That's dedication. I've never watched a movie so early into it's release date before. Every time a scene pops out, I feel oddly superior to the audience who've never read the book before because I know things that they don't know about, like how they have a mole on the back of their neck.
I mean the books will always be superior to the movies. It's nice that there were some overzealous Caucasians in the audience member to prove my point, they are probably toned down version of what you'd get in their country. By my point, I mean knowing things that only readers of the book would know about in the movies because they didn't really explain some of them... like how the dogs at the final battle scenes were actually created using the dead tributes. Bet non-readers didn't know that, unless you read it on Wikipedia.
I'm feeling like those annoying people that you go watch movies with, who tells you things like...
"They die at the end, and then the bird comes and takes a poop on their head before flying off... and at the end they resurrect because... well I don't want to spoil anything for you so I'm just going to tell you this much."..... *whispers* "...because the shit was Phoenix shit."
Of course I wasn't spoiling the movie for my friend who went with me. I had a lot of self control.
It was a good movie, only because I was expecting a lot more since I've actually read the book first. To a normal person who hasn't it would probably be a lot better for them than for me. Jennifer Lawrence was a plus for me.
Gonna read Winter's Bone first before watching that movie because even though Jennifer Lawrence is acting in it, my attention span only last so long. If there's no action going on my mind just switches off and I will start surfing Youtube while the movie's playing in the background. Listening to "Gee" and trying to watch a sad movie is very confusing for the mind indeed. I have to actually find the book first and that's gonna be hard.
Anyways.
Tried to do some baking today and I have to say today was not a good day to bake.
First was Macarons, making Macarons is like doing Pull Ups, it needs to be done constantly because if you don't, you're gonna forget how to do it and you're gonna have to repeat the whole process again.
My macarons today came out really well, with the shiny shells and perfect feet, the only problem was that I baked them on aluminium foil because I ran out of baking paper which really pissed me off. I only realize I had ran out of baking paper after measuring my almond and icing sugar mixture and combining them, I didn't bother to sift them because there's no point, the shells are probably gonna get stuck to the foil anyway, so I just made the batter and piped them and they actually came out really good, and even more surprising was that some of them managed to survive the extraction process from the aluminium foil.
So I transferred the shells onto a napkin after pairing them up for sandwiching later, because I didn't want to clean another plate afterwards and as I was transferring the shells into the fridge so I can go and look for a butter-cream recipe to make, the tip of the napkin that I was holding on to was wet, so it tore like millimeters away from my finger grip and the shells came crashing to the floor, all 20 of them.
Bloody hell.
Had to sweep them all up and throw them away afterwards. If I was working in Pierre Hermes, that would probably equate to about 1/2 of my salary gone. Probably like 1/10 of the deducted pay for the Macarons and 9/10 of it for showcasing sheer stupidity in attempting to transfer the shells to the fridge on a piece of wet napkin that will obviously tear. Well it wasn't wet like how throwing toilet paper into the toilet bowl and watching it absorb water before peeing into it and tearing it into bits with the pressure... just slightly damp but apparently too wet to support the Macaron shells.
A few moments later I decided to make some cookies, and I realize I didn't have any brown sugar, so I tried to make cupcakes, and realize I didn't have any milk, because I was really thin and my breast weren't big enough for milking. Went to the mini mart beneath my condo and got brown sugar because the cupcakes were my second option.
I made Cookies in the past and they always flatten, which is kinda ironic because that was what I wanted my Macarons to do, stay flat, during my Macaron Failing days but they always rose. So I thought, since I have mastered Macarons, Cookies should be pretty easy.
NO~! THE FUCKING BUTTER CAUSED EVERYTHING TO FLATTEN!
My butter was too soft and it caused the cookie batter that I used a ice cream scoop to measure out to deflate in the oven. I knew something was wrong when the cookie batter started sweating oil in the oven. It was terrible because afterwards it became lava cake, which tasted delicious but I couldn't enjoy because it was flat on the baking try and I couldn't transfer it to a cup without destroying the whole thing. It was a demoralizing day for baking.
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