Allow Me to Digress

Title’s not original though I wish I were the first one who’ve thought of that …that’s the title of the movie I just watched and I highly recommend it. Saw the trailer on clickthecity.com several months ago and I knew that’s one movie I shouldn’t miss.  I must have seen the poster under the "Coming Soon" sign but couldn’t recall knowing that it had been shown in cinemas here.  It should have been, for a couple of weeks probably, but I was way too busy to notice.

Ok but that was then.  Two nights ago my friend said she was watching "Little Miss Sunshine" and she said it was so funny. Then I remembered seeing the trailer of that movie last year, and again thought to myself "I would definitely watch this movie!" But I was far from civilization then so I didn’t get to watch it. 

Forgot about "Little Miss Sunshine" until my friend reminded me about it, so I watched the movie last night. It also led me to remember movies I’ve wanted to watch and now I’m back to the point where I started this entry before I started writing about how I got to watch the movie. (This is my free writing exercise so bear with me if you’re still with me - haven’t written for quite some time except on short entries on my journal which I plan to get rid of some time in the future.)

But so as not to put the first two paragraphs to waste I think I should give little explanation to my little story before I proceed to what I really had in mind when I clicked on "create a new post." You may skip this part if you deem it necessary and proceed to the next paragraph.  My point is, there are some things that one really wants at one point in his life but then he just doesn’t have time for it yet because of other priorities or circumstances, or maybe he doesn’t want it badly enough to put so much effort into it, just like me wanting to watch those movies. So one lets them go and forget about them, but then it doesn’t mean one stopped wanting what he has wanted before. Ok, not making sense anymore, nevermind hehe:) I should be getting back to the movie.

Paragraphs above are not related to what the movie is all about.  Let me just copy-paste the description of this movie:

"An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he
can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his
work, to his love-interest, to his death."

Read more here.

Writing movie reviews is not my talent (typing fast is one of my talents in case you wonder what talents I actually have haha.) so you can just look into other websites for the reviews. Or simply, watch it. I just love it.

If you knew you’re going to do die, would you have avoided it or died willingly?  Sounds like a pretty weird question, and what could be weirder than answering the question with the latter?  Knowingly face death. I remember someone who actually did just that. Someone. 

(By the way, "Little Miss Sunshine" is funny and I like that movie too! Highly recommended as well

It has been more than a month now since I had one of the best cupcakes I’ve had lately - Cupcakes by Sonja’s overpriced yet really good "Melt-in-your-mouth" flourless chocolate cupcake. It’s 98 pesos for a small cupcake but undeniably good.  Inspired by this, I’ve looked for recipes of flourless chocolate cupcakes over the Internet and finally made some today.   

Here’s the result:

They don’t look as nice as Sonja’s, and of course don’t taste as good as well, but my sister said they’re good!  (After all, she helped me with those. :)  My cupcakes were like my very own miniature chocolate hills when fresh from the oven, and they shrank when cooled.   

I therefore conclude that almost a hundred bucks is a reasonable price for one of those mouth-watering melt-in-your-mouth flourless chocolate cupcakes, which I probably won’t be having again for a long long time.

But my cupcakes?  In my unbiased opinion, they’re priceless. They can’t be bought by money (because I’m not selling them, sorry

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As requested, here’s the recipe i got from the internet but I cannot find the link anymore.

Flourless Chocolate Cupcakes
14 tbsp butter (2 sticks minus 2 tbsp)
7 oz bittersweet / dark chocolate (65% or 70%) chopped
1 cup sugar
4 eggs, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp cocoa powder

1) Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly grease a cupcake pan or set 12 foil molds on a baking sheet.
2) Melt butter and chocolate in a large bowl (in the microwave or in a pan with low heat), working in 30 second increments. When melted, stir in the sugar and let the mixture cool for a few minutes before whisking in the eggs one at a time.
3) Once all eggs have been incorporated, whisk in the cocoa powder and vanilla extract.
4) Pour batter evenly into prepared pans and bake for 10 minutes.  Turn off oven and let cakes sit inside for additional 10 minutes.  Remove pan to a wire cooling rack and cool completely.
5) Use spatula to gently turn out the cakes before serving.

Store any leftovers in an airtight container.

Makes 12.

Enjoy!