Lost Masquarade

Here are some pictures, these are the only ones that I have that i look good HAHAHA :p more to come.....KUNA I WANT PHOTOS!!!

From Yahoo!
bob forwarded this link to me and it was just too delicious to pass up

VIENNA (AFP) - What may be the world's most celebrated chocolate cake, Vienna's Sacher-Torte, is feting 175 years since its creator produced a recipe that still remains as closely guarded as a state secret. Aside from me, only my pastry chef and his assistant know the recipe, which is kept in a safe," said Elisabeth Gurtler, the dynamic 57-year-old businesswoman who took over the reins of the Hotel Sacher group in 1990, following the death of her husband. "All that I can say is that we use butter, sugar, eggs, flour, chocolate and jam," she said coyly, adding that ingredients are "all natural" and all from Austria -- except for the chocolate that comes from Belgium and Germany.

The story started in 1832 when the Austrian chancellor at the time, Count Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, asked for a new desert that would impress his guests. His requirement: "don´t make me look a fool tonight!"

When the master chef took ill, a 16-year-old apprentice, Franz Sacher, was entrusted with the task. "He came up with a recipe that would make his job easier," said Gurtler.

The demands of Metternich's daily banquets meant that large quantities of desserts had to be prepared in advance - in the days when there were no refrigerators and no preservatives.

"Even then, we could make Sacher-Torte that would keep for at least a fortnight," said Gurtler.

The dessert consists of two layers of dense chocolate cake with a fine spreading of apricot jam in between. Rich, dark chocolate icing coats the top and sides.

From the few details offered by pastry chef Alfred Buxbaum, it seems the icing makes all the difference. "I use three types of chocolate and we work with about 2,000 litres (quarts) of liquid chocolate on hand at all times," he said, adding he'll be slapped with a "six-figure fine if I say more."

Buxbaum and his partner are the only ones who know the exact proportions for the icing.

Thanks to the success of Franz' creation, his son Eduard opened the Hotel Sacher behind the Viennese opera house in 1876 - not only a showcase for the city's best-known culinary speciality but a landmark in its own right whose notable guests once included John Lennon and Yoko Ono who gave one of their "bed-in" press conferences here on their 1969 peace tour.

Today the Sacher group owns four five-star hotels and produces 360,000 cakes a year, though only the 13 pastry chefs in Vienna are allowed to whip up the "Original Sacher-Torte," now a registered trademark.

Despite others' attempts to tap into the cake's fame, the Sacher group, which was bought by the Gurtler family in 1934, "has won every single copyright infringement case ever brought to trial," 40 to date, according to Gurtler.

The latest incident occurred this month when Irene Sacher, the great-great-granddaughter of Franz Sacher, published what she asserted to be the original recipe in the Austrian newspaper, Kurier.

Gurtler remains unperturbed. "There is only one original Sacher-Torte," she said. "In fact, this is going to be our new advertising slogan."

"No one ever knew the recipe for Coca-Cola and for us it is the same thing."

She also refuses to disclose the company's turnover, saying only one-third of annual production is sold abroad with 40 percent going to neighboring Germany, a hefty 18 percent to the United States and four percent as far away as Japan. Britain also imports seven percent and France five.

In 1998, the Sacher-Torte even made it into the Guinness World Records when Hotel Sacher produced a cake measuring 2.5 metres (just over eight feet) in diameter.

WHAT IF a caller had called MMU for directions..

I suggest that rather than close off the entrance to EP, just add the divider, in that case, cars lining up behind wouldn't cut queues by trying to sneak in from behind, well, come to think of it, that would just make the waiting process longer.

SOMEHOW i think it is MMU's responsibility into ensuring that the UNIVERSITY has a proper ENTRANCE rather than a confusing labyrinth of confusing lanes and turns.

Imagine this:

Caller: Hello, I was wondering how to get to MMU?
MMU Official: Hello, okay sure. Follow this very simple steps. As you reach Melaka and pass Jaya Jusco, follow the signboard and take a right turn at the traffic lights. Then go straight ahead into Bkt Beruang, then now here is where you must give me your utmost and undivided attention. After the traffic lights opposite Petronas, go in front a little, till you see Emerald Park, the hostels, THEN you keep on going straight. You should be able to see MMU from here. THEN you go straight for about 200meters or so, till you see a very very small turning to the right, opposite some restaurants going towards MMU. Take the turn in. OK here is the twist in your panties part, you cannot enter the gate which you so logically assume is one of the entrances of MMU, but no, only after 5pm, you can enter. Instead you have to go just a little bit more heading towards Emerald Park, then you see MMU's OTHER entrance. NOW this is the entrance. Got it?
Caller: errr......*in the background*sayang dont lar, getting directions here...* err can you please repeat that please?

and yes......i am bored.

LOST MASQUARADE DRAMA

This is my blog and I can right what ever the hell I want.

First and foremost,

JUNIORS: (You damn well know who you are, TWO in particular, WELL MORE TO ONE ASSWIPE..)

Dear pre-pubescent juniors of SPARC,

Before you mouth of unjustified comments and your little fairy tale complains which have no base of integrity, THINK THINK THINK THINK. As you go to sleep soundly each night, YOUR IGNORANT COMMENTS, had a GREAT EFFECT on the people who you offended, whether you notice or care to know about.

With ALL THE BULLSHIT the committee of Lost Masquarade had to PUT UP WITH, I thoroughly ENJOYED the Prom and this is coming from a person who has been to MANY MANY PROMS.

IF, God help me if this happens, we cross path ANYWHERE & ANYTIME, you'd do yourself a favor by IGNORING ME, because if you don't, I wouldn't hesitate to put you in your place. Every little COMMENT that was made on the Yahoo Groups, is being REPEATED with every single message. Only retards repeat.........and morons.....and dumbasses....and fuckwits.


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I feel much better :) Have a great end of semester.