what's w/ all this caution about not leaving ur stove on??

despite being taught that it's super dangerous to leave a stove on unattended, there really isn't as much of a risk as how our parents have always made it to be. it was zhao's birthday today..and we were gonna give her a cake, but the chinese bakery didn't sell any of the cakes that she liked. so i didn't bother getting one. so when the time came for her to get out of her room, carny decided to make a make-shift cake w/ a bao (chinese bread) and a egg tart. hahah..

we were also gonna stick a candle onto of the egg tart, but we couldn't find any candles. so we looked about and eventually settled on a tealight candle. THEN, we went on another hunt to find a match, lighter, anything that we could use to light the tealight with. no such luck.

so we decided to see if we could burn a piece of paper or tissue over the stove and then light it from that. haha..we tried, tissue, a piece of paper, a toothpick..but to no avail. it lit the object into a mini flame, but it wasn't strong enough to light up the wick as well. despite all that fanning we did. we failed. =(

BUT! despite having the burning smell lingering for a bit, nothing was burnt. all is safe and sound. well, other than the stuff we were trying to light up. and even then it wasn't a satisfactory burn.

lesson of the day: if u want to light anything up, use a lighter, and if u don't have one then use a match. if u don't have either. go buy it. it'll save u a LOT of hassle =P