Sandwich and breakfast!!!

HOI!! hello, today, im gonna blog about this 2 places i went to eat yesterday, and its great, awesomeness!!

First off, its Joe and Dough, this is a small cafe like place that is famous for its sandwich and coffee. They also have nice cakes and brownies that tags along with the sandwich. Awesomenesssssss. Its at raffles place, I was there and Mq brought me to this cafe ytd, i actually wanted southern burger at boat quay, but that woman insist on this awesome sandwich shop so we went there, and i was blown away.

First here is their walnut brownie, i love this brownie as its not that sweet, and just nice. ok maybe the walnut pieces are too big, i prefer smaller bits, but its still nice, and some people may like it big pieces of walnuts :D


Next is my sandwich, the 1 i ate was the italian pama ham.
I dun know how to describe it, my vocab dictionary is not that powerful, but this thing, can make me eat some weird leaves without questioning what it is. Ok but i more or less know its baby spinach leaves, im not a big fan of it, and im picky on stuff like these...sometimes there are sticks of onions or things like that inside my food, i would pluck them out before eating. But that day, i took a small bite, and i find it cool and nice. So i took a big bite and its awesome. The spinach leaves give a nice and gentle sweetness to the sandwich. This is like best sandwich i ever eaten in singapore, serious. Im definitely going back to try other flavours :D
Look at the cheese, cheesy and sticky and delicious, and its mozzarella cheese!!! woo cheese hahaah with spinach and ham and some sauce. Simple but this combination with this italian bread, is really awesome.
They have nice posters too, love the simple style 1 picture on white background, with words below.
To conclude, if you love subway, you must try this. Although it dose not claims to be healthy here and there, i believe its not unhealthy either, after all what harm can you get for eating a sandwich haha. The price is also reasonable, most sandwich is about $8, the 1 i blog about is $9.

I havent tried their coffee but if i dont rate this shop 10/10 i cant sleep tonight, so yea 10/10, i might be easily impress but the sandwich is really impressive. haha
Ok location and other details is here
http://www.joeanddough.com/

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Next is wild honey, i first heard about this restaurant from thomp, he said theres this place that sells all day breakfast from many different countries. So i find it interesting and decided to give it a try. Yesterday was bored at town and have nothing much to do, walk ard town with MQ and realized its so boring (maybe its because im going in ns soon and i dun need to shop for anything), then i suddenly recall this place, and decided to check it out. Really a cool place, so yea, i guess town is not that boring afterall :D haha

So yea...introducing the place that sells all day breakfast and from many different country and style. Wild honey, Mandarin gallery #03-02. (btw i think mandarin gallery have some cool stuff, like ambush, the demin store ect not bad place.)
Menu on chalk board...hmmm common style?
How about this? menu on iPad, interesting eh haha
Ok i had this drink, and im really impress by it. THEY HAD JAM IN THEIR COCKTAILS haha, as an alcohol and cocktail lover, i find this really nice. The jam has a strong sweet taste that cover the alcohol completely, allowing the cocktail to have more alcohol (i think its double shot here) which results in more kick haha. It consist of jam, lime juice(i think), and smirnoff. really cool. Its called Wild Morning Dream haha
This is another drink, mq had it, its called Queen B, its some grape fruit juice and dunno what, haha i never try it.
And lastly its the breakfast. The 1 i ordered is Tunisian Breakfast, It consist of 2 eggs, some sausage and a mild spicy sauce with tomatos and some onion like stuff and 2 slices of bread. Its nice, interesting tunisian breakfast, ive never eaten it before. But sad to say i think i order the wrong thing. Although its nice, but i dun really like the spring onions on top and the tomatos and the weird veges in the sauce haha, but the egg and the sausage and the sauce is good. I should order something else. But still for spicy stuff lover, try this :D its good. Next time i shall try their japanese breakfast hahah. Looks good.
Overall, its an interesting restaurant worth trying, and i will definitely go again haha. For more info check out their website
http://www.wildhoney.com.sg/10/index.htm


Haha wow a foodful day out with mq haha.
Oh and something really funny happen last last week while i was in town with mq, in a shoes shop buying shoe. The shoes shop uncle though mq is my girlfriend, and then when i said we are not couple, he thought im wooing her, its really funny. nonono mq is my good good good friend hahaha but not my cup of tea :D then he end the conversation with, "the girl very pretty" hahahaha MQ GOT UNCLE SAY U PRETTY LEH if you are seeing this.

Hahaha, in fact come to think of it, the type of girl i like is completely opposite from mq, maybe thats y we can be purely friends, buddy buddy you know. Sometimes, its hard to befriend a girl you like cos things you do might scare her away, girls are sensitive, haha i know.

Sad... but now, i have no thoughts about wooing any girls, you know, NS soon...its an ass man...seriously...haha. Ive heard many stories about relationship problems and NS very scary, more scary then ghost stories in NS. haha i cant be a selfish person and cause a big mess like last time, i have learn a very valuable lesson: "if short term happiness is going to cause a long term heart break to someone, i rather forsake this short term happiness and be a lonely boy, love is not selfishness, its not what you want, its kindness and giving" so yea...lonely ns boy hahahahaha
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I hope i dont scare you away, cos i just wanna be friends, no other bad intentions :D

Mac and Cheese no.2

ALRIGHT!! here is another mac and cheese tutorial for mac and cheese fans!!! hahaha. Remember the previous mac and cheese tutorial that i emphasize on the bread crumbs and the bacons, this 1 would be on crumbs to, but its potato chips crumbs this time. I got the recipe from online so i wont claim credit for it, but its really awesome and i wanna share it with you.

First lets start with the ingredients, we have...tada of course, potato chips!!!! i choose my favorite brand, kettle potato chips and since we are doing mac and cheese, i figured out that a cheese flavour chips will be better. Actually any chips will do, but kettle potato chips is just so great... :D

Next, today i will be using box mixed mac and cheese, if you want, you can use my previous tutorial that method for a more home made feel, or those butter + flour + milk + cheese mac and cheese sauce recipe that we can find online, its nice, i will do a tutorial on it next time, but today lets use the KRAFT!! box mixed haha.
So first step we shall make those potato chips into crumbs, put them into a plastic bag or zip lock bag and use you hand to press them, or you can use a rolling pin to hammer them.
bam bam bam....
And here we are, our crumbs, make sure they are in mid-small size, not to the extend of powder :D
And lets see our ingredients for the crumbs,

1/3 of a bag of chips, crushed into mid-small size bits
Parmesan cheese - 1/4 cup (once again i got the packet shredded ones that are cheaper, but you can do it with the real block and shred it yourself)
butter - 1 tablespoon
bread crumbs - 1 tablespoon
(this will serve 2 to 3 toppings crumbs, but use them all for 1, cos im greedy hahaha)

First we heat up the pan, and put in the butter (oops not hot enough in the pic, but nvm)
and btw, a non stick pan is preferred, but mine is spoil and thrown away and have not bought a new 1, anyway mom rarely use non stick pan so nv bother to get a new 1...so sadly i have to use this powerful stainless steel pan haha.
Then we put in the chips, and turn to low - medium heat, keep the heat small :D stir a few times
Them we add in the cheese and the bread crumbs :D
Cook them for afew mins in low heat until it turns slightly brown, the potato chips are already cooked so we shouldnt use big fire, so remember, small fire :D
We will get something like this :D (arrrr bad photo)
Next step will be making out mac and cheese, the standard procedure for box mixed mac and cheese, boil the macaroni and put in the cheese sauce :D before i stir, i added in some mozzarella cheese and some Parmesan cheese, just alittle bit to get a better taste, you can do it without them.
Anyway yea, here is the mac and cheese ready to serve, i use half a cup of macaroni for 1 small serving.
And then we top it up with the potato chip crumbs toppings

Tada, look, cheesy and creamy mac and cheese with crispy potato chip crumbs.
Enjoy :D

This time im using box mixed, its abit salty but its for the sake of making it easy and simple, i will make a homemade sauce next time. :D

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ok a tired day today, was up early making this mac and cheese and getting the photos done and then went out to town for some goooooood food, ok will blog about the food soon, tmr la, tired liao.

Lastly,
There are many things that can make people sad, moody, angry. But i hope my food and tutorials can make you happy :D

11:11 wish is so zhun!!!!

So today, i dedicate a song on air Yes 933, and when its 11:11, i wish that the dj peifen will play the song i dedicate and read out my message. And guess what? She called out to me, OMG LOLS im shock, this is the 2nd time she called out to me, im such a lucky kid. Im too shock to say anything, so she said im an unromantic guy T_T haha.

LISTEN TO YES 933!!! :D YES 933 ROCKX!!! hahahaha

王力宏 - 需要人陪 [ 高畫質official 官方MV ]

ah, wang li hon songs are great, love his old songs during my secondary school times, not this album is great too, dam nice!!! haha and he uses a macbook pro :D
if you need someone to accompany you, im willing to be that person...ill be there for you

life transformers

I cried and cried when i see the front part, especially 1:46...that is love...the wife have mental problems, the husband is full of illness but they still love each other.

I tried to watch this show whenever I have can make it, its really touching, we get to see many things, many things we thought it doesnt happen in singapore. This reminds me of the times i visited the old folks home, and also the times when i went to distribute rations to poor families, back then i was a little kid, and dad brought me around to do volunteer work. But those were the times when i was a kid, now...im just a lazy ass haha, yea i wont give any excuses. But i shall be determine to go back and be a volunteer again!! :D Thanks to all these shows, haha.

Anyway, Im looking for people to go with me, whos up hahaha

A refeshing drink: Chocolate Egg Cream

Hello!!!!! Its been awhile since i did a tutorial. Today we are doing a chocolate egg cream. Something i find very interesting and cool. Why is it so? its because the name of the drink is egg cream, but there is no egg and no cream in it. hahas seriously. Ok so this is a new york classic drink that originate in in the late 19 century, so yea quite a long history of more then 100 years. It taste refreshing and nice, not too sweet which I find it quite good, but the flavor can be altered as you wish. Ok first when i see how it is made, the 1st thing that comes to my mind is, "this thing drink liao will lau sai 1" seriously, but after i taste it, its refreshing, the sugar content from the chocolate gives a good amount of energy and also helps in keeping you awake. It is also said that there have been many attempt to bottle this drink but non succeed as it has to be made on the spot and drink, for the freshness in taste. Pretty cool drink actually, and I dun think we get to drink it in singapore, so far I didnt find any restaurant that serve this, or maybe there is, I dunno. hahaha

Ok lets get into the ingredients, first we have chocolate syrup, i use the hersheys 1, but any chocolate syrup will do.

Then we have soda water, any club soda or soda water will do, and milk. 3 simple ingredients :DDD

Chocolate syrup - 1 oz or 30ml
milk - 1 oz or 30 ml
club soda - 8 oz or 240ml

Thats all!! simple too right haha
Step 1: take a tall glass, or for me i use this, pour in the chocolate syrup, 1 oz
Step 2: pour in the milk, 1 oz
Step 3: stir them well
Step 4: add in about 1/3 of the club soda 1st, and stir well
Then slowly add in the rest of the club soda and stir at the same time, and tada you will get something like this.

Simple, easy, delicious and refreshing drink, especially if you miss a meal, get something sweet like this to drink, it helps to give energy. And the content of chocolate and milk and be alter as you like, if you want it to be more milky, add more milk, want more chocolaty, add mote chocolate.
Enjoy!! Hope you all like it :D

Check out the new mac book air, so beautiful!!! I WANT!!!!

Attitude is Altitude - Don't Let The World Affect You...

Nick Vujicic , the man with no arms and no legs, but lives his life happily. Saw this video many years back actually, and he taught me something important, we should all live life with a positive attitude. I wanna share my stories too.

When I was a kid im always sad about being born a fat guy and people laughing at me, bullying me. But as I grow up, I start to be thankful that I have so much food to eat, compare to the people in those third world country, im very fortunate. So after that I made a vow, if im rich in future, I will give food to the poor, I will let them have a feast.

When I was heart broken, I complain about all the bad things that happen to me, I cried over why I did not receive love. After that I thought about it again, I have my family around, I have my parents who love me alot, I have my friends who would stand up for me when im in trouble, and people who are there for me when I need them. These are love too, I realized how fortunate it is that I am not alone.

So I wanna tell you, life can be beautiful, think of things you already have, although it might not heal wounds, (just like how it does not give Nick Vujicic arms and legs) but you will know how fortunate you are, and you will be happier.

Getting rid of Nausea :D

I got some info on Nausea from the net, hope it is useful for people feeling nausea :D

Nausea is a very common symptom and it can be associated with several conditions. One of the common cause is improper eating habits. Try and find out if you are eating too frequently or at long intervals. In either case, may experience nausea. If you are eating foods that do not suit your body, it may make you feel nauseous too. Eating very heavily, especially a rich and fatty meal, can also make you nauseous. You will need to find out if the nausea is being caused by any of these eating behaviors and then change your eating behavior accordingly. Besides these eating disorders, there are several other reasons that can trigger nausea. However, nausea can also indicate some serious underlying disorder in the body. If happen for along time or very frequently, it is important that to consult a doctor and get a proper medical check done.

Here are some ways to get rid of nausea or make you feel better :D

• Relax: Do not get into too much of activity; you should give ample amount of time to rest your body. Hyperactivity and stressful life can make nausea worse.
• Drink fluids: You should drink cold water, lemonade, or fruit juices throughout the day. Herbal tea, mint tea, or ginger ale can also help. Take small sips of these drinks to get relief from nausea. (yea it says ginger ale!!! so maybe try my 2 mocktails haha :D)
  
• Avoid triggers: Some of the common triggers of nausea are – certain food or cooking smells, smoke, perfume, heat, humidity, congested space, riding vehicles, etc. Try and identify the factors that act as a trigger for you and avoid them as far as possible.
• Eat bland food: Eat foods that do not pose any difficulty in digestion. You should eat more of whole grains, cereals, fruits, and such other nutritious foods. Avoid spicy, oily, and fatty foods altogether. If you are feeling nausea because of pregnancy, you should keep snacking on crackers, toasts, and other such light foods at regular intervals.

Another point i got from another page is that if the cause is having meals with too long interval, 1 way which might help is to have small meals in short intervals.

To conclude, hope these info found on the net helps to get rid of nausea, if it happens too frequently or over a long time, then have to see a doctor k. :D Hope the above info helps :D

BYE BYE SSDC

On this day, 20/10/2010, i have graduate from another school, my driving school, nice date yea, maybe its ausipcious :D. WOOOO song bo, after failing once, the feeling of passing is so great, i was so nervous before the test. haha, the warm up instructor even told me that im super nervous and ask me to relax...and knowing the fact that i am very nervous just makes me even more nervous. NOOOOOOOO but things went well, i prayed very hard, im not a very religious person but i do pray hard at times haha, normally that would be what people called, "last min hug Buddha leg". But i guess my prayers is answered, I felt it as the tester is not so strict in terms of marking, some mistakes i though i made was not recorded, made i just though it was a mistake, maybe the tester never notice it, or maybe it was not a mistake, haha. He even scold me for checking too many blind spots, he said its not necessary hahaha. I kia su ma...check extra wont deduct points, check less will, i wanna be super safe hahaha. He said something like "Your instructor teach you check how many blind spot, bullshit where got so many blind spot for you to check 1, faster move off already." I find it funny when being too kia su, but i guess im more kia si, i dunwanna fail again, i cant afford to retake again, i will be in NS soon, no time to retake. Good thing im able to get my license before NS, at least after my IC got hold on by SAF i still got another identification card which is the driving license, better then showing the 11-B ns card, very ugly hahahaha.

In the end i wanna thank all those people who wish me luck and give me encouragement, really appreciate you all. And also i sincerely thank all the instructors who taught me before, some were strict, some were funny, some were good, some were not good, regardless of what, thanks.

Im really excited, but as my ns days are nearing, i dun think i can get to drive for a long time, T_T, but im thankful enough for the license.

Sudden...

Its just too sudden, im not mentally prepared for NS yet, 1 of the reason is because yw told me my obese intake will be next yr feb or march, this end up giving me some false hope and i was too relax. And when the letter suddenly came, i wasnt prepared. sad...

I was still talking to my hairstylist andy the other day, im gonna perm my hair and maybe do some colour next month, do a big change before my NS, but i guess cant do it anymore...or maybe do a perm next week, give it 1 month, then cut botak, =.= not worth the $

I guess its alittle bit of karma too, i went to laugh at cheng and called him si botak, he knows im joking but i still laugh at him cos he doesnt want to go club the other day, its wilson birthday and i promise him to go, but then the guys are all in ns...so u know me...i dont go club for girls, i go for friends and my buddies...and im predicted im gonna be lonely cos my buddies are not there, so since cheng is the only 8 to 5 army man, i decided to psyco him and start provoking him and laughing at him, trying to make him come to the party hahaha end up i failed... not only did he not come, karma came the next day...my NS letter...

But most of all, there are 2 things i haven accomplish before i went into NS. 1 of it its poker, ive been reading poker books and studying them, i wanna read finish my poker books and play some poker before i go into NS...sad...

Another 1, will be this blog, i couldnt bare to let go of this blog (im not letting go actually, i will keep it up but the updates is going to be like very little), i wanna blog more tutorials, i cant go on a break for so long!!! Ever since im a kid i love watching cooking shows and cartoons and related stuff, till now i still like to watch cooking shows. But i dont really have the time or the chance to cook something myself, maybe like once in awhile, i will make some funny food and everyone in the family wont touch it hahaha, only i find it nice. Its demoralizing when no body appreciate what you do, but i find them nice, i find cooking fun, just that im not proper train, so maybe things i did is abit weird. But then, making this blog have change alot in me, i spent alot of time in the kitchen, im doing something i like, the more i do the more i like it. I get more and more experience and i really like doing something like this, i wanna open a restaurant in future :D that was a dream when i was young, now i suddenly found back this dream, this interest in me. Im really motivated by this blog and my readers, without you guys i wont be so enthu about cooking, i really wanna thank you guys. Really appreciate everyone who like this blog.

I guess thats it for today, will talk more abt it soon, abit tired, tmr gonna take my last driving revision and go pray haha. Plus i think zhong have some problems, gonna go drinking with him. shit drinking on the day before my driving test....hahahaha

Mocktail 2: Shirley Temple

Hello, today lets do a second mocktail, this 1 is simple and easy to do. Moreover, it also contain good amount of vitamin C from its ingredients. Its call Shirley Temple, name after child actress Shirley Temple. Another well known mocktail for its non alcoholic content, good for children and drivers and people who dont take alcohol. Its origins is said to be in 1930s and it was to honor child actress Shirley Temple, who asked for a cocktail without alcohol.
Lets see the ingredients.

3 simple ingredients almost the same as the previous mocktail.

Pomegranate juice - 2 oz or 60 ml
(once again i substitute the grenadine with pomegranate juice for more vitamin C :D)

Ginger beer, or ginger ale - 4 oz or 120 ml (u can get those can ones that i showed in the previous tutorial, they are sweeter, this bottle 1 that im using have a strong ginger taste.)

Orange juice - 2 oz or 60 ml

4 pieces of ice cubes (its important to have 4 large pieces of ice or ard 6 to 8 small pieces, not too much, not too less)

Lemon slice - for garnish

Instructions are easy, just follow the amount stated, and with a tall glass, add in the ingredients step by step.
Step 1: pour the pomegranate juice into the glass
Step 2: add in the orange juice
Step 3: add in the ice cubes
Step 4: add the ginger beer
Garnish with lemon slice. Ready to serve.
After stiring it will look like this, some bar serve it stirred, some bar sever it unstirred, i think the unstirred version looks elegant, there is this gradient of the colours, blending from darkest tat the bottom to the top.

Variations: the above recipe is closest to the original 1, except i change the grenadine with the pomegranate juice. There is another version that use no orange juice (commonly use in many restaurant), it will look like this, in the picture below, nice colour too. Just pomegranate juice and ginger ale, 1:2 proportion.

Other variation: there are many other variation and bars nowadays usually use sour mixed to replace the orange juice. Others would use sprite or 7-up instead of ginger ale, there is another 1 that uses the commercial 7-up or sprite that comes with lemon flavor and adding grenadine with them, those are all variation, try it for more fun :D

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Im quite busy these few days, need to settle down and start getting ready for NS, doing push up and jogging to get use to exercising at least, and also going for swimming refresh lessons. In addition, tmr im starting my driving revision preparing for my driving test on weds!!!! yay!!! wish me luck, i wont fail again!!! confidence and luck YEA!!! So i would try my best to do more tutorial, but mainly simple ones here, as im quite busy :D Would be more free after i pass my driving. haha, so stay tune for the next tutorial.

Winner of China's Got Talent Final 2010 - Armless Pianist Liu Wei Perfor...

Really touching to see someone without arms fighting for his dreams.
"There are only 2 paths in my life for me - either to die as fast as possible, or to live as brilliant a life as I could." well said.
In life, we often face with problems and misery, life is never smooth sailing, let this video be the motivation to everyone, life can be better, and everyday will be a better day. Lets all work towards our dream together and live as brilliant a life as we could.

Cinderella

Cocktail time :D nono, its a mocktail today. A non alcoholic cocktail. This mocktail is called Cinderella, why this mocktail? Because its a fruity drink and contains lots of vitamin c from the fruits. Nice and healthy eh. Moreover, it have a nice name, Cinderella. We all heard of the story Cinderella when we were young, there is this nice good girl who is bullies by her step sisters eventually got her wish granted by her fairy godmother and went to the ball and meet the prince, she ran away after the clock hits 12 and then the prince took her shoes and went looking for her, he found her and then happily ever after.

Let all the people who are suffering have their wish granted and may everything be happily ever after :D

First, we shall introduce the equipments, we need a cocktail shaker, and a jigger to do it like bartenders. BUT worry not if you dont have theres, i found some method to do them without professional tools. We can use any water bottle as a shaker, as long as it has a opening big enough to stuff ice in. We can use any measuring cup as a jigger, 1 oz is 28.3 ml roughly 30 ml from a measuring cup will do.


Next is the ingredients:
ok here i substitute the normal grenadine which sometimes is added into the mocktail cinderella with pomegranate juice. Grenadine is made from pomegranate juice, sugar and syrup, i figured out that using the pomegranate juice will be better, as i seen the pokka pomegreanate juice writes VITAMIN C lol, so i bought that bottle of pokka pomegranate juice instead of using grenadine. Which cause my version of cinderella to be less sweet too. syrup sux, unhealthy :D

OK talk less and start the ingredients

Lemonade - 2 oz or 60ml (original recipe uses lemon juice, i decided to dilute it till it becomes lemonade for my recipe, i figure out there since i substitute the pomegranate juice in which have a lower sugar content, i would need the sourness level to be lower also.

orange juice - 2 oz or 60ml (sweet oranges is preferred, or you can use those orange juice sold outside, oh i love minute maid orange juice :D)

pineapple juice - 2 oz or 60ml (i use those can juices as i could not find small slices of pineapple, they only sell big whole pineapple, but do choose sweet pineapple if you are using real juice.)

pomegranate juice - 2 oz or 60ml (i use pokka pomegranate juice, or other brand also can, most supermarket do sell them, but need to look around abit for it)

By right the recipe should be 1 oz, but i want to drink more :D

Ginger ale - 4oz or 120ml (get this at the can drinks section of supermarkets, its sometimes called ginger beer, its non alcoholic haha, just a name, like root beer. Quite a nice drink, gasy drink with a ginger taste.
Ok before i get into the shaking of the mocktail part, i want to emphasize something about squeeze lemon and oranges if you are making them from real lemon or orange. Most people would squeeze it hard, my advice is to do it gently, if not the lemon will feel pain and the juice wont be nice. Just kidding, no, lemon wont feel the pain, but the bitterness from the lemon skin will go into the juice and makes it taste slightly bitter.


OK step 1, eh wait, theres only 1 step hahaha, that is to put ice in the shaker and pour all the ingredients together and shake. Here i have the water bottle as the shaker so that i can show the colour of the juices. ok, things to note, ice level should be around 3/4 so there is room for shaking. Shake it hard for 8 seconds, standard cocktail shaking does it for 5 to 10 seconds, so lets take the middle, 8 seconds, not too long, if not the ice will melt and dilute the drink, too short wont give enough coldness to the drink. So 8 seconds is just nice.
After the shake....


Pour it into a cocktail glass if you are doing the 1 oz version, im doing the 2 oz version, so its in a glass, top it up with the 4 oz or 120 ml of ginger ale and garnish with lemon slices or orange slices :DEnjoy, this fruity and full of vitamin mocktail, Cinderella.
May your fairy godmother, grant you your wish, let you go to the ball and meet the prince :D Because all good people deserve something good :D

I MISS SCHOOL!!!!

Results are out, im really really happy to see the word complete course of PID. Although im abit slow, i did my best for my fyp, i use everything i learn and do everything i can. And i know i have not let myself and everyone who help me down, i have gotten serious and put in 100% of my everything in this FYP, i have no regrets.

I really wanna thank all my lecturers and workshop staff who taught me many things. All my seniors and who taught me stuff and help me before. And all my friends who we help each other out. I sincerely thank everyone of you out there, without you guys, i wont be able to make it thru my poly life and also wont have so much fun.

I remember the times when we just got into poly, during year 1, we start off learning the fundamentals. We took subject like drawing essential, perspective and freehand drawing, 2d art fundamentals, 3d art fundamentals, marker rendering, these ART foundation stuff. Those were the times that i struggle really hard to stay alive in school, why, because I HAVE NO FOUNDATION IN ART!!!! 0, kosong, nothing!!!! i came from a D&T class in secondary school, i love D&T, its my fav subject, its the subject that motivated me to study for my other subject (i did a learning aid on studying and doing revision, so this project kinda motivate me to study) SO i came to PID thinking its something like D&T, and i was totally wrong. Its another world here. Art students can survive better here, all the stuff we do are art related, the only d&t related stuff is model making class in workshop, and 3d art fund and maybe later part of year 1 where we do our human centered design and project 1. Without my friends, ill never be able to pull thru these 3 years. :D I did not even feel like quitting school despite the hardship, because its so fun, when we do all the things together.

I miss the times our 1st module, we went botanic garden, keppel railway, boat quay to do our drawing essential, outdoor drawing is so fun, we get to bond together as a class, take the bus and mrt together with our A2 LOL yes A2 file and everyone on train will stare at us like we are some pro having to curry such a big file. Its fun.

I miss the times where we have our induction program (for those dont know its a pid senior and junior bonding program) where we form into groups and made a plane carrying an egg. Throw it at a hill on bedok reservoir and see which group plan fly the furthest without breaking the egg!!!! its dam fun although its ungraded. We get to bond with out year 2 and 3s and learn alot of things from them. After that we had a pid lunch where we had 200+ or 300 pieces of kfc chicken where the whole pid ard 180 ppl get together in the studio and eat. awwww really miss this 1...after when we get to year 2 and 3 we get to organized and plan new activities for our year 1s, its so fun.

I miss the times we when airport or friends house to stay overnight and chiong for submission, we do things together as a class, celebrate together when the module ends. Secretly go drinking at pub when most of us were underage and once we had to run to the back alley the hide when there is police car screening LOL. Another time we went to a pub to drink on a friday night when the next day we have a class in the morning, yea APEL class at sat morning, so we drank till 6 am in the morning and then came to school and sleep OUTSIDE the studio at the benches, cos its not open yet. Then 10+ almost half dead souls, some with hangover, some with puke smells, some with heavy alcohol smell sitting in class listening to the most boring and unnecessary class apel.

I miss the times where we stayed back late night in school to finish up out assignments, and even if theres nothing much, we would still stay in the studio to play game hahah.

I miss the times we had birthday celebration 1 after another in our studio, our aim is to celebrate everyone's birthday, its so nice. Thanks to our class reps and level head hahaha

I miss the times we had to were all stress and busy over our project, once in awhile someone will go crazy and start anyhow scold people hahahaha. they know who they are.... :D

I miss the times where we spent every last second rushing and touching up our project before the crit. assembling up out models the very last min. That panic state of mind is so shiok, when u rush rush rush and panic panic panic. We never give up.

I miss the times where we enjoy the night wind of outside workshop together while rushing our model out.

I miss the times where we get to come back to workshop even on SUNDAYSSSSS LOL yea once on sunday. sat quite a few times already hahah, and those times canteen will be closed and we are so sad. Need to buy lunch opposite school.

I miss the school opposite hardware shop thats sells so many things we need, like sandpaper and spray cans and glues and stuff, its our all time fav shop, we been there all the time till the uncle there know us.

I miss the times we had fights and all of us will get involve, regardless of within ourselves or our arch enemy LOL yea the EVDs, their lecturer came and scold us, use a chair to block our walk way cos to the door. we took a picture and complain HAHAAH end up big fight even course managers and director got involve.

I miss that time, once, only a few of us, i happen to be of them, who decided we want to hide in school and do our work!!! and watch some movies, play game after that. We hide under the table, cover the cameras and switch off the lights and when the guards finish checking, we sneak out and began our activities. HAHAH everything was fine till some decided to tap out and got tracked and we were found. The security confiscated our matrix card and we kena disciplinary case. HAHA me and 2 others got away with a warning letter for trespassing. But terry who covered the camera tio 6 months suspension, they said its vandalism =.= and teo who held the director list got revoked...sad case. The song graduation friends forever by vitamin c had this line "still be trying to break every single rule" Will we? hahah i wanna climb over the gates again.

I miss the times we stayed back too late and the 3rd floor gate will be close, we were lazy to go by the 1st floor and we would just climb over it, once i nearly slip off and fall down the bridge. (I climb by the side, not over the gate)

I miss the times we had steamboat in our PID STUDIO!!! yea, INSIDE, we bring electronic steamboats and share $ to buy the food. Its really cool, whole studio is filled with the steamboat smell hahaha. CNY STEAMBOAT I MISS!!!

OH I FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING!!! I MISS THE SOFA SEAT!!!!! I MISS THOSE FURNITURE WE GET TO SIT ON IN STUDIO!!!! HATE THOSE CHAIRS NOW!!!! LAST TIME IS GREAT!!!

oh well....still got many many more misses, ill go read pid blog later and update more soon, if i continue this i might start crying liao.

For now...i shall talk about my fate...just after i got my results, just after i start missing school. i got my ns letter. I wish its to come fast, yet i think its too sudden now, 25 nov, which means 1 month 10 days more. Means i dont have time to make tutorials anymore, maybe during the weekends T_T noooooooooo i just started this blog and i wanna keep it going...i wanna help u...i wanna learn how to make cocktail, i wanna learn how to cook better. ok im quite depress today, called dad and tell him i dont want to work today and just nice some nice friends, dtq hahahaahah ask me to go accompany her lunch and hang out at town the the others knock off work and meet us for dinner. Its not a goodbye, i wont leave this blog alone, i will work hard this last month, then i still have my weekends.. :D i think im gonna miss everyone...i have many things to do, and 1 month is not enough, but nevertheless, im gonna make full use of my time and do everything i can!!! 1st up, the next tutorial is coming soon :D hahaha

If you have loss of appetite, read this

Hi, this post will be about loss of appetite and what to do, if you are facing this, and does not want to eat, here is some guidelines to prevent your body from breaking.
Im not a doctor or expert in this, the following information searches i found on the net and from reading medical articles. :D hope it helps

Drink more water - at least take in some water. If not could cause you to fall sick easily or have dehydration.

Take some vitamins - It helps in keeping the body stronger

Drinks
If dont feel like eating food, try some drinks, these drinks might help.

• Your favorite beverage.
• Sour stuff stimulate taste buds - grapefruit, lemon, juices from such fruits can be useful.
• Drinking tea or ginger tea helps
• Drinking energy drink like milo, holicks helps
• Sweet drinks like honey is good too
• Fruit juices give the nutritious you get from fruits

Food:
When food is consume little, the choice is impt

• Eat fruits, eat your favorite fruits
• Eat starchy stuff like bread, potato, mash potato is good, porridge ect.
• If you crave for something go for it :D but try avoid oily stuff
• Eat sweet and sour stuff to stimulate taste buds
• tofu and dairy products gives good amount of nutrients
• snacks like energy bars or fruit bars are good
  

Most importantly dont force yourself to eat. And eat anything you want, if you only want ice cream, and will eat only ice cream, go ahead, cos that is the only way give your body calories.

Downsize the meal place in front of you, its gives a psychological impression that food is little, your brain and stomach will accept smaller portion of food more readily.

To conclude, our human body need the energy to keep moving, if you are not eating much, go for something that the body needs. If not you might fall sick easily or feel weak. Most importantly drink plenty of water.

Hope these info are useful :D

Fruit Tart, with cheese cream base.

HELLO GUYS!!!! As promise here is my Tart. I found this cheese cream recipe online, and i find it special, so i decided to share with you guys. Basically this cream is made from cream cheese, so it gives a slight cheese flavour to the fruit tart, actually its not cheesy, but a little slight feel of cheese to it only. It also is not that sweet compared to normal tart cream. So its something like a fruit tart + cheese tart. And more importantly this recipe is easy to make, so everyone can make it and enjoy :D

Lets start off with the ingredients, first we have our puff pastry, i have seen many youtube vids on how to make pastry dough, but im someone who is never good in dealing with flour and baking stuff. I dont know why, my cookies and cake always turns out weird. Maybe i have no talent in baking...sad...wait for someone to bake me a cookie then...HAHA. Therefore, i decided not to try my luck and make a mess, i end up getting premade puff pastry. I know i use to said premade dough are boring, maybe next time i shall try making a home made pastry dough. And will blog about it when i success :D Anyway, this is what make the whole process easier also :D so yea, here is my pastry, PUFF pastry, remember, PUFF ones haha, then it gives a apple strudel feel, which is nice with this recipe. Available in most supermarket, at the frozen food section :D



Next we have our cream cheese :D kraft is not bad, other brands also can. :D This will me our main ingredient for our tart cream.

Vanilla essence :D to flavor up our cheese cream

Ingredient (2 pieces)

2 slices of cut puff pastry (around 12 cm by 5 cm, or just any slice to serve 1)
2 oz of cream cheese (roughly 2 scoop from a tablespoon)
1 tablespoon of sugar
1/2 tablespoon of vanilla essence
Sliced fruits (i use peaches)

Step 1: Cut the puff pastry into 2 slices, for 2 serving. 1 important tip that i realized in cutting the pastry is that, its to cut it when its frozen, dont laugh, its easier to handle when frozen then those that are not.
Then oil the baking tray and put it into the oven. Follow the instruction on the package of the puff pastry and bake accordingly, normally would be 200 degree bake for about 10 to 15 mins.
You can poke some holes but after different experiments, i realized its not necessary for this thin crust puff pastry. Pic: ready to go in oven.
Bake it till its golden brown until its like this.

Step 2: now lets make the tart cream. Here is the cream, i use a measuring cup to get the 2 oz, but its around 2 big scoop from a table spoon. :D
Add in the sugar, 1 table spoon
Add in the vanilla essence, half a table spoon
Now mixed it together and give it a well mix till all the sugar and cream dissolve together. something like this :D


Step 3: Now combine them together, lay the tart cream on the tart base
Top it up with any fruits u like :D berries, oranges, banana, kiwi all are nice choice. I choose peach, cos my fav fruit tart is peach tart :DENJOY :D
simple and delicious :D thats my new motto for my tutorial. AND ALSO APPETIZING :D

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btw today my results are out, i have successfully complete my course of study :D Feeling so happy and high now, i know im abit slow, but i did it!!! GRADUATE LO