Buddies

I baked my first successful banana cake! Tried baking a day earlier but it didn't turn out nice and fluffy cos I used expired baking powder instead of fresh baking soda. There's a tremendous difference between baking powder and baking soda yet I dunno what it is. But anyway, I spent my afternoon baking instead of sleeping to recover from the Bukit Timah hill climb.


Strip the bananas.

Bash them up with no mercy. Add in melted butter and mix well.

Add an egg, sugar and a pinch of salt.

Add some vanilla essence.

Add flour in and mix the batter well.

Pour the batter into the cake mould.

Looks ready to go!

Last but not least, place the mould into the oven!

Beginning to take shape.

Tada!!!

Impressive! (BHB I know.)

I brought some over for Kong and his mum to try. I think they found it nice, right?

So the four of us, me, Kong, Kiat and Hq decided to go eat some good food! Fortunately Kong was able to borrow the car from auntie so we can realise our food trip as the journey would be a physical torture should we take public transport.


Me and Hq.

Hq insisted we go Changi Food Village for dinner because he missed the food there (he once belonged to a camp that was near there). I decided to queue for the famous nasi lemak since we went all the way there!

Sambal Stingray. This is good food man! *drools*

Hq and Kong's noodles with pork chop.

Me and Kiat's nasi lemak. I queued for about 20 minutes for this!

4 satisfied foodies. :D

Next, we were headed towards a dessert shop in Prinsep Street.

Figuring out the route as the yellow duckie looks on...

Raring to go!

The shop name.

We ordered 4 beancurd, 4 egg tarts and 4 fried dough fritters. Somehow, we seem to have voracious appetites. The beancurd's texture was extremely soft and nice. The egg tart had some sort of a custard filling that leaves us begging for more. The fried dough fritters was impressively soft to the bite. :)

We sent Kiat home and played with his mongrel dog. Super active and cute.

Me quenching the dog's thirst.

Really enjoyed the nite out with my buddies. Kong's driving is really steady. Haha. I think the fact that we know Kong and Kiat are leaving for Australia next month made us cherish the time spent together more. Ok, enough of depressing stuffs. Lol.

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Kong and Kiat wanted to buy some textbooks for their uni studies so we were ferried by auntie (Kong's mum) to NUS Co-op. Kong's cousin (who is in the Fac of Med) came over to help him with the selection of books. So we had lunch at the nearby canteen.

People are naturally attracted to cameras! I didn't tell them to look at my camera.

Nice but the chicken dun look fresh to me. The chicken pieces is in the pot. Haha.

We went to watch Australia!
Although me and Kiat fell asleep a couple of times, but the movie was really picturesque. It was due to us not having enough sleep that caused our short slumber.

This old man in the show is really freaky though. He appears everywhere literally!

We had Pepper Lunch for dinner at Taka. A lady was giving out coupons outside the outlet and we found the deal to be rather economical.


Kong, Qi and I each ordered a set of Combo Cut Steak and Hamburger set. $14.50. Free salad, soup and a drink.

Kiat, who can't consume beef, chose this.

Combo Salmon and Chicken set. $16.50.


I think Kiat took this secretly.


Kiat and Kong.


Me: "Eh let's take a photo!".



I am still waiting for the download of the Bukit Timah climb to be finished!!!

To 0 0 9.

Welcome to the year of 2009! It certainly isn't a very good start with the financial uncertainty and turmoil. Anyway, I worked on New Year's eve till 10pm while I rushed home with Yi Fang on a cab to home while she heads to Yew Tee. Got a lift by my brother's friend to the bbq pit Hq booked. I didn't take much pictures though.


Kong putting out the fire.


Had to buy water at 20cents at the carpark when there wasn't enough water. Good thing cos I can wash my feet as I ran across the field to find Hq which turned out they weren't at the other side of the field but adjacent to the field. Muddy feet for nothing.


Xiang ming was dead drunk by the time I reached. He did a lot of nonsensical stuffs. Never get drunk! I got drunk once but I fell asleep right next. I hope that's the case everytime. :)


Hq and me...

We headed to Hq's hse after the crowd thinned and Margaret came abt 2hrs later...

Rarely see her. :)


Group pic. The one in brown is Kah Hwee's bf.

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Yesterday while I was collecting plates and near to the plate collection point, a soup bowl and a plate slipped right off my hand! My face was all cringed up when a loud "PREEE-ANK" boomed across the restaurant. The noisy murmur in the restaurant suddenly fell dead and a "whoh" could be distinctly heard. Damn paiseh. First time I broke something in such a "spectacular" way. I quickly cleared the debris and resumed my composure. :(

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!