This is 油麦 fried with fu-yu… or fermented beancurd.
Can’t normally find this vegetable raw in the markets, but I’m sure to have it everytime I visit Ka-Soh
Glossary of Asian veggies here.
You Mai Lettuce
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Stabil Solingen 13/16 in Poison Green G10
This 13/16 Stabil-Solingen Straight Razor had been sitting quietly in the Buy/Sell forum for about 10 days when I found it.
It was (mostly) everything I wanted in a straight. 6/8 (or better), full hollow, G10 scales (Not exactly a popular mainstream colour, but I liked it), shoulder-less (I’d been eyeing the Dovo Master). No opinion on the round point, and it wasn’t stainless, and the pins weren’t torx screws (oh come on). I jumped on it.
2 weeks later it arrives in a re-packaged bag. The box was damaged in transit but the seller had put copious amounts of bubble wrap in place. The razor was safe. One thing I wasn’t expecting, a high polish on the blade.
Poison Green G10 proved hard to photograph. Bear with my rubbish skills.
I am, as far as I can trace, its 4th owner. It had black celluloid scales before and it had been re-scaled in Poison Green G10. I also read that many Solingens are not branded. Stabil is German for Stable so that might not indicate a maker but just a marketing term. There’s “57″ inscribed on the tang, but I would be hugely surprised if it were made in 1957 given the quality and condition.
I’ve had 2 shaves with it. The first was memorable only because I’d underestimated the weight and thickness of it and cut myself thrice. I only noticed some stinging. My colleague counted scabs the next day. It’s only getting better 
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Who places promo material on door handles anyway?
Just like some people have noted, uncollected flyers on apartment gates signal to thieves and burglars that no-one is home, promo material on a door handle is akin to trying all the doors in a carpark hoping to find a door unlocked (oops!!) and making off with the stuff inside.
Same dude that wrote to complain about the spammy SMSes he got shared this with me.
From: (contact at auctionhotshot dot com)
To: (obfuscated)
Sent: Monday, 16 April, 2012 10:58:25 PM
Subject: re: Feedback: Advertising at carparksDear
, Thank you for your kind understanding.
Your feedback is greatly appreciated. We will henceforth place any future promotional material on all windscreens of vehicles.
Once again, thank you for your kind understanding.
Best regards,
Admin——————————————
From: (obfuscated)
Sent: Monday, 16 April, 2012 10:49:18 PM
To: (contact at auctionhotshot dot com)
Subject: Re: Feedback: Advertising at carparksDear Sir,
I was told that the tissue packet was wedged within the mechanism of the door handle, which leads me to believe that your staff pulled on my door handle. Impossible that the item was just “placed” on the door handle and have the risk of wind blowing it away.
Regardless, I am not comfortable with promotional material placed in that location. I will overlook this matter if I get written confirmation that you will henceforth only place your material on windscreens.
(obfuscated)
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From: (contact at auctionhotshot dot com)
To: (obfuscated)
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2012, 17:37
Subject: re: Feedback: Advertising at carparksDear (obfuscated),
Thank you for your feedback. We believe that there is a serious misunderstanding in this matter.
We respect your property. No door handles of any cars were pulled when our tissue packs were distributed. The tissue packs were simply placed onto the door handle and the distribution was done under close supervision. There was no way that your car could be subjected to any attempt of illegal entry or vandalised by any of our staff. The marks left on your car door handle as seen from your attached photograph are numerous multiple scratches and could not be resulted from one simple gesture of placing the tissue pack onto your car door handle.
In addition, should there be any attempt to enter your car illegally by any of our staff by pulling the door handle with that much force enough to leave those marks, we believe your car alarm would have sounded. If your car is parked in a car park with surveillance cameras, we strongly advise you to seek a footage from the relevant authorities to identify the culprit.
We seek your kind understanding in this matter and hope the above explanation will clear the air.
If you need further clarification, please feel free to contact us at 65074433.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Admin——————————————
From: (obfuscated)
Sent: Saturday, 14 April, 2012 3:24:46 PM
To: (contact at auctionhotshot dot com)
Subject: Feedback: Advertising at carparksDear Sir/Madam,
Your staff, or outsourced contractor has:
1. Attempted illegal entry to my vehicle when he pulled the door handle to place your promotional material on my vehicle.
2. Placed scratches on the paintwork on my vehicle door as a result of above.I have attached a picture of my vehicle door as it was found by my wife.
As I am currently not in town, I am writing to inform you that a police report will be lodged upon my arrival home and closer inspection of my vehicle on 18 Apr.
Rgds,
(obfuscated)
TWIB – Week 15 of 2012
I have a colleague who had a EOS450D camera body coupled to a Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD Lens. For some reason 90% of his shots came out bad. Some AWB, some focus. He’d been telling me for years he wanted a better body. Me being the self professed len-snob, tried pushing him away from a one lens solution. Well he splashed out for a pre-loved EOS7D yesterday and let me audition it. The results are amazing. At 270mm, with a 1.6 crop factor, the effective zoom is 432mm. At F6.3, 1/80 and ISO3200, I was able to get nice clear shots handheld with back and foreground bokeh. Beautiful. He even offered to lend it to me for my trip to Oz. I had to decline. Between Timmy falling and his camera falling, I’d let the camera hit the pavement. He said he’d do the same. Nice guy.
A friend lent us his travel guidebook to Europe some years ago. We brought it along with us; and had an adventure that ended up with orange juice all over it. We told them we’d buy them a new one when they would go to Europe next. I got a text last week asking for it back – so I told wifey.
Wifey: Are they going to Europe again?
Me: No, the AC in their house is a little cold
Wifey: ??!
Me: So they need the book back and they’re burning the pages for heat.
Me. Is. Terrible.