Yes, this week I’m going healthy. This is because I found my new toy! It’s the fruit blender that my mum bought. It’s small, conveniently cool. For the past few days, I had fruit juices after every meal. This is my little fruity haul:

My favorite is still my Avocado Milkshake. In the past, I dont like to drink or eat avocado but until someone told me that avocado is good for complexion, I convinced myself to drink it and it’s really yummy! But, avocado is fattening! It’s healthy fat. (:

Then, I tried other juices like papaya milkshake.

I cant wait for my fruits to ripe and I will have mango milkshake, watermelon milkshake. :)

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All these weeks, I’ve been coughing like crazy since Chinese new year. On and off, I will have nose bleed or flu. It was a terrible feeling especially when I need to study for prelims and exams in the midst of studying, I went for a job interview and had reunion dinner after that. It was 23 feb and the reunion dinner started very late. We started around 9pm as we were waiting for da ge’s gf to knock off from work.

During my work, I got to know that one of my boy, Isaiah is leaving the school. Though he does not belong to the class that I’m in charge, he is someone who leaves a very great impression. If you have been following my blog/tweets, you should have known that Isaiah is a boy who came to hug me on my first day of work. He was crying desperately and when he found me, he kept hugging me and didn’t want to go back to his class. Since then, every morning when he saw me, he will greet me with his cheerful smile. And sometimes, he will look for me, crying. I can’t bear him leaving. but I know that he is going to somewhere better.

Then last Saturday, 27 feb after service, went to Pan Pacific Hotel for family dinner to celebrate my big aunt’s 60th bday. Played with my nephew and cousins. Let’s take a look at the food:

After the dinner, I felt burdened and wasn’t feeling great. Took some time to digest and I just find that it just too hard to accept. My close friends should know what happen.

God, give me strength and courage.

If you’ve been following me for the past three years, you would know that baking pineapple tarts is an annual thing for me. Without fail, I baked it again this year.

On Saturday (23 Jan), my cousin came and fetch me to buy the ingredients for the pineapple tarts. It tested my physical ability to carry 8kg of pineapple filling. We got items like pineapple filling, flour, icing sugar, eggs. The ingredients and steps are the same like the previous years.

Let’s take a look at some photos I took.

One thing that’s different this year was we used another method – the emulsification method for two of our batches. Normally, we will use the rub-in method. Guess how many did we made? 200+!!

We started around 11am and ended around 8pm. After that, I played with my nieces. They are so cute.

On 31st Jan, I made my pineapple tarts again with my mum at home. We also tried new item- Peanut Cookies.

Peanut Cookies

Fried Peanuts (grinded finely) : 500g
Plain Flour (sifted) : 500g
Fine Sugar : 400g
Peanut Oil : 500g

Method:

1. Mix grinded peanut, plain flour, fine sugar, in a big mixing bowl
2. Slowly mix in peanut oil till form into a soft dough
3. Form into small balls, place onto a greased baking sheet, and glaze with beaten eggs
4. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°C for about 25 mins till golden. Remove, leave to cool before storing.

Credit: http://fenyingrecipe.blogspot.com

Yesterday (23 Dec 09) evening, received a phone call and headed down to bugis. We had a gathering with the ex-colleagues. Its been a long time.. The last time we met was at Timbre, drinking and chilling. Thank Eddy for organising the gathering. There were Lynn, JiaYi, Sheryl, Eddy, AhHongJieJie, Mei, Cheryl, Thomas and Sheeren.

We had our dinner at Chilli Padi Nonya cafe. It’s located at North Bridge Road. It is actually a Peranakan buffet style. One person will only need to pay $17.24 and you can enjoy a great variety of food. It’s really worth it.

We started our dinner at 730pm and left around 10pm when we were ‘chased’ out of the cafe as it was closing for the day. We chatted (gossiped) a lot. Took some photos using eddy’s samsung camera. Everyone was facinated by the functions of the camera. Got beauty mode (which will capture your photo with flawless face), smile detection mode(the camera will automatically snap your picture once you smile), self portrait mode(you can take your own picture as there’s a screen beside the lens, and you can see your own face). Cool right? It’s 12.2 megapixel and touchscreen. It’s damn cool please.

Took train back with Lynn, Sheryl and Jiayi.

Yesterday (28 november), met up the rest of the unit for lunch and celebrated hanyun’s 21st. Each of us presented our individual presents which are in purple color. We got her things like grapes, purple flower, purple earrings, purple sweets etc. We had our lunch at Lucky Plaza – Ayam Penyet.

Ayam Penyet Set (S$7.00)
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

Then, went for church service. Carrie, Benson, Jolene, Liyin and I went Marina Square to have our dinner. While waiting for Caixuan to join us, we settled down at Coffee Club and ordered something to eat.

My Coffee Toffee Blend (S$6.80)
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

Muddy Mudpie
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

After that, we shopped around marina square and I spent $50+ at Watsons. Did I mention before that I cleared my shoe rack? I’m seriously in need of flat shoes. All I have is heels and can you imagine wearing that 2 inches high heels to shop around? Alright, I really need to squeeze some time out to buy my shoes.

Then, I had my full body therapy – head to toe. Felt so refreshed after that. Put on my facial mask and went to bed around 12+am. When I woke up at 3am, I looked out from the window. Guess what I saw? STARS!! There was really a lot of stars that night. I think there’s more than 10 of them. Super nice!! How I wish I got a mat and lie down on it to gaze upon the stars.

Sunday, 29 November was my grand-aunt’s 92nd bday. Went to my auntie’s house in the afternoon to have lunch and bday celebration. Played with the kids there.

Tonight, the stars came out to dance.
They lighted up the dark night, adding more colors to the sky.
They accompanied the moon,
just like how they accompanied the lost souls tonight.

Egg tarts from chinatown..

and Frosted Chocolate Malt from Swensen..

Frosted Chocolate Malt ice cream with marshmallow topping, hot fudge and chocolate balls.

YES YES! Really have craving for this two. A few weeks ago, my neighbour bought us egg tarts at Sago street, off Smith street. It’s the best egg tarts I ever had since young. The tart skin is very crispy and the egg is very smooth (as if you are drinking from it). Yummie Yummie..

Had shepherding on wednesday (18 nov) and I suggested to chill out at Swensen. Haha.. I had the craving since tuesday.