First, to introduce .. +10 AR3 ATK 40% atkspd 30% Javelin.




















Actually, its my brother's LegoKnight lol, I thought it looked like a javelin so he set up the pose for me XD

Anyways, my mum's bday on the 17th went pretty well, me and my siblings had gone to pick a present for her, and she liked it, so we were relieved all round. My father actually requested for the rose detail on the durian cake:















And prior to that we went to Seoul Garden on Sunday, promptly gorging ourself on the food. I can't complain, I had triple rounds of ice cream, but then there was grilled sotong and stuff, really rocked.

And then last Sunday .. my aunt gave birth to meine baby cousin, so on Monday evening me and my mum went down to Gleaneagles Hospital to visit. My poor uncle has been running back and forth from home, so he looks pretty strained, but I'm glad that they're ok, it wasn't an easy birth for my aunt, there were pills and jabs she had to have to keep the baby (thereby delivering the baby gal smoothly). The little one doesn't have a name yet, and I wasn't allowed to take pics, but she's as cute as angels go. My mum was soothing the lil gal while my uncle and aunt had their late dinner, and she caught me looking and asked if I wanted to try carrying the little bundle of joy. I was agreeable, but I think my baby cousin doesn't like me. Barely a min passed while I was trying to hold her correctly, and she was scrunching her face, crying as loud as her lungs would allow T_T (she's quiet as a peep when my mum carries her) She was supposed to be sleeping, but apparently she decided looking around was more fun. We headed home at 8 plus 9pm

And I have decided I love babies when they're not bawling their heads off.

Currently, I'm waiting and praying for a money tree to rain notes onto my lap. Ah well, too late to regret not getting a job now.

And I love my blog song so such, I have it on repeat for about .. 3 days? Yeah :D

Manga! Anime! All teh things I love

and of course, mooncakes ^^

*status: still at home & unemployed. going deaf from mum's nagging zz*

But anyways, I'm currently reading Black Cat, a gunslinging/thriller/supernatural manga. Shades of the underworld, yeah. It's really good, but I'm only up to chapter 78. This one stretches all the way to 185, I've a long way to go. Waiting for updates for Wolf And Spice, Midnight Secretary (I hate cliffhangers), Hanatsuki Hime. Anime wise .. Bleach 186 was scary. Pomg, if Amagai taicho turns out to be Aizen #2 .. GG us. But it looks likes the filler episodes are ending, hurray! Back to Hueco Mundo already, I'm dying for action and I'm sure I'm not the only one. And on D.Gray-man .. whee, 4th Akuma's might in episode 100 coming soon. Even though the manga chapter was good, can't wait to see how they'll do it in the anime.

Last Friday, I went for an outing, meant for Legends SG members. Runex, FrozenFate, SimWorms, me, Jas, Erik and Clement headed for steamboat dinner at Bugis. The food was okay, arrived at 7 plus and ate all the way til 9 plus. After that we adjourned to TCC at Bugis Square for a bit of chit chat and drinks (I love hot chocolate~ but not the whipped cream) and we had to run for the last train hehe. Imagine if we missed it .. all sit at MRT station emo =x

Saturday was spent at Aljunied buying ingredients for making mooncake from Kwong Chong Thye. This year, mum decided to make them again, so I was roped in to help her carry all the stuff back home. We went overboard with the paste, spending $100+ on all that stuff.

From top left: Green tea, lotus paste, mango, white lotus paste. (it should be horizontal but it keeps coming out as vertical)




















As for the other materials, from top-left clockwise: Crisco (in chinese its 板油) very essential for snowskin mooncakes, which is what we made; melon seeds, glutinous rice flours and icing sugar.
















Ok, here's the recipe if you guys wanna do this on your own (set aside a day for this .. backbreaking work tho its easy!)

You need: 225 gm glutinous rice flour, 75 gm Crisco, 200 gm icing sugar, 360 gm ice water (don't go by ml), colouring (we pounded pandan leaves and mixed a bit of water to make the mooncake skin green) and extra cooked glutinous rice flour for dusting. [this portion makes approx 20 mini snowskin mooncakes]

1) Choose the paste of your choice and weigh them at 24gm each (subject to preference, but at least 20gm)
2) Sieve the glutinous rice flour first.
3) Mix the rice flour, crisco and icing sugar evenly. I don't mean pour them together in a lump, do the rice flour and crisco slowly bit by bit, then the icing sugar.
4) When done, make a well in the center of the mixture (think volcano) and pour the ice water slowly, kneading into a dough.
5) Weigh the dough at 20gm each (or more if you want a thicker skin) then wrap with beanpaste.

After that, put the mixture into moulds like so:
















See the dusting of rice flour in the mould? That's so the mixture doesn't stick. Rub some on your hands too, so its easier. Then with the cheek of your palm, press the ball of mixture down firmly, then coat the bottom with a bit of rice flour. Hit the mould on both sides once, then the top, turn it on the side and knock it out onto your palm.

Pics below i) our dining table turned into a war zone ii) the finished "product" - we bought boxes too































Hope you guys enjoyed Mooncake Festival. I certainly did ^^