How much chocolate is too much...

Yesterday I tried one of the recipe that I found online. I made a chocolate cake for my boyfriend's birthday and it was delicious. This cake is very rich and moist, just the way I like it, hmmmm...
So, here I wanna share this perfectly tasteful chocolate cake.
What do you need is:
1 package of dark chocolate fudge cake mix
1 (5.9 ounces) package instant chocolate pudding mix
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup milk
1 cup sour cream
4 eggs
1 cup of chocolate chips
1/2 cup warm water

Preheat oven for 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
In a bowl mix the cake and pudding mix, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs, milk and water. Then stir in chocolate chips and pour batter into greased pan.
Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool cake thoroughly in a pan at least hour or two before inverting onto a plate.
You can add different fruit (strawberries, raspberries) and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
It also goes well with glass of milk or vanilla ice cream.

This cake is very easy to do without a big fuss. It's a keeper for me. Two thumbs up!

Music of signs...

So, I attended my first Deaf Social Event on Friday and it was a very pleasant experience.I have signed up for ASL class at my college, so I could check out another language skill from my list and also because i thought it might be easier. I was wrong. It is so much different and it requires a lot of practice to become fluent.

Meeting with Deaf people and communicating with them helped me to understand that Sign Language does not only consist of signs. Communication involves other factors like facial expression, body movement, hand position and its movement, as well as many other gestures.
The Deaf people were very welcoming and patient with my broken sign presentation or slow fingerspell. Sometimes I got lost trying to figure out the signs, but people did not mind repeating the signs multiple times. Later on I learned that the moment I look away or look over the person’s shoulder, the conversation was interrupted and I had to start all over. Some people could talk with their voice and move their lips, which was in many cases very helpful.
Many times I felt very frustrated because of my weak ability to express myself through sign language. “I want to sign the way Deaf people do, so that the conversation can flow freely”, I tried to tell in signs and by fingerspells to Deaf person. Her response was: “You need to practice”. “But they sign so fast”, I complained. So, she replied in slow motion: “It takes time to learn the signs, but socializing with Deaf people helps you to understand and communicate more effectively”. I thought, now I know how some deaf people might feel when signing something to a hearing person at the supermarket or shopping centre.
I was so impressed by hearing-people who could use sign language fluently. I met a girl that was studying sign language for couple years and I felt such a big respect for her. I realized that we all communicate in so many ways, whenever we observe someone visually or by listening. But what is so great about learning sign language is that it makes your mind more open and more aware of the world around you. Personally, I felt that there is a very strong sense of solidarity in the Deaf Community and that their community tends to be very close knit and supportive.
Overall, I was surprised at how much i can learn from a different community. It was a wonderful experience and I hope that by observing and socializing in this new culture I can become more fluent in sign language. And for now, I am thankful for this opportunity to improve my skills in communication as well as understanding Deaf culture.