Earth Hour Day

This could be the special day of the year, 31st March 2012, Saturday. It's our Earth Hour Day aka Green Awareness Road Show!! With the involvement of Environmental Protection Society Malaysia (EPSM) and Mama Hand Craft, we are proudly presenting a great road show for all the participants to enjoy the celebration of Earth Hour Day.

In our event, we have included activities like Tile and Stone Decoration, Hand Print, Rolling Tyre, DIY Recycle Hand Craft and talk from Environmental Protection Society Malaysia (EPSM). The experience of Ms. Kim, a representative from EPSM would be the best part for all of us to learn. If you have missed out this road show, you may search some information on "Ecological Footprints".

T-shirt Selling

Rolling Tyre

On-going DIY Recycle Hand Craft

Our Final Products

Stone Decoration

Talk Given By Ms. Kim, EPSM Representative 

Decorating Hands for Printing

Hand Print Activity

Ecological Way of Hand Print

Tile Decoration (By Jason)

Group Picture

 Memorable moments always pass really like a rocket. There's a belief in our lives while doing the event: Small steps could bring different way of people's perception of GREEN. ^_^



by Yee Jia Cheng, Jason @ ifunblock

7 ways to make your woman feel better when she’s on her period

Obviously men can't put themselves in the place of a woman and understand what it's like to have a menstrual cycle. Some men even persist said if women want to request for gender equity, they should not take period as an excuse to be the weak and gain the sympathy. However, if the men can stand for their lower body being kicked for seven days without any sorrow or intended. Women shall can too. Maybe you will think it’s too over, but it’s no doubt. So, man, please do something to yours woman, make them feel good when they are in “hurt”. Thinks what can do? Here’s how: 

First
Realize what a woman goes through during her period. Woman usually will get terrible stomach cramps, which are never fun, and it can be debated they are more terrible than male "pain” and can range from a dull pain that simply annoys, to a stabbing pain that a woman feel difficulties to move. Women can get mood swings, they can get headaches, restlessness, become extremely tired or sleepy, become sore in their genital regions, and their appetites can dramatically change. Symptoms will vary from woman to woman and some women may not even have symptoms at all. Periods are just generally uncomfortable and the symptoms that go along with it are never any fun. 

Second
Don't act disgusted. Man, can you imagine a wet tissue is putting inside yours under for five to seven days?  So guys, please show your woman that you are not grossed out by the very thought of her menstrual cycle (even if you are). If she tries to talk to you about it, do not make faces or say “Go talk to one of your girlfriends". This will just make her feel like you don't care. Another part of this step is to help out if she needs some "errands". Go get her the "girl" stuff she is out of and pick her up some chocolate or her favorite hot drinks. It will make her feel like you really care her. “Chocolate contained iron and magnesium, can helps with tiredness, irritability and regulate mood,” said by a gynecology nurse. 

Third
Help her out with things. Men can’t even know how the suffer feeling of wearing the wet tissue work under pressure and always worry when should change the pad. It’s not only mentally, it’s also physically. Woman will feel extremely tired during that period, as they are “hurting” and they will keep feeling anxiety. So guys, if she has any little chores or errands to do, please help her out. Take the stress off of her by doing the dishes or taking her things down to the laundry. This will help pick up some weight from her shoulders and give her time to relax. 

Fourth 
Comfort and make her feel good about herself. During women’s period, woman will easily get depress and sometimes even will have low self-esteem. So, sometimes give her a massage or give her a warm hug. Even a comforting arm rub will make her feel better. Occasionally, you may lay your head on her stomach, because the body heat can make the pressure of the cramps decrease. It might make them feel warm. Moreover, you can also give her compliments. Say something that will make her feel beautiful and intelligent. This will help boost her confidence and help a little with her mood swings. 

Fifth 
Make her feel loved and appreciated. When woman in period, they will always feel insecure and easily get negative thinking. At this moment, you should let her know how happy you are to have her in your life. Tell her she's a great friend, girlfriend, or wife. If she is at work or away from you, call her mobile phone, text or email them and tell her how beautiful, sweet and all-round awesome she is. It's not even describable how nice it is for a person to do this. If possible, try to get her out of the house. Ask her if she wants to go see a movie or go out for a walk in the park. If she doesn't want to leave the house, don't force her. Do things she wants to do. If you're going out to eat, let her pick the restaurant, or if you're going out to the movies, let her pick what movie to see. 

Sixth
Be patient and understanding. Woman will be very emotional during period time. So guys please don’t take her action to heart but know and expect that she will take everything to heart. If things get too out of hand, take a deep breath, and leave the room to cool off. Never be rude to her. It might make her feel more fatigued and heartrending. 

Seventh

Don’t ask for sex or whether she's on her period if you are unsure. During woman’s period, they have already suffering for the physically pain. If guys still keep on request for sex, you might make them feel disrespect and you are not caring their feeling. Besides that, guys should also not to keep on ask when she’s period come or when finish. It might make them feel you got other purpose. Regardless, make sure she's comfortable with you and doesn't feel offended. 

So guys, now you started understand women? Know more the symptoms of period? So next time when you see the “blood”, don’t assume it is dirty and it will bring bad luck to you. Don’t forget, all of you were come from there. Next time, please help out to wash the bed sheet! 

A guy: I HAVE PERIOD ?!!

Everyone know woman have menstrual cycle. During period, woman will feel anxiety and easy to get angry. But, do you know every month men also have few days “period”? And, we called it manstration. 

“Manstration refers to a monthly hormonal cycle for men. Some men get cranky and bitchy for no reason regularly, just like what women go through in their monthlies (known as menstruation). This is where the term manstration comes from.”

Manstration do not have obvious symptoms like woman having period. But it same with woman’s menstrual cycle, which comes every months. During manstration, man will be abnormal for few days, they will easily get angry, or keep silent without any reason, or feel not interest to anything, even can’t pay attention to their work.

If you are guy, you can drop down 3months of your diary, whether you have happen any few from the list below without any reason:

1. Low patient for working, lags in response, forgetful.

2. No appetite to eat, even favorite foods.

3. Love to be alone. Always does something alone, and always heave a sigh.

4. Absence of mind: switch on TV but not watching it; lost of interest to favorite things, like football, online game, or sexy girls.

5. Easy to get angry by single little things and easy argue with your friends and family.

6. Feel impassive to your lover. Lost interest to your partner.

7. Feel headache, uncomfortable without any reason.

8. Feel sleepy and tired all the times even enough rest.

9. Always feel lonely and easy get depress.

10. Easy get gastric, allergic, body cramp, shoulder pain and so on.

If you found there are few from the list are happen in your diary continuous for few days, then your manstration will on that few days.

So girls, don’t only think period is only yours priority, GUYS also have it! Next time, be more considerate of your partner. Maybe they are in MANSTRATION.

Soufflé~Soft your heart~

Soufflé is a France dessert which is a lightly baked cake made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a savory main dish or sweetened as a dessert. You may taste it in some fine dining restaurant with a very high price. However, the soufflé actually just cost few bucks and easy to do. This is my first time to make soufflé, so it’s not really successful, as the outlook not so nice, by the way the taste is nice. Yummy~ Next time, I would try out to make different flavors.

“The word soufflé is the past participle of the French verb souffler which means "to blow up" or more loosely "puff up"—an apt description of what happens to this combination of custard and egg whites.”

Ingredients

2 eggs white

1 egg yolks

1 tablespoon of flour

2 tablespoon of caster sugar

50ml of milk

A little bit vanilla extract

Methods

·         Pre-heat the oven to 200’c. Heat the milk to warm by microwave.

·         Add 1 tablespoon of caster sugar to egg yolk, stir it till white yellow color, and then add in little bit vanilla extract. Later, strain and pour the flour into the mixture eggs, then pour in the warm milk, set aside.

·         Place the egg whites in a large clean bowl. (Note: Make sure there’s no oil or water in the bowl at all.) Use an electric mixer to beat the egg whites until many bubbles form. Add the sugar, a little at a time; beat at high speed until stiff peaks form. Make sure not to over beat the egg whites, lest they will break down.

·         Transfer the egg yolk mixture into a large mixing bowl. Gently fold-in the egg whites and stir in to loosen the consistency. Later, spoon the mixture into ramekins. Fill in 80% of ramekin is enough due it will expand till very high. Then, bake it in the preheated oven for about 15 minutes, or until golden brown and risen 2cm above the rim. Serve immediately dusted with cocoa powder.

♥ ♥ Soufflé ♥ ♥

The COOLEST hotspot in town - i-City

I would like to introduce an interesting place to you guys, which is a "snow walk" located at i-City. Times ago, my member  was introduced the outdoor at i-City, and everyone knew how beatiful and amazing the decoration made of LED was.

This i-City or in another words like "Fire & Ice" place. If you feel bored of the routine works or feel stress, here is a good chance to take a short break and relax yourself and your family.

Here, I would like to share my experience after visit this nice place. Previously in one of the weekends, I visited the Snow Walk in i-City, Shah Alam.  

Actually it’s a snow house which was designed in a building or more specific in a basement area. It would be a great place for those people who would like to experience what is life like in the arctic. The temperatures inside the snow house were said to be nearly -5 degree Celsius in there. Jackets are provided to keep you warm.

The serving crews will choose a nice jacket for you, they just take a look on you then they will know what size that you need.  You can just let them know which color you prefer like red, blue, and black and so on. It's quick and easy =) 

However do make sure that you wear long pants and the covered shoes during your visit. Like me, I made the big mistake because I wore the shoes which is my toes is exposed to air. For the first few minutes, it is still okay ! But, when I keep walking on the ice, the ice is freezer my toes, the feeling just like my toes get stinging by thousands of needles!! I forced to walk out and rented a pair of shoe at last ... ... A glove would be a good idea too if you can’t stand the cold. Of course, the ear puff is needed if your little ear can't stand the cold like me.

Before enter the snow house ~

The horse carriage and the decorations all around the inside the building

Be patient ... ... here we go !!

A few hand carved ice sculptures were spotted inside which was said that the carver is    from Harbin, China.  The sculptures are equipped with LED lids to light them up.

Ice slides are also available which allows visitors to slide on a tube. Further inside there was another slide which requires you to get on a toboggan like thing.

Hehehehehe...this is what I got as a souvenir from that day!! 

Besides these, if you need something to fill in to your stomach or something else, just walk out  from the snow house and walk around the building ^^

There is a small video-game center just right besides the snow walk building. Look at the toys, so cute isn't it?? Wanted to get one of them??

Restaurants like OldTown White Coffee, Gasoline, KFC and so on is available here, so do convenient shop like KK Mart, 7-Eleven and etc... The bottom picture showed the little open air hall which is a big screen TV were there to let some football or badminton lover gather here to watch the live match together. Sometimes, fair like IT fair will rent this place to runs event.



For more details Information
Tickets : RM25 for adult, RM20 for children
Operating Hours : 10am till 1am daily
Location : I-City, Shah Alam, Selangor

by Emily, Liew Heng Wei @ ifunblock

Green Awareness Road Show (Visits)

After reviewing on the DIY Recycle Hand Craft, an activity related to Green Awareness Road Show, we thought of bringing the awareness to some external parties like visitation to SEGi Kota Damansara and SEGi Subang. And we've done!! ^_^

First station that we went for this road show was SEGi Kota Damansara (UIU Malaysia Office).

Warm welcome from Mr. Kalai, Program Director of UIU Malaysia Office 

Sending invitation card to Ms. Aishvarya, Program Manager of UIU Malaysia Office

Sending invitation card to the Vice President of Fayette House (SEGi  KD)

Special Snap with Peacocks

The second station was SEGi Subang which welcomed by the Fayette House members from there.

On the way to SEGi Subang

Sending invitation card to Petra, the President of Fayette House (SEGi Subang) 

Having a small discussion 

Exchange ideas while waiting for our van

Group Picture

We hope that the green message would pass it on through a small action like visitation to different campuses. Through the journey, we were not only exchanging idea of GREEN also discussing about our campuses, studies and others. It's a memorable moments for all of us to enjoy the process of giving out some message or idea even getting some feedback which is a good experience in our college life.

by Yee Jia Cheng, Jason @ ifunblock

Sleep with Wishes

My mother is a tailor, she will use the shredded clothes to sewing quilt for us.

Honestly, I'm very dislike this shredded-clothes-quilt and think it is ugly until I found out the meaning behind this quilt.


In Chinese tradition, to sewing a blanket by using shredded clothes is called Bai-Jia-Bei （百家被）, 100 Good Wishes Quilts.

It is a custom to invite friends and family to contribute a patch of cloth with a wish for the baby as welcome and celebrate a new life.
The quilt contains the luck, energy, and good wishes from all those contributed a piece of fabric, and the quilt is then passed down from generation to generation.

Although this is a Chinese tradition, it is a great tradition for any child to be welcomed this way, so that I am got to introduce you guys the making of Bai-Jia-Bei, what a treat to read a good wishes when the child is older to know how much they were wanted!

Here are some pictures of Bai-Jia-Bei I search from net. The bottom right is the most simple and easy to make, it is making from square fabrics, you may either hand-sewing it or use sewing machine. And the bottom up and right pictures is the quilt in hexagon, and mostly people will do hand-sewing it as it will be nicer. 

  

Here is my pictures of making the 100 Good Wishes Quilt. I was made my very first hexagon Bai-Jia-Bei on 2006, that is after my SPM and having the 3 months holiday. I do this all because from the require from mom and I am dislike to do sewing job and now I gotta do it by hand but not machine.     

I am here to do a fast making procedure as it is really simple =]

Cut the papers into hexagon and shredded clothes in square.

- The size of hexagon is flexible, you can choose it bigger or smallest as you like -

-The shredded clothes must bigger than the paper hexagon -

 

Edge-folding the shredded clothes on the paper and sewing around to make sure shredded clothes in shape

After done all single shredded clothes into hexagon, sewing them to stitch together by the way as below

- while sewing, the shaped-hexagon-shredded-clothes should be set as front-surface-to-front-surface-

Photo from web

After a few weeks work, here my result of Bai-Jia-Bei

I'm sorry to show such ugly hand-sewing

As I'm still fresh on hand-sewing, I still can't figure out how to make it in a better pattern

So, just simple combine them in large piece 

Bottom of this three picture is the back side of the quilt, yea, the paper is still there 

Remove all the paper and take off all the thread which you did at the second part

And now, we are going to the final stage

Sewing all the four-side by a bigger fabric and also the whole back-side of quilt

Photo from web

Here is the nicer example of modern 100 Good Wishes Quilt

Older generation will use shredded clothes or patch of cloth, the clothes might from the grandparents' clothes, parents clothes, or even own old clothes. 

Pictures above are the record of my second hand-sewing Bai-Jia-Bei on my life. 

From does not like the quilt made by shredded clothes, and now love to hand-sewing it, all because of the story behind the quilt and the satisfaction when I using my hand-sewing quilt every night. 

So, I decide to make more the quilt to present for every family member. And sure, I will challenge to make nicer pattern like people do. 

*click on image to enlarge

by Lim Jeng Nian, Jeffney @ ifunblock

Candy~Popcorn~

Candy heaven is coming to town!!!Candylicious!!  It is a place brings a smile to your place with its bright and cheery look. I bet they children come here will be mad and adults being here also will flash back a lot happy childhood memories. This shop is developed on the foundation of representing fantasy, joy and irreplaceable childhood memories, it combines candy and the world of imagination into a hit and fashion forward candy store. The store is designed for maximum interaction with the sight, sound, smell and touch.

The store is full of colorful and different varieties of candies. We just like enter a candy house, like in the fairy tales “Hansel and Gretel”. Due we are restricted to take photos inside; we can only snap few photos outside the store. :(

Outside of the store is a very famous yet expensive popcorns counter- Garrett's. There have varieties flavor popcorn that we can’t found other than this shop, like the signature Caramel Crisp, Cheese corn, Buttery, the Chicago mix, Macadamia CaramelCrisp, and so on flavors. The prices of the popcorn are start at RM9 for a small bag that two can share, but the less basic flavors cost RM16 a bag. Somehow, there are still a lot people queuing up to purchase it. As I’m a poor student I’m not afford and not interest to buy such expensive popcorn. : (

Wash in Green

"Go Green! Go Green!"

What a familiar and prevalent slogan we heard this recently years.

Yet, did you take action to  protect our environment?

To contribute your efforts to our mother land is easy as ABC, here to share one of the way to protect the environment and it is useful and helpful in our daily life.



According to research, the garbage we produced are releasing the methane every moment. This methane is a relatively potent greenhouse gas with a high global warming potential.

After 30 years more research and investigated by Dr Rosukon, he was successful developed the Garbage Enzyme.

This Garbage Enzyme made from rubbish (fresh vegs and fruits residues), the making of this enzyme is

• simple procedures
• easy to get the materials
• save costs
• multiple usage
• reduce the amount of junks
• eco-friendly, reduce pollution

My mummy is start her DIY Garbage Enzyme for quite a period, here am I to share the making of it...

1) Collect fresh veg and fruits residues as many as you can. My mom will keeps those veg and fruits residues in fridge and freezing them to make sure they are fresh enough before reach a amount.  

【warm prompt:-

✿ orange peel or flavedo is the best choice to make the natural fragrance of this Garbage Enzyme

✿ pineapple peel is helpful on de-oiling 】

2) Put in the residues into a container (You can choose any kind of container as long as it has a good-fit cover)

【 warm prompt: Big size container is recommended as prevent the Fermentation overflow outside】

3) Add-on the sugar and water as the quantity list in below:-

~ 1 ratio of sugar or molasses : 3 ratio of organic waste : 10 ratio of water

4) Pour and mix them well and cover it and let it ferment for 3 months

【warm prompt again: You might jot down the date of mission begins at the cover】

3 months later...

Tada...

Yea, it looks so ugly even disgustingly

Yet,

this is the one helps us to produce the best to reduce global warming. 

And no doubt, it is really smell good.

Filter out to remove the residues.

DON'T THROW AWAY the residues, it has its another mission =D

It is a very good and 100% natural fertilizer.

Now, your natural and multiple usage soaps and detergents are served.

You might use this for wash plate, wash car, clean window, mop the floor and so on.

It is not only help on de-oiling, it also anti-bacterial and virus. 

And the most important, it reach the effects like what the chemical soaps and detergents did, however, it will not bring any pollution like them such as water pollution. 

Start your  Garbage Enzyme as well! 

*click on image to enlarge

by Lim Jeng Nian, Jeffney @ifunblock