Thursday, August 13, 2009
my lovely girlfriends.
you know how it is after you get attached. you get so very caught up in the honeymoon phase that you want to meet up with the other half every single minute and before you know it, you find that your girlfriends have been pushed out of your schedule and your life.
i've been victim to this zhong se qin you (which translates to placing more importance on the opposite sex, usually the boyfriend, over your friends) occasionally, so i never wanted to be that sort of girl. hopefully i still was a good friend during that whole honeymoon phase (probably the whole first few months of last year).
okay i'm deviating from what i wanted to write about. sometimes i write here because i'm so psyched about something i can't wait to ramble on, or when i have tons of photos that i want to share, or when there's some event/moment i really want to remember (and don't trust my lousy memory to). in this case, it's the latter.
and so, we went over to di's place (ok i mean mansion HAHHAH!) on sunday afternoon. Honestly, i was really excited about seeing the babuseng again (after a good few months of not!), and just really happy with the thought of us four girls catching up again. we do have such fun together.
and so armed with homebaked cheesecake (yes the one featured in the post before this) and presents from Aust and Bangkok and feeling a little Santa-ish, I headed over.
i think in the two days we met, i've laughed more and talked more than i have in months! every single moment was just filled with catching up with each other's lives, making each other answer hypothetical questions that only we would know, sharing the latest gossips, our joys and downs. and of course, laughing ourselves silly.
the pool room would always echo with our mad guffaws (mostly ros, HAHHA. okay la i admit i do emit shrill yells sometimes) and i wish someone would videocam us when we're doing the 'distract-opposition' dance with our cue sticks.
that night, we talked into the early morning (5AM!!) with sleepy eyes and empty stomachs, but all still unwilling to turn in for the night. because we knew that such moments weren't going to come about that easily again.
i'm so blessed to have you girls. :))))
P.S can't wait to crash njc together!! hahhaha!
you know how it is after you get attached. you get so very caught up in the honeymoon phase that you want to meet up with the other half every single minute and before you know it, you find that your girlfriends have been pushed out of your schedule and your life.
i've been victim to this zhong se qin you (which translates to placing more importance on the opposite sex, usually the boyfriend, over your friends) occasionally, so i never wanted to be that sort of girl. hopefully i still was a good friend during that whole honeymoon phase (probably the whole first few months of last year).
okay i'm deviating from what i wanted to write about. sometimes i write here because i'm so psyched about something i can't wait to ramble on, or when i have tons of photos that i want to share, or when there's some event/moment i really want to remember (and don't trust my lousy memory to). in this case, it's the latter.
and so, we went over to di's place (ok i mean mansion HAHHAH!) on sunday afternoon. Honestly, i was really excited about seeing the babuseng again (after a good few months of not!), and just really happy with the thought of us four girls catching up again. we do have such fun together.
and so armed with homebaked cheesecake (yes the one featured in the post before this) and presents from Aust and Bangkok and feeling a little Santa-ish, I headed over.
i think in the two days we met, i've laughed more and talked more than i have in months! every single moment was just filled with catching up with each other's lives, making each other answer hypothetical questions that only we would know, sharing the latest gossips, our joys and downs. and of course, laughing ourselves silly.
the pool room would always echo with our mad guffaws (mostly ros, HAHHA. okay la i admit i do emit shrill yells sometimes) and i wish someone would videocam us when we're doing the 'distract-opposition' dance with our cue sticks.
that night, we talked into the early morning (5AM!!) with sleepy eyes and empty stomachs, but all still unwilling to turn in for the night. because we knew that such moments weren't going to come about that easily again.
i'm so blessed to have you girls. :))))
P.S can't wait to crash njc together!! hahhaha!
can you hear the soft swoosh of the butterflies' wings. 1:24 PM.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
I SUCK at time management. I chose the worst timing ever to bake a cake.
Hmm, here is what happened. It was a Thursday (i think) and a few days ago i had chanced upon a beautiful raspberry cheesecake recipe with gorgeous pictures that promised of a delicious cake. and so bright morning Thursday I trooped off to the supermarket and rounded up all my neccessities. Oh, and i had just picked up 2 baskets of VERY ripe strawberries from the boy's, that was one of the main reasons to make this cake.
OH and the fact that i've been keeping busy with my shop making such wonderful miniature cakes, and NONE were for eating. :(
and so i got to work, very psyched by the tantalising baking photos. SO, i had to make strawberry puree first. It was my first time ever, but it didn't turn out that bad. TEDIOUS though!
First I cut up and cored the strawberries, trashing some uberripe ones meanwhile.
and then you gotta slowly boil (with some water) and mash them at the same time, to coax all that juicy syrup out of the berries.
Because the berries' skins were so full of seeds, I had to strain the puree so that nobody eating the cake would bite onto a very disturbing hard seed.
voila, strawberry puree! oh and pardon the photos, when you're peppered in flour and have only one hand to take photos and horrid kitchen lighting, this is the best i can manage. haha.
whipping cream cheese (EXPENSIVE SHITSSS) and freshly-ground sugar together.
mixing in self-crushed graham crackers crumbs for the cake base.
YUMMM, all that's left is to pour the creamy cheesecake batter into the heavenly-smelling crust!
but bloody hell.
what is THIS SHITTTTTTTTT.
okay lar i did manage to salvage it in the end, by spooning some mixtures into muffin cups and baking them again. and i also whipped up a new graham crust and used some of the cheesecake batter for the new (albeit VERY much smaller) cake.
it is SO HARD to bake with microwave ovens! the many convection/microwave etc etc modes just bloody confuses me!! i just looked away for a while and the next minute my beautiful-looking cheesecake had melted into a greasy mess.
and my mommy made strawberry juice with the leftover puree.
now the cheesecake isn't half made, though the texture is very much more like a cheesecake mousse instead haha. But there's even a homemade rich chocolate ganache spread on top of it, say YUMMM. hahah.
there's so much of it left in my fridge, c'mon i wanna share! :)
Hmm, here is what happened. It was a Thursday (i think) and a few days ago i had chanced upon a beautiful raspberry cheesecake recipe with gorgeous pictures that promised of a delicious cake. and so bright morning Thursday I trooped off to the supermarket and rounded up all my neccessities. Oh, and i had just picked up 2 baskets of VERY ripe strawberries from the boy's, that was one of the main reasons to make this cake.
OH and the fact that i've been keeping busy with my shop making such wonderful miniature cakes, and NONE were for eating. :(
and so i got to work, very psyched by the tantalising baking photos. SO, i had to make strawberry puree first. It was my first time ever, but it didn't turn out that bad. TEDIOUS though!
First I cut up and cored the strawberries, trashing some uberripe ones meanwhile.
and then you gotta slowly boil (with some water) and mash them at the same time, to coax all that juicy syrup out of the berries.
Because the berries' skins were so full of seeds, I had to strain the puree so that nobody eating the cake would bite onto a very disturbing hard seed.
voila, strawberry puree! oh and pardon the photos, when you're peppered in flour and have only one hand to take photos and horrid kitchen lighting, this is the best i can manage. haha.
whipping cream cheese (EXPENSIVE SHITSSS) and freshly-ground sugar together.
mixing in self-crushed graham crackers crumbs for the cake base.
YUMMM, all that's left is to pour the creamy cheesecake batter into the heavenly-smelling crust!
but bloody hell.
what is THIS SHITTTTTTTTT.
okay lar i did manage to salvage it in the end, by spooning some mixtures into muffin cups and baking them again. and i also whipped up a new graham crust and used some of the cheesecake batter for the new (albeit VERY much smaller) cake.
it is SO HARD to bake with microwave ovens! the many convection/microwave etc etc modes just bloody confuses me!! i just looked away for a while and the next minute my beautiful-looking cheesecake had melted into a greasy mess.
and my mommy made strawberry juice with the leftover puree.
now the cheesecake isn't half made, though the texture is very much more like a cheesecake mousse instead haha. But there's even a homemade rich chocolate ganache spread on top of it, say YUMMM. hahah.
there's so much of it left in my fridge, c'mon i wanna share! :)
can you hear the soft swoosh of the butterflies' wings. 12:07 AM.
