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Different Countries, Similar Dishes 🥘
Filipino Adobo, Malaysian Ayam Masak Kicap, Vietnamese Thịt Kho, and Thai Pa-lo are interconnected Southeast Asian comfort dishes shaped by centuries of trade and cultural exchange.
Adobo traces its roots to pre-colonial Filipino vinegar preservation methods, later reinforced by Spanish-era naming and soy sauce introduced through Chinese trade.
Ayam Masak Kicap reflects the influence of Chinese migrants in the Malay world, where soy sauce was adapted into local Malay cooking with a sweeter, more aromatic balance.
Thịt Kho evolved from southern Vietnamese home cooking, strongly influenced by Chinese braising techniques combined with indigenous fish sauce and caramelisation.
Pa-lo is directly descended from Chinese (Teochew/Hokkien) braised dishes brought to Thailand, incorporating five-spice and soy sauce into Thai cuisine.
Despite their different origins, all four dishes share a common heritage of slow braising, preservation, and flavour depth shaped by regional history and cross-cultural interaction.
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Different Countries, Similar Dishes 🥘
Filipino Adobo, Malaysian Ayam Masak Kicap, Vietnamese Thịt Kho, and Thai Pa-lo are interconnected Southeast Asian comfort dishes shaped by centuries of trade and cultural exchange.
Adobo traces its roots to pre-colonial Filipino vinegar preservation methods, later reinforced by Spanish-era naming and soy sauce introduced through Chinese trade.
Ayam Masak Kicap reflects the influence of Chinese migrants in the Malay world, where soy sauce was adapted into local Malay cooking with a sweeter, more aromatic balance.
Thịt Kho evolved from southern Vietnamese home cooking, strongly influenced by Chinese braising techniques combined with indigenous fish sauce and caramelisation.
Pa-lo is directly descended from Chinese (Teochew/Hokkien) braised dishes brought to Thailand, incorporating five-spice and soy sauce into Thai cuisine.
Despite their different origins, all four dishes share a common heritage of slow braising, preservation, and flavour depth shaped by regional history and cross-cultural interaction.
credit to : Kai Callaghan
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This week in 1980, the AC/DC LP “Back in Black” peaked on the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart at #4 (December 20)
Brian Johnson’s first record with the band after the passing away of Bon Scott was massive.
According to Angus Young, the album's all-black cover was a "sign of mourning" for Scott.
Atlantic Records disagreed with the cover, but accepted if the band put a grey outline around the AC/DC logo.
The issue of whether Bon Scott's lyrics were used, uncredited, on the album has continued to bubble away, and was a major focus of Jesse Fink's biography of Scott, Bon: The Last Highway.
In the book, Scott's girlfriend Margaret "Silver" Smith (died 2006) told Fink that Scott called her on the evening before his death to invite her out to celebrate writing lyrics for “Back in Black”.
In a 1991 interview with Kerrang! magazine, Angus was asked by journalist Paul Elliott, "Who wrote the lyrics on [‘Given The Dog A Bone’] and the others on Back in Black? Bon, or Brian, or both?", and he replied, "Bon wrote a little of the stuff.”
He also said in Rolling Stone in 1998:
“We had songs that he had written and we wanted to finish the songs."
However, in other interviews in 1981, 1996, 1998 and 2000, Young denied that any lyrics on the album were written by Bon Scott, and in 2005, he said, "There was nothing [on Back in Black] from Bon's notebook."
In his 2022 autobiography The Lives of Brian, Brian Johnson says:
“The conspiracy theories are legion – usually started by people who think they know but weren't there... it was me at the end of the pen, writing every night and every morning, with only the title to work with. That's what happened. That's the truth and I really hope that settles it."
Well, I’m not too sure…..what do you think?
Over time “Back in Black” has sold an estimated 50 million copies worldwide, and is the second best-selling album in music history.
It’s success was immediate, debuting at #1 on the UK Albums Chart and reaching #4 on the US Billboard 200, which Rolling Stone called "an exceptional showing for a heavy-metal album".
Hmmm…..heavy metal?….don’t think so!
It topped the UK chart for two weeks and remained in the Top 10 of the Billboard chart in the US for more than five months.
In Australia, it reached #2 on the ARIA Charts.
The first single from the album, “You Shook Me All Night Long" became AC/DC's first Top 40 hit in the US, peaking at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100.
After “Back in Black” was released, AC/DC's previous LPs “Highway to Hell”, “If You Want Blood You've Got It”, and “Let There Be Rock” all re-entered the British charts, which made them the first band since The Beatles to have four albums in the UK Albums Chart simultaneously.
In 2020, “Back in Black” was ranked #84 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", and in 2006 “Back in Black” was included by “Time” magazine in its list of the “100 Greatest Albums of All Time”.
In December 2021, the album was listed at #1 in Rolling Stone Australia's "200 Greatest Albums of All Time" countdown.
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Happy Winter Solstice 🌞
Stone circles are scattered all across England, and while their exact purpose is unknown, they likely held ritual significance.
Some may be linked to burials, while others may have tracked seasonal changes, marking events such as the midsummer sunrise or midwinter sunset.
Stonehenge in particular has captured people’s imaginations for centuries as one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments.
Along with the other Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in the surrounding landscape, the site offers an incredible glimpse into the lives and beliefs of prehistoric people.
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Henri Bergson.
"For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
"Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War.
Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.
He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented".
In 1930 France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.
Bergson's great popularity created a controversy in France where his views were seen as opposing the secular and scientific attitude adopted by the Republic's officials..."
Creative Evolution (1907)
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The 2007 Devaux MK III Coupe is a rare, hand-built Australian luxury grand tourer designed by David J. Clash.
Inspired by 1930s French Art Deco style (like Bugatti & Alfa Romeo), featuring a GM LS1 V8 engine, steel chassis, fiberglass body,
The Doors of Perception (1954) and its sequel, Heaven and Hell (1956), are landmark works of non-fiction by Aldous Huxley. They are not novels, but rather profound philosophical essays that chronicle and analyze his experiments with the psychedelic drug mescaline, and in doing so, launch a sweeping inquiry into the nature of the human mind, art, religion, and consciousness itself.
Huxley’s core argument is that the human brain and nervous system function primarily as a "reducing valve" or a biological filter. This filter screens out the overwhelming totality of raw perception, memory, and consciousness to allow us to survive and function in the everyday world by focusing on utilitarian, conceptual information. Psychoactive substances like mescaline, he posits, inhibit this filtering function. This opens what he famously called "the doors of perception" (a phrase borrowed from William Blake), allowing the individual to experience a flood of unmediated reality—what mystics and artists have accessed through other means throughout history.
The Doors of Perception is the account of Huxley’s first mescaline experience on a May afternoon in 1953. The narrative focuses on the qualitative shift in sensory and cognitive experience. He describes gazing at ordinary objects like a vase of flowers or garden furniture as possessing unimaginable beauty, significance, and "is-ness" (what he later termed "suchness" or Istigkeit). The world was stripped of its utilitarian meaning and revealed in its pure, divine presence. He reports a loss of ego and personal preoccupation, experiencing a direct, non-dual connection to his surroundings. He analyzes the visual arts, arguing that painters like Van Gogh and Cézanne succeeded in bypassing the reducing valve to convey this intense, un-filtered perception. He theorizes that what we call "mind" is only a small fraction of a potentially infinite "Mind at Large," and that psychedelics grant temporary access to this greater consciousness.
The sequel, Heaven and Hell, expands the analysis into a broader philosophical and cultural framework. It distinguishes between the "Heaven" of radiant, beautiful, blissful visions and the "Hell" of terrifying, grotesque, or pathological visions. Huxley argues that the same physiological and psychological mechanisms can produce both, depending on set, setting, and the individual's subconscious. He explores how artists and mystics throughout history have accessed these realms not only through drugs, but also via "the antipodes of the mind"—through fasting, sensory deprivation, chanting, and intense physiological stress. He connects the jeweled visions of saints to the patterns in Buddhist mandalas and Gothic stained glass. A major theme is the human experience of "preternatural light" and "preternatural significance" as the hallmarks of the visionary world, linking this to our deep biological and symbolic responses to light and color.
The books are a practical application of Huxley's interest in the Perennial Philosophy—the idea that a common, mystical core of wisdom underpins all major world religions, accessible through direct experience. They are a powerful critique of Western materialism and reductionism, arguing for a richer understanding of consciousness. Furthermore, they provided the intellectual and philosophical blueprint for the 1960s psychedelic movement; the title directly inspired the name of the rock band The Doors. In summary, these twin essays are rigorous, erudite attempts to map the geography of human consciousness, arguing that what we consider "reality" is only a narrow slice of what the mind is capable of perceiving. Huxley positions psychedelics as one key among many that can unlock the doors to the vast, awe-inspiring, and sometimes terrifying realms of Heaven and Hell that lie within.
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