Joelle Majanil

Kadazandusun Traditional Costume Flat Vector Illustration

It's nearly the end of May, which means Kaamatan is just around the corner. I decided to post these babies I did last year here. Drawing this took me weeks of research, designing and finally the end product. It wasn't for any paid project or uni assignment, I guess I just wanted to try out 'flat vector' designing and I thought why not the Kadazandusun traditional costume, because..

1. I got to learn how to do flat vector illustration on Ai!! (facts: I learn to use Ai just last year, thank you YouTube hahaha)

2. Learn about my culture even more (facts: Kadazandusun has so many sub-ethnic groups and each of them have different traditional costume.. if not mistaken, more than 30! I've chosen only 9 hehe)

After seeing the outcome, those hand cramps are all worth it. hahahah. Jokes aside, I really enjoyed doing this project but to be honest I don't really see myself doing this kind of art style again in the future. Maybe one day, but not anytime soon.

I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed creating them ♡

Also, if you do plan to share them, please don't remove the watermark :) Thank you!

Ps: I MIGHT create another series of these but in a different art style ;) Check out my art account on IG ( @craftbykae ), more art related updates there. and Kotobian tadau tagazo do Kaamatan ♥

May 24, 2020

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Food

Cream Cheese Salted Egg Charcoal Cake

Yes, yes and yesss!! It was super delicious.

The sudden urge to make this was all because of my sister. She posted something about wanting to eat this Salted Egg Charcoal Cake. Apparently, there's a company called the Absolut Chocolat that sells this sort of cake. Their salted egg charcoal cake in particular is the best seller (i think), 'The Viral Cake' some might say.

Obviously being a no.1 fan to anything salted egg, I had to try it. And of course to quote mum, "the best food are always homemade". So yea we decided on making it ourselves. Not only its cheaper, but you know what you're consuming. The initial recipe we followed was from this YouTuber (Check it out). SADLY low and behold we didn't have all the ingredients because - did I mention it was all impromptu!! it was really the sudden urge like drop-everything-and-start-baking kind of thing. But I guess its all meant to be. If it wasn't for the lack of ingredients, we wouldn't have found ways to substitute and COME OUT WITH THE BEST RECIPE EVER!!

The creamy salted egg sauce is just ahhhh yummm, and combining it with the steamed cake is just ugghhh -- the best combo. I can't even explain how in love I am with this cake. I'm definitely making it again in the future. Also, I believe everyone's taste buds are different, which means you might not like it as much as I do, maybe you prefer it saltier or sweeter or anything like that. Which is why it's so much better to 'homemade'! You can adjust the taste to your liking. Want the sauce to have stronger salted egg taste? Add more Salted Egg Yolk then.

If you tried this recipe, please tell me your thoughts :)

a little footage of the cake 😍

May 15, 2020

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Adventures

Adventuring Murug Turug

Need an escapade? Murug Turug is the place to be. About a week ago, mum asked me if I wanted to join her with some of her friends to go "hiking". I didn't want to go at first because the only "workout" or "exercise" I have been doing was going to and fro between the kitchen and my bedroom. However, since I had nothing to do that day, I reluctantly agreed.

I think its about an hour plusminus from the city to Murug - Turug Eco Tourism. We ended up reaching the place around 10/11am. The person in charge gave us a little briefing; about food, emergencies, what shoes we should wear etc. If you're planning to go anytime soon, do buy yourself an Addidas Kampung. We bought ours just for eight ringgit in Donggongon. If you couldn't find any, don't worry because the park there rents a pair for three ringgit. One thing I regret not bringing was a band aid, I had blisters all over my foot (T.T)

There are 3 different packages; package A, B and C. We took package B (5KM and you'll get to see 3 waterfalls). Package B's route was so-so, not that tough (at first..). As you can see in pic 1 and 2, the road was wide and there's even a pavement. It lasted about 30minutes before we reached pic 3, it's slightly slippery here, my advice, bring along a stick so you can balance. A little after 10minutes then you'll reach pic 4, it's like stairs made out of tyres. Pic 5 and 6 just shows the ladders we had to use when climbing down - its scary friends. Our whole journey to the waterfall was in fact "hiking" down, so we didn't really use up that much energy. Lucky? I don't think so, if going towards the waterfall is "hiking" down, that means going back from the waterfall to the starting/ending point means climbing back up \o.o/

Yay, we're finally here! The current was so strong and the water was so cold. Not to mention it started raining o.o

The rain didn't stop us from taking pictures kekeke

Will I go again? YES OF COURSE! I mean just look at the view, it is to die for.

My rating;

Toughness - Not really tough, maybe a 4/10 (for package B)

Cleanliness - Very clean except for Piolungan Waterfall, don't get me wrong, it is clean too, but next to it there's this bunch of rocks made to be a filter kind of system I think, and there are debris stuck around which is kind of a sore to my eyes.

Waterfall - Really beautiful, I wished I had stayed longer

View - 10/10 ! The greenery and the cloudy blue sky really compliment each other <3

Ps/: There's no leeches! Yay!

For more info, check out their Official FB Page > https://www.facebook.com/murugturug/ . Slide to their DMs while you're at it, because you gotta do some booking to hike there, well if you're interested ;)

June 04, 2018

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