it's brownie baking day!

lulu suggested we bake brownies in her love nest while sissy n me sought refuge from e gooey love day.

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we met up at Jurong Point's Fairprice Xtra to shop for ingredients: self-raising flour, caster sugar, dark chocolate, white chocolate, walnuts, plus brownie recipe book frm library. hehe~

sissy was in charge of turning e dark choc chips into liquid oozy chocolate, after lulu added in sliced butter.

(it is only after we baked brownies on our own tat we realised brownies are SUPER sinful, lol~)

Mrs Chen wld tear if she saw her son standing by e stove n actually cooking sth edible. LOL~

i was in charge of putting eggs, sugar n sieved flour tog into e mixer.

hmm but e mixer failed to rotate along with e beater. zim aka technician of e day managed to fix it.

tadah! rotate rotate rotate, mix mix mix, beat beat beat!

when e batter's almost done, add maple syrup! i din noe there's maple syrup in brownies.

n yes, i happen to have e same pose. hahaha~

zim laying tracing paper on e baking tray. hoho~

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add melted oozy choc into e batter.

n mix till it looks absolutely yummy!

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pour completed mixture into baking tin.

tats lulu's cousin btw, they gatecrashed our baking lesson. haha~

chop white choc into fine bits. lu's like e official chopper of e day. hehe~

sprinkle white choc bits on top of e brownie mixture.

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then slip e tin into e oven!

e whole 'manufacturing' process was pretty simple, actually. to tink cafes charge such exorbitant fees for a piece of brownie when it was so ez to produce.

while waiting for it to bake, we played Guitar Heroes on PS3. lulu's housewarming gift frm her other friends (we still havent bot her a housewarming gift, oops hehe).

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e wireless drum set n guitar are damnnn cool lahz.

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excellent game idea, too bad me n sissy have zero musical talent. LOL~

after 35min, e brownie is ready! charred at e top (due to e white choc bits which were totally redundant), but inside was absolutely fine~~

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had dinner b4 savouring our hard-worked brownie as dessert. veri cosy dinner even tho food was dabao-ed. hehe~

we were damn seduced by e great smells wafting thru frm e kitchen while e brownie was baking!

e brownie was purrfectly yummilicious! veri gd turnout given tat it was our 1st attempt.

i love our brownie! let's bake more yummy food! hehe~

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thx lulu n zim for letting us intrude ur love nest for e day!

as graceful as a swan

i've come to admire Kate Winslet and Meryl Streep for their gracefulness at the Oscars and Golden Globe.

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they dress excellently, they give beautiful and sincere smiles, their every move exudes gracefulness tat even royalties cannot pull off.

n i like Kate Winslet's dress sense.

tho Kate's movies are abit too chim for me to understand at times, but i still like to watch her in those movies. Titanic, Little Children, The Holiday.

how come Kate looks so much older in The Reader. she's much prettier at e Oscars wor. muz be e botox. haha.

i like Meryl Streep's Mamma Mia, tho it's quite weird to see an elderly prancing around like a teenager.

she ages with grace wor. but i wonder how come her face looks more wrinkled than her neck. hmm.

hope they make more gd movies tat aint too chim for me to understand lahz! haha.

the rule, or the exception?

watched He's Just Not That Into You with some of my favourite girls last sat. pretty gd show.

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e title of e book/movie is actually derived from Sex And The City, btw. i can still vividly rem Miranda saying it to Carrie. told u im a big SATC fan. hehe~

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spotted another blond hottie in e movie! Bradley Cooper aka Ben-e-Married-Man-Who-Groped-Scarlett's-Boobs. LOL~

all of us tink he's much cuter than Ben Affleck even.

ting mite prob have recognised Bradley Cooper in Yesman. i googled. tis hottie is gonna star in e upcoming New York, I Love You. i wanna watch with e ppl i've been to New York with!! hee.

but me n e girls were wondering why they used Keane's Somewhere Only We Know in HJNTIY. it's been so impressionably used in The Lake House years ago. we all noticed lorz. hmm.

btw, i LOVE Hugh Jackman in e Oscars. he can act, sing, dance, host AND gaosiao!

n have i mentioned tat he's GORGEOUS?? heart!

tmr im finally gg to do sth abt e thing tats been bothering me for e past 1.5mth, hope it helps!

back to the good olde days

i cut my hair short! it's back to e hair during uni days....

last look of my long longgg tresses~~

i love my long hair, i realli do. until it starts to brush against my face too much, n starts falling so much due to weight (n stress).

snip snip! after 2hrs!

n tats e stylist whom i've been visiting for e past 3yrs, he's not bad. Cash @ Sandstorm (yeah wat a name huh).

i tink e new hair makes my face v big. oh well.

"u cut ur hair! looks fresher n younger now!"

"wow u look fresher n younger now!"

"u look fresher n younger lorz."

"u got cut her hair mehz??" -_-

e new hair needs some getting used to, but so far it's been fine~~~

e PwC siamese twins

qian n ting sat 1 aisle away from each other in office tis wk. on msn....

qian: u wanna go pee tog?
qian: im like, always asking u tis qn these few days. haha~
ting: ya lorz, then i need to synchronise my bladder with yours.

LOLOL~

happie friendship day~

u noe how stimes i get too lazy to travel to meet u,
or too busy with work to msn with u,
or too desperate to have more time to myself than to chat with u,
or too engrossed with my own puny lil world to pay attention to u,
or get so tired tat i'd rather slp on e train than sms u,
or felt too awkward to give u a concerned hug,


but i still love u de wor. i promise to be e constant in ur life, like u are in mine~


zen
ting
sissy
ray
lulu

thx so much for listening to my whines ever so patiently. n for supporting n encouraging me throughout all these years.

HUGZ!~

yes OT till 1am is realli nth in audit terms....

n my workload is realli nth as compared to many other peers. but yet i still feel so stressed.

mayb im juz borned with lower stress threshold than others. bah~

yester was my 'best' OT record

i worked till 1am. it's e latest in my 2.5yrs of audit life.

n yet, when i reached home n went to slp at 3am, i still cant slp. stress~

i hate tis client for its complexity, n i resent tat im simultaneously upset by another mess which i personally contributed to.

sigh. it's not worth it.

happie dor day!

we wanted to go Carousel for taitai-ish high tea, but it's fully booked. =( settled for Aerin's at Raffles City instead.

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quite a pretty place lahz, right beside e fountain. tho i tink ting (who sat closest to e fountain) said she felt water droplets. haha~

while waiting for food to come, 3 of us camwhored, n KL had a conference call with her Beijing boss. -_- it wasnt more relaxing at Beijing k, PwC Beijing work on wkends quite often.

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my Champs Treat (concoction of milo, chocolate, cinnamon n milk), not too bad.

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dor had warm choc pudding. ehh... i cant rem how e warm choc pudding tastes like alr. haha~

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my seafood marinara, veri yummy! a must try wor. e others ordered chicken w/dumplings, chicken sandwich, bacon carbonara. ehh... i tink im e oni one who gushed abt e main dish.

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havent met up with e sisterhood in a long while, had a great time catching up. love ya girls!

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me ting dor went to watch The Reader afterwards. v erotic scenes at e beginning (kj shd go watch! lol~), then turned grimly serious at e end. anyways, kate winslet's gd.

happie bdae dor, may all ur dreamz come true~~~ oh n i love ur new green beetle!

happie niuuuu year!

chinese new year is coming to an end, so fast~

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my dad bot $8 yusheng from Ikea. oh well, u pay for wat u get. it's not too bad lahz.

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sumptuous steamboat reunion prepared by Mrs Chan. yums.

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i always love how my home look n feel like on big year chu yi, veri bright n festive, veri happie feel. =))

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camwhoring while waiting to go on visiting spree. gd hair day! hehe.

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at a i-donno-how-we-are-related relative's very posh condo. obviously there's 2 families here.

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waiting for e train to ah ma's house. heartlanders' way of visiting on da nian chu yi.

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ah gong handcrafted a collage of old photos b4 chinese new year, it's quite cool.

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my aunties/uncles' wedding photos, my ah gong ah ma's wedding photos, photos taken on ah gong's bdae, etc.

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i tink my ah gong looked veri shuai when he was young, no? machiam george clooney lehz. wahahaha~

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someone bot tis tray of uber cute candies, kids love it.

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my mum, my auntie, n my auntie's 3 naughty rascals.

i love my ah ma! last nov she secretly slot a $100 angpow into my laptop bag when i visited her, scared e hell outta me when i discovered it in dec. tot my client is trying to bribe me. LOL~

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hope everyone had a wonderful cny. i heart chinese new year! 恭喜发财 万事如意 !

i love my dad n my mom!

nv talked to em so much in my 24+yrs of life.

n so glad my mom found my dad, or mayb it's my dad who found us. haha.

thx peeps

for e showers of concern.


i'll be back.