go LONDON go

london is gonna host the 2012 olympics.... for the third time!!!! apparently paris lost to london by a mere 4 votes. wooohhooo!!!! actually, i'm not rooting for a particular country. if paris wins, the title will be "go PARIS go". :P

i'm all home alone. gonna stay tis way till midnight since other half is working the full shift today. tis morning, i was the virtuous other half to my other half as i packed tomato & spinach spaghetti, a peeled orange & a kiwi and soothing homemade honey & lemon drink (i hear u go how difficult can that be?!?!? HA!) for him to bring to work. hey, thats quite a good effort considering that i'm such a lazy bum lately. :P

other than displaying my culinary skills that is actually nothing to boast abt, i went on to do what a virtuous woman would do..... the laundry. yeah, so to say, all most women are virtuous since most women and including men now cook and do the laundry. okay, enough of me trying to act virtuous. :P since a few days ago, other half has been serving me like i'm a spoilt brat. filled my water bottle, made sure i had my medicine, boiled me chrysanthemum tea, lemme sleep all i wanna. now that i've recovered and m well, no more bumming ard but my turn to take over the baton.

xcolatl or chocolatl or chocolate

non-coffee drinkers will know tis. hot chocolate is possibly the only hot drink (other than tea) that can be ordered over a catch up session with friends. there was one semester where i flocked ard tis incredibly niiiiiiccccce group of uni friends cum neighbours. they're avid coffee lovers. so much so that they must have at least one a day. CinC and her latte, CC and his cappuccino, and pot and his mocha (he does change sometimes though mocha most of the times... he reasoned he wants to try everything which is fair enough). as for me, jus like them, i've my usual and that is HOT CHOCOLATE. for the record, i cant drink coffee. i'm caffeine intolerant. my knees go wobbly and wind accumulates in my stomach when i take the rich aroma drink. so sad right? anyway, my purpose is to share a hot chocolate recipe that is not too sweet (hot chocolates these days are so sweet that i've switched to drinking my alternative earl grey). the following steps is for 1 cup of hot chocolate.

1. finely chop or grate 30 grams of dark chocolate or if u use lindt excellence, u can go for 1 square of the whole slab. preferably use chocolates that contain 60 to 70% cocoa solids. anything higher might be too bitter for your liking. place the chopped chocolate in your mug.
2. simmer 1 cup of milk. watch the fire, dont burn the milk.
3. pour a lil of the hot milk over the chocolate and stir until the chocolate is melted before pouring in the rest.
4. there u go, the way the ancient aztecs of mexico drink their hot chocolate: dark, bitter, unsweetened.

NOTE: all coffee, tea and hot chocolate contain caffeine but coffee top the list. comparing 65-175mg of caffeine (ranging between brewed or instant) in coffee and 14mg in hot chocolate. we're talking 8 ounces (a cup or if its helps, 227g) of the drink.

london blasts

gosh, jus saw on news that there were 6 blasts in central london. on top a double decker bus and in the subway. has it got anything to do with london winning the bid to host 2012 olympics? or the fact that the G-8 summit is underway in scotland? another terrorist attack? it is frightening to know that mankind is making a statement through destroying its own. tacky or clich茅 it may sound, we should wish for world peace.