't have to gorge everything down.

Mr Broc and teriyaki chicken... He arrived late so couldn't blame me that we didn't get Musashi tonight.. oh well not that he would cos I'm the glutton in the relationship as you can see me with the yummy bibimbap!


We LOVED the show! though it was a bit to hard to understand the rough english accent they had to put on =) got A row seats cos I booked in August! love the giant dancing dresses and the boy who plays Billy simply amazing! pity no pictures inside . Gift exchange at home! Rose gold earrings (that's why he was late, frantically looking around Broadway to find me a gift) good taste as usual Mr broc.. the 2nd part of the gift was even better! He wrote me a funny bedtime story about a bunny called rabbit... talk about originality!! He learnt how to bind it together from the internet.. I couldn't stop laughing..v touched.

My turn: Got him this vintage hand-finished volkswagon model that he was staring at the Kirribilli markets, I think he already knew on Saturday cos when I disappeared with Angela a bit too long in the toilet he eyed the big paper bag we were carrying suspiciously.

Happy monthiversary Mr Broc!

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