Fallen leaf

With Photo Friday themes coming from a four-season country, it's inevitable they keep asking for seasonal pics. This time they asked for autumn 2017.

There is no autumn here in Malaysia. But there are falling leaves nevertheless. And sometimes they get stuck on your gate.

Charity cookies

Motorola Penang has a charity group called Motocare. It was formed about two years ago, and they hold an annual charity bazaar. This year I decided to try making some cookies to raise some funds.

some of the cookies

Each booth was allocated a table.

The table was a little too big for my 30+ boxes of cookies, so my friend "tumpang" a bit in a corner to sell her racquet grips.

booth 25

with samples brought out (see them on the cookie boxes?)

with the display of racquet grips

The racquet grips were added at the last minute... my friend was going to sell them at her friend's booth but mine had more space. Mine was probably the booth with the least merchandise, and I finished selling everything in less than two hours. Well, those cookies already took a long time to make!

Of people expecting others to work for them

I keep hearing people saying they want to use cafeteria utensils for their event at the office. Previously it was when we were organising a birthday celebration. We were buying food from outside, and when we brought up paper plates and cups, someone suggested using those from the cafeteria instead, to "protect the environment". I opposed it because it would mean more work for the cafeteria staff cleaning the utensils, and absolutely no returns for them. We weren't buying food from them, so how could we ask them to wash our dishes? (I think in the end we settled for napkins, and asked everyone to bring their own mugs)

Then recently at a briefing for a charity bazaar, some people asked whether they could use the cafeteria mugs to serve their drinks. Again, to "protect the environment". Personally I don't quite believe in that reason...I think they just wanted to save costs. It is simply ridiculous: Why should people lend you mugs for your business and then wash them for you? I wonder whether they would still want to save the environment if they had to pay for the usage of the cafeteria mugs. Or if they had to wash the mugs themselves. The person in charge rejected the idea with the "official" reason that there wouldn't be enough mugs (which is also true).

Rough stuff

A rough shot of a rough sketch of... what? A game board?

The leaning tower of lemon pancakes

I made pancakes again. This time I modified the recipe a little, replacing the vinegar with lemon juice and adding the zest of two lemons. (I doubled the recipe, so it's actually the zest of one lemon if I follow the quantity in the recipe.) I also halved the butter, because I had read in a comment that someone forgot the butter and the pancakes turned out fluffier. I didn't dare to omit the butter completely because I was afraid the pancakes would stick to the pan.

The pancakes were definitely fluffier... though I'm not sure whether it was due to the additional lemon zest or just the reduction of butter. The pancake batter was fizzing a lot before I cooked it.

Another difference is that the batter spread itself out better in the pan... I didn't need to spread it out by turnng the pan, like I did previously. Maybe my manual spreading was why the previous pancakes turned out thinner. But this time I used low-fat milk versus the full cream milk last time... the full cream milk could have contributed to the thicker batter too. Now that's too many factors to consider... I will just see what happens next time.

As for the lemon taste, it was nice and fragrant in the first pancake that I ate, but the taste was dulled out the more I ate. So... I guess I shouldn't eat too much in one sitting. :P

The head that makes heads turn

I was thinking of writing something like this but then I forgot...

The other day as I was taking my lunch at the cafeteria (selecting the economy rice dishes), someone's head snapped around when he saw my head. The head on my plate, I mean. No, I don't mean my head was on my plate, just that there was a huge fish head on my plate. :P 

And his head that snapped around was attached to his neck, not on his plate or anything like that!

Old and new

This week's theme is contrast, and I've decided to show you the contrast in between the old fifty-sen coin and the new one!

I'm not really happy with the photo...the contrast doesn't really jump out at you. Somehow the difference is bigger when you hold the coins in your hand. I guess it's because of the thickness of the coins, which is not noticeable in this photo.

A blur

In the previous post I wrote about Clefairy... and now Clefairy is the star of my Photo Friday pic!

When a fairy zooms off to help her charges...all you see is a blur!

Introducing Clefairy

It's high time I wrote about my Clefairy! I bought it about a month ago, at the Farlim pasar malam. Similar to my Squirtle, it was a perfect specimen.

Check it out:

And for reference, here's the description of Clefairy taken from Bulbapedia:

Clefairy is a bipedal, pink Pokémon with a chubby, vaguely star-shaped body. A small, pointed tooth protrudes from the upper left corner of its mouth. It has wrinkles beside its black, oval eyes, dark pink, oval markings on its cheeks, two small wings, and large, pointed ears with brown tips. A tuft of fur curls over its forehead, much like its large, upward-curling tail. Each stocky arm has two small claws and a thumb on each hand, and each of its feet has a single toenail.

It matches, from the small pointed tooth to the single toenail on each foot!

Who's that Pokemon?

It's Squirtle!

Anyway, this week's theme is shadows. I tried to take a photo of my own shadow in a doorframe, from a nightlight, but it didn't turn out too well; the shadow was not dark enough. So I switched to a smaller object and light source, namely Squirtle and a flashlight. The result was not bad!