PPS Review Ep. 4

This episode: Getting lost in KLCC / KLCC Aquaria / Zoo Negara Night Safari / XiaXue vs Minishorts / Guardian Pharmacy service / TV Smith on Privacy / Karaoke Vending Booths / Gaban Z vs Ultraman / Errolyn rants about bad English.

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• After a rollicking post last weekend with Darth Perfidious (thanks, Perf Daddy), Errolyn is back.
• Dzof immediately distracts all by saying "Sexy", and Errolyn agrees.
• We start talking about somebody who got lost walking from KLCC to the British Council and completely mampus-up the prepared show order by doing so.
• Again, many thanks to all that wrote.
• Notices:
• Project Petaling Street now has an automated RSS aggregator in beta, so if your blog has RSS, you don't have to manually ping anymore.
• All are invited to write a patriotic post on the Merdeka Blogger Project.
• There is an invitation to co-blog on the MMR.
• PPS Review is now listed on the iTunes podcast directory (link only for those who have iTunes).
• We again thank John Ong and play his Penang Hokkien Podcast promo.
• Sashi has taken lots of nice pictures at the KLCC Aquaria.
• Enlighten went to the Zoo Negara night safari.
• The Capybara is the world's largest rodent.
• My Doggy Life complains about XiaXue who herself had complained about KL.
• Minishorts joins the fray with aplomb, with her own take on things.
• Minishorts also has a word or two about service at Guardian Pharmacy.
• TV Smith gets serious about privacy.
• One of us approves of the Penang Ah Beng Style Karaoke. The other most definitely does not.
• Gaban Z vs Ultraman.
• Errolyn complains about bad english
• Buffet and Buffet.
• Buffay the vampire layer.

PPS Review now on iTunes!

Yes, after weeks of trying, all it took was for John Ong to do us a favour and we were suddenly on the iTunes podcast directory!

If you have iTunes, all you have to do is follow this link to get to our PPS Review podcast page. Click subscribe to, well, subscribe.

If you really want to do it step-by-step:

1. Open iTunes.
2. Click on Podcasts on the left-hand side Source menu.
3. Click on arrow next to 'Podcast Directory' at the bottom of the screen
4. Wait.
5. Click in the text box above 'Search All Podcasts' on the left-hand side of the screen. Type in 'pps review'. Hit enter (or click on the magnifying glass icon).
6. Wait a little more.
7. You should now see search results, and our show The PPS Review should be the top hit. Click on the subscribe button to add us to your iTunes.

Easy, no?

PPS Review Ep. 3

This episode: PPS Review reviews / Karma Whoring / PPS Clones / Boss disallows on-job blogging / Manboobs / Kuching Gatal's love story.
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Show contents:

• This week the show was recorded at The Castle at Jalan Telawi 4, Bangsar.
• Errolyn was out of town, so her place was taken by Darth Perfidious. He's a lot like Errolyn, except he's big, bad and a Dark Lord of the Sith. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
• Darth Perfidious was kind enough to suggest a song for the opening intro: The Sensual Woman by The Herbaliser
• We thank all who wrote constructive comments and reviews:
• Comments made about the last episode
• Antworten zum Universung
  
• Jeemin
• Simmie Lang
• Who sounds like Calleigh Duquesne (played by Emily Procter) from CSI Miami?
• Some of us are not ashamed to ask for donations for an Airzed account.
• Darth Perfidious explains what karma whoring is.
• Chewyx explains his murderous ways
• PPS clones:
• gengjurnal
• poischiche
• BlogMalaysia
• SARA - Our favourite!
• midnight lily blogs about her boss asking her to not put up work-related posts.
  
• It was directly inaccessible, but Google cache came to the rescue.
• start.com.my used to be called visa.com.my. Recently, he has been pinged, or karma-whored to the max.
• Perf Daddy calls Jeff Ooi a jackass to get The PPS Review more attention
• White Shirt + Manboobs = Bad Idea
• How to search for the word 'nipple'
• The Google zeitgeist
• Criticising PPS and its people
• Minishorts: What she wore to the PPS Bash.
• Kuching Gatal's Love Story.
• Morena Baccarin's interview in Playboy.
• Firefly the TV series.
• Serenity the movie.
• Closing music: Anjelik by OAG
  

PPS Review Podcast - Episode 2

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Contents: Hailstones in Malaysia / Move Sumatra Away! / Free Body Glove / Photogenic girl / Women and their decisions / Makan Makan / Damansara Uptown / Dodgy Headmistress / Killer blogger / Avoiding paying parking tickets.

(I'd like to apologise for the poor sound quality. I've tried to improve it, but to no avail. Hopefully, next week we'll have a better solution.)

Contents/Show Notes:

• Comments from people at this blog
• Haze
• Hailstones in Malaysia (with video)
• Move Sumatra Away!
• E's post about Bali
• Haze Conspiracy?..hmmm
• An Explosive Idea
• Guy gets free Body Glove stuff...
• ... and then falls for a waitress who he says is "not photogenic"
• Women and their decisions
• Makan-makan Simmie Lang
• Tuna, Ham & Cheese Bread Thingies
• Homemade Veggie Noodle Soup
• Strawberry and Blueberry Muffins
• Cinnamon Raisin Bread
• Damansara Uptown: Night Life
• Hans Isaac
• What kind of headmistress is this?
• Chewyx, stop running
• Oh my god.. I killed Somebody
• Avoiding paying parking tickets

Episode 2 coming... soonish

Due to technical problems (read: I learnt the hard way how to adjust input volume controls correctly) and the fact that I will have a very busy day today, the second episode will not be able to be posted until sometime later today. Probably much later.

In the meantime, here are a few notices that we had intended to include on the podcast, but completely missed due to lack of time/ineptness of program controller/sheer forgetfulness (pick at least one).

These notices are highlighted because they refer to future events or just things we thought PPS listeners should know about:

• The Merdeka Book Swap Meet 28 August 2005, 3pm, Starbucks KL Sentral
• The Penang Hokkien Podcast
• Ideas needed for a talkshow Yvonee will be talking on topics pertaining to her experiences with Neurofibromatosis on 14 September 2005 on NTV7. She would like readers to suggest some topics for discussion.
• Penang Bloggers Meeting 21 August 2005, Guerney Plaza, 2pm.

If you downloaded the PPS Review podcast...

...can you please answer the poll to the right? I can't tell whether anyone downloaded the large, stereo version and I'm tempted to just offer the mono version since it's half the size straight off. Thanks!

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Hi guys, good effort on putting out the pps review podcast. I have a small problem subscribe this podcast using ITunes. I use this url "http://feeds.feedburner.com/PPSReview" is this correct?

The answer to this question is in two parts:

1. Yes, http://feeds.feedburner.com/PPSReview is the correct feed to use at the moment to subscribe to the podcast.
2. To subscribe to this podcast using iTunes either drag its URL into your podcasts library, or type the URL into Subscribe to Podcast under the Advanced menu.

I also tried to get the podcast into the official iTunes directory, but no luck - you need to be a member of the Apple website to do so, and only people with credit cards with mailing addresses from the US, most of Europe, Singapore and Australia can be members. Strange, but true.

Project Petaling Street Review - Podcast Episode 1

You can now download this episode directly (8.85MB). There is a (very slightly) better sounding version in stereo available here (17.7MB).

This is the first in (hopefully) a series of podcasts that focus on blogs that have pinged Project Petaling Street. Truth is, I've long wanted to do a review, simply because so many blogs ping PPS and because they disappear so quickly and it's a shame. It'd be nice to share the ones that catch my eye. Or make me laugh out loud. Or get me angry.

Here are some links on what we discussed in this episode. Enjoy.

• Things I have learnt about girls
  • Vincci
  • Esarli
  • Hot or Not
  • Hot or Not with Google Maps
• Towering Salad
• KLCC at night
• 'segue' (pronounced 'seg-way')
• 'salvo'
• Proton
  
  • Jeremy Clarkson
  • Proton Savvy
  • Perodua Myvi
  • Wah!...Angmoh approves Proton Savvy har...
• Adverts on blogs
• Google Ads
• Astro
• Malaysians earning money from Google Adsense
• sashi-isms is now Adsense-free
• Stimulating English lessons from Lorna Whiston
• A diary of a Wedding Photographer in Malaysia
• The Teapot Cafe
• Blogathon
  • Bloggers Are Morons (Malaysian website participating in Blogathon, for the Hospice-At-Home-Programme, Penang branch)