honey drizzle

Friday, May 30, 2008



RMUN 2008. Actually a very interesting experience. Yeah, I hardly spoke and was absent for the conference half the time, but I dont regret joining. Its been such a learning journey. The people in my council are really nice, and made alot of new friends. It was hard getting used to all the formalities of the conference, the directors always had to interupt us midsentence to remind us to speak in third person. Point of personal priviledge! Haha we ended up refering to other delegates by their country instead of their names.

We passed two resolutions I think. One written by Japan and USA which passed pretty easily with some amendments. The other written by France and a whole lot of other countries was amended so much it almost changed form. We had to vote four times, and motion to divide the house before we could pass it by a slim margin.

RMUN crisis on the second day. North Korea wanted to launch an attack on South Korea because of a severe shortage of food. We combined councils to debate on the crisis, though I wished I stayed longer it was more interesting than our individual councils. At least there was a topic countries strongly conflicted on.

d&d! There was the weird name picking game but it didnt really work out. Some delegates/directors went up the stage to dance, omg some super funny. But according to Cheryl, people werent as enthusiastic as last year. We ended half an hour earlier, some people even left early. My council went for supper later but I couldnt go): End of RMUN, I kind of miss it. Council meet-ups(: Superlatives haha omg. And I still dont know who __ is.


Maisie koh, delegate of Mexico


Fashio parade! Emcees with ultra lame country name puns. I ran, i-ran!


Delegations of Mexico, Germany. Maisie in a dress, yes(:



Ecosoc 1! In picture: germany,mexico,columbia,belgium,israel,slovenia, myammar,libya,brazil,?,france,greece,south africa,japan,serbia,china, uk,russia,directors. Thank you to all the new friends I made in pl, rv, cedar, sc etc. And audrey rmun council partner(:


Rai, Ms talkative from brazil!


Cheryl and Anisha! (:


Cheryl! us with __ emcees for fashion parade. (haha near stalker-like behaviour)


8:02 AM

Wednesday, May 28, 2008


Mass of cupcakes.



Chocolate Eclairs. Choux pastry filled with vanilla bean pastry cream with chocolate glaze. Bad pictures. I remember when we made eclairs and cream puffs for home econs at the prima tower place. Haha I didnt really like working with choux pastry then, but its actually really fun(:

End of long week. Shuttling back and forth between school and RJ for dance, rmun and school. Next week, more dance. I think I forgot all my steps.



8:24 PM

Sunday, May 25, 2008

The day I made 104 cupcakes. Two flavours, vanilla raspberry swirl ; chocolate banana swirl cupcakes. It was for my cousin's birthday party, but not many got eaten up. Well, I had fun baking them, practiced swirling for eternity.

Walked up to my aunt's house early to help out. Its quite stressful organising a birthday party for a four year old. Peranakan food, chocolate fountain, bouncy castle and the magician that repeated exactly all the same tricks and puns that he performed last year. I got a box of Valrhona in return(:

My parents are overly paranoid about xenophobic violence in South Africa. ):


6:30 AM

Thursday, May 22, 2008

I've got alot of baking to do for the weekend. Mini-cupcakes for a party(:



MATCHA ice cream! I'm in love with matcha. And this green tea ice cream. Managed to get good quality matcha green tea powder from Japan. I wanted to make a dark chocolate green tea mousse cake for my mum, but I decided it was too precious(:



Vanilla bean strawberry mille-feuille, or "A thousand layers". Puff pastry layers with sliced strawberries and vanilla bean pastry cream. This is one of the rare things I make that my sister would eat.



Chocolate raspberry macarons. A few weeks ago I had alot of problems with macarons. I never achieved the result I had when I first tried macarons with french meringue. This must have been the third/forth batch of shells I made before I could actually fill them. Chocolate macaron shells, and raspberry macaron shells, filled with dark chocolate raspberry ganache.





Vanilla raspberry swirl cupcakes. Andrea says vanilla and raspberry are my favourite flavours. I think this is my favourite cupcake recipe. I had thought I had lost my vanilla bean cupcake recipe, but I adapted another one(: I thought the raspberry puree swirls were over-swirled before I baked them, but after coming out of the oven it looked even more dramatic.


Melting chocolate meringues. This is like eating a baked chocolate mousse in cookie form, with a thin crisp exterior. Very fragile meringues, very bittersweet, and nothing like I've ever tasted before. I love their rustic appearance(:


(azalea)

Fifth time. I need to start writing out the compiled recipe proper. I didnt have enough time is its just garnished with grated chocolate curls. Buttermilk chocolate cake base, sliced strawberries, white chocolate mousse.


6:43 AM

Sunday, May 18, 2008

(After 60 days)

Midyrs are finally over. I'm really thankful. On Friday after dance I just came home and slept and made a chocolate pound cake. Baking, I havent touched my kitchenaid in a week.

On sunday, RMUN ecosoc1 council meet-up at Kap. Out of the 24 countries, 16 delegates turned up. We put up this make-shift 'Are you from Ecosoc 1?' sign because nobody really knew how everyone looked like. All of us seated on a long table, we had to stand in the middle to present our views. We were a weird bunch.

Truth and dare, or more like dare and dare. I think the macs staff wanted to kick us out. I left after nearly 3 hours and they were still writing the joint-resolution. Yeah but throught meeting up, I got to know the delegates on ecosoc1 a litte better.

Today, 4G class outing at East Coast! 18 of us turned up(: We got dunked in the sea, and miraculously found Salad's handphone amongst the waves. Rented bikes up and down East Coast, were one big bunch that kept blocking the way.

Geo-ad Earth destroyer! Finally closure after two months. After adding all the sound effects, it seemed really different and put everything together. The video has actually evolved quite a bit over the weeks. 'We might actually win!'

Father-mother group portrait!

Distracted while recording Salad's really cool GAMEOVER clip(:

(may3) Pictures I owe Sheryl from long long ago:



Mrs lim's preprimary.


2:28 AM