Monthly Archives: December 2008

Of gorgeous gingerbread and mangled macarons

December 11, 2008 – 3:24 pm

So the gingerbread dough actually was a bit soft and sticky after the required three hours of refrigeration, but after a good pat of flour and some elbow grease, the dough was perfect and my christmas tree cutter went about happily carving out the gingerbread cookies.
I managed to make 60 cookies, slightly harder on the [...]

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Mulberry

December 10, 2008 – 1:12 pm

I hardly ever shop and I don’t like shopping malls and crowds, I don’t keep up with fashion trends and I wear whatever I feel comfortable in. But, I do have a couple of weaknesses — Mulberry bags and Tod’s shoes. Tod’s I shall talk about another day, but Mulberry, oh, Mulberry, I could go [...]

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Sick

December 10, 2008 – 12:29 pm

I’ve been on MC for three days now, down with the flu. Been cooped up at home and not doing any exercise at all, which makes me a little grumpy, so I decided that cooking would be my therapy.
Yesterday, I made dumplings for dinner, the preparation of which began in the late morning with the [...]

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Singapore Marathon 2008

December 7, 2008 – 11:38 am

What can I say? It was a sh*t race for me in more ways than one. Carrying a bit of a sniffle and a sore throat (thanks baby!!!), I started out the race pretty well, was going strong at about a 5min/k pace (3:30 targetted finish time) till the sh*t hit the fan at the [...]

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AHHHHH!!!!

December 6, 2008 – 11:50 am

We were being chased this morning on our little 4km loosen-the-muscles-get-the-blood-flowing jog. But while some people get chased by dogs or even cats (like our friend Gav), we got chased by an Indian man begging for money.
It was just after midway through our jog at Commonwealth Drive that the man latched onto us as we [...]

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