if my friends have to categorized and shelved (and pickled in little pickle tins), nette and kares’ pickle tin will have a big fat white sticker reading CHILLAX FRIENDS cos its wunnerful to sit down with them with good food for a good hour or two(: veryvery good for a burnt face averse to exposure to more sunlight, and a mysteriously aching body which cannot possibly shop anymore (for a day at least LAAA). maybe, we should be more hardworking and meet more often ha ha.

now i cant wait for 12july ! karenchin and lynnetteng and harrypotter sound very promising(: hwattchoo think.

an amazing day shrank into an essence. yesterday compressed the beach/tanning, sakaebuffet and kbox all in one long extended day. extended cos we met at 1000 and officially left one another at 0200(: after one whole year we spent one whole day together and i cant think straight now cos i woke up 90minutes ago and does suntanning make you ache ?
i woke up late and went there alittle too groggy for suntanning, but the sun woke me up rudely, and then we had the rudimentary girltalk which extended beyond, licked the glaze off the melting sweet dozen of krispys, met The Boyfriend, were pseudo-asleep;), got uglyly scorched together (including a slab of bakwa), stuffed our faces silly at sakae in the humid salty air, shopped !, jumped all over the kbox couches, had sporadic bouts of exhaustion, and ate alot of nuts.

<3

a big bakeathon today, but only half of mels bakeathon ha ha. actually we didnt even bake much, just little bits of different things and hell loadsa cleaning up. its been awhile since we stood in mels now-familiar kitchen weighing stuff and chongs crunching ice standing in the doorway asking to help and nette, playing with the dogs, or something. i was telling mel, its like family cos even though we annoy one another sometimes, you still love them alot ha ha ha(:

omg i just came across this amazing deviantartist. i like all the textures the brushes the yellow tingy thing !

lovely.

i baked something today. chocolate and strawberry galette. even though when i went ingredients-shopping i had in mind the double chocolate torte and i shopped according to the recipe for strawberry shortcake. ah. no wonder my galette wasnt anything fantastic): im buying icecream back tmr to go with the galette hoping it’ll bring it together cos right now its nothing to shout about. the first id baked something and too shamed to be posted on my blog. haii.
this weeks been a slow one. after not having dinner at home for quite afew nights last week im back to bumming ard at home watching tudou and scouring recipes and looking at cool design blogs ripped off a classmate’s (one much estranged and whom i secretly think is quite cool) links, like oh joy! and designsponge and my favourite, b comme bon, a recipe archive in glorious french.
it also recently came to my attention that i talk too much ha ha. i never noticed i can go on and on about nothing in general ! and my sms outbox ALWAYS has more messages than the inbox, even though i clear both of them around the same times:
oh and it seems a lost mail, namely a gap skirt, may be finding its way to its rightful owner after all !(: the kind spree organizer dropped me an email asking for my mailing add for verification of a mail which apparently bounced back. gooooood. i was just thinking i badly need a denim skirt in my wardrobe. speaking of which shopping is becoming a headache cos im running out of clothes to wear out and my bank balance is starting to look reallllyy pitiful. ayye. but not working has its perks -this is the first hols im having which i REALLY feel like ive rested enough ! in secschool/jc we always had truckloads of assignments to clear (and commons to mug for) during the last week, which translates to several sleepless nights towards the end of the vacation, which stinks. now, quite shiok(:
im going to look for another recipe for this week to neutralize the lousy galette sitting in my fridge now. ha ha gnights all !(:

i feel adventurous. we ventured into some unexplored terrains today ! haji lane and its few atas shops. very minimalist, with the hefty pricetags, lavender incense, and (the occasional) dao salesgirls. but the some stuffs are really cute ! i wish ive monehh (and am skinnier, cos the stuff there fit thigh one). we spent like 45minutes scouring through the racks, and more than double the time weaving through fabric shops out to rip tourists off trying to decide if THAT IS ALL TO THE RAVED HAJI LANE. turns out we either couldnt navigate out of the single stretch of shops, or it really was all): so we headed back to civilization a few streets away for brunch at 3 and mj left mag and me to while away our time at bugisstreet and icon then some hongkong cafe at 8ishhh for late dinner. yumm. bugis has nice food. and bugisstreet has some goooood bargains, shame its not airconditioned and i was sweating like a pig and didnt feel like trying on anything. though i still got myself a nice top. prep for school is coming along just fine(:

isnt this photo cuuute. someone hearts hongkong(:

we made cupcakes. banana cupcakes with chocolate fudge icing (?) and a good old malteser in the middle. ha ha. they were goooood. abit jelat cos the i never could take too much icing but they were good while they lasted. ive four frosted babys in my fridge now and 2 plain ones for breakfast tmr morning (in afew hours time). beating well after every addition finally makes sense to me ha ha i normally skip those instructions in disdain but now i know these steps make good fluffy cupcakes.

if i die now i will die happy(: FINALLYYYYYYY.

yeaa all my cakes look the same on photos hahaa even my lazy way of frosting (dumping the pile on top and leaving the sides naked and ugly. orthodox cake-frosters probably hate me). but ehh this is a sponge cake ! which unfortunately did not rise as gloriously as i would have wanted it to be. my resolution this holidays will be to master the art of folding in meringue. i STINK at doing that. i need to be more gentlefingered, less impatient, less harried when doing spongecakes. and be equipped with spatulas. i was trying to minimize bubblebursting with a clumsy wooden spoon cos i forgot i threw away my last working spatula.

haha but ehh enough to satisfy my craving for a blueberry sandwich sponge ! and a feeble improvisation of nigellas muscat mascarpone cheese so i ended with something like tiramisu cheese filling with real blueberrys and blueberry spread. c’est la gateau tres nouveau(:

and guess whos back from the land of cheap bags and shoes and clothes and summerterm ! and we got (abit) lost taking 67 in the wrong direction but ended up with ..

.. oprah smiling serenely at us on the right bus on the right way back. hahaaa WHAT A GOOD DAY ! and tmr is sashimi and greentea with some familiar company. i think im in love with this part of the holidays when everyone starts trickling back into sunnysingapore. let the holidays begin !