Wrap My World Around You: February 2010

25 February 2010

Holidays, Work and Pies

Hello readers,

Sorry I've been MIA for the past few days, hehe. I have been super busy with work and I am glad that we will be having a 3-day holiday starting tomorrow. I need my rest! Hehe. Though work has been hectic, I have enjoyed it very much. I am soooooo looking forward to the holiday! I plan to eat lots, and sleep lots, haha.

Anyway, we have been quite lucky these past few weeks since we have had a few public holidays dispersed throughout the month. 23rd February was another day of celebration and to be thankful of. We have reached our 26th National Day, and I think it is not too late to wish every Bruneian a "Happy 26th National Day!".

So during the national day holiday, I decided to bake a Chocolate Pie for the first time. I was craving for something sweet and chocolaty. Watching those food tv shows that I love so much does not help at all, haha. Below are some piccies that I took while in the process of baking the pie.

Preparing the dough for the pie crust

Rolling the dough to a flat thin layer

Placing the dough on the pie tray

Preparing the chocolate filling

Mix on the stove until it thickens

Beating egg whites to make meringue

Baked pie crust

The chocolate filling is poured into the crust

A layer of the meringue is poured on top of the chocolate

Baked chocolate pie. Slightly burned on top, haha

And tada!! I couldn't wait for it to cool down, so I took my first bite. Nyum! :P

Til the next post!

20 February 2010

Night out with fellow Sunshiners

Last night, I had dinner with some of my primary school friends at Cheezbox. Rachel is currently having her holiday in Brunei, which prompted us to get together again after the last few months that we last saw each other. Only Mas, Rachel, Zam and Yaza can make it last night. It was nice to see each other again and catch up. While Mas and I were getting off the elevator at the Mall, we bumped into none other than our former Sunshine School Maths teacher, Teacher Celia. It was such a coincidence! Hehe. Amazingly she still remembered us after more than a decade and she still looked pretty much the same as before hehe.

We spent the night also looking through our old school photos and laughing at some of the silly antics captured haha. Overall, it was a fun night and we stayed until the restaurant closed at midnight haha. Fortunately Mas and I rode together on the same car so it was less creepy to get to the basement parking that late at night, hehe. We hope to do more mini reunions again in the near future.

Rachel & Zamriah

Mas & Me

While waiting for our food to arrive

Posing for the camera hehe

Looking through photos on facebook

Group photo! From L: Me, Mas, Rachel, Zam & Yaza

Smile!

One last photo before heading home heehee

Til the next post!

18 February 2010

Little Flag Bearer :)

I am now one of those drivers who drives with those little Brunei flag stand attached on their car windshield, hehe. A few nights ago, while dad was buying some food from the Pasar Malam in Gadong, he noticed a lot of flag bearers walking around and attaching the little flags on people's cars. When he walked back to the car, he noticed a little flag with its stand attached to the car's windshield.

So, now I drive with one and it does help me get in the spirit of the upcoming National Day celebration! Heehee.

Til the next post!

15 February 2010

Sentimental Value

"All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am"
(The Story - Brandi Carlile)

You can say that I am a sentimental type. I love keeping stuff which holds a great sentimental value to me. Some can even be categorized as junk, haha. The weirdest thing that I have a habit of keeping are plastic bags from travels. I don't know why I love keeping them, other than to make my storage places so full and sometimes I do forget that I kept them after all these years. I try to stop keeping those unique plastics bags now hahaha.

The thing is, I was just cleaning my room this afternoon when I realised how much junk and other stuff that I have accumulated over the years. I told you that I am sentimental, thus I love to keep some stuff that I always manage to convince myself are too 'sayang' to throw away. I am sure that I am not the only person out there who have the same habits that I have. There is always a part of me saying things like, "Oh, maybe this thing would be useful in the future, so I better hold onto it..".

Sometimes there are old things that I keep such as jewelery that was given to me years ago but never wear again. I kept them since they are given by friends and family, and of course are precious reminders of friendships and good relationships. I still have in my possession one of those best friends half pendant thingie where I kept one half and the other person kept one half that was given to me by my then-best friend in the 90s, haha.

The half pendant :)

Some other stuff that I like to keep are birthday cards or any cards given to me as well as presents. Some I am still using while some are for safe-keeping. Back in Brisbane, I have this habit of keeping those bus/train/ferry ticket stubs especially after we visited long distant places. Back then I figured that those are nice to keep for 'kenang-kenangan', which is a bit weird, hahaha. I think I have thrown most of them away now.

While rummaging through my storage cupboard during cleaning, I came across an old tin box that I kept ages ago, which contain some memorabilia & gifts from the youth exchange programme that I went to in South Korea in 2001. I looked through the stuff and found some telephone cards, key chains, some cash and so on. Thought I'd share with you guys what I have put inside almost a decade ago.