080808 Olympic is in China!!!

After watching and reading months of Olympic related news, programs, commercials, advertisements, finally, its going to have the Opening Ceremony tonite.

Personally, i am not fancy with sports, therefore, i don't really followed the news a lot and i don't remember i ever watched any Olympic's opening before through TV. But, this year, i am at China-the country where Olympic will be held, i am very much influenced by those TV programs especially TV commercials. Advertisers have cleverly relate their products, no matter what it is or whether they are the official sponsors, to Olympic by sports, year 2008 and Beijing. That's keep reminding me of it.

I am looking forwards to the "Opening" and because of its secrecy, until now, people are not sure what will be on the Opening Ceremony. As a Malaysian Chinese, i wish it is held with consummation. Cheers Beijing! Cheers China!

My favorite song of Olympic Beijing "Beijing Welcome You".

The Official Mascots of Beijing Olympic 2008

The other day, a friend told me that there is a rumour. People said this is an eventful year for China especially many disasters had happened because of the Olympic Mascots-Fuwa. They have relates the disasters to each of the mascot.

Beibei, the fish is related to the serious flood happened in Guangdong Province. Although the flood happen every year, but they said this year is the most serious. Even my friend's hometown in Guangdong Province where never flooded before also affected this year.

Jingjing, the panda is being related to the serious earthquake during May in Sichuan Province because it is the hometown of pandas. It has caused a great tragedy.

Yingying, the Tibetan antelope is the Tibetan Rebellion on March.

Nini, the swallow has brought the heavy snow during spring and causing lots of people being trapped on the way back to hometown for Chinese New Year.

Lastly, because there is no other huge event, they funnily relates Huanhuan, the Olympic Flame which is the fire to a train crashed in Xi'an, because train is called "fire car-huo che" in Chinese.

Referring to all the four above, it seems quite "logic" and sound ridiculous to the last one. Therefore, some of the people is worrying something big related to "fire" will happened later.

To me, i am thinking why not relates it in a good way. Since Huanhuan is the Olympic Flame, it could means the moment the "flame" being light up in the Opening Ceremony tonite, its the beginning of good times for China! And wherever it shines, its the wishful blessing of Chinese people to the world!

Steamed Chocolate Cake!

My steamed chocolate cake look like chinese "fa gao" huh? hehehhe.....

The original recipe of the cake is actually "moist chocolate cake", but it says could be steamed. So, i tried as steamed because i have no oven here and it turn out to be like that....I actually have amended some of the ingredients which i don't have in my cabinet, and it tastes ok, thought it look like chinese "fa gao"! :D

Ingredients:-

~1 1/2 cup flour

~1/4 teaspoon salt

~1 cup water

~4 tablespoons oil

~1 cup sugar

~1 teaspoon baking powder

~3 tablespoons cocoa powder (i have substituted with "Vico")

Steps:-

Mixed all ingredients in mixing bowl until blended.

Put the mixture aside for a while, meantime boiled water in the steamer.

Steamed the cake for 20 mins or until a tester inserted in the center of the cake can come out clean (depending on the steamer, i have spend 30min for steaming).

PS:-

~will tastes better if added chocolate chips or nuts.

buying books online...

Recently found a local website where i could buy books, Amazon China....but i wonder it's the same company as Amazon.com. Anyhow, some of the books really cheap and it states all of the books are the original copy.

I have bought 2 books of my favourite writer. The price are really cheap, cheaper than those "pirated" copy sold in Malaysia. It seems to be an original copy from the publisher, although the paper quality not that good. But i think because of that, they could sell at a cheaper price. Better to buy an original than a pirated!

On the other hand, i bought the books during it's promotion period, therefore, there is no delivery charges! And the delivery is really fast. Plus, the service of paying upon delivered!

I told hubby i can start being a bookworm again....hahaha....no need to wait till he has time accompany me to bookstore. Opps...will i become the so call "house girl"?

Ikea SZ

We went to Ikea Store SZ on Sunday. This is the 2nd times we went since it's opening on April. Really feels great to shop there. Everything seems so familiar from the moment we steps into the store, the design, the decoration, the service, the whole atmosphere, just like Ikea Malaysia.

However, Ikea SZ is much much more crowded. There is lots of people everywhere, the restaurant, showrooms, toilets. We have to be very careful with the trolley so that we won't crashed into people. Especially at the dishware division, keep hearing glass broken noise.

Me and hubby had a nice Swedish meal at the restaurant. (Foods again! no wonder our weight couldn't reduce.....hahahhaha.....)

Overall, it's nice to have Ikea Store here at SZ. Because both me and hubby just love to shop at household store, although most items we don't really needs here.