Articles and reviews from Zach

It is now about one week since i started a research testing  my older songs recorded iin 89 in shazam The results are impressive!You will find a detailed  technical information  on the text belo in the  numbered part The idea behind this research was first  to identify the songs of my collection prior to start a DX-music related article. i tought it could be more wqise to fist know the all posisble titles of mu older collectios  and then start writing  the article. The sense of idetitification from Shazam was also very impressive . Knowing the real titles of songs you could sing but never knew is very magnificent and more epscially for me in a first  time subject as Chinese and Thai which i never was envolved. The idea of using Shazam  was a proposal by a fellow DX consultant  last yea the time afcter a conflict with a radio fellow on two songs  with nearly the same name but diferent category. It has been  also used ...

Please supoprt the author by sharing  this link! This   is  competition article  between two  contestants : The greek suvlaki and the malay satay .Both counties  have a very long tradition in cooking mean in any form. I m not good in cooking history and  i m neither itnerested . The text below is only for showing you he process i made to colect the ingredients, cooking it and finally checking the tasting results of two difrecnt cuisines for nearly the same species .The original malay recipe has been  found from  rasamalaysia   a well known malay cooking site owned by Bee a female food  blogger and chef. The collection process  has been made in two steps. It was discussed with my relatives one week before soall have the same  time   testing  both kinds of  satays. we decided that Saturday 19 May 18 would be the perfect day for cooking them On May 15th i have searched  in a frinds deli- ...

Sejarah Melayu is one of the oldest pages I know   in the web for the Malaysian   history . I know this site   at least   since 2000 .   Mr Zain   uses   JavaScript to block   copy pasting , so that only direct printing is possible. However since that time   I used a program   called   Fine print that acts as a printing driver that saved my life .It helped me   to joining all printed pages into on bundle , able also to   remove any blank pre-printed pages . That old times , I used a color inkjet printer and printed all of it in a A5 form . And more recently   2014 I   made once again the     bundle   with the updated version of this web page ,that it adds to about   50 A4 pages since the former printing 10 years ago . that made me feel   that Mr Zain is now quite ‘lazy’ to add and   terminate his job in this web site.  A notice of the design of the   websit...

THis is the  fisrt of the new batch of book on malaysia  this year .and this book is the reason for buying it  . Here is some background  on how I decided to buy this book and also look after for more related. earlier this year desperate in adding  some stories (tales myths etc ) for my daughter i also googled  for Malaysian  tales across the intenet (say: googling ). But as googling just 'Malaysian  tales'  yielded only a few lemmas . And also the book 365 folk tales from Malaysia .AS i could not   find something more i decided to buy this book .  After  2 emails to Utusan the producer i have not received any reply from them . After  chatting with a malaysian frind in facebook he suggested me several online bookstores. The book together  3 other books books has been  very properly received here  in 4 weeks after dispatching . Cost of the book is standard of RM 50 (as noticed on the  ...

This is a book of  re-tellings  of better say modern versions of original  fables or tales  as  thought by their  today;s authors . YOU can compare  the  original Cinderela  Story  with the  new  Cinderella   Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010)  found on www.imdb.com/title/tt1436372 ] Daphne Lee is the   author  and the editor of this book edited by her and her counterparts  making  retells or versions of 16  Malay  fables or tales . This  book includes 16 in total (14 + 2   different versions of the same story ) Before  starting  in the stories let me comment in the book . The cost seems  rather high (?)compared to other books I just  received . Its cost is RM 35 (In Malaysian Ringgit Eu 7.7 )+ 22.5 shipping (4.5 Eu ) from Malaysia to Greece .This book has been  bought from a  bookstore in Georgetown Shipping in ...

Colins Malay phrasebook  And this is one book received  ion bundle this year together with  some others  that that were related to Malay customs . This is a  small (caA6 sized )colorful book of ca 250 pages  accompanied with a  CD I will do here some minimal presentation : Fist  the CD covers topics not referred to the book and referes: Introduction Essential words Asking for things I and II Shopping phrases Numbers Basic foodstuffs Quantities Tickets Where??? When?? days of the week My you’re his Problems About yourself Goodbye The book has the following topics : Malay pronunciation  using ejaan baru (notice that this book is very recent !) Ten tips in communicating with Malaysian  people Talking to people Getting around Driving Staying somewhere Shopping Leisure Communications Practicalities Health Travelers Reference Eating out  Plus  the following appendixes Menu reader ...

Malaysia in brief 1991 This is a  book  the counsel of Malaysia has given me on 1995 when we started a ‘cooperation’  together  with some other interesting promo  stuff of that time . That included  also  two video tapes a dictionary (McMillan’s eng – mal & mal- eng ) and some more  promo material (leaflets of the country , from Melaka , Perak etc  the map of Malaysia and a flag ) This  book written in ‘landscape’ paper format  is a small comprehensive guide of Malaysia  of my  early times of interest . Don’t forget  my interest in this country started  from 1989/90 but  my engagement with the consul was on 95 The first chapter deals with the country . Around 4830 km are the the coasts , Climate is influenced from Indian ocean and th S china sea , and 61 % are rain  forest s wth more than 15000 species pf plants  about 6000 are tree species The 13 states  are referred with are...

Kamus Umum Indonesia Inggeris  And this is another  quite interesting book from  my older times . I don ot remember then time  i bought it but must be before 2000. this book  uses many sources for collecting the Malay Indonesian words some of them are of my possession. as for example the Echols  dictionary  (the older smaller edition ), the Malay  GEM  and the Kamus Umum are of this reference Due to its large age (written on 76 ) and it use of ejaan  baru , there are some directions for usage  for the reader in the introductory text There are ca 560 pages of passage as always in two columns . Open holes or the right part (as bookmarks )make a faster search of the required word.See the picture

Kamus Dwibahasa  Oxford Fajar This the second of my smallest dictionaries  of Malaysian language, provided by Oxford, and printed in Malaysia . It is nothing special with this book  except that it includes both from Malay to English and vice versa . Main language of this book is Malaysian with totally  550 pages (406 for English - Malay  and 220 for Malay English ) The  only funny i found in this book are the very many borrowed  words from English into Malay