So, as the title dictates, this post is to chronicle the conception, birth and early yearsdays of Makan Jikan...if chronicle = 100+ words.

REASON
So for years I'd scrimped on eating. I liked food; who doesn't? But my mentality was; why squander money on something that lasts you a few seconds of enjoyment as opposed to something more permanent? Then came the nomadic life of university, and I realised how easy it was to give up my books, CDS, animanga collection. But the final shift of thought came in summer, when bereft of my meal plan, dumped with ingredients/cutlery from outgoing dorm friends and installed with a kitchen, came the explosion of flavours & choices from all over the world! & so I created this foodblog to share my foodie adventures, in particular my own experiments in the kitchen. [:

NAME
'Makan' means to eat in Malay, while in Japanese 'jikan' means time. Using this strange fusion of quite unrelated languages is probably near top in the Worst Ways to Name Your Site countdown, since probably only a small group of Southeast-Asians with some knowledge of Japanese (or the other way around) would understand, let alone remember the name. However, when this phrase came to my mind randomly one night, it just stuck. So too bad for my potential net fame, I guess I'll have to stick with something that's truly me - Singaporean with a love of Japan. (...and food)

DESIGN
Unearthed the prototype for the layout somewhere in my computer and with a few tweaks (yeah well, if several hours + div/css/etc problems later constitutes 'few') the layout has become what it is now! I would have liked to add certain elements (notably tag links on the sidebar) but I'm not going to learn a whole new blogger coding language (already did that for livejournal) to be able to use xml/widgets so screw that.

FOCUS
The majority of my posts will probably be baked goods as I've been baking for half my life now and am more confident of my baking skills. I'm a fledgling cook (in the sense that I do things like tossing un-softened rice noodles straight into the wok) and so a) most of my successes involve mixes/simple stirfry and random adding of sauces that hardly constitute a 'recipe' b) everything else fails. And I might have one or two entries on my external food hunts, though I don't know if I want Makan Jikan to turn into that kind of blog, because that just means more time spent on maintaining the blog, not to mention I don't have the highest standards in food. (& I really love streetside hotdogs) As for region, I would probably have more Chinese food (with regards to cooking) since I'm Chinese, but I'm a huge fan of the new and unusual (to me) and so would love to try my hand at as many international recipes as possible!

So. Clearly not 100+ words. The longwinded granny in me does take over often. Back to working on the layout...

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