Chocolate

Sis's been making her chocolate fondant (or lava cake or whatever you call it...).

Not because she loves baking cakes (she's damn lazy), but because she KENA challenge!

Aeons ago, my mum sent Sis for cooking lessons with this 5 star chef from whom Sis got her flourless chocolate fondant recipe.

She gave said recipe to one of her friends, B, but she couldn't make it. So Sis' friends got wind that she could allegedly make chocolate fondant cake, which seemed ludicrous coz she's damn lazy. So they asked her to make and she, being lazy, refused.

"You dunno izzit...?"

Kena challenge lor.

Eggs, unsalted butter, and a whole slab of "imported" dark chocolate. Kononnya la, imported dark chocolate. Can't really validate that claim also.

Frickin huge pile of sugar...

Chocolate, melted with butter. Damn sinful.

Voila. The first batch. Looks kinda hideous (couldn't find ramekins, so we improvised with some sort of chinese teacup), but the lava's flowing out, and it tasted awesome. Anything chocolate and butter shouldn't taste too bad.


Thing about me and my sis. When we say we can, we definitely can. If we cannot, we won't say we can (we'll say, we try. ah! ;D).

"No", my darlings, is the new "Yes"! :)

You see, i've had it.

I'm one of those people who worries about others' feelings, and always endeavours to do things in a way that will satisfy all parties.

e.g. i call / sms people for basketball. need to summon enough people. need to reconfirm. need to cancel if rain pisses down on me. need to see who is free. need to see time slot.

e.g. i go and play DotA in the CC coz they're lack of 1 player and i can easily reject but if don't go like damn bad lor...



Which is a fucktard thing to do, really, coz one can never really satisfy everyone AND, more often than not, I end up feeling all frustrated and du lan.

What i'm gonna do now is to be more self-centered. Some well-deserved self-centeredness. Fuck the rest of them la. Gonna kill myself if i wanna keep taking others' into consideration.


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With regards to CC. I must have spent at least 40-50 bucks! Jesus. I could have spent that on my novel. At least something tangible, you know, instead of splashing it all on a gunfire-screams-filled ambience, with lousy mice (or mouses. I have horrendous luck with the mice in Cyber Cafes. One time the left click was cacat, one click = double click, and you know what this does to gameplay...).

Not to say i detest going to the CC, but twice in a day / 3-4 times a week is where i draw the line.

Sometimes, i have this tiniest little secret admiration for people who:

a) go all psycho-bitch on people
b) have no difficulties in telling people off

and by people, i mean everyone including close friends, hi-bye friends, strangers etc.

They're obnoxious as fuck and always the target of vicious bitchings and virulent gossip, but you gotta admire their balls. Right anot? ;)

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On a happier note, i'm gonna go watch Sherlock Holmes. Have been doing some pre-reading since i remembered my enormous dust-caked Sherlock Holmes compilation that Aunt Heko gave me Christmases ago.

Sherlock Holmes, then some belting at Neway. Not bad.

Gahh!!

Frickin hell. I'm so irritated. My pesky aunt just called me from Taiwan (the notorious YYYY, we call her Y4), requesting that i email her some of her photos that i'd transferred into my com.

I'd already burnt her 1400++ pictures into 2 separate DVDs for her, after browsing through ALL OF THEM 1 BY 1 with her while she rattled on incessantly about the beautiful waterfalls of Gui Zhou and how they walked all around the fucking waterfall.

Thing is, now, she'd chosen about 100+ pictures that she loves and i must now resize and email to her because she wants to forward them to her friend. AND she doesn't know how to attach files from the DVDs. -_-"

Which means i have to upload them pictures on-by-one, unzipped. -_-"

Old~

I was crashing through the mind-boggling and pothole-laden roads of Section 1 in search of a Guan Yin temple in the vicinity when i stumbled across a most familiar street.

And then i recognized it as the Old Folk's Home that the bunch of us CIMPians invaded for our community service. Painted their walls! And their rusted drain covers and pipes! The supervisor was this sharp and woman and i called her auntie. Miss. Madam. Woman. Lenglui!!

Oh my god and fuck! It's been ages. And the reason i found the street quite so familiar was my horrendous experience (lack of experience, rather) of getting stuck between two cars with Mum's CR-V. Kang Wei had to take over and maneuvred the car to safety!!

HA! And i remember going round and round and round and round the roundabout. :D

Sigh. Fun times.

Happy Belated Burfday Ayah!

Someday i may found my prince charming, but you daddy will always be my beloved KING!

nota kaki : comel kn kek baskin robbin yg saya beli utk ayahnda nih? masuk troley tolak sindri

2010!!

First off, ladies and gents. Happy 2010! :)

May your ______ *customize your own blessings, i can't be arsed. :) *


I snoozed my way through New Year's Eve and woke up, bewildered, 10 minutes before midnight in time to get myself spruced up before the stream of rooftop-rattling fireworks came thundering left right and centre.

The Curve's fireworks display seems to be getting worse each year. Cacat. Best was still the one in 2005.

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I spent my New Year's Day in the most loser-esque manner: playing games with YZ and Seandrew, in a cyber cafe no less. I detest cyber cafes. Complete waste of money.

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Bless 2010, as i have finally found a perfect solution to my rain-sodden no-basketball frustration: indoor basketball courts!

After the Cyber Cafe session [First DotA game of 2010: Check. Kena sapu, though, damn], the bitch ass sky was just brewing with such dark malevolence that i couldn't stomach the prospect of yet another ruined basketball game so i called SportsBarn and it so happened that they had an empty slot from 9 -10pm.

[First Ball Session of 2010: Check]

1 hour only, though (10-12 slot was taken), which didn't suffice so we ordered another 12am - 2am slot! XD

Set my new record of playing basketball till 2am.

Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010

Dear God, My only wish for this year is the health, happiness & prosperity for every single people who are near & dear to me. You know who you are. And just a good year ahead. Amin