Born to try - Delta Goodrem

I chanced upon this song on Class 95 while on my way back home. The lyrics gave me a little comfort of some hiccups in life recently.

Thru the hicupps I realised something abt the term "Friends". The longer the friendship doesnt mean that the understanding is there. Some change while some grow together with you. I believe communication and same wave length are important in a long term friendship. Yes, everyone has their own opinion so I cant expect them to be the same as me. I'm happy to find that a couple who truly understand and are supportive of me.

Born to try
Doing everything that I believe in
Going by the rules that Ive been taught
More understanding of whats around me
And protected from the walls of love

All that you see is me
And all I truly believe

[chorus: start
That I was born to try
Ive learned to love
Be understanding
And believe in life
But youve got to make choices
Be wrong or right
Sometimes youve got to sacrifice the things you like

But I was born to try
[chorus]: end

No point in talking what you should have been
And regretting the things that went on
Lifes full of mistakes, destinies and fate
Remove the clouds look at the bigger picture

And all that you see is me
And all I truly believe

[chorus]

All that you see is me
All I truly believe
All that you see is me
And all I truly believe

[chorus]

But you've got to make choices
Be wrong or right
Sometimes youve got to sacrifice the things you like

But I was born to try

SKC Dog Championship show

St James

Went to St James with an enthusiastic feeling becos its my 1st time going with xiuyi and her groups of friends. Perhaps I was high on expectation thus did not really enjoy becos of the company i guess. Moreover the staff @ Powerhouse were rather slow in retuning my member card and the change. Putting aside the lousy comments, the queue was rather short for members. We were able to get into Dragonfly within 5 mins!

Light cheesecake

The "baking bug" bite me tonight. I got "Japanese Light Cheesecake" virus. This cake dont look as good as those sold outside however I was pleased with it because

1. it really turned out LIGHT
2. its not too sweet
3. my dad likes it!
   

Ingredient:
Cookie Base
3 nos of Digestive Biscuits
1 tbsp of maragine
A dust of cinnamon

Filling
1 packet of cream cheese (softened)
1/4 cup of milk
2 edd yolks , 2 egg white
1/4 cup of castor sugar
1/3 tsp of tartar sauce
3 tbsp of flour
1 1/2 tbsp of cornstarch

Method:

• Preheat the over to 180 degree celcius
• Warm cream cheese & milk in a small sauce pan over medium low heat. Cook & stir till cream cheese is melted. Set aside.
• Beat (with electric mixer) egg yolk & half of the sugar unit light & fluffy.
• Fold in cream cheese mixture into yolks
• Sift the floor and cornstarch and stir into the mixture till its well blended
• In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites with tartar cream till they can hold soft peak. Gradually sprinkle in the remaining sugar and conitnue whipping to stiff peaks
• Fold the egg whites into the cream cheese mixture
  
• Pour into the prepared cake pan
• Bake for 20mins @ 180 degree celcius then reduce to 160 degree celcius for 15 mins
  

Hmm..

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored. You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring. You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic. Your ideal relationship is comforting. You crave a relationship where you always feel warmth and love. Your risk of cheating is low. Even if you're tempted, you'd try hard not to do it. You think of marriage as something that will confine you. You are afraid of marriage. In this moment, you think of love as something you don't need. You just feel like flirting around and playing right now.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

swimming

Swimming, one of Dash's favourite sport. He hasn't been into the waters for quite sometime. Blame it on myself, been rather lazy. He loves retrieving things (i.e. water bottles, rubber ball) I threw to the sea (Dont worry, i'm not littering).

The outing starts of with walking through the linkway between Mandarin Gardens & Neptune Court. Dash will usually get his "business" done, sniff sniff around. The linkway will bring us to the underpass that leads to East Coast Park.



Recently, I noticed some slight changes in Dash. 1st: he's able to behave better when I leash him up. Perhaps, he came to understand that I will "reward" him by giving him some "freedom" when there are lesser people around. I would praise him for behaving well. 2ndly: He reached puberty so he tends to behave "more gentlemanly" in front of a female than with a male dog.






After about an hour of walk, Dash would be panting with lots of saliva dripping. hahaha.. disgusting right? well, dogs' mouth and tongue are their only outlet of heat and perspiration. Now, he's cooling off by drinking from the pond water.

Football "competition"

My company organised a football competition @ the CAGE. its an indoor football centre in Kallang. I'm just the spectator (contributing the clapping, cheers and jeers). Below are the footballers. About half of them are from my department - infrastructure. The rest are from power and site. Each team got a unique and funny names (for egs: GOALRILLA, GOALDIGGER, No Horse Run (Translate in Hokkien: Sure Win), Optimus Prime (Transformer?), etc)

Saw the bo-tak on your extreme rite? He's my GM. his nick name is Dr Evil.. cos of his bald head. His team's name is Dr Evil & the Chinese Butchers. Aiyo, such an interesting name. They were the champions!

In-line skating

Haven't been blading for about 6 months. Today, I took out by gears to skate together with Xiuyi. She just bought her new skates and would like to try it.

Our plans were to start from the chalet, then to Fort Road and lastly we stop @ Bedok Jetty to catch the fire works!

The beach is quite packed with campers, holiday makers, cyclist.. blah blah. We told ourselves to skate carefully along the mac-donald sketch because we were not too good at stopping. After about an hour or so of non-stop blading, we decided to have a break @ Burger King however on our way there, I tripped over a BIG seed and fell. Luckily I had my knee & hand guards however my left elbow was not spared. Its not too painful but its rather embarrassing. I quickly stand up and skate our way to Burger King so to wash up my wound.


I hurt my left elbow about 1.5 years ago (& its scarred), now its my left elbow. my two poor elbows. I will wear my elbow guards on my next trip. (this is the "dried up wound" after 1 week)

We got our way to the jetty and waited patiently for the fireworks. Due to the location, we din really enjoy the fire works cos its too far and no sound effects

Blueberry muffins

Today i'm in the mood to bake blueberry muffins! i spend 1hr to make 18 of them. Practice really makes perfect.. though its not perfect yet.

My guniea pigs' verdict:
1) it looks pretty BUT
2) where's the blueberry taste? (hmm.. must i add artifical flavours) and
3) can be a little sweeter

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups of flour (all purpose flour)
3/4 cup castor sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 large egg (2 small eggs)
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup unsalted butter (I used margine)
Zest of 1 Lemon
1 cup of fresh berries

Method:
1) Preheat Oven to 180 degrees
2) Whisk milk, eggs and vanllia extract
3) Sift flour, baking powder and soda
4) Blend the butter with flour mixture
5) Gently fold in the berriers to (3) (if not, you will break them)
6) Add (2) to (5) and mix (but do not fold too much)
7) Spoon the mixture to buttered cups and bake them for 20-25mins in the oven.

Gym Freak?

I got my 1 month free Califonia Fitness membership FREE.. thanks to xiuyi & lichun. with this membership, we got a free personal trainer session next saturday! We tried the "intro step" class. With its name, you must have thought that its an introductory class to STEPS. you are WRONG! we were struggling and trying our best to keep up the pace. its crazy but fun. likely its only an hour.

Not bad enough

You Are 26% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

Yoga-mania

I missed practicing yoga, actually so I managed to persuade Xiuyi to join the class @ SSC. The class was full of "experts". dun be deceived by their age (mostly uncles and aunties) and their shape (plumb). they r so flexible (imagine a big spare tyre ard them yet they can bend here and there). I'm not pressured by them though becos yoga is not about going beyond your abilities but its about understanding your own body and pushing to your OWN limit. My yoga teacher uses alot of those hindu names.. which i do not understand but nevermind i just look around at what others are doing.

The class started with some breathing exercises (in Easy pose) then followed by

Sun Saluation: it consists of mountain pose, plank pose, dog pose, cobra pose, downward dog.. blah blah. After one cycle, my heart will beat faster and my body feeling warm.

Spinal Twist: I love this pose becos it stretches my spinal cord and my upper body. my ex yoga coach once mentioned that this pose squeezes our internal organs. Imagine a wet rug and u twist it to squeeze the water out.

Wind-relieving pose: hmm.. wondering if you will fart after performing this pose? I will.. hehe. but i tahan until the end of the class if not it will be so embarassing as the class is usually quite.

Shoulder standing pose: i cant do this pose today cos of my monthly problem. my frd, xiuyi was sooo funny. she told me that she was struggling with this pose. Though the coach was there to help, she was rather forceful.


Corpse pose (its the last pose of the routine. my coach was great, she switched off the lights, light up the candles.. wow amzing. one of my classmate fell asleep and SNOZE!