eh there's a rainbow look out

last sunday kenneth and weijie came over to play. and i baked up a very fantastic batch of transitional whole wheat cinnamon buns! really really perfect. and the honey cream cheese frosting gave a very subtle tang to the fragrant, homely and warm buns.
the soaker, biga and final ingredients are mixed into the final dough, which after a long rest (i put in too little yeast, and was worried) turned out very workable. look at how extensible it was, giving in to the rolling pin very willingly. it was absolutely not sticky, and very nice to handle. i could even fold it as in the photo above. definitely easier to work with than the first norwegian cinnamon buns by nigella i made.
sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, and then rolled into a tight coil. then slice with a bench scraper. (the last time i made nigella's cinnamon buns, i used a knife, and failed spectacularly...)
see how much they puffed! well, they weren't supposed to touch each other, but my tray/oven was small. nevertheless, the puffing and squeezing together of the buns looked good to me. so cosy. so gratifyingly warm to look at.
drizzling with the honey cream cheese frosting. hmm the frosting wasn't exactly at the drizzling consistency that i wanted. but it still tasted nice.
tearing into the buns. delicious! very comforting. and i packed one to bring to camp for breakfast the next day =)

i also made some cut-out cookies and iced them with royal icing.
after a while, i ran out of ideas and drew weird things.

it's been raining everyday this week, and it's been so cold that the air-conditioners in the office haven't broken down at all. but my flu hasn't gone away either. on monday i ran 8km with weiyang though, and it felt good, like losing weight. then tuesday was - according to weiyang - shrove tuesday. i didn't get to eat any, though i'm quite sure nigella has a recipe in feast.

yesterday i was sweeping the vehicle shed, and i thought - fondly - of annjiat's markers for us during our long walks. all those 'XOXO' white tapes.

then there was a semi-heavy rain in the late afternoon; i predicted a rainbow. and there was one. on the train i was able to see one end of it dipping into a stadium - i swear! i could see the vegetation behind through the rainbow! and it was a double rainbow too. i suppose it was a lucky thing to see: there happened to be a big rain, and the western sky was a solid dark grey while the eastern sky was clear with a bright setting sun. that set up a very defined, magnificent, majestic arc that spanned across the entire sky when you got off the train at woodlands (and lucky the surrounding buildings were low).

i've often wondered, if we walk into a deserted place and stayed there for a while, maybe when we came out again we would find that time has moved forward ten years, and people thought we went missing ten years ago. like a time passage.

there's a tiny bug inside my monitor. i can see it crawling slowly around on the LCD screen.

just admit it. everybody in primary school has this warped concept of what best friends mean. lol

- auntie ruolin