Sunday, September 28, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Update for the week - Power director
This week was an especially tiring week. Did not have chance to update my blog because, my good friend Kah Sang was getting married and i wanted to do a video montage for him and vivien. Alas my housemate did not have a good programme to do video editing. I found both the free editing software like Windows Movie maker and also Apple software lacking in alot of effects, so after watching the prelimary video, i decided to try my hand at doing the video editing.
I did some research and decided to buy Powerdirector. voted in PC mag as one of the better editing suite. One thign cool about it is it has a member forum where people can post the new effects and obejects, so i can download and use the templates which was definitely a great bonus.
I plan to use this software to start my youtube... video.. posting on cooking tips... should be fun....
There are alot of features which i still have to learn but i think it will be fun when the next video editing assignment comes along.
If you plan to get a video editing suite and a value for money software - this can be one of your choices.
Well hopefully i can back to writing my blogs and posting some more stuff on the web....
I did some research and decided to buy Powerdirector. voted in PC mag as one of the better editing suite. One thign cool about it is it has a member forum where people can post the new effects and obejects, so i can download and use the templates which was definitely a great bonus.
I plan to use this software to start my youtube... video.. posting on cooking tips... should be fun....
There are alot of features which i still have to learn but i think it will be fun when the next video editing assignment comes along.
If you plan to get a video editing suite and a value for money software - this can be one of your choices.
Well hopefully i can back to writing my blogs and posting some more stuff on the web....
Dinner special
We had one of those nights again. Simple Asian food. I decided to try a local Chinese dish called Water boiled fish with Sezhuan Pepper corn which i learned from Joanne. Its a local dish they eat in china during the cold of winter. I love this dish because it is really spicy You could say it is the Thai equivalent of Tom Yum Soup. I gave some to Taishi my "son", he kept licking his tongue... but i am sure he enjoyed it.
Below are the pictures of the dishes
I think it will come as no surprise that this soup is very spicy.. but i really love it. It simple to do and all you need is sezquan pepper corn, chilli oil and nice fish stock.
This is ginger fried chicken. I had a sudden craving to cook some of my childhood food, so i recreated this fried chicken using ginger as the base. Its actually very tasty. You can also use garlic.
And of course sizzling japanese beancurd ... the perenial favourite in our house.
This dish is what my wife ordered so i had to make it. Paw Paw salad... i think i am getting good at it, it was hard to get the mix of the sauce right - the key ingredients are : lemon, palm sugar, chilli, fish sauce.
It was an enjoyable meal.... finally get to cook water boiled fish.....
Below are the pictures of the dishes
I think it will come as no surprise that this soup is very spicy.. but i really love it. It simple to do and all you need is sezquan pepper corn, chilli oil and nice fish stock.
This is ginger fried chicken. I had a sudden craving to cook some of my childhood food, so i recreated this fried chicken using ginger as the base. Its actually very tasty. You can also use garlic.
And of course sizzling japanese beancurd ... the perenial favourite in our house.
This dish is what my wife ordered so i had to make it. Paw Paw salad... i think i am getting good at it, it was hard to get the mix of the sauce right - the key ingredients are : lemon, palm sugar, chilli, fish sauce.
It was an enjoyable meal.... finally get to cook water boiled fish.....
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
I am still at top of the league
Australia League (Rank: 109,909 / 119,246) |
| # | Team | Manager | GW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 1 | ManPOWER | Adrian Han | 35 | 149 |
| 2 | Arsenalfan | Phannaree Disungnoen | 32 | 144 |
| 3 | New Plymouth Pinky | Keith Tan | 22 | 130 |
| 4 | VLFC | Kah Sang Goh | 36 | 122 |
 5 | PePsY Team | Nopsakol Ampornjittikul | 37 | 120 |
 6 | RhodesianSwans | Colin Swan | 28 | 119 |
| 7 | Pepsy's Brother | Nopchai Ampornjittikul | 48 | 114 |
SOME INTERESTING KNOWLEDGE
This really is interesting.......
Enlighten your worldly knowledge
'Stewardesses'
is the longest word typed with only the left hand
And 'lollipop'
is the longest word typed with your right hand.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver, or purple.
'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
(Are you doubting this?)
Our eyes
are always the same size from birth,
but our nose
and ears
never stop growing.
The sentence:
'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'
uses every letter of the alphabet.
(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?
The words 'racecar,'
'kayak'
and 'level'
are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left (palindromes).
(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)
There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous':
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
(You're not doubting this, are you?)
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.' (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
TYPEWRITER
is the longest word
that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
(All you typists are going to test this out)
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish
has a memory span of three seconds.
(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark
is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail
can sleep for three years.
(I know some people that could do this too.!)
Almonds are a member of the peach
family.
An ostrich's eye
is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also)
Babies
are born without kneecaps.
They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
Peanuts
are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands
last longer when refrigerated.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE 2
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave
was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
(Good thing he did that.)
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls
froze completely solid.
There are more chickens
than people in the world.
Winston Churchill
was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink
nearly twice as much as men.
Now you know more than you did before!!
Enlighten your worldly knowledge
'Stewardesses'
is the longest word typed with only the left hand
And 'lollipop'
is the longest word typed with your right hand.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
No word in the English language rhymes with
month, orange, silver, or purple.
'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
(Are you doubting this?)
Our eyes
are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never stop growing.
The sentence:
'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'
uses every letter of the alphabet.
(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?
The words 'racecar,'
'kayak'
and 'level'
are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left (palindromes).
(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.)
There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous':
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
(You're not doubting this, are you?)
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.' (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)
TYPEWRITER
is the longest wordthat can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
(All you typists are going to test this out)
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A goldfish
has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is.)
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark
is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. A snail
can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.!)
Almonds are a member of the peach
family. An ostrich's eye
is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that also)
Babies
are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
Peanuts
are one of the ingredients of dynamite! Rubber bands
last longer when refrigerated. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE 2
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave
was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that.)
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls
froze completely solid.
There are more chickens
than people in the world. Winston Churchill
was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink
nearly twice as much as men. Now you know more than you did before!!
