This tutorial touches on the creation of an MP3 with the use of the shape tools (rectangle, rounded rectangle) and many layer styles (gradient overlay, shadow, glow, bevel and emboss) to create the sleek, metallic effect of the player interface. An interesting thing that I have learnt is that there actually is such a font (free to download) called Guifx v2 Transports which allows users to type in the common symbols found in video and audio interfaces!
My family members love eating this snack during the Chinese New Year, one which isn’t readily available at the local stores or supermarkets. The common ones that are sold off-the-shelf are those wrapped with shrimp floss and not pork floss, perhaps because the latter isn’t halal. Hence we would always have to resort to making these for ourselves at home.
Pineapple tarts are just one of the many pastries well-loved by Singaporeans when it comes to celebrating festive occasions, be it the Chinese New Year, Hari Raya Puasa or Deepavali. These tarts are made of butter, egg and flour and filled with pineapple jam. For the Chinese, the tart symbolises the arrival of prosperity: ông lâi in dialect refers to the pineapple, which is also the homonym of ‘旺来’, or ‘prosperity is coming’. This symbolism is undoubtedly most apt for welcoming the new year.
Did you ever know that red dates are also known as jujube or ziziphus jujuba? It kind of reminds me of the gibberish phrase ‘zzi zzi pong‘ from a Korean drama that I watched recently, but that’s something else altogether.
Filo pastry sheets are amazing. You can get them to do almost anything for you – baked to become fanciful and crispy containers for appetisers; piled in layers on a tray to pack in a whole load of stew and stuffing; baked as parcels wrapped up with delightful filling and flavours. With a bit of imagination and the help of your fingers, the aesthetics of baked pies can also be enhanced through the gathering of folds and pleats of the top most layers of filo pastry sheets.
One can’t stop being creative with these sheets. Here’s what I did with mine.
