July 4th weekend and 7 Eleven

July 4th Weekend

July 4th falls on a saturday this year, I got a day off on Friday and this happend to be my first day off after I started working. Initially, I wanted to take this opportunity to visit some places. My first plan was to go to Boston but unfortunately, I had to cancel it because someone (ahem...) bailed out. After that, I found out that I couldn't proceed with my second plan to visit YC in Champagne, IL either since he decided to come over to AA during the weekend. So, I ended up in AA...which did not turn out to be such a bad idea after all.

Wei Ping invited us to his church group barbeque. Since I was in a good mood (after SOA released MFE result on 7/2) and I feel bad to go empty-handed, I decided to make some egg tarts (recipe).

The most important things: ingredients plus good mood :)

Fluffy mixture of eggs, butter and sugar

The dough

flattening the dough

using a muffin pan as a substitute of the pastry tin

egg tart filling

ready to bake

done!

ready to go!

Later, I realized that Wei Ping made the same dessert to bring over to the barbeque, what a coincident! It seems like he used triple the amount of eggs than I did for the filling, which gives a nicer color and taste to his tart....I guess I'll try out his recipe the next time I bake :P

The barbeque was good, I didn't expect to see so many people that I know. As for the rest of the weekend, I had a good time chilling out with friends. The only painful part of the week was packing!!!


7 Eleven

After a good break during the July 4th weekend, I pretty much had no life the week after because I was either working or packing at home. I realized how much of stuff I had accumulated over the year... Mas's comments about my online shopping was justified...haha...luckily, I managed to pack most of the stuff that I wanted to move to my new apartment at Dearborn.

And finally, on 7/11, I moved to Dearborn.

Boxes

Coffee table and some furniture that I disassemble...and you can see the tv at the back (which Wei Chieh tries every year to pusuade me to throw away)

More furniture

The move to Dearborn went on smoothly. It took us about 3.5 hours to get PY and my stuff to our new apartment. I would like to thank Jason, Wei Chieh and Billy for helping us to move...thank you very much!!!

Next thing on the list is to decorate the house and give it a more cozy feeling...hopefully I am not too lazy later to organize a little house warming party...also, need to catch up with my study as I am behind of the schedule.