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Its probably from Dora the Explorer when she goes exploring dark places. I remembered from Hardwarezone Market Place that there is also a guy there selling lots of different kind of torch light. Frankly, I also confess that I have something for it. However, I bought them for their usefulness. Many years ago, I saved up to buy a slim and long torch light from Maglite. Its slim and contains 5 C-size batteries. Useful as a baton too. The longest it went for was 7 nights of regular use in the jungle. Actually I also bought an ultra-violet torch light from dealextreme a while back. Its quite useful, small and effective against counterfeit money, bodily fluid and other stuff. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis Torch Light Whats the deal with torch light? I am very curious because its a very simple item yet there are so many variations of it. I subscribed to Dealextreme.com’s RSS and I notice that the torchlight inventory increases more often then others. There are lots of different type of torch lights available ranging from the small and dim to the small and extremely bright. So whats the deal with torch light anyway? The little one loves to play with it. Its probably from Dora the Explorer when she goes exploring dark places. I remembered from Hardwarezone Market Place that there is also a guy there selling lots of different kind of torch light. Frankly, I also confess that I have something for it. However, I bought them for their usefulness. Many years ago, I saved up to buy a slim and long torch light from Maglite. Its slim and contains 5 C-size batteries. Useful as a baton too. The longest it went for was 7 nights of regular use in the jungle. Actually I also bought an ultra-violet torch light from dealextreme a while back. Its quite useful, small and effective against counterfeit money, bodily fluid and other stuff. Copyright © 2010 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis Torch Light Whats the deal with torch light? I am very curious because its a very simple item yet there are so many variations of it. I subscribed to Dealextreme.com’s RSS and I notice that the torchlight inventory increases more often then others. There are lots of different type of torch lights available ranging from the small and dim to the small and extremely bright. So whats the deal with torch light anyway? The little one loves to play with it. Its probably from Dora the Explorer when she goes exploring dark places. I remembered from Hardwarezone Market Place that there is also a guy there selling lots of different kind of torch light. Frankly, I also confess that I have something for it. However, I bought them for their usefulness. Many years ago, I saved up to buy a slim and long torch light from Maglite. Its slim and contains 5 C-size batteries. Useful as a baton too. The longest it went for was 7 nights of regular use in the jungle. Actually I also bought an ultra-violet torch light from dealextreme a while back. Its quite useful, small and effective against counterfeit money, bodily fluid and other stuff. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis Imagination – The Mac Show, A 4-Day Extravaganza at Ngee Ann City ishop by Club 21 will celebrate its third anniversary with a thrilling 4-day extravaganza called Imagination – The Mac Show at Takashimaya Square (B2), Ngee Ann City, from 30 October to 2 November 2008. ishop, Asia’s largest Apple Premium Reseller, will proudly present the latest über-cool Apple products for professionals and home users at the event. Apple guest speakers will give a preview of upcoming creative solutions that educate and entertain. And visitors stand to gain from fantastic deals as well as be entertained by a host of performances. Imagination – The Mac Show also promises to be a sensory experience. Make Studios, in collaboration with composer/sound engineer Victor Low (The Observatory), will present Art of the T – Mosaic Voice. This multi-media, interactive installation blends digital music with T-shirt graphic imagery, coming alive via a touch-screen user interface. All featured T-shirts, from cult design collectives, are available for sale on-site. Other programme highlights are the 6th Asia-Pacific Yoyo Championship Finals, DJ Battle, DJ Nado, DJ Graduation, BBoys (dance), Soul Divas (dance) and Electrico (band). For those who want an inside track on the latest developments and hottest products from Apple — with unlimited fun and entertainment at the same time, Imagination – The Mac Show is an event not to be missed. Imagination – The Mac ShowTakashimaya Square (B2), Ngee Ann City30 October to 2 November 2008 ishop by Club 21 is located at Orchard Cineleisure #03-04/5/6. Tel: 6622 8988. Website: ishop.club21.bz Ads by BLOG2u Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis Imagination – The Mac Show, A 4-Day Extravaganza at Ngee Ann City ishop by Club 21 will celebrate its third anniversary with a thrilling 4-day extravaganza called Imagination – The Mac Show at Takashimaya Square (B2), Ngee Ann City, from 30 October to 2 November 2008. ishop, Asia’s largest Apple Premium Reseller, will proudly present the latest über-cool Apple products for professionals and home users at the event. Apple guest speakers will give a preview of upcoming creative solutions that educate and entertain. And visitors stand to gain from fantastic deals as well as be entertained by a host of performances. Imagination – The Mac Show also promises to be a sensory experience. Make Studios, in collaboration with composer/sound engineer Victor Low (The Observatory), will present Art of the T – Mosaic Voice. This multi-media, interactive installation blends digital music with T-shirt graphic imagery, coming alive via a touch-screen user interface. All featured T-shirts, from cult design collectives, are available for sale on-site. Other programme highlights are the 6th Asia-Pacific Yoyo Championship Finals, DJ Battle, DJ Nado, DJ Graduation, BBoys (dance), Soul Divas (dance) and Electrico (band). For those who want an inside track on the latest developments and hottest products from Apple — with unlimited fun and entertainment at the same time, Imagination – The Mac Show is an event not to be missed. Imagination – The Mac ShowTakashimaya Square (B2), Ngee Ann City30 October to 2 November 2008 ishop by Club 21 is located at Orchard Cineleisure #03-04/5/6. Tel: 6622 8988. Website: ishop.club21.bz Ads by BLOG2u Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis Imagination – The Mac Show, A 4-Day Extravaganza at Ngee Ann City ishop by Club 21 will celebrate its third anniversary with a thrilling 4-day extravaganza called Imagination – The Mac Show at Takashimaya Square (B2), Ngee Ann City, from 30 October to 2 November 2008. ishop, Asia’s largest Apple Premium Reseller, will proudly present the latest über-cool Apple products for professionals and home users at the event. Apple guest speakers will give a preview of upcoming creative solutions that educate and entertain. And visitors stand to gain from fantastic deals as well as be entertained by a host of performances. Imagination – The Mac Show also promises to be a sensory experience. Make Studios, in collaboration with composer/sound engineer Victor Low (The Observatory), will present Art of the T – Mosaic Voice. This multi-media, interactive installation blends digital music with T-shirt graphic imagery, coming alive via a touch-screen user interface. All featured T-shirts, from cult design collectives, are available for sale on-site. Other programme highlights are the 6th Asia-Pacific Yoyo Championship Finals, DJ Battle, DJ Nado, DJ Graduation, BBoys (dance), Soul Divas (dance) and Electrico (band). For those who want an inside track on the latest developments and hottest products from Apple — with unlimited fun and entertainment at the same time, Imagination – The Mac Show is an event not to be missed. Imagination – The Mac ShowTakashimaya Square (B2), Ngee Ann City30 October to 2 November 2008 ishop by Club 21 is located at Orchard Cineleisure #03-04/5/6. Tel: 6622 8988. Website: ishop.club21.bz Ads by BLOG2u Copyright © 2010 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis That strange smell A few weeks ago, my mom gave me one of her AMC pot to cook in. Its one of those stainless steel pot that can do amazing stuff if you keep it in good condition. It can cook vege just by putting the said vege in it, sprinkle a few drops of water and close the lid. Put it on top of the fire and watch the indicator reached a certain point and your food is cooked. So that day, she came over and pass it to me. She tied the lid to the pot with a string to keep it from falling out. I took the pot and put it in the cupboard. Fast forward to this week. Everytime I opened the cupboard, there is a strange smell coming from it. I searched for the source of the smell but there isn’t any thing inside the cupboard except empty pots and pans, or so I thought. Just now, I took out the AMC pot to use to steam some sweet potatoes. Imagine to my surprise I found that the pot was not empty. My mom had made some coriander pork inside and she didn’t tell me when she pass it to me. The cooked pork was in the pot all along for the past few weeks. The thing about the AMC pot is that the lid is quite secure so very little smell leaked out most of the time. Well, I threw away the few weeks old pork and cleaned the pot. Now its as good as new. The mystery of the strange smell has been solved, I hope. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis That strange smell A few weeks ago, my mom gave me one of her AMC pot to cook in. Its one of those stainless steel pot that can do amazing stuff if you keep it in good condition. It can cook vege just by putting the said vege in it, sprinkle a few drops of water and close the lid. Put it on top of the fire and watch the indicator reached a certain point and your food is cooked. So that day, she came over and pass it to me. She tied the lid to the pot with a string to keep it from falling out. I took the pot and put it in the cupboard. Fast forward to this week. Everytime I opened the cupboard, there is a strange smell coming from it. I searched for the source of the smell but there isn’t any thing inside the cupboard except empty pots and pans, or so I thought. Just now, I took out the AMC pot to use to steam some sweet potatoes. Imagine to my surprise I found that the pot was not empty. My mom had made some coriander pork inside and she didn’t tell me when she pass it to me. The cooked pork was in the pot all along for the past few weeks. The thing about the AMC pot is that the lid is quite secure so very little smell leaked out most of the time. Well, I threw away the few weeks old pork and cleaned the pot. Now its as good as new. The mystery of the strange smell has been solved, I hope. Copyright © 2010 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis That strange smell A few weeks ago, my mom gave me one of her AMC pot to cook in. Its one of those stainless steel pot that can do amazing stuff if you keep it in good condition. It can cook vege just by putting the said vege in it, sprinkle a few drops of water and close the lid. Put it on top of the fire and watch the indicator reached a certain point and your food is cooked. So that day, she came over and pass it to me. She tied the lid to the pot with a string to keep it from falling out. I took the pot and put it in the cupboard. Fast forward to this week. Everytime I opened the cupboard, there is a strange smell coming from it. I searched for the source of the smell but there isn’t any thing inside the cupboard except empty pots and pans, or so I thought. Just now, I took out the AMC pot to use to steam some sweet potatoes. Imagine to my surprise I found that the pot was not empty. My mom had made some coriander pork inside and she didn’t tell me when she pass it to me. The cooked pork was in the pot all along for the past few weeks. The thing about the AMC pot is that the lid is quite secure so very little smell leaked out most of the time. Well, I threw away the few weeks old pork and cleaned the pot. Now its as good as new. The mystery of the strange smell has been solved, I hope. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis Miding Miding plant My mom was in Kuching for my grandma’s birthday over the weekend. Since she is there, I had an inspiration to have this particular dish made from the Miding plant. I think this particular plant only grows in Sarawak hence its quite hard to get it in other countries like Singapore or even West Malaysia. The wild miding grows by the roadside or in the jungle. In the morning, the natives would go around plucking them to bundle them up to be sold in the market. I think its quite a hard work considering that you have to pluck a lot to make one bundle. And each bundle below sells only like RM2 or so. Miding bundle Natural packaging The miding packaging is also quite interesting. They would pluck these big leaves from the plants in the jungle and just bundle it up with a string. It looks like a big burrito. When you open it up, it looks quite neat and clean. The best way to eat it is to cook with sambal belacan. My aunt had prepared two type of it for me to try. One with blue ginger and the other without. I wonder which one taste better. I actually forgotten what miding tasted like. Its supposed to be better tasting than kangkong belacan. I shall try it tonight as the miding plant cannot be kept that long after plucking. More pics later when I cooked it. Update: This is the cooked miding with sambal belacan. Taste good, but I think I put a bit too much belacan coz a bit too salty. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis Miding Miding plant My mom was in Kuching for my grandma’s birthday over the weekend. Since she is there, I had an inspiration to have this particular dish made from the Miding plant. I think this particular plant only grows in Sarawak hence its quite hard to get it in other countries like Singapore or even West Malaysia. The wild miding grows by the roadside or in the jungle. In the morning, the natives would go around plucking them to bundle them up to be sold in the market. I think its quite a hard work considering that you have to pluck a lot to make one bundle. And each bundle below sells only like RM2 or so. Miding bundle Natural packaging The miding packaging is also quite interesting. They would pluck these big leaves from the plants in the jungle and just bundle it up with a string. It looks like a big burrito. When you open it up, it looks quite neat and clean. The best way to eat it is to cook with sambal belacan. My aunt had prepared two type of it for me to try. One with blue ginger and the other without. I wonder which one taste better. I actually forgotten what miding tasted like. Its supposed to be better tasting than kangkong belacan. I shall try it tonight as the miding plant cannot be kept that long after plucking. More pics later when I cooked it. Update: This is the cooked miding with sambal belacan. Taste good, but I think I put a bit too much belacan coz a bit too salty. Copyright © 2010 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis Miding Miding plant My mom was in Kuching for my grandma’s birthday over the weekend. Since she is there, I had an inspiration to have this particular dish made from the Miding plant. I think this particular plant only grows in Sarawak hence its quite hard to get it in other countries like Singapore or even West Malaysia. The wild miding grows by the roadside or in the jungle. In the morning, the natives would go around plucking them to bundle them up to be sold in the market. I think its quite a hard work considering that you have to pluck a lot to make one bundle. And each bundle below sells only like RM2 or so. Miding bundle Natural packaging The miding packaging is also quite interesting. They would pluck these big leaves from the plants in the jungle and just bundle it up with a string. It looks like a big burrito. When you open it up, it looks quite neat and clean. The best way to eat it is to cook with sambal belacan. My aunt had prepared two type of it for me to try. One with blue ginger and the other without. I wonder which one taste better. I actually forgotten what miding tasted like. Its supposed to be better tasting than kangkong belacan. I shall try it tonight as the miding plant cannot be kept that long after plucking. More pics later when I cooked it. Update: This is the cooked miding with sambal belacan. Taste good, but I think I put a bit too much belacan coz a bit too salty. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis How to choose a mattress. This is very informative. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis How to choose a mattress. This is very informative. Copyright © 2010 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis How to choose a mattress. This is very informative. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis 300 Japanese soldiers died at Raffles Hotel! This was not taught in the history books. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis 300 Japanese soldiers died at Raffles Hotel! This was not taught in the history books. Copyright © 2010 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis 300 Japanese soldiers died at Raffles Hotel! This was not taught in the history books. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis Chinese style pork ribs This was today’s dinner. I came across this recipe for pork ribs over the weekend and decided to try it out today. The steps are pretty simple to follow and the result turns out to be quite good. Personally, I think there are still room for improvement but overall, it was well received by everyone. The original recipe was for 300g of prime pork ribs, I used 400g so I just add a dash more of the sauces. Ingredients 300 grammes baby back ribs 2 tablespoons of corn flour Marinate 1 tablespoon oyster sauce 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce 1 teaspoon chinese cooking wine 1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce 1/2 teaspoon salt liberal dashes of white pepper powder 1 teaspoon of corn flour Mix the sauces together and marinate the pork ribs for around 6 hours. The original recipe calls for the ribs to be fried in 300ml of oil. I am not a fan of frying at home so I used the stir fried method instead. I poured some oil in a pan and let it heat up. After coating the ribs with 2 tablespoons of corn flour, I put the ribs into the pan and let it sit there cooking for about 10mins. Stir once in a while so that the pork can cook evenly. Dish up and its ready to serve. As an improvement, I will let it cook for another 5mins next time. Although the meat was evenly cooked, I want to let the meat slide off the ribs nicely the next time. This time, everything was tender, juicy and full of flavour. Accompanying this dish was black bean soup which had been simmering for more than 4 hours. Another dish was steamed sea bass below. Copyright © 2009 My Name is Mandrake. ShareThis