leaves

Chocolate chips scone with butter, coffee

Had the most annoying dream ever this morning. i was with a group of friends (they are all nice people in real life) but in the dream they became very arrogant, selfish and uncooperative. In the end, none of the voluntary work that we were supposed to do was completed. i woke up feeling super pissed. Duh!

double

Peanut butter on white bread, coffee

i surprised myself by updating my other blog today. Finally finished blogging on Trekking Mount Rinjani after about half a year (:

more than a week

12 Nov 2013. Steamed bun, curry cashew nuts, coffee

10 Nov 2013. Sunflower nuts, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds bread with butter, tea with milk

These two images have been in my camera for more than a week. Oops!

i’m back

Peanut butter on raisin bread, coffee

Hello! i’m back from my Nepal and Central Java trip and to this much neglected blog. Will try to blog about my trip in my other blog if time permits (and before that i think i might need to finish Trekking Mount Rinjani Day 3 first, that was in June!). i’ve got 6 projects on hand to work for now and November. Wish me good luck!

simple

Kaya toast, coffee

Simple but so yummy!

updates

Cupcake, strawberry coated nuts, coffee

i just realised that i’ve been “missing” for almost two months, so yeay i’m back again ;) 

Hopefully the upates will be a bit more often after mid-october when i’m done with my travelling... keeping my fingers crossed xx

september in nepal

Cheese and almond bread, coffee

Current reads: Lonely Planet Nepal

For my coming trip in September and October. Feeling quite excited!

productive week

Chocolate bun, hotdog bun, coffee

A very busy but productive week. i even finished a set of visuals way ahead of deadline. Woohoo!

jars of cakes

Honey lavender, lychee passion and dark choc cake

Don’t quite like the honey lavender cake, but the other two flavours were awesome.

puffs

Sardine puffs and potato puffs, coffee

Not spicy at all. i can’t call these curry puffs.

one more day

Glutinous rice dumplings, coffee

One more day and i’ll be on my way to trek Mount Rinjani. Getting quite excited!

one each

Glutinous rice dumplings, camomile tea

More!

that time of the year

Glutinous rice dumpling, camomile tea

It’s that time of the year (Dragon Boat Festival) again. Get ready for lots of homemade glutinous rice dumplings :)

mangosteen and pineapple

4 June 2013. Chinese New Year ti-kueh (sweet sticky rice cake), pineapple

3 June 2013. Mini croissant, hot dog bun, mangosteen, coffee

Very sweet fruits!

three cupcakes

Orange chocolate / red velvet / strawberry chocolate cupcakes, camomile tea

sunday laziness

French toast, dragonfruit and apple

Happy Mother’s Day!

all that pandan cake

3 p.m. breaks has been around for about 4 years now and i suddenly have this thought of whether i’ve incidentally took any images that might be exactly the same. Well, not so much as in 100% exact but based on the probability of the same type of food and crockery used at the same time, it is possible. And so i did a search for today’s break, pandan cake, on 3 p.m. breaks.

There they are, a total of 12 pandan cake breaks since 2009, some plates or mugs are the same but they are never the exact combination. Good to know that i haven’t been repeating myself. Yet.

colour blocks

Pandan cake, coffee

i’ve been eating more than before recently... but i think that’s because i’m exercising a lot more now and not that i am being gluttony... ok but why does it sounds like i’m trying to convince myself?

small plates

Biscuits with spam, guava, mango

And i also had coffee after this :)

big bite

Char siew and red bean paste steamed buns, ginger tea

These handmade mini buns near army market are indeed quite yummy!

coffee beans

Butter toast, coffee

Friday evening lined up: shoe shopping, yoga class, dinner appointment. 

Have a wonderful weekend ahead everyone!

Oh and i need to remember to get some good coffee beans, had enough of this 2-in-1 coffee. 

36ºC

French toast, coffee

So hot today i thought i was going to faint from the heat just now.

blogging

Tuna toast, pear, coffee

i’ve been thinking of my much neglected (other) blog recently and thought maybe i should start updating again now that i’m not that busy. One of the reasons why i stop updating was also because Blogger once again changed their template/setting and messed up my layout. i was contemplating whether to migrate to some other blogging website then and ended up stop blogging totally.

It’s been 5 months since i last updated but i have no idea where to start... and i know the longer i put it off the more difficult it will be to pick up again. Well, we’ll see...

40 pieces

Mini peng kueh (glutinous rice kueh), tea with milk

And 40 pieces of packed chwee kueh for a gathering later.

last year

Chips, chee cheong fun (steamed rice roll) with pork floss and chilli, coffee

Finally did my accounting (i have no choice since income tax filing deadline is very near) and realised that i only worked for about 6 months or less in total last year, mostly from June onwards. Meaning i had been busy with a lot of non-work stuffs. How fun!

another month

Butter toast, coffee

How is it possible that it’s already April?

pretz

Ham and cheese bun, coffee

Love this nostalgic packaging from Japan. Aww childhood memories...

mood swing

Scones with butter and jam, coffee

i can’t decide if i’m happy or bored with thing around me recently. i can be all happy in the morning then extremely dull at night. Arrghh what’s wrong with me?

greedy rooster

Banana chocolate cake, camomile tea

one a penny two a penny...

Hot cross bun, coffee

“Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!
One a penny two a penny, hot cross buns
If you have no daughters, give them to your sons
One a penny two a penny, hot cross buns”

How many of you sang this song when in nursery? i probably didn’t understand... or didn’t bother to think about the meanings for half of the songs that were taught then. Anyway, many of the nursery rhymes have strange lyrics (especially the chinese ones). For example this song, does it mean that if i have daughters, then the sons won’t get to eat it? Or why can’t i eat the buns myself, or give them to my grandma or my friends instead? 

Alright ignore me, i was just spouting nonsense and i blame it on my headache.

i just googled this song and guess what? It says on Wikipedia: “this song is performed to summon satan”. 
Yeah you’re right.

grace

Chinese New Year ti-kueh (sweet sticky rice cake with sweet potato), coffee

Having my favourite snack again.

Current reads: Grace, A memoir by Grace Coddington

Starting on this tonight :)

i’ve also just finished the book – Under the Hawthorn Tree by Ai Mi, and now really wanted to catch the film which was directed by Zhang Yimou. i’m sure it will be good, just like his other films.

year of snake

Vermicelli kueh, Chinese New Year ti-kueh (sweet sticky rice cake), camomile tea

Celebrating Chinese New Year can be so tiring, don’t you think so?

golden yellow

5 February 2013. Polo bun, pineapple tart, coffee

a for alynn

29 January 2013. Sunflower seed toast, coffee

Current reads: Eye Magazine, No. 84
Monotype special issue. Love!

nothing to envy

Toast buns with ham and cheese, coffee

Current reads: Nothing To Envy by Barbara Demick

Started this one month ago and i’ve only read like 20% so far. Getting very slow with my reading recently, i need to buck up.

sweet like ice cream

Curry chicken bun, coffee

i guess if life is just sweet like ice cream, it would be boring and dull. So i would say it’s okay to feel troubled some time... furthermore, if you have not tasted bitterness, you probably wouldn’t know the taste of sweetness after all.

happy new year

Wholemeal raisin and walnut steamed bun, coffee

Hi guys, it’s been a while, how’s everyone doing? This is already the second week into the new year, i really need to keep my holiday mood and get life back to the norm. Happy New Year! xx