It’s a day of baking muffins and making sushi (and of course packed full of fun)!! (:
Mixing batter
Putting mixed batter onto the muffin paper
Xinmin pouring the remaining batter that are hard to scoop up onto the muffin paper
Tray ready to be put into oven (:
Putting sushi rice and ingredients on seaweed sheet
A whole try of cut sushi
Xiaorong cutting the cucumbers
The first batch of muffins! (:
More sushi
Zhang Yang, our sushi chef!
Xiaorong cutting the sushi roll. All knife related jobs are mostly done by her.
Xinmin and Cheery arranging baked muffins in the aluminium tray.
Sandy and Zhang Yang working today. Sandy’s job is to make the seaweed stick together with the rice vinegar.
The rejected muffins from the first batch that cannot be seen by other people which eventually ends up in our stomach
Muffins from the first batch that are accepted because that are round.
Draining the blueberries from the blueberry juice
Different hands helping xiaorong with her job. Identify them because I can’t. If I were to guess, I think it’s Zhang Yang and XInmin.
Oh wait. Proof that Zhang Yang does help.
Zhang Yang was talking to Yulong and started laughing. At the same time, for I dunno what reason, he steps backwards. He didn’t notice there were bamboo poles behind him. Subsequently, he went UNDER the bamboo poles because he was bending down, laughing too hard. He noticed the camera and tried to run by standing straight and turning around at the same time. It failed because his head hits the bamboo and he laughed some more. (:
Xinmin, Cheery and Geraldine checking if the muffins were fully baked.
Yulong talking out the tray from the oven
Notice the colour difference. The one on the left is white batter while the colour on the right is grey batter! Do not be digusted. This is due to diffusion from the blueberries to the rest of the batter.
Baked muffins! Yum yum.
Voting for 团花团草! (: There are only 12 slips of paper but 25 votes because we counted in everyone who was absent. I heard that Zhangyang filled up the rest of the dyb votes with the same answer too! That is xinmin’s phone by the way (:
Shifting the freshly baked muffins from the metal things to the aluminium trays. Metal things were used after the deformed first batch to keep the muffins in shape. Only 12 muffins could be baked at the same time.
Shifting not-baked muffins from a smaller tray to a bigger tray. The final batch – no more metal things because we are late. And somebody (xinmin) was careless enough to drop one of them while moving.
Baking in process
I told you we were late. We’re supposed to reach school by 6.
The bottom is a box of chocolates xinmin bought for the whole dyb. Those who have not eaten any, can claim from xinmin the next time you see her. Not sure if there is any left though. The top are staples dyb won for winning 3rd prize for our sushi and muffins. Claim those from xinmin too. The top row of the chocolates says DYB (:
This is what the inside of the chocolate box looks like if you haven’t seen them
Ok that’s all. Merry Christmas everybody! (: See you all during chalet (:
Hey people (: This post is written in response to xiaorong’s post and to satisfy the needs of both xiaorong and our dear dyb blog (:
Regarding the esplanade concourse performance by our very own Vincent, I wanted to post videos of the performance but then computer don’t recognise the file format of videos taken by phones (mine, at least and yes we secretly took videos of it. I swear that everytime that i want to watch the video or show it to other person, my phone will hang and lag) So, too bad. I don’t think there is any point in posting anymore photos of Vincent since xiaorong has already posted so many already. If anybody wants to view the video, come free to find me (: By the way xiaorong, Vincent doesnt seem to mind the posting. Look at what he tagged on the tagboard. He’s safe unless somebody is evil enough to tell tl. (:
I realised Charmaine didnt tell the story of the cookies. Let me tell it to you (:
Once upon a time, there lived many dyb-ians who were (and are) very very nice, especially to their seniors (: One day, they decided to get together and bake delicious cookies for their seniors who are about to take (well, taking) their very important ‘A’ levels. (: While waiting for the cookies to be finish baking, they prepared a board the the words “Jiayou for (: A levels” to parade around the school to wish not only their seniors but all other seniors of the school as well. (: They finished baking and brought the cookies to school for their seniors! Yay end of story. (: Aren’t these juniors nice? (: Let’s hope that their juniors are as nice as well (: In order for you all to get into the mood of baking, here are some photos of the baking process (:
These are two of the three people who are not lazy enough to buy ingredients while the others do I dunno what at xiaorong’s house
Butter!
Mixing cookie dough with eggs and butter with the machine
I believe this is the first cookie to be shaped
Scrape scrape the mixing bowl to shape cookies
Sticky
Baking cookies in the oven
Finished product of the board (:
Plates of finished cookies (:
Fresh cookies straight from the oven (:
Xiaorong, what’s with that expression??
Packing cookie to bags
Packed cookies with notes (:
-End of the cookie story (:-
I realised that for every post on dyb blog, people dont say who wrote it but others seems to know who is it. Is it just me or what?? Guess who I am! (:
nah xiaorong this is for you! :D
the rest can be found on facebook :D
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okay nonsense aside, juniors, can you be more vigilant and update the blog more often? it have been 3 months since the last update! i know that im probably the only person on earth that doesnt have a facebook account, but that doesnt mean that fb replaces this blog! hopefully you all can update HERE soon with pics of us baking cookies or something interesting.
anyway i'm here to post some pics in order to gain enough attention back to this blog and keep it alive. thank me thank me! lol.
this was taken when wenyi and i were at esplanade library one fine day a few months ago. we wanted to do some research for MEP or something then we came acrossed THIS at the concourse.
in case some of you can't see, it's a poster that features who else but our very own VINCENT as part of a quartet that's performing in the esplanade concourse! OF COURSE we have to go and check it out.
Here's some pics of him performing. I know there are a lot of the same pics of him because i had to use burst shots to zoom in if not it'll look damn tiny (as for a lot of SE phones), not for any other stupid reason that i know you all will come up with.
Enjoy!
anyway im not supposed to leak all these out. he begged me not to tell TLS because she wants him to go for shicheng and he told her he's busy. muahahaha. =X
the year 4s whom turned up
yulong charmaine
group photo at macs :D
year 4s '09 w/o xiaorong
charmaine vanessa! the next dyb treasurer :D
charmaine zhangyang kianming
vanessa wenyi
charmaine xinmin
TEACHERS' DAY CELEBRATION AT SHANGYIN
the cake!
the card.
interior!
jiahan!
group photo :D jiahan look so white
charmaine and the year 1s
:D
got more pictures but i'm lazy to load all :X cause blogger's throwing a tantrum. wenyi shall upload the rest :D
meanwhile, make do with the pictures here :D
Oh yes let me not forget to post the pictures of charmaine on stage performing (:
Yay have fun! (:
Yay. I am feeling so high now (:
Lets post photos for our preparation for the Y3s handover presents (:
Charmaine look so focused on whatever she is doing
Hmm.. so does xiao zhou
This is a messy table in Macs. Guess how much time we spent in it.
On a more interesting note,
Ta-dah. The paper crowns of dyb-ians. (:
And yes, I’m not so dumb to put my own photo in it. (:
Now, let’s look at the presents our juniors prepared for us (:
Followed my the Macs dyb dinner. I’m so happy so many people turned up. Yay. Thank you to all who did because you made my day! (:
For all those who missed it, no worries for there will be more dyb outings in the future. (hint hint to xinmin)
And a group photo to commemorate the occasion (: With the exception of Zhang Yang who left early, everyone else is here.
Did I mention JY? It was most fun to have her around (: Ask around for full details (:
And for those of you who missed this today, this is JY dressed in pyjamas today! (:
Lalalala (:
Let's start with a story of a little girl call charmaine with pictures to illustrate the story better (:
This little girl was discussing a certain geog coastal report with her friend. she was trying to tell her friend how she drew her beach profile so she came up with this:
it's obviously a messy diagram so obviously her friend cannot understand what she is trying to say
thus come the second diagram which looks like this:
admittedly, this diagram is more understandable with more labelling but how could you know what she wanted to say?
the third diagram who looks like this:
is even worse off then the first one, though much neater in comparison.
Apparently she improves the skills of her drawing but not how her drawing help to explain things.
Frustrated, the little girl came up with her fourth diagram:
which is so much much better than all her other diagrams. Haven't your teacher taught you to draw diagrams with neat and proper labelling? And your math teacher will strangle you if you fail to account what is x!!
Moral of the story: please do not forget to apply what you learn in school to your everyday life.
What was her friend doing you ask?
She was laughing at her ridiculous drawing as she already knew what she was trying to say since the first drawing. (:
End of the story of the litle girl name charmaine. (: