Chocolate

How chocolate evolved.

Chocolate, as we know it today, first appeared in the form of “bitter water” known as xocoatl during the Mayan civilization as early as the sixth century. The word “chocolate” is derived from this very Mayan word. Cocoa trees are said to have originated in the Amazon some 4000 years ago and the Mayans were the first to cultivate them. The Aztecs, however, believed cocoa plants were brought down from heaven by their god Quetzalcoatl in 1200 A. D.

In the Mayan and Aztec cultures, cocoa was the basic for xocoatl- a thick, unsweetened drink believed to be a health elixir. Spices such as hot chilli pepper and corn meal were used to add flavour to the drink, as sugar was unknown to the Mayans and Aztecs. Aztec emperor, Montezuma, used to drink 50 goblets of thick chocolate everyday for its nourishing and aphrodisiac qualities.

In 1528, Hernando de Oviedo y Valdez inspired the making of chocolate in its current sweet form when he presented Spanish King Charles V with cocoa beans and the necessary tools for its preparation. The Spaniards mixed the beans with sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and cinnamon to create tantalizing, fashionable chocolates. These chocolates were reserved for the nobility only.

It was in 1643 that chocolate took on a new role; Spanish Princess Maria Theresa gave her fiancé, Louis XIV of France an engagement gift of chocolate. Ever since, chocolate was the preferred girt for it was a luxury as well as an aphrodisiac.


this article taken from a booklet. however, i forgot where i 've taken from.

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Everyone is busy
But me
The only one who is
Sitting here
Waiting for the lunch time to arrive

Strange
Stomach not hungry at all
Might be the full breakfast
This morning

Two pieces of bread
With strawberry jam
A big bowl of warm mix bean soup
A handful of corn chips
And
Two handful of chocolate muesli

All are my favourite
See
How large the stomach I have?!

12.45pm
Thursday
25 August 2005

Down to boredom

There is a LONG pause in my world.
Nobody talk to me
Nobody message me
I just feel very bored
In the office

Have been doing all these same tasks
For weeks
Same kind of days
Same kind of life
Same kind of routine

Feeling kind of tired
Nobody ever listen to me
Nobody ever can talk to me
I am very quiet sitting here doing my stuff
In the office

Silently
I can hear only the pen noising
I can hear only my finger tapping
I can hear only the radio singing
In the office

Silently
I am now waiting for the lunch break
After lunch
I will wait for time to go home

Home
Great
However
The next day will be having the same routine
again

>.<


Monday
August 22, 2005
10.45am

Printer = dumb

Yeah, right now is about quarter to four in the afternoon. I’m sitting in front of my laptop in the office typing this post now. I’ve been here for the whole day doing calculation and printing bills. Kind of tired. However, there is no other choice for me not to do them. If I want to get my day of salary, I’ve got to do everything.

Printing. Hate it!!! That HP deskjet 3650 printer acted stupidly. Already 2 times, the paper stuck when printing. I had to open up the cover and try to pull the paper out. Hard. The printer jams all the time. When I can’t just pull out the printer, I have to use the scissors or a pen to poke it or try to tore the papers into pieces. Arghh… whatever.

Besides that, I have done a lot of mistake today. Might be the rainy day causes me. Oh, no way, I shouldn’t blame the weather. It was my entire fault for not concentrated in doing things. What can I do?! Tomorrow, my result is going to release. I really never think of it. Do I ever think of that? Okay, I admit, sometimes. But I will only spare my free time or lunch time or the time visiting the toilet thinking about what a will get for my result.

Just hope for all the best tomorrow.

whoops

Whoops. It has been a long time since my last post. Sorry, guess I don’t have spare time for blogging since I started working. Life is tough. Working might be fun sometimes, but sometimes it’s not. You really need to concentrate when doing things. Well, I am not, all the time. Sitting in the office from morning till evening causes me back pain. The room is cold. Luckily there is the radio. All of us are listening to Wah FM everyday. Everyday my aunt and I are the last to step our feet out from the office. She is really a workaholic. Once reach home, its already time for dinner. Then rest or watch TV. And then sleep as early as possible because the next day I have to wake up very early. Normally I will wake up before 7am.

Today might be a tough day for me. I woke up by 6.45am in the morning. Took a bath, changed and then went downstairs to take my breakfast. GREAT! Today my breakfast was crunchy chocolate muesli with milk. Cereal is my favourite. I can’t live without it. However, my family does not really like muesli.

Okay, then I waited for my aunt to take me. She was early today, so we reached her office by 8.15am. Once I sat at my place, I took out all my files. AND start working, right. Yesterday my new laptop was arrived. Oh, please correct me, not mine; it’s the company’s property. Today, I am going to start using this laptop. It is Acer Aspire 3003NLCi series laptop coloured in silver. It has 15.o” XGA TFT LCD, 40GB HDD, DVD/CD-RW Combo, 256MB DDR, 802.11b/g wireless LAN…

Whatever… I just don’t know what they are.

First of all, I had to do billing. And print the bills later. Phew. It really takes me some times to get used with this laptop. Wahahaha… this is the first time I am using the laptop. The keyboard was really soft. And it’s soundless. Just does not look like mine at home. I think I am going to ask my dad to get me one of this. 2K plus plus. Do you think he’ll get it for me?

Actually now is already lunch time. I am waiting for them to take out the lunch from food stalls. I am very hungry now as I can hear my stomach ‘grrrriiiiii… grooooo…’ all the time. Foods… where are you?!


Lunch is here. Got to go!


P.S. I’ve steal some time when I was working to compose. Already face the comp for the whole morning. Feeling very dizzy now…