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.


HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.........

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

Summary of the past 1 month and 8 days.

• Me is getting fat - comments from Friends while on CNY visit has sparked a new health and fitness plan. When does it start? I don't know.
• My Beetle needs rewiring, brake lights not working again.
  
• Drove up to KL with Merp Premo at 4am. Highway all the way. Reached KL 6.45am. Not bad for a 40year old car :)
• My CNY was spent, watching Ghost Rider, Iron Lady Chef (Don't ask why), Protege. Went Karaoke-ing at Sg Wang, most of the time out of tune anyway. Dota: total of 12 hours+/- of Dota pleasure at CC with friends.
  
• Washed my darling Beetle and waxed it summore before going up to KL, only to find out the next day, where I parked at a friends house, freaking birds crapped all over it. The rain(something MELAKA is desperately lacking) later paid a visit and washed the bird crap away.
• When reached KL, found out my sense of direction is somewhat "tak boleh guna". Need a HELL OF A LOT OF PRACTISE :p
  
• Several weeks ago, we all had an outing to town to eat or something la can't remember. THEN Bob and Desmond enthusiastically suggested that we shall "woo" some bapuks, and we decided that we really didnt have anything else to do, so off we went. BUT MUCH to Prems, NIcks and my dismay, when we reached, Desmond and Bob chickened out:
• D: wheeeeyyy what you doing lar, dont want lar, eh dont want la dont want
• B: eh guys, no need lar, dont want can or not?
• By this time i was already HIGH (note: Burn's gets high when sleepy. Symptoms: uncontrollable laughter, laugh at things that are definitely not funny and tends to mouth off whatever is on his mind). I told them to move it, I'll talk to the bapoks and it went something like this:
• Burn: "Kak!! Kawan saya ni(pointing to GIRI), belum kene tebuk dengan belum pernah tebuk. Hari ni hari jadi dia, ader DISCOUNT TAK??"
• Bapok1:"Ohhh bollleehhhhh yang maner satu ek?? Saya RM30"
• Bapok2: "Saya RM90! Umur die braper?
• Burn: "Die 21 dah!"
• Bapok1: "ooh sorry la ye, saye hanya service 19tahun dan 20tahun sahaja"
• Burn: "Amenede nyer double standard nih? yang ko tu mude sangat la ni ek"
• By that time, Prem already drove off, fearing a car bashing by the bapok clan, clanswoman, clansmen, clanspimp, clansbapoks etc. I think Giri, Bob and Desmond werent really thrilled by my outburst at the bapoks on their behalf.
• FYP is driving my up the wall, and so is my supervisor.
• Pretty sad when I passed by SPARC's bazaar and the so called vendors. Only delifrance and UPG reps were there vending stuff......sigh.....

Will add more when my memory serves me well, at the moment feeling kinda sleepy.......

Adopt a kitten today!!

Anyone wants to ADOPT 3 kittens? been resuced from being abanddoned on the street... been taken care of, want to give away cause we're allergic to cats.

Contact:
Burn : 017 -3296587
OJ: 012-9350771

OJ just got hired!!

[A blog entry from OJ!]

A few months ago... actually I think about a semester and a half ago, shakir forwarded this "best job in the universe" link...turned up to be a survey for condom testers for durex. I filled it out...i was like, what the hell lets see if this actually is worth while... and....like 5 months later... LOOONG after forgetting about this, i get a POS malaysia card in my postbox... so I go over to burn cause I was expecting some protien supplements I had ordered last month... so he drove me to the Ayer Keroh Post office. This Chinese uncle takes a look at the pink card, then looks at my face...then in like 30 seconds comes back with this envelope..I thought I got screwed over by ordering protien online...Instead, my durex buddies sent over free condoms!!


Who's laughing now? =) I already got a job. Take THAT Engineering Degree.

-OJ-

bURN: But what...wwhhaatt, whattt will you tell your mummy, when she asks you "Beta!, what are you working as now?" LOL

I just HAD to post this one!!!!

Your Daddy Is Darth Vader

What You Call Him: Papi Why You Love Him: He takes you to church

Who's Your Daddy?

What kinf of Meat am I?

You Are Chicken

Bah! You're hardly meat. But you are quite popular, and people aspire to taste like you. You're probably quite skinny and free of vices. Except letting people eat your eggs.

What Kind of Meat Are You?

How Gemini am I?

You are 100% Gemini

How Gemini Are You?

Apparently I am an Ewok....i can live with that....

Star Wars Horoscope for Gemini

Like most Geminis, you are a playful little creature. You tend to be extremely curious, craving knowledge but sometimes having a short attention span. For the most part, you are charming and loveable. But at times, you can seem scattered and high-strung. Star wars character you are most like: Ewoks

What Is Your Star Wars Horoscope?

AVG Antivirus VS PC Tools Antivirus

...............and PC Tools Antivirus WON. Hands down.

The problem I had with AVG is that every single folder I would access, it would detect whatever that was in that folder as a Torjan/Virus and will prompt me to Heal/Quarantine/Ignore. Whenever I click Heal, another alert would pop-up saying that another file is infected. Even though I healed the files repeatedly, it will STILL alert me saying that it is a threat and will lead to the file being corrupt and wont allow the program associated with the file to run.

Surfing forums and antivirus websites, finally it came down to PC Tools Antivirus, and it worked real well. Detected the same virus/trojan AVG did, but it got rid of it. Pretty simple and also it monitors any files being changed illegally by any program/software/tool/etc.

I was using Bob's computer and it had the SAME TROJAN....what the hell? it spread through our network? So i did the same for him and got rid of the trojan. At times I wonder, these idiots who have too much free time creating trojans should really be concentrating on something else!

holiday it seems.....

Things I learn during the holiday.

1. Never eat anything while watching House. Tendency to get put off your food.
2. Never go to Habeeb Sultan. Tendancy to get Diarrhea is imminent.
3. Try to sleep..........just try...........
   

Current Reading:

"The Story of my experiments with truth" by M.K.Ghandi

Not my usual read but it was a gift from my father with a message written:

"Dear Bakar,

Now that your days at MMU is nearing its end, I hope in this book you will find some wisdom which I have failed to impart to you. Your loving father.


M.Dawood
7/1/07"

There's a silver lining somewhere...apparently...

Finished my Testing Plan for my final year project, which is a seriously daunting task.

Photos...of the Xmas disappointment...

Finance Dept

Went to Finance Dept this morning, sharp at 9am i was there, waited for an hour, along with other students, only to find out from the darling Makcik Guard, that today all Dept's are CLOSED. errr Shouldnt they be OPEN ALREADY? how long of a weekend do they WANT? its already the 2nd day of the new year and they are still closed ......... :) i need to pay my feees laaaaa hurry up and OPEN!!!!

Christmas......

Even though I dont celebrate Christmas, it didnt stop me from celebrating it with my housemates+friendsofshakir(carlos, dilip n sibuan)+neighbour=OJ.

First and foremost I would like to rip into Friends Cafe, Melaka Baru. Talk about the biggest rip off of the year. Ok here goes.

I had :

1. Fruit Fusion Tea = Layman's Terms = Teh O Panas = RM 5.25
2. Fried Spaghetti = Layman's Terms = Maggi Goreng tak special = RM 9.50
3. Total Ripped Off = RM 14.75
4. Vowed not to ever step in Friends ever in my entire lifetime = PRICELESS

Have a Merry Christmas to me!

Not to mention other people got ripped off even worse for e.g. Bob.

His measly serving of Meatballs which resembled Goat Droppings in terms of size and color was RM11.50 that he will never see again.

We were so upset, that we decided to go to Rock N Roll Grill Bar. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Now this is where the REAL FOOD came in!!! I had a magnificent NZ Beef Burger+Fries and Salad+Extra CHEESE and a CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKE.....*drools* Pictures will come later...just needed to bitch about something.

Oh yeah and Dilip "goreng" with the in-house band. :) that was awesome...heh

Flash Flood....

I was so happy that it was raining for 2 days straight, because it was pretty hot the few days before that, but little did i know that I happiness brought despair to other people. The flash floods were terrible, especially Peringgit, Malim and Tmn Merdeka. The authorities were no where to be seen to direct those who need another route to get to where they want to go. Thank god that our Toyota Unser managed to get through, most of the other cars couldn't make it. There was a time where the Unser nearly stalled though, but thank god it didn't. Though my VW got its fair share of water, going through Tmn Melawis, to get to my FYP partner's house was a fair "swim". My baby got really dirty. Didn't have the chance to wash it till this morning. It is clean now :)

1954 Chevy....

I dont understand half the things this fella is sayin' but take a look:

Flu+Cough+Fever=100Plus+Panadol ActiFast

i was having the full blast of a flu, with a bonus fever and all. So i decided to try and break into a sweat by sleeping without the the fan on covered in blankets, to break the fever, but it didnt really work. So my Aunty Jena last time, told me that to cure a fever is very simple: Take one Panadol Actifast and drink it down with a 500ML 100PLus(cold) and whaadddayyyaaa know? within 10mins i was breaking into a massive sweat and the fever was GONE!!Last time i kept on telling Joey(yay she coming back this weekend!!) and the rest to try , but NOO, nobody wants to listen. I was up and about within minutes. Kaze was over also and he was like "hrmmm must remember this next time I have a fever"

Déja Vu

i was pretty skeptical about this movie but after reading reviews from yahoo movies, and saw the trailer, oh mannnnn this movie is a "must watch movie"!! freaking awesome...i fell asleep at Casino Royale for an hour cos it was just that darn boring, so i was trying my level best to stay awake during Deja Vu and boy it was worth it!! so whatcha waiting for peeeeple? go and watch it..the trailer already was good enough to convince me to go and watch it lol