A shopping day at Times Square

Me & Carpeau went times square today, searching for dresses for the prefect night. I saw this dress at Voir today and I love it SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!! But I didn't manage to buy it coz it's a new arrival dress and it's quite expensive. So I juz simply bought a purple deep-V dress for juz RM 29.90 ( dad wouldn't allow me to wear like that, so I'll juz add a tube-top in it). Guess how much is it???

You must be thinking it's not very expensive, coz it looks simple, rite? But the price is RM 146.61 (which is after 10% discount, original price is RM 162.90).

At first I saw this dress and I tried it and I like it very much. The material is very fine and soft. It has a good quality. But when I looked at the price tag when I came out from the fitting room... OMG!!! THIS IS AN INSANE!!! Maybe if I'm rich and I won't feel it's expensive... But apparently I'm not. Sigh... I juz love it but I juz can't have it... What to do? T.T


Well, but I spent alot on buying clothes today.

2 t-shirt for mom (which cost RM 55.40);
2 t-shirt for my little sis (cost RM 18.90);
A dress, a t-shirt and a shorts for myself (cost RM 48.80).
Total : RM 123.10

But I think it's worth it, coz I bought a lot and I hardly can go for a real shopping. =)




Today at times square...

• I saw Jun Wei having lunch at Wendy's wit his friends. But I don't know who are they coz I didn't see them. While me & Carpeau planning where to eat, suddenly she pat on my hand and said: " Carmen, look there..", pointing at Wendy's. I thought what is she going to show me, maybe there's something on the sign board or what. I looked here and there for what she's pointing at. Nothing aso... She laughed and point again. Who knows, I saw Jun Wei smiling and waving at me. I yelled. I was so embarassed and I quickly pull her off.
• At a boutique near the Chicken Rice Shop, we both grabbed 3 dresses each to try in 1 shot. I thought I'm very trying them, who knows Carpeau is slower! Coz she was thinking which dress should she buy. She even take a picture and sent it to her mom. Lol... So we asked the boutique owner abt her comment. Finally Carpeau end up buying a blue evening dress while mine is purple.
• Besides Jun Wei, I saw Yau Hui and his friend too.. Oh ya, and I also saw the SMKBBSP ketua pengakap, Tommy, which is Yan Shan and his girlfriend walking to LRT with the same direction with me (I didn't know that he had a such pretty girlfriend.. LOL!! Congrats! Congrats! XD ) But I just pretend didn't see them. "Fai si" kacau people pak tor la... XD

Conclusion: I had a happy but tired day... =)

Chocolate Rice Cookies vs Raisin Butter Cookies

Yesterday mom suddenly decided to bake cookies today while she was discussing with dad about how should we spend this holiday week. So, last night after dinner, we went to a nearby grocery shop to buy the ingredients. Before that, my sis & I suggested to bake chocolate chip cookies while my mom wants to bake cookies with raisins, which she likes very much.

In the end, we bought raisins and chocoloate rice as there is no chocolate chips selling. Oh well, btw it's the same what.

This morning after breakfast, my mom, sis & I start baking. We separated it into 4 times so that it's easier to bake.

1st, prepare the apparatus and ingredients.

Apparatus - A kitchen scale (make sure there's no zero error), a big bowl (not in this pic), a normal bowl, a big plate & a sieve.

Ingredients - 6 oz of flour + 1 teaspoon of baking powder

3 oz of fine sugar

1/2 of beaten egg

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence

4 oz of margarine

a sufficient amount of chocolate rice/ raisins

(where 1 oz = 30 g)

2nd, make sure you measure those ingredients very accurately. If not, your baking result might fail, like mine, the 3rd time we baked.

3rd, sift the flour so that it will be fine enough and won't be too hard when you eat the cookies.

4th, put the measured margarine & fine sugar into a big bowl and mix it with a strong, hard tablespoon. (Or else the spoon will be broken or bent, trust me.) until it becomes like this:

5th, beat the egg well and pour 1/2 of it into the mixture. REMEMBER!!! JUST 1/2 OF IT!!! If not it will be like my 3rd time, which has failed coz of me, accidently poured too much of egg into it. T.T

Then, stir it evenly till like this.

6th, put a tablespoon of flour each time into the mixture and stir it evenly. Repeat this until the flour has finish mixed with the mixture. Then, it will form a dough like this one:

7th, put the raisins/ chocolate rice into the dough and mix it till it's even enough. Then, it becomes...

WHAT??!! Why suddenly raisins?? Not chocolate rice meh??

Don't be shocked la... The chocolate rice will not transform into raisins. It's just that I've forgotten to take the chocolate rice dough picture. So I just replace it with this lo... XD

8th, heat up the tray in the oven so that the cookie dough will not stick on the tray. (we want it to be fast, so we add an extra plate, lol...)

9th, use your fingers to make any shape of cookies you want. Place it on the heaten tray. Remember not to place them too close to each other, coz they need spaces to expand when you bake them.

10th, put the tray into the oven & bake the cookies with 400⁰F, which is about 200⁰C. and it ends up like this:

Chocolate rice cookies ^0^

Raisin cookies ^_^

Lastly, remove the cookies from the tray and place them in a plate when it's cooled.

And you can serve them now! XD

It's very thirsty during this baking process. And at the right time, dad had made us chinese tea. =)

We've failed once today.

The third time. Too wet. Coz of my carelessness. ( My bad, my fault...) Compare these:

Right - success ; left - FAILED!!!!! T.T

But at least we've success 3/4 of them la... =)

After that, we put them in containers. My sis planned to bring some to school for her friends to try. So do I. But I don't know whether it's enough for them or not! XD

It's Hari Raya Puasa now. Should I call them " Kuih Raya" or just cookies?

A Boring Friday Holiday

Today's Friday,
a public holiday,
but a rainy day,
made it a cool wheather day,
a fan useless day,
and also a sleepy day.

Because it's a boring day,
so i decided to make today a study day,
assive to make myself so hardworking today.

At first I thought I would be going to MBS's mooncake festival event today,
but I did not coz dad said it will be a very jam day;
I thought today would be a fun and cheerful day,
but end up as a nothing-to-do-day.

I'm just waiting...

I'm waiting for something special to happen... So that I can experience more...

I'm waiting for school holidays... So that I can be abit more relax than usual...

I'm waiting for my chance to buy a new, suitable watch... So that I don't need to bring my half broken watch here and there...

I'm waiting for November... So that I can rebond my hair again for not frustating with my messy hair anymore...

I'm waiting for my contact lenses... So that I can do better in anything...

I'm waiting for my exam... So that I can finish it faster and relax...

I'm waiting for dad's mouth to say we're moving to a new house... So that I can rare a Siberian Husky and a Labrador Retriever or a Golden Retriever to cheer me up when i'm stressed and unhappy...

I'm waiting for my new love... So that I can depent on someone when I need...

I'm waiting and waiting...

I'm juz waiting for a better future... ^^