Wedding Dress - Tae Yang

A wedding dress is probably a dress that a girl has a reason to be most peculiar of. However, I am not talking about my wedding dress or anyone's wedding dress. Will chat that one fine day. 

I'm sharing a kpop mtv of Taeyang's Wedding Dress. Love the song. Enjoy:-)

Batik Fun

I love batik. Its colourful. It has different moods to it and more so because every piece is a master piece of its own. When I say moods its because you can design something cheery or moody or dark. And even when you paint, it carries your emotions with it.

My earliest memory of batik was of course the sarung batik that my nanny wore at home. And of course potato batik whereby we carved our design, dip the potato into the water colour and press it down on our piece of paper.

And as we progressed in school, batik became a hand drawn piece to which we applied our colours.

My latest experience was a full fledge batik making experience at Jadi Batek  We arrived at 1pm after a good power lunch. Well batik is fun but also is hard work. 

As soon as we arrived, we were taken on a tour by our batik instructor who is an artisan with Jadi Batek He explained the steps and we also witnessed the artisans at work. Obviously their work was fine craft as you will note compared to our first timers:P

fine work

Done with the tour and explanation, we were ready to start on ours. And we were raring to go since the made it look so easy kacang putih.

STEP 1: Choose your design 

Literally it is choose the design to trace with pencil before we move on to the wax side of things. Choosing itself was hard as we had so many choices!

STEP 2: Trace your design.

This is fun and a test of our eye sight. It does remind me of my primary school days of tracing out maps in geography lessons.

Simple enough for Haris to join us on this outing:D

Gladys concentrating on her tracing. And mind you, she did some freehand stuff too and improved on the original design.

STEP 3: Waxing (nope its not the waxing you think women do:)

Using an instrument called the chanting, we would wax over the pencil tracings. Again another highly skilled and quick hand "stunt". Too slow and the wax hardens inside your chanting which is a little like a fountain pen. Too fast and you'll get fat blobs of wax all over your fabric. The wax serves to prevent the colours from going into different parts of your design.

Terri in a diva smoking a pipe or is it a cigar? Ahem buts its a chanting:P

STEP 4: Choose your colours

We finally waxed our batik and mind you I think our backs nearly broke from doing it. But wait till the painting starts. You'll be standing bent over for a longer period of time. But even before we could start painting, you have to choose the right colours or rather your choice colours. Batik is colourful but when met with a choice of hundreds of colours you have a headache trying to choose which one you'll like.

So many colours and so many shades...so we dab them on toilet roles to choose our preferred colours.

STEP 5: Start painting

Now the "funnest" part! We get to apply the paint. And mind you this is delicate work because you'll be using water to dilute and create a shading effect on your masterpiece. The wax makes it easier because your desired colours won;t cross over to another spot unless you pretty much start splattering the paints in big dollops:P

My masterpiece which a tee shirt and bears my twitter nick missyblurkit

And now that I have completed a tee shirt, my next will be a scarf or perhaps another tee shirt? 

sweet tooth

I never thought that I actually have a sweet tooth. But looking at my Facebook albums, darn I do have a sweet tooth afterall. But they were seriously tasty! Here's some of my fave ones that I will return (in fact I do return to eat again:P)Who doesn't like an ice cream in our crazy humid weather? 

Or perhaps even a good old fashion A&W rootbeer with double float?

This is my fave from an Italian restaurant in town Trattoria in Jalan P Ramlee

And some of my fave cakes are:

And how can I forget Krispy Kreme. Its my weekly must have breakfast these days especially Fridays after my BNI meeting because there is one smack opposite the Bankers Club:D

And good old fashion egg tarts. These days I go for the one in Jalan Imbi that sells the mini ones. I'll wait for mine and normally would order at least 12 for myself. And when they come out form the oven looking so cute and fluffy - yummy!

I'm still looking for good ice kacang. Tell me if you have found them. So far, its these 2 following ones. 

 

But the following cute one tasted extra good coz I made it myself at Planters Inn - Crowne Plaza Kuala Lumpur Tonnes of brown sugar, lots of peanuts, lots of corn and coconut milk (the only time I take coconut milk). mmmmmmmm sedap!

And sometimes I kid myself that sweet tooth is healthy with sweeties such as mango pudding with freshly cut mangoes 

 

or chocolate fondue

 

So what's the conclusion? Do I have a sweet tooth or not? 

Super GT Faces (mostly babes:P)

haha...yes I took pics of faces of both the babes and random people. An I am glad I went for Japanese classes. Being able to speak a lil Japanese and not make すみません sound like "lima sen" and some decent greetings secured me some decent shots of the RQ and the drivers. Most looked till I thanked them for the pics.

pals were busy texting me to take pics of the hot babes... so did I take the pics like the hot blooded blokes? Why not judge for yourself...

...Random folks

the great folks at JPM who prepared an autocross for us to play in between the races.

ice cream to keep us cool in between our runs for photos. of course we had the cool comfy corporate suite but i liked the action outside much better:P

the crowd cheering during prize giving

...babes

not sure what to call the michelin fella..."babette"?

cool dude who was really polite too:D

one of the most obliging RQ.

not exactly your typically dressed babe but i think its cool!