Sunday, August 31, 2008

Merdeka..., Merdeka....., Merdeka.....

Our Merdeka celebration for Penang state previously used to be at Explanate town hall. This year's has changed location to a more in venue @ Queensbay with new Chief Minister. Initially wanted to join in the counting down celebration, but the traffic entering to Queensbay Mall was real jammed at 11.30pm yesterday nite. It is not far from my place, around 8km away.

So, might as well go home and have a good nite sleep rather than stucked in the middle of the traffic going nowhere. Our new Chief Minister YAB Lim Guan Eng was joining the crowd for the midnite celebration.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Stewed Potato Chicken Recipe

If you want to try a new recipe for tonight's dinner, here's one:- my Stewed Potato Chicken


I'm not good in cooking potato as Westerner do. However, after cracking head searching hi and low for things to cook, finally came out with this dish which I'm quite happy because I'm pretty creative though, LOL........

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Which part of fish do you eat?

Can you notice which part of the fish is missing???
I just noticed this weird eating habits of my sons, yes both of them Ryan and Russell who hunt the fish tails or the most crispy part mainly. Before you know it, all the tails are gone minutes from wok. Not even able to keep for dinner.
This really surprise me!

Rural Kids

Have you ever wonder what I am doing with my kids at home?

a picture tells a thousand words, take a look...


They are learning from the nature, the environment around. My kids and myself both enjoy the process. I called it quality activity & quality time to spend with them. They ain't afraid of dirt and animals. They start to love the mother nature with greener living.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

A Trip Back to Hometown

Yesterday was a tiring but meaningful trip back to hubby's hometown - Ipoh, Perak.
We were back to celebrate an aunt's 70 year-old birthday dinner.

The whole birthday plan was a surprise to her as 1 of the aunt and her family who purposely flew from London back to Ipoh just to gave her an unexpected meeting with other family members inclusive us from Penang.

I'm waiting for them to send me a few photos of the dinner and posted it here. Let's see...

Monday, August 18, 2008

Penang's Resort Apartments

Now is vacation seasons again while kids enjoying their week long school holidays.

When I want to visit to places, I usually will encounter problem with resorts and hotels that not easy to be found from hotels agents. Here's one that I can recommend you to go to in case you need one in Penang Island.

It is a resort apartments with very affordable rate which start from RM88/nite. I've been there for many times =D Sri Sayang is one of my choice.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Complaints, complaints and complaints...

I'm seeking for the depth in life. Like an iceberg, 30% visible, another 70% is hidden. Ours seems the other way round. hmm... I don't know how many of you have the same feeling like mine. There are the missing parts that I'm soul searching.

Izzit enough having a 9-5 full time job which after work go back home and rot at home watch tv. This is the lifestyle that many seems have in so called damn passive society. If I have that kind of freedom, I would attend sewing classes, learn cake baking, do volunteering work, teaching the slow learners & many more that I wish I have the time to catch up with.

ok... ok... hopefully my websites sell and get the $$$ to finance my not-for-profits future projects.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

The Arrogant Rich

I have an unpleasant experience with the rich. They are a manufacturer of paper stuff. I have a few purchase with them which they promised would accept cheque payment in the subsequent purchase, not post dated cheque horrr... cheque with the date of your purchase lerr!

One day, I returned to the shop and place my order. They tell me upfront this: "We only accept CASH money". huh... after i drive 40minutes under the real hot sun at 3pm to arrive to their storefront, just could just throw me this words without a second thought. they think I got nothing else to do as i'm begging them for giving me a living.. Since then, I stop selling their products and not a single item of them is in my store. I would never consider selling them again!!!

Since then, I'm not going to be lenient with the rich. Some really do not reserved our respect. Partner with people that what to grow with us, not the already successful one. Just not worth to help them promoting their products.

Our intellectual property will outgrow their manufacturing capability. it will.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Someday as Business Consultant

as I was reading articles on entrepreneurship, I have something in my mind that maybe 1 day I can consider doing - be a business consultant not only by theory, but with realistic experiences and I'm still experimenting it : P

I can say that doing business nowadays is like You Gotto Pleased Everybody, But No One Pleased You! piss off right?! Yes, this is the real thing in business.. The market now is terribly competitive. You need to multitask - do admin work, accounting work, be a despatch, the manager that basically cover mountain, cover sea and cover 'sh_ _'. Hopefully this will not last long to convert me into a more happy person ^_^

No 'shiok' wat if no challenges. Purposely make life more difficult one me.....

Poh Piah Skin

Don't know how many of you like Poh Piah, but I missed it very much and I purposely drive to downtown Georgetown old market to get some of this. Let me prepare it in these few day and show you how it look like with my new recipes =D

This month is Chinese Ghost month. As a family member of typical old practice, we still prepare and cook a lot of food & dishes as offering to the ancestor and good buddies especially on the 15th of 7th Month. So, no harm to cook more and pray more, and get blesss more....

cheers.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Tips to Nurture Young Reader

As you know that I home-school my children, 1st 4yo and 2nd 3yo. When I went to hypermart to top-up my kitchen stuff fortnightly, I would buy them at least a story book to spice up their reading at bookstore nearby.

When they get the new book, they will be able to read the whole book at one go. hehee... that's why cannot buy many at the same time, otherwise they will lose interest in them. As nearby my place here do not have a public library, the only choice is to buy yourself. There's a Children Library in town about 40min away from my house. With the petrol price hike, it would be more costly to borrow a book from library than owning one.

How good if there are friends with the passion to teach and instill reading interest to initiate this programme together and benefits other children around here. Generally, we need to encourage reading habits among children more often than go shoppings =D

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Typical Wet Market





















These are the common sight at Air Itam morning market. Typical wet market in Penang which its style still in 1980's, plus more busier nowadays. Traffic definitely moving slow when passing through this area.

Those time when my granfather was still around and able to drive, he frequently brought me to this market. That's why I still have fresh memory about this place. Although it is quite a distance from where I stay, occasionally I still visited to this market because there are a lot of fresh and rare to get green that the local home-grown.

I bought fresh 20 chicken eggs that the seller claimed to be are village chicken egg 'ayam kampung' as my family loves half boiled eggs for breakfast. It costs 40sen per piece. When I prepare this, I found out that it is not as claimed to be. As for village chicken's egg, the egg yolk supposed to be in deep orange colour instead of yellow colour yolk from commercial breed chicken, and the size usually the smallest size of commercialised chicken eggs. No issue with the size. That means I end up paying almost double for a piece of egg that normally cost only around 20sen. hmmm.....

Sunday, August 3, 2008

What life would be without bloggggge......

when I'm tired of working at computer, I read other's blog;
when I'm boring, I turned to blog;
when something strike my mine, I blog;

to me, 'blog' no matter you blog or read blog is like writing and watching TVB drama series - very exciting hor especially 'looking at' people's life. let me tell ya - life is not that excited when you're at the curve. you will be waking up in the middle of the nite at 3am dunno what should do and what can be done.....

each day, just pray for strength.

Blogger siao liao

After experiencing slow internet connection for the past days, and this happening is getting frequent... another problem just appeared - tok hindi wor blogger! scared me off really. I'm a newbie la wei, may not be able to fix all this sudden hassles in effective manner. if for other, maybe little or no problem at all, for me, maybe 1 day or 2 or need expert again. haiya......