Makin a cake and eating it too

I should have posted this a week ago
I've been getting really lazy lately... And my sleeping pattern is totally screwed.
I woke up at 8pm today @_@

Anyways, I helped make a cheesecake for the first time a week or so ago for Mayu's birthday at Sharon's house.

Prepping

It looks like I'm deep in thought
There's snow on my hat because we sorta had a snowball fight before we got to Sharon's

Measuring crust mix

Butter + crust mix

Molten butter + crust mix. Looks delicious XD

M-I-X the crust mix into the bowl! That's me mixing the stuff with my hands... felt... nice... XD

Mixing mixing

Mixing the cake batter

More mixing

Pouring cake batter

I don't know why it looks purple... It looks cool but it was really redish like normal.

Looks delicious!

Baking

~40 mins later... DONE!

Which leads us to last saturday.
Mayu's birthday at Viv's place. We had a korean bbq style lunch and a secret santa thing.
I originally was planning on boycotting the secret santa since i found out about it the day before but Mike and I went to go buy drinks at centrepoint mall and decided to pick something up.
It was a cd case thingy. I got a scarf from H&M from one of viv's friends yay. (Y)
Mayu's present was some expensive lingerie that vivian picked up from somewhere @_@

Mike's facial expression is awesome! :O

Sitting around

Various kinds of cookables

Cookin meat

More meat!

More meat cookin!

Another shot of various food

Mike poking his best friend Douglas

Mayu makin out with Douglas. She's actually suckin the helium out of Douglas. It didn't really work :(

First part of Mayu's present

Mayu loves it!

Second part of the present. Takahiro(Mayu's bf) looks so happy! XD

Third part of the present

This is what the cheesecake looked like. It tasted good!

Secret Santa

Whoops, I forgot some pics from my phone. I like being pleasently surprised when i check my camera and find pics that I didn't take. =D
I think sharon took all of these.

XZ looks like Sadako from the Ring XD

Adam... yeah...

Me being blinded by my phone.
See below for explanation

Hmm?

Hangin out

Weee sparkler fun

I look so stupid happy XD

End of the lightshow

Haruko happy

Viv happy

My phone has a built in "flash" for the camera and it doubles as a pretty powerful flashlight.
The thing is, with normal cameras the flash "flashes" for a fraction of a second which doesn't make it so bad on the eyes. But my camera's "flash" has to be turned on prior to taking a picture so it's constant "flash" in your face.

Good for taking pictures of things in the dark.
Bad for taking pictures of anything with eyes.

This is what you see with no flash

This is what the flash looks like when my camera adjusts for the brightness of the light

THIS is what it looks like in actuality.
Is that the flash of Rich's camera phone or a nuclear explosion? I dunno!! :O

Video: A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa

Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa!

Fun!
nsfw

A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa

Bonus: The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

Video: Lazy Sunday - SNL Short

What you wanna do Chris?
SNACK ATTACK MUTHAFUCKA!

A lot of firsts

On wednesday we went skating at Nathan Phillips Square.
I haven't gone skating for over 10 years, but it's good to know that you still remember how to after so long.
But before I continue:

What is this? Is there a deer problem at Nathan Phillips Square? I didn't see a deer the whole night... LIES!
Someone explain this sign to me, maybe I'm missing something. Maybe these are educational signs for children and immigrants? I suppose in other areas they'll have signs with different things on them. *shrug*

Toronto City Hall

Nathan Phillips Square skating rink

GO GO GADGET SKATES!

Renting cost $9 for 2 hours (I don't know if they actually enforce the time rule. I think we stopped skating a bit after 2 hours.) which is kinda expensive @_@
The other crappy thing is that the skates I got (and that everyone else got) were pretty dull... I was sliding all over the ice, it was pretty bad. I was too scared to stop or skate fast. I somehow managed to get used to it, I dunno how Mike and XZ learned to skate with dull skates but they kicked ass, same with everyone else who didn't really know how to skate.

Group photo 1

Group photo 2

Fumi always looks so happy XD

Oh and another thing, if you plan on going skating on an outdoor rink make sure it's not windy or really cold...
It was pretty cold when we went, everyone kept saying how cold they were or how their face was frozen. By the end though I was ok since I was moving around a lot (Y).
Next time Mike and XZ are gonna have a deathmatch skating race. It's gonna be awesome.

XZ sitting on the ice

This picture is so funny, it looks like Xz is stabbing Moe in the stomach XD

Moe sitting on the ice

After skating, we head over to Mike's apartment to go eat okonomiyaki(pancake like thing with various things in it).
Mike "conveniently" forgets to buy drinks and asks me to go with him, Mayu tags along cuz we're missing ingredients for the okonomiyaki.
We come back and when Mike opens the door, it's all dark and then SURPRISE!

Moe and Fumi hiding --photo courtesy of XZ

Surprise cake and card --photo courtesy of XZ

I totally wasn't expecting a surprise thingy! I think this was my first surprise birthday! :O
We ate cake(made from scratch by Fumi/Mayu/Mike/Moe), okonomiyaki(cooked by Mayu/Fumi) and XZ's red bean soup. All delicious!

The peaches spell "Rich" in katakana

Okonomiyaki cooking

Cooked okonomiyaki

SOCKS!

This is Sean, Sharon's bf

Lit candle

Mayu staring at lit candles

"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy." --Blade Runner

Hangin out

Mike looks so cool and Fumi looks so happy

Mike with hat, Fumi's either pointing to the hat or saying Mike's number 1

Fumi KO with glove ornament

Good times! (Y)

Oh I forgot to mention that Fumi didn't do capoeira for me even though it was my birthday :(
She did however show us how to hail a taxi cab... "HEY TAXI *POSE*" which was totally awesome so she's neutral. I need to get a pic of Fumi doing her "hey taxi!" pose. XD

If you want to see all the pics I took, I dumped them into my shutterbook album over here
If you want to download them all fullsize in a zip file, grab it here