Author: sweet surrender

Popiah

January 24, 2007January 24, 2007 sweet surrender 11 Comments

Nothing much happenning around. Sorry for the ad overloaded because I have nothing to blog. Will minimise my ad posts and dig something out to blog.

Popiah, one of my favourite food. It’s not easy to find good popiah nowadays. Last time my parents used to buy them from Petanak market but don’t know where’s that lady gone to now? I heard that there a nice popiah stall at Expert Food Court, Jalan Song.

What is popiah? It’s a type of spring roll usually sold and widely eaten by the Chinese community in Kuching. Is there popiah in other part of Sarawak? Does other races eat it too? Hmmm… I’m not sure about this.

The outer layer is made from pastry sheet. The inside consists of various type of veggies such as long beans, carrots, water chesnuts, salad leaves, chillies… I’m not very sure what else they have in there as different people have different fillings, different preferences. The inside is laced with sweet peanut sauce and if you prefer spicier version, you can have sweet chilli sauce added too. Popiah is consider a type of vegetarian food(I guess…) since there is no meat in there and many vegetarian shops selling it too.

The savoury taste of the filling, the crunchiness of the veggies and the softness of the tastelss pastry sheet blends really well together. So many type of flavours and so many type of textures… Oh la la… Though it’s a bit messy when eating them, you need skill for it 😛 However there are ways to make it less messy. Here’s one way…
Just use a plate and a spoon *LOL*

Food Porn

Sweet Surrender’s Page Rank(PR)

January 23, 2007January 24, 2007 sweet surrender 2 Comments

WOW!! Raining for 3 days now… Not stopping yet. However, I’m not worry that my place will be flooded as my area is consider one of the highest areas in Kuching. Though The Sarawak River is just nearby and Senari Port is nearby too, there is no fear of flood. If my area floods, the whole Kuching will be under water *LOL* Summore, where else can you find so many hills in the middle of Kuching? My area alone already have more than 3 hills. The highest is the one where CHMSNo1 situated. The hills are not like what you imagine with muddy road, big tall trees everywhere, orang utans swinging from tree to tress -_-” Sorry… As we always get comments/questions about living in the jungle or on trees. Surprising at this era, we still get questions and statements like this hahaha… They are well-lit tarred roads with shops built at both sides and the dividers are planted with decoration trees.

Aiyooo… PPP rejected many of my posts because according to them, my page is less than PR1/10!! -_-” No wonder ReviewMe didn’t want to approve me after so many times of submitting. But… But.. But… I checked from so many sites that mine is PR3/10 using http://www.irenelaw.com and http://www.irenelaw.com. FYI, I’m using irenelaw.com for PPP 🙁 See!
(result only applicable for Home page)
Then, from MyPageRank.net.
Next, CheckPageRank.com.
The fourth one is SEO Chat, Click to view my report.
One more,
Finally this(result only applicable for Home page)

My advise is, DO NOT FULLY TRUST THESE CHECKERS!! 🙁

Except… Maybe this one -_-”

My post about home security got rejected because the reason was that my common PR was PR0/10, average PR was 0.18/10. Fine… I understand as the requirement for that post was I must have PR4/10. Then, today another got rejected because the requirement is PR3/10 about SEO & SEM and I was told that my common PR is still 0/10 and average PR now is only 0.35/10, a bit of increment from the other day. So pathetic. So, for these two posts, I had removed all the links to the sponsors’ sites and remove it from Commercial Break category and edit them to be my own post for SEO purpose *EVIL GRIN* Now… I’m waiting for 3 more rejections as they all required PR3/10 and above.

Another one about the photography contest was rejected because my blog is not a photography blog so I had deleted this post and replaced with other post and the replaced post was approved! Hahaha…

Now… I think I have to do tramendous SEO works to this blog so that I can have higher PR. I already have several plans for it but don’t worry, they have nothing to do with my entries, they are just some technical stuffs such as tweaking the codings here and there. Also… Mind to exchange link with me? 😛

Bulletin Board, Randomness, Tech Stuffs

Behind The Scene – Bloggers’ Meet

January 22, 2007January 24, 2007 sweet surrender 11 Comments

Saw the news about Jeff Ooi and Ahirudin bin Attan are being sued by NST for defamation last week. Click here to read more about it. So, what do you think? I’m not worry as I’m not into topics like that but I feel that it’s not very fair. The ISA didn’t even catch them but it’s NST that wants to sue them. I don’t understand and there is not need to make me understand.

Damn Streamyx! Kept disconnecting! I can’t update my blog! Missed out opportunities in PPP too! *ANGRY* Took me ages to get this post up *show middle finger*Support the petition!

Warning: Bandwidth sucker!!

Last year, Sue wanted to meet us, Kuching bloggers, when she’s back in Kuching and we had a bloggers’ meet at her place and it was really an eye opener to her. Not only that, Unker Ho’s Lala Crofts that met us at bing! also had the chance to feel how a bloggers’ meet is like. I’m sure many of you, non bloggers, have this big question mark of what’s going on when there’s a bloggers’ meet taking place? Usually it’s a private affair just like when you are meeting up with your gang. However, there are special things going on that you will not get in a normal meet. I’m going to let you go behind the scene and remember, you see it first in Sweet Surrender!

Cameras, cameras, cameras…

When the food/drinks come, it’s photo taking time. No one can touch the food/drinks until we are satisfied with our photos.

Eat, eat, eat, drink, drink, drink, talk, talk, talk. Eh! Got ppl take photo! *POSE* Others that don’t know just yakking away and do their own stuffs and showing off skills.

Camwhoring, disturb people’s food/drinks, making fun of others, making fun of ourselves, and if you see bloggers that kept hiding their faces from the cameras, these bloggers would like to remain anonymous.

That’s about it. Oh… We were labelled the noisy bunch by the one of the staff of bing!. -_-” We are loud too! 😛 Also, group photo is a must to us. Worst, if there are 10 cameras, someone that is appointed to be the photographer(usually it’s anyone that is not related to our meet) will need to handle 10 cameras.

The end!

Photos are from Ben, Miracle8, Ann, Allen, Robin, and Frank

Interesting, Specials

Meme – Meeting the Future In-Laws

January 20, 2007January 20, 2007 sweet surrender 16 Comments

WOW! Ben tagged me for the first time and already throw this long one to me. So many questions, feels like being interview by future in-laws (-.-“) as if I had this experience before *LOL* This is going to take a while.

1) Are your parents married or divorced?
Married.

2) Are you a vegetarian?
No. I don’t like it… too oily, too many MSG, too salty, too sweet. Oh… I’m not impress with people that claimed to be a vegetarian becuase of their religion. Especially when their religion says no to killing animal but they have this mentality of eating vegetarian meat to replace the real meat. This simply means you are not even “clean” spiritiually because you still have the urge to want to eat meat but you can’t therefore have to resort to vegetarian meat to get a taste of real meat. I don’t mind eating vegetarian food for fun, I like some of them but not all.

3) Do you believe in Heaven?
Yes.

4) Have you ever come close to dying?
Hmm.. Once when I was still very little. I ran across the street wihtout knwoing a car was going to speed by so fast. It’s like a split second only. Scary. That’s why I don’t really dare to cross the road alone.

5) What jewellery do you wear 24/7?
None. At leats not now.

6) Favourite time of day?
None.

7) Do you eat the stems of broccoli?
Yes.

8) Do you wear makeup?
At least not now. If I’m going out during the day time, just foundation, blusher and lip balm and/or lip gloss. Usually if I go out at night, my face is bare, only apply lip gloss. Depends on the occassion also. No matter what, lip balm is always on.

9) Ever have plastic surgery?
No.

10) Do you colour your hair?
Dyed it last year. No plan to dye it again.(p/s: photo after two hair washes after the cut)

11) What do you wear to bed?
PJ.

12) Have you ever done anything illegal?
Some traffic offences :p never get caught though.

13) Can you roll your tongue?
Yes.

14) Do you tweeze your eyebrows?
Yes.

15) What kind of sneakers?
Just normal ones. Not a sneakers fan anyway.

16) Do you believe in abortions?
No. Unless for health reason.

17) What is your hair color?
Half black and half brown 😛

18) Future childâ€™s name?
Never thought of it.

19) Do you snore?
I don’t think so. No one said anything to me 😛

20) If you could go anywhere in the world where would it be?
First stop hmmm… so hard to decide, Perth? Disneyland? Guam? *SHRUG*

21) Do you sleep with stuffed animals?
Nope. Never like them. They only collect know how to dust and make me sneeze.

22) If you won the lottery, what would you do first?
I’ve never bought any so there is no such thing.

23) Gold or silver?
Gold, of course. Who wants to be the second. I want to be the winner!

24) Hamburger or hot dog?
Roadside burger rules!

25) If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Hmm… NO!!!

26) City, beach or country?
City.

27) What was the last thing you touched?
Keyboard. DUH~ I’m typing this meme.

28) Where did you eat last?
At home.

29) Whenâ€™s the last time you cried?
Few weeks ago?

30) Do you read blogs?
That’s what bloggers do.

31) Would you ever go out dressed like the opposite sex?
Dont’ think so. Impossible hahaha… I don’t have such masculine body.

32) Ever been involved with the police?
No.

33) Whatâ€™s your favourite shampoo conditioner and soap?
Hmm… So far no fav shampoo/conditioner. Oh I don’t use soap, I use shower gel 😛

34) Do you talk in your sleep?
Hmm.. I don’t think so.

35) Ocean or pool?
Pool.

36) So, who has the original missing questions? #36, 37, 61, and 62.
What were they?

37) Who would you take on a mÃ©nage Ã trois for a dirty weekend?
You? WAHAHAHA!

38) Window seat or aisle?
Window.

39) Ever met anyone famous?
None.

40) Do you feel that youâ€™ve had a truly successful life?
NO. It’s not what I want and I feel like I’m missing many things.

41) Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut it?
Twirl.

42) Ricki Lake or Oprah Winfrey?
Who is Ricki?

43) Basketball or Football?
Ball gown? 😛

44) How long do your showers last?
10 minutes or so, sometimes can take up like 45 minutes ;P

45) Automatic or do you drive a stick?
Auto. I’m lost in how to drive a manual already.

46) Cake or ice cream?
Ice cream.

47) Are you self-conscious?
Yes.

48) Have you ever drank so much you threw up?
I don’t drink.

49) Have you ever given money to a beggar?
Never.

50) Have you been in love?
Yes.

51) Where do you wish you were?
I don’t know.

52) Are you wearing socks?
No.

53) Have you ever ridden in an ambulance?
No.

54) Can you tango?
No.

55) Last gift you received?
None.

56) Last sport you played?
Eeek… I don’t play any sports for so long ever since I don’t know…

57) Things you spend a lot of money on?
Food.

58) Where do you live?
Kuching.

59) Where were you born?
Kuching.

60) Last wedding attended?
Last November, Ely and Cindy’s.

61) Spit or swallow?
Swallow.

62) Favorite position?
Huh?

63) Most hated food(s)?
Luncheon meat.

64) Whatâ€™s your least favourite?
huh?

65) Can you sing?
Ok lar… Not so bad. *Blek*

66) Last person you instant messaged?
My bro.

67) Last place you went on holiday?
KL.

68) Favourite regular drink?
Plain water.

69) Current Song?
Don’t have any.

70) Tag 2 friends:
Miracle8 and Pink cotton. Wahahah…

Aiyaa…. So long… People complain lo…

Interesting, Me, myself and I

Look! Here Comes the Clown!

January 20, 2007January 20, 2007 sweet surrender 9 Comments

Warning: I’m mean.. Oh Yessss… I am! Lately I’m in the mood of picking just about anything… So, you can skip this post if you want to.

Imagine this:

The hair: Yellow coloured rhinestones hair accessories.
The face: Blue eyeshadow(monotone) with icy pink lipstick.
The body: Tube A-line layered bridal gown in white with small green & pink lace flowers scattered all over the dress.
The feet: White pump with pale yellowish socks.
***
The face: Green eyeshadow(monotone) with pink lipstick.
The body: Asymmetrical A-line gold coloured with greenish tinge when light reflected evening gown
The hand: Black net gloves.
The ear & neck: Gold earrings, silver/white gold necklace.

What do you think? Everything clashed from head to toe (-_-“) I’m not an image consultant, makeup artist or whatever but it’s just common sense OK?!?! GIRLS! This is a disaster! Especially if you are the bride! OMG! Everything was even captured in the video and camera and definitely looked like a CLOWN! Goodness gracious! Super *JIAT LAT*

Who to blame? Both to blame. Many brides have this wrong perception that they must look over the top or trying desperately to show off on their special day. Next, the makeup artist doesn’t know what he/she is doing because they are not professional. However, the huge responsibility still falls to the shoulder of the makeup artist. It’s your job to make them look pretty even with their unreasonable request. Your skills come in here. A lousy one will make you ended up like a clown just like the above mentioned.

Ended up like this for your wedding day is damn pathetic. I want to puke when I saw the photos. Even my brother who is 10 years younger than me asked me, “EH! Why like that?”(o_0”)

Actually the above can be easily corrected by anyone. I mean… It’s quite basic, unless you have black and white vision. Here’s my idea:

The hair: Green coloured rhinestones/white crystals hair accessories.
The face: Earth tones and with tinge of green eyeshadows with not too pink or too red lipstick(stick to more natural tone).
The body: Tube A-line layered bridal gown in white with small green & pink lace flowers scattered all over the dress.
The feet: White pump with NO SOCKS!! Or wear panty hose that is of your skintone.
***
The face: Gold and greenish eyeshadows with not too pink or too red lipstick(stick to more natural tone) topped with gloss.
The body: Asymmetrical A-line gold coloured with greenish tinge when light reflected evening gown
The hand: No gloves or wear gloves that match the gown’s colour.
The ear & neck: Gold earrings, skip the necklace. Else go for the same gold.

So bride-to-be, don’t try too hard. Go for style that can last at least a decade. Go for natural makeup and emphasize one area of your face such as the eyes would be great. Go for style that is not easily drown by time. You’ll never go wrong this way.

Hmmm… I wonder is the bride going to read this or not? I don’t think she will *LOL* Even if she does, I think she won’t know that I’m talking about her as I don’t think she’s even aware of how awful she looked like that day. I don’t care whether she reads it or not anyway as I’m not related in anyway to her. Hahaha…

From My Angle, Girl Stuffs, Randomness