Once Is Good Enough

It was both fun and not fun at the same time. I was my first time to a theme park and my first time on roller coasters and other assorted rides. And may be I should not have gone on the biggest rides in the damn park. Met this chick Nicole (got a few cool tats and piercings) and she seriously into rides and suggested we go on that one. BAD BAD IDEA. Aptly name the Scream we waited and waited then got finally strapped in. This is where it goes from bad to "OH FUCK". They lifted the rig to the top and then drop my sorry screaming ass 50 stories in a matter of seconds. Yes I am a pussy, wimp and a girl and screamed "OH FUCK, OH FUCK!!!". But I survived.


Then we went to the mother of all coasters...Biazzro. We waited and waited and waited. So I decided to kill time and engaged in conversation with Nicole; who, though she has been through what I call tough times, seems like a good soul. Anyway, finally got there, all strapped in and locked in place. Then they pulled up the carts up to the top and drop my screaming ass again and again and again. I hated the drops. I have no problem with the hard turns, the twists but you see those drops: FUCK THEM SIDE-WISE!!!!!. We played around the park for a while then came back.




I have co-vocation tomorrow...so I officially become a JWU student. HOORAY for me.

It's Actually Bigger Than I Thought

Yeah I finally got around to taking a picture or two of my living quarters for the next few months. The room itself actually quite larger than expected. My room mate (Kamal) and I live quite comfortably compared to people who live in quads. That shit is going to be hard. 4 persons to a room . Jah! Not me!

Definitely Going To Need A Bigger Fan!!!

Ok so yeah I am finally on the dorm. They room actually is not that small but I tell you it is fucking hot..I mean really hot. Outside on average is 90 F/ 35-35 C and I do not even sweat, but as soon as I got on the dorm I was dripping bloody sweat. Yeah I am in Room 200 in South Hall. And so far the people who are on dorm are international students. There is Kamal (my room mate for Malaysia), David (Jamaica), Mario (Portugal), and NaNu (I think that is how you spell it from Portugal). I also meet Eric (Taiwan), Andy (China). I also met some the RAs...but for the life of me I cant remember all their shitting names so for now it is going to be..RA person.

Some of us even went out for a night out in Providence..went to a place called UNO. Not doing that again....crazy stupid prices. Plus tip a plate of nachos came up to roughly $12 US. Fuck, right? Microwave pasta for me from now on.

That communal bathroom thing is going to get pretty crazy in a few days. Saturday is when the remainder of the internationals and normal folk enter onto Hall. Dred really don't know about that one. Anyway I guess I'll have to make it work.

So things I going to have to do.
1) Get some water and lots of it!
2) Get a BIGGER fan, because it is too stuffy and hot in this damn room. Did not sleep at all tonight.
3) Get some more pictures of Providence during the day and night.

Bye for now.

Providence Rhode Island

Ok so I am finally here..hopefully ready to start the next chapter in my life and all that jazz. Um so far Providence seems nice..everyone in the damn University is just too damn happy; like they are on some drug or the other. Have not really gotten the time to take too pictures. I have a few though. I hope to may be come into the city and roam about the city for a while. I have been driving around with the parents..you know getting everything for the dorm; fan, winter clothing and other shit. Oh I have been inquiring about the exchange program they have here (might go to France next year). Sweet, no?

Oh there are some serious Koreans here dred. Met one today actually, Jin. Pleasant fellow. He is on his third year of English and it is pretty distant.

I hope to update this every week. I hope.
Bye for now.

Wedding Cake Maker?

Yeah you read correctly. Finally got our outline for final exams. I have already got my idea but I'm not to sure if I should make two tiers out real cake (we have to have a minimum of one real cake). Oh well. I plan make a pound cake and fill the cake with raspberry curd and cover with chocolate buttercream.

The base colour is going to be ivory. On the bottom tier (10") it is going to be covered with white X's and silver dots. The second tier (8") is going to have silver dots and the last tier (6") is going to have white X's. The crown is going to have a bouquet of Calla Lilies and Light Pink Roses with their leaves and buds. Each tier is going to have a spray of you two lilies and a rose.

I have other cakes planned too. One for Mother's Day and My sister's and father's birthday. The birthday cake is going to be Topsy turvy I hope to have pictures up within the next two weeks. Mother's Day cake is going to be a small cake covered with green fondant and daisies.

Soon that is the 411 for now coming with picture soon. Happy baking everyone.

Iron Chef Prep

Well I was invited to join a team for an Iron Chef competition that is going to take place in school. I am a bit excited, I had to submit a final sheet on what I am presenting on the actual date. So on the menu would be:-
1) Dessert soup with a tangy citrus curd and strusel bottom
2) Pop'ems with raspberry sauce
3) Mini coffeecakes

It is going to be a trio displaying different ways to present the secret ingredient. So I have to come up a time sheet planning every half hour of my four hours. It is going to be fun. My mind is just running on what the damn secret ingredient is going to be.

For the time being I have to get some practice in before the real thing. So I have been working on my dessert soup, the first attempt was not really successful. I originally wanted to put a mousse instead of the curd but the mousse was not giving the tang I want so I changed to a curd instead. I will do the coffeecake pastry later in the week.

Oh plus I have pastry shop management to look at I have to try a brownie recipe, to find the yield and my food pictures are going up in school. Oh um.

Lastly I would like to thank the followers for the comments....duly noted.

Over-due

Indeed this has been overdue. I have been baking though. I have done a few projects well. So far I have done:
- Chocolate Bavarian Charlotte
- Mini Black Forest Cakes
- Cakes, Cobbler and even Crisp

The Charlotte was the most interesting. I finally got all the ingredients that I needed to make the damn thing. Most of it was actually made in the middle of the night. I made the cake base at 9 then the Bavarian Cream at 10 and around 12 I put the final thing together, it was kind of exciting actually I want to see what it would look like it the end because I did a design of the cake ring. After tasting I realized that the cake was too dry and I now detest Bavarian Cream (at least the recipe I used).

For the Mini Black Forest Cakes that was another cool one. I decided to use a moist chocolate that I got from my friend's mother. Bad choice though. The cake came out really great tasted good but I should have something more sturdy because I had to build the dessert; the constant moving kind of destroyed they look of the final product. The dessert comprised of a chocolate cake muffin soaked with some rum, cherry pie filling and whipped cream topped with chocolate shavings and cherry bits.
I have photos so you'll will get to see.

Finally the cakes, cobblers and crisps were done in school. The cake we had to do was shitting hard. It was a mousse cake and the mousse refused to set. So my partner as I caught our ass to put all the basic components together. And we did the cake started to slide...so we had to keep the damn thing in a collar all the time.