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Kx:
Thats rather surprising.
Do one really need to boil water for 2 solid hours for lumpy egusi?

Lol. You're not boiling the egunsi; you're just covering it for two hours. Like when you want to prepare bush meat or chicken and you cover it with herbs and salt and spices and let it marinate for hours BEFORE cooking. You let the thick egunsi marinate in salt for two hours, and then add bit by bit to the boiling condiments with a teaspoon.

ankeade:
Hello Mad Max,Please, can U tell me how to cook egunsi soup.
The type one can use to eat eba.Thanks luv.

Is there one type of egunsi you can't eat eba with? There are different kinds of egunsi seeds and different ways of making them, different local ingredients, and different foreign spices that enhance the taste of each. You can be as creative as you want. I've made goat-meat pepper soup egusi and everyone loved it. There's no 'fixed' or best way of making it.

Lol we were discussing the 2010 forthcoming Avatar Last Airbender here and yabbing the copycat title, and the thing winch me enter here.

AVATAR

There are no words.
An avatar is a human mind in an alien body. Couple that thought with humans on a planet full of incredibly exotic alien inhabitants, the interesting possibilities for psychological tension, and you begin to get exactly what James Cameron has pulled off here. He has transmuted 3D, which I detest, into high art and me into a convert.
I won't give anything away. Like District 9 this movie is best seen 'blind', without a hint of what it's about. Suffice to say it is genre-defining, extremely inventive, mesmerising in places and unexpectedly touching. What a marvelous, amazing, spellbinding piece of film-making this is.
Cameron has outdone himself. Fantastic.

Law-Abiding Citizen
Gerard Butler. Jamix Foxx.
A man's family is murdered. After killing the culprits he goes on a senseless spree of innocent-people murder. A silly propagandist movie that pretends to examine the 'failings' of the American justice system but is only really interested in an orgy of killing and maiming. Bad acting from the two unsympathetic leads and a stupid plot full of holes big enough for an elephant to run through. This is the worst movie I've seen this year. If there's a license to make movies, it shouldn't be granted to the congenitally moronic.

Maybe. But Chiweltel Ejiofor's not a newbie any longer, having featured in megahits or oscar-nominated movies like Amistad,
The Inside Man, Love Actually, Children of Men and others.

I'm afraid it did nothing for me. The places where Cusack and his family narrowly escaped one calamity after another, screaming and making comical faces, annoyed me. Accoding to the plot those are 'real' people dying by the millions down there. What entitled them to
escape? The plot is far-fetched, with very little actual science, and they seemed more interested in condemning the world to doom than in creating characters with depth we can care about and a story that resonates. It was all about implausible 'tear-jerking' scenarios that has no bearing with reality. The only place I was touched was where the Indian scientist's family perished. I liked them and would have liked to know them better, but they're doom fodder. It's just another so-so disaster movie. There are much better movies. Hint: Inglorious Basterds. But it was good to see actors I liked in one place, Ejiofor,Cusack,Thandie newton.

What happened to Tiger Woods?
Watching 2012.

So know what you mean about that ugly synthetic smell you find in some products. Can't stand it. When I first opened Philosophy Hope in a Jar I GAGGED. Stuff smells horrible, like something died in the bottle. But it's the best moisturiser for my skin yet; I stopped using it some weeks ago and there was a difference. Since diet, fruit and water intake and sun exposure determine skin beauty it's hard to put it all on a particular cosmetic to do wonders, but Philosophy's simply great. I can't do without so I just got used to the smell.

Violent Agbero lol Why haven't JS seen Inglorious Basterds? Never mind Pitt's atrocious accent, you'll admire Christoph Waltz's performance, and the movie is good, QT fashion

Inglorious Basterds

Banom!
Fantastic!
We all hear so much about how much God loves us it's become a cliche and lost meaning in any real or practical sense. I pray the love of God becomes astonishingly real in your life Banom. Keep seeking and thirsting and questing for Him. Don't accept any religious chains from anyone who poses as 'super-spiritual' or esoteric 'knowledge' from those who think the truth is gifted to a few intellectual 'elites' and they are it. A lot of religious activities in Christianity are just man-made traditions to keep people in absurd bondage. There's only one Truth, and Christ is it.

Iranoladun:
So Mad-Max which product do one use as a cheap alternative to meladerm for hyperpigmentation?

I think some products for hyperpigmentation have been reviewed in previous pages. Nadinola is effective for quick short-term use, get rid of the pigmented area and stop. If it's on the face, Makari Caviar Face-lightening cream does wonders. Obagi products work too, but given that they're touting hydroquinone, too dressed up and pricey jere.

Anyone with hair problems? Let's hear about it. If you're not conditioning your hair with Morroccan oil you should def consider it. It softens hair, and smells delicious. You don't want hair that smells like hair or chemicals, do yer? So.

METAL GEAR SOLID: THE PHILOSOPHY

I saw this movie while shopping.
First of all, to the producers and director and actors and set designers and everyone who worked hard to make this movie a reality:
Thunder fire you!

I know Hideo Kojima had nothing to do with this mess.MGS movie doesn't come out till 2011.

JeSoul:
Max, Max, Max, oh sister where art thou? I hope all is well

Lol. How're you doing hon?The day shrunk from 24 to 10 hours. There simply isn't enough of it, been that busy.

Good job, ladies.

desireoge:
Please where can I buy Meladerm in Lagos?

Girl don't use Meladerm. It's too pricey and takes ages to work. You might have to use as many as six bottles to BEGIN to see it do anything and at almost $50 a pop, that's a lot to shell out. Although this seems to vary according to skin. What do you need Meladerm for? If it's hyperpigmentation, there are products that work better for a fraction of the price. It depends on your skin type,

If tons of women throw themselves at him he’s conceited and vain by now, and probably treats them as objects and genuinely respects few of them. You don’t even know the guy, you have a crush on him cos he’s sexy.I’m sure there are great guys in school who don’t look as hot as he does but have hearts of gold. But if you’re hell bent on this one, then, Look good always, that’s what guys notice first.

But DO NOT TRY TO ATTRACT HIS ATTENTION. Act completely unimpressed by him, dispense cool hellos if he talks to you, and ignore his existence as much as you can. He’ll notice that. He’ll be intrigued, and he’ll want a conquest from you. It’s all that ignoring him you’ve been doing, and his ego. It’ll be hard but don’t sleep with him. Just be friends. That's the only way to earn his respect. IF you get to know him better and he’s a good guy and worthy of you, THEN consider dating him. But give him a hard time of it. Why? Cos you can.

DISTRICT 9.
A masterpiece.

Oh everyone watches House. They're shooting season 2 of the Mentalist now.

OK. I've done some reading. Their system was hacked into and emails leaked, and many are of the opinion these emails were edited by the hackers before being published online, to give it substance. But there's nothing incriminating about the emails except for one where a scientist used the word 'trick' and it's proves and disproves nothing. Would anyone be so dumb as to leave evidence of a fraud in an email? What's the fraud they perpetrated exactly? I'm willing to look at the evidence sweetie, but you have to provide it first. Do you realise you haven't given any hard evidence that Global Warming is a myth? Gimme facts and figures and I'll sit up.

I don't watch the news. Most of it is so bad and there's nothing you can do and nothing to gain by knowing. I'll check out this latest 'fraud' though.

true face:
i've always had a thing for guys with locks over their foreheads. there's a lot of them in that category though. di caprio, tom cruise, keanu reeves, bla bla bla.

Seems to be a hit haircut with serial killers too.

Pressing on towards the finish line:

Penelope Cruz is the talented multiple-award winning Spanish actress you know from Revolver, Vicki Cristina Barcelona, Vanilla Sky and more. The 35 year old won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award this year for her portrayal of the tempestuous, slightly unhinged genius painter and partner in a relationship Triad where three is company and two is a crowd, in Vicki Cristina Barcelona.

Penelope is in a relationship with Javiar Bardem, who portrayed new villain on the block Anton Chigurrh with stunning success in No Country for Old Men. They made their engagement public last month, and it seems the couple's expecting their first child.

FANAA:
Aamir Khan. Kajol. Rishi Kapoor.
A blind girl from an upper class family (Kajol) goes travelling and 'sight-seeing' with her friends and aunt as chaperone. She meets a charming, rouguish tourist guide (Aamir Khan) and they become friends, then lovers. But there's more to Khan than meets the eye in this tale of international intrigue and terrorism, and love versus,well, other things life's made up of. Kajol is India's finest actress, so young and so talented, Aamir Khan its most ambitious filmmaker.Curly-headed dish too. This was Kajol's comeback after a five-year hiatus from acting, having married actor Ajay Defgan and given birth to a daughter. Not bad at all, but I sort of expected more from Khan, who's issued some of Bollywood's greatest modern classics like Raja Hindustani and Rang De Basanti and Lagaan.

Does it make sense? Sure. In every single NDE the person's memories, which are in ther brain, survives biological death and is complete in the spirit. The spirit knows everything the brain does, it seems. Do you have thoughts on those pages about Jesus and City of Light, and Edgar Cayce's explanation for what happened since the beginning of time, under Earth. There have been millions of these experiences and they don't conform to traditional ideas of the afterlife. There is a growing consensus that, depending on our own deeply-held beliefs, we create the initial stages of the experience, and make it conform to what we believe while on earth. Getting at the truth of all this will take a while, but it's going to be fun.

@Spikie
No be something summon you wey you appear naw-naw?
I'm going to watch a Bollywood movie on DVD. I've missed the inane dialogue and overacting and hyperdrama and mediocre plotting that's their standard. But two people I'm crazy about are in it, so it'll be digestible. It's called FANAA. Aamir Khan and kajol starring.

The speculations of bored people with too much time on their hands lol!!!! Chei.
If our will is located in our spirit, damage to the brain shouldn't affect it, but it does. A certain type of brain damage, I'll look for the book and post the name. is symptomised by an inability to distinguish right from wrong. The patients steal, lie,etc. Stuff they didn't do before. It makes free will not so simple. If they're impaired that way, how free is their will then.

As for the Buddhist woman, she isn't cuckoo at all. She's a Something Lama, an incredibly high position in Buddhism. She's a brilliant academic scholar, European and I was interested in seeing Tibetan mysticism through those lenses. She knows her stuff, the book is fascinating. But,well, that thing she conjured. I dare say she didn't create it like she believed. She summoned it from its own spiritual dimension. It was the mocking eyes and malignant gaze that intimated it was playing a role for her benefit. I thought it likely she'd summoned an unclean spirit. If she'd really created it from nothing it should do her bidding and be gone when she bid it go. Instead it took her three months to drive it back and it fought her all the way.

Oh dear. I have to finish what I started.

My husband thinks it's a mixture of truth and sly deception. It's fascinating because it feeds our need to know the answer to one of the greatest riddles on earth: What happens when we die? The Bible says little about it. Buddhism says a lot. I have, in fact, been reading Buddhist texts and am ordering the Tibetan Book of the Dead from amazon. If I want to know what the vault of a bank looks like the burglar who robbed it might be able to tell me. I might not like his methods, being of different beliefs, but I'd learn something. I was most amused at the 'There is no Satan' and 'no evil' teaching on the site. There is only human 'error'. I've been wondering about free will though, and what it is exactly. We used to think our sense of good and evil resided in the spirit, but perhaps everything's in the brain. People who suffer brain damage suffer personality changes. Some lose the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Some were born with their brains missing one thing or the other, empathy, knowing good from evil, compassion. Many of those are pyschopaths.

I read the book of an advanced Buddhist mystic, Elizabeth David Neel. Magic and Mystery in Tibet. It was written in the 30s. She was a French scholar. I was most struck by the page where she did a thought experiment. She wanted to summon something from her mind and translate it into physical reality. She decided on the stereotypical Jolly Fat Monk. It took her six months of concentrated thought. And then, there he was. Fat, happy, round-cheeked. Not only was it physically present but others could see him., not just herself. It travelled with them, and appeared to have a will of its own. She sincerely believed she'd created this. I thought, anything's possible. Our thoughts do interact with unseen dimensions. And then there was a passage where she says the creature's face lost its fat and became lean, not of her doing, and that its eyes when it looked at her were mocking and faintly malignant. So much deception, in almost every religion. And our human tendency to deceive ourselves don't help none either. I was fascinated to read about Christ in Tibetan literature. Why does every major religion feel compelled to recognise him? He's practically the only spiritual head of a religion that gets this treatment. I like it.

My weekend was fabulous. How was yours?

You're worried at 26 you aren't married? Maybe it's a legitimate worry,but don't let that rob you of the joy of being single. You'll be married longer than you'll be single, and there are stuff you can do now, a freedom you have that won't be available once you're married and have kids. You're in medical school and it's time consuming and there may not be much time to date and meet guys. But relax and don't turn getting married into an obssession. You're almost certain to make costly mistakes and be used that way. Live your own life. Be a happy single, go out, make the most of your time and your life. The right guy will come along, have no fear. Everything, including marriage, has to do with the choices we make, and who those choices bring into our lives.

Enough so you don't need to salt the soup. All its salt comes from the egusi.

Dexter, Mad Men, House and The Mentalist are good too. But this is a firm favourite. And it all ends next year.

Egusi is prepared in various ways. To get the lumps, have meat stock ready. Add a little to the dry-grounded egusi and mash into a ball. Start adding it bit and bit (in the lump sizes you want) to the sizzling condiments already cooking.

For wet-ground egusi, make sure it's not loose but ground thickly together, with little water. Add salt and cover for two hours. Use a teaspoon to add it to the soup (peppermix, oil,spices,herbs,meat stock,etc already sizzling). You'll have lumps.

I don't know what party jollof rice is. There's just jollof rice, and you're allowed to be creative in making it,as with most dishes.

Lol at two reasons.
Where is JK to come explain about Manchester United na? I asked what was special about them, there has to be a reason he picked that one, and he vanished.

JS, if you can, check out this website. http://www.near-death.com/
What do you think about the pages 'Jesus', 'Earth' and 'City of Light' under NDE Research Conclusions. The names I saw there instantly made me wary (Kenneth Ring, Elizabeth Kubler Ros, etc) but some of those pages were interesting.

JeSoul:
Oyb and Rev Jeremiah Wright!

Lol he's saying there are people with pet theories worse than the global warming thingie.

JeSoul:
She likes the golf, watches the golf and plays the golf.

That is so cool. When I played it as a console game it really was interesting. Different irons shoot the ball different distances; a lot of calculation goes into each shot. Never tempted to take it up for real or watch. Who won? Tiger Woods. Okay.

Lol not at all. I enjoy your arguments. I was signed in but not here, actually. Just got a little breather now. No2, I'll just say, there's no other planet like earth discovered yet in our Solar system. The chemical properties of air and soil etc vary, sometimes staggeringly, from planet to planet. We're at different distances from the sun. Different things chemically interact in different ways on different planets. There are moons (little worlds that are satelites to other planets like the Moon is ours) where the ozone layer is depleted to an extreme, and one gets a glimpse of what happens in that instance and it's not pretty. I'm not sure that when the temperatures rises on, say, Venus, (like it could get any hotter there!) and the temperature rises on earth, that the same thing has happened or the same factors are responsible. I was under the impression that the ozone layer is being depleted because of toxic chemicals and wastes from mostly industrialised countries wreaking havoc on the ozone layer. Those planets with ozone layer depletion may have taken millions of  years to reach that state naturally, but I thought these industries and guilty countries were creating toxic accelerants that might get us there much faster. The earth itself gives off heat. If the ozone layer is depleted the earth's temperatures will rise won't it? Are you saying there's nothing man-made that interferes with the earth's atmosphere, altering its chemical properties,slowly accelerating ozone layer depletion? It's all natural?

JeSoul:
Kai!    this one na geography/geology class oh . . . Max is this more than you bargained for?

I'd like to hear more actually. What? De Senora, she likes the golf?

oyb:
u ain't heard nothing yet.aids is an invention of the devilish white men to put black men down for starters 

Lol Who on earth could actually say that with a straight face? Lol

Global warming is a myth? Climate change is 'natural'? Uninhabited planets experience these changes? Nothings human do or are capable of doing is interacting with and slowly accelerating the process? It would be good to know more. I was alerted to these stuff by Carl Sagan, astronomer and scientist extraordinaire. And other scientists I respect. Are you saying there's a conspiracy by scientists to blame people for climate change, when they're innocent? No emissions from industrialised countries are boring into the ozone layer? Tell me more.