Mum Baked Shit... Not...

What happened was, Mum placed the "shit" on a piece of tissue paper, came into my room and showed it to me. When I saw it, my expression made my mum laughed so hard, she was practically rolling all over my bed. Then came my response, "C*** b**, what is this? Look like cat shit lor." She laughed even louder.

She finally composed herself and explained that during the baking process, the mixture seeped through the lining of the not-very-tight springform cake tin and dripped onto the base of the oven. Thus, forming this shit-looking thing.Since everyone else was already sleeping, mischevious me actually suggested placing this somewhere where my dad would immediately see it the very next morning. Then my mum started laughing again. When she finished her laughing, we decided against scaring my dad and I took a pic of this shit-looking thing on the floor...

1st Offical Entry In Blogspot

Friday: Tried 2 recipes in the afternoon. one was cornflake cookie, the other was chocolate truffle cookie. Cornflake cookie, nothing fantastic, too sweet, simply blah, not gog to try this recipe again forever, even till now, it's untouched... it just goes to prove how much my family and i "like" it... But, the chocolate truffle cookie is one that is worth exploring and perfecting. it was simply out of the world and uniquely chewy and soft. however, some stuck to the baking tray although the recipe did not call for lining or greasing, and some were ok, so something wrong somewhere. have to experiment more to find out... either they are too big, so hard to remove... or have to catch the timing cos when taken out from oven, too hot, it's still stuck to the tray, have to wait for it to cool a little before removing, but cooling too long will be stuck too... or i simply have to line or grease the tray...
Met dear after dinner to go walk walk in central for a while. dear recently got a package from videoezy, for a month, you pay 29.90, unlimited vcd movie rental. so we went to change discs. then as we made our way to the bus-stop, we got stopped by kfc. we stood outside kfc n decided to have supper. but, that kfc is always so damn bloody cold, we decided to take-away, back to dear's place to eat. dear's mum loves kfc, so he made a call home to see if his mum wants supper too. his mum wanted one piece chicken, n i want chicken, coleslaw n whipped potato, but i cant finish that much. dear wanted burger. so in the end, we got a 2-piece chicken set and a burger set. after supper i went home. after talking to dear on the phone, was a little sleepy already, but was still feeling quite full so i tried to sleep half sitting up, with 2 pillows. still, i can't fall asleep, and the full feeling got worse till i feel bloated. i was thinking, mayb i should try to burp, or worse come to worse, vomit to make myself more comfortable. so i went to the toilet, stood over the sink n started burping, instead, i cough once and everything started gushing out. my mum woke up and was shocked. then i got scolded for stupidly vomitting into the sink, as if as i could help it... After i cleaned up, i called dear and asked him if he was feeling unwell too cos i wanted to rule out the possibility of food poisioning. he said he was ok, so i guess it was indigestion problems again... thereafter, i fell asleep very quickly...

Saturday: Woke up and called dear. "original" plan was to watch the vcds we got till dinner time and then watch soccer at my place. but his pal, alex called and asked for a boardgame session. Since its been more than 6 months i've met his frds and played boardgames, and plus the fact that, i'm waiting for doc's confirmation that i've completeed chemo after a scan next week, we decided to abandon our plan and met his frd at minds cafe for boardgames. I've never had so much fun! we played diviends, samurai, monopoly: lord of the rings edition, some willage/clans game which i forgot the name and game of life. during monopoly, i bit the hand that fed me. alex exhanged one property with me so we could start building houses and hotels, in this case was something (i can't remember) and fortress. after i succeded in building all 3 fortress on my properties, poor alex landed onto my property and had to pay 1200 bucks, in this case, power. he did not have that money so was declared bankrupt and we ended the game. dear was laughing n laughing... i really had such a great time that i didn't mind missing part of the 8.40pm matches.
we left the place close to 8.45pm and went over to parklane side to see what we could get from the foodcourt to add to the dinner my mum had kept for us. In the end, we got 9 pieces of yong tau foo for less then 4 bucks, again, my memory fails me cos i cant remember the excate price. we left the foodcourt saying it was quite worth it cos it's at least 50 cents cheaper then other places. near the taxi-stand, we got ourselves a ramly burger and a cheese hotdog. we ate the cheese hotdog on the spot while waiting for our burger. it was so-so only, cant taste much cheese. as i still cant take chilli, n had requested for no chilli burger, we saw the hawker add (to what it seems to us), chilli powder. so dear said again, no chilli, the hawker smiled and nodded his head. then i saw him putting chilli sauce onto the burger and secretly hoped that it wasn't ours, but it was... so i hoped again that the chilli was not hot at all on the way home in the cab.
we reached my place, heated up the food, changed and settled down to start eating while watching soccer. to my surprise the yong tau foo was good! the soup was tasty. some young tau foo soups are too bland with the bean taste overpowering, some just taste like salt water, cannot taste the beans or the ikan bilis. but this soup had the beans and ikan bilis taste while not too salty, it was just nice and wonderful. the ingredients we took were all so fresh although it was already close to closing time! the fish paste on the ingredients did not taste fishy though it was out for a whole day already, and it was tasty and u could taste the fish, not like some, just overpoweringly peppery. the beancurd did not have a tinge of sourness and the beansprouts looked like fresh bought from the market, not blackish at all... Now, i'll have to eat it again b4 it ends up on my favourite makan places list cos consistency counts too... As for the ramly burger, dear had to eat it all up, cos there was indeed chilli sauce and dear said it was a bit hot, so i dare not even try.
after the matches, i went over to dear's place to sleep, something which i haven't done for more than 6 months too... felt like it was back to the good old days. but b4 we slept, we watched vcd... hehe...

Sunday: dear woke up earlier than me as usual. when i woke up, his mum was preparing to go to the airport to fetch his dad home. we bathed and went to central for lunch, bought a cashbox and change vcd again. he was planning to mit the guys for boardgames then dinner then dota, so i will tag along till dinner. since they were planning to mit ard 4pm, we decided to squeeze in a chinese movie cos it was only close to 2pm when we got back to his place. while i was watching the show, he and the guys were messaging n seems that plans will be shifted back cos one can only make it at 9pm. so it would be dinner 1st, then boardgames then i go back home while they dota. so in the end, we were only miting at 6pm. so after the chinese movie, we watched 40 year old virgin. after the movie, we quickly got ready and took a cab down to mit the guys. it was raining very heavily.
dinner was at rex restaurant. its a muslim eatery but selling chicken rice and zi char. we ate chicken rice and shared a you tiao sotong (squid/cuttlefish paste stuffed in dough fritters and deep fried). the rice was fragrant, soup was nice and tasty, not overpowering with msg, but the chicken was average. the you tiao sotong was yummy! i think its the best you tiao sotong i've ever eaten, cos it was so crispy, not like some others, not crispy at all. definately have to bring my family there to try the food one day.
after dinner, we walked over to minds cafe but it was full house. since alex brought modern art to return to dear, we decided to find some place to play modern art instead. we settled at the foodcourt. after one game, it was almost 9pm already. dear insisted on sending me home, while i told him i can manage myself. but still he insisted, hehe... so while his frds made their way to the lan gaming place to "book" computers, dear and i made our way back to my place. i love ramly burgers, so i wanted to try the burger again. this time, i supervised the hawker and while he was reaching for the chilli sauce bottle, i told him dun want chilli. haha, so in the end i got my chilli free ramly. when i reached home and started to feast on my ramly burger, i felt that it wasn't as nice as always. dunno why, but it just wasn't as nice. so i kinda lost my appetite, and finshed only the sweet hamburger bun. i wanted to know why it just didn't taste just as nice, so i took the egg and mayo and black sauce away from the patty and tasted only the patty. i could taste only pepper, it just tasted meatless. though i could take the spicyness, i threw it away...

Monday, woke up kinda late and couldn't make it in time for brunch like my parents planned. instead it was almost 1pm when we started lunch at zi yean at lengkok bahru. we had dim sum and porridge. the fried shrimp wanton and shrimp dumplings were good. the rest of the food was just average. then we wanted to go to jurong phoon huat to get some baking stuff, but my dad spilt his coffee and had to go home first to change. i had brought home dear's modern art the night b4 cos he did not have a bag with him. and i left the cashbox at his place first cos it was kinda heavy. so since i'm gog home, i could get his game, chocolate (yue's xmas gift for him) and umbrella (which i also brought home) and bring it to him. so i called him and it was decided that when i reach his place i'll call him again so we could get back our own stuff.
reached home, took the stuff, dad changed, and we're out again. bought quite a lot of stuff at phoon huat and went over to dear's place. got each other's stuff and i went home. my mum wanted to make the almond cookies cos we already received orders, but my sis did not wana go out for dinner. so we had dinner at home and started on the cookies at 9pm. by the time we finished 3 recipes, it was already 1am... chatted a while with dear and went to sleep.

Tuesday: Woke up at 8.30 cos i had to go for bloodcount at the clinic. dear accompanied me cos he took leave to work from home. dad was ard too cos he's on leave till hari ray haji. mum was ard as usual. my white blood cell count was 2.5, so dr hwang said no need booster. after the checkup, we went over to wisma c-jade express for breakfast. it was really crystal jade standard, not bad, above avg.
as my toner is running out, i had to get it from my consultant at robinsons centerpoint. i wanted to ask her about some products too cos i'm starting to have wrinkles due to the dehydrating effect of radiotherapy. on the way, i saw a poster outside isetan wisma saying mango has further reductions up till 70% instead of 50%. so, being a mango fanatic, i went to see if i could get anything. i bought a sweater for my sis and a casual pants for myself. since during sales period, there's no aleration, i'm intending to bring it to mum's tailor to get it altered. as we walked further down in the comfort of air con towards robinsons, dear went to the library @ orchard, and i said bye bye to him cos after that he would be gog back home to work. then we passed by ngee ann city's mango as well. but nothing inside caught my eye.
At robinsons, i bought my toner, a deep wrinkle concentrate to save my wrinkling skin, and repairwear day to prevent and help mend lines. total cost, 200+... guys may start to frown and scratch their head wondering y spend this kinda money. but pls understand that at 24 and having wrinkles and not starting to take any preventive measures would end up having a 40 year old skin complexion at the age of 30. then whn i start to go out with my hubby, pple would wonder if i'm bringing my son ard... tt would be really disaterous!
i once watch a taiwanese program and they said due to environmental, food intake, stress and other factors, our skin is really ageing faster then it really should. so ladies at the age of 25-27 can actually start using anti-ageing, wrinkles prevention products. In fact, the earlier you start the better, cos your skin will build up its own immunity against these anti-oxidants, and prevention is always better thn cure. but of cos, i'm not saying gals as young as 16 should start on anti-ageing products. to me, as long as you start spotting very fine lines under your eye, start using. All along, i only had fine lines under my eye, but due to not having my usual beauty regime due to radiotherapy for more then 6 months, dehyration has set in. right now, the fine lines under my eyes have offically called themselves wrinkles (yikes!), and more fine lines are appearing around my mouth area, the excate area where the radiotherapy beams came in contact with. luckily i have a babyface, so i dun look my age. but my complexion now looks older than me! sob sob...

Now, as i end off my 1st offically entry in blogspot, the man u n arsenal game has already played for 18 minutes... back to my soccer match...

Food Galore!

Christmas was a quiet affair this year. I didn't even go to church cos its extremely crowded. so on Xmas eve, my dad brought me n my mum to Golden Mile for dinner. Its a place serving steamboat, zi char and chicken rice. we ordered a steamboat set for 3, 5 dollars of chicken and rice to share. yummy yummy... the steamboat ingredients were fresh and clean, the chicken was oh so smooth, can even rival the famous boon tong kee! the satay was bit disappointing though.

Sunday, went over to my grandma's place for dinner. it was to gather for the "dong zhi". we do it every year. but b4 gog over, i made cheesecake for the gals and made almond cookies using my fourth grandaunt's recipie. when we came back, i was bz decorating n trimming the cake to make it look nicer.

On Monday, the gals came over. winn wasn't free so she didn't come. we had pizza and. yummy yummy... although i didn't eat the whole slice of holly jolly pizza cos of the peppery sause base, i took the crust only, it was soooo cheesy n yummy, great for cheese lovers! the chicken came hot n piping, so it was yummy too. i love hot n piping kfc chicken, hate it cold... i cleaned up the whipped potato and coleslaw, yummy yummy... dinner was steamboat and bbq at marina south. mum say never ever wana go again, cos we came back stinking. its been quite some time i last went there already.

Tuesday was my chemo. amazingly, i passed my blood test the first time round. usually, i'd have to take a booster and go back another day for chemo. so tuesday was a sotong, blur blur day for me...as usual, after chemo, went home sleep till dinner time, but not much appetite aso. received a surprise from my thai ex-colleagues. they had sent me a new year's card with a little gift from p'kae. it was a pair of teddy bears, gal n boy, wearing denim clothings, soooooo cute! Hopefully this would be my last chemo session. in 2 weeks time, i have to go for another scan b4 dr hwang confirms if i'm off chemo already or not. so the joy of finishing chemo before new year will only be known after new year...

Ystday made cookies again. made almond cookies again and tried sugee cookies. sugee cookies were successful, so happy! so since after baking it was kinda late, we went out for dinner. went to the porridge buffet place at kiliney road. they braised items are always there everyday, but the rest of the dishes changes. the braised items ystday were not up to the usual standard, but the cucumber with fishball, braised duck, steamed chicken with braised sauce, fried chicken wing and stir-fry spinach were good. for about 10 per person, its really a good bargain... been there a souple of times already. but i was "lousy" ystday cos i did not ate as much as i could usually whn i'm there.

today, sis came back from taiwan. helped her packed goodies for properly for her friends, mum's frds and relatives. the pineapple cookies she brought back were yummy! when its my turn to go taiwan?

1st cheesecake failure

Forgot to mention in the last entry about my raspberry cheesecake i made aft lining the fruits on the baked cheesecake i made for my mum's ex-colleagues... First time i failed soooooooo badly!

It was a chilled cheesecake and i wanted to make the raspberry swirls in the cake so that it would look like the ones sold in secret recipe. the fresh raspberries bought were sourish and raspberries have lots n lots of seeds, so my plan was to make seedless and not so sourish swirls in the cake. the right thing i did was to dilligently mash the raspberries thru a mesh to puree it. but the wrong thing i did was to add the raspberry jam directly into the puree without putting it thru the mesh to take out the seeds. turn out there were some seeds, thus the texture, to my expectations, wasn't tt smooth afterall...

The recipe i had called for the raspberry puree to be mixed thoroughly into the cheesecake, not "swirled" in. so the gelatine was meant for the entire cake, including the raspberry puree. the mistake i made this time was not dividing the gelatine portion into half to stabalise both the cake and the swirls. after chilling the cake overnight, the swirls were still watery cos there wasn't any gelatine to stabalise it. spoilt the entire cake cos the watery swirls separated the cake into layers. i cut a slice to try and it was a torture eating it...

so today evening, i took the cake n separated it from the base. i threw the base away and made a new one. after standing the cake in a mixing bowl for a while, i mixed it. no more "creative" swirls, mixing it thoroughly just like how the recipe called for.

Now, it does not taste that bad already, but i definately could use a little less raspberry jam and a little more fresh raspberry. too sweet, no oomph of cheese...

Fruit cake, Chicken Little, shopping, Man U disappoints...

lazy lazy me will equate to a long long quite/very long entry...

Sunday: woke up late. then got my dad to drive me to the supermarket to get some ingredients for baking a xmas fruit cake minus the alcohol. whn i came back, i started to chop the cherries, walnuts and apricots. by the time i finish, it was already dinner time. so dinner first thn bake cake! cake took a total of 4+ hours to finish baking including preparation. by the time we finished it was already abt 12 midnight.
the cake turned out not bad. it had the taste and oomph of a fruit cake, but all fruits sinked to the bottom! i reckon the batter was not heavy enough, thus must add a bit more flour. the top of the cake was also very very dry. so either must add more apple juice or cut down baking timing...

Monday: dear took leave again. but it was a bad day. not as happy as the other days dear took leave to accompany me. we left the house to have lunch at food republic. all was fine till we reached food republic about 1pm...
i wanted to try the noodles at one of the restaurants there. it was the chinese restaurant n i was quite gian on the soy sauce chicken noodle. since there wasn't any seats in the "common" area, we decided to sit in the restaurant itself n dear would get somthing from the restaurant. as we enter, we simply sat down n i went to get my food first while dear remained in out seats to reserve the place. i ordered hor fun instead, got my food, carried my tray n made my way back to the seat. on the way back, i saw the lady captain ushering dear to another seat saying the place we were occupying was actually for a place for 4. n after we shifted seats, she started to place towels n our tables and said it was complusory for these and drinks. at this point, dear asked if there was service charge, i knew what he was thinking... cos i was thinking the same too.
when we entered the restaurant n sat down, NO ONE bothered to come and serve us, asking how many people, blah blah like how normally restaurants would. i bought the food n carried the tray MYSELF, even after being ushered to new seats. NO ONE bothered to carry the tray for me. after sitting down, no apologies nothing, just shoved us the towels n drinks. if i wasn't hungry almost to the gastric extent, i would have gave the tray to the lady captain n walked off with me dear.
so since there was no service charge, i n dear open one eye closed one eye. dear started to order his duck noodles and a dumpling soup for us to share. that's when dear got a bit pissed. i was pissed too, but had to act nothing, cannot add fuel to fire... hehe... i'm a very very slow eater, exteremely slow. i can be the first to start eating but the last to finish. i took at least 25 minutes to finish my plate of noodles. when i was having my last few bites, dear's food came... my goodness...
dear refused to accept the food, making the manager to bring back to the kitchen. in the end, we did not use the towels too and the manager took them back. in the end, we were only charged for the drinks.
we made our way to cineleisure to collect the tickets n walked around to find a place for dear to eat. i got distracted by zhuan zhuan again... this time round, it was chicken little. there were 2 machines, one on 3rd floor which was empty, one at basement was could not accept any coins. by the time we settled down at the sushi place in cineleisure, it was already 2pm. it was such a coincidence that Jen was there with her frd too, and were seated opposite us with the converyer belt in between. the movie was at 2.30. so dear quickly ordered udon, a handroll and tempura. while waiting for his orders to come, i mouth itchy, n grabbed 2 plates to eat. chatted a bit with Jen too. we waited n waited till 2.25... no sign of food. so we got the pple to count the 2 miserable plates n got out fast. suggested we get popcorn or nachos or something, but dear said he was not hungry. i bought drinks while dear we to the toilet. when we entered the cinema, it was already pitch black. less than 5 trailers later, the movie started showing...
so excited to watch the movie! so excited to c chicken little! soooooo cute! the movie wasnt as good as the chicken itself. basically i only enjoyed watching the cute fella, not watching the movie. the incredibles was better... after the movie, i bought LJS shrimps and fries and we made our way home. dear went home for dinner only coming over again to look for his newspapers.

Tuesday: went walk walk with my sis. first stop, cineleisure, main focus, to zhuan zhuan for chicken little! haha... but we had lunch first. i had chicken chop spaghetti. a bit regret, chould have asked for the rice instead. anyway, after lunch, tried to zhuan zhuan again, but the 2 machines still out of order. my sis tried for other stuff as well.
next stop, plaza singapura to look at mickey mouse tees and to check with starhub regarding the free tv giveaway... on the way, we stopped at OG orchard point to buy snacks! at plaza sing, no nice tees, so din buy anything. but mouth itchy, bought a box of double cheese takopachi and share with my sis. yummy! loads of bacon wrapped in flourball! loads of cheese too! but i think they accidently switch off the power for the heater for the cheese cos the cheese was cold n lumpy...
then we made out way to suntec. also to zhuan zhuan. we at last got out chicken littles and other charmy kitties and my melody handphone accessories. we spent about 45 bucks, damn our luck was bad... bought a scoop of ben n jerry's coffee ice cream which was so yummy yummy and crossed the road to milenia walk to candy empire. there, i got a box of chocolates for my thai ex-colleauges and proceeded to our next stop, marina square.
at marina we shopped ard, walked ard. i bought a t-shirt and a keychain that had a glove, baseball and bat on it. then we sat down to wait for our parents to join us for dinner. i had a cup of tea while my sis looked thru her zhuan zhuans... when my parents came, we had dinner at sakae sushi. Dunno if its just for marina square outlet, but its quality has gone up. after dinner, i showed my mum a top i saw at esprit but she had no confidence of altering it, so did not buy in the end. thn i bought a pair of shoes too. by the time we reached home, it was already 9+.
after online for a while, watch tv, blah blah, i tried to take a nap to wake up to watch the chelsea liverpool match. but i cloudnt sleep so stayed up all the way. it was a boring 0-0 draw. thn i went to sleep... or rather nap... cos...

Wednesday: woke up late. too sleepy i guess. it was already 8.45 when i woke up. rushed to bath. just then, my sis woke up too n says she wana come along. by the time we left the house for the clinic, it was already 10. had to go clinic for blood test although it was rest week.
time spent at the clinic this time round was longer then usual cos the nurses were very bz. when i was walking ard, i realised why they were so bz cos it was almost full house, so many people have their chemos. after my bood test, as usual, my white blood cell count was low... so i was given a booster. went for lunch at food republic again... hehe... this time round i had economical rice. mum had yong tau foo n sis tried the kway chap. the kway chap was not bad but my economical rice was just the avg, the kind where u eat, but not comment cos there are no comments at all. the moment i drank my sis kway chap soup, i was like, "quite good leh", now tt's the difference...
after lunch, walked ard at isetan a bit thn walked over to the post office at taka to post the chocolates to thailand. after that, we made our way to the supermarket to get some stuff cos my mum wanted me to bake a cheesecake for her ex-colleagues. then mum went home on her own first while i n sis went to bugis to get her bag.
upon reaching home, i went straight into action. took out the cream cheese n butter to thaw. did the base and let it set in the fridge. measured the rest of the ingredients, blend blend, bake bake. timing was just nice, cheesecake done by dinner time. left to cool down at room temperature while having dinner. when grocery shopping was done in the afternoon with mum, i forgot abt the canned peaches and strawberries. so after dinner, i left the cheesecake in the fridge to chill n dad drove us out to buy. n of cos, since i was doing the shopping, we ended up with things not targetted for! haha... anyway, the strawberries were 15 bucks for a 250g pack and apprently from korea. not that we have a choice, they are the only strawberries avaliable.
upon reaching home, i started to place the fruits on top of the cheesecake. and while cutting the strawberries, i knew why they cost 15 bucks! they were so damn bloody sweet! i told my mum, from now onwards, we shall buy only 15 bucks strawberries and she laughed. within 5 minutes, the strawberries were in our stomachs. the usual strawberries would not be done in 5 minutes. maybe 3 days instead, cos we would only eat about 2 at a time, too sour...
stayed up again for the man u match. called dear to wake him up. damn disappointing. lost 2-1 to benfica, ended up last in the group and exited from the champions league. since man u placed last, cannot even quali for uefa. the most disappointing european competition from them since i supported them when i was in secondary 2, about a decade already... scholes put us ahead in the 6th minute, but we could not hold onto the lead... sigh sigh...

Thursday: quiet day today... continued with the cross stitch for my mum's frd while watching tvb serials. dun think i have ever mentioned abt tvb actress, myolie wu hang ee, hu xin er in chinese.
all along, i preferred to watch tvb cantonese dramas in cantonese not chinese but would never spent money renting or buying vcds or video tapes. then i started to like her after watching her act as a girl who's low in iq. from then now, i started to buy the vcds of the serials she's in n watch them in cantonese. usually these vcds are only avaliable after the serials starts showing on cable. so i would watch in chinese first on cable, then in cantonese on vcds. then finally the serial would be on a hong kong channel, tvbj on cable, and i would watch again... haha... its only after i started to like her, then i got crazy over the tvb serials vcds...

3 cakes in a row...

first of all b4 i start blogging today, let me extend my loving-est n warmest bday greetings to my most loving, cutest, handsome and wonderful dear dear...
lao gong ah, happy birthday! love you deep deep... muacks...

okie, now after i'm done with sending everyone's goose pimples out, let me start on wht i've done in the past week... in the last week, 3 cakes were rolled out... an oreo cheesecake, a classic caked cheesecake n a yoghurt cake...

oreo cheesecake still trying to grasp wht happened wrongly to it... it was a chilled cheesecake but it melted wayyy too fast. maybe the gelatine mixture has to be thicker, cos cream cheese doesnt melt tt fast. besides tt, the crust was a failure, not compact enough.

Yoghurt cake, wht my mum wanted to bake. texture was very soft n fluffy. tasty too... everything was good... perfect... except it had a hole at the bottom. most prob its due to the air...

classic baked cheesecake. simply perfect... except maybe can cut down on the lemon juice a bit, too sour... tasted oh soooo good that i think can sell... its was meant as a birthday cake for dear. so after we cut the cake just down after dinner, i brought some home n it was still a lot... so my mum gave a slice to her frd who lives nearby... dear n mum's frd say its a "can sell" standard... woo hooo, its a big big compliment... tmr making another round for my aunt.. hehe...

During the weekend, man u played chelsea. since the russian n portugese brats took over last year, i started to hate chelsea. they pratically bought their title n jose mourino is a big big sore loser... whenever he loses a match, watch his face turn long n black. anyway, when chelsea went into this game, they were on a 40 match unbeaten run... n the outcome, man u won 1-0! although the goal by darren fletcher was a bit taiko, but its was a win after all n it really humbled the arrogant chelsea...

today went for checkups. as usual white blood cell count low lah... given booster. next, went downstairs to c dr khor (radiotherapy), did a scope n everything was alright. so far so good... dr khor even taught me how to massage my neck to help reduce the swelling... hopefully it helps.. hehe...

Cheesecake recipe galore!

I'm a ripper... i have pratically ripped 127 cheesecake recipes from kraft.com.au. i've printed them out and gog to start trying them... once a week? once in 2 weeks? muaahahahaa... i love cheesecakes! here i come!

Famous Amos cookies...

Last wednesday should be chemo day, the start of my 4th course. But i had a sore throat and some facial swelling. doc said that it was radiation recall, the after effects of radiotherapy after chemotherapy. Besides that, my white blood cell count was slightly low, but not too low to be given booster. so she told me to rest for a few more days. gog back tmr... so either tmr or tuesday, the 4th course will start...

On friday, my mum n i decided to try a recipe. i got this recipe from email quite a few times n it claimed to be the recipe for famous amos cookies. the taste was there, but the texture was a bit salah, a bit wrong, did not feel like the ones u get at the shop. the ones at the shop were crunchier and had more "holes" in the cookie cos of the "raising" effect and were darker. mine were lighter in colour and did not have "holes". dunno if its a fake famous amos cookie recipe or i should put more baking soda.

then, the gals came over at nite to keep me company. thn we ordered kfc for supper... haha...

Failed carrot cake...

I think i found a new love...
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mayb not, its a love affair revived...
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but i'll never ever leave my current bf...
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but this attraction is too strong...
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so i decided the best solution is to yi jiao ta liang chuan (one leg step two boats)...
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dear, pls dun blame me. pls forgive me.
not that i wana cheat on u...
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but its only cooking n trying new recipies!
k, i admit its damn cheesy... but since i'm rotting at home, might as well try recipies from the loads of recipies my mum n i keep. last week, we've already tried banana cake. today we did some cookies n carrot cake. the cookies were easy so i'm not gonna talk abt it.

let's tok abt the carrot cake instead... now i understand y cafes charge an avg 5 bucks for a slice of carrot cake, either that or its at least 50 cents more expensive then the other cakes. the preparation is crazy...
first, u have to grate the carrots. then u have to cut the walnuts n raisins into smaller pieces. all these took me 2+ hours. luckily it was done last nite.
then u had to beat the eggs first then add oil, sugar n vanilla essence. after that, u add in detergent. that was wht my mum did... she tot the yellow liquid in the measuring cup still had oil. which in fact was detergent i put in to rid the oily oil.
so we had to weigh the sugar n start all over again... so beat the eggs first then add oil, sugar n vanilla essence. then after blending them, add in flour, cinnamon powder, salt n bicarbonate of soda. n then, blend again... then after that u add in the carrots, walnuts n raisins.
so many thens, cannot all add in at one go... tt's y the preparation very troublesome, even minus away the detergent part. then we still had to prepare the icing with sugar, butter n maple syrup.
honestly i consider the the cake a failure, even the icing is also a failure. the cake is too moist n oily. have to squeeze n drain the juice out from the grated carrots the next time round n cut down the oil. the icing was too sweet. before weighing the sugar for the icing, my mum told me to cut down the sugar given in the recipie, but it was still too sweet. so we might b trying the carrot cake again next week.

oh yah, din do chemo on monday cos white blood cell count was low. doc gave me booster jab n 3 day course of antibiotics. so tmr i'm back for a blood test. blood count ok, chemo. not ok, i guess its another booster n return on friday...