Baking Part 1: Marble Cake

Yeah its my semester break. Break from my studies though no breaks for my house chores T.T
Hahaha! But I took up a hobby where I can do in the kitchen! Baking!

Well, after so many research and online searching, I came up with the conclusion that baking could be fun after all. All the sudden I wanna bake butter cake, chocolate cake and stuffs and so on >.<

So today its I started with Marble cake. I wanted to make butter cake actually but then I changed my mind and decided to whip some marble cake. I followed Naked Chef Original's recipe from Youtube.

Here are the ingredients:

225g of buttercup butter
225g of castor sugar (U can get it in any supermarkets)
225 self raising flour (if u use all purpose flour the ingredient will be a lil different- u need extra salt and baking powder)
4 eggs
1 and 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla essence
2 table spoon of cocoa powder
3 table spoon of milk

So here is what I did,

Preheat the oven at 180 degree celsius.

1. I beat the melted butter with my hand mixer in a bowl. Any bowl that can withstand the beating then add the castor sugar. Beat, beat, and beatt~

2. Then add the eggs one by one. 4 eggs goes into the bowl. Beat beat beat~ (I didnt take pic of it because i was too busy beating! Hehehe!)
3. Add the vanilla essence.
4. Fold in the flour and milk consequently. Ending it with the flour.
5. Then take some of the batter out and add cocoa to the taken batter.

6. Then grease the round baking pan with butter and place the grease paper inside it.

I was cutting it so i used the shape of the bottom of it. U have to place the paper inside ok? 

7. Then do a dollops with both the batter( place some here and there)
8. Then take a skewer/chopstick and make shapes. U will end up with something like the picture below.

Pre-baked marble batter

9.Put into 180 degree Celsius for 40 mins.

Its inside the ovennnnn!

Then take it, let it cool for 15 mins, cut and serve them! :D

This is what I end up getting. The outer layer was kinda burnt but then its not that bad! The batter was fully baked and moist on the inside.

This is how it looks on the inside! Its deliciouseeyy~ I trimmed the burnt part :P

So my first time baking and I didnt know it would be this much fun! With the help of the electrical hand mixer you can eventually whip up anything within an hour or two! :D

Much thanks to the Youtube channel and my mum for letting me bake alone without nagging. Hehe! 

Songs That So Much Relates

1. Counting Stars- One Republic
    "Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleepy,"
- I have been losing much sleep lately.
    "I feel so wrong doing the right thing, I feel something so right doing the wrong thing,"
- And I dont know if the things I'm doing are right or wrong.

2. Get Lucky - Daft Punk
    "We have come too far to give up who we are,"
-I wonder all the time.
    "We're up all night to get lucky,"
- YESHH! I NEED SOME LUCK TOO!

3. Say Something - Great Big World
    "Say something I'm giving up on you,"
-When I start doing my reports. This happens
    "And I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you,"
-When my results tht I expect are way to far away from me. :(

4. Story of My Life- One Direction
    "Story of my life, story of my life, storyyyyy of myyyyyyy lifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,"
- I dont think this needs explanation. The lyrics explained it all.

Ahh, I've gone out of my mind for sure it is.

Stressed = Desserts

Well, my currently title would have explained the situation I'm facing now. Just too much pressure overpowering my willingness AND I end up eating too much these days. I could never understand few of my friends last time who started eating when they were stressed but here's my conclusion after undergoing the study on my own;

- When you are stressed or at the peak of becoming stressful, you tend to overeat and eat and eat whenever you feel like eating. 

That's what I'm doing. 

Here's a list of food I eat in a day:

1. Breakfast - Tuna Sandwich, Milo/Milk

2. Lunch - well, I tend to go base of preference of my friends. Sometimes mix rice, sometimes, chinese food or western or korean something like that.

3. Tea/Desserts - Apollo cake/ waffle/ cake/ mamee/kit kat/ etc.

4. Dinner - This depends too. Sometimes I go out with Waikeong or I go to his house and his mum coooooks a looooooooooot of foood/ or we go out with his family and eat tooo. Or I try to starve myself but end up failing because I end up eating something from my food basket in my room. T,T

These days I have a lot of things in my mind, running. Non- stop. 

Still busy with my assignments.

Well, can't think of anything else to write though too many things are running in my head. Mostly they are about my assignments and Uni stuffs. >.<

Ruined

My midterm paper for Food Preservation was emailed to me AND the marks I got ruined my mid-sem break. Yes. Very much feel like jumping into a well and never coming out of it.

Those Kids.

Heyy there, before you start to read my post, please do try not to ignore my pretty fishes that's swimming in their pond on top of my post. :P Do feed them so they will be happy! XD

Well, today is my last day in KL before midterm break. I'm off to JB for a week just to sit there at my study table and do two reports and assignment. Well, so its not a break or holiday. Its just a week of no classes. =,=

So today after my Food Safety and Quality Management, Me and Waikeong went to watch The Amazing Spiderman 2. So in the theater, there was this situation happened before the movie started:

Me and Wai Keong occupied our booked seats, and we were chit chatting, two lil kids (Must be the age of 9 and 8?? maybe) came with their mother. They were my next seat neighbours. When they came in to sit, I overheard the two kids talking to their mum, "I dont want to sit in that seat, there's an Indian there," Well, they spoke in Chinese, and I understood it, I asked Wai Keong for confirmation on what they were talking about me. He heard them too. Its about, me being an Indian and those two were fighting for seats to not seat next to me. Well, I was kind of offended. Not kind of, very much offended actually. The mother didnt actually scold them for saying like that, she was just saying, sit nevermind of something but all me and Waikeong could hear was, those kids saying I dont wanna sit here, change place! Like that. So Waikeong got real pissed and told the mum, "Excuse me, she can understand chinese," and the mum just nod her head and didnt say sorry.

We kept quiet and sat and after a while, before the movie started, the mum changed seats with the son that was sitting next to me but didnt wanna face the screen. She changed seats and situation over.

But in the end, I was offended and this brought up my mind to think that, the reason they were behaving like this could be because of their not good parental and not exposed to the multi-cultural environment, besides being born in Malaysia. :(

Sigh.

Exams and Studies.

Randoms again.

1. Sunday - Did Lab Report.
2. Monday - Did Lab Report and studied Food Preservation- Thermal Processing
3. Tuesday - Studied , Trip to Yakult, Studied Food Preservation - Thermal Processing and Chilling and Freezing
4. Wednesday - Class, Studied Food Preservation - Non Thermal Processing, EXAM.

So it continues. My semester 4 becoming more and more uncontrollable.
So when I start to study with my laptop next to me, I tend to do this. Hehehe.

So when exam nears to the very last day, this is the consequences >.<.

And Madness drives us.

Reminder to myself here,

This Friday 16/5- Nutrition and Health in Disease midterm.
Sunday 17/5 - Tutorial hand in for Food Safety and Quality Management.
Sunday 18/5 - Lab Report Food Preservation dues.
28/5 - Lab Report due for Food and Nutrient Evaluation.
Saturday 31/5 - HACCP Presentation, Assignment 2 due: Food Act and Regulation Nestle Fitness Cereal.
2/6 - Assignment due for Nutrition and Health in Disease, Iron Anemia.
5/6- Lab Report due for Food preservation.
6/6 - Proposal for Practical Assessment.
11/6- Video Assignment due on G6PD Deficiency, NutriBiochem.
Week 12/13 - Food Preservation Assignment due, Milk Preservations.
Week 14 - Finals. 

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Deep Breath.

I'm Just A Sad Song.

First of all, the title is due to the song that is currently being played on Youtube! Its been on repeat ever since my crazy bestie posted it on my wall. It has these addictive lyrics to it and nice melody. Sang by We The Kings ft. Elena Coats- Sad Song. Basically its a song about relationship. And since I do have a certain someone in my life, it suits me so well. THANK YOU SO MUCH SHU YUAN!

Back to business. I've been real busy for the last few days. Midterm exam is been going on since last week till next week. T,T After getting back one of my exam paper. I was so devastated. Only 28/50. Yesh, for my Food and Nutrient Evaluation paper. I felt so lifeless the moment I received my paper and went through it. Most of my friends had full marks. That's like freaking madness. Really. I was just too shocked and wondered how can they get full marks? Sigh. Then I realize, they have good memorizing skills. I imagined them having these really good brain that can absorb almost all the lecture notes in one go. While me, being pathetic enough to even absorb half of the lecture notes and most of it runs out of my head when I study a new chapter. =,= which was so saddening.

I came home that day, sat on my study table's chair and started to wonder. Is this how a science based student have to be? Is this how all science student have to be to get a good results? Memorize every single lines and sentence and words just to get good marks? Go mad memorizing without understanding it? That's what my lecturer told me. It no point you understand, you have to put the exact word that's inside to get the marks. You are a science student, be scientific. I was so speechless that I almost wanted to tell her this is not fair. Not fair to the people who understand and explain it in their own way to the one who actually memorized the whole thing exactly in the notes. I mean come on! What's the diff if you put;

Students answer: 'Mix the food sample and solvent into the beaker' and lecture notes: 'add the food sample into the beaker containing solvent'

Is there any difference? Both of them sound the same to me and still 0 marks given.
Then I wonder am I not a science student? Why can't I memorize scientifically?
I felt so lifeless thinking about it.
Being a low-brained and not good at memorizing and you still wanna get good results means you have to be studying every single day. That's what I think it's supposed to be like. And the pressure of seeing your friends getting good marks and you parents spending you money to make sure you study well and get really good results too, I had a mental breakdown. Like finally and real one.

I screamed at the wall. Luckily no one was home. Screamed and screamed. I felt so weird. Heart beating so rapidly then I shut my self up. Stopped screaming and calmed myself. There that was better I said to myself.

The next day, I had another exam. So I studied so hard for it. Slept at 2 am after really making myself sure that I can do my paper well enough. So when I took the exam, thunder strikes me. I memorized all the lecture notes given and actually left out just A SINGLE PIECE OF TUTORIAL PAPER THINKING IT WONT BE ASKED IN THE EXAM. And jeng jeng jeng, you know what happened right? There was a freaking 20 marks question on just that single sheet of paper that I IGNORED. There you go. Sigh. But I managed to write something though.

So next week another two more papers and reports to hand in. There goes my life.

Randoms.

This post is just me randomly mumbling over my life.

1. When you found out your most hated teacher is your mentor for your whole Uni life.

What? WHUUTT?

2. When the same subject lecturer decided to give you another assignment after assignment. Assignments, assignments andddd more assignments! Yeay! =,=

3. Freaking house mate that does not clean the kitchen when ever she uses it. ARGH! And how many 'post it' pad do I HAVE TO STICK AT THE KITCHEN SAYING "KEEP IT CLEAN!".

4. That lazzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyyyyy feeling you get when you are not in the mood to do your report and you started to blog. Hahahahaha! :P

Its A No weekend Saturday!

Its Saturday!

Yes, its a weekennddddd.

So?

So, what?

I have classes on Saturdays T,T

So I overslept today. Supposed to wake up early and wake Wai keong up so he wouldn't oversleep and the opposite happens again. Well you see, I actually woke at 7.30am and was waiting for the alarm to ring.... attttt 7.40am. I scrolled my fb, twitter & .........................*sleeps* This is the part where I didn't know how I actually SLEPT. @@ I thought I was dreaming when I heard my phone ringtone and picked up to hear Waikeong's voice, 'Bii,' OHMYGOSH. ITS 8.20AM! MY CLASS IS AT 9AM. 

 So I rushed and cleaned myself messily. Came out in 10 mins and got ready. Waikeong came exactly when I finish packing.

Apparently we were not the only one late! Few of my classmates were late too. And the lecturer was too nice to let us be late. Hahahaa! He started the class and believe me when I say this:

YESH!! @,@

He can just crap sooooooooooooo many things out of his head without looking at the slides on the projector. =,= Well mostly he lecture us about Food Safety and Quality Management. You can guess it from the subject name itself. Its alllllllllllllllllll about Safety and Management in an food industry. ALL STUFFS.

So he decided to give us an assigment on HACCP. Where we have to freaking do a real HACCP Manual for our own company. So what is a HACCP? Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Manual. Don't know yet? Go Google please. Its sure CANT BE DESCRIBES IN A WORD.

I was grouped up with Wai Keong Syamim and Vinson. Do you realise I'm the only girl here. YESH.

But no worries. Problem settled by Wai keong's dad (Stated in my previous post). 

So today, we decided to stayback and finished it up all at once. And we ended up staying for hours!! Like 9am till 6.30pm. After compiling all our assigned work. This was my reaction:

Yeap it is. =,=

Decided to call it a off and go for dinner. And I had KFC! Yeay to yummy foood and yeay to more belly fats!

Yeap that's how I look like now. Im serious =,= SQUISHY TUMMY I HAVE! XD

Beginning of Everything.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Its been a long time since I last blogged eh?
What can I say, time doesnt allow me so. >.< though when I do have time, I sleep.
Hahahaha!

Life since my semester 4 started is going on in a very proportionate way I guess, oh wait no. Its going like a increasing curve graph. =,= Yesh. I feel like there is just toooo many things to do at the end of the month.

Well so far, midterm exam is going on and I've been eating a lot ever since I started eating. Well that doesn't sound convincing. But yeah my mouth wants to digest some food and make the amylase working!

I munch alot. Like a lot a lot. =,= Waffles, apollo wafer cake, oreos, cheesecakes, snowflakes, ice creams, bread, biscuits.

YES I DO.

I got back my quiz for nutritional biochem last week. And to say I scored it, is the total opposite.

There goes my quiz marksss only 4/10. Nice work Hem. Nice work lecturer. Nice work. Practically everyone hates her ever since out quiz. Well I HATE HER. That's for real. She just insulted my one-whole-day-pencil-sketched-storyboard saying it's lack of effort and besides, she says he worries on my video making part of it. You WAIT. Im gonna ace this Dr. Meanie! Yeah here at you face grrrr.

                                   

I got my quiz results for my another subject and I did well. Well BOO YEAH.

Assignment and Reports are piling up every single week. And when you know you are the only person that is responsible for your whole group. TT,TT And individual reports = pure procrastination = screw this.

Well thanks to Waikeong's dad, our assignment on doing a HACCP Manual for Beer is done. THANKS A BUNCH PEOPLE. All we had to do is just copy paste. Pro style yeah! But still needs adjustments to do. Our product is Smokey Lager Beer, Feel the Aroma~ HAHAHA!

Next up, midterm was today and I studied for it and Jinnyboy entered our class asking for whiteboard markers from our lecturer who didnt know who the hell he was. He was like, 'hey,concentrate,' when we were giving him a blank look! xD Well, wished I could have taken a pic with him but yeah I was in the middle of my MIDTERM PAPER. =,=

Went to pyramid today~ And stocked up food again! Just in case I ran out of food to eat when I'm in my room. XD Had dinner and desert with boyfie. Thank you so much bii :)

SNOWFLAKE! Yeay~ Its Mango Gold.

Anddd Nando's Burger!

Well I didnt know he was gonna do tht. He moved from smiling to this when I clicked the picture button. But I like this! :)

That's for today! I'm new to putting gifs on my blog. Inspired by my crazzzyyyy bestie Chua Candy Yuan. XD Do tell me if the gifs are unreasonable and doesnt suit my sentences. Hahaha!

So long!

Coffee.

The Start of Semester 4

So today marks the first day of my Semester 4 Year 2. Wow. I'm a Sophomore! I'm a senior for three batches behind me and junior for three batches in front of me.

The first class was at 8am, Food and Nutrient Evaluation. Mr. Waikeong came early because I woke him up early. Kekeke! XD Packed breakfast and went for class. So it was our same lecturer from last year. And I started getting distracted in the first class of the first day. GREAT. Two hours class but we talked the lecturer out to get out earlier for the next two hour class.

Next class 10am, Nutritional Biochemistry. Dont get scared. Dont get scared by its name. Dont get scared but I DID. The lecturer looks a lil lil bit sstriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiict. She started her lesson right after the introduction to the subject. And the only person she recognise in her class was me. YEAP. ME. Because I knew her last sem. She was my mentor. "I know some of you here, Hemlatha. Hemlatha right? You are my mentee yes?" That time I was blurring out, like daydreaming actually and I came back to reality when she spelled my name out of her mouth. I was like whhuuut. She knows me? She remembers my name after 4 months?! Yaish!

So after that class I wanted to pee pee but eventually MOST OF THE TOILETS WERE CLOSED DOWN DUE TO WATER RATIONING. I have to like go find for a not closed down toilet when there used to be toilets every floor. *Cries*

Recess time and I was excited to see the new food court that was closed down for 5 months. So it has a indoor food court and outdoor food court but it doesnt make any difference in this weather. In or out, it was still hot. =,= It doesnt seems to be blowing air cond in the indoor area. AND the food priced were INCREASED. Almost gave me a heart attack when my food with rice, two vege and a small half fish cost RM9.90 *Cries again* But there are some new food like western food, pasta, burgers and etc.

Then me and waikeong bought the new menu chatime and shared. Caramel with chocolate Cadbury. Well not bad. Its still drinkable. Hahaha!

We had a talk on MQA accreditation for our School of Bioscience. Its gonna be fully approved by MQA and be taken out from its prohibitory MQA. So the Dean has selected several people from each batch to attend an interview that will be done by to panel from the Malaysia Qualification Agency to approve our School. And one of those unlucky person is me. I had been told to be ready for the interview next month and memorise the Vision and Mission and few taylors related stuff. So when they ask me questions, I know about it and also to give good comment about the School. Yesh. I have to. @,@

After the talk I had next class 3pm, two sleepy hours because it was raining. Food Preservation. It was Ms. Chan, our few-years-older-than-us lecturer. She was okayy but I actually wanted to get out of the class for the day. So she ended the class early after seeing our bored face! Hehehe!

Me and Waikeong rushed to the car park so that we could get out of Taylors before the usual Taylors jam starts. And yesh! We did! We got out without a jam. Yummyy!

Came back home and realised after rambling my whole bag and taking out all the stuff out of my back that I left my keys in Waikeong's car. How smart. -,- I made him come back lol. Ooops sorry. He pass me my keys and here I am sitting and blogging!

The Waiting

A story of a girl who waited for her fiancee. Waited. And still waiting.
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Walking through the wind that pushes past our hair. Do you still remember this place, Ash?
I wish you would. I am here. Walking day and day around here. The sonata wind, the snow that sprinkles around me. Its the first snow I'm seeing without you. Its the first day I'm walking without you. Where are you? Are you here with me? Are you up there looking at me through the sky? Talking about the sky, its very beautiful day today. The sky is filled with bright cloud. Just like any day we used to walk hand in hand and see  the sky above us. I've brought out your bicycle out today instead of mine. Its been long since I rode bicycle. I hope I don't bump into someone else, like how I did to you. It was our very first day here that day. The day I set I set my eyes on you. Our more like you set your eyes on me? =) I came yelling at your back to move away because its my first time riding a bicycle out here. And you, you were walking with your bicycle next to you. When I think about it. It makes me sound like a most infamous silliest girl you could have ever fell for. Are you hearing me? Are my thoughts drifting to you?

We bumped. We met. I payed for your damaged bicycle and you kept coming after me asking me, "So you think paying me money for a new bicycle would make be much better? It was my favourite bicycle I got from my grandpa, it doesnt change anything that you ruined it." Making me angry and making me feel guilty so much. You annoyed me the most. But as day past, we kept meeting each other co-incidentally at this place. I used to ignore you everytime. But one day you didnt appear. I thought you were late. I waited. Next day, the after but you didnt came.

Why do I feel empty when you weren't there? Why do I feel so clueless? Like how I feel now. You are not here like that day. I thought you left. Like how you did last time. But you came. You came back for me.

You stood under those beautifully blooming tree with your new bicycle smiling when I saw you. I didnt know what came into me but I remember I ran towards the tree. Ran towards you. I was embraced by you. Then I knew how its feel to be contented and I didnt feel empty anymore. You fill my heart, Ash.

But where are you now? You promised me you will bring them and come for me. You promise to give me what you took away from me. My heart. You promised me to be here with me. Are those promise meant nothing. You filled up my eyes and heart. I keep thinking about you. Where are you now Ash? Are you up there looking at me being empty and clueless again?

The ring on my finger doesnt give me any answer. I can't find it either. I can't seem to let go of it. Tears. I cant seem to let go of the tears that kept rolling.

Its a beautiful day, Ash. Look down at me wherever you are. I brought flowers too. I'm sitting under the same tree I came looking for you when you disappeared. It still has our name carved in it.

'Ash n Tess'.

What do I do now, Ash?

Give me a sign for the day.

I would love to walk away from this tree and never look back. I set his bicycle aside leaning across the tree and set the flowers down.

I walked. Walked and never looked back.

You can have you bicycle back, Ash. I love you.

Rest In Piece always.

Sincerely,
Tessa.

Do Not Play With Fire.

"You coming cousin?" Reece was chewing her gum as usual popping bubbles.

"No, I've got some cast to learn today," 

"Oh come on! Uncle won't be mad just for a day! Besides its a weekend, L!" Reece started pulling me out of my chair. I groan. She does has a point.

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"Ree, this is not the place we are supposed to be," Her car stopped right in front of the town's famous night club.

"Aw, L, just once please!" Reece was trying to work out her charms but its normally doesnt work on me.

"Ree, Uncle will be furious if he knows we came here," I was calm enough to reason with her.

"L, Uncle won't know if he don't need to. You got it?" She got down the car and waved at me to get down too.

Sigh.

When I opened my car door, there it came banging and booming the band from inside the club. Rows of girls and guys were waiting outside to make out inside. I wonder why they came all the way here to do it.

Reece held my arm and walk past all the ones who are queue-ing straight to the bouncer.

"Hey, Mr.Snotty," That's what the badge says so Reece pronounce it. Her charms usually works on mortals. 

He slide open the safe line belt and made us walk through it like a VIP. 

I could smell everything when we entered.

Reece let go of my arm and jump over her so called hooked up boyfriend who was waiting for her. So this is why she dragged me. To make me stand here while she make out with her boyfriend? 

I moved along the people who are cramped around each other to a more airy area. I found a seat and sat.

"Hey babe~" A voice came behind me and smelled liquor. Breath smoldering my back shoulder. "OUCH!" He crippled. His fingers were burning. "Did you- did you do that?!" He was freaking out.

Let's say that's my kind of game. Mamma says don't play with fire when I was a kid but you know when you grew up with it, you actually get used to it. 

Fire. A friend and a foe to me.

Fire. A gift and a curse to me.

Fire. 

"Leave me alone," I turned to face him and he ran.

Just Life.

Hello! I'm Hemlatha Nagappan. A girl with the zodiac of Rooster and horoscope of Libra. So it's holiday season for me and my batch students. I'm home far away from my Uni. Its only been 3 weeks of holidays and it felt like 3 months for me. This feeling is maybe I have a certain someone over there thinking about my absence next to him (Okay mushy me =P). But yes, I do miss him. Like really miss his presence, his forehead kisses, his hugs, the way he holds my hand or hip when we walk, the way he stares at me sometimes, his silliness, his childish acts in front of me, the way he rumbles about traffic jams and why our uni is so bad, hahaha! And also his annoying farts. Yes, you saw it right, farts. Which makes me wanna kill him sometimes when it stinks. =,=

So, my life in few words? I'm a Happy-Go-Lucky girl! I like what I'm doing and what I have but sometimes this Happy-Go-Lucky girl has limits to take in too. I'm happy I have my best friends with me whenever I need them. A shoulder to cry on and also my certain someone I love. These four people I treasure the most. Everyone comes with a nickname. Candy, Ariel, Ginny and Wiki.

Besides them in my life, I have few friends in my uni which I treasure the most. Its been a year plus and some of my friends seems swaying away into distance. Some that I used to bother a lot. After a few bad memories I had, I guess things don't always stay the way we want it. That's so true. Things change, people change, and we eventually have to adapt to it or move away from it. And when we seems to be adapting to change, a lot of more better people enters out life. Those who we never expected to be there for us.

I had stupidly cried over certain people. I don't hate them. Never would I hate them at all. They are people who made me learn that we always have to be there for ourselves first, then only think about others. But when you think your happiness is when you make others happy, you can have a good life too.

I know I'm crapping. But some situations makes me wonder a lot in distance. What are all those small things are for when you think its just a small matter after all?

Anyway, I'm happy enough to have a very small circle of friends who I care. Even when I don't take initiative to chat or talk with them but I know when I need them, they would always always be there.

From,
Coffee :)