This week Jun and I made several late night trips down to the kitchen on the first floor in attempts to make jello. The first night i made regular old peach jello.
Over the summer, at CBC's appreciation night, one particular dish that stood out to me in particular was this milk jello thing. There was a layer of regular jello stuck to a milky layer of jello. Not only did it look cool, but it also tasted amazing....No doubt it made an impression on me. So i recalled this little impression the second night and feeling more adventurous, i tried replicating that milk jello without reading instructions first. Needless to say it was disastorous.
I checked online (which was something i should've done first) to see what i did wrong and FOR FUTURE REFERENCE TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO MAKE MILK JELLO:
DO NOT USE REGULAR MILK....funny things happen.
I found out that i was suppose to use evaporated milk as opposed to normal milk. Anyways, yesterday i locked down in my room for intense studying but today i was back in the kitchen more prepared and more determined. I've finally done it though: make milk jello...
Is it depressing that i want to make/come up with the coolest looking and most heavenly tasting Jello by the end of this quarter?
goal 1: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/cherylsmith75/IMG_1283.jpg
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The Better Side of Life (:
TOTALLY STOLE THIS FROM MICHAELS FACEBOOK: it was in my minifeed and i decided what the heck? lets click on it....best decision of my life (sad i know), it completely made my day. If this doesn't put a smile on your face i dont know what will:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY
Sunday, January 25, 2009
TTDICWUB
#7) watch Justin downstairs mix apple juice, sugar, and yeast in hopes that it will undergo fermentation and produce alcohol.
Today i broke Del Taco ):
Today i broke Del Taco ):
In Light of Procrastination
What I really need to be doing right now, is my research proposal paper...
And what I've noticed is that after such a long time of not posting, the one thing that would actually bring me to post is procrastination. I know I'm sucky and hypocritical because I'm always the one advocating everyone ELSE to post, but hey...i do try.
Writing is definitely my hardest class right now. I really have no idea what's going on and its only my hope that everyone else feels the same. Last week I was completely set on spending the entire quarter researching cacti. This week, I've changed my topic to dragon fruit. Random I know. But like i said, i really dont know what I'm doing. It's slightly easier, but not easy enough to make me jump for joy at completing the essay i really should be working on right now.
Today I wasted a lot of time trying to write up my essay. Near 5:30ish, my aunt and uncle picked me up to take me to a Chinese new year party with the relatives. Apparantly they go every year. The one reason i knew i didn't go before was becuase of location: Irvine. But later on in the night i found a potential new reasoning behind the fact that my parentals never mentioned Chinese new year partys around Chinese new year time. The night started out slow with the arrival of neighbors and unknown family members. My aunt brought out the beer and liquor and everyone became increasingly louder. Later on, i found out that it was tradition that every one with any musical knowledge was required to perform something in front of everyone. SOMEHOW, everyone knew i played cello and piano and SOMEHOW, a neighbor happened to have a cello equipped and ready for me to play. What are the odds? There was no escape and i knew it when i cowered at all the glowing red faces staring back at me insisting while i persisted. i havn't even touched my own cello since the beginning of summer so i badly butchered a song out of a provided suzuki book. Never again. Five minutes later they all broke out in drunken song as the karyoke machine was switched on. There is nothing better than listening to drunk asain people sing. *enter sarcastic joke here*. I was freed about half an hour later as a cousin(?) drove me back to UCI. We spent the majority of the ride trying to figure out how if at all we were related.
Now I'm back, trying to write this freaking essay. Someone shoot me please.
And what I've noticed is that after such a long time of not posting, the one thing that would actually bring me to post is procrastination. I know I'm sucky and hypocritical because I'm always the one advocating everyone ELSE to post, but hey...i do try.
Writing is definitely my hardest class right now. I really have no idea what's going on and its only my hope that everyone else feels the same. Last week I was completely set on spending the entire quarter researching cacti. This week, I've changed my topic to dragon fruit. Random I know. But like i said, i really dont know what I'm doing. It's slightly easier, but not easy enough to make me jump for joy at completing the essay i really should be working on right now.
We do "blogs" in writing. The difference between my blog in writing and this one, is that we're graded on it and are forced to write something constructive as opposed to my unintelligible rambling on this blog. I don't really consider that blog "mine" though becuase there's nothing really personal on it. Just things my teacher (hopefully) wants to hear. Not that THIS blog is THAT personal either....just things people probably WON'T want to hear, but things i wouldn't mind them hearing about. I don't think i make sense.
Our lastest blog in writing required us to try to persuade the reader to invest in a certain product. We got to choose between movies, books, shows....pretty much media stuff, stuff that would need commercials and advertisement in order to sell at all. I made up connections between a few facts that i knew behind the makings of Harry Potter and was surprised when i read some of the comments i had recieved. Apparantly i had convinced some of my fellow classmates to read Harry Potter. The first thing that ran through my head was, obviously they're just saying that becuase we're all forced to comment on two other peoples' blogs anyways. Second, I was pretty surprised that some people have not read Harry Potter. Obviously, it was really stupid of me to think that but i just have to say to those who have not experienced the Harry Potter sensation are definantly missing out.Today I wasted a lot of time trying to write up my essay. Near 5:30ish, my aunt and uncle picked me up to take me to a Chinese new year party with the relatives. Apparantly they go every year. The one reason i knew i didn't go before was becuase of location: Irvine. But later on in the night i found a potential new reasoning behind the fact that my parentals never mentioned Chinese new year partys around Chinese new year time. The night started out slow with the arrival of neighbors and unknown family members. My aunt brought out the beer and liquor and everyone became increasingly louder. Later on, i found out that it was tradition that every one with any musical knowledge was required to perform something in front of everyone. SOMEHOW, everyone knew i played cello and piano and SOMEHOW, a neighbor happened to have a cello equipped and ready for me to play. What are the odds? There was no escape and i knew it when i cowered at all the glowing red faces staring back at me insisting while i persisted. i havn't even touched my own cello since the beginning of summer so i badly butchered a song out of a provided suzuki book. Never again. Five minutes later they all broke out in drunken song as the karyoke machine was switched on. There is nothing better than listening to drunk asain people sing. *enter sarcastic joke here*. I was freed about half an hour later as a cousin(?) drove me back to UCI. We spent the majority of the ride trying to figure out how if at all we were related.
Now I'm back, trying to write this freaking essay. Someone shoot me please.
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