HELLO WORLD I AM BACK!
I went offline for a year because I decided to try out a different domain/hosting provider and I didn’t like how everything looked. How can a blog NOT track timestamps???
Anyway, I’m back and I have to fix everything and re-upload all the pictures all over again! Who knows how long that will take so here is a placeholder picture of Harri and Henry 😀
I think it’s been a while since I’ve posted any cooking adventures, but this Christmas I had plenty of time to really treat myself to some fancy food!
Ok, this cake was not something I made haha. This is my second ever whole cake purchase for just myself, a pistachio trifle cake from Teeter Bakery and it was amazing! I was worried it’d be too big for one person to finish, but I managed it over 3 days, which was pretty good!
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(more…)I never thought I’d decide to play any game early access. I’m gonna wait out Hades 2 for full release. However, one day I opened up Steam and there just happened to be a livestream of Windblown and I’m like here, take my money….
It’s so much fun! It’ll be interesting to see how the game changes over the next year! I am loving the different font sizes of cray yelling haha.
Now I’m finally on Cataclysmic difficulty! And I got what’s apparently the rarest skin in the game so far, Project 2501!
It’s been a long time since I’ve drawn! Trying a completely different technique and this went places; at first her face was too ashen and she reminded me of a vampire. I warmed up the skin a bit but mainly this was just an experiment of making some gold highlights pop.
Gotta get more ideas for drawing!!!
Wooow! This has been my favourite concert so far this year! I remember when I first heard Brahms’ violin concerto, I was like, it’s nice. But then the more I listened to it the more it grew on me and got stuck in my head quite often too.
And my goodness, seeing it performed in real life is nothing like hearing a recording on trashy computer speakers! There is so much more definition when the entire orchestra is in front of you! And so many things I didn’t know – I am actually so bad at explaining this but in the third movement, I didn’t realise there was a bit where the first violins actually don’t play a few notes that I thought they did! They alternated with another section but I was totally clueless haha.
The other thing about having listened to it only when doing other things was that I had no idea there was a cadenza and I was like, where is this? Am I supposed to know what this part is?
I really need to keep listening and studying so that I actually understand what’s going on!
I finally found a Zero Japan teapot at the shops and decided to buy it! What a lovely pink colour and I love the way the spout pours! Although I’ve noticed that the angle at which I need to pour is a lot less steep than my current teapot; I am currently spilling tea through the top rather than just getting all the liquid out from the spout, so I have to refine my technique!
Another concert! I’m really enjoying all this culture stuff!
This time it was Mahler 8, and I had no idea it’d have so many vocals; I’m so ignorant! It turned out to be absolutely fantastic though, the choirs (yes, there was more than one!) were amazing, and the soloist singers just had the most amazing projection!
It was also epic in that there were two harps, why would any symphony require two harps lol.
I think I’ll definitely keep an eye out for more riveting performances next year, I still have some to go for the rest of this year!
Short post! My lemon plant is going crazy again!!
Can I get more than 5 lemons this time? Let’s find out next year!!!
I’ve somehow been whirlwinded into classical music and had decided to browse performances at the Sydney Opera House, and stumbled upon Maxim Vengerov performing a recital! And I decided to buy premium tickets to see how a violin master plays in real life! It was also good for a short trip to see if my pigeons can survive unattended for a few days, in case I decide next year that I want to do Singapore for a few days.
The owner of Steam Tank coffee still recognised me after all these years! And this espresso was really good!
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