My Cheeseboard

This was the first time I did painting since I stopped drawing lesson in primary school. I mixed green and yellow colour to get this warm limey green colour as it gave a peaceful tone to my cheeseboard. I was glad to learn napkin technique on wood as it did not require sewing (I wasn't very good at sewing >.<")  and I also love to paint.I chose baby pram and elephant napkin designs on the grass as they were pretty cute. At first, I did not paint the parts which I wanted to place the cut napkin with white paint. So my napkin designs became dull in colour and did not stand out. Hence, I redid the other side of the cheeseboard and luckily it worked well. I did not stencil my cheeseboard as I wanted to keep it simple. Well. I think I might hang this cheeseboard somewhere in my house in future:).

More cute cheeseboards and wood works=)!!!

Candid moment in the textile room=P..

Do you see the paint brushes on our ears?

More photos on our microteaching..

Thanks to Andrea for helping our group to take photo=)..

These dishes were prepared by the students (Andrea and Kai)..

Aster and Jie Yi with their dishes..

Our Microteaching (1st Group)

I have time to upload photos and update the blog finally! I am still doing my last assignment before the term ends..Hmm...Talking about our microteaching.. We had hard time thinking of what to do for our table setting, especially me, as I had never done table setting before. At first, we wanted to set the table with the theme of Valentine's Day. However, we did not prepare well for the table setting during our microteaching practice. Luckily, it was a microteaching practice and we managed to come out with design during the weekend. Thanks to Shahidah and Sham as they went to Mustafa to buy the decor for our table setting. During the practice, I learnt to arrange 3 food items on the same plate as food looks interesting when it is presented in sets of odd numbers. Since our topic is on Rice and Alternatives, we had the almost same colour- brown colour for all our dish. Hence, Sham put green rocket leaves on his pizza to make it looked more interesting. I used tomato as a container for sauce and added parsley to garnish the sauce. Thanks to Miss Chin for teaching us the platting techniques=).


On the other hand, Fiona served her lemon drizzle cake with a British high-tea setting. She used lemon and strawberry slices to add colour to her cake. Shahidah arranged the prawns in set of 3 and used red chili to garnish her dish on a heart-shaped plate.



In conclusion, table setting is very important as human beings are visual animals. We get attracted easily by beautifully decorated table settings and it also helps in stimulating us to have better appetite to eat. We also learnt alot from other groups on table setting techniques=). Below is the link on tips to present food like a chef.

http://startcooking.com/blog/416/Seven-Ways-to-Present-Food-Like-a-Chef

Microteaching Group 6

Hello Kitty Party Theme!

The table setting was really cute and suitable for a kid's birthday party. The kid has definitely got to be crazy about Hello Kitty since the decorations were full of the Hello Kitty and pink. There were even small gift packs given to the whole class, which was very lucky on our part. Hehe. It was the last microteaching group which encompasses on fruits only and 5 dishes were cooked on that particular day since there were 5 student teachers in the group.

Japanese Tempura in Creamy Mango Sauce

Cake Pops

Orange Agar-Agar

Swiss Roll Cake & Sushi



I was quite disappointed that my swiss roll cake was unsuccessful :( I guess time efficacy is really important in making a successful swiss roll cake. I guess we were quite late to spread the jam onto the cake which led to slower time to roll it. With slower time, the smooth surface of the cake will start to stick onto the baking sheet leading to undesirable outlook.

So i tried to make a swiss roll cake again last friday. However, it was still unsuccessful. I was quite ashamed by the product thus no picture taken. Hehe. I will still be trying it again though to learn the techniques.. Now, Fiona..you have to teach me! ;)

Sewing Lesson

I remembered how amazed i was at first by the high tech sewing machines in NIE that i took a picture of it. It was touch screen and so much interesting as compared to the normal sewing machines i have seen before. Well, of course the cost was priced to suit accordingly.

With that, various products were produced with the touch of the sewing machines. We sew tote bags, ipad or file cover and we were taught how to use various applications which can only be found in the high tech sewing machines such as image digitizing and words applique on a towel.

Lastly, there was the product line project. I paired up with Azyan to come up with 3 products for the project. Personally, i feel the biggest challenge was trying to use recycled materials to create a product. I agree there are many things to be recycled but to create them into a very polished and brand new products were quite difficult. Nevertheless, we managed to create 3 products with recycled materials. After consulting Dr Mok more than once, everything came into place.

Tada~! The chosen theme was denim bags.

I guess, right from the start, sewing from TP days had always taught me patience and perseverance. I still remembered a lecturer mentioning that ''You need to have internal peace to be able to sew things right''. I never understand what she meant and thought that the sentence was meaningless. However, i agree with her now and realised how it makes sense now as i see some of my mates getting frustrated with sewing in class.

Sewing has always been about learning the process along the way. It can get quite frustrating, in fact, very. But when the products are out, it gives a very accomplished feeling in the insides. 

And i think it applies to teaching too. Maybe teaching can get very frustrating due to workload, students and everything but upon seeing how one can make a positive impact on a student in the long run, i guess it will leave an accomplished feeling in the insides too. I still remembered my cousin's words, who is a senior teacher, "It is not going to be easy but it is not impossible."

Wood painting~!

Bought some wood from Daiso (Thanks Simin~!) and some wood magnets~! And I decided to give them a new life by making them into an art piece~! Really love creating and decorating stuff..so here are the two beautifully painted wood~! Now..where should they be placed..hmm..

The plain looking wood..

Row row row the boat...

Snail snail~!

Scrapbooking~!

Super duper loved today's scrapbooking activity~! With all materials provided for, we can decorate as we wish~! And most important to many, it's not graded~! So you can just do whatever pleases you.. *^^* How I wish I can just do such stuff every day... Thank you Ms Chin for giving us this opportunity to learn and try out scrapbooking~! At the beginning, I didn't know how to paint the canvas, how to paste the photos one with.. (I forgotten the special glue's name) and how to tie the string on..but now, I know more decorating skills~! Muahahah..happie happie.. Anyone consider hiring me as an art and crafts designer~? =^_^=

My pretty scrapbook with my lovely picture..*^_^*