Birthdays are blessed.

It's finally our last family member's birthday in a year --- My mum's birthday! ;) Had a small celebration at home. Time to blog about it. And tomorrow's gonna have our graduation ceremony (though we're going to continue attending school, funny isn't it?), so my camera's going to have a big big use for us people (girls) who like camwhoring lolll. 

Actually, I had only captured a few pictures of the cake. So here's the cake from Bread History. Basically if I'm a cheese-lover, I would've loved the cake so much but I don't like it very much, but still, it's very delicious.

Oh and Dad's birthday long time ago. (P.S. Dad please don't beat me for blogging this late ;P)

Happy Birthday to both of them (belated)! ;)
Love,
Rae.

Life.

What my life is composed of is Friends, Family, Clothes, Beautiful Things, Thoughts.

Friends. 

And because we're different, sometimes, we quarrel. Sometimes there are misunderstoods. Sometimes we don't feel like talking to each other but in the end, the ice between us will break, For one "Sorry" said. For one joke said. For anything funny.

Family.

Ohana. Family. The ones that are the most important. No matter how wrong are you, they'll always forgive. No matter how far are you, they'll always care.

Thoughts.

Last year of Secondary school now, so deciding where I'll further my studies. Abroad or remain? Matriculation? Foundation? Taiwan? Or others? Somehow I knew I don't want a Science field related studies. Enough for me for 11 years. I'll rather try something that I can learn, a skill.

Photography?

I'm Sooo into Photography at times. I wish I had a good camera or something like that. But of course I had to wait until my condition allows me to.

Baking?

DEFINITELY a Yes! Gahahh. I'm going for this. No matter what. It's the decision I made with the most determination in my life.
Going for Taiwan for it. Don't know if I will ever get picked yet but nevermind.

Those out there who haven't decided on their studies in the future, think of something you like to do.
Because when you do something you like, you make the best effort out of yourself.

CNY in memories.

CNY's gone just like a blink in your eye. Now it's just memories. And I still haven't update about it thoroughly. Chu 4, some relatives visited me and mum's rushing me to post the photos of the hot-pot-of-the-day. So I'm here. And just thinking about blogging before the exams kill me yeah.

 Random shoot. 

Hahah. Trying to be decorative. LOL. 

金针菇 and some random unknown saprophytes (omg -,-)

Exams are coming and now I'm sitting here listening to this :

Real nice and I'm loving Jong Kook oppa's voice! 

Hope they collaborate again. ♥

Tomorrow having small small school marathon and so-called walking around the school like kids having vacation. Epic. But this is the last year of everything in school for me. So might just want to have a seriously good time with friends. 

Tata. 

Snake.

You didn't got the title wrong. It's the snake year this Chinese New Year. Been to Ipoh first. Change of plans. Got to Ipoh for the reunion dinner with relatives. Not much mood for talking (typing) haha! So just see the little pictures.

The menu of the reunion dinner. 

The first dish --- "Low Sang"

Random *

Before "Low"-ing "Sang" .

The soup. 

They are doing the "Low" thingy and I'm capturing lol.

Meatttttt.

Steam fish. 

Glutinous rice with chinese sausage. 

Me. *Blur* argh. 

That's all and Happy Chinese New Year!

C is for CNY!

You rock, CNY!
Gahaha. Thought of this title makes me feel that I'm clever lolll. So, CNY is coming up SO soon, it's like I felt it's like the next day after tomorrow.

So excited. Haha. 

And I've bought all my clothes although it's not many, it costed me like hundredssss. As I'm not earning money, that's a quite big amount of money spent in my opinion, So  better earn more money when I graduate. Like For Real. It's C for CNY cause these days, I'm like baking cookies everyday. Cookies and Clothes for CNY, that makes a C for  CNY *wink*

Baked Gingerbread cookies yesterday night and Mocha cookies today.

Last night's Gingerbread bear. A little bit too hard and the taste is a little bit weird but it's okay. 

Today's Mocha cookies. Satisfying taste! Decorations by me, haha. So randomly decorated.

Shell and star-shaped. 

The clothes. 

From BeBe, Orange striped dress. 

From an unknown shop (lol, forgotten) , Jeans and shorts. 

Cheers for CNY! ;) Tata. 

Weirdo London Almond Cookies.

Always a busy Saturday morning lol. Baked London Almond Cookies with mum today. It's a first try. Not bad of the outcome for the first try eh? So excited for the next week cause it will be like only THREE schooling days and on Tuesday we get to go back home early because of that RM100 gahaha. By the way, will be baking Peanut cookies tomorrow, AND the next Wednesday will be the RM project, muahaha. Hope it's nice to be there! ♥ Back to the topic. 

The ingredients: 

Chocolate (Melted afterwards) 

Butter 250g 

London Almond Cookies mixed flour 500g

Almondsssss 

Almond nibs 

Sugar toppings (The colourful onesss) 

Paper cups! 

*Le Baked Almonds* 

So beautiful that my bro captured it and make it his iPhone wallpaper lol. 

Not bad. 

In process. Just mix in the Mixed flour and the Butter and add some Butter Vanilla essence. 

The outcome. Of course edited lah but only the colour . 

Some other cookies are topped with the sugar toppings and these are topped with the almond nibs. 

Actually some was too big and made the melted chocolate become merely enough. 

But not bad for the first time lahhh, this is EDIBLE okay? Don't be so scaredd, haha! 

A close up. I love this photo most. Gotta earn money and buy one nice camera and maybe I should even take the baking course for Uni. Should I? Hmmm. This is one of the things I'm actually interested in. Whatever, lets leave that after SPM. 

The sugar toppings one.

The presentation, not bad eh? Hahaha. Wishing next year my baking skills will improved.

Stay tuned. xoxo. ♥

End-of-World-Early-Christmas-Winter-Solstice Celebration (?)

They say it's the end of the world today. But we waited and waited. Waited till it's 12.00am in the United States of America, there's no meteorites, no abnormal situations. So there's it. I've gotta face SPM next year and that's for sure. So today is the Winter Solstice festival (冬至). But I'm not even eating one single Tang Yuan. Not favoring those. :/ Guess I'm weird. 

So spent the night with family at Yoshiya as a celebration for the end of the world, for Christmas, and for Winter Solstice festival. Such a combination. 

The photos: 

Loving this lipstick. 

Loving Mum.

Loving Dad and Brother. 

Family.

The sushis came first. 

The gift that we picked last visit to here. Delicious! Salmon cheese. 

The tempura. 

Okonomiyaki. Never ending love for this. 

Dad's Unagi. 

An "After" pic. Haha. All cleared. 

Before going out. Loving the lipstick. LOL. 

Loving this girl here singing. Perfect singing here! 

Even better than that in the album. 

Of course the album's one was also flawless. 

Stay tuned. xoxo.

Never not baking. 12/12/12

Finally found something to do during the holidays, which is baking. But seems I need much more time management skills before I start baking. -.- Cause always mess up with time and it's like rush here rush there.  Today I baked some usual biscuits from the recipe obtain from the book <Famous Cuisine> It's not bad. The outcome is a success (but I have to admit that there is some overbaked). It's the first time I've ever baked something myself (excluding mom and bro put the biscuits in the oven).

Well, I might take baking as my University studying course. Or should I? :/ Frustrated nowadays.

This book, Famous Cuisine.

The photo in the book. Cookies' name is Sweet Heart Biscuits, but I didn't have a heart-shaped mould, so I just used some others. 

Ingredients: 1. 150g butter, 100g shortening (I used 250g butter here,it's the same)

2. 150g icing sugar

3. 1 egg

4. 350g low protein flour (I used normal flour here, Mom said you can choose to use Self Raising Flour too)

5. 70g cornstarch

6. 30g green pea flour

7. 30g milk powder

The instructions, I think it's quite clear here. 

The outcome. (Sorry didn't have time to take pics while baking) 

Yeah obviously, I purposely avoided the browner parts of the cookies.

The outcome. 

Stay tuned. xoxo