about my past and future

Before you know it, our semester will be finish soon. I enjoy all the time with my teachers and classmates, they always give their encouragement to me. These days are my happiest time in my life, I will remember all of you.

About my future, I have a lot of plan . But I know if I want let them come true, English is the important thing. So I will continue my Enlish class at TAFE when I start my Accounting course.That would be a bit hard for me, beacuse I will be busy even it's weekend. But it's worth to try.

I love this country since I saw it at my first time, I'm not only learning useful language but also some real meaning about life from people who live here. In fact, I had some very terrible memories in the past several years,that's why I left my country last year. I thought I will have more happiness at here, but then I finally know- the real happiness should be come from my heart, it depends on myself.

So if you want change your life, you just can do it by yourself.

Anyway, as people said: Every cloud has a silver lining. I wish everyone will have a good life they want . Hope all of you have a bright future in this lively country.

Gong Bao Ji Ding

Gong Bao Ji Ding

Ingredients
2 (about 2/3pound total): boneless chicken breasts, without skin

3: garlic cloves and an equivalent amount of fresh ginger

5: scallions, white parts only

2 tablespoons: peanut oil
A generous handful of dried red chiles (at least 10),

preferably Sichuanese

1 teaspoon: whole Sichuan pepper

FOR THE MARINADE
1/2 teaspoon : salt
2 teaspoons: light soy sauce
1 teaspoon: Shaoxing rice wine or medium-dry sherry
1 or 1/2 teaspoons: potato flour or 2 1/4 teaspoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon : water

FOR THE SAUCE
3 teaspoons : sugar
3/4 teaspoon : potato flour, or 1 1/8 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon: dark soy sauce
1 teaspoon: light soy sauce
3 teaspoons : Chinkiang or black Chinese vinegar
1 teaspoon : sesame oil
1 tablespoon: chicken stock or water

Method
1. Cut the chicken(no skin) as evenly as possible into 1/2-inch strips and then cut these into small cubes. Place in a small bowl and mix in the marinade ingredients.
2. Peel and thinly slice the garlic and ginger, and chop the scallions into chunks as long as their diameter (to match the chicken cubes). Snip the chiles in half or into 2-inch sections.

3. Combine the sauce ingredients in a small bowl — if you dip your finger in, you can taste the sweet-sour base of the gong bao flavor.
4. Season the wok, then add 2 tablespoons of oil and heat over a high flame. When the oil is hot but not yet smoking, add the chiles and Sichuan pepper and stir-fry briefly until they are crisp and the oil is spicy and fragrant. Take care not to burn the spices (you can remove the wok from the heat if necessary to prevent overheating).
5. Quickly add the chicken and fry over a high flame, stirring constantly. As soon as the chicken cubes have separated, add the ginger, garlic, and scallions and continue to stir-fry for a few minutes until they are fragrant and the meat is cooked through (test one of the larger pieces to make sure).
6. Give the sauce a stir and add it to the wok, continuing to stir and toss. As soon as the sauce has become thick and shiny, add the peanuts, stir them in, and serve.



Calories from Fat 158 (28%)
Calories from Carbohydrate 0 (0%)
Calories from Protein 399 (72%)
Calories from Alcohol 0 (0%)

If I could be an animal, I would be a cat.

If I could be an animal, I would be a cat. Because cats are very lovely, funning, tidy and quiet animals. They can sleeping on the their own bed, or on the owner's leg. When they feel boring, they can go to garden or climb other neighborhood's roof, even swiming in a swiming pool in Summer, they looking forward freedom, and keep their favourite hobby.
But if cat needn't eat rat ,I will be very pleasure to would be a cat.

About Waratah

Waratah

Floral Emblem of New South Wales
Telopea speciosissima, was proclaimed the official floral emblem of New South Wales on 24 October 1962. Robert Brown (1773-1858) named the genus Telopea in 1810 from specimens collected in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

The Waratah is a stout, erect shrub which may grow to 4 metres. The dark green leathery leaves, 13-25 cm in length, are arranged alternately and tend to be coarsely toothed. The flowers are grouped in rounded heads 7 to 10 cm in diameter surrounded by crimson bracts, about 5 to 7 cm long. It flowers from September to November and nectar-seeking birds act as pollinators. Large winged seeds are released when the brown leathery pods split along one side.

my holiday

In two past weeks, it was raining all day long, usually boring. We can't go to park, library, shopping centre, and so on. I just stayed at home and watched DVD.
I still remeber one of these moives, it was give me a very strong memory. It's a an old moive "Bruce Alxmighty", it said a unlucky man always complained everything around him, he want to get success in his career,but He found others who were not as nice as him got more chances than he got.
He was very angry and complained the God didn't give him the luck he want.
One day, God desided to give him some power, so that he can use this power to do everything. In the begining the man was very happy, because he could change everything. Sometimes he enjoyed it very much.
However, he found this job was not so easy as he thought, it's a very hard work. As a God, he must answer everyone's question all time.
In the end, he gave up this job, because he found God didn't have real power. If someone wants change completely his life, he only can do it by himself.
That means --Real power is in your own hands.
This is a very nice moive, because it told me that God always make a fair decision, he give everyone the same chance, but if you don't want miss every chance, you must try your best to do everything.

Harvest Moon Festival

In China, we have many national festivals, like Chinese New Year,Labour's Day, National Day and so on. We often do something special for these holidays. But Harvest Moon Festival is my favorite holiday. At the time of the full moon, it's usually 15th August in luner canlendar, people gathered at their homes for dinner, then each family member ate moon cakes, that are special round cookies.People usually eat it at the Harvest Moon Festival, you can't find it in supermarket when it's not right time. It's very delicious.If the sky was clear, my family always sit around the backyard, while enjoying the moon cakes and admiring the full moon. Sometimes my pareants told me some mythes about moon. Moon symbolize beautiful, kindhearted, diligence in China, everyone should be appreciate Moon, beacuse it brings us the light in all night.

Harmony day

Harmony Day is very strange holiday for me before I came to here. I'm very curious about it.

So many people come form different counties, and they bring their culture,their hobbies, and their different everything. In this new country, everyone need learn more new things, and want to keep their own culture, that's a problem. Because sometimes different culture have many opposite direction.We should respect other culture and religion if we want have a peaceful life.

We have been invited to a breakfast on Harmony Day in TAFE hall, and three people make their speech, they have been living here several years, and they came from different countries, but they're enjoy their new life very much, this is the biggest point that they are same.

I feel I have a new large family when we stood and sang "we are one" together, and I'm very happy that I'm one member of the large family.

When I came home, I put some orange flowers in my house, this is my first Harmony Day, it was unforgotten .

Homework

If you study at TAFE, and have a TAFE card, you can come to TAFE library.
You need to bring TAFE card .And you can borrow six books or four video/CD at one time.
You can keep these bookooks two weeks, and borrow these videos for one week.
If you can't return these items in time, You can renew these items. When you want renew these items, you should be make a telephone call to library.You can renew items twice. You can search the library catalogue from home, use the internet.You can't returen books after-hour.
The library is open at 9am-8pm from Monday to Tursday, it is open at 9am-6pm on Friday
You use your TAFE card make photocopies or print from one of the library computers, but first you should be recharge it.Copying costs $0.2 one time.If you are Student Association member, you can get 20% discount about made photocopies or print from one of the library computers. You can borrow books from other TAFE libraries with your TAFE card.

Autumn is coming.

It's begining to Autumn, I think it may be cold very soon,so we went to beach yesterday. We think this is our last time to swiming in sea. But we are luck, because it was sunny day for swiming.

The sunshine was very strong,althought the season is Autumn. But the sea was very cold, I worn the sunscreen and do the same with my daughter. She was excited to play on the sand, she always enjoy play sand with other children. She can't speak English enough, but they can change their ideas, most of time they use body language. That's very funning.

barbucue

Yesterday we went to Royal National Park. We spotted a new excellent place for barbecue.
It's near a river,and there are so many trees around there,and there are several nearly new barbucue cooker. That's where I want, so I decided stay here immediately.

I brought some steaks, some wings, some vegetables, seasonings and so on, but unexpected I forgotten brought cooking oil. I ask for some oil from a other person, he is very friendly and give my some oil. I ask him"Is this your first time to go to here?" He said,"no, I went to here when I was a young boy."Oh,he looks like nearly forty.

The barbucue cooker is extremely easy to use. All you have to do is just press that green button,it's certainly free. I prepared some coins as someone told me it's not free to use the barbucue cooker, Ha...

The weather was very good, no hot means no black fly, but when I left my plate to do something, just a minute,a bird who may be waiting for a long time took a steak,then it stay on tree and look at me,maybe it want to have a special lunch,too.

When we finished our lunch, we laied on the side of the river, I looked the blue sky and white cloud,of course and the bird, it looks like enjoy its lunch.I'm glad it think so.

Anyway, it's a great day. I love roasting outside.

super liner

I went to Sydney harbor last Sunday, I saw two super liners---"Queen Victoria"and "QE2". They have been berthed there. Their horns are very loudly, and when they moved past, they sounded their horns loudly in salute to each other. These super liners are the biggest I have ever seen.
everyone is excited about those liners, and take many photographes,They were waved to the people who stand up the deck.
Of course, policeman can't enjoy it,because they must do something what it is more important. I saw there are more than ten helicopters fly around Sydney Harbar. So,this also is my first time to see so many helicopters in the same place at the same time.

That was unforgotten.