Chocolate Chip Muffin

I made cupcakes and they tasted awesome. At first, I forgot to add sugar to the batter and the first batch came sugar less. I made forty cupcakes and i want to share this recipe with you.

 Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour (260 grams)
• ¾ cup cocoa powder
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1¼ cups whole milk
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 2 Tbsp butter, melted
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus 1/3 cup additional chocolate chips for sprinkling

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350° F.


2. Combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, sugar and salt in a large bowl.


3. Combine the milk and the melted butter. Then add the oil, and finally whisk in the beaten eggs and stir in the vanilla extract.


4. Thoroughly grease and flour a muffin pan (or better yet, you can use paper muffin liners).


5. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ones and mix no more than ten seconds. The batter should be visibly lumpy. That's OK! It's extremely important not to overmix the batter, or the resulting muffins can be hard or misshapen.
   
   TIP: The dry and wet ingredients, respectively, can be mixed in advance, but as soon as the wet and dry ingredients have been combined with each other, the liquid will activate the baking powder and the batter needs to be baked right away.


6. With a rubber spatula, gently fold 1 cup of chocolate chips into the batter. Don't overwork the batter.


7. Carefully spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan (you can use a small ladle or even an ice-cream scoop).


8. Finally, sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips onto the tops of the muffins, and transfer to the oven immediately.


9. Bake 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.


10. Remove pan from the oven and let the muffins cool for five minutes in the pan. Then remove the muffins from the pan and let them cool another five minutes on a wire rack.

After eating your handmade cupcakes, add a comment about how it tasted.

Horse Riding

I went horse riding to the Embassy International Riding School on Sunday the 6th for 'Own A Horse Day'. It was drizzling and our car was parked in the muddy parking lot. Just when the black Honda was out of sight, my sister and I walked to the stables. 

Our teacher was there with three other children and we mounted our horses, all from the left. We were guided by the helpers to the arena and were left. Our instructor, Miss Anna was there telling us what to do. My horses name was Appache, a white stallion, whereas  my sister had a pony, Floatsy. My sister's horse was laziest and she kept running the wrong side the whole time. We did sitting and sitting and rising trot, which was the bumpiest ride. We did the changing direction game and finally the game called crocodile. We had to go between two sticks and could not step out of the line. We went into the cafe for a break, all drenched. 

We ate some popcorn and some juice and back to the stable. We got our horses and we groomed them and cleaned their hooves. Now came the stinky part where we had to clean the stables, free of poop. Disgusting. We then took out for a walk and mounted them to go for a ride in the woods opposite the Embassy. It was a forty-five minute ride and it was loads of fun. We came back tired, sat in our car and my mom put her foot on the gas and sped off. 

FIFA World Cup

The abbreviation FIFA stands for Federation International Football Association. FIFA is the soccer world cup which is held every four years and is hosted by different countries.

 The FIFA started 1930 and Uruguay was the host and the hosts won! The FIFA in 2014 is being hosted by Brazil. Every year the matches are played with a different ball. The ball they used in the FIFA 2014 is called the Brazuca.

 32 teams take part hey are in the world cup. They are divided into 8 groups of 4. Group A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. the teams in one group play against each other. From each group two teams are out and the other two are in the sixteen.This is called the2^nd round, the knockouts. In the 1^st round the match can end as a draw but in the 2^nd they shall give you extra time, penalties and even more penalties if needed! Like this teams get knocked out and finally two teams play the finals.

In Brazil this year they used different cities which are:

 SALVADOR

 NATAL

FORTALEZA

BELO HORIZONTE

BRASILIA

CUIABA

RIO DE JANEIRO

 SAO PAULO

 CURITIBA

PORTO ALEGRE

Each stadium has to hold about 50’000 people as the FIFA craze has reached the end point. People are having sleepless nights because of night matches like at 3:30 a.m. on the other side of the world. Yet the FIFA is loved and awaited for.

Elections (new version)

Elections are when the people of the country choose their leaders as India is a democratic republic. Different people with same ideologies come together to form a party. People  representing parties stand in the elections and then get elected to Lok Sabha and the leader of the winning party becomes  the Prime Minister. The elections take place every five years in India .

People from different parties or individuals stand from  a constituency so you go and vote for that person, but in the end the leader of the winning party become's the  prime minister. The prime minister then chooses some ministers to join him in his cabinet of ministers. The prime minister gets to govern over the country for five years.

The Election Commission of India conduct the elections all over the country and check for fair and just means to be used by the candidates. Electronics voting machines are used on which the party's name is written with the logo and a blue button next to it. You have press the button to elect that leader. From September 27, 2013 they installed a button called None of the Above (NOTA) button which means you don't want to elect anybody  but you want to go vote . So you press that button but you don't elect anybody. Once you have voted the person on duty will use a special ink and make a mark on one of your fingers and this means that you've voted and you can't vote anywhere else. If you try, you'll get sent to prison. The teachers of government run school and colleges are made to do election duty and make sure there will be fair elections. In year 2009, the elections involved an electorate of 714 million.

There are many different parties such as Congress, Bharatia Janta party (BJP), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), ShivSena, Samajwadi Party​,Bahujan Samaj Party. Some are the national parties which have a country wide presence and others are regional parties which work more in a particular state. The National parties then take help of regional parties to contest the election. For example, BJP is the national party but Shiv Sena is the regional party helping them with elections in Maharashtra. If there is a candidate standing from shiv Sena in a particular 3constituency, there will be nobody from BJP there. Shiv Sena and BJP are allies.

Different parties have different logos like for congress there’s the hand, BJP the lotus, the AAP the broom and many more. The elections are fun but can sometimes be dangerous. Elections can be dangerous when the people from parties come and hit, burn houses and do other not nice stuff to people who didn’t vote for that party and the men who do this get money in return. Candidates bribe people by giving them money, food , clothes etc. to go and vote for that party.

Elections are a fundamental duty of the Indian Citizen. Every citizen above the age of 18 has to fulfill his duty towards the country by going and  voting.

Computer

COMPUTER

Raghav Agrawal-6B

A computer is machine we use in everyday life,

It cuts across your work like a knife,

You can mail, you can chat wherever,

If you have laptop by your side.

Praise Charles Babbage and Ada love lace,

The inventors of this machine,

It used to be a calculator,

But now it's used for everything!

Although the keyboard ain't straight

Don't stay up the entrie night in haste

Trying to straighten the order of the letter

I am telling you, its a waste.

The CPU is attached to the computer,

To give it life,

There’s a disconnect,

PHOOOOOOOO


THE SCREEN GOES BLANK!!

save the Earth

Save the Earth

                              Raghav Agrawal

MUMBAI: Earth day is celebrated on 22 April. From San Francisco to San Juan, Beijing to Brussels, Moscow to Marrakesh, people plant trees, clean up their communities, contact their elected officials, and more—all on behalf of the environment. It is a festival which is celebrated around the world in 192 different countries. The first Earth day was celebrated in 1970. In 1969 UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.  But a month later, Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed April 22 as the date. Earth day will celebrate its 44 anniversary in the year 2014. Earth Hour is a worldwide movement for the planet organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The event is held worldwide annually encouraging individuals, communities, households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on the last Saturday in March, as a symbol for their commitment to the planet. People all around the world are picking up the garbage in their neighborhoods. Everybody around the world are planting trees to save the earth. In many countries people are barricading the roads and cars are not allowed to run and instead they are cycling or running to their places of work. People are going to individual houses and collecting their garbage and disposing it themselves.  In some countries they are not allowing cars with an odd number as the last number on the plate to run on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and the opposite for the even numbers. People are recycling everything possible to keep the Earth clean. Their motto is “Reduce, reuse, recycle.” In Indonesia they have a parade where they push an inflated earth around the city and if anyone wants to push the cart, they can happily push. Everyone should use a cycle to go to work and should save electricity by switching off lights, fans etc.  last  year in school the round square made paintigs and posters to tell people about Earth day and aware them the various things one could do to save our Earth.  This year they  made a huge poster dangling from the first floor which said “Save the Earth, Make it a better place. Their motto is, “Clean Earth, green Earth.” What can you do for a better planet?

LETS BUILD UP

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LETS BUILD UP

The Second Movie I Saw

     The Lego movie is an enriching experience to all Lego fans. It is an animated plus reality movie. The movie is about lord business who steals the Kragle (glue, but big in the Lego world) and plans to spray it on the city because many of the master builders are breaking his creations and making new ones. To ordinary people he is just president business and is a friendly guy. So, the master builders in order to save the city have to stop him. They have to take the piece of resistance (the cap of the glue) and attach it to the glue. But the problem is they can’t find the piece. But an ordinary construction worker, Emmet, falls in to a hole and touches the piece and it gets stuck to him. The cops who work for the lord take him and tried to take the piece away from him but Wlydstyle, a master builder comes to rescue. At first she respects him and helps him get away but she didn’t realize that he wasn’t even a master builder! She takes him to Vitruvius an old master builder and together they go on a mission to stop the lord. The first go to cloudy land to gather more master builders. They are caught unawares by lord business cops and most of the master builders are taken away to the lord’s tower. Only a few survive that were Vitruvius, Emmet , Wlydstyle, Batman and a pony. They leave in a submarine but that was also hit by one of the cops. Thanks to Emmet’s idea they survived in a useless creation, a double Decker sofa. They used over 3,863,484 unique bricks for this spectacular movie. The movie is well directed and has its own humor and never goes down. The directors Phil lord and Christopher miller have done a spectacular job to direct this film. Both youngsters and elders will really love this film.

My rating: five stars