Template 63

Life's more or less the same recently and it's kinda boring.
Then again, sometimes simplicity is the best thing in life.

Started going to pilates and hopefully I will see some results which I want to see.
It's quite an expensive sport, in my opinion...

Here's my latest template for you.
I hope to make more when I can finally take some days off from work.
The year is coming to an end and I don't feel that I've done much this year.
Another 4 of these years and I will be stepping into the 4s...

"Alone and likely alone for the rest of my life..."
That's a scary thought, almost ruining a beautiful Saturday morning....
So I shall stop and let you do download the file.

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Sunday...

I am determined to clean my apartment today.
And I really mean CLEAN.

I have a cleaner who comes over every other Monday to clean the toilet, vacuum + mop the floor, wipe tabletops and iron my clothes. But that's it. She doesn't clean corners and she doesn't wipe anything that does not look dirty (yes, the marble kitchen top that has patterns that camouflage dust) and if it requires removing the display items and then putting them back. (what a lazy ass!)

So today, I'm going to clean the kitchen, wipe all the shelves and scrutinize corners of all the rooms.
Hopefully, I won't get too tired.

I've a new template for you. Lots of photos slots again so have fun with it.

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Muffins!

Eversince I bought my oven, I have been keeping it busy at least 3-4 times a week.
There was 1 night when I returned home from work at 9ish and was so stressed that the first thing I wanted to do, was to fold muffin mix and bake muffins.
Crazy, eh?

Have experimented a few flavours since and will continue trying.
My colleagues have kindly contributed to a muffin fund so that I can make more and they have priorities to eat them. Haha!

Here's template 61. Have fun with it!

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Shutterfly again...

Remember the last time I rant about Shutterfly?
Well, I couldn't find another place that prints reasonably-priced 8*8 hard cover AND ships to SGP so I am still with this (almost) shitty website.

Well, I already hate that they auto-crop all my squarish scrapbook layouts into photo-sizes.
(I am forced to go through all the images individually to remove the auto-crop.)
Then, they have this custom-path options which make arranging my pages a huge hassle.

Worse, they screw up BOTH my orders which were made within a week of each other.

Book 1, there were yellow streaks/patches on almost all my pages and they were very obvious on pages with white/light backgrounds.

Book 2, the cropping of the pages were horrendous!

The bottom of EVERY page has 5mm from another page!

For the first book, they proceeded to make a reprint without apologising.
For the second book, I was very pissed and demands for a refund. They ask me to print a form and send the book back before they can process the refund 2-4 weeks after receiving it.

Hello! I'm residing in Singapore. It will cost me at least S$25 to send this book back via registered airmail.
And this book costs S$25! Does it even make sense?

I'm so pissed off right now.
What's there to boast about 100% customer satisfaction when the solution is to reprint and replace?
Why can't they CHECK the product before shipping? Where is the quality control???

I need to find a place that prints 8*8 NOW.
 

Brownies

I bought a convention oven and decided to make brownies today.

Well, I cheated and used pre-mix so I didn't flop.
However, the brownies are way too sweet for my likings so the folks in office are going to benefit from it tomorrow.
I wonder if I add flour to the pre-mix, they will be less sweet?
Or should I stop being lazy and get all the ingredients and do it from scratch?
Hmmm....

I am thinking of trying cookies next week.
My mum used to make cookies with cornflakes inside when I was a kid and I kinda miss it.

Here's a new template. Have fun scrapping!

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p.s.
I have changed the background layer from the texture file to a plain paint. It seems that this reduce the file size by 90% (from 25mb to 2.5mb!).
Do give me your feedback if you find any problems with the template(s).