2 days left!

I really don't know where the time has gone. I only have 2 days left before flying back to Malaysia, and I suppose I'm happy and sad at the same time. Anyway, today I went to DFO at Homebush, and I had to take the train and bus to get there. Here are some pictures of today's outing, which took more or less 4 hours in all. You can see they've even put up Christmas trees inside Central Station.

And if you haven't known by now, I've had to find my own food source for the past 3 weeks, as the kitchen is not operating during the summer holidays. There entire place is literally quiet and there are no laughs, screams, and the like. Quite peaceful, really, but at times it can get quite creepy and lonely. Sometimes I go out and eat (like in Broadway), but occasionally I cook. Well, actually I cook quite often in my little kitchen, and I guess I've 'improved' my cooking skills. Like the time I cooked hainanese chicken rice from scratch. As in none of that stir-through sauces you get in bottles, but I actually hiked it all the way to Chinatown to get chicken, garlic, ginger, chilli, coriander, chicken stock cubes, kecap manis, sesame oil and the like. It came out pretty good, even if I do say so myself! Take a look:

Looks good, hey? I'm especially proud of this because I made everything from scratch, even the chilli condiment (the colourful one) and the garlic ginger condiment (not the belachan though, that's from a jar you can get at the Asian supermarket at Chinatown). The rice as well, that's hard work, people!!!! But I'm generous, and I'm willing to cook it for anyone who wants to give it a go! Muahahahaha! And I also managed to cook some lamb, and it came out tasting pretty good as well! I don't know why, but lamb seems to be quite cheap here, like, I can get a couple of reasonable cuts of lamb (don't know what part, all I know is it tastes good and I like it) for a couple of dollars. Sure, you have to pay more if you want the choicest cuts and no bones, but hey, a little bone is good, and you get to suck up the marrow, yum yum! I mixed mustard, soy sauce, honey, and a whole bunch of random ingredients lying around, sizzled it on the non-stick pan (don't cook it too long, minimize turning the meat over and over). The mini sausages are called pork chipolatas.

Yummy! Again, anyone up for a go, just lemme know! (hey, that even rhymes!) And one times I had some leftover chicken wings lying around so I decided to make fried chicken! And I fried up some rice too, which always tastes good! Check it out:

So you see, I've had quite a bit of fun experimenting around with food! And I suppose it saves some moolah, cos these ingredients are comparatively cheaper than eating just one meal out and all.

And that's it for this time, hopefully I'll be able to squeeze in a couple more blogposts before I fly back home! Cheers, y'all!

P.S. You guys heard/read the news about Hugh Jackman getting injured???