Literally milk and cookies. Earlier this week I got a chocolate chip recipe from my good friend AnnMarie, and today I figured I should try it out. I struggled a bit finding the appropriate ingredients, and had to replace a few of them with other similar ingredients.There had also been some miscommunication on the recipe, so the cookies didn’t turn out perfect. But I learned a lot from making them today and I’m sure they’ll turn out just perfect the next time I try… Because there will be a next time. The cookies were very tasty and delicious. P.S.: For those following me on Twitter, "baking soda" turned out to be the same as "natron" for this recipe.

I got a new mobile phone yesterday, which has just about all the functionality you would ever need (and also a bit more). The only thing it doesn’t have is a touchscreen, but I already have an iPod Touch so I didn’t really need an iPhone.My new phone is a Nokia E71. My main requirement for a new phone was that it should have a full QWERTY keyboard, and after reading a lot of reviews I decided on that one.Of useless features it even has a barcode reader to read those fancy 3D barcodes. Try reading the barcode attached to this article.So far, after 24 hours of owning the phone, I’m pretty happy with it. I’m even happier that I didn’t have to pay anything […] Read more

I hope 2009 will bring joy and good times to everybody. Make it a good one.

During my recent trip to USA I rented a car for the first time in my life. I was going to drive many, many kilometers and I certainly wasn’t planning on walking the distance, and public transportation wouldn’t take me to all the places I wanted to go, so I chose the freedom of having a car instead of being environmentally aware.I arrived at the Avis car rental facility at LAX about an hour after having landed, excited about what kind of car I would get. I originally reserved a "Chevrolet Impala or similar". I’d heard stories of people getting the "or similar" and getting a cheap Asian car (still nice cars, but I wanted an American car for my big American road trip). I […] Read more