(a very long and image-heavy entry ahead)
happy boxing day everyoneeee!
i had a fantastic (albeit tiring) xmas celebration all thanks to my sister, my bro-in-law as well as the cheapos!
i set out my house at 9am, carrying tonnes of things in my backpack (yeah my jc mambo which many look down upon but has proved its worth yesterday) as well as a big recycle bag!
this is the list of things i brought to my sister's place
for the pumpkin soup
1.5kg pumpkin, cubed
1 litre of chicken stock, carton
2 onions and 2 garlic
1 small packet of HL milk
for the cakes
my 2 dough (about 1kg) of marshmellow
my mum's precious red food colouring
1kg flour
1 tray of eggs
miscellaneous
2 gifts (1 for kim and 1 for ranitha)
1 set of clothes to change
1 water bottle
and not forgetting these things i store permanently in my sister's kitchen for the cakes
the plastic boxes
margarine
my purple food colouring
baking tray
rolling pin
spatula
i know i sound like i am going hiking on christmas, to the point that my sister was teasing me that 'christmas is supposed to be relaxing, why are you tiring yourself like that???"
oh, i forgot to add that i bought breakfast + coffee and tea for my sister and bro-in-law. now please visualise me, carrying the pumpkin + flour + marshmellow dough in my backpack and carrying the chicken stock and miscellaneous items in my recycle bag. now do i "look" lang bei?
i sure did, haha!
upon reaching my sister's place, i called my bro-in-law and her many many times (although i have the keys but it is basic coutesy mah) but no one answered me!!! so i open the door but to my horror they locked from insideeeee! *scream* but luckily my bro-in-law (kenneth) is not that deaf (my sister, joni, is like a dead log) so he came to my rescue. joni still promised me that she will wake up before 10am to welcome me. PUI. hahaha whatever.
so we started baking at around 11am, after enjoying our breakfast + the mickey mouse movie on channel 5. i am supposed to bake 3 cakes, because each cake i can cut into 4 smaller pieces but to my disappointment, the first batch failed. so with only 2 batches left, joni and i decided to cut the 2 batches into 9 each (that will be 18 in total) and salvage whatever can be salvage from the first batch so have a total of 22 pieces. i decided to make 2 little cakes for everyone but once again, i forgot i did not prepare enough marshmellow for the decoration and i started to panic when the clock strikes 2pm and i am not halfway done!
as my sister is meeting her friend 3pm at tampines, both of us had no idea if we can finish everything in time so joni ordered kenneth to help to knead the dough, hahahaa! and i was joking with them that 'if we open a confectionary, sure close down" with such inefficiency.
when i "managed" to prepare enough marshmellow for all the 22 pieces, i realised each container can only keep 1 cake properly. omg, i just spent alot of time doing redundant things. no proper planning. lol. and yeah, that explains why ur cake is smaller compared to the one i gave my jc girls and "not that pretty" cuz we ran short of time! but overall, i am still very happy with whatever i've made with the help of joni and kenneth!
my sister helping meeeee
for the cheapo clique
for the jc girls
chopping starts now for meee!
charmaine's pasta and her cream sauce
eliza's baked potatos!
wanlin's garden salad!
kaiwei finally contributing!!!! *claps*
paparazzi!
high tech blenderr!
what a spreaddd!
group pic before eating! w/o rach the lateeeeeeeeeeeecomer!
kaiwei's BIG WRAP which she CANNOT WRAP
a little bit of guessing game and volkaaa
a little accident :D
another grp pic by barry! we were trying to say "barry merry xmas", it is challenging you know!
presents for gift exchange! sucks lah stupid blogger rotate my photo againnn
discussing the way to reveal our partner and which gift is for us. it happened so fast that i have no idea even until now hahahaha
wanlin's and my present
rani's and charmaine's
jinpei's and tzeye's
theirs hahaha
rach's present from xingxiu, which coincidentally xingxiu's present is from rach too!
kim's present from meee
they are so thin that both of them can wear it on their armssss
jinpei's present from charmaine and once again, charmaine's present is from jinpei!
charmaine is so happy the jinpei gave her so she gave her a kiss in that position haha!
hahaha, this is known to everyone. tzeye and wanlin are each other's partner cuz they were not present on the day when we ballot for our partners!
rani's present from kaiwei, charmaine just want to be in the pic!
eliza's present from ranitha!
huiting's present from eliza!
then eliza started giving out xmas presents! looks like zookeeper is feeding the animals everyone is so happy!
group pic with all our presentss :):)
then we presented ranitha her farewell present! a canon ixus 80is!
then it is time for little nyoyna! main highlight of the day! (instead of the xmas dinner lol) [note: super super lame photos ahead]
mama and tao jie
LIU YI DAO!
"wo shi bu hui jia gei ni de!"
"you'll be my wife after that and you can never run away!"
mengssssss~
his eye ball is as round as 50 cent coin
guillible chor chor is crying cuz of sick chen xi, too bad no pics of chen xi!!!
"wah she sucks man tricked chor chor into allowing chen xi to marry the disgusting zhenzhu"
us: yuzhu kana raped by robert zhang very kelian leh!rach: huh? who is robert zhang?us: later maybe he will appearrach: why he want to rape her?us: he wants to rape yue niang but yu zhu went to the room instead and robert 'raped' the wrong personrach: why she so depressed? kana rape only mahus: wait till next time got pple rape you, then see whether you will be depressed not!
ah tao!!!! a.k.a hui ting!!! identical twins!
"yayyyy the stupid chor chor finally fall into the trap! my dear zhenzhu can become chen xi's wife! yeah man!"
i-forgot-who-said-this: "why the guy still wearing pants ah?"
the rest: WAHLAO DIRTY LEHHHH
