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Suggestion on Mics Needed

Discussion in 'Studio Techniques' started by Music_Man, Nov 29, 2010.

  1. Music_Man

    Music_Man New Member

    I am starting to add male vocals to some of my recordings and wanted to invest between $200-$350 for a mic as a start.

    Could someone give me a tip on which mic would be a good one to purchase?

    In addition, am I limited only to USB mics or not?

    Thanks in advance.
  3. Markdvc

    Markdvc Administrator Staff Member

    Hi there, welcome to the LUG. As this post is not Logic specific, I moved it to Studio Techiques.

    I don't have anything from them myself, so am not speaking from experience, but in that price range, you might want to have a look at what Rode has on offer.

    kind regards

  4. Music_Man

    Music_Man New Member

    Although my question may not seem specific to Logic, I intend to use this mic on Logic Pro 9 and am hoping that someone has tried a mic in my price range and is happy with it. I am looking at Shure PG42USB and Audio-Technica AT2020 USB or similar. I just want to get a decent vocals out of this mic. Thanks in advance.
  5. Eli

    Eli Senior member

    I had an AT 2020 and didn't particularly like it. Do you have a mic preamp with phantom power? That will dictate your mic options partially. If you do have access to a mic pre with phantom power, there are lots of budget large diapghram condenser mics available. I like the Studio Projects mics. I have had great success with the B1 on male vocals. I also do have a Rode NT1-A and like it very much. Although it is not as consistent a utility "go to" mic that will work in as many situations as much as the Studio Projects B1 is - at least for me.
  6. Rain

    Rain Member

    Studio Projects are definitely worth considering. AKG has the Perception line which might be worth checking out. I've had good luck w/ the 220 recently (on male voice), and its big brother, the 420, can be bought for $299 on zZounds. If you don't have access to a preamp/Phantom Power, they also have a USB condenser in that line (though I've never tried it).
  7. Maj G

    Maj G New Member

    For vocals, consider two $100 dollar condenser microphones and a pre-amp if you are just starting to build your equipment list for your studio.

    I second the recomendation of the Studio Projects B-1 as a great choice. Also the MXL V67g is another to consider that is very good for the money. The MXL V67g can also be modded later on if you choose to improve it to Neumann comparable status.

    If you don't already have one, at some point you will also need an SM-57 dynamic microphone which is also a high quality $100 microphone. Expert audio engineers use it for guitar cabinets over thousand dollar microphones. You can use it on vocals too!

    Use the extra money to invest in an ART PRO Channel Strip. It can also be upgraded by replacing the stock tube with a higher quality tube.

    For about $280-290 you would get a good quality condenser mic, and a preamp/compressor/EQ unit which can both be modded for improvements later on if you choose. A complete high quality vocal signal chain for less than $300!

    Do a diligent search on reviews of these products, and you will find that these products might be the best quality bang for the buck purchases for home recording gear.

    Learn to use the gear first! Buy uneeded expensive gear later on when you can afford it if you so choose. Avoid Gear Acquistition Syndrome!!!
  8. jisley

    jisley New Member

    Take a long look/listen at Gauge Precision Instrument's U87 copy. I have two of them and think they're great - especially for a $150 mic. Their $499 tube mic is just fantastic, one of my favorite go to mics.

    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  9. Maj G

    Maj G New Member

  10. Eli

    Eli Senior member

    You've got me interested now in this Gauge Precision emulation of the U-87. I'm always looking for a nice large diaphragm Chinese mic. I wonder if it's worth ordering one, with no first hand experience. How do you find it for P-popping on male voice? What about for drum overheads?
  11. jisley

    jisley New Member

    I unfortunately don't have room for a drum kit in my space so I can't illuminate on the overhead usage. I've used the ECM87's (I have two) for Woodwinds (saxes, flutes, clarinets etc) acoustic guitar, brass and female vocals. The vocal response was pleasant with the usual characteristics of that mic type in that it was very present and forward sounding. Popping/plosives seemed no more an issue than usual (and the mic actually ships with a windscreen). I found the ECM47 to be more to my liking for that particular female singer and I haven't done any male vocal sessions with them. I've found the 87 to be very very nice on acoustic guitar.

    I will say the comparison audio clips on their site seem to be fairly accurate and representative of the sound of the mics. I'm a saxophone and woodwind player and I really like both mics (87 & 47) a lot for the kinds of things I do.

    For the $$ I don't think you can really beat them.
  12. daveyboy

    daveyboy Senior member

    If you don't already have a good mic pre and a to d converter I'd suggest looking into the Apogee One. It's a mic,mic pre and USB interface. Plus, you can still plug a real mike into it. There are a ton of good mics out there but it's really hard to pick the right one without first using it. Most of the Chinese stuff, Rode included, are just too bright and tend to add to the sibilance problem. But, if you're more of a hobby guy then this probably won't be as noticeable. I have a crazy OCD thing now about picking the right mic for the right singer which I'm pretty sure you don't have :) From the mics I have that aren't expensive I'd use a shure 57, EV re20, or (one of my favorite but cheap mics) an Oktava 319 that's been modded by Michael Joly. The 319 is just wonderful in that it has a creamy top end without the sibilance problem and it seems to work on many sources besides voice. It's now my go to violin and cello mic as it's not scratchy sounding. Joly does many mods on cheap Chinese mics turning them into really nice prices. I was thinking about
    Buying a $60 mxl 990 and having him mod it for like $300. The frequency specs after the mod are very close to a u87. Good luck.

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  13. jayfolland

    jayfolland Member

    200 to 300 I'd definitely look at a Studio Projects C3, it'll come in handy for sure!!

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Hank Sims / Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 @ 2:37 p.m. / Education

HSU Bombs White House’s New ‘College Scorecard’

Tonight, I ask Congress to change the Higher Education Act, so that affordability and value are included in determining which colleges receive certain types of federal aid. And tomorrow, my Administration will release a new “College Scorecard” that parents and students can use to compare schools based on a simple criteria: where you can get the most bang for your educational buck.

— Pres. Barack Obama, 2013 State of the Union Address

As good as his word — in this matter, if not matters Guantanamo — the president today released his administration’s “College Scorecard” on the White House website.

It’s a flashy enough application, even though it follows the general, maddening tendency of government web data clearinghouse-type things in that it refuses to let you deep link to individual items of interest. Also, strangely, there seems to be no way to compare or rank a subset of colleges on their bang-for-buck O-factor. And it’s kind of bare bones: It just puts existing federal data in an easy-to-digest format.

Even so, given the high profile of this thing the administration at Humboldt State must be sweating it a little, as must parents of HSU students. [Disclosure, my second of the day: The HSU journalism department pays me a part-time salary.] As stated above, there’s no easy way to compare and contrast colleges in the “College Scorecard,” but a quick spot check of six California public universities and one private one leaves HSU looking pretty grim.

Of the seven universities we checked — HSU, Chico State, Sonoma State, CSU Fullerton, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Stanford — Humboldt State had by far the lowest graduation rate. It had the highest rate of post-graduation student loan default. It was fairly cheap, but still over twice as much as Fullerton and not that much cheaper than Berkeley or Davis. And families and students borrow more to go to Humboldt than they do for any of the other institutions listed, apart from Sonoma and (barely) Berkeley.

There follows a quick rundown. Head over to the Scorecard for information from more universities and for an explanation of terms:

COSTS (after grants and scholarships, per year)

  • STANFORD: $21,421
  • BERKELEY: $15,589
  • DAVIS: $14,702
  • SONOMA: $12,128
  • CHICO: $11,276
  • SONOMA: $12,128
  • HSU: $11,149
  • FULLERTON: $4,294

GRADUATION RATE (within six years)

  • STANFORD: 96.1 percent
  • BERKELEY: 90.5 percent
  • DAVIS: 81.7 percent
  • CHICO: 59 percent
  • SONOMA: 56.7 percent
  • FULLERTON: 50.1 percent
  • HSU: 39.7 percent

  • HSU: 8 percent
  • FULLERTON: 6.2 percent
  • CHICO: 5.8 percent
  • SONOMA: 3.5 percent
  • DAVIS: 3 percent
  • BERKELEY: 2.6 percent
  • STANFORD: 1 percent

MEDIAN BORROWING (average postgraduation student loan payment per month)

  • SONOMA: $207.14
  • BERKELEY: $198.50
  • HSU: $193.75
  • DAVIS: $166.87
  • CHICO: $163.41
  • STANFORD:$149.95
  • FULLERTON: $143.85

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Louisville’s super walk-on Kyle Kuric talks about the upcoming season.

Posted: July 8, 2011 by Raashaan Myers in Louisville Basketball

 (Photo: Cardchronicle.com)

University of Louisville senior Kyle Kuric is preparing himself for a memorable final season this coming year. His coming of age and development over the three previous seasons reminds me of guys like Eric Johnson and Larry O’Bannon. So what has King Kyle been working on this summer to take his game to the next level?

“I think the most obvious thing for me I need to work on is creating my own shot and being able to put the ball on the floor. Not just shooting threes or just getting my shot only off someone else’s penetration, but being able to create my own shot is the first thing I am working on. Outside of that I want to work obviously is defense, quickness, jumping ability, and other things like that.  Also me personally I want to be able to shoot even better this year with more consistency. I want to shoot an even better percentage and have confidence in that,” said Kuric. “I am doing a bunch of stuff here as well as a lot of things I have never done before. I am training with Peyton and some of the other fellas, as well as working on explosive quickness training. I have picked up yoga and several other things as well.”

Out of high school Kuric was offered preferred walk-on status to join Louisville and Butler was his most prestigious official scholarship offer with Indiana University offering a scholarship late in the process. His rise to a  possible preseason All Big East selection has been unbelievable; so does he have a chip on his shoulder to stick it to all those who passed him over?

“Well my freshman year was a disappointment in my eyes even though maybe not to some. I didn’t really see myself as an all Big East selection, but in high school being a focal point at that level with all the time I have put in I could see some of it. This is something I have put a lot of work into and wanted to achieve and I am still looking to achieve more,” said Kuric.

 Unlike previous seasons Kuric is now being looked to as a leader off the court as well as on and he is taking things in stride.

“Well this year for me personally is different than all the previous seasons. This year it is not just about working on things on the basketball court but also working on leadership and getting other guys into this system and to work hard as possible. It is a different situation than it has been but I am accepting it and trying to do the best that I can,” said Kuric. “To us it has been the same as it has been really, but for the new guys it has been something different of course. But we are also doing different things and extra stuff also we’re not just lifting, we’re not just playing pick-up, we’re not just doing the things we are supposed to do. We may have two  guys here lifting, and two guys there playing, and we are trying to do as much as possible to get us ready for this year.”

With so many returning players Louisville will enjoy being one of the most experienced teams in the country. Has that experience paid dividends so far?

“Continuity has been there for now as we have only had one or two guys here so far to get acclimated to the process and the system. It has been easier for them because there are just a couple of them so far, but we have like three or four more guys coming in so even though we have had some familiarity  with the returning guys it will be about getting all the new guys up to speed as quickly as possible,” said Kuric.

Preseason rankings have placed the Cardinals in the top 10 in most projections to begin the season, and Joe Lunardi sees the Louisville as a Final Four contender. How good can this team be this year?

“I think we can be as good as we want to be.  It is very simple if we put in the work we need to which we are I think we can be as good as we want. I don’t want to say getting out of the first round is our primary focus, but it is a goal,” said Kuric. “We were right there for the Big East regular season championship and we were right there for the Big East tournament championship with a team everybody didn’t think should be there. So I would say Big East regular season and tournament championship as well as Elite Eight and Final four is where we are setting our sights right now.”

One piece of news that caused quite a stir in Red and Black nation was the news that Kuric has been moved to walk-on status though he is a starter and projected team captain for the upcoming season. So the million dollar question is what does Kyle think about being one of the most talented walk-ons in program history?

“It all started last year when Coach talked to my parents and he told them he may need my scholarship this year or last year. He said he may or may not need it and if they would have the money to go ahead and pay my way. And they said they did so that is how this whole thing came about.  Then they talked to me about it and I told them I didn’t have a problem with it. As far as being viewed as a scholarship player or as a walk on I could really care less. If you see me as a walk on that is your loss and that means you are going to underestimate me,” said Kuric.

Kuric is coming off a season that saw him hit career highs of 10.8 PPG while shooting a blistering 51% from the field and 45% from three point range while hitting the 20 point mark on 6 separate occasions. So what are his personal goals for the upcoming season?

“Well if I score 20 points in a game but we lose then it doesn’t matter. Whether I score 20 points a game or 5 points a game I am going to play whatever style I need to for us to win. I mean I was looked over a bit in high school, but that is just the way it is. Coach P took a gamble and Coach McCarty helped out a lot and it benefitted me and them as well,’ said Kuric.

 With pick-up games in full swing at the SAC there have been reports that there has been some marked improvement from a number of the returning players. Who has impressed Kuric the most so far this summer?

“Some things are looking good and some things are looking bad, but it is pick-up so that is how it is. Russ has been playing really well and we are working on him passing the ball off his penetration into the lane. He is really quick and no one can really keep him out of the lane so getting in his head to set up his teammate like Peyton did last year could really benefit him and really benefit our team,” said Kuric. “Gorgui has really improved, Peyton, Chris, everybody is getting better, and we are trying to get the new guys to concentrate a little bit more on the defensive end.”

Though there are only two of the five freshmen on campus so far Kyle does believe both will make an impact on the upcoming season.

“With TJ leaving this year that really leaves some open opportunities at the 5. Zach will have some opportunities to step in there and battle with Gorgui every day and they both will be better for that and benefit us. We are really deep at the 3 and the 4 so Chane is really skilled and the other guys at that position are really skilled as well so that will be a great competition as well. Them being there early and get what we are trying to teach them will really help them out and be very beneficial,” said Kuric.

For all the highlight plays from last year’s magical regular season, the clear top moment came in a road game vs. Notre Dame when Kuric threw down a thunderous slam on Irish forward Scott Martin.  It was selected as college dunk of the year by Fox Sports.  So where did those hops come from?

“I have worked on my vertical jump since I was in seventh or eighth grade.  I have always worked on that and I have always worked on my shooting. People look at me and see I can shoot and probably can’t jump very high so that started a long time ago. So I surprised people in AAU and even when I got here too and finally in a game,” said Kuric.

Can we look for a repeat this coming year and see Kyle go back to back for dunk of the year?

“I hope so,” said Kuric with a laugh. “It is not something I am focusing on, but hopefully I can make that happen.”

  1. […] matter until now. Raashaan Myers of insidetheville.com and the Louisville Sports Buzz recently caught up with King Kyle and asked him all about the move to become a walk-on and his expectations for this coming […]

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New Pre-Columbian Collection in ARTstor

ARTstor has partnered with the Visual Resources Collections at Skidmore College’s Lucy Scribner Library to digitize approximately 850 images of Pre-Columbian objects and sites from the Southwest United States, Central America, South America, Europe, and Egypt. These images were selected from a collection of over 8,000 slides created by alumna Moreen O’Brien Maser (Class of 1926). From 1938-1970, Maser traveled with her husband, Herman, to various archaeological sites and modern cities in the American Southwest, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Greece, Italy, and Egypt. Of particular note are the Mesoamerican images, which provide documentary evidence for sites that have been more fully excavated and/or damaged due to environmental and human degradation since being photographed by the Masers more than 50 years ago.

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Dudek’s Unlucky Day

Accomplished veteran Poland international goalkeeper JERZY DUDEK (25) is examined by the medical staff of Real Madrid during the UEFA Champions League match with French side AJ Auxerre at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in the capital city of Spain. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou/Getty Images)

Hard for the blog to not to feel bad for Real Madrid’s back-up goalkeeper, the aging JERZY DUDEK, then.

The 37-year-old Poland international has not had many opportunities to play for Los Blancos since arriving from English club FC Liverpool in the summer of 2007. What, with Spain World Cup champion IKER CASILLAS, one of if not the best backstop on planet at the moment, around and all. Still, Dudek has drawn nothing but compliments for his work ethic in practice and attitude from the bench.

Dudek, of course, is quite an accomplished goalkeeper in his own right.

While featuring for Dutch outfit Feyenoord Rotterdam, Dudek became the first foreigner to be selected as the Eredivisie’s Goalkeeper of the Year in 1999, an honor he again earned the following season.

In August of 2001, Dudek was sold by Feyenoord to legendary Premier League club FC Liverpool for a fee of 4.8 million English pounds; the Pole immediately took over as the Reds’ first choice between the sticks at Anfield in favor of Holland international SANDER WESTERVELD, who was reputed to be Britain’s most expensive goalkeeper when purchased from Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem for 4.0 million English pounds in the summer of 1999.

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Liverpool finished second in the Premiership that 2001-02 season and Dudek was chosen as one of three finalists for UEFA’s Goalkeeper of the Year award along with Germany’s Oliver Kahn of Bayern Munich and Italy’s Gianluigi Buffon of FC Juventus.

Dudek spent the summer of 2002 with the national team of Poland at the 2002 FIFA World Cup final tournament held jointly in Japan and South Korea; the Liverpool goalkeeper, however, did not have a good showing and was dropped after allowing six goals in Poland’s first two games.

Perhaps disappointed with his performance on football’s grandest stage, Dudek’s form suffered a decline in the Premiership the next season but Liverpool did manage to reach the League Cup Final and the Pole kept a clean sheet as contemporary powerhouse Manchester United was defeated.

Dudek’s finest hour arrived in the Final of the 2004-05 UEFA Champions League competition. The Poland international pulled off a double save on AC Milan’s lethal Ukraine international striker ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO to preserve a tie in extra time and then stopped two more penalty kicks in the shootout. All this after Liverpool had courageously overturned a 3-0 deficit in regulation.

Dudek became just the third Polish footballer in history to claim a European Cup winners’ medal after attacker ZBIGINEW BONIEK (Italy’s FC Juventus – 1985) and goalkeeper JOZEF MLYNARCZYK (Portugal’s FC Porto – 1987) and was, once again, named as a finalist for the UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year accolade.

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Despite attaining the pinnacle of success in Europe, Liverpool’s Spanish manager RAFAEL BENITEZ decided to purchase countryman JOSE MANUEL “Pepe” REINA from La Liga club Real Villareal for 6.0 million English pounds to start the 2005-06 campaign.

Dudek’s days at Anfield were numbered from that moment on. In the summer of 2007, the second most-capped goalkeeper (59 games) in Polish history departed for Spanish giant Real Madrid on a free transfer. Aside from a single start in the second last game of his first season with Los Blancos, Dudek has not played at all in La Liga since arriving in the capital city of Espana.

Eight games in the Copa del Rey and a lone appearance in the UEFA Champions League during the 2008-09 campaign constitute the veteran Poland international’s professional record his first three years in Spain.

On his first apperance this term, Dudek looked to be in tip-top form against French side AJ Auxerre in the UEFA Champions League before the unfortunate collision with the Burgundy outfit’s striker ROY CONTOUT towards the end of the first half.

A broken jaw is expected to keep the 37-year-old veteran out of action for at least six weeks.

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On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 15:25, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
Hi John,

Please search the archives.

I can't :P
Every time I try to search I get an error (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/

A while back I sent one email (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/
gtk-app-devel-list/2004-April/msg00023.html) to the list, and Peter Krueger
suggested the use of threads if the task was time consumming (http://

The GUI that I am building will download stuff from the internet, and while
resolving, connecting and receiving data, it is not very responsive when not
using threads.

Do you have a different suggestion?

There was a reply to your post that was a very good idea.  In windows,
only one thread can interact with the gui.  Therefore, you'll need to
just have one thread that listens for windows messages from the other
threads and then updates the gui accordingly.  Then in your worker
threads, when things need to be update, post a message to your main gui
thread's queue, asking for the update.  This is pretty much the only way
to do this, and this is what I had to do back when I dabbled in MFC
programming (what a nightmare).

The problem is that I can't tell you exactly how to do all this (the
inter-thread communication) under windows.

Have  you considered using the gnet library (from
http://www.gnetlibrary.org)?  This library will let you do
single-threaded asynchronous i/o within a nice glib framework.  While
asynchronous I/O is sometimes harder to understand than threaded at
first (it's event-driven), sometimes it is just cleaner and simpler when
you do the implementation.  Plus it eliminates the need for multiple
threads while still being able to handle many types of network I/O

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[New-bugs-announce] [issue7319] Silence DeprecationWarning by default

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New submission from Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:

This issue is to track the silencing of DeprecationWarning by default.

To start a patch has been attached against trunk which silences
DeprecationWarning. Documentation changes are still needed, though.

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title: Silence DeprecationWarning by default
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Children with asthma who have their tonsils and adenoids (T&A) removed may experience fewer asthma symptoms.

Researchers from Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland, California, followed 105 children with asthma (7-21 years) referred for sleep study for suspected sleep apnea.

Twenty-four patients with apnea required T&A, of which 11 patients followed through with surgery.

Results indicated that scores trended toward improvement with T&A. However, there was no significant increase in the lung function following T&A.

This study was presented during CHEST 2012, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, held October 20 – 25, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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A molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable, electrically neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong (covalent) chemical bonds. Molecules are distinguished from polyatomic ions in this strict sense. In organic chemistry and biochemistry, the term molecule is used less strictly and also is applied to charged organic molecules and biomolecules.

In the kinetic theory of gases the term molecule is often used for any gaseous particle regardless of its composition. According to this definition noble gas atoms are considered molecules despite the fact that they are composed of a single non-bonded atom.

A molecule may consist of atoms of a single chemical element, as with oxygen (O2), or of different elements, as with water (H2O). Atoms and complexes connected by non-covalent bonds such as hydrogen bonds or ionic bonds are generally not considered single molecules.

No typical molecule can be defined for ionic crystals (salts) and covalent crystals (network solids), although these are often composed of repeating unit cells that extend either in a plane (such as in graphene) or three-dimensionally (such as in diamond or sodium chloride). The theme of repeated unit-cellular-structure also holds for most condensed phases with metallic bonding. In glasses (solids that exist in a vitreous disordered state), atoms may also be held together by chemical bonds without any definable molecule, but also without any of the regularity of repeating units that characterises crystals.

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Komunikat z Konsulatu Polskiego

by C. Michael Eliasz-Solomon

Communications with the Polish Consulate

Communications with the Polish Consulate

Stanczyk, apologizes for being derelict of duty. Has it really been 2.5 months? Much has happened since my twin daughter Valeria died, that required Stanczyk’s attentions.  Oddly it is another death that happened 80 years ago that caught my attention, as I try to muse along.

I was reviewing some digital pictures I took years ago of a January 22nd, 1930 newspaper page that contained some columns posted by the Polish Consulate in Detroit. Stanczyk has long been a fan of the Dziennik Polski and I have just this Labor Day weekend, posted an update to my index of Polish peoples whose names appeared in the Dziennik Polski newspaper in various columns (birth announcements, funeral cards, marriage announcements, divorce announcements, class pictures from local High Schools, and even Polish Consulate postings). So this muse added another 64 names to my index (over 20,100) people now:

It has been two years between updates (this fool’s Mac died, just before the economy died). So I have finally gathered a sundry of  open source (i.e free) tools to edit/post files to web sites on an MS Windows laptop (distasteful). So look for future updates.

At any rate, I found a Kędzierski who may or may not be related to a family that my grand-uncle Jan married into listed. This caught my eye and also a communique about a Marjanna Skowronkówna. It appears her family in Poland (via the court in Jaslo in Krakow area) are trying to determine for certain her death. This woman was the daughter of Jan Skowron and his wife Barbara nee  Filasow, was born 1st October 1866. She came to America the second time in March of 1913 (remember this is a 1930 newspaper posting) and the family has heard nothing since 1914 when she was last known to be a housekeeper for Greek-Catholic priest, V, Dobry in Uniontown, PA. As I said, this was posted 22-January-1930 issue of Dziennik Polski, in Detroit, MI [in case an ancestor reads/Googles this blog].

Now the above was written in Polish (I used Google Translate to help me), so it was not the fact of a daughter being deceased unbeknownst to her family that caught my eye, but the fact that her birth date, her parents’ names and  her birth place were given. What immensely valuable genealogical data can be found in these Polish Consulates communiques!

Now as for Pawel Kędzierski,  a relative of his living in France, named Michal Kędzierski, was looking for him. They gave Pawel’s last known address as the state of Ohio. Note to Fool, check to see if these Polish Consulate postings appeared simultaneously through out USA Polish newspapers; I say this since we see Ohio and Uniontown, PA being written about in a Detroit, MI newspaper.

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Last night felt realllly good. The Mets Divas and Dykstraw watched the 2nd game vs. the Phillies at Matty’s Metsblog viewing party. Head over to MD&D to read the full report, with pictures, here!

Is it completely unreasonable to just plain want some of that 2006 magic for the rest of the season? When the wins just rolled out one after the other? The way I see it, we’re looking at 3 options for September. 1) We start losing. And as can happen (we allll know) the losing begets more losing. 2) We win! Again and again! Oh how confident the Mets are, all swagger and red hot bats and picking each other up. 3) Win, lose, win, lose, win, lose, right along with the other contenders in our division, and right to the very end. Oy.

I have a feeling I’m going to be very moody in September. I’m not a huge fan of roller coasters, Metsies. Can’t we just have it easy for once? I’m thinking it’s on the offense now. Pick up the bullpen, the missing John Maine. Wanna score early? Fine, great, but the ball works the same in later innings too. Let’s keep up what you did last night. Come on, boys. Don’t fail us this time.

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    The alcohol and antacids have been out for several months already! And, throw in a blindfold and some dramamine too, because I don’t do well with roller coasters either!

    Hey, ladies (and guys), my template for a perfect season will always be ’86– Stomp ’em all flat in April and May, and then pull slowly ahead, dancing on everybody else’s graves all the way. 😛 End up 20 games in first with 108 wins.

    Some people think that can get boring. Believe me, it does not. It is intoxicating beyond belief. It is like crack– so I’ve heard. 😛

    SO no, I’m not a big one for see-saw pennant races either, and am stocking up on antacids, and wondering about Xanax. But as with the Democratic party, my aspirations have changed over the years. I just want to see Shea rock again before the end. I just want to hear that mega-decibel, “this crowd goes to 11,” post-season roar again before the place comes down forever.

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    Hi, Zoe.

    Antacids are fine but Xanax gets it done!

    I’m a Yankee fan (sorry), but this is my first time on your blog and I admire your passion for your team. I relate. Also, I read that you worked in publishing before writing your novel. Me too. See? Even crosstown rivals can have something in common!

    Ms. Heller, I’ve read your pieces in the New York Times. Do you have anything anywhere about how you became a Yankee fan? What missteps, what evil influences, what errors in judgment could have led an intelligent woman like yourself to such a grievous faux pas? 😉

    Zoe, check out MetsBlog to see Mike Pelfrey, Good Citizen- there’s a little clip from CB Park, enemy territory, no less– a young boy takes quite a tumble out of the outfield seats to the field. The kid gets up and staggers around, and Pelf comes to his aid, steadies him, and gently lowers him to the ground.

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    I sawww that with Pelf, all over the news. After that video, a few Mets go over to him, and I can’t see who it is, but someone holds the boy and comforts him. Really sweet.

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The other day I wrote what I thought was a heartfelt tribute to my good friend, Jeffery Lung. I lost a contest and as the terms of the contest dictated, I had to write an essay in praise of Jeff and that I did. However, it seems that everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Apparently the ethos of “gotcha’ journalism” has seeped into every aspect of American life to the extent that even a laudatory essay automatically becomes suspect. C’mon people. I am not Keith Olbermann. I am not these guys:

I lost fair and square and so I did what was asked of me.

Now, I could have gone to one of the two extremes. I could have given the Oliver Stone on Hugo Chavez hagiography treatment to Jeff and made myself into as laughable an icon as the director of Platoon has now become. Or, I could have gone the other direction and filled the entry so full of sarcasm and tongue in cheek humor as to lose all sense of the original terms of the contest. Like Robert Frost, though, when I saw two roads diverge in a wood, I took the one less traveled by. The honorable one.

But the honorable path apparently doesn’t mean much these days. You all want to hear me talk about Jeff’s impressive collection of exfoliants and cleansers. Or his inability to find a girlfriend. Or Fernando Tatis’ repeated requests to Jeff to stop sending him pictures and letters about how much alike their goatees look. But I drew a line and I refused to cross it.

So, you can continue waiting for the other shoe to drop, but you’ll be waiting a long time. Jeff is my friend and that means I don’t question his decision to hang a life-size poster of Patrick Swayze over his bed. Really, that is what being a friend is all about. And god knows it’s better than a life-size poster of Whoopi Goldberg.

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"In every nook and cranny, high and low, they sought for him¿He had vanished as a star vanishes when it drops from its place in the sky." From the author of such children's classics as The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and A Little Princess, The Lost Prince is the enchanting story of a young boy discovering his true destiny. Twelve-year-old Marco knows he is being trained for something, but he isn't sure what. All his life he has traveled with his father in secrecy, learning many languages and the ways of a gentleman, but forbidden to speak about their country of origin, Samavia. Samavia has been fraught with war for the last 500 years, ever since the prince mysteriously disappeared. But now, there is hope that peace may come at last, as it has been rumored that a descendant of the lost prince may have been found.

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Oprah and Own Channel Have Ratings 10% Lower Than Discovery Health, Awkward

The OWN channel, which launched two months ago, is being watched by only 135,000 people at any one time.

The ratings are 10 per cent lower than for the cable channel it replaced which was called Discovery Health.

And only 45,000 of those watching are women aged 25 to 54, the audience the channel is being aimed at.

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The MEPIS 11 Desktop

This quickstart document is designed to acquaint you with the basic operation of the MEPIS 11 desktop; see also the Users Manual (Section 3.4) and the MEPIS Wiki under "KDE4."

After logging into Mepis 11.0 you will see the KDE4 desktop. The default Desktop for Mepis is Folder View, meaning that the desktop shows the contents of the Desktop directory in your Home. The Folder View desktop comprises the following elements:

#1:      The KDE Panel:

By default, the panel on the KDE desktop contains L-R:

When you hover the mouse pointer over an icon in the panel, a short description is displayed.

#2      Desktop Context Menu

Right-click in an empty area of the desktop to access the context menu for configuring the appearance of the desktop, adding panels or widgets to the desktop, configuring desktop settings, locking the widgets in their current position, leaving the current session, or for locking the current screen.

Remember that Locking Widgets prevents you from messing up anything. Unlock Widgets to add or move elements, then Lock Widgets again to protect your configuration.

#3      Desktop Tool box, “The Cashew”:

Move your mouse pointer to the top right hand corner of the desktop and click “the cashew” to access its menu. Desktop elements can be locked in their current position on the desktop to prevent them being moved around or accidentally being deleted. As long as the desktop elements are locked you cannot add, move or remove any objects from the desktop. To lock or unlock the desktop, right-click an empty patch on the desktop or the cashew icon (desktop toolbox) at the top right corner and select Lock Widgets or Unlock Widgets.

#4       The Run Command:

KRunner is a helper application that lets you quickly start programs, It also offers a search function for finding applications or locations.

Press Alt + F2 to open the Run command dialog, or right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose Run command.

Type a command —for example, “dolphin”. While you are typing, the dialog shows a list of applications or actions that match your input. Select one of the results, or press enter to launch the highlighted application or action.

The command to start the application is often ( but not always) the application name written in lowercase. KRunner's abilities can also be extended by a number of plug-ins that provide additional functionality.

Consult the Users Manual for details.

#5      Individual Desktop Elements:

In the following section you will find some examples of how to change individual desktop elements:

Adding Program icons to the Desktop

To create a link to an application and place it on the desktop or the panel:

  1. Click on the Main Menu icon and browse to the desired application.
  2. Right-click and select Add to Desktop from the context menu. If this menu is not available youi probably forgot to unlock your desktop elements.
  3. To change the icon position on the desktop, left-click on the icon and drag it to the desired position.
  4. To delete an icon from the desktop, right-click the program icon and select Remove this Icon.

If you want multiple panels on the desktop, right-click an empty area on the desktop and select Panel Options > Add Panel. A new cashew icon appears on the desktop, representing the panel. (If these menu items are not available, your desktop objects are probably locked!)

Click the icon to access the panel configuration options and customize the new panel as described in “Configuring Panels”.

To delete a panel, right-click a blank space in the panel you want to delete and select Panel Options > Remove this Panel. Normal operation of MEPIS requires that at least one panel is left on the desktop.

#6      Desktop Background

You can change the desktop background to display images, a slideshow, patterns or colours. It is even possible to use a map of the globe or the weather report as desktop background.

Right-click an empty patch of the desktop and select Folder View Settings. A configuration dialog appears.

In the Wallpaper section, choose from the Type drop-down list what you want as desktop background. The further configuration options depend on the choice of object to use as background.

For example to use an image wallpaper:

#7      System Settings

System Settings is the central place for users to change the overall appearance and behaviour of many components of the KDE desktop. Launch it with the panel icon or from Main Menu > Settings > System Settings. To get an impression of the numerous possibilities, click on a category icon and explore the options. Performing tasks in some areas of System Settings requires the root password.

Details can be found in the Users Manual Section 3.4.

#8      Desktop Effects

If your computer supports a 3D graphic card with the correct driver installed, you can use graphical effects like turning your desktop into a rotating 3D cube, you can also use other window effects such as shadows, fading, and transformations. If you do not have a 3D graphic card or the correct driver is not installed, the desktop effects will be disabled.

If the performance of your computer is slow or jerky, disable the compositing effects in the current session with Alt + Shift + F12.

To configure effects on your desktop:

Start System Settings > Select Desktop > Desktop Effects, and choose Enable Desktop Effects, if you graphic card does not support 3D or the correct driver is not installed, you will be notified.

On the All Effects Tab, select the effects you want to use, Click on the information icon for a short explanation of the respective effect. If an effect is activated, the wrench icon on the right gives further configuration options like assigning keyboard shortcuts to the effect.

Use Apply to enable the effects permanently.

#9      Virtual Desktops

The desktop environment allows you to organize your programs and tasks on several virtual desktops (4 by default). If you often run a lot of programs simultaneously, this minimizes the number of windows to arrange on your screen. You might for example, use desktop #1 for web browsing, #2 for word processing and #3 for graphics applications.

Moving an Application to Another Virtual Desktop:

You can display a running application on one or all virtual desktops, or move it to other desktops.

  1. Open the application.
  2. Right-click the title bar of the application.
  3. Click To Desktop.
  4. Select the desktop on which to place the application.

To switch between desktops, click the desired desktop in the pager in the panel.

Configuring Virtual Desktops:

You can increase the number of virtual desktops, change the default names, assign activities, configure effect animations or assign keyboard shortcuts for switching virtual desktops.

If you want the names of the desktops to appear in the pager rather than a number, right-click the pager and select Pager Settings. From the radio button list, select Desktop Name, Click OK to apply your changes and close the dialog

#10      File Manager (Dolphin)

With KDE 4, Dolphin has replaced Konqueror as the default file manager. To start Dolphin, click on the “file cabinet” icon in the panel, or press Alt + F2 and type in dolphin.

Main Window

Managing Files and Folders

Note: copying, moving, creating or deleting files outside your Home directory may require root permission. If that is the case, then use the root Dolphini by clicking Start Menu > System > Dolphin as su (File Manager as su) and supplying root's password in the dialog box that pops up..

To copy, move or delete a file or folders:

  1. In order to select one or multiple files and folders in Dolphin:
    a)     Move your mouse cursor over the file or folder but do not click. A green cross appears on the upper-left edge, if you click on it, the object is selected. To deselect the object click on the red minus icon that appears.
    b)      Alternatively, press Ctrl and click the objects you want selected or deselected. Right-click and select Copy or Cut from the context menu.
  2. Navigate to the destination folder in which to insert the object(s). To create a new folder at the current location, select File > Create New > Folder, or press F10, enter a folder name in the new window and press Enter.
  3. To insert the object/s you copied or cut, right-click the destination folder in the main display field and select paste.

To delete a file or folder, you have two options, right-click the object in the main display field and select Move to Trash from the context menu. The object is moved to the trash bin, from there you can restore it if necessary or delete the object permanently. Or you can select Delete from the context menu, bear in mind when it is deleted it gone for good and you will be unable to restore it.

Dolphin offers many options for adjusting the view and the overall settings according to your preference. See the Wiki for details.

Overall Behavior

If you want to change Dolphin's overall behavior or view, select Settings > Configure Dolphin and explore the options available in the Dolphin configuration dialog.

To use the same view mode for all folders, click View > Adjust View Properties, in the configuration dialog Apply View Properties To check All Folders.

If you want Dolphin to show a different directory on start-up, Settings > Configure Dolphin > Startup (Tab) Location, edit the location to your choice of startup folder.

#11      Desktop search (Kfind)

To perform basic and more advanced searches, use Kfind. Start it from the Main Menu > Find Files/Folders or press Alt +F2 and enter kfind.

Searching by Name

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Retrograde Pyelogram for Kidney Stones

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Examination Overview

The retrograde pyelogram uses a dye to find out whether a kidney stone or something else is blocking your urinary tract. During the test, your doctor will insert a thin, lighted tube (cystoscope) into the urethra, which carries urine out of the body from the bladder. He or she will then put a catheter through the cystoscope and into a ureter, which carries urine from the kidney to the bladder. Dye is injected through the catheter, and X-rays are taken.

You will probably need a local or regional anesthetic with this procedure.

Your doctor may do this test if an intravenous pyelogram (IVP) does not help with the diagnosis. In an IVP, the dye is injected through a vein in your arm.

Why It Is Done

You may have a retrograde pyelogram if:

  • The IVP does not show a reason for your urinary symptoms.
  • The IVP cannot be done because of kidney problems such as chronic kidney disease.
  • You are allergic to the iodine-based dye (contrast material) used in the IVP.

Pregnant women normally do not have this test, because the X-rays may harm the unborn baby.

Findings of the retrograde pyelogram may include the following.

The kidneys, ureters, and bladder appear normal.

The flow of the dye (contrast material) is blocked, either by a stone or another urinary problem.

What To Think About

The retrograde pyelogram provides the same information as an intravenous pyelogram (IVP). But the retrograde pyelogram can be used even if you are allergic to the dye. This test does not risk making existing kidney damage worse.

Unlike the IVP, the retrograde pyelogram requires an anesthetic and uses a catheter inserted into the urinary tract.

Complete the medical test information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you prepare for this test.

ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical ReviewerE. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Brian D. O'Brien, MD - Internal Medicine
Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine
Specialist Medical ReviewerTushar J. Vachharajani, MD, FASN, FACP - Nephrology

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Dilmah Charitea – Thank you Not Quite Nigella

Before I start with today’s post, I would like to say a HUGE thank you to Lorraine from Not Quite Nigella, for giving me two tickets to the invite only – Dilmah Charitea event that happened a couple of weeks ago. I am so sorry for blogging it so late, work has simply been crazy and I’m just finding it hard to catch up with everything 🙂

A little background about how I won tickets :P, I saw on NQN’s blog that she had an wonderful giveaway and 2 lucky readers were to win 2 tickets to the exclusive Dilmah Charitea, held at the Botanical Gardens on the 3rd of September ~ I was so persistent hehe leaving comments everyday, Sorry Lorraine if I spammed you 🙂 but I really wanted to go because for one I love high teas and have been itching to go and two I think it’s for a great cause!

Eventually, a late Saturday night, I checked my email and got an email from the PR company who organised this event, letting me know I had won tickets to Dilmah’s Charitea and it was going to be held on the following Monday! OMG I was freaking out…I had hurt my foot and the doctor had put me on bed rest…but I really really REALLY wanted to go! So… against Mr Bao’s wishes and my doctors wishes 😛 I took the afternoon off and went! Don’t worry all is well, I made sure I wasn’t walking much and sat down once we got there 🙂

Gosh I feel so silly, but even though I’ve lived in Melbourne all my life, this was actually the first time I had visited The Botanical Gardens, but trust me it will NOT be the last time~ it’s so pretty inside, with the lake and the green grass and black swans hehe. Not sure when but I have told Mr Bao we must have a picnic here when it’s warm enough! Any one else who would like to come?

The event was held at the function room inside the Botanical Gardens ‘The Terrence’, a small yet spacious ball room ~ with nicely decorated tables I was then also very lucky to have found out before attending that Adrian from Food Rehab, was going to be there as well! I was once again very lucky and even more excited, because I had been following Adrian’s blog for a long time, and had wanted to meet him in person ~ he was so kind to have saved Mr Bao and I seats.

Soon after we sat down a girl walked up to me and asked if I was ‘Daisy from Never Too Sweet’. I was a little shocked at first but then quickly realized it was Jenny from Ichigo Shortcake! Turns out she was the other lucky Reader! You all need to go hop over to Jenny’s blog, her photos are always perfect and reviews are fair and honest 😉 Check out her post about the Dilmah Charitea event too ~

Source: Peter Kuruvita

Patrick Kuruvita acclaimed restaurateur and chef, was the host of this event. and started explaining his experience with the Merrill J Fernando (MJF) charity. He was so sweet and friendly to everyone ~ Then very quietly the waitresses came over and put two 3 tier stands filled full of savouries in front of us.

There were generous servings of everything, starting from the bottom there were a selection of sandwiches. Then in the middle layer it was mini pies, sausage rolls and quiches then to the top was a little brioche piece with duck breast.

Between Ricky and I, we tried most things, and everything was really fresh especially the sandwiches which is hard to find with high teas, as they are usually premade.

The mini pies and sausage rolls were also nice but we much preferred the sandwiches. The duck brioche was lovely too but we felt that the duck was a little underseasoned.

It was then followed by Mr Merrill J Fernando himself giving a short speech, telling us about how founded Dilmah tea and also the charities he has help fund.

Did you know Dilmah is the first company to sell Single Origin Ceylon tea, I have always known Dilmah tea for obviously their tea, but never did I know how sustainable and ethical they were. Mr Dilmah was happy to buy tea leaves from local Sri Lankan tea growers at a higher price, if this meant that the tea was grown ethically and no one is exploited.

It really touched me to see and hear the different types of charities Dilmah does and the number of people it has helped ~ This means, when you drink Dilmah tea you are not helping yourself, because tea had lots of antioxidants. But you are also helping the community that the tea came from 🙂 this is definitely a WIN WIN situation ~

Shortly after the video it was time for the most important part of high tea. The scones and SWEETS ~ there were nice plump and slightly golden brown scones on the bottom tier, followed by chocolate coated strawberries, miniature pastries and chocolate truffles.

Now high tea would be high tea without scones, and scones wouldn’t be complete without jam and cream! I don’t really like cream…but when I have scones…I always slather a huge slab on hehe ~ the scones were light and fluffy, the strawberry jam was also delicious, but I don’t think it was Chantilly cream it was just whipped cream.

I was a greedy little piggy and got to try one of everything hehe yay! Mr Bao didn’t really eat much he was more interested in the savoury lol the mini lemon curd tart was nice but I think I’ve seen it before at some cafes, the chocolate coated strawberry and chocolate truffles were rich and sweet. The macaron was surprisingly soft but Mr Bao liked the strawberry filling ~

But the Orange and Almond baklava DEFINITELY stole the spot light! It was SO delicious! I loved the orange syrup that was used and the soft crunch the almond gave! I think one of the best baklavas I’ve had lately 😀 No surprise it was the winner.

Two hours flew by us and very quickly the event ended, as we walked out the door, we were both given a gift bag full of Dilmah tea and gifts. Dilmah is so generous, gosh I felt bad, not only did we go as guests, but also got to take home such a packed bag full of gifts. I did manage to share some of the Dilmah tea with my friends and colleagues ~

The Dilmah Charitea event is definitely going to be one that I will never forget, meeting the Fernando family, Peter Kuruvita, Adrian and Jenny, it’ll be perfect if Lorraine was there too. It was also very eye-opening to learn so much about the history of ceylon tea the wonderful things the Dilmah does to help those in need.

Daisy and Mr Bao @ Never Too Sweet attended the Dilmah Chartea event as guests of Dilmah and Not Quite Nigella

Alphabakes – Sago (Gula Melaka) Pudding

Oh my gosh… is it really the end of September already? It still feels like June to me! But lol nope we are now in the last week of September and next week it’ll already be October wow 🙂 Anyhow, every month I love participating in the Alphabakes, because it allows me to think outside of the box or simply make something I haven’t before ~

Would like to thank Caroline from Caroline Makes and Ros from The More Occasional Baker for hosting it each month, these girls spend so much time each month, writing the round up 🙂 Thanks girls!

This month the letter is ‘P’ and I made a pudding something less unusual and I’m sure many Readers will be very familiar with this dessert ~ it is a Sago (Gula Melaka) Pudding 😀 Its a very traditional Malaysian dessert and one of my family favourites, whichwe always order when we go out to Malaysian restaurants.

Quick explanation for those who aren’t familiar, sago is the starchy centre found in palm stems and when cooked they become little balls and have a spongy texture. Gula Melaka is Dark palm sugar and is made from the sap of a Palmyra palm ~ it’s super sweet with a slight caramel taste and its own distinct taste 🙂 And to me only this Gula Melaka sugar will make this sago pudding so delicious! Don’t even both using any other sugars you can find, it just wont be the same ~

My sisters and I have been meaning to try making this at home for a long time…but we never knew where we could find Gula Melaka and I was a bit worried about cooking with pandan leaves. That’s why I would like to say Thank You to Ms I-hua for her detailed recipe on her blog, I followed it to the tee and it worked PERFECTLY YAY!

Recipe – Sago (Gula Melaka) Pudding adapted from Ms I-Hua

Yield – 5 – 6 small ramekins

1 cup of Sago
4 Pandan leaves
2 liters of Water
1 Egg White
150grams Gula Melaka
275ml of Coconut Milk
Vegetable Oil
Pinch of Salt (I forgot oops :P)

* You can buy sago at most supermarkets
* You can find Pandan leaves (frozen or fresh) and gula melaka at most Asian groceries

1) Wash, gently bruise and tie your pandan leaves into a knot. Bruising them will help release the fragrance from the pandan leaves.

2) Add water into a large pot and bring to boil. Add sago and pandan leave, and stir to separate grains.
3) As the sago cooks, it will float to the top and become translucent takes around 5 to 7 minutes, best way to check is to taste it, if it is still hard, it is not ready yet.
4) Once sago is cooked, remove the pandan leaves and drain well. Wash the cooked sago with cold tap water thoroughly to remove any excess starch.

5) In the mean time, whip your egg whites until soft peak, fold half of the egg whites into and mix well. This will help bind the sago and keep them separated.

6) Grease ramekins with vegetable oil with a pastry brush and place sago into each individual ramekin. Cover with cling wrap and place in the refrigerator to chill for 1-2 hours.

7) To make the Gula Melaka sugar syrup, shave the sugar with a knife and place into a saucepan with a tablespoon of water. Place over medium heat and melt gently, be careful not to burn it, you may need to add more water to dilute it 🙂

8) Warm the coconut milk in another saucepan and heat it over low heat until it simmers. If you find it too thick, you may need to add some cows milk to make it pouring cream consistency. Leave to cool and chill in the refrigerator.

9) To serve, turn the sago pudding from the ramekin into a bowl. Pour a general amount of coconut milk and then drizzle a tablespoon or two or like me THREE tablespoons 😀

I am so so so happy 🙂 I never thought I’d be able to make this dessert at home hehe woo hoo so happy still have 2 in the fridge can’t wait to eat them ALL but… I’ve finished all of the Gula Melaka syrup… need to remake it WAKAKKAA!

Sunday Bliss – Sweet Crumble

I just realised I have been posting more and more recipes on my blog and the recipe page is slowly growing in size  ~ but I think it’s time to do a review and not any review ~  a review of a newish bakery I found in Malvern – Sweet Crumble.

Sweet Crumble opened up in March this year and since finding out about it, I have been meaning to visit…but never got around to it~  so finally on Sunday, Mr Bao and I had brunch at home then slowly made our way there. I was really interested to find out from an Instagrammer  that some of their cupcakes were kosher dairy free so good for those who are dairy intolerant or vegan 🙂

We were so lucky that we found parking right across Sweet Crumble on the usually busy Glenferrie road. I immediately smiled seeing the sign ‘Sweet Crumble’ it reminds me so much of Magnolia Bakery in NYC ~Then when I walked it, I was totally grinning from ear to ear, because I knew it was going to be a blissful afternoon  ~ it’s so pretty inside, with vintage chairs, tables and all the glass jars filled with cookies and lollies.

Then we were confronted by this huge cabinet full of cupcakes, macarons, cookies, biscotti, cakes and more. I had to stand in front of it for a good minute absorbing everything that was in front of me before I could decide hahaha Mr Bao didn’t care what we ordered, he just wanted a Chai Latte Iced Frappe and that was it ~ gosh I love eating out with this guy hahaha he lets me choose everything 😛

Red velvet cupcake dairy free $3.5AUD

Even though there were lots of different cupcakes, I immediately knew I wanted to try the red velvet cupcake ~ just like my mocha, I always get that at cupcake bakeries to me it’s like the benchmark if their red velvets are good, the other cupcakes are usually good too hehe. The had the normal sized cupcake or the smaller size but not exactly mini which was a dollar cheaper, it may shock you but I actually chose the smaller cupcake 😛 so then I could order more desserts and try other things hehe ~ Unfortunately, though neither of us liked the red velvet cupcake here at Sweet Crumble, the cake itself was a little dry and too dense. But the most disappointing would have to be the frosting, because this is a dairy free red velvet, it wasn’t the traditional cream cheesecheese frosting, instead it was a sweet yet slightly rubbery icing, I think they must have used vegetable shortening to imitate the butter cream texture.

Macarons $2.5AUD each (Left coconut, right espresso)

Next up was the macarons ~ they had quite a few flavours, if I could I would order them all hehe 😛 but we had a dinner date that night, so we had to control. I wanted something out of the ordinary so I chose the coconut and Mr Bao needed a coffee-fix and ordered the espresso flavour. Starting with the coconut macaron it had a nice shell but was slightly crunchy but it tasted lovely, with a strong hit of coconut yummmmm. Then Mr Bao’s espresso flavoured macaron was just as good with a genuine coffee flavour and not that artificial flavouring.

Passion fruit cheesecake with salted caramel $6.5 AUD

You didn’t think I’d be done right hahaha so I went back and ordered a passion fruit cheesecake with salted caramel base, Mr Bao loved this cheesecake, saying it was smooth and velvety. I really liked it to, but did think the passion fruit was a little too sour and tangy compared to the cheesecake ~ but still very delicious!

Chai Latte Frappe $6AUD

Mr Bao was really intrigued by the flavour hehe ~ he really liked it describing it as refreshing with a light chai flaovur and very milky, I had a sip and thought it was quite nice too but the flavours weren’t very strong and think it would’ve been better if there was less milk hehe

Toffee Caramel Frappe $6AUD

I’ve always liked caramel but lately, I can’t get enough of it hehe ~ just like Mr Bao’s Chai Latte, flavours were subtle and tasted very much like plain milk with hints of caramel ~ it was definitely refreshing especially after eating some desserts, but being a sugar freak hehe I think it needed to be sweeter hehe

Peppermint Tea $3.5AUD

I think Mr Bao had too much dessert ~ and needed to order a peppermint tea to refresh his palate hahaha 😛 the tea bags are actually from Henry London, which I have heard of, however, haven’t had the chance to try their teas. It was refreshing with a strong peppermint flavour, but think we are use to and prefer T2’s tea instead.

Sweet Crumble also sells and stocks a range of goodies ~ such as their homemade honeycomb, biscotti, cookies and also mini Bonne Maman jam jars ~ they are sooooooooooo SUPER cute I couldn’t help but get them hehe ~ the honeycomb is so delicious! Crunchy, sweet and just yum 😀

Mr Bao and I sure had a blissful afternoon here at Sweet Crumble ~ There were some hit and misses, but as a whole it’s a definitely a great place to have afternoon tea with friends or grab desserts. A great addition to the dessert scene in Melbourne hehe hope you all have a blissful weekend too 🙂

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Happy Birthday – My Dearest Sister :)

August, September and October are the busiest months in the year for me! People that are most important to me, all have their birthdays in these months, and today it is my Dearest Sister Win Win’s birthday 😀 I’m not gonna disclose her age, because I know she’ll hurt me 😛 As a matter of fact, I don’t think she even wants me to upload a picture of her but TOO BAD, my blog, my rules!

You are the ROCK in my life, the one that never leaves, always supports me through the pretty, ugly and fatty times ~ I am so grateful to have grown up with you, shared tears and laughter and last but not least lots of delicious and yummy DESSERTS!
I hope the Police (her husband) will spoil you rotten today and Aden will give you lots of hugs and kisses!

I think it’s become my tradition to make virtual cakes and send them to my friends and family in HK 🙂 so today, I’m making Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake! It’s a brand new recipe from her new book Nigelissma, that I bought last week. As soon as I picked up the book and flipped through it, I knew I had to make this recipe 🙂

Win Win loves cheesecake and I’m pretty sure she likes Nutella too so this would be a great cake for her ~ I would describe it as New York Cheesecake with Nutella 🙂 that’s how rich and yummy this cheesecake is hehe and best part it’s SO SO SO easy to make! It’s no bake and only uses 60 grams of icing sugar for sweetness hehe really hope Win Win will like this cake ~

Recipe – Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake adapted from Nigella Lawson

Yield – 22 or 23 cm spring form cake or serves 8 to 12

250 grams Digestive Biscuits
75grams Unsalted butter, soften
1 x 400 gram Nutella or other similar hazelnut chocolate spreads, at room temperature
100 grams Toasted hazelnuts, chopped
500 grams, cream cheese, at room temperature
60 grams, Icing sugar sifted

1) Break the digestive biscuits into the bowl of a food processor, then add the butter and 1x 15ml of Nutella and blitz until the mixture starts to clump. Add 25 grams of toasted hazelnut, pulse until you have a damp, sandy mixture OR do it all manually, crush the biscuits in a ziploc bag and a rolling pin, melt the butter and stir in Nutella and eventually hazelnuts 🙂 I couldn’t find my food processor 😛

2) Tip this into your spring form tin and press into the base, using either your hands or the back of the spoon. Place in the refrigerator to chill while you make the filling.

3) Beat together the cream cheese and the icing sugar until smooth and silk, then scrape the rest of the Nutella out of its jar and into the cream cheese mixture and continue beating until well combined. You may need to scrape the bowl a couple of times.

4) Take the spring form tin out of the fridge. Carefully scrape and smooth the Nutella mixture over the biscuit base and scatter the remaining chopped hazelnuts on top to cover. Place the tin in the fridge for at least 4 hours or overnight.

5) To serve, remove from the fridge, and unspring the cake from the tin, still on the base, just before you eat it.

Nigella emphasises that the cream cheese and Nutella must be room temperature for this recipe to work, which makes sense, because this is a no-bake cheesecake recipe and because you need to make sure both ingredients are mixed and incorporated well 🙂
– I halved the recipe to make two mini 6 inch cakes ~ Perfect for Mr Bao and myself, one each no need to fight 😛
– Make sure you chill it well before eating!

There you go Sis! Hope you like this Nutella Cheesecake 🙂 Love you always xox

First Guest Post – Go Bake Yourself (Uru)

Hello everyone 🙂 hope you’ve had a nice weekend ~ today it’s going to be a super short post from me, because I am guest posting for the very first time at Go Bake Yourself. I’m sure many already know Uru but for those who don’t, she’s a a young, passionate and talented teenage girl from Sydney. She has an amazing blog, sharing wonderful recipes with occasional reviews of cafes and restaurants.

She’s currently doing her exams, therefore, doesn’t have enough time to blog and asked for volunteers to guest post while she takes a short break ~ I’ve been following Uru’s blog for quite some time and immediately jumped the opportunity 🙂 I had some trouble deciding on what recipe to share… a cake recipe? Cupcake recipe? Then I decided to share a Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, because Uru identifies herself as ‘Choc Chip Uru’ on her blog ~ couldn’t think of a better recipe to share with her and her Readers.

I’ve been testing out a few chocolate chip cookie recipes, and I personally like the texture of Mrs Field’s cookies and have been trying to replicate them. That’s when I remembered buying David Lebovitz Ready For Desserts book and decided to give him recipe a go 🙂 And boy am I glad I did ~ it is by far the yummiest chocolate chip cookies I have made so far! Mr Bao ate 5 of these cookies in a row LOL and he claims he doesn’t even have a sweet tooth 😛

Please hop over to Uru’s blog for the recipe ~ I know we all have our own chocolate chip cookie but please give these a try, it’s SO delicious!

Would also like to thank Uru for giving me the opportunity to guest post on Go Bake Yourself! Good luck with all your exams and can’t wait till you blog again 😀

Gone Bananas – 100th Post

Dear Readers! I think I have gone bananas, because I have two yummilicous banana bread recipes to share with you today! And this post will be my 100th post! Meaning I have eaten out and baked over 100 times, sat in front of my computer over 100 times and definitely for more than 100 hours 🙂

This is a picture from my first post hahaha can you see me in the background? I didn’t know how to take photos back then 😛 Actually I’m still learning, how to take better photos hehe 🙂

Moving on to the recipes, I find that I don’t know how to do anything in moderation 😛 a couple of weeks ago, I made this delicious banana maple syrup bread, and didn’t take enough photos to blog about it, so I decided the next day I was going to go get a whole HEAP of bananas and wait for them to ripen. I came home with 2 kgs of bananas and they have been sitting next to our coffee machine…I was getting so impatient with them…they simply wont ripen…then I kind of forgot about them hahaha then a couple of days ago, when I was making my morning coffee, I saw them and they weren’t only ‘overripe’ they were close to being ‘rotten’. So I knew I had to make banana bread that night 😛

Thing is…I had too many overripe bananas, so instead of one loaf of banana bread, I made 2 loaves 🙂 Maple Syrup Banana bread and Chocolate Chip Banana Bread ~ I can’t say which one I like more, because they were both soooooo moist and yummy! I’ll let you be the judge which one you like more.

Recipe – Maple Syrup Banana Bread adapted from Taste

Yield – One loaf

125 grams, unsalted butter, softened
115 grams (1/2 cup), caster sugar
2 tablespoons (20ml AUS), maple syrup (not flavoured syrup)
2 eggs, room temperature
3 large bananas or 1 cup, mashed
105 gram (3/4 cup), plain flour
105 gram (3/4 cup) self raising flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Note – I know maple syrup can be quite expensive, but using the pure maple syrup from Canada will really give the bread an distinct sweetness ~ I picked my bottle up from Coles for $7 last time i was on sale and have heard that the Aldi brand maple syrup is quite good too 🙂

1) Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease and line your loaf pan.

2) Using an electric mixer, beat butter, sugar and maple syrup in a bowl until light and fluffy.
3) Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition until just combined.
4) Transfer butter mixture into a large bowl. Add banana. Stir with a wooden spoon until just combined. Sift flours and bicarb soda over butter mixture. Stir until just combined.
5) Spoon mixture into prepared pan. Smooth top. Bake for 45 minutes or until skewer inserted in centre of loaf comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 miutes. Turn onto a wire rack to cool.

Voila 🙂 Serve warm or toasted and drizzle with more maple syrup! This banana bread is so moist, it’s even close to being a banana cake to me 😛 I think it’s because I added a little more mash bananas hehe ~

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread adapted from The Kitchen Is My Playground

Yield – One loaf

3 to 4 overripe bananas (1 1/2 cup, mashed)
1/4 cup buttermilk
225 grams (1 1/2 cup) plain flour
1 teaspoon, baking soda
1/4 teaspoon, salt
118gram, unsalted butter, softened
125 grams (3/4 cups), light brown sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract
3/4 cup, chocolate chips

1) Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced and grease loaf pan.
2) In a small bowl, mash bananas with a fork and stir in buttermilk and set aside.
3) Place butter, in a large bowl. With an electric stand mixer or hand held mixer beat butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one and a time, beating briefly after each addition. Mix in vanilla extract.

4) Combine flour, baking soda and salt. Gently stir into butter-sugar mixture and then mashed bananas. Lastly fold chocolate chips into mixture.
5) Pour batter into loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

I’ve never made chocolate chip banana bread before and was a bit worried that it’ll taste a little weird, but it turned out really well 🙂 I used a bitter-sweet Ghirardelli chocolate chips, so it wasn’t overly sweet which was good because Mr Bao doesn’t like it really sweet 😛

Would like to say thank you to all my Readers for the willingness to read my posts and supporting me ALL THE WAY 🙂

Cake Pop Master Class – Cupcake Central

Trends 🙂 They are forever changing lol I remember a couple of years ago the ‘IT’ dessert was donuts and in particular Krispy Kremes, then we were hit by the cupcake fever (it hasn’t died down yet) and then macarons (still going strong) and most recently, cake pops! They’re everywhere! Wherever you go, there are cake pops making machines, cake pop decorating kits and cake pop books ~

I’m a newbie to cake pops, I didn’t really know what they were until I tried making the at home once a couple of months ago, which was a bit of a failure as they kept falling off the lollipop sticks 😦

Even though, a couple of my cake pops survived the last time I made them, I haven’t tried remaking them at home. That’s why I was super excited and grateful when Sheryl (owner/creator) from Cupcake Central, invited me to her first ever Cake Pop Master Class ~ I am a huge fan of their cupcakes and have been meaning to attend one of their Masterclasses, but haven’t been able to find the time.

I was so glad Peach Water was going to be there and Ming (Sweet and Sour Fork), phew thank gosh I wasn’t the only one with my camera and taking a million photos hahaha the other girls there were lucky Cupcake Central fans who were invited ~

Sheryl starts the lesson by explaining to us what cake pops so basically they’re crushed and mushed up cake, rolled into balls then covered in chocolate and then decorated.

First step of making cake pops is to get some cake and CRUSH them 🙂 I’m super jealous because Sheryl used her freshly baked and decorated chocolate peanut cupcakes as the cake pops, I guess if you’re making them at home, you’re gonna have to bake a cake or buy one ~

Squish squish squish ~ I actually think it’s quite therapeutic being able to ‘squeeze and mush’ the cupcakes like that 😛

Once it’s all mushed up and forms a soft dough, Sheryl used an ice-cream scoop to make perfect size and round balls, placed them between your hands and roll them until them form uniform balls (size of golf balls or smaller).

Once you’ve made nice looking balls ~ you place them on a board or plate. A tip I got from Sheryl was to dip the lollipop sticks in a little bit of chocolate before poking them into the middle of the cakepops. This will help them set better and less likely to fall off later  when dipping them into warm chocolate. Place the whole tray in to the refrigerator for 15 to 20 minutes to allow them  to harden.

Sheryl had already melted some milk chocolate for us in little bowls, and once we got the cake pops out of the refrigerator, she showed us how you dip the cake pops into the melted chocolate. It’s important to let the excess chocolate run off the cake pop before putting it onto the stand. If you don’t the excess chocolate will drizzle down the lollipop stick and won’t look very nice ~

It is at this stage you can let your imagination go wild and decorate the cake pops any way you want to 🙂 and literally anything you want – silver glitter, tiny pieces of lolly, little hearts etc.

Sheryl even showed us how to make mini cupcake cake pops! Now I really want to get my hands on one of these cut cupcake moulds 🙂 I think I can get them online hehe more online shopping for baking supplies YAY!

We were so lucky that Sheryl taught use how to make Hello Kitty cake pops ~ I already know a friend of mine Ms T To will love it! She’s a HUGE Hello Kitty fan ~

It’s very much the same process but of making the Hello Kitty cake pop, but it’s a little bit more fiddly ~ I’ll let Sheryl teach you if you are interested in learning how to make them 🙂

Uh oh someone took a bite ~ Hello Kitty’s missing an ear hehe 🙂 I really think these are a crowd pleaser, maybe I’ll make them for my nieces birthday at the end of the year hehe ~

Peach Water was definitely the most creative, look at how pretty and innovative her cake pops were 🙂 It’s hard to believe that it’s the first time she’s made them hehe ~ I’m really not that talented ~ I’ve never been actually hahaha maybe that’s why my cakes never look very good, need to work on my decorating skills!

But Sheryl did teach use to make something else and that was a little Honey Bee 😀 And even though it’s not as good as Sheryl’s hehe I’m pretty happy with it ~ and it was really easy to make, just needed some chocolate melts, a black edible pen and some melted chocolate ~

Once again thank you Cupcake Central for inviting me to their first cake pop lesson, I truly enjoyed the experience, Sheryl was so patient and friendly ~ and taught me all the basic skills I need to know to make successful cake pops at home ~ I’m excited about making them again at home and this time hopefully they wont fall off 🙂 These are definitely great for parties because it’s so much easier to share than a large cake 🙂

If you would like more information about Cupcake Central’s masterclasses visit their website or contact Sheryl directly ~

Daisy@Nevertoosweet attended the cake pop masterclass as a guest of Cupcake Central

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