Apple Remote App

I came across the following YouTube today. Apple has quietly released a new version of Remote Apple for iPhone or iPod Touch. It extends the functionality to control the Apple TV on top of iTunes.

If you are using Remote App to control your Apple TV, you can now enjoy the multi-touch feature to scroll the songs or movies on your Apple TV. This definitely add a new dimension of “Cool” feature compared to the old remote that use button to scroll up or down.

Apple’s Remote App on iPhone

Japanese Pasta

Do you like pasta? Have you tried Japanese Pasta?

Well, I went to try the Shokudo Japanese pasta at City Link last week. We tried 4 dishes, pasta, pizza, salad and a soup.

Overall, I like the pasta and pizza, it has its own unique taste compare to the Ang Mo pasta. The pasta was cooked in a cream sause with bacon. There is a half boil egg on top that make the dish very attractive and appetizing.

However, i found the bacon is a bit too salty and the milk favour of the cream sause is too strong for me. As I do not take milk, but I think people who like milk will love it.

The pizza sits on a wooden plate and the thin crust is very crispy. What a coincident that I order a pizza with bacon on top, making it a bit salty like the pasta. Overall, the pizza is very seducing and I will love to try another favor during my next visit.

The salad has a good mix of different vege with different colors. It also contains some raw salmon sashimi, octupus and crab meat making look very Japansese… ;-)

Soup taste nice too, with crab meat on top. Again, it tastes a bit too milky to me only.

If you have not try Shokudo, go try it and I am sure you will fall in love to the unique Japanese presentation of the dish.

Singapore Fireworks Celebration & Festival 2008

Singapore had its Fireworks Celebration & Festival 2008 at Marina Bay floating platform on the Friday and Saturday nights. It was a spectacular and amazing night to witness and experience the attractive fireworks right at the heart of the city.

I was there to witness this marvellous event on both days. I really enjoyed it though it was drizzling on both nights. This was the best fireworks viewing experience that I had.

I was there to see 2 or 3 years ago but I had quite an awful experience before. it was so crowded and I could not really enjoy the night. Worse still, the smoke and burning smell left behind by the fireworks really made me breathless.

Due to this bad experience I had, I decided to take a risk and go over to the other side of the Marina to view the fireworks this time. The location I went is right opposite the floating platform, on the other band of the marina.

Wow, I like the place very much. Firstly, there is a big field and therefore it was not that crowded. It is much further from the fireworks lcoation and therefore the smoke and burning smell did not affect me on both nights ;-)

Plus, it is good location for me to take good photo shots as it can capture a wide area of the sky. Unfortunately, I do not have a wide angle lens, otherwise, I can capture the fireworks and the whole city skyline together.

I let my camera continuously snapping pictures for 10-15 minutes. I even filled up my 1G memory on the 2nd nights. I had close to 350 photos. Amazing and I like it very much as this is the first time I managed to take the fireworks photos myself ;-)

Alright, I have uploaded some of my photos on my Picasa album as you see in the slideshows below. If you do like to have some of those original photos, do let me know and I will be happy to share with you.

Singapore Fireworks Celebration & Festival 2008 Day 1 – “French Romance”

Singapore Fireworks Celebration & Festival 2008 Day 2 – “Korean Fantasia”

Fried Eyes with Tomato Prawn Tofu

I like food and I do enjoy cooking. I was walking in the supermarket and wondering what to cook for dinner. Even though I like to cook but a lazy guy like me hate dish washing. Up to a point that it can be quite annoying to see all the plates piling up in the sink.

So, I like to cook something like “One Pot Cook” (一锅熟）. Cooking everything in the same pot save me time in the preparation and also reduces the numbers of plates to use and to wash ;-)

Fried eggs has always been my choice, nutritious and delicious. I saw some fresh tomoto in the supermarket, that remind me of a dish that I ate somewhere, fried eggs with Tomoto. Then, I also bought some prawn and a water tofu as well.

I decided to throw all these ingredients into one pot and the result was a Fried Eggs with Tomato, Prawn & Tofu. I found it tasting not bad and you might want to give it a try if you are a lazy person like to have “One Pot Cook”.

Here’s how I did that:

1. Wash the prawn and put some pepper to marinate it. (Hehe, I do not need to deshell as I bought a frozen deshell prawn).

2. Cut the water tofu & tomotos into small cubes.

3. Stir and beat the eggs in a bowl. Add some water to it to make the eggs softer.

4. Heat up the wok, add in some cooking oil and some garlic.

5. Put prawns into the work, fried for a short while then followed by putting in the tofu and tomoto cubes in medium heat.

6. Keep stiring the ingredients you see the prawns are cooked.

7. Final step, add in the beaten eggs and let it simmer for a while. Stir it to even till the eggs are evenly cooked.

That’s it. Very simple and nutritional ;-) I think. Lazy people like me, you might want to try it out.

Micheal Phelps Leading in the Pool

Micheal Phelps has won 8 medal in Beijing Olympics 2008 and he has become the greatest sportman who has won the most number of Olympics medal in history.

Have you evered wonder what does the greatest sportman, Micheal Phelps, eat everyday? Maybe you like to do that too to prepare yourself to become the another greatest sportman in the world.

Take a looks at Micheal’s daily menu:

Breakfast: Three fried egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions, and mayonnaise.
A five-egg omelet.
A bowl of grits.
Three slices of French toast with powdered sugar.
Three chocolate pancakes.
Two cups of coffee.

Lunch: A pound of pasta with tomato sauce.
Two large ham, cheese, and mayo sandwiches on white bread.
Energy drinks.

Dinner: A pound of pasta with tomato sauce.
Six to eight pizza slices (basically, a whole pizza!).
Energy drinks.

Micheal takes in nearly 12,000 calories of diet everyday. That’s 6 times more a normal person needs on average.

I can’t imagine myself to take this kind of diet, instead of becoming a sportman, I will become a Big Fat Potato in just 3 days time.

Dare you take up a challenge to eat this diet? Leave me a comment if you dare, I salute you.

Micheal Phelps on Medal Stage

Beijing Big Foot Step

I was watching the live telecast of the Beijing Olympics 2008 Grand Opening last friday. It was a marvelous show and I must say that Beijing has planned it well and executed it perfectly.

However, the perfect left behind some little flaws.

I read a news report that Bejing pre-recorded some of the firework display of the Big Giant Footstep and included them in the telecast. The reason cited was the weather condition makes it harder to film it live on the actual opening day.

Well, to me, I think that’s fine as we just need to articulate the possible difficulty and find a solution to solve it proactively. I would say that is very considerate down to the details to make sure it is a perfect show.

Olympics Singer Yang Peiyi

Lin Miaoke

However, I read another piece of news, in order to create the PERFECT show, Beijing decided to substitute the real singer, Yang Peiyi, of “Ode to the Motherland” (歌唱祖国) and asked another girl, Lin Miaoke, to replace her. Worse still, they did not record the song again and asked Lin Miaoke to lip sync the song in front of the whole world.

Personally, I find that this is totally unacceptable. I also found out that there is a law in China that prevent singers to lip sync in any performance as that is considered deceiving. However, Beijing chose to ignore this law and telecast the lip sync performance in front of the whole world. That’s ridiculous, isn’t it? (I read on newspaper that Beijing did change the law before the Olympics as well).

All this actions are leaving a big flaw behind the grand and spectacular Olympics show. Beijing must understand that a perfect show must leave behind a perfect for all the viewers but not leaving behind a controversial flaw for the people. Particularly, Beijing should not let 2 young little to bear all the controversy during their young age.

Malaysia Going for the Gold Medal

Badminton is one of my favourite sport, as a Malaysian, we used to watch Thomas Cup, Malaysia Open, and all other badminton grand competition in the world. Today, Malaysia badminton team set another great milestone in the Beijing Olympics by having Lee Chong Wei entered the final after beating the Korean player.

Well done to Lee Chong Wei, and I am sure the journey is not end yet as he stands a chance to create a historical moment in Malaysia by winning the first Olympics Gold for Malaysia. Yeah… ;-)

Let’s cheer for him in tomorrow Final that starts at 8pm Beijing time.

Lee Chong Wei Enter Olympics Final

Lee Chong Wei Enter Olympics Final

Enjoy!!!

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