Aug 14, 2013

Peaceful Sunday

   I asked my boss to take me fishing since I was dying of boredom.
 
   Although I had a hang over since I drank too much the night before, I was so excited.
   We went to Brisbane River. It took about 40 minutes from Gatton.
   We took a small boat with an Engine.

 
  It was the first time that I had been river fishing, since I usually go to the sea for fishing, and I aim at the fish that live at a depth of 35-50m in the sea.

  But this time, the depth is about 3 m, and I aim at the fish in the middle.
   It was difficult for me because when I go sea fishing I aim at the sea floor.
 
 
   Anyway, I threw the bait and just left it.
   I caught 3 fish, of which 2 were bass and one was a yellow belly.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   We waited for the fish to grab the bait in the silence.
   We only heard birds singing. And we found Pelicans.
    I saw they flying and they were like small air crafts.
    The wings were big and they were very graceful.
 
 
 
 
 
     I saw wild koalas as well and they were a mother and a child. 
  
   They were so cute and I couldn't stop smiling.
    But my boss said that wild koalas are not so friendly and they will groan if we draw too close to them.
 
 
   We had the fish with his family.
   I thought the freshwater fish is not tasty but it was very delicious. 
 
 
   It was a peaceful Sunday. 

Aug 2, 2013

Greek style lunch


I made sandwitch for my lunch with avocado, Feta cheese and "vegie smoked slices" by Sanitarium instead of bacon because I just like it.
I'm not a vegetalian but I sometimes buy this brand since my vegetalian friend gave it to me.
It tastes like original bacon and I don't feel too much full of my stomach and kind of heartburn when we take meat fat.
Also I haven't found tasty sausages and bacon here so far. I don't know why Australian sausages are different from others. The skin is very hard to bite, it is like still raw. And the meat inside is like minced meat and lack of smoke flavor. Is this Australian favorite taste? Otherwise what I had were just not good.

Besides I had salad that I cooked at last night.
I like to eat this kind of salad after keeping a half day or more.
I squeezed water of cucumber and red onion.Then mixed all ingredients just added olive oil and flaxseed oil. I could tast salt from Feta and black olive.


Jul 28, 2013

Arabian seafood with couscous




Most French people I meet here often cook couscous.
I decided to try it.
Although I've never cooked before, I've had it when I went to Moroccan restaurant in Jakarta.
I tried to remember the tast and texture.

I made fried fish with Indian spices. I mixed couscous together with shrimp, tomatoes, mushrooms and black olives. I wanted to add with fresh Italian parsley but I could not find it so I substituted fresh rocket. I used the perfect amount of each ingredient, and it was delicious.

Jul 27, 2013

My small dream will come true soon



Since I've come to Gatton, I've felt like playing golf.
I think it's becasue Gatton is in the country side and covered with green and it reminds me of golf.
And I've been looking for golfing equipment and someone to play with.
Finally I found both last Sunday. I met one fatherly gentleman who gave me new golf balls.
And we are going to play golf in the middle of Aug. I am so excited to play in Australia.
But I'm a little nervous because I haven't played in almost 1 year and especially putting will be disaster.Besides I don't know the person I will be playing with very well and I'm afraid if I won't be able to understand his English. And another problem is that I can't practice at all until I play since I don't have my own club and there isn't a good driving range here. Anyway, let's see how many times I will hit the balls!

Affectionate surprise



I've had a cold since last Sunday and it's been taking long time to be better.
And yesterday I felt it got worse so I went to bed evening.
Then I woke up at 3 am this morning, still feeling bad and found this letter from my Taiwanese flat mate.

She wrote in very polite Japanese ; Take this medicine, 1 tablet once 3 times a day after each meal, and I would like you to be fine soon.

Her handwriting is not very well but I saw she wrote it very carefully one by one.
When I found it I was surprised at her kindness because we were not so close friend and it made my heart warm. And finally, I'm getting better.

Jul 21, 2013

Smiled at noodles


I have one problem since I came to Australia. The problem is that it's difficult to find tasty noodles. I just don't want to buy again because of my bad experience with it.One time I bought singaporian noodles at Coles and it was the worst noodles I have ever had.Their taste, smell, and texture were totally wrong and disgusting. I had no idea how that food company could sell those noodles.

But I still wanted to have noodles and was bored with pasta.

Today, I found an interesting and easy way to get noodle. It is by making noodles from pasta.
When I found out how to do so, I was happy because I knew many Japanese people who live overseas have the same problem as me. They also have wanted to have noodles and had bad experiences with noodles from the supermarket.

The way is quite easy, just add a spoonful of baking soda when you boil pasta.
Boil it a little bit longer than the recommended time.
I used spaghetti and boiled it 2.5 minutes longer.
When I tried was at the recommended time the texture was still like spagetti.
But after 2.5 minutes passed, I smiled with the texture.It was interesting.
Baking powder can be a substitute for baking soda.

You can cook "Yakisoba", "Champon" and so on with this noodles.
I cooked something like damdam noodles without soup for this time and it was very nice.

I will try again with angel hair next time.

Jul 20, 2013

The reason why I chose this house




I have moved out last weekend.
I had should choose a share house very shortly for a reason and fortunately I found an incredible lovely house.
It's close to town and my work place. Also flat mates are really kindly person although I don't understand at all what they're talking about since all of them are from Taiwan.
More than anything, the view from my room is amazing. I can see beautiful sunset from the window.
And many kind of birds which I've never seen before fly around my house. I feel like living in the national park.