15 March 2017

15 March 2017

I succeed!! I finally succeed in making a chocolate lava cake. I have been baking chocolate lava cake for the past 3 times and this time, today, I finally make it. For the past 2 times, it is a fail because there isn't any chocolate lava flowing out from the cake and it became just a normal chocolate cake. 

I just baked it, and I left it to cool down in my kitchen. I wanted to place it in the refrigerator after it is cooled down but I afraid that the chocolate lava will become harden and it requires microwave to melt to chocolate in the cake. But at the same time, if i cut it open now, I will have to eat it. However I am super full right now. 

The second time I tried to bake the lava cake was yesterday, it seems to be a success but it isn't. There are just a bit of melted chocolate liquid flowing out but not like the melted chocolate in the normal lava cake. 

The third time which is today, I succeeded in baking the chocolate lava cake. Since I am an impatient person, I could not wait until my stomach fully digest my lunch. So, I cut it open and the lava started to flow out. I did not take photo because my mum took her phone with her to work and my phone's camera has a really bad quality even though I bought it because of the advertisement stating that it has a good camera quality. Currently, I likes to use my mum's Oppo phone with an amazing phone camera quality to take photo.

Maybe I will take it tonight when she is back from work and post it. 

I kept the cakes in my refrigerator, I am not sure whether when I take photo later there will still be chocolate lava flowing out. 

Kimchi

Kimchi Making

11 March 2017

My mum and I decided to make homemade Kimchi today. We have been saying that we wanted to make kimchi since a month ago and finally both of us have the time to make it. Initially, I thought that making kimchi requires huge amount of time but we took about 2 and a half hours to make it. 

2 hours to soak the cabbage with salt and 30 minutes to mixed the cabbage with other ingredients together.

Ingredients

• Cabbage
• Minced Garlic
• Minced Ginger 
• Green Onion
• Onion
• Radish
• Korean Red Pepper Powder
• Fish Sauce 

Steps

1. Washed the cabbage, mixed it with salt and leave it for 2 hours to get rid of the water from the cabbage
2. Minced the garlic and ginger
3. Slice the Green Onion, Onion and Radish 
4. Mixed the Korean Chili Powder with minced garlic and minced ginger
5. Mixed the mixture of Korean Chili Powder with minced garlic and minced ginger with green onion, onion, radish and cabbage and 2 tablespoons of fish sauce. 
6. After step 5, placed it into a jar or box and sealed it tightly 
7. Place it in the room temperature for about 2-3 days and pressed the Kimchi daily for 2-3 days 
8. After 2-3 days, place it in the refrigerator 

The Kimchi that we made, is not the traditional kimchi but simple steps Kimchi. I do not know whether it will succeed since it is the first time we made it. Hopefully it does !

I followed the steps and procedures from this Youtube video but I added extra ingredients:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kEvwNGomvg 

Credit: MyRecipies 

Our Superman

Our Superman

Since young, most of us want to become a superhero to help others in need. We were exposed to cartoons that have superheroes in it and we envied the superheroes in the cartoon and want to be like them. 

When I watched batman, I wanted to be like badman. When I watched teen titans, I wanted to be like Raven. When I watched Superman, I wanted to be like Superman. Or maybe not becoming like one of them but want a superhero by my side and protects me.

We always have a superman right by our side, our father. When we were young, our father seems like an encyclopedia, our know-it-all father. Whenever we have question, we asked him and we are amused and assumed that he knows everything. Whenever there are things in the house that need to repair, our superman will fixed it. 

We looked up to him when we were young. 

But sometimes we tends to forget about his unconditional love to his children. Most of the time, he is out for work to earn a living and makes sure that we could afford to buy whatever we want. He does not show his weak side to us and only showed his strong and powerful side to us. We don't know what he is going through or suffering, and he tried his best to not show it to us. 

Every time during Mothers' Day, it will caused a sensation but during Fathers' Day the reaction is surprisingly much quieter than Mothers' Day. Fathers are similar to unsung heroes. A person who makes a substantive contribution but is unknown.

Lets be a filial children and take care of our parent who spent most their time on us and trying their best to give the best to their children.  

10 March 2017

10 March 2017

I ended work yesterday at 11 pm and the day before yesterday, 8 March 2017, I came home late erm maybe not that late but still late. I reached home at 9 pm and I was tired after using up all my energy in the Karaoke. 

On 8 March, my friends came over to my house, like finally. I have been saying that I will invite them to my house since December 2015 and after 1 year ++, I finally invited them. There is nothing much to do at my house, I do not have any games for them to play so we played poker cards. 

It was lunch time so we decided to cook instant noodles. An unexpected incident happened, I successfully cooked the noodle and while I was pouring it out from the pot to the bowl, I accidentally spilled my bowl of noodles. Therefore, my best friend and I have to share a bowl of noodles.

After lunch, we went to the Karaoke and sang for 3 hours straight. We sang mostly mandarin songs. 

7 March 2017

7 March 2017

I woke up at 7:30 in the morning and met my friends at 9 am. We planned to go trekking at Macritchie reservoir. It has been almost half a year since I last went there to trekked. Compared to last time, I get to see more animal species today and we managed to trek without getting lost. About 6 months ago, it is my first time trekking up to the treetop and on the way back down, we got lost and it was raining cats and dogs. The road was muddy and we have no idea on how to get out but luckily with the help of some uncles and Pokemon Go application map, we successfully got out of the reservoir. 

Today because of construction, we need to go back through another way and it is a shorter way. So I get to trekked down at a new way in the reservoir and I prefer that way. Not only due to the fact that it is shorter but also the view. It has a small stream flowing down with fishes swimming in it. I also get to see chicken, rooster and 2 small little chickens. It is my first time seeing wild chickens up close in Singapore. 

I did like almost a month of my exercise today. Even though it was tiring, it was fun.

6 March 2017

6 March 2017

Since today I am free and do not have any plans, so I decided to bake. Initially, I wanted to make non-baked chocolate pie, chocolate fondant and bread. But because today I wasn't feeling well so I decided to cut down to chocolate pie and chocolate fondant. 

I went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients with a budget of $15 and I did manage and just nice reach the budget. I bought Hershey's cocoa and chocolate chips. I really like Hershey's especially their cookie and cream. That is my favourite. 

Hershey's cocoa powder as well as Hershey's chocolate chips

Personally, I prefer dark chocolate as I do not really like sweet things and dark chocolate isn't sweet. It is a little bitter and have a strong chocolate taste compared to milk chocolate which in my opinion has a strong milk sweet taste. Hershey's chocolate chips sweetness is just right for me. This is my first time buying it because usually I feel that it is slightly pricey.

Even though I made a mess in my kitchen which is a reason why I do not like to bake because it is difficult to clean up after the mess I made. 

My Chocolate fondant final product and it is a fail but it does not taste bad

I successfully baked my chocolate fondant but I over baked it. My plan is to have the melted chocolate lava to flow out from the fondant but it became a cupcake instead. In the beginning, I baked for 10 minutes at 180 degree Celsius but when I checked it, it does not seems baked, thus I baked it for another 10 minutes which turn out fully cooked.

I made the unbaked chocolate pie too but the appearance is really bad so I decided not to post it. I have not tried the chocolate pie yet, therefore I am not sure whether it taste good but I guess it will because I just made it our of a melted chocolate. Chocolate always taste good, doesn't it?  

2 March 2017

It is already the 3rd month of 2017. It does not seems long since January and now it is March.
As one gets older, they will feel that times has gone way to fast compared to when we were younger. Maybe because we became absolutely more busier than we were and 24 hours doesn't seems to be enough.

Yesterday, I ended my work late at night and I was dead tired. My dad came and fetch me at the train station with his bike. My brother and I used to travel around my house area with my dad on his bike. Sometimes even carrying the both of us. We used to be light when we were a kid but now of course we are not. And he is getting older so it is not easy to carry us around with his bike. It has been long since I last rode on his bicycle. Nostalgia. Bringing back all the wonderful memories. When he decided to wait for me and fetch me, I was feeling really happy and grateful to him. Happiness could happen in trivial occasions or events.

For examples,

Happiness is when you have been holding on to your pee and you finally found a washroom to relieve yourself

Happiness is when you are thirsty and you took a slip of your plain water

Happiness is when family gathers together

Happiness is when making beautiful memories with your loved ones

Happiness could means so much things and the lists are endless. Everyone feel happiness in a different ways. They might feel it is something that will make them satisfied or happy but you may not feel the same.