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Monthly Archives: August 2005

Cous Cous!

30-Aug-05

Spicy moroccan spices couscous

cous cous supper

ainsley harriet’s instant cous cous
I have been on a cous cous craze ever since I saw Ainsley Harriet’s instant cous cous on sale at my local Woolworths. I’ve tried all three flavours - there’s spicy spices…or something….spicy tomato, and spicy lemon. Or something like that. Oh wait I have [...]

Gyeongbokgung Part V - Pavilions

30-Aug-05

hyangwonjeong

Gyeonghoeru with mountain

Gyeonghoeru
I really like pavilions. They are whimsical structures designed for entertainment and general pleasure-seeking. Their purpose is not to be serious or awe-inspiring, but rather to impart joy and good cheer. This entry only has photos of two pavilions from Gyeongbokgung.
Hyanwonjeong is a pavilion near the back of the palace built [...]

Gyeongbokgung Part IV - Building details

26-Aug-05

The Queen’s palace

flower walls

flower walls

commoner’s house
Ah…another Gyeongbokgung post. I’ll try to keep this brief.
The first photo is of the entrance to the main hall of the Queen’s quarters. Notice the interesting way of handling unwanted doors…just pin them to the ceiling. the doors are those white things… at right angles to the vertical wall, [...]

mess patch - trouble -__-

22-Aug-05

Well. I just had to reinstall msn messenger because it kept crashing…messpatch!!
Turned out I didn’t recover the correct backup file last time. See, you can’t really uninstall messpatch. You have to go back to the last backup. Now if your last backup wasn’t the clean version of msn messnger, and actually an already-messpatched version, then [...]

Mess patch

22-Aug-05

I recently discovered messpatch. It’s a patch developed by mess.be. It’s a very simple program that gets rid of alot of unwanted clutter in your msn messenger. Download it from the mess.be site (the site prevents linking to individual pages).
Because my msn is already stuffed full of plugins like msnplus! and stuffplug, it tends [...]