[baking @ chardolph's house]

Chardolph = Charmaine plus Rudolph (her nickname) btw.

I went to charmaine's terrace house yesterday to bake :) In order for me to wake up early and on time, since I slept really late recently and woke up as late, I set alarm at 8.30am and but woke up one hour than the alarm. Too excited I guess.

Before I set off to Charmaine's house at 9.40am, I decided to use the computer for a while and ended up setting up much later because I got, once again, too engross in this article I was reading. I took MRT and well, there is no seats becasue it was too crowded. My legs were aching from the 20 minuted walk to the MRT (I don't exercise much). Until I reach the MRT interchange when more than half the people in the carriage went out and I spotted some vacant seats (ahh... finally have somewhere to sit). But my joy was short-lived because a pregnant lady was standing right in front of me and I feel guilty.

After a 40minutes I reached Orchard and went out of the station to buy takoyaki for brunch (since I forgot to grab some breakfast before setting off). This fat guy and thin guy queued up in front of me. The fat guy ordered 66 takoyakis (3 sets of 10pieces and 3 sets of 6pieces). The thin guys ordered 6 pieces in total only. I find it really funny.

 By the time I reach the MRT station where I was supposed to meet Charmaine, I was famished and about to die of thirst. I walked out of the station and bump into Charmaine, which give me a fright. We took bus to her house and along the way talk about why I never read my sister bedtime story because, number1, my sister did asked me before but I ended up freaking her out with all the horror stories and since then she never dare to ask me again, and number2, I was too lazy anyway.

Charmaine played a trick on me D: She said, half way on the bus, that it was the wrong one. We talk about ghost and stuffs (how we accidentally freaked people out at night, mainly our younger siblings).

Got down at the bus stop and Charmaine bought me a drink (as my BELATED BELATED birthday present) since I was complaining about how I havn't drank a single drop of water since morning. Unless you count swallowing saliva? We slowly walked back to her house because Charmaine sprained her ankle (the first time ever for her).

Since she live in terrace, there is a gate which can only be open by a special key or this button on the inside of the house. Meaning you press the button and gate open. SO DAMN COOL. The interior of her house is as cool.

I ate my brunch while listening to Charmaine's brother (let's call him RL since I can't figure out how to pronounce or spell his name) talk about his spoon inventions. So basically he made a hole in two plastic spoon, one had a tissue stick to it underneath the spoon while the other as a straw poke through it. The on with the tissue acts as a filter, like when he is drinking soup, he could use the spoon and filter out the ingredients, since the soup, according to him, will seep through the tissue and back into the bowl, but no thanks I have soup with a normal spoon. I got no idea what is the other spoon use for. (Note: He has yet to try out his invention)

Other inventions includes pasting his book on the wall, a pocket made of paper paste on his door so that others could drop his messages, and a robot. (I talk about my weird inventions when I was young.)

[picture: RL with her paper bag?? he made for his friend.]

There is a cute picture of Charmaine on the dining table :D

After I finish eating Charmaine let me tour her four storey house. Well, we only went up to the third floor because it was raining and the fourth floor is not covered up, and because charmaine is anxious to start baking.

BUT WHATEVER HER HOUSE IS ULTRA COOL. I like her room, there is a balcony and the best thing is that she has the whole room to herself, unlike me -.- have to share with my sister, and obviously my sister have less things than me, considering that she don't even read books, so her side of the room is neater too.

[picture top: staircase that leads the first floor to the second; picture right: ingredients and equiments, with exception of my coke bottle]

Okay move on to the baking process. I try to remember the recipe. So first we pour/measure 3 1/4 cups of flour, 1 2/3 of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt and 3 teaspoons of baking powder into the mixing bowl. Stir and mix it well.

Then add in one teaspoon vanilla essence, two eggs, milk (i forgot how many cups), half a cup of butter and beat it with an electronic egg beater.

That's where things started going suay. So what happen was Charmaine was trying to fit the two egg beaters into the machine, but she kind of failed. I took over and notice a slot there and explain to Charmaine that she had to fit it into the slot (something she had never realised). Then Charmaine tried connecting the egg beater wire to the fuse while I fixed the mixing bowl onto the machine. My hand was on the egg beater when Charmaine switch it on so YES. I injured my hand cos the egg beater machine started beating my fingers. But thank god I pulled my fingers out in time and scream a bit (shocked mah), so Charmaine switch it off and gave me a plaster. But one of the egg beaters spoilt. okay my first first first time ever to Charmaine's house and I already left a ''excellent'' impression of myself (more like horribly terribly clumsy).

The cupcakes turned out to be quite successful :D  Didn't get food poisoning as I have initially thought. [picture top: recipe]

Step one: the flour

Charmaine mixing the ingredients from the first step


Broken egg shells (broke by me!)


Egg beater (And I have now a fear of it)


Final mixture :)


Six paper cups lined up nicely, waiting for us to put in onto the tray and fill it with the mixture.


Charmaine scooping up the mixture and putting them into the paper cups. Since this was my first time making cupcakes I at first pour the mixture into the tray without the paper cup supporting it.


Half to two thirds of the cup filled with the mixture.


FINAL PRODUCT :D
The cupcakes looks huge and the paper was burnt because Charmaine's brother bake it for 40 minutes even though it was stated on the recipe that 20 to 25 minutes is enough already.

Me and RL made some icings for the cupcake using food colouring, icing sugar and hot water.


RL pour too much icing on his cupcake that it overflow. (green apple because RL loves green? and i like this shade of green)


Mine: I took a bite off one of it. I made blue icing. I wanted baby blue but add in too much colouring so it turns an ugly shade of dark blue. The food colouring created a blue patch on my hand and mouth (mouth wasnt that obvious) and the stain refused to budge even under the pressure of soap and water.

I thought it only stains food? Unless well, the colouring considered humans as food too (you know, since we humans are food for cannibals -okay although they are humans too-. weird logic)


After baking me and charmaine and RL enjoy our cupcake while watching The Incredibles on RL's small white television set in his room. Jack-jack is cute!

After the movie end, me and charmaine took bus back to MRT station and spent 20 minutes at the shopping mall right outside it. On the way I tell her about what I read about zero point energy (as mentioned in Incredibles when Syndrome froze the incredibles family), I read about it in BLACK ORDER. Charmaine bought chocolate sundae at Macdonalds. Since I don't have much cash with me, I ask for a cup of water at the counter (thirsty as usual).

After eating and complaining about how unfair the world is, I went home. And slept throughout my whole way home because I was simply too tired.

I guess that results in me not being able to sleep later in the night?

This got to be one of my longest post ever.