bonjour brightside

(and you can’t eat them the easy way out)… MAKE APPLE CRUMBLE!!!

so i was craving apples badly but because i can’t chew solid food yet (just had my wisdom tooth extracted), ….i made apple crumble. and also because i was feeling a little stressed from studying, and what better thing to do than to channel my inner domestic-goddess! haha!

surprisingly it was easy enough, i followed the steps in the video (videojug is a godsend!) and ta-da! warm golden brown apple crumble in less than two hours everyone should have a go at it because it’s sooo idiot-proof. although i suggest getting canned apples because dicing apples can be so tedious… if you’re of the lazy sort, like me. anyway i can’t wait to bake some more goodies! baking is so very addictive. maybe i’ll try to make some molten chocolate souffles if i can get my hands on some ramekins, or a banoffee pie perhaps

these days, time is so very precious to me. a classic case of too little time, too many things to do. actually i think it may merely be a bad case of time management on my part. whatever it is, i want more time! more time to do things like these

like lounging in the sun and licking the icing off the most delicious cupcakes in the world. i want to bake so badly and i have saved so many recipes that i want to try butttt there’s always no time for baking. or doing things that are fun and require little or no thought. so i painted my nails in a creamy pastel pink shade and it made me happy! speaking of nails, the girl in the first picture has a transverse white line across her nails. calcium-deficiency perhaps (?). (sorry i can’t help but notice these things- it’s a med student syndrome, i suppose!) apart from that very random bit of info, i think these pictures are absolutely delightful and if i could live vicariously through snapshots, this would be how i’d like to spend my summer (or what’s left of it) frolicking in the sun.

1. Marchesa

in what was apparently a rather drab NY fashion week, i think Marchesa’s Fall ‘08 collection was probably the saving grace of the entire event. i am enamoured with all things floral and have a particular soft spot for rosettes, hence Marchesa does it for me. i love it that some looks are edgy and some ethereal but all flowery and feminine at the same time. very very desirable and covetable, although i know i won’t be affording a Marchesa piece anytime soon.

2. McDimSim

Suze and I are crazily addicted to the dimsims from the hospital cafe. it all started when we had to stay back for night duty one day and needed something to fill our tummies. so we opted for the little snack-sized dimsims to munch on, and since then we have been eating at least ONE dimsim everyday. (one time we ate 5 each. and that was after lunch. *horrors*) suze calculated that at 80c apiece, we’d have spent 20 dollars on dimsims if we ate one everyday for the duration of our rotation. i don’t even know what a dimsim really is, so i googled it (as with all things that i am unsure of) and found that wikipedia had devoted an entire page to this humble meat dumpling. i never knew it was native in Australia, and that the unidentified meat filling actually is made up of pork and cabbages. for now i can’t decide if i like it steamed or fried. anyway it has been crazy, i literally have to drag Suze out of the cafe before we chalk up enough dimsim purchases to help the cafe owner purchase his next holiday home in Malibu.