Category: Life

I made this for breakfast. The recipe’s below. Not very well written but oh well. (Also, this is more or less a test post from Flickr so pardon the mess.) Ingredients: 2 handfuls of coleslaw (no dressing!) 1 handful of beansprouts 150 gr all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon of tapioca flour 1 teaspoon of onion powder…… Continue reading Bakwan Sayur

It’s official. Nikolai, the founder and sole organiser of the Bloggies™ has spoketh. I’m eligible for a nomination in both the Best Asian Weblog and the Best Canadian Weblog categories. Fear my world domination! Or something. Speaking of weblog awards, have you checked out my wonderfully silly Award-o-Matic? I really need to update the award…… Continue reading The Bloggies™ Update

I’m sure there are times that, while browsing the Web, you come across something that someone wrote so eloquently which reflects your thoughts so perfectly that it could’ve been written by you, if only you were that prolific. This “So There” entry is one of those things for me. Those are things that I’d like…… Continue reading So There

First of all, if I owe you an email, please be patient because I am swamped. I will get back to you. I guess this is what you get for taking a break from replying emails for 2 weeks. My justification: it was holidays season. Search referral of the day is “how firda beka learn…… Continue reading A Mixed Bag of Randomness

The Fifth Annual Weblog Awards, also known as The Bloggies™, is here again. Go nominate your favourite weblogs in as many categories as you see fit! I don’t know if I’m still eligible for a nomination in the Best Asian Weblog category (which I’ve won three times already) but you can always nominate me in…… Continue reading The Bloggies™

So, it’s 2005 already. The New Year’s Eve highlights include my falling asleep during the viewing of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at a local cinema (not that the movie was horrible or anything; I was just sleepy) and my feeling depressed for the rest of the night, which continued on to most of…… Continue reading Yearly Wrap-Up

I don’t have any advertisement on my weblog so it doesn’t earn me any revenue whatsoever. But if it did, I would pledge my blog earnings to BlogAid. If you generate any revenue from your weblog, you might want to consider pledging. It’s for a good cause. Alternately, nature.com’s Earthquake disaster: how to help explains…… Continue reading BlogAid: Support the Asia Relief Effort

Devastating quake redraws map. This nature.com article explains how the earthquake has moved some islands by several metres only within minutes and why the wave created by it was able to wash up areas as far as 5 kilometres inland. And of course, Indonesian tsunami-monitoring system lacked basic equipment. If you’d lived in Indonesia all…… Continue reading Nature.com on the South Asia Earthquake

Images of Tsunami Sites by DigitalGlobe show the aerial views of Banda Aceh, Indonesia and Kalutara, Sri Lanka before and after the disaster struck. Thirst and grief stalk Indonesia. Photographs from Banda Aceh, Indonesia by Reuters AlertNet show the devastating state of Banda Aceh after the disaster. IRIS Seismic Monitor has a map and a…… Continue reading A Picture Speaks 1,000 Words

Tsunami death toll jumps over 120,000. Aid pours into Asia, not reaching tsunami victims. Tsunami waters raise landmine fears in Sri Lanka. Everything seems to have gone wrong in this world. I keep thinking about how the survivors must feel. I know how it feels to lose a family member (my mother died last year…… Continue reading Everything Is Wrong