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Backdated post. Actual event took place on 18th July 2009

I’ve been searching over the internet, what to do during my dear’s birthday. Candle light dinner ? Home made or book a place ? I think home made is always better as usually my dear will do the cooking and my cooking kinda sucks. The dinner couldn’t be the surprise, as I will be doing it in my dear’s house. The only think I can surprise him is the birthday cake.

This time, I’ve decided to bake a dark chocolate mousse cake. Hmm, I saw the recipe, kinda hard, but I just try my best. I’ve applied a day off in order to make the surprise. Time was really tight. After spending hours to buy ingredients for the cake and dinner, I finally can rush home to start baking. I didn’t have a chance to take any pictures of baking. I was really clumsy while doing it and I’ve failed the chocolate mousse part, I asked Yan to helped me rush to buy another thicken cream to complete my cake.

Argh… I was running out of time, I put my mousse in the fridge and thought of continue when I get back dinner, but my dear will be here. Hmm, bad hair day, I need a place, Yan’s room? , I took the bowl of mousse and cake base into her room and start pouring it onto the cake. Even if I have the chance to complete it, I still need hours to chill it. Argh, no choice, 12 am is around the corner, I just continue the suprise, without candles as the mousse still soft. As planned, I suprised my dear with a lousy birthday song and cake. Anyhow, after chilling the cake for a night, I managed to get the cake in shape. Finally.

We’ve decided to eat right after dinner. For the dinner, hmm I wished to cook something that he likes to eat. Salmon! Lemon and Herbs Smoked Salmon, as for myself, I’ve bought myself a piece of dory fish. The pieces of fish wasn’t really enough. I need some side dish. I’ve picked Mashed Potato Casserole and Aparagus with Red Bell Peppers.

Here are the pictures of the dinner and cake . Tada …

** Dark Chocolate Mousse Cake Recipe for velverse

Chocolate Génoise :
118 grams All-purpose Flour, sifted
70 grams Cocoa Powder, sifted
6 Large Eggs
200 grams sugar
28 grams Unsalted Butter, melted

Milk and Dark Chocolate Mousses :
812 grams Thicken Cream
284 grams Belgium Chocolate

For the steps of making it, you can refer to this url http …

** Important
I’ve slightly change the recipe as I couldn’t find some of the ingredient. If you do not want it to be too sweet, you can change the chocolate to dark chocolate / belgium chocolate as I did.

If you refer to the url, in Step 5, whisk the heavy cream, as you can see, I’ve changed it to thicken cream, I’m not very sure what is the different, but it works fine. While whisking the thicken cream, make sure the cream is chilled. If the cream is not cold enough, you will have the cream spoiled half way of whisking. You can place the bowl of cream over the ice water which whisking.

Let’s support this meaningful event by just turning off your light for one hour on 28th March 2009, Saturday 8.30pm to 9.30pm and you will make a different!

Something that my lecturer shared with me when we were in conversation over msn.

I wonder they manage to do that in such a way . This is real cool. Impressive!

I’m totally in love with Harajuku Lovers . Their design caught my eyes when I first saw their tees @ FOS back in two years. I was really surprised to see harajuku lover’s tee @ Tang’s Pavillion KL, their design really caught my attention. I thought it was some kind of brand from elsewhere. I didn’t expect it is so well-known.

I’ve been surfing around to find out what is the story behind as my little sis told me she saw the fragrance. I get to know, Harajuku Lovers (HL) is one of Gwen Stefani’s brand apparel. There are 5 features represent HL, G (Gwen) and her backup harajuku dancers , Love, Angel, Music, and Baby. They’ve applied these features into their tee’s design, shoes, watches, bracelet etc.

Besides, they also use as the overall concept of the fragrance design. I’ve seen it and I really love their design of their bottle. They’ve used the doll as the bottle. Take a look at their wallpaper, blended nicely.

Below is Harajuku Lovers Fragrance Campaign that I’ve found at their site http://www.hlfragrance.com

I’m so in love with 5 of them , especially Love n G. I’ve read some bloggers was chosen to get a very big sample set to try and write out about HL. I saw the bracelet, I really like it. I’m not sure if I can get it locally. I’ll try to find it. Yesterday I’ve took out all my HL tees, and my dear counted for me. I have 9 pieces. I want to get more soon…

I’ve been working this weekend and just finished my work afternoon ago. Yesterday and today was really a moody day for me. No no no… not because of the work. It is because yesterday when I was focusing on my work, my dad kept calling me. I didn’t really bother until I walked out I saw blood on the floor, I was really shocked. My little happy bleeding. He was bitten by bonnie. I was really panic, didn’t know what to do. My dad helped me with it. Even though happy stop bleeding, I still can’t stop myself worrying and kept going out to check on him.