Whizz Through the Weekend

Mr Kwek had been busy with his CFA and Church Camp for the last few weeks, so I finally got to spend some time with him this weekend.

This was Mr Kwek's first time pumping petrol by himself.

The most exciting event of the weekend. Mr Kwek bought me a bike! And a bright yellow Raleigh at that! Aluminium frame with Shimano gears and front suspension. We bought it from a neighbourhood shop in Hougang which is run by a lovely couple. They were really helpful and made sure the bike was in perfect condition before I took it home.

I finally fulfilled my dream of riding a bike to work today. Although I just realized that the ride here was easy cos it was downhill most of the way. Going back is gonna be tough... Erm...might not have been such a good idea after all...

My new pretty pink shoes. The only thing I bought during the JB trip.

The cousin and her two playful sons. They are on the plane back to France now. They next time I see them, they will probably be big boys speaking French.

Spotted in Shenton Way

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at 9:19 AM

Blog Find!

I stumbled upon another lovely blog today Green Laundry. I love finding such blogs which fill me with inspiration. The blog is filled with lovely images that make me wish I have great photography skills too. Melly from Green Laundry also likes lomo! She even has a tutorial on how to make a heart-shaped bokeh lense hood to make pictures like these. Lovely!

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at 4:37 PM

4 Meals in 6 Hours

The JB Adventure was fabulous, as we stuffed ourselves silly with 4 meals in 6 hours! Malay food, Japanese food, Secret Recipe and back alley hawker food all under 50Ringgit per person. I'm eating waaaay too much.

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at 2:16 PM

I'm going on an adventure!

I'm off to JB this afternoon to watch movies, eat and shop. I'm excited to be away from the office on a weekday afternoon. Hope the day turns out fabulous!

love this shot of us

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at 9:38 AM

Whizz Through the Weekend

It was another busy weekend, with Caleb and Sab's wedding on Saturday and Amanda's birthday on Sunday.

The usually grouchy birthday girl.

The beautiful couple taking their vows

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at 12:28 PM

Whizz Through the Weekend

Last weekend was a long weekend with the Hari Raya Haji holiday on Friday. I love long weekends.

Spent the Friday with Mr Kwek. That's us at the beach. He was huffing and puffing as he jogs, while I glided along on my blades. It has been awhile since my blades saw sunlight.

Saturday was a day for the family. I woke up bright and early to try out a new baking recipe of Cranberry Tea Bread, which was given to us by my mom's friend. The recipe is at the the bottom of the post, if you are interested in trying it out. It turned out to be a lovely mix between a bread and a cake. Yum! As the Tea Bread was in the oven, my family tried our hands at redecorating the house, as we moved the computer out of the living room and put up the Christmas decorations. Sorry, didn't get pictures as I was busy moving stuff around, as dictated by the parents.

My mom, small boy and I went shopping after that, leaving the big boy n dad at home to do the heavy lifting. There was a peranakan fair at SMU which my mom wanted to go for. The stuff on sale were mostly the kebayas which were extremely beautiful, but also extremely expensive... all I could afford was a bowl of laksa.

Sunday was another beautiful day, as I went to visit my lovely neice! The last time I saw her, she was just learning to walk. Now, she's all grown up, babbling in her baby language as if we were carrying on a conversation. I wish I understood.

Well, that's a wrap for my weekend.Here's the cranberry tea bread recipe:

Ingredients

100g Dried Cranberries

2 cups self-raising flour

1/4 tsp salt

3/4 cup fine sugar

60g butter, frozen

1 egg

2/3 cup orange juice

Glazing: 2 tbsp milk + fine sugar

Sieve flour and salt into a big bowl

Cut frozen butter into flour, rub till it becomes a grain of sand

Mix in sugar throughly

Beat egg in a bowl and mix in organe juice

Pour into four mixture and stir well

Add cranberr and fold in

Pour into lined loaf-pan

Sprinkle with milk on batter

Sprinkle sugar to crisp top

Bake for 45 min at 175deg C

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at 2:45 PM

Picnik

A few posts ago, I blogged about the Poladroid, which made my photos turn into lovely polaroid shots. Then my friend introduced me to Picnik.

Picnik is sort of a web-based photoshop, where you can tweak your photo in almost any way imaginable, soften, changing colour, adding stickers, the list goes on. Of course they also have the polaroid function which I had to try out.

My verdict: If you want to edit/spice up your photos, Picnik is a cool, easy to use webiste that you can spend hours on. But if all you are looking for is something to make you digital prints look like Polaroid shots, I would still recomend Poladroid. It's fuss free and it has more of the feel of a real polaroid.

Hope you guys enjoy exploring Picnik!

Since I haven't posted in awhile, I'm making up for it today with several posts. Come back later!

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at 11:00 AM