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Monday, March 31, 2008

April Fools.

1. wearing our pe tshirts backwards
2. forming MARI ME for ms lau in the hot afternoon sun
3. fake hairy spider/lizard

I love my class! (:

I made a new friend today.


5:20 AM

Spontaneous writing: Why I like my class.

Tam mei: I dont like my class, I lurveeee my class. But seriously 4G is the most amazing class ever, I cant imagine myself being in any other.

Sec 4 Olympics. 4G won first for floorball, second handball and first for esther's awesome poster. (: I love our class olympics t-shirt! Opened the olympics with the ceremony, weird rituals and jiani the mc! Coming back to win games after losing in the first half, post match analysis, jacq our secret star. Went through 6 games, first place(: Quite incredible actually, we arent the best team, or practiced really hard. Maybe we are quite bonded as a team.

Giselle in the park! It was a really good thing we planned to go two hours before the performance, got a really good place. It was really really crowded later on, a thousand plust people packed into the grassy patch. Most prepared group, we had everything coordinated(: There was a large group of Sota girls, met Geraldine there too. Favourite bittersweet chocolate hazelnut cookies for picnic, Jiahui was allergic! Haha Jo an brought really good iced dragonfruit strawberry jelly dessert, me and esther scheming barter trade(:

Sheryl came from funorama, sharon as always was late. Went up to the building that was our dressing room for BUTS last year, good memories(: I remember sneaking down to the slanted stage and trying not to get noticed by the audience. The performance itself was really good!! Giselle and the queen of the willies was amazing.
Dead giselle
Willies!
Dying prince




sec 4s plus sec 1s






esther, its a bit late for breakfast.


our old dressing room.
All of us.


5:20 AM

Wednesday, March 26, 2008


Chocolate hazelnut pecan brownies. It has sour cream as an ingredient, so it kind of deep and a little cake like. But its one of my favourites. I finally found baking it in a shallow pan helps solve all oven timing difficulties.


Passionfruit gelato! I usually add raspberries when even I make this, but its much nicer without.



Pomegrenates. I finally learnt how to juice them properly, but its really messy. The whole kitchen is sprayed with the ruby red juice.





No churn pomegrenate ice cream. Yes I know anything no churn is filled with sugar and cream and more cream to keep it from freezing hard. But I didnt feel like making a custard that day.


Strawberry honey mascarpone tartlettes. I love making tarts(: But I dont really like the cream filling here, combination of honey and lemon makes it too sharp for the strawberries.





Chocolate short dough, tartlettes to be baked.





Filled with mascarpone lavender honey cream.








Strawberries on top(:


So pretty! Every blood orange is different when you cut them up.




Macaron shells. I cannot colour macaron shells properly. Ever. This was supposed to be a dark red but it ended up a weird pink. Pink is so not blood orange.







Mountain of blood orange macarons. I realised I could just add reduced blood orange juice to make a flavourful buttercream. But it was so sugaarrysweet when filled. I think maybe just blood orange curd next time.







Yiling's sweet sixteen today(: Hazelnut honey chocolate bee cake. Bees look retarded this time round. Haha it was so weird when I baked it, I made one cupcake and took it out of the oven too early and the bottom part was totally liquid. The main cake had a huge empty space at the bottom. I cant decipher the molecular gastronomy of the cake.







My sister is determined to go on a trip with her friends to Taiwan in June. Hellloo, even I dont go on overseas trips alone.


3:47 AM

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Yesterday, RMUN conference briefing. Its crazy, so much research and work to be done. I'm doomed to three whole days speaking only in formal technical language, wearing school blazers and writing resolutions. We couldnt understand half of what they were saying. Mgs team 2 is Mexico! (: Which is so out of everything, but at least.

Later, ballet, bubble tea, and the maze of kampong chai chee. Joni's boyfriend is a super pro pianist. And I kept screwing up yesterday.

Today Easter! Ym easter play(: Hahaha traditional cinnamon/dark chocolate hot cross buns like at cedele, with my aunt and uncle like last year. I've received a ton of valrhona blocks from my dearest aunt(:


6:52 AM

Thursday, March 13, 2008

I survived today! (: Nearly 6 hours of dance killsss. I dont think I will be able to do it again tomorrow. Haha and the little ones from chai chee came and demonstrated their free movement. Omg they are so cute half our size bobbing around during triple runs. Anette: I hope nat doesnt knock them over.

Vanilla bean creme brulee with golden raspberries. They sell golden raspberries in Singapore! I thought they were grapes at first by their colour. They taste like normal raspberries, but less intense.


I think it was just a little too rich. I made a matcha version, but the green tea was too subtle.


Blowtorch! I've wanted one since forever, but my mum thinks I'm going to set fire to the house.

I love making bruleeing the custards! My aunt lent me her blowtorch, its quite fun to see the sugar crystals caramelize into a thin golden shell. I didnt expect the flame to be so easy to control. I think I used up about half of the butane gas. When I try to brulee a custard, I have to stop a few times just to refill the gas in the blowtorch. Maybe I'm not doing it correctly.

More ubinnn pictures from hillary's blog.






This is so retarded.


1:22 AM

Monday, March 10, 2008

WE GOT IN!!! (:

Its amazing, incredible. We screwed up the entire paper and we still managed to get pass this round. Our chances were pretty slim, with 78 schools participating instead of last years 55. And choi sze wing you totally freaked me out, I thought you knew the results already. I could hardly dare open the email.

Only with God's grace could we have made it, and I'm really glad we have this opportunity. Geoad and geotrail here we come!


2:26 AM

Sunday, March 09, 2008


YM destination again at pulau ubin.




Travelling there and back took a lot of time though. Bus, ferry, activites by crosstrainers at ubin, lunch, ferry, bus. Yes but it was fun outing, I guess we bonded more as a small group. Went arund kampong ubin playing station games. We didnt complete all, just went around for the fun of it.


Hahaha and others can i cannot was this 'secret station' that was actually two xtrainers offering us green tea and twisties. Yes, so having andrew in our group, it was inevitable for us to lose miserably without even knowing it. But seriously it was them who offered it to us, and we ignored the 'for xt only' written all over them. Actually xt can stand for a lot of things.





Aileen the gambling queen with her innocent elmo cards. Haha, bridge.






Gods people. Our banner(:


Giant man-eating fish.


6:02 PM

Saturday, March 08, 2008

Last week:

Wednesday, Cheryl's sixteenth birthday(: Worst birthday cake surprise ever, our plan was foiled, so tried to get another 'surprise'. Piece of agaragar with a lighted skewer, hahahah.

Later met with maisie outside cheryl's bus stop and called her mum to let us in. Haha, she was very surprised(: Then after getting over it, we went to orchard and met up with liana for dinner. Artfriends and expensive cellophane paper.


Taka. What if the lift opens?

On Saturday, Geography challenge. Maze of buildings at NUS, waited for salad and grace fong to arrive. MCQ part was individual, I guess we all got thrown off by the global warming theme, so we hardly studied anything else. It was quite difficult though. Group part was better, mandai and eco-tourism. We had ideas, but very poor time management, scribbled down a proposal about huts without electricity in the middle of the forest in the very last minutes. Then lunch with ms tham at bukit timah market, she treated us to icecream at venezia(:

Later, inprompto buying of flowers for melinda and tam mei with cheryl at gutherie(: Band[age] was really good though! Tolstroy played really well! Hahah and astrid thought she found her soulmate, as a result of Bandage stamps that bore a very close resemblance to her birthmark. Redeeming the riot won in the end, which was well-deserved. Bandage comm did a great job! It was a pretty amazing night.


1:23 AM

Thursday, March 06, 2008

MAISIE KOH GOT INTO ROUND TWO OF PHYSICS OLYMPIAD! Hahahah thats pretty amazing considering its someone who couldnt even log in to the system until 5 min before the competition. Well, studying the huge big college physics book she never wanted to touch again must suck. Its structured! But Maisie is a genius anyway. (:


3:28 AM

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Working with caramel. (and chocolate) I've got a major phobia of caramel garnishes. They look so amazingly pretty I always think its impossible to make them at home. Caramel is really versatile though.


Testing for caramel, from transparent drops to dark red amber beads. Its like a rainbow!

Sneak:

I didnt intend to make spun sugar. But I had some caramel left and the threads were getting everywhere. I imagine they would look stunning on a dessert. One huge caveat, they dont hold up long in the humid weather.


Chocolate. Frustrates. Me. I dont know why maybe its the weather everytime I try to fashion something out of it it gums up against my spatula.


Canele. Their packaging is pretty(:


All the flavours they had that day. Dark chocolate, rose, cafe, violette, passionfruit milk chocolate, caramel fler de sel. Their macarons are quite good, better than bakerzin, which is such a franchise. The caramel sel macaron was the worst one I have ever tasted, I felt that I was trying to bite through dry plaster. Gunther's make better ones(:

I love making desserts, I think one thing that makes me really happy is that others enjoy them too. My parents get tensed up at the slightest hint that Im going to do it as a profession. Although I cant see the point of a job you have no interest in.

Chocolate peanut butter cupcake from long ago here.
Pretty cake minature figurines here. Evangeline of bossacafez says they are from action city. Omg, I wanttt. (:


3:43 AM