Updates

All updates will be on group's member personal pages

Kenny Yeo -Festival-

My name is Kenny Yeo Boon Guan, i'am doing The Festival of Malay Culture. Here's my example.

Kenny Yeap-Traditional Weaponry

My name is Kenny Yeap and I am the group leader for this group. I am in charge of handling the task "Traditional Weaponry". As such, I have come up with a simple flowchart and a simple GUI on how my website will be like.

 This is a simple GUI of the website

This is the flowchart of the website

Final assignment update

Pang Kien Fei - Malay's clothing


My flowchart :

My GUI :

Nicole Yeow-Traditional Games

Good day, I am Nicole Yeow. I have been tasked with findings on the topic "Traditional Games" I have done a rough flowchart on my part of the website. And have already designed the GUI for my website which is going to be the same as the main GUI. The current photo for the GUI is not the final GUI but the concept remains the same.

 The current GUI for the main page and designed by me.

This is the flowchart for my part of the entire website

Tham Ka Yian - Malay Culture's Food

NASI LEMAK

Coconut-flavoured Rice Meal - is rice cooked in coconut milk made aromatic with pandan leaves (screwpine leaves). It is typically served with SambalIkanBilis - fried dried anchovies cooked in a dry sambal sauce, and garnished with cucumber slices, hard boiled egg and roasted peanuts. Traditionally packaged in a banana leaf, it is usually eaten as hearty breakfast fare.

SATAY

BBQ Sticks - The marinated meat; chicken or beef, are skewered onto bamboo sticks and grilled over hot charcoals. Some satay stalls also serve venison and rabbit satay. A fresh salad of cucumbers and onions are served together with a spicy-sweet peanut sauce for dipping. Ketupat, a Malay rice cake similar tolontong, is also an accompaniment to satay, great for dipping in satay sauce.

BEEF RENDANG

Malay Spiced Coconut Beef - This hot, dry spiced dish of tenderly simmered meat offers the typical Malaysian taste of coconut, balanced with robust, tangy spices. Rendang is a must-have on special occasions such as weddings, ideally served with nasikunyit (turmeric rice). During this festive season, a special rice cake called Lemang is made to eat with Rendang. Lemang is made from glutinous rice and santan (coconut milk), carefully packed into bamboo poles lined with banana leaves and cooked in the traditionally way over low open fires.

KETUPAT

It is made from rice that has been wrapped in a woven palm pouch and boiled. As the rice cooks, the grains expand to fill the pouch and the rice becomes compressed. This method of cooking gives the ketupat its characteristic forn and texture of a rice dumpling. Ketupat is usually eaten with rendang by Malays at open houses on festive occasions such as IdulFitri (Hari Raya Aidilfitri).

FLOWCHART

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI)

REFERENCES

http://southeastasianfood.about.com/od/foodanditsculture/a/Malayfoodcultur.htm

http://www.malaysianfood.net/Malayfood.html

Update for Group DM as of August 22nd 2011

As of August 22nd, 2011. We have managed to come up with the GUI design and the flowchart of the overall blog. We have been experimenting on a flash slideshow which will be part of each one of the content done by every member.

 

This is our current flowchart of the entire website

 This is a rough design of how our GUI would look like

 

 Our current prototype GUI

As such, we are still in progress with the slideshow and will upload our further progress as well.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic Calender, which lasts 29 or 30 days. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and intimacy with

their partners during daylight hours and is intended to teach Muslims about patience, spirituality, humility and submissiveness to God. Muslims fast for the sake of God and to offer more prayer than usual. Compared to the solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards by about eleven days each year depending on the moon; thus, a person will have fasted every day of the calendar year in 34 years time. Muslims believe Ramadan to be an auspicious month for the revelations of God to humankind, being the month in which the first verses of the Qur'an were revealed to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.

Ramadan is a time of spiritual reflection and worship. Muslims are expected to put more effort into following the teachings of Islam and to avoid obscene and irreligious sights and sounds. Sexual intercourse among spouses is allowed after one has ended the daily fast. During fasting intercourse is prohibited as well as eating and drinking, one is also encouraged to resist all temptations while fasting. Purity of both thoughts and actions is important. The act of fasting is said to redirect the heart away from worldly activities, its purpose being to cleanse the inner soul and free it from harm. It also teaches Muslims to practice self-discipline, self-control, sacrifice, and empathy for those who are less fortunate; thus encouraging actions of generosity and charity. It becomes compulsory for Muslims to start fasting when they reach puberty, so long as they are healthy, sane and have no disabilities or illnesses. The elderly, the chronically ill, and the mentally ill are exempt from fasting, although the first two groups must endeavor to feed the poor in place of their missed fasting. Also exempt are pregnant women if they believe it would be harmful to them or the unborn baby, women during the period of their menstruation, and women nursing their newborns. A difference of opinion exists among Islamic scholars as to whether this last group must make up the days they miss at a later date, or feed poor people as a recompense for days missed. While fasting is not considered compulsory in childhood, many children endeavour to complete as many fasts as possible as practice for later life. Lastly, those traveling (musaafir) are exempt, but must make up the days they miss. More specifically, Twelver Shi’ah define those who travel more than 14 miles (23 km) in a day as exempt.

Updates for Group DM

Over the past few weeks, our group has been actively handling all other assignments including the E-wallpaper and currently handling the personal website assignment. We've managed to create a Facebook group for Group DM which allows us to discuss on each others' progress as well as to share our findings.
We've managed to find a few websites which contain information regarding the Malya Culture such as Tourism Malaysia website (http://www.tourism.gov.my/) and also another webpage by the name of Warisan Budaya Malaysia (http://malaysiana.pnm.my/). So far we have design the header like as seen in the blog. Then we are going to do the button tabs using photoshop. We also discuss the layout of our website and colour of our website but it is subject to changes.

Creating a Banner & update about the type of traditional games

What have we been up to recently? 

Interesting question,right?

We decided to make a banner for our last assignment and it consist of all the subtopic of our group members.

Aim: To make sure the reader have some view about our group's topic, that is the Malay Culture.

The topics are: 

1. Clothing

2. Food

3. Traditional Games & Past time

4. Festival

5. Traditional Weapons

We used google to find the pictures of the related topic

Then, use photoshop to make this banner.
We did a few changes for the size because the picture is too big and exceeded the blog post.

Some of us even asked some questions on facebook about their own subtopic.
Example

 

Batu Seremban is also known as Batu Lima or Selambut or Serembat.

It is a popular game played by children. It is normally played by girls.

This game can be played individually or even in a group of two, three, four and so on.

Children normally use stones, glass marbles, medium sized rock or any kind of objects that is small and round to play this game. All they need is just five stones, marbles or any kind of object.

This game is normally played during their free time or past time, at the verandah, indoors or anywhere andy time. All they need is a flat and clean surface. Players for batu seremban normally prefer to sit on the ground so that the can play it easily.

There are different level of the game. In fact, some people improvise the normal traditional game, instead of using stone and the normal method, they use cloth filled with "buah saga" or sand.

 

Proposal for our topic

Group DM (BC 271F)-Malay Culture (Culture and Heritage)

Our group has decided to take the Malay Culture as our main focus.  Our aim is to create a website on the topic chosen through our skills learnt in Digital Media class.  Our group members are:-

1. Kenny Yeap Lin Chung (Group Leader)  (1081101428)

2. Nicole Yeow Yee Cheng  (1081101163)  

3. Tham Ka Yian  (1081102990)

4. Pang Kien Fei  (1101109737)

5. Kenny Yeo Boon Guan  (1101110068)

-Our blog url:  http://groupdm.blogspot.com/

-Our blog focus: Malay Culture

The objective of our group is to know more about the Malay culture in Malaysia through different subtopic discussed with the group members in our group. The target of this website is to enable people to be interested in the cultures in Malaysia especially Malay culture. The task for this topic is divided into 5 different subtopic on Malay culture which focus on the festival, clothing, traditional games and etc. We will be focusing more on the traditional concept. Every subtopic chose by each member are at their own responsibility. However, it will be interrelated in the main topic that is Malay culture.

Our target users are mostly foreigners at the age of 25 to 40 years old where they are able to earn enough to have they vacation here just to learn more about the culture in Malaysia and also Malaysian who are curious to know more about Malay culture.

The references will be based on some websites which are available online, Multimedia University Library for some book for references and also on the spot reference from museums around Malaysia.

The means of communication used for communicating each and every one of the group members are through Facebook chat and group, time to time discussions and meetings, emails and also short-messaging service (sms)  or even call.

Finalizing title

As of July 1st, 2011, our tutorial group has chosen the topic of culture and heritage. Our sub-group also has chosen a sub-topic which is the Malay Culture.We've already created a Facebook group for this occasion and had just started the discussion regarding the division of tasks to each and every group member and have yet to come to a decision.

Introduction of group

Good day, this is the group DM from tutorial section BC271F consisting of 5 group members including:

-Kenny Yeap Lin Chung(group leader)
http://ken90nydm.blogspot.com/


-Nicole Yeow Yee Cheng
http://nikodigitalmedia.blogspot.com/


-Kenny Yeo Boon Guan
http://kaostidus007.blogspot.com/



-Pang Kien Fei
http://kienfeipang.blogspot.com/

-Tham Ka Yan
http://joveendigitalmedia.blogspot.com/