Tuesday, July 17, 2007
i feel like kicking myself because i baked the second Moon Rock of my life X(
-scowls and gnashes teeth-
my bad. i thought the oatmeal and chocolate chip cookie recipe was some sort of a "universal cookie dough" and -quite wrongly- assumed that if i switched the ingredients nothing would go wrong. i was hoping to do something with almonds because i know grammy loves almonds and i really wanted to make something for her and make her smile.
so anyway, i got a complete shock when i checked my first batch and i realised that all the cookies had kinda, i don't know, slopped together to form this gigantic cookie-cake the size of the ceramic plate i was using. my second wrong assumption came when i attributed this disaster to the little expansion space i alloted each cookie. with fingers crossed, i slid the second plate of cookies in and watched my cookies closely i.e. nose practically pressed to the oven door. and realised that some funny layer of oil was oozing out of my cookies. now i was pretty sure it wasn't because i greased the plate too much. and then it finally hit me.
almond oil was coming out from the uncooked cookie dough and generally making everything wet and gooey so that the dough dollops slid together, thus causing them to be baked into a cake! and the texture is so weird!! it's dry
way to go einstein, but that didn't save the cookies =( mum was laughing as me as i tried to saw them off the plate just now. and to think i spent
1 hour hunched over a bowl, snipping all them almonds into the correct size.
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in other news, i want a robot car!! no actually i just want to kidnap bumble bee haha. you see, i'm not a guy, so obviously i can't walk out of the cinema wanting to kidnap megan fox (how wrong is that O_o). neither am i simply a girl who wants to catch a robot flick, because everyone knows i have pretty masculine tastes (hee..), so yes i want the robot car X)
i'm a sucker for action flicks and fart shows. but lately i've been catching too many fart shows so i need my fix of action. the car chases, jumping from skyscrapers, the
FIGHT SCENES OH MY GOD, i luuuuuuuuuuuuuurve
FIGHT SCENES, the guns blazing and the explosions..... gee i don't know where to start. hmm...might catch die hard 4.0 with someone. it's not like the industry hasn't produced a good action show. i mean they have; think the matrix trilogy, minority report, shooter etc. but i'm getting bored with aliens and jumping across buildings and flying and getting caught in spiderwebs. i love
pure, unadulterated ACTION. which explains why batman still ranks as my number one superhero. that's one raw, hands-on guy who takes down baddies his
OWN HANDS, aided by gadgets which
HE HELPS TO DESIGN. so there, all man, but a hero nonetheless.
anway, i totally dig john mclane, not because i am in love with bruce willis (though i cannot understand why demi moore divorced him to marry kutcher. kutcher's a cool kid, but not very bright innit?) the only person who manages to talk tough like him is Dirty Harry, played by the age-old Clint Eastwood in the 70s. and quite unlike Rambo or Arnie-type, machine gun-touting meat loaves, dear old mclane is witty enough to make me laugh genuinely.
yup, i'm a girl who knows my action =)
~Love
