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.
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.
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
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Payday loans
Being a student working part time I certainly know the difficulties of shortage of money.
You have to be very careful with the way you spend your money. But sometimes there are just the emergencies like spotting a a great sale or hopping on a taxi instead of a bus because you are late. Well at least, those were the two most common emergencies for me.
That is why I'm attracted to something called payday cash advance - this is the first time I've heard of such a thing.
Apparently this is a loan that is given to bridge the gap between pay days when you just need the cash in an emergency. Of course you have to be responsible as the money is still your "future" money and overusing is just going to be BAD. However, if it's only to "bridge the gap" in case of emergencies then this is a good idea of using those payday cash advance. Of course you have to take in consideration the interest that is charged also.
Online, there are websites such as www.powerpaydayloan.com that will match you with lenders with as little fuss and muss as possible. Whatever it is, just be careful about using your "future" money.
Sandy at 12:21 PM
Banjir Banjir @ Petaling Street
It's been like this last week almost everyday.
I come out of my college and it rains like cats and dogs.
Even with an umbrella I get wet. Have to wade thru water while crossing the street.
Worst experienced is getting splashed by speeding cars. I hope your engines gets wet you get stuck in the middle of the flood.
Oh I love the rain but only if it's when I'm sleeping...
Labels: Petaling Street
Sandy at 12:02 PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Shopping carts the easy way
Just last month I was given a group project from the college where I studied that involves a fictitious selling of handicrafts items using the internet. It was part of our course syllabus.The difficult thing was that we are not studying computer programming and ar more into the marketing aspects of business. Luckily we had a person who as a geeky technical guy who did all the programming for us while we completed the manual task of producing the website content.
I wished I had found this website earlier. It's called Ashop Commerce which provides specially hosted shopping cart software. Even though our website was an imaginary one we would not have hesitated to pay for the convenience of having a ready made shopping card facility for our website as this was a major project with important credits. Why go thru the sweat and risk of building things from scratch when you have a a complete shopping card software solution for merchants to sell products online. I can see that the site is professional and we would have saved so much time in debugging and designing things.
Anyway, lesson learnt and we are taking note of this site when we build real e-commerce websites in future. No more time wasting with programming and more emphasis on marketing and promotion. That's how it should be anyway.
Bookmarking it here so that I can reference it in future.
AShop's ecommerce software.
Sandy at 5:03 PM
Heavy Rains in Petaling Street
It's been raining kinda heavy these couple of days and I could not help getting stuck in Petaling Street a couple of times. Wished I had an iPhone or some other internet device to keep me company while waiting for the rain to stop.Well on this occasion I brought along my camera and took some pictures. At that'll keep me occupied for a while.
Now back at home I am posting these pictures up.
Sandy at 4:59 PM
Thursday, April 03, 2008
online Casino gambling is legal in malaysia (more or less)
Thanks to the two comments and further explanations from the tech guys in my class I finally conclude that gambling online in Malaysia is legal (somewhat) :)
Because you can fund your PayPal account via your credit card and most online casinos accept PayPal to start up an account. It's like prepaid credits. When funding your PayPal with credit card, there will be no records or indication in the credit card that the money is used for online casinos as PayPal will be the middle man.
This makes it hard for anyone to be caught but I think officially it may still be classified as illegal gambling. I remember seeing the TV News for crackdowns of Malaysians caught in online betting during the football fever. Still, I haven't heard of anyone arrested for playing poker online on his home computer :)
Labels: Online Games
Sandy at 10:57 PM
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Online gambling legal in malaysia ?
After I reviewed some casino websites I am now curious if I can register and gamble online. I leave the comment open to everybody even for anonymous. Throwing the question out here..
Can anybody tell me if you have tried out online casinos and whether it's legal here in Malaysia?
Labels: Question
Sandy at 8:41 PM
PM acknowledges the power of blogs
Malaysia's premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Tuesday his "biggest mistake" in disastrous elections was to ignore cyber-campaigning on the Internet which was seized by the opposition.
The powerful Barisan Nasional coalition suffered its worst-ever results in March 8 polls that left five states and a third of parliamentary seats in opposition hands.
"We thought that the newspapers, the print media, the television was supposed to be important, but the young people were looking at SMS and blogs."
I too now acknowledge how powerful blogs can be in disseminating information as well as letting people know what you think. Glad to see that the Government is picking this up too.
Would the results have been that different if BN actually went and campaign hard on the internet ?? Hmmm.. I wonder.
Labels: Blogging Power
Sandy at 3:57 PM
4.12pm at petaling street
That's the exact time when Petaling Street is closed to cars. That's the time stamp on my camera anyway. Quite early considering they are preparing for the night market. I don't quite like to walk in the shops at night. It's just too narrow and getting from one end to the other is so slow, and you don't really get to see much.
Hey what are you looking at?
Don't know why these people need to set up the roof cover. I thought the big roof built by the city council was good enough for cover.
Labels: Petaling Street
Sandy at 2:35 PM
Friday, March 21, 2008
My Dream Phone
Yes I know I'm late to know about this and my friends tell me I must be living on Mars for not having heard about the iPhone.
Anyway, my first encounter with this phone when I was going shopping in Sungai Wang Plaza (NOT Petaling Street la..). There were many shops selling the iPhone locked and unlocked. Prices are still around RM 1800-2000. I spent some time playing around with the phone and I am in love with it.
It works on facebook too!!
Labels: iPhone
Sandy at 10:25 AM
Attractive CAsino sites
I'm still flirting with playing some casino games online. I think I will do this when I can have several of my friends together so we sign up and try it out together on our notebooks. It's more fun that way.
Here's another online casino site I've been looking at: http://www.joylandcasino.com
As with all other online casinos sites, the overall look is attractive and simple. Downloading their client software is placed prominently on the first page. Their FAQs section pretty much anticipates all the questions a newbie like me may ask about casino games. Overall a good site design and easy to navigate site. At least it will pull in beginners. Perhaps what the site needs now is good marketing.
Labels: Online Games
Sandy at 9:40 AM
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Microsoft Live Writer + Picasa+ Blogger = HEAVEN !!
So when a friend installed Microsoft Live Writer and showed me how easy it was to use, I was amazed.
Inserting images is one of the thing I'm very happy about using this Live Writer. It's so easy and the images I saved is uploaded automatically to Picasa and then linked into my blog. To me that's like magic. No more manually clicking on blogger's "insert image" icon and wait for the dumb spinning thing to complete uploading.
Also viewing my edited post in real life together with the page layout (see picture below) is amazing. My friend tells me that this is an incredible feat integrating pictures from Picasa with Microsoft Live Writer because Picasa a product of Microsoft's corporate enemy - Google. Imagine creating a software tool that seamlessly work with your competitors tool.
Anyway, I'm glad these two are working hand in hand to make my blogging experience better :)
I'm definitely not going to log in and blog from the old blogger editor anymore now that I have Live Writer.
Labels: Blogging Tools
Sandy at 11:25 PM
Petaling street domains not about petaling street
Why oh why do you register the domain name Petaling Street when your website is clearly NOT about Petaling Street.
Here's PetalingStreet.com
This site is about GaryTay.com - Digital Agent of change whatever that means. But one thing is for sure. It has nothing to do with Petaling Street.
PetalingStreet.net is a squatter page.
PetalingStreet.org is a 'blogtal' of Malaysian so called interesting posts. I don't mean to be a cyber police or anything but I seriously like Petaling Street and I'm hoping other domain names using the word "Petaling Street" IS about Petaling Street. Don't you?
And to answer the latest comments. Yeah la.. I understand the Kopitiam analogy but Kopitiam is a general place which can mean any kopitiam in any place. But when you say Petaling Street - it is SOOOOO specific, right ?
Oh, I chose mypetalingstreet..blogspot.com because petalingstreet.blogspot.com was already taken - also by someone who just made one and only post on July 2007 (another wasted URL). Take MY = Malaysia la... not My Petaling street :)
Sandy at 11:01 PM
List of online casinos
I love going to Genting but I am such a gambling junkie that I lose all my money when I go into the casino. But I'm not a big gambler and I like to play on the smaller electronic poker or blackjack machines instead of sitting on a high stakes table.
So it's only natural for me to be attracted to playing the same games on the computer screen. There are online casinos where you can get the same 'kick' of a real casino. You can bet real money and lose it too :)
Here's another site that reviews the online casino sites so that you more or less get the idea which sites are popular, good, or/and credible.
I like the fact that the site has both editor votes as well as players votes for the best online casinos. Also, there is also an unbelievable thing that online casinos do to attract membership. There give out sign up bonuses. But be aware of the term and conditions as it is usually harder to withdraw the bonus money than to use to gamble. Still it's a fun thing to start gambling with "start up" money and not your own in the beginning. Just be aware of the addicting dangers and don't become a chronic gambler. :)
Oh the website also lists the casinos offering the best sign up bonuses. There are some sites offering up to USD 1000 in bonus!
Sandy at 10:44 PM
Monday, February 25, 2008
Chinese New Year is finally over
A few days ago was the 15th Night of CNY or something like that - so it should be the end of CNY.Thank heavens!!
Not that I don't like Chinese New Year. I just don't celebrate it. Looking forward to normalcy to befall Petaling Street again. I like it boring and NOT hyper filled with last minute shoppers before CNY and terribly empty on the first few days of CNY.
Now it's just back to normal.
Typical view of Petaling Street. Just the way I like it.
New thing is that not only is DVDs sold, there are even DVD players being sold too !!
Labels: Chinese New Year, Petaling Street
Sandy at 2:44 PM
Monday, February 18, 2008
Then and now
I still visit my favourite Hotel Lok Ann noodle shop.
This is what I posted on October 2005 - more than 2 years ago!
Lunch - Mee Hoon. Prices have gone up slightly since I last ate here.
Mee Hoon - RM 3.70 (large)
Teh O Ais - RM 1.50
I hate the same exact lunch this morning and it tasted exactly the same.
The price today was
Lunch - Mee Hoon. Prices have gone up slightly since I last ate here.
Mee Hoon - RM 4.30 (large)
Teh O Ais - RM 1.70
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Labels: PetalingStreet
Sandy at 8:23 PM
What do you know, I'm on Yahoo page one!
Finally this insignificant blog of mine has landed on Yahoo's first page. Quite an achievement, no? Considering I didn't even submit to Search Engines like Yahoo or Google. I don't even know a single trick used by those experts like 5xmom, LiewCF and Sabahan.com
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Labels: MyPetaling Street, Yahoo
Sandy at 8:02 PM
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Cafe Sandiego
Just wished that Petaling Street had a search engine to find different food stalls. Look at the concept used by this website Cafe Sandiego. The website is essentially a san diego restaurant guide.
Coupled with a good search feature, it has a good database of the best san diego restaurants you can find on the net. Great idea and very useful service this website is providing. In addition, a great bonus is the site comes with san diego restaurant coupons you can use to get discounts and fantastic deals.
Sandy at 7:54 PM
