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NHG family day to Universal Studio// Saturday

To be continued with my previous post. As what I have mentioned that bf and I watched running man till late afternoon before we carried on to our next activity. I love it when our day was packed with activities and at the same time we get to rest a little more.

It was late 4.30pm that we decided to bus down to Vivo city, journey to USS. Thanks to Natasha's mum for the free tickets and invitation. Anyway, the bus ride can be so cruel, we sat for 1.5hrs in total! Ended up, we caught a good nap in the bus. Just so wondering if anyone has heard us snored in the bus. HAHA. Just kidding.


We wanna have dinner over at vivo city but we underestimated the time. By the time we were there, it was nearly 6pm and we are meeting the rest at 6.30pm. In the end, we got some small bites at basement to fill our tummy. Just so when I bought whoopie pie from Dulce and sucre, I got their red velvet flavour with the name of whoopie love. Guess what I saw when I was about to snap a picture of the pie? A couple standing infront of me! Hehehe, feel the love is in the air? This is so going to be on instagram. Insta-worthy!





Truthfully thought that we were will be late but our friends were caught up in the jam so in the end we waited for them for quite some time. As it was a NHG (National health group) family day, you can see alot of families forming the queue outside the USS entrance. And im not kidding when the queue reached along the Malaysian street food hawker centre. 



We managed to enter in at 7.30pm, knowing that most of the rides will be occupied by people and also the night view won't be pretty for photo shoots. Set aside Natasha's family, her relatives, Crystal, Meijun and her boyfriend came too! Of course my boyfriend tagged along with us which make it a perfect 10.






Visiting USS wasn't the first time for all of us. My first trip was with the girls though and we were glad that we managed to complete all the rides from morning till evening. So this trip will just be a casual one. Not to complete all but aimed to revisit the rides that we love.








Our first stop was the Hollywood stars performance as Natasha's sister in law was carrying a nine months life in her tummy. So we thought of watching the performance with her first before we proceed off to our fun. The performance high-lights was the rock and roll music. Basically you can swing your body to the beats, sing out loud with them. Even Natasha sister in law was so tempted to dance. LOL







Second stop to TRANSFORMER!! The 3D bumble bee ride. I still remembered I was frightened by the graphics when the 3D images zoomed past my view. I was so attempted to grab and throw the images away.  My imagination was so wild and I really thought that the stones and pebbles were aiming on me, literally gonna hit me through my face. And this Natasha can't stop reminding me of that. Hahaha. In between the session, you will feel water sprinkling at your face. It felt all so real!







The tickets comprised a $10 free food voucher so we just have to make use of the complimentary tickets by buying food and drinks. I urged you not to get their corn hotdog because it tastes so plain. Nothing of the food fancy my taste. However, I had their CHURROS!!! Craving was all so satisfied by their sweet churros. Can I go back to get somemore? ;/ I even have the thoughts of making churros for myself. This shall be in my to-do list.





Next station to MUMMY ride which is my favourite ride of all! So sad that Battlestar Galactica was closed down due to technical problem. I heard that they are going to change to some new rides after all the repeatedly maintenance and yet they couldn't find the cause of the jammed of the rides. How could they take away all the thrilling rides? ):

Nonetheless, Mummy ride is still the best and I love how mystery the rides can be. Basically, you travel in the pitch dark and suddenly a downhill slope came and you will see yourself flying in the dark. The best part was you don't even know what is the next step.





After all, it was really a fun-filled night with them. So happy that all the girls came and both Meijun and I brought along our another half too. Like a happy family <3

Till then.

PRE-VALENTINE'S GIFT+ F.R.E.E.D.O.M

No Valentine’s Day dessert is complete without a red velvet recipe. Let’s face it, the red-hued staple—whether in cookies, brownies, cakes or pies—provides the perfect color to any Feb. 14 dessert or snack. 

Today’s recipe continues my love affair with red velvet desserts.
While I’ve made two kinds of red velvet brownies before, I’ve never attempted a red velvet cookie before. I was never a huge fan of red velvet (is it chocolate? is it vanilla?) until I had a super-moist slice of red velvet cake a few years ago. 



There’s a little bit of cocoa powder, flour, egg, milk, vanilla, brown sugar, and regular sugar. Typical chocolate cookie ingredients. However, I reduced the cocoa powder and replaced it with flour. I added a touch of milk to bring moisture to the dough, as well as used more brown sugar than white sugar. (Brown sugar is moister than white sugar.) I also slightly increased the vanilla extract so the vanilla flavor is as prominent as the chocolate flavor. The chocolate chips make the cookies even chocolate-ier.

The cookie dough needs to chill for at least 1 hour. Trust me on this. The cookie dough is much too sticky to bake right after mixing.
Do you want thick cookies that don’t spread all over your cookie sheet? Chill your cookie dough. There is no shortcut. You can’t use a freezer, you can’t chill for less time. Tightly cover the cookie dough and chill in the refrigerator for at least one hour.

Once chilled, roll the cookie dough into balls. Make sure there aren't a lot of chocolate chips right on top of your cookie dough balls. You’ll need to press the cookies down slightly after baking and you don’t want a chocolate mess everywhere. You may also want to crave out the shape of your preferred choice. For mine, I cut out a heart and star shapes. Here is what my cookie dough mould looked like before going into the oven:


The best part is that you have complete control over how red you want your cookies. I added about 2 and 1/2 teaspoons of red food coloring to my cookie dough. If you want less, add less – if you want more, add more!







Baking is always the best gift for Valentine's day. Share the joy to my friends (: 

Ingredients:

  • 1 and 1/2 cups + 1 Tablespoon (198g) all-purpose flour (careful not to overmeasure)
  • 1/4 cup (32g) unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup (115g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature.
  • 3/4 cup (150g) light brown sugar (or dark brown)
  • 1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar
  • 1 egg, at room temperature*
  • 1 Tablespoon (15ml) milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2.5 teaspoons red food coloring (liquid or gel)
  • 1 cup (180g) semi-sweet chocolate chips (plus a few extra for after baking)











The end of spring. The end of internship. The end of awesome.
This has been a whirlwind of a spring and I can’t believe it’s come to an end.  Working at Lonza may not been exactly what I wanted it to be: but it was an awesome experience. I can honestly say I enjoyed every single day, doing admin work/ filing/ scanning/ assisting my senior scheduler to fulfill her tasks. Whether I was working my way out of understanding all the Engineering language, there was a sense of pride for me knowing that I had directly participated as a part of the team.

First and foremost, this experience has affected me in ways I did not foresee. As with most experiences in life, things do not usually go as planned but always end up leaving you with something good and worth while. At first, I was slightly frustrated and disappointed that the daily routines and working conditions would not be that of what I will be experiencing ( those of which the interns before me had) but over the three months, I can see that in many ways this discrepancy has turned into a wonderful and unique experience which has opened my eyes to new opportunities and positively changed my ambitions for the future.


But against the odds, im still glad that I have met a few really nice colleagues along the way who guide me patiently, ensuring that I understood what I am doing. 
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep them is a blessing.
Thanks and cheer to our freedom (;

Till then.
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