Cupcake Experiment

Baking cupcakes for the ROM. But first...

A Ripley's... One egg, 3 yolks! Believe it.

And now, back to our programme.
Experiment #1:
Yellow cake with ready-made vanilla frosting

Cupcakes before frosting. Looking good!

Frosting's a pretty pink, so sweeeeet (literally and figuratively).
But the frosting's too liquid-y. No shape.

Don't the mini hearts look so pretty on the pink frosting? :D

Experiment #2 Lemon Cake with Lemon Icing

Fresh out of the oven! Lovely lemony smells...

With icing. Despite adding too much water, it still held its shape very well! Used butter-flavoured shortnening so the icing turned orange when I added red food colouring. Still looks pretty good. I think it looks better in reality heh.

Another shot

Verdict: Lemony cakes with Lemony Icing wins!

Wonder if I should try for a brandy-flavoured icing heh.

So Near Yet So Far

26 November 2006.

The Quintet's Open House.

TOP obtained. But where the heck are our KEYS?!?!?! *sulk*

The Jacuzzi area...

Not sure if we can enter this rocky area.

Jacuzzi pic 2

Jacuzzi pic 3!

Another view of the jacuzzi. Nicccceeeee.....

My unit! Can it be any more obvious?

The same pic as that in the newspapers. But in the day. Looks so peacful... kinda like Genting when the haze was around. Heh.

View From The Balcony

We managed to sneak up to our unit and lo and behold! Our door was OPEN! Apparently they lock the doors so it was quite heng we managed to get in. Here's the view from our balcony/planter area. (Left View)


Here's a closer-up shot of the view, from the master bedroom. Love the greenery :)

And the POOL view. Woo hoo!

The view from the back of the block, aka the front door.... confused yet? Heh. It was very windy... BUT the wind was coming from the back aka the front door (hah) and because we bought a 3-bedroom unit, we don't have a back window. So no wind for us. Boo. Hopefully the wind will also come from the side. ;p


Some of the units that get the afternoon sun. HOT!

Carpark Rooftop

The rooftop of the carpark. Foot reflexology and er... some landscaped thingy.


The tennis court. Wonder what would happen if we lob the ball out of the court and hit someone's window or car.... The basketball court's on the left.

The rooftop barbeque area. No idea who would book these pits cos it's such a hassle to bring food up here despite the availability of a lift. Anyway, there are two pits just below my block. And those come with a table and chairs. And a great view of the... canal. heh.


Parting shot. View from the roof of the carpark.

Oh. Didn't take any pics of the flat itself cos too dusty/dirty. The flush was working though.


Er... here's a (very ugly) drawing of the layout which is SO not to scale. Heh. Just to an idea of what it looks like. Think there's something wrong with my mouse. It gives me less than solid lines.

So everything looks fine and dandy.... where are our darn keys?!?!

Pulau Ubin

Took a short trip over to Ubin on Saturday last week. It was only for a while cos we went quite late and by the time we reach there it was around 4 plus. Went off the beaten trek (the only way to chek jawa) but ended up turning back halfway cos it was around 6 plus by then and it was getting dark. Didn't want to have to cycle back in the dark.

Along the way we cycled pass this cat that was in the middle of the road. It saw us coming but didn't care and continue sitting in the middle of the road. We didn't expect to see it on the way back but we did. We stopped and it decided to lie down and flip itself a few times. Quite funny and very cute.

The face machiam as big as an orange. Bone structure wide. Heh. Here's a video of its flip.



Pictures coming up when I have time.