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.

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whoo solve this if you can! Whoever it is!

The three trees stand behind three trees.
So three trees are before the three trees.
9 12-15-22-5 25-15-21
Tongue Twister.

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.

bor auy brl yso ifn log lrt bai evm yee

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.

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.

- W. A. Mozart

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.

It's a really beautiful afternoon, just not very perfect.

Want a Mozart ball?

Mozartkugel

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The “Original Salzburg Mozartkugeln” made by the confectionary Fürst

Imitation “Real Reber Mozartkugeln” made by P. Reber Pty. Ltd., Bad Reichenhall

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.

Contents [hide] 1 The Original 1.1 The original recipe 1.2 Prizes 2 The rights to the name 3 Other producers of Mozartkugeln that employ the original recipe 4 Industrially produced imitations 4.1 Austria 4.2 Germany 4.3 Dispute between Mirabell and Reber 5 Further chocolates produced by the confectionary Fürst and named after famous personalities 6 Trivia 7 Sources 8 Web links

[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].

I'm going to type this in this way so that only you can understand okay? Try so solve it.

[ purpose fulfilled, message deleted ]

I WANT MY LEXEAN!!!

I can't seem to find it at the newstand. Some people said that the third issue is already out, and is crap.

BUT I STILL WANT IT!!!!

Hmm this is the ultimate.

lawl man this is so damn funny.



hmm the second one, a bunch of jokers.

BBLLLLEEEAAAHHH nothing to post about, but this. Actually I should have posted this 2 months ago.

Choose one:

http://www.mediafire.com/?dn93ktmyxtj
http://www.filecrunch.com/file/~nq4p57

It's our research paper, by the way.

I thought that you were already very much out of my life.

Can't you just get out once and for all?

Deep-voiced men 'have more kids'

After supper, I clicked on the firefox shortcut at the bottom left of my screen. One, two and three, and my metal lion mozilla materialised. Instinctively I directed my cursor to the horizontal 'favourites' bar which rests below the internet address bar and also spans across the screen.

Latest Headlines, was the first from the left with the icon of the familiar RSS feed. Hmm what shall I read? China bans 'sexy' advertisement, nah so boring and mundane, what's wrong with those adverts man. It was many horizontal strings of letters before the sequence of Deep-voiced men 'have more kids' got registered into my brain.

Ahh this is interesting. Therefore I clicked and my iGoogle homepage morphed into the bbc news website in a matter of milliseconds by html codes. It is only correct and responsible for me, as a male and a human being, to share this interesting finding with my fellow homo sapien comrades. Disclaimer : the original article is taken from the bbc website where the link can be found above. Edits were limited to highlighting and underlining only, the sole purpose is to facilitate comprehensiveness and ease of understanding.

Men with deep voices tend to have more children than those who speak at a higher pitch, scientists say.

Their finding is based on a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania known as the Hadza, who can be studied without bias because they use no birth control.

The Hadza still live much the same way as ancient humans did

Males who hit lower notes as they talked had about two more children on average than squeaky speakers.

It fits with observations that women find masculine voices more attractive, the team reports in Biology Letters.

"There are a lot of reasons why lower pitch and reproductive success could be linked," said Coren Apicella, from the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, US.

Deep tones are suggestive of increased testosterone levels, which could lead females to perceive such men as better hunters and therefore better providers, she told the BBC.

"Or it could be that men with deeper voices simply start reproducing earlier. We really don't know what is behind this yet."

Sound system

Apicella's group studied the Hadza because "they provide a window into our past" - they live their lives much as our ancestors did, and their behaviours could illustrate key facets of evolution that might otherwise be swamped by modern culture.

Hadza females gather berries and dig for tubers, while the males hunt animals and collect honey. Marriages are not arranged, so that men and women choose their own spouses.

The Hadza are monogamous, but extra-marital affairs are common, and the divorce rate is high.

For the study, voice recordings were collected from 49 men and 52 women between the ages of 18 and 55.

"The experiment was really simple," said Ms Apicella. "I went to nine different camps and I'd just get them to come into my Land Rover and record them saying the word 'Hujambo', which means 'hello', into a microphone.

"I then analysed the voice and pitch, and compared it with the person's reproductive history - how many children they had had and how many were still surviving."

The results indicated the deeper the man's voice, the more likely he was to have fathered more children, she said. She added that voice pitch was not linked to child mortality.

"We found that for women, the voice pitch was not connected to reproduction."

'Hadza Olympics'

Because of the similarity which their hunter-gatherer lifestyle bears to that of our ancestors, the reproductive success of the Hadza could be indicative of the way that human beings evolved.

If females are drawn to deeper voices, this would drive selection in the population towards that trait. In other words, lower-pitched male speakers would become dominant over time.

"It's possible that vocal dimorphism has evolved over thousands of years, partly due to mate selection," explained Ms Apicella. "Perhaps at one time, men and women's voices were closer in pitch than they are today."

Her group has plans to extend its study. It is analysing data gathered from an experiment designed to test whether lower voice pitch in Hadza men really is any kind of indicator of performance.

"I set up the 'Hadza Olympics'," she said. "The tribesmen participated in lots of activities, like archery competitions, racing, hunting, etc.

"I'm going to look now at these to see if there is a link between hunting success, reproductive performance and voice pitch."

The research was undertaken with David Feinberg of McMaster University and Frank Marlowe of Florida State University.

Yeah, so this is it. Deeeep voice huh, sexaye.

Currently reading: The Piano Teacher(originally Die Klavierspielerin) by Elfriede Jelinek.
A Nobel prize winner for literature. Okay, I shall resume my reading, seems quite interesting.

HIATUS [hahy-ey-tuhs]
–noun, plural -tus·es, -tus.

a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.

Everybody seems to love this word, I can see it being plastered on the main page of many blogs. It'd be staring right into my face, and when I read on, I would find that the user still updates frequently.

So is that only a fashion statement?

Sorry bout my colour, it's random :)

３月かかりましたね。感じがどう？この間、あなたがいない時間がどんな短くでもあなたが淋しがってしまいます。時々、あなたばかり考えます。他のことが全然できません。ロー、面白いですけど、ちょっと大変でした。

ええと、以上の文は練習に書いたね。


かもしれません。

The "Had To" section

1. If you HAD to get a tattoo, where
would you want it?
- hmm, on my face.

2. If you HAD to dye your hair which
colour would you choose ?
- White, and I'm serious

3. If you HAD to get a piercing (THAT
ISN'T YOUR EARS) what would you get
pierced?
- ON MY BUTT HAHA.

4. If you HAD to change your
name...what new name would you choose?
- Elvis Presley

The "Would You?" section

1. If you could go bungee jumping,
would you?
- That would put me in high risk for blindness.

2. Would you move somewhere else, if
you could?
- Yes, to a better place that is.

3. If you were given the chance to go
to Paris, would you go?
- Paris, Paris, Paris...

4. if you found 10 million dollars,
and it was YOURS to spend, what would
you do with it?
- Buy weapons and war machinery. Wait, I think that 10 mill's not enough.


The "Let's Say" Questions

1. Let's say you see a big ship
sink...only 3 people have a chance to
survive. The 3 people are Your Best
Friend, Your Boyfriend/Girlfriend, and
a long lost friend (that you don't
know too well)...who would you save if
you HAD to choose ONLY 1 person?
- Since I have no best friend, girlfriend.

2. Let's say you became
President...what
is the first thing you would do?
- Fire all the redundant, inefficient, and degenerate civil servants.

3. Lets say you had to eat a live
tarantula for $1,000..would you?
- eee, so hairy. I prefer candy floss.

4. Let's say you could star in any
movie (made or in the works) what
movie?
- hmm, my favourite movie contact I guess


The "Favourites" section

1. Colour?
- YELLOW, and RED.

2. Current song?
- Song? I don't think that exists in my dictionary. How 'bout "piece"?

3. Shirt you own?
- eh dunno?

4. Electronic device?
- my emm-pee-threeee.

5. Movie?
- Contact, 1997, starring Jodie Foster

6. Book?
- quite a few favourites.

7. Pair of shoes?
- my beige.

8. Sandal color?
- Red grey?

9. Hair color?
- White. White hair is cool.

10. Eye color?
- Luminous, like Cyclops.


The "other stuff" section

1. What makes your bedroom unique?
- The smell? lol.

2. Who do you like?
- My girl.

It feels wanting, when I don't see you, almost to the extent of lamentation.

My temporarily vacuous life pines for your presence, and your tender touch.

Fear not my dear, for the desires are only latent, but I hope that it does not mature like the werewolf during full moon.

Hope this colour looks fine to you.

Composing A capellas are fun, and I am happy with my primer-joke-teasing-composed-by-me one titled "To whomever it may concern", also which I have rehearsed many times with Nicole. lol. By the way I've written it for 2 singers, fun huh.

I should do more of this, maybe try SATB next time. XD

Ebony And Ivory

Written By Sir Paul McCartney
Performed by Sir Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder

Ebony and Ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don't we ?

We all know that people are the same
wherever you go
There's good and bad in everyone
We learn to live, we learn to give each other
What we need to survive
Together alive

Ebony and Ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don't we ?

Ebony, Ivory, living in perfect harmony
Ebony, Ivory, ooh

We all know that people are the same
wherever you go
There's good and bad in everyone
We learn to live, we learn to give each other
What we need to survive
Together alive

Ebony and Ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don't we ?

Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don't we ?

Ebony, Ivory, living in perfect harmony
Ebony, Ivory, living in perfect harmony
Ebony, Ivory, living in perfect harmony...

Haha, I think this is quite random, because I was thinking of the piano, which was made with ebony and ivory in the past.(wow what a luxury it is to be playing on ivory, must have killed many elephants because of that)

This is racial harmony okay, as you can see from the singers who correspond to the title of the song, if you get what I mean.

Ah my blog is rotting.

When we journey through the dimension of time,

Is it me that you remember?

Is it me that fades from your memories?

You will tell me.


But I cannot promise,

That I will remember you,

Or retain you in my hippocampus,

When I cruise through the passage of time.