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Happy Belated Dumpling Day!!
06.01.06 |Food, Information, Penang, Special Day Event| Permalink | 5 Comments

Yesterday was Dumpling Day. My neighbor made dumpling. My house was filled with the delicious aroma of those dumplings. They gave some to me. It was so good, wanted to ask for more. :giggles: I have been having dumpling for breakfast these few days.

I always wonder how they make it. Usually in the wet market here, they will have a special section that sells all the dumpling ingredients. I am always so tempted to buy and try it at home. If any of you know how to do it, please contribute your recipe on http://cookblog.mybabybay.com

Wrapping Method Here.

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Dell Factory Visit
04.28.06 |IT, Information, Penang, Technology| Permalink | 5 Comments

Yesterday, a few of us from my work place made a trip to dell factory in Prai. That factory produces 80% of the Dell notebook world wide. I am very impress with their supply chain. It is very efficient and no inventory storage that drive cost up, meaning maximize profit at the end of the day. All the notebooks are build to order. A lot of checkpoints, to make sure no missing parts.

Each operator can produce at least 6 units per hour. You do the math to see how many they produce in a day. The factory runs 24×7. All testing on the notebook is automated and softwares are dowloaded in the same way. They have this huge racks, probably 5-6 notebook per rack for this purpose. I notice that the operators who assemble notebook are mostly female. Those in the server lines are male. Probably servers are much more ~~complicated~~ heavier.

Actually Dell does not produce anything, mainly assemble the parts together to make the final product and name it DELL. By the way, if you want to purchase a notebook, order at the end of the quarter. If they run out of the specification you want, they probably bum it up for you to meet the orders. For example, if your notebook has 40G hard disk and they ran out, they probably give you a 60G or next higher in stocks. It doesn’t work all the time, ok, only if you are fortunate enough.

Sorry no pictures for the visit because no camera allowed. However I did take back with me a lot of value added information and a great eye opener. Who knows, I may open up a MELL factory.

P/S I did get some door gift.

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9th Malaysian Plan
03.31.06 |Information, Penang| Permalink | 4 Comments

Penang got a second bridge and a monorail.

68. Apart from this, regional growth centres will be identified in several regions to spearhead development. The Southern Johor Economic Region will be developed in a comprehensive and systematic manner. The construction of the Second Penang Bridge will spur growth in nearby areas, including mainland Penang, Kedah and Perak and, will spur economic activities particularly for businesses that benefit from the port facilities and air cargo services

85. A National Commission will be established to regulate the overall public transportation system in the country and a specific commission will be established for the Klang Valley. Integrated transport terminals will be built in Gombak and Bandar Tasik as transit hubs to Kuala Lumpur. The Government will also implement a number of major projects across the country, including the Penang Monorail and the Eastern Dispersal Link in Johor.

Read about it here, the transcript.

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Penang Hot Spell
03.09.06 |Information, Penang| Permalink | 13 Comments

Penang is facing a hot weather spell, the newspaper said it will last till 10 more days. It just rained but no help, it is still hot.

I am on MC for 2 days. I woke up with a swollen eye. I couldn’t open it at all. I was very frightened. I went to the doctor.

Doc: What can I do for you?
Me: Eye swollen, yesterday was fine but waked up swollen.
Doc: What happened?
Me: Weather so hot that it melted my contact lens, I guess.

He applied some eye gel and bandaged my eye. Now I am typing with 1 eye bandage like a pirate. I really have to be careful with contact lens. I do clean it everyday but not sure what happened. It’s the hot spell fault!

I am fine, I still can see.

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Toy Museum
01.15.06 |Children, Penang, Toys, Travel| Permalink | 9 Comments

Penang has the largest toy museum in Asia. It has over 100,000 figurines, toys and models of a variety of characters in the toy world. If you step in and admired every single toy, it will take you days. It is located in Tanjung Bungah, very close to the Copthorne Orchid Hotel. Opens from 9am to 9pm daily. Entrance Fees are RM10 per adult and RM6 per child. It is a great place to visit if you are here.

The toys ranges from Star Wars, Lord of the rings, all action figures like Superman, Spideman, Ultraman, Batman, Incredible Hulk, Toys Story, Chicken Little, Barbie, Disney Characters, Harry Potter and some horror characters too.

As usual, Emily and Tim enjoyed the place. One set back about this museum is that it has so many toys, so tempted to take and play with it, but you can only see and not touch.

Enjoy the pictures:

The place:

Mr Bean:

Jacky Chan

Chow Yuen Fatt

Bruce Lee

Tomb Raider

The Beatles

Elvis

Star Wars

The LOTR

Star Trek

My Dream Car

Batman

Incredible Hulk – Emily can copy this charater very well. Yet to capture it on video.

WWF

Chicken Little

Little Mouse

Monsters

Incredibles

Doremon

Japanese Doll

Warning: The section below contains horror characters, view it at your own risk. Please do not let your children view, they may have nightmares.

The End

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Penang Immigration Office – Excellent Service
11.24.05 |Penang, Service| Permalink | 2 Comments

I am very impress with the Penang Immigration Office at Esplanade Penang. Yesterday I went there to renew my passport. I went there at 8:30am and I got everything done by 9:00am. They were pretty fast in servicing customers and the officers are pretty friendly. In comparison with 5 years ago, the officers were very fierce looking and they were wearing a “Service with a smile”. On top of that, I can collect my passport the day after. Great Job on the customer service improvement!

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Anti-Smoking
11.21.05 |Information, Penang, ProductReview| Permalink | 10 Comments

Today I was in the Honda Service centre cum sales office. There is this nut head salesman smoking in the air condition premises. Smokes fly all over the contain space. There were children waiting in the service centre too. All of us become secondary smokers. I walk into the manager office to relay this problem. He gave me a blank face and didn’t give me a positive response.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate smokers. I just hate smokers that make other people become secondary smokers, which are more dangerous. I have come across many cases where smokers secretly smoke in air condition premises like the shopping mall, the car park and in public transport.

The government is promoting the “Tak Nak” campaign but not enforcing the public sector to follow strict rules about not smoking areas.

If you know me, I will surely feedback this to Honda and the government bureau. Anyone can give me any more ideas where I can bring this complain to? Please leave the contact and email address.

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Giant Landed
10.25.05 |Information, Penang| Permalink | 9 Comments

Giant Hypermart finally landed in Penang. Not sure when will it open but the structure of the hypermart is complete. I will be looking forward to shop there. Hey it is only 5 mins drive away from my home. I heard that this will be the last hypermart approved in the Penang Island. Now we have Tesco, Carrefour (not on the island), Makro and Giant.

Tell me what are the best buy items in Giant Hypermarts? Milk powder? Diapers?

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Spice Garden
09.18.05 |Penang, Travel| Permalink | 8 Comments

Finally we got to go to Spice Garden with my family. It was the haze, wedding dinner and rainy weather that keep us from going. The Spice Garden is located somewhere in between Batu Ferringhi and Teluk Bahang of Penang. It was not what I expected. No doubt the scenery was very beautiful with lot of greens and water falls. The place has alot of hiking trails that you need to climb. Lots of stair way up and of course no place for stroller. I had to carry Emily to hike up. My children had fun and so did I (exhausted), to enjoy God’s creation again and always remind me there is someone out there who created the world perfect.

The above picture shows that Emily actually was holding a big giant spice called the Kayu Manis (Cinnamon).

Navigation:

Emily playing with the fresh water from the hill:

Little Waterfalls:

Purple Flower:

Our Ride:

Beautiful Scenary:

Two Sneaky kids in the Gift Shop:

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Penang Bridge Traffic Camera
09.06.05 |IT, Information, Penang, Technology| Permalink | 3 Comments

This is a cool website to show you, the real time traffic in Penang Bridge via camera. Don’t do any hanky panky on the bridge…

Source: http://www.penangbridge.blogspot.com/

Camera Here: http://penangbridge.info/15.html

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Bon Odori Festival
07.16.05 |Entertainment, Event, Penang| Permalink | 2 Comments

Today I brought the kids to the Bon Odori festival in Esplanade in Penang. The place was filled, few hundreds people were there. Parking was nearly impossible. God provided us one, although it was a distance walk from Esplanade but it is sure better than none. We reached there about 8pm.

Lots of food stalls around and hungry people too. There was a popular stall selling mega huge balloon and water balloon that they played like a yoyo. I got my son a big balloon. My son played for a while and passed it back to me. I can see $$ flying away, anyway, it was for charity.

The place was dark, not enough lighting. Fortunately, they placed lots of tables and chairs.

There were dances & performance. Many people joined in to dance. Lots of Japanese people around. Mostly there were in Kimono. Too bad, no kimono for sale else would have gotten one for my gal. I saw so many Japanese children in Kimono, they were very adorable.

Fireworks were started sharp at 9pm. It was beautiful and real loud. My children enjoyed it. People started leaving once the fireworks was over, so did we.

Venue: Esplanade
Date: 16th July(Saturday)
The program:

17:20 Arrival of VVIP
17:30 Speeches…bla bla
17:45 Launching by some Japanese guy plus chingay show
17:55 Inspection of stalls by VVIPs
18:25 1st session Bon Odori dance
18:50 1st Awa Dance session
19:15 Drum demonstration
19.35 2nd Drum demonstration
19.55 Dance performance by Msian Jap Soc.
20:15 2nd Bon Odori dance session
20:40 2nd Awa Dance session
21:00 FIREWORKS display
21:10 3rd Bon Odori Session
21:30 Lucky Draw
21:45 Sayonara

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