Weird, very weird. It was a month ago that it happened. I was in the LRT on my way back home, when I suddenly got approached by someone I don’t recall at all. This was how the conversation goes. Let’s call the person AS (Ahemz… that’s short form for Aoi Sora).

Ahahaha.. like Aoi Sora will suddenly appear!
Sidenote: By the way you can follow Aoi Sora’s twitter here.

AS: Hello
… I first was looking elsewhere then I turned sideways then I pointed to myself. She nodded...
Me: (Being polite I obliged) Oh hello.
AS: Sorry to disturb you. My name is Miko. I saw from afar you look familiar then I realized, are you Daniel Chew?
Me: Errr.. yes. I am Daniel. (Actually thinking how to react, maybe a scam or stalker.. lol) Why?
AS: Oh, it’s you. Can I take a photo with you?
Me: (Still puzzled, also just after office hours, I am a bit blur) Oh okay.
AS: Yay.. (proceeds to take out compact camera and camwhore pose) Thank you. Nice blog.

Then I saw her getting down the next station.
After like a few seconds then only I came to my senses. Oh, she knew me because of my blog. Hold on a second, wait… what just really happened? I just got recognized by someone I don’t really know. Then before I could understand anything, she just left the LRT.

What a weird day that was. I was clueless and I believe I have a stalker or a fan. My mind was running backwards to think of anything. Anyway, after few seconds, I gave up (hahaha.. yes, kinda lazy to use so much brainpower after office hours) then I just take it that she’s just some blogger who happens to meet another blogger.

Well this has got to be the most random meet up for me. Wonders what will happen in the future. Weird world we live in eh?

If you people wanted the real way of how the real conversation goes with broken English (roughly composed back), then here is the brokenized version of it

AS: Hello
Me: Oh, hello.
AS: Soli ah.. kacau u. I think I see you before oh. You are Daniel Chew right? My name Miko..
Me: Ohhhh,ahhh Miko. Yes, I’m Daniel. Why oh?
AS: Ahahaha… sorry ah.. paiseh oh. Can take photo with you ah?
Me: Oh ok.
AB: *click*. Your blog very nice oh. Thank you take photo with me ah, my station reach jor lor. Bye bye.

Somehow I can’t really recall how the conversation actually really goes. Anyway if Miko is a loyal supporter of my blog, I would like to thank you for reading Weird Weird Denial. I promise will write more nicer post in the coming future. To the loyal readers of this blog, I must say I owe you people the traffic in order for my blog to be where it is now.

Thank you and by the way Happy Holidays and Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrates.

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In this age and time, it looks like there are so many advances in technology. Remember how we all used to go to the Supermarket and then have a look at the time of payment, the cashier just scans a code from the product and the price is out. When I was a little kid, I found it fascinating.

Now in this time and future, where everyone is mostly holding a smartphone, be it iPhone, Android Phones or any others, there is another barcode well known to them which what we call them qr barcodes. How does it look like?

This is a typical QR Barcode. Using a QR Barcode Scanner, it will redirect to a link, page or a contact number. Nowadays you’ll see so many webpages and websites using QR, it’s become a normal phenomenon. The same goes for me too, this site deserves it’s own QR Barcode and if you were to try using the QR Scanner on the barcode above you will land on the home page of Weird Weird Denial. Pretty cool right?

Now don’t you wish your website has it’s own QR Barcode now?

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After all those flicks and movies and theaters about the male dominant movies with their rail guns, M16 and the bombs and explosives and sweat, it’s time for some relaxing group of female firepower back into the movie. Yes, Sucker Punch is here to come and what a way for a title for a movie. Definitely a chick flick and what the heck is a sucker punch? Ahahaha… You punched the life out of a sucker?

Well, the story revolves around Babydoll (Emily Browning). Determined to fight for her freedom, she urges four other young girls—the outspoken Rocket (Jena Malone), the street-smart Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), the fiercely loyal Amber (Jamie Chung) and the reluctant Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish)—to band together and try to escape their terrible fate at the hands of their captors, Blue (Oscar Isaac), Madam Gorski (Carla Gugino) and the High Roller (Jon Hamm). Of course, now this is where I come in.

The story now revolves around Daniel Takeshi (Daniel Chew) who is stuck alongside Babydoll and the other girls who were held against their will. Strange enough, I think with my martial art skills and talent, this will be a simple knock in the butt for me. Now with Amber (the fierce one) alongside the multi-talented Daniel Takeshi (me… definitely); sorry Babydoll, guess this time you’re not the main lead, it’s time to break through by using both brain and guts and talent.

The Hot Amber (Jamie Chung)

Hold on maybe Babydoll has some uses after all. Since she could throw sucker punches to those suckers who kept us against our will. Not your average daily life, this Sucker Punch will be a hell of a hilarious movie.

Power of the Sucker Punch

Now who says Sucker Punches aren’t strong. No pun intended

In truth the only character with a decent name is Amber. The rest have oh so crappy names like Blondie, Sweet Pea, Rocket, it makes you think that this is a cheapo lousy movie, but nevermind, at least there’s Amber. Hahahaha…

Additional Notes: In case some of you thought that Jamie Chung is a tad bit familiar, she was Chi Chi in Dragon Ball: Evolution and also as Takara in the well known game called Red Alert 3.

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Nowadays everyone seems to have name cards. You name it, even if you’re not working in a company, bloggers now have their own name card. Aspiring photographers (most of them bloggers) create their own name card. Then slowly you see themselves making t-shirts with their domain name. Something else though is starting to follow the hype. It’s flashdrives. So far there’s this website which is called Pexagon, which creates personalized flash drives for photographers. Why only photographers? The offer is for photographers as they will receive 25% DISCOUNT on personalized USB Flash Drives, Portable Hard Drives and other custom products.

For someone like me who does his shopping online, this will be a convenient way to get a personalized drive. Now I am glad I am a photographer too.

Imagine all my hard drives have my domain name Danielctw.com or Handsome Takeshi Daniel Chew in-scripted on it. So at least it shows the professionalism in oneself. Oh my goodness, I think I rather put a logo on my personalized flash drives instead.Another good thing is giving your clients the personalized flash drive with your blog or business URL with the files. They’re sure to remember where they got that flash drive from.

Well, since that is the case, I guess before this thing becomes a hype, I better start making mine first. Since I haven’t been offering anything much to my readers, here’s the chance for you to get your own personalized photography flash drives too.

This food what was taken with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D.

I still wished I could have gotten a better lens for food photography though, maybe a 20mm?. Argh… even though photography is fun, the cost of maintaining one is also another issue. Setting that aside, I guessed photography is an investment, be it lens, flash drives and others.

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Chinese New Year 2011 was celebrated by my family with a Reunion dinner before Chinese New Year. There definitely has to be somewhat of a reunion dinner even though both my grandparents are not around and this year, we have BBQ (Barbeque) for dinner in our home.

Some will find it strange to have BBQ for a reunion dinner as most will either cook home cooked dishes Chinese style. Well, it pays to be different. There were like 20 people over and with a Teresa Teng background music to accompany (obviously Dad’s chosen song).

Now onwards to the following day, it was time of the year again to go to Malacca to visit relatives and friends to collect angpow to wish them a happy fatt choy new year. Considering the Year of the Rabbit, it has its significant of being the luckiest animal around. Well, onward with the post, being able to go back to Malacca during Chinese New Year is one of a kind. Where else can you get authentic Chinese New Year Nyonya/Peranakan dishes?

Yes, it’s home cooked. Authentic. Some of the notable ones are listed below.

Itik Tim, the ingredients inclusive of home farm duck, “Kiam Chai” (Salty Vege), Brandy (if there is). Art of boiling this superb tasty soup is to boil it for long hours in order for the taste of the duck and the vege to mix together to add to the flavor of this soup. This food can be found in nyonya restaurants but loses its authenticity when it’s boiled with gas and not with charcoal.By the way some of these Itik Tim would also include the inner parts of the duck. One fine example is the blood of the duck.

Boiled Duck’s blood in some of the Itik Tim dishes. Not everyone cooks the same, so I got to try a variety of Itik Tim in a few houses.

It takes about one day to boil this soup and the longer the soup stays in the pot boiled, the better the taste.

Second dish would be Acah. Preserved Cucumber and Chili in sweet and sour sauce. Mind the photo quality as it was taken with my HTC Hero smartphone. One of a kind, usually only served during Chinese New Year.

Another Nyonya delicacy would be the Ponteh, a mix of home rared chicken, mushroom, ginger and secret sauce known only to the family. Some will also include bamboo shoots for the flavor.

Finally a dessert which is actually different from what we usually eat, the Taibak. This dessert is something like the Cendol, made of flour and sugar water.

The TAIBAK is usually served as a prerequisite of a Baba Nyonya wedding. One of the reason though it’s because it cools down both the groom and the bride (well from what I was told) before hmmm… hmmm…

So now you have it, the food from the Baba Nyonya era. These are the kinds of food I look forward every Chinese New Year other than the usual kueh.

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