SY's Colourful diary，彩色日记

1) What is my favorite food?
This is quite obvious. Especially when I was in Malaysia, I used to eat Korean food almost once a month. Japanese, Chinese, Malays and Western food are the sequence after Korean food.
I like sashimi and sushi but I don't eat them often, and they are expensive. I like Chinese food but I can cook Chinese food, so that is not my favorite but what I usually eat. I like Malays food, but there are only a a few of them that I like. I remembered when I was in national service, I don't eat much because of MALAY FOOD. Western food, I did not have western food at all in Winnipeg ever since I arrived in Winnipeg.


2) What is my favorite snack?
Yeah, Ice cream. I like ice cream a lot especially in Winnipeg. It is nice and cheap in Winnipeg. I used to like cheese cakes, but there are not a lot of cheese cakes are delicious. I like to eat chips, chocolate and cookies but not so much.

3) What is my favorite Malaysian food?
I think most of my friends in Malaysia get the right answer. It is because nothing can be my favorite Malaysian food after asam laksa. I will not give up a chance to eat asam laksa when there is available.

4) How many countries have I traveled?
Not many people got the right answer included my dear. At least, or luckily my sister know the answer of this, if not she would score even worst. I have been to Thailand, Singapore, China, Canada and US. I have been to HongKong for transit but I did not travel there, so it is not included.

5) What place/ country would I like to go ?
Korea, because i like to eat Korean food. Haha

6) I am most happiest when ....?
EATING. I like to eat, I feel very happy and relax when eating. Eating is the happiness I found everyday. Many people think I like cooking and playing piano. I like cooking only if I have time, feel like eating or cook for my beloved and friends. I don't like to cook for myself. I like to play piano, sometimes I play piano because I am stress, and unhappy. So that is not the answer. I like to hang out with friends especially go to EAT together. Haha.

7) What is my favorite colour?
Most people guess it is white or black. I myself doubt for a while when deciding the answer for this question. It is because I like both of them. If you see my closet, most of clothes are black or white. I said black is because I will wish to buy black items more than white. I bought a set of kitchen wares in black. I like them so much .


8) What am I scared of the most?
I think my dear is the only one who get this right. I scared of ghost! I feel uncomfortable when I heard the word. I cant sleep well and start to have imaginary after hearing ghost story and things related to ghost. Oops better don't keep mention. I scared of dark is because the above reason. I scared of criminals and failing in my exams, but I think they are able to avoid from happening.

I created a quiz about myself at facebook. Feel free to take the quiz and see how much do you know me. There are easy questions. http://apps.facebook.com/quizdoyouknowme/quiz.jsp?q=1857277

Questions are as below.

1) What is my favorite food?

2) What is my favorite snack?

3) What is my favorite Malaysian food?

4) How many countries have I traveled?

5) What place/ country would I like to go ?

6) I am most happiest when ....?

7) What is my favorite colour?

8) What am I scared of the most?

Yesterday was Friday, I always don't have mood to study on Friday night. I always like to relax a while after a long weekdays of study . I really want to go out, but I did know where to go and go with whom. One of my housemate was working, one was with her boyfriend, my friends in Winnipeg are either working at night, or went back to home. So after all, I stayed at home and do a lot of cleanings. I clean all the kitchen and toilet, play piano for more than 1 hour. Then suddenly, qing qing (my housemate, and my baking master) suggested us to bake cake . I was so excited !

We bake a chiffon cake. It is really easy, simple ingredients and nice. We were so excited when we first taste the cake. My MASTER called friends to come to eat them. Everyone said it was nice. Someone suggested that we can bake cake and sell. For example, we allow people order cake from us and then we bake and sell. However, we need to promote our cakes first before we can do so. SO we decided to open a counter in University Centre to sell cakes, muffins and pastry. Starting from small counter first before going into big business. HAHA

We plan to do it in September. During these days, we will start baking to maintain our standard of goods. I will surely bake this cake when I back in MALAYSIA!!

I am going to take a minor in nutrition( major in Food Science), therefore I am now taking a few nutrition courses. Yesterday, I have learnt something about alcohol, so I decided to post them here.

EFFECTS OF ALCoHOL

• Alcohol provide energyy - 7 calorie/g. 1 bottle of alcohol give 120-200 calorie.
• Brain cells shrink
• Causing fatty liver- liver deterioration
• Reduce synthesis of some immune system proteins
• May lead to fertility problems in BOTH genders

Long Term effects:

• Dehydration of brain
• Bladder, kidney, pancrease and prostate damage
• Bone deterioration and osteoporosis
• Brain disease, central nervous damage ad strokes
• Deterioration of the testicles and adrenal glands
• Diabetes
• Disease of the mucle of the heart
• Feminization and sexual impotence in men
• Impaired immune response
• Increase risks of death
• Malnutrition
• Nonviral hepatitis
• Psychological depression
• Skin rashes and sores
• Ulcers and inflammation of the stomach and intestines.

I found myself put on weight since I came to Canada. I used to blame the weather and stress that make me fat, but I think I can only blame myself. I told myself that I must reduce weight before I back to Malaysia. I don't want my family and friends comment that I am fatter when they see me in July later. After reading a few articles about diets, I decided to start with fruit diet and add some other foods for diet balancing.



Recommendation amount of fruits and vegetables is 7 -10 servings per day. So fruits diet is appropriate but there is insufficient in certain nutrients. So I added eggs, whole wheat bread, lettuce, tomatoes, yogurt and soy milk into the diet plan. I hope the plan will help me to reduce weight in two months.



I bought a lot of fruits today from superstore. There are bananas, grapes, watermelon, oranges, apples, pears and strawberries. The strawberries are getting cheaper and bigger in Canada due to the spring season. Two strawberries can be as big as my hand!! The smallest strawberry I found is already bigger than the BIGGEST strawberry produced in Malaysia.

Happy family. I quite envy them!


I quite jealous while seeing them. There are no worries and stay together always.

I found that it has been a long time, I did not have my food pictures posted on my blog. During final exam period, I did not cook good meals but just porridge and instant noodles. After the exam, I told myself I have to start cooking, especially when I go to visit my bf for 10 days. In these 10 days, I have cooked a lot of different dishes with different recipe. I created my own recipe for all the cooking. I am happy that I have improve my cooking speed. I can cook 3 dish + 1 soup in less than 1 hour. I did not take a lot of pictures this time, because they are almost the same as what I posted in previous blogs.

This is ABC soup, this is my first time cooking this soup, surprisingly it is so easy and delicious.


Onion with eggs. My mom's favorite cooking!! ( She only knows frying eggs!) haha


Egg sandwiches for breakfast.


Carrot and bacon porridge.


My dear favorite vegetables= Spinach


Steam chicken with mushrooms

I was taking 5 courses during the winter term and now the results are released. I am not happy and dissatisfied with my results. I got 3A, 1B+ and 1 B this term. My GPA after this term is 3.68, which is far away from my goal 3.75. In order to get 3.75, I need A for courses, because a B+ is only 3.5 which will pull down my overall GPA.

As usual, I like to summaries the courses I taken each term.

Food Analysis- A
This is my favorite course in this term. It is a difficult course, but I have a strong interest in Food Analysis. I like the lab session even though I had a hard time at writing the lab report. I think I learn a lot from the lab. I like to analyzed food properties using different equipment and system. So far, we have use gas chromatography (GC), High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), differential scanning colourimeter (DSC),minolta colourimeter and etcetera. This course make me feel to pursue master degree, because I think what I have learn is very insufficient.


Organic chemistry- A
I have no interest in this course, but I spent time on making my own notes because the lecture notes are too simple. I hate the labs.



Agriculture 2 - A
I am sad because I failed to get A+ in this course. I did not do well in final, because there are too much things to memorize. I could not concentrate because the final exams were scheduled too nears from one another. The course materials are interesting. But again I hate the LABS.


Food product development -B+
I hate this course the most because I got a B+. I was so sad when I knew I only get B+. I spent the most time in this course, to the project - edible candles. I have gone through failure and disappointment even though I have put in my effort and time. I realized that there is no feedback no matter how much effort and time you given into this course. I hate this course, and I hate the professor.



Food engineering- B
I expected a B for this course, because the course materials are too complicated and difficult. I am not good at physics, this course cover a lot of mathematical, units and physic knowledge. It is interesting but too difficult for me.

I read a book called The Giver. It is a book describe a community of people without feeling, sense of nature, color, love. The community is very well organized, there is no pain, no suffering too. Each member in the community given an assignment when they turn into 12 years old. The main character, Jonas became the received or memory. He then received memory of feeling and senses which nobody has except him and the giver. He likes the feeling of love, snow, and fun. He dislike the hunger, pain, and war.

He then decided to run away from the community and seek for the Elsewhere where there are feeling and senses. Throughout the journey, he experience those. He suffered from hunger, coldness and loneliness but he is happy that he could enjoy the nature, color, love and music.

After reading the book, I was asking myself if I am Jonas, will I do what he did or stay at the community that is well organized with no suffering, pain nor hunger and at the same time without feeling and senses. I think I will be like Jonas, be brave to face the challenge and seek for the difference.

I had a funny dream. In the dream, I found out that I have a last final exam on Saturday. It was already Friday night, and I didn't have revision for the courses before. There are a lot to study and try my best to memorise as much as I can. I was so stress out throughtout the night. The next day, when I am ready to go to school for the exam, I realised that I AM NOT IN WINNIPEG. I am in Toronto. Then I woke up and laugh.