So half the year is over.
It seems like nowadays my idea of blogging is to plonk down a bunch of photos that I took over the past x days of my life. :x
A photo is worth a thousand words right? It's easier to let the pictures do the talking. Heh.
So this is what happened in June:
Early Fathers' Day/Belated Mothers' Day dinner that cost me a bomb.
We went for a Penang buffet at Princess Terrace Cafe, Copthorne King Hotel.
This is very rare because we don't usually dine at such atas places. 90% of the time we settle birthdays or special occasions at a zi char place.
So here are my budding food photography skills put to the test!
Penang rojak and it doesn't come with 油条 :(
Salad and erm... some other delicacies in the background
Took a little of everything so I don't know what exactly is on this plate
Poh piah and kueh pie tee, self explanatory
Prawn mee bee hoon
Lots of colourful and mini kueh
Dinner came up to be about $68 per pax. Not cheap.
Shinhwa - The Return Concert at RWS
THEY ARE BACK IN SINGAPORE TO STAGE A CONCERT AFTER 6 YEARS!
如果不去,那就真的很对不起自己。
遗憾的是,my seats were damn crappy. Even though I paid a premium price for it.
CAT 1 tickets never mind, FIRST ROW seats never mind, but you charge us $268 + $3 sistic fee and I couldn't even see anything on the stage for 80% of the time?!?!
What's the point of paying so much to stare at the screens by the side of the stage?!
I feel damn cheated. Mosh pit tickets were only $208. Definitely can see the stage better. Even Cat 2 tickets have a better view ok!!!
But ok la, I did manage to see them up close. But only when they walked to the extended stage, and ONLY when they walked over to my side.
They all look flawless (probably thick staging make-up) and SO GOOD LOOKING garhhhh even more handsome than on TV!!!!
Unfortunately Dongwan didn't seem to like my side much. He only wandered over like once or twice :( and didn't stay for long. :(
Banners and flags that fans made and distributed to everyone for free, how's that for dedication?
Eric and Minwoo are the most popular it seems
One of the few times when my view of them was unobstructed
You cannot see this clearly but this is Junjin! Just metres away from me!
I also managed to take a rather crappy fancam before the guards could stop me. They are so bloody strict!!! But it's 80% filled with fangirly screaming and the stage lights are so bright I could barely make out who which blindingly glaring blob is.
Baking adventures
I haven't had the time to bake ever since my little sister's birthday in April...
Saw this rainbow cake in KL and it looks pretty with all the colourful layers!
So I tried to replicate it in the form of a cupcake...
Here goes the different coloured layers
The brown ones are Teh-C cupcakes which was quite #fail, didn't taste anything like Teh-C but tasted more of cinnamon
Rainbow cross section. How do I make the layers more horizontal instead of them all congregating in the middle?
The recipe itself is simple. The tedious part is creating the 6 coloured layers.
I read a few recipes and most of the ingredients are the same, I think the one that I followed was this -
http://allrecipes.com.au/recipe/13653/rainbow-cupcakes.aspx.
Recently I've got a couple of days of leave to clear and since Ms Koh is leaving for the States soon, I MUST SPEND MORE TIME WITH HER!!!!
So we had a hot (blazing hot!!!) date one leisurely Friday and I got to take a photo with a hot hunk. Evidence:
Check out the blindingly white smile :D
And the very next Saturday we checked out Open Door Policy and Forty Hands at Yong Siak Street.
And yet on another afternoon we decided to do a spot of baking.
Baker Koh with the red velvet brownie batter
Marbled Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies. Recipe from
here. I tried cutting them out into heart shapes like what was shown in the recipe but failed miserably coz our cake was too thick.
And today was a rare Saturday today with no Bukit Timah climb, no salsa, no meetups.
So, baking it was (again)!
Spent so long sieving the almond flour to this fine consistency -___-
Almost perfectly round-shaped macarons!!! If you recall my disasterous first attempt at macaron making, this is a huge improvement already. Haha.
This tray's slightly out of shape... they are supposed to be heart-shaped :(
Matcha macarons! The first tray was chao tah (the brown ones), the second tray was slightly undercooked (the green ones - but at least they still looked green) and the third tray had cracked surfaces! :(
My newly bought donut pans!
Mini-donuts glazed with chocolate ganache
Psssst, the chocolate ganache has been sitting in my fridge for the past 6 months. I hope nobody gets a tummy ache from eating it.
The matcha macarons looked so good here:
Challenging!!!
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