May 2010

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Back To Hometown Soon!
05.31.10 | Permalink |Food, PP| Comments Off

I cannot wait to go back to my hometown. First I will be enjoying my mom’s home cook food, she is a good cook. She cooked simple dishes but delicious, yet nutritious. We Cantonese will have soup every time we have a meal. Soup that is boiled for 3-4 hours using charcoal stove.

Secondly, there are plenty of varieties of good food in my hometown. I am planning to go for steamboat buffet. The place is called Shabu-Shabu. Each person will have his/her own soup to dip the food in. I love their marinated meat. Yummy!

With all the good food, maybe I should prepare to buy phentermine, just in case.

I am counting the days.

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Food Or Beauty?
05.30.10 | Permalink |Food, PP| Comments Off

Every time I eat too much seafood which I love, I get pimples popping up. I will choose food over beauty any day. At least there is good acne treatment out there that can help me.

The other day I just had the most delicious crab. The crab meat was so soft and it was steam with wine. I tell you I can eat a 2 to 3 big huge crab by myself. I just love seafood of all kinds. I had crabs, steam fish, big prawn and shellfish. Too bad they didn’t have any mussels. A cheese bake mussels would be great. There is a place called Tambun, 30 minutes drive from Penang Island where you can have cheap and good seafood.

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Big Fat Tummy
05.30.10 | Permalink |Health, PP| Comments Off

My dad has a big belly and my gal always asked me how grandpa’s belly can get so fat. I guess it is time for him to reduce belly fat. It is kind of difficult especially when he likes food. And it is no point telling him to keep to his diet. Now he has to take in medication provided by the doctor. Well with the medication, his blood test result is great.

Talking about fat belly, I am seeing mine getting a little bigger. Is it an old age symptoms? I need to do some exercise to reduce it and need to find time to do exercise. Sigh!

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Time Share
05.29.10 | Permalink |PP, Travel| Comments Off

Once I was invited to join a timeshare membership. I would have if I know I traveled so much. At that time it was worth it because the amount invested can be refunded after 30 years. I could use some free hotel stays for school holiday vacation.

It will be good if they can extend it to US and include orlando timeshare. I always wanted to go to US Disney World and other theme parks in Orlando.

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To Sleep Or Not To Sleep
05.27.10 | Permalink |PP, Travel| Comments Off

The other day, I was asked by my friend to recommend her some sleeping pills I don’t take any so what do I know. She doesn’t look like a person who needs it either. Of cause, immediately I asked her why she needs it.

She told be that she will be travelling on a long hours flights. She was afraid that she couldn’t sleep on the plane. I told her that wouldn’t that be dangerous. Imagine popping a sleeping pill, snoring your way through the journey, if any emergency, it will be difficult to wake up. Wouldn’t it be? I wouldn’t know.

I asked her to read the reviews of sleeping pills before taking any for health reason.

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Hair Loss
05.27.10 | Permalink |Living, PP| Comments Off

I am loosing hair every day, not just a few strands but a whole lot. You will be frightened if you see the hair on my floor every time I comb it. Fortunately for me, it grew back and I hope it continues. I guess it my female hormone that does the job.

For some men, they are not so fortunate. The hair loss for men is a problem and many of them do not realize until it is too late. Some are reluctant to accept the problem or feel embarrassed to go for treatment.

I believed there are treatment out there that can help you. Seek it before it is too late.

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Google Pacman
05.26.10 | Permalink |Uncategorized| Comments Off

Google had pacman game on its search engine last week to commemorate 30th anniversary of the pacman game. I haven’t played the game for a long time. I am glad I still have the skills.

My brother was the King of pacman. He used to complete all level. He gets so many free games at the arcade. He played until the owner of the arcade want to close shop and return his 20 cents back. Those days it was 20 cents per game. He played the whole day with 20 cents. I used to sit by him and watched him play.

This game does bring back memories.

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Efficient Service
05.26.10 | Permalink |Insurance, PP, Service| Comments Off

Every year when I renewed my car insurance, I get a auto insurance quotes reminder from my agent. They are really efficient because they send me the quotes and reminder a month plus, before due date.

I like their service because I will always remember to renew my car insurance and pay my road tax. I would recommend them to anyone.

On top of that, they are also very efficient on my claim. Yeah many years ago, I had a terrible accident where my car was sandwiched in between. Thank goodness, I wasn’t injured but got a shock. My insurance company processes the claim for me and I got the repair done in no time. I stuck with them till now.

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Waiting Anxiously
05.26.10 | Permalink |PP, Technology| Comments Off

My notebook is due for tech refresh, meaning it will go on end of life support and my company will provide a new one as a replacement. I am waiting anxiously for the email to come. I am anticipating the email will arrive next month for me to order a new unit.

Now my notebook is starting to act up, taking too long to wake up in the morning. It probably takes more than 10 minutes to start up. If I have an early morning meeting, I will not shutdown my notebook. The scanning software takes forever to scan my entire disk. Maybe I have too much stuff in there.

I cannot wait for the arrival of the new unit.

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Sleepless Night
05.26.10 | Permalink |Living, PP| Comments Off

Last Saturday, my gal was having high fever and obviously I have to monitor her through the night. There was not much sleep for me. Thank goodness her fever is over now. I need my beauty sleep to recover myself. And I need the best wrinkle cream to erase my wrinkles due to worrying and lack of sleep too.

I cannot wait for the long weekend to come so I can rest and relax.

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Cookware
05.25.10 | Permalink |Living| Comments Off

I love to cook and thanks to my school, that’s where I learn how to cook. Too bad, now they do not have home science subject in school. I did enjoyed cooking in school. I baked, I fried, I steam and I make delicious food. Of course I did learn some recipe by observing my mom cooked.

In order to make delicious food, you must have good cookware. I heard the all clad copper core cookware are able to distribute the heat evenly for cooking. It also has a lifetime warranty. Some cookware does bring out the good taste in your cooking.

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Penang Arch Unsafe
05.19.10 | Permalink |Penang| Comments Off

Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/18/nation/6277596&&sec=nation

7 million to beautify Penang Botanic Garden, started with an Unsafe Arch. 7 million of hard earn tax payers money go down the drain. Thanks to the Federal Government.

7 million can be spend on many things to benefit the people and what can an unstable arch do? With 7 million, they can build a huge bungalow to house homeless people on the street. 7 million, you can feed a village of people for the whole year. 7 million, you can help many poor children get a proper education or home.

Another sad story.

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Walk In Bathtubs
05.15.10 | Permalink |Living, PP, Uncategorized| Comments Off

After a long day at work, I really wished I have one of those walk in bathtubs to soak myself in. Those walk in bathtub is really good, it doesn’t take up much space in your bathroom. Yeah, I have a really small bathroom so I cannot install any long bathtub.

It is really good after a soak, it calms the body down and the mind will become relax. It helps to relieve stress of any kind. I will definitely get one of those walk in bathtubs if it is available here.

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Consumer Tribunal Case
05.12.10 | Permalink |Service| Comments Off

Here is how you submit a Consumer Tribunal Case…

You can go to the online to submit your case here. First you have to register to get an account to login.

With that account, you (Penuntut) can submit Form 1 (Borang 1), state your case and the party you want to claim from (Penentang) online. If you are not sure whether it is a valid case, you can submit an enquiry without any fees and wait for their reply. The system doesn’t send any notification, so you have to go in to check every now and then.

After you submit Borang 1, you need to pay RM5. You can use internet banking to transfer the money. A receipt will be given to you.

Print out the Borang 1 and you need to send or give the Borang 1 to the party with a witness. If you are sending, you need to register the letter and get AT (Akaun Terima) card. Ask the post office about AT card. The AT card will indicate that the party has received your Borang 1 and details of the case. The AT card will be send back to you by the post office if your party received the registered letter. Ensure the address is correct. No AT card, no case! If got AT card and the defendant didn’t attend, you will be awarded.

AT Card:

Wait for the hearing date listed on the Borang 1 and a blue Borang 4 will be send to you. Remember to bring your myKad, AT and Borang 4. Important: If you have evidence, bring it with you.

The defendant will need to submit a Borang 2 which contains his defendant statement. You have to read through it before the hearing. Some defendant may want to settle and if you agree, just tell the judge before the hearing. The settlement will be documented.

On the date of the hearing, you and your defendant will be called. Judge will advise for a settlement to get a win-win situation. If not, hearing will begin. You will give your statement and your defendant will give his. Show all your evidence if judge asked.

If you are awarded, you need to wait for the awarded letter. Within 14 days, the party has to pay you whatever you are awarded. If not, they will be fine or jail or both.

In Summary:

1. Register an account in
http://ttpm.kpdnkk.gov.my/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=43
2. Submit Borang 1
3. Pay RM5
4. Print out Borang 1 and send/give to the defendant. If registered letter, get the AT card.
5. A blue letter Borang 4 will be sent to you.
6. Wait for hearing date, be on time.
7. Bring myKad, Borang 4 and AT card.
8. If awarded, get awarded letter.
9. Case closed.

Simple right?

Here is the award letter against Celcom….

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Scam World
05.11.10 | Permalink |Information, PP| Comments Off

Lately I been hearing a lot of scam, investment scam, food scam, drug scam, apidexin scam and many more. Sigh, we don’t live in a safe world now because some people go to their evil ways to get money. Soon it will be difficult to trust anyone.

It is kind of scary for the future generation to come. I believed only God can change us human from bad to good. For you out there, don’t ever lose your good conscience and change into a monster. Get help!

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Mangosteen
05.09.10 | Permalink |Food, Travel| Comments Off

It is in SEASON!!! Yeah it is one of my favorite fruit. Some countries may not have this fruit, it is really too bad for them.

The fruit is purple outside but the edible part is white. It is juicy, sweet and very nutritious. I heard now they have pure juice extract from mangosteen. I wonder how many mangosteen to make a bottle of juice.

Do you know that if you look at the bottom of the fruit, you can tell how many edible white parts in the fruit? Example the one in the picture has 7 petals which mean it has 7 white parts in the fruit. I love choosing more petals. Simply delicious, if your country does not have this fruit and you are in Malaysia, you have to try it.

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Signal Booster
05.09.10 | Permalink |PP, Technology| Comments Off

I really need a cell phone signal booster at my home. My cell phone cannot get any signal when I am at ground floor of my house. It is a pain for me because as I step out of the house, I get a lot of missed calls. I would need to call them back.

If anything that I can do to get signal, I would like to try it. Of cause, I need to ensure whatever gadget I install, it has to completely safe for human.

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Energy Low
05.09.10 | Permalink |Health, PP| Comments Off

Last week was a stressful week for me, I had a lot to do and I was down with flu. Every time I know I am about to get sick, I will start taking my vitamin supplements. It helps me to get a speedy recovery.

Another thing that would help is a day of rest. However when I am sick, I don’t get any fever to qualify for a MC. Some doctors are nice to give me the MC for me to rest. Once I have enough sleep my energy level will shoot up. I am glad a new week has started and I am on the road to recovery. Just have a little cough which can be treated with honey.

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Spa Tub & Covers
05.07.10 | Permalink |Uncategorized| Comments Off

Do you know now you can get your very own spa hot tub and spa covers? The Spa Tub is so portable and you can just place it in your home.

I bet my children would love to have one of those. Generally, they love to play with water and I love a good soak in my favorite aroma therapy oil. I am still surveying for one that can fit in my bathroom. It would be great if it has Jacuzzi feature.

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EPF & Will
05.05.10 | Permalink |Will| 2 Comments
The Will cannot overwrite the EPF beneficiaries’ policy. Therefore whatever you write on the Will has no power to overrule what you have assigned at the EPF (KWSP) office.

I also found out that there is no substitute beneficiary with EPF which post some problems. Here are the cases:

1. Let’s say I nominate my spouse to take 100% of my EPF fund. If my partner and I passed away, the fund will be distributed according to the law. That is
- Surviving Spouse only – 100% to spouse
- Surviving Parents only – 100% to parents
- Surviving Issues only – 100% to Issues. Issues refer to children & grandchildren
- Surviving Spouse and Parents only – 50% spouse and 50% parents
- Surviving Spouse and Issues only – 1/3 spouse and 2/3 Issues
- Surviving Parents and Issues only – 1/3 parents and 2/3 Issues
- All Spouse, Parents & Issues – 25% spouse, 25% parents and 50% Issues
2. Let’s say I nominate my spouse to take 50% and my children to take 50%.
In above both cases with children below 18, it will be difficult for us to use the money for them. We need a court order and apply for a withdrawal for them with all the relevant documents. I am not sure how long it will take but a court order will take some time.

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