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Padungan Chinese New Year Bazaar

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Lately I’m busy. Busy with THIS! YES! THIS! Hahahaha…

The views of the bazaar.

Nien and Wei decided to set up stalls at Padungan CNY Bazaar to sell cookies. Since they only sell cookies, Jimmy has this idea of selling more stuff. After our discussion, we decided to do seaweed twist for sale! So… I’ve been busy 3 days a week to get our seaweed twist ready.

Do come to visit our stalls. It’s situated near the police station 😛 heheheh… Stall number is 42A. I’m not there every night however I’ll be helping out on 13th(maybe), 14th(definitely) and the last day 16th(maybe). Not only we did the seaweed twist ourselves, the cookies we’re selling also done by us 🙂 To be exact, not me hehehe… It’s Wei and Nien. They had been slaving away for the passed weeks to get the cookies ready and Jimmy helped them occassionally. Come and show your support if you want. We also help our friends selling some CNY decorations there. By the way, this event started on 8th February till 16th February nightly.


Left: More view…
Right: The stuffs that we’re selling.


The entrance and the exit to our very own China Town. I had forgotten to take pictures of the famous cat statue that just situated outside the entrance.

One more thing, we’ll be selling Valentine’s stuffs such as flowers(14th), cuddly toys(13th, 14th) there too. The price range from RM15-RM200, from 1 stalk of rose to a dozen. They are all nicely wrapped. You can order in advance and we can deliver them within Kuching to your darling with a service charge of RM5. If you would like to order, leave me a message and I’ll contact you for confirmation and details. During the day time, the cosplayers will be selling at Waterfront. Just look for teenagers that wear costumes or cosplayers.

That’s all. Hope you enjoy your Valentine’s and CNY preparations.

Public Events, Uniquely Kuching

Kuching Bloggers’ Meet 2007

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This is an open event. All Kuching’s bloggers are invited! It’s not a private meet! As long that you have a blog and you are in Kuching during the said date, do come to join us. 🙂

I’m not sure I’ll be going or not. Usually I don’t join bloggers’ meet at night because it’s not that convenient for me to go out at night unless someone is willing to pick me up and can send me home by 10pm.

Important note to note is: “PAY FOR YOUR OWN FOOD & DRINKS”. I realised that Oregano is not like bing! or tao where you order and pay on the spot. I’m kinda worry that there are some irresponsible people taking advantages of this. Frankie, I think you have to let Oregano know before hand that for this bloggers’ meet, they should take payment once the food and/or drinks are served instead of settling the bill at the end of the meet. Just in case, some might forget to pay and leave, there are many cases like this.

Personally, I prefer private meet than open meet as it’s easier to control and it’s a much better way to know each other. When there are too many people, it’s going to be a bit hard. Anyway, hopefully it goes well. I’ll confirm later as I might have some CNY dinners to attend by then. Most importantly, when I manage to find someone who is willing to pick me up and leave early with me.

Anyone who is interested to join this meet, remember to RSVP Frankie at frankiecy [at] yahoo [dot] com

Personal Events, Public Events, Uniquely Kuching

Kacang Tumbuk

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OK… Kacang Tumbuk is in Malay. I’m not sure what it’s called in English. Direct translation would be “Pound(Tumbuk) Nuts(Kacang)” hahaha… In Hokkien, we called it “Kong T’ng”. They are made from peanuts, maltose and sugar. The texture is powdery and have some crispy parts also. Quite messy when eating this. Oh… Becarefully when eating this, don’t talk as you’ll get choke.

For the Chinese, when they are announcing their engagement, they will give friends and relatives boxes/packets of “engagement sweets”. Usually there are two types of sweet in the box/packet. One is the hard type and one is the powdery type. The hard type is made from hard toffee and peanuts. The powdery type is Kacang Tumbuk/Kong T’ng. They are both wrapped in red coloured papers that usually would stain your hand red. However, nowadays some people don’t use these instead they are replaced with sweets and chocolates packed nicely in boxes or gift wrappers/bags.

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You Know Lar…

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OMG! I only got to know about it today. My bro is in form 3 this year and will be sitting for his PMR end of this year. It’s about his class. You know that the Ministry of Education is trying to introduce sex education in school but hmm… I’m not sure is there any or not?

Now, let’s go to the main topic. According to my bro, his Science teacher really sucks big time. Why? Ok… I’m not condemning the Malays or Muslims. I don’t see there is anything wrong for you to teach your students about sexual health/organs. He told me that his Science teacher couldn’t explain this topic clearly to them and kept trying to censor what she said. If you remember, we used to have one of the chapters that covered reproduction organs right? Here’s an exmaple:

A _____ is a male reproduction organ. (Answer is “penis”)
Teacher:*Write the answer on the board*
Students: *Copy the answer*
Teacher: This is you-know-lar. No need me to explain futher.
Students: Why?
Teacher: Because of my religion, I’m not suppose to talk about it. (not the exact quote but it sounded something like this)

WTF!!! For goodness sake! What is it so hard to explain what is a penis or vagina or scrotum or sperms etc. to your students? She couldn’t even bring herself to say the word! We didn’t ask you to talk about how to have sex!!!! I mean like explain to them scientifically, like what it does scientifically. No one asks you to explain to the students how to use it such as carass it to make it erected and you can play with it with your mouth or your pussy yada yada yada… (-_-“) You tell them that it’s a “PENIS” not “Willie” or “Captain Strong” or whatever name you have for it.

I’m sure your religion does not forbid you to explain and teach your student properly about sexual reproduction organs. Teaching them how to have sex is of course not right, that’s for sure. You are a teacher, can’t you explain it properly instead of always having to censor your words using “you know lar“. Summore it’s in the textbook and all you have to do is rephrase them! There is no need for you to explain about your sexual life or others’ sexual life to them. If you don’t explain properly to the students, what do you expect them to do? Go back home, hook up the Internet and type in these keywords and search for it and they 100% ended in porn sites. So… There you go… They are going into the wrong sites and learning something wrong. Blame who? Blame the parents? Or should blame the teachers?

With this kind of attitude and mentality, do you think sexual education can be successfully implemented in schools? NO WAY! If it’s already in the system, then I guess during this period, the teacher won’t be teaching and will just let the students do their own works such as completing their homeworks or study as long that they do not make noise. That’s for sure.

What’s your say? It’s really too much. You’re a teacher not a sex guru! There is nothing wrong to teach your students about reprodcutions organs and what the heck that you took your religion as an excuse to not to explain to them in a proper way by teaching them about the risks and diseases that will affect their intimate organs if they do not take care of them, about periods, about erections etc.

Besides that, as you know, the current education system is using English to teach Science and Mathematics. Everything is in English but guess what?!!?! My bro said that his teachers never teach them in English, all the classes are conducted in Bahasa Malaysia(Melayu) or the Malay language! How on earth are you going to let your students excel in their studies when the exams, the exercises are all in English??!?!? No wonder parents are sending their children to tuition classes because you can’t get proper classes in school! If that’s the case, better no need to send them to school. Just send them to tuition classes will do. Then parents can save lots of time and money. Worst, not long ago I heard that they want to revert back to using the national language to teach! GOSHHH!

There you go… This is our education system. I never like it anyway. Good thing I’m no longer in it. Next time if I can affrod it, I wil make sure my children won’t be getting such crappy education, I’m going to send them out of here which means I’m leaving with them.

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