Colleague: Whyyyy HELLOoooooOOOoo breathtaking beauty! YOU take MY breath awaaay! *cue wheezing hacking gasping breathless sound*
***
Intuition and I, after watching Iron Man.
Me: So which were your favourite parts in the movie?
He: *thinks for a while* I kinda like it when he returns to where he was held captive and rescued all the poor people. Yourself?
Me: Hmmm *thinks*
Me: You know, Robert Downey Jr. looks absolutely haawt in the movie. Love his eyes, it makes me wanna brush his eyelashes. I think my favourite part of the movie is wherever there is a close up of his face and eyes *beams!*
He: ...
He: My favourite part of the movie is when the Iron Man appears fully masked.
***
Scenario: A game of Taboo.
Player: A young lady with an uncanny resemblance to Olive Oyl, in all aspects from head to toe.
She: AAAHHHHhhhh! It's it's... *cups hands at chest* the 2 balloons inside!
Group: ROFL ROFL
The word?
Lungs.
ROFL!
***
16 May 2008
Relief Work: Chengdu
Long weekend ahead: woot!
Want to spend your time more meaningfully? Check this out and participate where you can!
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Greetings from Singapore Campus Crusade for Christ.
You are receiving this email from a friend of Singapore Campus Crusade for Christ. We are appealing to you to participate in the relief work for the earthquake victims in ChengDu. Several towns had been wiped out in the earthquake with at least 40,000 lives lost. The casualty numbers continue to escalate. Besides praying for these victims, we hope to do more. We will be working closely with the medical teams that will be sent out from Missions Medical Clinic headed by an associate of SCCC.
The following are ways that you could help:
1. BE PART OF A DISASTER RELIEF TEAM.
Being part of the medical teams to bring in medical and logistical supplies to Chengdu as well as help the relatives of the victims (Briefing on post-trauma counseling will be conducted). All participants are required to pay for the total cost of the trip. (estimated cost per pax is $1,500). There will also be a pre-trip briefing for each team. Team details are as follows:
Team 1 - 21st May to 29th May, Dr Ong Lay Siang
Team 2 - 31st May to 7th June, Dr Ho See Yunn
Team 3 - 8th June to 16th June, (Doctor to be finalised)
Team 4 - 15th June to 23rd June, Dr Joshua Wong
2. CONNECT US TO DOCTORS & MEDICAL PERSONNEL
We are also looking for doctors and nurses who could be part of the team. Please refer them to our office at missions@sccc.org.sg.
3. MANPOWER SUPPORT TO HELP PACK SUPPLIES
Packing will commence on the evening of 15 May at 24L Lim Tua Tow Road (near Serangoon MRT). It is expected to continue for the next few days. If you can avail yourself to help, please call the clinic staff Tony @ 97850234 or Khai Liang @ 90223156.
4. CONTRIBUTE MEDICAL SUPPLIES
If you would like to contribute medicine or supplies, please refer to the attached file and liaise with Missions Medical Clinic staff, Tony @ 97850234 or call the clinic @ 62892100.
5. GIVE FINANCIALLY TO THE WORK
Crossed and make your cheques payable to 'Campus Crusade Asia Limited'. On the reverse side, please indicate that it is designated for "Disaster, Crisis Relief Fund" (the fund is for purchase of medicine here in Singapore and for financial assistance to disaster relief team members here in Singapore.
If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us at missions@sccc.org.sg.
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Want to spend your time more meaningfully? Check this out and participate where you can!
*********
Greetings from Singapore Campus Crusade for Christ.
You are receiving this email from a friend of Singapore Campus Crusade for Christ. We are appealing to you to participate in the relief work for the earthquake victims in ChengDu. Several towns had been wiped out in the earthquake with at least 40,000 lives lost. The casualty numbers continue to escalate. Besides praying for these victims, we hope to do more. We will be working closely with the medical teams that will be sent out from Missions Medical Clinic headed by an associate of SCCC.
The following are ways that you could help:
1. BE PART OF A DISASTER RELIEF TEAM.
Being part of the medical teams to bring in medical and logistical supplies to Chengdu as well as help the relatives of the victims (Briefing on post-trauma counseling will be conducted). All participants are required to pay for the total cost of the trip. (estimated cost per pax is $1,500). There will also be a pre-trip briefing for each team. Team details are as follows:
Team 1 - 21st May to 29th May, Dr Ong Lay Siang
Team 2 - 31st May to 7th June, Dr Ho See Yunn
Team 3 - 8th June to 16th June, (Doctor to be finalised)
Team 4 - 15th June to 23rd June, Dr Joshua Wong
2. CONNECT US TO DOCTORS & MEDICAL PERSONNEL
We are also looking for doctors and nurses who could be part of the team. Please refer them to our office at missions@sccc.org.sg.
3. MANPOWER SUPPORT TO HELP PACK SUPPLIES
Packing will commence on the evening of 15 May at 24L Lim Tua Tow Road (near Serangoon MRT). It is expected to continue for the next few days. If you can avail yourself to help, please call the clinic staff Tony @ 97850234 or Khai Liang @ 90223156.
4. CONTRIBUTE MEDICAL SUPPLIES
If you would like to contribute medicine or supplies, please refer to the attached file and liaise with Missions Medical Clinic staff, Tony @ 97850234 or call the clinic @ 62892100.
5. GIVE FINANCIALLY TO THE WORK
Crossed and make your cheques payable to 'Campus Crusade Asia Limited'. On the reverse side, please indicate that it is designated for "Disaster, Crisis Relief Fund" (the fund is for purchase of medicine here in Singapore and for financial assistance to disaster relief team members here in Singapore.
If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us at missions@sccc.org.sg.
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11 May 2008
Weekend Baking Part Deux
I had a list of recipes to try out over the weekend, but decided to not be overly ambitious when I'm baking to give away. I needed to bake 2--1 for my family gathering on Sunday, and another for Intuition's family when I join them for the Mother's Day lunch celebrations. During times like that, you simply have to resort to tried and tested recipes.
I baked 2 orange cakes on Saturday mornings and things went well... I ran out of self raising flour and found a jar of flour at home, leftover from one of my brother's cooking projects. Just to be sure, I asked him,"Eh, confirm this is multi-purpose flour har? Not corn flour right?" He said "yah yah confirm chopped guarantee, it's multi purpose flour". Satisfied, I added half a cup of that flour for the cake.
After baking the cakes and going about my tasks for the rest of the day, I decided to end the day with an attempt at baking cookies. Cookies seem easy enough, going by all accounts of the online reviews for a recipe I had in mind. Pour everything in a bowl, mix, bake for 10min. Easy peasy, and I'd be done within 30min. Cool.
30 min later, I was still figuring out the measurements of the cookies.
45 min later, I managed to get 2 trays into the oven.
55 min later, I stared at the tray where the cookies have expanded and melded into one another, forming a nice bulbous cookie sheet. Sigh. Well nevermind, I'm sure they'll taste great, as the online reviews have promised. I took it out and let it cool for a while before breaking a bit off the cookie sheet. The texture looked dodgy, but maybe the taste test will prove it otherwise. *Munch munch*
The taste was great--intensely chocolatey and not too sweet. Delish. But the texture... it's both too dry and too soggy, if there's such a thing. The edges were almost powdery, the centre portions are soft and malleable... it doesn't hold a shape at all. *Downcast* Man oh man... I can't even get a simple drop cookie right. Everyone else said it's easy, but why does mine end up so disastrous? What a perfect waste of sugar and butter. So sad.
My brother came home and laughed at my baking failure (reminder to self: failure is an event, not a person. Repeat.) and took a bite... like a shining beacon of light, he said "the taste is not bad! not bad at all... just that the texture a bit wrong. I'll eat it for breakfast." and I said "Oh thank you thank you... please help me eat up my baking tragedy, I'm so grateful."
This morning, I whined to my brother "Sigh, there must be something wrong with the ingredients. I followed the recipe quite faithfully leh... You know, the flour looks strange to me. You sure it's multi purpose flour?" He thought about it, and declared "You know you're right! IT IS CORN FLOUR!"
...
My cakes had a bit of corn flour in them. One cake went to my family gathering--a family of food snobs, and another went to Intuition's family. The family took a look at my cake and commented that it's sunken, it's a bit more dense, etc... I don't know what to say, except to glare at my brother each time a negative comment came my way. He even had the cheek to say "It's the baker's fault!"
May I just reiterate the fact that my brother is a doofus.
I baked 2 orange cakes on Saturday mornings and things went well... I ran out of self raising flour and found a jar of flour at home, leftover from one of my brother's cooking projects. Just to be sure, I asked him,"Eh, confirm this is multi-purpose flour har? Not corn flour right?" He said "yah yah confirm chopped guarantee, it's multi purpose flour". Satisfied, I added half a cup of that flour for the cake.
After baking the cakes and going about my tasks for the rest of the day, I decided to end the day with an attempt at baking cookies. Cookies seem easy enough, going by all accounts of the online reviews for a recipe I had in mind. Pour everything in a bowl, mix, bake for 10min. Easy peasy, and I'd be done within 30min. Cool.
30 min later, I was still figuring out the measurements of the cookies.
45 min later, I managed to get 2 trays into the oven.
55 min later, I stared at the tray where the cookies have expanded and melded into one another, forming a nice bulbous cookie sheet. Sigh. Well nevermind, I'm sure they'll taste great, as the online reviews have promised. I took it out and let it cool for a while before breaking a bit off the cookie sheet. The texture looked dodgy, but maybe the taste test will prove it otherwise. *Munch munch*
The taste was great--intensely chocolatey and not too sweet. Delish. But the texture... it's both too dry and too soggy, if there's such a thing. The edges were almost powdery, the centre portions are soft and malleable... it doesn't hold a shape at all. *Downcast* Man oh man... I can't even get a simple drop cookie right. Everyone else said it's easy, but why does mine end up so disastrous? What a perfect waste of sugar and butter. So sad.
My brother came home and laughed at my baking failure (reminder to self: failure is an event, not a person. Repeat.) and took a bite... like a shining beacon of light, he said "the taste is not bad! not bad at all... just that the texture a bit wrong. I'll eat it for breakfast." and I said "Oh thank you thank you... please help me eat up my baking tragedy, I'm so grateful."
This morning, I whined to my brother "Sigh, there must be something wrong with the ingredients. I followed the recipe quite faithfully leh... You know, the flour looks strange to me. You sure it's multi purpose flour?" He thought about it, and declared "You know you're right! IT IS CORN FLOUR!"
...
My cakes had a bit of corn flour in them. One cake went to my family gathering--a family of food snobs, and another went to Intuition's family. The family took a look at my cake and commented that it's sunken, it's a bit more dense, etc... I don't know what to say, except to glare at my brother each time a negative comment came my way. He even had the cheek to say "It's the baker's fault!"
May I just reiterate the fact that my brother is a doofus.
09 May 2008
Simple Pleasures in Life: Weekend Baking
I love weekends. I love my Saturdays, especially if I have absolutely nothing on. Then I can proceed to fill it up anyway I like! Tomorrow is one such day, and I'm looking forward to doing some baking in the morning.
Baking is something I'm very new to. The first time I did anything like baking was at a friend's place where she attempted to teach Intuition and I how to bake her famous brownie... and somehow, I managed to underbake it by quite a lot. The first time I did a baking project by myself was an attempt at an orange cake... the recipe called for "melted butter" so I went ahead and... melted the butter to liquid form. That's melted butter, right? Right? How come the cake never rose, ever? How come the cake, no matter how long I bake it, is still so soggy inside? Fail.
Last weekend, I tasted success by NOT melting the butter (it's just softened), and the cake rose beautifully, tasted wonderfully orangey and is yummilicious. Yum. I want another one.
This weekend, since it's the Mother's day weekend, I'll probably bake two for the lovely ladies in my family--my grandma, my aunt and my mum. They've fed me well and have pampered me in different ways through the years, so it's payback time ; ) I hope there's enough to go around!
The picture above is a delicious chocolate cake that my aunt specializes in. On my birthday last year, my mother was asking if I'd like to buy a cake from Awfully Chocolate or Lana Cakes. I was like "... can I ask Aunt to bake me her chocolate cake? And... can she bake a big one? Not for me to share with the rest, but for me alone? A REALLY BIG ONE? Please?" So shameless, right? And it was good. Not too sweet, great chocolate taste, beautifully crumbly and oh so sinful. That's why I couldn't fit into my pre-Christmas shopping post Christmas. I'm still paying for my sinful ways 5 months later.
Aunty's Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:
1 cup Van Houten chocolate powder
1 cup milk
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup self raising flour, sifted
4 eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Cream the butter and sugar
- Melt the chocolate in a bowl on top of a pot of hot water. Stir in the milk slowly after the chocolate melted
- Seperate the eggs into yolks n whites
- Add the yolks one by one into the creamed butter and sugar, beating all the time
- Add the chocolate into the butter sugar yolks mix, followed by the vanilla essence
- After adding the chocolate, add the flour into the mix bit by bit til it's well mixed up
- Whisk the whites til it's stiff
- Fold in the whites into the delicious chocolate batter
- Pour mix into a baking tin that's buttered and lined with baking paper
- Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 1 hour, until a stick inserted in will come out clean
- Gorge on it
08 May 2008
Missing: Manners
The Best Grandmother In The World got knocked down by a cyclist who has all the manners of a pig. The cyclist knocked my 70+ year old grandmother down onto the ROAD and then promptly cycled away, leaving her to walk home with a bruised face and swollen lip. SHE'S OVER SEVENTY YEARS OLD!
ARRRGHHHH!!!
Thank God her bones are still strong and healthy for her age, so there wasn't any bone fracture... but now she got no appetite and her face is swollen. Am so angry!
Who knocks down an elderly and leaves her on the road without even helping her up??? Is that even thinkable?! *GNASH TEETH*
Will be visiting her tonight. Poor granny =(
ARRRGHHHH!!!
Thank God her bones are still strong and healthy for her age, so there wasn't any bone fracture... but now she got no appetite and her face is swollen. Am so angry!
Who knocks down an elderly and leaves her on the road without even helping her up??? Is that even thinkable?! *GNASH TEETH*
Will be visiting her tonight. Poor granny =(
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