A Real Christmas Tree at Home

What a surprise when I arrived home today. A real Christmas tree stands in front of me and welcomes me home. While I was entering the apartment, I saw many pine needles on the floor. I wonder, which neighbour bought a Christmas tree. I noticed pine needles all the way to my apartment. A nice pungent smell once I opened the door. Richard bought a real Christmas tree. He bought it from sales at near by petrol station. Now, we need to spend some time to get some Christmas decorations. I felt the Christmas is coming soon.

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Django Site: Ivan Teoh – Lab

Finally, lab site is created using Django framework. Lots of readings in order of the success of this site. Two Django applications, Django-Mingus and Pinax, are the inspiration of my site. I also went through HTML5 Boilerplate, some best practices on web development. Currently the site consists one main page. Later, more projects will be shared.

Cooking: Coconut and Strawberry Agar Agar Pie

Tonight we are trying very unique combination, agar agar on top of pie crust. The agar agar is strawberry favoured with coconut agar on top. It tastes very nice. Salty at the bottom. Fruity sweetness in the middle and coconut on top.

Cooking: Chicken in Spicy Tomato Sauce

Today we decided to improve our cooking skill again. After searching at Kuali site, we decide to cook Malaysian dish, Chicken in Spicy Tomato Sauce. We reduce the quantity of dried chilli to half which is 25g. We still think it is too hot for us. We think we should used 15g in the future. In this recipe, we need to get candle nut. I never heard about it till now. Luckily we managed to get it in china town. We get the rest of the ingredients in Paddy market. Anyway, the recipe is very delicious, but just a bit too spicy for us.

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First post from Australia

First of all, I would like apologies for being silent since March 2010. I was busy settling down in Australia.

I was in Hobart for the first months. Temporally, I was staying in Joel’s place. The school semester won’t start till July. In order to survive, I was helping my friends in MoMo Bubble Tea shop and Napoletana Pizzeria and Pasta house. While helping in the shops, I met lots of nice people in town. Anita, Daniel, just to mention a few. Through word of mouth, I aware that some of the IT companies were hiring on that time. After few interviews, I ended up working as contract software developer in Getbusi. Due to the contract, I missed the school term again. I am not sure whether I am giving myself an excuse or I just don’t want to study in the first place.

Exactly first of August, I move to Sydney and tried try my luck on job hunting. Again, I got another contract programmer in Copyright Limited Agency starting 30th of August. At first, I was staying in backpacker hostel called X Base during job hunting. After I got my first job in Sydney, I slowly searched for a place to stay. End up, I am sharing a place with another house mate, Richard, in North Sydney starting first of October. Since my work place is located in CBD, I am traveling to work by bus everyday across the harbour bridge. Till now, I still can’t believe I am actually living and working at down under. Well, life just continues.

Beside limited Internet access before I moved to North Sydney, the main reason, I did not update my blog is I am in the process on transfering this blog from WordPress to a blog powered by Django. Starting a new blog by Django was easy. The hardest part was the effort on transferring the database from WordPress to Django with hundred of pictures that were managed by third party WordPress plugin. The whole idea was doomed when WordPress mobile application for Nokia is developed. Personally, I felt more motivated when I am got an handy publishing tools in my Nokia 5800. Now I can post anytime anywhere. No more excuse. This does not stop me for not being self practising on Django framework. Later, I will develop a Django site that hosts all my works that I would like to share with you guys. WordPress will be my blog platform and Django framework is my works sharing tool.

Last but not least, I would like to share some of my snapshots of my life in Australia. More to come. Stay tuned. Nice weather today. Getting ready to go out soon.

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