[ Tuesday, December 30, 2008 ]
can you believe we are almost a day away from the new year? it feels like it was just last week that balqis, nabillah and i went on a last minute trip to amk hub for some groceries for our new year's eve bsb karaoke party.
i feel like i should be in a reflective mode and get all deep, like i should be pondering over the year, my existence and everything around me.
but i wont. i will sum up 2008 in one word...interesting. it certainly wasnt boring but it definitely wasnt overly exciting either so yeah... interesting. my one hope for 2009 would be to not second guess myself and i would want this to be the case for everyone i know. sometimes you dont even realise you're doing it because your mind is so used to not trusting your first instinct, your intuition. your gut is there for a reason!
so what else does the new year bring, other than empty promises of resolutions?
i feel like i should be in a reflective mode and get all deep, like i should be pondering over the year, my existence and everything around me.
but i wont. i will sum up 2008 in one word...interesting. it certainly wasnt boring but it definitely wasnt overly exciting either so yeah... interesting. my one hope for 2009 would be to not second guess myself and i would want this to be the case for everyone i know. sometimes you dont even realise you're doing it because your mind is so used to not trusting your first instinct, your intuition. your gut is there for a reason!
so what else does the new year bring, other than empty promises of resolutions?
why, a birthday of course! because i am practical and accommodating (hah!),
i made a wishlist post!
thanks friends & family! i heard this thing about people receiving like, bonus or something at the end of the year... im unsure of its truth. haahaa!
i also cannot believe i let my hair grow this long.
ignore my dirty & generally unused mirror.
maybe i should start the new year with aBANGsnip?
nah.
i made a wishlist post!
thanks friends & family! i heard this thing about people receiving like, bonus or something at the end of the year... im unsure of its truth. haahaa!
i also cannot believe i let my hair grow this long.
ignore my dirty & generally unused mirror.
maybe i should start the new year with a
nah.
soma coma [3:33:00 PM]
[ Tuesday, December 23, 2008 ]
i've been listening to way too much old school rap/hip hop recently.
new things in my life;
arent they the cutest! kak ameen got me the above ice-cream toy thing which is actually a mini fan! the penguin got one too, in yellow. my mom got me the camera keychain. isnt she the sweetest? she also got me something else that i was super excited about...
yesterday me and rozi went on an epic journey for baking stuff. my mom told me bout this place at holland village called pantry magic and we decided to check it out. but before that, lunch at adam road! i had my usual nasi lemak from that one famous store (which i now find to be.... not as nice as qiji's) and rozi was telling me that she was getting bubur ayam from the soto nazi store (frequent adam road patrons would know who im talking bout. that mean and cranky soto makcik!) "crazy, come all the way here to eat porridge!" i secretly thought. when she came back with her bowl, i was immediately enthralled. "what is that!" "bubur ayam lah!" what the hell, am i the only one who doesnt know that bubur ayam from soto stalls looks like that?!
moving on, we headed to that pantry magic place and it was pretty much.... amazing. everything was soooo pretty and unfortunately, not cheap. i wanted to get this red spatula cos i broke my cheap-ass ikea one. it was $5.90 and right now i cant remember why i didnt get it. my ultimate fantasy is that someone would bring me to the store for my birthday and get me everything i want! can i give out a bigger hint than that? lol. anyhow, 1 block away from pantry magic was something equally magical. phoon huat! haahaa it was around the same size as the one at toa payoh but with more staff (who shouted to each other in chinese the whole time we were there. so bising!) rozi then brought me to this restaurant supply place in chinatown.
i dont think i've ever been around so much stainless steel in my life. i wanted to get some mixing bowls! but alas, they were more than $20 and thus out of my non-existant budget. the day was saved by satay! i always forget how much i hate lau pa sat
until im actually there.
currently my biggest wish is for a yogurt joint to open at compass point. i love yogurt. i usually buy the plain ones and eat them with crushed cereal and then act all healthy.
if only i could have fancy yogurt everyday! this one here is from yoguru (at kallang leisurepark) and its a vanilla&pomegranate swirl yogurt with my fav choice of topping, granola! so good. oh yoguru, why do you have to be so far away!
some photo posts for your time
high tea&chill session with the cousins a few saturdays ago
and
dinner&movie date with the lovelies last saturday
i walked past a suicide scene last night. it was pretty dramatic (in my head at least), i was going down the steps near the bus stop and saw the police tape cordoning off a large area at this void deck 2 blocks from my flat. i slowed down, thinking if i should be walking somewhere else cos goddamn, seeing a mangled dead body is not one of the things i want to be seeing at 11pm. i was still making the decision when i caught sight of a blue tent. the blue tent. the sudden chill in my bones, the goosebumps at the back of my neck.... urgh. not cool. i turned my head away sharply and quickened my steps.
i dont ever want to be that close to a blue tent ever again.
new things in my life;
arent they the cutest! kak ameen got me the above ice-cream toy thing which is actually a mini fan! the penguin got one too, in yellow. my mom got me the camera keychain. isnt she the sweetest? she also got me something else that i was super excited about...
| a (real) fan! my previous one (which i've had ever since i moved to sengkang which would be 10+years ago) was screeching and basically made it impossible for me to sleep (and we all know that i have enough problems sleeping already, thank you very much) this fan is pretty sweet looking isnt it? oh and i set it up myself! i read the vague instructions from the flimsy 2 page 'manual' and was determined to do it myself. hell, i set up all the furniture in my room (save for the bed) so how difficult could setting up a fan be? as it turns out, it was pretty difficult. holding up the heavy motor part while trying to screw the stand and cover is a challenge, fyi! but i managed and i did it! now all i have to do is master drilling so that i can officially add 'handyman' to my list of career options. |  |
yesterday me and rozi went on an epic journey for baking stuff. my mom told me bout this place at holland village called pantry magic and we decided to check it out. but before that, lunch at adam road! i had my usual nasi lemak from that one famous store (which i now find to be.... not as nice as qiji's) and rozi was telling me that she was getting bubur ayam from the soto nazi store (frequent adam road patrons would know who im talking bout. that mean and cranky soto makcik!) "crazy, come all the way here to eat porridge!" i secretly thought. when she came back with her bowl, i was immediately enthralled. "what is that!" "bubur ayam lah!" what the hell, am i the only one who doesnt know that bubur ayam from soto stalls looks like that?!
moving on, we headed to that pantry magic place and it was pretty much.... amazing. everything was soooo pretty and unfortunately, not cheap. i wanted to get this red spatula cos i broke my cheap-ass ikea one. it was $5.90 and right now i cant remember why i didnt get it. my ultimate fantasy is that someone would bring me to the store for my birthday and get me everything i want! can i give out a bigger hint than that? lol. anyhow, 1 block away from pantry magic was something equally magical. phoon huat! haahaa it was around the same size as the one at toa payoh but with more staff (who shouted to each other in chinese the whole time we were there. so bising!) rozi then brought me to this restaurant supply place in chinatown.
i dont think i've ever been around so much stainless steel in my life. i wanted to get some mixing bowls! but alas, they were more than $20 and thus out of my non-existant budget. the day was saved by satay! i always forget how much i hate lau pa sat
until im actually there.
currently my biggest wish is for a yogurt joint to open at compass point. i love yogurt. i usually buy the plain ones and eat them with crushed cereal and then act all healthy.
if only i could have fancy yogurt everyday! this one here is from yoguru (at kallang leisurepark) and its a vanilla&pomegranate swirl yogurt with my fav choice of topping, granola! so good. oh yoguru, why do you have to be so far away!
some photo posts for your time
high tea&chill session with the cousins a few saturdays ago
and
dinner&movie date with the lovelies last saturday
i walked past a suicide scene last night. it was pretty dramatic (in my head at least), i was going down the steps near the bus stop and saw the police tape cordoning off a large area at this void deck 2 blocks from my flat. i slowed down, thinking if i should be walking somewhere else cos goddamn, seeing a mangled dead body is not one of the things i want to be seeing at 11pm. i was still making the decision when i caught sight of a blue tent. the blue tent. the sudden chill in my bones, the goosebumps at the back of my neck.... urgh. not cool. i turned my head away sharply and quickened my steps.
i dont ever want to be that close to a blue tent ever again.
soma coma [11:59:00 PM]
[ Thursday, December 18, 2008 ]
so...i posted this sugar cookie recipe on bakebakebake more than a week ago. i didnt immediately link you guys there because i wanted to make them for the penguin on her birthday (nak surprise mah) but in the end i didnt, mainly cos i ran out of the storebought frosting and i didnt have enough butter (or confidence) to make my own. here is the recipe anyway
but thats not the real reason i am updating to be honest. when i logged on msn tonight, an overly excited rozi tells me that some girl is using my picture (of that heart shaped cookie) as her icon. i laughed it off, mainly cos of the fact that this girl is using a photo with my unmanicured fingernails as her display pic! "wait till you go to her lj" and i did.
weird right? i am at a lost over what to do lol. i dont want her using the photo but i also dont want to come off bitchy and be like 'erm.... excuse me why are you using my photo? without my permission?!'
oh woe is me.
soma coma [11:36:00 PM]
[ Saturday, December 13, 2008 ]
nice day for a sulk says:anyway last week nyer snl
nice day for a sulk says:
the musical guest is t.i.
Abracadabra. says:
wah
nice day for a sulk says:
and he performed whatever you like right
nice day for a sulk says:
then he kept doing the JEMPOT MAKAN hand gesture
nice day for a sulk says:
you know what im talking about?!
Abracadabra. says:
macam mane tu
nice day for a sulk says:
the one he does in the video
nice day for a sulk says:
like
nice day for a sulk says:
"Sila lah makan aper yang ader"
Abracadabra. says:
oh yang macam dondang sayang
nice day for a sulk says:
ahahaahahaha yes!
Abracadabra. says:
nice day for a sulk says:
"Sila lah makan aper yang ader"
HAHAHHAHAHA
To My Favourite Penguin
Happy Birthday dah!
soma coma [1:01:00 AM]
[ Sunday, December 07, 2008 ]
how are you guys doing on this very lazy sunday? i woke up today and knew that i had no plans to do anything whatsoever so i stretched and lazed in bed longer than usual. i also decided that i love my mom and should be grateful for her (even though she did destroy the possibility of james franco becoming her son-in-law) so i did her grocery shopping for her! after i took a shower and had my lunch, i went to hougang mall and bought the stuff she wanted and come on, how can i be at hougang central and not drop by phoon huat right?ever since i discovered the phoon huat at toa payoh i have pretty much avoided the one at hougang. if you've ever been there, you must know how small the shop is! i'm a big girl and i'm always carrying a big bag so i had to be extra careful not to bump into anything everytime im there. at toa payoh i could walk with arms outstretched and not have a care in the world (not that i have done that before but the important thing is that i could). so just now i went to the one at hougang and i couldnt wait to leave! it was crowded as hell. i felt like the walls were closing in on me! i got my vanilla&white chocolate&souffle cups and i was out of there faster than you can say cupcake.
on tuesday i met up with kham after what seems like weeks and we had dinner at some indon place at far east plaza. the peceh leleh was damn small can! thank god for the gado-gado cos i was famished. halfway through the meal kham and i talked about ear piercing. i have 3 on each ear, just like my momma. "eh sakit tak?" "taaaak!" "betol ke?" "yes! you know how much of a pussy i am right? so if i say its not painful then it really isnt!" "ok should i pierce my ears later?" "yes do it!" i know right, i have the most scintillating conversations.
anyhow, talk about impulse!
dont be fooled by her 'aksyen calm" face, she was so scared lah! the piercer(?) and i spent maybe 10 minutes assuring and then re-assuring her that it wouldnt be too painful. her lobes were so red afterwards! "see! not that bad right?" "sakit loh!" so kham, how does it feel like to have de-virginized ears? teehee
dont be fooled by her 'aksyen calm" face, she was so scared lah! the piercer(?) and i spent maybe 10 minutes assuring and then re-assuring her that it wouldnt be too painful. her lobes were so red afterwards! "see! not that bad right?" "sakit loh!" so kham, how does it feel like to have de-virginized ears? teehee
spent the whole of friday with nabillah, balqis and kak ameen doing random stuff. brunch at bukit timah (yeay for double cheese mozzarella pratas), shopping at vivocity and then thompson plaza and then back to kak ameen's for dinner&games.
do you know something? i dont like wearing jeans. i have jeans, i just dont like wearing them. obviously this is not the case for my denim-loving cousins.
after a fatty dinner of pizza hut&kfc, we played taboo! holy shit funnest game ever.
had high tea at carousel with some of my cousins yesterday. i know you guys are expecting me to rant and rave and shout from the mountain tops how much love i have for their bread&butter pudding and you would be right! but not today, i'll post about yesterday's happenings another time. we did check out that marina barrage place afterwards and it was awesome. i have a feeling it would be the next esplanade though =/ anyways, here's a sneak peek/pic
balqis i love you but your face is damn classic in this shot can!
moving on, since my mind is always on baking, look at these stuff that i have
2 caramel milk chocolate bars and..... heart shaped cookie cutters! im excited not because of the shape (obviously hearts are cute) but at the fact that the bundle of 6 cookie cutters (of different sizes) costs $2! daiso, even though you give me a mild case of claustrophobia, i love you still.
im gonna stop yakking now. there are photos to be resized, muffins to be baked, room to be tidied and a monster pimple on my right cheek to be exfoliated into oblivion.
soma coma [11:22:00 PM]
[ Friday, December 05, 2008 ]
my mom just single-handedly ruined the best dream i've ever had.
i am a mixture of emotions right now. the situation is so laughable but its making me super frustrated! i want to pull someone's hair, aaaargh! here's what happened.
i dreamt that i was riding a bike with james franco. james franco people!
this dude!
this dude!
which was kinda funny (not the ha-ha kind) cos just the other day i was complaining to rozi that i never dream about people i like, which is so true cos i usually have the most elaborate dreams about random people or celebrities that i dont care about. and now i finally get to be in a dream with james franco! i mean come on, ive been crushing on him since freaks and geeks! bah!
ok i should clarify, in that dream, i was getting on the (big, sexy) bike. of course my dream did not just start like that but for the sake of retaining the nc16 rating for this blog, i shall not dwell on it (also, i'm supposed to be getting ready to go out right now but i wanted to type out my feelings before i forget them). anyway, right. so, i was on the bike and just about to wrap my arms around james franco's waist when....
the phone in my room rang. like really loudly. i scrambled to pick it up (my thoughts were only on continuing the dream obviously) and in a groggy state had a 3 second phonecall with me mom.
mama: are you awake?
me: uhhhh ya thanks uhhhh bye.
i rushed back to bed, closed my eyes and commanded my entire mind/body/soul to get back to the dream. 5 minutes later im staring at the ceiling and cried a silent river for the legacy of james&i, never to be fulfilled.
ok im gonna go take a
soma coma [9:51:00 AM]
[ Monday, December 01, 2008 ]
what are we?
we are girls of the dishevelled hair persuasion.
we are girls of the dishevelled hair persuasion.
i baked a lot last week!
oreo & white choc chip blondies and oatmeal & white choc chip crispies
who knew i would enjoy oatmeal this much. at first i thought the crispies were gonna turn out weird because the original recipe called for shortening instead of butter but since a)i already had butter at home, and b) i have very little idea what shortening actually is, i decided to throw caution to the wind. the butter caused the cookies to spread way, way more than usual so they turned out very thin! but they taste really good, more so after a day or two. still on the subject of baking....
who knew i would enjoy oatmeal this much. at first i thought the crispies were gonna turn out weird because the original recipe called for shortening instead of butter but since a)i already had butter at home, and b) i have very little idea what shortening actually is, i decided to throw caution to the wind. the butter caused the cookies to spread way, way more than usual so they turned out very thin! but they taste really good, more so after a day or two. still on the subject of baking....
i made blondie cupcakes for my cousin's bday! same recipe as the one above but instead of oreos i added 1cup of chopped up mars bars instead. because i only have a handheld mixer that i barely know how to use, i used storebought vanilla frosting. i would love to say that they taste awesome but i forgot that unlike oreos, mars bars are candies and what are candies full of? sugar! and i didnt reduce the sugar in the blondie batter so plus the frosting.... oh my god they were SO SWEET! the kids loved it but i warned my nyai not to eat any. her diabetes is bad enough!
which reminds me, i almost never talk about my maternal cousins. there, i am the oldest (the next grandchild did not pop out till i was almost 8!), my late yayi spoilt me to death because of that fact, i miss him so much.
Batrisyia is 12 and just yesterday i diagnosed her with having the dreaded middle-child syndrome. Saiful is her older brother, he just turned 15 and gets all As in everything (except for mother tongue. like me, he is happy just passing the subject). Nayli is the youngest (she's 8) and is most probably the most chatty individual i've ever encountered in my life. did i mention that i love them all? because i do!
anyway almost all of my nyai's flowers has already bloomed or are in the process of blooming. i took a lot of photos of course (at night no less, i was busy eating when the sun was out lol)
let's talk about my new hobby, downloading photoshop actions and using the crap out of them
the original photo after being resized
the original photo after being resized
2 examples. i'm feeling the fuck out of the right one, its called 'soft&faded'.
oh photoshop, even though using you almost always makes my 4yr old laptop crash,
i can never forsake you.
okay till next time
where's
p.s. amalina is at Hatyai, Thailand right now (despite me sounding like a broken record playing "dont go thailand can? go somewhere else, anywhere but thailand or india!" over and over again) so let's hope she has a great but more importantly safe trip so that on the 2nd of January next year we can celebrate our 10yr friendiversary!
soma coma [3:33:00 AM]
