January 2009

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Beef Tripe Noodle
01.26.09 | Permalink |Food, Travel| Comments Off

I miss this! If you are in Hong Kong, you must try the Beef Tripe Noodle. It is very tasty and the noodle is superb. It is very different from the Vietnamese style. The soup is made tasty with boiling the beef tripe or brisket in it. It is almost like a beef stew.

One thing that is missing is that the shop does not provide a good chili sauce to go with it. It will be absolutely perfect with chili sauce. I wonder when I can have it again.

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Shopping Frustration
01.22.09 | Permalink |Shopping| Comments Off

I went into Guardian Pharmacy during lunch and was looking for some vitamins for my children. Look!

They expect us to see through boxes. Sigh, I would say a shop who does not want to sell their vitamins. It makes no sense. This is not the first time I am encountering this and I find this in a lot of Malaysian shops. I often find that stocks are all over the place, sometimes when I am walking into an aisle and I will find boxes right in the middle of the aisle. If you are not looking, you can trip over it. It can be very hazardous.

Besides that, you find people pushing boxes of stock in and out especially when it is crowded with shoppers.

Next, I hate shopping for vitamins because you get promoters coming to you and never leave you along until you walk away from the vitamins section. I really have phobia with promoters.

Maybe I should start an online vitamins store for people who are like me. My friend just got 25 bottles of vitamins from the states. Yeah it is really cheap in the States. Those vitamins are FDA approved too. However he got tax by the custom. No escape for him.

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Portable Storage Services
01.22.09 | Permalink |PP, Service| Comments Off

Anyone of you moving house or offices? I believe it is a great workout with all the loading, carrying, packing and unpacking. You think about it, it is already exhausting.

However UPack.com will make your life a little simpler with moving pods. It is affordable. It provides you a ReloCube that is lockable. The size of the ReloCube fits in your parking space. The size is 6’ x 7’ x 8’ and you can order as many as you want. You get charge with how many you used. You can load your boxes into the ReloCube at your own convenience. It will be a breeze for your family.

Do check out the UPack.com website for more details. It certainly will take some problems away from your relocation project.

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Miss This
01.19.09 | Permalink |Food| 2 Comments

I missed the KL “G Cheong Fun”. The way Penang does they “G Cheong Fun” is so different. It took me a long time to get used to the dark prawn paste with the “G Cheong Fun”. The KL style is very different with fish ball, lady finger, brinjal and fried bean curd. Yummy!!!

I ate that for breakfast almost every week in school. I remember that the store owner always give me extra fish ball. She is a very kind lady. I remembered once I forgot to bring money, she told me to pay her tomorrow. After finishing the “G Cheong Fun”, with the left over sauce, she puts soup on the plate for me. I love sipping the soup. Simply delicious!!!

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All In One Day
01.17.09 | Permalink |Myself, PP| Comments Off

Today was another busy day for me. I have a small church gathering in my house and I had to prepare food. Fortunately I have a part time maid who cleans my home today.

The day started in the morning where I had to work. There were a few issues that need my attention. I am not sure why people like to create issue on Friday. Last minute work I suppose.

During my lunch break, I had to cut the fruits, prepare the cups, drinks and plates. On top of that, I had to fetch my son to school. Next, I had to send my car for service.

I will be going outstation during CNY and it is better to service the car before CNY. Worst is, the mechanic found out the black oil bucket is leaking. I need to change it but the spare part is not available. I had to go back again.

By the way, while they were servicing my car. I had to login to work there. I like the service center as it provide Internet service. I can kill 2 birds in one stone. Imagine I helped my colleague solve her printer & network problem when I was there. I completed what I needed to do.

The customer service gal told me my car is ready but they forgot to change my seat belt buckle which was faulty. In the bill, they charged me for it. I was late and told them to do it next week.

I had to go pick my son up and fetch some nyonya kuih plus dinner. Upon returning home, prepare the rest of the food and ready to welcome the guest.

The hardest part is the cleaning up afterwards. I had to mop the floor, clean up and take out the garbage. Now I am sitting right here, telling you all about it. Isn’t this a good achievement? With a day like this, who needs fat burner pills.

All in a day’s work!

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Not My Day
01.15.09 | Permalink |Myself, Technology| Comments Off

Two days ago, someone called me up to say there is a big problem with his PC. He told me that all his web applications cannot run. He was blaming the network, he has to blame something right. It wasn’t the network as I tried accessing some URL and it was successful.

Next, he told me it was the application problem. It cannot be because 3 web applications cannot run. After I did some troubleshooting, I found out the scripting doesn’t work on the browser. Conclusion, the browser was the culprit. I checked the setting to ensure scripting is enabled and even set the lowest security. The browser still remains problematic.

After a few hours of troubleshooting and running out of workable idea, I asked him to install firefox. With firefox, all his web applications work.

However, he still needs the IE to be fixed. Today basically I asked him to reformat the PC because the IE is corrupted big time. He even installed IE7 and still all his applications didn’t work. Funny thing is that there is no version, product id and info showing in the IE about box.

Oh well, I didn’t give up and thought maybe reapplying XP Service Pack 2, it may get it to work. After applying the XP Service Pack 2, it restarted the PC. Now it is still in processing mode and never got to the login screen, after an hour. Bumma, now he really has to reformat the PC. It is just not my day with fixing things.

I am still keeping my finger cross, that it will complete processing and go to the login screen. Tomorrow will be a new day!

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Exhausted
01.09.09 | Permalink |Living, PP| Comments Off

This week, I have been running around preparing my children for school. It is back to school and work for me. I don’t even need any weight loss pills to lose any weight.

I am looking forward to end of the month where I will be on 1 week leave. I was thrill today when I heard that my son’s school will be off for 1 week too. It was really difficult for me to plan for Chinese New Year if he didn’t have any off days. I would want my family to go back to my hometown too.

I love family gatherings where everyone catches up with one another.

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Parking Woes
01.04.09 | Permalink |Experience| 3 Comments

I really have very inconsiderate neighbors and I am not sure where they learn their parking manners. Maybe it is just inconsiderate batch of people. When do they ever learn that it is not okay to do such things at ALL times!

My neighbor’s visitors love to park in front of our gate. A few times when we come home, my gate is blocked by the visitor’s or relative’s car. He loves to say sorry but never sincere because he still park in front of our gate! I got really frustrated when one of my friends parked her car at the parking next to their house, she got scolded for it. First of all, she didn’t block anyone and it is a parking spot. My neighbor thinks that the parking next to their house belongs to them although it is a public road. Yet, many times, their visitors blocked my gate.

Next we have other neighbors who park and take up half the road. I just wonder where they learned how to park like that. Or they think it is their grandfather’s road.

It is a sad neighborhood when they only think of themselves or their own convenient. *shake head*

I admired how Hong Kong or other countries enforce the law, such parking manners will be fined big time. They don’t allowed double park and create virtual parking spots. Don’t you hate it when you see motorbikes parking on a car parking spot? The police will fine every hour and the driver can get more than 1 ticket if he parks illegally for a long time. I just hope we have more traffic or security police going around our neighborhood. Crime is at a rise too!

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LCCT Improvement Required
01.01.09 | Permalink |Service, Travel| Comments Off

I am surprised that there are so many flights going into LCCT but there is no expansion being made to cater for the increase. There are only 3 conveyer belts for incoming flights. 2 incoming flights shared one station.

I had to wait an hour to pick up my baggage. It takes longer than my flight from Penang to KL. Not to mention, another hour to travel to KL from LCCT. In total, 3.5 hours from Penang to KL. That is the same amount of time if I drive and cheaper too.

Lots of people were complaining about the late arrival of their bags. Penang airport did a very good job as my bags came out within 5 minutes of wait.

Another thing I found it is very stuffy and air condition does not cater for the amount of people in there.

If you have a connecting flight, you better plan hours in between for delay, baggage claims and travel from LCCT to KLIA.

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House Refurbishment
01.01.09 | Permalink |Living, PP| Comments Off

I need to refurbish my house and do some touch up painting. I have not done house maintenance for a long time. I was thinking of doing it over my long break. I wished I had some air tools to help me.

With air tools, it will definitely speed up my work. I need to remove all the bedroom wood lining and reinstalled new ones. Probably plaster some areas that are chipped and repaint it.

Let’s hope it will be a new home ready for Chinese New Year.

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