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Weekend Cooking: Popcorn Chicken
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In the car on the way to lunch with our mothers to celebrate Mother’s Day, Rudy and I suddenly started talking about a few promising recipes I saw on the Internet, and finally on the spur of the moment we decided to invite our friends over for dinner and board games. After lunch, we…
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Weekend Cooking: Cheesy Garlic Biscuits
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When I was younger, the word ‘biscuit’ would bring to mind crunchy, sweet discs, some with nuts and some with chocolate chips, basically what we also call ‘cookies.’ The first time I ate a fluffy, buttery biscuit was when I was in the States, when Jeanny took me to Popeyes for the first time. When…
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PS3 Media Server on Synology 411j revisited
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Previously I wrote about installing this awesome media server onto a Synology NAS here. However this guide referred to another guide on a different site which subsequently went down, and I couldn’t find a copy of it anywhere else. So here’s an attempt to rebuild the guide to include the missing steps. Since I’ll…
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XBMC on the Intel NUC (D54250WYKH)
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I’ve always wanted a proper HTPC, but so far it’s just been off-the-shelf media streamers for me. 1st it was the AC Ryan PlayOn HD, 2nd was the Xtreamer Sidewinder 3, but they were limited with their inability to display Hi10p videos (10bit color-coded videos usually used for anime), and proper SSA subtitles (also…
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Back from the dead (yet again)?
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Hello again after so many years (just one actually). This blog has been here and there, up and down, and generally unreliable due to other priorities having taken up my time. Firstly, a summary of related events: The website server was moved onto spot pricing. Yay cheap, but what I didn’t realise was that…
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Weekend Cooking: Kentang Bol (Potato Balls)
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When I was in Singapore visiting relatives, I got to try out – for the first time ever – Mak Abang’s famous Ramadan dish: Kentang Bol. Literally called “Potato Balls,” it is a super comforting dish, comprised of deep fried potato balls filled with spiced ground beef served in tangy tomato beef broth. Seriously…
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Still connected.
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Greetings from Phuket! Tis officially the first day of our vacation here and we’re totally taking it easy by lazing around the pool/beach. While last year we spent most of the time reading and sleeping, this time I have my laptop along for the possible office emergency (hope they don’t call *crosses fingers*). So…
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Project: Gobblefest November 2012
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Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012 Time: 7:30 p.m Number of guests: 13 pax Location: Bandar Utama Hosted a Thanksgiving dinner of sorts over Awal Muharram holiday. I figured Thanksgiving would be a perfect theme to try out different dishes using ingredients associated with the Fall, and I also wanted to challenge myself and see…
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Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup
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This creamy soup is filled with generous amounts of mushrooms, and is seriously the best I have ever tasted. I will not make cream of mushroom soup any other way ever again. A portion of this recipe was used for the Emerilized Green Bean Casserole, and the rest was served as a starter. Definitely…
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bangsar.net now on Amazon
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Due to the inability of the Synology 411j NAS to host this wordpress site, we’ve finally moved to Amazon’s EC2 service. This is Amazon’s cloud service with its micro instance starting at USD15 a month if you run it 24/7. Yes, USD15 is a little pricey for just a private wordpress blog, but Amazon…