Herb & Butter Mushroom Toast!! Yum..yum!!

Alrighty ladies, gentlemen and er….anybody/anything else that’s reading my post, today I am going to show you how I make my Mushroom Toast! It’s fast, easy, filling and 100% veggie Awesome for students while you are studying for an exam and have the hunger calls and you cant waste a lot of time but also want a good cooked meal.

Before I dive into the recipe, I need to give out some pointers:

• Use a really big pan, the pan should be big enough to hold all the mushrooms you are cooking in ample space. People usually end up stuffing their pans, and the mush room starts to get steam, instead of stir fried, and starts to sweat and ends up becoming soggy mush!
• The pan should also be big enough so that nearing the end, while the mushrooms are cooking on one side, there should be enough space on the pan to place the slices of bread to toast on the pan.
• The amount of mushrooms used and the sizes of the bread slice should be appropriate to the pan size (er…I had a small pan and I had soooooo much of trouble….come on…I am a student in a rented room with a tiny common kitchen, I would have used a bigger pan if I could, anyway, follow my recipe step by step and it will be fine)

Now on to the recipe my young ones…..

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups Mushrooms (I used crimini mushrooms, but you can use any mushrooms you want, but try to go for the ones that are firm and fleshy like button, crimini, shiitake, portabello and porcini. Try to avoid other varieties, especially oyster mushrooms, they tend to wilt and get soggy)

• Red Onion, 1/2 a cup if you don’t like onions much, 1 cup if you LOVE them like me! sliced very thin and cut into half rings (you can use any type of onion but I guess its a Sri Lankan thing to use as much red onions as humanly possible, besides it adds a nice splash of color to the recipe and gives it that nice sweet/strong flavor that you don’t get with either yellow or white onions)

• 5 Big Cloves Of Garlic chopped into tiny pieces. Try to find the biggest cloves in the garlic.

• A Tiny Wedge Of Lemon, enough for about 15 drops.

• 3 Basil Leaves, 4 Stalks of Thyme and 1 Rosemary (thyme and basil are like a match made in haven for mushrooms, especially thyme. Sadly, my grocery store was not carrying thyme or rosemary, so I made mine with only basil but added more of it since I didn’t have any other herb. When you guys make it you can use one of the herbs, or a combination of any 2 of the herbs that you like, or use all 3. I would really recommend thyme though for this recipe, its like magical unicorn farts for mushroom…meant it in a good way. The herbs are really important in this recipe as they are the main characters that add the soul to the recipe. If you couldn’t find any of these herbs then STOP RIGHT HERE….don’t do the recipe)

• Crushed Chilli/Red Pepper Flakes 1/4 teaspoon to add a bit of zing (optional)

• Pepper 2 teaspoon or as much as you like

• Salt 1 teaspoon, might sound like little but later when you taste it and you think its not enough, add more. You can always add more salt, but if you put too much then your screwed, so start with a bit and later add more if needed

• Butter 1/2 cup, if you like more butter add another 1/4 cup to this, like what I did (yes….I am going to die a slow, artery filled death)

• Olive Oil 1/2 cup

• Two slices of good, fresh bread (try to get fresh french bread from the bakery)

Method:

• Keep a pan on high heat and toast the bread until the bread gets a tinge of brown color and the sides are crunch and toasty, make sure both sides are like this by flipping it half way through.

• Keep the bread aside and let it cool.

• Now keep the pan again and lower the heat to a medium and let the pan heat up.

• Add the olive oil and let the oil heat up well.

• As soon as the oil is nice and hot, add the mushrooms.

• keep stirring and let them fry for about a minute.

• Now add the garlic and fry for another minute.

• Add in the onions and keep stirring.

• While stirring the onion, add the pepper, salt and crushed chilli/red pepper flakes.

• Cook for another 1 minute.

• Add the butter in now and keep stirring, when the butter melts completely, add about 12 to 15 drops of lemon (yes it makes a big difference on the flavor).

• Stir for a good minute and then add in the herbs. The herbs should be added last as we don’t wont them to get cooked completely but still give out their oils and flavors to the dish, we don’t want the herbs to lose color.

• After about 40 seconds, push the mushrooms stir fry to a side of the pan and place the slices of toast bread on the other side of the pan and let it heat up (now you udnerstand why I wanted you guys to use a big pan :] )

• When the toast gets warm, not hot, remove the toasts and place them on a plate.

• Give the stir fry one last stir to make sure all the flavors of the herbs are mixed in well.

• Remove the mushrooms from the heat and pour it over the dry toast.

• We didnt use any fat or oils while make the toast and made it compltely dry becasue when you pour the mushroom over the toast, the toast will absorb the butter and oils in the stir fry and become nice and moist and juicy when you bite into it, so you only need to dry toast the bread slices.

• Now serve while hot and make an awesome face when people compliment you on how awesome it tastes.

That’s it guys, now I really better get back to studying….exams in a week!! aaaahhhhhhhhhhh!! May the power of the spoon be with you!! Good luck trying it!!

P.S: The final photographs of the toast looks crappy cause I didn’t have much light in my kitchen, but believe me they are much more colorful and vibrant than pictured!

Samsung Finally Rolls Out Gingerbread (2.3.3) For The Rogers Captivate (Canadian Variation Of Galaxy S) In Canada!! Where is AT&T’s?

It has come to my attention that Samsung has finally rolled out it’s gingerbread update for the Rogers Captivate in Canada. Bell released its update for the Vibrant a long time ago and many customers were wondering when Rogers was going to follow suite, and it’s been almost a month and finally, the update for the Captivate is finally out!! Customers shall rejoice

The availability of the update is not mentioned on the Roger’s website or on the Canadian Samsung website, but the update can be obtained by plugging your phone to the Kies Software (the official Samsung software for its current phones) through your computer.

The Kies software can be obtained here.

Now one has to wonder what AT&T is doing with its update in the US for the it’s captivate model? Its been ages and the promised update is still not out. Usually is AT&T that releases an update first and Rogers follow suit, but its been the other way around in the case of good ole’ Ginggy!! Why the delay? Have the people not been pushing the network hard enough to deliver it sooner? But how can that be? Blogs and threads have been buzzing with requests from people all over for AT&T to start rolling out the update….then why you ask is AT&T holding out?? well its simply because of lack of competition. AT&T’s and Verizon are the two biggest players in the market and that’s pretty much it. Rogers had to bring its up-game as soon as Bell, Telus and Virgin mobile started rolling out gingerbread updates.

I guess its all cooperate bull shit at the end of the day, as consumers we should at least demand what we deserve I guess!!

Oh and a word of caution, from the reports I read, the new Ginnngy cannot be rooted by any means that’s available at the moment! even Gingerbreak, has been patched (hmmm maybe that’s why there was a delay in the release of the update), so if you update, remember you will loose your root!!

Will a 120 volt playstation 3 work on a 230 volt outlet? Or will a 230 volt playstation 3 work on a 120 volt outlet? The answer will surprise you!!

Many people have the question if their 120 volt Playstation 3 will work if they plug it into a 230 volt outlet in another country, or will it lay a fart and fry. Some other people have the question whether their 230 volt Playstation 3 will work if they plug it into a 120 volt outlet, or will it just sit there like a brick. Many people consider buying a transformer, or a voltage converter. Even I was considering this when I was planning to take my PS3 slim from one country to another, I checked the internet and couldn’t come up with a good reliable answer, so I was curious so I opened up my PS3 to check the innards (an open chassis surgery so to speak).

Well will the PS3 survive the voltage changes? Well folks it looks like the PS3 supports UNIVERSAL POWER INPUT….that’s right, you can plug your PS3 from any country (that is of any voltage) to a power outlet in another country with any voltage, and the PS3 will not fall flat and die.

This is what was shown on the outside label of my PS3 from North America:

but when I cracked her open and checked the power unit on the inside, this is what it said:

Notice the outside label says to plug in only 120 volts, but the power unit on the inside notes that the unit can handle voltages between 100-240 volts.

Yeap, most modern electronics come with universal power input these says, as its much easier and cost effective for manufactures to make one product and labeling it different than making two varieties of the same product. Due to certain laws in certain countries and other mumbo jumbo, they are required to label the product as the power output of that country, even though the machine will accept universal input.

Again I dont know if this rule of thumb for the power supply will apply for the first generation PS3 (the fat one), my PS3 was the slim kind and this is what I found on the inside.

The New Thundercats Cartoon…..Mmmmeeeehhhhhh!!!

I grew with the original Thundercats when I was small. Coming home from school and sitting in front of the telly in the evening while my mum was screaming at the top of her voice to go finish my homework, but I don’t even flinch a muscle till I finished watching the episode. Now when I come to think of it, the cartoon was pretty kinky; what with Lion-O, Jaga, Pantharo and Tygra all wearing skin tight stuff that looks like it was made of latex. Still, me being young and all, I never even missed one episode of Lion-O kicking Mumm-Ra’s ass!!

Recently I came across the news that cartoon is gonna be reincarnated by Cartoon Network. I was really excited at first, but then I ended up seeing the promotional videos, trailers and the pictures and all I could say was NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! They destroyed it by making it into an anime style animation. The animation integrity was also really poor. The whole thing looked like an epic fail.

People who grew up with the original Thundercats are going to be disappointed in the lack of the essence of Thundercats, from what I can see of the promotional videos, it looks like the story takes place when the Thundercats were younger, hence will Snarf be there?? And I really don’t think Thundercats is a animation that should be done in the anime style. Really disappointed. Cheetara looks like a skank who was pulled out of a whore house with liver spots on her head!!

Kids who are going to be introduced to Thundercats now, will be just equating the cartoon to all the other anime that is out there and hence, this new version of Thundercats might to garner the momentum the original series did.

All I can say that, this was a bad revival of a cartoon which was an epitome of my childhood era and for many more out there. The new series looks like its going to place itself into the generic era of anime cartoons that is currently running around in the animation business and just another money making scheme by the co-operate backbone to get kids these days to buy plastic Swords of Omens and Panthro’s special nunchakus. When I was small and Pokemon came out, I am pretty sure I wouldn’t have needed to buy trading cards to make the cartoon experience more entertaining, or I don’t think I would have needed to buy Beyblades to feel the story. No in my era of cartoons, the story had the power enough to capture the hearts and minds of kids instead of trying to make us buy material empathize with the story, the power of the story and animation was such that, without all these extra accessories kids these days buy, we still felt part of the story.

Shankar Tucker And The Iyer Sisters…..An Amazing Cauldron Of Artists!!

I was pondering at the death of music, what with Bieber, lil miss Black, Lady Gaga, etc. I thought a stake was driven through the heart of music and laid to eternal rest. Then out of no where, two amazing artists gave me hope. One of them being Adele of course, her powerful and magnificent voice and talent just drew me to her like flies to unwashed gym socks (in a good way). I shall talk about Adele later, she deserves a whole post to herself . Now the other artist who really brought back my spirit and lifted my optimism on music was the artist Shankar Tucker.

Shankar Tucker is a remarkable clarinet player and a music composer. His infusion of Indian music with Western is like pouring honey into one’s ears. It’s just pure magic. He meddles with the concepts of music which other musicians rarely tickle or consider taboo, and weaves it into a hypnotic trance he sets his listeners into, a music induced coma (again in a good way). There is a reason why many musicians avoid his track of music, as it’s quite difficult and not every musician can pull it off, but Tucker seems to be thriving in it. I have listened to musicians like A. R. Rahman and Harris Jayaraj, who have also, like Tucker, meddled with the common ordinaries and turned them into something extra-ordinary and I would have to say that Tucker is soon becoming, if he already has not, in the ranks and caliber of these maestros for the fusion of Western and Indian music.

His cover of A. R. Rahman’s song Munbe Vaa, was so amazingly beautiful to listen to that it put to rest my conception that the song could not get any better when I heard the original composition by A. R. Rahman. Tucker’s cover of the song just absorbs you into the song and stirs emotions within one’s self that you thought was never possible. The other side of the song is the vocal talents of the Iyer sisters, Vidya and Vandana, who provide their formidable vocal skills for the song. Their voices amalgamate ever so perfectly with Tucker’s musical skills to produce a rare gem of pure, raw talent. The sisters have an amazing voice that they have put to very good use in the song and with time to season and mature, their voices will become a valuable asset to the musical community in the near future. I wish them both the very best for their amazing futures ahead.

The cover of Munbe Vaa is not the only song that Tucker had used the Iyer sisters in. In another remarkable composition called Nee Nenaindal, Tucker has again harnessed the vocal skills of the Iyer sisters to the pinnacle of music. While listening to it, you feel like Tucker casts a spell on you and Vidya and Vandana mesmerize you with their voices and you got no choice but to fall into the abyss of pure musical bliss just spell-bound. The song is available to download from Tuckers iTunes here. He has also composed another song called Ashai Mugam with only Viya Iyer, but which is still just as amazing. Sadly the cover song of Munbe Vaa can only be listened and viewed at youtube and is not available for purchase.

I wish the very best for all three of these artists and I really do hope that they continue to work hard and also continue to work with each other as a combination with sync of this magnitude is quite rare to come across. All the very best for Tucker and I wish he lets his imagination run wild and deliver more of his master pieces and both the Iyer sisters to garner their voices to the their best and more.

Long Live Music!! (until Gaga kills it)

 

Shankar Tucker’s Official Website : http://www.shankartucker.com

Shankar Tucker’s Official Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShrutibox

Shankar Tucker’s Official Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/theshrutibox

Shankar Tucker’s Official Twitter: http://twitter.com/shankartucker

And here is an article The Hindu paper in India wrote about him, thought you guys might like to read it: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article2219618.ece

 

 

 

 

How to install cracked Apps/Ipas on your jailbroken iphone, itouch and ipad devices without itunes!!

UPDATE 1: NOW METHOD 1 AND 2 BOTH ARE UP, METHOD 3 AND 4 WILL BE UP SOON!!

<<**ONLY METHOD 1 IS UP RIGHT NOW!! THE OTHER 3 WILL BE UP SOON!!**>>

In this tutorial I will be calling the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad as iOS Devices as they all run the iOS firmware to make the devices work. So when I say iOS devices, I actually mean the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad. These methods of installing apps will work on all the devices.

First off let me tell you, I am assuming that you have already jailbroken your device. All of the following will only work if you have a jailbroken iOS system and also if cydia is installed. Secondly, let me also tell you that I am doing this just for educational purposes. I for one think that its unfair for Apple to make us buy an app without a proper trial. The description may look all fancy on the app store, but when you buy and run the app, you will start to understand how crappy the app actually is. App developers sometimes really do over estimate their apps, sometimes they really are not worth the price!! IF YOU END UP LIKING THE GAME THEN PLEASE GO BUY THE GAMES FROM THE APP STORE!! THIS IS ONLY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES!! Also I wont be telling you where to get your cracked apps from. Type “download cracked app” or “cracked ipa” on google or any search engine and I am sure it will cough up more than enough sites where you can download cracked apps from. Choose the app that you want to install into your device from those sites and download the .ipa file to your computer. I will not be posting any links here to cracked apps, I am leaving the responsibility in finding them to you, I am just showing you how to install them after you get the cracked apps. Ok now that, that is over, on to the procedures!!

There are 4 different methods to do this (that I know of), choosing how you want to do it is upto you.

1. Using new version of iFunbox. (easy peezy lemon squeezy)

2. Using Installous. (easy)

3. Access the iOS system files by connecting to a computer using the data cable. (relatively hard)

4. SSH the ipa to the iOS device. (hard)

Before I tell you each method in detail, you have to first do something to prepare your iOS device for any of these methods to work.

Preparing The iOS Device:

a) Open up “Cydia” on your iOS device.

b) Touch on “Manage”.

c) Touch on “Sources”.

d) Touch on “Edit”.

e) Touch on “Add”.

f) Type in http://cydia.hackulo.us and then touch on “Add Source”.

g) It will give a Source Warning page, just touch on “Add Anyway”. (dont worry there is nothing dangerous, no need to wet your undies)

h) It will take you to a black terminal page telling its downloading packages, let it download. At the end touch on “Return to Cydia”.

i) The touch on “Search”.

j) Type Appsync on the search bar.

k) Choose the appropriate version of Appsync according to the iOS version you are running on. That is, if you are running on iOS 3.1 then touch on Appsync for OS 3.1, if you are running iOS 3.2 then touch on Appsync for OS 3.2 and if you are running iOS 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, etc then touch on Appsync for 4.0+. To find out your iOS version that is installed on your iOS device, go to Settings>General>About and next to “Version” it will tell you your iOS version.

l) after touching on the appropriate Appsync version, touch on “Install” then “Confirm”, and again the terminal window will run telling that it is installing Appsync, then touch on “Return to Cydia”.

m) Then exit out of Cydia and restart your iOS device.

Ok now I shall go onto  different methods fo installing a cracked app onto an iOS device. Make sure you have installed Appsync following the method mentioned above before you chose your method of battle with the cracked app.

Method 1: Using new version of iFunbox.

If you used either blackra1n or spirit, then iFunbox will not be able to access your iOS device, dont worry there is a cure, you just have to install afc2add from Cydia (GEEKS READ THIS, NOOBS SKIP THIS (if you dont know what a noob is then you probably are a noob so just skip this) ———-> afc2add will enable the afc2 service on your iOS device and there is no harm in starting because traditionally it does run on your non jailbroken devices, its just that the blackra1n and spirit jailbreaks stop the service to implement the jailbreak, only to implement the jailbreak, so after jailbreaking you can start it back up without any problems and without harming or losing your jailbreak in anyway) . I am going to assume that you used either the blackra1n or spirit to jailbreak your iOS device, so I am going to give you the remedy. If you are not sure what method you used to jailbreak your iOS device or used some other jailbreak or have no idea what I am talking about, then just go ahead and install the afc2add following the method given below, it wont do your iOS device any harm so just follow all the steps regardless. You only have to install afc2add only once, don’t install it every time you want to use iFunbox or want to install a cracked app, YOU ONLY HAVE TO INSTALL AFC2ADD ONCE!! If you have already installed afc2add before, then just jump onto step 5.

1. Open “Cydia” on your iOS device and then touch on “Search”.

2. On the search bar type in “afc2add” and touch on the “afc2add” search result.

3.Touch on “Install” and then on “Confirm”.

4. Cydia will install afc2add and then ask you to “Reboot Device”. Just touch it and wait for your iOS device to restart. That’s it, you have installed afc2add

5. Now click here and download iFunbox.
6. It will be a zip folder. Extract the zip file and you will end up getting the iFunbox program.

7. Download the cracked app that you want to install to your computer from the internet and copy it on the folder where you have iFunbox (you don’t have to move it to the folder where iFunbox is, it doesn’t matter, but to make it easier I just told you to do it, its upto you !)

8. Connect your iOS device to your computer.

9. Double click on iFunBox and start the program up!! Vrrooommmm vrrrrooommm feel the power lol!!

10. You will see a window like the one below.

11. Click on your device then click on “Install App”.

12. Browse to the folder where your cracked app is saved and choose the ipa file.

13. iFunbox will install the app to your device.

14. After installation, iFunbox will spit out whether the installation was successful or not, and iFunbox will go into idle indicating a successful install.

15. Now click on “Device Safe Removal” and then remove your iOS device by clicking it. iFunbox will un-mount your iOS device.
Now close iFunbox and go check your iOS device, voila the cracked app is installed …..wwwwoooohhhoooooooo….well done!!

That’s the end of method 1.

Method 2: Using Installous.

Ok for this method to work you of course need to have a jailbroken iOS device, and have cydia installed and of course appsync installed (see above on how to install appsync).

1. Open Cydia.

2. Tap on “Search”.

3. On the search bar, type “Installous”, and touch Insatallous from the list.

4. Touch on “Install” then touch on “Confirm”.

5. Let Cydia install Installous and then touch on “Return to Cydia”.

6. Exit Cydia, and restart your iOS device.

7. Now you will see the new Installous icon. Touch on”Installous” and open the app.

8. Touch on “Settings” and make sure “iTunes Sync”, “Remove Metadata” and “MobileHunt” are all ON, then click on “Done”.

9. Now either touch on “Search” or “Browse” and find what ever app you want to download. You will practically find all the apps that you find on the iTunes App store.

10. After you find the app that you wanted, touch on it. I decided to install “8player”, you can choose whatever you want.

11. Then touch on the green “Download” button.

12. From the drop down menu choose the version of the app and from where you want to download it from, I mostly recommend you to download it from mediafire cause its faster but if not you can choose filedude or what ever file hosting they provide to download. (unless you want to pay to get the app, do not touch on the “Launch App Store” on the top.

13. After you choose to download, the app will start to download, click on “Downloads” at the bottom and you will see the progress of the ipa downloading.

14. After the app is downloaded, it will be added to the “Downloaded” list, touch on the app then, and choose “Install” and wait for Installous to install it, it will inform you after its installed and you will also see a tiny tick next to the app after its installed.

15. Then touch on the downloaded app again then touch on “Delete”. This will free up space on your iOS device and not keep the downloaded ipa eating up memory in your iOS device after its installed.

16. Exit Installous and voila you got the cracked app installed on your iOS device. Enjoy

17. If you need to install apps from Installous again, just follow steps 9 to 16.

That’s the end of method 2.

A False Prophet In The Modern Era – Harold Camping!!

The rapture, predicted by the Christian pastor and radio broadcaster for “Family Radio”,  Harold Camping, never happened on the 21st of May 2011!! He apparently predicts the end of the world by using numerology, math and the bible. I was eagerly looking outside my window to see people floating to haven (sarcasm intended here) and waiting for the tidal wave of hell fury on Earth, but sadly I didn’t see any balls of fire, monsters running down the streets gnawing on people or even the biggest world catastrophic event of them all, Lady Gaga admitting her mother dropped her on her head when she was small from a two storey building!! Nothing happen, I was soooooo disappointed, cause I wanted to soooo badly put on my Ninja Turtle costume and fight the forces of evil, but all I got was runny nose standing outside on my patio in the cold with my nunchuks at the ready!! The most scariest thing I saw was my neighbors dog cleaning his balls!!

On a more serious note, how the banana can people in this self established modern era fall for a nutter like him? are people that blind? They cant believe that there might be life in other planets in space but when a nut-job tells that the world is going to go ka-blewie in a few days they go nanners!!

First take a look at this so called prophet. Mister Harold (liar liar pants on fire) Camping has twice before predicted that judgement day was coming and  garnered so much of donation to his church or group or whatever scam engine he runs. His previous judgement days were suppose to be on May 21st 1988, and September 7th 1994. Again nothing happen, there was no second coming of Christ on the said days and nobody got judged. So obviously when he needed to get more donation and money into his scam machine this time, he could not use the same judgement day excuse again, so he hyped it up to include the coming of Christ, Judgement day, rapture and also the total destruction of Earth on the 21st May 2011. This seemed to get the attention of the religious nutters and red necks laying around to run around in circles chasing their tails. In the middle of all the commotion, Camping seems to have cashed in big time! According to the IRS, “Family Radio” is almost completely run by donations and its net worth at $72 million dollars. Is it just me or do other people see something going on here too?? After his supposed end of world prediction came and went by without incident, people were left with a lot of questions but no one to ask those questions from, because on 22nd May 2011, no one could reach Camping. Calls to him were unanswered and he was missing. Finally he surfaced again on the 23rd and said that he was sorry and felt terrible that his prediction didn’t come true. So what does a scam artist who just got caught red handed do? why of course tell a new lie and start a new scam and that’s just what he did. Now he has revised the day of apocalypse, the new date is 21st October 2011 (everyone stock up on new diapers before then just in case you crap your pants again). He further went on to state he could not give financial advice to those who spent their life savings in the belief the end was ending. In other words he is saying “you were idiots and fell for it so go screw yourselves now”.  My personal opinion is that he is a very very smart con artist. Pulling the same trick 3 times and getting away with it on so many people, now that’s skill (wrong skills but still skills). He used people’s blind faith and close minded beliefs and personal vulnerabilities to get what he wanted, and people just blindly fell into it. He was the piper and he smooth talked thousands to walk in line and take the plunge. He is an engineer by profession, he has a B.S (bull shit in my opinion) in civil engineering, so of course he is smart and had the brain cells to carry on this elaborate plot and succeeded quite well in it too. He is clever old man that uses his strengths for all the wrong reasons, but then again there will always be people who will fool as long as there are people to fool. I, for one, would really like to meet Camping’s math professors and teachers. He got the prediction wrong for the third time using math, he must be really bad in his math! I have no idea how he became an engineer if his math was this bad. He gives all engineers a bad name!

Most of my anger is at the people who followed him without question. Faith is good, but blind faith is stupid. How can these people be hypothesized into selling all their land, valuables and invest all their life savings into the scam? Some people have had yard sales to sell all their house hold possessions or given them away to friends, family and strangers. Some have sold all their property and houses to follow this mayhem. I know in their heart they believed it was true and wanted to help other people from having a terrible fate that they believed will come, but this is taking it to a whole new level of absurdity. People have sold everything owned and donated to Camping’s organization so the organization will have enough funding to carry on with the false prophesy. Compared to the millions of dollars that was donated, only some billboards, painted RVs and people handing out pamphlets was done. Can anyone think where all the rest of the money went? well right into the pockets of Camping and the other bastards who run the scam. Camping and his fellow thieves were smart, they established their stations and places where they knew they can find easily manipulated religious fanatics and people whose will and can easily be bent and vulnerabilities easily exploited and spent a long time spreading their false propaganda. They just fell one after the other right onto his lap. Many people even had their pets euthanized in the fore running to what they believed will be the end of the world. Those poor animals got caught into the fanatic melodrama of their owners and had to pay with their lives sadly. In the middle of all this, it seems nobody noticed that Camping himself didn’t sell any of his properties or assets.

As long as there are close minded and easily manipulated people out there, there will be more scum like Harold Camping, who use religion as reason and the bible as a shield to their underhand games. People like Camping give legitimate religion who actually want to help people and people with honest, real faith to God, a bad name. Faith is good, people have a right to believe what they want to believe but having a blind faith and letting yourself be caught up in such an absurd plot is pointless. Religion should be a beautiful, intricate mix between faith, sense and sensibility if not people like Camping will emerge to further their own ends. This is not the first time he has pulled a scam like this, at least then the people who followed him were not being cautious. Most of the adherent followers of Camping have lost everything and he just slapped them across their face and ignored them. He doesn’t even take part of the responsibility for these people giving up all their possessions on his behest that the world was going to end. These people gave up everything they has because they believed him and he doesn’t even care about them and set them out now to fend for themselves. Some of his followers gave up their work, took holidays from their work and left behind family and friends. Some of them maybe be able to fix their lives again but some of them sacrificed quite a lot and their lives will never be the same again and Camping does not even care about that. He is sitting on $72 million dollars right now with a smug smile on his face.

In the middle of all this, there is news emerging that other Christian and Christian Evangelical churches are handing out pamphlets and on the process of recruiting the people who are now leaving Camping’s Church. It never stops, its like a vicious cycle. The people who got scammed already lost everything, but now are being recruited into possible new scams by new people. All I can say is this “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!!” and besides if the world does not end on 21st October now at least we can look forward for the Mayan end of the world in 2012!! I am glad now we got until October, I get to watch Transformers 3!!

YouTube Is Currently Dead!! (UPDATE 3)

As of 22.30 GMT, on May 18th 2011, YouTube servers seem to be experiencing some server issues that is causing the “502 Server Error” to pop up! As of now I have been able to verify that the North Americas has been affected. If there are more regions affected please let me know! I will update this post as time goes on!

Update 1: Brazil and UK seem to be experiencing the problem too!! (thank you Cícero & Gary Spurway)

Update 2: As of 23.00 GMT, YouTube still seems to be kicking the bucket!!

Update 3: As of 23.10 GMT, YouTube seems to be back in action people!! so now we can stop living our real lives and go back to staring at movies the whole day and waste some really good productive time hehehehehehehehe!! cheers!!

The Forgotten Character Who Never Made It Into Charlie And The Chocolate Factory!! Introducing Miranda Piker!!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of my most all time favorite books, it was one of the first books I read and it opened up the whole world of the limitless possibilities of imagination and the lust and hunger for reading, hence this bit of news that I uncovered came as a bit of a pleasant surprise. A whole chapter that I have never read of one of my most favorite books. I was sooooooo freakin’ happy!!

There was a character called Miranda Piker who was suppose to be one of the children who wins a ticket into Wonka’s factory but the publishers of the Roald Dahl’s most famous book, edited her out due to the reason that her death was too gruesome for little kids to read. According to Roald Dahl’s final few drafts, Miranda Piker was a studious little know it all and her dad was a school master, when they find out that Mr. Wonka had invented a new type of powdery candy called “Spotty Powder” that will cause anyone who pops it into their mouths to get some nice bright red spots all over face and neck and hence fake an illness and skip school (puking pasties anyone?? hehehehehehe). Miranda and her dad do not like this and try to stop Mr. Wonka from making the candy so they walk into the room where the candy is made to stop the production but get ground to powder by the machine, and as is the fashion in every child who is gets subtracted from the initial group in the book, the oompa loompas sing a song about it and the chapter ends.

Roald Dahl also initially thought of having some 10 children to enter the factory and the oompa loompas were initailly called whipple-scrumpets!!

So without further ado, here is the lost chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

“THIS STUFF,” SAID MR WONKA, “IS GOING to cause chaos in schools all over the world when I get it in the shops.”

The room they now entered had rows and rows of pipes coming straight up out of the floor. The pipes were bent over at the top and they looked like large walking sticks. Out of every pipe there trickled a stream of white crystals. Hundreds of Oompa-Loompas were running to and fro, catching the crystals in little golden boxes and stacking the boxes against the walls.

“Spotty Powder!” exclaimed Mr Wonka, beaming at the company. “There it is! That’s it! Fantastic stuff!” “It looks like sugar,” said Miranda Piker.

“It’s meant to look like sugar,” Mr Wonka said. “And it tastes like sugar. But it isn’t sugar. Oh, dear me, no.”

“Then what is it?” asked Miranda Piker, speaking rather rudely.

“That door over there,” said Mr Wonka, turning away from Miranda and pointing to a small red door at the far end of the room, “leads directly down to the machine that makes the powder. Twice a day, I go down there myself to feed it. But I’m the only one. Nobody ever comes with me.”

They all stared at the little door on which it said MOST SECRET — KEEP OUT.

The hum and throb of powerful machinery could be heard coming up from the depths below, and the floor itself was vibrating all the time. The children could feel it through the soles of their shoes.

Miranda Piker now pushed forward and stood in front of Mr Wonka. She was a nasty-looking girl with a smug face and a smirk on her mouth, and whenever she spoke it was always with a voice that seemed to be saying: “Everybody is a fool except me.”

“OK,” Miranda Piker said, smirking at Mr Wonka. “So what’s the big news? What’s this stuff meant to do when you eat it?” “Ah-ha,” said Mr Wonka, his eyes sparkling with glee. “You’d never guess that, not in a million years. Now listen. All you have to do is sprinkle it over your cereal at breakfast-time, pretending it’s sugar. Then you eat it. And then, exactly five seconds after that, you come out in bright red spots all over your face and neck.”

“What sort of a silly ass wants spots on his face at breakfast-time?” said Miranda Piker.

“Let me finish,” said Mr Wonka. “So then your mother looks at you across the table and says, ‘My poor child. You must have chickenpox. You can’t possibly go to school today.’ So you stay at home. But by lunch-time, the spots have all disappeared.”

“Terrific!” shouted Charlie. “That’s just what I want for the day we have exams!” “That is the ideal time to use it,” said Mr Wonka. “But you mustn’t do it too often or it’ll give the game away. Keep it for the really nasty days.

“Father!” cried Miranda Piker. “Did you hear what this stuff does? It’s shocking! It mustn’t be allowed!” Mr Piker, Miranda’s father, stepped forward and faced Mr Wonka. He had a smooth white face like a boiled onion.

“Now see here, Wonka,” he said. “I happen to be the headmaster of a large school, and I won’t allow you to sell this rubbish to the children! It’s . . . criminal! Why, you’ll ruin the school system of the entire country!” “I hope so,” said Mr Wonka.

“It’s got to be stopped!” shouted Mr Piker, waving his cane.

“Who’s going to stop it?” asked Mr Wonka. “In my factory, I make things to please children. I don’t care about grown-ups.”

“I am top of my form,” Miranda Piker said, smirking at Mr Wonka. “And I’ve never missed a day’s school in my life.”

“Then it’s time you did,” Mr Wonka said.

“How dare you!” said Mr Piker.

“All holidays and vacations should be stopped!” cried Miranda. “Children are meant to work, not play.”

“Quite right, my girl,” cried Mr Piker, patting Miranda on the top of the head. “All work and no play has made you what you are today.”

“Isn’t she wonderful?” said Mrs Piker, beaming at her daughter.

“Come on then, Father!” cried Miranda. “Let’s go down into the cellar and smash the machine that makes this dreadful stuff!” “Forward!” shouted Mr Piker, brandishing his cane and making a dash for the little red door on which it said MOST SECRET — KEEP OUT.

“Stop!” said Mr Wonka. “Don’t go in there! It’s terribly secret!” “Let’s see you stop us, you old goat!” shouted Miranda.

“We’ll smash it to smithereens!” yelled Mr Piker. And a few seconds later the two of them had disappeared through the door.

There was a moment’s silence. Then, far off in the distance, from somewhere deep underground, there came a fearful scream.

“That’s my husband!” cried Mrs Piker, going blue in the face. There was another scream.

“And that’s Miranda!” yelled Mrs Piker, beginning to hop around in circles. “What’s happening to them? What have you got down there, you dreadful beast?” “Oh, nothing much,” Mr Wonka answered. “Just a lot of cogs and wheels and chains and things like that, all going round and round and round.”

“You villain!” she screamed. “I know your tricks! You’re grinding them into powder! In two minutes my darling Miranda will come pouring out of one of those dreadful pipes, and so will my husband!” “Of course,” said Mr Wonka. “That’s part of the recipe.”

“It’s what!” “We’ve got to use one or two schoolmasters occasionally or it wouldn’t work.”

“Did you hear him?” shrieked Mrs Piker, turning to the others. “He admits it! He’s nothing but a cold-blooded murderer!” Mr Wonka smiled and patted Mrs Piker gently on the arm. “Dear lady,” he said, “I was only joking.”

“Then why did they scream?” snapped Mrs Piker. “I distinctly heard them scream!” “Those weren’t screams,” Mr Wonka said. “They were laughs.”

“My husband never laughs,” said Mrs Piker.

Mr Wonka flicked his fingers, and up came an Oompa-Loompa.

“Kindly escort Mrs Piker to the boiler room,” Mr Wonka said. “Don’t fret, dear lady,” he went on, shaking Mrs Piker warmly by the hand. “They’ll all come out in the wash. There’s nothing to worry about. Off you go. Thank you for coming. Farewell! Goodbye! A pleasure to meet you!”

“Listen, Charlie!” said Grandpa Joe. “The Oompa-Loompas are starting to sing again!”

“Oh, Miranda Mary Piker!” sang the five Oompa-Loompas dancing about and laughing and beating madly on their tiny drums.

“Oh, Miranda Mary Piker,
How could anybody like her,
Such a priggish and revolting little kid.
So we said, ‘Why don’t we fix her
In the Spotty-Powder mixer
Then we’re bound to like her better than we did.’
Soon this child who is so vicious
Will have gotten quite delicious,
And her classmates will have surely understood
That instead of saying, ‘Miranda!
Oh, the beast! We cannot stand her!’
They’ll be saying, ‘Oh, how useful and how good!’ ”

(chapter source: The Sunday Times U.K : http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article546539.ece?token=null&offset=24&page=3)

Mother gives 8 year old daughter Botox injections for the sake of child beauty pageants!! WTF!!

Yeap you read the title right, Kerry Campbell gives her daughter Botox injections and waxes her legs in order to give her a leading edge in child beauty pageants. Kerry had asked her daughter, 8 year old Britney Campbell, if she wanted Botox treatment, as Britney was complaining about “wrinkles on her face”, and Britney agreed to the idea. Kerry then started to administer Britney with Botox injections from hence forth. Britney Campbell, who is a beautician by profession, buys the Botox online and injects the Botox around her daughters lips,  around her eyes and forehead.

Furthermore, the mum also waxes her daughter’s upper legs in case she hits puberty and any ‘fluffy hair’ starts to appear. The ‘fluffy hair’ is what that hair is called around the child beauty contest arena. Britney also added about the waxing of her legs as “I just don’t think it’s ladylike to have hair on your legs. I did that one time. It was super, super hard. It hurts.” When asked if she would like to be waxed again, Britney answered ‘No’.

Kerry told that she gives her daughter Botox since others mothers in the child beauty pageants do it too, and that even she uses it on her self and she knows what she is doing and that she is not being a bad mother and she is taking care of her daughter and her daughter is normal like every other little girl.

The San Fransisco authorities have started an investigation to see if the child is being abused and there has been a massive upsurge my people everywhere against what this mother is doing to her daughter.

Kerry also declined to tell where she got the Botox from, as it is not approved by the FDA to use Botox on children under the age of 18 for cosmetic reasons as Botox, if not administered correctly, can cause a person to stop breathing and die.

First and foremost, WTF are they thinking having beauty pageant for kids?? Why they banana do they want to sexually objectify little children? Isn’t that a form of abuse? Isn’t it wrong? If pageants like this do not exist, the parents can stop being an assoles and actually let these children have a proper healthy life instead of stuffing them into pageants and ruining their childhood , not to mention the psychological and physical damages they put these children through. Responsible parents and the government should take actions to put forward sanctions against people who have these so called child beauty pageants.

Next, do these parents have bread pudding for brains? I mean when I was 8 years old, I was climbing trees, playing hide and seek and having fun with my friends. This is insane, kids these days don’t have a childhood, from the time they go to school, the parents shove them into tutoring so that they have a better chance of getting proper grades at school. They carry books in their bags that are twice their weight and they cant even stand straight with that much of weight on their backs. I mean all those amazing childhood memories that i have with my friends, these kids are getting robbed of it. At the end of the day there are no bad children, only bad parents who end up raising bad children. Its utterly the parent’s fault. And this bitch Kerry WTF is she thinking? She goes and asks her 8 year old if she wants Botox for her so called wrinkles and this dumbass gives it to her. An 8 year old is an 8 year old, they do not know the side effects of Botox and the future repercussions of it, its the parent’s responsibility to know whats good and whats bad for their children. She should have not entered her daughter in this stupid child pageant fiasco in the first place and second she should have told this little girl that she is too young to be thinking about looking pretty and worrying about wrinkles, instead of pumping her with Botox. Does this stupid woman even know the dangers of Botox and self administration of it instead of qualified professionals?? If applied improperly and the Botox drips town to the throat or breathing chambers, the person can die. Not to mention the Botox itself must be of good quality. Doctors are against people doing stupid things like this, but this dumb shit doesn’t only do it on herself, but she gives it to her kid. Just cause other mums in the pageant business do it doesn’t mean you have to do it to your kid you dumbass!!

Lastly the girl Britney. I don’t know if she was forced be like this or the external influences that she has been going though led her to be like this but she is too young to be worried about wrinkles and winning beauty pageants. She said its not lady like to have “fluffy hair”, for crying out loud….you are not a freaking lady…..you are still a little girl, so behave like one! You may win this beauty pageant, but by the time you are 20 you are going to look like some piece of crap that an alien farted out cause of all the Botox and crap you are putting into yourself.

Monitoring boards should keep an eye on these so called pageant mums and make sure their kids are not getting abused, furthermore the bodies in concern should also take all the actions to put a stop to such stupidity as child beauty pageants.