The painless plastic surgery (for pictures only!)

Who doesn't like flawless skin, no blemishes, no pigmentation, no eye bags, no wrinkles, no double chin? In real life, I think only really perfect people like the only one in a million would have such qualities! Pretty models and idols on the magazine cover, are they really so perfect like how they look like in real life? Maybe not! (I've seen my idols right infront of my eyes, with skin- that doesn't look that perfect like what they looked like on magazines and articles. After a long hours, make up smudges and "fall" from the face which reveals the truth below make up, so TADA, yeah. Sometimes make up can't even do the job of covering serveral types of skin problems, ie, the "orange skin" surface if you get what I mean).

To the main point, because of doing the Comparative study for the magazine project, I finally (I really mean finally) I got the chance to "explore" Photoshop! It really does wonders, and thinking of it, we have been really relying on Photoshop for our photos in the magazine.

Anyway, I'm proud to present to you a FOOD photo (I think I shouldn't be so bad to reveal the Photoshop-ed photos of my group members for this comparison here- Hehe)

BOOMZ! Froyo (Frozen Yogurt)! :D

The trick about capturing nice photographs of froyo is that is melts super quickly, so at times you will take a photo of a froyo that looks quite melted and that is totally unsightly for a magazine quality photo. So the above photo, can you see what is the difference? (IT IS REALLY THE SAME PHOTO!)


In the photo:
-The melted tip has become "stiff" again and having a nice sharp tip.
-The kiwi, strawberry and peaches look more!


FYI, I only used one of the function which is Liquify! Cool right? This function can also used to make eyes bigger, darkening make up, making your smile look nicer, etc~ Just explore and you'll get the hang of it! :D



That's all for now! Looking forward to visit the Bollywood Vegetable Farm this Friday! :D

Its desserts, or not?

Sometimes, things are not just what you see it as. For example, mock meat may look and taste like meat but it is not real meat. So what is it that makes our food look different from what it should look like? Garnishes or maybe how they present it?

A bowl of udon with some japanese fish cakes and half an egg? Nah! Its not! Its a cake, I took this picture when I was in Shenzhen, if I am not wrong its from BreadTalk, interesting eh? I wonder how it taste like!

How about some Mango pomelo and sago dessert? Its a famous Hong Kong dessert! I "discovered" this while I was shopping at a super market in HK. (: Interesting things! What about an ice kachang ice cream in SG? :D

WE LOVE CUPCAKES!

At the beginning of the month, I've completed my Group Endeavours in Service Learning (GESL). It is held at St Anthony's Primary School, it was a 2 days event and there were a whole line of activities planned for the Primary school kids. I was tasked for a section of the GESL activity which is cup cake decorating! I always loved baking so I agreed to it, but behind every event like this, prepararion is the most important! There were about 20 odd participants so I had to bake around 50 cupcakes! I made more than 50 cupcakes using a sponge recipe, the cupcake was butter milk sponge and I added chocolate chips. I also prepared butter cream in piping bags, sprinklers, stencils and cocoa power for stenciling.

My demo sample cupcake when I was teaching the kids to pipe butter cream onto the cupcakes. They were taught how to decorate using butter cream and topping it with sprinklers or using cocoa powder to stencil! I hope they had fun! (:

The kids of St Anthony's Primary School decorating cupcakes! Looks serious?

Sarah, looking so satisfied with her cupcake. (:

Happy with his cupcake? Read the facial expressions!

Kids at work, stenciling, piping and topping the cupcakes!

Even my group members had fun! (:

Happy kids! I am happy too! (:

Me and my group mate, Sakinah (:

Even young primary school kids love the process of making cupcakes! I am happy to see them enjoying (: CHEERS (:

Healthier desserts for the sweet tooth!

Craving for ice-cream? Ever tried frozen yogurt? If you do like frozen yogurt, try the one from Yigloo! Its located at Vivo City! So far its the best I have ever tried in terms of flavour (they always have different flavours like green tea, cookies and cream, mixed berries, chocolate, strawberry cheesecake, natural and list goes on and on..) The "surprise" is that always when I go there, there would be different/ new flavours! And the best thing? Toppings (FOC) as much as you want, from fruit to nuts to cereals to chocolate chips! There's about 20 different types of toppings so you can spam as much as you want! :D

Avoiding ice cream because its high contents of fat and sugar? Or dislike yogurt due to its tartness? Try this! Tested and proven, well liked by people who does not like yogurt (few of my friends)!

Mine..? I like to load it with strawberries and seeds like sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds (remember its good for health as mentioned in the previous post? hee), walnuts, some random chocolate chips my friend "dumped" into the giant tub of frozen yogurt that is shared among me and my other two friends!

Satisfied faces! (: By the way, always when I go to Vivo City, I wouldn't miss out this full-of-goodness frozen yogurt shop! (: LOVED!