23 April, 2007

*361 - mocha madness

Sis had a long chat with J last night regarding NUS law, which was pretty interesting. Maybe as a consolation to anyone who's worrying about their NUS law interviews, my sis decided to apply for law the day of the deadline, didn't prepare a thing, went into the interview hardly knowing anything about law, not even having much desire to be a lawyer in the first place, and got through anyway. So it's okay (: And anyway, if you have a passion for something, and you know why you want what you want, I believe it'll show through.

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The house was really beautiful! Except for the horrible leopard skin chairs at the dining table, haha. And the fact that the house doesn't look that great from the outside to me (angular and boxy). I laughed myself silly at the sight of the wall covered with unevenly positioned bricks that extended from the first floor to the rooftop (it's the whole open concept thing) because it looked like a rock wall and the thought of being able to scale your dining room wall all the way up to your room on the 3rd floor, or even the rooftop if you want, is pretty hilarious. Hahaha.

And speaking of open concept, the master room has a bathroom that's surrounded by thick curtains which means that if you pull open the curtains you can watch my mummy bathing. Hahaha.

And the best part is that the girl's room has a full length mirror and a barre. Like omg. Think about it. How many people dance? And out of that number of people who dance, how many actually install mirrors and barres in their room? And out of that number of people who do, what are the chances of them putting their house on sale, and what are the chances of us coming across such a house?

It's a beautiful house but we might not get it, unless we can negotiate a good price with the seller. I'm just going to pray hard, and that if the deal doesn't work out, I know He's going to provide us with an even better house and that's just thrilling!

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Me: I NEED TO BAKE NOW -hyperventilate-
Mummy: At this time of the night??
Elisa: Just let her. You know you can't stop her.


Guess what flavour? (:

This is an example of the many failed attempts to take a photo of myself & the muffins using the self-timer, because it's difficult to sprint into the kitchen and pick up a dangerously hot tray of freshly baked muffins with an oversized fiddly oven mitt that's a little too thin for comfort, and strike a pose, within a matter of seconds.


Good? (: Mocha muffins!

Baking at night is fun, because it's cool and breezy, and you don't have to fight for kitchen space with anyone else. The downside is that the lighting sucks so you can't take nice photos. (Unless you use flash, but I refuse to.)

After tasting the muffins, I was pretty sad because they didn't taste very mocha-ish. They were so sadly normal. So I decided to allow myself to disregard my calorie woes and make frosting for once! (: Coffee frosting. Yumm.


The best photo I could take considering the crappy lighting and my unwillingness to use flash. Glistening coffee frosting atop moist mocha muffins!

The next day, the muffins tasted awesome because the coffee flavour of the frosting infused into the muffin itself and MMM it was a lovely breakfast treat. The subtle smell of coffee on a sunny morning really makes me happy.




(This picture shows that even when I do use frosting, I use it extremely sparingly!)


Irresistible mocha muffin ;)

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I always end up crying.

Don't you notice that I am not happy.

On the surface, yes. I am happy. But deep inside, I can't be completely happy, and you know why.

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How to tell you're ready for a relationship: when God is your #1 love. With God in the centre and everything, everything else, on the peripheral. When God's love is overflowing in our lives, we can then give our love to The Person that He blesses us with.