Meal Dated: 9 Feb 2009
Today May Lee decided to attempt to cook the Malaysian Specialty Dish – Nasi Lemak at the apartment. Everything was freshly prepared, from the chicken and potatoes for the curry dish, to the coconut flavoured rice, to the lightly pan fried salted peanuts, to the fried kangkung (vege) and hard boiled egg. To say the least, the meal was delicious and I can’t wait to have a second round when there’s a chance *hint hint*. Overall preparation and cooking time took approx. 2 1/2 hours… talk about putting tender loving care into food preparation.
Sorry no recipies for you who’s interested but if you wish to drop by for a try, do drop ML a note. Maybe she might just try attempting this dish again *fingers crossed*, or perhaps something more challenging since she passed this with flying colors IMHO.
Here are some pictures of the Nasi Lemak meal that we had…. just to make you drool a little…
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Curry Chicken
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Close up of Curry Chicken
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Nasi Lemak Set
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Nasi Lemak Rice
For those of you wish to try cooking your own Nasi Lemak, you may use the following guidelines which I found over the internet. Please note that the taste is not guaranteed but this is the general recipe.
Ingredients
300g long grain rice
2 shallots
2 slices ginger
1/8 tsp fenugreek seeds ( halba )
1 tsp salt
375-400ml coconut milk (from 1/2 a grated coconut)
2 pandan leaves, knotted
Method
Wash rice until clean then drain. Put rice, shallots, ginger, fenugreek and salt in a rice cooker. Pour coconut milk over the rice. (The level of the coconut milk should be 2cm above the level of the rice.) Cook rice until dry then use a wooden ladle to loosen the grains.
Sprinkle the rest of the coconut milk over the rice. Give it a stir with a pair of chopsticks to distribute the milk evenly. Stand for 10 to 15 minutes to allow the rice to absorb the coconut milk. Keep rice warm before serving with other condiments.
After a period of slightly over 1 month, I finally managed to put all the needed parts together for my Yak-55. The maiden flight was successfully flown on 21 Feb 2009 under the watchful eye of my flying buddy who was well versed with the plane (seeing that he was the one who influenced us all and showed us how nice this plane flies). This plane is fully 3D capable and I hope to be able to execute some nice clean maneouvers in time to come.
Here are some pictures of my Yak-55, which is basically a 50 sized plane with the following specs:
- Wingspan – 58″
- Fuselage Length – 59″
- Wing area – 713 sq inches
- SWANG 480Kv Brushless Motor + 80A 5A BEC ESC 158U
- RHINO Battery 3700mAH 5S1P 20C
- TGS Sport 16x10E Precision propeller
- 4 x Align Digital Servos
Current Draw:
Amp Hours: 0.152 Ah
Max Amp: 52.08
Wp: 923.3
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Plane against car backdrop
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Close Up of the Yak
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Yak Top View
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Yak’s side profile
Forum Details at: http://www.rcbuddies.com/forum/index.php/topic,198.0.html
For those of you who wish to perform a hard reset, you may follow the following steps:
- Switch off / Power off your phone
- Hold the CALL, CANCEL & POWER BUTTON for about 5 seconds
- A screen will pop up showing you instructions like step no. 4
- Click on the Call button to continue with formatting/resetting or Cancel button to abort.
If step 2 is done correctly, Step 3 will show up, else the Omnia will just boot up like normal.
Note: This hard reset does not erase the 16GB memory. If you wish to reset everything, use the software hard reset by going to Settings > Hard Reset.
Additional Notes for: UPGRADING / DOWNGRADING
For those of you who are doing a hard reset (as I did to rectify Omnia ROM version detected problem during updates), you may also try the following:
- Get your favourite registry edit
- change HKCU\Control Panel\Version\CustomVersion from DZHK3 to any version number that is lower than the one you are trying to install
This will allow you to upgrade or downgrade your ROM to any version. This needs to be done because Omnia updates only allow upgrades to newer versions but not downgrades to older versions.
Today I just updated my Omnia from the old ROM i900DZHK3 (updated 2 Jan 2009) to i900DZIA5 (updated 28 Feb 2009). Apparantly I was told that there were some nice updates to the ROM this time round. It never ceases to amaze me that Samsung is still providing ROM updates to this phone even after its been out in the market for about 8 months now?!
Each time I do an update, its like I’m getting a new phone all together. So what’s new in the update? Well I was told it has the following goodies:
- New settings for enhanced GPS.
- Ability to update when omnia is connected to PC via ActiveSync
- Phonebook listing has been improved (Alphabet listing removed… its too small anyway unless you have a stylus)
- Volume control is now finger friendly (again without having the need for a stylus)
- Favourite Settings, a finger friendly application that access some of the settings
- “Share pix” program which is something like Shozu, for uploading of videos and images (Supports Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket, Friendster, MySpace)
- New Game – Asphalt: Elite Racing 4 Ver 1.2.0
- Omnia Online widgets, now you can download more widgets. Old widgets are gone
- Opera 9.5 build 15746
The ‘My Storage’ has been cleared and some stuffs are included here
- The asphalt game is installed here (so is the cab file)
- 2 music files, TheOMNIA and BeyongSamsung
- Kung Fu Panda trailer
- Transformers trailer
- Omnia video tutorial
- Omnia launch video (Introduction and Episodes)
NOTE: When I tried to update the rom from i900DZHK3 to i900DZIA5, the update program told me that I already had the latest ROM. If you face this problem then you should read the following post on how to rectify the problem: http://www.ourplaypen.com/2009/02/28/samsung-omnia-resetsamsung-omnia-reset/
You may download your own ROM from http://www.samsungmobile.com/promotion/omnia/index.jsp. Upgrade your phone today if you haven’t done so already. You’ll notice a marked improvement in the performance of your phone.
I have done yet another ROM upgrade a few days ago (2 Jan 2009), since my last one in Nov 2008. I am amazed as to how often the Samsung Team releases ROM Updates for the Omnia. I’m glad they’re still fine tuning the ROM as we speak.
For this upgrade from i900DZHJ1 to i900DZHK3, I didn’t realise any marked changes in cosmetic looks on the interface nor did I experience any marked improvements it had on the backend performance. The phone feels the same as before. I will need to spend more time experiencing the new rom to tell more. From what I experience, I think the battery consumption is still low for this new rom. Could even be better than the last (untested). So far, the Internet on the Opera & GPS functions well. One change I did notice is the improved optionality of the “Enhanced GPS Settings” screen under the Settings. Look better and provides a better status notification of the XTRA downloads. GPS locks on my Omnia seems to be pretty quick… might have improved??!?! (untested).
Overall.. I would recommend this update for everyone. I’m sure it has some bug fixes and improvements else they won’t release it to the public. I have updated mine and I have no regrets so far. For this new ROM, I only installed back what I use as per what is stated at http://www.ourplaypen.com/2008/10/13/samsung-omnia-i900/
You may download your own ROM from http://www.samsungmobile.com/promotion/omnia/index.jsp. Upgrade your phone today if you haven’t done so already. You’ll notice a marked improvement in the performance of your phone.
Just saw in the Star news site today that STREAMYX service is disrupted. Gosh… That should explain why I have been having trouble surfing to overseas sites lately. Don’t think this happened just recently because I have been having problems since 1 or 2 weeks ago! Now surfing to Facebook is like a gamble. Sometimes its fast… but most of the time it’s terribly slow and sometimes even unloadable.
At this day and age… why are we still having to rely on any “single” underwater cable? When one cable goes down, it seems our entire nation’s Internet speed comes to a crawl. For heaven’s sake… buy more redundant bandwidth from the other cable providers. Surely the people at streamyx shouldn’t be skimping on something as important as internet connectivity… well.. not that facebooking is so important to begin with 
“KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) has reported a disruption in its Internet services due to circuit faults on the submarine cable network linking Malaysia and Europe, and said the services would be completely restored by Dec 31.
It said the affected cables, on the Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SMW4) submarine network between Palermo in southern Italy and Alexandria in northern Egypt, were being repaired and that some of the links had meanwhile been rerouted to ease congestion”
Good News for you all. I’ve finally installed a plugin to ourplaypen that will enable anyone to subscribe their emails to ourplaypen.com so that they can be notified of any new posts or articles done to the site. Don’t worry, I’ve currently set it so that it sends 1 mail out maximum per day so you won’t get spammed in anyway. If you’re intested in keeping in my loop, then subscribe yourself at http://www.ourplaypen.com/subscribe/ . You may unsubscribe anytime you wish by visiting the same address at http://www.ourplaypen.com/subscribe/
Don’t say I didn’t tell you about my post! 
Apple Crumble… yummm… We tried our hands at making Apple Crumble last weekend after having been told by my sister that it was easy to make. At first I didn’t believe her but now that we’ve tried it… it’s actually pretty simple. Of course hers still taste better especially for the dough part as ours was a little too “hard”. Too much butter and not enough flour we were told but then again… who could have blamed us especially since we did not have a food weighing scale to work with. We have to estimate the quantity & weights based on self made markings on the side of the sugar & flour packets. Oh ya… the oven now officially has been tested and it works!
For those of you who would like to try a hand at it, here are the instructions which we followed:
Ingredients
6-8 Green Apples
250 white sugar
200g white flour
150g Butter
1 Clove or Cinamon Stick
Instructions
- Peel the apple and core them and dice them into chunks
- Put them into a pan. Add sugar, clove and cinamon stick and put on the lid.
- Stew the apples for approx. 30 mins stirring occasionally.
- Check that the apples are cooked and soft by mashing it a little. Apples should be soft but not a puree.
- Put apples into serving dish and allow to cool
- Make the crumble toping. Slice up the 150g of Butter. Mix the white flour, remaining sugar and butter into a bowl. Mix with hand until it becomes breadcrumb consistency. Preheat oven to 150 C / 300 F / Gas Mark 2
- Cover the apples with the toping without pressing it down
- Put in oven for approximately 30 mins (until crumble is browned)
Video at: http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-apple-crumble
Just found this website after having surfed around quite a bit to make my Omnia look like a HTC Touch. If you have SPB Mobile Shell installed on your phone, you can make use of this collection by “Stu Nicholls” located at his site at http://www.imarche.net/omnia/ . Once you have installed the plugin, you will no longer need to overwrite files just to change the look & feel of your Mobile Shell on your phone. Not only does this program work for the Omnia, it basically works for all Windows Mobile phones (probably WM5, WM6 & above).
Not only can you make your Omnia look like a HTC phone, you can also make it look like an iPhone. That should give curious onlookers a puzzled look when they see your phone and its interface.
I like the way this program works. Basically you can change your skin, theme, buttons & overall look of your phone just by selecting easy options without having to soft reset your phone. Great for people who gets bored of their phone’s look. You can practically change the look & feel every single day if you wanted to. Have fun with this one!
Am glad to inform you all that I have upgraded my WordBook Plugin to Version 0.14.2 (just now)… Hopefully the program has managed to fix all recent errors I have been experiencing caused by the new layout and internals of the new Facebook interface. Hopefully all future blogs are updated according to my Facebook Profile for everyone’s easy reference…
Testing 1, 2, 3…. YAY It works!
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