funtobealive

my pathetic life was saved tonight! the only thing is that I’m not really sure why. it might be the 2 pieces of toast with hazelnut paste accompanied by a beautiful cappuccino that i usually have at the particular time of day it happened. or maybe it was the fantastic article in the New York times (about Yotam Halperin), that kept me pinned to the computer and thus away from the disaster zone. well, so what happened was that my kitchen cupboard just decided to detach itself from the wall and to take a fly/walk along my one bedroom apartment. to call the little corner i have a kitchen is already a big compliment, but on this day, that i got my life back, I’m actually willing to be large with my self. the cupboard was naturally full with all of my plates, cups, mugs, glasses etc… the noise it made when it crashed on my parquet floor was like something one hears sometimes in israel in unfortunate occasions. but the thing that startled me most was that the bits and pieces of gals -ceramic -cupboard actually reached my feet- but stopped exactly an inch before them. i felt like Gandalf in a famous scene in “the lord of the rings”. the amount of luck is really beyond recognition. my cello case was STANDING 3 feet from the cupboard, and the viola da gambe im renting was lying on my bad 4 feet from the disaster! some how they both escaped unharmed. the flour is of course badly cracked, and i dont have any thing to eat or drink with, but I’m fucking alive. because it’s fun!!!!!! now, i know you don’t believe me, because you know I’m a compulsive lier- so check out this link with some photos of the scene-
http://www.funtobealive.com/the%20horror.html

if somebody would have asked me where is the best hot chocolate in the world, i would have answered without any hesitation at all- in cafe Storch in cologne Germany. well that was true till last friday. the disappointment was bitter because i promised the person that was with me the very best hot chocolate, the perfect cup, the ultimate enjoyment, a true thick,creamy and sweet in exactly the right amount drink. but alas! the holy cow was slathered, we got a mediocre cup of an utterly normal hot chocolate one can get in many other places as well. you will not so easily catch a well trained funtobe such as myself off guard like that- I’m usually more than prepared for disappointments by using the good old weapon of expecting the worse. but this time i fall right into the trap with eyes wide shut. on the other hand yesterday a new culinary legacy has started and may it hold for ever! now if one would ask me where is the best lemon pie in the world, i would answer- in cafe Eichhörnchen in cologne. this was the most orgasmic piece of pie that was ever created. the balance between the different components was so bloody perfect that goose bumps were the only possible reaction. feechs indeed. but like the hebrew poet said “on taste and smell one can not argue”… bon-appetite.