Friday, January 30, 2009

What the hell dammit SECOND CHOICE???

Our testimonials are NOT ready yet.

Damnit I'll just travel to tpjc now. Nobody on earth goes to my second choice...PLEASE WISH ME LUCK I'LL HAVE TO BEG MY WAY IN OR SOMETHING. Please please please I know I've been a naughty child but please let me get in!!! I feel so pathetic right now, and my friend with the same marks as me got into science stream!



Just ranting here blah blah blah. PLEASEEEEEE. PLEASEEEEEE.
Damn, reading STOMP makes me really worried >:[




Somebody told me bad habits are hard to kick. Its quite true and I'll have to start bit by bit.

Somebody else told me about this flaw in me, I've been quite troubled over it last time but I never seem to change. In the end, all I know is to say sorry but I've never really learnt from my past experiences and mistakes. I want to change badly, but just look at the above. I'll have to find a way, somehow.



6.5 more hours

Thursday, January 29, 2009

If you've noticed my pm today (or rather, msn nick), it says: I wanna be a cook (for today) and be able to smile tomorrow!


About the second part, I'm sure all of you sec 4s out there know that the JAE posting results would be released tomorrow. Somebody smsed me a MOE hotline number this evening, but it was unfortunately closed by the time I called in. Yeah, some of you might have already found out your posting results through this hotline or whatever. The number's 66912131.



& the first part...you'll find out soon. So my folks were out since the afternoon to help me look for and order some IKEA furniture for my room. We've spent quite some time deciding on the cupboard/wardrobe arrangements and stuff.

Nothing fancy, just an entire wall of ten 50-by-70 cupboards, two 50-by-256 wardrobes, one 30-by-70, one 40-by-70, one 60-by-125 and one corner cabinet.

They'll be in white, black, and frosted glass with silver frames depending on where I want them. Seriously no design at all, purely for convenience's sake and to fit in ALL the stuff in my room of course. ALOT, if you've been to my house you'll understand :P





My stomach was growling like hell by the time it was 8 and they were not back yet, so I decided to cook some food for myself, just to fill in abit of the empty spaces in there.

STEPS TO CREATING EMMA'S IDEAL DINNER!
(something easy of course LOL.)

Let me tell you guys a secret..I've never ever cooked maggi mee in my whole life, just added ingredients while watching others cook during chalets. Or making cup noodles .__.


First, scrambled egg.

One egg, a dash of salt. Pour into oiled pan and fry, don't cook it for too long. You should be able to still see some watery yolk at the end. Turn off the gas and it'll be just nice by the time you pour the contents onto the plate

I wanted to cook another one but the stove was unfortunately out of gas -__-

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It won't look like barf if you don't imagine it as barf LOL. It looks gross but should be fine ba
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So steamed egg it was.

Egg to water ratio should always be 1:1. I've added two eggs into this bowl and filled it with hot water to the brim afterwards. For the sake of my tastebuds, I've also put in some kimchi, a pinch of salt and a little sprinkle of sugar.


Fill the steamer with water, put the bowl in and steam for approximately 10 minutes.


That's the end result. It turned out surprisingly good for my first try, so just stick to 10 minutes and the above recipe.


If you're planning to prepare other stuff, put it in the bao3 wen1 guo1 (the thing that keeps your soup warm, I suddenly forgot what its called)



For chocolate milk, pour in a cup of cold milk and around 4 tablespoons of hershey's chocolate syrup.

If you want, put in roughly 20 cubes of ice in the blender and spray whipped cream on as shown in a previous post. Unfortunately, I'm sick today so I can't drink ice blended ):


Pop it into the fridge or it won't taste nice by the time you're done with everything.




For baked potatoes...


Cut a wedge out of a washed potato, sprinkle GARLIC SALT all over it. Not too much though.

Normal salt should be fine I guess, I've never tried that.


Spread salt all over potato evenly, even the parts with the skin.

See the difference between the two!


put in steamer and set the timer on 20 minutes!


Meanwhile, slice a whole tomato and sprinkle sugar ALL OVER IT.

Yes, raw tomatoes with sugar = HEAVENLY.


When the potatoes are ready, put shredded cheddar cheese into those slits. They should melt abit since the potatoes are hot.


If you're not satisfied with the amount of cheese, sprinkle more cheese like I did. :D

Set timer to 10-15 minutes....AND YOU'RE DONE!!!!

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EMMA'S PERFECT MEAL. Complete with my favourite foods....

Kimchi? Check.
Potatoes? Check.
Tomatoes? Check.
(and yes I love steamed eggs alot too!!!)



wait, something's missing!


NEVER EVER forget the Baco's! (the red coloured bacon bits they serve in the Western stall in the canteen when you order cheese potato! loveee)


Switch on the telly....

I'm sorry the MTV is so...obscene. This just happens to be only okay shot and they had to show her in underwear -__- I forgot what song that was, btw.


Change channel!!! Don't forget the lyrics!

(and don't forget the phone! In case my parents to call for any food orders ;D)


YES THE STEAMED EGG WAS SO AWESOME. I'm so proud of myself for once HAHA.


Very smooth okay. Could have been better with mushrooms and your usual chawanmushi ingredients but KIMCHI IS GOOD ENOUGH. I mean, GREAT ENOUGH.




After dinner:


I put chace in his pink princessy ikea box! Yeah chace is a guy.


Upper row (left to right): Cody, 2nd batch, Chace, Ryan
Lower: Ponyo, Ashley, Clarice


My parents came back at 9 plus! :D

with an ikea hot dog, herrings and a cork board for my room! The cupboards will arrive on sunday ^_^

...Lousy 3.2 mp camera phone. ME WANTS INNOV8!


Sparkling juice!!!


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Isabel, Kaiying and I. Taken outside staffroom yesterday.


I found this at the Ikea counter, quite cool. see the way its bent?


my CNY breakfast. Delifrance Bistro food is not nice at all, I prefer the old delifrance ):




Saw the following outside TPJ staffroom:


Hi person who drew this I admire you alot. Sorry if its copyrighted or anything just take it as advertising okay its really very nice. Done in soft pastel.




Had to take it like that to avoid the reflection.





8 am tomorrow, remember to check your phone. Hoping all the best to all of you (and myself too ~_~)

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Kaiying, Riane and I reached school at around 9:10 am to visit the teachers, since the juniors were having their CNY celebration today.

We had bubbletea on our way up! :D



The first teacher we met was Mrs Ganesan (their teacher), then I talked to Mrs Mohan for a little while and wished some other teachers Happy Chinese New year. Some teachers I wanted to see weren't in, so.... ):

Anyway, the school was having some mandarin orange peeling prize giving ceremony at the parade square, and we saw Mr.Chan and Mr.Poh so we talked to them till the thing ended. While the students were starting to assemble at the hall for the CNY concert, Mr chan chatted with kaiying and I outside for a looonnnnng looooonnng time. He's seriously the cutest teacher around!

Mr Hamdan also came over for a little chat (he wants the alumni to add him on facebook. Alumni only) and went off to get some drinks after that. Being his adorable self, (quote from kk) Mr Chan agreed to take a few photos with us!






:D :D :D We asked him all sorts of questions just now hahaha!


We only met a few other batchmates, spoke to a few other teachers (Mr Ben Tan, Ms Khoo, Sunlaoshi), and exchanged a few sentences with some juniors. (Oh yes, Riane had to leave at 9:45 for work D:) When Mr Chan REALLY had to go back into the hall, kaikai and I went down to the canteen and liao2 tian1-ed with the drinks stall auntie too :D

Just when we stepped out of the school, we bumped into rayseen and started talking to the security guards too :P I surprisingly miss AHS quite abit ):

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Kaikai then came over to my house to slack for awhile (supposed to pack up some stuff together but we didn't haha), grab a few bites (just chocolate syrup milk, actually) and play with the hamsters. We left at 1:55 to meet somebody and took the shuttlebus to Ikea.

We always end up camwhoring and doing retarded stuff there so....ya.




You can refer to THIS post and spot the differences ;D (click on blue link! october 2007 post)


Cute elephant and my dumb expression.


poodle!


My favourite Ikea soft toy which I named MUFFY! :D


Kaiying's favourite, called BILLY!


a mite trying to gobble me up


wow its actually bigger that a hippo! (called hippy)




We bought these toys at 90 cents each:


Ellie the elephant -- mine
Kodomo the lion -- kaiying's


Dining table!





Does anybody find this familiar???


AHHHHHH I THOUGHT IT WAS THE PHONE! (looks at ly)


hiding in the cupboard?! -.-


pretty pretty room!


Cool Cabinet!


Cutest Lamp on earth! (looks like ponyo)


:D (same angle from last last year's one)


woohoo 160+ cm!


):


Banana moon thingy!




The reenactment of "the frog prince" video I posted yesterday (refer to previous post for the converstaion):


"OHMYGOD ARE YOU THE KIND OF FROG THAT WOULD TURN INTO A PRINCE AFTER I KISS YOU?"


"you're...stil a frog"


"You...bastard, sick pervert!!!"


"bye you stupid frog who cheated my feelings"


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Cute bed!


My face looks more retarded thatn ever. Not exaggerated enough to be convincingly scary. Its supposed to be like, "OMG A MONSTER IN THE WARDROBE!!" kinda face -__-


^_^


$25.30 worth of food. LOVE.

Herrings, Meatballs, poached salmon, Almond cake, Marzipan dessert, Chocolate Mousse, Fried chicken wings!


LOVE.


poached salmon = our favourite


Meatballs = our second favourite.





We talked and talked and talked for 2 to 3 hours over our lunch about ALL SORTS OF STUFF. Funny, freaky, weird conversations and anything under the ikea lamps.

Continued walking around, my parents called us over to discuss about my future cupboards and we left after awhile cause it was bored. Bought a hot dog, waited 5 minutes for the bus. Home.







Sorry this is extremely boring I'm so tired I can't think or type properly.

Goodnight.