Oven failed me but still managed to churn out cupcakes!

Went to NTUC this morning to buy a 1kg pack of self-raising flour as I plan to try my hands at baking cupcakes this afternoon.

Following the recipe at http://bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2331639/perfect-cupcakes, but halving the recipe and cutting down the sugar (by alot), I managed to mix up a pretty moist, fluffy and light batter.

Thought I was all ready to go, but after putting in the muffin cups in our cheap Sona brand oven, we got a power trip!

Didn't want that batter to go to waste, so we thought why not put inside our oven toaster and see what happens.

Turned out that though the top of tne muffins were charred, the insides were fluffy and nice to eat! I added too little sugar though so it was kind of tasteless. But luckily, I added in some raisins and prunes, so that made the cupcakes a little more tasty.

Waffles!

Went to Toh Guam Road Enterprise Hub Eastpak to buy this $29.00 Takada wafflemaker today.

After two failed attempts at using some leftover pancake flour and brown sugar to cook the waffles using an improvised recipe, I decided it was better to stick as closely to the recipes I found online.

Bought stuffs like self-raising flour $2.90 baking soda $1.35 etc and started to work on the second version of the waffle batter.

Happily, this trial turned out pretty good! :)

Strabismus

Ok, so this is the medical term for the cross-eyes condition that I have.

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/strabismus.htm
http://www.childrensvision.com/strabismus.htm

Hooked on these Youtube videos

These videos of machines making cakes are so fascinating I spent an hour watching them

Sheet Cakes made with Unifiller: http://youtu.be/-kJ7R28ZDzM

At Salt Grill and Sky Bar Yesterday

$30++ pax for the afternoon tea

25, 24, 23 Jul 2014

20 Jul Saturday

19 Jul 2014 - Saturday

13 Jul 2014 Sunday

Breakfast at Tiong Bahru Market and Dinner at Henderson Market 😊

Laogong is back!

Coughing bout starts again!

At 11:47 pm

>.<

Whilst I am in the middle of doing Android.

Anyway, I am probably going to drink my hot chocolate soon and try to get to sleep after that.

On two days MC

Bill was nearly $50.00.

Hope my cough recovers soon.

Peranakan Museum

I am not feeling so well today, having bouts of phglem-congested coughing and a slight fever of below 38 degrees.

But Edison needed some photos related to Peranakans for his Chinese project, so I had no choice but to bring him and Fleming to Peranakan Museum in the late afternoon to snap some shots.

We took a cab to Armenia Street where the Museum is found. Cab fare from our place to the Museum was around $6.00.  We also took a cab home. That cost us $7.20.  So it was a total of $13.20 both ways.

I must say we did not make the money totally worthwhile as we only stayed for around 20 minutes! Edison was in a hurry to get home to finish his RE homework, so I did not want to pressurise him to stay any longer.

Fortunately, Peranakan Museum now offers free entry to all Singaporeans.  All you have to do is to flash your pink IC to show them, while school children would have to record their school and purpose of visit on their guest book.

Here are some shots that Edison took there.  I took some myself too, but they are on my handphone, and more troublesome to unload.

Finished marking!

Two days away from our holiday in Korea! :)

Revived an old blog that I created many years ago to pen down our travel journeys but never got down to doing because of my laziness.

Today, I went crazy and blogged about four entries at a go!

The four entries are born out of necessity because I was trying to research on the local transport options to travel from Incheon Airport to our accomodation in Sinseol-dong. Since I had gathered quite alot of information such as the travel routes, fare costs and yravel times, I took the opportunity to record them which I thought others might benefit from too.

Here's the link: The Siow Travels Blog 

Had our dinner at Ajisen as usual.

Our cause for celebration : Edison has just created his Instagram account today! ^.^

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Taking a cab ride in a "first day taxi"

Taking a cab to my client's place in Woodlands.

The taxi driver told me it was his first day being a taxi driver and he was unfamiliar with the roads.

He asked me if I am ok with him being a new driver. I said no problem!

Chatted with him abit and learnt that I was his 10th customer since morning and he intends to drive until 4 pm today so that he can offset the daily rental of $109.

Fortunately, with Google Maps, most of us would be less hesitant to give these new drivers a chance ;)