lavanderblues

Sunday, January 15, 2006

hmms the week's been interesting... getting back to sch, seeing all the familiar faces again... trying to get down to some work here and there hopefully... heehee... went out somewhat.

was reading the sunday times today, and i was pretty surprised by the article in the investing section. this taiwanese lady, who happens to be unemployed, used her credit card to make some profit, abt NT1million if i didnt remember wrongly. WOAH. that's smart ass man. like she used her card to spend abt NT3million on shopping vouchers (that can be refunded for cash), chalked up like a zillion points from the credit cards, used these pts to redeem 20 first class air tickets to US, and sold the air tickets online for NT45k i think. my head is still reeling from those numbers. but i think she makes the profit from the airtickets. and can get the shopping vouchers refunded anw, so there's no issue. im just wondering, with exhorbidant credit card interest rates, how does she get the capital to pay up for the shopping before the vouchers can be refunded? ok maybe i dont quite understand how this thing works. hms.

ohoh last wk, jan 4th, was my daddy's bday! i baked this ultra delicious choc cake for him on the day before. haha he was amazed that when he put his fork to the cake, to cut it, hot gooey chocolate oozed out! hahaha... nice surprise eh? =P served it with butter pecan ice cream and cherries as below:

looks v black la. cos the cake was dark brown cos there was a crispier crust on top covering the gooey chocolate centre. and the cherries are black cherries (tt my daddy likes hehe) he finished the whole thing!

heehee... and i had alot of extra batter left, so i baked the rest for a longer time in another ovenproof plate. baked it longer this time so there was less soft chocolate centre that oozed out, so tt the cake can keep longer. but i was so proud of how moist the cake was =P hahaha...

ohoh and my erm improvisation for a bain-marie! haha i didnt have one to melt chocolate in, so i just floated a bowl in a pot of water. it turned out a little disastrous cos as i added more choc and butter inside to melt, the bowl got heavier and erm sank till a little water splashed in. BAH. but thankfully that didnt have any detrimental effect on the cake =P sinful la.. for those bits of cake u saw, 2 entire bars of premium dark choc went into it and almost one whole slab of butter. bah.

baking is soo fun. been browsing food blogs lately, and my hands are simply itching to try out some of the recipes i found there lately hahaha... =P cny coming up soon! so maybe i'll get to bake again =)

lin~*
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