Some Cool Decor for Your Home

Cyberplants anyone?

These is a great idea for your house. I think it looks great at night, don't you?

Some Tips To The Ladies.

Was going through youtube and stumbled on this video.

Great looking Keyboard

I found this great looking keyboard at http://ofwondersandwanders.blogspot.com/



I just love things that are retro looking, don't you? This keyboard was by Mr. Von Slatt using Remington typewriter parts.

Chicken Again

Yes, again I cooked chicken...... did this cause is both easy and fast.

Things you need

1. chicken
2. lemon
3. breadcrumbs
4. chili powder
5. eggs

How I did it

1. chop up the chicken in to small pieces and then marinate for 15min with lemon juice and salt to taste
2. pour breadcrumbs into a bowl and add some chili powder
3. beat up some eggs
4. first dip the chicken into the eggs then into the breadcrumbs then fry it till golden brown.
5. repeat part 4 till all the chicken is fried.

What did I tell you, its easy and fast.

Sake Warmers and All

You know what, I was looking through my own blog and I reflected back on yesterdays post. The entry about the "Sake Warmers" seems so out of place in my blog.

If you have been following this blog long enough, you will see that its has always been about me. So, what I publish yesterday is not entirely me. Maybe its hard to explain what I'm trying to say, but it seems to me, that its just out of place that article about sake warmers.

Then this started me thinking about using blogs as a medium for product introduction and to promote products through a different medium. Just how effective would this medium be in serving this purpose? Yes, there are so many fine examples out there in WWW.

Let us explore further. For one this medium is definitely cheaper than mainstream above the line advertising, but then there are so many blogs that are both reputable and that has a large public following. Which are the ones that you target as a marketer to feature your products? Or do you trust AdSense to do all the hard work for you? Many bloggers are also promoting products for free, just on the basis that it is new, top of the line or just for the bragging rights. I have to admit, I'm also one of them. Look at my PSP post, Sony did not pay me anything but here I was trying to promote it one way or the other.

Now, I know that there are services like pay per blog that pays you good money to blog about certain products. This is good. Why? Here is another avenue for bloggers to earn some money while they blog. That idea is good. But let me advise, sponsored blogs should be written in such a way that it would not seem that you are so bias towards those products that it seems fake. Try to sell something without trying to sound like it.

Maybe, instead of being paid by a singular company for what you blog, bloggers should form a consortium (grouping) of similarly themed blogs. This way the opportunity to earn more is greater than having to go through an agency. This I can see with technology related blogs and also (if I'm not wrong) cooking/recipe related blogs. Bloggers can talk to major companies and demand a certain allowance for fully featuring the companies products. This is true for blogs that already have a large following. Especially cooking blog, when a certain ingredient is is mention, it is most likely the readers would follow it to the dot.

But then maybe all this rumbling is from too much sake. Might I add that the "sake warmer" works as it should.

Anyhow if any of you have any ideas to add, please do.... Hick! Hick!

Looking for World Wide Distributors

A friend of mine just supplied me with a set of "Sake Warmers". They look nice, simple and of good quality. So, he ask me to look at how he could distribute this internationally. Me of cause decided to do a feature of this on my blog.

Firstly let us look at what sake is. Sake is an alcoholic beverage from Japan. It is mainly produce from rice and other plant juices. Sake is the traditional drink for Japan, in fact every time I drink Sake I would be thinking of Japan (mostly the Japaneses girls). Refer to Wikipedia for more info.

Sake is commonly consume warm. This method is popular in the US and Europe and most of South East Asia. This is done using a decanter on a pan of warm water. This method is good provided you have the correct equipment and also space for it can and will get quite messy.

This brings me to the "Sake Warmer" my friend is trying to supply. It provides a nice and neat way to serve your your futsū-shu or your tokutei meishōshu.

Here are some photos of the "Sake Warmer"

So if any of you are interested in distributing this product please contact me. Leave your contacts here in the comments and I will get in touch with you.

New PSP Out Soon

If you are going to sink your hands on a Sony PSP hold on. Why? Well, word has it that a new model is coming out sometime this September. Well you can read more here www.random-good-stuff.com/

I Cooked Again!!!

Today I cooked some very basic stuff. Basically just fried chicken and some boiled vegetables. Simple yes, but not that fast. Took me 1 1/2 hrs to finish cooking these 2 items. Maybe its because I no pro or I'm just a slow cook. Look below to see how I did it.



Fried Chicken With Yellow Powder(kunyit)

Things you need:
1. half a chicken
2. yellow powder(kunyit)
3. curry powder
4. chili powder
5. salt

How You Cook It
1. cut the chicken to small pieces
2. drip dry the chicken
3. add 5 teaspoons of yellow powder(kunyit)
4. 1 1/2 teaspoons of chili powder
5. 1 teaspoon of curry powder
6. add salt to taste but i added 1/2 teaspoon of salt
7. mix it all up, make sure all the chicken is covered
8. let it sit for 15min, this is so that the flavors is absorbed in to the chicken
9. get your oil heated
10. fry the chicken till its golden brown
11. I served this on a plate with cucumbers on the side



Boiled Vegetables with Oyster Sauce

Things You Need
1. chinese lettuce
2. sesame oil
3. thick oyster sauce

How You Cook It
1. boil the lettuce leaves till half cook
2. drain and cut it up, this depends on how big/small you want it
3. put lettuce on serving plate
4. add thick oyster sauce, should be enough to mix all the lettuce evenly
5. add sesame oil, to taste
6. you can also garnish with fried small onions on top

Digital Prayer Wheels

I just stumbled on this website that suggest that you could convert your hard drive in to a "Digital Prayer Wheel". This is done by saving the verse "Om Mani Padme Hum" in to your computer, and when the hard disk spins (modern hard drives spin from 5400 to 7600rpm)then it would be equivalent to you chanting the mantra.

Wow! Imagine how much negative karma you could clean from this prayer wheel.

Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum", invites the blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion. This mantra is one of the most famous mantra in Tibetan Buddhism.

For further details do visit:-

www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/digital-wheels.htm#Disk%20Drive

Some Pictures of Sandland

Here is some pictures of Sandland





These pictures are of the current development called "Pearl"



Nice building





And these are of the waterfront

These pictures were taken with my basic phone camera so don complain bout the picture quality

I Cooked This

Hi! its been a long time since I posted anything, sorry. Today I will teach you how I made chicken rice. This cooking guide is more suited towards guys who cook. Why? Cause it is not as precise as those cooking recipe blogs that you can find out there. I think the way guys cook is kinda different from you ladies (no offense intended here).

Things that you need:

1. one whole chicken

2. garlic

3. ginger

4. spring onions

5. soya sauce

6. thick soya sauce

7. whole white pepper

8. suger

9. chili sauce

10. sesame oil

11. cucumber

Cooking the chicken

*you need to do this first cause from this also you will get the stock for making everything else.

1. get one cooking pot big enough to place the entire chicken (make sure it is fully submerge)

2. cut off excess fat from the chicken's rear (this is important cause you'll need the fat later to cook the rice)

3. crush the ginger (use bout 6inches of garlic, you can use more but try not to use less for this is to get rid of the chicken smell)

4. stuff the crush ginger in to the chicken

5. get 3 stalks of spring onion 6. stuff the spring onion in to the chicken also

*you now have the chicken ready.

7. now get the pot of water boiling

8. add one table spoon of whole white pepper, if you don't have that then use white pepper powder but its nicer when its uncrush

9. throw in a few stalks of spring onion

10. add whole cloves of garlic if you like (this is not a prerequisite)

11. let this all boil for like 15minites

12. turn down the flames

13. put the chicken in breast side down

14. now close the cover, make sure the chicken is fully submerge and that the water is hot but not boiling

15. leave the chicken to cook for a minimum of 30min and a maximum of 45min, this depends on the size of your bird

16. check periodically to make sure the water does not boil, this is important

17. after 30 min check to see if the chicken is cook by poking it with a fork. If its cook then it should be easy to poke through else leave it for another 5min before checking again.

18. take the chicken out and submerge in icy cold water for around 10-15min

19. now take it out and put it on a plate. Allow it to dry

Now your chicken is cook you proceed with the other items. I would cook the rice next cause it takes time to cook but its up to you which you do as long as you cook the chicken first.

Cook the rice

1. you need a wok

2. chop up a few cloves of garlic

3. wash two cup of rice till the water runs clean

4. add some vegetable oil in the wok

5. fry the chicken fat in the oil

6. if not enough oil then add some more oil

7. fry the garlic till golden brown

8. now add the rice and fry for 5 to 10 minutes till it gets transparent

9. throw it into the rice cooker

10. add two and a half cups of chicken stock (soup that you cooked the chicken in)

*the amount of water you add depends on how you like your rice, hard=less water, soft=more water

11. when the rice is cook stir and wait another 10min before you eat


Cook the "chicken rice soya sauce"

1. chop up two cloves of garlic

2. a little bit of oil in the wok when you fry the garlic to golden brown

3. add thee tablespoons of soya sauce

4. let this all boil

5. add one tablespoon of thick soya sauce

6. add five tablespoons of chicken stock

7. taste if it taste nice else add some more soya sauce if not salty or add some suger if not sweet enough


Make the chili sauce

1. get a blender

2. add one inch of ginger

3. add three cloves of garlic with the skin remove

4. add two tablespoons of chili sauce

5. depending on how thick you want the chili sauce add three tablespoons of chicken stock

6. one tablespoon of vinegar

7.blend till finely mesh

8. add fresh chili if desired


Serving the chicken

1. chop up some cucumber slices add this to the serving plate

2. chop up the chicken and put on top of cucumber

3. add "chicken rice soya sauce" try to put some on each piece of chicken

4. add two teaspoons of sesame oil

5. serve the rice

Well there we have it. The trick to getting your chicken rice tasting great is the "chicken rice soya sauce". Try to get it slightly salty with a sweet ending (that is why i mention using suger). As for the chili sauce its really depends on your taste, if you don't have vinegar the you could use lime or lemon juice.

Hope you guys get it right.

Bon Appetite