nails again

I decided to paint my nails with the same design :)

My right hand is always the flawed one...

I woke up this morning with a sore throat and a bit of muscle ache. That was enough to make me stay in bed and fall right back into dreamland. So much for determination to get up at half past eight to make up for lectures missed and work out at noon! Grr. I shall be ambitious and wake up at 7.30 tomorrow. :D

It's nice to spend time with myself again. I do need the time especially when there's SO much to do in SO little time. Finance and Law are the modules I am most worried about. I have absolutely no idea what is going on for Finance and Law is just crazy considering how small(bad) my brain space(memory) is. But it's nice to mend things/ settle misunderstandings. The most recent events have made me realised how much more dramatic I have evolved since, maybe, CTC years? Or earlier last year. The good thing about it is someone facilitated bonding time between my housemate and me... although she might have seen the more dramatic side of me.

This is random but I have decided to really go for long hair (chest - waist length)... & maybe loose curls.

1 more week and 6 more days to go!! I am super excited :D

housemate and PGF

Giving my nails some well-deserved rest. I am having some difficulties in restraining myself from getting them nicely lacquered up though. Lesson learnt: invest in a good base coat.

In the previous post I mentioned that I had a really good week. Apparently it didn't stop there. For the next month or so I had an amazing time with friends. I was given a surprise birthday party organised by the sweetest housemate ever and a potentital good friend. More stories on the latter in a later post. It was a night I never imagined myself having. Ever. But I am glad that I was in good hands. For my dearest housemate who had to go through the spills and stench... and for the PGF who had to stay up just in case I needed assistance: thank you. Neither will I ever forget the surprise by the strike of midnight, when housemate pretended that her room light busted in order to lure me out of my lair. It was quite eeyrie for some reason. I jumped when someone shouted "BOO!". PGF walked out of the bathroom behind me, holding the huge macaron with a red candle on top. They sang the birthday song, I made a wish and blew out the candle. How can I forget such memories?

Once more, thank you both for giving me such an memorable 20th :)

Friends weekend out at Blackpool was fun and inspiring although a bit akward at times. Back in the current, everything is back at the original state. I am spending time with myself once more.

after senior left

Done! I'm feeling rather satisfied for completing the task. I asked tons of questions, edited details, cut and pasted information to get it done. Although it wasn't too difficult for a task, it's still quite satisfying to get things on the move. One other senior said something that might have indicated that it's a simple task which doesn't require much details. For a split second I felt silly, but honestly I'm just a beginner and I guess putting in a little more details is better than the lack of it. Plus it helps in making me learn some things that I probably won't be too bothered to read up on. Anyway, to make things better, senior threw in a little complement after submission. He hasn't checked it out yet so I really have to cross my fingers and toes that it's passable!!

Yesterday felt like 3 days in comparison to the previous weekend. It was quite a weekend meeting up with the good old CTC people. Why the sudden meet up? Serene was in town for a little Singapore adventure. Saturday was quite packed with reunion lunch followed by a night band performance by none other than 22(Shaun, Nic, Naz and Boobs). The crowd size was definitely more than expected! No doubt that it took them by surprise. :)

We had a high-tea at Goodwood Park Hotel on Sunday. The high-tea buffet costs about $43 including service charge and GST. It was quite a decent spread consisting of cute little pastries and petite sandwiches. The scones were nice, warm and soft. I really like the blueberry one! The sandwiches were nice too. Personally I found the croissant with prawn and diced mango to be the most memorable one. We were also offered 2 selections of drinks, just in case the first selection doesn't suit our taste buds. I had Rosehips, which was quite sour. My little chemical experiment discovered that floral teas can't mix with milk. It forms white precipitate! Ok back to the point. The overall experience was nice. High-tea + friends = :D most of the time anyway. *nudges lovelettes*

As aforementioned, yesterday felt longer than the weekend because the day started much earlier and ended late. In addition to that, it mainly consisted of lazying around which I haven't been doing much of late. Ahhh I'll miss my tv and sofa when I go back to London. :(

1+ week of internship left! Omg I feel so much older already.

after lunch

Back in the office after a really fulfilling lunch with Reichealll (Rei-chan). We had NYNY at City Link and crossed over to Raffles City Robinsons for a short and thrilling escape. Just the beauty products section. I love love love jumping from brands to brands trying out the many products! How I wish the salespeople will just give us some -much appreciated- lone time without being stared at or talked to. No pictures once again. My camera is gathering dust in my bag.

Pictures of Relish brunch with A.Chen and Grace from a couple of weeks back. Ripped them off Amanda's facebook wakaka! :D

The loft-style cafe/restaurant. I love how naturally bright the place is!

A.Chen and Grace. Behind is the brunch menu written on the blackboard. Nope, they don't change it. It's always there.

Gossiping never goes wrong.

Lol lol.

Group pictureee~

Grace-ness picture.

Grace left after brunch, leaving A.Chen and me to enjoy some Island Creamery on the very hot day. Finally get to enjoy my special cone after so long!! They are always out of it. It's the cone with rainbow sprinkles (?).

Well I thought I had to change my pose now and then... hey at least I tried ok!

rabbit

Gotta release this urge of blogging. It's immense. I can't control it! I'm glad I am feeling it since I haven't been updating for quite some time. As usual, being an OL have been sucking so much of my time and energy away. I feel fatter already because of the long-ish office hours. My butt is officially stuck onto this chair. Need I mention that I'm growing horizontally? :'(

Anyhoo. I just finished downloading a couple of scanned JMags (!!). MINA's September cover caught my eyes. I really like it. Navy blue background and the slightly dark shade of red (bunny ears hat) really appeals to me. It complements the model's hair real well! My superbly stubborn stand on anti-dyeing of the hair is dying (pun intended). Kao Liese's heavy advertisement is to blame. Chiffon Beige is now my ideal artificial hair colour, since Ash Grey/Brown won't have too much of a change on my hair. It's something like the hair colour of this month's MINA cover girl. It's like a more golden shade of Ash Grey/Brown. You know what? I shall upload it for illustrative purpose. Credits obviously goes to MINA ♥

La couleur des cheveux est tres belle! (omg my French is really deteriorating)

Speaking of languages. I must brush up on my English and French!! Anyone wants to donate grammar books of the two languages mentioned? :D

Mila had a low budget lunch with me today!! Though my taste buds had to compromise with the (not really) low budget, it was quite a good one due to the company. I had fun getting lost (mentally) at Watsons and Sasa with Mi-chan. I honestly think places that sells beauty products is one of the funnest place you can hang out with your (girl)friends. Plus the samples. Minus the salesperson! Electronics and furniture is another. Oh yes. Pet shops too. Amusement parks... Why does it seem like there are so many fun places to hang out suddenly?!?!!

Last week was pretty eventful. Wisdom tooth extraction was not as scary as I expected. Yes there was sawing, drilling and hammering but thanks to the >5 shots of anaesthetic, the pain and terror was discounted to zilch. I didn't feel any pain at all! It was just a little bit of impact which lasted at most 5 minutes. The sound of the whole process was the scariest part! Eh no, the anaesthetic part was the scariest. To cut the long story short, I was injected with a little too much anaesthetic (dentist was scared that I would feel the pain) that I couldn't move the whole left part of my face! I couldn't blink my left eye, I couldn't move the left half of my lips... when I laught it's like a crooked smile! I felt ultra retarded and it was super scary. THANK goodness the effect didn't last long. It wore off within an hour. As a whole, the extraction was made a lot more manageable as I think I was in the right hands. Thanks Naz's mom!! It could have been a nightmare. :) (really enjoyed the 1 week break I had after the extraction too)

Relish with Grace and Amanda on the previous Saturday. I had a delightful time catching up with these two. & listening to the gossips/ social facts. I might have revealed that I'm a facebook stalker, which personally I think is not a bad thing. Being informative is a good thing, no? Come to think of the company, I think Amanda grew taller. It's either her hair/ short skirt or she really did grew taller! Grace is giving more matured vibes than before. (sorry if this came out weird, but I really do think/feel so)

Anyway. Relish is a restaurant located on the 2nd floor of Cluny Court. If any of you do go down, MUST TRY: Coconut Gula Melaka smoothie/milkshake (can't remember what's the end). It's a definite yummo! I really like their parmesan wings but some people thinks that it's alright. It does cost pretty much for half a dozen of wings ($9).

Alrighty! Back to doing tasks. I'm now a courier girl. Downgraded from "HR Manager". Afterwhich, HOME! Hopefully...

totally pigged day 2

I only had an agenda for today: play Sims 3. It's quite sad to be wasting my life away like this! I sort of lost track with my days. Initially I thought today is Sunday but it's Monday. Le sigh. This is bad! I shall start exploring the streets from tomorrow onwards. Or start doing more domestic/educational activities e.g. read books, bake cookies or clean the apartment, the lot.

Finally opened Mila's box of cookies a while ago. It was a souvenir from HK Disneyland and I couldn't bear to open it until the moment is right (OCD much?). I love the box, it's so cute! But when I opened the box, it's even more adorable than expected...

The cute box.

AWW!! Looking at it makes me want to learn how to make cute cookies like that :)

Sigh! ♥

I'm down with 4 chapters of Macroeconomics

Another day spent attempting to be studious. I'm proud to say that my productivity has gone up by a couple of notches in the company of my 2 lovelettes who gave me glares to stop me from being distracted with the random-est things e.g. my hair (bad hair day), this little girl who's studying (her spirit amazes me), the air... if you get what I mean. Ahh, reminds me of the good old times of working over the same assignment together in class/school/old haunts of ours. This is especially relevant to Mila because we've been irregularly close to one another and we both (along with Hosanna) used to have study outings which, at the end of the day, often lose its main purpose.

Oh oh, one delightful thing that happened today was that Mila surprised Rachel and me with home-made bentos! Japanese curry rice yum yum! I loved the curry :D & the rice tasted really nice too since it's Japanese rice and as you know, the texture is just different. It's like more succulent due to it's fat and round nature compared to the other types of rice. Even though Mila claimed that it came out too hard/ powdery, I felt all loved inside - even though I didn't finish the bento *hides face* BUT YOU TELL ME, HAVE YOUR FRIEND EVER MADE YOU A BENTO? HAVE YOU? HAVE YOU? My friend did and I am truly touched that she actually went through the trouble of making it early in the morning! :D :D

One interesting thing that happened today was that... Rachel spilt hot coffee over herself and she was still high on air ever though it was scalding hot. Imagine the horror. I would have screamed my head off, especially if I were to be wearing such a cute, pure white lace-trimmed camisole! Like, my jaw will completely drop as I stare at the aftermath of the accident with my eyes popping out of the sockets... okay enough drama. Anyway, she had to continue walking around with her funkily dyed garments, carrying a nice aroma of coffee along with her. The funny thing is that the coffee actually managed to dye half of the shorts darker brown (she wore a pair of light brown shorts) so it looked quite acceptable.

C'est formidable que j'ai une amie à longtemps! Il y a beaucoup des choses et mémoires que je peux rapporter de temps à autre. Bien sûr, le même chose s'appliquer aux gens à qui on m'assortit étroitement. Et, Madamme Tay, merci pour des croissants délicieuse! Je pense sincèrement que c'est une charmante gâterie pour le soir. :)

A lot of things happened last week. In chronological order, my first niece's arrival to the world, lunch @ TNH with my green gay #2 (Grace!!) and Teng, my expensive haircut which only shows a fringe change (very short and highly temperamental) (all these on Wednesday, 14th) and Shaun's long awaited POP! I witnessed the touching moment of his graduation (his mom nearly teared up while putting his cap on for him) at the cost of getting a horrible and uneven tan. On. My. Face. Nevertheless, it was worth it and I thoroughly enjoyed being in the company of his mom and his grandfather. He's such a cute gentleman! Hehe, what are the odds of seeing your boyfriend graduating from BMT? Each recruit is only allowed 2 guests. :D

If I'm not wrong, her name is Charis Nadia. Skinny baby, weighing at only 2.185kg!

After the haircut, we decided to walk from PS to City Hall because SMU is in between the 2 locations. We came across Ah Teng's Bakery which we all found pretty amusing. I wonder if she still pops this blog now and then. :)

Here's Shaun's granddaddy with his daughter (obviously Shaun's mom, just in case my attempt in being fanciful turns out to be an embarrassing failure)

HOW CUTE IS THIS PICTURE! :D

Just a picture to feed the curious cats out there. Anyway, over to my beloved, he lost too much weight in the span of 9 weeks!! D:

I suppose this picture won't hurt. :P

Ok hang on, one last revelation before I close. I'm starting to find Timbaland attractive... no no no don't get me wrong. Not in that sense. ;)

last minute change of plans :(

Lovelettes! :D

WHAT AM I DOING? Not studying = T_T!! I was supposed to continue reading Econs after dinner as I felt that I have contracted some inspiration from my beloved's cozy crib. Oh yes, I must and I shall. Quit the procrastination and start now. (Of course, right after blogging and a moment of MSN)

I PROMISE! & I shall succeed. :)

It's weird to be making a post. Especially within this couple of weeks that I've been here. I rarely have this writer's block kinda thing which prevents me from coming up with something to talk about. I've got a feeling that I'm starting to pressurize myself to come up with something captivating... or more specifically, something that makes it worth the time reading. Find that oomph. Add value. Inspiration. But, where and how?! Big question.

Anyway, that's for my own thoughts. Daily life. Wednesday outing with my lovelettes! Lunch at Food Republic, free movie (UP! Rachel cried watching the getting married scene while Mila was the toughest one out of us 3) at Sony Paragon and a whole lot of walking along Orchard Road. We ended up at Food Paradise which has a really nice type of green tea (comes in a pot- I like!!) and delightful pies! I think we ordered the mango and yoghurt cheese (I still think this is better than the former). Nonetheless, I like the pie base!! Yummo. :D

The two also accompanied this country bumpkin to check out the much raved F21 @ 313 Somerset. Upon knowing that it's 3-4 levels high, I thought it'd be a smashing cool shopping paradise. The exterior looks really attractive, good sign, I thought to myself as I hastened my steps towards the building. By the fifth step in, my excitement slowly evolved to disappointment. Perhaps it's the clash of my taste and the current stock. Or the temperature inside the shop. I'm not very sure what's the root of it but one thing I know for sure is that it doesn't thrill me as much as I thought it would! The range of stock was not as variant as one would have thought for such a grand store. Oh well. For the time being, F21 online still champs. (boo you international shipping fees and duration and payment inefficiency!)

Spent a majority of the weekend with beloved, as always. We met up with Calvin this time round. Pyinnie, if you're reading this, omg, Calvin really resembles Shinchan!! We had dimsum (yummo!) followed by L4D2, C.S. 1.6 (pathetic defeat) and Clash of the Titans, which, in my opinion, has a comical ending. I spent today (Sunday) lazing around like a hamster. A fat one at that. :)

Eh!? We all smile the same way! (showing only the upper teeth)

Young Rachel. Secret snap, don't tell her.

Oh yea!

...

SIGH. Goodbye my planned freedom! :(

boyfriend, friends and update

Le boyfriend in army uniform ♥♥♥ :D

My two lovelettes (new name!!) ♥♥

I've spent the first week in Singapore with my closest few. My mom went back to Indonesia on Monday, leaving me alone with my brother, who comes home late because of work. It gave me a lot of liberation, and of course, I treasured every moment of it, especially in Singapore because I normally have curfew of a 9 year-old. At first, I felt quite lonely and missed my mom. But by now, I am quite sad that it's coming to an end. No more coming home close to 10pm, dinner out, breaking house rules, etc. I suppose I can convince myself that, with her around, I'll have to stay at home and do what I should/MUST do this Easter break: STUDY. Obviously, that was not on my list of things to do in the recent week. I'm freaking worried now actually. My assignments are overdue. O_O

I'm scared to a point that my heart feels weirdish. Anyway, I took a nap a couple of hours back in hopes that I'll complete some of it. I must, must finish half of it by tonight. (out of 3) Arghhh, I hope my mom's existence in the house will inspire me to study. Yea, I'm THAT reliant. Boohoo.

Being stressed has pulled me into a slight depression once more. Right now, I miss EVERYONE. Shaun, Mom (and soon my liberation), Mila, Rachel, my sister... the list goes on. It never really happened before. My shell is cracking? Perhaps.

While Auntie Pat was sending me back home after sending off Shaun, I told her about my view of LDR and army. I told her that maybe, at least for me, LDR is helping me somehow to cope with the fact that my beloved is in army i.e. gone for at least 5 days of the week. I realised that ever since I came back, I miss him to a greater degree than when I was in the UK. It could be because I was not used to the cycle of seeing in for 2 days straight after 5 days of absence. I don't know how to explain it, yet. & I think I did a very terrible job at explaining it to her. It was so embarrassing! T_T

Alright, I must get back to work.

I miss you ♥

to be or not to be

My 6 months worth of effort to get a fair skin-tone got wiped out within 3 days of being in Singapore. How sad can it be? C'est très triste. :'(

1st 2 days I spent it with Shaun, Monday I tried to get over my jetlag and today was pretty eventful. I met up with Raaaaachel for MOS (!!) and spent an atrocious amount of d'argent on maquillage which is something I'd never expect myself to do. I blame Watsons to carry quite an attractive range of beauty products. They are too joli to reject and I'm deprived of Asian products!! High tea with Auntie Pat and her bestie at Equinox followed suit. I love love love the view and freedom of making tea ourselves! It comes in pretty teapots too. Pity that I didn't take any shots of l'endroit.

I'm a boring person. I'm out.

p.s. italics are french words. Guilty guilty guilty

look what I've found

This was one of my display pictures years ago.

In case you were wondering who that hottie is (those who don't should really slap self), he's none other than RAIN. Omg, I don't believe that I admired him for a period of time! Considering that he's Korean and I sort of have something against switching over to the Korean fangirling industry. What an memory refresher! I've always remembered myself having an eye for japanese boys but I'm definitely sure that RAIN was the only Korean I've ever eye-candied on* due to his irresistible abs...

What triggered me into launching a mini treasure hunt in the folder where I keep my old (random) pictures were my 2 last friends (after much discussion and distraction, I thought I should use this for now). We're currently having a very rare chatting session together! Wheee~ it has been pretty long since we last had one due to Mila's busy travelling schedule and Rachel's mysterious disappearance. I miss you two! :D & it's going to get even worse over the next few days because of the absence of my dearest. :'(

First day of his absence i.e. no communication at all, felt a little weird I must say. I wonder how he's doing inside...

Aaaaaanyway, I totally forgot what I wanted to blog about. I felt pretty inspired a couple of hours ago. Omg, I can't believe it has been that long since I started this post. O_O

*blatant lie

birthday week (real)

Mon anniversaire! :D

My first week being a 19 year-old was mellow and rather hectic. It started off calmly, gradually became unbearable and ended with a huge release of weight off my... well, mind. By now I'm done with French mock and Accounts first formative assignment of the term, both of which I did alright. I'll be relieved if I manage to scrape a pass. Haha, some aspects of me are just that stubborn! Overall, I had quite a pleasant week. I really enjoyed the shower of birthday wishes, care and love! & of course, being able to talk more to Shaun this week. I was all warm and fuzzy for 3 whole days. Thank you, all of you sweet people!! :) ♥♥♥

I made red eggs for myself on the night before my legal birthday. This year, apparently, my Chinese birthday was right before my English birthday. It could have been a really good reason for wild people to organise a 2 days long birtday bash, no? I think I would have done it if I were some spoilt, rich brat.

Le gâteau d'anniversaire! My sister decided to get me a cake, which was really really really nice of her! I picked the cake: Black Forest! :D

Posing with the cake! I'm cake-deprived T_T

Au Natural. (except the nails)

Cutting the cake!

Really cutting the cake.

The top bit made it quite difficult to cut.

Post-mortem. It consists of more cream than the forest. (hope you all get the joke)

Sis enjoying the cake she bought.

After the dinner (her treat) on the next day. As in on my legal birthday. This is confusing, huh?

A birthday present on the day after next!!! As in the day after my legal birthday. Hahaha, I did that on purpose to get you gears moving. Thanks Kodak and Karina! They wrote me a really sweet card too. It was really unexpected and made my day! Mila and Shaun made legal birthday via Mila's lj post (really touched!!!) and Shaun's call. Of course, my sister's dinner made my tummy very happy. :D

To tell you all the truth, I didn't expect much attention during my birthday. Well, namely because I've decided to celebrate when I'm in Singapore. The only activity I had in my agenda for my birthday was dinner with sister, which was a really filling and satisfying one! I'm glad to have done such a simple thing with my sister because I haven't been spending my birthday with any of my family members for the past few years. Distance is definitely the main culprit, with Time next in line. & next year, it'll be highly likely that I'm the only one in London. I know I've been having the mentality that it'll be totally cool and independent to be fully responsible of myself. Whether that's true or not, I still don't know. But one thing that I'm sure of is that I'll be craving for Singapore more often.

Like, I'm totally craving for satay, rojak, chicken rice, char kway teow, soya beancurd, wanton mee, fresh fish balls, my praaaaaawns, chilli, tako-pachi, popiah, bubble tea...... T_T Omg I'm like some hungry ghost roaming around in London! :(

Anyway, enough of home-sickness. Egawd, exams are cominggg!! I've got an ENORMOUS pile of readings to do (all thanks to self: PROCRASTINATION) and assignments due and blahblahblah.. those academics stuff. Same, old, same, old. Ho hum. The next 2 weeks will be pretty busy too due to assignments that have to be handed in on week 10. Le sigh.

Let's talk weather now. London's weather is currently undergoing some seriously erratic changes. This week I've experienced plenty of delightful Sun and it's predicted that next week will be quite miserably gloomy (and probably cold too) again. Last week was horrible because it rained for nearly everyday. It would have been bearable if not for the strong gusts! Of course I would have enjoyed the condition providing that I'm indoors, a cup of Earl Grey, some delicious tarts, a blanket and my dearest. The heater is obviously optional.

Oh yea, the dearest will be heading off to the jungle for training for 5 days and 4 nights. No communication is allowed. This is going to be quite an experience to remember.

I shall spice up my life with new dishes soon. As for now, BACK TO THE BOOKS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILA-CHAN~ ♥

My close friend turned 19 today. That's like the last year of being a teenager. The last year of being young. The last year before she steps into her third decade. Next year it will be 20, or should I cornily say this: not a girl, not yet a woman. So Mila-chan, treasure your every year from now because you're going to be older (and wiser)! You can't say "I'm just xx-teen" and be easily excused from doing silly, childish stuff next year... but I don't think you'd care much anyway!! I don't think you are a person who'll let age stop you from doing anything you want to do. & I'm proud to have you as a tomodachi! (Even when we are 50 and you still want to fangirl Massu, an otosan by then, and paint your fingernails different shades of pink...)

thank you for everything you've done ♥
HAPPY 19TH MILA ARIEL PALAMITA (fong)! May you get whatever you ask for, from university offers to being an AIDS volunteer (I'm still quite worried about this one)! :)

Coincidentally, it's Pancake Day today! & surprise surprise, I made pancakes for myself. I remembered when I saw my leftover buttermilk from Saturday's session of cake baking. By then, it was too late to invite some lucky people over for some pancake fest. I said lucky because well, my pancakes turned out not too bad and if anyone did come over, they would have been lucky enough to share my pride and joy. Or, they could be lucky because the buttermilk is supposed to expire today (opened it 2 days ago- they indicated that it should be used 2 days after opening)... we shall see.

The recipe I followed was from a recipe-sharing website. I have always wanted to try it but I had never used buttermilk before until the previous Saturday. I'm glad that I get to try out 2 new recipes within 3 days!! Or 3 actually. I'm actually going to try my luck at (spicy) egg fried rice tonight. :)

Anyway, back to where we were at. Here's the recipe I followed. Okay, so basically I reaped ~5 slightly smaller MacDonald's pancakes (actual output was 3 varied sizes) with:

Keep in mind this is for one medium to large serving. I'm quite full after finishing the batch.

Dry Ingredients:
1 cup of flour (I used Self Raising Flour- if not follow the website's suggestion: baking powder + baking soda)
3 and 1/2 tablespoon of sugar
1/4 teaspoon of salt

Wet Ingredients:
1 cup of buttermilk
1 large egg (size doesn't really matter actually)
2 tablespoons of margarine/butter (I think I used margarine)
3-4 tablespoons of milk

For frying:
Olive oil, peanut oil, canola oil, any kind of cooking oil (not sure about this), margarine or butter. Your choice! I'd say use oil because the latter 2 tend to evaporate quite fast, causing the batter to stick to the pan = messy.

Optional:
Blueberries, honey and... well whatever you want to add to your pancake! :)

Steps:

1. Mix dry ingredients.

One cup of SRF. I found out on Saturday that the actual 1 cup (in picture) is pretty small. All along I thought one cup refers to the normal... mugs.

SRF, sugar and salt in.

2. Mix wet ingredients.

Leftover buttermilk.

Milk & butter. Do try to melt the butter before you add it into the mix. I didn't and ended up with small chunks of butter in my batter.

Add the egg in and whisk the WET ingredients together.


Yea, like this. See the little chunks of butter?

3. Leave aside until you're ready to cook.

Dry and wet ingredients are both ready! :)

Do a bit of random things.

I was all alone at home, it's perfectly justified to pose with random things.

♥ ♥ ♥
(I look totally alcohol-loverish here)

4. When you're ready, mix the 2 together. The recipe says don't over stir... I wasn't too sure what that meant but I suppose once the ingredients are mixed until they are not more "flour bubbles" it's fine.

It should remind you a bit of mushy porridge/ oats.

5. Add a bit of oil/ margarine/ butter to skillet/pan.

I wanted to test if olive oil/ margarine or butter (whichever I used) tasted better for frying pancakes.

FAIL. Cannot be a chef-blogger-wannabe already :(

This picture looks too steady to believe.

6. Pour the mixture into the heated skillet and leave it there for a while before you lightly scrape the bottom. Flip it once the upper layer is not too liquidy/ the bottom is starting to turn black (just flip one side by a bit).

Heated = sizzle.

Are you ready, batter? >:D

IN YOU GOOO~

FAIL 2. Premature flip. (the pancake looks like roti prata here)

After a few more flipping. Ready! Golden-brownish in colour.

Trial 2: with butter.

Repeat same steps as trial 1. Note the change in size.

Result of trial 2. Looking good! :)

Trial 3: get personal, add Baileys! (used olive oil with this one)

Oops, underestimated the remaining batter.

Uhhohhh I'm in troooubleee~

.........................

7. READY TO SERVE BABY! :)

It was quite big a portion... and I had to finish all of it.

I've been craving for blueberries lately.

Pancakes + blueberries + honey...

...YUMMO! Unglam much rofl.

Here's something random. I never realised blueberries look like such on the inside. It's like a micro fruit with micro seeds.

Conclusion: diet plan is a total failure. Not forgetting the fried rice tonight... LE SIGH. The pancake tasted pretty interesting though, the buttermilk gave the pancakes a very slight sour-ish taste (perhaps from the buttermilk/ salt/ SPOILT BUTTERMILK OMG??!!!) which makes it more appealing to me. I never really liked pancakes because I get sick of it after the 2nd one. Or maybe this one is different because I made it myself. You know like how your appetite is bigger if you were to eat the things you cooked (something that taste better than expected) yourself? Sigh, the kickboxing session I went to yesterday has gone down the drain. :'(

Alrighty, I have come to an end for this mega long post. I hope this gave you an inspiration to cook! :)

P.S. I've learnt that you can make your own buttermilk by adding a tablespoon of white vinegar to a cup of milk. Stir well and leave it for... 15 minutes? & off you go.