Demotivated

Happy CNY to all of u :) Have been really busy wif cny cookie orders that i have no time to blog at all. So sorry.

My PME course came & go, selina came back 3 weeks back, & next week would be her last week here... :( CNY passed with a flash, and i promised my parents no more fooling around after CNY. This time, i really need to start sending out my resume. IT was forecasted that Malaysia will feel the delayed effect of the economic crisis after CNY.. -_- Dem pressured, & dem worried i cant secure a job. & i til today i still do not know whether i want to take up audit or just do plain accounting or work in a bank or in investment firms. After all of the horrifying stories i heard from ppl from the audit line, im thinking twice about taking up my CPA. If given a choice, i would rather complete the other 2 PME course & sit for my Masters -_-

Anyhoooo... just realised that there r lots of ppl out there who r not aware that custom made cakes r slightly more expensive thatn secret recipe cakes. They think that custom made cakes is cheap. I need more of customers who appreciate my art work. After all, im spending up to 8 hours DECORATING just one cake,YES THAT'S HOW LONG IT TAKES. All my fugire models r done by hand, NO MOULDS. Sometimes it's really frustrating when ppl wan really really elaborated designs but when u tell them the price, they will say it's expensive -_- I guess the Malaysian market is not well informed. After all, ppl wan cheap & nice things, who doesnt?!?!

Really hope to kick start my business ASAP. I mean it's already rolling off, but parents r not supportive of wat i like to do. They think i will not be able to earn a living out of this. Only a secured office job can do so... rite. My teacher told me do not give this up, cos his parents didnt like that he quited his job as a CFO many yrs back & started baking & doing wedding cakes. But look at where he is now!!! He shall be my inspiration :)

Sorry, lots of ranting i know :P but it's my blog after all! bleak!

til next time, take carez! :)

PME Professional Course in Sugarpaste

Two days of my course has passed. I have met & learnt so many things & gotten lotsa tools essential in doing a decent looking decorated cake (i only had a pizza cutter and 2 artist paint brushes b4 this). Met really nice ppl all in the cake industry, all doing so well in wat they r doing! So inspired but at the same time intimidated -_-

They taught me about costing, & i realised i am way way undercharging my cakes. My 2tier hula bday girl cake could have easily be sold for more than rm350.... -_- YES i am not lying!! Shame on me to graduate as an accounting student & im not doing my costing & pricing right! U ask, y so expensive?? Cos of the time amount of time spent & also due to the designs on the cake, plus the hula girl decoration.

Anywayz, im the noob among the 5 students, cos all the other four ladies are ALL selling wedding cakes or plan to venture into wedding cakes, cupcakes or teach lessons from home.. My instructor is superb, very good teacher, the wedding cakes he make r gorgeous. & i was told paris hilton ordered cookies from him just last month.. He even made the sultan of brunei or was it selangor's cake WOW.

Money in baking industry is very lucrative, especially if u r able to do wedding cakes. They can fetch pretty high prices... Very very high prices for the art work u do.

I had 2days of classes in a row from 9 to 5 plus i only got to sleep for 3 hours last nite, so im pretty tired right now.

i will post up the pics of my cakes another time, muaX.

Hula Girl Birthday Cake

One of Ai Lin's fren's bday was just ystday. She was sweet enuff to let me do her fren's bday cake for her :) Was rather stressed out as i didnt really know how to decorate the cake, & i rarely work wif buttercream as icing.. normally i will use fondant as it's more stable in our malaysian weather. As it was a cheese cake underneath & it needs to be in the fridge, i cant use fondant.. -_- Fondant cannot be kept in the fridge!! It will "sweat" lol meaning it will be wet & sticky la.. :P

First it was decided to be a round 8 inch baked cheese cake with a hula girl ontop, but changed my mind, & told ailin a 2 tiered cake wif the hula girl ontop will look better. & here's the results, & glad that the bday girl liked it :)



The result of the stacked cakes, which i was quite happy wif :) As i couldnt stack the cakes at home, i didnt know how it will look. Cos each cake by itself looked rather plain..... :P i know i complain alot, bear wif me, i like my cakes perfect :P



I really liked how the hula girl turned out! the small flowers r oh-so-cute on her skirt!!! But i think the skirt will look better if each strip of green was thinner, it will look more realistic :P


She even had flowers on her hair!!!! :P This was last minute cos i was worried the flowers wouldnt stick.


Happy Bday Shooks! & it was a challenge since it was my FIRST time writing a birthday msg on the SIDE of a cake... -__- glad it turned out good. Had fun doing the cake, thanx ailin once again :)


I am bloody exausted cos i've been baking pineapple tarts from 2pm til 10pm at nite........... -__-

BUT, tomorrow is the first class of my PME sugarpaste course :D Happy happy joy joy. I'll graduate wif a diploma :) Will post pics on wat i did in class in the next post ;)

Stay tuned!

Butter Fingers

Im sorry. I know, I should be blogging more often. I should blog bout baking more -_- Im so sorry. Really have been busy.. wif baking! That's cos I haf a few cheese cake orders plus bday cakes to bake in October. First there was blackforest cheese cake for randall's grandma's bday in jack's place. Then it was HIS bday, i decided to take the risk & bake a fruit cake & decorate wif sugarpaste. Surprisingly, it turned out really nice, for a first timer. It's not as good as those u see in blogs n all, but it's good enuff :p


Black forest cheese cake. Love the roses & the pattern on the cake. Looks so lovely. If my bf can make liddet & give me it'll be dem sweet lo... *ahem* But the cake has to taste good as well la :p hahah I know, im very picky & demanding :p bear wif me.



Randall's bowling cake, cute eh!! I made the pins + the lane + the balls ALL BY HAND. NO TOOLS. the pins itself took me 1 hour to complete... -_- luckily all were done days b4 i actually assemble the cake. The cake took me about 2 hours or less to assemble + the lane la.

Other than that, i baked some butter cookies for our bowling "sifu" to thank him on giving us many tips on bowling. As I haf some sugar paste leftovers, I baked some cupcakes for the bowling event for breast cancer awareness and distributed them for free :)


cupcakes!! If i get any better i think i can start selling them :p


butter cookies is the most sellable item so far. I get so many orders during CNY til i can pengsan.. -_- sorry no pic. lol

Coming back to the charity bowling event, we were a sponsered team cos the fees were too exp for us, RM1000 for a team of 3 ppl, 3 games each O_0 The team consist of me, randy and his mum. Dun laugh, his mum can whack u in bowling anytime ok....

We didnt expect to win anything, but to bowl for the fun & the experience. But we ended up getting 5th placing out of 40 over teams :) Prize money of RM300 was donated back to the organisation, but we kept the gifts. We each gotten a perfume each, ladies had clinique happy while randy took home DKNY b'delicious. Cool eh?


Prize Giving :)

I am so caught up wif baking & bowling training that i don't have the time to sit & write my resume... -_- I know, i should get my arse to start working & earn my own money. I really dun haf the motivation to do so... -_- but i told myself, oct 31 would be the last day to laze around. shit, now it's already 2nd of nov... Okok, time to go.

Still Tired

I baked again today. Really very sick of looking at mooncakes -_- I didnt touch any since 2 weeks and I don't plan to.. lol today i baked the final batch of mooncakes that r supose to be sold. So... NO MORE BAKING MOONCAKES!!!!!!! :D :D :D

I got "full" just by looking at them. I think this week will be the last week (hopefully) for me to bake mooncakes. NO MORE! I still wanna bake, but wanna bake other stuff. Or better yet, cook something nice for once :p

I just realised that I totally forgot to blog about graduation.. -_- So congrats to randall and myself for finally finishing our studies!!! :p a little slower than the others, but heck, we DID IT!!!


randall & i in the regalia together with our graduation pressies. I made his present, it was in one piece when i gave him, but a day after it looked really ugly cos SOMEONE didn't take good care of it =( It had ferrero rocher chocs on them, and they were all missing!!!!!


graduation bouquet from my parents. I have no gotten so much flowers, that time was the first. *ahem* and it's not even from randy.

Bryan and Aunjian came to see us after the ceremony, cos monash is so dem kiam siap, they only gave each graduants 3 tickets, no extras... -_- And we waited so freaking long just to take our graduation portraits cos there wasnt really a line, and we stood at the end of the imaginary line. Every ah chu ah kau cut que so we were among the last to take our pics... bloody hell. -_- Anywayz, that was graduation. Nothing much, cos most of our friends graduated last yr. So we were pretty lonely.. haha

Moving on, weihan just came back from langkawi a few weeks back. I told him to help me get liquor chocs for me.. omg i love the chocs so so so much..

Anthon Berg's Liquor Chocs:

Ignore randall in the background :p


This is of course my fav.. :p There is liquor in the center of the bottled shapped choc. and it's DARK choc.. dark choc + liquor = satisfaction. lol i love both :p

There r various diff liquor in the whole box of chocs, but the best would be the whiskey ones. I didnt like the malibu.. coconut rum.. yuck -_-

And one month back, ailin, lihyein and I went for the estee lauder warehouse sale in a hotel in kl. can't recall the name.. let me tell u, women can get pretty crazy when it comes to sales, and even crazier when it comes to branded goods sale. The sale was suppose to start at 8am, and ailin told me that her collegues would que at 6am oustdie just to get in early to get the things.

I thought she was kidding, so i said nvm, we will just reach there at 8 or slightly after 8. So, upon reaching the hotel, i got a shock of my life cos the freaking que was already outside the hotel ad there were ppl leaving wif smiles on their faces carrying big big bags of cosmetics. We rushed to get a parking and we lined up for about an hour b4 we get into the ballroom.. -_- By the time we went in, it was already 9am, and many things were already sold out... But things were cheap compared to their normal retail prices. DKNY B delicious was only rm120, but the women's one were all GONE. All left were the guys one. Estee Lauder perfume sets were at rm100 to 120 if im not mistaken. The foundation was sold at rm60 for 2 jars. There were Clinique products, as well as Bobbi Brown, MAC and Origins.

And this were all the things we bought, combined. Guess who shopped the most? :p Ai lin of course!! hahaha

MIA

Ok... I KNOW. The blog has once again been neglected.. I'm not doing in on purpose.. I have not ran outta stuff to write.

I AM JUST SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO busy right now i can't find the time to sit down and write out a good post -_-

Orders of mooncakes have came in these few weeks and I only have a pair of hands. My schedule for the pass week has been:

Wake up, brush teeth, bake, bake, bake, bake, lunch, relax 2 hours, go out, come back, sleep.

this is my routine everyday.

I haf no time to sit down & haf a nice lunch. And last week was my convocation. I didn't have time to try on make up, no time to pick out wat i wanted to wear, no time to paint my nails. I only shopped for randy's gift on fri nite when the convo was on sat morning, and made it on fri nite itself -_- I've nvr felt so busy b4... I think working won't be this hectic!!! Omg..

But i am happy, cos Im doing wat I like, that is BAKING. After this sun, no more baking mooncakes. Ppl are ordering 6 boxes at a go... i have already baked 50 mooncakes to date, it is still not enufffffff. There are still orders I have yet to fill.. -_-

Oh, and miss Selina is back!!! =) i have an extra pair of hands to help me out... *hint hint*