• unhedged@monyet.cc
    4·
    1 year ago

    This long weekend (taking Friday off) I taking a short trip to a nearby town for a eating and tourism holiday with the family, and 2 other families of my wife’s friends.

    Initially I was quite pumped for this trip. Drive, enjoy scenery, hotel got pool, destination has lots of interesting food and scenery and attractions.

    But now I’m a bit hesitant. These friends and their spouses are a bit different in mindset and worldview from us.

    We have been on trips with some of her other friends’ families. I think we had 4 families, and it was mostly free and easy. If schedules match up then eat/swim/breakfast together, else you do at your own pace.

    This trip, I dunno man. I will just enjoy the drive and hope the Hari Raya traffic doesn’t totally kill us.

    Omitofo.

  • weecious@monyet.cc
    4·
    1 year ago

    A few months ago,.I was terrified at the thought of having my own car, driving in the maddening traffic.

    These days? I be cursing at other drivers and be ready to fight them, only thing that’s holding me back is my boyfie.

  • TimeElise@monyet.cc
    4·
    1 year ago

    Elloooo, I’m finally here!

    Inside Scoop is giving 40% off on single scoop ice creams every Monday that is not a public holiday. I missed today’s deal. :(

  • unhedged@monyet.cc
    3·
    1 year ago

    Was at a badminton court in USJ and saw a banner for LCW Badminton Academy. Cool right?

    Wait that’s not who I had expected…

  • cendawanita@monyet.cc
    3·
    1 year ago

    I got some old, secondhand tools from Bulgaria. Feeling like want to layan my superstitious side for a bit - anyone got any small petua to make sure old things don’t have any unsatisfied energy?

    • unhedged@monyet.cc
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m curious what tools you got. I like appreciate good tools.

      spoiler

      This is **not **a double entendre.

      • cendawanita@monyet.cc
        1·
        1 year ago

        LMAOOOOOOO welllll I spin yarn by hand (do you know, due to a number of factors, our cultural groups here excelled in weaving but never really developed the economies of scale to make thread?) so these are some non-Western European European spindles (wah, so complicated; it’s just the more non-Orthodox Church and Ottoman side developed different techniques). I’m moving to a fedi-version of a photoblog, but here’s my IG* one with one of my last photos on it: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbcCyRAJjMw/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

        *my god IG is useless these days to actually see my follows

        • unhedged@monyet.cc
          2·
          1 year ago

          do you know, due to a number of factors, our cultural groups here excelled in weaving but never really developed the economies of scale to make thread?

          Wait… if you don’t mind, how did our people start developing weaving? Was thread easily available from trading?

          • cendawanita@monyet.cc
            3·
            1 year ago

            the very short answer is related to balance of trade + geopolitics. It’s not at all surprising if you know how textiles are like, to understand why the first tools that was mechanized and ushered in the Industrial Age were related to this industry (Europe had domestic and colonial reasons for wanting to speed this up as well as break the domination of India).

            so yeah, thread made better sense for us to source rather than do (Indians had the best fine cottons, and until Egypt and America were British-colonized, nowhere else can compete; Nusantara don’t have the best soil for cotton as a mass industry; China had the best silk and pretty much made it illegal to export the silkworms out), and we had other things that make better sense to trade like local organic goods; our marine navigation etc. Weaving tech for the nusantara groups (the Straits Chinese and later waves had a different cultural source) came from the north via Vietnam. Weaving basically became a thing in every cultural group worldwide, because textiles are expensive - in our case, we’re so rich from the other things to get that we actually did more trade with finished Indic textiles, but eventually we did it too because you can’t just wait for India (not China as textile source though; we’re an Indic sphere region) - lol this is why the British also developed a weaving industry in Manchester and northern England.

            In Malay the name of the loom (kek siam = siamese loom), tells you where our tech initially came from. This was the same with the more Malay/Muslim groupings in Borneo as well (the transfer of tech, which is via trade), while groups like Iban maintained backstrap weaving (where the loom tech requires your body to be part of the frame and tensioning; unlike the more stationery cultural groups who put in more energy in floor looms etc that’re non-moveable).

            alamak, still long answer hahahahaha

        • unhedged@monyet.cc
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oooh this is a totally new thing to me. So the Bulgarian tools you got are the spindles, which are the wooden sticks to wind the yarn around right?

          • cendawanita@monyet.cc
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yep yep. The sticks also provides the torque to twist the fibres, then when I twist enough, i wind it around them. Machine spinning also same basically, just different energy source hahaha.

  • a_HerculePoirot_fan@monyet.cc
    3·
    1 year ago

    Went for a 70-minute shoulder and foot massage and now I am so tired after the deep tissue massage. Really need a good night’s rest!

  • weecious@monyet.cc
    2·
    1 year ago

    In my attempt to fix my F key on my keyboard, i killed it instead. Now gotta try beg my sibling to help fix it. Or is there anyone else here who can help me solder it properly? 🥺

  • ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc
    31·
    1 year ago

    TNB’s latest TV ad is disingenuous. It’s not that the cost of electricity has risen. It’s that the cost of importing coal has risen.

    They’re airing the ads as if to warm people up to the idea of raising tariffs.

    They should’ve instead put more resources into renewable energy but the people in charge are too sootbrained, as in every other institutions in the country.

    • unhedged@monyet.cc
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think that from TNB’s point of view, cost of electricity has indeed increased. If I’m not mistaken, TNB buys energy from suppliers (the power stations and any overseas links), distributes and sells to consumers.

      It’s actually the government’s fault, I think there was some discussion about non-tender, direct negotiation to award power plant contracts. IIRC this was brought up by Yeo Bee Yin in one of her social media posts back when she was Minister of Energy, Science and Technology.

        • unhedged@monyet.cc
          1·
          1 year ago

          I have checked again, and it’s actually mix. TNB used to own all its own power plants, then starting in the 90s the govt started awarding power supply contracts to Independent Power Producers. Some familiar names are YTL Power, Malakoff.

          It not sure how much of IPP’s production share now, but it looks like large proportion of power comes from IPPs now.

  • seacat@monyet.cc
    2·
    1 year ago

    Today witnessed my colleague getting berated by her boss, resulting in her crying afterwards. Took her in a room and consoled her and once she calmed down we brainstormed enough ideas that she can present to her boss. All good right? except that I actually agree with her boss… yes the berating was too much but the reason was valid. It’s been an ongoing frustration with me too, but she didn’t deserve that la. Dunno what to do now

  • a_HerculePoirot_fan@monyet.cc
    2·
    1 year ago

    Since it’s school holidays from Wednesday till the end of the week, I wonder how many kiddos will be turning up tomorrow, hmmmmmmm

  • TheV_game@monyet.cc
    2·
    1 year ago

    Playing back AC Origin as a copium just because I can’t play FF16

    Note: reposting this from leddit bcos I’m an attention whore

    On totally unrelated question: how do i default the comments here as new. Malas to click on New everytime I come in here

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think there’s comment default function yet, can’t seems to find it in the option. But there’s post default tho.