Uh huh, i took leave yesterday, thinking that i wanted to have a long and restful weekend. Unfortunately, there are piles and piles of backlog to clear for my work, and my boss even asked me to cancel the leave yesterday to work from JB home. I was too tired and lazy to do so yesterday until late into the evening, and hence gotta catch up with my work again today after i was back in SG.
Sad to say but my life recently is filled with work work work. It is so bad that i don't even really have time to do things that i like, such as reading, blogging, or even playing Angry Birds!
So, over weekends, i would normally stay away from work even though i could have spent the weekends clearing the backlog, which is something i am unable to do on weekdays because more work will be coming my way and i'd often spend the days in meetings or managing people rather than doing actual work - yes, i do not consider these as productive work at all! On weekends, even if i spend the days doing nothing much but sleeping and spending time on FB, i'd think it's better than working. Well, at least i allow my body and mind to rest.
However, this past weekends, i have done something more besides working and sleeping. One is of course participating in the Bersih 3.0 rally, which i'd share more in my next post. Another unusual thing that i did was... baking. *gasp!*
Yes, i actually did some baking on Sunday, with guidance from my mom of course! This was the first time ever that i baked cookies (not counting the times i did so back in high school during our home economic classes). I will not write about the purpose of baking the cookies, as i'd have to tell a longer story for that. For now, i'll just talk about the baking here.
Besides the usual ingredients of flour, baking powder, sugar and butter, the main ingredient of the cookies i baked was cornflakes:
Yeap, i was baking cornflakes cookies. Here's the dough after mixing all the ingredients in a bowl:
I then placed the dough in little paper cups for baking. It was quite a tedious job to fill up the little paper cups one-by-one. The first batch that we put into the oven came out over-baked even though we followed the temperature setting and timing stated on the recipe. This was because the oven we have at home tends to heat up more easily.
Despite the look of the burnt cookies, there was no burning taste at all. In fact, the people whom i made it for said the cookies tasted good, and they finished everything. :)
Anyway, after lowering the temperature of the oven, the second batch came out perfect!
Baking can be fun, if you have the luxury of time. I'm afraid that is exactly what i am lacking now, and hence i seriously do not think i'd be doing it again any time soon.
