31 may

it's the last day of the month again! :OOOOO *gasps in horror* why time flies so fast one?! shall end this month with another post!

sis had her friends over to our house one day as they had to do a project in which they were to make these coloured sands in little bottles. lol

and so, i were to take pics of them while they do the buddha jump. apparently, jun's friends were not very willing to do it. hahaha

so these were their end products!! lol

this is her self shot when she kopted my phone to take pics of her finished work...i didnt know she took these pics until i opened up my pics folder lol

decided to skip 1 million skips on monday! lol was a impromptu decision i made and im glad i carried it out successfully! challenge accomplished! haha

wore this out and sadly, i didnt notice my da yi ma came and it stained my skirt! was outside when i realised my aunt came at such an untimely day and was so frantic! luckily its a small stain and i was able to rush home and change before going out again

gene, jun and i went to mei shi zhan!!!:):):) ahhh i have wanted to try the chicken rice balls for quite some time alr, so when jun and i spotted that there are chicken rice balls there, we decided to gt it and try. 

but it tasted so cold and not what ive expected:( lol i bet there are better ones ard in spore!!!

jun was finding this drink throughout the whole trip. and she finally found it! lolll my sis always patronizes the same stall everytime she goes to mei shi zhan. this drink is one, dodo fishballs is another. lol

woo such a radiant and cute smile there!!! haha jun and i were laughing at him cos he was trying very hard to peel the egg shell off his char ye dan that were too hot to peel. lol

ahhhhh exhausted us~~ time to steal some sitting time when gene was trying out sports shoes 

met up with bestie ysd and we went to bugis. we ate at this dessert store ji de chi! 

this was hers: mango pomelo glass jelly ice. 

and this was mine: double boiled egg with hashima. it tasted so yucky after half of it cos im sick of the taste after awhile, and the thought of an egg dessert irked me. lol so much for trying out this hahha

and yh was tooo tempted to eat this that she ordered this at apple strudels. this was durian strudel and it tasted good!!

jun cooked this herself and she called it her homemade phad thai! lol

lol chef and her phad thai. haha

count your blessings. 

28 may

part 2 of last week's updates!

as promised, im gonna blog abt my second strawberry jelly sweettarts attempt! this time round, i made it tgt with gene at his house. and this time round, my aim is to make it in such a way that the biscuit layer is crunchy!! improvised some of the steps abit cos there is no electric mixer at gene's house and i forgt to bring my cookie cutters. so we decided to ditch the strawberries and substitute them with longans. 

lets start!!!! decided not to melt the butter and just mix it with the biscuit crumbs manually!

gene will be the "electric mixer" for the 2nd attempt!! haha initially thought that the mixture of sour cream will be very hard to mix without the use of the electric mixer, but it turned out relatively easy!! thats good, cos we do not need to wait for an hr just for the sour cream to melt!

put the longans innnnnnnn!!! i thought the longans were to be placed sparingly like the strawberries so that when u cut the tarts into pieces, there would be a strawberry for each piece. but cos we bought a tin of longans, there were so many extras, and so we decided to just put as many in. lol!!

initially it was like this:

after 90% of the longans were added: (looked super alien-y ugly though) ahhahaha

after chilling it in the fridge for 4-5 hrs, its time to take it out and pour the tortally mixture! i had to keep reminding gene to pour the mixture in very gently cos that will determine my aim will succeed or fail for the 2nd time. lol so gene had to use a bowl to scoop the mixture and gently pour it in haha

more more more!

ta-da! tortally mixture all in! time to chill again! seriously, this recipe doesnt require baking, but the process of chilling alr takes up alot of time and patience. lol

yay! by the time the mixture is all chilled, it was alr ard midnight le. gene and i were so excited can. lol take it out and see whether it is successful!!!!!!!!!!!!

cut cut cut!! 

woo...one cut down will determine everything. 

and it is successful! the biscuit layer was crunchy still!! happy like a lark! lol but then theres another problem: the upper 2 layers and the biscuit layer didnt stick tgt as much, so some of the biscuit layer were still left on the tin after it was cut out. but after chilling it for a few more hours, the problem was kinda solved, so i guess it was cos we were too anxious to cut it alr. so that kind of mean we were successful this time round! yay!!:):)

saw this online and i thought i would share. this is so true. and all of us should learn, me included. we should all feel grateful and seek contentment and self-improvements. 

woke up to see such a very funny scene that i had to quietly reach for my phone and take a pic! pb and gene slept in the exact same position!!! haha

super cute:):):)

ysd afternoon, i had "class outing" with the 02 peeps. turned out that theres only 7 of us. hhhahaaha ok la..thats quite expected. but still glad for those who came! we heard that theres his place in golden mile that serves delicious authentic thai cuisine, and so we decided to have our lunch there. turned out that theres quite a few thai eating places in golden mile and we didnt know which one is the one that alot of people raved abt. but after some time, we found it! nana thai food!!

we gt these dishes to share: 

ok this tom yum soup has to be given extra attention cos this is super delicious!!!!!! seems like i only know this word to describe how good it is. lol but it was really good and heavenly u have to try it yourself to feel it. dotn be fooled by the look of it though, the pic doesnt do justice to the taste. we all love this ok!! and i will come back just for this tom yum soup. 

people who made it down!!! it was quite long since the last time we met, so this meetup was considered a very good catch up session for all of us. had a good laugh too, with topics ranging from school to work to lovebites. lol seriously with honglin ard, the topic will inevitably end up like this. hahha

group picture of all of us!! till the next time we meet again for liu sha bao!!!!! haha:):)

"if each of the almost seven billion people living on our planet right now were to stream by you in a single file, it would take two hundred years to greet each one in turn." it is so hard for two strangers to meet, and even harder for people to appear in your life and to hold a special position in your heart. so people, cherish the fate you have in this lifetime. 

27 may

hello hello!! here are part 1 of this week's updates!!

decided to follow a recipe i found online to try for gene: strawberry jelly sweet tarts. my oven was spoiled, and thus i have to find a recipe that does not require baking. and lucky me, i found this!! so i bought the ingredients and roped in jun to make with me. 

jun was having a fever that day so she didnt go to sch. and she was more than willing to help play along. 

melt da' butter!!!

mix the butter with the biscuit crumbs!!

sift icing sugarrrrrrr

mix the sour cream, icing sugar and vanilla essence tgt!! it was only when i have finished mixing the mixture that i realised that i put in one tablespoon of vanilla essence when it is stated as one teaspoon. LOL luckily theres not much diff to the taste, to my relief haha

notice the diff shapes of the strawberries!! so cute arent they??:) haha

pour in the tortally mixture!! woo~ so pretty!!!

more more more!!!

after putting it in the freezer and chilling it for some hours, i took it out and saw to my horror, the tortally jelly has seeped into the biscuit layer!!:( majorly sad cos i know that means the biscuit layer is ruined. true enough, the biscuit layer is soggy and thus, didnt taste nice. but then, everyone commented that it tasted not bad! that includes gene, my mom and bro. lol jun didnt like the taste of sour cream so she only had a bite. lol that kind of lifted my spirits a little, and made me decided that im gonna give it a second attempt! the second try will be up in the next post btw:) haha

went to my ex-student's place to take back some of her assessment books cos she has alr graduated and do not need those books again and so i can recycle and use those assessments on my other students. this is her pb!! hahhaa

and this was her rummaging thr her box of assessments. 

on fri, gene came over to my place after my tuition. wanted to go out with him initially, but jun still had her fever, so i had to stay at home. and gene and i went to sports sch hill in the evening!!

jump shots galore!!!!

very very breathtaking sunset...i love sunsets like these..so so beautiful:):)

last but not least...2 of the jumpshots zoomed in HAHA

happy holidays!!! part 2 of this week's updates will be up in the next post!!!:):)