Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Spring Break, my Blog's 1st Anniversary and Randomness

Today
I'm so tired right now! Right now I'm having a week of spring break and it's been a blast. I'm having so much fun just relaxing and not worrying about school...I should be studying for my AP's though, maybe in a few days. Anyway, today I woke up, rode my bike to work, came back home, ate lunch, went shopping, baked a sponge cake, and had a dinner cooked by my grandma with my extended family. At the dinner, I played wii at my cousins' house and I had so much fun. I can't believe it's already Wednesday though. Only a few more days of break is left!!

College and these past few weeks
These past few weeks I haven't been blogging as much, but I'm going to blog more now I think. I have way too many half-written backlogs. Recently, I just got all my decisions from colleges and I know where I'm going to go now. Although it wasn't my first choice and I was a bit disappointed when I got rejected to my top choice, I'm also thankful that I was rejected from my top choice school. Because now, the school that I'm going to go to is closer to home and if I wanted to, I can visit home every weekend to see my family (maybe even do a bit of baking :D) While waiting for the decisions, I wasn't worried because I knew everything was in God's hands and that He would take care of everything for me. :D Even if I got rejected from this one school, a few years later when I look back I will see what a great decision it was for me to go to the other school.

My Blog
I am so behind in blogging. I am baking much faster than I can post. Here's a "glimpse" of what I still have to post about:

giant double chocolate chip cookies
rotiboys
pita bread
chocolate layer cake
sponge cake
peach buns
cinnamon swirl bread
and a few more...

I also apologize for not posting the recipe for my mom's taro nian gao. After posting the first few nian gao recipes, too much time passed and I forgot how she made it. :/ I'll post it up one day, hopefully, when I get the correct recipe and better pictures.

Today is my blog's first b-day! I never knew blogging could be so fun. It all started when I first discovered a blog one day when I was just searching for a recipe. Discovering one blog slowly led to discovering another blog and another one. After a while, I decided that I should make my own blog too. :) I am so glad I did that. Now because of my blog, I have been able to make many friends among the blogging community. Thank you everyone for supporting me. :) I have so much to learn from everyone. I hope I can still update this blog frequently in college.

My backyard
Since it's already spring, I want to share pictures of the flowers in my backyard.

I also have these flowers in my backyard, but my friend "K" dropped by one day and gave me these flowers. She made my day! :)

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These are called wisteria and they only bloom once a year. What's sad is that after rain showers all the flowers drop to the ground. It took many, many years for this vine to grow so tall.

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These are my flowers. Flowers that I planted years and years ago. They always show up annually because they develop new bulbs each year.

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My aunt gave us this little purple flower and it grew into this big bunch of flowers...I don't know what it's name is though.

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Ok, thanks for making it this far. :D Have a good day everyone.

9 comments:

  1. Happy birthday to your blog! :D :D
    When do you start college?? Does that mean that when you start you won't be baking as much? :( I hope you still keep updating! You have so many pretty flowers! I tried growing veggies a couple of years ago, but failed :D

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  2. Happy Blogaversary, Esther. So, spring is in the air. Hope you'll enjoy every single moment of it. Have fun!
    Blessings, Kristy

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  3. Happy blog birthday! And beautiful pictures :)

    Scott

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  4. hi happy 1st blog birthday! you mentioned that you work? casual work you mean? i understand what you mean by baking fast more that you can post and i think more than you can eat too! I am also very glad that i started my blog to be ablt to know another great bunch of friends and you'er one of them! enjoy your break!

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  5. Hey Esther
    Happy anniversary. The flowers are so lovely and cheerful :)

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  6. Von, Thank you! I start college in September. I’m excited but also dreading it. It means more independence, which can be a good and bad thing. Also, I’m not looking forward to dorm food; I heard that it was very greasy. I hope I’ll still be able to bake a lot. Maybe I won’t be able to stay away from the kitchen and I’ll just bake regardless of how busy I am hahaha. Try again! Maybe they’ll grow this year. My grandma also plants some veggies in our backyard. I used to plant this lettuce and I would feed it to my cute guinea pigs. This was a long time ago, now they’re at a better place. :

    Thanks Kristy! I didn’t even realize that it was already spring until I checked when spring officially started. :) I hope so too. I think it’s my favorite season. Have a good day!

    scottrecovered, Thank you Scott. Welcome to my blog. :D

    Lena, Thank you. Hmm, I guess it’s casual? The working days are pretty flexible, but it’s not super casual. I just started and I enjoy it very much. I like it better than wasting my time sitting in front of the computer or procrastinating and not doing homework until last minute….like now XD. Spring break is over and I have school tomorrow; I should be doing homework now. Baking faster than I can eat is also a problem. Haha, otherwise I would just make whatever I wanted to and as much as I wanted to. Thanks Lena, you’re so sweet! I’m glad to have met you through blogging too. :)

    Agnes, Hi! Thanks for visiting. :) Flowers sure are pretty!

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  8. I love your flowers! Wish I have a backyard too, then I can start my own herbs garden.

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  9. Blessed Homemaker, Thanks! Maybe you can get one of those humongous containers and start your herb garden?

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