Mini golden oreo cheesecake

Bailey's and bourbons flavoured ice cream





Thai Express and B&J's with the now bald SiWai and Joan, who again, did not want to be in the picture.

Breakfast on a Sunday

Lunch at Sumo House. Their jap food used to be super cheap but I think the prices have gone up a little now.

Baking choc chip cookies to distribute on results day



Timbre @ Old School on the night before results day

I rarely drink alcohol and I had no idea lychee martini would taste bitter so I was a little disappointed. :(

Pizzas :)











So unhappy with the waitress who seemed pissed and impatient when we asked her to help us take this photo and a polaroid. I mean come on man the place wasn't even crowded at that time.




Reynard!





The super long stairs that we had to take to Mount Sophia




Haha photobombed!



Ended our night by watching a movie. It was an impromptu thing.


Lunch at Eighteen Chefs with the shooters on results day


Second visit to Ramen Santouka. Just look at that perfection of an egg!






Current read: the last book of The Hunger Games trilogy. I cannot wait for the movie!!

Note to self: do not buy gummies otherwise I will eat at least half the packet myself

Late night sushi

Late night sashimi (on a separate night)

Impromptu meetup with Claudia at nex before going to her place to see this beautiful persian (who is looking for a new home!) and the stray kittens her mum picked up. I followed them down to the void deck where her mum attempted to trap the mother cat and bring her home. Gave up after 1.5 hours.

Supper after an impromptu movie date with my sis. We watched The Lorax!

Lunch at Wild Honey! Got scammed into buying their orange juice which was freaking 9 BUCKS?! WTF!

Meng's English breakfast set!

Black sesame paste with beancurd at Honeymoon Desserts

Last Sunday's breakfast

And lunch

Helped out with Claudia at ACRES' flag day at Tampines! Omg I hate flag days and I was so glad we only had to do it for 2 hours or so. If it weren't for ACRES I wouldn't have done it.

After that we went to VeganBurg for dinner!


This is using her phone

My phone

After dinner we got lost trying to find the right bus stop to take a bus down to a certain bar for a job interview. In the end we took a cab, the cab driver was really nice. The job scope at the bar sounded dangerous despite the reasonably high pay so we left. So fucking scary man.
Lesson learnt: Never ever trust a place where you can't even see what you're writing on the job application form. In fact, don't even think about working at a bar unless you plan on losing all forms of dignity. My mom was right. KIDS LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHERS!!!

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Well my grades are pretty much average. I could have done better, no doubt. But I'm okay with what I got, neither sad nor too happy. In fact I feel quite lucky to be able to get a couple of As. The only thing I wasn't happy about was how hard I tried for Chemistry, but it didn't pay off.
Anyway, other than that, I like to think that it's not bad, considering I did what I could all on my own. And with the help of some teachers of course. Also quite proud of myself for pulling this off with no tuition at all. I did not break my no-tuition streak for 12 whole years of formal education. :)

Though of course my results have confirmed that my dream will remain a dream forever. It's sad how a mere row of letters is going to prevent me from doing what I have wanted to do my whole life.

At least I have already planned an alternative pathway, which I hope I will be qualified to take.

Labels: A levels

I decided to book a date for my basic theory test after weeks of procrastination only to find the earliest date is more than a whole freaking month away!!!! After BTT, there's FTT and a whole series of practical lessons I have to take before I can sit for the practical test. Who knows how long this is going to take if I start in April. And it's no guarantee I'll pass my BTT, or my FTT or my practical test. AHHHHHH

Gosh I really regret procrastinating about getting my license now. :'(

Labels: driving

So... It's official. A level results will be released this Friday. It's only a few days away till I know how badly I've done.

At least I had a pretty good feeling prior to receiving my O level results. And it turns out I did quite okay, not very well but it was alright.

This time, I have no good feelings at all. Zero. If having a good feeling for O levels led to slightly-less-than-good results, then I really do not know what to expect on my result slip on Friday.
Friends have dreamt at least once about getting back their results with grades fully displayed. I have not dreamed about getting back my results until just last night. I returned to school on results day, but then I woke up before the results were announced. Some people say that dreams are the opposite of reality. Dreaming of good grades can mean bad grades in real life and vice versa. My grades are still unknown even in my dreams. And no news is good news, right? I hope so.

I really hope so.

Labels: A levels

Went down to PageOne's closing down sale with Joan after work on Tuesday. I got myself 3 random books and a mighty wallet.

Original cost: $86.15
After discount: $36.90!!!

Friggin' cheap! Too bad the books I was hoping to get weren't there. Oh well!

Labels: books

I finally got around to baking yesterday! I was torn between two recipes I found, mini oreo cheesecakes and cookies and cream cupcakes. Eventually I chose the former because I only had a box each of golden oreos and the half-peanut-butter-half-chocolate ones. I don't want my cheesecakes/cupcakes to have that peanut butter flavour in them. Also I don't think cookies and cream cupcakes would look nice without the black bits from the normal oreos. Plus the cheesecake recipe seemed much simpler.
Thus this is what I got: mini oreo cheesecakes using golden oreos!








Mini Oreo Cheesecakes adapted from Spark Recipes for 18 servings

ingredients:
18 Oreo cookies
1.5 packages (375g) Philadelphia cream cheese, room temp.
1/3 cup and 8 teaspoons sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
9 Oreo cookies, crushed (optional)

directions:
Line muffin pans with liners. Place an Oreo cookie in each liner. Blend cream cheese and sugar. Blend in eggs and vanilla essence. Fold in crushed oreos.
Divide evenly into each liner, covering the oreo base. (To make your cheesecakes look nice, smooth the tops of the batter before putting them into the oven)
Bake at 350F (about 176C) for 15 minutes. Let cool on a cooling rack before refrigerating for at least 3 hours.



I like eating cheesecake but sometimes it gets too rich and I cannot take more than 2 bites out of it. These are just right. I can eat one whole mini cheesecake and not get sick of it. And these were really easy to make.

I will attempt those cookies and cream cupcakes one day, when I have the time and when I have normal oreos.

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