Right now I am just hoping and praying that I get the place at ICSL.

If I don't I will be absolutely crushed.

I admit that I did mess up my first app, I took it lightly and didn't bother much about it. But I felt I really did put in 110% into this application.

I need a teeny weeny bit of miracle.

>.<

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Cuppacake part II

Being a little bit obsessed with baking, I baked two more batches of cupcakes.

The first batch being the chocolate and vanilla marble cupcake with buttercream icing topping and silver dragees.

The second batch was Nutella frosted cupcakes. This time, I divided the portions into 2. One part the normal colour and the other I made it peach colour so the cakes turned out a marbly peachy yellow colour.

You have to excuse the piping.

>.<

My icing bag got punctured halfway through and I thought " Oh no this is not good." I was right because halfway through my piping, icing started oozing out from the sides of the bag.

@_@

The bloody bag costed me 2pounds!! And it was only made of nylon.

Today I experimented with plastic bags and it worked just fine. All I had to do was to snip one of the ends = instant piping bag.

Batch 1:

Before the sinful icing and silver balls.

With peach coloured buttercream icing and silver balls. Ooh la la! @_@

Batch 2:

Peach coloured marble cakes with Nutella frosting. I swear it tastes so much better than it looks. The pictures are not doing it justice! >.<

I also finally solved the mystery as to why my cakes "pow char". According to 'Master Chef baker, Aric" , my cupcakes exploded/ pow-chared because I used muffin moulds instead of the more shallow cupcake mould. Apparently more heat pushes up the cake in the muffin moulds because they are much deeper. Ooh la la.

@_@


I looked high and low around the city and could not find tart moulds!

=____="!!

How can??

I went to the Cardiff market, Kitchens and Lakelands and couldn't find tart moulds.

Am so excited about trying out this blueberry cheese tart and eggy tart recipe that I just found.

Ahh the wonders of baking. Its no wonder that the waistline needs improvement.

>.<

Love love

Cuppacakes

Because I was quite bored for the past few days, I went to town and got myself a cake mixer, a muffin tray, muffin paper cups and all the ingredients I need to make cupcakes!

Needless to say the first time wasn't exactly smooth sailing and the cake turned out rock hard.

=______="

I played around with the temperature and measurements and I tried again the next day and it was slightly softer but still very stiff. The cakes went out of shape a lil' like Owen Wilson's nose. Others exploded/ pow char-ed in the oven.

>.<

I was thinking and thinking the whole night. Hmm what could it be? Temperature of the oven? Overmixing? Over the fact that I don't have a weighing scale and have to do things the 'traditional' way?

-___-"

It is quite tricky i must say.

But..I am taking baby steps to becoming a good housewife/cook. =)

So cupcakes seemed like a very good start.

No batches of the first and second batch because they were rock hard gobbled up before i managed to snap some pics hehe. They WERE in good demand I must say.

The third batch of cupcakes from this afternoon's baking session. =D

I present to you

"NUTELLA SWIRL CUPPACAKES"

I am quite pleased with myself. =D

In case you're wondering what those brown gooey stuff on top of the cakes are..they are actually Nutella swirls which i painstakingly swirled with a spagetthi stick. Yes I know its not a very good job but it'll do.

Okay whats next??

Eggy tarts perhaps.

Till then! Happy drooling.

Love love. <3

Greetings from the land of sheep!

Its been 4 days since i arrived and I had quite a lot of fun although the weather has been PMS-ing for the past few days. Thank goodness i brought some long pants along because it was freaking cold the past few nights. My lovely mango cardigan..the belt got dipped into a fresh puddle 2 nights ago. PERFECTTT. =(

I am pretty bored. Cardiff people..give me a ring! =)

Love love.

As much as I hate to part with my items, unfortunately some items will have to go. ='(

Oh well, one man's trash is another man's treasure. ;o) I wouldn't classify my stuff as trash, i love them!

I like to think that each piece of clothing, jewelry, shoe and bag has a sentimental value attached to it.

Most of them have a story behind it.;o) Like how much effort I took to hunt for this particular dress, and how I finally came across those earrings.

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Will be putting up some stuff for sale here as well as eBay.

;o)

Only one more paper to go.

Come on aretha concentrate concentrate.

Hibernating

Hello my fellow nomads. It has been awhile since I last written an entry and firstly i would like to apologize for my disappearing act. Apart from being crazy busy with my finals and being in hibernation mode, everything has been good.

Now you all must be wondering why was my blog locked for the past couple of weeks.

Lets just say that I came across some extremely childish people who don't have very nice things to say. Fancy having a mouth that can't say nice things. ;o) At least I can hold my tongue. I find them horrifically entertaining because they are so bad their brilliant. Names will not be disclosed but you should know who you are by now. ;o)

Anyway im really stoked that my exams will be over so soon. Can hardly wait for the holidays. ;o) The weather has been great and it makes me feel frustrated that I have to stay at home all the time. *grumbles*

Dress from Betsey J. Love love love it.


White tank from Mint jodi arnold. Courtesy of mummy. Yay!


Juicy tubes in Myrtille and Fraise from daddy. Thank you da da. ;o)

Mother's day is just around the corner. What do you all have in store for mummy? Make mummy feel special perhaps by treating her to a nice facial or how about a girly day out with mummy? How I wish i was back home now. Miss you mummy. :o)

Will be back with more pictures after my exams! ;o) Love love

mummy, daddy
you have no idea how much i've missed you both. i guess it never really hit me until today when i looked at our pictures together and before i knew it tears were pouring down my face.
i know it won't be too long before i see you guys but i've miss you both so much. i miss your cooking mummy and i miss your massages daddy. and how come i don't get to see the guy pour tea from a long tea spout.:o)
i've been away from home too long and i can't wait to go home.
i wanna go home.
i really wanna go home.

happy mother's day mummy. love you always. <3

love love