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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 mood enough. Back to the house, we decided not to put up the Christmas tree this year, as the tree is rather old fashioned and ugly, and it will be in the way as there’s only so much space in the house. Instead, I just took out the Christmas lights and strung it around the…
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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 Fair. There were so many books it would normally take me some hours to browse through. I did find lots of books I would really like to buy, but not all were extra cheap, although many were up to 90% off. I managed to buy a couple that I think would be great reads on…
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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…
