Sunday, April 26, 2009
haha yes an update after a long long time.im at esplanade library now =) sposed to be doing LA PW proj but we're all sianning cos dont know what to do -.-
sotong outing ytd to celebrate hoon's bdaay. lol the cake looked better than the sample one (still have some in my freezer =), but i think it didnt freeze enough cos it melted. fast. and the crust couldnt detach from the base of the tin -.- so we ended up excavating the crust after scraping the ice cream and chocolate off and dividing it up. bleh sry the cake was so weird hoon ><. forgot to take picture though.
went NYNY for dinner. haha the communal burger was huge and had this moat of fries tt we couldnt finish. and many many unglam photos was taken as well as the set of spontaneous photos tt jo took which were nice =) so as usual, a lot of gossiping, guai lan-ness, stupid jokes and laughter. a fun sotong outing XD.
don'tfeelsorryforme.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
haha so i actually did try to post some time ago..but because everytime i tried uploading photos the post got screwed up (3 times) i got sian of rewriting and abandoned it. well, im back. =)
studying for bio test now (lol so why am i blogging?). its actually understandable, and i feel quite confident.quite. even though im doing last minute revision lol.
math test today was so screwed. but hey,definite improvement over class test:at least twice the score! (not tt that's saying much since i scored 2 1/2 for class test -.-)
i've been sleepless this week...chionging hist essay on mon, PW on tues,studying for math on wed (though i didnt slp late, but nt much studying got done ><) and now for bio (going to sleep after studying eye though). haha sleep debt man...im feeling the effects. been vaguely emo since tuesday >< yeah.
baked lemon cookies today; but didnt really like them =( bleh can just tell that they're gonna be unpopular cookies. hm i took the shortcut way with cake mix, maybe tt's why?they're a bit too sweet and not sour enough. i found the flavor too robust (wld have preferred something more subtle/delicate) and its really jelat after a few =(( sigh.dont suppose anyone wants to eat them?
shall try shortbread next or bread. or mudslide cookies (again). or...a lot of other things =))
syf full dress rehearsal tmr. hope i dont screw up ><.
don'tfeelsorryforme.
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
wa lau i feel like doing another "fuck you" post. im nt going to be a macdonalds employee/photocopy shop assistant/maid ok. i shall secretly study when u're nt around and get good results. and i'm going to get a job with a higher salary than yours and then we'll see who's mocking who. HA.
ok now that's over with. baked maltesers cookies just now =) it didnt turn out as nice as i would have thought, though there are chewy bits tt are the malt centers of the maltesers. damn too many things to bake! and my rents recently bought me a giant recipe book with like all kinds of things tt can be baked...be it cookies, muffins, eclairs or cheeseballs.... and now i have even more ideas. too many things to bake, too little time!
haha so nat and I were losering during CO concert. it was fun, though. in a loser kind of way =D
yes jo glad tt you got ur rescheduling man...and i like ur new blogskin =)
shit la my ballet exam and SYF gonna clash sia...syf time nt confirmed yet..maybe i can try to rush down? worse come to worse i have to choose one...but either way i feel damn evil cos im letting down someone... =(((
don'tfeelsorryforme.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
haha i havent updated in a long looooong time. hm well vday was last week and i feel like posting a few cookie pics =)
the work area. some dough tts been rolled out, as well as a lot of flour.
The cookies after being moulded, before baking ^^
Melted chocolate! cadbury dairy milk, btw.
The first batch of smaller cookies, after freezing. yay!
haha lol tts abt it. hm i've been really interested in baking lately. have lots of ideas lined up, as well as plenty of present ideas =)). oh, and i might expand out into brownies and cakes. so many things to do, so little time...
chem test is shitty. but then, so was bio test. oh and hcl test lol.literal borderline pass. even LA wasnt as gd as it could have been, cos summary pulled me down. damn this feels ominously like the start of a sucky academic year (at least for tests). and after handing up 3 math ass. on time, the latest two have disappeared into a black hole somewhere >< hcl hw isnt doing too well either , though at least i've gotten caught up. except for the hol book review lol.
sigh i feel quite danced out, what with syf and grade 8 exam being arnd the same time this year. bleh and i havent been doing too well for either. muscle aches..3.2 km =(
don'tfeelsorryforme.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
haha yes the orange cookies did turn out nice. though the new batch i tried are better.mudslide cookies =) they're mostly made out of melted chocolate, so they're chocolately, rich, moist (kinda brownie like) and oh so yummy =D lazy to take pics at the moment,so just take my word for it.haha there was so much melted chocolate in the dough that even after mixing all the other ingredients in it still looked like pure melted chocolate..
hmm went out with the ballet people today, went ice skating for the first time =) it was pretty crowded, kinda fun i guess?yay i didnt fall down!haha there was this pro kid who was doing stunts...bleh it would probably be funner if i actually knew how to iceskate...tried to make use of the rollerblading techniques they taught us as post-exam activities in year one and two, but i kinda forgot most of it, so..yeah, stuck to the sides mostly =)
so i just want to mention my too-pro family for a while.so, a typical over-dinner conversation that took place on sat...we were testing each other on the capitals of different countries....the uluest of the ulu came out, places like romania, finland, poland and sweden....and then we moved on to naming a city in a country other than the capital, then to US presidents, then to all the geography stuff(highest mountains in each continent). oh my god i felt so INFERIOR. haha my dad bro and sis were rattling off all the complicated, random ulu names and i was sitting there with a blank expression on my face.and even my mom, whos usually not so gd with this stuff,knew the answers to some of the difficult ones,and i was like ??? there. bleh maybe i should go read up?chiangky would be pleased...(haha i asked them abt the US president with the wife called lady bird that chiangky tested us on once...my bro and sis couldnt answer, but my dad like knew who it was immediately -.-)
don'tfeelsorryforme.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
fuck you too la. i never make any promises that you dont force me to make.what "breaking your promises"...i never made them in the first place.and so what if i dont slave my holidays away doing revision?who says i cant "buck up in the last 2 years before A levels"? you? so, what, i'm going to spend the last week before school starts finishing the ten-year series?fuck you.
....ok, sorry. now that the rant is done with, i shall talk abt sotong xmas xchange yesterday =) bleh i actually wanted to post this last night (because i know that if i delay too long in blogging i lose interest and become too lazy to ever blog abt it ie sotong birthday celebration and class chalet). yup yup, so...
hm went out early in the morning to jurong pt to do some last min shopping for hoon and haojin 0o and discovered that jurong point has become damn huge. seriously i almost got lost few times.but there were a lotta interesting stores though =)mm yup so grabbed a 'sneaker' pencil case and a weird-figure-stuck-to-a-drawer for haojin and yh respectively before grabbing a quick bite at bk and setting off to cityhall.
when nat jo and hoon turned up,we went to marina,grabbed tickets for yes man then went to gloria jeans where we drank coffee and had the gift xchange =) got a "Think, it's not illegal" coaster from jo, a spec-holder/monitor cleaner/wrist rest from hoon, a realllyyy pretty pouch and a "Princess on Board" sign from haojin =) and a nice glittery (not sure what you call it...)pin?badge? from nat (who promised nicer stuff when sch reopens. its ok man =) oh and nothing from j cos he forgot to bring all the presents (tsk tsk =p).haha i love all the presents,so...thank you, guys!
ooh yes man was a damn cool and seh show.super funny too.terrence the old guy is damn guai lan.and i loved the guitar scene!haha shall watch again with my bro.
mm then we went to seoul..without hoon, cos the idiot told his mom he was going back home.hoon, how could you??haha v. fun.gorged ourselves and crapped at the same time.oh and the humms refused to open..we should sue seoul garden haha. yup and we discovered turkey..and the dubious meat lol.
yup all in all a really fun outing, one of the more memorable sotong ones yay =)
so yes today was spent mixing up dough. cos i saw this chocolate orange biscuit recipe that looked like it could be a cookie recipe, so i tried it with a few substitutions where i cant find the ingredients(brown sugar instead of golden caster).hmm zesting oranges is really tiring,bleh my arms ache from doing that and juicing the orange..haha but i have a skinless orange in the fridge now XD oh and and i got to try out the OCTOJUICER! haha it works well man, thanks guys =)))so i refrigerated the dough in an attempt to make it spread less later and behave more like a cookie and less like a biscuit when it bakes. have yet to bake it,though the orange zest and juice in the dough smells very very good =) and i find myself constantly running to the fridge just so i can open it and sniff the dough XD haha as you can tell, im a bit excited to try baking it cos it just smells so nice!shall bake it tmr morning and see how it tastes..can't wait =)
don'tfeelsorryforme.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
take a deep breath..this is going to be a long post.
so yeah about my ahgong's death..hm im definitely sad, cos i was close to him, but im nt especially traumatised abt it, because those last few days before he passed, he was really suffering and totally helpless in the hospice. he couldnt leave the bed, he was incoherent almost all of the time, couldn't talk, couldn't eat or drink (he had to be fed via tubes), couldnt go to the toilet on his own (he wore diapers), couldnt breathe properly without a breathing tube, couldnt communicate at all, couldnt even turn in the bed on his own....it may sound bad, but i think it was better to have died then to have survived like that for months more.
hm the wake and funeral was 7 days and i've had time to reflect on funerals..the wake had some ceremonies and rites that let you make peace with the dead by saying goodbye to them and "giving them a better life in their next life" via the burning of the paper house, paper car and paper money, etc. yet at the same time, the wake, most of the time, was more like a giant family reunion where you get to meet the most obscure of relatives and other random people. while you honour the dead, i believe the point of having a wake is also to remind you that there are still many many living people out there, and that dwelling overly on the dead will do no good to all those still living. also, days of sitting at the wake with nothing to do but fold paper ingots also become a sort of enforced family time, where our whole family is forced to sit down and talk to each other, for lack of anything better to do. doing this can be quite enlightening, because the death of our ahgong led us to suddenly realise how mortal we all are, and how easy it is to die. thus, we end up reminiscing on our childhood and a lot of old arguments were kinda laid to rest. also, we got to hear some stories about my ahgong, like how he was a teen delinquent and was in a gang and had a bunch of sworn brothers and used to owe a parang (!). another thing is that experiencing the whole wake and funeral allowed us to speak about all those morbid things that we wouldn't want to talk about normally, like what you want your family to do with your ashes, that sort of thing (btw, i want my ashes scattered in the sea or off a bridge into the wind or something).
yup. that's about it for the deep thoughts. hm traditional chinese funerals are really sexist..bleh my mom is the oldest child, but because she married 'out of the family', she was ranked behind all my aunties (the wives of my mom's younger brothers) in the rites. yeah and my sis bro and i had to wear dif costumes from everyone else, and we were like right at the end of the heirachy. and my bro was bitter cos though he's the oldest grandson by seven years, because he's considered out of the family (since all of us are technically in the 'lock' family and not my mom's), the "oldest grandson" who had to perform all the rites and stuff ended up being my younger cousin. yeah and and because i was having my period, i couldnt cross the bridge during the coin tossing part of the ceremony! grr it was damn embarassing..
on to more lighthearted stuff!cookies!!! haha im kinda obsessed with baking cookies nowadays. i've tried 3 different recipes from scratch..the first one was quite crap, but edible. the second one was much better, but the third one (the batch i just baked today) is yummily yummy! haha i have pictures, which i snapped before my bro and sis came home and munched on them..lol i didnt manage to get pics of the last batch cos i kept forgetting and before i knew it they were all gone... so, pics!
yup yup. cookies =) i made a whole container full, so i'll prob bring some to the next sotong outing which is my bday celebration yay! thanks j and whoever for organising it =D
don'tfeelsorryforme.
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the work area. some dough tts been rolled out, as well as a lot of flour.
The cookies after being moulded, before baking ^^
Melted chocolate! cadbury dairy milk, btw.
The first batch of smaller cookies, after freezing. yay!
