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Candle Cheesecake

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Ingredients:
16oz cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
3 tbsp. of self rising flour
biscuit crumbs and melted butter for crust

Instructions:
1. Mix cream cheese and sugar. Remember to cut the cream cheese into small cubes so that you can beat and mix them easily.

2. Add eggs.
3. Fold in self rising flour.

4. Melt butter and biscuit crumbs. Then press on the baking pan. Make sure you cover your baking pan with aluminium foil or oil paper.
5. Pour batter over crust.
6. Bake 175 degree Celcius for 40 minutes.

Left: The final product. Should use a bigger pan. If smaller one is used like what you see here, then it will crack.
Right: The texture is the same as candle cake but this is with cheese and with the crust. However, I would suggest you to just skip the crust, I don’t see any point for having them there.

Oh, you can add 1/2 tsp. of vanilla essence for better taste too. You can also add in other stuffs like mix fruits, nuts etc. as long that you make sure that the batter is creamy enough and no ended up like what I had previously, so chewy until can make into play dough 😛 Summore ended up with stone cheesecake!

Consider it 80% success 😛 Could be better if I used bigger tray.

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Possessed

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This is the first and the last movie of 2006 that I had watched. Yes! My first and my last for 2006, you didn’t read it wrongly. I’m not into movie and not even watching pirated DVDs or VCDs at home.

Got these tickets from someone. Thank you. 🙂 Obviously, I’m going to review this movie today. The tickets’ photo was taken last week and other photos in this post were taken with my brother’s camera phone, I switched phone with him just for this. Went to watched it this afternoon. Mind you that I’m the person that is not into movies, nor a cinema goer. Therefore, I’m just giving feedback as a viewer that doesn’t understand anything about the movie world. It’s very simple, I’m the person that will complain when it’s bad, will compliment when it’s good but will not say anything when it’s just so-so.


Language: Cantonese and a bit of English.
Duration: One and half hour (approximately)
Casts:
Amber Chia, Harisu, Alan Yun, Steve Yap, Smyth Wong, Liu Yan Yan(from china), Sharifah Amani, Monolet(from Philippines).

Summary of the movie:
It’s about Amber (cast by Amber Chia, our very own supermodel) and Li Su (cast by Harisu, a Korean transsexual actress-singer). They are sisters and work as models. Amber lost her memory while Li Su went missing. Amber tried to gain back her memory at the same time she’s seeing “thing”. The “thing” is actually her sister, Li Su. I’m bad in narrating a story/movie. Let’s go directly to the end. Everything unfolds at the end. Amber had killed Li Su because of jealousy. As simple as that. The end!


The audiences:
SUCKS! Same as The Legend of the Red Curse. Why they can keep quite while watching other movies but they can’t shut up for this movie? They talked, talked, talked and talked all tru’ the movie. I’m sure if they are watching other movies, they won’t dare to do that else they would get scolded by people summore I’m sure they won’t even like it themsleves. Hate it!

Mobile phones ringing here and there, answered the phone and talked like no body business. These attitudes sucks! Also, please don’t comment while watching! Why can’t you people shut up and keep the comments till outside the cineplex? Fine! If you want to comment, can’t you lower your voice? The atmosphere is as noisy as what you can get in Kopitiams. Imagine that!

Why I prefer to watch it in the afternoon? I want to avoid these kind of people after what I had encountered when watching Red Curse last time at night, full house summore! I was hoping that only few people would watch it in the afternoon during working hours but argggggg… It’s school holidays now! So, there were many people watching in the afternoon too.


My comments:
It’s way much better than The Legend of The Red Curse in terms of skills and quality. However, there are still loads to brush up. Such as… Hmm… I don’t know. Told you I’m not into movies. Just feel that it needs to brush up. Still have a lot to learn. At least it’s not that hopeless as the previous movie.

One of the parts that I don’t like is that they are trying too hard to introduce Kuching. Too many sccenes taking from on top of Medan Pelita. Hmmm… Maybe they should take views from different angles rather than all from up there. It looks pretty desperate.

The obsessed fan of Amber was damn funny. *LOL* I just couldn’t help it. I’m sure many agreed. I don’t know what is wrong with this part, it’s supposed to scare us, fill us with much suspense but… *LOL*

The horror scenes… They all looked pretty familiar. Had I seen them somewhere? Hahahaha… I used to watch a lot of horror movies at the cinema years back. Some how I’m not into them anymore now. That explains why I don’t visit the cinema too now.

This movie will not give you any nightmares, at least for me.

My last say to this movie is “keep working and learning. You’ll get it right one day”. Oh, here’s the official website of Possessed

There you go… My review of my first and last movie of 2006!

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Bloggers’ Meet @ Sue’s

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The long awaited meet is finally here today. Miracle8 was the first to arrived and I’m the second one. We both tried to look for the unit where Sue’s living and caused a bit of “stir” among her neighbours coz I got the wrong house! Hehehe… I called her mobile phone but it’s forwarded to voicemail, worst… I left Sue’s home phone number at home. At the end, we asked the guard for help *LOL* He was kinda blur with who we wanted to meet. I’m kinda stupid too. I should just tell the guard that we were looking for someone that just got back from the US! Yet I kept telling him that her house was first unit and she’s staying upstair. Hehehe… I forgotten that it’s should be consider the second unit as it’s the second door not the first door. Haven’t been there for quite a while as I used to go there for a swim coz my uncle has a unit there.

Left: Scenery from Sue’s balcony.
Right: Miracle8 bought these! I took the leftover back and I ruined them! 😛 The icings were all over the box because I had forgotten that they could roll!

After both of us got into the house, Robin called to ask for directions. I didn’t know he’s in the apartment area already. I thought Robin and his gang were lost somewhere in the housing estate outside of the apartment. *LOL* After Robin and his gang arrived, Ann and Jee arrived. The last to arrive were Allen and Frankie 😛




We were served with chocolates! Yummy… I had never had so much chocolate in 2 hours+ in my life. Sugar high now 😛 As we are bloggers, we kept snapping here and there *LOL* How can bloggers live without cameras? You tell me? I know I’ll be suffering withdrawal symptoms if I don’t have my camera with me 😛 We shoot at every available oppotunity hehehe…

We had a great time hearing Sue’s talking about her experiences staying in the US. She did the talking most of the time hehehe… There were so many things for her to share but we had to end the meet around 7pm becuase she had another appointment and I was supposed to get home before 7pm. Had a great time there, meeting bloggers that I had never met before. I prefer something small and intimate meeting like this rather than having a huge party. Ah well… I just don’t like crowds. Photo session is a must for bloggers 😛 We took group photos and went home. Here… You can’t see Sue’s face 😛

Left-right: Frankie, Chun Chow, Robin, Allen, Ken, Ivan, Miracle8(Boon Kim), Sue and her daughter, Ann and Jee, me and Naomi

Nice to meet all of you! 🙂

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Ely & Cindy Custom Wedding(PART-3)

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OK… It’s dinner time! We reached there at about 5.40pm to set up the video camera but realised that an extremely long cable was needed for the video camera and projector to be able to connect to each other. Ely friend’s called up somebody to send the cable over but that somebody was occupied with other works so we waited, waited and waited until 6.30pm, I guess… The dinner supposed to start by then but as I said previously, Chinese banquet will never start on time. Phew…


I’m not sure what time did the dinner starts as we were so busy with the video camera setup and projector display. Totally forget what time it was already.

The bride and groom were supposed to be there at the entrance to greet the guesst but it seemed like the makeup session took too long and they arrived later than the expected time, they appeared as the same time as most guests *LOL*. After all the guests arrived, the dinner started. The couple made the grand entrance and food was served. I will blog about the food in another post.

They had karaoke session because it’s a must for them. They are all karaoke “kaki”. The couple loves karaoke very much and I’m assuming that they met each other at karaoke too. The probability is high because Jimmy was one of their karaoke “kaki” too last time.*LOL*

The usual ritual, MC asked the couple to go up to the stage to open the champagne. Next, they were required to “feed”(I forgot the word for it -_-“) the champagne to each other. After that, the parents were invited to the stage joining the couple to “yam seng” to the guests. Of course it didn’t end there, the couple stayed on the stage to cut the cake and the typical feed-the-bride trick was done. We had them repeat the trick 2 times because it was too fast and we were not in time to snap pictures of it. So the third time, they were required to kiss each other on the lips but the couple tried to tricked us and got caught by us. The fourth time, they were required to kiss and turn 360 degree so that everyone from every angle could see them.

After all these, the couple were asked to sing a song. This is of course a must! Karaoke “kaki” didn’t sing any song wasn’t quite right *LOL* The bride and groom did give speech too, not long winding speech, they gave thanks to their parents for everything and also thank the guests for attending.

Then, it was time for the groom’s party to play trick on the bride’s party *LOL* They asked the bride’s party to go up to the stage and sing our national anthem as “revenge” because the guys were asked to sing it that morning. After so much “arguments” between the both parties, the guys ended up accompanying the girls on the stage and the girls sang the national anthem.

That’s all. The rest of the night were guests went up the stage to sing including the bride’s father. The dinner ended at about 9.30pm or earlier… Not quite remember. Very tired already and didn’t even track the time. All I know was that I wanted to get home and rest.

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Ely & Cindy Custom Wedding(PART-2)

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After the groom’s house, they went to the temple to pay respect to the groom’s ancestors before going to the bride’s house for tea ceremony.

After the temple, they went back to the bride’s house for tea ceremony. The bride’s father removed the veil partially and then the groom finished it up. After that, we just waited for other relatives to arrive. While waiting, it’s eating time again. Sweet dumplings were served.

After the tea ceremony, family potrait was taken. Then it’s the end of it. We just waited for the time to go to Kuching Mandarin Restaurant for lunch. This restaurant is situated opposite DHL above Chilipeppers.

After lunch, we went to Thian Court at Crown Square to plan for the setup of video camera’s position. Ely’s friends was in charged of the projectors positions and table number arrangement.

When I reached home, it’s almost 2.30pm already. WOW! Been “working” for almost 12 hours. Extremely tired. Thought of taking a nap but didn’t. After taking my shower and edited some photos for blogging, I got ready to go to Thian Court. We reached there at about 5.30pm because we need to set up the video camera. Dinner was supposed to start at 6.30pm but as you know… Chinese banquet never start on time, it will definitely delay for 1 hour or so. If you are lucky enough, the shortest delay will be half hour.

Third post coming up! Do come back for more update ;-p.

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