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Friday, June 6, 2008
Orange Butter Cake
Yum, i love this cake.. did i ever tell you it's one of my favourite cake? The tangy taste and smell that just waters your mouth.yuuummmm... Yup, after finishing the 3 kg carrot cheesecake without deco last night, i managed to bake an orange cake just for myself (primarily) and share it with family. I love it, boy i really do..i put extra orange rind to make it taste more 'orangy'..
The cakes are done, only some deco work tonight before they are ready for my client's engagement ceremony tomorrow morning. Just wondering how an engagement cake shd look like...white cream and flowers around? Hmm, will check it out later.
Today's Mic's 2nd battle!! It's p5 Day.....i know he'll pass it with flying colours because the One in him is greater than p5..hehe, ya, all the best dear and God bless you abundantly!! :-)
Back to work now....
The cakes are done, only some deco work tonight before they are ready for my client's engagement ceremony tomorrow morning. Just wondering how an engagement cake shd look like...white cream and flowers around? Hmm, will check it out later.
Today's Mic's 2nd battle!! It's p5 Day.....i know he'll pass it with flying colours because the One in him is greater than p5..hehe, ya, all the best dear and God bless you abundantly!! :-)
Back to work now....
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Petrol price up by 78 cents today
The Malaysian Government announced Wednesday an increase in petrol and diesel prices, stating that it can no longer continue to subsidise fuel.
41% increase in petrol!!! And my salary doesn't increase as much as that!
Now with fuel price up, everything will sure follow, from food, clothing, flights, etc. etc.... and importantly the baking ingredients. Anchor Butter, originally RM 3.80 last June is now RM 7! Philiadephia cheese, originally RM 4.50 per 250g has gone up to RM 5.50! I wonder if they'll increase a further 41% due to the increase of fuel price...
Gosh, does that mean my cake price has to go up 41% as well?? RM50 of 1kg carrot cheesecake will soon be revised to RM70!
41% increase in petrol!!! And my salary doesn't increase as much as that!
Now with fuel price up, everything will sure follow, from food, clothing, flights, etc. etc.... and importantly the baking ingredients. Anchor Butter, originally RM 3.80 last June is now RM 7! Philiadephia cheese, originally RM 4.50 per 250g has gone up to RM 5.50! I wonder if they'll increase a further 41% due to the increase of fuel price...
Gosh, does that mean my cake price has to go up 41% as well?? RM50 of 1kg carrot cheesecake will soon be revised to RM70!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Message
Have I told you lately how much i love you? If no, i just want you to know that i love you very very much! :-) Do take care.
Who I am makes a difference
Life's unpredictable. I woke up today with the sun shining through my window only to realise deep down in me it's raining. Raining because life is unpredictable. Raining because i cannot control it.
Work is never my priority. Of course i do put my best in my work, but it never is my primary concern or something which i want to achieve so badly that i'll give up the world for it. No, it has never. Especially with the current rate i'm paid, i work for the glory of God instead.
What is actually my purpose? This is the question i've been dreading to find out for so long, but have not really confirmed myself to the answers i found throughout these years. Today, my friend forwarded a message that says WHO I AM MAKES A DIFFERENCE. Who am i really? Who am I? Have i made a difference to people's life when i can't handle my own? When i cannot achieve the things i really want? Or at least what i thought i couldn't achieve?
I will work hard to change my circumstances and then I will let God do the rest.
Work is never my priority. Of course i do put my best in my work, but it never is my primary concern or something which i want to achieve so badly that i'll give up the world for it. No, it has never. Especially with the current rate i'm paid, i work for the glory of God instead.
What is actually my purpose? This is the question i've been dreading to find out for so long, but have not really confirmed myself to the answers i found throughout these years. Today, my friend forwarded a message that says WHO I AM MAKES A DIFFERENCE. Who am i really? Who am I? Have i made a difference to people's life when i can't handle my own? When i cannot achieve the things i really want? Or at least what i thought i couldn't achieve?
I will work hard to change my circumstances and then I will let God do the rest.
Love
Was feeling very upset last night. Sometimes i don't understand how things are supposed to work, when it's too late, it is just too late. No matter how hard i try, or how willingly i love someone despite of who they are...seems like in the end i'm the one who got myself into depression. Loving someone is not easy at all. To love means you voluntarily accept the weaknesses, attitude, character or treatment of that somebody, whether you choose to or not. To love means you sacrificially render whatever you have to that someone without expecting in return. It is not selfish nor is it self centered. Love is something that nobody can control, it's just limitless without boundary. How do you really define love? Love contains other things such as patience, forgiveness, hope, trust, faith, goodness, kindness...you name it. This is how i look at love. When you love someone, you look at his/her weaknesses and say to yourself, my love exceeds those. When you love someone, you put on deaf ears of whatever other people say about him/her and just thought that he/she is the best. When you love someone, you forgive and forget easily. When you love someone, you just want to spend your whole entire life with him/her. Love is defineless...1 Corinthians 13 says it all..
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
June the new baker in the block
Guess what? June actually baked last night! CHOCO CHIP COOKIES. She asked long time ago on the ingredients but i didn't really believe that she would actually go ahead with it, so kinda ignored her for a time being before she popped out the question again last night. In return for all the free ingredients i voluntarily gave her, she shredded the carrots and orange for my carrot cheesecake..:-) Good bargain huh?
Well, the cookies turned out really well (under my supervision of course HAHA) and everyone thought it tastes like the Famous Amos. I haven't tried it myself, still on this abstinence mood after what happened on Sunday night (tummy didn't really feel well, so thought i'll just give it a rest). Nevertheless, i bet it tastes really good, so good that i can actually feel sensation of its taste without having to try it!
Alongside with all these, i have also baked the banana roll cake, with the sponge cake looking like the tiger skin filled with creamy cheese and rolled with banana. In spite of what people used to perceive, i actually think that making cream layer cakes or swiss rolls are much easier and less time consuming than cheesecake or other butter cake. I guess it's because the pre-preparation of the raw materials are less in comparison, the baking time is so much shorter and last but not least, cream is actually much easier to be washed off than cream cheese or butter.
My next target would be egg and coconut tartlets..or some cream cheese layer cake filled with lotsa shredded cheddar cheese (a combination of salty and sweet), and some pineapple tarts/london almond this weekend as Kimmie will be back to savour then!
Well, the cookies turned out really well (under my supervision of course HAHA) and everyone thought it tastes like the Famous Amos. I haven't tried it myself, still on this abstinence mood after what happened on Sunday night (tummy didn't really feel well, so thought i'll just give it a rest). Nevertheless, i bet it tastes really good, so good that i can actually feel sensation of its taste without having to try it!
Alongside with all these, i have also baked the banana roll cake, with the sponge cake looking like the tiger skin filled with creamy cheese and rolled with banana. In spite of what people used to perceive, i actually think that making cream layer cakes or swiss rolls are much easier and less time consuming than cheesecake or other butter cake. I guess it's because the pre-preparation of the raw materials are less in comparison, the baking time is so much shorter and last but not least, cream is actually much easier to be washed off than cream cheese or butter.
My next target would be egg and coconut tartlets..or some cream cheese layer cake filled with lotsa shredded cheddar cheese (a combination of salty and sweet), and some pineapple tarts/london almond this weekend as Kimmie will be back to savour then!
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