Orange prosperity babies

This girl here has been having an upset tummy for the last five days. Thought that it was something wrong she ate, popped charcoal pills, proceeded to have constipation, popped bananas and yakult and prunes, normal bowel movements except that the tummy still hurts. So. Today was the final push to the Doc cos the pain was getting more frequent and prolonged compared to the past few days of on-off pain. Doc says it's probably gastric (hopefully) and gave me some medicine. It's weird cos we both can't figure out what is causing the gastric pains. I havn't been any drinking coffee, alcohol or eating spicy food (well, in moderation since I love my spice...). He said if it doesn't get better in four-five days, I should go back to him cos it might be some virus thing instead and they have to stuck a stethoscope down my throat. The horrors. Please let whatever is plaguing me to go away soon.

So, what's orange prosperity babies? That's their fancy name I've come up with. What they actually are are persimmon financiers. I know, I'm a sucker for financiers. I mean, when faced with leftover eggwhites, it's either that or macarons for me. And macarons takes up too much time so I favour financiers. I've a favourite recipe base I snatched off from this website and amended it accordingly to whatever fruit I am using. But lately, I'm getting tired of financiers already. Oh no. What else can I do with leftover egg whites???

Plump ripe persimmons

Nectarie

There was a dessert place near my old workplace. Michelle and I had walked by once and brought a cake to share during tea break. After that, we agreed that we were going to dine in there one day. During my last week working there, we dropped by there one day during our lunch hour, and proceeded to have cake for lunch. Who says you can't have cake for lunch? (:

 

Nectarie

Andes Teletransporter Booth

My girlfriend posted the video on her facebook page, I was bored. I clicked. It is pretty funny. Basically, the ad is for a beer company, who invented this soundproof booth that masks your environment sounds. They are mostly installed in hotspot bars and clubs in Argentina. So if girlfriends call, the boys can go into the booth, press a button and instantly, the surroundings noise changes to whatever they wish (say for example , a hospital machine beeping, or traffic jam, or babies crying) so they can make up whatever excuse they want. Then they go back to their drinking in peace. Snorts.

It's amazing what people can come up with nowadays.  If you're bored, why not take a look? (:

Old friends and some matcha sablés

Minhua, otherwise affectionately known as "Mua" and Tze Siew, otherwise termed "Siew" or "Siew Siew" have been friends with me for a very very long time. I can proudly say I've known Mua for 17 years, and Siew for 15 years, with us being the ripe ol' age of 23 this year. My my. That's a pretty amazing feat.

The last time Mua was back, it was during the summer hols, and in between her jetting off to other places for holidays, we did managed to catch up a coupla times for Korean food, ice-cream at Udders, and not forgetting a steamboat session during the CNY period at Siew's place.

It was our last meeting before she flew back to Canberra, and I wanted to make her something green tea-ish as she mentioned before that she liked matcha. But due to time constraint, I couldn't do anything nicer like a green tea cake, or green tea macarons. So I settled on a matcha recipe I saw previously on one of my favourite food blog, for matcha sablés.

Matcha powder; Matcha sablés

Rain rain go away

The world's weather clock is totally screwed upside down. Rainy weather in March in hot sunny Singapore? That's just wrong! Rainy season (technically) should have been in late October till December. We are supposed to be facing hot dry spells in our tropical island here now in March. Alas, I have no idea what went wrong and it has been raining so frequently this week that our water tanks are all full with rain water.

This is not necessary a bad thing, the rain I mean. It cools down the temperature and makes sleeping at night so good cos I can snuggle among my warm bedsheets. However, it's bad cos that means I can't exercise outdoors cos it's pouring like crazy. We gave Muay Thai a miss on Friday cos it was raining that night. Boo. And over the weekend, I was going to make up for it by going jogging. It rained on Saturday AND Sunday. Sulks.

Here's some oreo cupcakes I made in last month before I left SL. I made kahlua cupcakes too but I didn't think they were pretty so I didn't bother taking pictures of them haha.

Oreos; Chocolate cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes topped with Oreo whipped cream and Oreos

The above picture was taken when they were still intact and looking pretty at home. The Oreos turned a bit nua after being smooshed on the Oreo whipped cream for the better half of a day inside the company's fridge. They were looking a bit sad too after I carried them to the office via public transport. So I had to make touch ups to ensure they didn't look too bad. Oh whatever, they are still edible hey? Haha.