Things I have learnt so far from 24

A few months ago my sister and I decided for old times sake, and because wanted to give my heart a work out, to revisit 24 with the hopes of watching a season in a day. We never really managed to pull this off however a braver friend of mine and I tried it with season 5 last week, rather unsuccessfully as we also didn't manage to complete it, lately I get tired at 11 and wake up at 6 so I am not surprised I couldn't match my marathon skills of my university days in my current condition. Watching it was quite a lot of fun as it just never stopped with the suspense, major plot twists and stupid actions of Kim that ended up causing everyone a ton of trouble. I find that as I have been going through the seasons I have learnt some very useful lessons from the show.

**Edit: I recently finished watching all the seasons.  I started this post ages ago but was distracted and recently I was reminded of it because they were filming parts of Season 9 in London.**

Things I have learnt from 24

1. As President you probably need to be more worried about people in your own administration than the terrorists.
2. As a terrorist, you will get away with pretty much everything, albeit by the skin of your teeth, until the small hours of the morning of your big attack. Then things will probably get a little shitty. (This rule applies less the lower down the food chain you go.. I'm looking at you Henchman 1).
3. If you decide to switch sides and help Jack with his investigation you will die.
4. If someone starts acting out of character, one of their loved ones has been held hostage and you are about to be ambushed.
5. If someone holds one of your loved ones hostage and threatens you, unless you tell Jack Bauer immediately, you will die.
6. The President and Cabinet will not understand the scale of a nuclear attack on Los Angeles until a stick man graph is presented to them.
7. If you think someone looks shady on first impression then they probably are.
8. There is always a mole.
9. If you are caught, just talk because Jack Bauer tortures everyone, even the President got tortured by Jack Bauer.
10. No body believes Jack until he has already basically done everything to stop the attack himself .
11. Everything that you try and cover up will come back to bite you in the ass.
12. Terrorists never pay for anything properly, If you perform a service for them you will probably die.
13. You can never trust your family, they will screw you over or show up at the most inappropriate time to  bug you, freak out, mug you, become a hostage, try to kill you.
14. Dating Jack Bauer will almost certainly land you as a hostage at some point.
15. If Jack tells you to do something just do it. Or you will probably die.
16. If Jack tells you not to do something don't to it for the same reason as above.
17. If you go on a mission with Jack you are quite likely to die.
18. If you are caught and questioned come clean immediately. They will find out one way or another.
19. The entire Whitehouse staff is waiting to cry incompetence and fire the President.
20. Jack has to get fired every season for a while to get the dirty bits of his job done.
21. Never run away from the Chinese.
22. No matter how shitty your phone is you can still view live satellite imagery and use complicated tracking programs.
23. Jack can come back from the worst situations.. Torture, gunshot wounds, deadly viruses, death.
24. If there is trouble Kim will find it.
25. A CTU car boot has everything you need to launch a minor assault on any establishment.
26. If Jack needs you passed out for whatever reason 'don't fight it'.

Survivors Guide

I've been watching horror movies, some good, many 'meh' and some so bad they're funny and therefore good.. And even I find myself yelling at the TV in frustration. I'm sure that if I did a Google search I'd get a ton of hits for 'how to survive a horror movie' not even counting the rules spelled out in the first 'Scary Movie', but maybe writing my thoughts will save my television abuse.

Lift your feet up when you're running through a forest

If someone wants to show you something, get them to bring it to you, don't follow them to some weird secluded location.

If you are with your partner just have normal sex in a bed, don't sneak off into the forest or try a secluded cabin.

If something/someone seems a bit off trust your instinct.

If a girl seems a little crazy, no matter how hot she is, do not take her to your hotel room.

If you see a scary as f@#k spider mannequin monster with multiple heads, ditch the girl you just found and get the hell out of there.

If you hear a sound don't investigate it just run the other way.

If you have a gun on someone who you don't trust.. shoot them in the leg just in case, before they start talking and edging towards you.

Never build on ancient Indian burial grounds.

Never split up.

Never enter a room filled with what seem like faceless nurse statues armed with surgical instruments. No matter how sexy in a sick way they are.

If you are left on an island and told to fight your classmates to the death they will never be your friends.. don't even try.. in fact start collecting weapons.

Omgwtf

So.. the people who made Dante's Inferno are delightfully sick. Lol thats what I took away from this game. Even though the gluttony level is so close to the puke line for me, with its enormous jiggling fat puke / poo demons, the sanctity of the nipple was destroyed with Cleopatra (pictured above) and her 'demon-baby-monster-making-mouth-nippIes'.

Bathtime

Bathtime unwinding.. I needed a creme bath for my skin..

Matte French manicure

Listening to; @4:33

I finally managed to do a French manicure on myself, in PINK. This may not be much of a feat to most people but I have huge man-hands and this is my left hand! and I am left handed! I am giving myself a pat on the back. :P

I went for a matte finish too, a little different and the end result was quite cute.

Brick lane vintage market

I visited some of the vintage stores on Brick Lane on Sunday. There were lots of colourful chunky sweaters and some great deals. If I weren't unemployed I would totally have bought something.. haha.

But... The food. OH yes, we all know how I love food and there was some great Moroccan curry, and tasty Chinese stir-fry at the food market. It was full of people too, all sampling the tasty treats..

Talk about vibrant, argh.. I want to eat it now, thank god I can't smell it or I think I would drown in a pool of my own saliva.

Some selca 1

Took some pics looking a little raggedy. See, I can integrate colour into my outfits!! 

There's blue red and camo there! I really love the military jacket I got, its huge so you can really layer up underneath.

my favourite moustache ring, from COEX in Seoul.

Mwah!

Peace

Listening to; drum&bass + vocals + piano = 

Korean BBQ

I finally got a fix of the Korean BBQ I was hankering for. I found a place near holborn, and I forget the name, but you can find it on the right if you walk from Holborn to Tottenham Court road.

It was authentic, with an ajumma and everything. Great meat and KIMCHI! While I was over there I didn't ever think twice about leaving all the kimchi I was given behind, because you get it with everything.. eeeeeeverything and sometimes you just don't want to eat kimchi.. but at about £5 a serving I ate all my kimchi this time. They weren't joking about getting charged for allllll the side dishes here.

My food coma face. yeah.

I am really trying to get out of wearing black all the time but I do have relapses!

Chilling with habeebee

During my days at home, I often chill with my royals. They are really curious about everything, constantly poking at everything and looking for little hidey-holes.

I have a breeding pair, and this is the male 'Habeebee' (which if you have ever heard Arabic music you have probably heard a lot. it means 'darling' in Arabic). He is about 10 years old now, little guy has just reached the other side of the hill, like his owner, so we have even more of a connection now.

Look at that cute little face!!

They make the cutest couple, always curled up together, and you can see that they sometimes have arguments, and he gets relegated to the other side of the tank (she is bigger than him), but they always get back together. It will be mating season very soon so they will probably be steaming up the tank window in the evenings. They just don't care.. they just don't care.. they just don't caaaaare... with their PDA.

I am listening to;

love the 'death-by-beach-ball' artwork. 

Some valentines pics I found

So I was going through my phone and I found some pics I took from my last Valentines. Yeah yeah, he was a disappointing person in the end but I couldn't have known then!

Look at how happy I was...

well, now I am more like;

But you can't fault me for, against all my better judgement, having had hope... RIGHT?!

I was going to wear this outfit that I borrowed without permission from my sister.. but as it was kinda cold I went for the long dress.

I forgot to mention that I was introduced to The Hummingbird bakery in Soho, where they had Nutella cupcakes. See, I thought it was a good beginning. A man who sullies a Nutella memory deserves no forgiveness. In life people rarely get what they deserve (I am still waiting for my pony and house in the sun with a pool) so I am choosing to erase him from this memory focus on the chocolatey goodness.

I wanted to share that I am listening to; 

It is great. Super chill... go straight to 1:42 for some real calm bassness... that's not a word and I don't care.

Tasty ugly blueberry pancakes

After the blueberry, apple, and blackberry crumble and the blueberry cake I STILL had blueberries left over so I went for some classic blueberry pancakes to finish off that box!

Pancakes were never my forte, mine always come out all misshapen and in weird thicknesses.. but they taste great!

I had them with cream and honey!

Cutee style

I got invited on a movie date with my sister and her boyfriend, can anyone say 'third wheel'? Yes. Well I appreciated her taking pity on her hermit sister and inviting me along. I treated it like a real date and went for a 'cute' look with polka dots.

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My sister has since borrowed this sweater on a non-return basis, I will have to dig in her room if I want to wear it again. But it looks cute on her so I can't hate. :)

I am really attached to my bum hat with the giant pom pom..I doubt I can get away with wearing a woolly hat throughout the summer so I am trying to get it on as much as possible. I know British summers are famous for their extreme temperatures (!)... Yeah.. well I can dream can't I?!

Cake

As part of my baking and eating adventures I made a blueberry and blackberry moist cake (I had a LOT of blueberries, thank you bulk buying at Costco).

I used the recipe from HERE and added extra blackberries. Before I added the berries to the mixture I took the time to moisten them and then rolled them in flour till they were completely covered. This was to stop them from sinking. Trust me if you cover them with flour properly they won't sink. I managed to make this while almost constantly holding a huge J glass of red wine so you can do it too.

Here is the finished result!

I served it with cream.

The recipe was apparently for 12 people, but I wouldn't trust that, myself and two other people (I like to share the love) with munchies big appetites finished it in one evening, so I suggest just making it as is, because I think the 12 people they were talking about were heavy smoking anorexic models.

Try it out, it was worth the love.

Psycho-Pass

The last episode of Psycho-pass was on a few weeks ago and I have yet to find an animation to fill the gap it has left.. This was a well thought out animation with a great story that questions whether necessary sacrifices are worth it for a 'perfect' society. What makes people bad? Is pre-emptive crime fighting plausible?

 I love the design of all the gadgets, and how they dress up as these giant 'cute' police officer characters to pick up an unhinged suspect so that you don't distress on-lookers. It is interesting how the things you see and hear could affect your 'psycho-pass'.. What colour would yours be??

The characters were all well thought out too, we have the father figure, the straight arrow, the renegade cop and the main woman who struggles with morals, and they all work together to create drama, suspense and a brilliant chase.

It is a shame I only figured out how to watch it in HD on my TV for the last few episodes...!

Sunlight

Waking up to sunlight filtering through my window in the afternoon.. slept a little late but loving the feeling of being wrapped in a duvet and dozing..

Niko

On the London Underground..

So many people with red bleary eyes here even though it's Wednesday..

I don't understand why the man opposite me seems to have been inspired by the outfit Niko wears at the beginning of GTA4.. I wonder if just before he left his home he looked in the mirror and thought..

*carefully places beanie on head*

"Yes.. this outfit is hot! Now I look like a walking criminal stereotype."

Friday night.

Feeling totally alone right now.
I wonder if tonight's shittiness is to make up for last nights awesomeness.

Observations on the last train home..

1. Most people were eating/were finishing off fast food.. the whole train smelt like KFC/Burger King. Its funny how most people would feel guilty for that behavior during the day but as people eating were the majority it wasn't a big deal.. LOL. The food smell made me want to eat fries.

2. One couple fight where this guy was telling his girl about how gambling on football is an ambition and how stupid she is for not understanding.. and why doesn't she have any ambition.. and *enter earphones* she cried and by the time she spoke I couldn't hear. I couldn't help but continue to be irritated by his apparent immunity to cold with his sockless boat shoes and rolled up jeans combo..

3. Two girls crying for reasons unknown..

4. I had put in earphones to block out the inane couple fight happening across from me and the man opposite nudged me on the foot and said "Be careful she might puke on your shoes.." gestures to girl sitting next to me..  across the isle.. bent over with her friend rubbing her back. random act of kindness from a stranger appreciated cos that would have sucked. He also added that had she been about to puke on the dude he wouldn't have said anything. His boat shoes may have offended "random warning man" too.. She got off the train and puked at Stratford.. another shitty Friday for that station attendant. An even shittier Friday on the night bus for that pukey girl because that was the last train.

Some ramblings about cool sh*t in movies.

Aliens is my favourite film from the whole Alien series, still, even though it is so old, as it isn't a movie that relies too heavily on special effects it is still really good. Watching Alien is still scary, even though they were so cheap about it.. I love the way they build the suspense with the beep of the motion detector.. and Aliens has Sigourney Weaver as one of my favourite bad ass women, this moment is one of my favourite bad ass moments in a film;

Another, un-related but great moment that came to mind from Orphan;

Then there are the girls who get revenge on the creepy stalker/murderer in Death Proof.. 

Those are a few of the moments where your inner American jock jumps up and says "YEAH!" ...

Kurt Russell plays 'Stuntman Mike' so well he is really up there in the creepiest bad guy ever list with Javier Bardem in his role as 'Anton Chigurh' in 'No Country for Old Men', another great movie.

Valentine's day

Today is the day after Valentine's day, and I had a bit of travel time so I was looking at my timeline and found that so many people had put pictures of flowers and chocolates there..
Flowers and chocolate..
I found an interesting article on the origins of Valentine's Day..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/valentines-day/7187784/History-of-Valentines-Day.html
First of all.. I don't want a present because card company's say so.. I'd like a present that's given with some meaning..
Secondly, if someone had got me flowers and chocolate on any other day maybe I'd post it on FB as a pleasant surprise (I post way less important things all the time) but on Valentines day no.. I'd be appreciative, cos I love chocolate and yeah flowers are pretty but I don't see the need to advertise that i was bought exactly what everyone thinks they should get their gf, with no thought at all. If my bf knew me a little he would get me a large jar of nutella and a bouquet of Lillys (yeah they're funeral flowers but they're my favourites).. its at least a variation on the theme.. and would show that maybe he wasn't just going through the motions.. a previous Valentine's day present was a bundle of PlayStation games... that's a present that says I know what you like and want.
Valentine's is also a day of love confessions right? Be my Valentine and all that? Its not impressive to get someone almost exactly the same as everyone else.. I'd be in underwhelmed by the lack of imagination.. LOL am I just being harsh?
I don't wanna sound bitter because I'm not.. I really enjoyed watching things get blown up and one of the best car chase scenes ever in A Good Day to Die Hard yesterday for Valentine's n had a super chill evening.. it was great.. I was just looking down my timeline and feeling a little sorry for the people who only get flowers and chocolate on Valentine's day..
On a side note I could see who had forked out and who hadn't.. I mean some of these posts were right next to each other.. sometimes the last poster made the first poster's flowers look really cheap.. @.@

Winter Cold

This weekend was epic. There was drinking, merriment, snow, rain... cold... I think it has taken its toll.

Woke up this morning feeling rough with a swollen throat.. and I know this feeling so I figured, get the drugs, deal with the symptoms for now, and try to ride out this inevitable winter cold wave.

After digging through the various cold remedies and tablets that our mother left behind for us, the only things I recognised were some dissolve-able Beechams packets. I decided on a shot (glass) of Beechams... it tasted so bad that it tugged at my stomach and I was nearly sick but it did the trick and I was wandering around (the house) all day, and had completely forgotten that I was sick in the first place.

This evening, in order to avoid the near puking I switched for a flavoured Beechams this time, and I can say that a spoonful a shit ton of sugar makes the medicine foul-tasting-concoction-trying-to-pass-as-a-hot-fruit-drink go down.. but not fast enough. ugh. The I hope this cold is gone when I wake up :'(

Adjusting to life at home...

Leaving Seoul I had to leave a lot of great people behind. When you spend so long in a place it inevitably becomes a home from home, and the people you see everyday during that time can become just as close to you as those you grew up with. It was a weird feeling to suddenly be back in the UK, where I 'belong' technically, but where I felt like a tourist. Being the kind of person who tends to just go with the flow, I'm much more accustomed to my new/old home and I think the effects of 'reverse culture-shock' have worn off.

When I first came home there were so many things that were strange to me, I had forgotten how to get to places I used to go every day, I had no idea how to sort out simple thing like my oyster card, I didn't know where things in my own house were, I was living with my sister, who I haven't lived in the same city with since I went to University in 2001...

Things weren't bad but they were un-familiar and I had some kind of mental shut down. I just wanted to stay at home and not really see anyone as I found it hard to go out and be social, I found that I was no longer speaking Korean and struggled a little with English as I had come to think in Korean a lot. I found it intimidating to walk the streets of London I used to cycle around in such a carefree way all those years ago.

Now a few months have passed and I feel like I am home again, I re-discovered a lot of places and a lot of memories have come back to me, tourists are still asking me for directions (although I can't help them as much), I'm itching to get back in my car and get out. As my life is starting to come together around me again I realise more than ever that I miss my friends over there. With an excess of 1000 phone numbers I have accumulated over the years I can say that I knew a lot of people there but distinguishing between friends and acquaintances I know I had a few real friends there. People with whom I shared exciting, traumatic, life changing, ridiculous moments with.

One of these people is Cory, I have memories of visiting cafes, bars, clubs, random shoots, shops, markets, a hospital, karaokes, you name it we've probably been there. It isn't the same living without my partner in crime and I harass her to come here every time we chat..

Because it is fun to play with blood and wear random costume we both loved Halloween and she has a party brand that hosted bloody/scary parties when it wasn't halloween.. lol

Halloween 2011

Halloween 2009

She owns an on-line store called Closet Creeper that sells a cool selection of fun and versatile clothes and accessories mainly, but not only, from Korea.

It is a shame her father became American and didn't sort out any paperwork for her because she needs to come be my partner in crime again. Someone sort it out.

Nutella Consumption Guide

Nutella! My favourite source of chocolatey goodness. 

Nutella has been produced since 1964, and if you want to read more about that kind of thing the Wiki article is here

Ferrero were sued last year, because "Nutella's misleading promotion led consumers to believe that Nutella carries nutrutional and health benefits, marketing it as part of a nutritional breakfast" but to the Fererro family $3m is nothing so they took it in their stride, and contnue to produce the pure chocolate ecstasy that is their hazelnut spread.

If you believed that liquid chocolate was part of a nutritious breakfast you deserve a slap for being a fool. Nutella, in all it's delicious awesomeness, doesn't have to be a source of nutrition to make it to people's breakfast / lunch / dinner tables, computer desks and small tables next to the sofa for perfect access while playing video games.

I have in the past not answered a phone call on more than one occasion because I was wrist deep in a jar of Nutella, and well.. priorities.. 

750g jar of Nutella

Anything less than a 750g jar is easy work in a mere hour or two, sometimes minutes, so obviously the 750g is the best way to go, and if you are not sure where to find this happiness in a jar, check your local supermarket, E-Mart, Costco and Sainsbury's have it for sure as that is where I go to feed my addiction. 

Consumption Guide! :D

Preparation:

You will need a knife, a spoon, and freshly thouroughly washed hands.

I suggest settling in front of the TV or computer or wherever you watch things, and put on your favourite TV show or anime series for eating this (doesn't matter what it is, the taste of Nutella even negated the gore I was exposed to while watching "The Walking Dead".) as getting up and moving around can impede the consumption process, (although if you have access to this than you can get over that problem). 

They suggest breakfast as a good time to eat Nutella, but that is way too limiting, and I rarely eat breakfast. Especially now I am unemployed breakfast = lunch anyway. Sometimes eating while playing games can be OK  but you will need both hands or the great speed and coordination to lick a spoon clean in seconds while simultaneously gripping a 750g jar between your knees and holding a console controller in the other hand (I have this coordination).

1st Stage of Nutella Eating

It all starts in a reasonably civilised way, with a nice loaf of bread or a crumpet, and a knife for application. When you run out of bread, progress to the 2nd stage.

2nd Stage

At the 2nd stage only a spoon is needed, often at this point you get thirsty so you need a glass of water at hand for this stage. Scoop mountains of Nutella out with the spoon, the more you can actually pile on the spoon the less energy you will have to waste dipping the spoon in the jar. It's all about efficiency.

After the 2nd stage you will start to find that the spoon comes back less than completely coated more often and then you need to progress to the 3rd Stage.

3rd Stage

The next stage requires one to revert to ones most basic hunter gatherer skills, the gathering eating part mainly. Before one undertakes in this part of the eating stage, although I am sure that most people would have done so already, washing your hands is essential because licking unwashed hands can lead to all kinds of sickness. 

The use of ones finger will result in the removal of all but a small trace of chocolate love from the jar. I find it is better to keep a fingernail short for this purpose, as getting chocolate out from under nails can be difficult and result in tongue cuts.

As you can see the jar opening is just wide-enough to allow an adult hand to get in there. I see this as the makers of Nutella encouraging us not to waste any of this chocolatey goodness.

I hope this guide can help you to enjoy Nutella.

(NB: Excessive consumption of Nutella could possibly lead to high sugar related disease like diabetes and obesity, and in my case eczema outbreaks but I think think there is anything wrong with a treat every now and again!!!)

Bracelet

Recently I had a school friend's birthday, and she is one of those people who seems to have everything she wants, I haven't been here for a while so I can't say I know her as well lately but, I mean that like she doesn't seem to procrastinate. A lot of things I would ask for as a birthday gift would be things that I had wanted for ages, but could never get round to getting, or things I hadn't managed to find, and she seems like she would just go get it or find something that she wanted. Anyway my point, and there is one, is that I had no idea what to give her. So a combination of time, cute things laying around and some inspiration led me to make something.

I used a thin stretch of black denim like fabric as a base and arranged buttons on there with a thin ribbon, a piece of denim, and another piece of cloth. The buttons were all from my mothers button collection (ones that had actually come with clothes) that has been accumulating since the 80's. I used to play with these buttons as a child, and we used to trade them as currency when playing other games.. I think it would be hard to get my future kids to play with buttons... 

I don't know how she managed it, I was a super hyper child and I wasn't allowed Tizer among other fizzy drinks because I would rocket around the house for hours until I crashed (which was headache enough for my mum) or till me or my sister had a trip to A and E. Usually it was the latter, and I think that was what eventually prompted the ban. They should have had a points scheme at A and E, for the number of times we had to go there. Between my abhorrence of all things girly, my tendency to take statements by the local boys as challenges, and my tendency to use my sister as a guinea pig, Mum could have an MRI or something, and those aren't cheap..

I remember one weekend all my local friends were busy and I was being all hyper in the house and my mother tried to get me to go outside and play;

Mum, "Go and play outside!"

Me, "I can't! No one is here this weekend..!" *pouts, then carries on being hyper running around my mum*

Mum starts getting more irritated, "Well, if no one is around then just play with yourself!"

Dad chimed in, "When I 'played with myself' you told me off! Hahahaha!"

*Mum gives Dad a stern look*

I had no idea what that was about till I was about 20 and it came to mind.. lol

Anyway, here is the finished product. I wasn't really blogging then so I don't have any 'in the process pictures', but I don't think people need to see my janky stitching and bleeding fingers so no loss there really.. 

Turns out she wanted a mix CD too so I made her a CD of all the 'jamz' I've been bouncing around to lately, classics like this, this and this (but the original, which isn't on you tube >.< ) along with tracks from some of my CTEPA agents. even that process was a blast from the past, because I haven't made a CD for ages! I mean.. Hardly anyone uses them any more and it took a lot of digging to find a blank one. But it was a fun experience, and I needed a recent playlist. Win Win!

Apple Crumble.....! :D

My Sis hit Costco today and came home with coma inducing amounts of Nutella, but also with apples and my hormones were craving dessert. I decided to put off the inevitable eczema, that always results from consuming large quantities of Nutella for about a day, and embarked on an apple crumble adventure..  

yaaaay....!

So there are two sets of ingredients, one for the apple filling; Apples, I used 6 (you can see the size in the picture, I have large man hands by the way, that's a decent sized apple), three tablespoons of sugar, a tablespoon of cinnamon, a teaspoon of ground cloves, and four tablespoons of Amaretto~~!

Peel, core and dice apples! (couldn't find out corer, so this took AGES -_-;; )

Enjoy some Amaretto!

And one for the crumble, I used about 120 grams (half a mug??) of brown sugar, and flour, two tablespoons of butter, one tablespoon of ground cinnamon, about 5 (crushed) biscuits.

Crumble ingredients; brown sugar, and flour, butter, ground cinnamon and (pre-ground cinnamon sticks)

I used 'Hobnobs' for the biscuits. They're my favourite biscuits! :D pretty easy to come by, but you can use digestives, almonds, or rolled oats, to add a little extra crunch to the crumble :)

Hobnobs! "Nobbly".... lol.. oooooook.

1. Put all the apple mix in the pan and heat over a low heat for about 15 minutes, I  stirred it occasionally, and while that was on I made the crumble:

Pan with apples, cinnamon, cloves, and Amaretto.

2. Mix all the crumble ingredients together by hand. I also tried crushing the Hobnobs by hand and after I started to mix the other bits together, I realised there were too many big bits of biscuit, so used this pumice got the best biscuit texture.

(all this could be negated if you use a blender to mix the crumble ingredients, but I hate cleaning those things and couldn't be bothered to move everything else on the side just to make space to use it..)

3. I buttered the baking tray, and poured the apple-ly contents of the pan in the baking tray, poured the crumble over it, and put it in the oven. 

I used a fan assisted oven preheated to 200C, and left it in there for 20 minutes, yours might take a little longer or a little less (20-30mins) so I suggest you check on it towards the end.

Here it is on the way  into the oven,

Here is the finished result:

Not diet food!

Definitely not diet food, covered in custard....!

I heated some Ambrosia custard and used my captive audience of my sister and her boyfriend as willing test subjects for my first baking adventure in a while.. (I never had an oven in Korea!) and they seemed to like it! No one has died, and I fell into a food coma straight after eating this. Good times.