honey drizzle

Thursday, June 19, 2008

alicia plus sec 4 comm.

Dance camp for the past three days, and there's only one word to describe it - intensive. I seriously ache all over. We are doing bliss!! Teachers just told us a few days ago even when we had been pushing for it since months back. So we came early to practice before camp, and we have alot more cleaning up to do. Not sure if I can cope with so many items. Then mini-concert yesterday. I was seriously nervous, yeah screwed up some parts.

Rad results, I guess I'm really thankful. To Mrs Lim especially for the countless hours of practice in the months before the exam.

twoweekstwoweekstwoweeks.

Later:

Went to arab street to buy the organza for hall decorations. Walked around trying to find cheapest fabric. There was one stall owner who didnt know how to use a calculator. He would press X instead of ÷ and + instead of =. When he found out he couldnt get an answer he would just switch calculators and start over. Hahah but in the end a nice lady gave me a big discount because she knew I was on a budget. It was still a huge mistake, I really burst the budget.

6:15 PM

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

HAHA this is so cute. (: Macarons meet mother burger.

I was attacked by baboons yesterday.

3:27 AM

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Passionfruit milk chocolate macaron. Such a Pierre Herme combination. Macarons sandwiched with milk chocolate passionfruit ganache. I tried Joycelyn Shu's macaron recipe this time, because I'm not very fond of the one I always use and given up (for now) on french meringue. It turned out to be quite successful, even though I got several cracked shells.

The passionfruit ganache, I think my ratio of liquid to chocolate was wrong. So it ended up more like a sauce even when I chilled it. I thought it was a gone case, until I started beating it and then it stiffened and thickened like magic! Hahaha okay not really, I probably whipped the cream in the ganache. But I didnt think it would behave like a whipped ganache since I replaced some of it with passionfruit puree.

Green and Black's organic milk chocolate.

3 different cocoa powders, all of different shades. Natural , dutch, dutch processed.

edited: Leaving tonight, thankfully the violence has died down.

10:47 PM

National Geog challenge. They were some random rmun people, mongolia in my council, and alicia from ym! Haha that was unexpected. Geoad: They gave us bright neon shirts to run around in and sealed our handphones as well as contact with the outside world.

It started raining badly, they had to suspend the trail. Our feet were drenched and soaked through for the entire day. The questions were difficult! Like once the station was at chinatown mrt, but we had to go to ang xiang hill guided by part of a shop's logo. Helped a lost looking RI guy gain 8 pts. We came up with alot of random answers, pretty much screwed up the round.

Geo-ad screening only the top 15 videos. Haha we were praying so hard we would get through this. Which we did, top 10 for geoad(: There were some pretty cool ones. Barker got first for geoad, but seriously we didnt get their video. RGS won overall. And during the grand finals sze wing and I probably pissed off a guy sitting in front of us.

foot reflexology

Went over to vivo at the other side of the island after that, for dinner at rmun council meetup. Haha I love my council. Some people left earlier though.

kim!

rachel back fromt thailand

remnants of ecosoc1.

10:47 PM

Dance comm outing on wed to shop for our costume. Haha it evolved several times throughout the day. But yes, we got it in the end(: This dance is really truly Sharon's.

dance prac yesterday.

Yesterday, crashed Ecosoc 3's meetup. Hahaha, extreme stalker-ism. Four of us in ecosoc1 met at dhoby, then went to novena where we bumped into the ga2s. Ecosoc 3 was a pretty easy group to spot. Followed them to a jap restaurant Revenue house, someplace I've never knew existed.

blank came in the end. It was quite weird, one long table, directors then ecosoc3 people, then crashers(: I think they mostly ignored us. It was kind of pre-meetup meeting, so I dont feel so bad on missing the real one. Hahaha our kill two birds with one stone theory! Ecosoc 1's meetup is on saturday which so happens to be geog challenge day. My entire inbox is flooded with rmun mail! I hope I can go for dinner after that, but I think I may be dead tired.

Ecosoc 1: Audrey, chandini, cheryl, me.

The crashers! Minus audrey who left early. Cheryl me, charis, sze wing, chandini, sulyn.

backgrounddd.

10:47 PM

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Forest noir cake. The lack of alcohol has no longer inhibited me from cherries in desserts. Beneath the darkest of chocolate glazes, three layers of chocolate genoise cake layers brushed with cherry syrup. sweetened whipped cream and cherries. Topped with more fresh cherries.

In general, I get quite put off whenever I see other blackforest cakes in bakeries. Maybe its the name, or the fact its loaded with cream and cheap dyed cherries.

Cheryl Lam and I went shopping at vivo after church. Haha omg, (mostly window) shopped til we dropped. Cheryl tried her first creme brulee! (:

Went to school on Monday, loaded with more homework. Zaki practice later without zaki. We are so dead, dance night is so close already. Dance comm practice was crazy! Next thing you know ♥ Dance comm outing tomorrow!

3:59 AM