Attended a conference at Hong Kong August 2012

IEEE International Conference on Teaching,Assessment and Learning for Engineering 2012 (TALE2012) (20-23 August 2012)

FPig attended the IEEE TALE Conference in Hong Kongbetween 20-23 August 2012. MPig tagged along and we had a lovely time in Hong Kong

It is an international conference that held eachyear in Asia-Pacific region. This conference attracted 100 participants fromall over the world such as Canada, Australia, the States, the UK, Middle East,China etc. This conference allowed me to extend my social network in anunprecedented way, share my ideas and learn from others from variouseducational backgrounds.

On the first day of the conference, all theparticipants witnessed the opening ceremony of the conference. Prof. MichaelLightner, IEEE Director and Vice President, Educational Activities, Dr Rob Reilly,President of IEEE Education Society and Prof Sorel Reisman, Past President (2001),IEEE Computer Society were among the honorable guests who joined us for thisremarkable occasion.

Prof. Michael Lightner delivered keynote speech onEngineering Education: Evolution and Revolution. Web 2.0 and Internet hascaused the fundamental shifts in education from information to communication.

Mypresentation was on the 4th day of the conference. I enjoyed the session themost where I received outstanding feedback from the audience. These feedbackare useful for me to improve my research outcome and extend my research into widercontext. My topic for the presentation  is of great interest to thereader hence, I was invited to to submit an extended version of the paper inthe International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy.

What I liked most is the door gift from the organizer. For the past conferences that I have attended, the organizers choosed to write the conference name in the bag and I understand that the main reason is to promote the conference. But we can hardly use the bag especially if they have a big wording of the conference name. However, for this conference, the door gift is the Belkin Swift laptop backpack. It costs between Rm90- Rm140.

Luxurious May Meal

On one fine Friday lunch time, MPig dated FPig for lunch for the second time. FPig was craving for Japanese food. So we went to Sakae Sushi at Sunway Pyramid to have our lunch.

We felt amazed that each table has a ipad 2 for customers to order their food.

We had sashimi,

sushi of the month,

 squid

and eel....

We had a free RM7.99 dish when we liked their new menu by waving the facebook like page to them.

Earth hour 2012

In conjunction to Earth Hour 2012, coincidently we were in lowyat plaza, surveying for some IT gadget, we had the chance to claim free frappucino at Starbucks by checking Foursquare at any Starbucks outlet between 8:30-9:30pm.
Fun fun, two frappucino has saved us rm 28!!!!
We ordered caramel and green tea flavor.

Fish Manhattan Market fish and chips

Fpig saw the fish manhattan market fish and chips promotion, rm 6.99, original price is rm14.99.

The promotion only lasted for two days, 29 & 30 March.

So we decided to go before the promotion end. 1 utama does not have fish manhattan, so we dicided to go e-curve. The parking is rm2 for five hours.

Fpig likes the fish and chips, the portion is big enough and really worth rm6.99.

Then we also ordered cream cheese mussels, rm10.99 for fours medium size mussels and bread. I do not think it worth the price.

MPig had baked fish with rice and vege, quite delicious.

The total price is rm 40.35, only rm50 and above will accept credit card.

Then we watched Wrath of The Titan at Cathay Cinema. It is a good effect movie. Story line is just normal.

IKea Restaurant

This is a place that I insisted to go long time ago but MPig kept on giving excuses that the restaurant is actually in the middle of the showroom and need to walk a big distance only can reach bla bla bla.

3/3/2012 finally I successfully forced and dragged him to go with me.

We parked at Tesco at the opposite of the road. Now Tesco started to charge for those who do not shop at there.

But if you buy rm5 stuff from Tesco and still within 3 hours grace period, you still allowed to park for free.

When we reached Ikea Restaurant at around 6pm, there was a long queue.


I went to queue for food while MPig went to wait and reserve table to eat. It is a self service where I waited for nearly 20 mins only reached my turn










I ordered salmon which is something I missed most when I was in the UK. It costed rm12.90 which I think it is reasonable price.

This is the whole bird chicken with chips that costed rm15.90.

Of cos there is the famous Swedish meatballs which costs rm5 for 5 pieces, rm10 for 10 pieces and rm 14 for 15 pieces. It comes with chips and cranberry sauce.

The softdrink costs rm1.50 free refill

There is the choice of coffee, cappuccino and juices too.

There is a lot of desserts such as the daim cake, cheese cake, muffin and Cinnabon bun. I wish to try but we were to full to try all. I wish to come again next time for dessert!

After our meal, I noticed that the queue was still very long. It is really considered economic price to have international quality food.

Groupbase at Sri Damansara

Just came back from lunch with my longkor at Groupbase Bandar Sri Damansara.

I felt the business was not like last time anymore. Not many customers even though lunch time. There was full house 6 years ago I came here.

I had cincai Bandung, it was so watery and tasteless. It costs rm 2.20.

I had mee Bandung, again, the soup was watery, the portion of yellow noodles was small with a few pieces of chicken and extremely small prawn. It costs rm6. One word, not worthy.

Longkor had nasi USA. It was just the fried rice, with 3 small broccoli, chicken masak merah and a fried egg on top. It costs rm9.90.

I don't think I will go back again. I think they have changed the chef. Last time it tasted so delicious and tv3 Jalan-Jalan Cari Makan also came here for introducing the food.

Address:
Groupbase Restaurant
No 7&8 Jalan tanjung SD13/2
Bandar Sri Damansara,
52200 Selangor.
Tel: 0362721184

Happy Solstice Day 冬至快乐

Yesterday, suddenly decided to make some tang yuen after reading so many blog post regarding self made tang yuen.
This is the first time I made the tang yuen myself without any guidance or help from others. Still remember last year I made the tang yuen with Chai Shen.

This year, I on the skype, making the tang yuen while chatting to mom and dad. So happy to have the technology that link us together.

I made the red colouring tang yuen and the black sesame tang yuen. I am so pround of myself that the tang yuen that I made was so Q. Mom taught me to use the plain water to boil the tang yuen until it floated, then put into a bowl of cold water to make it Q.

As for the black sesame tang yuen, since it is the first time I made it, the look was not good, there was some holes of leaking. I kept in the freezer for a few hours until it harden, then put into boiling water, turn to small fire to boil it until it float.

As for the soup, I used Molassess Sugar boiled with ginger. MPig said it tasted great!!!! I am contented!

My reference is from here:
http://singmei1218.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011.html