3 Steps Pasta Hack Every College Student Should Know ( Meatless - Ready-To-Eat Sauce Edition ) #JoCanCook

Traditional Tomato Linguine ( Plain ) 

No extra salt, herbs, sugar added. 

-Just the ready to eat sauce from Prego and San Remo Linguine-

Traditional Tomato Linguine

 ( same as the first pic but this time, with some boiled broccoli )

Traditional Tomato Linguine

( With some extra basil )  

Traditional Tomato and Mushroom Linguine

 ( With boiled egg )

-Sauce by Papa Alfredo's for this-

Hello, people on the Internet! Feelin' real good to be back hehe. I've been eating a lot of "home-cooked" pastas recently. I had linguine for this week so yeah, as shown in the pictures above.

Hectic week? Don't care cause, I GOT DEM PASTAZ!

Save time, save money and healthier than instant noodles so why not!

If you're reading this just to cook your simple pasta, congrats, you found my entry!

Here we go ~

Ingredients : 

1) Pasta of your choice
2) Sauce of your choice
3) Salt // Pepper // Herbs ( To enhance the taste of your pasta - optional )
4) Olives oil // Garlic Oil

Steps :

1) Bring the pasta of your choice to boil. 

Boiling time varies for different types of pasta. Of the types of pasta that I've tried :

Angel Hair - about <8 mins // Spaghetti <15 mins // Linguine <18 mins

*Pinches of salt can be added to the water if you're afraid that the taste of your pasta might be bland*

While waiting for the pasta, drip a few drips of olive oil // garlic oil onto your plate or bowl. It will prevent the pasta from sticking together.

I love using the garlic oil prepared by my mom for my pasta as there will always be a lot of crunchy garlic crumbs in it. Just imagine eating your plain pasta with those crunchy garlic crumbs *drools*

2) Boil the veges // eggs // anything that you'll like to add to your pasta.

You can boil all these before or even after boiling the pasta. Arrange it at the side of your plate // bowl containing pasta and wait for the last step : heating the sauce.

3) Heat the sauce of your choice.

You can also add extra pepper or salt to the sauce of your choice but what I normally did before heating the sauce is that I'll always add some water to it as I don't like my pasta sauce to be too thick. Just a little, not too much or else the sauce will turn out very watery.

Heating the sauce will take just a few mins. If you're cooking 1-2 portion it will only take you <5 mins to heat the sauce.

After heating, pour the sauce onto your pasta and there you go, you're ready to eat!

I usually did my dishes while waiting, just to save time.
For this whole cooking process, it will only take me +/- 30mins.
From washing to cooking to washing *wink*

 and only 5mins to finish my meal opps 

And yes, might be cooking simple squid ink pasta next // curry laksa pasta with potatoes, Japanese tofu and shrimps // Konlo Pasta ( with traditional Chinese thick soy sauce ) so be sure to comeback and check it out! 

Let me know if this helps. Till next time xx. 

Inner Voice

So, hello people out there! It was two months ago since my previous entry and wow time surely flies, without anyone realising.

A lot of thoughts on my mind and a lot of things happened that caught my attention recently which actually held me back, causing me to think on and on. In the midst of burning midnight oil to finish up my assignments, this inner voice thing suddenly came to mind and I felt that I should blog. Yes, at this hour when almost everyone is asleep. Well wait maybe not, on the other side, from where I am.

"What are the odds of contemplating quotes and good reads while undergoing this stressful month?"

And what's inner voice? 

To be honest, I have no idea. To me, inner voice is just something inside me telling me what should I do at that particular moment or to be exact, what am I feeling on the inside. It could be something like thoughts which just come and go without any signal but this time, it stayed. Inside me. How? 

I don't know. 

 Just a feeling of insecurity.

If you know me in person, you'd actually know that I am not a very confident person. Confidence plays an important role in every individual's life. I knew that but sometimes, I just can't help playing hide and seek with it. Hiding and running away from my problems. As I grew older, this level of confidence just went lower and lower and I can never stop running away from my problems instead of facing it. And, this was also the reason why I can hardly talk to strangers or people that I just met in less than a minute. I don't know about others but whenever I talk to people whom I'm not really close with, I don't feel comfortable. I'm not sure whether that was normal or it was just me being the not-so-confident-me. I will always think what others think about me. Therefore, making the first step in anything will always be the hardest step for me. 

I didn't really realise that my main problem was low in confidence level until my mom told me about it when I told her that I often got the answers for the questions asked in exams at first sight but just because I wasn't sure about it, I always ended up changing my mind and settling it with wrong alternative answers. I also lost marks for my presentations back in the first two semesters or else it would be just perfect and that was also the time when I confirmed that confidence was really my problem. I'm not like this since young but I think failures causes people's confidence level to go down to drain.

There were also time when I really have the urge to do something like entering competitions and etc, I always ended up not doing it.

Anyway, I'm not gonna let this confidence thingy bring me down anymore. I'm trying to overcome my fear to talk to strangers since the beginning of this year and its so far so good! As I'm currently in my extra semester taking extra subjects in college, I've been worrying whether I'll make new friends or not even before the current semester starts as there will be no familiar people taking all these subjects with me.

But after all, there's one thing that I realised, if you don't talk to people and make the first move, you'll never make new friends. Not really never but literally making friends will become harder than what you think if you wait for people to approach you first. So far so good, I'm glad that all the people that I met this semester were really good and caring. Love ya peeps, you know who you are HAHA and hopefully all these current positiveness in me will still be in me till whenever it can *fingercrossed* and NOT loosing any marks more pls! 

Anyway, I've no idea whats the motive of me writing this entry telling the world about my confidence and all. I just felt like writing this. And to the people out there who are reading this. If you have the same problem as the earlier me, forget the scaredy-cat you an move on. ^-^

Life is really too short to even stop and think about what others think about you.
Be you and be happy.

I think I should stop here and stop procrastinating my assignments. Oh and I'm currently looking for ideas to take travel pictures. Share with me if there's a good read or any ideas you'd like to recommend. Looking forward for it and till next time readers! 

Cheers and God bless everyone. <3

清心嶺休闲文化村 Qing Xin Ling Leisure & Cultural Village

So, right before 2015 end, I got to spend one of the afternoons with my family and we went to this cultural village which was pretty cool and picture worthy! The entrance fee was only RM 6 and you'll get to see // experience so many things at once so it was quite worth it and reasonable for me. I really really recommend this place if you're looking for a place that is perfect for sightseeing and to experience or to know more about how and what people do in the olden days.

Managed to snap only these few pictures cause was wearing short skirt that day and couldn't climb all the way up!  

So..till next time.

-XOXO-

Entering 2016

Happy New Year peeps out there. Hope y'all are entering 2016 with great vibes! Took all these pictures during my last minute ; unplanned island countdown.

Side note, Chinese New Year is approaching peepos hmm

Still remember the day when I had all these at my fifth aunt's house here in Kuala Lumpur, when they invited me over for lunch as my CNY break for that semester was super short and we had a mini gathering at her house. Thank God, the coming CNY break worth 9 days long!! So happy that I get spend my CNY with my family until 初八 ( Chu ba ;  The eighth day of CNY as CNY last for 15 days in the lunar calendar ). Well, at least yes and yes, this entry is super super impromptu. So.. till next time peeps!


Have a great year ahead everyone <3

Freshman Year

So yeah, hi all. I'm currently on my three months break and so, I've got plenty of time to spend or in other words, plenty of time to blog. In the blink of an eye, everything is coming to an end or well almost everything will eventually comes to an end right. One whole year of being a freshman in college was really fun, exciting and tiring. College is a place for us to learn, to have fun and to meet new friends.

I really learned a lot this whole year in college besides the syllabus lol. About life, about people and their life, relationships and also a lot about myself.

The beginning of college life was really tough for me as I am the type of person who don't really know how to socialize or to simply bring up some topics to start to talk to people. I will always wait till people approach me sorry lol. It was really really different from high school where almost 80% of the people you met in school were the people that you're familiar with since young.

Anyhow, I'm proud to say that I'm really lucky to have met some really good and understanding friends in college. I love everyone that I met in college yay!! They're all so nice and friendly!! To some of you whom we overcame stress together, learned almost everything together, had fun together, and even some road trips together. Whenever I faced problem with my assignments/homework, I'm glad that you guys were always there to help me. Thank you peeps if you're reading this or not. Thank you from the bottom of my heart yo and not forgetting yo seniors who contributed marks to almost all of my projects lol yes. Thank you!!

I'm keeping all the photos of my freshman year all to myself so not posting it here yes. Ending my entry here so till then, see ya peeps.

-XOXO- 

MTV World Stage 2015

The weather and the condition of the haze that day was really bad but the queue was much more crazier. I went at 12 noon with my friends but they will only let us in at half past four in the afternoon so we waited under the sun for hours just to get a good spot for the concert later. The concert started at half past eight in the evening and thank god we got a good spot for the concert. We thought we were crazy when we went at 12 noon but people were already queuing since 7 in the morning! It was a great experience for me yay. Got to see Sekai No Owari, APink, Carly Rae Japsen and also Jason Derulo performing LIVE like right in front of me! Whats better than this omg but missed the chance of taking a photo with Benjamin Kheng from The Sam Willows sigh. Alright, let the photos do the talk!

((PC - Audrey))

Didn't get to take a proper picture with Audrey though.

Escaped from the crowd as we almost died dehydrated lol but still enjoyed good music from the back!

-Not forgetting outfit of the night-

Crazy crowd that night!! 

(( Picture source : MTV Asia )

Alright, ending my entry here as the pictures summed up almost everything hehe. Cheers!

Revert One Four '14 and half '15

Basically for me, a day before my birthday is a day of reflection. It's a day when I reflect all the things that I've done in the past. And yes, I'm continuing this entry now which is almost six  months since the first sentence of this entry. Sorry tho. I was busy preparing for college and stuffs. Besides, it was also because I changed my course intake which I initially applied, March, to January. Reasons? I'll keep it for myself hehe and I can just tell you now that I actually gave up my three months holiday and applied for an earlier intake *sigh. And right after college starts, I was really really busy with all the work and assignments, presentations, mock exams and stuffs and also making sure that I'm catching up the syllabus. *doublesigh* T_T

And now I finally have some time to spare, sitting down peacefully to blog while listening to some ballads cause it's finally semester break.

Alright,  I should stop blabbering right now grr.

2014 has been a really great year. It was fantabulous (( fantastic+fabulous yo )). 

 Life as a SPM candidate wasn't easy but anyhow that was the past and let the photos do the talk yo.

Desk mate in the middle.

"Let's pee"

Saw this picture in the my thumb drive and found it kinda funny lol and the photo caption immediately came to mind. And no, I'm not from a girl school but I lost my other photos. Therefore, you don't see any complete class photo yo.

Ended my term as the band conductor. To be honest, I really didn't expect that I will have the chance to be our school band conductor. At the beginning of my term as a conductor, it was really really hard for me to learn everything. I even thought of giving up. I started from zero by learning how to conduct, how to read the conductor score and even how to guide the band members. Everything from the beginning. At that time, I think I was totally stressed out. The situation at that time was like how babies were introduced to their first ABC. I still remember, I even spent most of my spare time watching Youtube videos to get tips and ideas on how to conduct a band instead of doing revision. However, learning everything from beginning made me believed that nothing is impossible. I've learnt that whenever we tried to do something, we will always get something beneficial in return. Just to bear in mind that we will always need to try to achieve something. All thanks to the school band, I'm proud to say, I overcame my stage fright because of all the performances in public, I can now read the conductor score and conduct， not very well but at least I tried and lastly thanks to the band, I've learnt to work as a team. Team work is really important in no matter what we do. 

Sorry. This is life. Life as an Editorial Board member hehe. We get to skip classes. As a student, whats better than skipping classes?? Recess perhaps?? Right??? I think I'm right lol. Don't deny ah I know one hahaha. After all, I realized that our priority to skip class wasn't really beneficial though! Cause whenever we skipped classes, it literally meant the chances to listen to the teacher who was teaching in class *poofs* down the drain it went. And also, whenever we skipped a class, it also meant that we' were rushing tonnes of unfinished work to be sent to the publisher in the lab. yes. life. thug life hahaha jokes. I enjoyed every seconds of my life in the Editorial Board. I've learnt a lot, like the process of publishing a magazine and how it works and how people managed to do this and that and what would people do to get an article to be published and stuffs. I also finally understood the Chinese phrase  "台上一秒钟，台下十年功"  lol you google yourself if you cannot read leh sorry.

大家一起学华语之女王们

(大家一起学华语 means learning Chinese or to be exact, Mandarin, together. It is the name of our group chat since form 3 and I'm really glad it is still active now yay. 之女王们 basically means the Queens. The Queens in the group chat lol lame but whatever as long as I'm happy with it. ^-^ ) 

Complete 大家一起学华语！Thick and thins, happy and sorrow, big and small, tall and short, fat but cute lollol what is this dont care hahaha . I'm really happy that we all went through it all together! Thank you for existing 大家一起学华语！Love you brothers and sisters from another mommy! 

Pizza mates. Cutie 3.14159 s. 

Friends of more that 10 years and counting, friends who their family members knew who am I and my family members knew who are they. Friends whom I can remember their house telephone number since primary just that they cant remember mine. yes sad. Friends whom I can count on and tell them anything without worrying that they will back stab me. Friends who are there for me whenever I'm down and share almost everything that happened around them. Not to forget, they're incredible great listeners! Love them to the moon and back and also proud to call them as my best friends.

I also went to the Pangkor Island Festival which was quite happening.

Concert of local singers, artists and local geniuses by the beach.They stage was on the sea and its really cool! They were having this kind of festival to somehow bring up the popularity of the island and to promote work of the local artists. It was really fun. 

Artwork of local artist outside a local coffee shop. The best place to recommend for a coffee fix and some toast.

 While waiting for the concert and unfortunately it rained. We were there two hours earlier cause we kiasu don't wanna sit behind and wanna enjoy the concert in ultra high-definition.

Another piece of artwork ft yours truly. 

 View of that night. We were really enjoying every sec in ultra HD until a troop of monkeys from no where appeared and sat directly in front of us but then we did nothing la cause monkeys also kiasu and sharing is caring also ahahah.

And yes. I haven't finish but its almost 2.30 am now. Gotta go sleep before anyone wakes and whack me ah. Tell me if you enjoyed reading this ah. I need feedback. Signing out, and thanks for reading! Hope to hear from you guys soon. Night, world. :)