Cookies

My first cookie baking experience was such a failure! haha. Suddenly decided to try since I found my toaster oven and I always thought that baking is therapeutic to the soul. My parents were so against it and keep saying things to put me down, like I know how to bake meh, sure create a mess and stuff like that. lol but I went ahead to do it stubbornly.

Here's that batter which I made following the recipe. Mixing the batter with bare hands is quite gross actually, I finally know how it feels like to have butter fingers. haha

Started to bake! Given such a small toaster oven I have, I can only make about 3 at a time, which took damn long. Temperature is another thing and the butter melts easily when it's too high, when it's too low it doesn't bake. Overall, the cookies become chao da too easily. Damn, my first few tries turn out to taste like cake. Jin advised me to bake longer but can't as the edges started to turn black. Later I found out why, I didn't add enough flour, that's why the butter melts easily and thus soft.

I manage to feel 1 container with my masterpieces, most of them chao da. lol. After that I'm still left with a huge portion of cookie mix but I got lazy. I realize baking needs alot of patience which I didn't have and I soon got sian of it and decided to throw the rest away. What a waste, but let that be a lesson that I've no baking talents. :p Well, at least my cookies tasted not bad if you cut away those chao da parts, lol. Initially I wanted to share it with friends, but think with my standard, better not. :p

I read my past blog entries today. Time really flies man, sec sch seems like just yesterday. It was quite amusing looking at how I blogged in sec school. The annoying ah beng way of typing with big and small letters, adding lots of x and s at the back of words, having lots of dot dot dots, writing in super broken english and mixing lotsa han yu pin yin, it was such a chore reading them. lol Then in JC I realised I complaint the most, lots and lots of ramblings about a levels and life and the people. Then came all the emo writings after army. I also looked back at friendster! haha. And I found out I was actually once that close to some friends in the past, but now they're as good as strangers. Such a pity. Haha I've decided to to post some pics of me over the years here, kinda interesting looking at the changes.

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2010

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2010 went by in a blink. It wasn't as full of ups and downs as 2009 but it sure was a stressful year. University live drains all the energy out of me making me age much faster. :( Nothing out of the ordinary really happened and life still goes on.

Spent the festive season with my sec school pals. Really glad that they're still around after all these years.

X-mas eve- tron/astons/monopoly deal with sec sch bros.

Welcomed 2011 with SMAC at judy's place.

We were greeted by her hyper dog who ran around biting everyone's toes and freaking all the girls out. But still, Kiki is damn cute!

We had a wholesome and romantic steamboat dinner at her balcony, followed by mahjong. Sure was a great gathering to start the year!

Then came the trip to KL to visit HH with Nah and gang. It was like a 4 day-route march as we walked and walked non-stop. Especially the first and last day, when we travelled with our luggage, almost died. Reminded me of 2 years ago at the same place I was all full of energy, running around and still can go shopping on my own when the rest were tired. I must admit that I'm old :((. We stayed at HH's house and his family are really nice people. Tried public transport and got to experience life in KL.

Next was Genting and it was great! I so miss the cooling weather above the clouds. And for the first time I'm there, the weather was good enough for all the rides to operate! Man, the rides were thrilling, especially the roller coaster and the free fall. I'm so proud of myself I dared to try free fall after all the scary stories people told me. haha. The night came and it was casino time. It was my first time there but I forgot to bring any identity cards and was quite worried that I won't be allowed in as I don't look like a convincing adult. My first entry was indeed rejected as the guy asked for my I/C. We tried again at another entrance, this time I acted damn fierce, walked confidently past all the security guards and success! I deserve an oscar man. haha. Though in the end we only played the jackpot which cheated all our money, as the bids for the table games were too high, still it was quite an experience to venture around the casino.

The rest of the trip was back in KL. I must say it's really not much difference from Singapore for being so city-like. I hope to go to more nature loving places next time, hope my exchange application will be successful as I really wanna go to Australia. :D

I came back for NTU star wars and in the end only got all the shit modules that nobody wants. zzz damn sian. School is starting real soon, I haven't even tasted holiday enough. Finally set my body clock to a healthy one and limited my comp usage, I don't want all these to be taken away. Also, I've learnt to enjoy doing household chores in this short break and I didn't know it could bring me so much contentment.