candy came over to my place yesterday to *ahem* bake some brownies! trying very hard to be feminine. she wanted to surprise the boyfriend for his birthday. as usual, chokey was asleep and missing in action. so we started our first batch of brownies. all went relatively well until we started melting the hershey's chocolate. things went downhill from there and its all shawn koh shang en's fault! his recipe is so goddamn messily written and unspecific. we didnt know if we should stir the eggs in together with the chocolate before or after we took it off the fire. so we decided to try putting in the eggs with the fire still going.. without realising that the eggs were getting cooked together with the chocolate?! after quickly taking it off the fire we mixed everything together and started baking the brownies. while waiting, candy suddenly realised we didnt add the most important ingredient of all.. butter! after flipping through the recipe, it became apparent that shang en didn't add butter to his list of ingredients! argh. but we remained optimistic..
5 minutes later there was a blackout and my oven shut down?! -screams- had to wait an hour for the power to come back on, and in the meantime we baby-sat my neighbours twin babies, daphne and darius. the first batch of brownies was an utter failure (had to be thrown away - inedible). the second batch just wouldn't cook! so we left it in an extremely long time and it came out like rock cakes. however, i think it tasted pretty good, kinda like chewy sweets? heh. we also made potato salad and chokey came with the ingredients for it. candy insisted on adding so much cucumber (eew), otherwise it would've been perfect. and the most shocking thing happened.. chokey and my brother have become best friends! they keep sharing private jokes and laughing non-stop (candy and i were just like, sitting there staring at them). i cant believe it. dweebs man those two. but i think you could consider our cooking venture a success ...
maybe.
went for lunch and a movie with my cousin tamara today. been such a long time since i met up with her. shopped so much.. she's crazy. she wants to like try on everything. and i can't believe she pierced her belly button?! ohmygod. but it looks so cool. haha. we sat at coffee bean freezing our asses off and talked for a long time. wow i really missed her man. haven't had a good talk with her since we were kids i think (and still singing songs using soya bean cans and jumping on the bed). -grins-
i cant wait for christmas!