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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007The homecoming event for NOC (NUS oversea college) is a great way to meet up with my batchmates from the NOC program, seniors who have already left school and started making their mark in the world and also to meet up with my juniors who just returned. Not to mention my friends from the various [...]
Windy City – Chicago Day 2
Friday, October 13th, 2006Day 2 was a very simple day, just head to all the attractions that are clumped together near lake michigan and abuse the heck out of the city pass which gives us free entry!
First stop: Fields’ Museum
Normally I am not that big a fan of museums, but I must say this one is pretty [...]
Day 188: World Cup Cake
Sunday, July 9th, 2006After baking my blueberry cake, i chatted online with a fellow baking friend, Peiling. She made a joke comment about how i should make the cake green seeing it is the world cup.
Hence…..
The tools and colouring
Cutting the cake in half to spead some yummy frosting, notice how unfairly the berries are dsitributed?
Base layer
Layer 2
Completed!!
Recipe: Blueberry cake beta ver 1.0
Sunday, July 9th, 2006First attempt at it. Improvised over a regular butter cake
Ingrediants:
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk
2 eggs
1 tbs of baking powder
1 tsp of vanilla
3 handfuls of blue berries (yes this is uber agar-ation)
Step 0: Preheat oven to 350F
Step 1 : Mix Butter and sugar, stir until creamy then add eggs in [...]
Day 184 – Laptop down, Laptop down
Friday, July 7th, 2006My laptop is more or less dead cos Pacey knocked over a glass of milk and it spilt all over the laptop. Kindda a weird way to go I must say, not in a blaze of glory like overheated and exploded while overclocking, but drowned in milk.
Anyway I might not be on MSN or anything [...]
Day 183 – Land of the free and Home of the brave….
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006Date: 4th July, Independence Day
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Event: Independence Day Parade, Concert and FIREWORKS display
Lawrence, Deliang and me headed down to the Franklin Institute to catch the parade after watching the world cup. (Pretty bummed that Germany had loss but it was a good match, Italy was the better team) Anyway it [...]
Day 182 – Breakfast @ Tiffany’s
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006Just kidding, there was no breakfast @ Tiffany’s (from some song which i cannot remember the title)
I did bake a batch of biscuits though:
Before
After
Day 180 – Kolen Family Visit
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006Ahhh.. this is a really really interesting story on how the Kolen Family got to know the people of NOC. The seniors of batch 6 were having a usual road trip when they stopped by a field to do something(probably rest or take pics, cannot remember but its not impt) when Bill Kolen invited them [...]
Day 179- Its Raining Its Pouring, Pennsylvania is Flooding
Friday, June 30th, 2006Interestingly the sky has opened up non stop for the past few days, as a result, a deluge of rainfall was experienced. The 2 major rivers flowing through the state of PA, the Dalaware and Schuykill overflowed their banks and flooded most of the surrounding regions.
Just 1 of the many news stories
Fortunately where I live [...]
Day 172 to173 – 47/02 SOCC!!!!
Thursday, June 29th, 2006It was a gathering of old army friends, Siyang who was studying at CMU over the summer, decided he was bored and hated being stuck in Pittsburgh, so he dropped by Philadelphia to visit me and Gabriel Ng (who studies at UPenn). The 3 of us have known each other since army days back in [...]
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