🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️
-THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE-
Only female mosquitoes bite because they need the protein for their eggs—that is their "migh".
That high-pitched "eeeee" sound is actually the sound of their wings beating up to 500 times per second.
Everyone relates to the struggle of a mosquito in the room....
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Only female mosquitoes bite because they need the protein for their eggs—that is their "migh".
That high-pitched "eeeee" sound is actually the sound of their wings beating up to 500 times per second.
Everyone relates to the struggle of a mosquito in the room....
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"Sakoo–Pak Mor" One Pair, Better Together 🥟✨
[🐖 Sakoo Sai Moo : The Chewy Gem ]
Sakoo Sai Moo is a jewel-like sphere with a thoroughly savory soul—a delicate tapioca pearl encasing a seasoned pork filling enriched with preserved radish and peanuts. Sakoo is shaped by hand, before the heat. The tapioca pearls are soaked until pliable, then carefully rolled around the cooled filling into neat, marble-sized balls.
🌿🧄🌶️ The heart of this dumpling is built upon the ancient foundation of Thai seasoning: Sam Gluer(The Three Buddies). This aromatic paste of coriander root, garlic, and pepper forms the backbone of countless Thai dishes, lending depth to the filling.
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[ 🥟 Khao Kriap Pak Mor: The Silky Artisan ]
If Sakoo is shaped before heat, Khao Kriap Pak Mor is shaped by heat. Its name refers to its method—'Thin rice batter steamed over the mouth of the pot', a white cotton cloth stretched drum-tight over a pot of boiling water. The vendor swirls a thin batter onto the steam-saturated cloth, encasing a spoonful of seasoned pork in a delicate, translucent veil.
While Sakoo is bouncy and tactile, Pak Mor is tender, silky, and almost weightless. Where Sakoo offers resistance, Pak Mor offers surrender.
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[ Sakoo–Pak Mor : A Thai Street Snack Duo 🤝 ]
The inseparability of Sakoo and Pak Mor is born from a rhythmic necessity. Where a bite of Sakoo activates the jaw with its chewy texture, the weightless Pak Mor follows as a cooling relief. It is a pairing where texture becomes rhythm and eating becomes dialogue.
[ 👑 The Royal Relatives: Elegance in Every Fold ]
While Sakoo and Pak Mor rule the streets, they have two aristocratic cousins from the Royal Palaces that elevate the same savory soul into sculptural art.
🪻 Chor Muang - A delicate flower dumpling, tinted naturally purple with butterfly pea flower infusion.
🐦 Khanom Jeeb Nok - A hand-sculpted bird-shaped dumpling, each pleat carefully formed, finished with a tiny golden beak.
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"สาคู-ปากหม้อ" เมนูอาหารว่างไทยคู่หูความอร่อยที่ขาดกันไม่ได้🥟✨
หากเราเดินไปตามตลาดนัดหรือสตรีทฟู้ดไทย เรามักจะเห็นเมนูของว่างสองเมนูนี้วางขายคู่กันอยู่เสมอ ๆ เมนูที่ว่านี้คือ "สาคูไส้หมู" และ "ข้าวเกรียบปากหม้อ" สองเมนูนี้เหมือนเป็นฝาแฝดที่หน้าตาต่างกัน แต่อยู่ด้วยกันแล้วลงตัวเป็นที่สุด
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🐖 สาคูไส้หมู
สาคูไส้หมู เมนูอาหารว่างที่มีลักษณะเป็นเม็ดกลมใส ห่อไส้หมูรสกลมกล่อมไว้ข้างด้านใน วิธีทำเริ่มจากเอาเม็ดสาคูล้างน้ำให้สะอาด และแช่เม็ดสาคูให้พอนุ่ม จากนั้นนำมาปั้นด้วยมือห่อไส้จนเป็นก้อนกลม ก่อนนำไปนึ่งจนเม็ดสาคูสุกใสเป็นประกาย
สำหรับหัวใจความอร่อยจะอยู่ที่ไส้ด้านใน ประกอบด้วย ’สามเกลอ’ (รากผักชี กระเทียม และพริกไทย) ที่โขลกจนเข้ากันได้ดีผัดพร้อมกับเนื้อหมูสับ ไชโป๊สับ และถั่วลิสงคั่ว จนหอมได้ที่ เมื่อไส้เย็นตัวลง จึงตักมาห่อด้วยสาคูทีละชิ้นอย่างประณีต
🥟 ข้าวเกรียบปากหม้อ
ข้าวเกรียบปากหม้อจะมีความแตกต่างต่างออกไปจากเมนูสาคูไส้หมู ตรงที่ตัวแป้งไม่ได้ปั้นด้วยมือ แต่ใช้แป้งข้าวเจ้าละเลงบาง ๆ ลงบนผ้าขาวบางที่ขึงตึงเหนือปากหม้อที่ตั้งบนน้ำเดือด เมื่อแป้งสุกใสด้วยไอน้ำจะตักไส้แบบเดียวกับสาคูใส่ลงไป แล้วใช้พายปาดพับแป้งบางห่อไส้ให้สวยงาม
ความต่างชัดเจนอยู่ที่เนื้อสัมผัส ในขณะที่สาคูจะให้ความหนึบหนับเคี้ยวเพลิน ปากหม้อจะเน้นความนุ่มลื่น บางเบา แทบละลายในปาก
สาคู-ปากหม้อ สองเมนูอาหารว่างคู่หูสตรีทฟู้ดไทย 🤝
ด้วยพื้นฐานไส้และเครื่องปรุงที่คล้ายคลึงกัน ทั้งสองเมนูจึงยิ่งอร่อยเมื่อทานคู่กัน คำแรกสัมผัสความหนึบหนับของสาคู คำถัดไปละมุนไปกับปากหม้อนุ่มลื่น สลับกันไปมาจนเกิดจังหวะความอร่อยที่สนุกและลงตัว เสิร์ฟพร้อมผักกาดหอม ผักชี พริกขี้หนูสด เติมกลิ่นและรสสัมผัสด้วยกระเทียมเจียวกรอบ ๆ เพียงเท่านี้ก็ครบสูตรความอร่อยของคู่หูสาคู–ปากหม้อ
ทุกท่านทราบหรือไม่ว่า ในตำรับอาหารไทยชาววัง ยังมีเมนูอาหารว่างที่คล้ายคลึงกับสาคู-ปากหม้อ อย่างเช่น
🪻 ช่อม่วง - ขนมแป้งสีม่วงสวยที่ได้จากน้ำดอกอัญชัน นำมาจับจีบด้วยแหนบอย่างประณีตให้ออกมาเป็นรูปดอกไม้กำลังบานอย่างงดงาม
🐦 ขนมจีบนก - อาหารว่างเอกลักษณ์ไทยที่ปั้นแป้งและจับจีบให้เป็นรูปนกตัวน้อยอ้วนกลม ดูราวกับงานประติมากรรมชิ้นจิ๋ว
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#DITP #กรมส่งเสริมการค้าระหว่างประเทศ
#ThaiCuisine #อาหารไทย
#อาหารว่างไทย #สาคูไส้หมู #ข้าวเกรียบปากหม้อ
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The movie “The Breakfast Club” was released in theaters by Universal Pictures this month in 1985 (February 15)
The coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes was a classic of it’s day, starring Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, and Paul Gleeson as vice principal Richard Vernon.
The soundtrack peaked at #17 on the US Billboard 200 Album Chart, while its signature song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds became a breakout hit for the Scottish band, and an iconic 80s anthem, going all the way to #1.
Interestingly, Simple Minds initially declined to record "Don't You (Forget About Me)".
Guitarist Charlie Burchill, said they felt it did not suit them as "we had delusions of being ultra-hip".
Their manager, pushed the point, and arranged a private screening of The Breakfast Club in an effort to change their minds, but they still declined.
Lead singer Jim Kerr, said later: "We couldn't give a toss about teenage American schoolkids."
Meanwhile co-songwriter Keith Forsey was shopping the song around to other artists, including Bryan Ferry, who declined as he was working on his album “Boys and Girls”, saying:
“It was just bad timing ... Keith Forsey sent me a demo of the song and it sounded like a hit to me”.
Frequent Forsey collaborator Billy Idol also declined, but I reckon it would have really suited him, and he was obviously a fan of the song, later recording a version featured on his Greatest Hits album.
The record label, A&M, also suggested Corey Hart, who had a hit at the time with "Sunglasses at Night".
Fortunately, Kerr's wife at the time, the Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, liked the song and urged him to record it, which the band eventually, and somewhat reluctantly did.
In 2016, Burchill said: "When I listen to it now, it’s obviously a brilliant, well-crafted pop song. I’m embarrassed we dissed it so much."
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🏛️ Deep on the rugged hills of Crete, archaeologists have unearthed something that could rewrite part of Bronze Age history…
A sprawling circular stone complex from the ancient Minoan civilization has just emerged from the ground — its maze‑like rings stretching out in a design no expert has ever seen before. Built nearly 4,000 years ago, this enigmatic structure has puzzled researchers with its purpose and form.
Was it a grand ritual space… a gathering place for ancient ceremonies… or something even more mysterious?
Why does its architecture resemble a labyrinth — and what secrets might it hold about a society that influenced myths, art, and culture across the ancient Mediterranean?
This isn’t just another dig‑site find — it’s a monument that challenges what we thought we knew about the Minoans.
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THE BEATLES MEET ALI ( Cassius Clay)-
On this day in 1964, The Beatles attend the training site of heavy weight boxing champion Sonny Liston for a publicity photo-op.
Liston however, refuses to pose with "those sissies" and the group is then driven to Cassius Clay's gym where they are welcomed with open arms.
The meeting occurred one week before Ali won his first World Heavyweight Championship title.
In an odd twist, it would be Liston, not Ali, who would later be included among celebrities on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper"s Lonely Hearts Club Band".
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GM 🌞 Get some sunlight today.
Vitamin D
... increases testosterone production 🥊
Vitamin D deficiency and low testosterone concentrations in men can affect their fertility or lead to osteoporosis and loss of muscle mass. New Danish research shows that these two factors may be more closely related than previously thought, since vitamin D deficiency may reduce testosterone production.
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Vincent Van Gogh, Still Life,
Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, 1888
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
"Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history.
He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.
He became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24.
Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade.
In 1889, at age 45, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia.
He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after many strokes and pneumonia.
Nietzsche's writing spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony."
Born: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, October 15, 1844, Röcken, Saxony, Prussia, German Confederation
Died: August 25, 1900, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany
Alma mater: University of Bonn, Leipzig University
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.108, Vintage
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On this day in 1970, Black Sabbath’s debut, self-titled LP was released (February 13)
And it was released, of course, on Black Friday….
Arguably the first ever ‘Heavy Metal’ album, and without question one of the most influential albums of that genre…
According to Black Sabbath's guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi, the group's debut album was recorded in just a single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969.
Iommi recalled:
“We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it.
We actually thought a whole day was quite a long time, then off we went the next day to play for £20 in Switzerland!”
"We thought, 'We have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing.' So we played live.
Ozzy was singing at the same time, we just put him in a separate booth and off we went.
We never had a second run of most of the stuff."
In his autobiography “I Am Ozzy”, Ozzy Osbourne recalled:
“Once we'd finished, we spent a couple of hours double-tracking some of the guitar and vocals, and that was that. Done.
We were in the pub in time for last orders.
It can't have taken any longer than twelve hours in total. That's how albums should be made, in my opinion."
In an interview for the Classic Albums series in 2010, bass player Geezer Butler added:
“It was literally live in the studio. I mean, (producer) Rodger Bain, I think he's a genius the way he captured the band in such a short time."
Summing up, drummer Bill Ward reflected to Guitar World in 2001:
“I think the first album is just absolutely incredible.
It's naïve, and there's an absolute sense of unity – it's not contrived in any way, shape or form.
We weren't old enough to be clever.
I love it all, including the mistakes!"
And Butler explained to Mojo in 2013:
“Back then the bass player was supposed to do all these melodic runs, but I didn't know how to do that because I'd been a guitarist, so all I did was follow Tony's riff.
That made the sound heavier!”
In 2020 it was ranked #355 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and ranked #44 in their list of the 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time, and ranked #5 on their list of 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.
The iconic cover featured model Louisa Livingstone, at Mapledurham Watermill, situated on the River Thames in Oxfordshire.
Livingstone recalled: "I'm sure (photographer Keith Stuart McMillan) said it was for Black Sabbath, but I don't know if that meant anything much to me at the time," adding that it had been "freezing cold" during the shoot.
“I had to get up at about 4 o'clock in the morning. Keith was rushing around with dry ice, throwing it into the water.
It didn't seem to be working very well, so he ended up using a smoke machine," she said.
According to McMillan, Livingstone was wearing nothing underneath the black cloak, and some experimentation was done involving some "slightly more risqué" photographs taken at the session.
“We decided none of that worked," he said. "Any kind of sexuality took away from the more foreboding mood.”
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The one and only Bon Scott from AC/DC passed away on this day in 1980 (February 19), aged just 33.
Bon Scott was truly one of a kind, born Ronald Belford Scott in Scotland, he moved to Australia with his family when he was six years old.
He got the nickname "Bon" soon after starting school at Sunshine Primary School in Melbourne; because there was another Ronald in the class, his classmates played on the phrase "Bonnie Scotland", shortening it to “Bon”.
Scott formed his first band, the Spektors, in 1964 and became the band's drummer and occasional lead vocalist. He performed in several other bands, including the Valentines and Fraternity, before replacing Dave Evans as the lead singer of AC/DC in 1974.
With Scott up front, AC/DC went from a glam rock combo into the cracking hard rock band that Australia fell in love with, that were on the brink of international superstardom when tragedy struck.
On 19 February 1980, Scott went on a drinking binge in a London pub that caused him to lose consciousness, so a friend let him rest in the back of his Renault 5 overnight.
The next morning, Scott was found unresponsive and rushed to King's College Hospital where medical personnel pronounced him dead on arrival.
The coroner ruled that pulmonary aspiration of vomit was the cause of Scott's death, but the official cause was listed on the death certificate as "acute alcoholic poisoning" and classified as "death by misadventure".
AC/DC's seventh studio album “Back In Black” was released five months later as a dedication and tribute to Scott.
The record went on to become the second best-selling album in music history…
In 2003, Scott was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of AC/DC.
Bon Scott had a killer voice, and a smile and a fun-loving twinkle in his eye was never too far away when he performed, in his trademark bare chest and skin-tight jeans.
One of our best….
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On this day in 1976, the AC/DC single
"It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" peaked on the Australian charts at #9 (February 16)
The song written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott is one of the quintessential songs that describes the rock industry, and also one of the few rock songs that includes the bagpipes!
Funny story that…
Ex-Easybeats and co-producer George Young (older brother of Angus and Malcolm) remembered that Bon Scott was once in a pipe band when he was younger, and being a creative producer, encouraged him to get a set of bagpipes to play in the song.
Scott left the studio that day and returned with a set of bagpipes purchased at a Park Street music store at what was an extortionately high price (AU$479) at the time.
Bass player Mark Evans later mused that the amount “would have bought two Strats”!
Problem was, Bon Scott was a DRUMMER in the pipe band, and had no idea how to play the bagpipes! They struggled to even put them together.
Eventually though, Scott taught himself to play well enough to record and perform the song (initially with the help of tape loops), and the bagpipes were in.
Due to tuning issues, it was difficult to play live, so the song, though iconic of the band's early repertoire, was probably played live no more than 30 times.
The last occasion was in 1976, following an incident where Scott set down the pipe-set at the corner of a stage during a concert at St Albans High School in St Albans, Victoria, Australia and they were destroyed by fans. Subsequent (relatively rare) live performances employed a recording of the song's bagpipe track or an extended guitar solo by Angus Young.
The famous video for "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)", was filmed on 23 February 1976 for the Australian music television program Countdown.
It featured the band and the members of the Rats of Tobruk Pipe band on the back of a flatbed truck travelling on Swanston Street in Melbourne.
The video was directed by Countdown director Paul Drane, who also directed Supernaut's award-winning Countdown video for “I Like It Both Ways".
Despite only making it to #9 on the charts, the song has cemented itself as one of the classics in the history of Australian rock.
In May 2001, Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) celebrated its 75th anniversary by naming the Best Australian Songs of all time, as decided by a 100-member industry panel. "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" was ranked #9 on the list.
In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" was ranked #5.
It was also inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia in 2012.
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Not sci-fi. Not a grain silo.
This is an air well—a passive structure designed to harvest water from the atmosphere by encouraging condensation.
The example shown is inspired by the ancient beehive-shaped stone towers of Puglia in southern Italy, often compared to traditional trulli construction. Built with thick limestone walls and small ventilation openings, the mass of stone cools overnight. When warm, humid air enters and meets the cooler interior surfaces, moisture condenses and can be collected.
The principle is simple:
• Thermal mass cools the interior
• Air circulation promotes contact with cold surfaces
• Condensation forms
• Water is gathered at the base
While many historic stone towers weren’t originally built as air wells, modern sustainable design has revisited the concept as a low-tech method for water harvesting in arid climates.
Architecture that pulls water from thin air—literally.
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This week in 1979, the Blondie LP “Parallel Lines” went to #1 on the UK Albums Chart (February 17)
In June 1978 the band entered the Record Plant in New York to record their third album, and first with Australian producer Mike Chapman. However, Chapman found the band difficult to work with, remembering them as the worst band he ever worked with in terms of musical ability, although praising Frank Infante as "an amazing guitarist".
Sessions with Chris Stein were hampered by his being stoned during recording, and Chapman encouraged him to write songs rather than play guitar.
Similarly, according to Chapman, Jimmy Destri would prove himself to be far better at songwriting than as a keyboardist and Clem Burke had poor timing playing drums.
As a result, Chapman spent time improving the band, especially Stein with whom Chapman spent hours rerecording his parts to ensure they were right.
Bassist Nigel Harrison became so frustrated with Chapman's drive for perfection that he threw a synthesizer at him during recording.
Chapman recalled, “The Blondies were tough in the studio, real tough.
None of them liked each other, except Chris and Debbie, and there was so much animosity.
They were really, really juvenile in their approach to life—a classic New York underground rock band—and they didn't give a f*** about anything. They just wanted to have fun and didn't want to work too hard getting it.
Musically, Blondie were hopelessly horrible when we first began rehearsing for Parallel Lines, and in terms of my attitude they didn't know what had hit them.
I basically went in there like Adolf Hitler and said, 'You are going to make a great record, and that means you're going to start playing better.'"
It certainly worked for Chapman and the band, as “Parallel Lines” was a breakthrough record for Blondie around the world, making it to #1 in the UK, #2 in Australia and Canada, #3 in New Zealand, #6 in the US, #7 in the Netherlands and Portugal, #9 in Germany and Sweden, and #11 in Italy and Finland.
The album is jam-packed with classic Blondie songs like “Hanging on the Telephone”, “Picture This”, “One Way Or Another”, “Sunday Girl”, and “Heart of Glass”.
In 2012 “Parallel Lines” was ranked at #140 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
In 2013, NME ranked it #45 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time…
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This week in 1979, the Blondie single “Heart of Glass” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #84 (February 17)
Debbie Harry said that "Heart of Glass" was, along with "Rapture," the song she was proudest of having written.
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein wrote an early version of "Heart of Glass", called "Once I Had a Love", in 1974–75.
This earlier version was initially recorded as a demo in 1975.
The song had a slower, funkier sound with a basic disco beat. For this reason the band referred to it as "The Disco Song".
Harry recalled “‘Heart of Glass' was one of the first songs Blondie wrote, but it was years before we recorded it properly.
We'd tried it as a ballad, as reggae, but it never quite worked"
Producer Mike Chapman helped crystallize the song from the “Parallel Lines” LP, and turn it into a worldwide hit.
The song with the pulsing synth line driving it on went to #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, and was Top 5 in the Netherlands, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Ireland and Belgium.
The song’s disco stylings displeased many of Blondie’s hard core fans from their early post-punk days, seeing the band as “selling out”.
Interestingly though, despite "Heart of Glass" being known as “the disco song”, it was not a hit in New York City's traditional discothèques such as Studio 54, Xenon and Crisco Disco, and reached only #58 in Billboard's Disco Top 80 chart.
"Heart of Glass" ranked at #66 in the UK's official list of biggest selling singles of all-time, with sales of 1.32 million copies.
It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of "qualitative or historical significance" in 2015.
In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked the song #138 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
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