I joined Pinterest today

9th September 2012

While browsing through 'the star online' this morning, I came across an article about Pinterest, it seems interesting. It is a virtual pinboard that helps people build collections online. So, I signed up. 

A member of Pinterest!

Then, I read on further to understand how it works. I installed the "Pin it" button on my bookmarks, it was very easy, just drag the "Pin it" button from "Goodies" to the bookmarks bar. 

1. For starters, I create a board named "Japan wonders"
2. Open my blog entries on Japan travel
3. click the "Pin it" button
4. a page looks like below will come out, after click on the image that I desired, it returns to the original page.
5. Then, I opened my board on Pinterest. The image is in my board already

"pin it" in pinterest

After that, I tried on other websites and 'pin' on the images I liked, kind of interesting. If I need to revisit the website, I could just find it in my Pinterest board. So far, I created two boards, "Food" and "Japan wonders". Mmmm, I am thinking how long I will maintain this account, maybe long, maybe short, who knows? Hahaha!

pins on my board

Ajimu Wine Festival in USA 安心院フェア「葡萄酒祭り２０１２」

8th September 2012

My friend told me about a Wine Festival in USA 宇佐, I don't drink alcohol, so I was not so interested to go. However, after he told me about a visit to grape farm, I decided to go because I have never seen a grape vine before.

We drove to Ajimu 安心院 (in Usa 宇佐, Oita Prefecture), the venue for the festival. Since no parking spaces were allocated near the venue (Ajimu Family Village), shuttle bus services were provided from  designated parking areas. Once we reached, we quickly went to a booth to apply seats for the bus to a grape farm for grape plucking activity. We wanted the 11.30am slot, however, it was full. So, we asked for the 12.30pm slot.

Ajimu Wine Festival 安心院フェアワインまつり２０１２

Grapefruit (グレープフルーツ) with Yogurt

I like oranges. So, when I saw a big pack of 6 oranges sold with only 400 yen in a local supermarket (fruits are very expensive in Japan), I just grabbed it. However, I did not realise that it was grapefruit. I mistook it for oranges. The grapefruit was so sour that I had problems to finish it. However, I did not want to waste food too. So, finally I decided to add the grapefruit to yogurt. 

1. remove all the rind (skin of the grapefruit) and pith (thread-like white material), just the flesh remained. 
2. add the flesh into the yogurt
3. stir well and serve

grapefruit with yogurt

The taste was actually not bad, the yogurt was kinda sweet and it blended well with the sourish grapefruit. A good and delicious dessert!

What Google "autocomplete" Recommends in Malaysia from A to Z

Read something interesting in BBC news "Google autocomplete: The Internet Where You Are", it seems that for every geographical differences, the autocomplete will be different, so I decided to make a list for Malaysia too for comparison. Hahahah!

alphabet	champion	first runner-up	second runner-up
A	airasia	anm	astro
B	berita harian	blogger	beautifulnara
C	cimb	celcom	currency converter
D	Digi	Digi games	dailymotion
E	Euro 2012	eBay	Era FM
F	Facebook	Firefly	Facebook login
G	google	google translate	Gmail
H	hotmail	Harian Metro	Harakah
I	Ikea	Instagram	Iphone5
J	Jobstreet	JPA	JPJ
K	Kosmo	KWSP	KeepVid
L	lelong	Livescore	lowyat
M	mudah	maybank2u	Malaysiakini
N	narutoget	nokia	nissan
O	oh bulan	Olympic 2012	oum
P	PTPTN	public bank	pps
Q	quotes	qq	qvod player
R	resepi	RHB	roti kaya
S	saps	spa	samsung
T	translate	Twitter	Tonton
U	utusan	uitm	upu
V	video	Volkswagen	vgmc
W	www.facebook.com	www.youtube.com	wikipedia
X	xe	xda	xiaxue
Y	youtube	yahoo	y8
Z	zalora	zoom a	zedge

※ This data was collected on 7th September 2012

One Day Trip in Mojiko 門司港

12th May 2012

I left Miyajima early in the morning to catch the train to Iwakuni with my friend, Ee. I have been to Iwakuni before, but since I had time, I decided to go one more time to see this Kintai bridge again. We just snapped photos of the bridge and left. I took train to Mojiko, while Ee went to Hiroshima.

Kintai bridge 錦帯橋