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Monday, November 17, 2008 / 8:16 PM

The whole weekend was busy busy bumble bee for me since fund-raising for our class's OCIP trip to Batam (from 25th to 28th) was super impromptu. Our initial plan was to do fund-raising with 1T33 and collect newspapers but our class didn't have any further instructions and didn't know what to do.

Friday, Becca and I roamed the whole AMK Hub waiting 2++ hours for Ken, Ben and Sherry to arrive from school. They had to wait for Brother Paul to process the permission for us to sell in public and to acknowledge that we are doing this to help others in need. Bought a few packets to test out at my house. Thereafter, rushed to Toa Payoh to see the containers but the factory was closed. So shopped for more packets of cookie mix. :)

Eh Ben! Becca and I took pics with your phone! Send me send me!~~~ :D

Baker Girl decided to impart her skill to the rest and taught them how to shape the dough etc etc. Started baking another packet on Friday night and per packet, I could make 60 cookies O.O

See Baker Girl's masterpieces!

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SATURDAY

Ken Chew gave us Mission Impossible. @.@ We had to bake 4200 cookies with only 5 ovens meaning each of those who have oven at home has to bake 14 packets each.

14 packets x 60 cookies is OH MY GOODNESS.

Becca and I realised we would really die baking 14 packets w/o help so Fab and her came to my house. We were distracted by Fab instead =.="

And he got distracted by Whistle which he wanted to see so badly
And he dare not ask to see Whistle from my Gor Gor =.="

Junyi came thereafter to check out what we were doing

Whistle ran after him at super fast sonic speed and he jumped onto the chair HAHAHAA
BROWN BEAR HOT AT HIS HEELS~ -GRRRRRRRR-

Daddy brought us to Toa Payoh MRT to meet Ken to get the containers which turned out surprisingly different. We wanted to get nice cookie jars initially. From there, Daddy drove us to Becca's house to bake more (My Dee insist I credit him here so I have to keep typing Daddy Daddy Daddy -.-" Damn showoff right!)

After dinner, Fab and I packaged the cookies into the containers at Becca's house while she went to North Point to get more cookie mix and LOOK AT BECCA'S COOKIE

IT'S HOLLOW!
aiyo. *DEEHHH!!* REJECTED AT FIRST GLANCE. tsk tsk.

Fabian says ''Shenae Grimes is 5' 3 which is like 1.61m. i am 1.66m which is like 5' 5. she is 18! I can date her!!!'' SIGH. OMG? FABIAN IS ACTUALLY 1.66M?! O.O

Fabian sticking scotch tape on the containers to make them more professional-looking & air-tight

Fab's proud of it!

Look at my preeeeeetty cookies :)

ROUND ROUND.
I felt so sad while placing my cookies one by one carefully in a flower shape pattern into the containers. Becca said Ken wanted us to bond as a class through the fund-raising process but I think I bonded more with my cookies instead :(

I packed til so nicely and gave the container to Fab to paste scotch tape and he just TURN THE WHOLE CONTAINER AROUND to paste it! My whole pattern all gone luh :(

Gone down to serious baking after that :)
Baker Girl taught them the art of using two teaspoons to shape cookie dough (and I REALLY CREATED THAT METHOD MYSELF)

BUT THEN..

My disciples didn't fare well and it turned out to be.. kind of.. erm.. well, shitty.
ESPECIALLY WITH THE KITCHEN SERVIETTE BEHIND!
look like the famous dabian and good friend, toilet roll

Becca's cookies were weirdly shaped

and had all sizes..

I packed 15 HUMONGOUS ones into the container and I tried very hard to close the container
I packed 22 tiny ones into the container and it didn't fill half the container SIGH.
Supposed to have 20 per container~

My beautiful cookie dough just freaking MELTED in Becca's oven :'(
Her oven had some problem, mine came out so prettily, just compare the two
Ben came over not long later just as our first batch of cookies came out of the oven.

look what Fab's doing to the cookies HAHA.
And his suggestion was so lame "Why not we go your house take the oven then go Ben's house camp over" when my oven's stuck in the cupboard =.=" really cupboard, not wall hahaa.

Discuss then decided to go over to Ben's house and meet Ken and Jarad to BAKE MORE. sigh.

Ben transformed into the Garang Guni Man dragging big plastic bags of containers onto the train

I went home to bathe, get my CJ clothes and bring baskets for the next day's sale of cookies then my Daddy (-.-") brought me to Ben's house and when I entered, it was over midnight and I went "I'M HEREEE!!~" OOPS. :X

Becca in action

Work sensation

FOOD TEMPTATION

Ken went mad halfway and we evaluated it was due to lack of sleep
He suddenly talked to himself luh! He asked himself "Wait. Why am I doing this?"
"Oh yar, for OCIP fundraising"
"Why didn't I take up Sherry's advice to sell drinks!! Then I wouldn't have to suffer.."
"But then I'm quite stubborn"
"AIYOO. HAIYA!"
LOL!

He even sang to Fabian's Lion song! Haha MAD KEN!
Ben was super crappy too, I don't know why he always says some philosophy on life to me and it starts with "Evelyn, sometimes (in) life.."

Watch the ending part!
"Evelyn, now I can joke. Sometimes in life.. -realises I'm taking video-" MALU!

Baker Girl was allocated dough mixer, to cream all the ingredients into a dough

After creaming 9 freaking packets of dough I'm done and went to help roll the dough

My favourite round teaspoons!

Then I got shoo-ed away to look after the cookies in the kitchen since Jarad was sleepy and many trays of cookies were burnt under his care.

What to do, Baker Girl must adapt and be flexible!~ Jane of all trades :)
I can handle any baking process, yo :D

They sort of cheated luh, mixed Famous Amos cookies inside our cookies too!

Alone in the kitchen, Oscar was my companion! <3

See, my cookies aren't as burnt as Jarad's!
That makes me credible and more qualified to be named as Baker Girl :)

At 4am in the morning, everyone had a serious meeting.
We were afraid we couldn't get the cookies baked in time and we may wast the containers we bought since they would be empty.

At 5.30am, the guys discussed about how much they need to price each container of cookies to cover the cost and make a profit. Desperate, we targeted a $600, $700 profit, selling each container at $10, the bigger ones at $20 and the largest at $35

6am, Jarad looking dazed while scotch-taping the containers lol~
But he was still nonsense, saying "I know everyone wants to take my photo lah, you pay me money I give you one.." =.="

TADAAA!~

Becca left early so I was stuck with the four boys. Fell asleep with the giant Garfield as my pillow on Ben's staircase after changing into my half uniform. The guys took the sofa and slept too while we waited for Ben to come home after teaching Becca where and how to take the bus to the MRT

The plastic bags of cookies were so damn freaking heavy I couldn't even lift one off the floor so I guess I have to admit they are strong. I just tagged behind carrying my empty decorated-with-ribbons baskets and a tray of those heart shaped and bear shaped fun cookies while we walked to Church of Immaculate Heart of Mary :)

Fell asleep again while looking after the cookies and when I woke up I was so damn blur I mistook Josh as Fab SMART RIGHT. :(

Made $310 after the first mass service and went with Ben, Fab and Kriff for the second mass then MADNESS OCCURRED. All our cookies were sold damn fast luh! And people were giving us $50 for one $10 box of cookies, telling us it's donation or to keep the change. Someone even gave us $100 for a $10 box.

Some guy approached us and offered to sponsor $2,000 worth of toiletries for the Batam kids and we were JAW DROPPINGLY SHOCKED. Life's too good to be true luh! O.O

One auntie damn cute, she gave me $50 for a $10 box and she came back saying she has a 20 cents coin in her wallet and she gave it to me "Girl, you so sweet, nah! Tip for you!" :D

I'M SWEET! :D

And so we made approx $1,700+
YAYY YAYY YAYY YAYY YAYY!! :D
not forgetting my 20 cents :)

Ken with our promotion poster
DADDY~

BEN WAS HIS USUAL NONSENSE SELF =.="

He took my basket and he's trying to set a new handbag trend -.-
nice pose and sexy pout right!
trying to attract *AHEM*

And in his left hand is our PW chart! [which we didnt get to use :(]

Ben's model shoot for his new product in the market LOL

Those who stayed for lunch at New York New York :)

Becca you owe me $71.50 and your lunch there I don't know how much
tsk tsk~

Gor Gor, me, Daddy
I got a feeling I may die of crap in this family

My Emo Fam still the bestest so far <3

Mummy (who's got amnesia) and me :)
BEN AND I ARE CHINDIANS OKAYY, DON'T PLAY PLAY hahaa!

Calculated over lunch, and this is our PROFIT :)

Left Ben's house in a rush in the morning so Becca and I had to follow him home to get our stuff back. Walked and walked then played on swings like small kids for a while.
I WON THEM BOTH AT SWINGING! hehe. ^^

His house is now one of my favourite places already! GOT SWINGS, I LIKE!

And look at him, crazy over his bag trend again. He wanted to make a fashion statement with Becca's bag LOL

Happy being mad.. SIGH.
I wonder how I survived PW with him leh.
Waseh, I must have been damn patient to take his crap, even though I'm crap too HAHA

Homed with Becca and we fell asleep on the bus, nearly missed our stop.
So tired for the whole weekend! :(
I bet those who were at Ben's house baking overnight spent the Sunday sleeping

BUT IT WAS WORTH IT :)

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