Happy Birthday Mum & Uncle Thomas

My home always have dinner party. And every party I would think its a party for me no matter mum kept telling me its a Xmas party, or new year party, etc. On top of that no matter what the occasion for I would reckon it is my birthday party and I blew the candles!


But today while mum driving home after picked me she told me that today is her birthday so I sang a whole birthday song for her.

Kitchen hand

Mum bought this "morokheeya" for the first time and could be the last time. "Morokheeya" is an arabic name of a dish that used these leaves to boil with meat as soup.

Mum actually tried few times of this soup from her friends and love it so she wanted to try to cook by herself. But she never saw the fresh "morokheeya" before but saw the shop selling the dried one in packs.

However her friend told her that fresh one is way much better and it is the season now to get fresh one. So she decided to go down to an arabic grocery shop to buy them. She walked into the shop with dad and asked for it. The owner told them to walk to the backroom and will definately see them there.

When they walked in and saw all these like like plants or trees. Mum was shocked and dad laughed because it will not an easy job to cook this dish. The shop is selling in bunches...A bunch would be a huge bunch and there are taller than Adam.

Dad and mum stood there and gave a moment to think should buy them or not. Mum was really hesitated because she did not want the hassels of picking the leaves and wash them. Eventually she bought them still. Dad was laughing all the way home.

Mum waited till late night only started to "act" on those leaves as she was so busy during the day. And she got me to help her as she thought I would really love to help to pick the leaves. We took awhile to get them done. Mum was relieaved!

Mum cooked it after two days. she fried some beef meat with lots of garlic gloves and corianders and abit of soya sauce. Then add water to let the meat boil for an hour. After that she added the leaves and boil another hanf an hour. It smells so great even our neighbour could smell what she was cooking coz they are arabics - so familiar with the smell !

I loved it and my mum was happy with the outcome. I already had it for yesterday dinner and today's dinner.

Sometimes mum cook the similar soup also. Instead of using these leaves she used english spinach with exactly the same way of cooking. It is full of iron and I will be like the popeye the sailor man ..doo doo !!

Hanging out at the City - The Rocks

One evening after had dinner somewhere outside mum was craving for sweets. She wanted to go down to the city for the Pancakes on the rocks.

It was a nice day so dad agreed to go also for a drive. We had some nice pancakes and abit of walk around the area. I was born in Sydney but always feel like never I am a tourist in this area which means it is never be bored to come to The Rocks to see the icons of Australia.

Gold Coast 8 - 12/02/2009

The idea of going away for a short holiday within Australia was a sudden idea from my mum. A friend of my dad been talking about going somewhere during the Xmas holiday together. They just thought planning to go somewhere within Sydney. But then one day my mum saw a commercial from tv that Virgin Blue is on sale and ticket to Gold Coast is only $39 per person.

My mum thought its so cheap so she started to call my poh poh and other friends. Everyone agreed to go and that was it mum bought the air ticket from the internet the next day. Then she started to browse for accomodation and car rental and any good deal for theme park passes. She got all these done by herself and guess what, as usual, she got everything in good deal. Everyone was happy and satisfied with the holiday!

I would say Gold Coast is really really a nice place to visit! Here are some of the photos to share and I bet most of you saw those photos already.