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Wednesday 11 May 2011

The real cupcake

I already tweeted it earlier today, but I do not come away with not sharing it here too.
After getting up this morning I did some regular direction-less surfing around the net. I found this coincidently on YouTube and had to try it out:

Here is my slightly changed version of this chocolate-coffee cake:

2 spoons of sugar
2 spoons of all-purpose flour
a pinch of backing pouder
1 spoon of cocoa
1 egg
1 teaspoon of (raps) oil
1 teaspoon of coffee
plenty of hacked hazelnut

Simply give everything of the above list into a BIG mug and stir it completely until its fairly smooth. Then put it into the microwave for 2.5 minutes.

This recipe is totally impressive, it's simple yet tasty, it's quickly done (it was nearly faster than doing scrambled eggs and everything for breakfast) and it didn't even turn the kitchen into a mess, which is the normal result of me cooking. :)

What bothered me lately: since I try out various recipes from the English speaking world, I noticed how self-centred the shops around here are. Of course, when I try Japanese meals I am used to not finding the right ingredients in the local shops, but why do they not even sell chocolate chips ... you cannot make any nice chocolate cake without proper chocolate chips >.< (The only chance you have is to choke the chocolate bar yourself ... not nice) Also things like vanilla extract or various aromas. You just get that stuff, which is needed for the standard recipes from German cooking books. stupid

PS.: And yet I did cover another region in my Blog ^^

Tuesday 10 May 2011

Thats a kinda nice PI, isn't it?

Today I want to present to you an not so famous, but even better song. OK, you probably know already some part of it: It's a parody on the VERY famous "American Pie" originally written by Don McLean ages ago (in 1971!) and re-sung by many many people, including e.g. Madonna.

But the song I mean is different: its called "Mathematican Pi" and tells the (more or less) complete history of this all time fascinating number, which is so integrally bound to all round objects.
The authors of the Π-lyrics are Antoni Chan and Ken Ferrier. You can get the lyrics with the fitting cords here and if your to lazy to unpack your own guitar (or just not capable of playing it, like me) here is a nice simple Youtube video



So if you have somewhen come to the point, where you ended up in a gathering of Nerds, you most probably can gain their favour, if you begin this song. Plus upon memorizing it you get to lern the first 29 digits of π. (I know only 6 ... somewhat bad, I know)

Wednesday 4 May 2011

Another Status update

Hey everybody,
long time no see! And what a long time: I have written no entry for exactly one month now for various reasons. So I want to renter businesses with a couple of (random) status updates.

1.: The main reason for not writing (apart from missing subjects) is that I have THE final exams of a German school career just now, to speak exactly this week I had two written exams in German and Latin this week, and will have exams in maths and informatics next week. So I was somewhat busy with preps and stuff...
But what I want to say with all that: I am making big leaps towards the end of school, even though this is no sharp break for me as for others, since I am already in some way enrolled in university.

2.: Yesterday I had (as already mentioned) my big grade Latin exam, which means that this is the end. I probably will not have any bigger use of my knowledge of the Latin language for an extensive time. Or would have, but because I don't want to forget so easily (I really liked the subject in school) I came out of the bookshop with an exemplar of "Harrius Potter et philosophi lapis" (I hope you have guessed it's the 1st volume of Harry Potter in Latin language). It's somewhat fun to read, but also very wearisome to reed. So I probably wont read it until the end...

3.: The theatre club of my school,of which I am coincidently a member, has its long awaited première at April 18th. Even though you have probably either already heard of it somewhere else or you will not have the (logistical) chance to come to visit, I wanted to introduce that fact. For further information consult Facebook please, or ask me per comment/mail if you cant.

thats for now,
see you soon, hopefully on a more content-related subject