Sorry...

... but I don't think I'll be touching my blog ever again.

Carrot Cake

I baked a carrot cake today and it turned out excellent! Despite how obvious it is, I never knew carrot cake had actual carrots in it.

Ingredients

1 cup (100 grams) pecans or walnuts

3/4 pound (340 grams) raw carrots (about 2 1/2 cups finely grated)

2 cups (260 grams) all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

4 large eggs

1 1/2 cups (300 grams) granulated white sugar

1 cup (240 ml) safflower, vegetable or canola oil (or other flavorless oil)

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Cream Cheese Frosting:

1/4 cup (57 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature

8 ounces (227 grams) cream cheese, room temperature

2 cups (230 grams) confectioners (powdered or icing) sugar, sifted

1 teaspoon (4 grams) pure vanilla extract

1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest (outer yellow skin)

Carrot Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. Butter or spray two - 9 x 2 inch (23 x 5 cm) cake pans and line the bottoms of the pans with a circle of parchment paper. 

Toast the pecans or walnuts for about 8 minutes or until lightly browned and fragrant. Let cool and then chop coarsely.

Peel and finely grate the carrots. Set aside.

In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and ground cinnamon. Set aside.

In bowl of electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the eggs until frothy (about 1 minute). Gradually add the sugar and beat until the batter is thick and light colored (about 3 - 4 minutes). Add the oil in a steady stream and then beat in the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and beat just until incorporated. With a large rubber spatula fold in the grated carrots and chopped nuts. Evenly divide the batter between the two prepared pans and bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.  

Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack. After about 5 -10 minutes invert the cakes onto the wire rack, remove the pans and parchment paper, and then cool completely before frosting. 

To assemble: place one cake layer, top side down, onto your serving plate. Spread with about one third of the frosting. Gently place the other cake, top of cake facing down, onto the frosting, and spread the rest of the frosting over the top and sides of the cake. If desired, press toasted and finely chopped nuts on the sides of the cake and decorate the top of the cake with marzipan carrots (see below). Cover and refrigerate any leftovers.

Serves 10 - 12.

Cream Cheese Frosting: In bowl of electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), beat the cream cheese and butter, on low speed, just until blended with no lumps. Gradually add the sifted powdered sugar and beat, on low speed, until fully incorporated and smooth.  Beat in the vanilla extract, and lemon zest.

The pictures aren't as nice as I hoped they could be but they'll do :)

Hi.

Dear blog,

I've neglected you for too long, constantly checking up on you having a million things to say but in the end half-heartedly deciding on leaving my comeback post blank yet again, preventing myself from giving you the updates you so clearly were created for.

Here I am everyone. Finally manning up to actually sit myself down to type out a mid-holiday post after 3 sloth-like months. It would take too much brainpower to recap on everything that happened these past laid-back months and not to mention another forever typing it all out to my impeccable standards. I tend to go over my words over and over if it isn't to my liking. I'm sure most of my readers have slowly died out to the point of extinction. I don't even know if there are some hopeful ones who check in every once in a while hoping I would have at the least done something! Either way, I'll continue.

Last Sunday, there was a very delayed neighborhood Deepavali get-together at the park and Danial was there. Had one of those clique chats by the swing catching up on the what-nots. He told me he's going to UK to study next year but when he asked me what I've been doing during the holidays, all I could think of was "nothing." I've been such a lifeless nooby these past weeks ever since all my lady friends went overseas ie. UK, Singapore & Spain for the holidays whereas I'm stuck here doing (as my mom likes to call it) counting my fingers and toes.

It's not like I've completely dropped off the face of the cyber universe. I go on Facebook, I still tweet, I google (a little too much). It's just that all these don't require the commitment a blog needs. I'm young, give me a break.

On top of that, I've been channeling my inner-art-child by making lots and lots of perler bead projects. Latest one is of a baby seal. I just copied the shape of a whale on the internet and used white instead of baby blue.

I'm wearing nail polish by the way. That can't possibly be my natural nail colour. I wish.

I got hit in the head with a volleyball

Photo taken with Amanda's DSLR last Friday after everyone snuck out of Art class a few minutes before the bell rang. I was tagged on Facebook so where better to showcase this than here? This was of course before Jie Yao's second drastic haircut.

Speaking of classmates, the boys and I filled latex gloves with water in the Science lab. They looked like condoms. Just saying. Whole bunch of us were laughing at the back of the class cause the fingers kept expanding and contracting which resembled...you know. Dirty minds think alike.

PS: Olney's coming to visit tomorrow after school! Get your cameras ready.

PPS: I say get your cameras ready cause at WorldStage there was this girl trying to get a picture of his back thinking no one would notice. We noticed. You see, tall white guys + little asian girls always mix well.

Just The Way You Are; Bruno Mars

I don't like homework. Especially if they involve Sejarah or BM. I just had to finish a set each of Sejarah & BM papers with a total of 140 questions. I can't wait to get PMR over with and start O-Levels next year. At least their History lesson is in English and it's not about some Malay guy fighting for the rite to collect taxes on a river. I'm not even sure if I'm going to take History next year or of what else I'm taking or what I want to be. Of course I've drifted from one cita-cita to the next but I'm not grounded on what I want my career to be or what line of work I want to be involved with. I did want to be a nurse (back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth) but I found out that you have to sponge-bath old people and deal with blood so that dream was flushed down the drain along with the other poo-ey ideas. When I went for the Japan exchange program in Form 1 (2008), Misaki (my host) took me to the aquarium which had this awesome dolphin show. For a split second I thought of becoming a dolphin trainer but the thought of smelling like fish everyday wasn't very pleasing. I do know what I don't want to be though. I don't want to be a doctor (anything that requires me to slice someone open actually), an engineer, a lawyer, a ballerina (as if I'm capable) or a business manager.

PS: You're amazing just the way you are

& when you smile the whole world stops and stares for a while

PPS: Shutup I'm not in love. I just really like the song :)

Zombie Bombs

I've been all over the place today. From shopping in Times Square getting a scoop-neck white lace crop-top (even saying that gets me giggly. I'll just leave it to your imagination to how it looks like) to visiting my grandma all the way in Kepong to borrow my uncle's stick-shift Proton for Nick to practice his driving, having the best pineapple tart in my life at O'Pappa on the way to visit my other grandma, eating at Elfresco for the second night in a row in Empire, laughing obnoxiously in the Korean food aisle about zombie bombs (which are surprisingly un-Plants vs. Zombies-related), stocking up on more microwave popcorn, imitating that Chef At Home guy's over-enthusiastic accent with my brother and falling in love with puddles of poodles the size of my serving of aglio olio pasta to buying a dozen bottles of wine at Denise for 70% off just cause we can.

That's right. I know how to sum up my entire day in a single sentence/paragraph without over-doing the details.

Japanese boys

As usual when any foreign, decent-looking guy comes along, almost all the girls swarm (including me) throwing their hormones at him. They put a fist-full of estrogen into tiny drawstring biodegradable bags and throw it at him hoping he'll notice their names written in size42 block letters with a black Sharpie permanent marker. Most of the time, he won't notice cause he's too busy befriending the guys but it's worth a shot. I say this because there was a cute Japanese boy (you know which one I'm talking about) that came to visit today for the Student Exchange Program between Sri Kuala Lumpur and Fukuoka Okazaki Junior High School.

This is all I brought to school today. No bag. No books. It was odd walking into school without anything over my shoulders. We were in the auditorium till 10-ish and the rest of the day was filled of iPods/iPhones under tables in class and getting the boys to buy bubble tea for us cause we females melt in the rain.

 My tie-dye from art class. Got it back today from Pn. Ida. So proud :D

PS: Saya suka lelaki bertubuh sasa - Jaryn Lim.

You make me

In the mood for some bubble milk tea right now. I could just walk out and get some from Take Away but I won't cause I'm the type of person that doesn't like walking out just to get one thing. I don't think I would even go out to get toilet rolls if I urgently needed it or something. That's what brothers are for. 

Did you know I live literally two minutes away from school? I walk. I wake up at 7am every weekday morning (most people I know have to get up at 6? I'm counting my blessings) give or take a few minutes. My mom is my walking alarm clock, you see. I never set my alarm clocks (even though I have 3 in my room, all discarded of their AA batteries) cause most of the time I either forget to switch it on the night before, leading to doom or I don't hear it chirping quietly on the floor where it almost always ends up so after time, I've decided to give up on them entirely.

If you noticed the yummy-nomnomnom smell of food constantly radiating from the cooking room lately, the form3 girls have been baking for the past 2 weeks. Today, it was kek permaisuri with chocolate chips. Everything was going smoothly until the power was cut just as the other girls were about to finish. Good thing Chrystal, Jaryn & I had finished ours way before the rest so we didn't have to go through that. We did however get caught stealing raisins when we thought Pn. Lim wasn't looking.

PS: The Japanese are taking over SriKL tomorrow. I get to miss the entire day of class in the auditorium watching Japanese people bow incessantly.

PPS: Deep in thought about some things tonight.

Is she allowed to say stupid?

Stretching my vanity tonight. Ah yes, Tuesday evenings.

You can see my zit in between my eyebrows in the 9th picture.

3 Gamma 2010

 I love how my class photos turned out cause no one's mouth is hanging open (unlike in Form1.) Also, because I look so damn happy in it! Next thing you know you'll be seeing drawn-on laser beams shooting out of my non-existent eyes.

Top from left: Jia Jian, Jeng Jie, Ieuan, Aaron, Anson, Jie Yao, Wei Ming, Naren, Jerry Brandon, Jia Zheng
Middle from left: Hau Sean, Wei Yuen, Sharmila, Amanda, Jesslyn, Stephanie, Mei Ghee, Taufiq, Leon
Bottom from left: Jian Han, Kok Chun, Chrystal, Amir, Mdm Boey, John, Euegene, Olivia, Jaryn

There you go.

Shit. Less.

I'm supposed to have baked cookies for Alia today as a pre-puasa gift but I don't think that's happening at all given that I've been at Subang Parade for the past five hours wandering around with the family. We actually meant to have reached home sooner but the sky thought it'd mess with our plans with a downpour of rain that lasted nearly two hours. &cause our car was parked across the road, we ended up at Coffee Bean sipping lattes with extra shots of espresso. That's how my dad says lattes should be made, with none of that "milk nonsense". Bumped into Intan at MPH and exchanged hugs and hello's too :)

I forgot to mention about the huge, fat, black guy that scared the shit out of my bricks yesterday. So there I was minding my own business walking with my mom around Sunway eating a Krispy Kreme doughnut when out of nowhere this black figure pops up next to my face with his mouth wide open suggesting I give him a bite. I WAS SO SCARED I WAS SHAKING! My mom just stared at him and eventually he walked away saying sorry but I tell you, I almost dropped the doughnut. Every person that I've told this to has either laughed at me or laughed thinking it was a joke. Nice.

PS: I'd post pictures if I had any :(

Alcohol

I love going shopping with my mom. Stopped by Sunway and got a few things for real cheap. You know how FOS always slashes out the tags? Well, I managed to find a cardigan there from Miss Selfridge (I think) in between the dozens of clothes jammed onto the rack and another H&M t-shirt/dress for RM20 each. Walked out of that smoke-scented store (puzzles me to why it always smells like cigarettes) with a grin all over my face.

I'm here at the dining table at home typing this out feeling oh-so-happy cause I downed a pint of beer from dinner at this new Japanese/German restaurant 20 minutes ago (just got back you see.) My tolerance for alcohol isn't as strong as it should be compared to Nick but I guess I can manage. Was holding back laughter throughout mass at church before so it was a relief to actually be able to laugh without the guilt of God wagging his finger at us disapprovingly. Obviously, it's rude to laugh out loud while mass is being held especially when everyone else is quietly listening to the priest's sermon. Want to know why Nick&I were laughing? Some kid blurted "BAH" in the middle of one of the hymns.

PS: The restaurant is called Kissaten. Very good food. Very good atmosphere. Non-halal. (Click me) for a link to their website if you're interested :)

Thought you might like this

Just finished Skype-ing with Olney and I think I'm in love with Skype now. It doesn't jam up, doesn't go blurry, doesn't slow down my computer, doesn't disconnect all of a sudden (except those couple of times where the wire keeping the laptop alive unplugged itself) and doesn't irritate the shit out of me like how MSN does. I don't want to sound like an advert here but I'm very happy with it.

Today wasn't that bad a day either. Had lunch with Alia after school at Asia Cafe where we finally fulfilled our cravings for Daniel Kim's dad's kimchi fried rice (I definitely recommend it.) Sat with Leon, John, Jie Yao, Jeng Jie & Anson who were such gentlemen (their mothers must have taught them well) & then we got stranded in the magazine store waiting for the massive rain to seise. The plus side is that we found a page in one of the magazines with that guy from the oldspice commercials plastered all over it riding a bull made of soap bubbles with a lasso above his head.

Just a heads up, tomorrow is Hariz's & Shaza's one year anniversary. I'm like this extra talking about someone else's relationship but you can't not say 'aww' when you see them together. He got her sunflowers cause they're her favorite! If there's something I can join to get a sweet boyfriend like that, sign me up! Not that I'm in much of a hurry to get a boyfriend or anything. It was purely hypothetical.

I've been on the computer for way too long now. It's time to switch off. More tomorrow :) 

iMovie

Currently tapping away on my dad's old Macbook (which hopefully shall soon be mine if my dad decides to finally get the battery fixed) finishing up my computer project that's due tomorrow (actually it was due today but managed to get Ms. Puva to delay the deadline.) Ok, this time the procrastination is not entirely my fault. I blame my dad for the frustrating 2 hours I spent hurriedly copying&pasting and many MANY 'URGH-why-isn't-it-loading' moments cause he promised the laptop for me to use 2 months ago. If you can guess correctly, he didn't pass it to me till today even after countless weekends with his "next week" promises.

So yes

Did I ever mention I got into O-Levels? No, I don't think so from the fact I haven't been here the past month updating you people about my dos and to-dos. Oh & before I forget, screw that 30day whats-it-called post. You know which one. If not then (click here). I don't think I'm the type who can consistently post stuff against my will just cause a list told me to.

If you didn't happen to notice, I was absent on Monday for reasons involving the bathroom and my bowels. I won't go into detail about it cause it'd be a bit much? I had an ample amount of time on my hands and this is the result of it. A huge box of cornflakes was lying around the house that was due for eating anyway so why not?

Sometimes I think Bingo may be part human. It's quite creepy actually.

MTV WorldStage 2010

Want a vivid image of how period pains feel like? Imagine your uterus squeezed dry like a washcloth. For those who don't have the gift of being a woman, think "salami jammed into a meat grinder" (Exaggeration is delightful isn't it?)

Hello, I'm back from my virtual hiatus. So, so many things have happened (including those that didn't happen) these past 3 weeks. I turned 15, survived the exams, went for WorldStage (more about this below) and so on. I can't make empty promises that long gaps of nothingness like these won't happen again because they most probably will. If there's a God out there (not that I don't believe in God and such but as a not-so-religious sort of person, I have my doubts) he/she/it (never discriminate be it gender or species. It's ok if you don't get this) will you know, bless me somehow?

WorldStage.

Because of it, I have lost my voice (this is more like a pro than a con. I like my voice when I lose it.), my body is sore, I've got a scratch on my shoulder from idon'tevenknow, my eyes hurt like I've squeezed lemon juice into them, my toenails look deformed from being trampled on all night long and from it raining for hours, short-circuiting the technical stuff and us wait for an hour before everything was in its right order, woke up this morning feeling horrible cause I was too tired to take a bath before going to bed (got back around 1.30am) and I am still hungry.

 All worth it.

Not only did we get to see Bill Kaulitz in his orgasmic leather pants but we got to see Katy Perry dancing on a giant banana-split, sang our hearts out to (almost) every song, piggy back rides over the poodles of water from Olney, jumping up and down till we got stitches in our sides when a song we knew came on, bumping into friends, struggling into useless raincoats/ponchos & laughing about it, running through the rain to get to the surf beach, bargaining with random strangers for last-minute tickets, dying of laughter at stupid candid photos (most of which were deleted), passing phones here and there when my phone just wouldn't cooperate, watching strange guys head-banging to Bunkface like a bunch of puppies with seizures, fat guys screaming like little girls when the Wondergirls came on, making Olney self-conscious over his body (which by the way was very the nice), hugging Shu Lynn's head, hugging Jaryn's head, death-screaming into Tim's ears and being around awesome people at an awesome event on an awesome day. Perfect way to end the month :)

 Group shot!

Day 9 — A photo you took

Honey.

Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry/sad

Sad that it's all over :(

Day 7 - A photo that makes you happy

Day 6 - Whatever tickles your fancy

It's another half hour till the Argentina-Germany match starts and I'm nervous that the psychic octopus will make the correct predictions again. (Click here) if you don't know about Paul the Psychic Octopus. For all you Argentina/Messi fans out there, let's just hope that Paul is wrong this time.

Day 5 - Your favorite quote

  "You're such a nipple."

- Danielle Ho Pei Yin.

You'd think I'd post some mellow-dramatic, deep meaning-ed, inspirational quote from Shakespeare or some other but, no. My favorite quote is from my boob-squishing, butt-slapping friend from one fine day out sweating over eating spicy Thai food.

 I painted my nails. Well, in technical terms I sponged it but look at the result!

Day 4 - Your favorite book

My favorite book is...

 This is all: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

by Aidan Chambers.

As from the picture, the book is a thick as my wrist & yes it did take me ages to finish (with a month's gap in between every 200pages.) It was a good book though. Gosh, these posts are getting bland. Next thing you know, I'll be telling you people what kind of vegetables I keep in my fridge.

Day 3 - Your favorite television program

For now, it's Vampire Diaries. I just really wish the second season would come out sooner cause the last episode left me with my mouth hanging wide open & a big [?] looming over my head half-expecting there to be more except that the 45minutes worth of film was over.

The Salvatore brothers are hehehe :3

Another blindly written post cause I'm exhausted after tossing and turning for two nights in a row & helping my mom clean up the other house. Goodnight everyone :)

Day 2 - Your favorite movie

Hands down, Forrest Gump. No other movie could ever make me cry three kinds of tears in an hour.

You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.

- Forrest Gump.

That's what all these cripples down at the VA talk about: Jesus this and Jesus that, have I found Jesus yet? They even had a priest come and talk to me. He said God is listening and if I found Jesus, I'd get to walk beside him in the kingdom of Heaven. Did you hear what I said? WALK beside him in the kingdom of Heaven! Well kiss my crippled ass. God is listening? What a crock of shit.

- Lieutenant Daniel Taylor.

 PS: I didn't go to school today. Wasn't feeling too good in the morning + I woke up late. Surprisingly, my mom agreed to let me stay home after asking her nicely.

Just got back from Empire after eating a sucky dinner (do not ever go to Lameeya - or however you spell it. The food tastes as bad as its service.) worshipping the grocery store, getting goosebumps in the frozen food section & eating chocolate danishes at The Loaf.

Day 1 - Your favorite song

I don't have a favorite song. I do have songs that I like (which usually don't hold my interest after a week on replay) but I could never single out any of them as the song of the century. I might hurt the other songs' feelings (lawl that was lame.)

Although, if this were a life/death situation I'd have to say that the song that always makes me feel 'teehee' is Here In Your Arms by Hellogoodbye.

PS: Bingo is on my lap clawing his way into my armpit and licking my elbow. Ah yes, a typical Monday night.

Day 0

 I'll start this tomorrow

Day 01 — Your favorite song
Day 02 — Your favorite movie
Day 03 — Your favorite television program
Day 04 — Your favorite book
Day 05 — Your favorite quote
Day 06 — Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 — A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 — A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 — A photo you took
Day 10 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 — A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 — Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 — A fictional book
Day 14 — A non-fictional book
Day 15 — A fanfic
Day 16 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 — An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 — Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 — A talent of yours
Day 20 — A hobby of yours
Day 21 — A recipe
Day 22 — A website
Day 23 — A YouTube video
Day 24 — Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 — Your day, in great detail
Day 26 — Your week, in great detail
Day 27 — This month, in great detail
Day 28 — This year, in great detail
Day 29 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 — Whatever tickles your fancy

but today, Nick had his confirmation in church. I guess in short (for you non-church-goers) you could say he's fully confirmed as a Catholic now. &then we had bak kut teh.

Just finished watching Vampire Diaries (on pirated DVDs. Big deal.) for 4 hours straight drooling (in my mind) over Paul Wesley &every single absurdly good-looking guy in Mystic Falls ie. the town in which the show is based in and ran up the stairs subconsciously thinking to myself "Pleasedon'tkillmepleasedon'tkillme" to the imaginary vampire that I imagined vaporizing out of thin air (yea, they do that a lot in the show) &draining all my human juices. If only it were all real.

Happy Birthday Messi!

I took the IGCSE entrance test today and....

I GOT IN! not.

The results (according to Mrs. Chong) will only come out by end of July so it's going to be a very long, anticipated wait but by that time, it'll be exam season (yes, indeed-ily filled with endless revision.) Just so you know, a spoiler for those who didn't take the test:

First page. A bombastically worded passage about a boy named Hugh and how his teacher admired him (not in that way. that's pedophilia.) From reading the first paragraph, I thought that it was about a girl having a crush on a boy but sadly, no. I swear if I hadn't been in a good mood that day, I wouldn't have been able to understand the passage. It was so strangely written (minus the typos) with words I'd never even heard of like 'mass indoctrination' (PS: I had to use the spell-checker to type that out) and 'pedantic'. They even had us define their meanings and fill in blanks about Australians' habits on the bus. Did you know they don't prefer sitting next to other people on buses or trains? I'm quite proud of my essay though (titled 'Useful Inventions of the Past'.) Managed to fit in references to neanderthals, cocks (THE BIRD) and Alexander Graham Bell. I quote, "What did our ape-like ancestors, commonly called cavemen, use as chairs? These early species of humans used the ground for sitting. That's right, there was no need for spinal-correcting massage chairs or silk embossed sofas because all the exercise they ever needed to keep their body in tip-top shape were from carrying out their daily chores."

Moving on to Maths (which I carefully calmed myself from getting nervous over beforehand) I left 4 questions blank whereas Dan tells me Yen Yee left 4 pages blank. I honestly don't think my papers were a lost cause because I am positive (or more like subconsciously hoping the shit out of myself) that I will get a place in Year10. Dear Jesus...

RM1 baby biscuits from Bangsar pasar malam. That's the night we bought 40 sticks of sate and asam laksa and feasted out in the patio with a bottle of wine.

So, so glad it's Friday tomorrow. My mom made a date with me after school tomorrow to go to Tangs to spend the RM50 voucher we got in the mail. Lawl. What else do you do when you get free money?

I'm back!

Hello, I'm back from Singapore!

Just got back last night after 3days of walking for 12hours straight everyday, (I'm not even kidding. I counted.) shopping on Orchard Road, (went in a MiuMiu store for the very first time and fell head over heels for the shoes.) grinning from ear-to-ear at the store-wide SALE where a top at CottonOn only cost me 5$ which sums up to roughly RM11.70. The Forever21 there is HUGE. As in 4 levels worth of clothes and nonsense. My mom and I literally went to every MNG store along the entire stretch of shopping malls. Every. Single. One. Six in fact. The variety of things they have in Orchard Road is like ours except times 4. Eg: One Prada store on one side of the road and another right across it on the opposite side. LOL.

The bus ride to Singapore was hands-down the best ever. The seats were twice my size, they had wifi, it was a massage chair, there was a stowaway tv-screen with 5billion shows, free sandwiches, two footrests, game console, a double-decked bus & the stewards wore suits and red ties.

Universal Studios. I suggest you not go there now cause the biggest big-ass roller coaster I've ever seen...

...isn't even running yet but if you do, go on a weekday&ride the Return of the Mummy.

It's a high-speed roller coaster and you're like plunged into darkness, falling backwards for about a second. The waiting line is beyond long cause it took about 5 minutes for Nick&I to reach the end since there wasn't anyone else lining up in front of us. & cause there was creepy music playing and the lights were dimmed to the point where everything was a blur, I had my arm permanently attached to his forearm throughout the entire walk and screamed into his shoulder when the mummy jumped out at us. I may be young but I could have had a heart attack there and then (not really.)

This is the evil coin-timer that conned me of my 20cents. It's supposed to activate the jukebox from our seat. Apparently not.

Cheese & Caramel flavored popcorn at Garett's.

6-foot-tall Hershey's chocolate syrup bottle. Yeah.

On the skyline up to the Luge ride in Sentosa.

I was staring in awe at Hooters in Clarke Quay (pronounced as Clarke Kee. I kept calling it Koay.) cause they don’t have one in Malaysia nor will there ever be one. The waitresses don't walk around topless but they do wear very revealing shirts. My mom tells me that in Germany, all the girls wear cut-out stars to cover their titties and hot-pants. Just saying, must be cold though.

Dinner in Clarke Quay. My mother. Above that is a picture of the prawn legs I cooked.

I love the Science Centre in Singapore. It's so much cooler than the one here. See the metal cage? There's a lady inside. The Tesla coil is zapping it with 3million volts of electricity, I think & she survived. Lawl, I saw her having to sign some papers before getting in which means there was a possibility that she could have died.

PS: The dogs are like best friends now. They sleep together, they eat together, they bark at their reflections together, etc.