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Friday, December 31, 2010

Post-holiday withdrawal

5 hours till I bid farewell to this year. One word to describe Year 2010? I'd say "colourful".

This has been the year I've made a huge leap entering a new school with an entirely different culture.
This has been the year when I started taking hour-long trips to go home every day, when in the past it took only 15-20 minutes.
This has been the year with my biggest disappointments, but also some of my most enjoyable moments.
This has also been the year I've shed tears the most often.

I guess the lesson that I'll be taking into 2011 would be to always have hope, but do not expect anything because that would only lead to disappointment.

I've had so many ups and downs (but mostly downs) this year, I'm not exactly looking forward to what 2011 will bring. What with freaking A Levels and nationals if I ever get in for that.
The only thing I'm looking forward to is the freedom after A Levels. Haha!
But I don't know how I'm going to survive all those long, long months in the mean time. :\

Anyway, my trip to Guilin was awesome! (: Will blog more about it when I have time. Currently uploading the pictures on Facebook now!

Happy New Year everyone!

Dear 2011, please be good to me. I'd appreciate it. A lot.

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Friday, December 24, 2010

feliz navidad!

2 hours to Christmas!
And exactly 12 hours till my plane takes off!

I'll be back from China five days later, on the 29th.

Go watch Gulliver's Travel! It's freaking hilarious!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!! :D

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Christmas Lights by Coldplay. What a beautiful song.

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Finally.

Went out with my beloved bunch of SN girls on Monday. Too bad Darice couldn't make it. ):

I HAVEN'T SEEN JANE IN ALMOST A YEAR!!!!!!!!!!

Jac for at least 6 months?

Out of the 4 of them, I've seen WanYee the most. The most recent being the time I went to crash Vet Tech lectures at Temasek Poly.

It was so so so good to finally see them again! They haven't changed much at all. (:

We hung out at Bugis, lunched at Pastamania, played at the arcade, took neoprints which made us look like we dyed our hair and put on eyeliner, window shopped, bought Chewy Junior's. It was fun! :D

I was a little sad to say goodbye to them because I have no idea when I will see them again and I have a feeling it won't be soon. ):

Oh well. Until we meet again, guys. <3

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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Of oats and red velvet

THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF BEST FRIENDS:

1. The best friend whom you’re so close to. You see them at least twice a week or more. You guys talk a lot and catch up on everything.

2. The type of friendship where you two don’t talk as much but deep down, you know that person's your best friend. Why? Because they understand you even if they barely see you.

I think the friendship between Claudia and I fall in the second category. And I like that. It seems more special. No wait, it IS special! I mean, 11 freaking years man!!! We practically grew up together even though we grew up apart in the last five years, if you know what I mean. As she has described us both as "socially inept" on her blog, I feel perfectly comfortable being in silence with her. :)

It's December 18th once again! A special date which we make it a point to meet up on every single year. It was "founded" by us with another friend who drifted away soon after primary school. Till this day it puzzles me as to why she'd choose not to make the effort to maintain our friendship even though Claudia and I tried. If I don't wish her a happy birthday or send her a christmas card, she wouldn't too. :\

Weren't we a great trio/foursome??? I honestly miss those times we had. It's kind of sad that it has dwindled down to just Claud and I. But oh well, you know what they say! Don't worry about the people in your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it into your future.

Moving on! Claudia and I headed to Nex, which is the new mall at Serangoon and it's freaking huge!! and not to mention near my home. Our homes. Hahaha. So we had lunch at Mad Jack, then bought bubble tea and shopped for our baking ingredients before going over to her house to bake!

My christmas present that she was going to give me later.

The recycled wallet she gave me for my birthday!

They do not provide free glasses of water. So we made do without any drinks. ):

ACT SHY!

Mine: Grilled fish in honey lemon sauce with mashed potato & apple salad

Hers: Swan River Chick (don't worry it is chicken, not swan meat)

"The fish you ate was still pissing around last nite." - I DON'T BELIEVE

Fish & Chips; Chocolate & Ice-Cream; You & Me - The Perfect Match

Pudding milk tea is nice. (:

MY FIRST TIME BAKING (ON MY OWN)

Hers: Oatmeal cookies with walnuts

Mine: Red velvet cupcakes

Whisking the stubborn frosting mixture which somehow remained liquidy despite adding excess amounts of icing sugar into it. I think we were supposed to use HEAVY whipping cream but we bought the normal one. Resorted to spreading the frosting onto the cupcakes with a spoon. ):

My christmas present! ^^

Her decorated cupcake for me!

My decorated cupcake for her!

Sad, forgotten bowl of liquidy frosting. I only used it on some of my cupcakes.

OM NOM NOM

"STAND THERE! STAND THERE! (takes picture) SEE SO RETRO!" -_-

MY 2010 COIN which I (quite reluctantly) gave Claudia. I needed to give her change.

Macademia

I nearly forgot to add the egg into the batter at the beginning. And after pouring the batter into two cupcake papers, I went "OH SHIT!!!!" A startled Claudia asked "What?!" Then I replied "I FORGOT TO ADD BAKING SODA!!!!"

I laughed at myself for being such a noob while Claudia went -_______- as she helped me pour the batter from the cupcakes back into the bowl and I prepared the baking soda. LOL.

My RED VELVET CUPCAKES turned out pretty nicely! I feel a sense of accomplishment. :D

Claudia told her mom to buy dinner for me even though I told her that I was going to have dinner with my family later on! Obviously she wasn't listening!! Her mom came back with dinner including my share. So I had dinner with Claudia and her mom.
Over dinner, Claudia was telling her mom about how she wanted to get a bicycle for christmas and her mom's reply sounded just like what my mom would say. "No, because our house has no space" and such.

It was also nice to see her animals again. All three dogs and four cats, the new addition would be Gingko the fifth cat. The dogs didn't bark at me like how they would when people enter the house. Cadbury the cat didn't hiss at me!! Truffle is still kinda my favourite cat partly because I played with her when she was just a typical little kitten. My heart aches for her seeing how the unfortunate accident has affected her mental (and physical?) capabilities now. ):

I left some of my cupcakes for Claudia's family and took the rest of them home, along with 6 of her oatmeal cookies and a new packet of flour, some icing sugar, two new bottles of vanilla extract and red food colouring. I didn't use them because it turned out there were some at her house. Good thing we live just two bus stops away from each other. Taking public transport with two handfuls isn't exactly convenient, you know.
Well, I guess you can expect more of me baking in the future! (:

I don't think I'll be meeting her next week since I'm flying off to GuiLin (China) on the 25th. So Merry Christmas, old friend!

Read Claudia's blog post on this special day here.

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