6.30pm, driving to meet some friends for dinner. The past week has been so hectic and work always piles up on the week you plan to take PTO.
Suddenly my phone rings. B's house it reads.
Me: Hello?!
B2: Hi Yee Yee, are you at your diving place?
Me: No, I am going diving only on Thursday.
B2: Is dark there now?
Me: Mei, I am going to Paragon, I am still in Singapore.
B2: Oh!
But so funny and sweet she is to remember that I am going away and call. Angels!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
red (velvet) revolution
Since I read about red velvet cake on Bakerella, I've been so smitten by them. Even Ellen Degeneres had Sweet Lady Jane to bake her a vegan red velvet cake ( I wonder how you do that, with butter and eggs as main ingredients in any cake)
Side note: just posted a pix of my red velvet cake on my msn, and my cousin immediately recognised it. No wonder we are cousins. But in this case, she wins, hands down. I've only come across red velvet just about a year ago, and she knew it all this while!!
With a cake with a colour so rich, I couldn't quite imagine what the taste would be, but I did think that a cream cheese frosting would go so perfectly well with it. And that was just one of the many options with this amazing cake. So yesterday at Kinokuniya, I came across Rachel Allen's Bake and was just browsing through the recipes, saw the red velvet cake and knew I had to get the book. I've watched her cook programmes in the UK, and always liked them. Her cooking style is a bit homey sort of cooking and yet her recipes are like a level one up from home recipes... hmmm if you know what I mean.
So when the cake came out piping hot from the open, I broke a small piece off and had a taste. The first taste was not unlike that of a butter cake. But there was something rather flavourful about it. Maybe the buttermilk? I couldn't quite pinpoint. But it was so fun making this cake, just because of the colours.
The origins of a desire to bake on a Sunday afternoon - Rachel Allen's Bake
Look at the lovely pastelly colour! I HAD to start taking pictures.
My very first PINK cake! I know of at least one person who would like this already.
Looks yummy already doesn't it?
It was really yummy. The icing could have been less sweet. And less crystallised sugar in it. (Cos I ran out of normal caster sugar)
All who wants to try this cake ping me! I'm planning to do a desserts get together. :) That'll be fun!
Side note: just posted a pix of my red velvet cake on my msn, and my cousin immediately recognised it. No wonder we are cousins. But in this case, she wins, hands down. I've only come across red velvet just about a year ago, and she knew it all this while!!
With a cake with a colour so rich, I couldn't quite imagine what the taste would be, but I did think that a cream cheese frosting would go so perfectly well with it. And that was just one of the many options with this amazing cake. So yesterday at Kinokuniya, I came across Rachel Allen's Bake and was just browsing through the recipes, saw the red velvet cake and knew I had to get the book. I've watched her cook programmes in the UK, and always liked them. Her cooking style is a bit homey sort of cooking and yet her recipes are like a level one up from home recipes... hmmm if you know what I mean.
So when the cake came out piping hot from the open, I broke a small piece off and had a taste. The first taste was not unlike that of a butter cake. But there was something rather flavourful about it. Maybe the buttermilk? I couldn't quite pinpoint. But it was so fun making this cake, just because of the colours.
The origins of a desire to bake on a Sunday afternoon - Rachel Allen's Bake
Look at the lovely pastelly colour! I HAD to start taking pictures.
My very first PINK cake! I know of at least one person who would like this already.
Looks yummy already doesn't it?
It was really yummy. The icing could have been less sweet. And less crystallised sugar in it. (Cos I ran out of normal caster sugar)
All who wants to try this cake ping me! I'm planning to do a desserts get together. :) That'll be fun!
Friday, May 15, 2009
oh wow, whadidyaknow?
Men have evolved very little, haven't they?
From the Economist
"A find reported in this week’s Nature suggests that sculpture, too, brought the smut-makers in early. Nicholas Conrad of the University of Tübingen, in Germany, describes what is probably the oldest human statue yet discovered. It is 6cm tall. It is carved from a mammoth tusk. It dates from about 35,000 years ago. It was found in a cave in south-western Germany. And it is, not to put too fine a point upon the matter, obscene."
For full article, click here
From the Economist
"A find reported in this week’s Nature suggests that sculpture, too, brought the smut-makers in early. Nicholas Conrad of the University of Tübingen, in Germany, describes what is probably the oldest human statue yet discovered. It is 6cm tall. It is carved from a mammoth tusk. It dates from about 35,000 years ago. It was found in a cave in south-western Germany. And it is, not to put too fine a point upon the matter, obscene."
For full article, click here
放屁
The aunt enters the room to give the little girl a goodnite kiss. Like she always does when she visits the kids.
B2: I gotta put these two toys next to me and kiss them good nite
Aunt: What about a good nite kiss for your yee yee?
(Big smack of a kiss on the yee yee's face)
Aunt: What are the names of your toys?
B2: One is 七仔, the other one is 放屁。
Aunt: 放屁? That's to fart, you know?
B2: Yah, sometimes he farts.
You just cannot argue with logic from a 4 year old.
B2: I gotta put these two toys next to me and kiss them good nite
Aunt: What about a good nite kiss for your yee yee?
(Big smack of a kiss on the yee yee's face)
Aunt: What are the names of your toys?
B2: One is 七仔, the other one is 放屁。
Aunt: 放屁? That's to fart, you know?
B2: Yah, sometimes he farts.
You just cannot argue with logic from a 4 year old.
Monday, May 04, 2009
next stop...
Been dying to make these lovely, albeit overrated, pastries. Shall bake them and organise a "Amelie" viewing. Very ze French, non?
Till then shall borrow macaron pix from other sites. muy bien!
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Tiananmen Square 六四事件
Has it been so long?
In June it would have been 20 years since the Tiananmen incident happened. Apparently 2000 - 3000 protesters died. Politically, China hasn't changed much since, but look at the economic powerhouse it is now. Everyone wants to go to China.
I used to think that history was boring - of things and dead people that happened eons ago. And increasingly I've come to appreciate it a bit, especially when we live through so many great incidences in our lifetime.
In June it would have been 20 years since the Tiananmen incident happened. Apparently 2000 - 3000 protesters died. Politically, China hasn't changed much since, but look at the economic powerhouse it is now. Everyone wants to go to China.
I used to think that history was boring - of things and dead people that happened eons ago. And increasingly I've come to appreciate it a bit, especially when we live through so many great incidences in our lifetime.
- The tsunami that killed over a quarter of a million people and left even more homeless.
- 9/11 - who would have thought anyone would be insane enough to fly 2 planes into a building?
- Economic meltdown of the 2008 - Our great depression of the 21st century
- SARS/Bird and now swine flu - and while it will not reach epic proportions of the spanish flu in 1918, it's still scary, and leaves the world all very scared of it.
- The downfall of communism in most parts of the world and fall of the Berlin wall and the cold war.
- Climate change, and how our world's temperature seems to be increasing by the second.
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