Graduation!~

I am now an official TCHS graduate. No longer a high schooler.

Since my graduation was decided late, my cap and gown had to be ordered late. It barely made it on time after several mishaps! I got to see mine today for the first time. It felt somewhat weird but thrilling.
The whole commencement ceremony went well, much to my surprise. BUt sadly, I don't get to keep it. All but the tassle.
Singing "Oh Happy Day" with Aimee, Myoungeun, Grace, Hannah, and Heather went well. It went nice considering the fact that we'd only practiced together once under hectic conditions (a.k.a the crowded bathroom and a barely audible audio).
My short "speech" was... well... ha ha. At first, I had to pull down the mic because it was too high up for me. Then I had to stop myself from rambling on a few times. xD But it still went well. And a friend even said he liked it because it sounded like me. :)
There was an award giving time after and I got like... three! Teehee. One for being a T.A., one for being on the student council, and one that was a "distinguished christian high school student award." Now isn't that something? Teehee
The commencement address was great too.

When it was all over, I had to take a million pictures with a million people and say thank you to the million people that congratulated me. Ok, it wasn't a million.. more like about 100 but... ya, when you have a splitting headache and nausea... it's really not a fun thing. So anyway. I made it to the food tables right after the stampede.. but all i could scavenge were carrot sticks, a tiny pastry kinda thing, and a tiny little chocolate thing. Then it was more pictures and congratulations.. blahblahblah etc.

We finally made it out of there but I was on the verge of screaming because of my headache. At home, I thought my brain was going to explode. But all's well, I took Iburprofen and a bowl of spicy ramyun. Now I'm feeling fine and blogging away like no tomorrow. Tis almost midnight too! Oh but what the hey, tomorrow's a no-class day. heehee *evil laugh*
So anyway, here ends another one of my seemingly endless rants.

Amazing Brownie Recipe

A few months ago, I was browsing online for HOURS trying to find a viable, made-from-scratch recipe for chewy brownies. To no avail, I was otherwise unable to strike gold. However, this one recipe that I picked up while on the search proved to be somewhat close to the texture I had yearned for.
Unfortunately, I lost the website and am incapable of crediting the owner of this recipe. But thanks to whoever you are! (Note: I do believe that I skimmed some other recipes from different sites that had almost the same ingredients and processes involved but I don't think I want to worry about that too much.)


INGREDIENTS:
1 cup [225 grams] butter
16 tablespoons [1 cup] cocoa powder
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup flour

THE BROWNIE:
1. Pre-heat oven, and floor the bottom and sides of a reasonable-sized baking pan.
2.At a low heat, melt the butter in a saucepan.
3. Sift the cocoa powder into the melted butter and mix well.
4. In a large mixing bowl, beat the sugar and eggs until fluffy.
5. Add the salt, baking powder, and vanilla extract into the large bowl and mix.
6. Mix in the butter and cocoa mixture into the large bowl and mix.
7. Add the flour last and mix thoroughly.
8. Pour in the batter into the baking pan and spread it out evenly.
9. Bake for 25-30 minutes at 350 degrees or until toothpick comes out clean.
10. Enjoy!

NOTES:
-If you do not have butter, you can substitute with margarine. But when I did that, I realized that the taste was much different than what I would have gotten from the butter.
-Once, I forgot to add the flour, but the result was rather enjoyable!
-I am not confident in the number 350 up there. I use a gas oven, so I looked around and threw in the most common temperature available because I couldn't say, "...bake it at a 2-3cm, blue flame and adjust according to whatever conditions your oven might be prone to."

Holy moly!

But it's started again.
It's just so hard to breathe.
I feel like there's a huge, gaping, abyss inside my heart... slowly bleeding out fear.
Laughter bursts out of my very lips, masking the brewing dread within.
Yet, a light of hope and promise slowly drags me out of this misery.
Days leak away as seconds sift through like sand.
The churning storm of excitement and confusion thunders and bolts of seclusion fly out
Hour by hour, this beating source of life grows heavier and heavier...

:O

In thirty days I will be a TCHS graduate!! EEEk!!!