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How To Eat Chicken Wings WIthout Using Your Hands - A Step By Step Guide

Written by Christopher Kia on 7:59 PM

Step 1. Look and drool at your wonderful dish of chicken wings..knowing that you will NOT dirty your hands enjoying them :)

Step 2. With a fork, hold your chicken wing in this manner.



Step 3. Bite according to the yellow dotted lines. You will notice that it corresponds to an area where the tiny bones join only by a bit and that it can be bitten off easily.



Step 4. Again, bite according to the yellow dotted lines; some say this is the best part of the chicken wing! Take some time to enjoy this part :)



Step 5. This step is probably the hardest step as it requires biting through the "corner" or the joint of the chicken wing. This area has the most cartilage. Patiently, bite according to the yellow dotted lines.



Step 6. Your chicken wing should now look like this.


To me, this is the best part of the chicken wing eating experience as you can bite through the meatiest part of the chicken wing, easily leaving two long bones behind.

Step 7. This step is pretty much straight forward from now on. Clean up the final two pieces of bone :).





Step 8. Look Ma, no hands!!!



Now you can enjoy your favourite chicken wings without looking too messy and without dirtying your hands. :)

Credits to my beloved Grandma for preparing the chicken wings in the pics and Christine dear for putting up with me during the preparation of this guide :)

The Art of Bargaining

Written by christine on 2:34 AM

let me start by enticing you with the products first! :) so u know i'm not buying cip-lak, ugly, cheapskate stuffs.

a very reliable method, learned from first-hand experience under a respectable si-fu -> my mom! hehe..

you will not be cheated anymore. moneyback guaranteed!

3 rules to follow:
1. never stay too long in one stall/shop. unless you want to kena marah.
2. only ask 2 questions if you're interested in the item. how much? what is your best price? after that, leave! [ask with the intention to expect a 50% slash (at least)]
3. don't bother asking for size/new stock if you just want to "see", and not buy.

ok, let me give you an actual scenario...

say, for instance, my bag. the moment i set my eyes on it, i knew it was what i've been looking for all along! nevermind the fact it has no brand :P

i walk past a shop..

me: eh uncle, how much is the bag?
seller: 280! very cheap! real leather you know? whips out a cigarette lighter and demonstrates that it is "fire-proof"..
me: ahh, best price please?
seller: ok la, for you. 200!
me: ok thks! i'll go look arnd first.

walk away, don't even look back. this is where the magic starts...

seller: ok 180..
me:*walks 5 steps*
seller: ok ok!!! 150! last price!! very cheap already!!
me:*goes on walking feeling triumphant and makes a mental note to come bck later because i'm actually quite happy with the price already*
seller: tell me how much you want la. i give! ok, my last offer, 120!
me:*punches fist into the air, makes a little u-turn, and buy the bag!* mission accomplished!

this is after i kena marah from don't know how many stalls because i'm afraid to "offend" them, and i shopped as if i was in a shopping complex, trying everything i want and see.. but i realize that's not the way street market works. the hard way.. my mom taught me the better way, but after she let me try out on my own. so.. don't learn it the hard way! now that you know how to.

happy bargaining.. comes with practice though :)

you can try out your skills at places like petaling street, low yat, bugis street etc. please don't do it in cK or DKNY or something like that. it doesn't work :P

How To Create A Sitemap for Blogger To Work With Google Webmaster Tools

Written by Christopher Kia on 8:55 PM

Hello peeps, welcome to my first how-to article :). This article is for those who are using Blogger to blog, Feedburner for their feeds and wish to add their blog to Google Webmaster Tools for better indexing and site visibilty on Google. In simpler terms, by adding your site/blog to Google Webmaster Tools, your site/blog will be more 'visible' in Google search results when user searches are related to items or articles in your blog. Conventionally, a sitemap is a .xml file that you have to create for Google Webmaster Tools so that Google can 'better understand' your articles and track links in your site and hence better index or list them under its search results. By using Blogger to post your articles, you are not hosting your own site and as a result you cannot create a .xml sitemap file to be uploaded to Google Webmaster Tools. However, you can use the feed URL for your blog as a sitemap for your blog. Sounds hard? I thought it was initially, until I got my blog indexed in less than an hour :).

To index your blog under Google to improve site visibilty and traffic to your blog, just follow these steps: (credits to Timothy Broder)

1. Use Feedburner to create feeds for your blog. Create an account in Feedburner and add your blog to it. Identify your Feedburner feed URL. For e.g. my feed URL for this blog is http://feeds.feedburner.com/bytesandbites

2. Now add your Feedburner feed URL to Blogger. In Blogger's Dashboard, go to Settings > click on Site Feed > then add your feed URL in "Post Feed Redirect URL"

3. Next, sign in to Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account and add your blog to it. Next, Click on Sitemaps in the sidebar > Add Sitemap. Choose "Add General Web Sitemap" and under "My Sitemap URL is:", ADD THE FOLLOWING VALUE:

rss.xml?orderby=updated in the box after
http://yourblognamehere.blogspot.com/

For e.g. http://bytesandbites.blogspot.com/rss.xml?orderby=updated

4. That's it! You have now successfully submitted your blog's sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. After Google has successfully indexed your blog, your sitemap status should change from 'Pending' to 'OK' under Sitemaps > Overview. Be patient as this process may take a while.

Have a good weekend everyone :)