The dessert store was such a charm and those pink drawers were vacuuming me towards them. Being curious whether the drawers were real or fake, I gave them a hard pull. No, I didn’t pull hard enough to tear down the entire wall but I bet the lady behind the counter had encountered such silly customers (such as myself) numerous times.

To follow up with my previous post on my Kuala Lumpur trip, I’ve sorted out some photos for your visual feasting.

You’ll find us feeding the Sunbear with condensed milk, the glorious Batu Cave with greedy monkeys, us crossing the river on a 1 piece wooden plank bridge, the sunset scenery at the Fireflies nesting ground and going down hill on the lookout area along the North South Expressway.

I had so much fun and I can’t stop telling people about it! Cheers!

It was one of those days again where I woke up with a very bad feeling in my stomach. I wasn’t having a diarrhea but I had a sixth sense that it will be a very bad day for me. -.-”

As I walked out of my house, all tidy and ready for a presentation to a  group of McDonald’s managers, I thought it will be a great day!

When I approached the train station trying to dig for my handphone, I realised I left it at home. I battled whether to head home for the phone, or maybe not. So I decided with my journey to National Library thinking I would be able to survive a day without the phone.

So, while on the train trying to picture myself in the classroom, I came to a realisation that I DID NOT HAVE THE DESSERTS WITH ME!!

I can’t believe it at all! Deep within me, I was ranting at myself for being so forgetful and the next thing was trying find a solution out from this situation.

One one hand, I am obligated to bring the desserts. On the other, I was going to be really late if I head home. I needed a plan fast. In that split second, I wonder if it would be easy to grab a cab from Orchard cause I was already there.

Telling myself to go with my guts, I hopped off the train and went straight up to the nearest exit for a cab. At the same time, cursing and swearing at myself for having such bad luck.

The taxi uncle flew me back home and throughout the whole journey, I had to comfort myself that everything will be fine despite my early morning trauma.

In the end, I made it to the library in one piece and meeting the group of students made me calm down a little. Frankly speaking, I had done this numerous times while teaching in community centres and giving presentation to students, so this will be a breeze to me.

Going through the presentation was like vomiting my life experience to them but deep inside, I seriously wondered if I’ve bored them a whole lot talking about myself. I mean, come on, who would like to listen to another talking about him or herself all the time. Everyone need that 1 minute for fame right?

I’m really going too deep into this and I seriously need to go now. Catch you soon!

My heart almost stopped when I saw this air conditioning unit sitting right at the back of my alfresco area.

“It’s not supposed to be there!”

I can’t believe that the landlord’s contractor actually move this on to the spot where I had long planned for my freezer-chiller unit.

Now, I’ve to plan my layout again in order to fit in this freezer-chiller somewhere else. >.<”

What can I do? The unit doesn’t belong to me anyway. I’m just a miserable tenant with no say or whatever to control how they want to construct the unit. Moreover, this shift was a direct order by URA for TOP approval.

Sadly, all of us have to comply to their requirement in order to get their approval for official occupancy.

I’m still crossing my fingers with strong hope that we’ll get the TOP date really soon. =(

Bless me!

I’ve never craved a holiday more than now after returning back to base. This trip from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur was indeed an eye-opener!

It’s not that I’ve never been to KL in my entire 25 years of breathing life but all my previous trips uptown was always shopping, shopping and more shopping.

Now, with the opening of Pavilion Mall, I wouldn’t be surprise why Singaporeans are rushing to KL on Tiger Airways to shop there instead. Everything is cheaper (with our stronger currency rate against ringgit), their fashion range is almost similar, plus the food is G.R.E.A.T!

What made this trip unique and memorable was not because I had found a happening back alley food paradise by mistake or had splurged on expensive desserts in a high class bistro. Instead, both Kannan and I had made real plans to visit the nature reserve, the elephant conservation park and the best of all, a chance upon discovery to the deer park in Perak (which is apparently our top rated “die die must go” place if you’re there).

Knowing that my late mother will never visit such places that have a high potential of having our feet soaked in mud, mosquitoes buzzing around our ears, or a long and tiring stairways climbing  into Batu Cave. This trip wouldn’t have been possible.

Along the way, we laughed and talked about how my late mother will freak out if she finds herself stuck in this trip and how she would love Pavilion Mall if she’s still with us. Nonetheless, she’s always in our hearts no matter where we go.

I really enjoy KL like I’ve never before. I always thought KL was just another Singapore.  I bet the next time when I set my feet into KL again, it will definitely be more exploring than shopping. Heez!

If you need our nature trip itinerary around KL with excellent food choices recommended by my Dad, just drop me an email with subject “KL trip” to delcie.lam@delciesdesserts.com

;P Delcie

The Magic Oven will officially  moving out of Bishan neighbourhood to Arab Street this coming July.

At the same time, the name “The Magic Oven” will be renamed to “Whisk & Fold” as we move into our new baking studio at 778A North Bridge Road.

I’m crossing my fingers tight with high hopes that all will go smoothly with the move. Until then, we’ll invite all our past supporters to visit our new outlet on our official opening date.;)

So stay tune as I’ll blog about the hair tearing and high pitch screaming about the move.

Coming out with the new name “Whisk & Fold” was already 101% brain draining. Wish me luck!

Most responsible home bakers have this fear of having NEA knocking on their doors to stop their bakery operations at home. With the most recent food poisoning scare, most customers are becoming more conscious about where their food are coming from.

Are the food they put into their mouth safe for consumption? Did the chef wash his hands after visiting the loo? Did he taste the food with his fingers and dipping back again after savouring the finger 360 degree with his tongue? Are the fondant decoration on the cupcakes being moulded with fingers with manicure? So many scary questions which I don’t even want to know the answers.

This is why the current bakers and future bakers at The Magic Oven are being so enthusiastic about baking in a licenced kitchen. We put ourselves through the proper food handler course to ensure whatever we were doing wrong previously were corrected for the sake of our customers.

So our customers can be assured that the home-baked quality food that they get from us are clean

Below 2 articles that spoke about food hygiene which was emailed to me by a home baker sometime ago when she found me and The Magic Oven.

http://business.asiaone.com/Business/SME+Central/eBiz+Hub/Story/A1Story20080109-44273.html

http://business.asiaone.com/Business/SME%2BCentral/eBiz%2BHub/Story/A1Story20080109-44271.html

If you’re wondering how much should you be setting aside to set up a mini bakery business in Singapore, you’re in luck!

I’ve been there and done that. Plus, organzing The Magic Oven’s community baking project allows me to speak to so many aspiring bakers out there who wish to achieve their dream of owing a bakery business without having to invest more than 10 thousands of dollars upfront.

If you’re a baker or you know a friend who bakes damn well enough to sell publicly, email me at delcie.lam@delciesdesserts.com and I’ll fill you in with the details on how you can be part of our baking community.

We bake and grow together.

Dear readers,

In the next week, I will be trying to figure my way out with this new e-commerce program which I’ve just installed into the website.

There will be testing and weird buttons popping out linking you to never-land. So if you do encounter such incident, kindly ignore them.

I hereby apologise for all inconvenience caused in advance.

Love,
Delcie

With every minimum purchase of 5 Grande cups or 12 Piccolo cups of Delcie’s Desserts, delivery will be charged at $12 for weekdays and $15 for weekends per address.

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