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 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.

the lost innocence

My first attempt of portrait painting on wood with acrylic. :) This was started during summerbreak but only managed to complete it recently.

I hued the final painting to suit the title. Love this old sephia effect :D

Holidays are boring and i miss childhood.

hello again!

I AM BACK!

SO IS MY BLOG! haha

I finally got the time and this shall be a really long entry :)

It had been one hell-crazy semester in school! Stress like fuck! But I'm so glad I survived!! hahaha Almost got buried alive by the outrageous amount of school work. Lots of suay things happened towards the end.

The worst one was my toes being rolled over by a car! It happened when I just alighted from my dad's car and getting my stuff out. I haven't even closed the door and all of a sudden my dad drove! And the next moment the tyre was on my toes! I shouted for him to stop but anxiety got the better of him as the car continue to drive 4ward till the whole weight of the car with 3 people was on my toe! That was one of the most painful moment man, even past incidents like knocking through the balcony glass door, plucking wisdom tooth, etc can't be compared to this as I scream like a crazy man. Damn pai seh lar, but the unbearable pain caused me to react this way. Luckily a kind uncle came to help, and together with my dad they managed to lift the car up. I saw lots of students standing there watching, which makes me wonder did they just saw it or they saw it long ago but just stood and watch? It would be quite sad if it was the latter, what has the world become? :( At that moment I really thought my toes crashed and sure got blood and all. It was quite traumatizing. But I was lucky, the toe just looked really swollen. I was rushed to the hospital after that 4 xray and sat on a wheelchair for the very 1st time. So drama, haha immediately I feel I was teleported to the Philippines as I was greeted by the nurses. Fortunately for my strong little toe, it got away with no fractures and just swellings. Dad had been really nice to me after the incident, lol, buying me macs breakfast and promising iphone4. :p And one other thing that I realize, all these suay things happened whenever I da bao food for people! Well, the chinese saying 好人难当 is so true! haha

I watched the best movie of the year, Disney's Rapunzel! The visuals were stunning and first time in a 3d disney animation, the characters appear so beautiful! Really love the soundtrack too, glad to hear Mandy Moore once again! And at the part whereby Rapunzel finally see the lights, and her song played, it was the most touching of all and makes me wanna cry.

The end of sem show just ended and I'm glad some of my works got displayed. It was a pity I didn't get to see the show, I thought they would leave the works there for a few days but no, it got removed just after a day. And to our horror, they were treated like rubbish, all dumped into the viscomm studio messed up. There's totally shows no respect and regard for all the hard work we've put in by dumping our works around. My GD momento even got destroyed in the process and I can't find my haiku. Hopefully it's safe and I'm quite disappointed with the school.

I grew to like typography as the assignments got more interesting and I must say @ the end it certainly got more interesting than graphic design although the workload is hell. Here are some of the works I'm really proud of. :)

Grey, first major type assignment.

Photo collage assignment about joo chiat road, fun! :)

Haiku, final project. I really like the haiku I've chosen. It kinda reflects how I feel about the new day now.

Morning or mourning,

the day that dawns bring new grief.

First light, then shadow.

Process book + letter journal - to document the whole sem's work

This almost killed me as I chose to document my work into a comic book. It had always been my dream to draw a comic book, although this is a somewhat simplified version as i didn't really draw much and used alot of repetitive images in order to make up for the lack of time, still it really feels great and accomplished! Oh and it costs me a bomb too. I realise i'm really not accustomed to using the wacom tablet, needa spend some more time figuring it out. The size i bought too small le, regrets. :[

Next up, the Graphic Design works.

This sem I feel I didn't really do that well here as I spent most of my time in type 1. Hmm hopefully next time will do better :)

Momentos brochure and momento- final project

Here is my graphic design momento, about me as a designer. One of my more experimental works as I tried out different materials. Too bad it got destroyed. :(

Advanced drawing works:

I could have done better here. Hope that I can learn more in the upcoming figurative painting class :)

Stop Motion works:

Say hello to Mr Chillee! Somehow this sem I'm kinda angsty and I keep getting the idea of incorporating chillies into my works, which I did here and in graphic design. haha this is my first stop motion puppet made using foam, cute right? It was initially a fierce and scary looking monster. After I gave him cute specs, organic slippers and leafy brows, he got more friendly :D

Finally my stop mo final project, a group work.

Kinda quarreled with my team members for this, which made me quite reluctant to do group work next time. Pair work is the best, I really had lotsa fun teaming up with qi to do the helvetica presentation. Randomness rocks! Here is the uncut version of the video we made.

I am so glad all this madness is temporarily over as a short holiday awaits. But for now I'm still staring at this holiday, clueless of what to do. Suddenly, there isn't anything to look forward to anymore. I still can't wait to get out of this country to go for exchange, but I've to go through another hellish semester first. :( Hmm, I'm kinda filled with negativity nowadays, always thinking of the pessimistic. Will Mr Santa Claus please bring me some joy this x'mas? :o

where's the spark?

I need some sparks in my life :/ Something that will make me smile when i go to bed and gives me all the hope and motivation upon waking up. Something that will make me treasure my life like never before. Something that will spur me on. Something that will make me look forward to every brand new day. Something that will make happy last. That's just missing now. . SIGH

My little dreams