midterm

delete a person. like in the matrix, where they delete the keymaker.

inventive

recently it was all about cinnamon.

whole-wheat cinnamon buns, peter reinhart.
in order to get more swirling per bun, i rolled the dough much bigger than specified. but i didn't up the filling, and so the result was not sweet enough =( but i like the icing; i used vanilla seeds in them.

chocolate cream puffs, dorie greenspan and rose levy beranbaum.
i like using beranbaum's cordon rose choux pastry, because it clears up more egg whites than yolks. and there are always whites lying around. and i like using greenspan's chocolate pastry cream because it's very no-fuss. i'm starting to enjoy using the icing set that sonya/clara/tiffany sent a few years ago.

schnecken, nigella lawson.
pecans can be so hard to find. and then the supermarket fails you further by not stocking walnuts even. so i tried macadamias. and they turned out scrumptious anyway. i lke this recipe a lot because the bread is easy to handle. it doesn't stick, and you can really roll it out big if you have patience. sprinking the cinnamon sugar over it, then rolling it up. slicing it is like a dream, and then the rest is just waiting for the puffing and the baking and the eating.

on time

on valentines' day, when you are trying to find a place for dinner, that's when you realise that couples are all cheaping out. which couple queues for swensen's, manhattan, din tai fung etc. on valentines' day?!

and then age becomes just a number. hopefully the number doesn't change anymore.

告白

we're always looking for the perfect couple. the couple that falls in love at first sight. but does it really happen like that?

i think, it's like two molecules trying to collide in the correct orientation, out of the million possible orientations.

more pertinently, a wrong confession at a wrong time seems to end everything.

no resolution

and just like that, one month of 2011 has passed. i am loving differential equations, but not so much managerial accounting. i guess once varsity life starts it's the end of a disordered, haphazard one. (overall entropy decreases. so it is very unspontaneous and thus requires a lot of energy to carry out the process.) time passes in blocks of seven days. and before you know it 52 blocks have passed and you're yet another year older.