Fun & Preparation

I meant to update much much sooner than this... I mean, I had a billion and one things I wanted to blog about. Haha~! I have no life people...

Well, plenty of things happened since the last update. For one, I came across some nice website from the newsletter adobe edge.
This one is from adobe itself. Under the project name "Creative Mind" I think.

In the site, there was an interview with Joshua Davis. [hears squeals of excitement from Joshua Davis fan] Hehe...

Then there was this site from Audi. This car is so cool~!
I want it... [dreams of owning this car] Cars are expensive.
I was Midvalley today and saw that the car was selling for RM130k. I hate to imagine the price tags on the Tokyo modified cars that were on display in the exhibition halls.

The last website was a curious one... It was mostly in japanese.. So I didn't know what it was about. As far as I could find out, it's a company website.

Don't you think it's a strange sight to see me photographing a coin? An arcade coin nonetheless. Well, this fellow reminded me of how the arcade in Pyramid is currently not there anymore. [weeps buckets] And it was such a nice place to de-stress too~! So I never got to use this last coin of the arcade. Maybe the arcade would come back... I'm hopeful. [keeping fingers crossed]

Ah... This photo is when Pui Yee and I were in KL and meeting up with Karen to eat at Coliseum. I try to practice taking photographs to improve my photography skills.

Often I feel that my photography is nothing special but still I enjoy taking them. Odd feelings...

Anyway if you want to make your way to Coliseum restaurant, the best landmark would be Masjid Jamek station.

Then you walk around until you see this. Haha~! You may want to search for better directions elsewhere. I'm directionally challenged~!

It's a quaint little restaurant that have that olden time feeling.

The food's really very nice too. I believe I've said this in the last post about this place.

This was what I had. Chicken Maryland. Delicious and filling. The best of both worlds. Hehe...

So after lunch, Karen and us (Pui Yee and I) parted ways and headed back to the car.

My main subject: Pui Yee. Muahaha.. She's such a good sport~! Plus she gave me permission to post her photos.

There was this odd stairway that seemed to head underground at Dataran Merdeka. We were tempted to go down to escape the sun... but the uncertainty of where the end of this tunnel will lead us adviced us otherwise.

But really, it was very very hot and sunny that even this fountain look like a potentially cool swimming pool. "Pui Yee, don't jump in~! Got policemen around." Not that she'll jump in, anyway. But you never know what tinkers in that mind of hers. Hehehe~!

So on the way of sending her home, we made a detour to see "eye on Malaysia", one of the government's attractions for the visit Malaysia year. The plus point is they cleaned the filthy lake. Yay for clean lake.. well, it's clean on the surface. The downpoint: One never knows about the bottom.

This shot was purely accidental and a matter of clicking at the right time. I think it turned out very nicely.

Even the ticketing booth was of the gondola of the ferris wheel. They priced it at RM15 per person.. It's actually relatively cheap. The one in Vienna was 7 Euro Dollar (about RM35). I would have gone on the ferris wheel if I wasn't so broke. It would have been such a lovely trip.

Speaking of trips, there was one fortunate time when I managed to step into the mysterious realm of the Multimedia office. I was like wow... I neither charged in nor was I invited in. I had to use the table to write something on. But while in there, my eyes more or less loitered on their own. They had a nice library of software books and posters of interesting digital work. People in there run on music, so headphones are a often sight. Such a nice experience...

Right, these photos are from the committee meeting we had. It's about the fun food fair... but from the look of these people's faces...

Something that was suppose to be fun had been killed.

It's no fun attending meeting and all of us don't bother to mask it, making it err.. more boring..

Ahh~! Something more interesting. Zero 2 Zero.

Zero would be another interesting subject to photograph but he does them himself mostly. Oh well, we were waiting in the drama lab for the second meeting of the day to start. Crazy.

What's more crazy is my whole friday used to do Kuih Kapit (love letters). First, we use charcoal fire because it taste better cooking on charcoal fire.

Ah~! Let there be light~!

Before we had this nifty barbeque set (red thing), we had to use the lower burning tool (square thing on the right) It was so much easier to work with the barbeque set since we can normally sit on chair and tend to the "clips".

So this is about how you make them Kuih Kapit.
1. First you heat them over the fire.
2. Then you oil the insides of the clips. You don't have to oil the clips all the time. Only when the Kuih Kapit is too sticky onto the surface.

3. Anyway, after the clips are hot enough, you pour this mixture of flours, sugar, coconut milk and water onto the surface.
4. And them you clip the clip and put it over the fire.

5. You'll need to scrap off the excess Kuih Kapit mixture from the outside of clip.
6. You need to be cautious of the colour of the Kuih Kapit. It's over the fire after all and it gets done rather quickly.
7. When it's a nice light brown, you open the clip and remove the piping hot soft Kuih Kapit.
8. Very quickly, you'll need to fold them to whatever shape you want them to be. In our case, we fold them into quarters. The reason why you need to fold them quickly is because you can fold them while it's hot but when it cools down, it harden and becomes brittle.
9. Repeat the process 3 to 8 over and over and over and over again.
The only thing that breaks this monotony is fanning the fire and adding more charcoal to keep the fire on.

Even when it rained in the evening, we're still doing the Kuih Kapit. Gilar~!



In the end we made enough Kuih Kapit to fill 3 and a half of cans of milo tins. I'll be doing Chocolate Chip Cookies and Konnyaku Jelly later today. So please do buy the cookies and Jelly from me during the food fair. I put much effort into making them. At least they turn out better than all my design works combined. [shrugs] Cheers~!