Friday, 28 August 2009

zephyr in the sky

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been busy darlings!! there's school and projects to do everyday and by the time i reach home the only thing i wanna do is sleep. i got a finance test next week, a project submission next week and another project due the week after that.so, havent really had the proper time to pick and edit fotos for my next entry. but i'll try my best to put one out on the weekends yeah.

don't hold your breath though.

AJ

Sunday, 23 August 2009

chocolate walnut muffin

i love sundays.

for me its a day where i can eat my cereal and watch cartoons in the morning, spend my afternoon grocery shopping and reading a book at night.

i like my sundays to be as laidback as possible.

another thing that i love to do on sundays as well, is bake! there's just something so therapeutic about baking to me. and of course, who doesnt love the smell of freshly baked muffins right?

so let me share with you the recipe of this lovely chocolate muffin i made!

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Ingredients (serves 12)

200g self raising flour
180g caster sugar
1/4tsp salt
50g cocoa powder
100g melted butter
50ml milk
1/2tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
100g walnuts
100g white chocolate chips
2tbsp icing sugar



Directions

1. preheat oven to 180degrees
2. sieve flour, baking powder and cocoa powder into a bowl
3. add salt and sugar and mix evenly
4. add milk, butter, vanilla essence and eggs. whisk till it becomes a smooth batter.
5. once muffin batter is done. make sure there's no lumps. crush half of your walnuts and add in to the batter. also add in 3/4 of your white chocolate chips. mix everything nicely together
6. pour the mixture into the muffin cups so that it fills about 2/3 full.
7. decorate the top of the batter with walnuts and white chocolate chips.
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8. bake the muffins at 180degrees for 25-30mins
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9. at around 25mins, you should see the muffins have already risen. open the oven and insert a satay stick into the muffin, if it comes out clean, it means your muffin is done!
10. remove the muffin from the oven and let it cool for like 10mins. then, sieve some icing sugar over it.
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and serve!!

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goes extremely yummy with a pot a earl grey tea and a nice movie!

i recommend The Proposal. i've watched it and i give it 3.5stars! its mostly funny than romantic to me but its a great movie to catch. it stars sandra bullocks and ryan reynolds and i think its still showing in the cinema! click on the ad to see the trailer yeah!






=)

this recipe has only 10 steps and its so simple to make. do give it a try and tell me how it turns out yeah!!

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xoxo
AJ

Thursday, 20 August 2009

fashion fades, style is eternal.

a lot of people have this misconception that i dress up because i desire the attention. well, the truth is contrary.

i dress to please no one but myself.

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checkered shirt : dad got it for me on his trip to Japan
blue tank top : Proulx house tshirt
white berms : Topman
grey sneakers : Jack Purcell
gold watch : Casio
grey carryall bag : Revoltage




life's too short to be blending in.



AJ






Sunday, 16 August 2009

trinity and voyeurism

been goddamn busy this week.

my mum's been nagging saying that she hasnt seen me home for dinner this whole week. and the only day that i was home for dinner, i spent it doing my project till 8am the next morning. slept for like less than 4 hours and head straight to school after that. followed by a meetup with some friends for dinner after class, reaching home only around 11pm plus. my whole week has technically been more or less like that. out till 11 or sometimes later everyday.

i dont even have time to put on my twice weekly mask okay!!

but enough about my whining. i was initially gonna ask you guys how your week was but like since nobody really replies to anything i blog, why bother. so lets just move on to my pictorial entry, isnt that why everyone is here anyway, to scroll thru the pictures. hahaha!

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anyway, remember i recently blogged about how singapore is so boring at night and that the only thing you can do is have dinner and drinks and thats about it. well, there is another thing thats kinda annoying me.

its like when you and your friends plan to hang out right, then where do you go? and where shall you seek answers for this impending question? to the trinity or course. this trinity is not made up of the catholic father, son and the holy ghost but instead, town, city hall and bugis. this is like the top 3 most common places to go to. of course i wont generalise and say its the same for everyone. but still, can you actually think of other places to go?

so i met up with Danny recently and in the end we ended up in town. shocking i know. hahaha!

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we couldnt really decide on a place to eat so we ended up camwhoring for a little while.

we walked around for a little while until we decided on this turkish restaurant tucked away in the corner at far east plaza.

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i had some lamb kebab thingy which not exactly fantastic. it tasted exactly like how it looks. mutton slices doused in tomato paste with 2 tablespoon of tasteless yogurt at the side and one green chilli at the top. and redundant tomatoes at the side which failed in making the dish look prettier.

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danny had this wrap thingy which i think he kinda like. doesnt look fantastic to me though. the food at this eatery is not exactly cheap. more towards cafe prices. so if you're on a budget or have a very picky tastebud, i'd say just stick to the eateries at the smoky top level of far east plaza instead. you might come out smelling like what you eat but at least it satisfies your stomach and your wallet.

anyway, have you guys ever had this urge to know what that sombody has in his or her bag. i sometimes do. to me the contents of your bag tell me about you as a person. for example, some people like to separate everything and keep them in little pouches in their bags. this to me could mean that you're either very organised or just anal. or like some people have a lot of grooming/make up items in their bag. this could mean that either they're very vain or just like to constantly look good.

so count yourself lucky today cause you're gonna get a sneak peak into what's inside my bag.

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leather carryall from Revoltage. i like bags that have shape and structure.

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ipod nano to keep me company on long bus rides. i usually listen to black kids, the killers and the gossip.

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i hate waiting. be it waiting for people, waiting for the bus or waiting in the queue. luckily i got my nintendo ds to play with. mario kart, mortal kombat and sudoku is like my top 3 games that i always play.

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holga. i like the suspense of not knowing how the pictures will turn out.

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since i have medium length fine hair, my hair always goes flat halfway throughout the day. so this kinda helps to maintain my crowning glory. lol!

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ray ban tortoiseshell wayfarers. for sunny days and when i want to sleep in public transport.

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gold pen from funkdeco. a man without a pen is not a man.


so what do you think the contents of my bag tell you about me??

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ok here's a few more random shots of me with my bag while waiting for the train.

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XOXO
ali joe







Sunday, 9 August 2009

Thursday, 6 August 2009

fisheyed

so my friend pointed out to me that like almost every single post of mine is food related.

OMG! true ar!!

no wonder i'm fat can!!

URGH!!!

nevermind, luckily this post does not centralise around food. in fact, its something totally opposite.

its about SPORTS!!!

i know like lots of you are now probably going WTF WTF WTF!!

Ali-Joe and sports??? isnt that an oxymoron. does he even do sports???

well, OF COURSE I DO!!

i love bowling!!!

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dont roll your eyes at me!!! bowling is a sport okay!!!

anyway, have you realise that its so hard to find a bowling alley in singapore now? theres like only so few places that you can bowl here. i guess in the era of video games, nobody cares to play boring bowling anymore. i mean, if they really wanted to play bowling, they can just do it on wii.

so like one of the place i know that still has a bowling alley is marina square.

met up with PETS, my unimates, sans john who couldnt make it, at city hall and we walked over to marina square!

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bowling shoes. check!

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lets go bowling yo!

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while waiting for my turn, lets take some photos!!

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me & weiliang

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me & yeeling

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me & fungwee

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the girls

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yeeling & weiliang

so yeah, we played like 2 rounds till our thumbs started to hurt then we decided to make a move.

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bye bye bowling

so we decided to walk around and we somehow ended up at esplanade.

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chilled over chendols at thai express

and random snapshots of esplanade area

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i spy with my eye

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esplanade

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outdoor theatre

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skyscrapers

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construction of the IR

since me and food is like an inseparable entity, i shall end this post with just that.

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hotdogs. yum!






AJ

Sunday, 2 August 2009

make it FIERCEE!!

dinner & drinks

its ALWAYS dinner and drinks!

every time i meet up with my friends, thats like forever the agenda.


why the hell is singapore so boring??

there' s nothing much to do here at night. yes, we laud a vibrant nightlife. but vibrant doesnt necessary translate to variety. our so called 'vibrant' nightlife only consist of either clubbing or chilling at bars. what else is there to do especially when our shopping centres close at 930pm. willingly or not, we'll all somehow end up chatting the night away over antiseptic tasting $16 cosmopolitans.

this was exactly what happened when i met up with POEPS recently.

we had DINNER!

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maddie & kath

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angela & me

check out my supermodel face! all my friends roll their eyes whenever i give that look in photos. but i think it makes me look FIERCEEE.. LOL!

as tyra would put it, "make it fierceeee!! smile with your eyes!!"

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maddie trying to strike a high fashion pose

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cannot make it la maddie!! look more like spiderman!

oh, dinner was at my favourite Sushi Tei at Holland Vilage!! YUMS!!

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smile for camera y'all!!

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huiming joined us a while later cause she had school. and there i was at the back giving FIERCEE!! and maddie, as usual ruining all group photos with her stupid face.


and guess what we did after dinner??

c'mon!! make a guess!!

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if you guessed DRINKS then you're right!! SO SMART...

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so off we went to our usual hangout.. DEMPSEY!!

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ordered the drinks and now its time to take photos!!

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drinks are here!! weeeeeeeeeee!

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maddie somehow got a little horny and decided to give us a sexy pose!

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unfortunately(for maddie) and luckily(for the rest of us and everyone else at the bar) nobody got turned on. though, huiming did freak out abit.

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kath decided to numb the nausea with a tight smile, and i got a headache from it (but still had to look FIERCEE nonetheless)


OHHHH!!! SOMEBODY DID GET TURNED ON!!!


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maddie : heh heh heh (chikopek psycho laugh) i'm so getting laid tonight!


poor angela.


jk!
HAHAHAHA!!

they're not lesbians laa!! or maybe they are but i donno? hmmm...


anyway, YES SINGAPORE IS BORING so for dear lord sake i do hope you have great friends to make your boring nights so much better. just like mine!







AJ