The great Hwa Chong flood!


and heres outside my house hahaha!


Wow its quite funny hahaha! and i didnt get to witness it!:(
Its quite cool to see my neighbourhood in a different state haha

One Year <3

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The day started with Nat appeared at my house and gave me a rose and a handdrawn plate! I love the plate so cuteeee!:D but i cant eat on it=[
Haha its supposed to be his decoy tricking me into believing that its all he prepared for me haha!

After that we set off for dinner! The plan was originally to blindfold me all the way there! Luckily in the end he didnt hahaha because it was so complicated to get there and when i was there i didnt even know the place anyway! Haha!
We took a bus down to newton, and then took the train southward and nat tried to trick me that we overshot the stop, and unfortunately succeeded haha ass! We took to the end to marina bay, so of course i was like Yay we're going to marina barrage! :D :D We walked to the ulu bussstop and waited for the bus. Then we took the bus which didnt go to barrage! Ended up at Marina South pier. hahaha never ever been there before! But its quite a nice place just that theres barely anybody, just two restaurants and a nice rooftop facing the sea, and there are nice huge rattan chairs to sit in. Nat was being so secretive all the way! Cannot tell me where we're going, cannot let me look at his messages, just kept going ' oh no i hope the rain stops'.
It was so sad that it was raining. Actually it was drizzling but nat's original plan was still foiled and had to go for his Plan B! In the end it was still wonderful though:D

We reached around 720 and went up to the rooftop and hung around. Wiped the chair and sat down. I was like 'hmmmmm.... what are we doinghere? is somebody or something supposed to appear?" hahah but then we just sat there for very long with no apparent reason. All the place has was a cafe, and a seafood restaurant and this:

At 750 we got to the first floor and walked towards the boat:D I had no idea what it was actually haha. But we were greeted by a super nice waitress, then we were ushered to a table. On the table was a black book and a rose. And i was still very blur i thought it was the decor and menu or something hahahah! But after that i saw the words on it :D and knew it was for me. And how did it magically appear there by itself? Nat travelled all the way to this ulu place in the morning and brought the rose and book just so it would be on the table when we came hahah omg so sweet. Then he had a meeting with the boss and laid down his plans for the night haha! so funny

I love the book so much. It was a record of what we've gone through so far. Though nat thinks its ugly, its so most beautiful to me because its filled with pages of his sincere words. Haha everytime i read it i feel like crying (ya im a crybaby), thats why when i was almost going to i would put it down and eat first hahaha. bet you didnt know that nattt:D

The place is called Stewords Riverboat. Its a christian restaurant :D Theres three levels and the top being the open air dining area where we can dine in the sea breeze. But because of the rain and a lack of manpower the people couldnt clean up in time for us to have dinner there.
But i liked the first level alot too
Heres the interior of first level. Its really pretty! To the left was a window through which i could see the sea. On weekends jazz musicians would come to play live. And as you eat you sway with the waves haha.

After we sat down a waiter came and lit a candle for us, and i didnt realise until nat told me that our table was the only one with a nice table cloth and lit candle! The people are so niceeee!

Then we got the menu and ordered food and i accidentally burnt the menu HAHAHAHA!with the candle! Omg so embarassing i felt so bad especially when theyre so nice to us haha!

We ordered buffalo wings which was sour but had a very nice cream dip,

and _________ which is grilled fish with alot of spring onions and a super nice crispy potato thing. It was a nice dinner havent ate so much fish in a long time hahaha! It was really filling surprisingly!

And i ordered Promised Land, which are soft buns soaked in maple syrup and pan fried. Oh gosh its sooooooo goooood! Totally in love with it haha its like ultimate comfort food :D and there was a yoghurt dip by the side as well which is very sour haha but still nice :D comon everything tastes nice on your one year :D

I wanted to go up to the open air dining area just to take a look, but somehow nat ordered dessert and said we could have it upstairs. I was wondering why cause the tables and chairs would still be wet anyway. But we went up and found a dried table with an electronic candle! The waiter/waitresses dried just one table for us so we could have dessert up there. So nice!

Our sundae came and before we could finish it, the waitress came with this! with a lit candle too. Oh gosh so niceeee so sweet. This dessert was a complementary from the boss for us :D so nice! And they allocated a waitress specially for us though they only have 3 waiters that day haha gosh. Stewords should get an award for bestest service ever.

So we had our dessert under the night sky in the sea breeze. Had a really wonderful time. Thank you Naaaaaaaatttttttttt I know you put in so much effort into planning for this. Love you loads and loads and loads. and the other day i was being sad about being a failure in life, not getting my h3 and injuring myself yet again, but then now i know i did at least one thing right in my life, which is getting to know you(:

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My presents to him!
A photo album which im proud of :D
a bigggg one that i sewed in blue! hahaha! im so amazed at myself that i can actually sew something and it looks like what its intended to be! :D

cute teddy bear called bearbear!

haha they look so cute together((:

Potato adventures!
20th nov

Hahaha!
'Dont know what to do' -> Random craving -> Spontaneity! -> kitchen adventure again (:

We really liked the crispy potato pancake thing we had at Riverboat :D So we decided to try to make our own version! With our extensive knowledge of cooking derived from martha, rachel, jamie, etc etc etc, we set out on our recipe creation.

We poked the potatoes, boiled them, soaked them in cold water, peeled them, chopped them up, mixed them with chopped spring onion, salt, pepper, egg... Tadaah!



Then we coated them with flour and fried them! and there was alot alot of smoke dont know why hahaha! The frying was quite smooth going, look it looks so pretty!

Eventually it tasted nothing like what we had at riverboat hahahahah! Dont know how they make theirs so yummy and crispy! secret seasoning and secret coating (:
But ours was okay, Passable! :D at least it tasted like potato! hahahah! my mum said it was not bad haha.

Yay success and fun!:D

21 Things to do ((:

Apple crumble!

15th Nov

After church Nat and I was just wandering around Pasir Ris with nothing to do, sooo.... we decided to go make apple crumble! :D

Apple crumble is like the easiest thing to make other than brownies and it tastes so awesome!
The only difficult step is peeling the apples really. Actually not difficult but more like irritating! The apple skin flies everywhere, and violent people like nat makes the apple mushy and gross haha! After that everything is easy peasy :D

Yay the cute cook!

Our apple crumble was really good :D
But for people who dont have a sweet tooth, cut down sugar(:

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Apple Crumble
from videojug

Ingredients	Units: Metric US Imperial UK Imperial
4 cooking apples 250 g white sugar 200 g plain white flour 120 g butter 1 clove or cinnamon stick 1 wooden spoon 1 pan with lid 1 bowl 1 shallow oven proof serving dish	Serves: 4 Preparation Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 30 minutes Oven Temperature: 150° c - 300° f

1. Peel the apples

   Firstly, peel and core the apples and roughly dice them into chunks.

2. Cook the apples

   Put the apple chunks into a pan, add three quarters of the sugar, the cinnamon stick or clove and cover.

3. Stew the apples

   Allow to stew gently for half an hour, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon. Keep checking as they can easily burn at the beginning.

4. Check the apples

   Check that the fruit is cooked by mashing it a bit with the wooden spoon. The apples should be soft but not puréed.

5. Allow to cool

   Put the apples into the serving dish and allow to cool.

6. Make the crumble

   Mix the white flour, remaining sugar and the butter with your fingers in a bowl until it becomes like a breadcrumb consistency.

7. Preheat the oven

   Set the temperature of the oven to 150ºC (300ºF/ gas mark 2).

8. Add the crumble topping

   Cover the stewed apples with the crumble topping, without pressing down.

9. Cook the apple crumble

   Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until the crumble is golden brown and crunchy.

10. Serve

    Spoon a helping of apple crumble into a dish and serve with cream or ice cream.

21 Things to Do ((:

For this holidays! :D

A list of stuff Nat and I always wanted to do:D and finally now have more time to :)))

21 Things to do (((((:

• Make mushroom soup!
• Make chocolate lava cake
• Make 3 course lunch/dinner (:
• Make apple creumble
• Make sushiiiii:D
• Eat butter crab :D :D :D
• Go for steamboat buffet
• Go on food hunt!
• Picnic at marina barrage
• Have a BBQ!
• 1000 piece puzzle!
• Buy a $10 outfit from cheapo heartland stalls and strut down orchard road with slippers!
• Cycling
• Dance class!
• Go for some artsy fartsy stuff
• Go for year end sales like aunties
• Manicureeee!
• Foot Massage
• Take 10 photos together (at least)
• Neoprints!
• Walk the board walk at Marina

:D Yay so excited about our adventures haha :D

After we wrote the list we realised half of it was concerning food. gosh we're pigs!:D

and after we wrote it we realised we actually dont have much time to complete it because natty fatty is gonna be overseas for 3 weeks non-consecutive :( lousy.

And i dont think we're gonna go for manicure/pedi together hahahahah!

PW IS OVERRRR!

Finally. The end of the torture has come! OP is overrrr! And I didn't do as well as I should though im still proud of the effort :) Yay the whole group did well and I'm just really glad that we pulled through together. And the best thing would be seeing an 'A' on our cert next year, that of each and every one of us in the team, and in the class! I really think its highly likely :D

haha why so emo today? Cos i just read an email from YunHao which makes me feel like crying HAHA!

abit of it

"Personally, the process of this year’s PW has been one of my most enriching project experiences. Some of you might have already heard this story; when I was a boy in high school, I used to weed out the top individuals for project work, to the point where I was usually the lousiest in the group. However, looking back, I’ve realized how foolish my actions have been. For really, working with all of you has allowed me to truly grasp the power that true synergy within a team can bring.

Indeed, the sheer diverseness and yet complementary skills and talents that each one of you possesses have made leading the team a joy rather than anything else.

I can only give thanks for the divine intervention that must have brought this team together.

I would like to take this chance however, to apologize for any unhappiness that I might have brought into your lives. Be it the idea that I gave little thought, the overbearing amount of PW work that always arrived at the wrong times, or maybe even the style of my work, for all of these, I sincerely apologize.

Let me now sum up this long email with 3 words that I feel aptly represents the crux of my message: Congrats, Thanks, Sorry."

Haha i can't help it but to think of Ms Yang's card and ... ... but no i choose to think that this time his words are sincere and real haha (:

Coming to think of it, I've always just complained and complained at how PW is such an annoyance and waste of our time and energy, but failed to realise the other good things that come with it. Especially the fact that that I have an awesome team :)) Haha I could never write the kinda words that YunHao writes (yes witness his bullcrapping skills), but I feel the same way as he does.

I suddenly feel bad for being so mean to him haha! He's been a great leader though very naggy :) I'm thankful for this leader that we can always depend on to find our direction! :)

Yay PW ended :) new beginning!

DOMOKUN!!!

Nat decided to bring me to cine and wanted to bring me to a secret place on level 9 to play games but we were too paiseh to ask what games and were clueless how to book a room to play so we decided not to!and on our way out,Nat decided to try his luck at the $1 grabbing machine!

The machine grabbed the domokun nat was aiming for!but!the lousy claw released the domokun before it reached the hole!D: but it bounced into the hole and as it bounced into the hole it dragged it's best friend along!domokun no.2!:D WE GOT 2 DOMOKUNS!!! $1! ONE TRY!woooooo~ cause i'm Nat's lucky star.





Nat then tried to chiong to take photo thats why so blurry ):






we went to botak Jones for dinner and the domokuns were really hungry and nat had to lock them up in his bag!just look at the picture!it wanted to grab a fry!!!




RAWRRR!



RAWRRRR! nat being the lazy pig wore his ah beng topman basic tee with his cj shorts again!it's fine!!!!it's fine!!!



botak jones was really filling!:D




<3 you very very much (: cant wait till next week!