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Half Boil Egg Gadget

01.27.07 |Shopping| Permalink | 6 Comments

Half Boil egg is my favorite. Sorry I don’t have any cholesterol, so I can eat as much as I want. 😛 I never know how to make perfect half boil egg. Sometimes it turned out to be hard boiled egg or not cook at all, with the transparent slimy part of the egg. :sc:

I discovered this gadget that makes perfect half boil egg. It cost RM9.90. I first saw it in Ikea when I was there for breakfast. I saw this funny looking orange plastic container with eggs in it. I peep over to someone who was making his half boiled egg and learn from him. It is real easy.

	The Half Boil Egg Gadget
	Add boiling water and fill about 3/4 of the container
	Add in as many eggs as it can fill.
	Wait till all the water vanished. Actually there is a little hole for the water to flow down.
	The Perfect Half Boil Egg 😛

Little Penang Street Market
01.26.07 |Penang, Shopping, Travel| Permalink | 2 Comments

This is NOT a sponsored post.

I got this email from my friend and if you are in Penang, do go and visit little Penang market. It has a lot of local traditional crafts, hand-made stuff, decorations for your home and heritage food. Little Penang promotes Penang’s unique lifestyle & talents. It has a live band to promote local music. It will be interesting for you to come and visit especially for tourist. Little Penang is a non profit organization to promote culture and a platform for local talents in arts, craft, design and music.

This Sunday! 28 January 2007….

Location Map Here

Penang’s trendy arts & crafts bazaar is getting bigger and better!

Programme

10.30 a.m. Kolam presentation by Hindu Sangam

12.00 p.m Teaching workshop on Kolam Drawing

Special Artist: Chinese Caligraphy Spring Couplets for Chinese New Year

Market times 10am-6pm and More than 60 vendors ranging from
Artists ~ Crafts Makers ~ Demonstration Crafts ~ Clothes ~ Scarfs ~ Accessories ~ Jewellery ~ Hand-made Gifts ~ Batik ~ Songket ~ Home décor ~ rattan, Labu Sayong, hand-painted ceramics, mats, tablecloth, lamp shades, flower arrangements, crystals.

KID’S CORNER: Kolam making activity ~ Face Painting ~ Colouring Paper bags ~ Mr. Ee and his aeroplanes! ~ Mr. Wee and his Chinese puzzles!

Info: www.lestariheritage.net/littlepenang

Have Fun!
Japanese Pancake
01.20.07 |Food, Shopping| Permalink | 3 Comments

There is a Japanese pancake store in Jusco Queensbay mall Penang. My children is fascinated with that store. It has machinery displaying how the little pancake is made. My children stared at it from start to finish. The pancake comes in different option of fillings like jam, peanut butter, red bean, chocolate and kaya. It cost RM1.30 for a piece. My children loved it.

Travel Tips – Space Maker

01.17.07 |ProductReview, Shopping, Tips, Travel| Permalink | 6 Comments

Something innovative, I want to introduce to you. Look what a zip lock bag can do. This is a special kind, don’t use the grocery type, hehehe…it won’t work. It is a special roll up compression bag.

You know how bulky and heavy 1 piece of winter clothing is. If you dump it in your luggage, it probably takes half of the space. Here is what you can do to create more space in your luggage so that you can put more shopping stuff in. 😆

You can use this special bag to help you store your big bulky comforter, soft toys and blankets in a compress manner. It creates more space in your cupboard for other stuff. It cost RM19.90 for 2 bags. Mainly used for traveling.

	The compression bag.
	Fold the bulky item nicely.
	Insert into the bag.
	Use the white piece of plastic to seal the bag tight by moving left to right and back again.
	Start rolling from the seal to the other end, the other end will let out some air to make it a vacuum inside. Flip it over and do the same.
	Tada, a piece of flatten item.
	RM19.90

Winter Clothing
01.15.07 |Service, Shopping, Travel| Permalink | 8 Comments

Today, I took half day leave to do some banking stuff and shop for winter clothing. Of coz I did some paktoring (dating) with my hubby without the children. 😀 I will be going to US for business trip and that place is having winter now, I heard below 0°C. A month ago, I heard some snow storm over there. I am a bit worried.

Anyway, we went to a few shops in Queensbay Mall to survey. One of the shops did sell close to what we wanted. Others have limited choices. The shop is called Universal Traveler, take note. It looked to me all the sales assistant there are new. One of them keep following my hubby closely, he was a bit annoyed. New SA always does that, not sure to scare away their customer or what.

I am trying my luck to ask them to give discount. He replied no discount. Another shop, as I was browsing, the SA came and said this have 10% discount. This is what I called “good customer service”. Never mind, we took the one we wanted and asked him for a new piece. He went to the store and came out with another color. He said the color we chose is the last piece. I attempt again and said “Since it is the last piece, you should give me a discount, it has been displayed. Furthermore, lots of people have tried it.” He replied “No, not many people come in here”. Opps, indirectly telling me business is not that good. :giggles: I asked for the manager but he was no where to be found.

My hubby couldn’t wait anymore, we decided to pay. As the new SA cashier was punching the machine, I kepoh their catalogue. Wow, I think God was helping me. I flipped to the last page and saw a promotion on the one I have selected. It has an offer saying I get a free long john with that piece I am purchasing. I questioned the SA, he kept quiet, as if he didn’t know what I was talking about. I didn’t make a scene, just went and tried out the long john. :snooty: I know what you are thinking off, I could have just walked out. I didn’t want to waste time and petrol mah.
New Pair of Eyes
01.12.07 |Penang, Service, Shopping| Permalink | 8 Comments

Look at my new glasses, not sponsored by PPP but by my other rice pot company, one of the yearly benefits. My son broke my glasses after I told him not to go near it. He stepped on it. It was partly my fault too by putting it there.

By the way, what do you think of the optician shop out there? Do you think that they charge a fairly exorbitant rate for glasses? Last time I went to this shop, their frame price is always 40-60% above the cost price. The sales person took out the calculator and punched a 40% discount to make you feel good. Or at least he tried to psycho you with a big discount and you will be crazy to reduce it further.

Another shop which my MIL just got her glasses from. She was told that the frame is only RM1. What’s the catch? The lens cost a BOMB.

I know this reliable shop called Intan in Level 1 BJ Complex Penang, the owner gave me a very good price for the above glasses. I didn’t even negotiate with her because she gave me a very good price. It was about 40% less than the broken pair and the new pair is branded too. If any of you is using Biomedics55 contact lens, she is the sole distributor for it. It is really dirt cheap.
Jusco Penang
12.15.06 |Food, Penang, Shopping, Sushi| Permalink | 12 Comments

Why do I love to go Jaya Jusco? One and only one reason that is I can get cheap and tasty sushi. Every Jusco store has a sushi counter. All kinds of sushi or hand roll can be found like nigrizushi, gunkan and norimaki. Yummy. Most of them cost less than RM2 per piece.

Why do my children love to go there? They have a smaller version of kidzsport, an internal playground with fun activities. It cost RM2 per 20 minutes per child. They also have arcade types of ride. I don’t recommend that you take any of those rides, as it will burn a hole in your pocket. RM1 for 1-minute ride.

If you want to avoid traffic to Queensbay mall, go before 10am or 3-4pm or weekdays except Friday. At 3-4pm, the crowd will leave and of cause new crowd will come at 5pm for dinner. It is not as bad as Mid Valley jam though.
Photobook Review
11.24.06 |Photobook, Shopping, Technology| Permalink | 15 Comments

I believed you have heard of Pixart and many bloggers have reviewed it. Now there is another competition that has emerged in the Malaysia market called Photobook. For some of you who may not know what I am talking about, let me enlightened you. It is an online service whereby you can purchase a personalised book with photos, just like an album. How do you start?

First you have to download their software PhotoStudio and install it on your PC. With the software, you can select and pick your photos and start building the photobook. At the end of it, preview and when you are satisfied, you can proceed to order the book. The software will load the book to the shop’s server. Lastly you have to key in details of your delivery address and make payment. Wait for 5-7 working days, it will be delivered to you.

What I like about PhotoStudio
Freestyle, you can practically create any layout, theme, background of your choice and add text anywhere on the layout.
Your directory folder tree is on the right side for easy selection of pictures with thumbnails view of all the pictures on the selected folder. There is no need to pre-select the pictures.
At the right column it has an indication of quality of the pictures in the folders. Good, Medium, Bad or Used (meaning the picture has been selected).
At the lower window, it has a small thumbnail preview of all the pages.
You can resize or move the pictures anywhere on the page. It has a grid to guide.
At the end, it gives you a warning if you forgot to fill any of the pages, the photo resolution is poor and the size of the picture is bigger than the frame.
For those poor resolution pictures, it doesn’t allow you to insert. The printing will not come out good.
It has all the fonts from your PC.
You can insert as many pictures on the page as possibly fit.

Room for improvement:

It will be good if there were a few pre-defined layouts themes for non-expert users.
Provide a scaling function to focus on selected parts of the pictures.
Provide hard cover as a selection.
Provide a box for the photobook when shipping because it can easily bend when it is not handle properly. I saw a slight dent on some of my pages. 🙁

The Photobook

It looks excellent. Picture quality is very good, similar to a developed photograph. I am impressed by it. It has a soft cover and as light as a book, you can carry it around. A great Christmas gift.

I did this photobook as a gift for my parents as they don’t see my children as much. With this photobook, they can admire them day and night. Take a look for yourself and start to make 1. Let me know if you want discount, I can TRY to get for you.

For more details, please go to their website http://photobook.com.my

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