The May Tricks, just like The Matrix: Living in a Dream World like Neo

As the continuous summer heat season has just begun, the pressure is rising. Everything happening around me is showing signs that it is time to jump off the cliff and fall into the stars. A bridge that will guide me through is quickly being built. Just as a slingshot needs to move backward before you throw something, and just as it often gets hot before a cold front moves in, the pressure is rising, and once the big bang takes place, it will not be to destruct, but to build a better life. It will be my job to help others do so. Clouds may not allow you to watch what lies ahead, but I feel that a bright future is waiting to be discovered.

Passion for Chocolate drives a Continuous Improvement Project Based Experiment

Everybody loves chocolate, or most of us at least. The problem here is that what makes it great usually has its price. Cocoa butter may be the one causing pimples when they would normally not appear. It can also be considered candy (with all its implications), too much sodium, etc.

The question here is: can we make a better treat than what popular brands offer? If so, can we make it healthier? So far, chocolate cookies have been successful, chocolate cake has not been 100% successful. Big companies surely have an answer to this, and when the market is ready to turn their discoveries profitable, we may start seeing them at the grocery store. 

The slice on the left is dark chocolate cake, made with dark cocoa, the second one is made with cocoa, and the one on the right is red velvet cake from a commercial brand. Except for the latter one, the ones I prepared myself were sweetened with fructose. Splenda will make the cake dry (unless you use polydextrose, which is not available at the local supermarket), but even using Stevia, as an alternate sugar substitute, sugar is needed to make bubbles (or a sugar alcohol substitute).

Duty comes first, and while the possibility of moving out to live alone might give you less time to spare, this will not be the end of the project. I acknowledge the fact that this may take years, though.

ETS TExES in a non-traditional Way

An exam coming from a predominantly christian, but not catholic state, in a country with religious freedom, the last thing one would imagine is to take a standardized state test with images of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. This is something reasonable, as this may not be comfortable for non-catholic or non-christian people. But who would be surprised to see this in a catholic school in a predominantly catholic country?

The end of May seems so far away now, as I have yet to discover the upcoming lifetime adventure. After a long fought battle, victory draws near. Something exciting is about to start, and I just can't wait.