Monday, January 28, 2008
Hello everyone! Will blog a fast one before the start of another busy week.
This semester is packed with projects =( But at least Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year is coming!
A few pictures to upload from IIC's event at Suntec - The Next Fund Manager. I should mention that the following pictures were taken by Zhi Yuan's pro camera. Everybody has flawless skin in the picture! And I don't even need to adjust any lightings whatsoever with Photoshop.
My keyboard has gone crazy! It's simply irritating that the 'D', 'B', 'W' '2' and '3' keys are temperamental and refused to work sometimes. I'm sending my lappie for repair soon! But I'll need to backup all my files first. Which is a chore to do.
Ooh I tried making chocolate truffles too! Turn out to be pretty delicious. Pity I didn't take any pictures though. What's next on the baking list? Pineapple tarts and almond cookies since Chinese New Year is just round the corner!
This semester is packed with projects =( But at least Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year is coming!
A few pictures to upload from IIC's event at Suntec - The Next Fund Manager. I should mention that the following pictures were taken by Zhi Yuan's pro camera. Everybody has flawless skin in the picture! And I don't even need to adjust any lightings whatsoever with Photoshop.
My keyboard has gone crazy! It's simply irritating that the 'D', 'B', 'W' '2' and '3' keys are temperamental and refused to work sometimes. I'm sending my lappie for repair soon! But I'll need to backup all my files first. Which is a chore to do.
Ooh I tried making chocolate truffles too! Turn out to be pretty delicious. Pity I didn't take any pictures though. What's next on the baking list? Pineapple tarts and almond cookies since Chinese New Year is just round the corner!
I miss the times when I get to wake up at 12pm. Sigh. All right shall go catch up on my beauty sleep.
Night peeps! :)
Clare [12:19 AM]
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
2 Birthday Parties
Hello guys!
Sorry for the lack of updates. Have been staying in hall for the past week!
Love staying in hall with my lovely guru :)
Hall 3 just seems so familiar.
Everything in it looks like hall 16.
Feels like I'm back to my own hall!
Attended two 21st birthday celebrations so far - One was Genevieve's party and the other was Persis's celebration. Coincidentally, both are my CPs (Chief Programmers)!
Gen's birthday celebration was at NSRCC. It was an old school affair theme. Having thrown away my school uniform, I had to resort to wearing a Japanese school uniform (skirt only) and this blazer looking jacket. Hmmm, can't say I'm very successful in my dress up. Lol.
Sorry for the lack of updates. Have been staying in hall for the past week!
Love staying in hall with my lovely guru :)
Hall 3 just seems so familiar.
Everything in it looks like hall 16.
Feels like I'm back to my own hall!
Attended two 21st birthday celebrations so far - One was Genevieve's party and the other was Persis's celebration. Coincidentally, both are my CPs (Chief Programmers)!
Gen's birthday celebration was at NSRCC. It was an old school affair theme. Having thrown away my school uniform, I had to resort to wearing a Japanese school uniform (skirt only) and this blazer looking jacket. Hmmm, can't say I'm very successful in my dress up. Lol.
Persis held a different kind of celebration. Instead of having a chalet, she organized different groups of outings with her friends. Needless to say, us CPs and Daphne celebrated with her together. Dinner was at Hog's Breath in CHIJMES.
Sheng Chao played a trick on Alex by changing his contact in Alex's hp to '999' and calling him. Alex freaked out when he saw '999' calling him and thought for real that the police was ringing him up! Haha. We had a fun time laughing together. It was nice catching up with the CPs and of course, Daphne =]
I'm seriously hooked onto this Russian trilogy novels - Nightwatch, Daywatch and Twilight watch. Love the style of writing. No bus and MRT journeys are too long with the books. To me books are more addictive than any movies. Nothing like a good book to fill my appetite!
I'm seriously hooked onto this Russian trilogy novels - Nightwatch, Daywatch and Twilight watch. Love the style of writing. No bus and MRT journeys are too long with the books. To me books are more addictive than any movies. Nothing like a good book to fill my appetite!
Labels: Birthday Celebrations, Friends
Clare [9:13 PM]
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Banana Chocolate Muffins
I'm a happy girl coz the banana muffins I baked today turned out to be mouth-watering good :) The recipe's good! The muffins are moist and nice.
Sean casually mentioned he wanted to eat banana muffins or something during Genevieve's birthday party coz her birthday cake was a banana chocolate cake. So I've decided to bake him some muffins as a surprise. My first time trying this recipe, had a hard time half way because the butter refused to melt properly. Hate to deal with butter whenever I bake because they're so hard to stir.
Here's the recipe I used:
Sean casually mentioned he wanted to eat banana muffins or something during Genevieve's birthday party coz her birthday cake was a banana chocolate cake. So I've decided to bake him some muffins as a surprise. My first time trying this recipe, had a hard time half way because the butter refused to melt properly. Hate to deal with butter whenever I bake because they're so hard to stir.
Here's the recipe I used:
I did not change the ingredients from the original recipe. What I did change was the method of baking.
1st step: In a bowl - Sift the flour, mix flour with brown sugar. baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir chocolate chips in.
1st step: In a bowl - Sift the flour, mix flour with brown sugar. baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir chocolate chips in.
2nd step - Prepare the bananas. Divide the bananas into 2 bowls. Blend one bowl (Bowl A) of bananas well (use a blender) As for the second bowl of bananas (Bowl B), chop it into small chunky bits.
Stir together milk, butter, and eggs. Mix with well blended bananas (Bowl A). Add mixture into blender to blend the butter in.
Extract mixture from blender and stir in chunks of bananas (Bowl B). Add final mixture to the bowl of flour, sugar etc. (prepared in step 1), stir in the flour. Do not overmix the mixture. Batter will be slightly sticky. Fill the batter into approximately 11 muffins cups. Pre-heat the oven and place muffin cups into the oven. Bake till muffins turn slightly brown. Use a toothpick to check if the muffins are ready.
Let it cool and its ready to serve!
Here are some pictures of the final product:
Stir together milk, butter, and eggs. Mix with well blended bananas (Bowl A). Add mixture into blender to blend the butter in.
Extract mixture from blender and stir in chunks of bananas (Bowl B). Add final mixture to the bowl of flour, sugar etc. (prepared in step 1), stir in the flour. Do not overmix the mixture. Batter will be slightly sticky. Fill the batter into approximately 11 muffins cups. Pre-heat the oven and place muffin cups into the oven. Bake till muffins turn slightly brown. Use a toothpick to check if the muffins are ready.
Let it cool and its ready to serve!
Here are some pictures of the final product:
I must say these taste nicer than the chocolate muffins I always bake. Sean gobbled 3 of them up at once. Haha. I gave some for my mummy to taste but she complain of the chocolate inside coz she's not a fan of chocolate. She said she was looking forward to some pure banana muffins. Sensing her disappointment, I made a new batch of pure banana muffins at night. I increase the sugar to 3/4 cup for the pure banana muffins.
Pure banana muffins
Hmmmm personally I think the chocolate banana muffins taste nicer. I think I'll just leave a few pure banana muffins. As for the rest of the pure banana muffins, I shall melt some baking chocolate and drizzle it over the top of the muffins tmr morning.
So that ends the day of baking 'frenzy'. Next mission - Chewy white chocolate, chocolate cookies!
Hmmmm personally I think the chocolate banana muffins taste nicer. I think I'll just leave a few pure banana muffins. As for the rest of the pure banana muffins, I shall melt some baking chocolate and drizzle it over the top of the muffins tmr morning.
So that ends the day of baking 'frenzy'. Next mission - Chewy white chocolate, chocolate cookies!
Clare [12:39 AM]
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Monday, January 07, 2008
Hello!
Just back from a nice dinner with Sean. Love Xiao Long Baos but the ones at Ding Tai Feng aren't that nice after all. Give me those from Crystal Jade and Imperial Kitchen anytime!
Just this afternoon I downloaded new photoshop brushes. It is kind of addictive, I just continue to download more and more brushes. Had fun making this background picture, simply playing around with the brushes and tweaking the colours here and there:
Just back from a nice dinner with Sean. Love Xiao Long Baos but the ones at Ding Tai Feng aren't that nice after all. Give me those from Crystal Jade and Imperial Kitchen anytime!
Just this afternoon I downloaded new photoshop brushes. It is kind of addictive, I just continue to download more and more brushes. Had fun making this background picture, simply playing around with the brushes and tweaking the colours here and there:
I like to give all my pictures some kind of border. It gives the picture a 'firmer' feel.
While I was fiddling with photoshop, I finally uploaded the pictures from the Lireal Outing on 27th Dec and made a collage.
Been quite awhile since we had a Lireal outing. Kudos to Esther for organizing this one!
Dinner was @ New York New York!
Typical American food but I do like the cotton candy. There's something magical and nostalgic about eating cotton candy. I used to adore them when I was a child. The sugary ball of fluff that melts in your mouth.
While I was fiddling with photoshop, I finally uploaded the pictures from the Lireal Outing on 27th Dec and made a collage.
Been quite awhile since we had a Lireal outing. Kudos to Esther for organizing this one!
Dinner was @ New York New York!
Typical American food but I do like the cotton candy. There's something magical and nostalgic about eating cotton candy. I used to adore them when I was a child. The sugary ball of fluff that melts in your mouth.
After dinner we went to Hong Kong cafe for desserts. The waiter had a hard time trying to fit us all into the same table. End up we only order a bit of food. Lol. They must have thought we were far too troublesome. The most funny thing was bumping into our grand seniors (who were having a gathering of their own) outside the cafe. Most of them were in their working clothes, enjoying dinner after a day of work. I imagine that will be how we look like in a year's time. Haha.
Seniors and Juniors gathered
After the desserts, some of us went back early. For those who stayed, we simply went Esplanade to take a walk. The river was full of ducklings! Rubber ducklings that is. I expect they will have a hard time clearing it up.
Seniors and Juniors gathered
After the desserts, some of us went back early. For those who stayed, we simply went Esplanade to take a walk. The river was full of ducklings! Rubber ducklings that is. I expect they will have a hard time clearing it up.
Blobs of ducklings and balls
School has started this week. It's a good thing I still get 2 more days to slack because monday is my free day and all my lessons on tuesday will only start next week. Hehe. I'm still in a holiday mode! Too bad reality has to pull me back to that ulu place I call school.
School has started this week. It's a good thing I still get 2 more days to slack because monday is my free day and all my lessons on tuesday will only start next week. Hehe. I'm still in a holiday mode! Too bad reality has to pull me back to that ulu place I call school.
Labels: Gatherings, Photoshop
Clare [8:49 PM]
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Saturday, January 05, 2008
2008
2007 has been a fast year. In fact, it seems like after you reach a certain age, every year seems fast. Time just flies and before you know it, you're done with college and out in the 9 - 5 world. 2007 has been a special year, a year with many little milestones in my life. Every year, I will keep a folder of photos taken from all sort of events from the year itself. Well, here are some memorable events from my 2007 life.
2007 has been a fast year. In fact, it seems like after you reach a certain age, every year seems fast. Time just flies and before you know it, you're done with college and out in the 9 - 5 world. 2007 has been a special year, a year with many little milestones in my life. Every year, I will keep a folder of photos taken from all sort of events from the year itself. Well, here are some memorable events from my 2007 life.
::Jan 2007::
6th of Jan - Inter JC pageant @ Zouk:
6th of Jan - Inter JC pageant @ Zouk:
13th Jan - The day guru wanted me to put flowers on her face in the photo:
::Feb::
Feb 16th - Fav place with my sec school girls, our Cosy Bay:
Chinese New Year Eve - A dog in cheong sum, a collage I created out of pictures taken of Kiki.
Chinese New Year - The day when I first went out with Sean :) No photos here though.
23rd Feb - Lireal Chinese New Year Outing
28th Feb - The day I got together with Sean:
::March::
2nd March - The first time I attended a mini concert held in school. The singer was none other than Cao Ge.
24th March - Went to this settlers-alike cafe @ clarke quey with JC Clique for Clarissa's Bdae :)
25th March - Sentosa with dear Yan, guru, Alex and Sean
March 28th was the day I ran down from my hostel to Sean's room at 12 midnight for the exchange of presents for our 1st month :) Sweet memories.
::April::
April was exam month. So let's skip that. Nothing memorable about exams. Haha.
::May::
May, June and July was perhaps a few of the most memorable months because of Freshmen Orientation Camp. It was my first time organizing such a big scale event. Plenty of memories from there.
NBS FOC Trial Camp - The camp where we tried all our games to make sure they work:
Try spotting me in the group of 'ghosts'
6th May - Another Lireal Gathering, with all the generations of seniors and grand seniors:
::June::
NBS Senior camp - One of the more fun camps which allow the seniors to get back together to have fun, right before the actual camp when the responsibility to take care of the freshmen comes in. We were posting out the application forms to the freshies right after senior camp ends, 2 days without sleep makes us look like walking zombies:
28th June - My dream roses, blue in colour that depicts an air of mystery:
For now, thats half a year of recall. The second half of the year has more photos. It's more tiring than I thought to search for all the photos. I realize my photos need better organization. For now it is just classified event after event, but at times, it is hard to recall when these events happen.
Feb 16th - Fav place with my sec school girls, our Cosy Bay:
Chinese New Year Eve - A dog in cheong sum, a collage I created out of pictures taken of Kiki.
Chinese New Year - The day when I first went out with Sean :) No photos here though.
23rd Feb - Lireal Chinese New Year Outing
28th Feb - The day I got together with Sean:
::March::
2nd March - The first time I attended a mini concert held in school. The singer was none other than Cao Ge.
24th March - Went to this settlers-alike cafe @ clarke quey with JC Clique for Clarissa's Bdae :)
25th March - Sentosa with dear Yan, guru, Alex and Sean
March 28th was the day I ran down from my hostel to Sean's room at 12 midnight for the exchange of presents for our 1st month :) Sweet memories.
::April::
April was exam month. So let's skip that. Nothing memorable about exams. Haha.
::May::
May, June and July was perhaps a few of the most memorable months because of Freshmen Orientation Camp. It was my first time organizing such a big scale event. Plenty of memories from there.
NBS FOC Trial Camp - The camp where we tried all our games to make sure they work:
Try spotting me in the group of 'ghosts'
6th May - Another Lireal Gathering, with all the generations of seniors and grand seniors:
::June::
NBS Senior camp - One of the more fun camps which allow the seniors to get back together to have fun, right before the actual camp when the responsibility to take care of the freshmen comes in. We were posting out the application forms to the freshies right after senior camp ends, 2 days without sleep makes us look like walking zombies:
28th June - My dream roses, blue in colour that depicts an air of mystery:
For now, thats half a year of recall. The second half of the year has more photos. It's more tiring than I thought to search for all the photos. I realize my photos need better organization. For now it is just classified event after event, but at times, it is hard to recall when these events happen.
Labels: Special Occasions
Clare [12:18 AM]
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