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Gearing up for FIFA 14 - 28 Oct 2013

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A Honey4boyz Production Guitarist : XianJin Actors : The Boys Photo(/Video)grapher : Daddy Special thanks to Mahkota Football Academy and Coach Ameer! WARNING:  For best effect, please watch this HomeVideo first before you scroll down. Have FUN!! The boys have just joined a neighbourhood football club, yea, football is pretty popular here. This was a first attempt to do a homevideo, and a pretty straightforward one using Windows Movie Maker. But it's so enriching to do something together. At one point, we realised that we don't have the background music (and we're afraid to download everything online), so Jin has a day to learn to play the FIFA soundtrack. We made use of what we have, our talents, ie free acting by our boys as well as our resources. Hope this will spark off their interest in either football, acting, directing, storytelling or how to settle conflicts without harming one another!! The Boyz are now QUALIFIED as "armchair foo...

Disappearing Mangroves - 19 Oct 2013

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In his book "While Flocks Last", Charlie Elder realised that everyone can make a difference to nature conservation, by simply going out and enjoying the countryside and making it known why. So there's another good reason to go birdwatching more often. We set off to Kuala Selangor Nature Park once again to the Festival of Wings (organised by the Malaysian Nature Society). The weather was not good though and the sky was overcast so I gotta pull myself out of bed literally.... Right at the entrance to the park, we're greeted by these tiny Coppersmith Barbet birds perched high on a dead tree. According to the organisers, they spotted 19 of them.  Unlike previous years, this festival was a 1-day event only. So, we have all the student groups as well as public activities crammed into the same day. The blaring music and noise from the crowds  would make the mission to spot any birds or animals very very hard!   More to walking around enjoy the mangrove and cr...

Basic Snow Skin Mooncake - 5 Oct 2013

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Assembling mooncakes in celebration of Mid-Autumn festival    We started assembling the snow skin mooncakes weeks after the Mid-Autumn festival with Auntie SY. The skin and filling ingredients were mostly purchased from the baking shop. I remember the last time we did this... my youngest Brandon was not even born. Is it time flew by so fast?? Now Brandon is able to follow the simple steps to assemble his very first mooncake! Oops, the mooncake popped out and almost landed on the floor - his mooncake has a dent!! Knocking out the mooncake from the wooden mould was the most fun part, it's like how the baby chick hatches out of the egg! Despite it being foolproof .... there're always some surprises. Practice made perfect boys! The mooncakes need to be refrigerated first before eating. I should take a picture of the cut mooncake with its beautiful double layered filling of lotus and red bean paste around the egg yolk "moon". But they finished up so f...