My dad is one stubborn man. A lil' quirky at times too. lol. He leaves people really baffled at times.
Like this morning, I'd just switched on my laptop, and mum came knocking. My dad wanted me to bake with him.
'uh, of all times?' mumbled a lil' before logging off.
So I strode into the kitchen reluctantly.
'Hey come, Zhen, get the sieve... get the flour...'I waited for instructions and asked some questions. cuz' i know Dad don't follow the instructions stated in the book. Do all chefs don't? He loves experimenting and when things go wrong, he tries to laugh it off. That sheepish smile, especially when Mum asks,
'See...why don't you ever follow instructions?'Anyway, we made brownies. And when the mixture, short of eggs, was done, Dad insisted that it was too watery.
'It shouldn't be like this. I think it's wrong...'
'Uh Daddy, maybe you should try adding the eggs first...'
'No la, eggs will make it more watery...'
So Dad added more flour. Stirred. Mixture starts to thicken.
Few min later...
'OK. Can add the eggs now.'Me (shrugs) I guess I would have to give him the benefit of the doubt. Afterall, he IS a chef. Haha. But this time round, I was right ;)
Adding the eggs thickened the mixture further. My obstinate Dad continued spreading the mixture over the mould.
In the mould went to the oven, and out it came.
'Wah, so hard ah...' .... 'Added too much flour le...'(snick)
'Should've added the eggs first right?... Then if still too watery, then add flour right?..''Yeah~'
LOL.
And then he said,
'Come, let's make muffins...'
'HUH?...'So we made muffins, and cookies too.
0_o"
I thought I was working in a confectionery for a moment.
Anyway, some other stuff happened. But am too lazy to type more.
Point is, Mum tried the brownie, and proclaimed that it was TOO HARD.
And she tried to pit her brownies against Dad's.
'The last time I bake one better right? Not so hard, and a lil' moist inside right?'
My brother nodded in agreement.
'See,' she stared at my dad,
'Mine's better...' (smiles)
'Of coz' he'll say yours' better, if not, how to get his twenty bucks...'He was talking about each member's twenty bucks to my brother's purchase of this eighty bucks shirt.
SO EXPENSIVE.Yups, I guess I have a pair of 'fairly odd parents'.
Many friends think they're interesting. I think they seem a bit queer at times. Hard to fathom.
But I guess I wouldn't want them any other way.
Haha.
Stand Up for Love
[Beyonce]
There are times
I find it hard to sleep at night
We are living through such troubled times
And every child that reaches out for someone to hold
For one moment they become my own
And how can I pretend that I don’t know what’s going on?
When every second and every minute another soul is gone
And I believe that in my life I will see
An end to hopelessness
Or giving up
Or suffering
Then we all stand together this one time
Then no one will get left behind
And stand up for life
Stand up and here me sing
Stand up for love
[Kelly]
I'm inspired and hopeful each and everyday
That's how I know that things are gonna change
So how can I pretend that I don’t know what’s going on?
When every second and every minute
Another soul is gone
And I believe that in my life I will see
An end to hopelessness
Or giving up
Or suffering
If we all stand together this one time
Then no one will get left behind
Stand up for life
Stand up for love
[Michelle]
And it all starts right here
And it starts right now
One person stand up
And the rest will follow
For all the forgotten
For all the unloved
I'm gonna sing this song
And I believe that in my life I will see
An end to hopelessness
Or giving up
Or suffering
If we all stand together this one time
Then no one will get left behind
Stand up for life [Kelly]
Stand up and sing [Michelle]
Stand up for love [Beyonce]
For love
For love
a beautiful song. meaningful lyrics.
if any of you have got the mp3 for this. send it k? =)
stOopid pervert. disgusting.
SOME FREAKING IDIOT CALLED TODAY AND ASKED IF I WANTED TO DO, UH, THIS PERVERTED ACTION OF TOUCHING YOURSELF TO MAKE YOURSELF S____ EXCITED.
ugh, I'm terribly disgusted.
=s
ok. some other stuff.
went out with linn to bugis yesterday. took neos. went to century sq to collect my bro's hp.
linn finally got her shilin chicken yesterday, which looked kinda 'spicier' than the usual. and back home, my aunt bought shilin chicken too. -_-''
and i was at home the whole day today. vacuumed the floor. came online. looked through the cookbooks and decided that there was nothing i could do cuz' i haven't had any ingredients around at home. haiz.
please please please remind me to get a job next holiday, and to learn how to bake and cook. =)
rain. and a bet won.
sentosa was ok~ i guess.
it rained! ugh.
barely after an hour after we set foot on siloso beach.
futile attempt at finding papers for our behinds.
then we walked and walked. and walked.
btw
i won a bet.
so now. my mum owes me ten bucks.
cuz she said if i wear a bareback/halter out. she'd give me ten bucks.
and i did.
*big smiles*
don't. come. dare. me.
come to think of it. amanda wrote in my autograph that the phrase, 'don't judge a book by its cover' fits me perfectly.
i guess she's right.
hahas.
i can't seem to get to sleep early these days.
too early, and i'd be tossing and turning. till past midnight.
this ain't happening.
i can't seem to put something off.
why???
Last night, the x-winds played for the alumni (some 400 people or so).
Far too lazy to do a recount, so I guess I'll just provide a link to
Steph's blog =)
I hope I didn't screw up I will follow him big time, but I guess the
Rong Shu Xia song wasn't that bad. It'd be nice to say that we do have a lousy drumset, with a faulty pedal, and a terrible snare. But, it's a fact that I've deterioriated to a level far worst than the juniors, I think. =s
I just envy those who can work their craft on the set without having to worry about
co-ordination problems,
if their snare roll even sounds like one in the first place,
or if they can hit ON the toms instead of the rims. The guys especially, they just play as if they've been at it for years!!!!
Damnz, stuff like that makes me wish I was a guy at times...alright, 'nuff 'bout that.i finally got a haircut!
niloveit.maybe it looks kinda geeky/spastic to others, but i think it looks o.k.a.y to me. lol~
kindacute.aiya, don't know la. the others will judge. and if it's negative remarks, I guess I'll just
try to take it in my stride. hahaz...
wasted holiday
i shall now plan for the next hols :
1. get a job
2. learn how to cook
3. learn how to iron clothes properly cuz they never seem to straighten no matter how =s
this list's subjected to change =)
as i'm typing this now, I'm amazed at how i've managed to live like a parasite for the past one month, being:
a. a couch potato
b. a spender
c. a 'full-time' maid who only knows how to vacuum/iron/fold clothes
d. a late-sleeper
damnz, precious time slipping through my fingers.
and I didn't do anything about it.
just feel like slapping myself at times.
i finally completed the expert level of minesweeper!congratulatemepls. haha.
the holidays are
ending. that means - i'll be bored
no more.
however, i see those
hair-pulling days ahead. omg.
am i to rejoice or sulk? hmz...
feigning ignorance works... at times...
it's tough when you have no say, I'm really in no place to judge who's right, or wrong.
however, that doesn't mean I'm ready to turn into a dumb and stupid person anytime soon.
Skeleton key was nice. the suspense, story's kinda interesting too. was bemused cuz' Celia turned out to be not-as-daring as I thought she was. Half the time I saw her hands cupped over her eyes, I wonder if she really watched the show. Lol.
We finally got to meet up. Agreed upon 12pm, but these 2 slowcoaches eventually delayed meeting time till past 1pm. Anw, we planned to have lunch before the show and ended up with hotdogs. last dec, we barely finished the drinks that came with the 'hotdog combo', and history repeated itself when we threw away the almost untouched drinks yet again.
The neo-machine cranked up, so did we.
Stuck around the mall looking for bags. none to our satisfaction. oh wells. And we almost yielded to temptation to parting with our money for, as what Celia calls them, 'ball skirts'.
are they really called ball skirts?... *shrugs*celia celia, will we ever get our bags, and the skirts?...
I'm not exactly the spender I wish I was at times. Each time i hand over the cash to the one behind the counter, I can't help but feel a lil' guilty. It's the 'i-know-i-shouldn't-be-spending-but-i-want-that-(
insert)' kind of feeling. Worst, a punch in the face back home if my elders stare disapprovingly at my purchase. Haha~
Meanwhile, I guess I shall, uh, hold back for a while. Maybe till the next holidays when I do get a job.
But then again, I actually still have the earnings from my post-Os job. =x
2 more weeks, and I'll be back at school.
From the start of the holidays, I've been trying to get past the expert level of minesweepers, but to no avail.
What a loser.
haha.
Good thing I didn't watch 50 first dates at the theatre. I would have left looking like Rudolph with a red nose, and puffy eyes.
i wish...
back home. so alone. having dinner in front of my laptop.
feeling so down all of a sudden, downright wretched and miserable.
i don't understand.
detests letting trivial and petty matters getting to me. not that i even know what it is.
i'm feeling so angsty! >=E
just a quick one before i go off.
last night, i went for this, um, annual vegetarian dinner, alongside hundred others. As usual, the mock meat dishes and what-have-you-not(s). Mainly, 8 days of 'flour-ry' meal before yester night's.
the air was filled with the smell of burning incense (cuz it was part of custom that we had to pray, before the dinner)
there were also people bidding for those incense holders (supposedly to bring good luck and prosperity to successful bidders)
i'm giving a really vague account here. interested, head down to the place on the 8th of the lunar 9th month. (that sounded wrong gramatically... haha)
and i saw my nephew. he's really hyper, and kinda 'money-faced'... lol~ a kiss for 10 bucks. [not bad for starters]
and my cousin, this really handsome boy. he's put on a bit of weight recently, and i find him looking more and more like my youngest brother when he was little. haha.
anyway, it's interesting how he seems to be extra friendly towards me recently. probably due to the fact that i don't tag along during visits to my paternal grandparents. that big smile on his face, i've never really seen that before. if my memory doesn't fail me, he ain't that amiable previously. he used to pinch and kick me. darn boy. ah wells~ i shan't harp upon it. and he's got dimples. haha~
ohs, and i got myself like 5 more roses. my aunt bought them for 2 bucks per stalk as donation towards the TTSH patient fund or sth. i've already got a pink one before from last year's event. the 5 new ones shall be twined alongside the old one, on my window =))
i just love roses. don't you? =D
many thanks GS.
there was just too much that i had lost with those entries, and it's back! woohoo~!
i guess CIP didn't help much, other than knowing that HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. =s
piano today, and...and... (without prior notice) we did 'filming' today. omg. my hair looked so unkempt from the side. but it helped cover my face, and acted as a shield between the cam and me. i just hate the cam. how am i ever gg to survive the masterclass?! *faints*
and the bumble bee died. like *plop* and it's dead. ah~~~ should i cont with it..? =s
it's not that i don't enjoy playing. it's just that, i'm less expressive...............
ok, that sounds like a lame excuse.
when will i ever overcome that?....
i guess i need some hypnotising, or sth.
anw, where did all my previous entries go? i can't find any archives, nor any traces of it.
uh, help?
disappointment.
''if i touched a burning candle, i can feel no pain..''
i hope it's just me.
chaperon'in
2 days ago, seeing how it's already tues (at this unearthly hour though i've got nothing much to do), i was at istana park with steph to do chaperon'in.
we reached early, and waited while the rest did the PA stuff. after collecting those sponsered tees, we walked to the mobile toilets only to find it locked. students were expected to be in soon, and desperate us ran through the underpass to PS' toilets to change instead.
in our soaked tees, we made our way to sg shopping centre to await the arrivals of the sch buses. and guess what?! they came from all over the area other than the one place that we were stupidly waiting at. how nice of them to make us run round like madwomen, again~
anw, i didn't have a good time managing two schs tgt at the same time. and it didn't help that we had one grp that was kinda snobbish. little miss-es know-it-all(s)~~~
the other (a mixed sch) had guys, or rather, little monkeys, running all over the place, standing atop places posing like raffles.
so ya, [little miss-es know it alls MEET little monkeys and miss-es talk-non-stop EQUALS headaches]
scorching hot weather, even though it rained hrs ago, thoroughly soaked, and stinking to the high heavens. thank god Kim could take over chaperoning one sch during the actual show, so i was spared of the monkeys. =)
the walkie talkie (aka.talkabout, as written on the device) was cranky. i screamed myself hoarse at times, and strained to hear what was coming through it.
supportive parents came along with the kids, and teachers who brought along mosquito repellents to spray kids who lined up for that. it'd be nice to spray a lil' on us too - i got like 6 mosquito bites or sth. =s i'm so prone to bites. of all stuff/people/insects, i had to appear attractive to big fat blood-suckers. how fantabulous.
right, then, sth cropped up during the concert and we had to play councillors to SOME sulky princesses. nerve-wrecking but i think the finale made up for it.
and after the end of the concert, i accompanied 2 teachers + 2 students back to their bus (a BIG and EMPTY bus) since the rest had parents taking them home. which wasn't a smart thing to do since there'd be no one to help take the instrus when they're back at sch~
wells. that was it.
i think i'll have another go at chaperoning again. sometime.
poor siew ting.. we only got to celebrate her birthday yesterday, though it's long over....
so, it was a meeting-cum-celebration yesterday at sakae, courtesy of Mrs Lee =D
I do realise how everything's falling into place already, and it's kinda exciting yet freaky. oooooo~~~~
can't wait. whatever it turns out to be, it'd be a memorable exp. better if it turns out a success. =)
it's always better if lao shi says she's not looking. so at rehearsals, can i request the 4 of you to do the same?... ok, not possible. haha. gee~ that sounded kinda dumb. =s
will be doing chaperone'in with Steph later. i hope the kids behave. Lol~
i heard we'll be having chicken fillets for dinner?... right~ again.
i remember having KFC for dinner at the national day parade rehearsal when I was a p5 kid. it was a 'wet affair'- had soggy chickens and stuff.
no wish to relive that today.
i hope it doesn't pour today like it did the past few days. *cross fingers*
so lost.
i sometimes wonder, if i could have lived a better life...
alright, maybe not 'better'...it's more of 'different'...
like,
how would it be if i ended up at XM pri instead of Pps...if i became a anderson pupil instead of a XMS student...if i were to join SJAB instead of XMSSB...if I were in a certain JC instead of a poly...
it's weird how these decisions change after I've envisioned walking down the pri-sec-JC-Uni route since like forever....
anw, i suppose given this present time and state, there's no time for looking back.
but i seriously don't know where i'm heading towards with all that i'm doing now...
like, do i really want to be an accountant??? damnz. this is so contradictory.
all that $ I spent....
today was eventful. =)
first met up with steph at hg mrt station, and proceeded to PS where we window-shopped as we waited for Pearlin. and i finally got the racer tee!!!! so happy =) cuz it fits to a T. black! (shall we wear it on Sun??)
pearlin finally arrived, after doing her um, project, and thereafter we proceeded to Mast Music. we were so excited at the prospects of a 40% shop-wide discount. BUT BUT BUT... we saw them packing when we arrived... like what?! after walking all the way there from PS!!! risked a few cranky traffic lights as well..... what a disappointment.
luckily, steph tot of a shop stowed away at a corner of Bras Basah, and we finally got those drum pads and sticks~! =D
upon payment, we made a discovery. that the pads cost $24 instead of $30, and the sticks- $13.20 instead of $16.50. what a steal. a 20% discount? lol. guess that kinda made up for the 'Mast disappointment'. hee~
oh then the Looonnggg-wwwinnded bday girl insisted on paying. eventually, she got to pay for her own practise pad. and we paid for her sticks. which we were supposed to sign on. someday.
so happily, we proceeded to Mac's for, er, 'high tea' and cleanly forgotten about visiting the NLB. ugh... all the way there. and i actually forgotten, just great.
and after looking around for 'non-couple seats' at Mac's, we checked to see if our practise pads contained roaches' eggs. that salesperson do look kinda familiar. i found him to be quite sarcastic actually, but shall not harp on it, (in view of the 20% disc) haha...
so then we stayed on at Mac's till around 6, before making our way to Bugis Junction where Pearlin bought her white tee.
and we popped into this Mickey Mouse shop before heading home. saw this nice skirt, and many nice tops, and jackets. pity the 30% discount ends today.... but oh well~~~~~
i think i've spent more than i should today, and here's my list of purchase:
- racer tee from giordano $9.80 (cuz of 30% disc storewide, originally priced @ $14)
- SD1 sticks $13.20
- practise pad $24
and some miscellaneous stuffs. all in all, I spent about $60+++, which is like a lot to me. so ya~ lol.
if you've come reading thus far,um, thanks.
