Reminisce of my travels

Good morning and i manage to wake up at 7am. Well its partly because i was on that thin line between sleep and being awake... had a hard time falling asleep. The sky is gloomy with rain falling down like its never gonna wanna stop... the temperature is cool and comfy and its ohhh sooo the best to sleep now under the warmth of the blanket. Mornings like these goes well with a hot cuppa tea and some cookies, with the radio playing and the rain fallin down like snow... bliss.

When i went to the kitchen to brush my teeth *don't bother asking why the kitchen* the scene outside the the kitchen window looks like what it will looked like on a cold wintery morning in london or australia or new zealand... dull foggy but in this case its drizzeling cold gloomy ~

Since there was a nice short post this morning, i shall add to the reason why i woke up at 7am and made myself feel guilty for not sleeping through the morning. After dining at macdonals for breakfast, i did the unglam thing of running in the rain to the nearest shelter not once but three times... made my way to springfield to watch the teachers day concert and say hello goodbye to my past teachers who taught me.

The school seems to be digging its own grave with the kind of system and education style it has. The students attitude are like downright no where near where it was two to four years ago... gosh... someone please do something about it. some of the performances had totally no meaning or what so ever towards expressing thanks to the teachers, it seems like they danced because they wanna show off and dance for themselves. Some of the other performances at least had some meaning to it and i enjoyed the video clips made by some of the classes.. those clips had the most meaning...

oh and yeah.. there's something scandalously lovely about the picture below~

Gone bizarre

Somehow this semester seems to be a little off course for me, imagine the once hardworking ian who studies his arse off during examination week is now going shopping in the middle of week! Theworst happening is that i have not really been focusing on studying but instead, i've been watching korean dramas and slacking away at home doing nothing.

when you have not been commuting on double decked SBs bus for almost six months, you realised that you have grown a little taller and ceiling height on the lower deckhas remained unchanged. bloody fuck, i should have just stood at the standing area instead of moving to the rear, couldn't even stand upright due to the seemingly low ceiling. Eunice had to tease about it and brag about the benefits of being shorter.

Oh and by the way, i guess the paper today makes it the second time i came out of the examination room earlier then the two hours given. The paper was easy, all theory based and i am so pleased with myself that i took the effort to memorise all the research terms.

Shopping was good today, got a tee shirt from InQBox and i realised that the shop imports tees from Tank Theory... Oh i wish they carried tees from Beams T. I finally got myself a belt from sprinfield to go with my adidas suede shoes happy happy happy. While i was window shopping in the numerous shops that we went to along the way, many other apparels caught my eyes and i am oh so gonna get them.

Before heading off to Borders, i ate this deliciously sensual apple crumble from swissbake. Gosh it was like almost similar to my apple tarte tatin but the pastry was better, the apples were somewhat sour and it went well. I made a promise to myself on that very moment that i have to bake an apple crumble! Getting a pastry book is more difficult than i actually imagine when the prices of them books goes from 60SGD to 122SGD. But i guess that good recipes for desserts are not all in a single book but spread out all over the place like gold dust and sometimes, i guess i'll have to buy the cook book just for that recipe.

A sad case that the culinary schools in singapore do not have say... those courses that allows people like me to learn pastry skills once a week for like a long time to get a cert or something. all the offer is diplomas and diplomas... Sigh. Nevertheless i shall continue to improve my pastry skills in my humble kitchen.

Yeah my passport is extended to 2011~

Thoughts of winds of change

On this very particular night... at what an ungodly hour some might say... i had a chat with a wise friend of mine. Many a times we often overlooked things that seemed unimportant to us, but when you really think about them, it does actually affect us. when will we fall in love? Will love find us unexpectedly like a breeze in spring or will we only fall in love when we're looking for love, it seems so to me that way that the breeze doesn't travel in my direction.

Reminiscing the past, it seems to silly yet cute and funny in a way, how two people can get together and share moment of happiness and times of sadness. Sometimes i guess getting a little envious in a relationship makes the other party know how much she means to you. I often wonder, that hug that we wished could last forever, but its the moment that the hug ends that we learnt o be stronger and love each other more.

The shyness that lingers in the early days, the akward actions of one and the sweet shyness of the other. When the end draws near... hearts are broken and tears flow. The sadness lasts for a time that seems longer then those happy moments. Oh what in the world...

As the time passes... it is indeed true that the stillness of the night does have a magic that none of us can explain, it somehow opened our hearts... thoughts and feelings flutter in symphony of the night. At times... i feel like falling in love, to share the feeling so indescribable yet will the days of farewells come again, that i do not wished upon for.

We have always thought of ourselves as a certain person with personality and characteristics that we presume we are. I would really love to on the other hand, to hear what others think of that i am... we see the world in a perspective that others do not see us in. So perhaps to know our true self let us ask our friends of their views.

Wise old friend of mine said that i am not living like i should... an 18 year old living it like an adult. Maybe perhaps i am truly not living my life now as an 18 year old. Maybe the fun that i am having is somewhat different from what others think of it to be. but truthfully, i do not want to grow up from this 18 year old era of mine.

I often dream of being a national geographic photo journalist, i find it interesting and excting to write those articles about people of another culture... their lives in an environment so different from ours, to know what does it mean to live in their perspective. To see the world through the camera lense is an experience that could teach me endless lessons in life, to know how fortunate i am, to cherish what i have, to know how wonderful the world is, to see life as we never know.



my mind and heart is in a daze, then at times in a frenzy of thoughts and emotions all messed up... what do i really want now... sheeze... i do not know

Dream a little dream dream

time waits for no one... it's been a long time since i made an actualy post other then the pictures which pops up once in a while. Well i'm going to Taipei in october for a short break asfter this hectic semester. Come to think of it, this trip will be the second in this year! Just thinking of taipei makes me excited... all the shopping, eating, playing and we're gonna visit a hot springs... dip dip~

Last friday the 18th of August 2006, we had our culinary science project execution. to give a brief idea on what it is actually about, well... the 24 of us are supposed to run the whole show of operating the service kitchen for restaurant in the square (T.A.S training restaurant). The team of us had to come out with the marketing plan, recipe costing, marketing list and the best of all our recipes.

Appetizer Mesclun Green with Strawberry Vinaigrette
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Soup Tomato Poivre Soup with Garlic Crouton
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Main Course Baked Salmon with Lemon Butter Sauce
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Roast Chicken with Herbed Sauce
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Dessert Apple Tarte Tatin

I had the honours of doing the dessert with four other team members. It was really an experience that i will never forget, the planning and the trial cookings that we had in the kitchen. On Friday everything was in perfect harmony with us serving 46 diners instead of the 40 that we were told to prepared for. The best part for me was to know that the dessert recieved the most compliments although it was a little too sweet for some AND Ms. Wilson's friend, a french lady said it was excellent. *applauses*

Needless to say, our team performed best along with the group who operated Petit Square (T.A.S cafe) out of all the days!

School's been tough for the past weeks but with all the projects and classes over, it's time for the study week. Shocking to know that many groups in my class and others are having conflicts, gosh i wonder how are they gonna work together next semester. I've been rather lazy too, skipping lectures and apparently used up my leaves for both accounting and marketing tutorials... hahahahaha.

Over the past two months, i managed to finish five animes... akazukin cha cha, love hina, dn angel, fruit basket, clamp school detectives and ouran high school host club which is still an on going one.

Nights of via mar and tokyo

Tonight was somewhat special... i always have the feeling to chill out with you people... my school friends are like activity friends and ohhh noooo i can't imagine chillin with them, the image just doesn't seem right... hahahahahaha. I love nights like these... chatting about everything after dinner at either a pub or coffee bean@orchard road or catching a movie at some ungodly hours.

Thinking about the school work and the things that needs to be done when the sun rises the next day... ohhh i so don't want the night to end. I can simply imagine the pleasures of chillin (i have to find another word to replace this word) when i enter the working life. But i guess the glam appeal of it will fade if we do this too often now...

Gosh i really look forward to nights like these... imagine five years down the road and we're all working, what would it be like... to sit late at night, sipping our beverage and chatting about say life? or would it be work?? or maybe like always before, everything that comes to our minds??? what we enjoyed and loved so much now will slowly fade away like it always does... life is tough and changes are all around. How i wish it was back to my secondary school days... oh those mornings i remember so well.. wearing my uniform and queueing for the bus even before the sun shines her first golden rays~