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When 1 person sit Grab do you sit front or back?

deodorant — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:40:48 +0800

Hallo /k/

Please help me vote on this poll ~~for my PhD research paper~~ to help me win internet argument.

Drillz for illustration

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Tokyo & Myoko Kogen Photo Travelog (1 week)

deodorant — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 13:07:46 +0800

Hello /k/!!

🐔👜 with another travel photo/videolog. Just before CNY went to Japan for a 5-day ski trip, and since already flying over, might as well also spend a few more days in Tokyo.

Rough Itinerary:
Day 1: Tokyo Sumo Grand Tournament
Day 2: Checking out the 'new' Toyosu Fish Market & the 'new' Gundam Unicorn at Odaiba
Day 3: Day trip to Yokohama
Day 4: Tsuta Soba/Ramen and Rikugien Garden
Day 5: Myoko Kogen (Akakura Onsen) Ski'ing
Day 6: Myoko Kogen (Akakura Onsen) Ski'ing
Day 7: Myoko Kogen (Akakura Onsen) Ski'ing
Day 8: Myoko Kogen (Akakura Onsen) Ski'ing
Day 9: Asakusa, Ameyoko, Cup Ice Museum, Ueno Park.

I did a ski video covering days 4-8 (but all other days photos only cos super lazy to edit video).

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To be continued on next post!!

Singapork say Anthony Loke penipu scammer

deodorant — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:18:51 +0800

So who correct now, Anthony Loke or Singapork MoT?

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/expla..._13122018_today

Basically SG said that all along:
- Flight path doesn't affect any existing structure also, and
- Malaysia bagi tau je whenever got plans to build higher structures then SG will adjust the flight path accordingly.

QUOTE

What the video says: Structures 3km away from Seletar Airport cannot be built higher than 54m, while structures 6km away from Seletar cannot be built more than 145m. A mobile crane at 103m will breach the height limits and there are also other tall buildings in Johor.

What the facts are: The safety height buffer at the 3km mark is 93.8m, and at the 6km mark, it is 198.1m. This means the height of structures cannot exceed those figures.

Right now, the tallest structure in Pasir Gudang is 105m tall and is located 3.6km from Seletar Airport. So, it falls under the 198.1m height restriction. These height restrictions can be further adjusted if required .

Additional points:
- Edge of pasir gudang is 2.5km from edge of runway, which implies safety height buffer of 78.1m.
- Current ILS glide slope is 3.5deg. In comparison, London City Airport glide slope is 5.5deg.
- If Singapork increase glide slope to 5.5deg then height buffer is 123.0m @ 2.5km, 148.1m @ 3km, and 296.3m @ 6km

Switzerland (and France) 10 days travel video!

deodorant — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 15:01:37 +0800

Harro /k/!

Back again to share another travel video, 1½ weeks in Switzerland (and a bit of France)!

Basic itinerary:
✓ 3 nights Geneva
- Geneva
- DayTrip to France: Annecy
- DayTrip to France: Chamonix
✓ 1 night Zermatt
- Gornergrat and Zermatt
✓ 4 nights Wengen
- Jungfraujoch
- DayTrip to Bern
- Maanlichen and Grindelwald
✓ 1 night Rigi Kaltbad
- Rigi Kaltbad
- Few hours in Zurich before flying home

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Will follow up in this thread with detailed itinerary breakdown, costs, hotels, more photos, etc, but if you're travelling like ASAP then the slightly-more-detailed-itinerary is on blog (blogwh0re alert!!!)

600 ringgit dinner at European restaurant

deodorant — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 11:07:44 +0800

Hello /k/. inb4 /k/ is not your blog. Anyway I took my wife go jiak 1-michelin star dinner in Singapork restaurant. I guess slightly a little bit more expensive than that other thread, but anyway share pics also.

Restaurant: Alma by Juan Amador
Event: "4 hands dinner" (i.e. the chef from Mikkeler Bangkok visits and they do some sort of collaboration).
Price: s$168++ per couple/pair
All photos straight out of handphone camera.

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Snacks
Grape Jelly, Peanut Butter, Brioche
Bacon, Quinoa, Whole Grain Mustard
Potato, Curry Leaf, Ikura
Foie Gras, Meringue, Green Apple, Nori

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Bread
Potato bread with smoked butter

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Will TunM really succeed in pardoning Anwar?

deodorant — Fri, 11 May 2018 10:00:19 +0800

Priest educate me, dear /k/

It is compulsory for Anwar to be pardoned by the King, otherwise even if he naturally completes his sentence he won't be eligible to run for MP, etc, right?

But the Agong also won't simply anyhow pardon for no reason mah.

So how? Will Tun admit to Agong that he actually framed Anwar?

Or will Tun just wayang a bit then announce that Agong don't want to pardon?

High Cholesterol, What Do?

deodorant — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:22:38 +0800

Hallo /k/, please help me solve my dilemma. Last week I went health screening and results all OK except cholesterol.

LDL 199 mg/dL
HDL 62 mg/dL

So doctor tell me cannot eat fats la eggs la nuts la all that.

But I read google nowadays it seems like actually there is no link between dietary and blood cholesterol.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-you-...sterol-in-food/

So how, follow doctor, follow google, or follow /k/?

The Crispy Chicken Saga is Fake News and Wrong!

deodorant — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:52:03 +0800

According to this guy: https://medium.com/@ivanhong_25005/everythi...ong-cd9342bb8ec

Since MCMC don't approve medium.com, so here is the whole article:

Everything You Know About the “Crispy Rendang” Saga is Wrong
TL;DR culture at its worst

You think you’ve heard the story. John Torode; a white, male chef on MasterChef UK trample on a Malaysian macik’s rendang for not having crispy skin. “Cultural imperialism at its finest”, you think to yourself. White boy ignorance as usual. Cue the the internet brigade to educate this Western barbarian with dank memes and Twitter screenshots.

These days, it’s safe to assume that if a piece of content shared on the internet is attention-grabbing, it was designed that way through a heady brew of selective reporting, and shit stirring. That’s the only way marketers can get you to clickthrough, and more importantly, share pieces of content — often without even reading.

Here’s a list of facts about the “Crispy Rendang” saga to set the record straight:

1) John Torode Is No Stranger To Rendang
No, Torode is not projecting his “Western”, Eurocentric hunger for crispy fried chicken onto macik Zaleha’s dish. In a 10-part series which aired in 2015 on the UK’s Good Food channel — John Torode’s Malaysian Adventure — Torode goes on a culinary tour of Malaysian food.

In fact, in one episode filmed in Langkawi, Torode is shown how rendang is made — from scratch (albeit with duck as the protein).

During the now-infamous Masterchef UK episode, Torode demonstrates his familiarity with Malaysian cuisine by giving the audience a run-down of the classic nasi lemak dish, saying that the rice has to be served with not too much coconut milk, the sambal has to be ferociously hot, and the chicken’s meat has to be “really, really soft and falling apart”.

Torode is both familiar with, and appreciative of Malaysian cuisine — including rendang too.

2) Torode Did Not Criticize The Rendang for Not Being “Crispy”
There were two chefs on the panel — John Torode, and Gregg Wallace. Now bear in mind, that Torode knows what good rendang looks, and tastes like.

Zaleha presented the two judges with a luxurious plate of nasi lemak with chicken rendang, roasted peanuts, sambal prawn, crispy fried anchovies, cucumber slices, and rolled omelette strips.

After tasting, it was the first judge, Gregg Wallace who criticized the chicken skin for not being crispy enough. Yes, of course — the only judge who hadn’t tasted rendang before.

Torode would know better, Wallace, of course, didn’t.

“I like the rendang flavour, there’s a coconut sweetness, however, the chicken skin isn’t crispy. It can’t be eaten and all the sauce is on the skin, I can’t eat,” Wallace said.

2) Torode Was Judging the Dish as Nasi Lemak
Yes, you read that right — the dish in question, was not a standalone rendang. Nor was it served as a side dish alongside many others — which is how most of us in Southeast Asia would normally have it. Zaleha was serving the rendang as part of nasi lemak.

Zaleha, who hails from Kuantan, Malaysia, explained that the dish was her childhood favorite.

“I used to save my pocket money to buy nasi lemak on Friday and there was a special stall outside our school that used to sell the best nasi lemak for 20 sen, it is very special,” Zaleha told Torode while she was preparing the dish.

After, Gregg made the infamous “crispy rendang comment”, Torode chimed in, saying that the “chicken rendang on the side is a mistake”.

Now, a quick Google image search of “nasi lemak” shows that of the nasi lemak dishes which served chicken as the main protein of the dish, well over half of them are — you guessed it — crispy, fried, chicken.

In most parts of the Malay Peninsula, I have never ordered nasi lemak that came without crispy fried chicken, or fish — unless I deliberately chose to go with the a la carte option where I have complete freedom over the choice of protein and vegetables. I’m betting that most Malaysians and Singaporeans expect the same too.

That’s not to say that nasi lemak is never served with rendang — or that nasi lemak is always served with some type crispy meat. But more often than not, it is.

And perhaps that’s what Greg Wallace — not Torode — was expecting too.

The way Zaleha plated the dish does look a lot like Ayam Panggang, which, though not crispy, often has a much more tender and juicy flesh due to the shorter cooking time and the use of a grill.

3) Torode Judged the Rendang On its Own Merits
But Torode didn’t simply dismiss the dish because he thought the choice of rendang as a side dish didn’t match his expectation of nasi lemak. Torode likely knew from his time in Malaysia that nasi lemak is often served a la carte.

Torode’s second critique of the dish was the chicken rendang itself:

“It hasn’t had enough time to cook down and become lovely and soft and falling apart. Instead the chicken is just tough and not really flavoursome,” he said.

Now, that’s an entirely different critique entirely.

In my experience, chicken rendang is much rarer than beef or mutton rendang. Except perhaps to Nonyas — who seem exceptionally skilled at not making the chicken meat dry and tough.

Was Zaleha’s chicken really as bad as Torode claimed? I have no way of knowing for sure, but I’m inclined to trust his professional judgement of the appropriate flavor penetration, and texture for stewed/fried/grilled chicken.

P.S. One of my readers alerted me to the fact that the MasterChef UK winner in 2014 was Ping Coombs — a Malaysian. Interestingly enough, Ping also appeared in Torode’s Malaysian Adventure TV series.

Conclusions:
Torode knows Malaysian cuisine, and rendang.
Torode didn’t make the “crispy rendang” comment — Gregg did.
Torode didn’t like how the rendang was paired with nasi lemak
Torode didn’t like how the chicken was “tough” and “not really flavorsome”. He did not expect it to be crispy.

Learn how to ski bumps from this zehzeh.

deodorant — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:21:56 +0800

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trampoline fun

Japan Trip Report: Zao Onsen Winter Ski Video!

deodorant — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 07:33:35 +0800

SIC moi last week Japan video!!

- Zao Fox Village
- Zao Onsen Skiing
- Day Trip @ Koyo Ryokan (Kaminoyama Onsen)

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cost breakdown / details on blog (blogwh0re alert!!!!!)

... also bonus video MariCar Akihabara ...

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Full trip itinerary in spoiler below, will update gradually when photos / videos etc get edited.

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Li Chun (bank in money at auspicious date)

deodorant — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 16:09:13 +0800

Hello /k/

Do you bother about this auspicious practice?

I mentioned to my friend that Msia got no such practice but my friend said "got la but u dunno cos u banana"

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/queu...-day-of-li-chun

First Time visit Seoul / South Korea!

deodorant — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:18:36 +0800

/k/ not blog oso nvm, I share only!! First time visit south korea / seoul area two weeks ago (just arrived back home 2 days ago).
I didn't do any planning, left it all to brothers in law to plan. Please feel free to criticize my itinerary etc etc, call me bodo also it's OK.

Rough Agenda:

Day 0. Overnight flight SIN - KUL - ICN on Malaysia Airlines (cos it was cheap) (Page 1)
Day 1. Rent Hanbok go walk around Gyeongbokgung palace (Page 2) then makan the famous Tosokchon Samgyetang (Page 3)
Day 2. Fly to Jeju, Jeju self-drive tour (Drone Video on Page 3)
Day 3. Jeju self-drive tour then O'sulloc tea museum (Page 4) before flying back to Seoul.
Day 4. Hanwoo Beef Lunch (BBQ Video on Page 4) then Shopping Ewha / Dongdaemun (Page 5)
Day 5. S Namsan Tower (Page 5)
Day 6. Vivaldi Park (skiing) (Ski Resort video on Page 5)
Day 7. Vivaldi Park (skiing)
Day 8. Itaewon area (Page 5)
Day 9. DMZ tour (no JSA) and fish market makan king crab.
Day 10. War Museum, Nanta cooking show thing, more shopping
Day 11. Cafe hopping @ Gangnam, Lotte World Tower area
Day 12. Nami Island, Petite France, Garden of Morning Calm

Pics inkambing.

30-39 years old unkers and aunties come in.

deodorant — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:26:55 +0800

I like:
- Having money to buy (mostly) the things that I want to buy.

I hate:
- Not going to buffets anymore because by the time I finish the starters, sudah kenyang.

Would you pay rm50 for one grape?

deodorant — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:16:59 +0800

Ayam saw this in Singapork

Ada kah /k/ approves?

Japanese Language Expert Masuk

deodorant — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 12:58:09 +0800

I tomorrow taking JLPT N5, today only do practice test (LOL)

The answer according to the book is #2 ... but then why ah? So the sentence is 私はもう少し " 日本語　が　かんたんな　本 " が　いいです。　?

Cum rate my "BBQ" Beef Brisket (home cooked)

deodorant — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 20:19:57 +0800

Last night my dinner: Self-cook "BBQ" Brisket!! Before cooking was 1.6kg, in the end share 8ppl makan.

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Followed a combination of ChefSteps + SeriousEats recipes.

Ingredients list / Recipe on Blog if anyone interested.

Christmas Eve Self-Cook Prime Rib Roast

deodorant — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 12:04:55 +0800

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Me yesterday Christmas Eve dinner attempted to cook a Prime Rib for family dinner (two bone cos only 5 people eating). First time ever to cook any sort of roast, just anyhow follow seriouseats and chefsteps youtube.

Simply french the ends cos chefsteps say it looks nicer.

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Then salt and pepper and put into fridge overnight cos seriouseats say so.

I am not a chef, pls forgive me for any lack of knife skills or food hygiene standards.

Cousins punya kids won't always be cacat

deodorant — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:08:12 +0800

Hallo /k/.

Got one tered on some troll wanna pancut dalam his first cousin and lots of /k/ say ohhh your kid surely low IQ and cacat.

But actually it's only slightly increased risk.

http://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask65

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The numbers from this study are pretty interesting. For unrelated people, the risk of having a child with a serious genetic problem is around 3 or 4 percent. If first cousins have kids, that risk goes up by 2 or 3 percent. At first this almost doubling of the risk might seem scary. But many genetic advisers argue that the increase isn't big enough to discourage marriage between first cousins.

So if you take 100 kids between unrelated ppl, 4 kids will have some sort of hereditary problem.
If you take 100 kids between first cousins, 6 kids will have some sort of hereditary problem ... but 94 kids will be fine.

Sekian.

This is why Singapork >>> Malaysia

deodorant — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 08:28:17 +0800

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Would you donut money to blogger ...

deodorant — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:56:26 +0800

TLDR: Sinkie sort of somewhat decent looking blogger signed an exclusive contract with a marketing company, then she reneged on the contact terms. company initiated legal action against her then she use photos of her babies to garner pity and get donations for her fees. best part is that sinkie netizens already contribute rm200+++k to her

http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/qiu-...help-legal-fees