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Recycle!

Everytime you walk past the rubbish bins by evening, you see them filled with rubbish. The next day by 9pm, they are empty. We throw all kinds of things in. Do we realise that we throw in many recyclable items?

Nyonya Cuisine

After hearing lots of Nyonya dishes being prepared in "Little Nyonya", we finally get to try nyonya dishes, thanks to Mr & Mrs Ooi!

Apetizer

Telur Belanda

Ikan (I can't remember)

Acar

Ayam Ponteh

Kari Kapitan

Sambal Lemak (My Favourite dish!!!)

Yummy Yummy Yummy!

Little Nyonya

I've been watching a TV series 'Little Nyonya' which is onNTV7 6pm Mon to Friday since i came back for hols. It's not new, released 2 years ago if not mistaken. Because of this movie, we were so attracted to the Peranakan culture that we chose to visit the Peranakan Museum in Penang, above all places of interest there.


30 percent of the series "Little Nyonya" was shot here. It's the Chen family residence in the series. This mansion was built at the end of the 19th century by one of local history's famous personalities, the 'Hai Kee Chan' and had once served as the residence and office of Kapitan Cina Chunf Keng Kwee. He and his wives' portraits are still hanging on the wall of the mansion which was sold by his 3rd generation to the present owner who turned it into a museum.

The mansion has two sections: the front area for the masters and the back part is for the servants. the servants are not allowed to enter the front section. now i wonder how do the servants clean the front area?

The 'tok panjang' where the whole family gather to eat.


The second floor

"cho cho"'(moyang)'s room.

i was so excited when i saw it. i was like yes it's her room. exactly like in the movies!

the newlywed's bed.

According to the belief, during the first night during the wedding, a cockeral and a hen will be put under the bed. whichever that comes out from under the bed first sort of predicts the gender of the baby to be born.

Lover's chair.

Maybe last time cannot sit too near, so they sit on the lover's chair and look into each others eyes and maybe kiss each other?

The entrance

Baba Nyonya subscribed to Chinese beliefs: Taoism, Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism, celebrated Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival, while adopting the customs of the land they settled in The Peranakan retained most of their ethnic and religious origins (such as ancestor worship), but assimilated the language and culture of the Malays. The Nyonya's clothing was identical to that of the native Malay's: baju panjang (long dress), batik sarung (batik wrap-around skirt) and kerongsang (brooch).

I think that the movie series has done a great job in introducing the Baba Nyonya culture to the world. This visit to the Pinang Peranakan Mansion is a good one, maybe I can visit the one at Melaka one day!

AHHH . . . CHOO!

If you just sneezed, something was probably irritating or tickling the inside of your nose. Sneezing, also called sternutation, is your body's way of removing an irritation from your nose.

When the inside of your nose gets a tickle, a message is sent to a special part of your brain called the sneeze center. The sneeze center then sends a message to all the muscles that have to work together to create the amazingly complicated process that we call the sneeze.

Some of the muscles involved are the abdominal (belly) muscles, the chest muscles, the diaphragm (the large muscle beneath your lungs that makes you breathe), the muscles that control your vocal cords, and muscles in the back of your throat. Don't forget the eyelid muscles! Did you know that you always close your eyes when you sneeze?

It is the job of the sneeze center to make all these muscles work together, in just the right order, to send that irritation flying out of your nose. And fly it does — sneezing can send tiny particles speeding out of your nose at up to 100 miles per hour!

Most anything that can irritate the inside of your nose can start a sneeze. Some common things include dust, cold air, or pepper. When you catch a cold in your nose, a virus has made a temporary home there and is causing lots of swelling and irritation. Some people have allergies, and they sneeze when they are exposed to certain things, such as animal dander (which comes from the skin of many common pets) or pollen (which comes from some plants).

Do you know anyone who sneezes when they step outside into the sunshine? About 1 out of every 3 people sneezes when exposed to bright light. They are called photic sneezers (photic means light). If you are a photic sneezer, you got it from one of your parents because it is an inherited trait. You could say that it runs in your family. Most people have some sensitivity to light that can trigger a sneeze.

Have you ever had the feeling that you are about to sneeze, but it just gets stuck? Next time that happens, try looking toward a bright light briefly (but don't look right into the sun) — see if that doesn't unstick a stuck sneeze!

http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/sneeze.html

26th-28th June 2009

Rumah Ensudin 26-28th June 2009

Unknown Fear

Tomorrow I will be going to Rumah Ensudin, a longhouse in Seratok to help out for 3 days 2 nights. Suddenly I have this fear in my heart, but i dunno wad do I fear.