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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 just glutinous rice flour rolled into little balls. They are usually in white and pink colour. Then, she will boil sweetened soup, maybe add pandan leaves in it. We would all sit around a round table, according to our age we would scoop the Tang Yuan in the soup. Then we would be declared a…
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Photobook sales
Photobook Malaysia is having a Christmas Sale on their products. This is just nice for me as I had been postponing printing my wedding album for the longest time. Right after my pictures came out, the A3 photobook costed RM290, so it was a bit steep. So I waited and waited, there was the Merdeka sale, but I was too lazy to compile my pics. Finally, I took this opportunity to print with the current sales, as I have to bring the album back for my folks and in laws to view the album this coming Chinese New Year on Feb 7th. So what’s on sale? This is what I…
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Upgrading Tiger to Leopard
With all the news and great reviews about Leopard flying around, I decided to upgrade as well. Last week, I got my copy of Leopard and set to do the work. I had never formatted and reinstalled my iBook before, so it was quite scary at first. It certainly went through my mind, what if it failed, crashes or something. Nevertheless, I had to do it, so first thing I did was backup. I downloaded SilverKeeper, a freeware for backing up your whole Macintosh HD to another external HD without having to compress any files. So it’s like ghosting in Windows, although I don’t think it will be bootable. I…
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Caring for life
Have you ever thought of getting really old one fine day, and wondering who’s going to take care of you? Are you going to end up in nursing homes where your kids will chuck you there? This has probably crossed my mind a few times, but I’d rather just leave it to the Lord. However, ultimately, I hope I will age gracefully, I won’t have all the sicknesses, and I can totally take care of myself even at an old age. Is that just fantasizing? No, I think ultimately, once I’ve done the work I am here to do, it’s better that I get to leave the world at a…
