today was the last of the horrible midyears, yayyyy!!! i’m really happy that the whole nightmare is over – hopefully i don’t too badly and the deans won’t make me drop anything (urghhhhhhh econs plehh)
anyway after school i met up with kk at orchard mrt for a movie! however the funny girl got her phone confiscated (because she bust her phone bill using the net, harhar) so i had no idea how to contact her if i couldn’t find her… thankfully we did though, and went to cine. i had kfc, and saw a lot of cj people and a lot of couples. haha then kk and i digressed a bit bemoaning our single status. so basically we watched ‘wanted’, which has angelina jolie in it and the male lead, whose name i found out; james mcavoy.
in short, it’s about this loser called wesley (mcavoy) who one day is accosted by fox (jolie), who saves him from a supposed murderer called cross. she tells him that his anxiety attacks aren’t what they think they are, and that they are actually surges of adrenalin going to his brain under extreme stress, enabling his heart to beat at 400 bpm and see everything in slo-mo a la the Matrix. then she enlists him into the fellowship of assassins and trains him to kill cross, who also happened to kill his father. and the fellowship uses this shenanigan called the ‘loom of fate’ which weaves a fabric that you can – get this, decipher using binary numbers to form the name of the person “fate” wants killed. in the end, there is always the predictable twist in the story… the ending was quite funny though! there’s like this reference to the earlier part of the movie, and it ends with mcavoy addressing the audience.
on the whole, wanted is basically one gigantic spoof of the martix actually, imo, from the jumping-on-moving-trains to the-camera-following-the-bullet-busting-through-the-victims’-brains. hmmm it’s quite gory, and at certain parts i couldn’t bear to watch i covered by face with my pull-over… ): like there was this part that really made me jump out of my seat.
best part of the movie:
yummmmy heehee. such eyecandy. he was voted as one of the sexiest men alive 2007! however angelina jolie is getting old; her wrinkles are pretty obvious in all the closeups. ): booo and i think she looks better when she’s more voluptuous cos she’s wayy too thin now; makes her look older and frail.
after the movie, we were window shopping and happened to pop into newurbanmale. haha, kk saw a little miss miserable hoodie that she said suited her. we were talking about some relationship problems, and shopkeeper a came, heard and flirted with kk. as you know, all the num shopkeepers are all hunky+hot+cute+flirty, he was all smiley and stuff. kk seemed to be quite taken with him, but i was tired so i sat down, which happened to be eye-level at his………………… wedding ring. haha TOHKINCHENG FLIRTED WITH A MARRIED MAN. not on purpose i’m sure, i don’t think she knew until i told her after that. he was was showing her shirts that said “there are things that look better in you mouth than that cigerette” and other such flirty things… i don’t really talk openly to strangers, so not as prone to such things haha. but okay la, i admit, he’s quite cute. (he reminded me of a puppy)
i bought a magazine and some facial wash today, but mysteriously 50 bucks seemed to have flown away ): darrrrn why am i such a spendthrift. i seem to have holes in my purse. sigh this means i am left with $2 for the whole of next month, again.
love ya girl! see you on friday :D
Filed under: lists, photo-entry | Tags: exams, food, friends, lists, school, yogurt
recently i’ve been making yogurt! it started when i was in shanghai on vacation, and grandmum took out this really old yogurt-making machine, which is at least as old as i am, but brand new. Essentially it’s like an incubator, and all you need to do it put some milk, sugar and a teeny bit of store-bought yogurt in it (for the bacteria to turn the milk into yogurt), and after 6-8 hours you get this really lovely, creamy yogurt. The best thing is, it’s au natural because there are no preservatives and chemicals (save for the ones from the store-bought) AND the next time you make the new batch of yogurt, you can recycle some from the previous batch for the bacteria to be used! So essentially it’s really fuss free, healthy, and best of all, so adorably simple.
and ever since i discovered that i’m lactose-intolerant (only to diary milk and products with a lot of whole milk in it), i had to give up drinking it. which is quite sad, because i like drinking milk. ): to find another healthy way of replenishing natural goodness, i decided to turn to this solution:
the yogurt-incubator incubating the milk concotion. i used 1 litre of strawberry milk, 5 tablespoons of caster sugar, 1 small cup of strawberry Magnolia yogurt (around 4.t tbsp) and a quarter of a teaspoon of strawberry essense. as you probably can tell, i’m a big strawberry fanatic. but i was more worried about the sour taste of the yogurt overpowering the strawberry taste/smell, so i took (a little) more initiative ensuring that the taste will stay, haha!
after refridgerating: the yogurt acheived the texture of a jelly-like chawanmushi! it was really smooth and a pretty pink colour!
a closeup of the jelly-like consistency. pity the original flavour of the strawberry milk got a bit wonky compounded with the sour-ish yougurt taste.
for the next batch, i used fresh, plain diary milk and 100% diary yogurt (after my dad’s suggestion that my previous one was total strawberry overkill, lol). it turned out less sweet and powdery tasting (i suspect the strawberry milk was made from condensed powder) and more like true yogurt. however i couldn’t resist butting some strawberry bits in it haha! i diced some fresh strawberries, soaked them in a thick sugar-water solution, and kept it in the fridge for a bit to get the sweetness in.
muahaha looks store bought *ego*
the consistency is more like true yogurt this time round, and tastes less “fake”. i suspect it’s because the bacteria in the yogurt the first time round wasn’t strong enough
hmm, last paper on monday! going out with mingyi and kingkong next friday, can’t wait! we have so much to catch up on.
but despite the fact that the midyears are pretty much over (and that i think i did pretty badly… haha), the huge lead weight still haven’t been lifted off my shoulders.
list of things to complete:
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IOP essay (long overdue!!)
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TOK term 3 essay
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EE proposal/framework + think EE topic and read books
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Chem revision for monday’s paper
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CAS stuff (i think i’ll be danger listed S: )
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徐志摩 poem analysis/appreciation
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File stuff
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Clean room
edit (7 july 08): almost done!
Filed under: photo-entry | Tags: dad, daiso, family, food, new blog, shopping
haha! first entry on the new blog of mine. mmhmm, i decided to move to a new blog space because i felt it was time for a change. i’ve been at dollified for too long – almost four years? idk, that place just seems so full of nostalgia and heart-wrenching longing that i felt the more i wrote in it, the more i wanted to go back, to go back into the past. that, i realised was partially due to the fact that i started blogging at that user on lj in mid-sec two. anyhoo, i’m gonna stop with all this soppy-reminiscing-the-past-was-better-boo-hoo-i-wanna-be-a-kid-again drama, or this is going to turn into one of the 89758950th emo posts a la my previous blog!
anyway, yesterday was the math hl paper. hmm, gotta say it was a tad bit better than i expected it to be, but still mighty difficult at certain parts (such as the vector questions, a topic which i totally did not revise). after school i decided to indulge in a bit of shopping therapy @ IMM because the huge bit of DAISO popping out beside the huge, blue-lettered IMM sign. haha, i love daiso because of it’s everything’s-2-bucks gimmick and it’s japanese homeliness. yeah yeah, laugh all you want, but i’m poor okay?! i LIKE cheap but nice things cos i’m not some kind of rich princess, which i know several people in school think themselves to be.
well, being the direction-impaired girl i am, i was waiting for the shuttle bus, thinking if i got the pick-up place wrong because i’ve been waiting for a pretty long time, and i decided it was a better idea to ask dad since his office is quite close to IMM. the funniest thing was, a group of bangla workers asked me where the pick-up point was and was following me around but i was scared i was going to lead them to the wrong place haha. so in the end, my dad said it was the correct place (“should be if there’s a whole bunch of people lounging around”) and i managed to secure a lunch date with him! yay free lunch.
really yummy sushi! especially the melted cheese on unidentifiable raw fish one
dad’s grilled-fish-tempura combo
it’s been a long time since i’ve lunched alone with dad (or in retrospect, the first time i’ve ever, probably). we went to this japanese place called ichiban, you know, the stereotypical sushi-on-a-conveyor-belt eatery. he seemed kinda tired and i knew maybe it was because he was stressed from work, so i tried not to bother him as much with incessant chatter, haha. well, it was nice to spend some time together, since we never seem to talk much. i think he thinks we don’t have much of a good relationship, because he’s always shouting at me about school and stuff, but actually i don’t blame him. it’s all my fault and it’s pretty much true anyway.
valuable lesson learnt at daiso later: it’s all about the money! i knew they aren’t as nice to offer such seemingly expensive items at such a low price. before i knew it, i’ve already spent $12 on not-so-necessary stuff like a) a giant heart shaped pink box b) cheekbone compact-powder highlighter c) eyeshadow applicators and etc. it’s like a giant whirlpool; one you get sucked in, you’ll drown, drown drown without any hope of saving yourself from the material madness. and once i start, i can’t stop, so if you can’t beat your desires, just give in to them. (: in the end i spent more money in guardian and, gasp, in SHOP-n-SAVE on YOGURT (but that was for a purpose other than consumption; more later) and measuring spoons (i know, wth).
i guess it must be the thought that the exams are ending, and the great sense of liberation that comes with it (even though there’s still chem on monday… drats) that i’ve become even more of a impulse buyer… ):
