Movies to watch

ang dami dami ko nang movies na pinapalampas..naiinis ako. gagawa na lang ako ng list para hindi ko sila makalimutan.

1. There will be Blood
2. The Great Debaters
3. Atonement
4. The Godfather - check! I lavet!
5. August Rush
6. Michael Clayton
7. Across the Universe
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

chocolates talks

world's most expensive chocolates
http://www.trifter.com/Practical-Travel/World-Cuisine/The-Five-Most-Expensive-Chocolates-in-the-World-.45474
This is more comprehensive:
http://www.forbes.com/wineandfood/2006/02/07/hershey-expensive-chocolate-cx_sy_0208feat_ls.html

Best chocolate in the world?
http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/the-worlds-best-chocolate

List of all chocolate manufacturers in the world; That is, they process cocoa beans into a product versus melting chocolate for use as coating or molding into truffles, pralines, or other chocolate confectionaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chocolate_manufacturers

Another list of Best Chocolates in the world
http://www.flixya.com/post/videobam/1177/Best_Chocolate_in_the_World

The company that monitors the chocolate market
http://www.chocolatemarketing.com/

Tips on starting a chocolate business
http://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/businessideas/article170546.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_2116801_start-chocolate-business.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_2116801_start-chocolate-business.html
http://www.stylecareer.com/chocolatecandy_shop.shtml

Chocolate trade shows
http://www.candyusa.org/Chocolate/default.asp

Being a Chocolatier

People who know me well know that I love chocolates. This is actually an understatement. I get chills when I see, smell, hear, and eat good chocolate. I even get teary-eyed when I come across a really really really good piece of chocolate. I love chocolates.

Bata pa lang ako, I already know that I love chocolates. I won't drink a bottle of milk if it's not Sustagen...chocolate flavor. This explains the limpak-limpak Sustagen caps I have when I was a kid. For those who lived during the Susy and Geno era, you'll know that when you collect the canister caps, you can solicit those for a coloring book or a box of crayons or a shirt or another can of Sustagen, which for me is the best..haha!

I don't think there's a better flavor of everything than chocolate. Actually, flavors other than chocolate are non-existent. Pag hindi chocolate-flavored, hindi masarap yon.

I don't think there's a day that I missed eating a chocolate. Exaaag! Sige, rephrase. I think I can survive a day without chocolate. Two days, sige, okay pa ko. Pero yung third day, expect that I'll look for anything chocolate.

During cuaresma, I always abstain myself from chocolate. It's my sort of sacrifice. Ay mare believe me, it really is a sacrifice! 40 days na walang chocolate..KAMUSTA NAMAN YON! Pero I (almost) always survive...pero nanginginig na ko sa galit...hehe. The one time that I failed is cuaresma 2006. I was in school and doing my feasibility study when I got hungry. I didn't eat anything since breakfast. So I ran to an aristo-cart (yung mga maliliit na sari-sari store na nakakalat sa UP) and I instinctively bought 2 snack-sized Chips ahoy. I went back to my feasib, eating the chips ahoy away, when I suddenly said to myself "uy, grabe, ang sarap naman nitong kinakain ko. parang ang sarap ng chips ahoy ngayon...CHIPS AHOY?!?!" Naisip ko na lang yon nung nakakain na ko ng 3 cookies. Wala, nasira yung 40 days-chocolate-abstinence ko.

Recently, I have this weird thought of enrolling to this school. I guess I want to be a true-blue chocolatier (chills!). Hey, the idea's not bad...I may want to consider this in the future.

http://www.ecolechocolat.com/