charlotte, me and annie at pancake manor
i ate the ultimate meal which had 2 cream cheese filled crepes topped with vanilla ice cream and strawberry sauce.. YUMMY!!!
mine is at the far end with the vanilla ice cream although i am sitting at the left corner..we exchanged the plates cos 2 similar dishes side by side didn look nice. the 2 similar dishes are chicken and pineapple crepes and the other one is rich hot chocolate pancake with icing, cherry and chocolate ice cream
actually, i regret to say i am no longer as health conscious as before..yup, i do eat my hi fibre wholemeal bread, low fat milk, muesli, sushi, tuna, potatoes, tomatoes, fruits and lettuce..but my cravings always bug me when i am stressed..this means eating chips with gravy, beef pie, LOTS of ice cream, cakes, pastries, beef rolls, fast food, lasagna and lots of outside-cooked pasta...
beef lasagna slice from stones corner village where i went for my job interview
so, yixin, when u say tt i will lose weight, i doubt i can ever attain what you said at the rate i am going.. =( tts precisely why i admire ur discipline! hmm..which is what i seriously lack...oh well~
tt aside, i have learnt to eat more veggies and experimenting with more salad options.. i have learnt to eat red cabbage and carrots although they must be uncooked and eaten with fruits or other stuff tt i find "edible"..haha..this is the transition stage which may be very long but i hope to get out of it sum day with more practise? hee.. i'm happie to say tt eating capsicum has successfully "graduated" from this transition stage and i can now easily eat it alone..
lettuce with zucchini topped with peach slices and fruit and nut muesli
classic salad mix topped with orange slices and muesli
veggies are very expensive in australia and the prices rise very frequently which makes me wonder why..thought inflation's only a big prob in less developed countries such as Mexico, Argentina and Brazil..well..
also, to add to my list of pasta dishes..here comes,
BANANA AND MASHED POTATO PENNE TOPPED WITH MIXED HERBS
--i absolutely love this dish tt i cooked it twice in 2 days! haha~
my April disappearance shd warrant some explanation too i guess..
my community development subject is the course i love the most cos it's reali what i hope to do next time--to manage and facilitate development programs in third world countries and work with relevant NGOs to better the lives of local communities..
this course has a huge project worth 60% of our final grade--20% for our presentation and 40% for our written proposal. we have various development options to choose from, ranging from gender, economic, natural resource management, indigenous communities, youth and urban and rural migration. i chose the natural resource management option.
we are then given a real life situation tt requires our intervention as NGO facilitators and we have to present our thinking process which would be guiding us in the project implementation.
my partner, jacqui and i were given a case study of the central visayas region in the philippines whereby overfishing by commercial fishermen using destructive methods have led to depletion of fish stocks, of which the locals are dependent upon. the local government wants to implement a marine sanctuary to protect the area and prevent overfishing but locals feel that this would unfairly stop them from fishing totally--their livelihood, while not prohibiting illegal commercial fishermen who have the ability to evade regulations.
we are asked to devise ways of ensuring the marine sanctuary implementation is effective and addresses the interests of all the relevant stakeholders.
the whole april has been spent researching on fishery and marine management stuff..i pity my eyes and laptop for their contribution in the above major task (",)..it's reali tiring but i enjoy doing it and have learnt alot, which would definitely help me in the future =)
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