the welsh have waaaay too much time on their hands:

so i had my first wing chun class yesterday, and it was. so. fun !! i love it. can't wait to go back tomorrow and learn more!   ☆･*:.｡.(●≧▽≦)^☆ 

things i learned yesterday: 小念頭 (siu lim tao), centreline punch, side parry 'n punch, low heel kick, stamp kick and snap kick. 

check out yip man's version of  小念頭:

especially for zoot:

after many moons of talking about it, i've finally signed up for wing chun lessons. aw yeah! maybe now i will have to change my domain from samuraibunny to kungfu bunny. we'll see. 

some handmade goodness from craft @ carillon; 

shirts for zoot and gallian, and curtains for my room!

brand new this weekend:

an enormous zit on my forehead. hurray.

i've been watching this anime series called natsume yuujinchou and one of the characters is this cat called madara who loves eating manju. so anyway, he guzzles manju like naruto slurps ramen and it always makes me want to eat some! the only thing is i have no idea where to get manju, or what it actually is. it just looks delicious in cartoon form. so, i googled for manju recipes and lo and behold, what it really is, is a japanese tau sar pau (-___-|||).

anyway, to distinguish these from an ordinary tau sar pau i decided to tweak the recipe slightly and add green tea powder to the dough mixture since green tea and azuki beans complement each other nicely. and at first it didn't look green enough, so i added more powder and then it was way too green. now, instead of a delicate-looking culinary delights, i now have these camo-coloured buns that look ready to wage guerilla warfare. 

e was very nice and supportive and said they tasted pretty all right and it was just the colour that looked kind of unappetizing. in any case, i present you with:

auntie dingo's camouflage pau!

new everything

new dwelling :: everything in the new place is more or less settled. you can tell, because my room is already so messy lived-in that even i feel a little ashamed to post them on my blog. the room is really huge! which means more space for all my stuff to spread out in .. this has already broken my resolution to be a neater and more organized person.

new semester :: school starts again tomorrow, with a lovely day of advanced technologies 2. hopefully E and i and being flatmates means that we will help to motivate each other (harharhar) - having mondays that start at 11 should help too! and so far it seems fun, we've got matching timetables and matching lunches (a tuna sandwich with bruschetta mix). 

new membership :: at the uni sport and aquatic centre. twice-weekly swims, here i (hopefully) come!!

anyway, apparently the first step toward bringing positive attitudes to a day of horrendously dry lectures is an early night and a nice long sleep.

see you all tomorrow!!