Living in Singapore has exposed me with spicy food and somehow I crave for it sometimes. Anyway, I usually frequent to this food stall in Northpoint called Pattaya Rice. I just recently tried the Sambal Squid combo and I really liked it. Because I liked it a lot, I copied their dish, Makoy style. I haven't asked their ingredients though and I relied on taste.
Here are the ingredients for the Sambal Squid. Sambal by the way is chili in Malay.
1. Squid cut into rings
2. French beans or string beans
3. Cooking oil
4. Chili sauce
Now for the simple steps:
1. Sautee the string beans (I prefer french beans, my favorite) in a pan with cooking oil until it is half cooked. Put it aside in a bowl.
2. On a separate pan, sautee the squid then add the awesome chili sauce.
3. Mix in the half cooked french beans and wait until both squid and french beans are cooked.
I was doing my backlog post on my Music blog about the Billboard Charts and surprisingly I saw that Hugh Laurie (famously known as Dr. House) has an album. His album titled "Let Them Talk" debuted at number 16 in the US Billboard Hot 200 Album Charts.
The album consists of classic blue songs and has collaborated with known artists like Tom Jones, Irma Thomas and Dr. John. If you're interested if he really can sing, here is one of his teaser video from his YouTube account.
As reported on AllThingsD, Apple will unveil the next generation iPhone on October 4. The site has cautioned that Apple could change their plans of the launch but new Apple chief executive Tim Cook will preside the launch.
Tim Cook replaced former Apple CEO and visionary Steve Jobs last month over health issues. Jobs underwent operation for pancreatic cancer in 2004 and had a liver transplant in 2009.
Back to iPhone 5, it has been reported by AllThingsD that it will go on sale weeks after it's announcement.
One of the big winners at this years Emmy Awards was the television comedy series "Modern Family." The cast claimed the awards of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, while those behind the scenes won Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
Modern Family is the type of show that is very entertaining, yet does not require a lot of thought to go into its viewing. It can be watched after dinner while curled up on the sofa, or even out of the corner of your eye while you are playing Partypoker. It is popular with a wide ranging audience and the comedy is hilariously awkward and well performed.
1. The Lion King (in 3D)
2. Contagion
3. Drive (2011)
4. The Help
5. Straw Dogs (2011)
6. I Don't Know How She Does It
7. The Debt
8. Warrior
9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
10. Colombiana
11. Shark Night 3D
12. Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
13. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
14. Our Idiot Brother
15. The Smurfs Continue reading this article...
Good news to commuters that are frequent travelers to the central part of Singapore. The circle line is fully opening this October with 12 new stations. From Marymount, it will now pass busy parts of Singapore like Botanic Gardens, Holland Village and Harbourfront.
With the opening of Circle Line, maybe I can finally go to Botanic Gardens and Holland Village. Lol.
Anyway, according to estimates upon the completion of the Circle Line, half a million people will use the Circle Line everyday. It will also help ease over crowding in Raffles Place and City Hall MRT interchanges.
What's so nice about the Circle Line is that it saves travel time. A normal 40 minutes travel from Bishan to Buona Vista will be trimmed to just 26 minutes.
I got to read this news this morning and I was curious to how the affectionate and kid-friendly SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon can be dangerous to children.
According to the news, there was a study conducted that watching only 9 minutes of SpongeBob can cause short-term attention and learning problems among 4-year-old children.
The study was composed of 60 kids which were randomly chosen to watch SpongeBob or the slow-paced cartoon Caillou or just draw pictures. After 9 minutes of watching, they were given mental function tests. Those children that watched SpongeBob scored poorly.
Nickelodeon spokesman David Bittler disputed the study and told that SpongeBob target audience are aged 6-11 and not 4-year olds. He also added, "Having 60 non-diverse kids, who are not part of the show's targeted (audience), watch nine minutes of programming is questionable methodology and could not possibly provide the basis for any valid findings that parents could trust."
1. Contagion
2. The Help
3. Warrior
4. The Debt
5. Colombiana
6. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
7. Shark Night 3D
8. Apollo 18
9. Our Idiot Brother
10. Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
11. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
12. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
13. Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
14. The Smurfs
15. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Continue reading this article...
It maybe 10 years later after the terrorist attack but it still frightens me that this can happen again. Let's look back at what happened on that day on the video below.
In Bunawan town, Agusan del Sur, Philippines, a one ton salt water crocodile has been caught by a veteran hunter as reported last Monday. The 21-foot (6.4-meter) male crocodile was finally caught after three weeks of hunting. The crocodile was caught last Saturday by a trap made by steel cables.
From the account of Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde, the crocodile has killed a water buffalo which was witnessed by villagers. There are also rumors that the giant crocodile ate the village fisherman which gone missing since July.
Elorde now plans to make the giant crocodile as the main attraction to their planned ecotourism park. Villagers have been quoted that they're happy that dangerous crocodile turned from a threat to an asset.
After this successful capture, local hunters are now hunting for the other crocodiles, which are very abundant in the vast marshland of Agusan. Continue reading this article...
The latest QS World University Rankings has been released. Cambridge University, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were the top three schools that topped the listing.
What's alarming is that none of the Universities in the Philippines made it to the 300 list. Prominent universities like University of the Philippines only ranked 332 from 2010's 314th rank. Ateneo de Manila University followed with 360 from 307th. Third place is De La Salle University, which is in the 551-600 bracket from the 451-500 bracket in 2010. University of Santo Tomas was the last which belongs to the 601+ bracket.
It's just sad that in 2009 ranking at least two universities made it to the list including Ateneo de Manila University at 234 and University of the Philippines at 262.
1. The Help
2. The Debt
3. Apollo 18
4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5. Shark Night 3D
6. Colombiana
7. Our Idiot Brother
8. Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
9. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
10. The Smurfs
11. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
13. Captain America: The First Avenger
14. Cowboys & Aliens
15. 30 Minutes or Less Continue reading this article...
