Wilton Course 3 Final Cake

Here is my Course 3 Final Tiered cake. Had to do lots of roses n buds...Took me quite a while with a kid around who wants to eat the roses! The top tier is a double layer chocolate fudge cake with chocolate buttercream icing and the bottom tier is a double layer carrot cake with buttercream icing, Covered with Satin Ice Rolled Fondant. The Fondant was tasting way better than the wilton's. This ivory wedding cake became my birthday cake and this is so far the biggest cake I had for my birthday! :)

Wilton course 2 final cake

There was only one cake i had to do for this course. We had to do Royal Icing for couple of classes. Made flowers - apple blosoms, violets, pansies, mum, daffodils, daisies! It was fun! A lot of time,i have heard Royal Icing was tough to work with..But i really loved it. The victorian roses came out really good with Royal Icing compared to the Buttercream ones. Also we made birds with color flow mix. One thing I learnt is that color flow tints fade. So its better to tint couple of shades darker to get the desired color range. I made my birds in sky blue and after couple of days, they were pale blue.

So, for the final cake i made a rainbow cake(read it in another blog) as we were planning to give the cake to one of our colleague's daughters. It was French Vanilla flavor with vanilla pudding filling. It was a great disaster on the day of the class when the cakes moved and my pudding got squeezed out. Somehow i managed to ice the cake again and started with basket weave. Its bit tacky, but as u get to roll, it seems quite easy..But hands hurt a lot...Ropes were very easy..So I ended putting all the flowers on my cake and by the time i drove back, OOOOOOOF, again cake splt! :(





So I started again! Now I made basket weave like a pro in 20 mins! Arranged flowers and ready to go!






And the kids were happy! :)

Brownie

Got a box of Betty Crocker's brownie mix and tried it out. Came out gr8! Next time i wish to do it from scratch.

Nikon D90 - my new digital SLR

I got a new Nikon D90. Love the camera! Still have not read the manual fully..Exploring with the camera myself with the help of some online contents abt Digital Photography with DSLR!
Some of the photos that i took of my son came excellent. It was a few months before. Now he is not allowing me to take any photos. He just wants to explore the camera too! ;)
Here is one of my best shots!

A R Rahman concert at Long Island NY

I am a fan of A R Rahman and i was very much excited when I saw the ad about Rahman's performance at Nassau colliseum, Long Island NY! Immediately i booked the tickets and was there at the show on Saturday night! It was a great feast from Rahman. A show that everyone wud love. It was spellbounding! The last 3 songs from Boys, Bombay and Vandhe Madharam were beyond words. Its a life time memory for me!
I was unable take camcorder inside. So, i took waterver i cud with my camera. Most fotos were blurry and shaken! I uploaded the photos of the concert at http://good-times.webshots.com/album/559485812fiypJj.

Lottery to decide H1B visas for 2008

Seems that the US Immigration services recieved more than 150,000 applications for 65,000 H1B visas during the first day itself. If u r lucky enough u cud get thru! I dont think its a good idea! I have applied for H1 and waiting for the results! This sys will not help the deserved candidates. I dont say that I am a deserved candidate and I shd get it. If I get, its my luck! There are lot more deserved candidates waiting in the queue. Hope the lottery system has some logic before selecting anyone!

Moon

Moon is one of the fascinating thing for me from my childhood! I love watching it, for it gives me a peaceful mood when things are not going good around! It lightens my soul! Dont kno wats so spl with that moonlit night! Its beautiful, romantic, poetic, peaceful and wat not....
I had to get a new camera just to take a moon! Thanks to Ashok! :) Still i needed a tripod. Finally i got one and took a photo with that! I dont think it as a great shot. But still, to my level, i feel its one of my good shots!