This giant iPhone was displayed at the lobby area of Pavillion shopping complex by Maxis when the telco was promoting the new iPhone 3G service provided by them towards the end of April this year.
I was in KL for my working attachment that time. That's why I bumped with it. It was not actually a real functional iPhone, but a monitor to display advertisement for iPhone instead.
According to my rough approximation, it was about 1:40 of the real iPhone.
Not so sure about its pricing and specification, but I found out some information from Mercedes-Benz Malaysia website.
Actually I didn't follow them. Heard they went there early in the morning, 7am something. I rather spend my time sleep more as it is weekend! I just hate to wake up early. However, I gave them some surprise by pay them a popup visit around 10am something. Well, just to inspect if they got any harvest after spending whole morning there because I "CARE" them.... yeah! Care with action and not with mouth only like "some people"! (If you confused what I mean for the last sentence especially about the issue of "care", you can just skip it. It only means for "some people") ;)
Guess who caught the fish? Yes! It was FoxKing!! If not the drain-fishing king a.k.a longkang king, who else! But the size of the fish? Well.... it's almost the same size as the one he got at Three Pillars Farm! No wonder he still remain his nick as longkang king! Hey! FoxKing! I think next time we better call you LongkangKing rather than FoxKing, agree?!?!
So, the fishing competition between the 3 amigos still leading by FoxKing with 2 fish, Sparkish 0 fish and PSToh 0 fish. Sparkish and PSToh still working hard, but I am sure with their passion and hard work, one day they will success and beat the longkang king!
I left the place after about 20 minutes while the 3 amigos continue waiting and waiting for a bigger prey. Are they gonna make it? We will see....
Basically preparing Umai is not too hard because at the end of the day, you just need to soak everything together for a short while before you can eat it. However, the hardest part is to prepare the fish! Yes, it certainly needs a very good skills to do so.
After filleting, it is time to slice the fish into tiny pieces. Make sure you slice the Empirang fish in the correct direction or else you will end up eating sashimi with a lot of fish bones!
These are the finish-sliced fish meat ready to make Umai...
...but before that, here are some other ingredients you need to prepare...
.. and don't forget the calamondin lime juice! It is not easy to prepare as you can imagine how much juice you can get from a tiny calamondin.
Is there any easier way beside using this traditional and out dated technology to squeeze the lime juice? How much juice needed? Well, as long as it is enough to marinate everything in.
After the hard work... jeng jeng jeng... here is the final product! Just soak for a short while...
... and the delicious and unbeatable Umai is ready to be eaten!
Some people like to eat Umai as a dish for lunch or dinner but some prefer to eat it with Sago seeds/pearl.
RV Orient Pandaw cruise is now in Sibu. Actually the cruise already berthed at the dock near Jalan Khoo Peng Loong Sibu in May for renovation works. It will start its official crusing on 1st July 2009.
For those who may not know, Pandaw is the largest luxury river cruise company in Asia. The company has actually 6 ships operating in 5 countries - Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, India and Malaysia where Rejang River is the newest route that is going to be explored by Pandaw.
For the Rejang River cruising, it will be a 9-day tour and among the destination are as follow:
The price? Well, it isn't cheap. According to the price list from Pandaw official website, it is from USD $3255 onwards! Meaning, if you convert it to Malaysian Ringgit, the cheapest you have to pay per trip is about RM11,440! Are you willing to pay that price for a 9-day trip on Rejang River?
At the time I snapped these photos which was around end of May, the cruise was hiring the locals to run the ship. River master, pilot, engineer, chef/cook, helper, waiters, steward, sailors, spa and house keeping. Are you interested working on Rejang River? You may try, but I am not sure if at this moment of writing are they still hiring.
Opps! So sorry, couldn't get the inner view of the cruise as the place is not opened for public yet. But why the white board written "Tidak Boleh Memancing" (Cannot fishing)? Do you mean we cannot fishing at Rejang River? Confusing...
According to trusted source, the first sailing on 1st of July already been fully booked mainly by American, European and Aussie. Due to the limited cabins, the cruise can only accommodate up to maximum 60 people at one time sailing.
[Management were doing discussion on the cruise]
[Door view at stateroom No.207]
[A staircase to upper deck]
[The cruise is registered at Phnom Penh, Cambodia]
[Opps! Caught somebody taking bath just beside the cruise!]
To start the task, we first measured the area with measuring tape. Then we marked each important point with the white chalk. For rounded area, we used rope tied to a nail acted like a compass.
Ok! It was painting time! My friend bought a Road Marking Paint for this purpose. This was the "smallest" tin he could get as usually marking road will use quite a big volume of paint so no small tin is available.
Painting the straight line seemed not to be too hard as we had masking tape guided along the boundaries but not the curve. That's why for the curving area, we needed to show a bit of our "artistic" skill and talent to make the curve look rounded.
After painting the free throw line semicircle, we then continued with the other part of semicircle to form a circle, but this time it was a broken line. This was a bit challenging as we need proper measurement to make the broken line look balance on both side.
After refering to the drawing plan, we did some marking first with white chalk before applied the paint onto it. This was the result, it looks good!
Last but not least, we measured and painted the lane places and neutral zones along the both side of free throw lanes.
This was the end result! The basketball court was in shape!! Both of us were very satisfy and proud with our 2-hour hard work! Doesn't it look awesome? Gosh! I just love it! If not because of some technical problem, we would have drawn the 3-point line as well and the work would be perfect!
Anyway, it was considered as mission accomplished!! The project was a success and I really enjoyed it! It was a great experience!
