To survive without an oven

[ausare]

今日はメッチャ寒いな~
きょうはメッチャさむいな~
Kyou wa meccha samui na~
It's super cold today~
(Surprise, surprise. After 10 long years of procrastination, I'm honestly taking the initiative to learn more than spoken Japanese.)
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So I attempted to make a 'Cake in a Mug'.

Considering my sparse past experience with baking things, this can't be too difficult to achieve.

My sister helped me with oiling the insides of the mug and sieving the flour. Because younger sisters are for bullying.
*Am evil*

The other ingredients are mixed~

And the brown alien goo becomes a molten mixture

In the microwave oven. Before and After.
(Mug is ugly. Ignore the flower print.)

Cadbury Drinking Chocolate. Cheapest alternative that I can find. Heh.
I didn't dare wait directly in front of the microwave oven because of the radiation. I'm not too fond of cooking my liver just yet. So there're no photos of the cake rising and sinking.

The other end of the cake. Looks kind of fungus-ish.

Cake dissected!

I don't have cream at home, so it's Hershey's Syrup instead.

Looks nice? Mouth-watering?
It was hard. SOLID-HARD.
I had a hard time (pun not intended) cutting it open, and it was difficult to chew.
The chocolate sauce helped, though.

Maybe I should use some milk next time. Perhaps a little less oil. Or just take it out of the microwave oven immediately instead of listening to my paranoid inner voice screaming that "It might not be done yet!"

Recipe here.

Watch the videos! Especially the second one! It was so amusing. My sister and I had a knee-jerk-esque laughing reaction to it.
 

And also,

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Throughout my one-and-half month holiday, I've been beta-ing lausi_gm's CSI:Miami fanfiction. It's just something I've taken up during the holiday, which I know would be impossible to find a part-time job in the very short time period, and slacking away at home can lose it's attraction. Yes, it can. True story.

I've never beta-ed another person's fanfiction before, but it was interesting nonetheless.

A major part of the reason why I volunteered myself to beta is because, and I realised this halfway through this self-project, it helped me cut down on my tendencies to procrastinate. I'm just too skilled at procrastination, and I know there will be that one time when I will be just a second too late to submit an assignment for class and I'll be doomed to fail a module. Actually, I have been nearly late for my last major essay submission. It's was a very close call of 4 minutes, no thanks to the maddeningly slow uploading and file transferring speed.
*Grumbles*

Anyway. The fear and anxiety is something I do not want to experience again. I'm not good with anxiety—it only makes me even more anxious.

Coming back to the beta project, it was fun. Mostly because it meant I get to read new chapter updates earlier than the rest of the people in the community. HAH. Also, knowing that someone is waiting for me to finish my job, and that dozens of readers are depending on me to speed things up so that they can be saved from cliffhangers, are good reminders to myself not to be too lazy. Let's hope this takes effect on my school assignments when the new semester starts.

Oh, and I think I have a Samaritan-complex. I get an odd sense of happiness when I know I'm doing something for another person. I am so weird.

Go support lausi_gm's Picking Up the Pieces!

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以上、Chii です。