C'est la vie~

a mixture of nuts - brazil nuts, hazel nuts, cashew nuts, walnuts & almonds

with honey and cinnamon as the flavoring


this pastry consists of 8 layers of nuts and puff pastry inter-layering. really tedious work! and one by one we layer the Baklava for about 2 hours... im tip toeing not cuz im short, but i needed more force to roll the rough puff pastry!

finally in the oven after long long time of rolling the dough and putting the nuts mixture
min's back to studying.. poor thing. haha! and ling & I made raspberry pancakes in the meanwhile for our brunch at 4pm?


after about 50 mins of baking, our Baklava is out! smells really really good!! with cinnamon and roasted honey smell..

and thats our layering job! im so proud of it! rolling each layer out is seriously no fun. it's enough for a gym work out. Baklava is nutty base, with honey and cinnamon sweetness in it. a little googey and moist in the layers cuz of the sauce. the top pastry is obviously crispy like Apple Struddel style but the bottom layers are soaked in nutty+cinnamon+honey taste.. for first timers like us, i think our Baklava was a success!! it tasted really good! no wonder it is mentioned in the DH book! our families love it too! personally, i really like it! definitely will make it again sometime!

"Please . . ." her expression was the hottest mixture of cute pleading and raw seduction that he'd ever seen. "I'll be your baklava slave until I die."

He scowled. "My what?"

"Baklava slave. I make the best you've ever tasted and I'll keep you supplied in it until you're fat and old."

"I don't eat baklava."

"That's because you've never had mine. Unless you're allergic to nuts, you'll love it."

and we realized time was on our side, we did one more.. kinda a failure in appearance. it supposed to look like butterfly on top.. butttt.. some of them turn of to be clams...lips...wadever...
ok this was a squashed up one by murni.. haha the "wings" were still too crispy from baking. should have waited for it to cool down more~
sis made this -_- looks like snail to me..



some of the nicer one.. although not so presentable still..
we were imitating this!!! but ours look so different from the book's!! why do cook books always make things look easier than written!! oh well, at least we had fun!!

yeah! exams over! driving test went well! all clear! time to start the long-awaited holiday. yet another one.. the summer that passed felt like just a minute ago. i just wish the satisfaction i got from the summer holiday can be the same as this 1 month holiday. oh well.. day dream girl.. day dream..

got an assignment from the sociology department to help do a qualitative research on drug abusers. this is so going to be interesting and a damn good experience as a soci major! this would be the first time im facing REAL informants and situation! omg. those I did for termpapers were... hehe.. u know.. from a fairytale land. im suddenly so excited being a soci major undergrad! I'm feeling the love for sociology again after year 1 sem 1.

dont roll your eye balls you wadever non-soci major... haha soci is fun!

it is 3.30am now. im sick of looking at Durkheim Marx and Weber. im almost like having an affair with them. so i turn my attention to the crazy rabbit! Raving Rabbit!
So whose paw is this?
eating his favourite candied pineapple! he lurrrvveeess it!
so funny. because the floor is too slippery for him, his legs keep splitting apart. he can't stand properly!
ok. is he too big or is my laptop small???! I guess I should feed him less sweets and cookies!
so cute! acting emo! try to fake sad to cheat more sweets from me! his favourite corner.. so weird. he wants to hide in some dark corner, yet he still wants to poke his head out to spy on me. crazy rabbit. when he's done faking it, he would start pop-corning around. so irritating. this rabbit really reminds me of Derrick. hahaha!