Come next year, one-sen copper coins in Malaysia will become useless metal. Bank Negara has already made new ruling that we should bank in our one-sen (do we get anything in return?) and it will soon be boiled down to pure copper. I know the Star said that it was supposed to be useless only… Continue Reading
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Minimal in design
It is only I finally got started on some minimal Christmas deco around the house just to ‘get in the mood’. Actually I had already made my own compilation of Christmas songs a month earlier and got it playing at work, in the car, on the iPod, so yea, that was pretty much in the… Continue Reading
Great treasures amongst others
There aren’t many places to hang out in Kajang town, but one of the newest is Metropoint. On the top floor there is a huge empty slot that usually holds some kind of fairs. Last week, I was lucky to be walking around there and managed to take a look at Times Warebook Book Clearance… Continue Reading
Chinese Thanksgiving Festival
You have the western Thanksgiving celebrations a month before Christmas, and then you have the Chinese Thanksgiving Festival, better known as DongZhi Fest or Winter Solstice Festival. I grew up celebrating this day which falls on Dec 22. Photo from Flickr Typically, on this day, my mother would make the Tang Yuan, which is really… Continue Reading