Cooking for the family

My cooking skills are getting better by the day.

Day before yesterday, my wife and I were talking about life in Malaysia and how easy and cheap it was to eat outside. One of our favourite haunts was a place called Subang Ria in Kelana Jaya. My wife was talking about how good their Nasi Lemak was.

Well it was my turn to cook and so I announced that I was going to prepare Nasi Lemak. my wife was very skeptical but it turned out OK in the end.

I cooked all of the stuff in the picture. Dishes from top in anti clockwise manner:
1. Fried ikan bilis (anchovies)
2. Hot chili with tomatoes sambal.
3. Chicken which I had cooked earlier.
4. Boiled eggs and cucumber.
5. Half eaten nasi lemak.

The only ingredient missing were roasted peanuts.

I just added a packet of coconut cream powder, which we had brought along from Malaysia, to the rice to give it that special Nasi Lemak taste.

Indian video site

With the popularity of YouTube and other video sharing sites, I guess it was just a matter of time before special video sites targeted to specific demographic segments appeared on the net.

Aapkavideo.com is an Indian Video Sharing. The name in Hindi means "your video" and the site is specifically targeted to Indians. However, with the popularity of Hindi (Bollywood) movies growing everywhere, I am sure there will be a lot of visitors from everywhere around the World including Malaysia. I know of a few Malay friends who are addicted to Hindi movies even through they can't understand a word.

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Top 50 Malaysian bloggers

Malaysian blogger Sabahan has come out with a list of the top 50 most influential bloggers in Malaysia. No! I am not in the list.

He has used Technorati to rank blogs and I am quite satisfied with his reasons.

It's not surprising that a lot of those on the list are on my own blogroll.

Anyway, learnt about this from Shaolin Tiger

Upgrading our home lighting

While buying a house or even when renovating an old one, one of the things that is often overlooked is the lighting. When we first moved into our rented house here in the UK, we were not really happy with the lighting. Fortunately, the owner allowed us to install our own light fittings (with his approval of course).

Home Lighting Fixtures are really important and they can effect the entire look and feel of a room and even of the entire house. A unique lighting scheme can make your living room more cozy and relaxing. On the other hand, the kitchen lighting have to be different to help you perform task more easily there.

Lighting should be planned to complement your lifestyle. So, make sure you choose the right home lighting plan that suits your needs as well as your pocket.

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Crazy mullah

I was watching ITV news a few minutes ago when they showed an interview with Abu Izzadeen, one of Britain's leading Muslim extremist. It was really chilling. First time I heard about him was on CNN's "The War Within" one hour documentary about extremism in the UK by Christiane Amanpour.

It was really chilling when he said that Muslim soldiers in the British army should be beheaded because according to him they were apostates. Previously he had described the 7/7 bombers as "completely praiseworthy".

According to the ITV website, a video of him preaching a message of hate was found on an underground website.

The funny thing is that he living here in the UK, criticising "unbelievers" and freely spreading messages of hate. He would have been quickly put inside bars under the ISA he had done that in Malaysia.

Read more about the guy on Wikipedia.

Loans for home improvements

Winter is nearly over here in the UK and this is the time of the year when people usually take up loans for home improvements.

This can be a big project like adding an extension to the house or a small one like refurbishing the bathrooms. Often all this are reasons to take up a secured loan or home improvement loan. Secured loans are usually the most popular and refer to those loans that are backed by property of some sort that is used to guarantee payback if the person defaults on the payments.

It is now normal to refinance mortgage to reduce the total amount we might end up paying. People often decide to go for remortgages as they have become wiser with their finances. They don't stick to one company anymore as they realise that mortgage rates fluctuate along with the economy.

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Submit and vote sites

There has been a mushrooming of Digg like sites all over the web. I call them "submit and vote" sites (or S & V in short).

For newbies, it works like this: You find a site or link you like, you submit it to the S & V site. Of course, you must be registered in order to do that. Other readers then vote on the site, giving it a thumbs up or Thumbs down as in case of Spicypage.


Just came over another S & V site called Plime.com. It has a number of interesting links.

Plime is a pliable tree of interesting links, cultivated and pruned by everyone.

Check the site out and tell me what you think.

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