May Discovery

Hello, welcoming the month of June.

May had been great!

Discovered something that really makes me... what do I call it? Happy perhaps. All smiles whenever I think about it. Like a girl in love. Hah

Hence, the supposed to be a busy month of May, I get a little distracted on my obsession for BAKING again.

Not sure 'again' is the correct word but this obsession never really stops before. It still frequently appeared in my mind whatever, whenever or wherever I go. ;)

Then why do I say I discovered it during the month of May?

Here's why.

I did mentioned that I work part time in a pastry shop starting April right?

FYI, my last day of work at Shervone Cakes & Pastry are on 13 May 2016. So I approximately worked there for about one and a half month only.

To be honest, I've learned quite a lot of stuffs while working there. Gonna miss baking there though.

If I'm not wrong, I said before that this work might either make me love baking even more or the opposite, hate it! Oh yes, it really did project much more obvious traits in me than ever and guess what?
LOVE or HATE? (obviously you know the answer already)

A definite LOVE!

Anyways, most of the time when I was working, all I do was baking, baking, a bit of decorating and more baking.

This is where I started to get really attracted to decorating cakes and getting creative ideas of beautiful cakes in my mind. Inspirations came flow in as if I just break into a beehive. Haha

Plus, I realized that in baking industry, I don't think I could work for someone else because it really limits your own creative ideas. Especially when decorating cakes cause you'll need to follow orders as in what you need to do and what you cannot do. (I don't mean the customers though)

Let's make an assumption, if I work for myself and I don't like using fondant in deco (nobody eats it anyway), then I could find better alternatives like modelling chocolate. (Nobody will ever say no to chocolate right?) But you cannot say NO if your boss say you gotta use fondant right? Of course the consequence is that the modelling chocolate will be way more expensive than fondant which is purely sugar.

Now I know why there's so many homemade cakes out there. You can only really enjoy the baking and decorating process if you work on your own.
CHEERS to own creativity, flowing inspirations, no limitations etc.

By the way, do you know how keen I can be towards the addiction to bakery? Ask the boyfriend to see how crazy I am. Heh

Or I'll just tell you la.

For example, when my boyfriend and I go dating and we do some shopping, I rarely go to any shops/boutiques selling apparels, cosmetics or even the heels/shoes like a normal lady would go to. Besides, I'll go for bakery shops, Daiso, Tesco etc. all just to shop for baking ingredients and baking utensils. I did it as if it's like my collections. My only limitation is there's no space for me to put all my collections. (Dad would be furious) All in all, I'm getting addicted to it I admit. ;)

Also, I did went into shops like SenQ, Harvey Norman, SEC, Ban Hin Bee (electrical shops) etc to just have a look at all the electric mixers and ovens. I need to own one electric mixer like seriously. I currently owning a hand mixer only so there's kind of a limit to the pastries I could bake. My dream is obviously to own a Kitchen Aid but it's really expensive for me right now. Unless, you plan to surprise me one. Haha Anyways, I think I'll go with the cheaper ones first. 

On top of all that addiction, I started stalking/following lots of beautiful cakes' accounts in Instagram and even Snapchat.

Nah, proof ! Hahaha

In conclusion, I know you geddit already, I'm really quite into this. Haha

That idea even passes my mind. It is to start selling beautiful and delicious cakes after I done experimenting the best kind of recipes. Just to fill in the past time, of course.

Will you be interested to buy cakes that costs not little (maybe ranges about RM 30 - RM 100) from an amateur baker? Not cheap you know all the ingredients plus the effort of experimenting the best one before selling it. Of course it would be beautifully decorated. Heh

But first, I gotta really remain focus on my coming ACCA P7 exam on 6 June, which is just only a few days away. Oh gosh.

And yes on April, I did said that I did not even start revising yet. (The-last-minute-kind) Obviously, I'm not in the same condition la now abo ma die liao.

I'm actually quite prepared for it already but still.... not really ready to face it yet but I think it's pretty normal cause nobody will be entirely well prepared and ready before an exam. Unless you know what's the questions are already Hah.

So best of luck to me and I'll see you again after this terrifying exam.

Toodles,

Flashback April

As I promised, the random short entry I'll post.

Start working part time at Shervone Cakes & Pastry. 

Loving the working hours. Usually it's from 10 am to 2 pm only. Total of 4 hours work. 

Basically, I bake at work. And some decorations to do too.

Attended two weddings this month itself. One is cousin's which is on 24th and another is boyfie's friend on 30th.

The other day during wedding ceremony (morning until night), keep carrying babies/toddlers until the next day ache like what only. Not even Yoko yoko could save my arms but no regrets kay. Heh

Pass my ACCA optional P6 paper. Like finally. Left one more to go. P7 coming next on June. 

I basically did not touch P7 yet. Not at all. Left one month to go and I do look calm from the outside but I'm actually really stress inside. 

Learn to pipe 2D floral cupcakes by myself. Bought the 852 tip from Sunshine at Siam Road. Loving this progress.

My inner baking self is always there but to my surprise, I triggered my inner cooking self which I do not know exist in me. 

Hope to bake/cook more soon since I bought a lot of baking ingredients and yes, cooking ingredients too. 

After working in a bakery shop, I really feel having a legitimate electric mixer is really useful and saves a lot of time. I can bake 6 cakes within an hour with one electric mixer and a huge oven. 

So about that, I really hope to own one electric mixer. Normally, people would go for Kitchen Aid and yes, that's my dream come true but it's too expensive for me right now. I think I'll go with cheaper brands first. 

Budget set for myself for an electric mixer about RM500++

Read Timothy Tiah's Dayre and his new camera (Sony A6300) really attracted my attention. Especially when he said it's really suitable for amateurs. Like me lo. But it costs a whole RM4,550/RM5,500. Siao liao. No $$$ No talk. So I can forget about this thought for now.  

Having shared bank account with mom and to separate which is which and whose is whose is so complicated. Say no more to shared complicated bank accounts. 

I think that's way too much for a random short flashback right? Heh Too many things happen in a month ma. 

Okay la. Signing off liao

Byes,

Ipoh Road Trip│JLVW

Like I said, our road trip is really happening right ? Yes it is! 

Lately, there's quite a few people coincidentally shared places and food review about Ipoh in Facebook that caught our attention. So this was how the idea of the 'Ipoh Road Trip' topic came back.

We had actually thought of it a few times already but didn't had the chance to really initiatively plan the whole road trip out.

It's just another Saturday(5th Sep) that both Jan and Lis was discussing about it and was really into this topic. It was quite a spontaneous one. They asked for everyone's opinion and we make sure all of us could make it and so, that's how actually the plan works. We commit and participate. Heh

and finally it happened . . .

11th September, Friday

with Janice, Lisa, Winnie and me.

I was out from house at about 10.30 am. Drive to Jan's house to pick both Jan and Lis up and then we head to Disted College to pick up Win approximately 11 am just right after her class. 

Drive-thru Greenlane McD for burger brunch (Win and me) and to Petronas for toilet break plus bought some bread (Jan) before heading off to Penang Bridge. 

Let's begin our journey

We start our journey approximately at about 11.30 am

I really enjoyed the journey rather than the destination

Halfway to Ipoh, there's a little jam (quite long queue)

cause there's an accident of an overload truck/lorry overturned.

Something like that.

After that, it's all smooth

and like finally, we reached Ipoh

about 2 plus afternoon

Then by using Waze, we searched for our first destination

which is at

Hong Kong Mah Chee & Fah Sang Woo @ Pasir Pinji, Ipoh

The location actually took me by surprise.

We didn't know that it would be at a housing area where there's no other shop besides this

The road which Waze leads us to was actually all (sort of) small alley and kampung road

Luckily we managed to find the shop on our own when we're nearby

cause Waze keep leading us away rather than towards our destination.

*There's actually a few problems incur by Waze, hope they'll fixed it soon*

(cause Waze used to be a really dependable GPS)

hope it still is

in the making

Here's the Mah Chee

(I think in Penang, they call it as Muar Chee)

Fah Sang Woo

known as Peanut soup or for me (Penang lang) "Thor Tao Gin Th'ng"

The seller said to put the Mah Chee inside the Fah Sang Woo

in order for it to be more tasty?

I feel the Fah Sang Woo should have heated more

cause it's a little less warm

if it's warmer, then it'll be perfect

(maybe it's harder to get the heat up fast too cause they're using charcoal to heat it up)

Thank you for the Hong Kong dessert in Ipoh

Heh.

Then we head down to the usual-famous-street-at-night

Sorry forgotten about the names already

We got there cause Lis wanna buy the herbal steam chicken? (haha something like that)

Then all of us also would love to get the famous Kayakok 

I think this is the Herbal Steam Chicken shop that Lis bought hers

While this is the Kayakok we bought from

(If you wanna know the location, please head to Google and search)

Heh

and then heading to our next location for photo-shooting/picture-snapping

(the latter term feels more suitable cause the first term seems more professional while we're not)

which is

Kellie's Castle @ 31000 Batu Gajah, Perak

we reached here about 3 something afternoon

Before entering to any historical places, I think the most basic thing to do is to

know-about-its-history

(and they did prepared a short brief summary about the history of the castle)

Go on and read it if you were to visit this place. =)

and here WE are

The ticket to enter is RM 5 per entry if you show your IC

Additional RM 5 for each person if you were to bring your camera & all the apparatus along.

so we looked around and realize that their security were not that tight

(and we hid our camera and apparatus when entering)

No need to pay the extra RM 20 for four person. Hah

(not worth it kays) 

Why they even make that as a need for payment? There's nothing in Kellie's Castle

Of course only taking pictures is the only option. Duhhh

(So the entrance fee was just a cheap trick, it's actually worth more to enter huhh?)

but does it really worth it to pay that much to have a look in Kellie's Castle?

as if the Kellie's Castle is fully renovated and fully furnished with the beautiful historical interior design (which is not)

then I'll actually consider paying them straight RM10 as entrance fee

**if you feel the pictures we took in Kellie's Castle is nice and worth the price**

Remember this, it's our skills and experience that make the picture looks a little more attractive than it should have been

(ok la give it a little credits too) Kellie's Castle is meant to be an old-historical-unfinished-building, I know but Does it worth RM5 + RM5 per person to enter? (My opinion, nope)

I'll cut the crap and let you enjoy our limited skills and experience of pictures taken. 

Picture-Snapping time

that's a Wine cellar (picture above)

and I meant something like that (picture below)

Fully furnished with their historical interior design

Yes they did it but only in one small spaces of the whole castle

the weather is so hazy though

L.O.V.E

you girls

Done touring

a message to Kellie's Castle :

You're actually one nice historical place to have photo-shooting

with the theme 'A-broken-Castle' or some other more meaningful theme that I couldn't think of right now.

I was just only complaining a little about the additional RM5 fee charged just for bringing in the apparatus (camera) to capture and appreciate the beauty of historical buildings. Heh  

Okay anyway, I liked all the outcome/results of the pictures taken there.

We leaved just in time when it's time to close which is at 6pm.

We were all superb hungry so we head to our next destination that we initially planned

which is

 Euro House @ Jalan Hussein, Taman Jubilee, 30250 Ipoh, Perak

The 4 dishes at Euro House were all in big portion and in affordable prices.

Plus, all of dem' dishes were all satisfying and superb delicious

I'll be back again definitely when I come to Ipoh one day

We ate until about 7 plus to 8 in the evening then straight back to our lovely hometown, Penang

Reached safely at approximately 9 to 10 at night 

Conclusion

just love outings like this with ma'girls

 Will there be more?

I bet there will and it certainly will

Till here,