I’m currently in the state of pondering of my future. And one of the most prominent item I think that’s important is my home. The home where I’ll settle down, build a foundation and a family empire. For me, the most important part of the house has definitely got to be my kitchen! I look forward to have my very own kitchen, fully equipped and happily churning out magic everyday. One of the many things that I’ve been infatuated with is this. It’s a mixer.

I’m dying to have one! I’ve been lusting it everytime I see it in Parkson, or on television. Isn’t the Kitchen Aid Mixer beautiful? It’s just a perfect addition to anyone’s kitchen. However, the price tag is another different story. As a beauty it may be, the RM2.5k price tag leaves it much to be desired than owned. I understand, forking out twenty hundred dollars for a mixer is insane but for me it’s way worth it, hence I’m putting it into my wishlist and a must get item when I’m settling down in life.

What’s a home with a kitchen? I foresee myself having a spacious kitchen, with granite tops and ample of space for me to chop, stir, mix, play, and work it for a nice meal!

This will be a long-term but not immediate fulfillment. I’m not much of a brand person but there’s something about Chanel that captures my attention. I like it’s vintage-modern touch to fashion that is very much what I go for. I like vintage pieces that are timeless.

This is one of my lifelong musts in life. I vow to travel to this place and seep it’s culture! There’s just something about Italy that gives me goosebumps.

Of course there are many more things I aim for in life but here are just some of the major ones.

♥ Wendy

My Colourful Stir Fry Udon with Pork Ham & Bonito Flakes

You will need; a few cloves of garlic (2-3), 1 or 2 slices of ham (depending on your preference for meat), one handful of bonito flakes, half for adding in and half for garnish, one cucumber diced or sliced, one grated carrot, one or two diced tomatoes, half tablespoon of Kikkoman, adequate sesame oil, salt & pepper for seasoning.

I fried the garlic and onion with the ham until it’s fragrant before adding in the traffic light veges (Japanese cucumber, carrot & tomato) and the Bonito flakes, I also used Kikkoman soy sauce and sesame oil for seasoning before adding in cracked pepper and salt. And the last step is to add in the udon noodle and fry it until its translucent and serve, garnished with Bonito flakes

One of my favourite comfort food easy and tasty! Enjoy!

♥ Wendy

It was back in November last year, before my dad passed away that Hugo purchased Air Asia tickets to Taiwan for about RM400. I had high hopes that on the time of travel that I am able to travel to Taiwan with the entire family but shortly a month later, the hopes dwindle down to nothing. And I have been moping since, with added back to back semesters and internship with no break. Then time came for my final semester in my bachelor’s that my Taiwan trip was to fall smack middle during the semester. But something changed. I didn’t care if it was stuck in the middle of a semester!

To think that early last year, I had the opportunity to travel to Taiwan with my parents to attend my brother’s wedding but I passed on it, why? Because it was smack middle during a semester. But this time, I couldn’t care less and off I went excited but tired, very much reminiscing the time that I passed the chance last year. A lot of what if’s came into my mind.

Enough of my introduction, let’s jump into my Taiwan trip now. I know I haven’t been the best blogger out there but I’m surprised and elated to see traffic is still coming in because of my Hong Kong trip posts! So I hope this Taiwan posts will do the same, I like to write it as detail as I could because I would be reading this 10 years to come and still remember what happened.

My departure to Taiwan was on a Sunday morning, 10 am from LCCT and I had to fly from Penang and stay over in KL for a night. And on Saturday I still have classes going on hence I flew to KL at night so it was pretty nice that my classmates wished me well and have fun on this short holiday.

I flew to KL on Saturday at 11pm and the next day it was 10am from KL to Taipei. I didn’t enjoy the flight to Taipei at all because firstly, the food sucks, and the air-conditioner was way too cold and I miss the comfort from non-budget airlines like Cathay Pacific or Thai Airways. So yea, in general, I do not enjoy Air Asia flights at all and this is only my first time flying with Air Asia X. So perhaps, hmmm.

Anyhow, we landed in Taipei’s Taoyuan International Airport that was quite a run down airport, it’s not as “wow” like HKIA or Heathrow and I couldn’t even find the duty free shops! Hence I failed to buy the Glenfiddich’s and Caster’s that my brother requested. And I was carrying about 500gms of tobacco in my luggage.

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I’m not usually a slacker, nor am I the most kiasu person in class. However, I slack whenever I feel like it but I always make sure my work is done, never last minute. I can safely say I am the most on-time person in class, it feels good to see other people stress and sweat at the last moments of deadlines while I’m just sitting there looking at them doing nothing. *sadistnya aku

Somehow, I am very very very apprehensive about this final semester of mine. I am actually skipping a week’s class and jetting off to Taiwan in a few days. Something that I never thought I would do, but I am doing it!

My classes actually made me felt stupid, in the sense that I am a tertiary institution student but I am being taught, not lectured like a secondary school student! Other than having group meetings for our upcoming campaign in October, the other subjects are plain stupid! Who the hell studies Academic English in their final year? And worse, who the heck does main idea outlines in a degree class? We were given workbook’s to use in class, just like how secondary or even primary students do in school. To make things worse, why do I have to learn all over again about Kata Nama, Kata Kerja Transitif/Tak Transitif, Kata Ganti Nama and all those crap in my final year?

Someone please enlighten because I’m feeling so drab as a university final year student!

Hence, I told myself, to hell with this final semester because it does not stimulate any intellectual part of my brain and I’m off for a well deserved holiday! The only thing I’m excited in this semester is my campaign project, we’re organizing an indie film fest in Penang, a first time for Penang! It’s gonna be so radical and hopefully it’ll get Penangites into the awesomeness that is local indie films!

I have a few days to go before I fly off to KL to stay for a night and flying to Taiwan the next day, I’m so excited I have actually begun packing! Plus my mum bought me a Samsonite luggage for me to officiate on this trip and best part of all, the luggage is in RED! Plus it’s huge so Hugo and I are sharing a luggage to minimize hassle. The reason I got my mum to buy that new luggage is because, our previous luggage’s have been used and broken in so many ways it’s not even funny. My mum thinks buying huge average quality luggage’s is the best because it’s value for money and usage but it keeps getting destroyed after a few uses! Plus the designs are all so generic, so identifying them is always a hassle hence here comes the bright red hardcase Samsonite which can personalized with name stickers!

It’s rollable on 4 wheels so I can just push it around while its vertical without lowering it to a 45 degreee angle, and it could even support my weight while I sit on it, vertically!

Anyhoo, enough raving about my love for my new unused luggage, I’m excited to go to Taiwan for shopping and most importantly to eat! Too bad I’m not going during winter because a bit of cold would be nice, but it’s now summer and the fruits in Taiwan is awesome! My mum who came back from Taiwan recently brought back cherries and peaches for me which I finished it in no time, so I’m prepared to have more while I’m there plus it’s really cheap! What could be better, summer fruits during summer!

Other than that, I’m looking forward to load up my stash of skincare because make up and skin care is so much cheaper plus they have more brands to offer, so I’m looking forward to stock up on my must-have BB cream! Plus I’ve been bombarded by my mum to stock up on leggings there because it’s so cheap there, thick black cotton leggings actually goes for less than RM10 there and I bought it for RM30 here.

So that’s about it for now, I find blogging with WP is so annoying especially when it comes to uploading photos! The alignment always runs whenever it’s done and I have to adjust every single thing to get it right! So hence the lack of photos in my posts.

Tata for now! In a few days I’ll be hearing greetings of “Welcome To Taiwan!”

♥ Wendy

And I’m talking about my almost ending university life.

I thought my final semester as an undergraduate would be a breezy one, as we’re done with the heart wrenching and tear inducing papers and it’s just the easy peasy ones left. I mean, who the hell does final year papers in the first 2 semesters and do first year papers in the final semester? This is so unheard of in fact, I think KDU’s planning is just so screwed up.

For my final semester, I’m taking 6 papers which is not a lot to handle because most of them are “beginner” papers, something that university students would do in their first semester in their first year! I’m taking Academic English which is totally a replica of MUET, English for Business Communication, Persuasive Communication Package whereby it’s 9 credits in total and we have to plan and execute an actual campaign, Screenplay and Script Writing, Bahasa Malaysia and Tamadun Islam. Like seriously right?!

I mean come on, the subjects are not much of a motivator! Plus although this is the first week of class, our only core paper which is the Persuasive Communication Package is not off to a good start. Apparently our lecturer who is new by the way isn’t allowed to be close to us, as in she’s not suppose or allowed to talk to us like friends or be chummy with us. Which is so not the mass communication style and her personality. She is an activist and she is a very outgoing and outspoken person which we all love but she keeps getting shit from idiotic useless idiots whenever they see her with us. It’s like the entire department just died, it’s become so uptight, such a solemn peaceful place which is so not the way mass communication works. And to think that we use to steal food from the pantry, dig into the belongings of the staffs and have endless long conversations and now nothing as such is allowed anymore.

I think it’s bullshit.

And now she’s even considering on quitting, which leaves us in gasps of horror as we do need her around for our survival. It’s not gonna be easy planning an event in 14 weeks and a 9 credit paper!

Another bummer is the scheduling, I’m glad Friday’s are off for me but there’s classes on Saturdays till noon! Plus, classes on Tuesday are from 5pm to 10pm. FML and F all my classmates L. It’s not even funny!

On a side note, I had a great time hanging out with my classmates today after class. Instead of the usual shopping mall traipse, we actually went for sauna and swimming, ending the outing with a hearty Thai meal which was good and economical! And bummer, I was forced to purchase a new pencil case for myself because my trusty old makeup bag that became my pencil case for the last 6 years died on me, I was literally crying because I find that I get very attached to my stationeries. I get really particular about my pens which I only use black pen only by the way, and all my stuffs whereby it has to be kept properly, everything’s aligned properly and only certain brands of pen are used. All sorts of weird shit that I do.

Oh well, tomorrow’s a Friday and yay there’s no class but boohoo there is a meeting tomorrow for the bullshit subject. F everyone’s L because we are so not off to a good start although I do think our idea for our upcoming project is great, I feel blessed to have most of my classmates because they have seriously enrich my life except for a few who felt that they are above and beyond or some who feels that all I need to do is meet the bare requirements and I’m set to go, screw you all.

But to the rest, I’m glad we’re in a class because it’s seriously cooooooooool to have you guys around.

I had a brief chat with my brother earlier and apparently my mum wanted to buy a Louis Vuitton bag for me! Like seriously? Am I dead already or I’m just high on leong fun that I had earlier for dinner? She’s currently in Taiwan and has been for a month, but she’ll be returning to Penang this weekend which I think is good for her, as I think she’s pretty bored there and she needs her fellow kakis here. Even my neighbours are pestering me about when she’s coming back! But judging from her tone and eagerness when she called me, she seem to be happy in Taiwan, judging how excited she was to tell me that she bought this, she bought that, she went here, she went there, you get the picture. She deserved whatever great time she had after all the depressing happenings last year. And next month is my turn! I’ll be heading to Taiwan for a week, not a month which I do hope for but it’ll happen somewhere in the future possibly next year for Chinese New Year!

I’m fortunate to have Hugo, he has taken me to many many places which I could never afford. And next year we are going to Bali! So yea, I feel blessed. Like seriously, base on my allowance and my crazy study schedule which doesn’t permit me to work, I can never save up for a major vacation unless it’s a small roadtrip like the one I had in Hatyai or KL.

And now I shall patiently wait for Hugo to arrive as he is driving back to Penang after work today and he should be reaching in an hour or so.

♥ Wendy