Blue sky blue…

Into a blue sky morning.

This is what I saw this morning as I walked to the Can A bus-stop to get to school. The sky looked really awesome today.

Gotta catch the bus.

Several minutes later the bus came, and of course I had to half brisk-walk/run to catch it since I was too busy being trigger-happy.

I shall loathe to have to return Shannon his camera (which will be soon). It, with all its cranky personality (a bit like the owner), has served me well. And has upped my desire to own my own precious (yes I know I have a lot of preciouses already…).

Nikon or Canon? Most of my friends are Nikon users so I can’t say I’ve handled many Canons… though the Canons are definitely far lighter than the Nikon models I’ve handled lately.

I speak as though I already have the money for such a new and wonderful toy. Lol. Not ready to bring this request before Mom, but have definitely already brought it before God. Lol.

Ah, pretty things.

The sister strikes again.

Apparently, according to her, there are THREE levels to the PAU joke.

Shannon trumps it with FIVE.

And more of the sister…

Why is bread talkative and coffee silent?

Because Bread Talk and Kopitiam.

And the 谁是油的妈妈／爸爸？joke that I won’t go too much into.. =_=”

Hiak hiak hiak.

In other news…

Sis helped me with some photos for CI Club ad-hoc recruitment… she has a spanking new Canon G9 because she literally drowned her last one during the last dive trip. Tsk.

Headless. :O

Trying out the macro lens and not really knowing how to use it.

Setting up a photoshoot for tiny models (with a trusty Ikea lamp).

Little model Pinky. Looks way better with her head on.

The bf thinks Pinky was a waste of money. Well at least it finally came in useful… I have 2 other Evangelion ones. They’re so irresistably cute. (cue girly lizzy here)

In other news. I want the Edward Monkton “Law of Straightness” pencil case!

Law of Straightness!

Because I think the original is so so funny.
Actually I just love that guy’s quirks. Because so many of it we can relate to under so many circumstances.

For eg. This was 33/06 out on a regular day.

The main bulk of 33/06's regular conversations...

And somehow I sense a similar trend with Penne every time we attempt to find food in school.

In other more minor complaints. I’m having major Starbucks’ withdrawal. (Yes I still cannot drink coffee. But it doesn’t mean I can’t drink vast quantities of Green Tea Frap. HA!)

Not so much because I haven’t had my fix, but because the nearest one to NTU is in BUKIT PANJANG.

TRAVESTY!!!!!!!

Okay. Enough.

Recess is here.

Time to start work!

iLust!

Aieee.. There’s so much I want to blog about. Would’ve done it yesterday except that Sis was leeching all the bandwidth and I could barely access the Internet.

Had an Arrow publicity meeting today and Sam enticed me with what shall now be on my faithlist – the 15.4inch MacBook Pro. *droooooooooooooooooooooool…………*

There was so much g33k talk going on just now that only designers would appreciate (or understand). Fun. But yes. Jesus, I’m believing you for this. My Compaq 14.1 inch Presario V3000 (with complements from Starhub) isn’t bad, but specs wise.. The MacBook Pro will be much much much much MUCH friendlier to me when I run Dreamweaver/Photoshop/Illustrator/misc Adobe program simultaneously.

Also, the graphics card is cannot compete one lor.

Since I obviously don’t have $3,318 (w/o GST!!!) to my name, I can only STAND on God’s word and BELIEVE in faith that this strong desire bordering on necessity (for the love of designing) will be MET because JESUS is my PROVISION. AMEN.

Thank you Jesus! 

=)

In other news, here’s the scoop on yesterday’s baking…

Tried the well-heralded, Lovescool’s Green Tea Sweets which have been featured on at least five recipe blogs I frequent. The recipe has been said to taste fantastisch so of course I must, MUST try it. It TEMPTED me (a massive consumer of all green tea products) for long enough! Except for the bit where I actually had to procure green tea powder from somewhere. But apparently, quite a number of baking shops in Singapore do sell it (like Phoon Huat, as overpriced as some of the stuff there is…). 

So I trooped down to Phoon Huat in Bedok to pick up that tiny 20g bottle of Bakable Green Tea Powder for $2.45. (!!!!) 

Results:

 

Green Tea Sweets

VERY SUCCSSFUL. Bought a cute multi hearts cookie cutter (its this device that has 4 hearts attached so you can just chop out 4 biscuits at one go… very fun, like play-dough.) to create the above shortbread yummies (yes they’re actually shortbread). And they tasted as delicious as all the enthusiastic blog reviews (and here I am adding yet another to the collection). It is a really really yummy recipe. I’ll definitely do it again.  

I also tried this recipe for Chocolate Mint Bars….

 

Less than successful Chocolate Mint bar.

Which didn’t really turn out as well……. The cake tasted quite bleh and though I like the mint icing (didn’t add the green colouring cause that doesn’t do much for me), it kinda reminded me of toothpaste too. Ended up throwing quite a lot of it away. It actually has an additional chocolate layer above the mint which I fortunately didn’t have time to complete because Jessica and I were heading to the JC graduation partaay. I think mint recipes may not work very well unless I manage to procure some better grade peppermint extract in Singapore that doesn’t taste this much like toothpaste! As Jeremy said during Pubs meeting today, if I combined my last Quintuple Chocolate Brownie (which was amazingly sweet and chocolatey) with this mint topping, it would be quite power. Unfortunately the recipe for this particular base didn’t turn out too well… or it may have just been me trying to handle both cutting, cooling and baking the green tea cookies while simultaneously trying to mix the cake batter for this 2nd recipe… 

There’s a good banana bread recipe I’m intending to try – probably after I’m back from FOC since I’ll be gone this whole week. And also bake more green tea sweets since there’s still green tea powder and I’m not that willing to try the other strange green tea recipes I’ve been seeing floating around… 

On another food note – Rene, Von and I dined at Coffee Club on Thursday (cause Rene had to do a restaurant review for her HTM assignment) and the Coffee Club Burger actually tastes pretty good. 

 

Coffee Club Burger

The beef patty is acceptably juicy, and the wedges are generally decent. (The only reason I actually bothered with pictures this time was because Rene needs them for her assignment. So since I have ‘em, might as well use ‘em!) Surprising. Considering the fact that almost every time we go to Coffee Club I have so much difficulty trying to find something I actually want to eat. The Garlic Prawn Pasta, that some people I know seem to love, is honestly palatable – but a tad too oily for my taste. I generally only associate Coffee Club with its generously sized mudpie… which we were too full to have. 

Rene had the Piri Piri Chicken…

 

Piri Piri Chicken

Which was supposedly covered with some sort of ’special’ Bolognese/Neapolitan/whatever that tasted most ordinaire. It was also almost camouflaged by a sea of rocket lettuce that Rene really doesn’t appreciate but I thankfully do. 

We also tried the Wasabi Prawn Salad…

Wasabi Prawn Salad

Which was quite nice except for the strange-block-of-brown-seedy-thing-that-I-cannot-put-a-name-to that also co-existed with the otherwise decent salad. Rene says she’s never liked it (the brown thing) – even at Malay stalls (yes I presume it actually has a Malay name except that I don’t know what it is. Can someone enlighten me? Its brown, its rectangular cuboids, soft, and strange tasting. =X). It doesn’t really go with the rest of the dish. Fusion perhaps. :S  

Okay, I’m going to continue with the rest of what I want to say in another entry – because this one is long enough and what I’m about to say is far too important to just be placed as an afterthought after food.

Laughter.

Pan’s Labyrinth’s soundtrack is as freaky as the show.

If anyone wants it, do nudge me on MSN.
Along with the plethora of other songs I’ve recently found myself with.
Like the blesphemy that is Snow Patrol’s version of Beyonce’s Crazy in Love.
SHUDDER.

And Sis just told me the laughable tale of how Google wants to called their version of Yahoo Auctions…. GBuy. LOLOMGROFLMAO.

Sis is back from Thailand! DUNKIN DONUTS ROCK. (:
I LIKE.

MOSIAC FESTIVAL IS COMING UP!!
Going for Duke Ellington with Sis.
Going for Montreux with Dinah and Rannald (at press time).
Wondering if I should splurge another $40 on Tokyo Ska. :

And Dinah. WATCH OUT!
Lol.

And WUZZUP with these ACSians and calling me “silly creature”.

Met up with BEN CHOW on Friday. It was a pretty spontaneously random thing we decided to do past 9.00PM as we greeted each other online. So we ended up at Starbucks (Siglap). The benefits of staying 3 bus-stops apart (and not meeting for the ENTIRE year till now).

Chow makes my life so much less monochrome. (:

Quotable Ben:
“You’re still besotted with him aren’t you?” (repeated for the nth time)
“Love is what remains after the fire dies.”
“After all, it is the candlestick not the flame.”
“He epitomizes every stereotype ever associated with the words male model.”
“*in K’s voice* Should we get undressed? *D’s falsetto* Oh no my dear, it’s not proper.“
*imatations of them*

Gosh. How I laughed.
How I wish I could safely put down more of what he’s said but..
IT’S OKAY.
Lol.

SO!!! One week till I turn 18. (Le gasp, given the state of this entry and the ones that were conceived before this, who would’ve guessed, eh?)

Okay so the only thing I probably really need is a new BAG.
Anyone who has seen me dragging bits of my person around school will understand the urgency of this request. LOL.
Which in any case… I think the 4e6ixers have choped because given my track record I am not an easy person to buy things for. Contrary to Rene whose birthday is 11 days after mine, because Rene’s wishlist is infinitely inexhaustive.
I like EARTHY colours. And totes. No brand preferences.
(This is not just a blatantly announced hint okay, it’s to make Von, WY and Rene’s lives easier.)

Other than that, I don’t think I have any urgent desires to own anything else. As usual. LOL. Unless anyone would actually like to get me an iPod video.

SO.
I’ve taken ages to write this post and I don’t even know WHY!
Just going to sleep, wake up tomorrow and ponder over the horror of how many words appeared on this page in CAPITAL LETTERS!