back to food and nutrition lesson...

hold your breath.... my foresty looking charlotte cake coming up......


baked this bday cakey for naz's bday! prettily messy! haha.. but i must say the lady's fingers sucks..don't really like the taste of it...so next time i'll replace it with toasted almond flakes instead. heh. kiasu me bought double portions of all ingredients.. and my cake ended up bigger than expected! haha.. still got 750g of choc spongecake mix and a whole carton of whipping cream left..wondering what to do with it... ~ super improvised,lazier version of the recipe courtesy of happily baking mrs kuo.. ~

think will bake a choc sponge for my colleagues or something. really liked the taste of the cake...nice fluffy and chocolatey.. yum. actually you won't believe how much of the cake I ate... 2 spoonfuls! somehow stuff that i make i dun like to eat... hahahah. i offered some to zhe and sharon san and the rest naz brought home...

met up with zhe and sharon san at zhe's place for a supper feast...zhe made dumplings for us which was simply oishii with chilli oil and vinegar...and me and sharon san dabao chicken wings, osyter omelette and satay from chomp chomp....

Ate till we drop. This is life.

i love netball.!

~very diligently made use of this chance to practise my fotoshop..勤勉な　夏りさん！@KPE Family Day cum Charity Walk 21st Oct ... KPE officially open to public 26th Oct...that's tomorrow @ 10am! I qualify to be ambassador of LTA liao...～　

~ friendly match with JTC... 17-10 was the score...LTA won! heh. too long never play netball...offside so many times...so paiseh!! somemore not playing GA or GS...so forgot that the semi circle is out of bounds to me....urghz! ~

~pic with JTC team... ~

naz went down to watch the match too.. !! gave him a lesson on netball rules...heh.

wanna play more netball..! sob... not shiok la..only played 14min.. 1 quarter was only 7min..... just warmed up only, whistle went off liao.....

转角*遇到爱

had a really fun but tiring weekend.

Joined naz’s colleagues at Bedok Reservoir for some Forest Adventure thingy. 25 bucks for a 3 hour obstacle course on the trees, climbing, balancing, tarzen swinging and tried out my 1st flying fox! 4 sites to complete and we get from site to site through a flying fox! So cool… flying across the surface of bedok reservoir…4 times somemore. Really worth the bucks. Had always missed OBS (outward bound Singapore) activities…loved the outdoors and behaving like monkeys once in awhile.

Sunday was crazy..dragged myself up at 5.45am and headed to office to help out for the charity walk @KPE. People streamed in way earlier than we thought and we had no time to set up our registration booths properly. Instead of trolleying the goodie bags, we had to lug the bags to the bus bay to give up to participants. Aching arms while typing this.
Amused myself by taking loads of pics at the tunnel....heh.

Met up with babu n ahmad at j8 for ktv session..without maria..again! maria..can you take care of yourself please. Onegaishimasu.

Cried for 1 hour watching Corner with Love before going to bed. Love the show leh… the dialogue is like so good and the chemistry between bigS and xiaozhu was amazing.

mRs kuO...since u so free...maybe can bake less and watch corner with love。。转角遇到爱

cartoon-ING

I just signed up for a cartooning course! Only 4 lessons organized by my company’s staff club..the cartoonist is from comixguru.. err..dunno what’s that also la. Anyway, it has always been my childhood dream to learn cartooning but never had the motivation to borrow books and self study.

Sometimes, I think I’ve made the wrong academic choices man. Should have studied like arts and graphic or something.. now so old liao then spend extra time and money learning macromedia flash, photoshop and then cartooning.

Erm.. then again, can’t dismiss the fact that interest is one thing and having a flair in your interest is another. So taking them as a recreational activity might not be so wrong afterall in my case.

Hopefully can upload some of my cartoons soon!

Involved in the Kallang Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) opening cum Charity Walk A Jog this sunday. It better be fun lor. Imagine having to drag my energy deprived body to office by 7.30am…on a supposed-to-be-lazy Sunday morning.. can’t imagine. The event will end only at 2-3pm..

Caught sight of the Orchard underpass wallpaper for the KPE teaser..looks pretty cool!

I love TCC~

i'm a macromedia flash expert now! haha.. ya..like real mochi san. I kowtow to all those animation professionals out there... animations is really way out of my league!!

the 2 days course proved that flash is just not my cup of tea.. haha. interesting la...but i've forgotten like 80% of what i've learnt.. -_-

besides the sucky tea breaks there.. imagine..pathetically puny gross siew mais (1 per pax only..not enuff to go round pls) and khong Guan plain crackers... for morning and noon tea respectively... how much worse can tea breaks get. sigh...

had dinner @ TCC.. both me n naz concluded that we really liked the food in TCC. I ordered the mushroom bites... which was dam oishii.. and some spice chicken thingy.. naz's seafood aglio olio wasn't too bad too. the shocker came when we ordered the cake... the guy asked if we wld like a scoop of icecream to go with the cake.. so we ordered since naz decided that I wasn't going to eat much of the choc cake plus it was only $1.50 and like who would mind a scoop of ice-cream..?!

.. and as we ate it..the taste started getting familiar... naz said it tasted like magnolia ice-cream.. i insisted that TCC wldnt serve magnolia.... and i was like dead sure. so we asked the waiter and yep. it wasn't magnolia.... but marigold. we were close la.ha.

TCC serves marigold ice-cream!! omg... just ruined my beautiful impression of them....sigh.. all good things come to an end...

but the service there is really good...smiley and prompt staff.. so guess i'll just have to get marigold out of my mind... I love TCC!

~Mrs Kuo...really gotta take my hats off ur culinary skills... u really love to cook and can cook... ur charlotte cake looks dam pro...droolz!!~

a picture tells a thousand words

Pics grabbed from kei's blog... mummies are always armed with cameras.. domo ne. Taken at Suting's wedding at Goodwood Park..food was really quite good. Suting looked gorgeous in her flowery gown and a huge retro flower on her nicely bunned hair. will upload the pic if she sends us her pics...

~mochi san with jane's bb phoebe~

~Wenhao, Suyi and Florence!~
~was pretty shocked when they reserved a seat for me beside xiao4 zhang3! -_- ..Thanks ah friends..heh. she still looks the same though it's been 10 years since we left st nicks. Beside her is Mrs Lee with her husband. She's the principal of Nan Hua Primary now! woah.. oh.and xiao zhang is a counsellor for RGS.. yups. updates updates..~

~a pic of naz's kitty. She's called Neko, meaning "cat" in jap. hah. never like cats but thought she looks really relaxed in this position. cats also know how to nua..~

3 hours of nothingness.

I'm sitting here
Awake, for the time being
Witnessing the exchanging of jargons across the long cold table

I'm glad I'm just silently sitting here
Invisible, most happy to be
Drifting in and out of the information stream
So foreign indeed

I feel the minutes tapping my wrist
Increasing beat as the sun rays seeping through the blinds diminishes

Thoughts wonder
Remembered the new sport I took up
Pilates, to breathe and relax is all that it imparts
Patience is up
Cardio is the way to go
Atas exercise is my foe

I'm still sitting here
Rounding up is going on
Feet tapping
For weekend is finally here

taureans

courtesy of http://www.pasqualina.com/
quite true of me! check out the site for urss..

The meaning of sign TAURUS

The second sign of the zodiac

Your element: earth
Your ruling planet : Venus
The tarot card corresponding to your sign : the emperor
Your lucky color : green
Your stone : emerald

Your earth, the element of your sign, is an earth that sows seed. This is an agrarian soil of nature where gain is realized, felt, and experienced sensually. It is this soil that you impregnate with everything that is to be a Taurus. You love nature where you find an exaultation of the senses. Your well-developed senses love the perfume of flowers. You have a natural ability to communicate with animals. You love to experience, first hand, all that nature has to offer.

Your earthy nature makes for a very sensual, physical, carnal being. No platonic lovers for you! However, you need lots of stability. You run the risk of experiencing great pain if this stability does not exist or is in question. You take your time before making any decisions and you rarely change your mind. You work with tenacity and patience, but you are often not rewarded as much as you deserve to be. The fact is that, contrary to the other signs, you don't know how to put yourself first.

Your qualities are not always recognized at face value. In love, for example, you give a great deal of yourself, but others just seem to take this for granted and do not appreciate your efforts. During physical activities it is the same. You always accomplish everything you do, but you do it discreetly, so that you are not rewarded the responsibility or success that you should have.

During your relationships, friendship or love, you are completly faithful. If you give your affection and your commitment, if is for ever. You give a great deal of youself and you are very disappointed at any kind of deception, and completely disarmed before mistakes and failures.

Venus brings you much sensuality and charm. You have a magnetism that endowes you with a gift for Love. However, you are not frivolous. Just the opposite! Your need for stability and security makes you prefer longlasting relationships.

Your faults often stem from your character. Your steadfastness may become inactivity. You have trouble adapting to new situations, crossing into unchartered waters, making quick decisions. Having several things on the go at once makes you nervous.

Your connection with other signs:

You have more chance of getting along with other steadfast signs. For example, Aries, Virgo and other Tauruses. You should however be on guard against anyone with air and water signs, particularly Geminis and Scorpios, who do attract you.

This brief but frank analysis will help you make appropriate decisions in your life. Study it well so that you can take full advantage and maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.

Those who succeed, no matter the situation, are those who consciously or unconsciously take maximum advantage of their trump cards, their successes, their strengths, and know when to exert self-control in moments of weakness.

forgive and forget.. can you do it?

it takes a really magnaminous person to be able to forgive and forget. human beings are tagged to be naturally grudgeful....our brain are more structured to remember the bads than the goods. guess we are born too intelligent la..the highest grade of living things.

will you forgive a close friend who has done all sorts of bitchy mean things to hurt you, making pre-assumptions of you, accusing you of doing something you didn't, thinking the worst of you, most importantly, chucking all the years of true friendship down the drain while doing so.. this is when you wonder if you really know the person well. maybe not.

可能我比较爱恨分明吧。。 no such thing as due to circumstances, therefore i accused u and didnt trust u.. ya right lor. if you're indeed true friends, and we're not toking about aquaintance type of friendship...say at least 1-2 years type, nothing can explain how you can bear to say such hurtful stuff "in a moment of anger, whatever.. without considering the person's feelings... it's sheer emotional torture...in this particular case, it was a year of emotional torture. this evil person didn't even feel regretful of what she has done in that year. and fyi, friends don't do this to each other.

she must be too densed to realise that what she had done was such a huge mistake and took like donkey time to feel remorse, wanting to make up and be good friends again.

will you take her back? pretending nothing has happened? forget the times when she trampled on you even though you're so helpless and lonely studying overseas?

to the once tortured soul: just expressing my thoughts la...coz really think she's super gross.. hate her. but i'll respect your noble decision coz i can never ever do it i think.

蓝美萍。。。おめでとよ！

forgot to blog abt my trip to JB! yeah.. made our once in a blue moon pilgrimage to visit becca.. really nostalgic this kind of trips..reminds me of JC and Uni days when me and gang used to make trips across the causeway to drink 快可立...eat pizza and buy lots of what we shouldn't be buying. so fun.

it's more fun now since we've upgraded to travelling around in bec's car instead of haggling with the cabby over the cabfare...6 ringgit?? 5 ringgit can la. haha.

managed to dangle the carrot (dvds) infront of sharon san and she finally caved in and decided to move her butt to go too. hah. she really shld be more onz n less nua in general.together with zhen, naz and sharon san...was an eat shop eat shop trip.. lazified but enjoyable..

and becca broke the news to us...... she's getting married on 22nd Mar in KL! omg... can't help but really feel so old... late 20s...i'm almost there... yes i am.. sigh.

but before i wallow about how fast time goes by... congrats bec!!! feel really happy for ya and kirby... loking forward to attending your special day and meanwhile..hope you can find that perfect gown you're looking for!

can't take my eyes off you..~

evelyn mama's bb is so cute!! lezanne is just so kawaii! met up w eve for lunch at KK today..she brought lezanne for some check up.. and just couldn't get my eyes of the little pretty gal.. but had a hard time getting this shot with her coz she was feeling restless n sleepy....typical bbs la..

just realised my hair is cannot make it messy.. totally reflected the hectic day at work..at least 3 colleagues came by my cubicle to comment about my dishevelled hair... well, just as well to further bring out the cuteness of lezanne.. it's all for a good cause..heh.

thursday....

weird connections

dunno we pay the conservancy charges for what..the town council is so not doing their job.. the ceiling of my corridor has been leaking since last year and till now I'm still emailing them about it. waste my time... with my parents nagging in the background, i typed another email to them with much disgust and irritation at them and also just to shut my parents up. They've been nagging at me for not asking the Aedes Inspector to check on the leaking ceiling the other day. let me put it clearer... mosquito vs. leaking ceiling... tell me where's the connection. so I figured out a way it could be connected to mosquitoes...


Hi,

Address: xxx

If you could check your records, I've been calling/emailing the town council on several occasions since last year and beginning this year regarding the leaking of the ceiling at my corridor. I am surprised that I am still here typing this email almost a year later waiting patiently for your assistance on this matter.

Through the waiting and the recent rain, the leaking has become worse. I spoke to your officer a few times and he mentioned he has sent a guy to check but there was no followup after that. That was like at least 5 months ago??

Although I do agree that the leaking is not life threatening in any way, it looks unsightly and I do not know if it'll lead to environmental issues like breeding of mosquitoes.

Please do assist urgently as my dad couldn't believe that no action has been taken and thought that I haven't been doing my job by informing you on this matter.

I am very disappointed at the efficiency of the council. Please contact me at 96939515 if you have decided on any course of action to resolve the problem I've mentioned.

Regards,
azukimochi