Amour Chaleur

We had a gathering co-organised by James and I to meet up with Huaian who came back to Singapore during his school vacation yesterday. I was extremely surprised when these adorable fruit tarts with smiley faces popped out in front of me as an early birthday celebration. Who doesn’t love these freshly home-baked low sugar fruit tarts with love from Jess? Honestly, I’m so touched they took the effort to “secretly” planned everything and Jess’s effort for waking up at 9 in the morning to bake the tarts. I feel loved! I didn’t suspect anything even when Jess kept walking around and sneaking behind James. I thought she was asking him to show her where’s the washroom. I thought that was odd though.

They taste as good as they looked which reminds me I should get the recipe from Jess and try this at home sometime. The custard tastes heavenly!

We dropped by Mind’s Cafe and found a new game which was really fun! True colours is a game where players attempt to best anticipate how others perceive them. Each round consists of several private ballot votes on who best fits a particular question. Once votes are entered players guess at the number of votes they received for that particular question. The better your estimate the more points you make and the winner being the player who best understands how others see the player. I ended up as the one with the lowest point. Hopefully James will get this for his board games rental site! It’s really fun and entertaining playing with people whom you know.

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As promised, a new layout after my exams! I would consider this layout as one of the simplest I have made over the past 2 years. This design strays away from my usual cute and colourful style. There are no kawaii cartoon (or panda for that matter) characters nor bright rainbow colours. I find this change very refreshing but I’m not sure if others feel that way too. It made use of just pastel colours and the entire design revolves around the Sakura flower.

This layout is inspired by both the art and soundtrack of the animé Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan. I am totally in love with this animé especially the art – beautiful cherry blossoms featured in many scenes and not to mention learning a bit more about the history of Japan. I have been listening to the soundtrack for a few days before coming up with this design. In conclusion, love or hate?

Scan credit to animepaper.net

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I’m home! It’s kind of late even though I’m suppose to be back in early June due to busy schedules after the exams. I had planned to put up a new layout this month but being a lazy ass, I’m still enjoying the last bits of my holidays before I start work. A list of what I’ve done the past few months (if anyone is interested):

• Went Macau and China for holiday after my exams
• Done up my first resume – This took me 4 days to complete!
• Dyed my hair brown
• Job search
• Went for my first interview
• Still trying to come up with a good draft for the new layout – I’ve something in mind but that might be my “shortcut” method of changing layouts again (AKA just changing the header and background)
• Watching drama series and animé
• Started tweeting again because my Twitter account is growing cobwebs
• Renewed amourchaleur.com
• Renewed my flickr account
• Upgraded WordPress and all the plugins – Honestly, can anyone tell me the difference? I haven’t been reading up on this new version

I’ll be actively blogging again and I shall end this post with these gorgeous sunset photos I took at Labrador Park few weeks back.