Sunday, November 6, 2011

Sunday!

Posted by 雯雯 at 1:33 PM 0 comments

It's homework day - so that's what I'm doing... Spicing it up by working at a cafe in town with my friend instead of at home. So hardcore!


Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Vanilla ice cream with coco pops

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:44 PM 0 comments

'nuff said


Sunday, July 10, 2011

Test post

Posted by 雯雯 at 2:54 PM 1 comments

Now with dust bunnies!


Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Yahoooooo

Posted by 雯雯 at 7:12 PM 0 comments
Hello again!

It's finally summer holiday time and I have so much to do! I have to clean my room and do laundry, write a bunch of letters to some awesome people in Hong Kong whom I have neglected for far too long, revise and study mathematics and biology, investigate universities and see if I can sign up for taking the JLPT in winter...

In addition, I will be volunteer working in a kindergarten from tomorrow until the middle of July. I'm excited, and a bit scared, because I'm not sure how I'll do with the children... I will also be going to England again after the Kongsberg Jazz festival has finished (which I am attending, somehow).

I also need some time to relax... Oh well. Maybe I will be able to write about something worthwhile soon?

- HMM

Thursday, June 2, 2011

It's alive!

Posted by 雯雯 at 9:12 PM 0 comments
Hello!
I guess this blog kind of died as I got more and more busy in school... No worries, I've got my CAS under control!

Anyways, school is nearly over now, I just finished my end of term (mock) exams and only have a few essays to write before I've got two months of freedom. Today was a day off from school as well, Christian holidays and all that, so I entertained myself by trying to make a Japanese dish that one of my friends recommended to me. Using ingredients sent to me by Annie (I promise I'll send you the box of goodies soon!), I conquered the kitchen with the fishy odours of Japanese cooking.

Here are the results (don't mind the messy table!):


This is zarusoba with soba tsuyu, in addition to green tea and some miso soup. It is, basically, cold buckwheat noodles (in the middle) which you dip in soba tsuyu (a dipping sauce, the brown liquid in the cup). Although I had no zaru to hold the soba, I had most everything else. I made the miso soup because I had leftover dashi from the soba tsuyu, and it would be a shame to waste it!

It was very tasty, though I think I made too much soba for only me... Nobody else dared to or wanted to try it :<
For anyone who might be interested, here is the recipe I made, adapted a bit from what I found at http://japanesefood.about.com

Soba tsuyu

  • 250 ml dashi

  • 50 ml soy sauce

  • 50 ml mirin

  • Finely chopped spring onion (or other topping of your choosing)

  1. Put mirin in a sauce pan and heat.

  2. Add soy sauce and dashi soup stock in the pan and bring to a boil.

  3. Stop the heat. Cool the sauce.

  4. Add the spring onion/topping

Zaru soba

  • 100g soba noodles
  • 1 liter water


  1. Boil the water, and then add the soba into the boiling water.

  2. Turn down the heat and stir gently with chopsticks (or anything you are comfortable with using; I find chopsticks easier and more fun for this!)

  3. Drain and cool in cold water.

  4. Gently wash noodles and drain well.


Miso soup

  • 250 ml dashi

  • 1 tablespoon miso paste

  • finely chopped spring onion (optional)

  • tofu and wakame in small pieces (optional)


  1. Boil the dashi.

  2. (Add tofu and soften it, add wakame)

  3. Turn down the heat. Use a small bit of the boiling dashi and dissolve miso in it.

  4. Gradually add the dashi/miso back into the pot. (Don't boil the soup after this!)

  5. Add spring onion. VOILA

Next time maybe I will try to make something else, like nikujaga or gyuudon.
That is all for now!

-HM

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Week 1-2

Posted by 雯雯 at 12:56 PM 2 comments
Here's what I did in week 1 and week 2

Piano practice etc - 4 hours
Ski trip - 1 hour
Macbeth practice - 1 hr 35 minutes

lalala

Monday, January 10, 2011

Week 1

Posted by 雯雯 at 11:58 AM 0 comments
So here's what I did last week:

Piano - 2 hours
Ski - 1 hour

SUPER ACTIVE, HUH?

Total:
Creativity - 2 hours
Action - 1 hour
Service - 0 hours

Grand Total (SHEBANG):
3 hours

What it's January already?

Posted by 雯雯 at 11:56 AM 0 comments
It sure is. I tried to make a nice table summarizing my activities from August to December:

Single activities

Activity

Date (if any)

Area

Hours

Teambuilding at Raje

21.8.2010

C and A

8

Make a piece of art (CS)

23.8.2010

C

1 (45 min)

Cook Katsu Kare

11.9.2010

C

4

Tennis (CA)

13.9.2010

A

2

Sports day

27.9.2010

A

2 (20 min)

Host exchange students

---

S

12

Baking (CS)

18.10.2010

C

1

TV-aksjonen

24.10.2010

S

1 (30 min)

Sushi and origami (CS)

25.10.2010

C

1

Halloween party

Week 39 -42

S

6

SOS barnebyer

28.11.2010

S

1

Make paper houses (CS)

6.12.2010

C

1 (30 min)

Total:

42 (5 min)

By CAS

Creativity

17 hour 15 min

Action

4 hour 20 min

Service

20 hour 30 min

Total: 42 hour 5 min

Recurring activities

Activity

Area

Hours

Japanese

C

7 (35 min)

Judo

A

7 (30 min)

Web page

C

0.5

Piano

C

46 (50 min)

By CAS

Creativity

54 hour 55 min

Action

7 hour 30 min

Service

0 hour

Total: 62 hour 25 min


Grand total

Single

42 hour 5 min

Recurring

62 hour 25 min

Total

104 hour 30 min

That's a lot of stuff huh! Time for a new fresh start with new opportunities, I guess.

 

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