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What does Tsumigi do after a tiring day of playing keyboards on the set of a wildly successful anime series? She endorses pickled radish!

If I saw this in a store I would definitely buy it, the only reason being that I tried this food once before and really liked it. Yeah, that’s the only reason. Judge me however you want.

I’ve been so busy catching up and doing fun stuff on my trip back to Singapore I haven’t blogged as much in the last few days, though given my overarching verbosity you probably all think that’s a good thing :). In this post I regale you not with a tale of software or technology but with a coffee machine brought back from the dead!

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While it wasn’t my favourite anime series in and of itself, Kallen Stadtfeld‎ from Code Geass and Code Geass R2 is one of my favourite characters of all time. Perhaps it’s the whole double personality thing or the fact she could be a super duper underground figure while still being a sweet person. ^^;

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Here’s another Rubenerd Fun Fact for all you rabid Official Rubenerd Fun Fact fans. I know you’re out there, I can hear you furrowing your brows and sighing.

Dark fibre sounds like a brand of black rice breakfast cereal.

Thank you.

Today was another extremely stressful stuyding and family related problems kind of day, so I decided to step away from the computer again for an hour or so and bake some more bread. Anyone who has ever been a roommate of mine knows I can’t cook, but bread is forgiving enough that even if you mess up the recipe and/or cooking time its still a lot of fun and still ends up tasting great.

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The Singapore Search Site has started a list of 24 hour shops and businesses in Singapore which given the name of the site makes sense. Whatever they’re paying me, it isn’t enough. Or too much. Don’t prey prey prey PCK will be back.

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To celebrate getting over my bad flu thingy I baked a tiny loaf of bread for dinner from scratch to have with jam. The crust was hollow in some places, cracked on the bottom (tee hee) and slightly burnt on one side, but it was really scrummy and just what I needed. :)

It’s only the second time I’ve baked bread, I’m learning new things each time I try. More than anything it helped me to forget all my troubles while I concentrated on it which was also just what I needed.

Its unusual for something like this to generate so much controvery and hysteria, but then again this product isn’t usual. Well that was a lousy opening sentence. In short: I tried the Vegemite iSnack 2.0 spread this evening and found it surprisingly good. However I side with virtually the entire population of Australia in decrying the name as terrible and a missed opportunity. Hold on, let me finish this cracker.

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Thanks to the power of The Twitters I’ve made friends with people in a new home who I’ve never met. Presumably they actually exist and are not just Turing machines. That reminds me, the UK government apologised to him! Only took them half a century. Century has cent at the beginning like centimetre and a cent coin because it deals with units of 100. Devilish cunning.

This isn’t good, I was going to post a link to something but I’ve point blank forgotten what it was… I think I mixed up a couple of analogies there. I’m not going to glance over at the tab bar, I want to remember this for myself. Something I read on Twitter. Dollar reaching new low? Some guy forgot to… CUPCAKES! Yes, I remember now! And it only took my cheating by glancing up at the tab bar to see it!

Welcome to MonnieCakes.com! Soon this website will become my little hub for all things cupcakes. I bake cupcakes, make them out of polymer clay and make them into little charms and earrings, I draw them and I collect everything I see that is cupcake related. They are adorably cute!

I will start posting up recipes and also my vanilla and chocolate cupcake recipes that never let me down and are incredibly delicious. I hope to start posting photos and videos of my cooking too, so you can see what I’m making/drawing :).

I’ll also be posting cupcakes to Ruben in Mawson Lakes that I make on a regular basis from now on because not only is he extremely intelligent and articulate, but above all he’s modest, humble and would never fabricate quotations to suit his own appetite or culinary interests.

Check back for more updates soon!

xx Monnie

I like the idea, the theme and the colour scheme. Hehe, that rhymed.

Unless I were to print nonsense on sugar paper and wrap it around a slab of apple crumble which I would have claimed to have baked myself but really I bought it from down the street, I don’t think anything I blog about here could be construed to suggest dessert preparation. The girls on K-On always seem to be eating good cakes :).

Given I spend so much time at the Boatdeck Cafe programming and drinking their amazing coffee I’d noticed the owner Joe Karem hadn’t been there for a while since I came back. Turns out he didn’t divulge himself of his shares after all, he was on holidays in Lebanon around the same time as I was back in Singapore but stayed there longer.

Lebanon is on my ever expanding laundry list of places I want to visit because Beirut has some amazing architecture and cultural sights, but mostly because I love Lebanese food! The best Lebanese I’ve had in Australia was in a kebab stall in Canberra of all places, in South-East Asia I had a great lunch at the Alamanda shopping centre in Putrajaya. Does being a capital ensure you have good Lebanese food, is that it?

I’d be interested to hear what people reckon is the best place to get it in Adelaide, I admit now I’m having insane cravings!