Exams are over. So what?

Why hello world,

My exams are OVERRRRR. Awesome,right? You would think I would feel liberated and want to paint the town red but I don't. For some reason, this summer seems different. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I am starting a 3 month internship from next Monday. Maybe I have not ended my school term on a good note. Maybe, maybe not. Who knows.

Well today I went to catch Iron Man 3! It was a free ticket too but too bad I did not manage to catch the last scene! I googled when I got home and there was one!! Which means I have to go again, I must. After the movie, I immediately went back home and decided to cook dinner and bake...like a nice traditional wife should....BUT IT SUCKED. hahahaha. Seriously. Let me show you what I made:

Oh my God...wow... It's a f*cking sandwich.

Looks amazing? Let me tell you, my mum was forcing herself to swallow half the sandwich. I guess it's the raw out-of-can tuna aversion which everyone in my family loathed and I can't blame them. Honestly, I hated it too. It was pretty fishy (<---unintended pun !!! *pats self on back,* good job Shanaaz, good job) Anyways, what I learnt from this is... Instagram is an amazing photoshop tool. This looks attractive but sure as hell doesn't taste as good as it looks.

 Apart from that, I also learnt that adding beans to your tuna does not make any difference..any freaking difference. Fo' sho'(<--gangsta'..alright I will stop). Neither does lemon. Really. Would I make this again? I might because I need to finish up the beans and another can of tuna. Pffft.

After I made this atrocious dinner, I baked. Due to my financial circumstances and baking depression (that I get whenever some cupcake/cake/pie/cookie does not turn out right), I cheat-baked. I bought instant. I pretended to be fucking Betty Crocker and baked. You might say to me -"Hey Shanaaz, that's okay. The cakes will turn out nice and you will feel good" and add a semicolon and a closing parentheses at the end to make me feel better.

Well, I didn't feel better.

The cupcakes I made sucked. I don't know why either. I try and try but seems like I am getting worse and worse at this baking thing. People say practice make perfect. Evidently, it is not applicable to me because I am abnormal. Damn it. (WHY GOD WHY).

However, I have not tried frosting from a can in a looong time. It's not too bad. I might get one of these bad boys whenever I am depressed and dip chocolate chip cookies into it. *Bookmarked* My mind.. bookmarked that thought...so that I.. yeah.. okay. You get the point.

Well, a stupid bug has flown into my room now. That's why I always close my windows in my room- No one ever understands why. Gawd. So annoyingg. Alright, bimbo Shanaaz seems to be crawling out as well. I would say I am going to head to bed-but I am not. I am just going to lie down and google/youtube weird facts that I want to know...or a good tuna sandwich recipe.

Till then...Good Night.

I'm ALIVE..sort of--> Failed Confetti Cupcakes

HIHIHI.

I don't know who I am even talking to but hello.

It has been a crazy. hectic semester like all the other semesters. I make it sound like I am relieved that school is over but bitter truth is.. it is NOT. I have got 2 more research papers due and exams start on 15th April !!

So the moment the last presentation was over, I did what I felt I had to do.

I baked.

Just like the checkerboard cookies--they were a failure. I don't even know why I do this but I still do. I guess it is because I like rainbows...and unicorns. What? Yeah. Okay.

Sue me-I cheated today and even then it was baadddd :(

You would think since I used an instant cake mix, this would turn out to be a success. Well guess what, the cake mix cover lies... LIES. Grrrr. Anyways, I made these a bit different, I added nonpareils/ hundreds and thousands (Big whoop). In the first batch, the cupcakes looked like they had an early stage of rainbow chicken pox. As shown below: (<--been writing reports)

uh.. because this would be an artistic angle. 

Before....

After...wheeeee

This batch was not very colourful. Heartbroken, I was. Whoa-Yoda came out of no where. I digres (again). I had to add more of the nonpareils and you have to make sure you STIR. Don't ever EVER mix it alot- then you will get a brown cupcake. Why? Well, it's kind of like if you take all the paint colours and mix it in one paint can? Yeah, that colour you get? That would be the colour of your cupcake. Just don't mix.

Looks like it still wasn't enough, even after adding more of the nonpareils..!!

 You see the problem here is not the cake! It's that DAMN frosting!!! I wanted to make a vanilla butter cream frosting:

Looks amazing, right? Looks professional? Well, it tastes like diabetes in a bowl . It was way way way way too sweet!!!  Actually, the whole purpose of this baking session was to try the new piping tool my mum got from NTUC and it was pretty useful. See:

Look at that peak--LOOK AT IT.. IT'S FREAKING PEAK. 

After this, I went to sit down and reflect about life. It's crazy how a bad baking session can pull me down... very badly. Evidently. Like what's wrong with me? Okay...that's a whole new different post. Eventually, my sister came back home and she told there was cream cheese so I just blended it together. However, the frosting became a glaze-it became too THIN.  There was no point using the piping tool.

After which, I was forced to clean up :( grr hate that part.

Well I just realised I only had 3 hours of sleep the night before and I am still awake! gooddjobshandfadlkaf;jlz

Haha. Kidding. (Am I?)

Alright,

Good Night!