Food Hunting Weekend and the Launch of Rice Watch

It has been a wonderful weekend where i joined dasolve from miricommunity.net for his food hunt project along with some others in the community.

It all started with Saberkas Pasar Malam being chosen for Friday's starting point of the food hunt. Since it was in the vicinity, i decided to join the bandwagon and at the same time get to know more people from the community.

So, the promised time was 7pm. While waiting for the promised time, i find myself wandering off to the pasar malam in advance and buying all sorts of tit-bits. In that time frame, i also got to witness the DAP/PKR protest regarding the fuel hike. Apparently, SMS'es were circulated that the protest would start at 4pm in Saberkas area. No wonder the heavy police presence! -.-"

Putting that topic aside, since i did not get a chance to capture any pictures or videos with my crappy handphone and since so many bloggers from Miri blogged about it already, i will just continue on the details of the food hunt.

After countless hours of waiting, (not countless, but it is a few hours) the promised time finally has arrived! As promised i reserved 3 parking spaces for the bandwagon since they said they will be meeting at Miri City Food Court then car pool to Saberkas but after the protest by DAP/PKR a lot of the carparks were vacant. Thus, my effort in reserving the parking spaces were useless -.-"

7.30pm They were late, supposedly waiting for other members who were late >_> as HuiLee told me beforehand. But they arrived soon enough. Members who joined the food hunt were, Lim Pek, BBeve, Amethyst, dasolve (organizer), huilee (asst. organizer), EF-JL, stratOS, inspire, cacatkia, and of course myself.

That is just roughly what went on that day but for info on what we ate and tested along the way till today, you can find more info about it in Dasolve's Food Hunt.

Another thing that i would like to blog about is the Rice Watch project that i am working on. I was inspired to do this after attending the Blog Workshop in Curtin last Thursday. Thanks to the tutors Sean Ang and Rachel for teaching me so much about how to market my blogs and how to set up a good wordpress blog.

You can find the Rice Watch blog HERE