Out & About #545 | Collective April Visuals

​The first quarter is now behind us, in the most agitating form of part-time happenings and the endless job search. As for whoever said "April showers bring May flowers", they didn't quite take into consideration the duplexity of Mother Nature.

​1) Sandwiched between consistent periods of gloomy, grey skies was an unforeseen sunny day, which meant taking to the tranquil - albeit terribly sodden - trails for the first cycle of the year.

​2) The type of person to take present-plucking very earnestly, I decided to take matters into my own hands this year for my favourite fangirl's date of birth. A tri-layer Brûléed S'Mores Cheesecake endeavour assumed the majority of my Easter Sunday, though the results weren't optimal, in my eyes anyway.

​The miniature dessert consisted of four layers: Chocolate Sponge Cake, Nutella Cheesecake, Marshmallow Cheesecake, and a thinly caramelized surface. Despite my intense research and meticulous scaling procedures, the sponge was a bit drier than desired. There was also an absence of marshmallow flavour in the topmost section.

Remnants of this cake were preserved and re-purposed for a different usage: CoCo's 22nd Anniversary Contest.
Coating the bottom two layers with a generous portion of Thai tea-infused whipped cream yielded a rectangular specimen - later deemed by the "(Knockoff) CoCo Cake" by an analytical taste-tester.

I shall not lie: the whipped cream was positively heavenly, and the perky, light orange hue was absolutely divine. Moreover, the fine specks of tea leaves contributed an additional degree of visual and gustatory texture. And amusingly, the chocolate sponge did not prove dry at all; the frosting had combatted this issue altogether.

Let me win the Switch please!!!

3) Tomo Sushi
A Chirashi bowl from Sushi Tei 2.0 was our ridiculously rushed pre-climbing dinner. Proper feedback shall be provided once a regular visit has been made.

4) Easter Weekend errands Feat. Sikgaek for makgeolli

5) Yanking myself over to my closest CoCo location to take advantage of the three-day $2.22 Pearl Milk Tea deal, despite having already purchased a cup at full-price two days prior for the contest entry...Sigh.
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6) Field-traversing after intermittent showers means squelchy sounds and splattered shoes.

7) Preparations for BLACKPINK's first Canadian performance were somehow completed in less than a day after only minimal brainstorming.

​Behold my 지츄 (Jisoo/jichu) sign! The sole regrets of this project were:

• Slathering mod podge and loose glitter along the border, instead of simply affixing multi-faceted shimmer tape
• Miscounting my light holes (Yes, I over-poked)

8) The final episode of He is Psychometric delivers not only a (very mediocre) conclusion to the murder mystery/rom-com series but simultaneous relief towards my Monday/Tuesday morning schedules.
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9) I'VE DONE IT!!! IT'S THE LAST OF THE BATCH!!!