CHANGE OF BLOG
Sunday, June 08, 2008 @ 11:08 PM
I changed my blog,guess it was time to have a change,http://frenchcarousel.livejournal.com my new blog=) will notbe deleting this blog,lots of memories=) takecare ppl
BOOOOOO
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 @ 9:37 PM
a random picture to make my blog more interesting and to show off my huge mouth,which is non-existent cause my mouth is small and petite=DDD
Lifeskills
Sunday, May 25, 2008 @ 12:13 PM
well today i wanted to learn a new song on the piano, which i haven't really touched in a long time already. i decided that i wanted to learn the song We Belong Together-Mariah Carey, so i went online to find the sheet music of the song,when i got it i printed it out,and i started to practise playing,well i had to figure out the notes slowly as its been a long time since i read a music score so i had a little problem reading it fast so i had to slow down to read it.i practised one hand at a time to make sure i get it right.once i got all my notes right for one hand,i played them both together,it wasn't really smooth and i had to stop a couple of times to read the notes.overall it was very choppy,so i practised and practised and practised till i can play it easily like without slipping or without missing a note.then when i could play it pretty well i added in the other stuff like where the music would gradually get louder or softer,or where it gets slower or faster or like where to play short beats or continously.well it took me pretty long to learn to play it well cause it isn't very easy to play the piano since i had not touched it in a long time,after all this i realised that practise is all it takes to do something well,and we have to consistently do it all else the skills that we have learnt would turn rustyLabels: lifeskill project
ok today i decided to bake brownies because i was super bored,so i went to the supermarket to get my ingrieidients.i could bake the brownies from scratch or to buy the brownies mix, of course i went ahead to bake with the brownies mix because i am not a pro in baking,and i want to make sure that the brownies are edible and taste good,thus going ahead to buy the brownies mix,well there were many kinds,those with nuts and some without,i didn't like nuts thus i bought the one without nuts. i also bought eggs.because i needed to add eggs, some oil and water.but since i had oil and water at home,i just bought the brownie mix and eggs,i also bought some ready-made icing and coloured rice to make the brownie more fun-looking and taste extra good!=DDD i went home i started to bake i poured the mix into a big bowl followed by 2 eggs,some water and oil. i then mix it all up till everything is combined together. i then put them into the baking dish and throw it into the oven and set the time. When the brownies were one i took them out,cut them out of the baking dish and let them cool down before icing the brownies.30 minutes later i started with the icing.First i had to cut the brownies into smaller pieces,then i took a butter knife to spread the icing on the top of the brownies,the icing was vanilla =)))) when i was done spreading it on to all of the brownies that i have baked,i sprinkled coloured rice on all of them,to make them look colourful and make them taste good.after sprinkling them with coloured rice i placed them in the fridge to chill it.well my family all liked how it tasted,well you can never go wrong with ready-made brownie mix=DDDDDD well i think i enjoy baking because you can take many ingriendients and combine it together to form something that taste so good. plus seeing people enjoy what you bake really warms the heart=DDDLabels: lifeskill project
Random
Saturday, May 24, 2008 @ 10:00 AM
if you're wondering what this lifeskills post are,its my school project so just ignore it,if you're interested in nitty gritty detail then read it,but i doubt you are so cheerios=D
ok i cooked dinner for my family the other night,i cooked pasta=DDDD well mainly because im not really an expert in cooking and pasta is a pretty simple to cook.Well i had to go buy the stuff i need to cook the pasta,so i went to the supermarket to buy the stuff i needed,i need the pasta.i planned to make chicken pasta so i had to get some chicken meat,i also needed to get the pasta sauce,it was either i make the sauce from scratch or to buy the ready-made kind,well i went with the ready-made ones cause im not really a pro at cooking so making it from scratch may not go very well,or may not taste very nice,so to be on the safe side i bought the ready-made kind,i also had to get virgin olive oil to add to the taste,some garlic,button mushrooms and cheese to make the pasta extra tasty!!=DDDDD okay after getting all my stuff i went home and started to cook first i had to boil the pasta in water till they were nice and soft,cooked them for 6 minutes,tasted one,it was soft but still kindof hard,so i let it cook for awhile more then i tried one again ad it was nice and soft. i had another pot filled with cold water and i seperated the pasta from the hot water and placed it in the cold water to prevent it from getting soggy.so after that i drained the cold water and placed the cooked pasta in a bowl and leave it aside.I then took the chicken and i shredded it,shredding a chicken was hardwork very tedious,lol.After that i took a frying pan and put a little bit of oil into it,allowed it to heat up,while it heats up i chopped up the garlic into small pieces.After the frying pan is hot i placed my garlic into it,it started to fry immediatly i put in the shredded chicken and place it into the frying pan,did not want the grlic to be burnt,then after that i threw in my pasta and took also the button mushroom followed by the pasta sauce.Then i placed the cooked pasta into a place added some extra virgin olive oil and grated cheese.=DDDD my whole family enjoyed eating it,cooking was pretty hardwork especially the washing up.Really enjoyed cooking it and seeing my family smile while eating,was worth the hardwork=DDDLabels: lifeskill project
okay,we me and two other friends from my class Fadilah and Alia formed a group to audtion for Nurses day 2008 performance in school,we were planning to sing a song,first we had to choose the songs,well there was a problem,they wanted to dance and they wanted an upbeat song,but on the other hand i can't dance for nuts and i wanted to do a slow song,lol. so we had to comprimise and we choosed a song we all deemed as suitable and something we all know,the song is Bubbly-Colbie Caillet.it is not exacly a very upbeat song and not a very slow song too,its like somewhere in between like very poppy kind of feel to it.As always we had to choose whether we wanted to use a backing track,play an acoustic version with a guitar or do an accapella.We actually tried out everything,we used the backing track and the accappella,well the backing track was very normal,and the accappella we screwed up the beat and some parts of the song,so in the end i told them that i know how to play the guitar,thus we did a acoustic guitar version of the song.I went home to find the lyrics which it is at www.ultimate-guitar.com and i practised it,i wrote down the chords and the lyrics onto the piece of paper,we roughly know the song but we weren't so sure bout the last part of the song as in the lyrics,so we had to memorise the lyrics,we met up to practised on some days, Fadilah and Alia sang the melody,while i harmonise to make the song more interesting.We thought that the original song was too slow,so i upped the tempo a little on my guitar.We practised till we were kind of familiar with the song. Duringthe actual audition,everything was pretty smooth till the last part where we actually forgotten the last chorus,most prob it is due to us being nervous and that we have not really confidently memorised the lyrics to the last part.Well we did our best and with out timetable,its pretty hard to find time to practise with all the test and our lessons ending at 5-6pm everyday,well its the experience that we gained that is really what matter adnd for the fact that we have tried our best thats whats really the most important.Labels: lifeskill project
ok,im singing at the singapore street festival,and it the venue would be at orchard scape park.its really exciting at the thought that i will be singing in front of so many people.My singing teacher is helping with the song choice and helping me to train up for the performance.Well i have taken many singing exams before so my teacher advised me to pick a song out of my singing exams songs,She reccomanded that i sang perfect -Simple Plan,which i had obtained the highest mark of my all my exams and that she thought that it sounded very nice,so in the end i went with perfect,she asked me to have a backup song,which will be Superman-Five For Fighting.This time which is the same as the previous time, i had to choose between a backing track which is in my key this time,an acoustic guitar version or my teacher doing a piano acompinent.well i choosed the my teacher playing the piano for me,as i've practised for my exam with my teacher playing the piano,so i am pretty used to singing that song with my teacher on the piano.I do not really like to play mny guitar while doing a public performance,as i will be pretty nervous and i might screw up the guitar playing which in turn would screw up the entire performance.When i go for lesson my teacher would do a warm-up of my voice and to do vocal exercises which would increase my range before singing,we practised it many many time to get it right, and to smoothen out any rough edges.well i haven really performed it,the performance will be next week.But the most difficult part was to maintain my breath support,my teacher say that it requires discipline to maintain it and it requires lots of training as the higher the song go the more breath support it needs,i feel that this kind of performance will give me valuable performing experience and that i love to perform so i'm doing something i like and i really would treasure every minute of doing it=))))Labels: lifeskill project
ok,we had a biology project to do,it is about nutrition,we had to do a food pryamaid,find out about what everyone in our group had had for breakfast,lunch and dinner,to calculate our Body Mass Index (BMI) and to do research on what kind of nutritional value the food of a pregnant lady should have. okay first we had to cut pictures of food from magazines,books or newspaper to make the food pryamaid,we had to find pictures of milk products like milk,yoghurt,cheese.Meat like fish,beef and chicken.Carbohydrates like rice,pasta,cereal,granola bars and bread.fruitsand vegetable like apples,bananas,lettuce and tomato. Plus the most unhealthy section at the tip of the pyramid which contains fats like butter,lard.Salty and sugary things which is best to be cosumed in moderation.ok we got 2 vangard sheets to do our project on as vangard sheet isharder and of better quality then the mahjong paper we recieved.Everyone in the group helped to find pictures of food the night before we met todo the project.When we met up,we pasted the pictures onto the vangard sheet according to the various food groups,the end result of our food pyramid was very colourful and very interesting,we then used a blackmarker to outline and to seperate the various food groups.We then carried onto write down what each of us had eaten.we had to write what our diet lacksand how we can improve on it for example.For my lunch i had,curry chicken with rice and a can of soft drink,its pretty unhealthy and maybe to improve my diet i can should have more fruits and vegetable to make it healthier.we then had to calculate our Body Mass Index (BMI).The ranges of BMI isUnderweight = <18.5
Normal weight = 18.5-24.9
Overweight = 25-29.9
Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater after that we had to put in the information about what a pregnant lady needed in her diet,which was mainly calcium,and we were done,after doing the project i feel that i really had know more about the nutritional value of food.The most difficult part of the project was the finding of the pictures of the food pyrimid and the putting together of the food pyrimid. Labels: lifeskill project
She will be loved
Sunday, May 18, 2008 @ 10:14 PM
was listening to the radio when i heard she will be loved being aired,it brings back so much memories of sec 2.i remember i heard it in sec 2 when tsueyzhen and shahila used to come over my house to do project,those are good times.i remember we would eat cadbury chocolates and those roller coaster rings,those are the times.i really wish i could turn back time to enjoy time spent with my 2 good friends again.well on a happier not,if people ask me out on friday,i will say" sorry im not free,i have to meet tsueyzhen for dinner" =DDDDD biology is killing me!!! what the heck do we have to learn bones like femur,metacarpal,patella,tibia,fibula,tarsal,metatarsal and phalanges for anyway?!?this sucks!!!
RANDOM PIC
Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 10:43 PM
FRIENDS=DDD
okay,i'm singing for a leprosy home,its an annual visit with my the company my mother work in.i performed there last year too,the people are really nice and although their life is not really wonderful they seemed happy to me.okay last year i sang if we hold on together-diana ross from the motion picture,Land Before Time.Like the birdpark performance i had to choose the song i wanted to sing,this time i had no restriction of a theme and was rather free to choose whatever song i pleased,but i really think that songs that encourage people and old classics will be most appropraite as the people there are not say of a very young generation.So after much much consideration,i decided to do I will always love you-Whitney houston.its a classic song which almost everyone should know and its pretty touching.so like the birdpark performance as well i had to choose whether i wanted to use a backing track or do a acoustic version of the song using my guitar.in the end i went along with the acoustic version with my guitar as finding a backing track in my key is quite difficult and by using the guitar i can tune it to any key i want so its really easy to get my key.So i went to www.e-chords.com this time to find my chords,i practised and practised to get my guitar chords right,hear the song many times over to get the feel of the song and to roughly hear the lyrics,next i had to memorise the lyrics of the song.i just keep practising and i recorded myself singing to hear how i sounded,and on the places where improvement can be made.Although im going to perform at a leprosy home and some of the people might not know how to appreciate music,but i still have to give it my best,so i practised alot.After the performance i feel very satisfied that i could do something for those people at the leprosy home and that i have somehow helped them in a way!=DLabels: lifeskill project
ok for mother's day,i planned to bake some cookies for my mother,the first thing i should do is to think for what reason i want to bake cookies for my dearest mummy,and its out of love=D okay so i have to consider whether i wanted to do bake those cookie mix which is easy to bake,and it could be done by just adding oil and eggs.Or whether i should start from scratch.i decided to start from scratch because i feel that it shows more sincerity then just buying the recipe half made off the shelf of the supermarket.okay first step to baking cookies from scratch is to look for recipes online.I'm not a pro baker,thus i cannot think of my own recipe,so i went online to look.There were many variety of cookies that could be made.For example,chocolate chip cookies,butter cookies,cookies with nuts and double chocolate cookies etc. if i was to bake for myself i would totally go for the double chocolate cookies because im a chocoholic and i have a sweet tooth,but im baking it for my mum and i have to consider the fact that she does not really like sweet stuff and shes not a huge fan of chocolates.So after much consideration,i decided to go ahead with baking the chocolate chip ones as who doesn't like a nice chocolate chip cookie?I wrote down the ingredients on a small slip of paper and i went off to the super market to buy the ingriedients needed for the cookies. i needed flour,eggs,butter and of course chocolate chip.The recipe also calls for salt and sugar but i've got those at home.The chocolate chips must be of good quality so to make the cookies extra tasty,quality must not be compramised.after getting all my ingrediants i headed back home to start baking the cookies.i planned what i did before starting as i do not want to screw things up.and so i pre-heated the oven and started baking. i took a big bowl and pour the flour,sugar,pinch of salt and butter inside and started to mix it together.i mix it up till i get a dough like thing.and then i added in the chocolate chips.After doing so i oiled the baking tray and placed the chocolate chip cookie dough on it in small bite size pieces. i baked the first batch to see whether the cookies taste nice and roughlt gauge how long to bake it.okay the first batch wasn't so successful,i burnt the cookies slightly but it tasted pretty good.So i tried for the second time setting the time to bake lesser.When the second batch was baked i was pleasently surprise that the cookies were just nice,and thus i took it out to cool on a cooling rack.So i baked the rest of the cookies.when im done i place it all on a nice plate and wrote a nice card to my dearest mummy=). i feel that baking is fun and especially meaningful if you bake it for someone you love.Lots of love went into those cookies and i was pretty happy with the outcome of it!=DLabels: lifeskill project
Random pictures
Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 9:56 PM
