--- Dear Jennifer

I do look like a goat when I wear shorts and black flats at the same time. So FYI I DO SOO look like a goat. Thank you. So you don't NEED to send me a picture of a goat to prove that I don't look like a goat because it's my opinion - not that I don't respect yours - and I have the right to think whatever I want. So Dear JENNIFER, whom I am on the phone with right now, I DO LOOK LIKE A GOAT.

thank you for reading, jennifer.
p.s. you just said that you cannot wait to read this...
p.p.s i basically just told you everything that I'm writing so WHY ARE YOU SO EXCITED TO READ THIS? WHEN YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT IM WRITING.
p.p.p.s. i'm assuming that you are writing something because I can hear your breath slowing down as you try to think of a response.
p.p.p.p.s you're talking to your mom and I'm guessing that you have to go sleep soon, so I will end my SHORT SHORT SHORT but very SIGNIFICANT blog post here so that you can listen to your mommy. KAY. see you tomorrow - or "hear" you on the phone ;)

--- The Scarf

On a chilly night in December, my brother was walking home from work. As he was casually passing by a store, a burly man appeared behind him and started to follow him. Unaware of the situation, my brother kept going. However, he started to feel uneasy and hesitantly peered over his shoulder. There was a man, very conspicuous in his bright yellow coat. My brother noticed the man's dogged gait and started to sweat, uncomfortable of the strange man's appearance. Suddenly, the man called out. My brother, clearly nervous, walked towards the man, and when he stood face to face with the bulky man, the guy cheerfully said, "You dropped your scarf on the ground!"

-- My 11 minute poem with Jenneefer :)

Topic given by Jennifer: Walking through a forest in winter

Step by step, I gracefully walk forward,
white snowflakes dancing in the sky,
On I go, gradually climbing upward,
and look down to the world to say goodbye

Here I am, holding hand to hand with my lover,
snow flakes gently landing on our heart,
we kiss as our souls beautifully hover,
for this is the last time before we part

--- I have nothing to talk about

I am infront of my computer, looking absently out the window. I have nothing to talk about. I have nothing to say. I have nothing to blog about. So... why are you still reading this?

My blue bear (:

:D
be happy!

--- My 10 pm snack

So, I'm eating like a pig these days. Why? To gain weight, obviously! I have too many people grabbing my wrist and saying, "You're so skinny. You should eat more Suzy!" Older friends of mine have started to comment about my body too. I don't take these comments as insults because they are not as hurtful as "Why are you so anorexic?" I am not anorexic because I accept the fact that I am, indeed, skinny. I don't stand in front of the mirror, think that I am extremely overweight, and refuse to eat. Instead, I try to eat more and I check my weight constantly to see if I have made any improvements. So, if you know me personally, don't ask the stupid question: Why are you so anorexic?

Getting back on topic: My 10 pm snack. I looked through my baking/cooking books yesterday night to pass the time and I came across this wonderful picture of a trifle:



Immediately, I started craving for a yummy serving of trifles! However, when I checked my kitchen cabinets, I realized that I had no biscuits or whipping cream or almonds. But that didn't stop me from making my own trifle. I quickly grabbed the two end parts of bread, the 400g Original Philadelphia cream cheese that was on sale in Costco, some strawberries, blackberries and of course, a handful of "Honey Bunch of Oats." In less than one minute, I created my cream from cream cheese, mixed with sugar and vanilla extract. Next, I diced strawberries into small cubes and placed them in a small bowl along with blackberries. What was my next step? The Great Assembling. First, I cut a circle out from the bread and placed it on the bottom of a small glass bowl. Next, I spread the cream on top and sprinkled the cream with colorful berries. Then, another circularly-cut bread followed with another gentle spreading of the cream topped with berries. I then proceeded to placing the cereal and small bread cubes on top. And voila! My 10 pm trifle snack was ready! I digged in and as short as it took to make this simple snack, I devoured this goodness in less than one minute ;)

--- "SUZY! THE OVEN'S BURNING!?!"

So, I realized that I haven't blogged in a very long time. Therefore, to make up for the absence of my posts, I shall give you a very long and yummy update! Not so many days after Kyleen and I made the hot chocolate pots by Nigella Lawson, I went on to make cream puffs with chocolate sauce on top. I don't know if I should call that chocolate eclairs because I combined two different recipes for the "cream puffs with chocolate sauce on top." I used the puff pastry recipe from Keiko, and the chocolate sauce recipe from this really adorable old lady on youtube. Hey, I don't know her name okay? Anyway, the end results looked like this:

These delicious looking cream puffs hold a very special story within each of them. You see, I thought that I could place wax paper in the oven as substitution for aluminum foil. Wax paper looks so much prettier as a decoration than aluminum foil, you know? But, when my brother went inside the kitchen to cook himself some instant noodles, he yelled, "YO, SUZY! WHY IS THE OVEN BURNING?!?" He could have said, "Suzy? There is smoke coming out of the oven!" but obviously he was freaked out too and decided to exaggerate the situation so much more than it was. "Why is the oven burning?!?" That made me jump inside the kitchen to rescue my cream puffs. (I'm sorry bro (: My babies seemed more valuable than you at that moment). You are not supposed to open the oven for even a second when you are baking puff pastry. UNFORTUNATELY, I had to take them out for 10 minutes to get the smoke out of the oven. One third of my puff pastry was all wrinkly and the pastries shrunk. Rapidly. In the next fastest 10 minutes of my life, I quickly transferred the pastries from the cookie trays into another oven-safe pan. Then, I shoved them all into my mini oven and baked them for about 15 minutes. Luckily, they began to rise again (hmm... so much for the "you're basically f***ed if you open the oven when baking puff pastries!!) and when I took them out of the oven, they actually looked pretty good. However, the baked puffs did not have enough space for whipping cream inside of them, so I decided to make "cream puff sandwiches." My cream puff sandwiches basically had a puff as the bottom base, whipping cream as the middle part, another puff as the top, and finally, the chocolate drizzle to finish them up. The sandwiches tasted pretty awesome!! And I also learned a very valuable lesson from that day: Never put wax paper in the oven unless you want your brother to start screaming, "THE OVEN'S BURNING!!"

--- Chocolate Hot Pots with Kyleen (:

If you have already read Kyleen's blog, you should know that I am obsessed with Nigella Lawson's recipes. Kyleen mentioned that most of Nigella's food exist for the reason of "express cooking" or "fast cooking" and that Nigella's recipes are unhealthy and fattening. But, let me tell you something. They taste so good that I changed her mind by the time our chocolate hot pots came out of my mini oven. In the beginning she said that she would not eat it. Well, she did. And she said it tasted good :D

We made these yummy chocolate hot pots as our reward after three hours of torture in the library, studying for our science exam. All the hard work paid off because after Kyleen took many "professional-looking" pictures of our master "food" work and ate my chocolate hot pot, she said: "This makes me happy. Thank you" Wow, girl. When you said that I had "butterflies" in my tummy :)

If you want the recipe, go to Kyleen's blog: http://www.sixteenbeans.blogspot.com/, but meanwhile, why don't you spend a good minute drooling over these delicious pictures?