Easy to be hard

I thought I've already posted this but now I cannot find the trace - so here I go again (I think that it was temporarily "taken away" by youtube but it reappeared...thank God!) So here is my all-time favourite from Hair:



I remember when I've first seen it with my Mum she told me "you were just as little and cute as the kid when your father left us". But that's clearly not why I love that song - I just think it is beautiful. Enjoy! (and be patent, the song only starts at about the middle)

Where are my pens?

Ok, this might sound crazy but I have to share it with you.

My pens are gone. They are constantly missing. Ever since I learned to write, I struggle with the phenomenon: I have my pen, scribbling happily, I put it down, just for a mere moment: and -poof-it's gone, disppeared, vanished to thin air. And I don't find it, ever again. I lost hundreds of pens this way: the cheap, the fancy, the gift, the bought, the one with my name on it: I lost them all.

And I know: I am not alone. My fellows are living their everyday tragedies of mysteriously disappearing pens, the loss of the beloved, hand-friendly, the one with that specific hue of the blue...gradually, silently, millions and billions of pens cease to exist each year.

But where do they go? They are not under the bed, I checked it. Some might be on the bottom of my backpack, but not all of them, impossible.

I lost some sleep over it but eventually figured it out: they get transported into a parallel universe somehow. It seems likely that due to their longitudinal shape and probably the metal spiral inside, they slip through the worm-holes of the space. There must be a place (Bionapoly is a likely destination, for that matter) where the inhabitating creatures cry out time to time "But where all this pens are coming from?" Maybe they are already building a spaceship to haul them back here.

In the meantime, my friends, hold on tight to your pens, and don't blame your roommate when one more is gone.

Food again

And here is the recipe for the Original Nanaimo Bar!!!

It really exists, I didn't make this up! It looks like this:

And it is made like this:

Ingredients:

Bottom Layer

1/2 cup butter, 1/4 cup sugar, 5 tablespoons cocoa, 1 egg beaten, 1 1/4 cup graham wafer crumbs, 1/2 cup finely chopped almonds , 1 cup coconut
Second Layer
1/2 cup unsalted butter, 4 tablespoons cream, 2 tablespoons vanilla pudding powder, 2 cups icing sugar
Third Layer

4 squares semi-sweet chocolate (1 oz. each), 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Directions:
Bottom Layer
Melt first 3 ingredients in top of double boiler. Add egg and stir to cook and thicken. Remove from heat. Stir in crumbs, coconut, and nuts. Press firmly into an ungreased 8" x 8" pan.
Second Layer
Cream butter, cream, custard powder, and icing sugar together well. Beat until light. Spread over bottom layer.
Third Layer
Melt chocolate and butter overlow heat. Cool. Once cool, but still liquid, pour over second layer and chill in refrigerator.
Makes 24 bars.

Complicated and it's probably not worth the hassle...well, well...

Video and favourite blogger

I have found a great video on the blog of my favourite blogger and I wanted to post it - but then I thought, hey, why not present her to you?

I've been reading her blog faithfully for a long time (since 2004, actually) and have read it through good and bad times - that had left her great writing skills intact. (sorry tarell, you won't be able to read her...or will you? :) ) We have almost met on a couple of occasions, but finally it remained a virtual "connaissance".

So: hello, hónyomi! (és bocs, hogy elloptam a képet :) )