6/30/2007
More sweet reviews
Schweppes Traditionals Red Cream Soda: Cream soda, but red. This is apparently cream soda's natural colour here, which is a bit odd, but the soda itself was just as good as cream soda I'm used to. 5.
Cadbury Picnic (A unique combination of peanuts, wafer, caramel, & rice crisps covered in delicious milk chocolate): This is pretty much... all that tossed together and covered in chocolate as their description sounds. Its also really, really good. 5.
Nestle Kit Kat Honeycomb (Shattered honeycomb in smooth milk chocolate over a wafer finger): This one was a bit odd, basically take a big kit kat and add in honeycomb. Not terribly strong, I felt. 3.
Cadbury Flake Luxery (Crumbly milk chocolate Flake covered in milk chocolate): Flake is this common ingredient here.... it didn't strike me as particularly good, just sort of interesting. 3.
Nestle Smarties (Delicious milk chocolate in a crisp shell): Sort of like M&Ms and not at all like the smarties I know, they're somewhat mediocre. Good, but basic since its really just chocolate. 3.
Cadbury Cherry Ripe (Ripe Juicy Cherries and coconut in old gold rich dark chocolate): Better than most with coconut just since I don't like that, but like cherries, its still not something I'm fond of. 2.
Arnott's Tim Tam Caramel: Tim tams are on the highest order of perfection as far as cookies go, but the caramel, I felt, hurt it. In part because cold caramel is too hard when eating.... so I actually will give it a 3.
Nestle Milo: Not sure what its going for, as its odd texturewise, and is fairly basic. 2.
Whittaker's Original Peanut Slab Milk Chocolate Bar: Exactly what it sounds like. Good though. 4.
I also have had a Cadbury Twirl and a Cadbury TimeOut but I can't recall which was which... so i'll have to try those two again later. One of them I really liked though.
Schweppes Traditionals Red Cream Soda: Cream soda, but red. This is apparently cream soda's natural colour here, which is a bit odd, but the soda itself was just as good as cream soda I'm used to. 5.
Cadbury Picnic (A unique combination of peanuts, wafer, caramel, & rice crisps covered in delicious milk chocolate): This is pretty much... all that tossed together and covered in chocolate as their description sounds. Its also really, really good. 5.
Nestle Kit Kat Honeycomb (Shattered honeycomb in smooth milk chocolate over a wafer finger): This one was a bit odd, basically take a big kit kat and add in honeycomb. Not terribly strong, I felt. 3.
Cadbury Flake Luxery (Crumbly milk chocolate Flake covered in milk chocolate): Flake is this common ingredient here.... it didn't strike me as particularly good, just sort of interesting. 3.
Nestle Smarties (Delicious milk chocolate in a crisp shell): Sort of like M&Ms and not at all like the smarties I know, they're somewhat mediocre. Good, but basic since its really just chocolate. 3.
Cadbury Cherry Ripe (Ripe Juicy Cherries and coconut in old gold rich dark chocolate): Better than most with coconut just since I don't like that, but like cherries, its still not something I'm fond of. 2.
Arnott's Tim Tam Caramel: Tim tams are on the highest order of perfection as far as cookies go, but the caramel, I felt, hurt it. In part because cold caramel is too hard when eating.... so I actually will give it a 3.
Nestle Milo: Not sure what its going for, as its odd texturewise, and is fairly basic. 2.
Whittaker's Original Peanut Slab Milk Chocolate Bar: Exactly what it sounds like. Good though. 4.
I also have had a Cadbury Twirl and a Cadbury TimeOut but I can't recall which was which... so i'll have to try those two again later. One of them I really liked though.
6/26/2007
Alright... first new post... not the what I've been up to one, but still with some merit... its the "what chocolate have I tried" post. Things like this will, theoretically, continue, but everything has to start somewhere. On a 1 to 5 scale.
Nestle Polly Waffle (Choc-coated marshmallow filled wafer): Little odd as its a cylinder rather than a flatted shape..... and rather than marshmallow proper, its more of a marshmallow cream. Which I like anyway... so.... I'd give it a 4.
Fry's Turkish Delight: Some sort of fruitlike thing, I think... coated in chocolate. Not really all that good. 1.
Cadbury Boost (Smooth textured chocolate flavoured centre with crunchy biscuit pieces surrounded in caramel, all covered in milk chocolate): It was sort of like a twix, although not as good. I'd give it a 3.
Nestle Violet Crumble (Delicious shattering choc coated honeycomb): Weird because honeycomb is this odd texture I'm not used too... which makes it a bit strange to get used to, but tastes good though. 4.
Nestle Polly Waffle (Choc-coated marshmallow filled wafer): Little odd as its a cylinder rather than a flatted shape..... and rather than marshmallow proper, its more of a marshmallow cream. Which I like anyway... so.... I'd give it a 4.
Fry's Turkish Delight: Some sort of fruitlike thing, I think... coated in chocolate. Not really all that good. 1.
Cadbury Boost (Smooth textured chocolate flavoured centre with crunchy biscuit pieces surrounded in caramel, all covered in milk chocolate): It was sort of like a twix, although not as good. I'd give it a 3.
Nestle Violet Crumble (Delicious shattering choc coated honeycomb): Weird because honeycomb is this odd texture I'm not used too... which makes it a bit strange to get used to, but tastes good though. 4.
6/17/2007
Dateline: Somewhere else over the Pacific Ocean, 6:05 Pacific Time. Day 0.
Well somewhere new over the Pacific again. Just finished up a provided for snack, was waiting a bit till I knew that I could have electronics. Current movie is Bridge to Terabithia, though the earlier bit made like no sense, thanks to the hearing cutting out. So I've now watched like half of the movie, give or take, and heard like a fifth of it.
Was on the ground in Hawaii for a good... 45 minutes as the plane refueled. I'll say one thing, it was actually impressive to see the islands. At nigth like this...you can really see the outlines of all the islands as you fly in and it just leaves me wondering what it would be like to come in during daylight hours, or otherwise be able to see it all better. I also liked that on the way out, I could actually see the big dipper low on the horizons... I coulnt' make out where Polaris was though to see if it was noticibly lower.
The movie itself...Oddly intriguing. Kinda wish I hadn't missed all that dialogue earlier to know just what happened early on. I've already listened to Land Down Under once, though, cuz you have to listen to that at least once on a flight to Australia. Now though, with a good... 8 hours left of the flight, I think its time for me to get my MP3 player set up with a song playlist cuz otherwise the random songs thing is pulling up stuff that I otherwise am not one to listen to. So I may as well.
And then it is onward into unconciousness.
Well somewhere new over the Pacific again. Just finished up a provided for snack, was waiting a bit till I knew that I could have electronics. Current movie is Bridge to Terabithia, though the earlier bit made like no sense, thanks to the hearing cutting out. So I've now watched like half of the movie, give or take, and heard like a fifth of it.
Was on the ground in Hawaii for a good... 45 minutes as the plane refueled. I'll say one thing, it was actually impressive to see the islands. At nigth like this...you can really see the outlines of all the islands as you fly in and it just leaves me wondering what it would be like to come in during daylight hours, or otherwise be able to see it all better. I also liked that on the way out, I could actually see the big dipper low on the horizons... I coulnt' make out where Polaris was though to see if it was noticibly lower.
The movie itself...Oddly intriguing. Kinda wish I hadn't missed all that dialogue earlier to know just what happened early on. I've already listened to Land Down Under once, though, cuz you have to listen to that at least once on a flight to Australia. Now though, with a good... 8 hours left of the flight, I think its time for me to get my MP3 player set up with a song playlist cuz otherwise the random songs thing is pulling up stuff that I otherwise am not one to listen to. So I may as well.
And then it is onward into unconciousness.
Dateline: Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, 1:05 Pacific Time. Day 0.
Well, it is most interesting how the day has progressed from smooth sailing to the realm of what next?
Of course, perhaps the most fun moment of the day was parking in my driveway and watching as the Chupathingie lost much of the coolant of the radiator. nothing big, just an improperly tightened radiator cap, but still not the best of things to watch.
From getting to the airport on, things have just gotten more and more interesting. Firstly I do like that LAX is always so seure. No real baggage checks.
Then was the moment where I realised that I, being the savvy traeler I am, that the converter I need was left in the... in something in my room. Its in there somewhere... which is the problem.
Then there was getting through security, which took just a few minutes. Though as I was gathering up my things security yelled out for no one to move, and about 4 of them went running off elsewhere. Of course, they didn't do a good job of explaining the situation, and trying to get out a Kleenex is, apparently, not an appropriate action. Still, pretty odd moment. Apparently something with "coins" that I overheard.
Then discovered that the last couple of flights, they've had to not let people board because they couldn't have that much weight on the plane. This time, though, they instead have added a stop over in Hawaii for us to refuel, which will add somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour.
Then a passanger was unfound... no idea what happened there, but I assume thats whose seat I am in now. I was goign to be between the aisle and the window, but on a full plane, I ended up being next to an empty window seat so I moved over and can now have my backpack downhere. Score for that one. Though I could've gone with the aisle seat being mine instead. of all the flights and whatnot I've had, the guy there is the most unfriendly. I haven't even heard him talk, I don't think. So not rude, just most people are a bit more open. He's just been reading. To each his own.
Anyway, due to these delays we're now upt to about an hour and a half late. And compared to Qantas United is a real letdown. Only one screen to watch for the whole section to watch the movie and no comedy audio.
So I'm much of the way now through "The Painted Veil", with Ed Norton and someone else. And a whole mess of Chinese. Basic point, Norton and this woman marry and then go to China and theres cholera. So, the cholera is interesting. Two best moments of the movie, thus far, was me not paying attention to the video bit cuz I was gonna get my meal, and all I hear is "Is it as big as you were expecting it?" right around the whole getting married thing. And then the line "It would be madness" because, well, how can I NOT like any line that makes me think, "It would be SPARTA!" I can't believe that I've gotten all caught up in that one.
Anyway, this movie started off all annoying... Norton being an overly timid character, and the woman being a two-timing whore, and so then Norton's character develops a whole second maniacal character. I think like half his movies do that. And now she's taking off clothes... but thats not the point I'm making right now. So anyway, at that point, I wasn't particularly intrigued, but its subsequently gotten a lot more interesting. Characters have gotten deeper, and I'm also just really interested about what they're gonna do about the cholera. Its supposed to be an emotional movie with all that caring and stuff, and here I am wondering about the cholera. I'm not very good at these movies, am I? Anyway, its back when England still controlled China and the like, so the other interesting element is the Chinese wanting to kill the British. What is also weird is all these Chinese that are, like, student-aged just standing around doing nothing but whining about the government. So that has been going on for a couple hundred years now. And not the cool "hey look at me, i'm in front of a tank", just the same old "imperialist pig" lines. I want to protest a government for not being imperalist ENOUGH.
Ok, this is also now the second movie with Ed Norton that has a whole freaking section of movie about irrigation. How many movies cn one realistically do that have irrigation at all? Its impressive, but like, weird.
Does this count as liveblogging the movie given that I'm not going to be posting it directly like at all?
Oh, and Juicyfruit is now colouring itself all yellow rather than its oldcolour. Totally unneeded and a bit off.
Chinese with cholera totally look like zombies and act like zombies. Ergo, cholera turns the chinese into zombies. We must test this further. Bryan, I'm looking at you. Or at least toward the end of the plane. I'm sure its close enough. Choloric chines mob, run for your lives! I'm pretty sure Ed'll be dead soon. mother Superior is supposed to be head of French nuns... she's totally American. The rest don't even speak english really, but she has not accent. And its now time for the inevitable in this movie, so I'm off with the palm pilot and on with the watching of the movie.
Movie over and a couple of unrelated thoughts... First of all, the map showing how far we've gone only shows one mainland city, Fresno. What the heck. Second it only shows one city thing for Hawaii. And its some weird one. I'm also getting annoyed that the ETA for Hawaii is given in that time zone but they dont' say what time it is now or what time zone Hawaii is. Way to be useful. Also of note... when we left LA we had headwinds of around 90km/hr. Now they're down to about 10. So that should bode well for speeding things up. Lots of time to make up. And now, to give this other movie a go... "Wild Hogs". It doesn't look 'good', but then again, I was surprised by Without a Paddle and surprised by Phone Booth. And now the audio doesn't work either. Goodie.
So I brought it up... They had this problem on the way out as well. Thank you for that one United.
Apparently, it gets better. But we'll see how this goes.
Best lines: "You go out there, you're the sheriff"
"Yeah, of a town of like 500 people. I got my certification off the interent. For arms training they just told us to play Doom."
Well, it is most interesting how the day has progressed from smooth sailing to the realm of what next?
Of course, perhaps the most fun moment of the day was parking in my driveway and watching as the Chupathingie lost much of the coolant of the radiator. nothing big, just an improperly tightened radiator cap, but still not the best of things to watch.
From getting to the airport on, things have just gotten more and more interesting. Firstly I do like that LAX is always so seure. No real baggage checks.
Then was the moment where I realised that I, being the savvy traeler I am, that the converter I need was left in the... in something in my room. Its in there somewhere... which is the problem.
Then there was getting through security, which took just a few minutes. Though as I was gathering up my things security yelled out for no one to move, and about 4 of them went running off elsewhere. Of course, they didn't do a good job of explaining the situation, and trying to get out a Kleenex is, apparently, not an appropriate action. Still, pretty odd moment. Apparently something with "coins" that I overheard.
Then discovered that the last couple of flights, they've had to not let people board because they couldn't have that much weight on the plane. This time, though, they instead have added a stop over in Hawaii for us to refuel, which will add somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour.
Then a passanger was unfound... no idea what happened there, but I assume thats whose seat I am in now. I was goign to be between the aisle and the window, but on a full plane, I ended up being next to an empty window seat so I moved over and can now have my backpack downhere. Score for that one. Though I could've gone with the aisle seat being mine instead. of all the flights and whatnot I've had, the guy there is the most unfriendly. I haven't even heard him talk, I don't think. So not rude, just most people are a bit more open. He's just been reading. To each his own.
Anyway, due to these delays we're now upt to about an hour and a half late. And compared to Qantas United is a real letdown. Only one screen to watch for the whole section to watch the movie and no comedy audio.
So I'm much of the way now through "The Painted Veil", with Ed Norton and someone else. And a whole mess of Chinese. Basic point, Norton and this woman marry and then go to China and theres cholera. So, the cholera is interesting. Two best moments of the movie, thus far, was me not paying attention to the video bit cuz I was gonna get my meal, and all I hear is "Is it as big as you were expecting it?" right around the whole getting married thing. And then the line "It would be madness" because, well, how can I NOT like any line that makes me think, "It would be SPARTA!" I can't believe that I've gotten all caught up in that one.
Anyway, this movie started off all annoying... Norton being an overly timid character, and the woman being a two-timing whore, and so then Norton's character develops a whole second maniacal character. I think like half his movies do that. And now she's taking off clothes... but thats not the point I'm making right now. So anyway, at that point, I wasn't particularly intrigued, but its subsequently gotten a lot more interesting. Characters have gotten deeper, and I'm also just really interested about what they're gonna do about the cholera. Its supposed to be an emotional movie with all that caring and stuff, and here I am wondering about the cholera. I'm not very good at these movies, am I? Anyway, its back when England still controlled China and the like, so the other interesting element is the Chinese wanting to kill the British. What is also weird is all these Chinese that are, like, student-aged just standing around doing nothing but whining about the government. So that has been going on for a couple hundred years now. And not the cool "hey look at me, i'm in front of a tank", just the same old "imperialist pig" lines. I want to protest a government for not being imperalist ENOUGH.
Ok, this is also now the second movie with Ed Norton that has a whole freaking section of movie about irrigation. How many movies cn one realistically do that have irrigation at all? Its impressive, but like, weird.
Does this count as liveblogging the movie given that I'm not going to be posting it directly like at all?
Oh, and Juicyfruit is now colouring itself all yellow rather than its oldcolour. Totally unneeded and a bit off.
Chinese with cholera totally look like zombies and act like zombies. Ergo, cholera turns the chinese into zombies. We must test this further. Bryan, I'm looking at you. Or at least toward the end of the plane. I'm sure its close enough. Choloric chines mob, run for your lives! I'm pretty sure Ed'll be dead soon. mother Superior is supposed to be head of French nuns... she's totally American. The rest don't even speak english really, but she has not accent. And its now time for the inevitable in this movie, so I'm off with the palm pilot and on with the watching of the movie.
Movie over and a couple of unrelated thoughts... First of all, the map showing how far we've gone only shows one mainland city, Fresno. What the heck. Second it only shows one city thing for Hawaii. And its some weird one. I'm also getting annoyed that the ETA for Hawaii is given in that time zone but they dont' say what time it is now or what time zone Hawaii is. Way to be useful. Also of note... when we left LA we had headwinds of around 90km/hr. Now they're down to about 10. So that should bode well for speeding things up. Lots of time to make up. And now, to give this other movie a go... "Wild Hogs". It doesn't look 'good', but then again, I was surprised by Without a Paddle and surprised by Phone Booth. And now the audio doesn't work either. Goodie.
So I brought it up... They had this problem on the way out as well. Thank you for that one United.
Apparently, it gets better. But we'll see how this goes.
Best lines: "You go out there, you're the sheriff"
"Yeah, of a town of like 500 people. I got my certification off the interent. For arms training they just told us to play Doom."
