Back from work, and i've ordered JellyHearts for tomorrow! yay!!!! It's been such a long time since i ate them. I figured since i can't make anything in time (sadly) i should just get something really really really good to make up!

I'll be going to collect them tomorrow morning and then head down to Andy's home to pump balloons and decorate the house ... andy, please don't wake up so early tomorrow.

I've also finish wrapping the present and writing Andy's birthday card! I bought this card like more than a year ago....i just like the really retro design! Oh, while wrapping the camera, i accidentally tore the corner of the box......haiz, saded.

My retro card to Andy...

The prettiest i;ve ever wrapped!

Cleaned my camera lens to take beautiful pictures tomorrow :)

Oh and in the end, it's just gonna be us celebrating for Andy!

Andy also thinks that we're gonna have the steamboat for dinner....hahaha

Happy Birthday Andy!!!!

Today is officially Andy's 21st birthday!

Unfortunately, for NS men, there's no such thing as birthday leave, even their own leave they can't just take when they like....their leave is given to them by their sirs, as and when their sirs are in a nice mood!!! until now i can't understand.....then why is it called 'leave'? those 'leaves' are just good mood grands.....

It is thus, because of these good mood grands, i can't celebrate Andy's birthday with him.

Back to the topic, i was on leave yesterday, went to school for enrolment and photo taking, everything ended at about 4 somehing 5pm. Chiong to buy party supplies for use on saturday!


One packet of 25 balloons for $11++? is that standard rate or did i just get scam? Anywayz, i bought them la hahaha plus some hanging stars thingy. Wanted to get a nice "Happy Birthday" banner...but their all so ugly, i spent like half an hour just pacing up and down the shelves....couldn't convince myself to buy any. Their all like boring Ben 10, dinosaurs, Dora kinda banners......so i didn't buy any. Guess i'll buy one if i see a nice one.

Went back and waited all the way to 11.55pm and sent my pre-prepared birthday sms!!!! wahahahahaa....(sent 5 mins earlier cause Andy's time is 5 mins faster) and i hope i'm the first man....i can't stand if i'm not. I think so far, i've always been the first. Yay!

The cake i made....didn't quite make it. Have to think of something else blueberrish to make. How does ribena blueberry jelly sounds?

Oh and a few days ago, Andy and i ... we had a conversation on how big exactly are 21st birthdays? and he said "i don't think it's a big deal, i'm not even celebrating mine!" and i can't help but laugh......"yea right you're not celebrating..." was what i thought! hahaha

Fisheye 2

I took leave today to settle some school stuff, and straight after that went all over town to find Andy's birthday present. A Lomography Fisheye 2! I've thought about this present for a long time, and i wish Andy will enjoy it capturing memories he'll like to remember.

He's always saying that he have a bad memory, and that he has got no particular hobby or talent. Everytime he says that....i just feel kinda....."sour" yea, it that feeling's got a taste, it's definitely sour.

Andy, if you're reading this, i hope the pictures you take with the camera will help jolt your memory in times, and may you become such a pro at using it!

Back to the buying....when i said i went all over town i really meant all over! i researched a list of all the stores in Singapore selling lomo cams and when to all the stores on the list that are in orchard....yea! wisma, taka, far east, tangs, paragon, even bugis.....!

First stop was Kino at taka....price was so steep and the auntie, though helpful, but didn't answer all my questions at all. In the end i decided to call Objectives (Lomographic Embassy Singapore) they've got the colour i want, and price is ok. So i decided to go there (Bugis).

Lucky for me, i did my homework and already marked down which lomos i'm interested in (Holga, Coloursplash and Fisheye) so it makes things really easy and fast. Went to Objectives for less than 10 mins, and i'm outa there with a limited editon Fisheye 2 in chrome!

Check it out:

Without Flash:

"The brand new version of the world's first, best and only 35mm compact fisheye camera."

170 Degrees...

Fun package!

It's so beautiful i thought i will take another set without flash so you can see it properly.

Comes with a whole bunch of interesting "manuals" haha

One of them opens up to a huge fisheye2 poster!

I guess one of the reasons i bought the fisheye 2 for Andy is because i like it alot too! I always wanted to get a cool camera for myself...and this is definitely one of those in my wish list. Maybe Andy can lend it to me when i wanna use it.....while i was thinking of getting it, buying it, bringing it home, taking pictures of it, i fight the thought of keeping it for myself.

Maybe when i'm richer i'll get one for myself hahaha!

Meantime, i'll just take a few more pictures with it before i keep it back into the box and before it's officially Andy's! haha...btw, that's my heaven shot....

Here's my moon shot....

I hope Andy likes it as much as i do..................

Cake Tryout 1

Woke up early today to get all the ingredients i need to make the cake (together with my mum! she's been a great help...answering all my questions: so is corn starch the same as corn flour? so is all purpose flour same as all purpose wheat flour? can i use honey if i can't find agave nectar? etc etc)

Before i started anything, i drank a really hearty bowl of soup...my mother's new creation! Mushrooms, radish and chicken, taste really sensational! haha! Oh and i ate rice too and vegetables...

Then the baking begins...

I gotta gotta get a new weighing machine....really, this old machine gives different reading everytime i change the position of the flour/sugar on the weighing plate.....haiz, i have to use argaration the whole time, too risky especially when it comes to baking cakes....

I made a horrendous mistake in the process......i was reading the recipe and it says "combine the flour, baking powder and salt....." then in the line below "add dry ingredients in the mixer and mix well..."

So i thought, "how about sugar and corn flour? so means the corn flour and sugar also add in?.......ya should be add in, they are all dry ingredients" so i went and combine ALL the dry ingredients together and mix!!!!! and then just before i pour the mixed batter into the dish, i saw "mix turbinado sugar with the arrowroot (corn flour), sprinkle the sugar mixture on top of the batter" yea......shit!



Mixture of egg whites, soymilk and honey

Moral of story: just follow what's written and don't assume.


Then i convinced myself to just baked it...because even if i sprinkle the sugar mixture on top, they'll still be combined right? (Right) Don't think it'll affect the last step much right? (Wrong)

The last step is pouring boiling water on the batter....and i think it's because of the missing layer of sugar, the water and the batter just did not really blend well there.....just a tad too sticky.

After about 50 minutes....the natural colour is so delightful.

And after about 4 hours of cooling!

Flipped the cake over and this is how it looks.....

My first time eating blueberries....they taste surprisingly good! not sour at all! and as for the cake...not bad too, well just that the bottom is a lil' sticky...

Alexa recommend us to put the cake into the fridge and have them the next day...so i'm trying that to see if that'll help.

I'm so gonna try this out again....hahaha

Blueberry Pudding Cake

Tonight i will explore the recipe for making the super good looking Blueberry Pudding Cake! I found from Artsy Foodie! Where blogger Alexa shares all her extremely creative recipes with the world! Plus, she's been extremely helpful finding the correct convertion table for me so the Singaporean me can make the cake with the correct portions of all the ingredients!

Check out the beautiful pictures from Alexa!




Do check out her awesome place here

Hesitated abit there sharing the recipes, cause a part of me just wanna keep the link to those great recipes for myself........yea, i'm selfish when it comes to good food.

......ok after 1 hour and 25 minutes, i've converted most of the units of measure to measurable units.....

You know you're pretty screwed when you look at the units of measure and they don't ring a bell at all....

Even with the conversion table i need to do loads of calculation. The tables gives things like 3 teaspoon is how much how much, but i'll need to get 1/4, 3/4 teaspoon....ya etc etc


Ok, you must be thinking..."no brainer~~" but for someone like me...who really hate math and never did well for it.........let's just say, i'll really need some more time to figure things out.

See kids....you know how you always ask yourself "why must i study math? what's the use man...? gosh i hate this" This is why....one day you're gonna want to make a cake for your bf/gf and you gotta know math to convert stuff.

BTW, i love the calculator! It's definitely one of my favourite inventions :)

Check out my conversions!

Rewritten the whole recipe and wll the things i have to buy...

Back to blogging

These are blueberry recipes i considered making....

Very random: The calculator that's been with me through thick and thin...all the way from the second half of secondary sch to poly days to now....


Thoughts:

Told my boss i'm gonna resign today....very sudden, what a day....

Going to work tomorrow....tired

Going for driving tomorrow....

Going to buy stuff for the cake tomorrow....

Took damn long to finish this post...10.05pm to 12.15pm

Bye for now :)))))