Chalet

Just came back from 3D2N chalet with family and relatives. :) Both nights got a little boring because we've nowhere to go and nothing to do so it was just a few of us playing cards and the rest were sleeping. BBQ on both nights as well but with some cooked dishes to go with on the 2nd night. Popo's curry chicken is the best. I'm not even kidding. Even boyfriend says so. 2nd night BBQ was just to bbq all the leftover food but God decided to play with us and drizzle the whole day. Even when we're enjoying ourselves at Wild Wild Wet and it poured down so heavily. So we created a small DIY bbq pit and slowly bbq the leftover food. And then it was counting down to the new year where we just counted down to 5-4-3-2-1 and tada~ we continued to play our cards lol. We're cool like that. Even the cat came over to countdown with us. Poor cat was so hungry that it kept on begging for more food. This morning got woke up by Popo's crazy shouting + nagging and we checked out and went home. Painful journey home because we're all so tired and travelling all the way from east to west is not cool at all. We still need to drop people home and we're always the last. :(

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Sad Wanlin is extremely super duper sad.

Because dreadful school reopens tmr. You telling me 3 weeks of holidays just flew pass like this??!!

Summing up my 2012

So..... 2012 is ending soon!! This year has been good to me. Well, every year has been. It's really just the matter of how you look and view the situations.... Some people may be easily contented, whereas some may want more than what they get. For me, I'm of course easily contented!! I'm happy that I'm alive, together with my family, boyfriend and friends, all living together healthily. That's more than I could ever ask for. With people by your side is like the sweetest and best thing!! You get listening ear when you're sad, or people to share your good news to, and many more. It's really to have all these lovely people by my side. :) Thank you.

SO HOW'S YOUR 2012!!?!!!?!? I hope it's been really well for you! If not, don't worry because 2013 will be good to you, me and everybody!! :D Tip is just to be contented with what you have, and you'll be happy. :) It's that easy!

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So... to sum up my 2012 (click on the links if you haven't read those blog posts!):

Chinese New Year that I collected the most money out of all years, had my first sky dining with dearest boyfriend for Valentines' Day. Signed up my hamsters on a competition, did a post on things I hate.

Sky dining with MrChua :'))

Hamster in the ball competition!!

Visit the Universal Studios Singapore with boyfriend for the 2nd time, did an anniversary present for bf(I THINK I DID A GREAT JOB!!!). Had my first day in Singapore Polytechnic and blogged about the things I hate part 2 and things I love. Organized the first bbq session with poly classmates, visited the Night Safari for the first time during bf's birthday, and had my hair cut short.

USS

Anniversary present!! :D

Gotten myself a new laptop, polymates and I had our first formal presentation, did a blog post on the blogshop giveaways I've won so far, posted a guide on how to shop on Taobao, went to a 4D3N cruise trip with polymates and lecturers(1, 2, 3), and had a mass outing with Teck Whye sec 4 friends.

DHLFM/FT/1A/01 & 1A/02!! ^.^

Mass outing with sec 4 friends! :D

Visited USS(again...) for the THIRD time with family, celebrated my 17th birthday, blogged about things I love part 2, did a selling blog, went to 2D1N Malaysia + Legoland with family, MrChua and SS.

 

USS with family!! :)

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This year flew by quickly.. Really really quickly. Not really sure whether it's a good or bad thing though. Still quite not prepared for Year 2 poly, graduation and University(if I can go in)... I hope I am by the time the time comes!!

This year is a good year for me!! Got to meet lovely friends from Poly, and also introduced MrChua to my parents along with sis and her bf. :) Such a relieved that my parents finally accepts it because they don't allow us to be in a relationship when we're in secondary school as they think we are still young, don't know how to think etc... So it's really a good thing that they finally accepts it and learn to understand us better. They got more relax and gave us more freedom too. :') Really glad and thankful for that. Would love to thank the people I love: family, boyfriend, friends - for being there for me always!! There's too much to thank you guys about. I just wish you all to be happy and healthy every single day. For friends, I have quite a lot. But closer ones will be Michelle, Alicia, Simin, whole 4B'2011 and DHLFM/FT/1A/02. :) Thank you for bringing soooo much joy to my life and I'm really really really happy to know every single one of you, including those who are not close to me(normal friends, those that we've met/talked just a few times). If you're someone I know and someone I don't detest, then I'm happy to know you. =)

To my dear MrChua, thank you for always putting me as priority in everything. Always thinking about me before you do things, listening to my needs & wants, always caring and understanding me. :') You know I appreciate that a lot and can't be more grateful + thankful for that. I really see the future in us and I believe we will go far. I hope you too thinks that way. :) Love you.

And lastly, thank you to my family who is always there, creating memories, joy and laughter in my life. ♡

Nonetheless, I would like to wish everybody good health. Health is the most important. Also, be happy and contented. :) May 2013 be a great year for all of you!!!!! ^.^

While you're reading this post, I'm enjoying in the chalet right now hehe. Enjoy your day people!!

Countdown to a brand new year with your loved ones. :)

♡♡ Merry late Christmas & Happy New Year!!!! ♡♡

Strawberry cheesecake

So the other day Sis and I made strawberry cheesecake!! We are the labour while Sis's bf (SS) is the sponsor of the ingredients hahaha. It was super easy and fun to make!! It tasted awesome too. We were so surprised with the results as Sis and I did not bake ONCE before this! We are smart. Thank you.

Hope we can buy a baking oven soon so we can bake more yummy stuffs!! :D

Yup yup yup, this strawberry cheesecake does not require an oven! It only requires a microwave or something similar to melt the butter. It's really easy to make. So here goes! Sis came across Randy's blog and saw his blog post thus we feel like making it as well since it's easy and we both love strawberries! You can view his blog post here. :)

 So here are all the ingredients you need!

 Yummy strawberries

Cream cheese (either in spreadable or block form)

Digestive biscuits

 Butter

 Icing sugar

 Strawberry jam

LETS START!!!

Firstly, crush the biscuits to make the base!

 Put the biscuits inside any bag

and use a roller to crush it!!

 We used one and a half row of biscuits for our base. It depends on how big is your container or how big you want your cake to be! Just a rough gauge will do. :)

 CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH

 While doing that, put your butter into a bowl and place it in the microwave for it to melt!

With the melted butter and crushed biscuits, MIX IT!! Remember to mix it thoroughly.

 After mixing it, lay it out evenly.

 Your base is done!! :D

Now... for the filling!

 Cut the strawberries into equal sizes. Creativity is up to you! :)

Take a big bowl and mix the icing sugar, cream cheese and strawberry jam together! 

 Pour some icing sugar in~

 The whole cream cheese in!!

 And few scoops of strawberry jam in!

 There's no specific number of scoops for the strawberry jam... You just need to add around two scoops, mix it up.  

And if you mix it up and the colour turns out to be something like this.....

 Then it's good! 

Just remember add in scoop by scoop and mix it after you add in every scoop to make sure you arrive to this colour!! :)

 Next will be putting the filling on top of your biscuit base!

 The texture is like yogurt! It smells like strawberry yogurt as well. Maybe that's how they make yogurt?? :O

 Spread it on evenly as well

Next will be your creativity!! 

Decorate your cake with strawberries(or other fruits/edible stuffs; totally up to you) nicely and prettily~~~ 

 TADA!! So nice rightttt omg

 You can add some leftover biscuit crumbs or crush some biscuits to decorate the top of your cheesecake! :)

AND WE'RE DONE!!! SO NICE RIGHT??? I'm so proud of myself haha.Well, Sis will also be proud of herself.

We are so proud of ourselves!! Love the results. I think can bring out sell and earn some profits hahaha.

After that, wrap it up with aluminium foil and put it in the freezer! Yes freezer, not the middle part of the refrigerator ok! Whatever you call that... We waited for 2.5 hours for it harden. When we ate it, the filling is not really that harden yet but it's something like liquid-to-solid kind of state. If you want it to be completely harden, you will have to put it in the freezer for minimum 6 hours(rough gauge)! I find that putting it for 2.5 hours is enough because I don't really like too hard type, a little will do. Plus, trust me, you won't be able to wait for 6 HOURS because you can't wait to try it!! Randy's blog post stated to wait for 2-3 hours for it to harden but after 1.5 hour I already ask Sis if we could try it haha. We will always anticipate the results as we did it ourselves right?! Furthermore it is our first time making cake thus we're sooo excited to try it!

It tasted great!! Considering the fact that we're first timers? Plus I super LOVE the biscuit base!! It's like apple crumble base. Sad to say, we can't taste any cheese when we tried it. It is just like apple crumble base + strawberry yogurt. Maybe I shall call it strawberry cumble instead? Haha but it's good!! I'm so satisfied with the taste and results. :)))

Would love to do it again! Now that I know how to make the base, I can try other flavours as well. Or other kind of cakes! The base is great for any cake I suppose! It tasted really nice. :) Maybe I can learn to do apple crumble next time!! 

Can't wait.

Do try it out if you're free at home! It's good to taste something you made yourself. You can make and share it with your family as well. Do share with me if you made them! Would love to see the results. :))

Have fun! :D 

2012 post will be up on 31 Dec~

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