Easy Recipe for comfort food, made with Sliced Bread

Regardless of whether you're together with your family, or all alone at night, there's nothing like some warm, filling stuff to fill your belly.

Personally, my favourite is a nice hot bowl of steaming Tonkatsu Ramen (Japanese Pork Noodles), but these recipes are great too!

~ A sort of Bread Pudding ~

(This is some photogenic bread.)

- An oven (A microwave oven is fine, but it won't achieve that nice crust. A normal oven or a toaster oven is great.)
- Oven explosion-proof dish (I have a ceramic dish that won't explode, and results in less sticking.)
- Sliced Bread
- Butter
- Milk
- Seasoning
- Optional Extras

Those are the basic ingredients listed above. Take that bread, cut it into whatever shapes or leave it whole. Spread as much butter as you want on it (I do both sides.) and lay it in the dish.

You can lay it overlapping each other prettily in a concentric pattern, or just stack the slices of bread up. Just build up some nice, absorbent volume there.

To get nice even absorption going on here, you pour some milk as you lay down each slice of bread. This is more important for the Uno-stacko bread. For the overlapping bread which doesn't build up so much height, just douse the milk on, and roughly estimate the amount of sogginess you want. For me, I get the lower half nice and soggy, and the top half stay unsoggy enough to crust over nicely.

Seasonings? Use whatever taste great! Like, you can sprinkle some cocoa powder, or maybe cinnamon, or nutmeg. To get a more intense and even taste, instead of just sprinkling on top, you sprinkle stuff in between layers.

As for Optional Extras, there's many ways you can customize the dish. Want something savoury? Beat up some eggs to pour over the top (This needs some care, unless you want to get stomachache from undercooked food.), or maybe sprinkle mozzarella cheese. Maybe sprinkle some bacon bits in! Need some fibre? Put poached or raw apple slices in. I prefer poached, it's softer.

Cook in the oven till crusty on the top. It will be golden, browned over or charcoal black depending on your preferences ^^. Break that crust, and dig into some yummy, milk-soaked bread.

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Here's a few light snacks to burn the midnight oil with:

- Buttered toast (Simple and yet so delicious. Butter adds aroma, vegetable shortening have zilch. Always use real butter, I say.)

- Bread drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with basil, then toasted. (Extra-virgin olive oil has the best taste. Instead of basil, you can always use rosemary too.)

- Bread with a sunny-side up egg with half-runny yolk. (The sweetness of bread compliments egg perfectly. I love eggs. When I get to heaven, I hope there will be an egg buffet, where I can eat and eat and eat without worrying about cholesterol.)

- A toasted tuna sandwich

You may realize I never include garlic toast in here. Man, I love garlic toast too, but the garlic aftertaste will bother me and disturb my sleep!

(Traditional English breakfast - fried bread, egg, tomatos, mushrooms, sausage and bacon. This is from AMARTI02 of Flickr, and I just had to put it in because it looks so delicious.)

No more chowing down on chocolate bars and chips at night, go for healthier (Look above - damn, I seriously don't practice what I preach.) bread! Yes, you could always just grab an energy bar. But, you know, your very own pudding got love in it ^^.

Quantum Physics (By other people) and my own pondering of Dimensions

Hi, my name is Alphonse! I set up this site in the hopes of being able to share all sorts of fascinating stuff with people ^^. Therefore, I hope you'll enjoy my blog!

For my first post, let me pull out an old article that I wrote while pondering on quantum physics and its relation to dimensions. Yes, I really have too much time on my hands.

(I would put in an interesting picture about dimensions here, but all I can think about is Dali's famous painting of melting clocks, and I don't really like surreal landscapes that much anyway.)

Lately a little fairytale topic have been on my mind. We have this World we're living on, and Other Worlds. Common theory, got something to do with temporal space-time, quantum physics and all that stuff.

Let me elaborate a little with the help of several online articles (Wikipedia and some other sources which I can't really recall anymore...).

Quantum physics is of the physics beneath the visible physical world.

It is of how matter interacts with other matters, except on a very small scale. The common laws of physics begin to deteriorate on small scales. For example, Nippendenso (Japan Electric) built a car that's only half a millimeters long. One could easily mistake it for a grain of rice if not for its gold color. At the scale of 1 to 1000, physics is already changing. Oil would now gum up the engine, and the tires wouldn't have enough traction to move the car.

Quantum Physics explains the behavior of small particles, like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and the particles which make these particles. Quantum physics needs complex math to explain the behaviors and properties of small particles because the world of these subatomic particles is a very bizarre one, filled with quantum probabilities and organized chaos. For example, the exact position and velocity of an electron is very hard to find because attempts to "see" it involve bouncing other particles off of it. By doing this, you've just changed the electron's velocity, so your data is useless. What quantum physics does is give us the statistical probability of the electron's location at any one moment. By learning how these particles act, scientists can better understand the matter which makes up the universe, and the way it behaves (or misbehaves).

Quantum physics even plays a part in blackholes.

Space-time Continuum:

In physics, spacetime is any mathematical model that combines space and time into a single construct called the space-time continuum. Spacetime is usually interpreted with space being three-dimensional and time playing the role of the fourth dimension.

Spacetimes are the arenas in which all physical events take place — an event is a point in spacetime specified by its time and place.

Continuum is a coherent whole characterized as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees. For example, "Good" and "Bad"...stand at opposite ends of a continuum instead of describing the two halves of a line (As quoted from Wayne Shumaker.).


The four-dimensional continuum of one temporal (Related to time) and three spatial (Relating to, occupying, or having the character of space) coordinates in which any event or physical object is located. It is a term used to denote the geometry of the physical universe as suggested by the theory of relativity. It is also called space-time continuum.

Now for a bit on Dimensions:

So what I get from this is the four dimensions are length, width, height and time, although I don't think time is actually considered a dimension in conventional physics. While a person can move forwards/backwards, left/right and up/down, right now, it is not known to the common populace that it is possible to move in time, except only in one direction, at a fixed rate (Conjunction Theory by Andrew O'Desky.).

The equations used in physics to model reality often do not treat time in the same way that humans perceive it. In these models, the perception of time flowing in one direction is an artifact of the laws of thermodynamics (We perceive time as flowing in the direction of increasing entropy.).

In physics, entropy is a measure of the unavailability of a system's energy to do work. Entropy is central to the second law of thermodynamics and the combined law of thermodynamics, which deal with physical processes and whether they occur spontaneously. Spontaneous changes, in isolated systems, occur with an increase in entropy. Spontaneous changes tend to smooth out differences in temperature, pressure, density, and chemical potential that may exist in a system, and entropy is thus a measure of how far this smoothing-out process has progressed.

Entropy is the only quantity in the physical sciences that "picks" a particular direction for time, sometimes called an arrow of time. As we go "forward" in time, the Second Law of Thermodynamics tells us that the entropy of an isolated system can only increase or remain the same; it cannot decrease. Hence, from one perspective, entropy measurement is thought of as a kind of clock.

In thermodynamics, an isolated system, as contrasted with a open system, is a physical system that does not interact with its surroundings. It obeys a number of conservation laws: its total energy and mass stay constant. They cannot enter or exit, but can only move around inside. An example is in the study of spacetime, where it is assumed that asymptotically flat spacetimes exist.

Truly isolated physical systems do not exist in reality (except for the universe as a whole), but real systems may behave nearly this way for finite (possibly very long) times.

Theories such as string theory and M-theory predict that the space we live in has in fact 10 or 11 dimensions, respectively, but that the universe, when measured along these additional dimensions, is subatomic in size. As a result, we perceive only the three spatial dimensions that have macroscopic size. We as humans can only perceive up to the third dimension while we have knowledge of our travel through the fourth. We, however can not perceive anything past the fourth.

Minkowski Universe (Related to the Temporal Space-time article):

Einstein showed that in general two observers, each using the same techniques of observation but being in motion relative to each other, will disagree concerning the simultaneity of distant events. But if they do disagree, they are also unable to compare unequivocally the rates of clocks moving in different ways, or the lengths of scales and measuring rods. Instead, clock rates and scale lengths of different observers and different frames of reference must be established so as to assure the principal observed fact. Each observer, using his or her own clocks and scales, must measure the same speed of propagation of light. This requirement leads to a set of relationships known as the Lorentz Transformations.

In accordance with the Lorentz transformations, both the time interval and the spatial distance between two events are relative quantities, depending on the state of motion of the observer who carries out the measurements. However, the mathematician Minkowski devised some complicated equations. In them, he used a new absolute quantity that takes the place of the two former quantities. The new quantity is known as the invariant, or proper, space-time interval.

Spacetime entails a new concept of distance. Whereas distances are always positive in Euclidean spaces, the distance between any two events in spacetime (called an "interval") may be real, zero, or even imaginary.

Therefore, from his complicated equations (Not shown here because it gives me a headache to look at them), Minkowski discovered the existence of a single invariant (Constant, unchanging.) interval, which led him to conceive of the totality of space and time as a single four-dimensional continuum, which is often referred to as the Minkowski universe. In this universe, the history of a single space point in the course of time must be considered as a curve (or line), whereas an event, limited both in space and time, represents a point.

While a Euclidean space has only space-like dimensions, a Minkowski space has also one time-like dimension.

Okay, I'm done explaining.

It's rather interesting isn't it? A theory expound that the worlds are overlapped. Imagine if the worlds are ethereal. They will just go through everything yes? Now, imagine that these ethereal worlds are all somewhat in one place. That's what I mean by the overlapping. I rather imagine that if you look closely enough, you will see a ghostly scenery where it's not suppose to be, like translucent pine trees in the middle of a busy highway, with cars driving through them. If you're lucky enough, you will be able to feel your way into that other world. For this theory to happen, I think the Worlds will need to be on different dimensions. Probably will explain the sightings of ghosts, aliens and Elvis.

There are also the Parallel Universes. Sometimes in those fantasy storybooks you read, a seer or a fortune-teller will say something like "I am not certain about what will happen, there are many futures.". You make a decision, this happens. You make a different decision, the future will go another way. Well, the theory is that there are many Parallel Universes, in which there are the Parallel Yous. Each of the Yous will make a different decision/action. All the possible decisions/actions there are to make will each have a Universe to happen in. And all the different futures will happen. Follow my drift?

If all the dimensions have different properties, I don't think it is possible for Parallel Worlds to be in the same place at one time. Afterall, they'll need to have the same dimension properties to be parallel.

Or, like in Kingdom Hearts, the Worlds are separate and non-ethereal in the Universe.

Uh... You know the overlapping worlds on different dimensions I was talking about? Okay there's the human world, and it is replicated in all the dimensions. On the first and second dimension it is not really possible to survive I guess. On the third dimension nothing will happen because there is no time. On the fourth dimension we have our world. On the fifth dimension the human race will evolve in a different way from the fourth dimension because of the property of the extra fifth dimension. So on and so forth in the other dimensions.

Therefore it is like Parallel Worlds in a different way, and the Worlds in all its different dimensions will be replicated in the Parallel Universes, yadda-yadda.

I was going to go into indepth research of the String Theory, but I'm getting a headache. Don't mind though, won't have missed this interesting afternoon of dimensions for anything. Haha ^^.

Thank you and have a nice day!