Grand Cru Royale by Center PS

Love the hazelnut praline, rich chocolate mousse and crunch. comparable to Whisk bakerys' can't remember that name, but it was my favourite cake till now with whole hazelnuts in it. luckily i ran it off today, if not imagine the guilt i'd have of it coursing through my veins..

I ate the cake while Project runway's Season 5 finale aired on TV. LOVED le anne's dresses. Love karto's collection. and liked some of kenley's cute skirts.

I woke up this morning remembering another Dream

I was eating at max brenner's with aleee and another hockey guy (same level, but can't remember who), but it looked like fullerton hotel's chocolate buffet. Eating star shaped churros in chocolate fondue. Lots of chocolate, oh my, it was oh so good!(even if it was in a dream) the background somehow looked a little like tiong bahru plaza. Aleee paid for dinner cause she hadn't any small change. And then couples from nj that i just recently saw in school started walking pass our table, as if it was such a coincidence that they were going on a date in the same area. I know the dream continued with more chocolate and cake and eating.

Weird eh? I'm getting more dreams with links to recent events that already happened or i anticipated happening. It says something about my thoughts as well: Perhaps i'm reading my food blogs too much, as max brenner's and fullerton chocolate buffet were both mentioned here. And maybe the chocolate cake i ate the night before was so good it made me crave for more chocolate goodness:) as for the NJ couples, i was uh, observing a few around school..just as they happened to be near by. which included sitting outside the choir stall with sheena and WQ and V came by.(and there was more talk about couples today...)

Well, at least the chocolate's helping keep the depressive failure thoughts away.

I need more cake and chocolate.

i must congratulate myself. on staying in the school library after school till at least 5pm to do my homework and hopefully some revision for the past 3 days in a row. and thus a bought my self a slice of cake (: ok, the reason's just an excuse for me to justifying buying a $7 slice of cake from a bakery near my house (the one i mentioned on monday, but didn't go to. thus it probably was a good thing i didn't go on monday, because now i'm buying one premium slice of cake with the same amount of money i bought one slice of cake, a bun, and five mini buns on monday. it better be worth it.) it's called Cru Royale, recommended by a food blog i've been reading. i'll upload the picture once i've ate it. hopefully with a review.

the owner of the bakery was nice, had a short chat with him while i browsed the cakes. a nice quiant little store, but no sitting area. it's a little out of place though, in that old neighbourhood, to have a higher-priced patisserie located there. perhaps it's customers will come from the residents of the condominiums a little further away. after leaving the store, i had a little walk around the neighbourhood, a place i haven't been around for years despite the proximity to my house. it was quite nostalgic, passing by the place i used to walk around with my maid, past the neighbourhood community centre i did ballet, abacus and art classes at, a quiet little town so near the big bustling city (not that singapore is that big, i'm just refering to the CBD area here.) the old-world charm of post-war buildings, without much modern effects, mostly 4-storey walk-ups.they really should conserve this place. the Tiong Bahru estate area, it really is a gem.

i guess the walk really calmed me down from what happened earlier. mind you, my location was two storey's up, above the grandstand, at the area above the place where soccer people sit and have a view of the whole running track : (written on the bus in a fit of anger on the way home)

"This is one of the very rare times i detest soccer and their players so much. And in a very long time, made me want to shout the F word at them, that follows with a u, c, k. I mean what's the point of kicking a ball so high towards a wall such then when it drops back down, they have to climb up the stairs to retrieve it. Ok, it was most probably accidental (or the person who kicked the ball must have an unconscious grudge against the past hockey captain) for the ball to actually fly over the wall, and i didn't see who kicked the ball, but it seriously pissed me off.

It is also probably my luck, and as vinnie put it, my face is a ball magnet. The soccer ball travelling at who knows what speed, hitting me right square on the mouth just as i looked in the ball's direction. Which also meant that i did not see it coming towards me AT ALL. But vinnie did. This is the second time this year a ball hit my mouth (first was a hockey ball), but without any visible damages. Perhaps the balls are trying to knock out my two front teeth and get me to wear braces. One of them is still shaky from the last time. And it's the third or fourth ball to hit my face at all. Or maybe some higher force thinks my face is too ugly and wants to disfigure it. My inner sense of shame is preventing me from saying the reverse.

Seriously, i do not enjoy giving away free kisses to balls. " -6.05pm

so, today wasn't the best, with a cold rainy morning, me being late for school (again), and econs lecture being not productive at all, and me suffering from muscle aches from yesterday's 10-round run. but my class really has a way of adding spice (literally) into school life. as a result, there's a new healthy snack:

raw carrots dipped in Nutella.

weird. i know. but you can't really taste the carrots thanks to chocolate, so it taste like..crunchy nutella. XD

i need to find a new place to study. the school library is getting noisy. too noisy. so much for it being a LIBRARY.irony.

this shall be my 'study' log of today. note the inverted commas.

1. Woke up at 9.30am intending to study despite 5 hours of sleep.

2. checked and replied to numerous emails (and voted for clearcache for SBA, and a little more surfing) till uh...1.40pm. oh yes, my wonderful discovery of ladyironchef

2.1. had breakfast at about 11am

3. 1.40am: Layed out my studying table in my room [ok, it's just a mahjong table]

4. Started flipping through David Waugh and AQA on Urbanisation.

5. Fell asleep on table at about 2.50pm.

6. Woke up to change my head position at 3.10pm.went back to nap.

7. Woke up and moved to bed at 3.30pm.

8. Slept till 5.30pm.

9. Refreshed myself and made my 'survival tray'.

10. 5.45pm - continued reading AQA on urbanization.

11. 6.30pm - went onto National Geographic Website..and internet surfing continued all the way, comparing phones and laptops on CNET to replace my current gadgets.

12. 2 hours later...i'm blogging this post. heh.

and guess what, lunch was skipped, dinner hasn't been prepared. i think this is the day i ate the least[wow.] [vegetarian bee hoon for breakfast, peanut pancake as snack at 1pm, brownies smeared with nutella and a cup of milk at 6pm]. alright..not all that little.

since i'm already blogging, i've got tons of events i haven't updated. even my pre-u sem post is still unfinished.

and just a summary, for those who do not need my long-winded lengthy details on the events.

saturday- heeren mugging, QUIS preformance SSF, cosplay event, SG24 gathering

sunday - reads and tuition and captain's present production

monday - hockey chalet cum handover

tuesday - cycling,aftermath of chalet effects

wednesday - crescent hockey outing, project runway, tim gunn's guide to style, mass wardrobe packing

SHIT I JUST MISSED NINJA WARRIOR! ): - 9.10pm

ok..this post is seriously interrupted by many things, since before i move on, my dinner's taking on centerstage! Healthy & delicious pasta (it has carrots AND celery), pam's expertise at the microwave conjured up this delectable meal for one, to provide me with energy to type out the rest of this post. what would have made it out of this world would be some company...

the sauce. (maybe it's a little too much...)

plus the pasta (:

Alrighties! back on to the mundanes of my life.

starting with saturday[13th june], (since friday was shamefully boring of surfing the net), it was a pretty hectic day. My intention to get up into one of orchard's starbucks by noon was hindered by house chores and well, my usual slowness. Still, managed to settle into Heeren's Spinelli with a cup of Chcolate twist (it's just ice-blended chocolate) at 2pm, and started on Chenchel's birthday card. that spent half an hour away, before i finally started on math - Permutations and Combinations. a frustrating subject for a person with little logic, and thankfully i had more than a little, but still, one and a half hours only got me through 5 questions? Sometime among that, Gimlim dropped by with David Waugh, an expertise on geography. Waugh stayed on with me at the table quietly stressing me with geog, while i frustrated over math.

at 4.15pm, it was time to head over to *scape where QUIS [david's band] performed some jap songs for Singapore Street Fest. [Liu] Min was supposed to accompany me for the mugging session as well as the performance, but she was somewhere else. So i met aleee, michelle & her boyfriend...and then junfu and john....and then edwin {by this time, the performance was already over} Took a bit of photos, caught up with david, before i had to rush down with Waugh to Somerset MRT to meet Shihui, another dear drama senior. Min came then, missing the gig completely, and apparently was looking around the wrong event area for me.

Jasmine coincidentally popped up, and we stood around discussing all things Jap. Soon, Waugh twin number 2 came, I thanked Waugh's babysitter, then left with Min and the Waugh twins back to attempt to pose with cosplayers from Vampire Knight. alas, both cosplayers left, and so the quartet of us headed for cineleisure. by this time, i decided not to head on to holland V for chenchel's birthday dinner at Swensen's regrettably, as it was drizzling and carrying Waugh twins around are no mean feat. Met up with aleee and gang, at Heeren's Pasta de Waraku, before i left Min there for dinner and headed for my next destination - Breadtalk. and the closest was Wisma. and so i speedwalked manouvering around crowded saturday orchard choppers, bought cake, and headed down to sunset way [still with Waugh twins, they were accompanying me home]

This party, exclusive to SG24 members, was held at yanka's house, where pizza, China coke, cake, chips, chicken wings and rice crackers were abound. played some failed drinking game(which i finally learnt properly at chalet), and sang Isabelle a Happy 17th Birthday song! soon enough, the pool closed and no one swam, and everyone left except me, joyce and mad on to yanka's house. for a party, leaving at 10pm is rather early, but you gotta consider the 15 minute deserted walk out to the main road , and people living real far away. We played Asshole/Rectum daidee, while waiting for my parents to come pick me up. ta da. an end to my saturday the 13th. sadly we didn't take any photos of the SG24 party, and didn't eat any of the cold cakes! [we only fed off mad's japanese light cheesecake]

my recuperating sunday was spent with Meredith Bancroft and Matthew Farrell in Paradise. My last two posts dated on sunday/monday were due to literary-inspired-syndrome, where my mind just becomes engrossed in literature. My only break from the book, was caused by my tuition teacher turning up on the doorstep, which i was pretty unprepared for. once that was over...back to the book! yes, non-stop reading of 709-pages of romance turmoil, all the way into monday. in between reading was the snail-bitingly slow process of producing the captain's present for hockey handover. [ironically it should be the book was distracting the production process.] so, if you figured under all that prose, i didn't sleep till i finished the book.

Monday. a fine line to be drawn, overlapped with sunday, but i spent the morning sleeping from 8am to noon. just a precautionary measure to prevent me from keeling over and fainting from lack of sleep later. moved aimlessly around the house for the next three hours, before i left for the chalet, so that i wouldn't get too high too early with everyone around [it takes a lot of energy to be around people, and i have very little of that on that day], cooked an unsatisfactory lunch.

arrived at costa sands close to 5pm. where i joined in the bridging club in the cooler air-conditioned room before dinner. as usual, i don't eat much at barbeques, played more bridge, and participated in some camwhoring so favoured by my team. I skipped the Saw premier in the living room and went up to play MORE bridge, while waiting for handover to start. looking at how much effort the juniors put into the handover itself, i was really touched, and a little embarressed at the state of the previous years'. but also, it shows that next year's team is in real good hands! after the Video, there's the receiving of presents on the senior's side, then the official announcement of EXCO positions. Captains' speeches, one real heart-wrenching, while the other ended with anti-climax [seriously, i can never get the effect i want with speeches. they either convey the wrong mood, or end too abrubtly :/]

after that was more camwhoring, and I again, stayed with the BBQ pit like an old hen mother or chaperone. while the girls went off to the beach and pool. sometimes i wonder if i'll ever truly relax and be able to shuck off that responsible attitude of mine. and so, there was chicken wings and chicken breast leftover, and then ICE was the next to be barbequed.right. when the girls came back, we played the torturous drinking game with water [it should be called 'who has the biggest bladder!'] and i a little twister with the junior girls. there was the most silent game of mahjong ever, and then norman challenged the 'TWISTER MASTER' to the floor. the master retained her title! woohoo! went to sleep sometime there= 5.30am.

woke up with the sun in my face on tuesday morning. had breakfast, went cycling, and just as i thought i was going to emerged unscathed from the two hours of cycling, i had to get my big toe jammed in between the pedal and road curb. oucch. me no likey throbbing toe, it's very distracting before going to sleep. lunch after cycling, then me and derek left for home. both of us just slept all the way through from pasir ris to tiong bahru, and i alighted and walked back to an empty home close to 5pm. took my bath, unpacked, nursed my toe, did a little reading, and took a nap at about 8pm. was jolted awake closer to ten, for dinner. chicken rice. when you're tired, food doesn't taste that good ): and i went back to my bed to sleep at 11pm. sleepy me.

wednesday's outing was pretty aburpt. i only got the message sometime during my nap the day before.met sijing, yujie, christie and crystal at vivocity, and the rest came soon after. joyene, nanthini and melody. a crescent hockey lunch outing..we headed to Fig and Olives for the meal, the cheapest we could find without walking too much and without walking into a fast food restaurant. the meal was good, the company was great. although I could say that for me, most of the outing was an observation session of my past teammates. they've changed so much, away from the safe haven called crescent, i've been away for far too long. we adjourned to topshop, forever 21 and puma for window shopping, before going up to the hot hot roof for some camwhoring. after that was relief to my dessert craving for cake at Bakerzin! the half-price New York Cheesecake just hit the right spot (: Nanthini left then, and then we went over to Harbourfront's foodcourt for some nerd mugging session! haha. unexpected for a hockey outing! left by about 6pm since i had tuition again at home. guess who was coincidentally huddled at the table behind us mugging! Leejing! haha. noticed her only when i was about to leave..until the next mugging session hockers!

photos on facebook for the events i described.

whew.

in the end, i still like my tablet and n95 phone the best. familarity breeds love. no? haha.

so much for studying.

concluded: 11.24pm