My Petaling Street
This blog is about Petaling Street and everything interesting that goes on there.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Everyday raining
With the troubled economic news, the daily raining session is not doing anything to lift my spirits.
I got caught in another one of those heavy rains in Petaling Street.
I was at Pasar Seni LRT and badly needed to attend my class near Petaling Street. Already late and no umbrella.
What do you know? There's this guy at the steps selling umbrellas for RM 5. How enterprising?
I was kicking myself for not bringing an umbrella knowing how it's been raining the past few days. No choice. I wasted 5 bucks buying yet another umbrella to add to my colection of emergency umbrellas at home. This won't do any good to my wallet but I didn't want to be late for my class :(
Sandy at 4:14 PM
Entrecard calling me a scraper!
On the blogosphere it's regarded one of the scum words to use against a person and as a blogger it's just plain offensive when you are accused of being a scraper.
In case you don't know a scraper site is defined as follows:-
A scraper site is a website that copies all of its content from other websites using web scraping. No part of a scraper site is original. A search engine is not a scraper site: sites such as Yahoo and Google gather content from other websites and index it so that the index can be searched with keywords. Search engines then display snippets of the original site content in response to a user's search.
This according to WikiPedia.
I got this in my email from Entrecard:-
Your account 'My Petaling Street' on entrecard.com has been deleted. The administrator gave the following reason:
Scraper
Please contact support@entrecard.com if you have any questions regarding this action.
I admit that this blog has not been active in many months because I had exams and lost touch with blog updates but to label me a scraper boils my blood. None of my blog post here is copied from anywhere. I challenge Entrecard to prove otherwise.
Of course I've written back to Entrecard asking them to reconsider but they must be using some stupid bot to check Entrecard member website because they've seriously got it wrong in my case. How much sillier can you get?
Sandy at 3:53 PM
I wish to cook
I am a lousy cook. I can't cook anything decent to feed myself :)
Still, I'm willing to learn. I'm beginning to Google search good recipe sites in order to self teach myself. I'm definitely going to start small and work myself up so the first thing on my to do list is to go for those dishes that can be prepared in the rice cooker steamer or in a crock pot or just baked in an oven.
One site I've currently bookmarked is "Mom's who think" cookie recipes. I'm a sucker for cookies and frankly the cookies I buy in a jar from Petaling Street is a little bit expensive. The buttered bread cookie in the plastic container is RM 20 (USD 6). And it's a small container!
Anyway I'm experimenting with the Ginger Snap cookie (picture above) which I hope will turn out successfully. With Christmas just around the corner this will be my "show off" masterpiece to my family (hopefully).
Sandy at 3:36 PM
