Change YouTube Size on your blogpost

Want to change the size of an embedded-video from YouTube in your blogpost ? Try this one..(hey, I'm still an amateur...so correct me if I'm wrong, okay?)

1. Open your YouTube video to be inserted in your post. Copy its HTML code (in the red circle)
2. Create a new post. Add video from YouTube by pasting the embedded HTML code of the video in your create-post box.
   
3. Click on "Edit HTML". You will see the HTML code from that YouTube video.
4. Find the parts that show the width and the height of that video. (see the red arrows).
5. Change those numbers with the suitable size like you want. Change both, upper and lower parts. Usually YouTube video/object has "425" in width and "344" in height.
6. Publish post. You can immediately view your blog now.

Hope it works....:)

Ken Lee?

"Without You" by Mariah Carey.

Have you ever heard of that song? It's a nice song, you know..
But have you ever heard someone sing that song in a very unique way? See this one :



I'm sure you'll laugh at it. But I think we should see that from another point of view.
You see, the girl's name was Valentina Hasan. She followed an audition in Bulgaria. It was an audition for Bulgarian Music Idol, some sort of American Idol, Indonesian Idol, etc. You can see that Valentina was very confident about her performance. Although she didn't understand English, she was determined to sing that song. You can see her expression. She didn't care at all, even when one of the judges laughed. This was something awesome. I call this " a brave action". Not everyone could do this! Infact, Mariah Carey admitted it. Watch this :



And you know what?!? After that "KenLee" surprise, Valentina got another surprise, as the chief of EMI (you know, that famous music-recording company..) contacted the chief of Universal for Bulgaria, in order to find out more about her performance. Pheww..who never know???



Well, at least I can learn one thing : if you are determined to reach something, just follow your heart and don't get bothered with what people think about you. Two thumbs up for Valentina Hasan!

Soto ESTO

SOTO (often called as sroto, coto, or tauto) is the name of one of many Indonesian food. It's the kind of food that almost every region in Indonesia has, in many different variations. But among those many kinds of soto, they have one thing in common, which is, composed of broth, meat and vegetables. So soto is more like a kind of soup, usually accompanied with rice. There are so many variations of soto, which are commonly differentiated by the meat ingredient in them. For example, soto ayam (chicken soto) and soto daging (beef soto).People in Indonesia also give specific names for many variations of soto, usually based on the location or region where the soto had been made, e.g. Soto Kudus (from Kudus-Central Java), Soto Surabaya (from Surabaya-East Java), Soto Makassar (from Makassar-South Sulawesi), Soto Betawi (from Jakarta), etc.
Soto can have a clear broth, a yellow transparent broth and a coconut-milk broth. The broth is the main part of soto, because it consists some spices like : shallot, garlic, turmeric root, galangal, ginger, coriander, salt and pepper.

This time I want to share about a kind of soto from my hometown, SALATIGA (this is a small town in Central Java, located between cities of Semarang and Solo) .
The name of this famous cuisine from Salatiga is : Soto ESTO. For your information, ESTO is the name of a legendary bus company in Salatiga. ESTO stands for : Eerste Salatigasche Transport Onderneming (it's in Dutch language, I don't know what's that supposed to mean....:p) .So, what's the connection with that bus company anyway?
Well, it is called Soto ESTO because people can buy this soto right in front of ESTO's garage. That's why people of Salatiga used to call it Soto (Garasi) ESTO, or Soto of ESTO's garage.
If you want to buy this soto, don't imagine of a large, comfort & cozy place to eat, cause you will only find a small-size kiosk-like booth. It's only opened from the early morning until 7-8 AM. You have to come early, otherwise, you won't be able to have soto as your breakfast. You won't find this soto in the afternoon nor in the night, because it's only sold in the morning.
This coconut-milk-broth soto is very unique. It's quite spicy and can make you sweat while you're eating it. Together with a glass of hot-tea, this soto will give you such a great sensation of breakfast. You can add some snacks too. There are things that called "kerupuk karak", some sort of crackers made from rice, or "perkedel", that made from potato or something like that (i'm not sure...but still I can assure you how delicious they are..), and many others.
You will feel "hot" when you eat this soto, let alone eating it with chilli..And when the place gets more crowded, that "hot"sensation will increase as you keep on sweating. This food is highly recommended to those who want to have a special-spicy breakfast in the morning.
So, when you visit Salatiga, don't forget to try this delicious cuisine....!!!


PS: it's popular for sure.... here is an example..(thx to adhitsuniverse)

Isabella Search...

When I browsed YouTube this morning, I accidently found a song called "Isabella". It reminds me of an Asian pop song from early 90's. It was sang by a Malaysian band named the "SEARCH". Amy was the name of the band's vocalist. Don't get wrong..Amy is "him"! Yes, Amy is a man :D
This song was quite popular in Indonesia at that time. In fact, there was an Indonesian movie with the same title based on this song. And if I'm not mistaken, Nia Zulkarnaen, a-well-known beautiful Indonesian actress played as "Isabella" in that movie (boy..Nia was very cute that time....she still is...hehehee...).
But "Isabella" itself was a kinda' soundtrack of a Malaysian film titled "Fenomena" starred by Amy Search and Ramona Rahman.(CMIIW).



The song's tone is a little bit ballad or kinda-slowrock, BUT it's lyric is very mellow and melancolic. Love and heartbreaking are the main story behind that :(
And if you see the band's on-stage performance, you'll easily find that they were strongly influenced by many 80's and 90's Rockbands , like Queen, Guns 'n Roses, Mr. BIG, Firehouse, etc.



Well... despite of it's "contradictive" style, the song did a very good job to the band. As a matter of fact, many Indonesian people loved it. I too, used to sing it, when I took a bath in the bathroom LOL...xixixixixxx....