Oh happy day !

What not to love about a day filled with sun, sea, sand, lotsa cycling, drinks by the pool and lovely company ? It was the nicest outdoor-sy outing i had with my fav girlies. (in such a long while too)

We were really adventurous while cycling though. almost ended up on the main road. But we did learnt that u only need an hour or less to cycle ard sentosa. becos it is that small. We went upslope (gotta get down and PUSH), downslope (Wheeeeeeeeee!), round and round for 2 hrs.

Sipping margaritas by the pool ! This is life. Aha. Hmm cafe del mar didn’t impress me much though, but i think it wld be a lot nicer at night. I’m not complaining though, cos the pool was a welcoming invite after all that cycling under the sun. Me like, heh.

The lovelies

Playing ard with photoshop. This kindda looks like a piece of pop art huh ? Wen’s expression, together with the shades is classic haha.

Sometimes, it’s really the simplest things that makes me the happiest.

I love the feeling of the soft, almost powder-like sand between my toes. The waves washing against my feet. The feeling of wind in my hair while cycling. The exhilarating speed when we go downslope. The childish albeit fun water splashing at the pool. Laughing about old times. Just…spending a simple day out together, enjoying each other’s company.

I wish we can spend more time together like that.

Current item of lust

Meet the Sony NWZ-E436F

Am tempted to make this 4GB lil beauty mine this christmas

Let’s see when my creative finally dies on me haha…

I am an ajisen ramen convert

all becos of this !

I NEVER liked ajisen before.

But this is so yum-yum i would go back for more. I think the part that won me over was the sauce they cooked the crayfish in. It resembles that of chilli crab. really good. and not too salty this time round ! Volcano sauce gave the extra kick. Thumbs up.

And no i didn’t take the picture, i stole it =P

We had really nice food for the whole day. The lovely oyster mee sua from shilin at far east for late lunch and i really do think their outlet has the nicest mee sua ever !! Yogurt from the yogurt place too…the granola one is soooooo good. Oh yes, i feel like a pig aldry. But, they’re all so delicious ! hahaha. What a rare food post.

Christmas gifts are so duhx. I think people only get them becos they are obliged to. and I HATE squeezing through the crowd. I didn’t get anything at all today. Maybe partly cos i’m poor enough haha.

Just a thought though. Is it so hard to be happy ?

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Back from sneaks for Twilight and i met the worst ticketing auntie ever !!! OMG. I was almost screaming at her already wtf. J said it looks like i was going to jump in and start a fight haha.

Here’s what happened. We chose our seats, paid and got our tix from her. But just a few steps away from the ticketing counter, J realised that she only gave us one tix. Which means that she gave us one short.

We went back to ask her abt it. And she tried to defend herself at first, say things like we might have dropped it, slipped it in between notes and stuff. Ok fine, we checked the surrounding and our wallet (which was not even neccessary becos j hasn’t even open his wallet to put the stuff in). So we told her abt it again.

And guess what that bitch said.

我不可能给错的。

AND keep insisting it was our fault !!! i was like WTF when i heard that sentence becos she is just simply pushing ALL the blame on us when we really only got ONE tix.

I was starting to boil and tried to tell the auntie stuff like we only just walked away, we can’t find it anywhere and she only really just gave us one. But she keep insisting it can’t be. And i think at one point like want to ignore us or something. But i think i started speaking louder and louder cos her goddamm attitude really REALLY pissed me off.

AND THEN. something happened. a girl walked up to us and asked us if the ticket she has is our missing ticket. and it was. I think they were the customers behind us. So apparently, she gave us one and gave them three.

I immediately turned to her and waved the tix in front of her. wished i cld have done it in her face though. like WTF i don’t care if the tix were stuck together, that is YOUR problem ok  ? and then i felt that it wasn’t enough so i wanted her to admit that it was her fault. Before that she tried to act like nothing happened but i was like speaking right at her so she gave a very half-hearted sorry lor.

Finally satisfied, we walked away. What kind of shitty customer service is this anyway.

TOTAL BITCH.

Luckily we didn’t miss the movie. And i was asking J wasn’t he pissed at all and he said he was but he thought somebody needs to stay calm in case a fight breaks out. lols. And they gave him all sweet popcorn instead of half sweet and half salted. so i guess he was doubly pissed. haha.

On a side note, Twilight is good =)

Fragility of bonds

I wish i could say that friends don’t drift apart no matter what. and that once a friendship bond is made, something special shared, it will always remain that way.

But somehow along the way when you don’t have anything in common anymore, don’t have much to say to each other anymore, a gap starts to appear. You don’t see it, but you feel it.

And then when you try to close the gap, it just seems forced, and so so unnatural. Old topics become stale. Find new topics ? Question is, do you even know what is happening in the person’s life now ?

You’ll then come to realise that sometimes things are not within your control, and will not, do not happen the way you want or expect them to.

They just don’t.

Kindda disheartening, really.

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Cakes galore (ok not really)

I don’t know what this looks like to you, but it looks like a dream to me.

Shaped like a blooming sunflower. White, creamy and soft. Lightly sprinkled with cocoa powder and chocolate rice. Infused with a tinge of Kahlua. They say you find beauty within its subtlety.

I’m really proud of us for coming up with this tiramisu. Pretty good, considering it’s our first attempt at it. Although wen says the chocolate rice looks like worms -_- All is good apart from the bottom layer which was kindda soggy cos *ah-hem* yours truly have been very generous with the alcohol aaaaaaaaaaand the taste’s not that subtle afterall.

But what better way to get drunk than by eating a beautiful cake ?

The mascarpone cheese was a really good investment. Unlike cream cheese, which usually have an overpowering taste, mascarpone comes across as delicate and refined. Almost like a hint of cheese and cream mixed together.

The procedure was kind of a mess but it did turn out beautifully after sitting in my fridge for 4 days. Well i did read that the longer you allow this cake to sit, the better it will taste as the flavours would have blended in nicely by then. But 4 days is a tad too long haha. Anyway it is a nice surprise. To think i was fretting after it was done. Would have dubbed it the messiest cake ever.

It was kindda funny though, trying means and way to test if you’re at home and trying to get your block number through various people and ways. But we eventually ended up at ur block based on instinct and vague memories lols.

And the part where wen had to keep blowing out and relighting the candles (it was abit windy and the candles were burning out fast) cos we keep anticipating you to be stepping out of the lift when it was really other people. Many false alarms haha.

And of course, such a special cake goes to someone very very special. It was all worth while when you smiled and told us the cake was good =)

There and then i finally understood one of the many joys of baking, that is when you put ur heart into the creation and see the one you love enjoying it. It’s a simple kind of happiness, nothing too complicated. I’m sure this is the same way when it comes to cooking too.

Happy 21st, Lin. Love you, always have, always will.

Every december, there are always two very special birthdays of people very close to my heart. And this is for my dad.

I would like to think of this as a very homely cake. As my dad does not like food that are overly sweet and creamy, i decided on making a banana chocolate cake. Was contemplating a dark chocolate kahlua cake but not sure how it would turn out so i gave it a miss.

It is a simple chocolate cake with bittersweet chocolate frosting, akin to dark chocolate. Which i think is the only kind of chocolate my dad likes. Top it up with sliced bananas (there’s already mashed bananas in the cake itself), sprinkled the side with sliced almonds and to make it a lil cuter, i made two hearts with icing in the centre.

Nothing really fancy, and the taste is not out of the world, but like i told my dad, it’s 独一无二。To that, he laughed. and we all laughed together. Sometimes i think something made with love beats the ’store-boughts’ many times over.

Not that the taste will ever match up, but to me, it’s just kind of heartwarming in knowing the fact that it was made from scratch and customised to the person’s preference.

Happy birthday dad. I love you too. (I think i will get you a more ‘pro’ cake next year haha, baking skills not there yet.)

Monday is a good day to blog

Another week that’s gone in a whirl. A lot of going out, a lot of money spent, a lot of photos taken. Oh and a complain to popeyes at the flyer. for their extremely salty chicken strips, rude services and lack of toilet/wash basin. Aahhh that was a disappointment, given that i’ve always been a big fan of popeyes. Wonder where QC and good customer services gone.

That aside, i also tried sushi tei for the first time on thursday. Met the girls after their last paper. last paper is like almost 2 weeks ago for me so i keep feeling like i’ve aldry had my holiday haha. It’s not amazing, guess i am STILL craving for my sushi. Haven’t had a chance to have them =(

Celeb dardardar’s bdae on fri evening. and before that, this is what we have been doing:

Who can resist Gloria Jean’s ice-blended for $3 ?

Now you know whose the vainest of us all.

And finally, my DR’s ready.

She is one lucky girl.

Unlike me. Kanna abused. =( Why meeeeeeeeeeee….

We had fun goofing ard though.

And then after that it was to meet the rest of the girls for dinner at 店小二. The rest of the food was so-so but i have to say the duck is superb ! yumyum. Aah and the mandatory group pic

You know i love you too

Happy, happy birthday to you !

Saturday was supposed to be a stay-home-nurse-my-pockets day but  i still went out in the end. And i seriously think i have no luck w walas. BECOS this is the 2nd time we wanted to head down and not only was the unXpected not playing, no one is ! So it was to the cinemas for j and me. Caught Bolt, it was not bad and i adored Rhino the hamster (It’s a good day to diiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!) but i’ve decided i had enough movies for the time being, esp movies to do with doggies.

And then, having woke up at 3pm(i noe i noe i’m incorrigible), i’m still pretty awake after the movie and lei was back from her dnd so we started to make plans for the night ahead. Aha but eventually we ended up at my house with lotsa drinks and titbits. At the end of the day, we emptied my choya, some vodka and v v little kahlua. Here we have two bloated, tipsy and giggly girls.

Our girly affair ended at 4+am and it was off to bed.

Sunday was an almost all stay home day except for a supper call…the nights’ been cold recently. And today has been cold alllllll day. Been on ‘marley and me’ and finding it a really enjoyable read.

Aahhh the simple joy of cuddling up to a good read =)

Rebel at heart

So we headed to a pub last night a short while after i got back home. Becos i was so mad and literally needed to chill out over drinks. Admittedly, S was quite a friend last night. Becos i said i was upset and need to go, he came over. Becos he listened to me rant on and on. Becos he didn’t drink much yet paid more anyway. Becos he fetch me and sent me back, as usual.

He didn’t have to do all this, but he did. So yes, this friend is for keeps. But to clarify, we’re friends and friends only. I know late night ‘escapades’ will always sound wrong but it’s not what you guys think, really.

It was kindda scary to be walking along the stretch of pubs at boat quay late at night becos i know i don’t belong there and it’s hardly my kind of place. and for a moment i was wondering to myself what the hell i’m doing/getting myself into. But once we settled down somewhere, it was actually quite ok. Stayed till we’re the only customers left and i did something i nv thought i would. It’s a ktv pub afterall…so i sang. HAHA. in a tipsy state somemore.

Surprisingly i did felt better after all the drinking/ranting/singing. After i got on the bike, everything became a blur and i kept my eyes closed most of the time. No i wasn’t falling asleep but he was going so fast i was abit worried the helmet would fly off. Racing against time to get me home by 4.45am lols.

I wld remember such nights. Unrestricted, thrilling and ‘wrong’ in a sense. ahahaha. Maybe there is that little bit of rebel in me, tucked away in some hidden corner.

Anyway, instead of making me conk out, the alcohol kept me awake. for reasons i know not of. The feeling is almost like you drank coffee with liquor. I laid in bed for the longest time, feeling tired yet unable to go to slp. BUT i still woke up at 9+am, surprise surprise ! For kbox lar. Although i was late (no surprise).

Kbox was hilarious as usual, with dar ard. Sometimes i think she’s a real 开心果. Becos it’s just impossible to not feel happy and burst out into laughter with her ard. She’s a gem and i think the guy she eventually ends up with will be a very, very lucky man. (ok has to be quite eligible cos she sets really high standards LOLS) The Klunch sux BIG TIME, btw. urrrghhh. i think i ate like 25% of the whole meal.

And then it was movie time with yee ! Caught Beverly hills chihuahua this time round. Nothing really special, just funny and really adorable =) I was so craving for sushi but sakae is no longer there at heeren. Super sian, so we settled for Waraku in the end. Talked and shopped before it’s time to head home…already quite tired out so i immediately dozed off on the mrt.

Off to colour my hair tml ! Ta~

So it is a small world after all

Shopping with dardardar was great. we really had fun. but she told me something about the Ex which happened sometime ago. To cut the story short, she has a guyfriend from SMU who is a friend of the Ex. or rather, the Ex’s current gf now. And he told dar somethings about the Ex and the girl a few months ago, which she in turn told me. I feel really honoured that dar stood up for me though.

Anyway what she told me made me see things very, very differently now.

All i have to say now is

Fuck you. no, really.

what she told me just made me lose the last bit of respect i had for you. What you did was so wrong on so many levels that i can’t even convince myself to give you the benefit of the doubt now. It could have ended in a better way but you really screwed up. But, not that you care. not that it matters now.

You may be smart, but as a person, you fail terribly. Even ‘Sorry’ sounds like a dirty word coming from you. I know now for a fact that i can definitely lift my head up high and live a better life without you.

Because, you will NEVER ever be able to look me in the eye. Because, all you have to defend yourself with is weak excuses. Because, you are a coward who chose to run away after doing what you did. Because, you are a fucking selfish bastard.

Want the best of both worlds ? I think you are smart enough to figure that it won’t work out.

Just remember, what comes around goes around, baby.