The 100 week project

One of my favorite photo.
A boy and his dog in Kingston market

My friend, Rima and I both love taking photos and she told me about the project called "The 100 Week". It was on the Oct 1st-7th, 2012 that we had to use a disposable camera to record our life during the week. So we went to a store called Tiger to buy one camera to start our little project. We took pictures together sometimes and also separately. But there was something wrong with my camera that it was stuck when it still had 3 or 4 more shots.

Finally we went for developed our film today and it's so expensive! I won't do it again here. It comes out only 20 pictures. Because it's not digital, you have to think before you shoot. There's no second chance actually. When I look at the pictures, I still can remember what I thought at that time! Even I still remember the last photo I took was in the Lodon tube, but it doesn't make it because the camera was stuck.

Here they are! And I'll write the story behind each of them later on~

Cloudy,rainy day through my window

Repair for the building?

Knights Park campus' Gallery

An old man

Sun shine!!!

I think that's my finger with the moist window

Mothers' Love

Cross over

Kingston upon Thames!

   

On the Kingston Bridge

  

Light and Dark

Happinese

Saturday Kingston Market

At Somerset House

Kingston Market again

Video Chat

Good morning!

Park

Summer project

It's hard for me…

The design I saw on London Design Festival.
The shape is just like what i feel right now…

It's hard for me to deal with English conversation all day,especially reading English text books on unfamiliar topics.
My brain will be stock with lots of error outputs or unknown inputs.
Then, how can I manage to debate with others in English…
I am not intimidated by tutors or project brief but my poor English.
Well, look at the bright side that there are more than 2/3 of students come from Asia.
And most of the students are international.

Recipe Tuesday: Bolognese Pasta (義大利肉醬麵）

義大利肉醬麵

沒想到很快的又過了一週...
每次都會有這樣的驚覺不太好，
不是因為太忙而是一點都不像開學了...
英國人做事非常沒有效率，包括辦學。
所以目前為止，我們只拿到了其中一堂的課程大綱，
真正的分組要等下星期二才會知道（吧？）


來到英國之後，目前學到最多的就是“等待”
從機場接送就開始了，因為當時在機場呆坐了五個小時左右...
註冊時看著他們動線設計不良，上課感覺沒有做好完整事前規劃之類的，
這種時候的等待，就會讓你覺得很扯！
但是跟自身利益相關的東西，他們是不會等人、也沒得妥協的～
所以，來這裡除了要克服語言的障礙之外，還要懂得保護自己，
堅定立場、據理力爭是很重要的，當然只有白紙黑字才能保護自己。
可是這說起來簡單，換成是英文那是多麼不容易阿！



Recipe: 義大利肉醬麵

1. 將洋蔥、大蒜、蕃茄、蘑菇和一些甜椒切塊。
2. 用奶油（或是橄欖油）先將大蒜和洋蔥炒到有點半透明，放入甜椒，再放入豬和牛絞肉，記得把絞肉炒開，不然會粘在一起。（在這我只使用豬肉，還是不要吃牛肉比較好）
3. 當大部份的絞肉都有上色了，就把蘑菇和番茄放入，悶蓋煮一下，小心不要燒焦了！
4. 放入市售的意大利番茄醬，份量是至少食材都要浸在番茄汁裡頭。 當然也可以用番茄罐頭再自己調味，只是我懶惰而且沒有開罐器，這樣方便許多，只是看味道你喜不喜歡就是了。
5. 熬煮個20分鐘左右讓他收汁入味，再來煮把義大利麵就完成啦！

Recipe: Bolognese Pasta

1. Chop some onion, garlics, tomatoes, mushrooms and color peper.
2. Use butter or olive oil to stir-fry the garlic and onion first. Then put ground beef and pork after color peper and cook it till most of the meat get the color on.
3. Put tomatoes and mushrooms in and the lid on the pan. Let it cook for a while till the meat is well done. Make sure don't burn your sauce！
4. Use the tomato sauce can from supermarket to flavor it. You can choose any brands and flavor you like. Or you can just add make your own tomato sauce! The amount is at least cover all your ingredients. 
5. Cook 20 mins more to condense the sauce. And you can serve with your pasta!

Recipe Tuesday: Chicken soup with noodle (雞湯麵之大同電鍋第一炊)

不用一直站在廚房煮東西的方便雞湯！

沒想到一下又過了一個星期，而昨天也終於開始上課了，

不過這週還只是introduction week，好戲還在後頭呢！

雖然大部份上課或是生活上的英文對話沒有什麼問題，

但是通常要一整天下來才會發現，那真的是很耗腦力的...

因為只要有聽不懂的地方，就會在腦袋中打上一個小結，當小結們越積越多，

如果不讓腦袋休息或是重開機，那可是會讓我當機的...

而在正式上課之前，參加了學校的一個短期課程，只有連續四天，
課程結束後的隔天又剛好參加了另一項活動，

總之連續五天”整天“的英文生活，真的是累壞了...

往好處想～我的英文會進步的！！！（淚）

原本想說多練習一下英文，順便記錄一下在英國的煮飯生活，
但漸漸可能趨向還是寫中文就好，腦力不足呀～

希望我的星期二食譜還可以持續下去！ 

才第二週就在想這件事...不行！我要持之以恆啊！

Recipe: 大同電鍋-雞湯麵

1. 基本上就是雞腿先用檸檬汁、鹽、胡椒、橄欖油和香料先腌一下下。
2. 再將大部份的食材先炒一下，包括大蒜、洋蔥、紅蘿蔔和馬鈴薯，雞腿也要煎一下讓外表上色。
3. 在大同電鍋的內鍋中放入薑片、蕃茄以及炒過的食材之後，加水至至少淹過所有食材，就可以放入電鍋中煮囉！
4. 等湯煮好之後再另外煮麵就可以了！是不是很方便又很簡單呢！

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Recipe: Chicken soup with noodle

1. Cut the carrot, and potatoes about bite-sized.
2. Prepare some garlic, ginger slice, a tomato cut in 4, and chopped onion.
3. Season your chicken with some lemon juice, olive oil, salt and peper. If you want, you can have some mix herb, too. 
4. Stir-fry the garlic and onion first, then put your chicken in (without the sauce). Till both side of chicken are get the brown color, add carrot and potatoes.
5. Put ginger, tomato and the chicken seasoning sauce in the inner pot of Tatung cooker. Then put all the ingredients you've cooked into the inner pot, too.
6. Pour water in till cover all the ingredients and you can add some fresh Basil.
7. Turn the cooker on and you can go shopping for a while.
8. When it comes close to the dinner time, you just need to prepare your noodles and chicken soup is already done!
   
   p.s. If it's not salty enough, you can add some salt at last.