Pass!!

Haha!!!!

I passed my econs mid-term!!!!!

No doubt it's still quite a bad grade, considering a person got 102/100 after moderation of 5 marks :S Well, at least I'm only one mark below average! I thought it would be really really bad.....

And tutorial ended so early! Was done in 20 minutes! Double happiness!!! muahahahhaha....

Waiting to go K-box tonight. And I wanna bake more muffins - they are quite addictive!

Star of my house - Princess!

This is the latest addition to our family - Princess!

Breed: Winterwhite dwarf

Gender: Female (should be lah)

Age: About 2-3 months

Looks like ikea is interested in this new star of the house.

(ikea) -- hmm.. let me sayang her.

arrr...i got her out.

let me give her a kiss first......... *MUACK

oh, she seems to like me!

ahahaha...so ticklish!

(gasp!) hey! what is she doing there! excuse me princess!

Baking expedition at my house!

Carrot Cake/ Cupcakes:

2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup apple sauce
2 3/4 cups shredded carrots
8 oz canned crushed pineapple, drained
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup flaked coconut

1. Preheat oven to 165 degrees celsius. Grease and flour baking pan.
2. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
3. Mix sugar, oil, eggs. Beat in flour mixture. Stir in shredded carrots, crushed pineapple, chopped nuts and flaked coconut.
4. Pour into pan. Bake about 35-40 minutes.

Comments: We forgot to buy apple sauce! Ended up making it ourselves by stewing 200g apple in 2 tablespoon of water + 50g sugar. Took a long time and in the end, we threw the apple mixture into the blender to do the job! Crushed pineapple was not available as well - so we bought canned sliced pineapple and blended it! :D Blended is so useful. Although the batter mixture was rather watery after mixing in everything, the resulting cake/ cupcakes tasted not too bad! (Considering all the substitutes and stuff.) Decided to make second round to give to friends, and this time all of us were 'anyhow doing'. Just use the leftovers (so some ingredients weren't enough). Turn out well too. :)

Betty Crocker's chocolate chip cookies:

Cookie mix with chocolate chips
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg

1. Preheat oven at 175 degree celsius.
2. Mix the soften butter and the egg together.
3. Pour the flour mixture into the butter and egg, mixing it to become a dough.
4. Scoop teaspoons of cookie mixture and drop it on cookie tray, leaving 2 inches gaps. Bake.

Comments: Fool proof recipe - everyone can do this! Really simple and the cookies taste great! (wow- I sound like an advertisement.)

Scottish Shortbread:

1 cup butter
1/2 cup confectionary sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt

1. Preheat oven to 175 degrees celsius.
2. Cream butter and sugar.
3. Slowly add flour and salt, mixing well.
4. Roll out dough with a rolling pin until it is about 1/4 inches thick.
5. Cut with cookie cutters, place on cookie sheet and prick with a fork.
6. Bake for about 5-8 minutes, or until light brown at edges.

Comments: Instruction no. 4 - roll out dough. Roll my foot man! The dough was so soft, it couldn't be rolled at all lah! Ended up plopping them on the baking tray and just sent it to the oven. The result cookies did have the 'melt-in-your-mouth' effect though..quite interesting.

My own cookies:

500g plain flour
250g butter
250g sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
Cornflakes (any amount)

1. Preheat oven at 175 degrees celsius.
2. Rub fat into flour.
3. Add sugar and cornflakes. Mix.
4. Add eggs and vanilla essence. Knead into dough.
5. Roll out dough and cut with cookie cutters. Lay on cookie tray and bake.

Comments: The cookies were so damn hard last night! But after one night, they taste better..more like the normal rock buns that I'm very used to making.

Oh gosh, I hardly bake so much in one trip! Had a lot of fun with Nat and her cousins, as well as Princess who kept appearing in the kitchen. : Luckily we didn't bake it by mistake. Trying new recipes is fun! Next up, Nat and I have decided to have a go at strawberry shortcake..when we have time.

happy with blogger

Back to blogger from freewebs. Main reason being freewebs does not let me upload pictures together with my blog post. :( I did like my webby on freewebs..

Well, I'm actually quite impressed by how easy it is to change the templates on blogger now. (Am I suaku?) Compared to the last time I used it when I was still struggling with 'where to paste this html now', this time I simply used 'add page element' to change everything! Hurray! That is why this is up so fast. :) Sadly though, ikarin.blogspot.com is not available.

Hopefully by having a blog, I can have more impressions of my life. As a person gets older, it is good to have a memory lane to walk down to refresh my failing memory. :/

My Wonderful Friend

My wonderful friend - Natalie Alexandra

She put veggies into the SHOE RACK! (and realised only after 2 days)

Next time, I think I will find shoes in the freezer.

花痴的人 (updated)

Recently around me, there are a lot of 花痴 around me. They just suddenly start laughing to themselves, start smiling and start going crazy!

Some take action, some stay waiting for action to come.

Some start daydreaming, and plug their earphones into the wrong jack.

Some think of their 'one', and drop their laptops while walking!

Some 减肥 to go for dates, although still succumb to the temptation of food most of the time.

Some log onto Facebook to check their wall application everyday.... waiting for the magical words. :)

Some log onto Friendster to view the same thing over and over again and feel 'high' all over again everytime. (madness)

Some bring a whole army to go and look at that person, but still never dared to approach the other party.

Tsk... what's happening??

All's over...almost at least

The concert that we have been rehearsing and rehearsing for is now officially over. The glaring red costumes are now back in the cupboard; dizis chucked in the storeroom cupboard and they will probably be staying there for some time - untouched and neglected.

It is going to be qing gong yan next week, the 34th Exco last time to create a 'wow' event.
And then, it will be AGM. It's time for me to start on the dreadful accounts.. But it's quite sad that our term is coming to an end. In these few weeks where I've attended CO so regularly, I've just started getting attached to it. Sadly, the concert is over, the connection that was built up over the weeks will probably be broken. Especially if I am not going for CO next sem.

I will miss the times that we prepare tea together... bitch together... plan for things haphazardly together and yet get everything done nicely.... I believe next sem I won't be seeing much of the exco.. with everyone going on SEP/ leave. sigh.

This is the last thing I expected myself to fall into.. to become kinda attached to another CO.

Rehearsals at UCC

I don't like the backstage stairway at UCC. It feels as though I'm walking in a dream..a scary one. The colour of the lights..the condition of the staircase... eeeks.

Well, concert is tomorrow. Rehearsals today was.... -,-: I miss the times when 'anyhow playing' could also lead to reasonably nice music. Now, there are really times that I have to close 2 ears while rehearsing. Not that I'm playing that well too, but I guess the environment causes you to play in a certain way..to a certain extent.

I hope we will put up something presentable tomorrow. In those red, red costumes.

Sinful dinner at New Majestic Hotel

Chrysanthemum tea: served in this really small cup

Deep-fried mantou: small, crispy

Peking duck: nice sauce - thicker than most restaurants, served with some duck meat rather than merely slicing the skin..tender and easy to bite

Pumpkin soup + ginger tea: soup was sweet, ginger tea was far too hot for my liking!

Tofu with green veg and egg: tofu was really nice, normal egg was in the sauce of the dish and there was century egg as well.

Asparagus with thick sliced fish: fish tastes fresh :)

Fried noodle with duck meat

Deep fried durian ice cream: served on a big plate with mango sauce, the ice cream tastes like frozen ice cream puree. Very rich tasting - one share can be too much for one person! Gotta eat this again next time!

花痴的人

Recently around me, there are a lot of 花痴 around me. They just suddenly start laughing to themselves, start smiling and start going crazy!

Some take action, some stay waiting for action to come.

Some start daydreaming, and plug their earphones into the wrong jack.

Some think of their 'one', and drop their laptops while walking!

Some 减肥 to go for dates, although still succumb to the temptation of food most of the time.

Tsk... what's happening??

Time for reflection!

For the first time this semester, me, ikea and nat took a bus to school for a 8am lesson, and we were on time! I'm quite impressed by ourselves; in fact, we were 2 minutes earlier than the tutor.

It's time to start working hard - midterms are long over and finals are coming soon. But I just spent my day in school setting up the website for Kudos laptop cases and now, this website. Instead of listening attentively to the boring lectures.
Time for reflection and CHANGE!