Baking mania!

Today was very very productive~
Am proud of myself! =)
I deserve a pat on the back!

Haha, I managed to accomplished the few things that I needed and wanted to do which were
1.cut the grass
2.printed out my chord sheets and had a fun time during practice
3.baked butter cake and chocolate chip cinnamon muffins!

I woke up at 9am, had a cup of coffee and then proceeded to cut the grass around 10am. Finished at 11.30am. Helped my maid to bathe my dogs and then straight took a bath and then went for music practice. Came home around 4.15pm and then rested for a while. After dinner I started baking! Wanted to bake for quite some time already just that I did not have the time.

My mum even asked me, why do you always seem to bake only at night. Well, I ain't got no choice! =)

Thankfully the butter cake turned out perfectly if I may say so myself!



It was super moist! My dad does not have a sweet tooth,I mean, he doesn't even like chocolates! But I know that he loves butter cake. =) Am glad he liked it!
As usual, Chris was just glad to have something to eat.Have you ever eaten a cake fresh out of the oven? The warmth and heat still entrapped in the cake. Every buttery bite is enough to make you swoon on your feet.

And just to show you how much I've missed baking, I made chocolate chip cinnamon muffins while the butter cake was baking!

Baking twice in a row is something I never thought I would ever do.Imagine all the cleaning up I would have to do. Haha, but as the muffins were quite simple, I just reused the same bowls used while making the butter cake. Actually,I am quite intimidated by muffins as this is my,if I'm not mistaken,my fourth attempt in making muffins and the first few batches did not turn out as well as I had hoped.I was actually a little worried and scared and I thought to myself, if this time the muffins do not turn out nicely,that would be my last muffin attempt!Thank God it turned out beautifully. But I had so little faith in my muffins that after taking them out of the oven,I just left them on the kitchen table and went to the living room. I was disappointed at the look of the muffins but as the saying goes,"Do not judge a book by it's cover" or in this case,muffins!

Chris came running out to me saying,"Eh,Dix, you muffins very nice la this time!" Woosh, I instantly felt relief!

The chocolate chip cinnamon MUFFINS!!!

Chrissie told me this joke which I feel should be shared.

Everyone has a photographic memory,it's just that some do not have any films...

Don't get it? Well, never mind than! =) Adios! Until we meet again!

My family is where my heart is...

I have to say, home sweet home or in my case, I prefer to say Home Chocolate Home!(lame,I know right!)

I've missed everyone,my dogs who greeted me with licks and whines after a week of not seeing me. Especially Fluffy,she is one dog that can really melt your heart. After coming out of the car, she whined and whined as if it has been 10 years since she saw me. She clambered, jumped and scratched me all over. Hershey came next, and then the old dog. Benji needed to be called and he is the oldest dog and the one I am most fond of. He came,sat in front of me and waited for me to pet him. Then as I walked further in front to play with Fluffy, he came over and sat right next to me, making sure his fur touches my knee,a sign that he wants more attention. =)
I love my dogs!

Fluffy!

Hershey,the mummy!

Fluffy again.

Hershey again!

Fluf muff!

There are no pictures of Benji coz well, he's old but he's cute. Yeah, why didn't we take his pictures? Old man must be camera shy!

And bam, suddenly I have so many things to do. Tomorrow I will have to cut the grass, then print out my chord sheet, and after practice I might bake. Then I have to study my Media Lit.

I seem to have a lot of things to do.Time to reorganize my time and schedules!

Well,back to my story, as I walked into the living room, the familiar rush of warmness in seeing my mum, sitting on the couch, my eldest and third sis sprawling on the next couch watching their favorite Hong Kong drama. Youngest sis hiding somewhere in the house but yeah, at least this is home.

These are snippets of Lady Antebellum's songs which seem to be directed at me.

Seems I was walking in the wrong direction
I barely recognized my own reflection, no
Scared of love, but scared of life alone...

(Ready to Love Again)

May the angels protect you
Trouble neglect you
And heaven accept you when its time to go home
May you always have plenty
The glass never empty
Know in your belly
You're never alone

May your tears come from laughing
You find friends worth having
With every year passing
They mean more than gold
May you win but stay humble
Smile more than grumble
And know when you stumble
You're never alone
(Never Alone)

Sometimes I feel cold as steel
Broken like I’m never gonna heal

Every day I drive by a little white church
It’s got these little white crosses
Like angels in the yard
Maybe I should stop on in, say a prayer
Maybe talk to God like He is there
Oh, I know He’s there
Yeah, I know He’s there

Well hello world
How you been
Good to see you, my old friend
Sometimes I feel as cold as steel
And broken like I’m never gonna heal
And I see a light, a little grace, a little faith unfurls
Well hello world

Sometimes I forget what living’s for
And I hear my life through my front door
And I breathe it in
Oh, I’m home again
And I see my wife
Little boy and little girl
Hello world
Hello world

Well the empty disappears
I remember why I’m here
Just surrender and believe
I fall down on my knees
Well hello world
(Hello World)

Piling up! UP UP AND AWAY!!!

I've just finished my IDM blog.Now that's a relief. Now I just have only 90873928374982 else things to do.

I really want to make my own puff pastry.
I really want to do some baking.
I really want to finish all my assignments at once...
I really want to eat McD's cheese fries.
I really want ....

Yeah,enough of I wants...

Did some cooking in apartment,landlady finally appeared and bought a new gas tank. Thanks to mummy,I make a pretty good herbal porridge using red dates(hong zou and kei chi). Ahahaha...

Feeling pretty relaxed,for now. I believe I deserve a break after this IDM thingy... Need to start on Media Lit and IPD. AND GS! ARGH!

I know I may sound like I'm repeating this but...I think I am losing my guts again. I need to stand up for myself and stop letting other people push me around. *push push*

As much as I hate to admit it, I can be a sucker for attention too. Didn't get what I said? Well, it can mean that, I would do anything(this is just a general discussion,and by anything I didn't mean anything, I was just giving an example) to get attention? Get friends? Get attention.Wait I just said attention. =)

Let me get this straight first,you out there,yes you! Do not judge me! Ok? Yes, I may have my weak points but who are you to tell me who I'm not and what I should do?I am who I am,whether you like it or not. What happens to me now,will make me into a person some day.
I am person,a person with feelings!(stole that line from She's the Man.) =p

ok.Enough of blogging. Blogging for two subjects kinda make me sick of blogging. Well,it's not that bad but,you know...

C ya later aligator!

Mood swings from left to right...

Mood yesterday good.This afternoon,bad. Now,good again...

This blue shirt thingy was made by my mum! ahahaha...

Sorry for the outburst of craziness.. I don't know what's gotten into me... WeeeeIrd!!

What is becoming of this world?!

With too much time on my hands,I decided to do a little research...

Tsk tsk, didn't your momma tell you not to talk to strangers? =)

Just wanna shout out to all the people out there, be careful to who you're talking to... You'll never know, do you...

Argh!!! Vandals!!!

My supposedly mind map for one of my courses but I don't think the lecturers will think too highly of me! =) Did this in less than 5mins.

The familiar feeling of rush when I'm at home. The dogs needed a bath, Hershey's skin started the itch and rash again. Had to cut off all her fur. And she hates sitting still, so I had a pretty tough time. I bathed and groomed all my 3 dogs in 3 hours. Majority of the time spent was with Hershey. I just needed to bath the other two.

I might get a free classical guitar!!! Yippee! I might la.. Maybe. Not so sure. It's a possibility.Haha, when I told my dad I wanted to learn the guitar, he knocked me on the head and asked me to concentrate on my studies.. >: P

Well, I can say that my day was pretty productive. Sat down for about half an hour trying to sort out my assignments and trying to start on my readings.

Ummm, about my confessions thingy, I'll wait until...ummm... You know, my parents find out about it first! *wink wink*

Mood today: happy and feeling productive and feeling all lovey dovey...


PS: Somebodehhhhh please help me with my mind map. Just give me ideas,anything that is related to vandalism! Thank you very much in advance! Cookies on me!

It's My Life...

It's my life,it's now or never~~~

It does makes sense doesn't it? The lyrics to Jon Bon Jovi's song "It's My Life". We have to live our own life now,it's now or never,we won't live forever etc...But stop and think for a while before going all i-want-to-conquer-the-world-and-i-don't-give-a-s***-what-happens. Yes, you may go ahead and do what the hell you want but did you even stop to think about the consequences? This is the problem that is going around the whole world. We all do things without thinking. We do things usually based on emotions.Usually at the spur of the moment. We never learn do we?

I have a confession to make...

To mum and dad, and the rest of the family, I KNOW YOU ARE OR WILL BE READING THIS, DON'T WORRY, I did not get a tattoo or something crazy like that. =)

Yeah, my family reads my blog,so much for privacy eh? hahaha!

Hahaha,ok well, the confession comes with evidence, photos, but since this broadband is slow and doesn't seem to be uploading anything, the confession part will come later aite? =)

Be patient and you shall see...

Well, we had a steamboat party-ish thing in Wei Wen's house. He was kind enough, I mean his mum was kind enough to allow these bunch of crazy people into her house for steamboat. We overdid ourselves. We had so much leftover food and when we divided the cost of all the ingredients we bought, it came up to only RM6.80 per person! Wow, that has got to be the cheapest steamboat I've ever eaten!

We had different kinds of meat such as pork,chicken and beef. 2 kinds of mushrooms which were Enoki mushrooms and oyster mushrooms. What is steamboat without fishballs!=) We had fishballs, fishcakes, beefballs and sotong balls if I'm not mistaken. Not forgetting veggies! The rest weren't such big fans of veggies so we had quite a lot of leftovers. I bought kang kung and bak choi. We had yee mee noodles. Wei Wen was in charged of drinks so we had Ice lemon tea. I think, that's all. The stock was made of tom yam maggi cubes. It was nice,we just added serai and daun limau or something like that. It smelled WEALLY WEALLY GOOD!

After eating, we had to clean up and after cleaning up, Wei Wen and Philip performed for us. They called us their WHORES,haha, they actually meant WORS. It is because their band is called Works of Reverse. Wei Wen then brought out the liquor! Bacardi apple! We just had around half a cup each mixed with coke. It smells really good at first but in my opinion, the more you smell the Bacardi the more it smells like varnish...

Well, it was fun, the singing and performance and the talking and the chilling out and the stupid videos on youtube.

Last but not least, STRUT THAT ASS! =) (Inside joke...) ahahahhahahha!

These are my confessions...

Finished on my second post of my IPD blog. Well,at least it was productive...

It's funny how we say things we don't mean. We do things we don't want to do.

Poser-ish moments..

In my dear old deceased grandma's kebaya.

Sorry for the odd stances,was in heels for half the day, feet hurt...=(

I kinda look like a nyonya here.

=) That's all... Sometimes, I feel at peace when serving in the worship team. It's like... peaceful...

I am going to make my own puff pastry the next round! The ingredients are simple, the process is the one that could make someone pull out their own hair.

I just heard from my mum and aunts, that I'm not pure chinese(hah,the scandal!)
Hahah, according to mum, my great grandma was Javanese...

Just realized, how lucky I am to be born in this era, the stories I heard about my grandma,about the Japanese and the torture and pain. It could break your heart... Too bad, both my grandparents from both sides of my family are departed.

Reminiscing about the past...

Looking at the bright side aite?

There will be a day, when all this will fade away, and when I look back, tis will bring a smile to my face.

My mood swings are getting kind of... you know,off.

I can be really chirpy at one moment and just super down at another. PMS much???

Haha, but I am trying to bring myself up again. If you ask me honestly, there is still a lot of room for improvement in my walk with God. It is hard, personally,very very hard to shed the layer after layer of stone hard skin that has wrapped around my heart.

I've never expected that I would travel down this very same road.

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
Leonard Cohen.

Messed up!

I know that I've got issues, but you're pretty messed up too.
(Kelly Clarkson)

Aren't we all. Haiz, as usual, assignments are heading nowhere...

Well, motivation to play the piano is there,that's for sure.

I... am *blank*

Burn it down...

Yeah...???

Haha, Trix came over to stay with me for 2 days. We came up on Tuesday and was suppose to go back on Thursday morning but since the Idiotic guards at Mentari court refused to let us park inside so we decided to leave on Wednesday itself. We actually went to visit our uncle at BU around 10pm-ish and when we left and arrived at Mentari it was already 11.45pm++. After some big hoo haa with the guards who were acting like imbeciles, we quickly went up to my apartment, packed up some clothes and left.Yeah, 2 girls driving back to Seremban at midnight. Fun eh?

Am downing two packets of coffee at once.Coffee addict much?

Am still learning the Croation Rhapsody and there seem to be a little progress.

Sometimes I feel that I am taken for granted, you know that feeling, like you are being used.
Well,it ain't feel nice.

People out there, I just want to declare my utmost sincere appreciation to you guys for being my friends! =)

Target of this month= Finish learning the Croation Rhapsody!
Target for October=Start learning Nostradamus!
Target for November=Start learning the guitar!!! Any guitarists who is willing to teach me for fwee?Pwetty pwease? *insert cute puppy eye-ed doggy look*

Thoughts alone...

Thoughts keep running through my mind....

I am thinking whether I can cope,working and studying at the same time.

Will I learn to be more discipline and responsible?

Will I learn the true meaning of responsibility?

Family day on Merdeka Day...

I have a super sporting dad... I mean,come on,how many dads do these kind of ehem crazy ehem embarrassing kind of things?

Oh yeah, and my mum too.

Dad,pretending to be the mannequin.

Dad: Why is this doll touching my hand???

In Tony Roma...

Yeah, my mum does this in public but dad is reaaaaal shy...

The Ong sisters. (L-R:Chris,Pris,Dix,Trix)

Believe it or not,this is the first time I camwhored in a dressing room.And I was wearing my own clothes!

Enjoyed the lil family outing a lot. Wish could do this more often. We did a little shopping too!
Me is loves family!

It's all a facade...

I thought I kept it all locked away for good. I thought I was tougher than that. I thought I could handle this. Well, I thought wrong.

When can I wake up from this nightmare? Is this even a nightmare? It has been hard, differentiating reality and dreams.

Am treading on still waters. Holding my breath, afraid of losing out, afraid of going insane.

Wait, maybe going insane would be easier on my insanity.

I thought I was strong,turns out I was wrong.
I thought I was happy,turns out I was dotty.
I thought I had let go, turns out it isn't so.
I thought I knew my aim, turns out it was all a game.
I thought I was a bore, turns out life is a chore.
I thought I would live by the shore, turns out, I didn't know what for.
I thought I could live, turns out it was just my shift,
I thought in this world I was more than just a girl, turns out it was just a game of thrills.
I thought I could take it easy, turns out it was just plain messy,
I thought I could take step by step, turns out it was all a mishap.
I thought I knew the meaning of love, turns out I'm just a little girl.

Dixie Ong, 3 September 2010.