Showing posts with label plurk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plurk. Show all posts

Apr 12, 2009

First Malacca Getaway

I'm back from my first weekend getaway, Malacca. Actually, we touched down yesterday evening :P But it's never too late to blog, right?

It's like a photography trip gone overseas; it feels like we've just shifted our Sunday photoshoot to Malacca. We spent loads of time at one scene, and I continued to pick unexpected objects (they are fairly common in Singapore too) to shoot and spend lots of time to perfect the shoot, just like what I would do in the Singapore photoshoots:





Now for some Malacca-unique pictures:







And, of course, some other treasures unearthed in this Malacca trip:

1. Lucky photoshot of birds in their formation
I caught this scene outside the Christ Church Melaka. And it has the sunset as the background :D



2. Sunrise shots, with a star (literally, I mean)
Spot the star in this shot which I took at 6.30am from our hotel room.



And another shot from the same location at 7am-ish:



Sidetrack: All 4 of us, Victor, Huishan, Vincent and me have uploaded our pictures, and looking through, it's interesting to note the differences in our styles. The same object, the same structure, yet different perspectives, angles, lightings, tones - style.

Well, I'll leave the analysis to Darran, and of course, you, to judge.

3. The wonderful chendol from Jonker 88 in Jonker Street
It has malt sugar, besides the usual coconut milk, and huge black beans, instead of red beans which Singapore's chendol has. Very delicious! *Yummy*



Sidetrack: On the other hand, we received very poor service at 麦哥娘惹餐馆, we were literally shoo-ed out of the shop. The shop was full and the waiting customers had no queue to wait at, they hovered around tables. Finding us an obstacle, they chased us out, and placated us by saying they will keep a seat for us should we return 1/2 hour later, which we were highly skeptical about. Should you want to try 麦哥, avoid the meal hours. It would do the shop much good, if they just advised the customers to queue outside the restuarant, like what other eateries do. Start a queue system. It works. Why lose potential customers when you can keep it?

4. On a personal note- My first mobile plurk! Thanks, Victor.
All of us decided to have our tea break of donuts at Big Apple, as there's free wifi. And that's where I had my first try at plurking-on-the-go. :P



And of course, finally, a big THANK YOU to our guide: Victor.
Thanks for the bookings, acting as a tour guide (He memorised the routes! We went without maps 99% of the time) and showing the makan places, shopping places and treats.

Mar 1, 2009

A Jap Word A Day

While running high on the adrenline (after I saw my JLPT2 results), what started as a jest from Vincent has materialised into an actual 'plurk series' or like what some of my friends termed, QQ's podcast..
:P
I think I shall refer as the 'plurk podcast'
It's now into the 3rd lesson:

(P.S: You will need to be my friend on plurk to be able to view the above lessons. Need to know more about plurk? Find out more from Vic's post or from the wikipedia. Do drop me a note, if you'll like to join plurk, too. I'll send you an invite. :P)

Jan 9, 2009

Standard Chartered building was on fire!

Did you know that this morning a fire broke out in the Standard Chartered building?
I got to know about it when my colleague alerted me about a plurk thread.
It even carries a picture of the scene taken by a handphone!
The power of social media.
You don't have to be there to receive first hand news.
Now, that's citizen journalism.
:P

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updated on 11 Jan 09

P.S: Sorry, just realised that the plurk thread will not be visible to most of you, as the thread is listed as private, only friends of Daphne Maia can read it. :P

Jan 5, 2009

I've just plurked!

After hearing the nth time from Vic
on how entertaining plurk can be,
I decided to give it a try.
And...
Yup, my plurk account is created.

Plurk is a microblogging tool.
Basically you can 'blogged' whatever you like in 140 characters.
You can comment on your friends' microblogs
and it becomes a conversation.

Mmm...
it is somewhat like how the 'notes' in facebook functions.
We are still having lively conversations
on friends' notes. :P

I've tried twitter before plurk.
But it is a lonely experience.
I did not have any 'followers' nor did I actively 'followed' anyone.
Mainly I used twitter as a status update tool
for facebook and blog.

Let's see if I will have more fun @ plurk,
as this article has said.

Let me know if you're a plurker too!
Cya at plurk!