First in a long time

Before they pop out

Popped up!!!!!!!

Ta da!

My first successful attempt at baking. The last time I baked the rice cooker chocolate, although it tasted ok but the texture came out wrong; it became like a kueh instead of a cake. I tried twice some more, undeniable disappointment. My neighbour told me that it was uncooked. See! Knew there must be something wrong. That's the thing about rice cooker cake, because I don't know how to control the duration. N the trouble I faced was that, online info mentioned that you are not supposed to keep opening the rice cooker before the cake is up, and bearing in my mind you are using a rice cooker, there's no way you can see the side of your cake. So you see! Then hoooooooowww? After having a successful attempt from using my Microwave oven, I will stick to this instead.

This, I had the help of my neighbour whose baking skill is like a Bakery Lao Ban Niang - that's what I told her. So she watched over me while I beat the sugar and the butter. The time to beat the butter batter felt like forever. After it's done, 4 eggs, vanilla essence and baking powder was added. After mixing everything together, I used a spoon to fill up the cup cake sleeves and then pop them into my 'oven'. After few minutes the cup cakes started to rise up. I opened the oven a few times, cause the original 20mins set wasn't enough to cook the cup cake.

After some time viola it's done!!!!!!!!!!! There's this joy that I felt when the cup cake turned out fine. It's a baking orgasm if you wana coin it.

Come the next day, my neighbour commented that it was very dry. So it's either the oven or the cake flour that caused it. Oh yes it was abit dry when I was eating it for breakfast, but that didn't destroy the baking-orgasm that I experienced. So I told her, maybe I am a noob at baking, my expectation wasn't that high. To me, as long as it turned out to be like a CAKE and my hub like it, I am a happy woman.

Oh well, I shall keep at it. First at baking and this is the start!!

Land of Bali - Part 1

Before March 2014 Bali, I had also Bali-ed last Oct 2013, so that was about 6 months away.  Maybe that's why I didn't feel excited before the trip. The last sprint was day before when I had to wrap up the things that I am working on and also type multiple emails to keep pple informed of w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r I am doing. But I wonder whether the late night email was even read twice.

I thank myself for having this bit of kiasuism or whatever you call it, I packed my luggage the night before my trip. That night was the calm before the storm.

The next morning I woke up close to 9am, keeping bits and pieces, and realised there's nothing to eat in the house. So I dragged my hub to go get breakfast. 950am, I was strolling at my house downstairs on my way to get brekkie. So we were just talking halfway, he said I never bothered to check the flight time, da de da, so I said ok fine I check now.

I was scrolling through all the pics, found the flight pic and zoomed. TO MY HORROR, that I found out our flight is at 12.05pm!!!!!!! After calling Nic to confirm, both of us ran home like sonic the hedgehog.

Flight time: 12.05pm
Last check-in time: 11.05am
Reached airport: 10.40am

So you see, it’s not so bad after all, I made it! Perhaps that’s what I say cause I made it, if I didn’t it will be IT WAS SO F****D UP! N then you know what my hub said? Maybe it’s better this way, you don’t have to spend so much time preparing before stepping out of the house.

Checked in. Ate. Boarded. Flight got delayed.

Something I realised about travelling to other neighbouring countries was - you always have to wait so long to get through Immigration before getting out of the airport. We waited at least 1 hour, to me the queue felt like 400m. Each time I travel, I always appreciate the efficiency of Singapore’s Immigration. I can’t wait to get out of the airport after passing through the 400m mark, who knows, there’s another 50m- the clearing of custom. By the time we finally reached the exit, it must had been 2 hours. I supposed that’s how long our driver waited.

Bought Sim card and coffee before getting in our Villa transfer.

15mins was all it took for us to reach our Villa. All of us got fooled by the pictures when we saw the Villa appeared right before our eyes.



Main Living Room 1

2nd Living Room



Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 3

Washroom 3

 

Upstairs Balcony

Swimming Pool -Tangkap place

Daybed

Bedroom 4

 

As you can see, there is 3 living rooms (2 below and 1 upstairs), 4 bedrooms with 3 washrooms, 1 balcony, 1 dining area, 1 bar counter, 1 day bed, 1 porch area which can be used to BBQ and 1 swimming pool. HUGE OR WHAT?! Ok I am not complaining about the Villa, it's about 15mins drive to Kuta. Just that when you reached the Villa, you feel, my expression on the right.

 

 

 

So the building looks like the above, in the middle squeezed with other buildings. Beside the Villa is a house! (Source: Internet)

 

 

Look out for other parts if you want to know my Bali stories.

 

Vesak day wassup!

Vesak day yeah! Actually we love all holidays, no matter what it is. Cause NO WORK!! Anyway just wana have a quick blog on what I was up to. Morning breakie, love this part. Cause it feels like it's the start of the day and more is yet to come. Afternoon quick household chores cause we were too busy on sun, so gota quickly catch up. 

By 230, we were out of the house! Mr Lim wanted to revise his work at a cafe and I'm more than happy to hang out with him at one. Wanted to go with him to some fancy cafés and in the end: we ended up at MS's TCC 😁 can't even find St Marcs. 

Saw what's below? Was the remains. Oreo cheese cake

Quite good but $7.90!!! 

Bot a pair of shoes before meeting up with our new friends. I feel excited meeting new friends. Four of us caught Spider-man together, din have much time to talk a lot. I guess we need to catch up over supper. I already envisioned the activities four of us can do together.

I duno why it was so exciting to meet them. It's not that we do not have any couple friends. I am so looking forward to things that we can do together. 

Short one.. Blog ends here. Ctd next time! 

Labor Day

Went to bedok mall and dennis was waiting for a carpark slot, my bil's gf was already waiting at the slot but came this 😑 who was trying to take the slot. My hub 肚量大, so he said let them have it then. One minute later, this uncle came out and offered to give us their slot. You know what he did? He even waited at the slot for dennis to go nearer to him in order to prevent other snatcher. Oh my god, touch my ❤️ so touching la uncle.

谢谢你!