Baking

After many years, I finally had an oven! Oven was sponsored by my Dad. I will repay him with my baking outputs. When I was younger, my dream is to open a cafe selling my own bake stuff. But as I grew older, this dream is impossible with the harsh reality. Nevertheless, I am happy being a home baker. :)

Been chatting with Waicheng on baking for sometime. Been inspired by her each time she gave us her baked goods to try.  She recommended Joy of Baking. There are demonstration videos attached to each recipe. The step by step demonstrations are really useful for new bakers like me.

For a start, I baked Chocolate Chips Muffins. The recipe is of course from Joy of Baking, The reason I chose to bake that was it does not require an electric mixer. I have yet to buy one. I will get it soon. How can a baker not have an electric mixer! Lots of recipes required that to mix the batter evenly.

Some pics of my baking process:

The batter in the muffin tray, I sprinkled them with cinnamon sugar. Mix cinnamon powder with sugar and you will get a nice mix of cinnamon sugar. Like what the recipe says, it adds a light cinnamon flavoring to the muffins.

Batter in muffin tray

Something is baking..

Tadah~ The output~

Enjoy my bake of labor.. Haha~

The muffins tasted better than expected. Does not taste too bad for a new baker, My mom found it too sweet. I shall lessen the sugar level next time. Baking feels like a therapy to me. No matter what the output is like, I know I did my best! It will get better each time. Can't wait for my next baking session. :)

Till next time..

Nights Festival 2012

Went for the Nights Festival 2012 with Baoqi and Tong. 

Nights Festival 2012 was held on two weekends, 24& 25 Aug and  from31 Aug & 01 Sep 7pm to 2am. Admission was free.

This is the 5th installment since it was held. My initial thought that the activities was only restricted to those at the museums but I was wrong! There were many more activities. More information on the activities can be found here. Most of the activities are held along Bras Basah area where all the art related organisations are at.

Here are some of the exhibits which I visited:

MIMOïD II

The facade of Singapore Arts Museum was transformed to different themes. The picture I took was when the building was transformed to some forest theme. Music was played during the transformation. It's quite an interesting visual experience 

Seeker of hope: Works by Jia Aili

Although it may not seem like but I kind of like going to paint exhibition. Each art pieces represent a message which the artist want to bring across.Some may be up to our imagination. Jia Aili's works are a reflection on the dramatic changes in Chinese society after 2000. 

I particularly like this piece:

The art exhibition is held at Singapore Arts Museum from 6 July to 23 September 2012.

Exhibits from SAM 8Q

These exhibits in 8Q does not seem to be Nights Festival related. Nevertheless, we still went for a visit since admissions were free. 

 A room full of colorful drawings. Visitors can also contribute to filling up the wall. The trees remove of those in the movie, Lorax. 

The theme of this exhibitions is on boxes. Visitors can also contribute by drawing the the boxes. This is one which I found really cute. 

The title of this exhibit is Grow a garden in the dark. The room is filled with paper leaves and butterflies. UV lights were on to create the glow in the dark effect. 

Review for this year's Nights Festival wasn't as good as the past year. Since it was my first time, I find it pretty impressive. Will be there again for 2013 Night Festival!