champouf posted Time .. on Sunday, February 26, 2012 Through the passing of time, she wonder what is it that holds the red thread together ... Its thread undergoes numerous tribulations, unwinding away its intertwined strings with each passing trials. Yet it still holds on steadfast.
But now, her strength is dwindling and so is her winding thread. All she hopes is for a miracle, a wonderful memory in which she can reminiscent to. Her tears by night paved down by heart, her tears by morning strode down by mind. How pitiful the mourning goes ... with moans so melancholy.
And all she wishes .. was a peace of mind, and tranquil of heart.
But all she gets is her own cries at the dead silent of the night.
Oh how time can be such a cruel bitch.
Loneliness. champouf posted Dreams, Future, Believe. on Monday, February 20, 2012
" Every person is entitled to dream big dreams or just dreams to make them happy ... "
Many a times I find myself worrying about the future - dreading the worst that I won't be able to live a life that is worth mentioning. I see my friends all anticipating to reap the profits they have sown: both blood and tears, but my fears lie dormant in those days. I apprehend the very thought of me not having a new chapter of my life to open to ... and that is how bad I envisioned my life to be.
Despite people in their best efforts to soothe my very deranged mind, I still somehow managed to scare the lights out of me at the end of the day.
"It is just pure madness ... "
It is not that I do not try, or I give up easily. I'm a realist ... perhaps too much of a realist for my own good sake. I over-analyze things, and most of the time I do so with a very bad mental state. So yes, I worry too much. I know I had tried my best in my past endeavors, but it was brought to my forlorn attention, that it always boils down to how well others perform compared to you. No matter how hard you try, if someone does it better, even with little effort, he still surpasses you nevertheless.
My heart and mind are ridden with such self-pity that it makes me sick to the bone that I had fallen to such belittlement, that even I myself, hate me. You may think that my rattling may be due to a clause of time that I have to undergo every single month, but I assure you my dear friends, that this does not come close to what I have to say when that very time comes. For now, let's stick to what I have.
Even my dearest beloved ones all around me, are pouring their hearts out, hoping I would take at least one of their suggestions: overseas courses, private courses or just courses that are easy to get in. I can't simplify this enough, but I entirely abhor such cases. I do not like moving overseas to take a course which I don't like, and I don't intend to waste 3 years of my life to bury myself in a course I do not fancy. What more can I say?
I don't mean to be impudent, but what I say is true.
The holidays have given me a lot to think about. I have sought out my life passions and found out that even though I am not exactly what you call a professional, I still enjoy what I do. Unfortunately, this still sums up to who does it better in real life. Even my passions are stained with what society perceives as 'healthy competition'. My fucking ass it is.
So, my past few weeks have be doused with depression, self-hatred and mostly deep thoughts conceived in the shower. Yes I think a lot when I am bathing because I simply do not like partaking the enjoyment of scrutinizing my naked body. Moving on. I have come to a conclusion that if I do not make it, I will at least try once more before striking onto the path for my passion in baking. My parents still find it a waste of my time as they somehow think that being a 20year old girl lady, I can fully think for myself. (Actually I do doubt my ability in that too ... )
Many aspects of my life seem so bleak right now ... even I have contemplating digging up a cave in a remote island and probably live my days out there tendering sheep. On the contrary, my hubby has an entirely different story laid out for me.
That is why I love him so much. No matter what happens, he will always include me in his plans :) And because of that, I have the assurance that I have a future ahead of me. Even though it may not be smooth-sailing, he told me with greatness in his eyes, that he would protect me and work his brains out just to grant me comfort.
My dearest hubby, I thank you so much for always looking out for me, constantly caring for me with your never-ending love and support. It might not be the path my parents would want me to take, but as long as I am with you, I believe that it is the only future I will ever enjoy. Whatever happens, I promise to be by your side always, supporting you wherever you go. Thank you my dearest for putting in so much effort in the building of our future together. I, too, will work hard beside you. I love you my adorable wintermelon. :)
champouf posted Slimmed it Out on Saturday, February 18, 2012 Bonjour everybody! You may wonder what I'm doing so early in the morning.. Or what my body clock denotes as the "morning awakening of doom".
Yes I'm heading to the gym again to hit the cardio, have been snacking a lot these past few days, so I've got to lose the extra ... Whatever! Technically I didn't gain weight, but I know I'm not eating right either, so what better way to reduce those negativity with some positivity!
That's not the bulk of my post for today. I'm here to clear up something many of my dearest readers seem to misunderstand.
I've mentioned it many times that I'm not freaking anorexic, neither am I bulimic! I don't force myself to starve at one corner, with a notebook in one hand, dreadfully weeping as I read through my daily log of calories. NO! I don't fucking do that!
Neither have I ever stuck my finger down my throat and massaged my gag reflex till I throw up every shit I ate before that. NO! I find that entirely revolting!
Those are really severe cases for girls who are desperately trying to lose weight while under constant depression and self-neglect. And I'm not one of them! I lose weight the good way! - diet and exercise :) it makes me feel good all the time.
So you may be asking why I'm saying all these all of a sudden .. The reason is because I've quite a lot of people leaving me messages about me overdoing my whole "diet" scheme.
And here I am trying to clear the air ...
Many of you commented that I'm not fat, I'm slim, I'm fit, I have good self-control ... Thank you! I appreciate your kind comments, but once again, what I'm achieving for is not BONEY-SKINNY till the extent that I look like a skeleton inside-out. What I want to be is SLIM-FIT, like what my twin has always been trying to achieve.
And here's a good idea of what I'm talking about, except I don't want to be too bulky around the abs area. So yea.
Since I'm a person WHO LOVES TO EAT GOOD FOOD, you will never have to worry about me starving myself for the entire month, because I just don't have that kind of desperation or psycho-maniac feelings about myself. I love the body I am in, therefore I'm doing my best to make it fit and reward it when it is due. That is what I'm aiming for my dear fellow friends.
You may then ask why am I so obsessed with achieving that kind of figure/goal/weight etc ... And here is the answer: I've been overweight ever since I was young, and frankly speaking I don't like people teasing me about my figure. Plus whatever I wore just makes me feel bad and horrible about myself so yes, I hated myself. Then my mother couldn't see me torturing myself anymore, so she sought out for a specialized nutritionist for me to get on track to getting slim and healthy. Her services did not come cheap and I can bet that it costs more than what most of your parents are earning now. I don't mean to brag, but I just want to show you all how much my mother loves me to actually spend so much just to make me feel better about myself. So I couldn't let her down anymore. I proceeded on with the plan and managed to lose 20kg in the first year.
My weight has then never exceeded my ideal weight right now, but I'm still not satisfied because I want to show others that they too can lose weight if they want to. Seriously it has been a real tough journey for me to get to what I am right now, because I am one with entirely no self-control whatsoever I tell you.
And after joining cheerleading, my insecurities crept in again, so I've decided to go onto another weight-losing journey. It hasn't been so successful with me only losing a few kg. But thank goodness I have a very awesome, amazing boyfriend who never lets the insecurities get the better out of me, and of course with such a health-junkie like him, I have no excuses to say 'no' whenever he hits the gym.
So that's why I'm really more of an exercise-junkie! I want to look good, feel good, and live good. There is nothing wrong with exercising to lose weight, especially when I get to be more fit and improve my stamina no matter what I do! :)
PS: I've finally have a thigh-gap on my upper-thighs! See? Told you my exercises are not in vain! :D champouf posted Baking Like A King. on Friday, February 17, 2012 I've been seriously doing a lot of research on baking and also been buying lots of stuff to get my baking career started.
It's quite tough to find a baking partner especially when one is just starting out.. Like me! Hahaha. I normally bake under my mother's supervision which sorts of acts as an assurance that nothing really really horrible will go wrong. And when I try baking myself, everything will somehow end up quite wrong ... It might be out of shape, it may not turn out to be as spongy as I hoped, it may even be over-baked! Lol. How unfortunate such series of incidences are.. And how sad they all have to fall upon me D:
My elder brother on the other hand seems to behold an extraordinary talent which enables him to bake and cook like no other. Back then I've never seen him touch a single kitchen utensil before ... But now when he does, his dishes turn out orgasmic. Life is so unfair. I thought as a girl, I might have some kind of 6th-sense intuition when it comes to baking/cooking, but oh how wrong I've been. Hahaha.
I've been bugging my elder brother to sort of bake with me but his schedule is really complicated. Needless to say my mother is never free when I'm free. I've been teaching tuition as my part time job and it is always in the evening or late afternoon because I've got to wait for their school hours to end. And there is this one child which I've to teach for 3hrs straight! So you can tell what kind of hectic life I have D: Hubby has been a real dear, accompanying and supporting me all the way .. However when it comes to baking, he seems to be able to dodge that subject entirely. Amazing ain't it?
So what to do but learn from the pros on the Internet! And I've been really serious in this arena, studying techniques, ingredients and different baking/cooking styles.
In addition, once Hubby and I have our own condo, we are going to ask a few of his students to come live with us and if I don't know how to cook/bake by then, God so help me.. I'm as good as dead! Hahahaha. So really I'm super into this.
Oh wells.. I'm still going to try it nonetheless! Haha wish me luck! Toodles~ :) champouf posted Vday Part 2 on Thursday, February 16, 2012
" Three words and a sincere heart, makes everything worthwhile. "
HELLO EVERYBODY!! :D
Pardon my sudden interest in gifs! I was just so amazed at this new application on the iPhone, that I am constantly trying it out over and over again. Wahahaha. I'm easily intrigued indeed :)
Pardon me for suddenly neglecting my blog (once again!) because lately I've been really flooded with work. But, more work means more income, and I gladly say anything to a new Mini Cooper Cabrio S that I'm saving up for! Hahahahahaha. SO yea.
Anyways, this post is dedicated to my not-so-overly-exaggerated-valentines-day! Hahahaha. Why? Because it was rather simple yet filled with love~ Ahems*. So this is how it goes!
Hubby and I woke up quite late in the morning (around 10am+) and we were struggling to get out of bed. It was like I nudged him, and then he nudged me, wishing the other party would get up first, and in the end the both of us slumped back to sleep .... That was practically how our mornings start every single freaking day! :S
We got ready by 11am, and Hubby was too lazyyyyyy to take the MRT to our destination - Marina Barrage! So we took the cab! Haha. You may ask WHY THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO MARINA BARRAGE?! The answer is: Hubby always keep boasting about his amazing kite-flying skills and till recently, I've absolutely no time at all to see him hone his skills. So since Valentine's Day was a free half-day for the both of us. I decided to see him in action! :D At the Marina Barrage, there was absolutely no people at all! Sucks to be a studying/working, unlike Hubby and I who practically arrange our own working schedules. After laying down the mat and setting up our 'base camp', Hubby went to fix up the kite! Btw, this kite was bought last minute from Toys'R'Us ....... HAHAHAHA. What a joke!
And so when the wind came on strong, Hubby naturally set the kite up in the air #likeaboss! Many people will have to stand or give a running start for their kite to take up flight, but Hubby just sat there with his bums on the mat and his kite naturally took flight. I was like wtf, you have to be kidding me. But he was not, he did that a few more times and I just simply kowtow to the kite-king.
After flying for a while, the both of us started to get hungry. LIKE REALLY FAMISHED because we didn't eat breakfast. Good thing we made sandwiches before leaving! :) The bad thing about our cheap kite was that it was not exactly balanced, the kite kept tilting to one side and kept falling no matter how high or how strong the wind is, so Hubby and I spent quite a lot of time reeling the kite in. Seriously, this proves Hubby's famous saying "The most expensive will naturally be the best!" Hahahaha. Classic.
We had our fill, and we started flying the kite again, this time I tried to get the kite up in the air. I failed like MANY TIMES, and Hubby was just giving me this look ALL THE WAY -_-... Or maybe his eyes are just small so I assume he had that 'diao' look. OMG I'M SO MEAN I KNOW. HAHAHAHA. So anyways, after many unsuccessful tries, I finally managed to get the kite up with a teeny-weeny help from my dearest Hubby ......................................................... OKAY FINE, he did it all by himself T.T
Here's Hubby with his super kite-flying-technique~
And here's me! Can you see the kite? Yes it is quite far off in the distant, but I am actually flying a kite!!! HAHAHA AMAZING RIGHT?!
Here's an artistic shot Hubby accidentally took of me :)
(Sorry for the rest of the unedited pictures because I had no time to edit every single picture! D: )
Hubby eating his own made sandwich ... Lol.
And here he is fixing the kite! :)
The weather that day was really amazing. It was like cloudy with a slight chance of drizzling but it didn't! The grey clouds were just passing clouds which was super good news for the both of us! Neither of us wanted to get drenched while flying kite ... LOL
After flying half a day worth's of kite, Hubby and I took refuge from the sun at Starbucks at Marina Square.
We hung around for quite some time before heading to Dhoby Ghaut to teach tuition! Hubby has been a real darling as he would always try his best to accompany me to tuition no matter how far the place is! Amazing guy isn't he! :)
And well after tuition, Hubby called out a few of his students to have a meal with us, saying that this was how it would feel like after we have kids or something ... And because one of his students Hu Shao Ye loved to eat chicken rice, Hubby brought him back to the same place where he fell in love with a super tender flesh of a 'virgin' chicken ... Hahahaha sounds wrong actually but heck.
At the end of the day, even though it was not exactly a romantic Valentine's Day, I still enjoyed myself very much! Why? That's because I not only get to spend time with my Hubby and be in awe of his wondrous kite-flying skills, but I also get to share my V-day with a few of his students who greatly appreciated the effort of Hubby constantly taking good care of them :D
You may ask why I say that Valentine's Day is an overly exaggerated day for both Hubby and I? My answer to that is because the both of us have been so close to each other for almost close to 2 years, and whatever we do and wherever we go, we will always share our life's intimacies with each other. So basically everyday seems like Vday to us. We never grow tired of saying "I love you" to one another, we never grow tired of holding each other's hands, we never grow tired of seeing each other's faces the first thing in the morning. It is because of these small details in life, that we are able to enjoy each other's company no matter what the situation is.
There's nothing simpler than saying "I love you." But whether the heart counts or not depends on how sincere you mean it to be. For Hubby and I, nothing is more sincere than our never-changing feelings for each other :)
Happy Valentine's Day to you my darling husband! I love you. champouf posted Vday Part 1 on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL MY DEARIES OUT THERE! :)
Hope you guys had as much fun as I did on such a weirdly-over-exaggerated-day. Yea, I don't see much a fuss about Valentine's Day ....
BUT ANYWAYS, I shall leave that for the next post. I want to hit the sack soon, cause I'm heading to the gym with Hubby early in the morning before teaching tuition again! :D
And here's an extremely-overreacting-adorable-yet-crazy-Hubby gif for you all to laugh, scoff or whatever ... BUT NO FAPPING TO IT! LOL. He's mine~ :) Toodles~
champouf posted Ecstatic on Thursday, February 9, 2012 Extreme ecstatic maniac. This is my current mood right now! Seriously, I may look like +.+ on the outside, but inside I'm like "holy shit wtf goodness gracious omg this can't be happening!"
Ahems*
Of course by now, many may be wondering what's going on in my life that is making me soooooo crazeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyy. I'm not going to go into details but holy shit, my Hubby is one talented and amazing man! Omg I can totally throw myself at his feet right now.
Once again ahems*.
My Hubby and his partner's application have been approved! And with this, My dearest hubby says that our future is looking pretty bright, compared to last time. This is probably going to change our lives together .. As he says there may be a possibility that he will be going to the USA with his partner and I MAY BE tagging along. Haha
We are finally one step closer to fulfilling two of our life goals which is to get a condo and our awesome darling mini copper within 2-3years. Crazy isn't it? I know. I'm practically shaking in my boots (if I ever wore them). Oh gosh, this is the bomb :)
Maybe it's simplistic of me to say that I don't exactly have to worry (SO MUCH) about Uni or Alevels, but still ... Perhaps I should give it a thought some time soon.
I'm really happy for Hubby because he has been working on this case for half a year and he is really pulling his hair out because of the amount of stress and anxiety! The worst part was when we came back from overseas and missed the dateline of submitting some documents. This almost made Hubby have a heart-attack. But as swift as always, he managed to solve the situation as soon as possible and he was once again pushed into another waiting game.
After months of anxious waiting, he finally got the answer! It was freaking approved! Ohmy goodness. I can totally die of happiness right now ........ LOL NO! I want to stay by his side and continue assisting him in his businesses :) I'm so glad to have suck a capable man by my side ... Awwww.
Now that he has accomplished one of my goals, I can't exactly lose out to him! I must work double hard to open my own business! Heehee :) wish me best of luck!
Toodles~ champouf posted Too earlyzz.. on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Hi all, I'm rather proud today to have managed to wake up so darn early in the morning! If you are thinking ... What's so early about 8.30am? Well ... It's 8.30am and I'm on the Mrt well on my way to Dover!!!!!! Not bad right? I woke up around 7am and got my stuff ready and left the house around 8am.. It is one of my most amazing accomplishments yet! :D
Some may ask ... Why the hell do I want to wake up so early just to go to Dover? That's like a freaking 50min ride from where I stay. The answer should be obvious to some of you: Dover is the place where I normally gym with my Hubby, Raymond and Bob! So yea :)
Well the thing is that my dearest Hubby have been gyming for the past three days straight! Hahaha pretty awesome right? But all the time we will always reach Dover around 11am to 3pm ... Kind of late I know. This time it's different!!!!! I woke up early ................. BUT!!!!! I'm still going to be late.. Around 10-15mins late D: oh why..... *sobs in one corner*
Oh wells.. Poor Raymond must be telling himself "习惯就好.." :P
So anyways the plan for today is gym in the morning and accompany Hubby to teach Cheer to an all girls secondary Cheerleading team in the afternoon.. Before I head down to Orchard myself to tutor a kid. Feels pretty rushed and all actually ... But I don't mind! As long as I get to stay by my Hubby side *cue mushy music* :D heehee
That's all I'm posting for today cause my Hubby seems quite bored in the Mrt ... Toodles~ champouf posted EKEYAH. on
"I miss eating at IKEA." My boyfriend told me one day, of course in Chinese. I just glanced at his direction for a brief wth moment, before continuing my epic adventure on 9gag.
Naturally, he kept bugging me until I totally caved in and we decided to go to IKEA for our din-din. AND, we also bought a few stuff back home for our new room!!!! :) Oh yea, just in case you didn't know, I switched rooms with my younger brother because his was so much bigger and he was the only one sleeping in it, so I thought ... HEY, why not we change rooms? And I'm sharing a room with my maid and my hubby - three people squashed in one small room D: Hahahahaha. At first I faced much resistance from my dearest brother, but in the end, he went with it... So tadah~ Heehee.
My pasta with meatballs! I love their pasta because they use vegetarian pasta sauce which does not make the taste too heavy since they already got meatballs to fill up on the flavor!
Hubby's grilled/fried salmon. SUPER CRISPY and ultra awesome I tell you. Love the seasoning they sprinkle all over the salmon ... just emphasizes the taste of it all~ :)
What is an IKEA meal without the chicken wings! Hubby wanted to buy 5 chicken wings! But thank goodness he only bought 4 ... but even so, we still couldn't finish eating it D:
MEATBALLS BABY!!! I freaking love the sauce and the jam! Omg, they are just too heavenly for my own personal comfort!!! Nom nom nom.
I just love my sunglasses!! So awesome isn't it? Hahahaha and you can see my pink Prada wallet too~ Heehee.
Hubby smsing his client :) So handsome right??
AND so .. after eating our wonderful meal, we decided to walk around IKEA to find the furniture for our new room .. and surprisingly we met up with my parents! Hubby was super glad we were not doing anything mushy like hugging or kissing etc ... Or else it would have been rather *AWKWARD*~~~~~~~ So anyways, my parents were there too to buy a toolbox for my father's tools. We went our own separate ways because my parents were in a rush to go home.
We walked quite a lot before we found our dearest shoe racks!!! YESS :) Plus! We bought about 3 shoe racks with about two levels. And guess what? My heels took up about 2 shoe racks alone and that is not my entire collection of shoes! Some shoes have to be placed inside their boxes and put into the shoe cabinet. Hahahaha but it is still not enough! Just like my clothes collection, which my wardrobe is literally bursting, it is never enough!!!!!!! So I also bought some extra storage space for my clothes, and the good thing is that the storage space can be hung from the ceiling etc :) Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeees~
Talking about clothes, I went shopping again once again. This time I visited TOPSHOP after not going there for like months! And their new collection was pretty summer-ish, which was just what I wanted to get! I got a sun-dress which was super chio! I will try to upload a picture of it sooner or later~ :)
On the topic of shopping, I just want to recommend an awesome place to shop! Haji lane at Bugis. I tell you, many people mistaken that place to be low-class or crowded/squeezy like Bugis Street ... BUT IT IS NOT! The shops there are classy and very nicely decorated. The shop-keepers are polite and very well-mannered in the service industry. Even though the prices there are slightly more pricey ... but they have many good buys there! For those who love vintage fashion/items or even Korean street fashion, Haji Lane is a good place to go! I love shopping there because the ambiance of the shops are just so well-thought of! So I don't mind paying extra even though I can get a cheaper piece at Bugis Street. Anyways, for those who are curious, the price range of their items there vary from $50-$100+. It all depends on what you are looking for. If you want a vintage type of dress, yes those can be slightly pricey .. but normally shorts/skirts are cheaper :) AND, always try out those shops with sale! Their items can be sold off for half the price which does a lot of help I tell you!!! I bought two shorts from Haji Lane and I've saved up $100! :D Heehee. Plus the shorts are super chio! One of them is a polka-dotted shorts, the other has flowery prints :D
SO ANYWAYS, BACK TO MY DAY AT IKEA ... when we reached home, we set up our shoe racks and started snapping pictures ... OF OURSELVES! Wahahahaha. I've always wanted to have a few 'romantic' 'sweet' pictures taken with Hubby, so that we have some nice beautiful pictures to show on our wedding day (if we ever get married in the near future), plus I'm trying to incorporate an artistic feel in those pictures too... So yea. I'm still starting out, so please do not criticize!
We will always have one super 'funny'/'unglam' picture of us ..... LOL.
Hubby thought of this line and I found it so romantic :) It feels as if I've rekindled the passion *ahems* I've had for our love when we first met~
This is ultra sweet!!! Heehee. I just think Hubby looks uber cute here ..
That concludes my day :)
"Along the passage of time, worldly possessions lose their value, wrinkles root along the face of age, beauty is no longer of spring, but what remains eternal is our memory of how we first met .. which rekindles my love for you ever once more. I love you my dearest Hubby."
champouf posted Muffin-Macarons-Cookies. on Monday, February 6, 2012
I've been going out so often these few days, I keep neglecting my blog. And a huge apologies to all my avid readers out there (if there are any actually) LOL.
So anyways, the main event of last week was visiting my dearest friend MELLY. I can really say that she has been a really close and dear friend to me along my years in VJC. I guess because she understands me so well, I can relate to her really well! And not to mention the both of us love animes/manga/serial television shows and well.. being geeky (I guess?). Hahahaha.
The reason for my visit was not only to bake macarons, but to say hi to a new family member of hers! :) And her name is Muffin/Baby. Here was here my day went.
I took the bus 27 at a bus stop relatively close to my house. And to both Mel and my surprise, it only took like 35 minutes to reach Hougang Mall, but clever me alighted a stop earlier and I had to walk to Hougang mall using GPS. Thank goodness for technology!!!! :D We were supposed to meet at Subway for our lunch, but once again, I was so CLEVER, I've based my assumptions that gourmet stores are always found in the basement of any shopping malls. So I practically walked one entire round on the basement before realizing that subway was not there. When I came up again, the HUGE SUBWAY SIGN HUNG FROM THE SECOND FLOOR AND I'M LIKE WTH. I'M BLIND!!!
So anyways, we had our lunch at subway and we spent most of the time shopping for ingredients! HAHAHAHA because we cannot find the "sweetened chocolate" from the recipe list. So we were like hunting like mad. In the end, we just settled for some semi-sweet baking chocolate.
I'm also quite glad that Mel liked the souvenir I got her from Nanjing! It was a woolly blouse which had a cat's face on it. I wanted to buy the owl hoodie for her, but I couldn't find it D: Anyways since she got a cat at home, the blouse would be a good substitute for the owl hoodie! Besides she also bought a hoodie from Korea which had this 3D like ears and paws (If I'm not wrong!) ... SUPER ADORABLE I TELL YOU.
We played with Muffin for quite some time before we started baking .. that's because Mel was being super duper mean and she kept taunting Muffin with some toy. And it was super adorable to see Muffin scampering for it. Hahahaha ultra cute.
Sadly our macarons didn't turn out the way we imagined it to be as it was quite flat and not rounded at the top D: But the way we squeezed the pastry using our plastic-bag as a substitute for a piping-bag was super super fun. We had chocolate all over the place and we had the hardest time trying to scoop the pastry into the piping bag. It was just filled with hilarity! And since we were like messy all over, our pastry kept dripping onto the baking tray and we tried to 'incorporate' the small drops into the bigger ones, and it was quite an epic-fail ending! Mel was also spamming the icing sugar all over the top because she thought it was fun. And our tray was literally covered with icing sugar all around.
Btw, I asked my elder brother on how to make the macarons have the more rounded look, he said that it counts quite heavily on our technique of squeezing the pastry onto the tray. Sighs* From then on, I've decided to just practice with my playdoh at home with a plastic bag and see how it turns out! D:
With our hearts burdened with failure, we went back playing with Muffin, who cheered us up quite a lot! I guess Mel cheers herself up by 'torturing' Muffin with her cat toys again! Hahaha jkjk :P So anyways, we spent the next hour or so just looking through Mel's iPad for videos on how to make nicer macarons and Mel also showed me a lot of Muffin's photos/videos. It was literally a Muffin-utopia!
Can you just see how Mel is taunting Muffin???? Hahahaha awwww... :P
That's the cat-toy which I'm talking about .. and Muffin is just staring at it .... :)
This is Muffin's unglam pose whenever she sleeps ... according to Melly.
HAHA here's what I'm saying! We have little dots all over the tray and this is how our macarons turned out quite flat :P
Mel and Muffin! M&M!
Here is one last picture of Muffin looking oh-so-cute! :D
Oh well, even though our macarons turned out quite fail, I'm hoping our next baking fiesta would be much more successful!!!! :D Hahaha, cheer up Mel!!! :D:D:D:D Go play/torture your Muffin and whatnot! Hahahaha :)
Toodles~! champouf posted Driving! on Thursday, February 2, 2012
Hey guys! I've changed my blogskin again (in case you didn't notice) ... The previous skin was not really my type, but this ... this is the one! :) Pink yet lady-like and not entirely girly girly.
Yesterday I went to the gym with Raymond and Hubby ... Unfortunately, I was late again and it sort of reduced the time Rayray can spend with his gf. Because of that, I was like feeling really bad the entire day. Thank goodness they were really forgiving people!! Ohgosh :P
We finished gyming around 1pm and went straight to have lunch. The special part of the day was when Ray sent us, Hubby and I, to get registered for our driving lessons!!!!!! Oh gosh. It is really quite exciting knowing that one day I can finally drive around in my Mini Cooper Cabrio S instead of walking or taking the MRT which is so time-consuming.
After that, Raymond sent us home before going off to meet Cheryl. Hubby was really anxious to take the exam because he kept saying something about being able to take an exam alongside me and whatnot. I guess it is kind of cute knowing that the two of us are going through this together. And Ray was joking with us about how I would be able to pass the practical driving exam (the exam where you get to drive the car around Singapore) on the first try. We asked him why he would think that ... and he replied that girls have a higher chances because they can wear something sexy and revealing to get into the favor of the instructor. I was just laughing my arse off because he gave us an example of his elder sister, who absolutely can't drive at all, yet she passed on the first try. LOL!!!!!! But I digress. Hubby then went on to ask whether there were any female instructors, surprisingly NO!!! All were male and most of them are quite senior. So it works out to my advantage I guess??? LOL.
And so my first exam which is MCQs on Basic Theory ... is on the 23rd of March, which is like NEXT MONTH. Baby wanted to take it as early as possible, but there were no more slots left. Plus from the day of our Basic Theory test to the day of our Final Theory test is quite near to one another, and the Final Theory test is somewhat harder than the basic one (DUH) so I'm like quite nervous for it. Ah shucks D:
Oh and Raymond was sharing his experience with us and there was this instant which was super hilarious. The exam question was "What would you do when you are driving and a dog appears in front of your vehicle?" And the answers were "Turn left", "Turn right", "Stop" or "Run it over" .... Guess what the correct answer was? It was "Run it over" ... Can you believe it?!?!?!?! Because the dog is not exactly 'human' and when you turn right or left or even stop, it may result in an accident depending on the traffic flow, which inconveniences your fellow human-mates. Omgggg. It makes us sound like some monster ... Sighs* But I guess they do have a point.
And that concludes my fulfilling day yesterday. Right now, I'm like spamming as many driving books I can find in my house and wish me the best in all my driving exams!!! :D Toodles~
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