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read between the lines
cake bake 2 it's amazing what sleep, or the lack of sleep can do. slept all day and all evening today, and i finally feel so...rested. and less crappy about life. actually life's been way crappier before so i shouldn't have been complaining. anyway i have no idea how i'm going to catch up on the backlog of updates, but i suppose it'll give me ample chance to practise keeping things to the point, haha.it's just that everytime i summarise, it feels like i haven't painted the whole picture, so it could be interpreted less accurately and in many more ways than if i had narrowed the thing down and gone into specifics. but just like conversation, i am learning that sometimes people don't really need to hear the whole thing...and if they want to they'll ask (most times). guess it's just how i was brought up...my mom is more accustomed to telling a long story to an answer instead of going through the shortcut.  first up today is my second cake-baking session with my aunt on 26 november. this time i decided to progress to a marble cake -- she said the only difference is it has more colours, but i'd like to believe the cocoa, vanilla and raspberry colourings i mixed in added more flavour to the cake. we didn't burn it this time, and at least now i was prepared to work out and really use my arms, but apparently i was still too slow in my beating (creaming would be a more polite term)...especially when it came to adding the eggs. so in the end my aunt had to add flour in between egg additions even though she wasn't supposed to (until all the eggs had been added). the cake was more well-received than before -- it was finished up faster by my family -- so that must mean i did a good job of it, haha. other than the cake-baking, i did get to chat with my aunt and bond a bit more. i also took the time (while waiting for the cake to finish baking) to play with the big, lanky dogs my family gave to her, suki and simon. unfortunately, i did not bring my palm -- another missed photo opportunity. suki and simon were part of a litter that the dog across my street gave birth to, second time round. unfortunately some sadistic jerk threw acid all over her later on and she died early, while two of her puppies got run over by a car and the rest of suki and simon's brothers had to go to a church uncle's animal shelter (the uncle always says he can't remember them so i can only hope they ended up in good homes).i have old photos of them though -- they look totally different as small puppies and now humongous, really rough and strong dogs. s  eriously, they get so excited when i walk into their enclosure that they stand up and scratch, shove or even bite my fingers (suki does that when i'm trying to push her down) with love. haha. by the way, that's simon's head at the grill; he has these funny brown markings where his eyes are, like someone covered in yellow ochre paint punched his eye sockets, haha. that's the only combo picture i have of them as grown dogs...the ones that show more of them are individual...which i'll have to show some other time.
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