Ides Of March

Hello peeps! Miss me? Haha. Time flies and it's the end of March already. It's been a busy month for me because examinations are round the corner. On top of that I'm also preparing for my 2nd album. This time round there are surprises installed for everyone so I'm working very hard on it!

To start of the post, here's a picture of me some time back. Haha. This was taken in my friend's restaurant, Ice Edge Cafe. It's located at Kovan and it's a really nice place. I love the food there. Will do a more detailed introduction of the place there the next time, promise!

Speaking about which, there are also many food that I missed eating. I think I'm a foodie. Is anybody a foodie too? Introduce me places with good food? Haha.

I miss eating lok lok. There are no really known places in Singapore which sells lok lok. So the only way to satisfy the craving is to cross the causeway to Malaysia. But again, the only chances I have is when I go over for my promotional tour. Hope to see my fans in Malaysia soon!

Another craving I have is...

These are authentic Xiao Long Baos (小笼包) from Shanghai's Nan Xiang Village (南翔小镇). It's about 1-2 hours drive from the city. The food there is really really cheap and good. The only place where you can have really good XLBs. The shops around there are all century old shops (百年老店) and they all have a long long history. If you all go to Shanghai next time, be sure to visit 南翔!

Lastly is this....! Yam Balls Shaven Ice (芋园牛奶冰). These are only available at Lu Gang Restaurant in Shanghai. I cant find these in Singapore or Malaysia. If anyone knows anywhere in Singapore or Malaysia that sells this, please let me know alright! I will fly there immediately! This is a MUST-TRY!

Before I sign off my post here is one more photo of me! In a salon in Shanghai. (",)

I hope to be able to visit Shanghai soon!

Stumbled upon this photo while browsing through my photos:

I dont know if you guys remember them, they are the friendly staffs of CD-Rama! Was buying stationary at Popular one day and I got recognised by one of them. Really sweet people. Hope to visit them soon when I launch my 2nd album. (",)

Lastly to all my readers, thanks for all your support. Love you all!

Brand New Year

It's a brand new year. After going missing sometime, I have decided to come back to blogging for good! I hope everyone can come back here more often for updates and talk to me.

What have I been up to recently? Too many things to share. For one I'm back to school. Gonna complete my degree before setting foot on the next step of my life. And of course, I'm still doing music. Currently also preparing for my second album. Anybody with any interesting ideas I can do for my album? Any funny song names or titles that you think can be used just share with me! (",)

I'm also sorry to all my friends and supporters if I haven't been spending enough time with you guys. I'm really jam packed everyday with so many work to do. I feel really bad if anybody actually felt neglected. I really miss hanging out with you guys. I really love you all and treat you all as a family. I hope everyone have been doing good too!

Was viewing my photos some time back and I found these! This event was really memorable for me. You guys still remember? (",)

Before that we had a gathering too.

Who kept this receipt? Haha.

This is a really cool photo. 加油，加油，加油！

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Thank you all for being by my side all these while. Thank you all for loving me. (",)

Christmas Trivia

Tradition has be on going for a long long time that we eat certain delicacies during certain festive seasons. This Christmas maybe besides eating all the traditional goodies, you may want to know about the history and significance of eating them!

Bûche de Noël, AKA "Log Cake"

A common holiday cake served in countries that were at one point a French colony, the Bûche de Noël, or "yule log", is a cake prepared and decorated to look like, well, a log. It's supposed to symbolize the log used in the fire festival of the winter solstice. Yes, winter solstice. While the cake's name has "Noël" in it to refer to the birth of Jesus, it turns out, the tradition is rooted in 6th century Anglo-Saxon paganism. No surprise there: the yule log is just one of two Christmas observances that originated from paganism. The other would be mistletoe.

Candy canes

This sickly sweet treat originated in Europe during the 17th century. The Christians back then had just adapted the Christmas tree, and as ornaments, used cookies and sugar sticks. It was in 1670 when a German choirmaster decided to bend one end of the stick, supposedly to represent a shepherd's staff. The treat was handed out to children during the long Christmas Mass, and the tradition of handing out candy canes to kids was passed on to the Americans. But back then, the humble candy cane was stripe-less: think a plain white sugar stick with no flavoring at all. No one knows who added the stripes to the candy cane, but Christmas cards printed before the 1900's showed plain white canes—those printed after 1900 has striped canes. Wintergreen and peppermint flavors were added to the candy around the same time it earned it stripes!

Gingerbread

Gingerbread goes waaaay back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, who used it for ceremonial purposes. But the cookie that we know and love today can be traced back to the 11th century, when spices were being discovered in the East—because of its rarity, only rich European folk could enjoy the treat. When gingerbread finally became affordable to the masses, it was pressed into wooden molds and decorated with white icing. (Or gold, if you could afford it!) The first gingerbread man was actually a woman—Queen Elizabeth I, to be exact. Apparently, to impress some visiting dignitaries, she had one made in her own likeness. Since then, gingerbread men were sold at fairs. Oddly enough, crumbled gingerbread was also used to mask the odor of decaying meat.

Eggnog

Possibly the only alcohol children are allowed to drink (well, at least just a little bit!) around the holiday season, eggnog is a Christmas tradition that goes back to the 17th century. Literally meaning "egg in a cup", it was used to toast to one's health (the Brits, however, call the drink "egg flip," as they "flip" the mixture between two pitchers to mix it). Eggnog used to be the trademark drink of the upper class, since they were the only ones who could afford milk. It became widespread in America, since milk was easily accessible there. If you're planning on making your own egg nog and are worried about salmonella, use pasteurized eggs, or cook the eggs into a custard to ensure all salmonella bacteria is killed.

Fruitcake

Also known as the world's most gift-recycled food item during the holidays, since they're notorious for staying edible for years. People reckon the first fruitcakes (at least the ones that we know of and enjoy today) were made in the 13th century, around the time dried fruits arrived in Britain. Since then, fruitcakes were used in important celebrations, such as weddings. To say making fruitcake in the 18th century was hard to make is an understatement—fruit had to be washed, dried, and stoned. Butter was washed in water then in rosewater, and the eggs were beaten for half an hour or so. While there are machines that can do this work for you today, bakers still make the cake months in advance in order for the bread to soak in the alcohol—which also acts as a strong preservative. How strong? Well, an article published in the New York Times in 1983 tells a story of a woman who inherited the family heirloom: a then-86 year old fruitcake, baked by her great-grandfather back in 1794.

Now you know. Merry Christmas to all! Loves! (",)