tragedy

i went to jack in the box to get my daily coffee... i sorta parked a little too close to my house and so it was a tight squeeze between me, my coffee, my balenciaga, and the stuccoed wall... and when i closed the door to my car, the rear view mirror swung along with the door and knocked my one-sipped coffee to the floor.

japanese funnies

i think it's funny to read asian restaurnt menus.

i started cracking up with phillip and justina when i saw the menu saying "bloccoli" instead of "broccoli."

here's also a piece of wasabi that i thought looked a lot like a hippo from the same restaurant. cute!

daphne's vs gwyneth

i actually like eating food from daphne's, a greek chain restaurant. there's one sorta near me in arcadia/pasadena.

everytime i go there, i see this painting, which i assume, is of the greek myth about daphne whom i believe turns into a tree which produces the leaves that are made into laurel's (the crown of leaves you see in greek myths).

i however, cannot get over the fact that i think the painting makes daphne look a lot like gwyneth paltrow.

brownie is such an odd word

my friend diana is having issues posting images on her blog so i'm gonna post what i made last night to see if it works!

brownies!

i've never made them before and although i find them totally delicious... they're not coming off the dish properly! they're super sticky at the bottom! part of me thinks that it's cause i didn't cook it all the way through, but i was told it was done! the top looks and tastes delicious... but it's super sticky and chewy! i need some hot tea with these stat! i put a teaspoon of oil on the glass bottom before i poured in the brownie batter. hmmmmph!

anyways, did i mention they're really DELICIOUS??? :)

baked

so i finally started to do something i haven't ever done before. baking cakes.

my first try was a golden butter cake with chocolate frosting. it's a little weird looking, but it's supposed to be a cho-cha. i'm quite proud of it. it's better lookin' from a bird's eye view but i doesn't look right on my camera phone.... so that's this:



then i made a strawberry cake.... in the shape of boobies. (no photo)

and i got the baking fever.

i also make a great red velvet cake. actually, we made heart-shaped ones. it's so strange cause no one at the house likes red velvet cake! just me! which is fine.

then i made a traditional yellow cake. see, better with the frosting right?



and then for the finale, most recently, a heart-shaped carrot cake.

yummies. i also made some heart-shaped cupcakes sans frosting for a little bit more of a healthy treat... (it is after all, carrot cake... and carrots have beta-carrotine! get it?) how ghetto is that cupcake with the fork punctures! hey! i was checking to see if it was done!

shrimp chips revenge

one time, in class... there were these "cool" kids.... and they all sat at a table away from the other kids... and they would laugh and talk about punk rock shows and talk about getting drunk and going to parties.... and they would eat these shrimp chips. and on that day... i was sitting in the table over. they invited everyone around them to the party while they ate these distinctively smelly asian chips... and they were like "oh, lemme have some of those shrimp chips..."

and i sat there and they put the bag there in front of me... but didn't offer any to me. so i sat there... smelling these shrimp chips...

i just read this on cnn:

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's food authorities will investigate a factory in China after a bag of a popular snack food it produced contained what appeared to be a rat's head.

The suspected animal part was found in a popular snack made in China.

The Korea Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it will send investigators to the factory that produces popular shrimp crackers for South Korea's leading processed food company Nongshim after the suspected animal part was found.

Nongshim has apologized for the incident and is recalling the snack from shops across South Korea.

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it was like, china was my big brother watching over me and all i can think of is that they probs ate a rat's head and not know it.

yay!