Weekends

Weekends are the days for the busy office workers to withdraw from the strugglings of the corporate lifestyle and retreat for some tranquility. But weekends forever seem so short to me.

Saturday was spent on tuition with the boys. They weren't particular cooperative, really gave me hell of a headache this weekend, A power nap ensued and soon I was out on a jog with Kianyong. Much to our surprise, we met Mad on a bike which she refuses to dismount from to jog with us!! How unsporting.

Sunday mornings are to be spent accompanying my grandmother. I spent the morning to afternoon chasing after her, feeding her and folding+unfolding+folding again clothes with her. Everything irritates her....tough times. Rushed home and embarked on a baking adventure. My oven had never worked as hard as yesterday for its duration in my household.

Began the ambitious drive to bake 2 things:

1. Creme Bulee


2. Chocolate Chip Cookies

Creme Bulee(Recipe courtesy of LC's recommendation)

Baking accomplished, out came 4 jiggly custards. Can't eat it yet but the aroma is overwhelming!

A close-up shot of the most successful custard. Anyway, the blackened areas are not overcooked, they're just caramelised. Sweet tasting, no where near those cancerous stuff.

The process of making the caramel layer. I don't own a fancy butane torch, so let's just improvise by using the griller. But apparently I was getting much of the heat too. Watch those brown sugar bubbling like hot lava.

Presenting to you....Creme Bulee!!

The freshly-made caramel layer was crispy and really blends in well with the custard below. Can be consumed both warm or cold. Word of advise though, the elderly might find it a tat too sweet. I took ~10mins to caramelise 1 of this, my mother took less than 3 secs to scrape, scoop and sling a big chunk of the caramel layer into the bin!!

Smooth and silky. Simply melts in your mouth.

Chocolate Chip Cookies(Recipe courtesy of my boss' friend)

Everything blended in and ready for baking!
On the cookie sheet, the pioneer batch awaits.
Tonnes of deliciously baked cookies!
This is for grandma and relatives taking care of her.
These are for me!!! I never knew cookies could taste so nice.

Till then...

I got tagged!!

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Each player of this game starts out by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog!

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Ok, kind of bored over here, so let's just play a little mad's game of 'tagged'. 6 weird things, I wonder if a plain normal guy like me has that much deviation from the common lot.

1. I like to sit cross-legged, as in when we were younger back in primary/secondary school days and we had to bear hours sitting cross-legged in the hall listening to boring speeches. Somewhat rather, even when I'm sitting on a chair, I feel more comfortable or to a greater extent, I can think better in a cross-legged position.


2. I like to cook or bake. Quoting Mad, i'm 'domesticated', a rare species....probably extinct! I love good food, I love sharing good stuff and I believe that's what made me want to try cooking/baking nice delicacies for all to share. Sharing and giving, those are joys of life right? Seeing the smile from the person you just shared with makes every hardship worthwhile. By the way, I just did something nice yesterday, will blog about that in the later post.


3. As mentioned, I love food and taking scenic pictures of them. Partly as memories of having eaten them but mainly to share and put forward a direct picture to interested parties. Doesn't the saying goes like 'a picture speaks a thousand words'? Seeing is better than me spending extra effort and using every possible adjective to portray the best image.


4. I don't really fancy the idea of staying home. I like to go out travelling. It doesn't necessary have to be overseas, I travel locally too. I can just finish work, go to a bus stop, hop onto the first bus that comes along and go with the flow. I've been telling some people in the past that if you dump me in town, I can't find my way home. But since coming out to work and with the fabulous invention called the bus concession, i'm proud to proclaim that i'm much more aware of this little red dot.


5. I speak/treat everyone differently depending on what level you are at. If my feeling is that you are a potato, by default i'll speak to you in English and the converse is true. Here i'm talking about mental preparedness and maturity, not anything physical. If you are mature, i've serious topics for you too. Well if you're aged below 16 and still a kid, that's perfectly fine with me, i'll lower my level to suit you. If you're over that age and feel that i'm talking a little kiddish to you, then time to reflect though. You really can't expect adults to talk to kids serious stuff right?


6. I don't sound very linguistic nor do I look very much like it but I do have a slight flair for languages. I honestly wonder why too. I stopped reading books since P4, the first book I read after that was just 2 years back(Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code) but my languages aren't deproving.. I love learning new languages and i'm not repugnant to learning other languages. To me, everyone, every race and every human is equal. There's no such thing as a higher/lower language, no one should ever decide on that either. English, Chinese, Le Français needs further improvement....Thai, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish will be next to explore.

Who's going to get tagged?? Here's the list:

• Garrie
• LC
• Haojun
• Shiyun
• Siya
• KT

Till later...