I had been cravinngggggggggg for Chocolate fondant/lava cake ever since my birthday. I remembered exclaiming "oooooohhh desserts.." when i saw chocolate fondant cake in the menu at wavehouse but ericia, hans & andrew surprised me with another of my favorite- strawberry shortcake :) Few places seemed to be selling it outside (or rather, i rarely venture out often these days, eating out is so expensive with gst, service charge etc..).

So, jiajia and i decided to bake it ourselves with our new oven!

Did a search on youtube and decided to follow this video, written recipe here.

• 5 oz of dark chocolate (at least 60% cocoa)- we bought van houten's semi sweet chocolate 48% wrongly, so we just tried our luck and added in an additional 5 teaspoons of pure cocoa powder since we had it, to try to give it a higher cocoa percentage haha.
• 3 large eggs
• 1 cup of sugar- 100++g of sugar should be sufficient.
• 1/4 cup of flour- this is around 30g
• 5 tablespoons of butter
• 1/2 teaspoon of cardamom (or cinnamon, chili pepper, vanilla extract, etc.)- we used vanilla essence, wondered how chili pepper chocolate fondant cake would taste like though?

 melt chocolate & butter by indirect heat, add in vanilla essence.

beat eggs+ sugar till off-white, then add in flour.

slowly add chocolate mixture into egg+sugar+flour mixture. slowly, to prevent the eggs from getting cooked as hot chocolate has very high temperature.

coat the ramequins (we bought ours from daiso cheap cheap!) generously with butter.

I feel that the most important and difficult part of the whole chocolate fondant/lava cake is the timing of baking. Oven should be preheated to 205 degree celsius before. Do not be too greedy, just fill ramequins to a-little-more-than-half and bake for 12mins. We did tried filling ramequins to about three quarters, baking results were horrendous as the chocolate sloshed out (when we turned the ramequins) and the fondant cake wasnt cooked enough. It doesnt meant that we should cook it much longer, as the longer you cook, the less runny the centre would be.

Our first batch turned out puuuuuuuuuuurfect though!

*craving satisfied!

And jiajia is such a dear to bake together with me!

We were both cheering excitedly (yayy! yayy! *jumping excitedly on the spot) when the chocolate oozed out!

Well i spent the night before my birthday with a bunch of the sweetest people, Ericia (who is sporting a gorgeous pixie cut), Hans & Andrew :)

Come to think about it, this is the First time in my many birthdays that i went out to have fun on the eve of my birthday. The past many years of birthday eve were always spent at home, often mugging for the last paper since 7May always coincides with the exam period.

1-for-1 on all food and drinks (and even beer!) at wavehouse sentosa. Thanks Hans & Andrew for bringing me to finally try out wavehouse! I think an hour of wavehouse is probably enough for newbies like me, given the whole week of ACHE that the 1 hour could give me. The guys &  Ericia commented that i did very well as a first timer *chuckles (I managed to stand for quite a long time on my first try!). But whenever i fall, im feel like this frail helpless doll, hands and legs fraying everywhere, being pushed all the way to the back mercilessly by the current hahaha.

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My day of my birthday itself was actually a quiet and heartwarming affair. Jiajia and i celebrated at USS the day before my birthday eve actually. His mom specially prepared steamboat for me knowing that i loveeeeee steamboat. JiaJia and i spent abit of time shopping for more groceries in IMM before going back to eat in fact:)

Night time was spent at my 2nd uncle's place. Thanks cousin Rosalind for the cake, and princess kimi for blowing off the candles tog with ah yi . Mother's day was the next day hence if you had realised, all my cakes are heart shaped. (can u spot my mom in the picture below? p.s. we are sporting the same fringe). The whole family then spent the night counting down to election results since my birthday fell on election day.

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And belated birthday celebrations with SIM friends and the girls continued (after the girls' SIM exams) on 16May. Marutama for ramen, cutting cake by the Singapore River then to Butter Factory! Erm yes, feels weird to say this but we went clubbing on a Monday since it was vesak day the next day. Who says strong bonds cant be forged in university. *grins. The guys Christian, Joseph, Thomas, Lester, Zihui plus Melissa are my SIM/clubbing gang. The girls Mingfeng, Rena and Karen enlarged my clubbing gang (since i introduced them to the guys during our last few clubbing sessions). Hahhahaa complicated right. Wasnt expecting them, but it was great to have Aubrey, Lisa and Winston joined us that night as well :)) Thanks for the great night guys!

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With JieMeis was double celebration. Met up with them for dinner on 25May (i was craving for crabs) plus an ice cream & bowling session thereafter. Really enjoyed our "activity night" in the west. We should really do more of these rather than wander aimlessly in town, though i have really proven myself to be "lang gao queen" tat night huh. My bowling skills have literally gone down the lang gao drain-_-

2nd celebration was when they wanted to pass me my birthday loot which had arrived from ASOS! Did i mention that i love bowling bags?! Went for desserts at Wildhoney (dinner for me since i met them after my Nandos event). This 3 jiemeis is a group which i held very close to my heart. Friends still secondary 1 till now. Even my mom knows them as my 3 jiemeis, Jinyuan Youguan Weishan. ("mommy i going out w san jiemei....")

I sincerely thank everybody for the love that you have showered on me this year. Really appreciate each and everyone of your efforts, and the fun and joy we shared together for my special day. To friendship, family and love! May they all last a long long time!

A great end to the month of May &

Our Fabulous first attempt going for S$10 (up to S$280) facial with free pore minimizer rose refresher experience frm Shiokdeal!

Went for our appointment at Thomson road in the afternoon. Initially we were still very skeptical as to whether we would encounter non stop hard-selling there, but the facialists turned out to be very friendly and bubbly despite us not purchasing/upgrading anything else there. My face feels so succulent and smooth now as im typing this entry! Atikah has non stop ravings about the rose facial and the services of the facialists too :) This is our 2nd facial together.

We headed to Plaza Sing thereafter and after my job briefing, went on down to Fika, a swedish cafe at Arab Street for dinner with jiajia and Magdalene. Food and cakes were not bad, service was quite bad though.

The first ever pop-up card which i finally received after making so many of them for friends!

Thank you love, it is so touching to hear you say that you are making me a pop up card since i have always been making them for others and never received one for myself before. Its so cute and gorgeous i can really see the effort you put in & i cant keep my eyes off it :) Really love it alot!

 3 alphabets, B F F, Forever & Ever & Ever.

P/s. the facialist told me that she found it very very rare that we, of different races are best friends.

The greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree (in our case, whether a chinese or a malay), but in the hearts of true friends.
~ Cindy Lew

Recently saw Ericia post a video on cappuccino cake in a mug in 5 minutes! Went to google and came across 5 mins Chocolate cake thereafter. Simple ingredients that i happen to have! So 2 days ago, brought them over to jiajia's house to try it out!

Recipe (video from here)

4 tablespoons flour (we used self raising flour)

4 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa

2 tablespoons whisked egg (most people used 1 egg, next time i will use one egg too; less fudge)

3 tablespoons milk

3 tablespoons oil (we used olive oil)

3 tablespoons chocolate chips (we used 3 small kisses chocolates found in jiajia's fridge)

splash of vanilla essence

Well, just add them all into a mug... mix them all into this sweet chocolatey mess...

And pop it the oven!

3 mins for 1000w microwave oven/ 4 mins for 700w microwave oven.

Wait for it to rise!! Such an interesting sight despite the fact tt i was more afraid of whether the microwave oven will explode cos some people reviewed that their 5min cake turned out black, watery and very very very badly burnt.

Success!!!!  The rising of the cake batter in the mug is amazing! I thought it tasted not bad for a 5 min chocolate cake but jiajia didnt like it since he doesnt like fudge cakes in general. I would recommend you to eat it immediately warm/hot. Best served with vanilla ice cream/ a glass of cold milk!

Zhenjia's dad came back from Beijing (holiday) again recently. He bought me a pretty necklace.

But just the thought of his dad thinking about getting something for me when overseas makes me happy enough already.

The last time he went to China and visited pandas, he bought me all these cute panda stuff!

Things don't have to be expensive to mean much to someone else.

Small gestures like this can mean alot as well :)

The previous blog design was nice, but perhaps too much deco (i see no motivation to load more stuff on it). So i needed something simpler to start my engine blogging again. Enough of the depressing posts. I will be back to blog happier things again soon :)

The feeling is like i will never be happy again.

Today i sat there, listening to her without dropping a single tear. woah. i dont feel the urge to cry like i normally would have done. I just sat here, heart beating profusedly, clamming my mouth shut at every false accusation directed at me. Aching in my chest area. Maybe like what i had told her, im tired. im so so sick and tired.

Its only when i went downstairs waiting for zjia to come that i started tearing. And finally broke down when sitted in the car next to him. But i didnt tell him what happened or what she said.. I couldnt. The impression is already bad enough and he couldnt do nothing to make it better. except. So i kept it all inside and right now the feeling is unbearable.

Happy Halloween! My first time celebrating Halloween actually.

In fact, Halloween came to us earlier this year. We celebrated 3 weeks in advance, reason being, exam period is always during halloween period & we wanted to get cheaper off peak tickets to Halloween @ Night Safari! So off we went on our 1st "new" couple date, introducing Hatta Hatta (so good they named him twice)!

See, dear Atikah's smile was so BIG & Cheesy in the pictures.. Happy to see u happy my dear!

And off we went! First up, train of terror!

The night safari attendant refused to help take a picture of us on the tram (p.s. they had their photographer with them, then they will give u a magic slip of paper). So we used Hatta hatta's long arms to DI"O" with my camera! Nothing can stop us! Turns out great too hrmmmmp!

Trail of the Undead next! Pictures (alot of them) with the "undead" were taken when we cant even see a thing on the camera screen cos it was very dark. But look what we managed to capture!

dolls...dolls....bloody dead dolls every where............

While queuing for the Animals of the Night show, which we que for 30mins, got in, sat on the VERY VERY 1st row right infront of the stage but didnt watch in the end. Haha i will tell you why. The emcee announced right when the show was about to start, that her animal show will last till 11pm ish.. which means those who wanted to go to the Haunted Village (which was the new added halloween item for this year over at the Singapore Zoo) would have to give that a miss. And the emcee when, "so...anybody leaving for the haunted village *looks around* nope...?? ok ladies and gentlemen the show is starting so please stay still in your seats as we would be having animals flying.....".

*4 of us scurrying out of our seats at the 1st row, with our backs bent low.. climbing past all the rows of other safari visitors who started to laugh at us.... the emcee who went, "well i guess they dont like me that much after all...."

But it was WORTH it.

Well, not so much of the haunted mansion, nor the fact that the 4 of us RAN LIKE CRAZY cos it was near the closing hours of the Haunted Village..

Well we THOUGHT we had survived. HAHA. That was the THE BEST PART out of our entire night. Well you see, after we came out of the haunted mansion, took pictures in the haunted barber. There was this long DARK path beyond the You've Survived! tombstone which was leading out to the carpark, long DARK cement road with the wild forest on our right side. And while we were walking together, 4 of us began to speculate,

"Should be no more already right (after countless times of "undead" jumping out on us and our screams that followed thereafter).."

"AIYA so dark here, no more already la.. Siao lor if still have... out of night safari already mah.."

"yalor how can have... crazy lor... dont think have already la.."

*squints

"eh omg whats that ah???"

"eh ya lor got something white white there lei.... eeee what isit??"

"AIYAH must be those paper cardboard of fake ghosts la.. like the ones inside just now.. lol"

"reallly mehh...."

*squints squints squints

"want to see what isit just use the camera capture can see le la..?"

"eh its something! it moved it moved it moved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -someone shouted.

AND THAT THING CHASED AFTER US! We by then had/not already saw what it was but we all ran cos it was chasing us!!!

"WTF WTF!!!! *giggles non stop!!!" ran and ran and ran while wtf-ing and giggling.

*pic above captured while running.

And this was what was standing right in the middle of the DARK field, all ALONE by himself, not moving, holding the umbrella, far far away from the night safari!!!!!! This was the best part of the night! We were all scared/excited while analysing what "that thing" was! Definitely a very very memorable halloween and thank god we left the animal show!! if not we would not have ended our trip with such excitement!

I miss you. Lets go out again soon?

Lovely Butter

Wonderful Yummy Dinner at Spizza

My school term has came to an end. Now its just exams, only 2 papers at the end of this month and i would have graduated. Thank god for my cutie darling pies and the big big darling who have kept me sane all these while :) Cant wait for exams to be over (my jap exam as well omg i dread that more than my school papers :X)! Then i can start officially planning for overseas trips with family and my big big darling :))

saw this on ericia's blog :)

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

-– Anthony Robbins