I am really stunt by this. China people are making fake eggs, fake grapes and fake rice. I am speechless. Where are they conscience? Let’s home the law will catch up to them!

Just watch the video.

I got a big surprised from Paypal, nothing to cheer about. Paypal sent me an email stating that they will limit my account until a proper verification is done. The verification is to submit a utility bill with my address and a code. The code will appear in my credit card statement when they charge a RM10 to it. I will make sure they reimburse my RM10.

Yeap, this is annoying because I have to pay for one of my Ebay stuff I just won. I quickly submitted the documents that they wanted. I don’t have any utility bill as all of it is under my husband. So I submitted my bank statement.

Next, they wanted more stuff. They wanted details of some of my photo ID, transactions and email proof. Wah Lau Weh….

I was in a happy mood, so I submitted it. They provided links for me to attach documents. There were 5 links. 2 of it gave up on me. A tip, never try to type details on their input box because it is only 1000 characters. I wrote everything in a txt document, convert it to pdf and attached it. By the way, they only take in pdf, jpg and other image formats. Don’t try sending in a Word file.

I made a call to their help desk and 2 of the links didn’t work. By the way, some of those transactions were payment for ads on my blog. The agent who answered my call didn’t know what that was and wanted to write to the ads company. It is really fine by me but I am not sure if the company will entertained them. What I was not happy with was the agent told me that if the companies delay in replying, the restoration will be delayed.

I escalated it to her manager. Her manager called me and told me what was wrong with my account. She told me that my account phone number was link to an inactive account. I suspect it was my hubby’s account so I just turn around to ask him. Yeap, it was. I told them, please write to my hubby. Ha! I said, they should not penalize me for my inactive hubby’s account.

Tip No2, try not to use home phone number but office number if you are having a direct line.

The manager was kind enough to restore back my account but I have to go through the pain. Better withdraw my money from there!

I love beef noodles. I missed Pho, Vietnamese beef noodles from San Jose. It is the best I tasted so far. I don’t know how they make the soup to be so tasty. It is best eaten on a cold day. The serving is humongous.

Near to Penang, the local beef noodles also very delicious. I found one along Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, next to Ayamas which is superb. You have to try it. I will ask them to add more vegetables and beef tripe. Now I feel like having a bowl of this. :P~~~

I was home alone today because I am down with flu. I had a really busy week and I just wanted a rest. I took a long nap and woke up. I relax myself on my comfortable sofa and started playing angry birds. I always wanted to complete the 3 stars to see the final heart.

And I did it!

And this was done many months ago.

One more left to go….

I am a fan of Hong Kong radio. RTHK was the first internet radio I discovered years ago. Now it has an iPhone apps and you can listen to Hong Kong radio using Wifi. How cool is that? To install, go to your appStore and search for RTHK. The icon below would appear and just click install.

Whenever I am working from home, I would switch it on. Some of the DJ is really humorous. Humor does relieve me from a stressful workday.

One day, I saw a little stall selling DIY painting. I fell in love with it because of my itchy hand. I decided to buy a small one to see if I like it. I did the small one within 1 night. I went back again to get a mid size one.

The mid size one took me about a week. It is fairly easy to do. On the canvas, the image is numbered and in the painting package, the numbered paint is provided for you. You just have to paint according to the number. You do not need to use much water, in fact as little water as possible. It is suggested to paint one color by one color and top to bottom. For me, I paint the picture first because it motivates me to carry on.

Probably I will buy another set to do but the collection for mid size one is limited.

Property investment is booming in the Penang Island. There are a lot of investors who are into buying property. Last week, there was a new condo being launched and I heard that people will queue for 2 days. I am not sure if it is makeup publicity. I read in a property website that the developer may have paid someone to be in the queue and spread some rumors that the property is a hot cake. I am sure there are some naïve buyers who fall for those tricks. Don’t be one of them.

If you know the property market of the area, you will be wise to know where to invest. Currently there are so many condo units in Penang that are empty. All are waiting for buyers to own it. Many could not even rent it out but they have to keep paying loan and maintenance fees. At the end of the day, the developer is the one laughing to the bank.

Let’s not make Penang Island to be a place like Hong Kong where the property are too expensive for your future generation!

I really had a bad case of food poisoning I never had before. It happens the day I returned back from KL. I wasn’t sure it was the green curry or the fried oily noodle. I suspect it was both. I was feeling nausea the whole night. I woke up in the middle of the night, applied some oil on my stomach to get rid of the wind and then…..throw up.

Next morning I had fever so I slept. The day after was better but the headache cling on. After that, it was nausea all the way. Next few days, I felt my tummy has a lot of acid. I guess I may need to get those antacids to make me feel better.

The whole week has been horrible for me and yet my work is not helping. It is piling up! I am glad tomorrow is a holiday.

I am looking forward to the coming Chinese New Year festival. Yeah I will be going back to my mom’s place and enjoy her cooking! That is one thing I missed.

I have started to make Chinese New Year lanterns for decorating my home. I saw one post from my pool of bloggers blogging about it. It has some good tutorials in it. Here are my lanterns and below are instructions to make these lanterns. Have fun with it.

Tutorial Below:

My new notebook hard disk was giving me problem. Imagine every 10 minutes, the CPU will be heavily utilized and everything freezes for a minute. My IT tech support team asked me to do a self diagnosis on the hard disk. It failed! A few times, I get this error “cannot detect hard disk” when booting up.

Since the notebook is new, the IT support team will replace the hard disk for me. I didn’t like this because I need to spend time reinstalling all the applications again. It took me a whole day to do that when I switched over to the new notebook.

A friend told me that there is software that comes with the HP notebook that allows me to backup the data and applications as well. In order to do this efficiently, I moved all my data into an external hard drive. Then I start the backup process that includes all application, registry settings and left over data.

It took an hour to build the recovery image. If I didn’t move my 150G data over to my external hard drive, it will probably take a day. Moving data to my external hard disk was fast. After the replacement of my hard drive, I restored my image. It works beautifully and it took only an hour.

Instruction: Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Backup. A wizard will appear, select Advance Mode. Then just follow the screen for selection. Remember to select “backup everything on this computer”