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cool blogging on my phone. Serotonin levels fluctuating in my brain. Something is wrong with me. I know this feeling. I wanna run away. But where can i run to?

Time to step up.

Alvin. Time to step up and do better. Step up your game. Stop being careless. You know the consequences. Take note of the details. Do what you have to to give a good job. Make notes. List. reminders. You know u can always do better.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Aud! wait wait.. not 0000hrs yet.. but yeah.. its her birthday and i don normally remember most pep's birthdays. HaH.

But thanks to aud that i had a chance to practise making chocs on a larger scale and make myself much poorer. haH. made chocs for door gifts for her party. and i managed to get them done, packaged and delivered in time.

I know.. its a birthday and all.. and thats my present to her.. but yeah.. hope people who eat them actually taste them and enjoy them as much as possible. Didnt take any individual pieces cause they kinda are the usual ones i make.. and maybe i shall just show the end pdts as a whole.

V for Vday!

hahaha.. forgive the sudden outburst. has been sometime since i've posted anything.. so yeah.. here's a treat and a glimpse of what vday was like for me..

Spent kinda the weekend before fussing on chocs cause a yxian kinda asked if i'm making any.. and so i did.. rushed the stuff out within 2 days and sent it to her. hope the box of chocs pleased something and stuff.. and that it was all worth it.

Kinda spent the time tweaking my choc ideas and improved on some of them.. used the technique of making my fav lemon sqs to give an extra punch to the grandmarnier one.. and got good comments bout it..

had a first attempt to make coffee infused chocs.. not perfected yet.. but i guess i'll have more luck when i use my new npresso beans.. will fine one fine day to blog bout them.. =)

Then came Vday itself.. went supermarket shopping at jp for some time.. picking out ingredients and all.. and got those creative juices flowing.. ended with a nice mashed carrot and potatoe cake.. with Seared Cajun prawns.. simple.. but tasty with the nice tiger prawns..

For main course, i kinda served risotto with tomato and shiraz infused sauce which i didnt take pics of.. and my little tiramisu from scratch.. with a little of brown brothers cierra wine and of course that npresso gourment expresso. Heavenly..

Although it wasnt any classy candlelit dinner, i guess all the hard work paid off and i got her some nice stuff and i guess she's quite happy with what she has? cough*monkey* hahaha..

anyway.. i guess i will get to update more with more time at home nowadays.. and hope my attachment goes fine.

Change is inevitable. But we are meant to adapt to change.

Life

Lets see. wanted to update but the com kinda wasnt cooperative..
wanted to post pics of what i cooked but i guess its a wrong timing thing.

Stuck at home with 3 days mc.. gastritis.. whatever it means.. puked on mon morn and i met my lunch and dinner in the sink soon aft.

good part of this is the wonderful schedule which allows me to book in on sun.. but bad part is that its sorta a confinement.. no oily food and most food that have like a taste?

and as usual.. being stuck at home gave me time to think.

actually i think i'm way too stressed up in camp.

people think that way too.

on high alert all the time..

nervous wreck.

but yeah.. i guess i have unique ways to unwind. and chill.

i stand down only when i think theres a correct time for it.

and yeah.. i think rock music is essential in chilling me down.. and i don get that much in camp..

aww.. missing my headphones.. hope i get them back soon.

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Xmas is here!

ok.. at least for my family kinda way.

had our xmas gathering yest and as always theres a tonne of food.. chaos.. and contribution by people even thoug they were damn busy and stuff..

This year theres new additions to our family tradition of over eating.. and it proved to be quite exciting.. hahaha..

And C and i contributed too. I made like chocs with an xmas twist and she did a tedious blueberry cheese cake that took precious sleeping time.

My Xmas Creations!

Left: Dark chocolate mint truffle coated with icing sugar

Right: White chocolate truffle with coconut and gula malacca ( hot favE)

Back: White chocolate mint truffle coated with candy cane

all of them were like new recipe and ideas and they worked out pretty fine.. all with a theme along too.. all the white snow minty xmas-y kinda feel to it. hahah a challenge for me esp with that date line of mine.

Next was C's creation of blueberry cheesecake which was made from scratch, painstakening baked and refrigerated repeatedly till the wee hours on sat..

The Blueberry sauce or whatever u call it is definitely the best part.. the sweetness is is just perfect to bring out the taste of the blueberry and not too much to overpower the taste of the cheese cake.

Something definitely good for this kinda function where people take food seriously and very good attempt for someone who bought her oven for only a week. =)

my friends dropped by too to have a chat and all with me maybe due to the fact that i sorta MIA-ed for something with the short weekends during bookout and other commitments.. had a lil wine.. food and entertaining chaos.. hahah..

the pic was take by sx and i think it describes what happens during xmas at my house. haH.

So many things happening at the same time. Can u handle it? hahaha

Chunkfest! Not.

After reaching the 4th mark, decided that we should do something nice that both of us will enjoy.. what meant to be a surprise turned out to be too much of a surprise.

We got there after it had just rained and the sun got back up. So it was humid, muddy and incredibly warm then. And when we got into the actual place, it was damn crowded(free ice cream.. who guessed?)

We made it all the way up and found that the lack of tentage was getting on our nerves and soaking up in the mud to queue for our free ice cream wasnt much for a motivation to stay. So decided to do what other people have done, take pictures.. and get the hell outta there!

we didnt get free ice cream so i decided to take a bite out of the wooden board ones..


the only thing mildly entertaining was the foam stars that they had which floats arnd the place and it attracted crowds of people standing arnd, just to take pictures of the UFO. We even had to help some folks take picture for them.. like?

We saw the UFOs all arnd town after that and it was more of a pain in the ass than an attraction.. and yeah.. we got ice cream anyway.. in air conditioned comfort.. just to make it up for the mud sweat and effort. haH