Merry Early Christmas!

Today, my office had our Christmas celebration. We had a little gift exchange session. It involves us drawing names of our colleagues two weeks ago and buying a gift for them with a budget of around SGD$25. None of us will know who actually got the present for us nor what the present really is.

Our presents were all placed under this tree

During the actual gift exchange session, each of us were suppose to hand-write a Christmas greeting addressed to the person we bought the gift for. With the present and greeting in hand, each of us will guess who our 'Santa' was. I guessed mine right away though the lady I bought the present for also guessed correctly on her first try.

I got her a bag from SCHU
Have to thank my Dear for helping me choose

As for my gift, I got a pretty cool one. I was really glad with the present my colleague chose for me. She mentioned that she liked the present herself very much as well.

A Sony 4Gb mini thumbdrive

If even comes with an extra storage container


Its Cool, Black and Glossy like my PSP

My supervisor give each of us a Zebra pen.


I got one that is black in color.


The pen can be used while in extended mode.

Later on that day, after working hours, we all head over to Tiffany Cafe & Restaurant at Furuma City Centre for a buffet dinner. I reached home tired, but extremely satisfied. Merry Christmas everyone!

Chocolate Truffles Making

Its the time of the year. Christmas is around the corner. In view of this, I took up a Chocolate Truffle making workshop to learn how to make these yummy little things for my special someone. Its just a basic course so nothing really godly. There were a few different flavors being taught but I am just going to show the orange flavored ones here. So lets get down with it.

Get some chocolate buttons

Boil a pot of water


Place buttons into a dry metal bowl


Place bowl over the pot of boiling water


Stir chocolate till melt


Try not to introduce bubbles


Melted chocolate should shine with a gloss


Place melted chocolate into pipping bag


Coat the outer layer of mould with even and thin layer of chocolate


Place some macadamia nuts and crushed almonds
Refrigerate to harden outer layer


Grate an orange


Squeeze the juice


Place thick cream into pan


Pour in orange juice


Add in orange skin


Add in corn syrup


Prepare another metal bowl with chocolate buttons


Pour boiled mixture into buttons


Stir to melt buttons


Add in butter


A few drops of orange flavoring


Place truffle fillings into hardened outer layer


Cover up the fillings with the same melted chocolate you used for the outer layer initially
Smooth out the covering
Refrigerate to harden whole truffle

And its done. Enjoy your lovely Chocolate Truffle. This is a simplified version of the whole workshop. Do drop a comment if you have more in depth questions. Merry Christmas!