Let’s make Christmas cake!!!

Now, Christmas is coming soon in one month. There are multi-colored pretty lights dangling big tree and couples will walk arm-in-arm down the street.

On such a nice day, I’m wondering if we should try a gift to family or lovers. Gift is to make a pretty cake for them. Therefore I will introduce you about the Christmas cake to make at home. There are many kinds of cake such as sweet potato cake, chocolate cake. Among these by far the greatest is strawberry cream cake.

From now on, let’s learn how to make strawberry cream cake.

First, Cake sheet

First, ingredients of cake sheet are flour (Soft flour) 70 g, three eggs, sugar 60 g, butter 20 g, 18 cm round cake mold, hand mixer and parchment paper.

In advance Eggs are removed from refrigerator an hour ago at room temperature.
Melt the butter and sift flour. Add the eggs and sugar on the bowl and whisk the cream.
When whipped cream become ivory color and firm, add sifted flour and mix evenly with melted butter.
Make a sheet with parchment paper in the 18cm circular frame and then pour the batter.
Dab three times up and down and preheat oven to 170℃ and then bake for 25 minutes.
Cool completely cake sheet and cut a top of cake flatways, and cut horizontally in half again.

Second, Toppings

Second, ingredients of toppings are strawberries 500 g, cream 300 cc and 2 tablespoons sugar. Ingredients of syrup are water 60 cc and 2 tablespoons sugar.

Whisk the cream firmly with sugar, cut the white part of strawberries and cut in half lengthwise. Boil syrup with water and sugar and cool it.
Apply syrup moistly to two sides of cake sheet that we already cut.
Put the bottom of sheet cake on plate and brush top with whipped cream.
Put a round cake mold and put strawberries around the dish so that you see cross section of the strawberries.
Fill the middle part with whipped cream and remaining strawberries.
Lastly fill it with cream to the top and place cake sheet over cream.
When It held its shape in refrigerator, remove a cake mold, spread evenly on top with whipping cream and decorate with strawberry and herbs.
It is complete!!!

With the year coming to an end, make a cake and other tasty dishes. 🙂

Langston Hughes(1902~1967) ‘I Dream a World’ : Of such I dream, My World!!!

Langston Hughes(1902~1967) ‘I Dream a World’

I dream a world where man

No other man will scorn,

Where love will bless the earth

And peace its paths adorn

I dream a world where all

Will know sweet freedom’s way,

Where greed no longer saps the soul

Nor avarice blights our day.

A world I dream where black or white,

Whatever race you be,

Will share the bounties of the earth

And every man is free,

Where wretchedness will hang its head

And joy, like a pearl,

Attends the needs of all mankind

Of such I dream, my world!

What does ‘Peace’ mean to you? Look for your answer

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Bohemian–Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)

Have a good day 🙂

Candlelight Vigil in Korea : “A country belongs to the people”

Now in Korea candlelight protests were steadily being held. We can see many people. There were mothers dragging a stroller, families coming hand in hand, middle and high school students and Elder people who come with friends. It is strange enough to not come. You can tell how much hot the atmosphere is, is it right?

How many are there?

1,000,000 in Gwanghwamun Gate.

Really a large number of people gathered. But I don’t know well about politics. I want to emphasize the meaning in that many people gathered.

Mature Sense of Citizenship

But Candlelight Vigil is peaceful. Violent demonstration can occur but mature sense of citizenship stop it. There are citizens who pick up some trash and who cry out to protect police line.

High Level of Rally Culture

Before the violence, they satirizes society. The whole town is in festive mood. Many musicians came out and performed together. Celebrities are making comments as well. Every kind of parody also are constantly made. Now new culture is being made. I’m looking forward to the future. 🙂

Sovereignty rests with the People of the Republic of Korea.

All Power comes from the People.

– Article 1, Paragraph 2 of the Republic of Korea Constitution.

Today is College Scholastic Ability Test day : the land of the morning calm

Today is College Scholastic Ability Test day

Korea is called ‘the land of the morning calm’. Korea is so silent in this morning. Why? Today is the Doomsday that determines the fate of 600,000 people.

12 years will be determined by a single day. Or maybe most of their life is determined by the day. They comfort each other in saying “That is not everything”.

It is a very important day for Koreans.

The police are taking a friend who are late. And all who see him are clapping loudly.

In front of test sites, Every Junior come out and They are cheering passionately.

When you see it, It’s a little bit funny.

Mothers always have a hard time.

I’m sorry even to comfort them. The students study too hard and Mothers are too dedicated. I just hope they will be a nice newcomer. 🙂

Do you have any words for this friends?

I’ll be expecting you.

Jimmy Carter’s Carter Center : The Forefront Of Peace

Do you know ‘Carter Center’?

Carter? Didn’t you hear a lot? Yes. It is ‘Jimmy Carter’.

Jimmy Carter

He is famous in Korea because he negotiated with North Korea to stop war. He is the first man who visited to North Korea.

After his retirement, Jimmy Carter’s movements is assessed at the greatest among former presidents.

At the center of that movements, there was ‘Carter Center’.

Carter Center

‘Carter Center’ did a significant contribution to the human rights as well as rearranging of international disputes. It made him win the Nobel Peace Prize 2002.

In the early years of the Carter Foundation, Carter established some important management principles as follows.

The Center emphasizes action and measurable results. Based on careful research and analysis, it is prepared to take timely action on important and pressing issues.

The Center seeks to break new ground and not duplicate the effective efforts of others.

The Center addresses difficult problems in difficult situations and recognizes the possibility of failure as an acceptable risk.

The Center is nonpartisan, actively seeks complementary partnerships and works collaboratively with other organizations from the highest levels of government to local communities.

The Center believes that people can improve their own lives when provided with the necessary skills, knowledge, and access to resources.

This video is in Carter Center homepage. I’m in the mood to cry.

I am laughing in here but still many people are unhappy. Carter, expand human rights diplomacy. He thought ‘human is important’.

Just how important the leader is!!!

His thoughts and values is really really important.

Korea is messed up. I’m sad when I think my homeland.

“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. – Jimmy Carter”

Médecins Sans Frontières : Is there any border in the life?

Médecins Sans Frontières(doctors without borders)

MSF(doctors without borders) Principle has three points.

Medical Ethics

Independence

Impartiality and Neutrality

Doctors without borders has many campaigns.

Why don’t you give your gift to them?

What I want to try is to open the event for them. It can move their hearts. It can heel their broken heart. It can make money.

“You will experience whatever you can imagine”

I will make everyone astonishing. I never don’t want an ordinary things. 🙂

John Denver ‘The Peace Poem Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream’

John Denver

He is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, activist, actor, and humanitarian. He had attributed to the popularization of country pop and folk music in the 1970s, and also assessed that he lead the environmental movement.

His famous songs are “Take Me Home, Country Roads“, “Annie’s Song“, “Rocky Mountain High“, “Thank God I’m a Country Boy“, and “Sunshine on My Shoulders“.

“Country roads take me home~~~ To the place I belong~~~” That lyrics still stuck in my head.

But That song is not one that I’d like to introduce.

What does ‘PEACE’ mean to you? It is really important.

This song maybe get you the answer.

John Denver ‘The Peace Poem Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream’

There’s a name for war and killing
there’s a name for giving in
when you know another answer
for me the name is sin
but there’s still time to turn around
and make all hatred cease
and give another name to living
and we could call it peace

And peace would be the road we walk
each step along the way
and peace would be the way we work
and peace the way we play

And in all we see that’s different
and in all the things we know
peace would be the way we look
and peace the way we grow

There’s a name for separation
there’s a name for first and last
when it’s all for us or nothing
for me the name is past
but there’s still time to turn around
and make all hatred cease
and give a name to all the future
and we could call it peace

And if peace is what we pray for
and peace is what we give
then peace will be the way we are
and peace the way we live

Yes there still is the time to turn around
and make all hatred cease
and give another name to living
and we can call it peace

It could be too abstract. Someone say it is too idealistic.

This is an imagination. But How would you see this in real life?

And if you could really good, right? Everyone must say ‘I wish I could do that’.

HWPL is really achieving it. They do now ‘Legislate Peace Campaign‘. Already International law is declared in 2016-3-14. Now tabling it to the United Nations remained.

It is Big Picture. This Card Section show all from start to finish. Imagine.

It is really like lyrics. PEACE can be achieved.

Be Good every day. 🙂

Nice to meet you. See you again. 🙂

World Series game between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs : Twitter, setting new record.

World Series game between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs tweets a total of 18 million as media CNET.

In particular, The number of Twitter messages on a Game 7 reached 15 million cases.

Not only twitter, Facebook also said that 33 million people upload stories about World Series. Also the number of interaction for posting on the World Series reached 150 million cases.

This World Series attract attention by fight of two teams who didn’t win the longest period of time in the history of America.

Shortly after Cubs win was confirmed, U.S. President Obama tweets a congratulatory message.

President Obama

It happened: @Cubs win World Series. That’s change even this South Sider can believe in. Want to come to the White House before I leave?

It’s fun 🙂

50 millions Poverty : This is Because of Our Conflict.

5 Thousands Poverty : This is Because of Our Conflict.

October 17 is ‘International Day for the Eradication of Poverty’ that is established in order to urge the international community’s attention.

We celebrated it for 24 years, but what would have changed?

Still, global poverty population is more than 700 million.

Although Technological advances and economic growth is high, Poverty is still in the world.

What is Poverty?

People who live on less than 1.9 dollar a day.

Disputes is the main cause

It is reported that a variety of ‘dispute’ caused it.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and The World Food Program(WFP) submit ‘dispute’ as the main cause of poverty.

Far more dangerous is the vicious cycle of ‘conflict – poverty – conflict’ .

“It’s high time to fight for peace.”

– Antonio Guterres(the former Socialist Prime Minister of Portugal)

Where is the love? ‘Black Eyed Peas’

Where is the love? The Black Eyed Peas

A song made group a star. This group is in danger of going out of business.

This song is a The Black Eyed Peas’s 2003 hit song ‘Where is the Love’

This song is remade in 2016.

Why?

Group Leader Will.i.am remake the song because he feel again a sense of crisis that happen around the world. Racism, terrorism and war is everywhere.

“Where Is The Love?”

What’s wrong with the world, mama
People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that’ll bring you traumaOverseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin’
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK

But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you’re bound to get irate, yeah

Madness is what you demonstrate
And that’s exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y’all, y’all

People killin’, people dyin’
Children hurt and you hear them cryin’
Can you practice what you preach?
Or would you turn the other cheek?

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
‘Cause people got me, got me questionin’
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love, the love, the love

It just ain’t the same, old ways have changed
New days are strange, is the world insane?
If love and peace are so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don’t belong?

Nations droppin’ bombs
Chemical gasses fillin’ lungs of little ones
With ongoin’ sufferin’ as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin’ really gone

So I could ask myself really what is goin’ wrong
In this world that we livin’ in people keep on givin’ in
Makin’ wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends
Not respectin’ each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin’ on but the reason’s undercover

The truth is kept secret, it’s swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where’s the love, y’all, come on (I don’t know)
Where’s the truth, y’all, come on (I don’t know)
Where’s the love, y’all

People killin’, people dyin’
Children hurt and you hear them cryin’
Can you practice what you preach?
Or would you turn the other cheek?

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
‘Cause people got me, got me questionin’
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love (The love)?
Where is the love, the love, the love?

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I’m gettin’ older, y’all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin’
Selfishness got us followin’ the wrong direction

Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema

Yo’, whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness and equality
Instead of spreading love we’re spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity

That’s the reason why sometimes I’m feelin’ under
That’s the reason why sometimes I’m feelin’ down
There’s no wonder why sometimes I’m feelin’ under
Gotta keep my faith alive ’til love is found
Now ask yourself

Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?

Father, Father, Father, help us
Send some guidance from above
‘Cause people got me, got me questionin’
Where is the love?

Sing with me y’all:
One world, one world (We only got)
One world, one world (That’s all we got)
One world, one world
And something’s wrong with it (Yeah)
Something’s wrong with it (Yeah)
Something’s wrong with the wo-wo-world, yeah
We only got
(One world, one world)
That’s all we got
(One world, one world)

So I want to ask you. Where is the love? Is it inside you?

‘What we have to do’ is ‘thinking’.

‘What we have to do’ is ‘Sympathy’.