Sorry, my mistake. Cheese did not originate from Holland. But Holland has the best exports in the world.

Article 1

Truth is, we take cheese for granted. Many of us know the origins of coffee or even chocolate, but how many of us know the origins of cheese? Legend has it that cheese was discovered by, "an unknown Arab nomad". The story goes that in preparation for his journey this nomad filled his saddlebag with milk in order to provide him with sustenance for the long journey across the desert. After several hours, he stopped to drink from his saddlebag only to find that the milk had separated into a pale, watery liquid with medium-sized, solid, white lumps. The desert nomad found the mixture both drinkable and edible. What the nomad did not know was, "because the saddlebag, which was made from the stomach of a young animal, contained a coagulating enzyme known as rennin, the milk had been effectively separated into curds and whey (by the combination of the rennin, the hot sun and the galloping motions of the horse". As thus, cheese (perhaps not as we know it) was born.

Adapted from TED case studies: Parmigiano-Reggiano: The "King" of Cheeses, http://www.american.edu/ted/parmesan.htm

Article 2

People in the Netherlands think that Holland cheese is the best cheese in the world. In fact, the Dutch are known throughout the world as cheeseheads. This honorary nickname is very fitting for the world's largest exporter of cheese.

Holland cheese not only has high export figures but is also available at almost every supermarket in the world. The Dutch culture is still entrenched with cheese, as evidenced by the sixteenth and seventeenth-century cheese weighhouses throughout the country side. Believe it or not, cheese markets are still held weekly in certain Dutch cities.

Goudas and edam cheese are two of Hollands most recognizable cheese varieties. They both hail from small towns with respective names in Holland. These two cheese types, like most others from Holland, are mild in flavor and smooth in texture.

The only difference between edam and gouda cheese is the types of milk used to make the cheese. Gouda is made from whole milk and edam is made from partially skimmed milk. Domestic Holland cheese is now sold in America and all of the cheese types come with their original great taste.

Adapted from Holland Cheese by Alex Sturm, http://www.importedcheeses.com/Holland-Cheese.html

create your own moods:

Freedom time

There's a war in the mind
For the territory over dominion
Who will dominate opinions
Schizims and isms
Keeping us in forms of religion
Conforming our vision
To the world church's decision
Trapped in a section
Submitted to committee elections
Moral infection
Epidemic Lies and deception
Insurrection
Of the higest possible order
Distorting our tape recorders
From hearing like under water
Beyond the borders
Finding sin in disorder
Bound by the strategy
And systemic depravity
Heavy as gravity
Head first in the cavity
Without a bottom
A fate worse than Sodom
What's got 'em drunk off the spirit?
Truth comes and we can't hear it
And you've been programmed to fear it
I had a vision
I was falling in indecision
Appalling
Calling religion some program on television
How can dominant wisdom
Be recognized in a system
Of anti-christs and majority rules
Intelligent Fools
PhDs of illusions
Masters of mass confusion
Bachelors of Past illusions
Now, who you choosing?
The head or the tail?
The Bloodshed or the Male?
Or confidence in the veil?
Conferences at Yale
Discussing Doctrines at Baal
Causing People to Fail
Keeping A third in jail
His word is nailed, everything to the tree
Severing all the me
From all I used to be
Formless and void
Totally paranoid
Enjoyed darkness as lord
Keeping me from the sword
Blocked from mercy
Bitter than Ceres
Hungry and thirsty
For good meat, we would eat
And still dine at the table of deceit
How incomplete
From confrontation to retreat
We belong to true enemy's defeat
Destitute a necessity
Causing desperation to get the best of me
Punishment 'till there was nothing left of me
Realizing the inescapable death of me
No options in the valley of decision
The only option supernatural circumsicion
Inwardly
only water can purge the hearts from words
The firey darts
Thrown by the workers of the arts
Iniquity
shaping in
there's no escaping when
Your whole philosiphy is paper thin
In vanity
The wide road is insanity
Can it be all of humanity
Picture that
Scripture that
The origin of man's heart is black
How can we show up for
an invisible war
Preoccupied with a shadow
Making love with a whore
Aching in sores
Babylon the great mystery
Mother of human history
System of social socercery
Our present condition needs serious recongnition
Where's there's no repentance there can be no remission
And that sentence more serious than Vietnam,
the atom bomb and Saddam and Minister Farakhan
What's going on
What's a priority to you
By what authority do we
Majority hasn't a clue
We majored in curses
Search the chapters check the verses
Recapture the land remove the mark off our hands
So we can stand
In agreement with his commands
Everything else is damned
Let them with ears understand.
Everything else is damned
Let them with ears understand.

adapted from Lauryn Hill's MTV unplugged.

oh hey i jus had a funty thot.. wad do u think of having an imood indicator next to each of our names...

the noticeboard at the side of my class is filled useless admin notices from the previous batch of students. our blackboard is either empty..or vandalised by some dumb j1s. this blog is nothing like the boards in my class.. hahaha.. but i do get what u mean. but i kinda disagree...its not been totally useless yeah.. anyway i like this song.. i wana scream at the top of my lungs!!!!!ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!! haha..

John Mayer - No Such Thing

"Welcome to the real world", she said to me
Condescendingly
Take a seat
Take your life
Plot it out in black and white
Well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
And the drama queens
I'd like to think the best of me
Is still hiding
Up my sleeve

They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something's better
On the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above

So the good boys and girls take the so called right track
Faded white hats
Grabbing credits
Maybe transfers
They read all the books but they can't find the answers
And all of our parents
They're getting older
I wonder if they've wished for anything better
While in their memories
Tiny tragedies

They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something's better
On the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you got to rise above

I am invincible
As long as I'm alive

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you've got to rise above

I just can't wait til my 10 year reunion
I'm gonna bust down the double doors
And when I stand on these tables before you
You will know what all this time was for

i realised that this blog would come into good use ONLY after we've all graduated. when we see each other everyday there's no point in using a joint-blog to "keep-in-touch" aye? meanwhile this is becoming like a notice board at the back of a classroom. heh...

Take a look at this.. taken from another student's blog

Thanks for the LTC guys! Each and every one of y'all really made this camp a success in a sense that it achieved all our objectives, but all of you made every minute of it absolutely enjoyable. I will do my best to remember every activity, every task, every lame joke made (but thats really alot lor :) that occured during the camp... And even though this is our last activity, in my eyes we will forever remain a professional, tightly bonded band of brothers and sisters, willing to selflessly sacrifice and give loads to each other to achieve a commom cause. It has sincerely been a pleasure working with you all and i hope i will again have the chance to in the future. Viva la amitie!!!

"From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother..."
Shakespeare King Henry V Act 4 Scene III

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There are as many kinds of blogs as there are kinds of people, but there are only three motivations for keeping one: information sharing, reputation building, and personal expression. And though any one of these may be the primary reason for a blog, no one maintains a blog for any length of time without eventually doing all three.

-rebecca blood,the weblog handbook


"siseders! unite!"

no kinky blured image.. just no image at the strategic parts.. hahaha mj dun be sad

Hairy Wizard Boy and the Jailbird of ArseKablamm.

Winner of the Age Award at the Melbourne Festival and the Gentenar Award in Gent, Belgium as the best show presented, Urban Dream Capsule will seal the guys in a glass box for 15 continuous days. There they will cook, sleep, shave and shower in public view, entertain passers-by with sign language and movement, in a performance as real as it is theatrical.

Venue: Esprit at Raffles City
Date : 30 May - 13 June
Time : Daily (24 hours)
Free viewing

..happened to be at raffles place on sunday and saw them on the very first day which it started..actually interacted with them through the glass just mouthing words in a realliee exaggerated way.. haha..they're a pretty hilarious bunch...think they seriously are way zai.. 24 hours non stop performance!! whaa like not tiring man.. haha.. anybody interested in paying them a visit? =D


" Do the men ever feel like trapped exhibits in a zoo?

'The idea of being enclosed is in the mind,' he says. 'I find it liberating in here. The glass is not a barrier at all.' "
-extracted from todays Life