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Indonesian Coffee

2008-02-22T00:17:00.003+07:00

Coffee production in Sumatra began in the 18th century under colonial domination, introduced first to the northern region of Aceh around Lake Tawar Lake. Most coffee is produced around the Lake Toba region, in the subregions of Lintong Nihuta, Sumbul, and Takengon. But Sumatrans are not often sold by region, because presumably the regional differences are not that distinct. Rather, the quality of the picking, preparation and processing of the coffee determines much of the cup character in this coffee. In fact, Sumatras are sold as Mandheling, which is simply the Indonesian ethnic group that is most involved in coffee production in the South Tapanuli region. (see note below).

Indonesians are available as dry, semi-washed and (sometimes) fully-washed coffees. While a fully washed coffee may appear to have less defects, it may be inferior in the cup to a ugly, dry-processed coffee. (A recent Sumatra sample I cupped that was perfect & polished was probably the most flavorless, dull Mandheling I have ever had!) Dry processed, wild coffees will have more body and often more of the character that makes Indonesians so appealing and slightly funky: grading seems to often ignore percentage of weird looking beans.

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history of coffee

2008-02-18T18:06:00.001+07:00

The history and development of the beverage that we know as coffee is varied and interesting, involving chance occurrences, political intrigue, and the pursuit of wealth and power.

According to one story, the effect of coffee beans on behavior was noticed by a sheep herder from Caffa Ethopia named Kaldi as he tended his sheep. He noticed that the sheep became hyperactive after eating the red "cherries" from a certain plant when they changed pastures. He tried a few himself, and was soon as overactive as his herd. The story relates that a monk happened by and scolded him for "partaking of the devil's fruit." However the monks soon discovered that this fruit from the shiny green plant could help them stay awake for their prayers.

Another legend gives us the name for coffee or "mocha." An Arabian was banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation. In desperation, Omar had his friends boil and eat the fruit from an unknown plant. Not only did the broth save the exiles, but their survival was taken as a religious sign by the residents of the nearest town, Mocha. The plant and its beverage were named Mocha to honor this event.

Originally the coffee plant grew naturally in Ethopia, but once transplanted in Arabia was monopolized by them. One early use for coffee would have little appeal today. The Galla tribe from Ethiopia used coffee, but not as a drink. They would wrap the beans in animal fat as their only source of nutrition while on raiding parties. The Turks were the first country to adopt it as a drink, often adding spices such as clove, cinnamon, cardamom and anise to the brew.

Coffee was introduced much later to countries beyond Arabia whose inhabitants believed it to be a delicacy and guarded its secret as if they were top secret military plans. Transportation of the plant out of the Moslem nations was forbidden by the government. The actual spread of coffee was started illegally. One Arab named Baba Budan smuggled beans to some mountains near Mysore, India, and started a farm there. Early in this century, the descendants of those original plants were found still growing fruitfully in the region.

Coffee was believed by some Christians to be the devil's drink. Pope Vincent III heard this and decided to taste it before he banished it. He enjoyed it so much he baptized it, saying "coffee is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it."

Coffee today is grown and enjoyed worldwide, and is one of the few crops that small farmers in third-world countries can profitably export.

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Are you a coffee addict?

2008-02-18T17:55:00.001+07:00

Are you denying the coffee addict in you?

I don't remember what my first tip-off was. Perhaps it was when I chose coffee-flavored hard candies over fruit flavoured candies. Or was it when I downed the mocha chip ice cream instead of my usual mint-chocolate chip? Perhaps it was when I started salivating every time I drove by an unaffordable-on-a-student-budget Starbucks shop. Actually, I must have clued in when I started having headaches if I hadn't had a cup-o-joe by noon.
So, it's true. I am addicted.
I always said that I just drank coffee for the 'warmth' and 'flavor' of it. It was the experience of coffee I said I kept returning too, not the black liquid itself. You know the scene: snuggling into a comfy coffee-shop seat with a large, foaming cup of coffee in hand. It's always over coffee you talk to friends about life, love, philosophy and politics. Sigh. A day in the life of a coffee-lover. Okay, by addicted, I don't mean obsessed. But is enjoying the experience of a cup of coffee obsessed? Nah. There are worse things in life.
But I would argue, for all the students who do not drink coffee, and quite proudly so - you are missing part of the student life. Perhaps I'm not addicted to it, but 'enhanced' by it. Let me explain.
Here are 10 reasons why I enjoy my java that will convert any coffee-hater into a coffee-addict that each one of you actually desires to become. I have numerous arguments to appeal to different kinds of students and individuals out there. (And no, I do not, and have never worked at a coffee shop. This is not some sort of marketing ploy! I write this just for the personal satisfaction of seeing some of the adamant coffee-haters become coffee-lovers out there).
1. To all students: Alcohol makes you silly.
Drugs make you out of it. Both are expensive. But coffee, the cheaper alternative, makes you more aware. Heightened senses means better listening skills in class, more open eyes to see the board, a greater awareness of falling objects, and just general heightened senses.
2. To all students looking for a new university personality and identity:
Out here on the west coast, coffee drinking is an art. Those who drink coffee come across as cultured. Downtown Vancouver you see it all over: unique coffee personalities. I am convinced that these personalities began in university and were perfected with the addition of coffee:
Business and economics students
The business associate coffee drinkers: You see these personalities walking beside the high rise buildings with their newspaper, briefcase, and business attire. If you can't drink coffee after university, how will you ever make it in the business world? Meetings, clients, proposals, and three year plans all have one thing in common: coffee.
Arts students
The artsy coffee drinkers: These are the ones who are connoisseurs. Funky eye-glasses and artistically clashing clothing mark this individual. In theatres at intermission, in parks, and painting outside, they have coffee in their hands to complete their image.
Fashion-conscious-female
The modern woman coffee drinkers: High class fashion, high heeled shoes, faux-fur, and a cup of coffee. You see these women sitting in coffee shops chatting with friends and 'sipping.' They carry coffee in one hand and shopping bags in another while wearing a suit. They are the epitome of 'chic' and are established working women.

coffee review

2008-02-10T22:44:00.000+07:00

		Classic but not Ordinary The thirteen Colombia coffees reviewed in February's cupping (and a half-dozen more rated 90-plus but not reviewed) definitely transcend the reliably good. Rather, they are exceptional variations on classic purity and balance. All are wet-processed or "washed" coffees, with the fruit and pulp removed before the seeds or beans are dried, a procedure that performed correctly emphasizes transparent, bright cup character with aromatic notes that reflect the floral-tinged, sweetly tart cherry character of coffee fruit just after picking. Most come from trees of sturdy, straightforward tasting varieties of arabica: caturra, typica and the hybrid Colombia. Most are very high-grown coffees with dense beans, full mouthfeel and substantial acidity, but acidity rounded and nuanced by natural sweetness from ripe fruit harvested by farmers whose fruit selection approaches the obsessive.


		Micro-Lots and Other Lots Understandably, the highest rated of this month's Colombias are generally the tiny "micro" lots offered by roasting companies that specialize in offering seasonal lots of very small volume and distinctive cup character usually sourced directly from small-holding farmers: Intelligentsia (Chicago), Paradise Roasters (Minnesota), Coffee Klatch (southern California), Counter Culture (North Carolina), Stumptown (Portland, Oregon), PT's (Kansas), Willoughby's (Connecticut).


		Kickapoo's Organic Colombian Earns 95 Points Kickapoo Coffee is a Wisconsin micro-roaster devoted to organic and fair-trade principles and coffees. Their organic Colombian coffee from the Fondo Paez Cooperative is an exceptionally pure and balanced coffee. Sweet-toned, delicately complex aroma: flowers, hints of honey, cedar and tart cherry, perhaps chocolate. In the cup very gently acidy, light in body but buoyant and silky in mouthfeel, and giddily floral- and honey-toned with complicating hints of chocolate, tart coffee fruit and Riesling-like white wine (95 points; $12.95/12 ounces).


		Classic, Intense Paradise Colombian Shares Top Spot This 95-point gem from Paradise Roasters is from a very micro micro-lot, weighing only 350 pounds, selected from the 15-acre farm of Jairo Guiterrez. Intense, balanced aroma: cedar, cherry, flowers, orange. In the cup syrupy body with an almost bouillon-like richness, deeply but quietly acidy, with floral high notes and a wonderfully deep cherry- and cedar-toned chocolate (95 points; $24.95/14 ounces).

Only God Knows Why Lyrics

2007-12-12T20:51:00.000+07:00

by Kid Rock

I've been sittin' here Tryin' to find myself
I get behind myself I need to rewind myself
Lookin' for the payback Listen for the playback
They say that every man bleeds just like me

And I feel like number one Yet I'm last in line
I watch my youngest son And it helps to pass the time
I take too many pills It helps to ease the pain
I made a couple of dollar bills still I feel the same

Everybody knows my name They say it way out loud
A lot of folks fuck with me It's hard to hang out in crowds
I guess that's the price you pay To be some big shot like I am
Out strecthed hands and one night stands Still I can't find love

And when your walls come tumbling down
I will always be around
And when your walls come tumbling down
I will always be around

People don't know bout the things I say and do
They don't understand about the shit that I've been through
It's been so long since I've been home
I've been gone, I've been gone for way too long

Maybe I forgot all the things I've missed
Oh somehow I know there's more to life than this
I said it too many times And I still stand firm
You get what you put in And people get what they deserve

Still I ain't seen mine No I ain't seen mine
I've been giving just ain't been gettin'
I've been walking that there line
So I think I'll keep on walking With my head held high
I'll keep moving on and only God knows why

Only God Only God
Only God knows why
Only God knows....why... why.... why

oh only God knows why

Take me to the river eh
Wont you Take me to the river...hey...heyaah

this is one of my HAVE TO PLAY music in winamp

Coffee Addict

2007-12-05T23:53:00.000+07:00

Coffee and music, a great mix from two old herritage that has made anyone pleasant, and enjoy the situation. A little bit sounds of slow rock music and a cup of coffee, its very nice. But does anyone know, why our mood encreased and its has the effect to behavioral performance. Not only that things, but also when we are driving, and drinking coffee we get more concern ability and improvement of attention. So, if we has a lot of tasks with a stimuli of caffein in a cup of coffee, we get more sustained attention. Its just because a cup of coffee...

Well, caffein will increases self-report alertness and decreases sleepiness. According to the coffee science information centre, (1) When caffeine is consumed in the range of doses found in many foods, thus caffeine increases the processing of new stimuli (2), enhances target detection and response preparation (3) and increases the amount of information processed (4). Such improvements in mental performance are likely to have important implications for the performance of every day tasks. Thus caffeine improved both performance on a driving simulator and during laboratory tests of attention (5). Mental performance declines with age. A cross-sectional study of 890 women and 638 men, mean age 73 years, looked for associations between cognitive function as measured by 12 standardised tests and lifetime or current coffee consumption (6). A higher lifetime coffee consumption in women was significantly associated with better mental performance in six tests. Recently published studies have demonstrated that coffee drinking reduces cognitive decline in both men and women. Van Gelder et al (7) examined whether coffee consumption was associated with 10-year cognitive decline in elderly men.

So, keep drinking coffee and enjoy your music!

STH lyrics

2007-12-03T01:05:00.000+07:00

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it makes me wonder

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it really makes me wonder

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forest will echo with laughter

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
And it makes me wonder

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all is one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
And she's buying the stairway to heaven

source: sing365.com

benefit of coffee

2007-11-30T01:03:00.001+07:00

hello again friends,
howdy, what about your day friends? Still drink a cup of coffee every morning to make your mood positive. Its cool, because that's right and natural, coffee had much benefit for your health.

The antioxidant in Coffee will renew your body cell, when you didnt get average food and drink at the morning, a cup of coffee antioxidant can rescue from free radicals come from oxydation in your body.

In American diet, there are coffee become the number one favourite baverages. In addition, it’s good to know what you can do to get the most out of the antioxidants you consume.
For example, scientists have found that adding milk may block antioxidants’ beneficial effects in tea. But that weakening effect doesn’t happen when you drink coffee with milk2 the antioxidant content stays strong in both regular and decaffeinated coffee.

this information and reference according to coffeescience.org

who is Led Zeppelin? (part 1)

2007-11-27T14:34:00.000+07:00

who is Led Zeppelin? Which song bring it to success in Musical world? what is stairway to heaven? in September 1968 English has the first English Rock Band, they are consisted of Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham.
What kind of music they are exist in? Rock band with old guitars classic, folk featured with Rockabilly, reggae, funk, jazz. the band was sold over 300 million albums worldwide.
the biggest rock band in the world
The success of Led Zeppelin's early years would be dwarfed by this five-year period in which the band would release their best selling albums and ascend to musical success in the 1970s. According to wikipedia.org The band's image also changed as members began to wear elaborate, colourful clothing. If the band's popularity on stage was impressive, so too was its reputation for off-stage wildness and excess. Led Zeppelin began travelling in a private Jet airliner (nicknamed the starship), rented out entire sections of hotels (most notably the Continental Hyatt House in Los Angles, known colloquially as the "Riot House"), and became the subject of many of rock's most famous stories of debauchery. One escapade involved John Bonham riding a motorcycle through a rented floor of the Riot House. The band was known for trashing their hotel suites, and throwing television sets out of the windows. Another example of Led Zeppelin excess was the infamous shark episods, or red snapper incident, which took place at the Edgewater Inn in Seatlle, Washington, on July 28,1969.

Lets Talk About Rock Band

2007-11-23T00:01:00.000+07:00

ROCK its sounds screaming, a woman who listen to this word will frightened, a grand ma will shock because her grandchild runing away and jump and jump again to sing a song, and follow the song that turn on into the music player. But a masculine man will enjoy this music, this music show a courages and spirit in it.
Rock music known and become popular about 1940 and 1950 with his root from rockabilli and rock n roll. Almost people know whose rock star in that time, Elvis Prasley. Rock Which evolved from blues, country music and other influences. According to All Music Guide, "In its purest form, Rock & Roll has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody.

Well, rock music usually enjoyed by people who loves adventure, challenge, and experiment. Listen to the rock music also can gain our adrenaline, because the melody and rhytim which plays on it make adrenaline hormon in our body explode.
So, keep on rockin dude!!

my first post for your pleasure

2007-11-21T22:38:00.000+07:00

hello world,

This blog wanna talk to you, all of you that love to live with enjoy and fun..
Dont regard your busy at your office, confuse with your job, sad about your problem.
We just the same, all of us has many problems.

what else?

Take a cup of coffee, turn on your music player and heaven will come to you!

We will tell you how to make your life better with a cup of coffee and some pleasure of music, slow rock...yeah its all about that dude!

viva slow rock....keep on rockin...