la ti da.

It’s nice to be up at this time of morning, sitting peacefully in my hall, room bathed only in the light of my table lamp while Jess is still sleeping on the other side of the room. Lol.

A lot I want to say, but there are too many prying eyes that would not interpret it in my favour.

In the meantime, here’s COM202 for Dummies,  explained by Tay, Lide (2009) in a way only he can.

Binary weighting.

i lubs home.

Happy to be home and to be able to sit here in my TK shorts (which I will never be caught dead in outside home, not even in hall) and my super comfy cui big thin tshirt that mom’s always threatening to throw away or use as a floor rag…….

Finally done with all the assignments so today’s my first day of mugging!

Big smiley that one of the guys at my favourite Starbucks gave me with my drink when I was there last week. Taken with my cellphone camera.

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.

More weird conversations.

The context is sacred.

So happy guessing.

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轩@school.
11:16 AM
• i don’t see how different can it get
• green apples are apples
• red apples are apples
• unless you are a blue apple

lizzy@hall is channelling LKY for foreign policy. cannot wait for Christmas yay having a big Jesus = having big faith.
11:17 AM
• stop making deductive reasonings

轩@school.
11:17 AM
• that is different, i guess.

lizzy@hall is channelling LKY for foreign policy. cannot wait for Christmas yay having a big Jesus = having big faith.
11:17 AM
• lol
• im an orange.

轩@school.
11:17 AM
• and i’m a grapefruit then.

lizzy@hall is channelling LKY for foreign policy. cannot wait for Christmas yay having a big Jesus = having big faith.
11:17 AM
• okay. no apples.

轩@school.
11:17 AM
• what makes zed then?
• pomelo?

lizzy@hall is channelling LKY for foreign policy. cannot wait for Christmas yay having a big Jesus = having big faith.
11:17 AM
• why so big?!

轩@school.
11:17 AM
• umm
• i love pomegranates.
• so i dun wanna put him as a pomegranate.

Of blessings and other things.

A few people have told me how ‘lucky’ Jason is to have me.

While this is true (ahem ahem), I too know how blessed I am to have him.

I made some of my yummy banana bread tonight. But in cupcake form. Jason took some really decent pictures of it. (Mom was home = camera was home + boyfriend who knows how to handle a camera better than me = not bad shots of cupcakes!)

But I can’t transfer it over because I left the card-reader in hall.

So you shall have to wait to see the yummies AND BOY ARE THEY YUMMY.

Banana muffins, mascarpone frosting, and dusted with cinnamon sugar. So so good.

In case you’re wondering why my baked goods haven’t been cameo-ing on this blog… It is because 1) my baking hours have drastically been reduced in recent months 2) sucky kitchen lighting plus sucky camera phone = let’s not even try.

More tomorrow.

So much for doing work today. HAAAAAAA.

All I finished was the WKWSCI Shirt Launch poster.

Plugging it at http://wkwsci.wordpress.com.

Freitag.

Life seems to literally flash before my eyes in uni.. why does time pass so fast here?

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The bf’s reaction to quote of the day:

He’s so not your kind of guy.

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And of course he would know what kind of guy is my kind of guy…

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Short. Disjointed entries because Liz doesn’t actually have very much to say.

Quoting someone else;

“No news is good news.”

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That is incorrect.

There is better news than no news.

And that is that God still loves me and has safely (and sanely) brought me through another week.

The train of thoughts.

Shannon’s Ghirardelli chocolates are a godsend.

So are Jess’ strawberries.

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Quote of the day:

If you were single, I’d woo you at the drop of a hat. But unfortunately you’re not.

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Best moment of the day:

Almost embarrassed KJ. Too bad I didn’t get to see his face when he read the birthday blog. Mac-a-dang-dang.

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Liz is increasingly turning into a CS fixture (like Weili).

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Liz has a lot of assignments but wants to design…..

The post of many random things.

This is a post with many random things.

First, celebrating the photographer’s spirit. Great post.

http://useloos.com/gallery/?itemid=2285

You cannot stop them from taking pictures.

Think too much of beer?

http://useloos.com/gallery/?itemid=2526

Intravenous.

What do you wish to happen by the end of today?

Fifty People, One Question: Restored from Benjamin Reece on Vimeo.

In more random news,

I had the BEST Subway wrap ever yesterday. Coming from someone who already consumes vast amounts of Subway sandwiches every week, that’s saying something.

It was from the Kallang Leisure Park branch, was perfectly wrapped, well heated up (I ordered a Club and he even heated up the ham slices separately for me), with JUST the right amount of honey mustard sauce. Yum.

Most branches suck at attempting to do a wrap. Subway seriously needs to retrain its employees

It was my most satisfying Subway experience in a looong time.

And Liz has Ghirardelli chocolate! *LOVES* The bigger branches of Cold Storage (aka those the ang mohs frequent) have recently started bringing in Ghirardelli baking chips and although they are EXPENSIVE they are so totally rock my cookies.

Whee.

The baking monster conquers.

Mifa has dubbed me the baking monster. Ever since I discovered the magic that can be created in an oven a month ago, I haven’t been able to stop baking since. It has cumulated to a point where I actually bought 6 bars of Lindt chocolate (disclaimer: they were on sale, 3 in a pack, buy 1 get 1 free) in case I want to bake some real good chocolate-anythings. 

I keep seeing the world (aka, the supermarket) in terms of things I can bake and cannot bake. I walk down the biscuits/cookies aisle and think what would make a good cheesecake/lemon tart crust? I go to Ikea and am immediately drawn to kitchen utensils. I spent $13 on a silicon baking sheet today from Cold Storage (I’m so sure I could’ve gotten it cheaper elsewhere) which turned out to be the best decision I’ve made in my baking adventures so far. (Since I cannot yet own $x,xxx+++ KitchenAid appliances or at least dream of a Kenwood mixer or food processor. Getting a new oven is also out of the question.) 

 

Magic! :O

It has seriously done wonders with the three things I baked today (yes I baked 3 items, yes I’m still sane). I don’t have to worry about the bottoms burning (sounds wrong, burning bottoms…) because the mat regulates the heat much better than use-and-throw cookie sheets! I could happily leave my chocolate mint meringue cookies to bake and not worry about turning it into carbon even before the upper surfaces could solidify. And everything I baked today just turned out beautifully (in terms of taste, I can’t say looks for reasons you will find out not so very much further down in this entry). 

So coming back to the baking! Out of the 3 things I baked today only 1 was new. The green tea cookies were for the bf (and KJ’s gf), but they required only yolks (as previously mentioned), and as I already had 2 whites in the fridge waiting, I had to do a whites based recipe to even out my ingredients. Was tempted to try out a particular cake but it was too much of a hassle. Ended up going back to my meringue recipe which was decidedly, the easiest way out when left with far too many egg whites. 

Contrary to popular belief, meringue is actually easy to make. *le gasp* And to date is one of the cleanest and most hassle-free way to get rid of the whites. But I was seriously sick of the chocolate chip meringue flavour, so I thought I’ll try something different since I had peppermint extract, and made chocolate mint meringue cookies instead.  

They turned out FANTASTIC. BEST. MERINGUES. I’ve made. Ever. Way better than the first two attempts. The texture came out perfect this time. The right amount of melt-in-your-mouth taste with soft, gooey insides without the uncomfortable sticky-chewy taste that the previous attempts yielded. I credit this (almost) entirely to my new silicon baking sheet. (Although the consistency of 1 day old egg white may also, just possibly, have contributed to my success.)

So in celebration, behold Lizzy’s amazing twin cookie towers.  

 

Stacks!

And individual shots at the back of the house where there’s actually natural light – if that makes any difference to my phone. Lol. 

 

Eat me!

 

Why am I brown?

And also my scary banana loaf. Basically, I finished my cookies around 5 so I thought I’ll have time to whip up some banana bread because the recipe looked fairly simple. As with all experimental baking, Lizzy, of course, failed to understand how much bread would actually RISE and filled her loaf tray to the brim, hence causing a massing pulsing volcano to burp, belch and overflow in her oven. 

Like this.

 

It's aaaliveeeee.

So whatever overflowed likewise turned into bread, which I consumed while trying to clear it up as much as possible (quite a futile attempt since it bubbled and spilled over for most of its time in the oven). And this bread, is superbly. NICE. It was another one of those well-heralded recipes and it turned out really yummy! Even Sis, my biggest and nastiest critique, said so. 

 

BANANAARRR.

Whenever something I bake passes the Sister test then I know it’s good. Because she never minces her words and has, to date, hardly liked anything I’ve baked (except the green tea cookies which she really loves, and she is also now a fan of the banana bread and chocolate mint meringues). 

So yes, very happy because baking today was a great success. *satisfied*

 

In other, random news… when I stepped into my house after coming back from Cold Storage earlier I noticed this: 

 

O_O

I suppose Dad’s feeling all patriotic again this year. It was just really funny because when I was younger, we used to put up the big flag (landed, so ours is like, on a pole) and attached it to the fence that used to separate us from our neighbours. Unfortunately, several neighbours have come and gone since then and said fence has now become a wall, and we have nowhere to hang out flag nor do we actually bother to do so anymore. In fact, current (and newest) neighbours have built up so many walls (figuratively and literally) that I can barely see the house anymore.

 When did National Day stop meaning anything to me? When we, as a family, stopped watching the parades together? When Sis and I grew up and started having our own National Day activities with friends?

Hmm. 

We’ve been in the water so long we don’t even know we’re wet. 

I love you Singapore.

Of slipping eloquence.

In better news, my cheesecake cups tasted far better after they’d been refrigerated (which we should’ve just done from the start instead of actually trying to eat the warm thing). Perhaps if time/$$ permits, I’ll do some for our OG outing tomorrow. 

In other news, Lizzy feels as though much of her vocabulary has removed itself from regular use, and she no longer possesses an ease of writing and pompous verbosity that used to accompany her ramblings.

Words are becoming woeful trickles and she fears that if it goes on for much longer, she will well and truly be reduced to using MSN emoticons to express her deepest, darkest feelings – some of which [the icons, she means] are clearly, already more than enough to silence even her longest string of verbal diarrhea. 

She wanted very much to blog about love. Which has, insofar, appeared on these pages fairly minimally. But she finds that maybe she doesn’t have much to say at all. 

Okay Liz stop talking to yourself in 3rd person.

Now you’re just talking to yourself. :O