belly too happy.

My belly has really been too happy lately! I ate a lot of food at home and baked quite a few times! I have started to love baking at home again.

First, in the beginning of June, I made tortillas. So simple, I will definitely make them again when I need them in the future. I forgot which recipe I used!

When I went to Chinatown with Fion and Josephine, we had Lerk Thai. I ate my Phad Thai as usual, but I did not really like it. I do not think I will patronize them again. I do not like their version of Thai food:/

I made whipped buttercream and peanut butter cream cheese. The former is better than the latter in my honest opinion. The whip cream makes a lot of difference in the texture of the buttercream. It is so much creamier, even I liked it. Note: I do not like creams in general!

This bread with the two spreads is really super delicious! Nomnom!

Making tortillas resulted in me eating a lot of it. It tasted good with some chicken, pickles and minced meat potato. Nomnom! I drank Indonesia rose/black tea. I love it! It is not very strong, but the slight rose scent is so good. I do not fancy rose tea by itself, but this is good!

Sour green apple with buttercream is good!

Pasta with indulgent milo dinosaur! I like mine with plain milk and tons of milo powder on top!

Then, I baked bread. This was my first try. It taste edible, but not tasty as all! Best eaten toasted with buttercream. I made it with this recipe.

On the trip to K.L, we bought a dozen of Krispy Kreme back. This is the bomb! Caramel cookie flavour, as shown above, is the best flavour for caramel lovers like me! It is like Oats(the cereal) on top. Really really the best!

Chocolate cream/dream. This is not my favourite. I do not like it! It is like....custard inside. >.< Not for me.

Chocolate glazed donuts is good.

Korean food for dinner one night. Egg drop soup, instant ramen and a variety of kimchi and other pickles. I do not touch those. Only the marinated squid(which is raw) is to my liking.

  Second attempt at bread baking with this recipe!

Pretty doughs!

Grow, my babies, grow!

Looks much better, doesn't it? Compared to the first attempt?

 LOOK AT THE PRETTY INSIDES! It is so extraordinarily soft and so good! The day I baked it, we almost finished a loaf. The sad part is, like all baguettes, it was not as soft the next day. It tasted like regular day-after french breads. :(

Still tasted very nice with fried sunny side down and ham with pickles. I devoured the rest of the bread and too many eggs the next few days after.

Or with pickles and fish and toasted bread!

Food from the canopy at Bishan Park! It is really nice even though I do not fancy the fish roe on top. >.< Smoked salmon with scrambled eggs and salmon roe if I remembered the name right....

 Third and most recent attempt at baking bread! WHOLEMEAL BREAD! Baked with the Tangzhong method and this recipe, I have to say this was exhausting! Not because I used a lot of energy, but because it was so heartbreaking when I could not knead the dough enough to pass the windowpane test. After 45 minutes to one hour of kneading with my Kenwood machine, I gave up and decided to try my luck.

When homemade bread tastes like store-bought bread, I feel awesome. This is freaking wholemeal bread which tastes super good! OMG. I am feeling super awesome! <3

Okay, off to Chinatown I go for the second time in three days to get my friend's 21st birthday present! ^^

doodles!

It has been a while since a drawing post. I have not been drawing much. Between baking and crafting, I only draw when I have *boom* inspiration. When I try to draw without inspiration, it is like trying to clear your bowels when you have constipation. It is a painful process. I do not keep copies of my drawings everywhere and with my experience with hard disks, you know they are not to  be trusted.

This is like...a random doodle when I was watching my China drama.

I love this quote, and I wanted to try out pretty fonts, so I did this.

Attempt at drawing a guy. Gave up halfway. Forget it.

I love this one! I lost the page for the background unfortunately. I would love to credit the person :( I like the 1900s fashion. Slim waists and poufy butts. HAHAHA.

Kim possible wannabe? I do not really like this but whatever, just post la.

I drew the diamond first. I wanted to practice drawing diamonds and ended up with this. 

Tried to so a pin-up style. I like the eyes. And the shading. I am not very good at it, but I try! I like the shading at the boobs the most! Really. Because 2D cleavage is not cool.


As you can tell, I still do not have any particular drawing style. I just whack and try out different styles. Hopefully, my drawing skills can improve this way. I know it will be a while before my next drawing post. It took me about 5 months(?) to collect these!

Till then!

Ghost town. :(

The two busy weeks are finally over and I am back home. It had been an enriching two weeks and I am a little sad that my coming weeks are not much busier. I just found out that the International Student Centre in school only need me for 6 days! :(:(:( And I kept my holidays job free because of them! :( Makes me a little sad because I want to earn more money during the holidays. Now I have to look for more jobs.

The PSI is currently 299 based on a three hour average (371 as of now, one hour later). It is really high! Like, record high. It is so sad, because the park below my house looks so deserted! The entire place looks like a ghost town because all the neighbours closed their windows and no one is out and about. Here's a picture taken from my window.

Does it not look like a ghost town? I saw one lone ranger walking in the park with an umbrella. I wonder if the umbrella actually protect you from the haze! The air smells bad and I am suffering from sore throat because of too much Krispy Kreme and Keropok from the KL trip. Double the suffering.

On a lighter note, I really enjoy eating Krispy Kreme! NOMNOM. It is like the bomb! Because I dislike donuts in general, I was really surprised when I bit into the Krispy Kreme. I think it must have been at least 10 years since I ate a donut. I might have forgotten the taste. Hahaha. But these monsters are so good! I love the caramel cookie and Chocolate glazed flavour. Even my mom, do does not fancy sweet desserts found the caramel cookie donut good. Thank god they do not have a branch on Singapore yet. Or I might find myself pack on a couple more kilos. I will probably do a food post soon, so I will show you the lovelies there!

Speaking of which, the haze is annoying because I am feeling kinda fat and I kinda want to exercise. I think it is quite tragic, because this is not really intentional (I hope) If Singapore is suffering, imagine the people in Indonesia! Unlike us, they might not be able to hide in air-conditioned rooms and some may not be the culprits at all! Especially those poor villagers, they are not the farmers who burnt down the trees, and they do not profit for these burnings, but they have to suffer the haze. :( They may not be able to afford masks to relieve their suffering. How about the elderly? D:

Another thing to note, Singapore is really quite interesting. Amid all the complaints about the haze, we can be quite hilarious. I saw some of the retweets on twitter and they caused me to laugh and cough at the same time because I am inhaling more haze while laughing. Hahaha.

http://www.sgag.sg/gag/2534/now-you-can't-see-me.html

Seriously! Hahahaha.

Hahaha, for your information, PSLE is our local exam for Primary School. The maximum you can achieve is 300.

I am glad to see that people in Singapore have a sense of humor. ^^

I hope the weather gets well soon! 

Busy june.

My short week-long stint at the Asian Attractions Expo has finally ended! I really enjoyed the job there even though it required me to wake up early in the morning and wear formal wear every day. It is so interesting to look at all the exhibits and the various types of attractions that theme parks can add on to their parks.

It is even more interesting to look at all the businessmen and how they interact with each other. Working in MBS is awfully expensive though. Lunch costed averagely S$10! Reimbursement is S$5, so I probably forked out S$5 for lunch every day.

Vanessa and I in formal wear! I kind of look like I was wearing my mom's clothes. Haha, I was! Dress pants are not the comfiest pants in the world. -__-

I will be going for camp next week. It is gonna be challenging. I do not know anyone who is going with me! Thank god it is a quad room in the resort. Perhaps it is friend making time!