I like being a tourist around Singapore, it gives me something to do at least. The Good News is that I will be getting my own camera in approximately 2 days (I can shoot all the time now!)
I resisted temptation (online shopping for jewellery at asos.com) and have decided I will try to give Singapore another try in meeting my need for rings.
edit:my friend just showed me an online shop, BRB my babies *dances in glee* okay, too expensive. NEXT.
My outfit shot from a few days back, alot better than my attempts via photobooth, I say.
Thrifted sheer (pirate) shirt, La Senza corset, thrifted checked skirt and random black ribbon
Can you guess where I went next?
For those in the know, that’s Tau Huay at Selegie Road. I had cold soya milk; ironically however, the egg tarts are from KFC (yes, they finally brought those yummy egg tarts to Singapore; I last had them when I was in Taiwan in 2007).
I always found it strange how Singaporeans can sit in the dirtiest of back allies (the size of the cockroaches I saw always alarm me) where rubbish is dumped out and rodents thrive, to eat and chit chat. EAT, of all things! But I am guilty of it also. I guess we just really like our food.
Nothing much going on these days outfitwise. I’ve taken to the principle of less is more as a way to cope with the increase in temperatures. My aim is to minmise discomfort arising from humidity. The weather is much too hot to think about anything else.
I wanted to buy lace tights from Topshop but I refuse to pay SGD29 for tights, it’s just too ridiculous. Bleaugh.
Some more random shots using my dear friend’s Canon that I’ve been using to sate my camera-deprived self (THANKS!)
Happy CNY Countdown to you, from Rudi and I!
Things to Do:
1. Get ringzzz and bracelets
2. Fix vintage sunglasses
3. Bring thrifted red gown to seamstress to be CUT CUT CUT- low back vs high slit?
One midterm down, and I’m waiting for the bus to take me to my tuition job now. The weather is blazing hot these days, making me not wanna put any thought into dressing at all.
The Apple Crumble baking was a success! Yummy. I’m never buying Apple Crumble again. It’s alot easier to make than cookies as well, so you can consider it for Valentine’s Day, especially if you’re short on time.
Here’s the recipe we went with (although with some changes in the ratio/quantities):
6 ‘Granny’ Apples (We used a pack of 5-6 Sweet Smelling KOREAN FUJI APPLES).
250g White Sugar
200g Plain White Flour
120g Butter
1 Cinnamon stick
The proportions change depending on how big a pan you want to make.
Step 1: Wash, peel and slice the apples up!
Step 2: Put the apples and about 100g of the sugar into a saucepan, leaving it to simmer over low heat, till the apples are sufficiently soft (& juicy)
Step 3: Pour the apples into your baking pan and leave them to cool
Step 4: Pour your white flour, remaining white sugar, and butter into a mixing bowl.
Step 5: Using your hands, mix all the 3 ingredients together till they acquire a ‘bread crumbly’ texture/look. The mixture should not be too ‘damp’.
Step 6: Layer your mixture over the top of your apples in the pan, make sure they’re crumbly!
Step 7: Put them into the pre-heated oven (about 150 degree celsius) and leave to bake for about 30mins or more, or till the crumble turns brown. Ours didn’t turn brown, but it tasted great!
Our apple crumble was about 2/3 apples, 1/3 crumble.
Bon Appetite!
I learnt another recipe today as well, can’t wait to try it out! It tasted so heavenly, I have to try to recreate it (:
Hello all, I’m on my way to a baking session Apple crumble, yum.
Here are the pictures I managed to take with just my iPhone. I’ll hopefully be getting a second hand Lumix LX 3 soon!
Muse was FANTASTIC as expected, though my shortness meant that o didn’t have the best view possible. Nonetheless, I was happy to enjoy them from the back
From the moment Muse started playing, I just knew it was gonna be good.
Not much of a fan of Saosin, but I did find Rise Against enjoyable.
Lesson learnt- short people shouldn’t buy Pen B standing tickets.
Still, it was great! Enjoy the pics. It’s baking time, then cramming for the midterms I go!
More unbelievably clever and impactful (like the one above) advertising campaigns that are creative and make you think ‘damn, that is good!’, at ibelieveinadv.com
My favourite has to be the the IKEA guerilla marketing campaign- IKEA in the cinemas. Ingenious.
We used existing great movies with great actors in which IKEA products are seen accidentally. With a smart and clever trick we directed the people’s attention to the IKEA products. Guerilla promotion teams equipped with powerful portable projectors brought names and prices of IKEA products during the movie on the screen – next to Brad Pitt, George Clooney and other famous actors. This surprising execution fits perfectly to the IKEA principle: surprise the many people with fresh ideas for everybody’s everyday life. After the show we consequently distributed IKEA catalogues in front of the cinema.
Advertising Agency: DDB, Berlin, Germany
Creative Directors: Tim Stübane, Birgit van den VAlentyn
Art Directors: René Gebhardt, Björn Kernspeckt
ECD: Stefan Schulte
CCO: Amir Kassaei
Account Director: Stephen Kimpel
Account Manager: Petrick Baschinski
Graphic: Peter Schönherr, Anke Zink
Apple crumble, yum. 
