Making rainbows

I baked rainbow cupcakes today. :D

Got the idea last week while surfing on Deviantart. Someone had made a layered cake with all the colours of the rainbow and covered it in blue icing and fluffy white cloud shapes. So when you cut up the sky, you got a rainbow inside. It was gorgeous. So Mama and I attempted it this morning.

Our tools.

Step 1: Violet.

Step 2: Yellow. Hehe. Sri Aman colours.

Step 3: Orange.

Step 4: Blue.

Step 5: Pink. It was supposed to be red. But I put too little colouring.

Step 6: Green.

Last layer is normal cupcake-y colour.

Baking!

Success!

Every cupcake cup has a different rainbow pattern on it. So awesome.

How do you like your cupcake icing?
With chocolate sprinkles ...

Rainbow sprinkles ...

Or both? Hehe.

I'll be bringing what's left of the batch next week to college. I tried to rescue as many as I could, 'cause my siblings sort of ... didn't stop coming to the kitchen to grab a piece. Haha.

Ps. Went to MPH warehouse sale again. Geehee. Bought another 6 books. I found a 1980's Teen Titans graphic novel for only 20 bucks!! It was a steal! Haha.

Ps.2 Happy birthday to Li Jing and Nigel, my two NS pals. Have a rocking good time and welcome to the Legal Club! :D

Yay, presents!

I turned 18 yesterday. :)

I share my birthday from many famous people. Jessica Alba, Terry Pratchett, Harper Lee ... Saddam Hussein. Yup, famous people.

And Ee Won! Happy birthday dear! :D

So here's the photodump of stuff I got. And that's my new laptop, under all the stuff! Still haven't named it. It's awesome, got webcam and everything. I love it. xD

Bracelet from Hanna. :)

The necklace also from Hanna. Purse from Maktuk.

Swimming dog in the mouse Mira gave me. Haha.

Baby Phat watch from Mama (It's GORGEOUS.) and a 'newton's cradle' from Nazim. I love the cradle thing, I've always wanted one. Hee.

The day went by very normally. Went to MPH warehouse sale, bought 6 books. Started reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett yesterday (I think it's awesome that I share a birthday with this guy. He's awesome.). Hilarious.

After that was supposed to go to Pyramid with ze Collegers, but then Mr. Zul (my driving teacher) called and said that my Wednesday class has to be cancelled, so he moved it to Tuesday. I said OK, since that I have to pass my QTI test this week if I'm going to get to take the JPJ exam in the second week of May. So yeah. I passed my hill, parking and turn test, but failed the road test. So I have to take it again, by this week. Grarr. Engine died twice. Felt like an idiot.

At night, ate at Cozy Corner with the rest of the fam. Then went to the DVD store and bought a copy of The Secret Life of Bees. I'm only halfway through my assignment, 'cause I couldn't remember any of the 'verbal and non-verbal messages' I'm supposed to note down. Also bought Aristocats, because I was feeling nostalgic. Asked for Beauty and the Beast, but they don't have it. Haha.

Ooh and today, I went to the college to see if the computers there could access Malaysiakini. Turns out they can't. But I did my ECS journal essays instead. Then met Hamizah for lunch. It's so good to see her. <3>

Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats

Went to Singapore on Saturday to watch Cats with Mira and Acu. :D
Left the LCCT terminal at 8. Hour's flight to Singapore. Then took the train to Outram, where our hotel was. One thing about the hotel; it's ... different.

This is the view of the lobby. From the 27th floor. Mira and I went exploring together on the last day. Got into the lifts (which were bloody fast; got motion sickness watching the floors whoosh past) and punched the highest floor button. It's so high up. My knees turned to jelly staring down all those floors. xD
We showed the photos to Cik, Acu's friend. She said that it looks like a zebra's backside. Hehehe.

Anyway, to the show itself! We got seats in the third circle, which is pretty high up. Can see the performers, but too far to make out their faces. Here're some photos I yanked from Mira's camera, since that mine is sucky and grainy.


In Mira's words, "It was freaky, but awesome." Because really, the cat costumes? And the way they jumped around? Eerily cat-like. I liked to watch their tails swinging around. Haha. And everytime there are cats dancing in the middle of the stage, there were others lurking at the edges, doing feline things like cleaning their ears and playing with other cats' tails. Very cool.

At one point the cats were whispering together on stage and I heard whispering very close by. Mira elbowed me and indicated the sides (we were sitting in the middle). THERE WAS A CAT STANDING THERE. Leaning across the poor people sitting at the very end and whispering. Gah. Freaky. xD

T-shirt and keychain bought at the souvenir stand. Very fond of the t-shirt, it's just the right size. :D

Random photo shot while Mira and I were adventuring. xD

Found this store while walking down Orchard Road. Took out my camera, caused a lot of people to stare. xD Then two guys actually stopped, looked at the sign with interest and went in. Haaha.

PLKN Flashback: Sing until your lungs give out

Wirawati D2-02.

I like to think that it sounds just a little bit like R2-D2.
Just a little bit.
Heh.

Anyway, one month's worth of a trainee's life in NS will be spent sitting in a class doing CB. That is, character-building. I have no photos of that era, sadly. Mostly because I only had a big honking film camera and you're actually not allowed to bring it into class in the first place. Apparently, everything we learnt is top secret hush-hush material. Haha.

But it was a good time. I was in CB class 3. Was in two different groups:
3G - Andy, Jordan, Ah Yaw, Khairi, Mat, Ruby, Yoong, Shanti and Wani. This was definitely the most fun I had in CB. It was the first time I realised that there is a Malay version of Wonderpets. HAHA. Yeaaah. What can I say, I just don't watch channel 9.
M-Pro - Nina, Aini, Afif, Keat, Shih Wyi, Mani, NC, Shean (not sure about the spelling) and Andy again. Not quite as rocking as 3G, but still alright. My buddy was Shi Wyi. Since we had to get partners for the second module. All about learning how to help another person and stuff like that.

Now, lemme introduce you to ...
Drumroll please.
Chiki Chiki Pom Pom.
Of Integrasi class 2.
Matthew, Ram, Zizan, Azie, Anis, Yenli, Yunalis, me, Hasbi and Sham.

This was the most fun I had in a class. Insane, I tell you. I laughed till the tears started flowing. This was also where I think the whole situation with the friendship between DELTA wira and wirawati sort of came to be. My group had the highest concentration of DELTArians in the entire class. Other DELTA people in class included Yen, Pei Ying, Dhila, Mubin, Din, Izzat, JF, CH ... there were more I think, can't remember who.

Special credit goes to Zizan (of all people) for coming up with our awesome group name. Nobody had any idea what to name it. I had a marker pen, and an A4 sheet of paper was waiting on the floor. We were all throwing names around. But nothing sounded ... right. Suddenly, Zizan says, in complete and utter seriousness,
"Chiki Chiki Pom Pom."
There was a pause.
Different people at different intervals: Chiki Chiki Pom Pom?
Zizan: *nods head seriously* Chiki Chiki Pom Pom.
Another pause.
Hasbi: *cracks up laughing* Saya setuju!

And so, Chiki Chiki Pom Pom was born.Doing the chicken dance. Cikgu Ruby wanted to teach everyone how to do it, but I guess time constraints ... etc. killed it. But I know how to do it, and Hasbi knows how to do it ... so when we had to do a group performance at the end of our five days in Integrasi class ...
We did the chicken dance!I did the music. Hasbi lead the dance.
Haha.

There were some fun projects in the class. One was ... the wedding ceremony. Supposed to be a demonstration of how the different races get married.

The Indian wedding. Take note that none of the brides are ... well, not all of them are women. xDThe Chinese wedding.

The Malay wedding was done by my group along with Fantastic Crew.
'Parents' of the 'bride'. Me and Mubin.'Parents' of the 'groom', JF and Yunalis.The 'groom', Zizan Haikal bin Adam and Hasbi as the tuk kadi.
And the lovely 'bride', Sham Shaza binti Mubin! xDThe happy couple. :D

We also had to do funerals. My group did Chinese funeral ... Izzat as the corpse. Not as laugh-inducing as the weddings, but we still had a good laugh.I think you can see why.
My 'hat' kept falling into my face. And everytime we were supposed to cry, we ended up in stitches instead.

But yeah, we had a lot of fun times. Mubin's camera and his collection of photos of sleeping people. Yunalis and the cute little dance she made while singing the Chiki2 Pom2 cheer. Sham and his insane laugh. Infectious! xD And the little dulu-dulu sing-along sessions Hasbi, Zizan, Azie, Yunalis and I would have when we ran out of stuff to do and the teacher wasn't paying much attention. We were the rowdiest group in class, the reason why the teacher kept asking us to go up first whenever presentation time came around. Hehe.

Yunalis and the baby Rubik's cube she spent days on trying to fix. xD I wanted to give it a try, but I was worried I'd be clumsy and break the little thing.

Next up, maybe a recap of how my days in Kenegaraan class went. :D

Mission accomplished, chap!

Went out with Nad, Hannah and Sophie yesterday. :D
Had teppanyaki for lunch, then basically lepak all over the place. I wanted to buy new clothes, but couldn't find anything really really nice, y'know? But had fun window-shopping anyway. Then Hannah said she would belanja us ice-cream, so to Baskin Robbins we went! Watched an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place on Hannah's iPod (I actually really enjoyed it. Haha. Cute story. I just wish they'd do away with the fake audience laughter, it kills a lot of the jokes.)

We also went to Borders, where Sophie met William Shakespeare.
...
Yeah, he's the same height as me. Uncanny!!

We told Hannah to get a facebook account.
Instead, she got a facelift.
"I'm BOOKFACE! :D"

We did a lot of bookshop-visiting. Hannah bought some Jonas Brothers biography thingy ... and Sophie won awards for Best Observation of Stubble on Celebrities. xD Nad bought The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I bought Lost For Words by Lorelei Mathias. Yeah, a romance. I wanted to find something written by a local writer, I don't care whether English or BM, but a story, y'know? But I couldn't find English fiction and the BM books ... um. Their synopsis scared me. As for Sophie ... she bought nail polish. Hehe.

Tried to catch her unawares. Candid shot. Y'know, weird facial expression, etc. But dang, Nad's too photogenic.
D:

Finished the day sitting in Coffee Bean. Ate some chicken pie and chicken puff for dinner. Felt good to go out with them. Been far too long. :) We thought of a movie, and Sophie wanted to karaoke, but ... I really enjoyed just lepaking with them.

Today I went for my driving ceramah. The classroom had little spray thingies to chase away the bad smell. Would have been nice if the perfume they used wasn't bad to begin with. Felt queasy the whole time I was there. D: But thank gosh, the speaker wasn't as boring as I expected. He was actually pretty funny. The youngest person in the class was 16, there to take his motorcycle license. The oldest was 34. I could tell which of the boys are fresh out of NS ... by their haircuts. Haha.

So, now I've got a book to study. Can go back anytime to take the computer test. :)