18.7.11
to my mother... ♥
I always think to call you,
if my news is good or bad,
I know you will listen to me,
In happy times and sad.
On your birthday I wish you to be joyful,
and for all those around.
know that you are beautiful,
happy, sincere and best of all profound.
Happy birthday, Mummy Custodio!
I hope everyone can see,
What a great mom you’ve always been,
And how much you mean to me..
14.7.11
13.7.11
underwater restaurant in Maldives....
| Ithaa Undersea Restaurant Dine 16 feet below sea level at Ithaa, the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island's unique undersea restaurant. Marvel at 180° views of reef and marine life, sip champagne cocktails and sample Maldivian-Western fusion cuisine at this spectacular Maldives venue – the world’s first all-glass, undersea restaurant. This was opened 5 years ago.. Now... they have made the first under the sea bedroom... "The 12-seat restaurant, which sits 16 feet below sea level of the Indian Ocean, was converted into a private bedroom suite for two, complete with a private champagne dinner and breakfast in bed. The view of the vibrant coral reef that surrounds the encased clear glass is utterly breathtaking. " |
10.7.11
27.6.11
9.6.11
watermelon pie..

Ingredients:
- Lime Sherbet
- Vanilla ice cream or Pineapple sherbet
- Red/Pink-colored sherbet
- mini chocolate chips
Directions:
1. For each flavour, you’ll let the sherbet/ice cream soften for a few minutes before using. The red sherbet should be mixed with the mini chocolate chips.
2. Use a round springform pan. You may want to line the bottom of the pan with wax paper or parchment paper if you plan to transfer the entire “pie” to another dish before serving. I served the slices on plates straight out of the freezer, so I didn’t line the pan. It’s actually cuter sliced!
3. Starting with lime, spread a ring of sherbet around the edge of the springform pan – about 2 inches high (or taller if you want!), and about 1-2 inches wide from the outside edge of the pan.
4. Put pan in freezer to harden lime layer.
5. Repeat step 3 with the vanilla, but make the layer much thinner – maybe 1/2 inch. Use a butter knife to flatten the top, even-ing out the lime with the vanilla. Put pan in freezer to harden again.
6. Repeat step 3 with the red/chocolate chip sherbet. Fill the rest of the pan, then use a butter knife to flatten the top. Freeze!
7. When it’s time to eat, run a knife around the edge of the pan before popping off the outside of the springform pan. Use a nice thin-blade knife to slice.
4.6.11
2.6.11
30.5.11
Tiah Eckhardt: Elegantly Scant
Australian Lingerie Brand. Spring 2011 ad campaign. Justifying the belief that housewives are secretly pretty and damn sexy...




Volkswagon aqua, a hovercraft...
This hovercraft is still a concept people, so no posing on the beach like you stole the latest gadget from your father James Bond..
Hydrogen cell powered engine, all terrain hovercraft, designed by Yuhan Zhang (21 years old)..
LINK IT TO ME!!!
24.5.11
Passionfruit Cheesecake
Passionfruit Cheesecake
1 cup sweet biscuit crumbs (I use NICE bikkies)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup cornflour
1/2 cup cream
1/3 butter (melted)
2 tbsps of lemon juice
2 x 250 block of philly cheese
3 x 55g eggs, lightly beaten
3/4 cup caster sugar
1 tin of passionfruit pulp (170g)
1. Combine biscuit crumbs and butter well, then press into the base of a 20cm spring form pan, chill in the fridge. Preheat oven to 150 degrees.
2. Beat Philly until smooth (i use a blender for this recipe but handheld mixer is fine).
3. Stir in caster sugar, cream, eggs, lemon juice, baking powder and cornflour, oh and some love :o)
4. Take prepared pan with base out of fridge and pour mixture in and spread evenly.
5. Dollop passionfruit pulp on surface of cake about 3 cms apart and use a spoon or butter knife to swirl into cake.
6. Place in oven for 60 minutes or until looks like my picture where the top has all broken apart as it's risen, then allow to cool for like 15 minutes and then refrigerate for 2-3 hours before serving.
note: With the left over passionfruit syrup I like to keep it and pour it onto my slice of cake and ice cream as topping. :o) hope you enjoy xoxoxox
16.5.11
15.5.11
a letter to Victoria's Secret
taken from fashionising.com (online bible for fashion critique)
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 14.05.11 in Fashion advertising
Dear Victoria's Secret,
I respect you. This I cannot deny.
It's a respect that comes largely out of how exceedingly successful at creating your business you've been. After all, you've created a label that so many people perceive to be a luxury fashion house, and yet it isn't. For one, your goods are not made by artisans. And then there's the fact that your stores can be found in every part of America that I've ever been to, and I suspect you're also inside all the shopping malls that I never will enter. But luxury fashion houses aren't really like this, and yet the perception remains clear in the masses' heads: Victoria's Secret = luxury lingerie. Over the last 30 years your marketing machine has created something of a paradox in this notion of "common luxury" and I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that's no easy feat
But, as of late, that same marketing machine has started to feel a little tired. The first irrefutable sign was your 2010 Christmas video. Directed by Michael Bay of Transformers fame it was all loud noise and bright flashes. It was also pretty damn cool, if you're a 15 year old boy. But I'm not, and neither are your customers. There have been other signs along the way of course (model as mannequin courtesy of Photoshop, for instance), but I've always been willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and see our differences of opinion as a result of the cultural divide that is the Atlantic Ocean. But this month we've seen the first video component of your 2011 'Bombshell' campaign and I have to be honest: it leaves me without a doubt that part of your marketing effort, the video part, is really missing the boat.
In fact, I'm writing to tell you that the boat has sailed. It's the 21st Century and we're living through a golden age of design, a period where we as customers want to have real experiences with what we buy. Nay, we want to have emotional experiences. We want need to believe. And your latest video campaign offers up none of that.
Frankly, it feels a little bit too last decade
William Butler Yeats.. ♥
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Nobel Prize winning Irish dramatist, author and poet.. Poems I adore from this brilliant man...
He wishes for the cloths of heaven
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Into the twilight
OUT-WORN heart, in a time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
Your mother Eire is always young,
Dew ever shining and twilight grey;
Though hope fall from you and love decay,
Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.
Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will;
And God stands winding His lonely horn,
And time and the world are ever in flight;
And love is less kind than the grey twilight,
And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.
He remembers forgotten beauty
WHEN my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That has long faded from the world;
The jewelled crowns that kings have hurled
In shadowy pools, when armies fled;
The love-tales wrought with silken thread
By dreaming ladies upon cloth
That has made fat the murderous moth;
The roses that of old time were
Woven by ladies in their hair,
The dew-cold lilies ladies bore
Through many a sacred corridor
Where such grey clouds of incense rose
That only God’s eyes did not close:
For that pale breast and lingering hand
Come from a more dream-heavy land,
A more dream-heavy hour than this;
And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
For hours when all must fade like dew.
But flame on flame, and deep on deep,
Throne over throne where in half sleep,
Their swords upon their iron knees,
Brood her high lonely mysteries.
5.5.11
global joke on us about sushi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGbK6tTZrM&feature=player_embedded
Script
Script
Here’s the transcript (written by me!) if you can’t watch the video.
(A pair of Japanese guy and girl at a table in a “Western” restaurant)
Guy: I just got back from Australia. You should see what we’re getting away with at our restaurants down there.
(showing a piece of fish on his fork)
We serve this fish… raw!
(showing a piece of fish on his fork)
We serve this fish… raw!
Girl: What?! Really?
Guy: True. And we tell them it’s a Japanese delicacy.
Girl: And they believe you?
Guy: Yeah, they’re nuts!
And that’s not all. When they get to the restaurant, we make them take their shoes off. At the end of the day too, when their feet are really smelly!
And that’s not all. When they get to the restaurant, we make them take their shoes off. At the end of the day too, when their feet are really smelly!
Girl: Peeeoooo!
Guy: Unbelievable. Then we make them sit on the floor.
Girl: The floor?
Guy: Yeah, we say it’s traditional.
Then we get rid of their cutlery, and make them eat with two little sticks.
Then we get rid of their cutlery, and make them eat with two little sticks.
Girl: Little sticks?
Guy: Yeah.
Girl: But how?
Guy: Both in the one hand.
Girl: (trying to use the chopsticks) This really sucks.
Guy: Hang on, I haven’t finished.
Sometimes we get a chef who does a pissweak juggling act (mimicking a teppanyaki chef) to cook at their table, splattering them with hot fat!
Sometimes we get a chef who does a pissweak juggling act (mimicking a teppanyaki chef) to cook at their table, splattering them with hot fat!
Girl: Surely you’re kidding!
Guy: No, no – it goes all over them. But here’s the best bit…
We’ve named the food after Japanese swear words.
(deliberating) “Teppanyaki”
We’ve named the food after Japanese swear words.
(deliberating) “Teppanyaki”
Girl: Pfffttt…
Guy: “Sushi”
Girl: (disgusted) Eeehhh?!
Guy: (laughs) It’s true..!
“Tempura”
“Tempura”
Girl: You can’t say that! That’s obscene!!
Guy: There’s more…
Girl: No…
Guy: “Yakitori”
Girl: Aaaiiieee…
Guy: But here’s my favourite bit. At the end of the night, when they’re really pissed, we make them stand up in front of everyone, and to a crappy backing tape they sing songs by… Barry Manilow!
Girl: (mock-dancing) Copacabana…
Guy: (laughs)
Girl: Let’s have a toast to your global practical joke.
What a bunch of Sushis!
What a bunch of Sushis!
29.4.11
22.4.11
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.. if thou must love me... (sonnet IVX) ♥
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
"I love her for her smile—her look—her way
Of speaking gently,—for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"—
For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may
Be changed, or change for thee—and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry:
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.Julian Beever... sidewalk artist extraordinaire... ♥
About to meet Mr Newt..
Beneath very carpark..
Feeding the Fish..
Let's be friends...
Rembrandt's with Rembrandt's...
Three World's...
man was meant to fly.. ♥
The FlyNano can take off and land on water and costs $39,000. It is one of the lightest single-person aircrafts that weighs just 70 kilograms. The Flynano tops out at over 140 km/h, with a service ceiling of 3 km.
Empty weight under 70 kg
MTOW 200 kg
Wing span 4.8 m
Nose to tail 3.8 m
Height 1.5 m
Cruising speed around 140 km/h
Landing speed 70 km/h
RoC around 3 m/s
Service ceiling 3 km
Range 40 km
Power 20 kW
MTOW 200 kg
Wing span 4.8 m
Nose to tail 3.8 m
Height 1.5 m
Cruising speed around 140 km/h
Landing speed 70 km/h
RoC around 3 m/s
Service ceiling 3 km
Range 40 km
Power 20 kW
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