I’m in the mood of telling story... Is it
the food I ate after iftar?... or just trying to find reason on why I’m in a
good mood....
I’m going to talk about cuckoo clock and my
cuckoo clock cake.
I had a bad encounters with a cuckoo
clock when I was 7 years old. As the story goes, since it was a school
holidays, I had spent a night at one of my relative’s house (can’t remember specifically which one) who
had a cuckoo clock. The clock really captivated me when it started to strike,
that is, when “ the bird ready to get out from the little house” and I vividly
remembered the clock was so intricately carved and the pendulums were so huge.
We ( my cousin and I) slept in the hall
where the cuckoo clock just above our head. At 6 am when I was still sleeping
soundly, the clock stroke, it’s like the bird pecking onto my brain, my cousin
just put a pillow on her ears. I felt like killing the bird so that it will
stop cuckooing... “Tok, boleh bunuh burung
tu tak? Bising la...(Grand pa, can u kill the bird!!!.its bothering me!!).
I was like talking subconsciously, still in the “never-never” land. Somebody
answer with a laughter, ....Tok tak boleh
bunuh burung ni. Burung ni datang jauh dari Jerman...(I can’t kill the
bird, this bird came afar from Germany) ...then followed by some soothing
musical tunes that made me fell back to sleep for another 2 hours and the cuckoo bird
appeared in my “never-never” land, I was chasing the cuckoo bird with my pillow......
Last year, I had the opportunity to travel
through Germany, one of the area that we visited was the Black Forest at Triberg.
The first half day we treked the Black Forest (we chose the simple trek) and
another half, dedicated to cuckoo clock. We went to the clock museum and visited
the cuckoo clock town.
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| Trekking the Black Forest |
A few shops that I remembered are “house of
1,000 clocks” and Oli’s Schnitztube (do know how to pronounce it correctly). I just love the Oli’s shop, I had a peeped at
his workshop which were full of paraphernalia for wood carving and spare parts
for the cuckoo clock. Most of the town’s population, I assumed, directly or
indirectly involved in the cuckoo clock industry, with the abundant of wood
from the black forest and their passion on cuckoo clock.
The shop keeper/owner of Oli’s, actually on
the verged of closing when we entered his shop. He informed us since its was
EURO 2012 football mania and that day, Germany is competing with...mmm....can't
remember because I’m not a football fanatic. His shop got a good selections of
wood carving, mechanical cuckoo clock. At last, after browsing several shops my
friend, Johar, decided to purchased Oli’s cuckoo clock.....
Now to my chocolate
walnut brownies in the shape of cuckoo clock. Actually this cake I made a years
ago for my friends’ birthday, Johar and Salmah. Somehow I’ve forgotten to
upload on my blog.
