of grapes and chocolate cakes

sidetrack: eehh, i can read yuta's blog! i can read yuta's blog!! (well, a bit...)

i was thinking of baking a grape cake (when i do i'll tell you why) but it's uncle's birthday and i can't risk another failure...so i baked a chocolate cake, butthis cake doesn't seem very birthday-ish either, don't you think?

the cake is mainly made up of dark chocolate and butter (two sticks)


melt the butter and melt the chocolate in the butter


add a cup of sugar and stir


it's beginning to look like fondue


add 5 eggs and 1Tflour, well combine and pour into pan
bake at 180C for 25 min


yummy batter


it's supposed to crack on top and fall when it comes out of the oven. the centre is supposed to be wobbly, but mine wasn't. maybe the oven too hot?


the batter tasted quite nice (well, it's chocolate, butter and sugar)
i hope the cake tastes good. i should make a simple sponge next time, and decorate it for birthdays, rather than try rich cakes like this. this isn't really birthday like! haha

recipe here

i watched 2012 on the family laptop with sis last night. we used the laptop cos the tv is kaput. i kind of like it. i felt it was right that mankind should face the end with an act of kindness rather than cruelty.
very nice
also, i realize my smallness in the world at large...i believe that if it were the end of the world, and if anyone had to decide who was to live and who was to die, i wouldn't survive at all! haha

also, i am brought back to the lesson i learned back in year1sem1: that humility and passion is the strongest virtue of any architect. although an architect may need a certain amount of ego to fight for their ideas, the best architect, the one who will stand the test of time, is a humble one.

just like i realized in year two my mistake that an architect does not read, on the contrary, the more he reads and widens his knowledge, the stronger and more meaningful his designs will be.

well, when i saw all those famous and beautiful buildings go down, the collapse of infrastructure...well, never was the feeling stronger of the futility of what i do. but still, i love what i am doing, and people really do have to live in some sort of shelter :p