interesting recipe

Yellow!

First of all, sorry for abandoning my blog for so long. I'm getting really lazy lately...hehehehe

Anyway, yesterday I went to the uni library to do some studying and a coursemate joined me (or vice versa). We were talking about some random things and she told me that her family makes yoghurt at home, in Kenya! I was like "wow, so cool!"

It's really simple.

All you need is a tablespoon of yoghurt (from a previous batch, bought or made) and about 1.5 liters of fresh milk.

Heat the milk but don't bring it to a boil. Cool it a wee bit and then add the yoghurt and keep it in the refridgerator overnight.

ta-da! homemade yoghurt. easy, hey?

The 'Hermana' Nemesis 3.0 : Photography rocks! (and so does the editing)

Editor's Note

Dear readers,

Welcome to the 3rd successful edition of The Hermana Nemesis! As promised in the previous issue, we've prepared for you here in edition 3.0 some pictures to ponder on taken by our one and only prestigious photographer(yours *cough* truly, *cough cough* of course).

We at The Hermana Nemesis would like to thank our readers for their support(support, my foot!) which is so fundamental especially at this time in our early posts of production. We would like to continually encourage you to leave comments to acknowledge any appreciation(or abhorrence) you'd like to give us.

Once again, I'd like to welcome you to our 3rd edition. Enjoy reading!

(insert some big fancy editor-and-

manager-of-a-blog-undertaker-who-

is-somewhat-precarious signature here)

Yams

Christmas long gone...

Christmas is indeed long over. But you know how sometimes pictures are; they bring back some images in your mind.

Well, here I edited this picture containing 3 close-ups I captured during a christmas party by my school's alumni.

On the top left are plastic bells with fake flowers/plant-like things that decorated the rim of the stage.

Upon the stage in the centre was this mini christmas tree, so I captured one of the bulbs with an LED glowing quietly behind.

And of course, Santa hanging on the tree (the normal bigger one) like that is rather cute. The image was overexposed though, but somehow that's what made it nice. I adjusted the brightness lower so that your eyes don't go blind. =)

Overall evaluation: The party was kinda dull(sorry, mum, I know you're part of the organizing commitee and all but really, you guys do the same thing every year? Hehe, really.) but if you get some pictures you like, it doesn't really matter where you are. Oh, you can ignore the "Jingle bells, green trees smell, Santa laid an egg!" thing I find it quite cheesy but I couldn't think of much to fill the space. But just to let you know, in case you don't know, it's supposed to be sung in the tune of Jingle Bells. Consider it a rendition of "Jingle bells, batman smells, Rudolf laid an egg!"

Dare we question alcohol and smoking?

Picture 1
Brand: Seven Seas

Alcohol content: 38%

Price: RM8.00

Caption: "The seaaaa...is orange...in the ocean...of my stomach...mixed with bile...I go drunk...they say...'Bring on the booze...' "

Picture 2

Brand: Dunhill

Bad content: It's cigarettes. What do you think?

Price: RM8.20 in boxes of 20, RM5.90 in boxes of 14

Caption: "Er...to smoke...or not to smoke?" (note the 'no smoking' sign)

Picture 3

Brand: Unknown

Content: Emptiness, air

Price: Please consult the recycling company

Caption: "5 green bottles, standing in the box, one is hidden, another is brown, if you add them all, there're 18 glass bottles, standing in the box."

Sun rays

The first picture was taken in my grandparents' place on my dad's side. Go banana leaves, go banana leaves.

The 2nd and 3rd is a picture in the morning (8 a.m. or so) at my cousin's place. Compliments to her for the interior design! Even when I've been there a few times, I find it mesmerizing everytime I see those morning rays through the window grills and the fishies casting shadows on the wall. Note: The pictures are clickable for a closer look.

The Curve

I was in the shopping mall, and decided to take a look down the balcony to the floor below.

Argh! Look what I saw below! They're selling ice cream!

My heart was crying out, "Noooooooo..!!!!" whereas my brain was saying, "Girl, you can reach out but you ain't gonna get it." It got me really down. =(

This is the open section of the shopping mall (which is The Curve, by the way). I just thought it would be an interesting picture to have buildings to frame the people walking below.

NEXT UP! On The Hermana Nemesis: A birthday and how it collaborated with my 2nd sister.

To wrap up this issue, we promised some guessing as well. So, here it is:

Hmm...what is in this cup? I wonder who can guess what it is. It can be a plain drink, a concoction, or it could be not a drink at all. Think of all the wild ideas and you might get it. Leave your guesses in the comment box, please!

Until the next issue, hope you've enjoyed reading!

p/s: Did I sound rather jaded or morbid in this issue? Aw man, the music you play affects your head! Pretty sad...

Among the songs I played while typing this post:

• Take That - Patience
• Staind - Everything Changes
• Puddle of Mudd - Blurry
• Nicole Nordeman - Why
• Lifehouse - Sick Cycle Carousel

I better update my blog

At the rate I'm updating my own blog, this is not going to be my blog! I mean, my sister seems to be doing the updating for me. It's very nice for her to do that...but...it would appear to be more of her blog than mine. NO! that cannot be!

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

So here goes. Finally a post from me.

As you can see from the pictures posted by my beloved hermana, I've been busy. Right. All my free time was spent on watching the black box in the living room a.k.a. the television instead of updating my blog.

It just hit me that Chinese New Year is so near and it also means that the time for my to go back to Perth is drawing nearer as well! Time is running out! I've still got some more shopping to do! Actually, there are not so many things to buy and do, the problem is that to get those items, I've to visit a few different places. Everytime I think of going to different places to buy only 1 or 2 items, I start to feel lazy.

ankle socks - any shopping mall

hiong peng - biscuit shop in town

software - Yik Foong shopping mall

shuttlecocks - sports store

vacuum bag - pasar malam

teeth check-up - dentist

Did i miss anything else?

SO MANY THINGS!!!

wait. Why am i panicking anyway???

tak tau...

WWWEEEIIIRRRDDDDOOOoooooooo..........

do di do do
no worries ^_^
Just relax...and laze around...
a step at a time
no problems
this cat is the perfect example of lazing around (excluding the beer bottle)








by the way, this cat is cute...


alright!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!

The 'Hermana' Nemesis 2.0 : Food

Food

Not just any food. Chinese New Year food. With all the red glory, I'll say it again.

Chinese New Year Goodies

When the new year comes, comes food. Not the usual food for meals. I'm thinking 'bout the goodies. Sugar. Oh sugar...oh, yeah. Oh...the...oh...the picture.

Any guesses? Ice-cream? Whipped cream?

Sorry to disappointed you, folks, it's just...egg whites beaten to PERFECTION! Perfect, indeed. So stiff that when you flip the bowl upside down, it still doesn't move.

Egg whites; one of the few vital ingredients used in many baking recipes. Namely, layer cakes.

For the sake of activity and sport, guess this picture. Yes, more guessing. Question: Who's folding the batter? Me? My sister? My cat? Oops, I don't have a cat. Uh...this should be something challenging for those of you who are not so familiar with the physical difference of my sister and I from the side. Make it from the top side judging from the angle of the camera.

Now, in case there has been a rare chance that a reader here shouts, "Hey! That's Yan Hua's spectacles!" (don't think that you can judge the answer by who's name I put first. I'm just following hierarchy, okay? My sister's older.) and so that reader assumes it's my sister in the picture, that unfortunate reader would be wrong.

"Why???????" the reader may wail out.

"Because," I'll sadly reply, with a mischievous smile, "we both wear the same spectacles."

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

If you closely observe, you'll see that my sister's is a full-framed one whereas mine is half-frame. Don't bother, you can't see the frame properly in the previous picture.

(You scrolled back up to look at the picture again, didn't you?)

Anyway, here's the answer, the pretty lady:

**********

********

******

****

***************

**********

*****

*

Great smile, sissy, cute indeed.

Baking is fun. Baking is time-consuming. Baking needs patience. Baking needs good ingredients. Baking gives nice quality time with that person/those people you're baking with. But something unusual baking gave me was the chance to use my imagination. As seen such in the following:

Sunday, 20th January; Scientists have found a new planet just off the coast of the solar system. It offers an unusual landscape with yellow ground and clouds with everlasting grey, stormy skies. The first mountain found by probe Spatula was named Mount BonBun, after the name of the handler of Spatula, Bonny Bunny. This ginormous mountain of extreme height is yet to be determined as just a regular mount upon this chilly landscape or a lucky find of one of the tallest mountains there. Snow covers Mount BonBun, and as it descends the snow becomes dry with the immense amount of carbon dioxide found in the planet, making the snow as dry ice, or solid carbon dioxide. More information about this phenomenal find is yet to be released. -Reuters

Imagine that. Isn't it fun, though?

NEXT UP! On The Hermana Nemesis: Pictures to ponder on...and more guessing.

And on further issues: Birthdays and more!

So make sure you log on the next time we check in! Admission is Free. FOC! (provided you have an internet service provider. Terms and conditions apply.)

The 'Hermana' Nemesis version 1.1

Do you ever feel that when you say something you want to do or a goal to someone else, you tend to be more will powered to do it? Exactly my reason for this unimaginably short post! So here's that particular goal/to-do chore:

"Today, and I mean today, I will put up The Hermana Nemesis v2.0 or even together with v3.0. In short, I'll make another one or two posts. Today."

Alright! Quite some useless posting here but hey, it's useful in the personal sense of the typer okay?

Yams

The 'hermana' nemesis.

Greetings earthlings.

Right.

Don't worry. I'm no alien. I'm a sister.

YAN HUA'S SISTER(yes, yes! Let her be known to the world wide web! Now everyone knows. Mission 1 of the great nemesis is complete: introducing the nemesis. How classic.)

Probably more commonly known as Yams. Disclaimer: thou shall not associate me with yam in any way whatsoever.

Yes, sisters. You may think, "Oh, another Yanny! This should be interesting," or something similar.

If you did think that, you're wrong. Terribly wrong.

You see, though our eccentric wavelengths may flow the same, side by side, we are indeed - personality-wise - very different. Now, wouldn't my sister agree? [Forces sister to nod]

Anyway, I shall not turn you into a cow chewing on hay - bored and in turn making me a morbid person. Let's amuse with some pictures. Oh, just one picture, really.

Shooting video games enthusiasts might like this ("DIE DIE DIE!!!"). Just an assumption based on Charlie And The Chocolate Factory movie. After all, pictures do paint a thousand words. And assumptions.

Well, that was taken after getting off the car to the Inner Wheel party my sister mentioned earlier...before we moved on to create more havoc by ruining songs to fit the theme of sleepiness.

Congratulations! You have completed the opening section of "The Hermana Nemesis". I would have to go now before the great Queen O' This Great Blog finds me and puts me in a rotton cellar to rot and die with rotton bananas and dying rats in a rotton sewer. Evil. Pure...evil. 'Til next time, if I'm lucky enough.

~Yams~

another somewhat boring moment

I went to an Inner wheel meeting/fellowship with my parents. My younger sister and I were being unsociable and sat one side, away from the crowd to just chat. That was afterall the only thing we could do.

The result of our chat is the creation of 2 songs.

Song #1 - (tune of "are you sleeping" nursery rhyme) "I am sleeping"
I am sleeping,
I am sleeping,
Are you sure?
Are you sure?
Then how can you si-ing,
Then how can you si-ing,
Have you ever heard of dreaming?
Have you ever heard of dreaming?

~the end~


Song #2 - (tune of "I feel pretty" from West Side Story) "I feel sleepy"
I feel sleepy,
Oh, so sleepy,
It's amazing how sleepy I feel!
Draw the curtains, then it's dark and I can go to sleep

la la la la la la la la, la la

Little bolster,
Oh sweet bolster,
You're so thin but I still love you so!
You've been with me, ever since I was just 8 years old

lalalala la la la la, lala, lala

[addition from now]
see that mosquito flying everywhere,
what fly, go where?
look how annoying it is,
ouch I got bitten,
such a huge bite (bitten)
such a bad itch (bitten)
such a red thing (bitten)
it's driving me nuts! (driving me nuts, driving me nuts, driving me nuts)

I feel sleepy,
Oh so sleepy,
It's amazing how sleepy I feel!
I said sleepy! So don't bug me and leave me alone!

lalalala la la la lalala, lala!!!

~the end~