Chunks and Pieces

Prelims finally over! In just mere 4 days, which is to mean that 1 paper per day. Very xiong. Others better, theirs is spanned across few weeks, at least they have got more time to prepare and do good for each paper :( while I wasnt given the chance, so I had to study every single day to late and early in the morning before the paper starts. Wasnt very prepared for it, Ill say. But, as always, prelims serve to kick off our entire revision. at least, the chapters and stuffs for each modules are stucked in our heads for now la. and yes, its definitely a wake up call. Last paper was yesterday... and so, Im taking a short break today and perhaps throughout the weekends. and then starting to run the engine coming monday., heh. prelims isnt end of everything.

THE BIG EXAM AWAITS. 

And, I dont wanna get bad grades for my papers. goal: at least 3 As. Do you think its possible? heh, lets see my prelims. I swear im not going to let it affect me, whether the results are good or bad.
For this prelims, I found back my inital motivation when I was in my first year. to provide my answer the same as the answer outline. And really, I just have to be alert with the words (my examiners just love to play with words, and yes, EVERYONE OF THEM), and use my brain to think and think deeply.

During this one month break, Im gonna study hard, whilst not neglecting my social life :) yes, Im still gonna go out with friends, go out for gakkai activities. But before all those, I must be consistent in my revision. This is it. I cant fail me.

Missing Chingay badly and fortunately, tmr will be the C DAY! CELEBRATION DAY AHHAHA. Cant wait for it :) Just realised that Ive been missing in action for like a month? hahah so have decided to post an entry to keep this alive.

Some peektures with my B9 Babes and Hunks (Chingay 2012 finale item teehee AWESOME! )

 Our lovely outing at Marina Barrage. Drizzled for awhile but dispersed thereafter. We played Frisbee cos all the picnic people and strangers went to hide under the shelter and we had the space ALL FOR OURSELVES. teehee! And I just fricking realise, WE DIDNT TAKE A GROUP PHOTO DURING OUR OUTING!! WHERE ARE THE HUNKS?!

Us waiting for the bus' arrival to fetch whole lot of us 1000 people over to F1 Pit for our glamourous performance!

A picture with my fellow too awesome trainers and my BLOCK BBBBBBB-BEEEP!

Our trainers lou hei session during the Chinese New Year period. ^^

With ITAC and NP, in our costumes!!

aye had to resize it. anyway, credits to the photographer Benjamin Lim! such a wonderful photo!

On a side note, same as last year, exactly before exams, IM HOPING TO GET A MICROWAVE OVEN. HAHA coolios. So, im gonna set the same expectations again. Get good grades i.e. 3 first class and Ill get myself the fricking microwave and bake at home! TEEHEE

-strawberry shortcake

tadahhh! Nicely done by my cousin. She's a great baker. hmm it is baker? kay whatever it is called. She had a recipe blog and... I secretly surfed her site whenever I felt the urge to bake hahhahah shhhhh secret.

-muffins

Looks super delicious right! Same thing, done by my cousin. Here's her website: http://www.needmorenoms.blogspot.com/

-cookies
-oreo mud pie
GOSH! tempting! alluring! salivating! HAHHA
chants* after exam after exam*

Been surfing the net since yesterday till today. with sleeping time interval of course. BLOGSHOPPING!OMG I SWEAR BLOGSHOPS ARE SUPER SINNED. WASTE MONEY ONLY SERIOUSLY! And, im so damn tempted to purchase the clothes. ughhh money money money where else does money come from? YOUR BOSS. And so, Im gonna study and work! wish me luck wont you? :/
And oh, popular blogshops are crazy. I mean those buyers! for less than an hour, the clothes are swept empty! sold out super fast!!! cry die me. Always indecisive. forever indecisive! forever alone! madness.

Lastly, 2 more photos of myself HAHA

Balloon from the Chingay finale, decorations. Koped from my friend. hahahha retardedly stared at the balloon. lol

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TADAH MY RETARDED FACE! 

with airena dongsaeng. we are damn pretty kekekekke credits to Charlotte's Camera! too pretty already, cant take it. HAHA

Attitude Problem

A lot of things happened and I totally have to no idea of where to begin with. So, I wrote this random 'opening' to my preceding entry. hmm, start with Chingay shall we?

Just felt that we could have done better. I should have controlled my temper, to embrace, not just to tolerate. Cos' there's limit to a person's tolerance, but its unlimited to embrace. And before today, or rather before that particular training, i was still tolerating. Perhaps, thats why I blew up that day. Problems are that the central command are not giving the trainers enough time to coach/update new changes as and when. Perhaps, the communication part could have done better via good liasing with block in charge. Then again, 8 to 12 groups with only 2 Block ICs is not enough. How do we expect them to run to and fro umpteen times for say 90m at least? They arent track runners yea. So I suggested in a sarcastic plus angsty manner, "perhaps the trainers should just use handphones during training to communication with the block in charge." So block ICs wouldnt have to run so much and, when there are new/LAST MINUTE changes, we can be notified immediately via sms. Maybe this method is a little absurd i.e. not the usual way, but at least this method ensures everyone knowing the changes quick. And i guess, rather obvious, my suggestion wasnt taken into consideration cos' people there, then, thought im just spitting angsty comments. And what was remembered, again I guess, is my hot temper. lol great? This isnt the end to it, problem doesnt just lie with the top management crisis, but also amongst the trainers. and surprisingly, it wasnt the problem with the participants but the trainers and above. what a joke. With trainers i wrote, just meant trainer. ONE. my partner. I would really hope that what I heard was just a hearsay/heard wrongly/interpret wrongly. The info that I got was, "he said, 'you always no voice one leh'." This means, he's always doing the double work; admin and training. Simply said, I AM DOING NOTHING. applause please. who was the one that did the training in PA. who was the one who tried to shout during group training at f1 pit. I was the one who needed all help. clearly, we could have swapped roles, i suggested for that a few times, but he rejected. Now what? Im doing nothing? Right, maybe I shouldnt have exerted so much. Look, I dont expect him/them to appreciate my efforts, but please dont discredit my efforts. Seriously... Im dreading.

Studies, fine with i feel that I could do better than just being fine. FCH!

For the past week, Ive been falling sick even till now. Super upset! Guess what? I have no voice :) great way to end the year yes? :(

Tried baking cupcakes for the first time, and was a success :) good commentaries by friends and neighbours, despite it looking plain. great! and for the first time, i didnt like 30 plus cupcakes at one go. Didnt get to try full cupcakes, just a few bites here and there and ample to make me fall ill :P

writing blog entry is such a chore..

Daily writeup

星星帶我許過願望
那一年的夏　我的夢好長
你帶我飛翔

星星陪我看懂了迷惘和希望
那就帶我瘋　那就帶我狂
我追到了天堂

暮光燃燒了太陽
推著我浪跡天涯
愛是一道不滅溫暖的光

暮光燦爛了晚霞
直到夜都被照亮
我用微笑　迎接美麗的光
我找到了 你們肯定的目光

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Ventured into baking Oreo Cheesecake. Despite the praisings from my family that the cheesecake tastes good, I cant bring myself to like it. Prolly, cos I cant take the milk-ish and cheesy taste. Anyway, while baking, Im met with some mistakes like Im supposed to beat the whipping cream with electric beater till 70% stiff, BUT no matter how long I beat it or how fast I beat it, the liquid just cant form or bond into slight solid form! Oh well, something might have just gone wrong.

The recipe is as follows.

Oreo Cheesecake

Ingredients:

Biscuit Base:
110g (80g) digestive biscuit crumbs (I use Oreo crumbs)
40g (30g) unsalted butter, melted

Cheesecake Filling:
250ml whipping cream
250g cream cheese, room temperature
45ml milk
50g icing sugar
1 tbsp vanilla essence or rum (I use 1 tsp vanilla powder)
1 tbsp gelatine powder
10ml lemon juice
3 tbsp boiling water
8 oreo cookies (coarsely chopped)
4 oreo cookies (finely chopped)

Method:
1. Mix biscuit crumbs & melted butter together and press firmly onto the base of cake tin. Chill for 30 mins.
2. Beat whipping cream with electric beaters until 70% stiff or until mousse-like. Refrigerate for later use.
3. Double-boil gelatine, lemon juice & boiling water until totally dissolved. Keep warm.
4. Beat cream cheese, icing sugar, milk and vanilla essence until smooth & creamy.
5. Blend in gelatine solution until well combined.
6. Fold in whipped cream.
7. Pour 1/2 the cheese mixture onto the base. Chill for 15 mins.
8. Stir in finely chopped cookies into the other half of the mixture. Mix well.
9. Sprinkle coarsely chopped cookies on top of the first half of cheese mixture.
10. Pour in the other half of the cheese mixture.
11. Chill for 3 to 4 hours before serving. Decorate as desired.

Highlighted red is the one that I met up with some problems.

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Giving up some, just to acquire the other. In the process of sacrificing and receiving, you might realised you have lost far more than you get. On the other hand, the amount that you get might take some time to appear. Choices and opportunity cost.

A review on what Ive been doing lately;

Gakkai meetings, baking and nuaing at home. Just as simple as 1,2,3.

Need to pluck up my courage and REGISTER FOR DRIVING LESSONS ALREADY! (together with ashwini of course. haha)

And start going for yoga courses. Anyway, YAATRA MOVEMENT SUCKS. In terms of their service that is. Seriously, I dont understand what gone into me when I asked liyu to purchase the coupon for me (via groupon or tip-it). It isnt as popular, isnt as well-facilitated, isnt as cheap, and ISNT AS WELL-SERVICED as the rest. my goodness.

Fondant Cake Decoration

After my baking mission on Cookies and Icecream Cake, up next will be Cheesecake and muffin with Icing. Fondant cake is another cool baking activity that I want to do soon after these 4.

Easy Peasy Recipe for Icecream Cake

Banana Oreo Icecream Cake

Equipments:

1 Baking Roller

1 Big Bowl enough to contain 100g biscuit crumbs with a little bit of stirring and Icecream

1 Tablespoon

1 Small Pan to melt Butter/melt chocolate

Plastic film to form as a base of the cake tin

1 Cake Tin

Ingredients:

2 Bananas

1 Tub of Icecream

(For Disgestive Crumbs Base)

40g Unsalted Butter, melted

100g Oreo or Disgestive Biscuit

(For Chocolate Ganache)

Handful of Chocolate Chips, Semisweet

5tbsp milk

Making of Biscuit Base

1. Pour 100g Oreo Biscuit into a ziplocked bag or plastic bag. Use baking roller (dont know what it is supposed to be called), to hit it, roll against it, chop it. Until the oreo biscuits turns into chunky form, coarsely chopped.

2. Melt the unsalted Butter in a pan, low heat for a few seconds will do. Careful HOT!

(Anyway, I got my 3 fingers scorched by the stupid metal tablespoon -.-)

3. Pour the melted butter into the Big Bowl of Oreo Crumbs. Stir well.

4. Cover the Plastic Film on the base of the Cake Tin for easy pull after the Ice cream Cake is done.

5. Pour the mixture above the Plastic Film. Spread well. Use tablespoon to compress the Oreo Base. Leave it for 15-30 mins.

Icecream Cake

1. Melt the Tub of Icecream.

2. Chopped the 2 bananas into the above.

3. Lay some of the bananas above the fixated Oreo Base.

4. Pour the melted icecream above the bananas in the Cake Tin. Leave it in the freezer for around 1 hour.

5. Afterwhich, take out the icecream cake, lay the leftover bananas on top for decoration.

Chocolate Ganache

1. Pour 5tbsp of milk and handful of chocolate chips.

2. Put over the fire to heat it until it melts.

3. Pouring of the melted chocolate over the Tin of Icecream Cake topped with Bananas.

and tadah!!