Was checking out my friends blog just now and suddenly i saw she uploaded a video of her on tv !
Since she work so hard to get on tv, so i gotta share the video and her blog add here so more people can see it right.
Basically is about an interview of her and a group of artist into this thing of making miniature stuff. Things can be as small as a 5 cent coin. Tho the size is tiny mini, there are lots of details and the things actually look quite real. I guess alot of people are amazed by how nice these things are.
Sumore make art stuff until get award. those who know her must congrat her ok...
Check out the miniature art.
OOps, forgot to mention that the interview is in half cantonese and half chinese. check out 0:47 and 2:22
The prof in one of my module said something interesting today. About the designing of systems for buildings, he said something must cater to the heating requirement. And somehow he explained that it is because if its hot, people can feel uncomfortable and at most sweat but if its too cold, people might fall sick and die.
Its interesting because it reminds me of one of the days in my primary school, one of my teacher also said something similar. I remember it was in the morning and some of my classmates were complaining that its too cold and ask the teacher to switch off the fan. The teacher asked the class and some others complaint that it will be too hot if the fan is off.
The teacher then asked who wants the fan off and a few put up their hands. Then she asked who wants the fans on and a few others put up their hands.
Then she said, we should turn off the fan because its ok if we feel abit hot. But for those who feel cold, they can fall sick if we keep the fan on. That explains why she asked us to switch off the fan.
I dont know why but for some reason this scene is actually stucked in my head for so many years and i still remember some details of it.
I was looking at aljaeera and guess wats the 3 biggest headlines
Rape used as weapon in DR Congo war Brigadier killed in Pakistan ambush Goldstone dares US on Gaza report
are there too much negativity? Check out any list of headlines, u see words like rape, hijack, attack, bomb, kills. Are those the only happenings around the world? If only we have a news website which only reports the good news.
Just this random thought i went to google goodnews and here i found there are really such websites. reports only good news. check out goodnewsnetwork and happynews. They might not be as popular as cnn, but i think people these days need a dose of them from time to time. Life cant be great when u are surrounded by those negative headlines.
Talked to some @ers recently and i realized something special about them. Some of these people really believe that they gotta do something. they have a role to play in the world. Probably too much brainwashing, but we do believe that we can change the world. Having a decent job is not enough. Life cant just stop there after u go through this weird XP thingy.
They feel like making a living with a day to day job is not enough. getting a stream of decent income is not enough. making the impact to themselves and their family is not enough. With the "we can change the world" kind of attitude, more and more people are looking at jobs that can make a difference not only to themselves and their family, but to the society and the world. I am inspired. Thats how the hardwork we have spent so much time in is changing the world. creating change agent. Change agents who are not satisfied with the impact they make to the world.
So many people have been job hunting recently while im still confused about what i gonna do after i graduate. Im pretty sure that i wan a job that can inspire me. something that i can be passionate about. something that helps me feel like im making a difference.
Im glad that some people are clear about their dreams, no matter how hard it is, they gonna keep moving to that direction. I feel sad that some people are stuck in where they are, hating their job but yet, cant move away from it.
I guess it really takes alot of courage to go for something that u really want. I congratulate those who have the courage to give up whatever they need to do something to their life. I hope that those who havent got the courage will have it soon enough. Life might be better, or it might be not, but its probably gonna keep us moving and waking up in the morning again.
I wonder if i will find the thing that will wake me up every morning in the future.
Well, This is the world we live in.
I dont understand what i have written. But does it matter?
President Barack Obama said Friday that he was humbled by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
President Obama, speaking Friday, said the award was "an affirmation of American leadership."
"I am both surprised and deeply humbled," Obama said at the White House.
"I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments. But rather as an affirmation of American leadership. ... I will accept this award as a call to action."
Obama said he did not feel he deserves "to be in the company" of past winners, but would continue to push a broad range of international objectives, including nuclear non-proliferation, a reversal of the global economic downturn, and a resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
He acknowledged the ongoing U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, noting that he is the "commander in chief of a country that is responsible for ending" one war and confronting a dangerous adversary in another.
"This award is not simply about my administration," he said. It "must be shared" with everyone who strives for "justice and dignity."
I remember having a conversation with some chinese friends and they couldnt understand why do we have lashes in our law. when i tell them about it they seem to be shocked that such thing exists. But to us its normal and u hear news reporters talk about maximum punishment will be X number of years or Y number of lashes or both.
And i was reading this news about this guy from Saudi, interviewed and his interview showed over the TV. The problem come about when he talked about his sex life in the interview. Saudi being an islamic country obviously didnt like it and gave him a sentence that will make him suffer for his remaining life.
5 years and 1000 lashes. I wonder how the 1000 lashes are going to be executed. if it is similar to the lashes we know in Malaysia, then i wish him best of luck. and seriously..comparing the 5 years and 1000 lashes. 5 years is negligible.
If you have been using igoogle, then u would know about this. But for me, i wasnt using igoogle that much before this but accidentally went into my own igoogle page i created some time ago. Out of curiosity i went to click on add stuff which is a button to browse through applications to add on to personalize the igoogle page and i found this. Google hot trends !
I remember coming across this google trend thingy some time back and i find it interesting. Using it you can look at trends or popularity of certain keywords. For example if you search the word Malaysia in google trends, it shows you a graph of how frequent the word was searched in the past 6 months or 1 year or watever time period you specify. Whats more is it identify the peak of those searches and relate it with news about the keywords.
For example if you search Malaysia as a keyword here is roughly what u will get.
So whats new about this googe hot trends thingy in the igoogle page is that it shows you whats the hottest trend ie which keyword is the most popular keyword being searched online (using google search engine of course). I remember the other day i found facebook more powerful than news coz its like real time report from your connection of friends. But this hot trends allow you to see whats new in the world. Of course some of them are probably useless news and stuff, but it does help you keep in touch with the world getting the latest news.
A check on my google hot trends in singapore showed some keywords like sunshine empire, zhang yun jing, and tracy ang in mild hotness. Wonder what will be the next hot keyword.
Over the recess week, some of my friends visited ipoh and i had some hard time thinking about which are the specialties of ipoh and where to bring them. I went to search a little online and most mentioned ipoh white coffee, tauge chicken, hor fun, dim sum, and so on. It wasnt until this afternoon which we went to this place in pasir pinji commonly called 大树脚 and my friend went over to buy a packet of mengkuang equivalent. Everyone was enjoying it so much but i was not able to translate it into either english or chinese. The only name i know about that was the malay version or the cantonese version (usually referred to as 沙葛) To my surprise, its something unique and its so unique that people from Johor have never tried it before. Perhaps it should be listed as top fav after foh san dim sum or ipoh tauge chicken or ipoh white coffee, we can call it ipoh "sa kot".
Today i went to search for news about ipoh and i found this article which talks about Ipoh specialty, it does mention most of the things we went to but what came to my surprise is that not only mentioned sa kot is a special thing, there are other stuff that were so common to us but it cant be found anywhere else. According to that article, this sa kot supposed to be from Perak and you can hardly find it in other states of Malaysia. Though i doubt so since most ipoh food can be found in KL, i wont be surprised if i find it in KL. Anyway, the other surprise is something we called "wan tau long", directly translated to (giddy-headed bloke) or yellow Jelly. Im not exactly sure if it can be found elsewhere but i felt a little bad because i didnt bring my friends to try that out.
So the next time anyone brings a friend to ipoh, i guess these should be added into the new list of "must tries" in ipoh.
And here i copied part of the article on how to make the sa kot. Tho i like it a lot, but its not that temp
ting that i would put in so much effort to make it in the kitchen. Im putting it for those non-ipohans who have tried it and want it so badly but dont want to travel all the way from where they are to Ipoh for 2 pieces of sa kot with some white coffee.
And by the way, i realize sa kot is actually called yam bean according to the article. I tried google it and images of sa kot really do come out. So i guess here it is. Sa kot, mengkuang or yam bean.
Sar Kok Liew (makes two rolls)
Sar Kok Liew is a regional specialty, especially around Ipoh. The popular deep-fried yambean fritters are usually found in noodle stalls as part of the yong liew stable.
Outside Perak, Sar Kok Liew is hard to come by.
Filling
650g yambean, coarsely shredded
100g plain flour
50g fish paste
15g fried shallot crisps
1 tsp salt, or to taste
2 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp white pepper
1 piece beancurd sheet (foo pei), cut into two rectangles measuring 19x27cm
2 tsp flour, mixed with
1 tsp water to make a paste
oil for deep frying
Combine all the filling ingredients in a mixing bowl to make a sticky paste. Divide filling into two portions; place each portion on a beancurd sheet and roll the sheet to form a cigar-like roll of 5cm diameter. Seal the edges of the roll with flour paste.
Place rolls on a greased plate and steam over high heat for about eight minutes, or until roll is set. Cool, and cut into 1.5cm thick pieces.
Heat oil in wok; deep fry over medium heat until edges are crisp. Remove and drain on absorbent paper towels before serving.
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