Another birthday weekend

This weekend we celebrated:

1. Pa's birthday
2. Elaine's (Lynn's mother) birthday
3. Wang Fang's dad ( Chuyi's granddad ) birthday

And the amazing thing? All on the same day.

Talk about fate. It's spooky.

I baked a chocolate cake with ganache from Martha Stewart's website. AFTER I baked the layer, I decided to read the comments ( how stupid ). Of course that made me panic because some were downright bad.

BUT.. it turned out quite good! I used good ingredients too. Fresh vanilla pod, unprocessed dutch cocoa and couverture chocolate from Jones the Grocer. It looked quite amazing too, with the double layers.

We were supposed to go to Jumbo seafood at ECP. But at 6 pm we were still at home. By the time we got even close to the place traffic was a snarling mess. 30 minutes drive there, then another 20 back to United Square for dinner instead. I was not a happy camper.

It ended well, after dinner, we headed back to Elaine's party which was in full swing back at the condo. I had my second round of drinks, supper and cake. Her party ended close to midnight.

This past Friday I went to SGH as usual. WS finally came back after a 2 month hiatus. Then we were told that they didn't need us for the time being till August or September. To be honest, I heaved a big sigh of relief internally. I think I've also had enough of this job. It was actually getting stressful, for me. Initially it was for a bit of variety, since THEY needed us to help. And those days when we actually just worked it wasn't too bad. (depending on the consultant that day)

But the past few weeks have started to drag a little. And I started to get a little anxious about going there. Partly because you never know before hand who you get assigned to.

Still... it's probably perfect timing. Just enough exposure to get the hang of some of the procedures.

But Yeah! I have more time now to do other stuff during the week!