Posterous theme by Cory Watilo
lorelai Gilmore

it's nothing personal

besides being obsessed with *duh* gilmore girls, i am also obsessed with top chef. it gave me much knowledge of food and enabled both luke and i to be, what i believed, pain in the ***es at our food tasting.

doggie progress report day 1

it was all very spur of the moment. well, sort of. we bought a puppy back in August last year and was all excited to be parents only to be heartbroken when our pup caught puppy flu and passed away 2 weeks later while still in the farm. we went back to the farm and the breeder was all willing to push a border collie pup on us and that was when i got suspicious. if he truly was concerned that we brought the right dog home, we shouldn't be bringing a border collie to an apartment with 2 low energy adults. i was disappointed cause that made me felt there were no breeders i could trust in the area. well, i could potentially trust those that bred pedigrees but i probably wouldn't have been chosen since we weren't that familiar with dogs.

fast forward to december 2011, luke didn't get his spousal visa and we decided to shelf the doggie plans for later. it didn't make sense to get one apart when luke was the one who was better with dogs. then 2 weeks ago, a friend sent me a photo of an adorable 1.5 year old cocker spaniel and asked if i would be interested. initially, i wasn't but after looking at the photos a few times, i was smitten.

one of the reasons, i took roxy aka bones (she is really bony) in was because she was being mistreated by her owners. while they loved her, their lack of time spent with her has made her an anti-social and anxious dog. it was really hard not to worry about her problems but after seeing how she was suffering, i really wanted to bring her home and try to give her a more balanced and  discipline life. i want her to be happy and be able to enjoy the attention given by random strangers and other dogs.

i'm so glad that she's making progress at a pace much faster than i imagined. i might still engage a dog psychologist to help her become probably socialized but i would probably need less sessions than i thought. she's already sleeping well, walking in line with us most of the time and needing less time to get use to visitors. i'm constantly surprised by how fast she is changing from the anxious dog i first met. hopefully, we'll get her to be very lovable to all very soon.

 

Cake Pop Review

after reading a rather complicated recipe online on how to construct one of bakings latest fad - cake pops, i thought i'll try it out for a get together at some point.

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first i baked a red velvet cake

then i mashed it up

after that, i added cream chesses frosting to create a modable mixture

i made it into balls with a blueberry in each one

and finally dip each one into graham cracker crumbs followed by peppermint candy melt

verdict: the final product was not the version i was going for. the outer layer was supposed to be cheesecake but it got so difficult i gave it up completely. the recipe was so time consuming that it took me two days to make it. the taste was no little drops from heaven. all in all, a wastes of time and energy. what a disappointment.

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