CUPCAKES!

okayy.. i'm a little bored of studying right now. it's exam week in labsky junior high, and i have a math + civics test tomorrow. i know i'm not supposed to blog, but whatever. and i'm gonna edit this post anyway because i wanna add some pictures :)

So i'm gonna tell you about my latest "invention" which are cupcakes! I've started making them since March or April, i don't remember. well anyways the reason i made cupcakes is because of a school occasion, and since i'm part of the committee i have to get some money to run the occasion, and i found one! Baking!

I have never ever ever made or bake a cake or a cupcake or... in fact i've never made anything other than fried rice or instant noodles and scrambled eggs. so i have no experience. at. all. i got interested on baking cupcakes because of the new oven that my mom just bought around the month of february. we never have an oven before. so my mom and i started buying cooking books, and one of them is full of cupcakes recipes, which is "MARTHA STEWART'S: CUPCAKES"

so i was really into the red velvet cupcake, because i've seen the tv show DC cupcakes and it seems like such a hit and best-selling flavor. so i trie to make one with the recipe in this book. and the results are good, for a first-time non-experienced baker. The recipe required some ingredients that aren't available in my country like BUTTERMILK (i replaced it with plain yoghurt) or VEGETABLE OIL (okay this one's not true, i've seen vegetable oils before but it's so expensive because it's imported. i just use cooking oil to replace it).

OVERALL i was happy with the results. so i made red velvet cupcakes about 4 times using this recipe and sell it to my fellow students at school

BUT THENNNN..... I FOUND A BAKER'S BLOG. i totally forgot the name of the blog, because i opened it using my smartphone soo... haha anyway i saw the pictures of the red velvet cupcakes that the owner of the blog took for his baking party, and i was so impressed. i mean the cupcakes are realll big, like big time. about 1/2 the size bigger than mine. and the color looks so good, i just want to eat them just by seeing the photos.

so anyway the writer wrote that she got the recipe from a website called simply recipe or something like that. so i check it out. and she also has some tips on making the cupcakes and i follow them.

THE RESULTS ARE beyond amazing... omagahh it's like a total bake-shop-worthy cupcakes and they tasted better. sorry martha stewart but your recipe kinda didn't work for me, and this free recipe that i got from the internet works better than yours so..

so since then i use that recipe, and the cupcakes are a huge hit. haha, so many people are ordering them. and since then i've become a more experienced baker plus i get some money out of selling those, not to mention the money for the school occasion so it's all worth it.

after that i basically experiment with some other recipes with my mom:

1. Chocolate cupcakes with marshmallow filling!

2. Cookies and Cream Cupcakes


3. Mint-green Cupcakes


thankyou for buying my cupcakes y'all, stay tuned for more flavors. AND IT ONLY COST FOR 10.000 IDR! (about US$1)

BYEEE

dayss

I always get the feeling that time flies by to fast, don't they? i mean seriously, i was just another girl entering a new world of junior high school, and now i'm about to end my second year here? what the hell. feels like nothing. so anyway, i haven't really talk about my 8th grade class here, i rarely even open my blog anymore. So here goes.

what i'm about to say is not some farewell sappy stuff of cries and heart-breaking story, but a story about my awesome, super fun class with all the amazing people in it.

When i first came in class with 8E, i was like sitting along with my same-class 7th grade friends, like Mirta or Jasmine, because i don't really know the other people in the class. But then, the people goes along really well with each other (except for the fact of some backstreet hate some people had for some people). I'm starting to know my place and pace in the class, and the people too. So, I've made some nickname for each person in gam8rEng, with help from some of my friends. Here goes:

1. Adrian - "The Guitarist"
2. Alsya - The Beautiful Voice"
3. Lia - "Loudest Girl"
4. Ardhisty - "Ms. Photo-Addict"
5. Ayesha - "The Lost Girl"
6. Aza - "The Asking Machine"
7. Azlia (Madam) - "Gorgeous Girl"
8. Jasmine - "Jonghyun's wife"
9. Chandra - "The class's vice-president"
10. Dhio - "The trouble-maker"
11. Emyr - "The dirty-minded"
12. Fadhil - "The 'wise' one"
13. Fajar - "The guy who's close to deafness"
14. Farra - "The talkative girl"
15. Ucup - "The strangest laugh"
16. Hubaib - "The new guy"
17. Ilana "The creative girl"
18. Ilsa - "The fangirl"
19. Alda - "The galau radio"
20. Nafa - "The cardboard" (a.k.a ker-dus)
21. Hardi - "The Gossipy boy"
22. Mirta - "The next Taylor Swift"
23. Veri - "The old-face"
24. Adi - "The one we always blame"
25. Vido - "The guy who stole oxygen"
26. Ghani - "The next Tompi"
27. Faiz -
28. Dino - "Half-boy, half-cat"
29. Jek - "The one who stutter his words"
30. RM - "The BUNTELAN!"
31. Hakim - "The almost-invisible guy" (when the lights r out)
32. Ara - " The mangaka -slash- catwoman"
33. Naila - "The beauty queen"
34. Rava - "THE WRITER"
35. Rifaa - "The result of a merging between Einstein and Rooney"
36. Fira - "The angry birds piggy"
37. Alsa - "The dancing pianist"
38. Abby - "The innocent one"
39. Asha - "The b-baller"

trust me when i say this, i'll remember this class forever, you guys are the most amazing group of friends ever! And i'm not gonna go into the sad stuff now. 8E is the noisiest class i've ever been into, not that it's bad or anything, but honestly sometimes i just wanna scream my head off 'cuz the class is that noisy. But whatever. I'm sure when we're in our new classes in 9th grade, i'll miss the fun and the noise. I've learned many important stuff, i've discovered many friends along the way through the 8th grade-phase. I wouldn't be the same person i am today if not because of you guys :"

I'm sure we're united, unified, merged, (whatever word you wanna use) in our own hearts. And i'm so glad i met all of you :)


GOOD LUCK IN 9TH GRADE PEEPS!!!!

WICKED!

WICKED!, a photo by alsalsabila on Flickr.

sooo.... last friday i went to singapore for a short holiday. and guess what?? i saw the WICKED musical show! I've been wanting to watch that show for nearly 4 years, and finally i did! I even met David Harris (@DavidHarrisOz) after the show. He plays Fiyero in the Australian production of Wicked. That day was in fact, one of the best days of my life! Everything about the musical was absolutely mesmerizing. It was, as they say, OZsome! :D