Tell me, did you sail across the sun?

I have 3 hours to kill before the derby tonight. :/

Steadfastly not thinking about it.



Was undecided whether to sleep first and then wake up in 2 and a 1/2 hours in time for the match (but who am I kidding, I'd sleep right through til morning),
so then I decided to get started on my CFCS report...my presentation was supposed to be this Thursday, but my partner just messaged me to tell me our presentation has been postponed,
so now I'm not in the mood to start the report.
I'm too sleepy to think straight for reports.


So since I have some time, and nothing in particular to do right now,
why not blog?
:D




Tomorrow is a public holiday!
Labor Day!
Yaaaaaay!
I'll take any excuse for a mid-week holiday.

Nothing much to blog about,
my life has just become routine and dull.
Went to JB over the weekend,
spent the whole of Saturday making karutha aluva.
It's an Indian (malayalee?) dish, a sweetmeat made of flour and coconut milk...it's a bit like dodol.
Takes about 3 hours of standing at the stove and stirring away while the mixture thickens (constant stirring so as to make sure it doesn't burn), but the heat has to be low enough for the flour too cook properly...hence the 3 hours.
I kid you not.
Might've taken a bit more than 3 hours to be honest.
My arm was feeling a bit sore by Saturday night, but surprisingly didn't hurt at all on Sunday.

The aluva itself was a success :D
But I don't think we'd make it again anytime soon in the next few years...takes too much effort!
And I'm not a big fan of it, never was...only helped to make it because I like cooking, and I wanted to learn.
mm-hmm.
Also learnt how to make Unniappam (that one is my fav!), also another malayalee dessert.
I had to learn to cook something Indian!
:p


(I'm too lazy to find pictures of the foods mentioned above...you can google image them if you want)



Didn't do much on Sunday.

Didn't do much today.

But after I came back from class, I was craving cake,
and my brother and his wife have decided to be vegetarian the rest of the week (-_-) so I couldn't make a proper cake because they wouldn't be able to eat it,
and it would seem rather mean to bake a cake when I knew they were vegetarian..


So I decided to try this : Chocolate Cake In a Mug!
(thanks to Sufi, who introduced me to Sorted Food)




I love love LOVE this recipe!
So simple, and so gooooood. :3

I left out the chocolate chips, because I didn't have that at home.
And I only microwaved it for 2 minutes, but it overcooked a little bit because my microwave is quite ?high-powered (is that how you say it?) so the next time I try it again I'm going to try 1.5 minutes instead.

And listen to what he says and get right into the corners!
I thought I got all the corners, I was stirring away so meticulously,
but after it baked, there was a little bit of flour at the bottom of the mug -_-
Next time, I'm using a fork to whisk it all together instead of a spoon.

I'm also planning to add a wee bit of Nutella (or any other chocolate spread) in place of chocolate chips, the next time.

Shared it with my mother (the cake, I mean), and she loved it too!
...of course this is also most probably because it took me all of 5 minutes to make it,
and as far as she's concerned, the easier the better.
Definitely one of my fav recipes so far.



This is another version of it, for those of you who don't want chocolate :





I'm going to try out all their other recipes one by one :)





And now I'm crashing, so I might sneak in a nap (I have NO willpower I swear)
but before I end this post,

Kurt!



1. You CAN'T not love this song.
2. Alex has such a nice voice.
3. KURT. I don't know what it is, but he looked so nice in this video! His nose, his pretty hands, his serious face, his...everything :3
And I'm 90% sure that the hands playing the brown piano (what instrument is that?) belong to Kurtsy. :3
And his wannabe-cool attempt at catching the maracas at the end....awwwwww. Epic fail, but awwwwwww :3

You can't not love Kurt Schneider.


BUT HE'S MINE YOU'RE NONE OF YOU ALLOWED TO SUDDENLY PROFESS LOVE FOR HIM GO AWAY.





ok goodnight.



~vid~