{"id":1732,"date":"2013-04-10T15:23:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T07:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2014-09-01T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:51:36","slug":"journal-10-4-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"Journal 10-4-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A summary of what I did in the week of (2-9) April<\/p>\n<p>After our successful trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1604\">Upper Tebing Tinggi<\/a>, Rani accidentally deleted all the pictures from his camera&#8230;:-(\u00a0 Aric has experience in &#8220;undeleting&#8221; data, so Rani came over for dinner and Aric managed to retrieve the pictures!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6072.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1733\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1733\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6072.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,601\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1364934333&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dinner with Rani\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6072-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6072.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1733\" src=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6072.jpg\" alt=\"Dinner with Rani\" width=\"480\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6072.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6072-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6072-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days later I went for a haircut, in the nearby shopping center. For 18 Ringgit, less than 5 Euro, ridiculously cheap for\u00a0 an European, but still considered expensive by my Malaysian friends, who go to an Indian barber for a few Ringgit&#8230;:-). Here is the result<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2652.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1734\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1734\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2652.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"599,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365158539&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0083333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Haircut\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2652-224x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2652.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1734\" src=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2652.jpg\" alt=\"Haircut\" width=\"287\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2652.jpg 599w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2652-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend Joe and his wife Beatrice invited me for a party, because of Joe&#8217;s birthday. They knew that I would have my birthday the next week, so there was a birthday cake for the two of us. Really nice! Good food, pleasant company. And lots of beer, Joe&#8217;s specialty !<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P4060322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1737\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1737\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P4060322.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,559\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FE190\\\/X750&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365280395&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P4060322-300x139.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P4060322-1024x477.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1737\" title=\"Birthday cake\" src=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P4060322.jpg\" alt=\"Birthday cake\" width=\"1200\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P4060322.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P4060322-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P4060322-1024x477.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P4060322-500x232.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A picture of me with my charming hostess Beatrice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2667.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1738\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1738\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2667.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,602\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365278562&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.058823529411765&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Joe&amp;#8217;s party\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2667-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2667.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1738\" title=\"Joe's party\" src=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2667.jpg\" alt=\"Joe's party\" width=\"480\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2667.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2667-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2667-398x300.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the weekend I took Rani for a walk in Bukit Kiara, as he had never been there before. Of course I showed him the infamous fence, but we also saw quite a few beautiful bat lilies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1741\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1741\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6075.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,626\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365353116&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.785&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rani and Fence\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6075-300x234.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6075.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"wp-image-1741 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6075.jpg\" alt=\"Rani and Fence\" width=\"308\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6075.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6075-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6075-383x300.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6086.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1742\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1742\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6086.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365358881&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;10.775&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bat Lily\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6086-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6086.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1742\" src=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6086.jpg\" alt=\"Bat Lily\" width=\"182\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6086.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6086-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will have noticed that food plays an important part in my life&#8230;:-) Two more dinners in that week. One with Aric&#8217;s sister in our favourite seafood restaurant in Damansara Perdana. The second dinner at home with our friends Pat and Wim. Aric was the cook and had done a wonderful job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2678.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1744\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1744\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2678.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365447987&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dinner wiht Aric&amp;#8217;s sister\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2678-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2678.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"wp-image-1744 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2678.jpg\" alt=\"Dinner wiht Aric's sister\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2678.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2678-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2678-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6090.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1745\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1745\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6090.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,602\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365538347&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dinner with Pat and Wim\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6090-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6090.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1745\" src=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6090.jpg\" alt=\"Dinner with Pat and Wim\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6090.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6090-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_6090-398x300.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even with all this food, I still manage to control my weight and even get it down a bit. Hurray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A summary of what I did in the week of (2-9) April After our successful trip to Upper Tebing Tinggi, Rani accidentally deleted all the pictures from his camera&#8230;:-(\u00a0 Aric has experience in &#8220;undeleting&#8221; data, so Rani came over for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1732\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,27,23,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-friends","category-journal","category-malaysia","category-social"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2LqIR-rW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}