Supreme Team & Primary; album exploration

I love creative packaging when it comes to albums.
What I like about the Korean music industry is that the physical album in itself is integral to the marketing. There's an emphasis on photo books, photo cards, stickers etc, limited edition material that adds a certain special something to just having an jewel case with a CD inside.

I'm a big fan of Supreme Team, I don't known any of their CDs, I think the only Supreme Team related CD I own is a Blue Brand compilation album, which features some of the most iconic and popular Korean Hip Hop acts.

(old photo)

I took the liberty of adding a Supreme Team album to my cart this time round and ordered their first full length album "Supremier" - it's a really solid album that combines an urban hip hop sound with some pop and r&b influences. And the physical album itself is so nice. You'll understand with the photos I'll post down below.

I also purchased Primary and the Messengers LP. I love Primary, and he also produced Supreme Team's Supremier, so haha, this has been a very Primary focused purchase. If you don't know who Primary is, he's a rapper and hip hop producer. These days he's known more as a producer under Amoeba Culture and his iconic look is that he has a large cardboard box head.

 The case comes with a red band to hold it together, I quite like it.

The album art concept is an "amusement park" theme. 

(and this is where the creative packaging comes in)

 I absolutely love the attention to detail on the cover. Especially the ET reference.

 The spread once you open the album up. 

There's photo prints, a map and a ticket.

E-sens, Blanky Munn, Kang Minho. My favorite Korean rapper ♥

To go with the amusement park theme of the album art, 

the tracklist with credits is arranged on an amusement park map.

On the other side there's lyrics and some random photos of the boys enjoying their amusement park.

There's an aged effect on the entire map, and it's really quite nice.

The ticket to the "amusement park"

And now onto Primary's album.

Primary's head as the album cover.

The back cover, tracklist.

Inside

There's a cute postcard that is included with the album.

Underneath the CDs there's some artwork.

The album also has another fold out compartment where there's song credits etc

And a small blank notebook :D

It's made out of recycled paper!! 

And now I just want to recommend a few tracks from each album.

From Supremier: 

M.U.S.I.C ft Choiza from Dynamic Duo 

Step Up (title track)


Where To Go? (E-sens solo)

From Primary and the Messengers LP 

? (feat. Choiza and Zion. T)



See-through (feat. Gaeko and Zion. T)



Happy Ending (feat. Jinsil and Gary from Leessang)



Some advice,

don't be afraid to branch out your music tastes.
You may never consider listening to entire genre
because you're convinced you will not like it,
but you never know,  there's always a good tune
that is worth exploring in a genre you might never touch.

~Kim.

a day at the temple

Chuà Pháp Hoa, meaning Dharma Lotus Temple, is a Buddhist temple located at 20 Butler Avenue, Pennington, South Australia, 5013. 

Today at the Phap Hoa temple, it was the Celebration for the Great Patriarchs' Anniversary, Inauguration of the Triple Gem Stupa and Commemeoration of the 30 years establishment of Phap Hoa Temple. It's a mouthful that's for sure, but try saying it in Vietnamese.

I came in a bit earlier with my mother because she was singing for the charity gig that night, and since I don't really have much else to say, I'll just post the photos.

The banner is up for tomorrow so, sadly I am not from the future.

There was some free vegetarian food provided by the Temple

Vegetarian Hokkien noodles (it was a bit too oily for my tastes)

sâm bổ lượng (清補涼) with jackfruit slices, logan, lotus seeds, the works!

(Hạ Vy and Gia Huy, two Vietnamese singers from the US selling and signing albums)

And some more photos from around the temple.

 And then I broke the screen of my phone.... WAAAAAH ;A;

Now ending with a piece of advice.
Regardless of what religion you choose to believe, or to not believe,
Keep in mind that it's always healthy to adopt strong values and beliefs.
This may or may not be unique to only one religion, but an adaption of many.
Don't feel pressured to group into organised religion.
Don't feel pressured to believe something you have doubts about.

But don't feel pressured to have doubts when you have none.
Having a religion is no crime. Having no religion is no crime.




~Kim.

making 雲吞 (wonton) and a smoothie (ft Woody the Cowboy)

Today I made wanton dumplings.
I would've taken photos while I was actually making the individual dumplings
but my hands were very floury from the wrapping sheets haha.

before being cooked

cooking :)

the final product :) with coriander!! 

(I grew up obsessed with coriander)

Smoothie ingredients:

1 cup of ice

1 cup of strawberries

1 apple

1 avocado

2 kiwi fruits

1 banana

1 carrot

 (after oxidising lol, the colour wasn't as vibrant)

A word of advice.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it most, like it least.
When asking for advice, keep an open mind.
A lot of the time, we seek advice from others not to actually hear it,
but to somehow find a way to confirm what we already know.

Most of the time, people will oblige and assist in confirmation.
But not always.

When someone gives you advice you don't like, accept it graciously.
Whether you choose to use it or not is completely up to you.

But remember. You asked for it.
Don't reprimand those that give advice just because you hear something you don't like or expect.


~Kim.

a first; baking for the spring fair

My younger sister's school is having their Spring Fair this weekend, and I decided to bake something for the cake/sweets stand to sell. I mostly did it because my mother is hopeless at baking.

Because I actually have other plans on this weekend, I decided to bake in advance, so obviously I couldn't bake a cake (cakes just won't keep well honestly). I decided to go with the old fashioned chocolate chip cookie.

I don't think I've actually ever baked choc chip cookies before.
Not sure why though, since they're super easy.

(recipe after the photos)

my cute geese measuring cups & ingredients (the butter was...somewhere else)

sifting the flour

goose and melted butter 

 goose and sugar

brown sugar + melted butter

and then in goes the egg and vanilla essence

add the flour...

and the chocolate chips...and mix it up!

Ingredients
2 cups (250g) self-raising flour 
170g butter, melted 
1 cup (185g) sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla essence 
1 egg 
1 egg yolk 
1 cup chocolate chips 


1. Preheat oven to 150-170°C, line trays with baking paper
2. Sift flour into a bowl, then set aside
3. In another bowl, mix the melted butter and sugar until well-blended. Mixing by hand, or by hand mixer is fine.
4. Mix in eggs and and vanilla essence until light and creamy.
5. Sift in flour and mix with a wooden spoon.
6. Stir in chocolate chips.
7. Using a tablespoon, make scoops of dough on the prepared trays (allow room for spreading)
8. Bake in oven at 150°C for 15 minutes or until edges are lightly toasted. If you want hard, less chewy cookies, leave them in the oven for around 20 minutes.
9. Leave them to cool slightly on the baking tray before eating or transferring to a wire rack to cool completely for storage.


Word of advice.
Always drink a glass of milk with your cookie.

And make sure you maintain your levels of vitamin D by eating fish or taking supplements
(sunshine is not enough honestly)
because there's no use in drinking milk for "strong bones and teeth" when your Vit. D levels are down. Vitamin D is crucial for calcium absorption.