the week-overdue post

return of the seibu:

this was at marriott hotel, where seibu made her surreal appearance in a glowing passageway. so, her teacher's engagement a few years ago finally led to the actual wedding. that's literally a very long engagement.

bitter orange ice cream:

zesting and juicing the orange and limes. not entirely clean hands were involved, and some of beejuan's nails got grated in =/
adding in the icing sugar. at this point in time, the citrus smell of the fruits was quite quite pungent, and quite weird.
behold, the power of a hand whisk. this is the before and after shot of the ice cream mixture. took quite a lot of arm power to bring the cream to soft peaks. and the mixture tasted quite nice.
left the ice cream to freeze overnight, though i think it got too cold and too hard. even though the mixture tasted nice the night before, the ice cream turned out tasting really weird. maybe it was the cream used. we only ate a few spoonfuls. whatever became of the rest, i don't know. sigh, i thought this recipe from nigella bites would be a hit.

egyptian dinner:

the night before seibu left, we had (semi-)class dinner at an egyptian restaurant hidden deep in an alleyway or something. well the food was quite interesting, and so was the whole experience with the flies. after the dinner i gave out my brownies; they were popular =) and yihui gave out some chocolates from switzerland!
this is the photo of us walking down the alleyway: amanda, yihui, beejuan, clara, seibu, me. where's the couple? they're behind the camera.

last things:

ok, the seibu has definitely gotten rounder. time passes so fast. weiyang has finished bmt already, and i am close to completing half a year of service. i used to think that everything will be just the way it was. sadly, no.