Oh, and i forgot to say that my cam is broken since 1 month or so, so i have to use my mom's cam to take pics now and hers is not really good and pics come out a bit blurry, so.. sorry for that.

All about university and food....

Hi there..
So, lately there have been quite many things happening and troubling me.
the most taihen one is uni.. there is a new registration stystem where you get 1000 points and you have to give points to the units you wanna do/have to do according to your preferance, and it sucks -__-
the whole thing doesnt really work coz there are technical problems and stuff, and i was really mad about it. but now its okay. i will figure out what i can do to get into at least one more unit (coz i didnt get into 2).
right now it seems that i only have to be at uni on mo, tue, wed, so i should get one more class.
anyways,
the next thing i wanna talk about is my interest in cooking and baking .__.
i like to cook and also to bake, and im neither bad nor good at it. just okay -.-
you can eat the stuff that i cook.
But lately i have found great blogs with japanese and non-japanese recipes, many of them even vegetarian :)
but cooking needs a lot of money x_x and time x_x and i have to buy almost all ingredients by myself, coz even though i often cook for my mom and brother too, they dont really appreciate it. they go like "i dont like this one ingredient" or "it smells/looks weird, you can have all yourself" -_- so nice, isnt it?
Just because they are not used to japanese food, and coz my mom and brother are very picky and don't eat eggs, and stuff. (my mom eats kind of vegan so its really difficult to make smthg she eats too)
anyways.

This week i tried to make tamagoyaki (dashimaki tamago) which is like a rolled omelett. it tastes really yummy and i was curious to try it out :)
and i did it, it was not as difficult as i expected (the rolling part) and it looked and tasted not bad. :P of course i have to try more times to get better, but i was happy about my first try. ^^

The next day i wanted to make chocolate mochi cake.
i really looove mochi cake *__* it tastes so good and is fluffy and もちもち!
in japan you can get it in conbini, and there is a huge variety. chocolate, maple, matcha, custard, etc..
At Mister Donut they also have a Pon-de-ring(?) series which is made with mochiko (glutinous rice flour) too and it tastes great.
but since i live in vienna there is no Mister Donut here and also no Conbini ;__;
When my friend came back from Japan this summer about 3~4 weeks ago, she brought me one mochimochipan. You have to eat it within 2 or 3 days, so that was okay.
i made a picture of it, haha. its above. so thats what i am talking about.
So i searched for mochi pan recipes on the net but it was difficult to find any -.-
then i found some and bought mochiko in an asian shop, and tried to make that cake.
I did everything right, according to the recipe...
BUTTT ;__; what i got in the end was a cake that was more like real mochi (dango, or daifuku) than like the yummy mochipan :( it was not what i expected -.-
it tasted a bit weird. too little chocoflavour and too little sweet. i mean, it was not bad, but i ate one piece and then i felt like i cant eat any of this anymore, otherwise i would feel sick. my brother and a friend liked it though.
i was disappointed that it didnt work out.. :(
And then i realised what the mistake was: for the cake that i wanna have, i should use ordinary flour PLUS mochiko (rice flour).
But there are NO recipes for such a cake on google X_X
anyways, i will try to make such a cake later... if anyone knows a recipe, please send me ^^

So above one can see a pic of TimTam (chocolate biscuits that my boyfriend brought me from Australia when he visited me. he brought me many and they are yummy :) ), 2 pics of my first try tamakoyaki (one pic is only tamagoyaki, and one is tamagoyaki with fried rice noodles, it was my dinner that day), and the choco mochi pan that my friend brought me from japan.

tja... thats it so far -.-
i wonder if anyone is gonna read this stuff, haha. (except my yacchan <3 ._. )
byee

new haircut and stuff...

so, yesterday i went to get my hair cut. finally.
in the morning i met with 2 friends and had a breakfast, after that i went to hair dresser.
i was thinking of getting highlights (again), but coz i wasnt sure about it i didnt.
so only a hair cut. very simple. looks almost same as before wuth the difference that my hair is shorter now -.-
though i actually didnt want it to get much shorter again (like 6 cm) -.-
anyways.
here are some pics of me with new hair.

yesterday i saw many cute clothes and stuff in the city that i wanna have .__.
winter clothes..and stuff. i wish i had more money -.-
i have to start working soon anyways.

uni is starting soon... i worry...
and i hate the new registration system.. its so complicated. and annoying me.
i hope i can get into courses i wanna be in.

right now im not feeling too good. so i should stop.
sometimes i shouldnt say what i think..
anyways, bye

First Entry

hello there,
it took me some time but now im posting my first blog entry. ^^
i wonder about what i should write about...
right now there are many things on my mind.
Dont know if anyone is gonna read my useless posts though.

I just came back yesterday from a 1 week holiday in italy with some family members.
it was nice that i finally could see the beach and swim in the sea again.
it has been a while since i did so. (austria does not have a sea, its surrounded by countries only -.-)
the weather wasnt so good though.
it was raining 2 whole days and sometimes during night too. there were also thunderstorms which were so heavy and loud that i couldnt sleep and was afraid that the small house would be blown away or something ><
anyways. the other days were nice and hot and i did even get a bit tanned.
its nice to be back home now though.
we went there by car and on the way to italy i was okay, but on the way back to vienna i felt car sick (which i used to a lot when i was younger) even though i was wearing these bracelets from pharmacy (drugstore) called "sea bands" o.O
i really hate driving by car =_=

i also finished an assignment (finally) that was due this week and that i was too lazy to work on the past 2 months -.-
summer vacation is soon going to end .__. uwww
Starting from july it was 3 months of vacation from university.
i wonder what is gonna await me the next semester...
but i really have to work hard on uni stuff coz the next semester is a very important one for me. i have to pass no matter what ._.
i hope i can do it...

well, what else happened during holidays...?
in august my boyfriend came to visit me here in vienna :)
since he is living in australia we cant be together often ._.
it was so great to have him here.
I felt very happy and didnt want time to pass by...
we did a lot of things together, visited many places and also spent 4 days in paris.
the 1 month time flew really quickly.
now im missing him so much ._.
Oh the last pic is for him :) i made it on the beach in italy.
hope he likes it ._.

what else.. oh i havent been to hair salon to cut my hair since last december O_O
I really really wanted to cut my hair for the last few months, but somehow couldnt do it. so i will probably go there tomorrow or so. yay, looking forward to it ^_^
My hair needs a cut x_x
I just hope its gonna look good....

well then.. i think i will stop here for now. i will post more stuff later anyway.
well then, bye~