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BWRARARARA
Bored, I am. Amuse myself, I will. Yoda, I have become.
1] Who has your heart?
- HER
2] How did you wake up this morning?
- My mother.
3 ] Which is more romantic: sunrise or
sunset?
- when the sun is hanging right above us.
4] Are you wearing any clothing?
- yeah
5] What did you do last night?
- I was doing comprehension passages and then watched brainiac, the last episode of the seaon :(
6] Who was the last person you kissed?
- Erm, you sure you wanna know?
7] Would you kiss that person, again?
- Yeah as soon as possible perhaps( lol I sound desperate )
8 ] Did you brush your teeth this
morning?
- Eh yes of course
9] Have you ever been on the radio?
- eee radio no fun
10] What did you drink today?
- Ehh allow me to recall. Water, and soup.
11 ] Do you like honey?
- Yes if they come from bees lol.
12] What's the last thing you broke?
- Can't remember, should be something tangible
13 ] Do you know your bf/gf well?
- To a certain extent, but many things remain elusive.
14] Did you sing at all today?
-dunno
1 5] When's the last time you cried?
- hmm last month?
16 ] How many letters are there in
your last name?
- 3
17] When did you go swimming last?
- last monday, wanted to go today, but weather wasn't good.
18] Do you love anyone other than
family?
- Yeah baby.
19] Do you have any tattoos or hennas?
- Had.
20] Do you live near your best friend?
- Define near. Oh our moon is so near..
21 ] Are you a Bon Jovi fan?
- YEAH BABY
22] Can you play the guitar?
- Learnt in primary school before.
23] Do you believe in love?
- Yes, and I am deeply in love.
24 ] Do you like basketball?
- Not really.
25] Last time you went out of
Singapore?
- Hmm not sure, but going out in a week's time.
26] What are you doing right now?
- Staring into the LCD monitor scrutinizing black letters
27 ] When was the last time someone
said something sweet to your face?
- Last week?
28] What are you wearing right now?
- red shirt, semi-translucent shorts lol
29] Do you miss anyone?
- HER.
30] Did you have fun today?
- Yeah baby, O level chinese was sooo fun.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
I'm leaving for the pool soon. In case you're wondering, it's the swimming pool, not whatever pool that punks go to.
The replete photons in the surrounding has motivated me yet again to write. What a condition for life, mildly energetic forces of nature being in excess, providing every opportune condition for semi-animate matter to thrive.
What you see around is nothing but a manifest of our energy supplier, the Sun. Every object's visual existence is dependent on it, and is prove to which the star exists.
That's all for today, random ponders which attempts to philosophise and reflect empirical truths at the same time, but has never succeeded, albeit the author ultimately hopes to achieve that.
Bye, to my exercise or swimming here I come.
This is for today, dedicated to her but people with exemplary mental capacity and sheer determination shall be rewarded with the thrill of deciphering the encrypted.
The replete photons in the surrounding has motivated me yet again to write. What a condition for life, mildly energetic forces of nature being in excess, providing every opportune condition for semi-animate matter to thrive.
What you see around is nothing but a manifest of our energy supplier, the Sun. Every object's visual existence is dependent on it, and is prove to which the star exists.
That's all for today, random ponders which attempts to philosophise and reflect empirical truths at the same time, but has never succeeded, albeit the author ultimately hopes to achieve that.
Bye, to my exercise or swimming here I come.
This is for today, dedicated to her but people with exemplary mental capacity and sheer determination shall be rewarded with the thrill of deciphering the encrypted.
bor auy brl yso ifn log lrt bai evm yee
Saturday, October 20, 2007
It's a beautiful afternoon, just not very perfect.
Chopin's posthumous waltz no.20 echoes painfully through the flash widget in my blog. A mellow instrument to accentuate the tranquillity and abjection of the music. The screaming soul inside me resonates with relief and my body reacts in the form of hormones. Feels like everything and nothing at the same time. It is only subtly painful yet arrestingly numb. The shift between the comatose of emotions and the over-sensitivity of my ego made me what I am today. Indolence has invaded my life, and consumed it, without even leaving the slightest tinge of my old self or history.
I can sense the realisation of the truths of life in this piece, and fortunately it provides me momentary spiritual solace. I had always believed in music, but I had no idea of its ability to render emotions so compelling such that it is involuntary.
After five seconds, no more. Everything is over after the climax. No more fantasy, no more pleasure, no more self-delusion, it's back to reality, where post-climax problems are already staring into your face. A mirror, it is like one.
It's a really beautiful afternoon, just not very perfect.
Chopin's posthumous waltz no.20 echoes painfully through the flash widget in my blog. A mellow instrument to accentuate the tranquillity and abjection of the music. The screaming soul inside me resonates with relief and my body reacts in the form of hormones. Feels like everything and nothing at the same time. It is only subtly painful yet arrestingly numb. The shift between the comatose of emotions and the over-sensitivity of my ego made me what I am today. Indolence has invaded my life, and consumed it, without even leaving the slightest tinge of my old self or history.
I can sense the realisation of the truths of life in this piece, and fortunately it provides me momentary spiritual solace. I had always believed in music, but I had no idea of its ability to render emotions so compelling such that it is involuntary.
After five seconds, no more. Everything is over after the climax. No more fantasy, no more pleasure, no more self-delusion, it's back to reality, where post-climax problems are already staring into your face. A mirror, it is like one.
If we really think about it, death, is the true and ultimate purpose of our lives. I have over the last several years form such a knowing relationship with this true and best friend of humankind. But this image holds nothing terrifying for me any more, instead it holds much that is soothing and consoles me.I guess I'm feeling the same as when Chopin composed that piece. It has dawned on me that I am quite self-centred, considering that many of the above sentences starts with the word "I". Well, maybe not.
- W. A. Mozart
It's a really beautiful afternoon, just not very perfect.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Want a Mozart ball?
Mozartkugel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mozartkugel (English: Mozart ball), known originally as the “Mozartbonbon”, was created by the Salzburg confectioner Paul Fürst in 1890 and named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The confectionary Fürst still produces the original Salzburg Mozartkugeln by hand according to the original recipe and only sells them in its shops or over its website. As the Fürst confectionary does not own a trademark for Mozartkugeln, there are numerous imitation products, most of which are produced using industrial techniques.
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[edit] The Original
The master confectioner Paul Fürst came to Salzburg in 1884 and opened his own shop at number 13, Brodgasse. He presented the Mozartbonbon for the first time in 1890, later producing and selling it in greater quantities as Mozartkugeln. Fürst’s achievement was the production of a perfectly rounded chocolate. The production process used by the confectionary Fürst has not changed to this day.
Paul Fürst presented the Mozartkugel at a fair in Paris in 1905 and was awarded a gold medal for it.
Today, the confectionary Fürst sells the original Salzburg Mozartkugeln exclusively in its four shops in Salzburg (at the Old Market, in the Ritzerbogen, the Getreidegasse and near the Castle Mirabell), and via a direct service, but not in other shops. Mozartkugeln can be bought from the confectionary Fürst individually and in packs.
[edit] The original recipe
The “Original Salzburg Mozartkugeln” are still produced manually by the confectionary Fürst according to the original recipe and using the original technique: First, a ball of green pistachio marzipan covered in a layer of nougat is produced. This ball is then placed on a small wooden stick and dunked in a dark chocolate coating. Next, the stick is placed vertically, with the ball at the top, on a platform to allow the chocolate to cool off and harden. Finally, the stick is removed; the hole that it leaves behind is closed with chocolate coating, and the ball is wrapped in silver tin foil. Approximately 1.4 million Mozartkugeln are produced by hand using this technique every year. In the firm’s air-conditioned salerooms, the balls remain fresh for about 8 weeks.
[edit] Prizes
The specialist magazine “Der Feinschmecker” (English: The gastronome) gave the original Salzburg Mozartkugel first place in a comparison of different Mozartkugeln in its January 2006 edition. It was noted that the original Salzburg Mozartkugel is handmade and that its nougat taste is complemented by a touch of pistachio marzipan. The original Salzburg Mozartkugel was awarded a gold medal at the second international truffle competition during the confectionary fair ÖKONDA in Wels in September 2005.
[edit] The rights to the name
The existence of numerous imitation Mozartkugeln finally led Paul Fürst’s descendents to initiate a court process. At stake were the rights to the name, not the Mozartkugeln recipe itself. At first, the dispute concerned only confectionary producers in Salzburg, but later spread to include the competition from Germany. The result was an agreement which obliged Fürst’s competitors to use other names. The Mirabell firm, based in Grödig near Salzburg, chose the name “Real Salzburg Mozartkugeln”. The Bavarian producer Reber opted for “Real Reber Mozartkugeln”. In 1996, a dispute between Fürst and a subsidiary of the Swiss food producer Nestlé, which wanted to market “Original Austria Mozartkugeln”, was decided in the third instance. Only Fürst products may be called original Salzburg Mozartkugeln[1].
[edit] Other producers of Mozartkugeln that employ the original recipe
The confectionary Dallmann, located in St. Gilgen on the Wolfgangsee, produces Mozartkugeln by hand according to Fürst’s original recipe. Like those produced by the confectionary Fürst, they are wrapped in silver tin foil marked with blue print.
The confectionary Engljähringer, which has operated in Salzburg since 1948, also produces Mozartkugeln by hand using the original recipe. They are sold in cardboard boxes and are available at Salzburg’s University Square and at the Engljähringer market stall. Handmade Mozartkugeln are not produced en masse using industrial techniques, whereby hollow Mozartkugeln are created and then filled. Engljähringer Mozartkugeln are produced by “wuzeln” (a regional term in Austria meaning to turn or to roll) the pistachio marzipan, by covering it in nougat and finally by dunking it by hand in chocolate coating.
The confectionary Petrik, whose base of operations in the Getreidegasse, not too far from the house in which Mozart was born, produces Mozartkugeln using the same sound and traditional method. The confectionary took a top place in the 2006 Mozartkugel test carried out by the “We are Mozart” website[2].
[edit] Industrially produced imitations
Shortly after the presentation of the Mozartkugel in Paris, other Salzburg confectioners started to copy it due to its popularity. The newly developing sweet industry quickly began to produce this popular speciality too, as Fürst had not secured the rights to the name Mozartkugel.
Paul Fürst once said of two of his competitors: “The Mirabell Mozartkugeln are just as fake as those from Reber.” [3]
The industrially produced Mozartkugeln do not use the original recipe, being based instead on variations on it. Furthermore, they are smaller than the original and are often flat on one side. The Mozartkugeln produced by the Mirabell company have a ring-shaped marzipan centre surrounded by light and dark nougat creme. Those produced by the German company Reber have a centre made of nougat, which is surrounded on one side by white marzipan, and on the other side by green marzipan. Moreover, they are flat on one side and not completely round. The Mozartkugeln produced by another German company, Lambertz, are also flat on one side, with a hazelnut and nougat centre surrounded by pistachio and almond marzipan and covered in a layer of dark chocolate. Both Mirabell and Reber emphasise that no preservatives, colouring or artificial aromas are used in their products.
The leading industrial producers of Mozartkugeln, Reber and Mirabell, are both based in the area of the Euregio Salzburg – Berchtesgadener Land – Traunstein.
[edit] Austria
The biggest industrial producer of Mozartkugeln in Austria is the Mirabell company (Kraft Foods Austria), which is based in Grödig near Salzburg. According to its own figures, Mirabell produces over 90 million Mozartkugeln per year and exports them to more than 30 countries. Mirabell claims to have produced a total of 1.5 billion Mozartkugeln since 1945. Other producers include the Viennese company Hofbauer, which produces varieties with milk chocolate and dark chocolate, and Manner, which has factories in Vienna, Wolkersdorf and Perg.
[edit] Germany
The biggest industrial producer of Mozartkugeln in Germany is Reber Specialities, which has been active in Bad Reichenhall since 1983. According to Reber, its daily capacity is 500,000 Mozartkugeln, and it exports its products to 40 countries. The Confiserie Dreher is also located in Bad Reichenhall and has been producing Mozartkugeln since 1931. It claims to be the oldest German producer of Mozartkugeln. Dreher was bought in 2000 by the Halloren Chocolate Factory in Halle (Saale).[4] The Lambertz company, based in Aachen, also produces Mozartkugeln.
[edit] Dispute between Mirabell and Reber
At the end of the 1970s, a dispute arose between the Mozartkugel producers Mirabell and Reber over the trademark. An agreement was finally reached in 1981 between representatives of the Austrian and German governments, whereby only Austrian producers were to be allowed to produce and export Mozartkugeln. Reber protested against this agreement, and the EC-Commissioner charged with deciding in the affair finally declared the agreement invalid[5].
Nonetheless, only Mirabell Mozartkugeln are allowed to be round. Reber Mozartkugeln must have one flat side[6].
[edit] Further chocolates produced by the confectionary Fürst and named after famous personalities
Besides the famous “Original Salzburger Mozartkugel”, which is named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, there are further chocolates that are named after famous personalities: the Bachwürfel (English: Bach cube) (Johann Sebastian Bach), Wolf-Dietrich-Block (Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau), Doppler Kon(Ef)fekt (Christian Doppler) and the Paris-Lodron-Truffle (Paris Graf von Lodron).
[edit] Trivia
In the winter and spring of 2006, 80 oversized polyester Mozartkugeln, each with a diameter of 1.6 metres, were placed in the old town of Salzburg. They had been designed by artists. In the night of the 27th of March, vandals removed one of these Mozartkugeln from the Franziskanergasse, where it had been bolted to the ground. The unknown vandals then rolled the Mozartkugel onto the street, causing damage worth around 7000 euro[7].
The confectionary Dallmann in St. Gilgen offers a Mozartkugel seminar. Participants graduate as Mozartkugel specialists[8].
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