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I’ve arrived @ home two days ago, save and sound ^^ . Some bad experience occur during my trip home of course. I’ve always know that alcohol was never my best friend. So yeah, I took Singapore Airlines flight Melb-Sgp-Mdo this time, which gave me the privilege of having red/white wine as the drink option… To cut the story short, I decided to have a glass of wine or two.. well just to help me ease my airplane travel insomnia. LOL. First glass, still not quite relaxed yet, so I took the second one.. Now I feel alrite, feel more relaxed and a lil bit sleepy… (I don’t drink alcohol contained beverages regularly).. I almost fell asleep, when I feel the urge to use the lavatory…. no, not the BIG urge, the minor one. LOL. And then, when I was in the lavatory, I feel he bad combination of alcohol + weak alcohol tolerant nerve, and low/high cabin pressure…. I’m not drunk, but I want to puke… Strange, I only drink two glasses of wine, and I experience the same feeling when a few years ago, back to my partying days, I was drunk in a bar, fell under the table, and fell asleep in the toilet……… I almost unable to go back to my seat, LOL, and the only thoughts in my mind was, "Nooo, not now!! I don’t want to meet my parents with my face as red as steamed crab, and how am I going to take my luggage when I can’t even stand up straight" LOL. It was hilarious… But thank God, they do have fresh lime slices…. Fresh lime slices and water is my highlight of SQ’s service… LOL…….. So yeah, anyway, I feel better (and sober) right after the citrus extract flow through my system……

Nuff, with the amusing airplane trip experience. My update on my hometown:
- For you guys who have ever been to Manado, or came from Manado, you know how "big" our shopping mall is. Well, now we have another one, with size almost three times bigger than the old one (Yeah!), and with number of people shopping there five times as many as the old one. LOL… Well, not bad though, we’ll soon have Maccas, new 21 cinema (the old one is just nasty… Finding Neverland is still "coming soon", LOL ), and J Co Donut.
- Bread Talk, A & W, and Hypermart already open…
- Seafood pricing is getting worse, despite their fantastic taste and flavor.

Well, I guess those are all the updates here… Oh another ‘hot topic’ being discussed here is, the Mayor of my town/city is currently in Germany, watching the world cup matches, having said that he’s going to Amsterdam to address some investment talk there… So much for the future leader figure… Oh, and he paid the travel fee of one of the journalist from the biggest local newspaper to Germany to cover all the latest world cup news… So yeah, it was never on the newspaper. The funny thing is, people here wish that his face (the mayor) will get shoot and appear on TV screen when he’s watching one of the world cup match. LOL…

Deep Dark Chocolate Brownie with Macadamia nut

340 gr Semi-sweet/Dark Cooking Chocolate*
150 gr Unsalted Butter**
250 gr/ 1 1/3 cup Brown Sugar
4 egss
1 cup Cake Flour
120 gr Sour Cream
100 gr Macadamia nut
1 tsp Vanilla Powder

*) use 240 gr dark cooking choc if you want to add 100gr choc chip to your brownie
**)222gr Unsalted butter if you don’t have sour cream

Method:
- Butter parchment/cooking paper & dust with flour
- Melt chocolate, stir in butter until it is melted (Some people melt butter and chocolate together, I melt choc first and than add butter later to prevent burning the chocolate)
- Beat the butter n choc mix, beat in sugar, add egg one at a time. Beat until mixture lightens
- Blend in flour, vanilla powder. Do not overmix
- Blend in Sour cream and macadamia (n choc chip if u’re using any).
- Pour into baking dish/tray. Bake at 180°C (150°C if using non stick pan) for 30-35 minutes
- Cover pan with foil, bake again for 10 minutes. (or until the toothpick inserted come out clean)

Now, I’ve made this brownie several time, and have tried some variation with the recipe. But this recipe here is the one that gives me consistent result… LOL… I’ve actually tried to add a layer of cream cheese to the brownie. But it didn’t end up as how expected it would be…. T_T Still taste great though ^^

gtg… need to study for exam n finish my BIG IIP assignment……

PS: some picture of the brownie *it is blurry, cuz I use my mobile phone’s camera…

I dust the brownie with Icing Sugar….