Friday, November 08, 2013

Cupcakes.

HJE    5:16:00 PM    No comments

CUPCAKES

More specifically, Devil's Food cupcakes.

Staying at home can be quite boring, especially during the holidays. I've done almost everything I planned on doing, I've slept long enough hours, and I've wasted many hours doing useless stuff. 

I figured it's time I changed that and do something more.. productive and enlightening.

I love to bake stuff. I've baked red velvet cupcakes once last year, baked chocolate chip cookies twice this year and unfortunately I failed (they were too soft for my liking). Baking brings joy to a person like me who, has a sweet tooth and spends countless hours on youtube watching other people bake cupcakes, cakes, cookies, pies - you name it. 

It's time I get baking too, instead of watching others have fun baking desserts while I sit in front of the laptop screen feeling both hungry and miserable.

After spending way to much time searching for a recipe which is not only easy to do but also has a tasty outcome, I've finally found the recipe I needed.

||I'm going to be using pillsbury devil's food cake mix instead of making the cupcakes from scratch. The purpose of this post is to save everything I researched for future references.||

Ingredients
Cupcakes:


1 3/4
cups devil's food cake mix (about 1 2/3 cups)
1/2
cup water
1/4
tablespoons vegetable oil
1
egg

Frosting:


  • 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks or ½ pound), softened (but not melted!) Ideal texture should be like ice cream.
  • 3-4 cups confectioners (powdered) sugar, SIFTED
  • ¼ teaspoon table salt
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • up to 4 tablespoons milk or heavy cream


SERVINGS: 12


LINKS to the cupcake & buttercream recipes:



I'll be making these next Monday.

Until then, back to watching Youtube videos.. ∞


UPDATE 8|8|2014: Ah, I remember that day when I baked these cupcakes.
Instead of using vegetable oil, I used peanut oil and it resulted in the cupcakes having a hint of peanut flavour in them which made them sort of non-appetizing. As for the buttercream.. yeah, we failed at making the buttercream too. 


Tuesday, November 05, 2013

And the award goes to... Girls' Generation!

HJE    1:30:00 AM    No comments

#YTMA

So guess what I'm going to be talking about today.

Need a hint? It has something to do with Girls' Generation owning western fandoms' asses during the YTMAs.

Now, whenever I wake up, the first thing I do is... open my eyes. Lol.

 On a serious note though, AFTER I open my eyes and brush my teeth and all that stuff you do in the mornings, I go on twitter to be up to date on things that i've missed while I was sleeping.

Imagine waking up to a fanwar between western fandoms and the kpop fandom.
It was a really displeasing sight to see tbh because us kpoppers seriously don't need to take this bullsh*t from them. The racist comments, the negative energy, the "girls' generation who?" jokes, everything, just EVERYTHING.

So here's what I have to say about this situation (Although I'm not a Sone): SNSD won fair and square. WHY? Because sones united as one and voted for "I got a boy" in hopes that their goddesses would win.
Instead of being arrogant assh*les and ASSUMING that their idols would win, they voted and voted and voted and SNSD eventually won in the end. (Whilst some lazy asses are out there complaining their butts off.)

Ya' know what they say, "United we stand, divided we fall". THAT's what makes a fandom. That line is something fandoms should take note upon because if the people in the fandom aren't united, they might as well crumble overtime and fall apart. If you guys can't be united and vote for let's say Justin, 1D or Gaga TOGETHER then it's not a surprise they didn't win.

 ||hehe, what's funny is that if you take away the 3 million votes from snsd, they'll still win anyways||

And just so you know, claiming that YTMA is rigged is just stupid and childish. It's obvious you don't want to admit that your little wittle artists aren't as good as the non-American singers.

Boo-Hoo GET OVER IT.

Here's a tip: try VOTING as a united fandom next time k? 
It's not our fault your fandom sucks at voting.

//ugh I'm ranting and ranting and I forgot half the things I wrote lol. There may be some irrelevant things up there plus some grammar mistakes but I'm too lazy to read it over because it's 1.30 in the morning and I just had to get this off of my chest before I sleep.

I wanna sleep with peaceful thoughts.

Since I'm so sleep deprived I guess I should end this here but I MAY come back to edit this post and hopefully whatever I write then will make more sense than whatever I wrote up there.

If you're offended then Boo-Hoo, I have the rights to say what I want to say and if you're going to bash me well then be my guest. 

Anyway, good night.//

 [UPDATE: unfortunately for me though, the need to rant has disappeared and when it does, I can't really write anything on that particular topic anymore. So, I guess I'll just leave this unfinished product here and hope that there won't be any articles like this in the near future.]

∞


Saturday, November 02, 2013

Things I need to buy in Japan

HJE    9:54:00 PM    No comments

LIST4JAPAN

Basically, this is a list of things I need to buy while I'm in Japan~

  • I found an Etude House in Tokyo = (Etude House B1F 3-38-1 Shinjuku, Shinjuku Lumine store in Shinjuku, Tokyo ) And since the things sold in Japan are usually a little cheaper compared to my country(EDIT: so my mom told me that Japan's stuff aren't cheaper if the stuff aren't made in Japan), I'm gonna be patient and wait till then to purchase Etude House's Rose Rosy Tint Lips in Before Blossom and/or After Blossom.
  • Green Tea Kit Kat(OUT OF SEASON) || Strawberry Kit Kat || Meiji white chocolate || Meiji Green Tea chocolate || Rilakkuma KitKat
  • Hopefully my mom forgets the whole "pokemons are monsters and you have been brainwashed" theory and allows me to buy an eeve or vaporeon figurine.
  • TOTORO.
  • Shingeki No Kyojin(?) / Kuroko No Basuke & Kanisame Hajimemashita(?) stuff for cousins in exchange for european/australian chocolate (yes I'm addicted to chocolate, don't judge me I'm underweight) x4
  • http://www.seriouseats.com/assets_c/2011/05/20110503-japanese-snacks-chocolate-meiji-petit-assortment-thumb-560x400-158007.jpg

-I'll update the list soon-

TO_BE_CONTINUED_________________

 UPDATE 8|8|2014: Looking back at this post, I've realised that I did manage to get a few of the items listed above such as:

  1. Green Tea Kit Kat at the airport at the VERY LAST MINUTE (THANK LORD FOR THAT) 
  2. Strawberry Kit Kat
  3. Meiji White Chocolate
  4. Shingeki No Kyojin x1
  5. Kuroko no Basuke x I don't remember how many
And that's about it.
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