Happy Mirror

Spent the whole day running errands and chasing time. Woke up with a funny feelin but I told myself to switch my lazy mode off, at least for today. Went to the orchard today to get sunflowers, all the way from Woodlands to the area near MacRitchie! I have been planning to bake cookies since 2 months ago. So I popped by Cold Storage to buy the ingredients for Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. Then, went to the bakery to get a box and a bar of butter. Ok. Everything's ready. All I need is to mix em up and put em in the oven. Easy right? NO!

The oven had to die on me. Bitch. It managed to get heated but the whole house suddenly had a blackout because of the pre-heated oven. How to bake???? THINK THINK THINK. My sis told me to try the toaster. -faintz- My day isn't going well. I'd give anything a shot. So I did. I sacrificed 2 cookies. Looked fine from outside; golden brown. But the centre wasn't cooked. URGH!!!! Time to hit the emergency button. I called my favourite aunty and found out that she was home. She was the one who inspired me to bake ever since I was as young as 3. I remembered her self made bread. Damn nice. She told me her oven is still working. YES!!! -fist punch the air- there's still hope. I rushed to my aunt's place in Chua Chu Kang. Placed the bowl with the batch in Chinook's basket and sped away ASAP.

It was such great joy to use the proper baking utensils at my aunt's. Weighing scale, electric egg beater etc... Wooohooo!!! Ok, so I preheated her oven to about 200 degrees celcius. I placed the cookies in nice circular shapes on the baking tray. I placed it close so that I could fit everything in. I forgot one thing. They expand when they get heated. In the end, I got square and odd shaped cookies. Lol. -shakes head- While waiting, my aunt had a baking itch. She wanted to bake something too. So she took out one of her many baking books and flipped through. She wanted to try baking scones. Oklah. I shall try. It was very easy actually. I could still remember.

250 grams of self raising flour
80 grams of castor sugar
1 stick of butter
2 eggs

Yup! That's it. I'm very meticulous when I do things that I really love, mainly music and cooking. Must be perfect. If it said 250 grams, then it must be 250 grams. The area around me must be constantly clean. I think I'm better at cleaning the kitchen than cleaning my own room.

The scones turned out cute! It became bigger than I thought. Then, rushed home to get ready. Got the mirror and photos ready. Celebrating her 21st was way better than celebrating mine. Haha. At least we sat by the pavement on a mat, eating cookies and chatted the night away. Singing away to "Across the Universe" was truly the highlight. Finally got her singing! Yay!!! "Nothing's gonna change my world. Nothing's gonna change my world" Lol.

Well, I've done what I needed to do 2 months back. So I'm happy. As long as she remembers her 21st well, then it's good. I don't want her to be like me. I don't even remember what happened.

ja
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