Hong Kong Disneyland is divided into 4 main sections: Main Street, USA, Adventureland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland.

You can visit the website for the daily schedule of the events, parade and fireworks. It changes from time to time. You can also get a schedule at the ticket counter. When I went there, the parade was at 3:30pm and fireworks were at 7pm. Park hours are from 10am – 7pm.

If you stayed in any of the hotels in Disneyland, you can get 2 days park ticket for the price of 1. You can also purchase Annual park ticket to get about 30% discounts on hotel rates on weekdays.

Last tip, never get those over priced big balloons. Even if you have to get it, purchase it at the end of the day. You do not want to carry it around and you may not take it with you at certain rides. You cannot bring it on any aircraft too unless you deflate it.

Main Street USA
Hong Kong Disneyland Railroad – A train ride that will bring you round Disneyland. You can get an overview of the entire Disneyland. It will make a stop at Fantasyland. I found that the queue in Fantasyland is shorter than the Main Street. You can ride as many times as you like.

Main Street Vehicle – It is a double-decker mini bus where you can cruise up and down Main Street with it.

Shopping area – Most of the souvenirs shops are at the Main Street. You can get glass with a cartoon character and craft your name on it.

Adventure Land
Shows: Festival of the Lion King – You must watch this. It is a superb musical performance of the story of Lion King. Great singing, dancing and filled with action.

Rafts to Tarzan’s Treehouse – You can ride the raft to cross the river to Tarzan Treehouse. There is quite a queue to ride the raft.

Tarzan Treehouse – Climb up on top of the Tarzan Treehouse to get a good view. There are interactive musical instrument that you can experiment with. Of coz you need to ride the raft to get back across.

Jungle River Cruise – Cruise around the river and discovered many surprises. You may get wet or burned in this ride. Watch out for the long queue. There are 2 queues, one in English and one in Cantonese. I found that the English queue was shorter. Must ride.

Tomorrowland
Show: Stitch Encounter – An interactive show with Stitch. We went twice because my gal wanted Stitch to ask her name. Both times she was disappointed. You will be asked to help Stitch to escape. It is very fun. Not much of a queue but it is a great experience.

Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters – An arcade type of ride where you are given laser guns to shoot at target points as you ride around. You can even adjust your seating to twirl around. At the end, you can check out your scores. It is a very exciting ride and I almost reach ranking L4. We went a couple of times as there was no queue.

Autopia – Electronic cars ride that you can stir on the track. Even my four year old can drive, how cool is that. Watch out for the queue. We have to wait 20 mins.

Space Mountain – A high speed ride like a roller coaster. Minimum height must be above 102cm. Not for folks with heart conditions.

Orbitron – A flying saucer ride where you can adjust your height as you go in circle.

UFO Zone – Water play to cool off. Good for younger children. Beware of getting wet.

Fantasyland
Show: The Golden Mickeys – The show was alright with cartoon characters dancing.

Show: Mickey’s PhilharMagic – 3D show that you must see. It is a magical journey. Try catching the jewels and food with your hand. Watch out for water spray too and flying Donald!

It’s A Small World – This is my favorite ride and it is new! You can see many culture, costume and colors. It is very well design. Must ride. Beside the beautiful dancing dolls, you can smell the nice fragrant too. The only part I didn’t like was, it is a long walk from the entrance to the ride. There is no short cut, bad design. I think I made 7 to 8 turns.

Dumbo, the flying elephant – Similar to Orbitron where you ride on a flying elephant.

Cinderella Carousel – Merry go round

Fantasyland Train Station – You can hop on to the train to go around Disneyland.

Sleeping Beauty Castle – Here is where you take beautiful shots of the castle and where the firework display is. Try to get a good spot away from the castle for nice shots of the fireworks.

Fantasy Garden – Photo taking with your favorite Disney cartoon. We got hold of Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy, Winnie The Pooh but missing Donald. Where is Donald?

Mad Hatter Tea Cups – Riding on a cup and going in circles. You can twirl around faster by turning the table. I would suggest that you do not get up and walk immediately. You may fall down after the turning.

The Many adventure of Winnie the Pooh – A journey to help Pooh find honey. Children adore this ride. Remember to smile as you approach the mirror as Winnie will take a picture of you. The picture will be display at the exit where you can order.

Here are some videos on the fantastic time I have in Hong Kong Disneyland. Hope you enjoy it too!

Today I wanted to bank in a US cheque from my stock broker. I went to CIMB bank. Usually I will go to my branch to bank in the cheque. This time I went into a branch nearest to where I was. Guess what?

The bank officer told me that I have to bank in the US cheque in my own branch. *shake head* I asked her if my branch is in another state, I have to go back to the state just to deposit a cheque. She said she cannot comment. No choice I went back to my branch and deposit my cheque.

What an absurd policy? A policy that gives their customers nothing but inconvenience. I don’t see why they cannot integrate within branches of their bank. I am so disappointed with local banks.

I just upgraded my iPhone firmware from 2.0 to 2.1 My friend sent me a link from iClarified and instructions were clear. The only mistake I made was I didn’t upgrade my iTunes before doing the upgrade. Result, my latest backup didn’t work. Sigh.

Thank goodness I have a July backup. However some of the photos, SMS and notes I took vanished.

The reason I wanted to hop on to 2.1 is because it is more stable and I wanted some applications that is on 2.1. Hey 2.1 also come with a installer.app

The best part I can have transformer theme and other cute themes.

In order to install these themes, I need to download the themes from www.spaziocellulare.com. It has the most collection of themes. You also need to install WinterBoard from Cydia, the other installer. Lastly you ftp the themes into iPhone using WinSCP.

What do you do when a “smart” engineer come to you and tell you this? In order to promote cost savings, we need to use 4 leased lines for network connectivity instead of 8 leased lines. 2 PCs will share 1 leased line. Ooh he wanted to plug 2 PCs into 1 LAN port.

First of all, it is not leased line but LAN line. Second of all, he doesn’t know that a network switch can connect all PCs together. Thirdly one lease line cost more than RM20K per year.

He has no clue what he was talking about and yet he comes to bother me with his bright ideas of cost savings. I was too busy with 101 things and didn’t bother to explain to him. I forwarded him to his network team. By the way, he is not even from my company but my supplier.

I wonder did it occur to him to understand the network concept or jargons before making any cost saving suggestions. It will really look silly on him.

Another thing that is annoying to me is when someone call you on the phone, he/she said “Who is this?” or “Where is this?”

Life is full of strange people.

Today I got another free new notebook to play with. It is the Compaq 6910P. It has a 14.1 inch monitor and weighs 2.3kg. As opposed to my current working notebook which is lightweight 1.3kg. Should I switch? I kind of like the touch screen for volume scroll, volume mute, wireless button and presentation button. However I find that the volume scroll is not that sensitive.

Overall the screen is huge and good for watching DVD. There’s a fingerprint reader for biometric security and it offers a TPM integrated security chip, so does my notebook. It is fairly quiet too.

The specs as below:
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.00GHz
• OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Business
• Hard Drive: 120 GB SATA @ 5400RPM
• RAM: 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 1GB)
• Screen: 14.1″ WXGA Widescreen (1280 x 800) (WXGA+ option available)
• Graphics: Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics
• Optical Drive: DVD SuperMulti drive (DVD+/-RW) w/Double Layer Support
• Wireless: Intel PRO / Wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n
• Optional WWAN: Integrated HP ev2200 1xEV-DO Wireless Module
• Security: Fingerprint reader, TPM hardware-based encryption
• Weight: 5.2 lbs
• Dimensions: 13″ (Width) x 9.4″ (Depth) x 1.1″ (Height)
• Battery: 6-cell lithium ion, 55WHr
• Ports/Slots: docking connector; 1 IEEE 1394 (FireWire); 3 Universal Serial Bus (USB 2.0); VGA monitor out; S-video out; RJ-45 Ethernet LAN; RJ-11 modem; Type I/II PC Card Slot; SmartCard; SD card reader; headphone/speaker jack; microphone
• Warranty: 3 year parts and labor

Anyway, I have to carry 1 extra kg every day, forget it. I will not switch. The thought me setting up a new notebook and configuring every applications give me nightmare. I will just give it to my project manager, not sure when he/she will be on board. Funny, the notebook arrived first before my new hire.

I received a call from a strange guy professing that he is from Nationwide Express courier service. He called me asking for my address. Now if he is from a courier service, how come he does not have my address? Fraud?

Of course I didn’t give him my address but instead I asked him for the company name, parcel ref no and the sender. He said he called me back. Second time he called, asking for my address again. Again I asked him for the details. However this time, he had my address but wrong street number. However I still want the details.

Finally he gave me all the details. I really don’t know what kind of courier company who call the receiver for address?

Beware of phone phishing but the above is a genuine caller from the NE courier service. We have to investigate every call because there are cons out there!

Last year I cancelled my supplementary UOB credit card because I have no use for it and it cost RM30 for admin fee. When they gave it to me, it was free. Somehow along the years, they added the RM30 policy but didn’t bother to inform the customer.

Anyway, to avoid any nightmares, I cancelled it. After I cancel it, it was deleted from the online system. Everything was fine until this year, it appeared again on my online system. Initially I wasn’t aware of it when I called the credit card helpline for another issue, they asked me whether I had any supplementary. I said no and she said yes. Hrmm…I told her I cancelled it last year.

What made me really frustrated was the officer asked me to submit another cancellation form? I told her no and why should I? I already did 1 year ago. I am not going to submit any documentation every year to cancel the stupid card. They told me that they didn’t receive my cancellation form. I bet they must have lost it.

I heard so many cases of bank making it difficult for customer to cancel the credit card. It is so unprofessional of them. Next time, I will charge them admin fee for asking me to submit a cancellation form. What should I charged? RM30 for 1 cancellation form.

Next time you sign up for a credit card, ensure the bank provide a easy way to cancel the card!

After the big sad tragic incident on China milk powder that contain the chemical substance of melamine that cause many children in China sick, now everyone is very concern about their food intake. I am very worried because I heard more products now contain melamine that is harmful to us. How can the food company be so irresponsible and not have the food tested for toxic substances? Even as we speak, there are biscuits that are not melamine free. Worst is government just ban the foods produce but not close down the company.

I went to the fsq.moh.gov.my and downloaded the spreadsheet which has a list of products that has melamine that is over the acceptable level. In another words, these product can make you sick or put stone in your kidney.

Here are they, please don’t buy any of these foods. By the way, there is another list in fsq.moh.gov.my that has food list :
http://fsq.moh.gov.my/uploads/produkmematuhi251008.pdf,
that is not melamine free but on an acceptable level. Whatever level, I do not want to eat food with melamine in it. I hope government will enforce the food company to label the melamine ingredient in all products.

Ego White Rabbit Creamy Candy 135 ppm	Vigour 888 Filling Roll 4.71 ppm	Taro Biscuits (Bairong) 75 ppm	Biskut Creamy Chocolate (Dikilangkan oleh Khian Guan 3.66 ppm
Biskut Lemon Pof 3.7 ppm	Biskut Square Puff 4.36 ppm	Biskut Cocoa Puff 4.91 ppm	Biskut Jagung Puff 6.46 ppm
Potato Cracker 17 ppm	Biskut Ais Jem 3.33 ppm	Biskut Marie Besar 6.64 ppm	Biskut Campuran 7.99 ppm
Biskut Family Crackers 7.6 ppm	Tasty Cracker 2.57 ppm	Biskut ABC 12.6 ppm	Zoological Biscuit 5.16 ppm
Supercrown Cracker 9.11 ppm	Healthy Puff 8.85 ppm	Biskut Sandwich Oren 5.05 ppm	Biskut Mini Puff 22 ppm

*Note :
Action Level
• Makanan Bayi / Baby Food : 1.00 ppm
• Makanan Lain / Other Food : 2.5 ppm
ppm= parts per million (mg/kg)

Stay away from the food above!

I always wanted to add favicon onto my blog URL but never had the time to do so. I procrastinated until I saw a very nice icon while surfing. I decided to add it.

Favicon is the little icon that appears in front of the URL on the browser address box. It also appears in the bookmark if you save it. It works very well with firefox as for IE, it takes an extra step for it to appear onto the browser.

How do you add this favicon. It is very simple and here is how:
1. Surf the internet for a nice favicon. You can use Google to search by typing “favicon gallery”.
2. Save the favicon into your PC folder as favicon.ico
3. Go to cpanel of your domain and upload the favicon.com in the main directory of your site. Example if my blog is www.parkbay.net , then the main directory is /www/
4. Also upload into your blog theme folder.
5. Go to your wordpress admin page under Presentation -> Theme Editor, look for the header file. Click the header file and add the code below before and save

For firefox, you just have to refresh your page to see it appear in the address box.

For IE, you need to clear the cache and add your page as a bookmark. It will then appear.

Happy trying!

Today I am so very happy. I got my blood test back and guess what. You gals are gonna kill me for this. All normal and my cholesterol level dropped from 3.7 to 3.4. The desirable level is below 5.2. My doctor said that I can have a few more packs of Nasi Lemak.

Anyway, it was a long awaited blood test and I tell you why. I have to do the blood test every year to monitor my thyroid hormones. The doc will throw in the entire blood test package instead of doing just the boring thyroid hormones. After all it is free for me.

On 3rd of Oct, I was happily shopping in Ikea and suddenly a SMS came telling me that I have a doc’s appointment. Oh no, I totally forgot about it. Anyway, I reschedule the appointment. However when I go back to Penang, my menses came. I tried not to have my blood draw during my menses so I postponed it again to another week.

Third week came and both my children were sick with high fever. Bumma, if I was superstitious I might have thought that the blood test is a jinx. I caught a fever bug too.

Finally fourth week, I called up the doc’s clinic to check whether I can see him. He may have surgeries in the morning. I got a spot and I went. I took my blood test and he called me in the afternoon to tell me the results, everything looks good.

My records of Cholesterol Level:
1996 2.4
2000 3.7
2006 3.7
2007 3.7
2008 3.4 (Gain 4 kg in weight too)

I strongly believe that genetic has something to do with having low cholesterol level. 😛 I will definately celebrate this good results with my family.