Film director Yasmin Ahmad dies at 51 (1958-2009)

Award-winning film director Yasmin Ahmad (pic) has died from massive bleeding in the brain at the Damansara Specialist Hospital. She died at 11.25pm on Saturday. She had undergone surgery following her collapse at the TV3 headquarters Seri Pentas on Thursday.

Picture credit: The Star
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Making Tempoyak

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Equine Park, Seri Kembangan in search for durian stall. My mission was to make tempoyak or fermented durian. I bought around 50 pieces durian for RM30. To save me some effort from massive cleaning job at home, I brought along a huge container and asked the durian seller to remove the flesh from the shell. Let him worry about disposing the thorny shells later on.

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Bloggers Gathering @ RWMF’09

I’m helping Cyril to promote this event. If you like blogging and you like music/cultural events, this is a great event for you. In conjunction of Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) 2009, there’ll be a bloggers gathering on 11th July @ 1300 hours, at Sarawak Cultural Village.

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