Hate My Handphone! July 16, 2011

I keep getting out of memory messages AGAIN… darn sick of this phone. Plus, the “controller” button fell off, so whenever I use the controller button, it hurts my thumb wtf. I keep checking thru my inbox to housekeep old sms-es, and I think it makes my manager think that I keep on sms-ing people. In fact, I wish I don’t get any sms so that my phone won’t get the out of memory message! Argh! When it’s out of memory, I can’t even make calls out… geez. (Cos making calls out  = increase call log = out of memory already)

Super annoying.. and I’m thinking of getting an iPhone because I’m a sheep and everyone has one. -___- But the Teochew in me is stopping me from flinging my money around randomly. Haha. Oh well, guess I can live with a sore thumb a little longer? -___-

The latest latest news this week! My younger brother started work today! Wooh! It’s such a milestone ok! “My first job.” Awww.. He actually woke up at 5:30am in order to drive to work on time! FYI, he works in Damansara, and I think that place is crazy jammed up. I wonder how long he can keep up the early bird spirit — he came home from work at 7pm and went to bed immediately.

The second latest news is … I love the raisin scones from The Baker’s Son (part of Jaya Grocer). =p I suddenly frequent Jaya 33 a lot because it’s nearer to my office than Taipan is. The regulars in Jaya 33 hate me I think.. cos I stand in their “regular spot”. Oh well, when Imma shine, Imma shine… wtf. It’s not like I’m that random weird guy who doesn’t follow the tempo and endanger all the people standing around him.

Handphone pics! (Clearing out the handphone, might as well..)

On the way to work… in my old company. (Can see the lanyard still red color).

On the way back home after gym. Bathe already, never comb hair. <— That’s what my mom always scolds me.

In Tron’s car.. I did my make-up very nicely that day, so I kept camwhoring! He couldn’t stand me.

Ooh, and wearing my new white cardigan from Cotton On. 2 for RM70.

Finally reach the restaurant, and I’m still trying to camwhore without looking like I’m camwhoring.

This was in Canton Fare in Damansara… after the Dealmates “deal” failed for me, so had to eat somewhere else. Also dressed up + make up nicely that day for nothing. Camwhore also no spirit…

This is me trying a lecherous look. The sort of hamsap, “Oh you are so gorgeous, let me take off my sunglasses so I may undress you better with my eyes.”  Do you think I pulled it off?

This taking off sunglasses part nothing to do with the hamsap-ness in the previous picture. This was me waiting for Dull to come out (hurry up woman!!) and I wanted to show off my eyeshadow. Then I realised that my handphone camera quality really isn’t good enough to show off how pigmented the colors are… (NYX eyeshadow, btw)

Yawning, or screaming in pain?

This is how bloated I’ve become.

On the way to Mr Teok’s wedding… I was taking pictures with the excuse that I wanted to make sure my make-up was done properly.

I told myself that I did it properly… but later I found out that with FLASH on, it looks like I got some weird marks on my face. Epic fail lah!

My hair after being freshly rebonded… hence it looks so nice and tame here.

ON the way to celebrate my amah’s birthday…

I can still pass for 18, right? *shameless*

Bake Off! July 2, 2010

So, I’ve got this friend on Facebook that does some pretty amazing cupcakes… and in my previous entry, I said that she made bacon, cheese and beer cupcakes that really intrigued me. Therefore, when I found out that my sister really invested in a mixer, muffin pans, and all kinds of other paraphernalia for baking, I asked if I could go over to make some cupcakes as well. (My mom doesn’t like me using her kitchen). She agreed, so last Saturday, my brother and I went shopping for ingredients and went over to her house for our bake off.

In LY’s house

I asked him to get a recipe online (I planned to make 2 – mini apricot cheesecakes and Guinness chocolate cupcakes), and to my surprise, he also got 2! He planned to make strawberry cupcakes and chocolate chip banana cupcakes. O_O We got all our ingredients at Carrefour within 45 minutes (if we could, we took ingredients from the house, or asked my sis if she had, like flour, sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla essence). I basically only bought those really specific stuff, like … Guinness stout, cream cheese, etc.

Kept calling my sister and Kris whether we could go over to their house, and they didn’t pick up the phone! Andrew and I went over to Kenny Rogers to have lunch, and it was only after we had finished our lunch that my sister finally picked up and said, “Come over lah!” as if she had been waiting for us all morning. -___- Oh, in Kenny Rogers, I was eating their banana raisin muffin and I was like, “Damn I must have the recipe for this!” It is seriously awesome stuff… so moist, so sweet, so nice. ;p

Arrived at my sister’s awesome condo, and we started taking out all our ingredients and getting ready the bowls, etc. My sister had covered her dining table with newspapers (very good idea) and we proceeded to start mixing our ingredients and all. My brother got off to a very good start, but I was struggling with the base for the cheesecake. Had to mash all the biscuits with butter & sugar and then bake it. Then I managed to burn 2 of the bases! But it turned out good in the end because there was not so much cream cheese mixture to go around, hahaha. Besides, less base means less work, hahahaa.

Andrew’s recipes was more of, mix everything together, bake! It was good for a nervous beginner like him, so his first batch of strawberry cuppies came out very fast. After that only could I bake my mini cheesecakes. At first, it looked TOO moist after taking it out of the oven, so I baked it longer… then the surface cracked! After I set it aside to cool down, the cracked surface “collapsed” back in again and looked normal, wtf. Hahaha. But now I know why the apricot jam decor on top is important.. not only to add some extra sweetness to the cheesecake, but also to hide cracks… hahaha!

Andrew studying his recipe before he even starts doing anything. Good boy!

This is me asking my sister, “Do you think this is 1 tablespoon of butter?” Which brought the LOLs to them lah…

The base, which is basically chocolate wafer biscuit + butter + sugar.

My brother is chopping strawberries while scolding someone, haha.

Stirring two bowls at once, haha! :O

Brother and sister at work. Off topic, but my shirt very nice hor? It’s from Primark and I got it for something like RM20… super good buy mannnn.. wish I can go shopping in London again. :p

Andrew pouring the strawberries into the flour…

What the batter looks like in the end…

Fresh out of the oven! Doesn’t look too bad , right! Quite professional right? I admit, I felt a bit nervous seeing how well he did because it’s his first time, he’s a guy who makes SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH CARROTS and FRIED STEAMED EGG and it looks good! Whereas I was having a lot of trouble with mine! :O

Except for the one in the upper left corner, it looks like some mini explosion, haha. But still, very good job Andrew! *duffs him on the shoulder*

When Andrew was finishing with his banana chocolate chip muffins, I was just starting on the Guinness chocolate one. It is much simpler than the cream cheese one, the toughest part was that you sift flour & cocoa into the liquid (melted butter & Guinness), so it tends to form lumps. As you whisk, you have to keep looking out for the lumpy parts and breaking them up. Less you wind up with a lumpy cupcake of course. The result was a VERY liquidy batter, which scared my sis and my brother-in-law… but guess what?? It turned out AWESOME as this was how you get the totally moist and lovely chocolate-y texture. I loved it! I loved it more than my cheesecake, although almost everyone else preferred the cheesecakes to my Guinness cupcakes.

The bowl on the left is eggs, vanilla essence and sour cream. The bowl on your right is melted butter and Guinness Stout… later, the cocoa powder and flour goes in.

I’m making the cream cheese frosting for the Guinness Stout chocolate cupcakes. Somehow, kinda like the “feel” for this photo.

Don’t mind the harried look, this is hard work! My sister was very amused by the enthusiastic efforts of her younger siblings. :p

Nah! This is how the mini apricot cheesecakes look like. I know, I know, I should work on my presentation skills. *shy*

My brother’s second batch of banana chocolate chip muffins. I like how my sister arranged it so nicely by the window sill for this photo op.

My chocolate Guinness cupcakes, fresh from the oven! Doesn’t look too bad right! Because the batter was so liquid-y, my sister and brother-in-law were afraid that it won’t even be able to rise. :p

Putting the cream cheese frosting on top.. but then I decided it looks ugly, so I decided not to.

Besides, the cream cheese frosting is really too sweet! Don’t think it’s that nice. Good for those who have a sweet tooth I suppose. (Like my bro-in-law.)

Trying the same “presentation” as my brother’s choc + banana muffins… =p Want or not? Unlike others, I won’t charge you for a bite. I’m looking for food tasters, to improve my cooking + baking skills! I cook, you eat and give constructive criticism!

Ok, I’m writing this on Monday, after “taste test” aka sharing the rest of the cupcakes as I can’t possibly whack ‘em all by myself. So, yeah, that’s how I got the survey that the cheesecake was better than the Stout Chocolate cakes. So odd! They said mini cheesecakes were like the ones in Secret Recipe, although I found the base odd, but they all didn’t! *feels so glad* As for the Guinness, some said the alcohol smell was TOO strong, while some said they couldn’t even tell there’s any beer. Some said it was TOO moist, while some said it was TOO hard! Are we all eating the same thing? -___- Oh, the original recipe called for some cream cheese frosting, which I did make… but when I poured it over the cupcakes, it was TOO sweet. Well, some (like my bro-in-law) liked it with the frosting. So you know, this is all very subjective. I’m just happy that generally the response was very good!

L ate two of these, so must taste good on some level, hehehe. He’s a very serious food taster, so serious that I was worried that I had poisoned him.

I plan to make some butter raisin cakes next! Stop with the cupcakes, lol.

After the cupcakes were done, we had time to play Tekken on my sister’s PS2… before bathing and heading over to USJ19′s Digital Mall to have dinner at the Grand Imperial. My mom’s 55th birthday celebration was super extravagant, hahaha. Well, maybe that’s pushing it too far, but it was extravagant at the very least. We had a private room with karaoke and a 10 course dinner.

Food wise, not bad! Ambience was good, service – excellent. No complaints. Enjoyed myself that night, especially with the karaoke!

Photos under the cut!

Getting Ready (LY’s Wedding Part 1) February 8, 2010

Okie, as promised, this post will contain pictures from my sister’s wedding — the morning event. There’s really sooooo many photos, and you cannot imagine the sheer mountain of photos that I had to go through, from her professional photog’s camera, from her head zhi mui PY’s camera, and I faint at the thought of all the photos from all my uncle’s cameras too. *dizzy* One thing I’ve learned from the whole thing is that …. heavy make-up doesn’t make one look good. Hahahaha! I’m speaking on behalf of myself, not my sister. She had a totally different make-up artist that definitely made her look glowy and radiant and all the good stuff that a bride should be on her wedding day. I look damn oily and sweaty and tired lar wtf.

This are the pics of us getting ready before the chip san leong session.. had to wake up at 6am for this, oh man. No wonder I was tired.

Off topic, but I finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown in 2 days, hahaha. Kinda interesting read, because Dan Brown does combine a lotttttt of conspiracy theories and mesh them together into a fast-paced novel. However, as mentioned earlier, I don’t really like the way he writes, I was disappointed at how dumb Robert Langdon had gotten (even I got the “sincerely” message, but that was unfair since Ching told me about it just 2 weeks ago, lol) and strangely, the water boarding thing was mentioned in today’s Star, so there were a lot of coincidences that just occurred in the novel that made me go, “Heard THAT one before.” It didn’t help that the last book I read – Superclass – How The Rich Ruined Our World - did touch on Masonic conspiracy theories (ie : it’s all crap).

Off OFF topic, the other day my brother pissed me off because … okay, this might make you lose your appetite… so please don’t read this. I don’t want disgusting things on my blog either, but sometimes it can’t be helped hmph. Ok, the other day he used the toilet adjoining our bathroom and didn’t flush properly after shitting!!! >____< I am sooooooo angry!! Am I his maid? Did I wait so long for my sis to get married and move out so that I would feel that I was cleaning up after myself, only to get a NEW person to clean up after?! Of course I yelled at him to inform him of his dirty behavior. Hello, make sure there are no shit stains after you take a dump, is that so hard to fathom? And he was like, “Ok.” Whaaaaatttt. Like no remorse only.

As I told my colleague the other day, these kinda things make me reallllllyyy agitated. Because if I complain about it to the person involved, then they think it’s petty. But if I don’t complain about it, what if they don’t learn from their lesson? What if I then become destined to scrub their shit off the toilet bowl for the rest of the days?

Anyway, I’m off. Time to read my Complete Stories of Truman Capote. Think I’m gonna easily reach my targetted 5 books this month. During CNY, can probably complete one book a day!

LY’s makeup artiste, Miyaki, taking a photo of her after the work is done.

Close up of the hairpiece… so chio right.

Close up of the complete “look”.

Here we are getting ready… sis, EeLynn and myself in the background, lol. FYI, LY is wearing high heels ok! The rest of us are short, but not that short, hahaha!

LY and my brother…

As always, more picture under the cut.

What Your Older Sisters Are Saying About You January 19, 2010

LY : what’s up
Me: Hah.. nothing la… i finished my CNY shopping. Cheap cheap. Stuff from Niichi and like.. Somerset Bay only
LY : In sgp?
Me: Nooo… sg nothing much la. Bought work clothes. Sales still on, not bad. Like RM20 knitted stuff from MNG. Oh yay! How about u?
LY : I have more clothes to donate to you. i cannot wear anything anymore
Me: Pregnant yet? Heheheheh!
LY : No!
Me: Dang!!
LY : I am in Jakarta now on biz
Me: WHAT! Hahahahahahahhahaa. None of us know. How secretive. U got sms them ah (them = parents)
LY : I still haven’t go home (referring to my parent’s house, not her own). Cause weekend always bizy
Me: How long in Jakarta for?
LY: But this weekend not… 3 days only la
Me : Fun hor always get to travel? I sad, long time no overseas assignment
LY : ya. fun in the beginning. why no o/s assingment? Ala, wanna go overseas can always go yourself. Where you wanna go this year?
Me: This year wanna save money buy house le. Oh oh oh… got gossip. Did u see Andrew’s FB status recently? Hehehehe. (Andrwe = my brother)
LY: About his ex lecturer or the girls?
Me: The girl
LY : He damn kurang ajar!
Me: About the girl who “confessed” to him in a record 4.5 hours. Then he and our cousin Ben Goh in NZ commented til like 50 over comments. Omg. Like andrew is a damn facebook slut, srsly.
LY: ya, I am ashamed of him. Haha!!
Me: Hahaha. So you read about the girl la.?
LY: Not really..
Me: i told him no need to be so proud the girl confess so fast because he self admit she seems to be confessing to any guy she talks to !!! And then he said, the fact that he has been asked is reason enough to be proud. CHEAP!
LY: Wow! ya, CHEAP. if he was a girl he will be the type giving “it” away for free
Me: HHAHAHAHAA
LY: i think he likes generating the 66 coments.
Me: of coz la… these kinda fb status, how to not generate crazy response wan. I just hope it doesn’t degenerate further… Then u know, he posted the gal’s photo on Ben Goh’s wall. It was like some xiao mei mei! Gosh!
LY: I saw – ugly!
Me: HAHAHAHAH…. he was saying like cute and whatever…. aiyohohhhhhh and then right. I asked him if he’s sked i tell mom and dad or not
LY: From far look like got potential, but see the picture properly tak ada!
Me: and he started becoming bitchy to me…
LY: what he say? Haha!
Me: He said… “since when u care about my feelings”. I said.. u brave to write all out on your FB… you know Lee Ying and I on your friends list. then he said, ‘you already told them about me asking how it will be like to kiss a girl who smokes thing”… and i said that one is harmless compared to this one. lol. i think mom and dad will be ok with it la. especially apak… since HE’S A BOY.
LY: Hahaha! BTW, I’m skyping!
Me: Ok la, i gotta go sleep enjoy skyping with kris lol. Give me a niece / nephew. lol