Penang 1st I-Dance Street Dancing

It will be held for the first time in Penang. Below is the details if you are interested to join us ^_^

Preliminary event:
Date: 20th Dec 2008
Time: 7pm-10pm
Venue: New World Park, Georgetown, Penang.

Finals event:
Date: 27th Dec 2008
Time: 7pm-10pm
Venue: Queensbay Mall, Bayan Lepas, Penang.

Dance Jamboree
Date: 28th Dec 2008
Time: 7pm-10pm
Venue: New World Park, Georgetown, Penang.

To register, please log-on to www.pssdc2008.blogspot.com or click here for the link.

What's in travellers pack

The TSA (Transport Security Administration) website has a list of permitted and prohibited items on the airplane; www.cbp.gov provides advice for international travellers; and
www.dhs.gov/xtrvlsec says it all: "Know Before You Go."

So, do a little homework before setting off on your dream trip.

Parenting is a Big Thing

Lately I have a strong urge to instill the sense of respect and filial piety to our young generation which totally lack of in today's modern living.

Young one can say bad about adults, and the adult never bother or intend to correct what has been said by those of younger. What the hell is this? I witnessed this myself when I was having coffee chat with group of friends.

The parent P came along with her daughter D. As we (adults) were talking, this 19year-old young lady interferes with her so-called 'thought' and gave unending of comments on parents. Furthermore, her parent seems agree and feel proud of what her daughter's lecture to the rest of us.

It make me reminisce during my time as a young lady at D's age, my parents don't even allowed me to interfere a single word in adult's conversation. Whenever there is guess in my house, as a young daughter, automatically my duty is to go to the kitchen and prepare drink (usually hot MILO) to serve to our guess. Once the drink is served on the living room's table, then get lost. My mother don't even allowed us to listen to their conversation, don't mention you want to interfere in their talk. We will get a serious lesson if being disobedient.

I can't deny that I was brought up from a strict and traditional type of family. Maybe because of that, I'm now a better person that still beholding the respect and filial piety values a lot. Looking at the people around me be it at my age, older or younger, gone are the days when parents were treated with utmost respect and held in high regard as the patriarch or matriarch in the family. Furthermore, off the school, the students are condemning teacher backed by their parents. At home, they don't even taught of, will these youngster learn moral values from the teacher at school?

What is happening to parents? Their duty is not end just after child-birth. Parenting is a big thing that it's not enough just to feed their young one. We got to nurture moral value, instill discipline, teach them how to respect and to equip them with right living skills to be a better person. It is an important role to play in shaping our tomorrow's leader.

Leadership At Stake

Our people in the organization and myself occasionally socialize with friends and groups in the IT industry as well as educational functions.

I noticed that there are tonnes of the so-called Leader that their leadership comes only from the position they are holding in an organization. This can't proof me wrong any further when I just met one 2 days ago.

More often that not, these leaders does not portray an identical leadership style to lead. Yet they want people to fully follow and listen to them not even allowed their group members to speak out. I'm a person who speak my mind and thought, do you think I will fully listen??? I don't even able to find a reason why people need to follow and listen!!

Let me tell you la.... a true leader that could make me 'tabik' from heart and mouth one are:-
1) He is able to make sacrifices for his people; a selfless self,
2) He has an identical leadership style that different from the others;
3) He is a forgiving person to his people; meaning to say he don't keep things in heart.

More often than not, ladies leaders are lacking of these traits that make them less a leader.

Don't be a Bargain Hunter

I read with horror an article on "Black Friday". This also reminded me of a Chinese Medicine practitioner whom I used to frequented his medicine shop. I still go to his shop...

We used to called him "uncle King Kong". One day, as usual I visited to his shop to seek for some medical advise on my kids' petty health issue. He was not in at that moment. Out of curiosity, I asked his wife who attended to me by saying: "where is uncle King Kong, is he in?"
His wife: "He is not in."
I said again: "He went out for wedding dinner is it?" To me, when he is not in, that means only dinner invitation that will make him leaves his shophouse. Then,
the wife said again: "You didn't know?"
I said: "Know what?"
The wife told his daughter: "Girl, you tell aunty where is papa"...
The daughter: "He was dead."
The wife: "That was exactly 1-month ago."....

I could not believed what I heard. Once reached home, I burst into tears when I relate the incident to my husband. This uncle was a indirect victim of holiday-bargain-hunter. He died of heart attack when the car that he and his family were traveled in was caught in a 1hr massive traffic jam under the hot sun nearby a brandnew shopping mall during our National Day celebration holiday on 31Aug.

His wife advice me this:
It's better not to go to shopping complexes in crowded seasons!

It is just Not Worthwhile to cause a loss of a precious life in spite of a few bucks saved.

Early enrolment to Kindergarten 1

My computer savvy son Ryan will attend to his new school on Monday 01Dec. This 1 month holiday program is for the new comer to get themselves adapt to the new school environment as well as the teacher. So, I dare not expect much and just hope that he will not cry and be good at school so as not to make me worry.

From previous experiences, he tends to have stronger separation anxiety than his other peers. hmm... until now, I still can't find a solution to this problem.

Tree Planting Campaign

Matthias invited you to "North Selangor peat swamp forest reserve Tree Planting" on Saturday, December 13 at 9:00am.

Matthias says, "Hi Friends - please come along to our tree planting event and/or invite your friends that are based in Malaysia. Please join as well our Eco Warrior Malaysia group to get future invites to events that are focussed on us protecting our environment".

Event: North Selangor peat swamp forest reserve Tree Planting
"Action Time for Eco Warriors - let's plant trees !"
What: Club/Group Meeting
Host: Eco Warriors Malaysia
Start Time: Saturday, December 13 at 9:00am
End Time: Saturday, December 13 at 12:00pm
Where: North Selangor Peat Swamp Forest (NSPSF)

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=36315182195

Choices of Kindergarten

A few friends of mine keep asking what are the choices of pre-school which I might send my kids to? Well, most of the pre-school more or less are the same. However, I personally feel that teacher's quality is a important factor which we should seriously consider in a preschool.

Ideally, Kiddy House is my top choice at the moment. but, it's quite a distance from my home which needs to travel for 20min by car for 1 way journey. Whereas, De'Monte just set up a franchise school nearby my house which is only 5min. away. which 1 should I choose lerr?

Cake Baking - Marble Cake Secret Recipe

How many of you like butter cake? Well, a neighbor of mine and my family members all are butter cake fans. Occasionally I would bake some for them. hah, speaking of that, I think I might practice to bake more cakes then can be given away as Christmas gift horr...If you wish to try out my recipe for butter cake, here's the link - Oshi Marble Cake.

Free WiFi at Penang

Penang/Kulim free WiFi service initiated by Penang state government is up and running….

visit http://www.mybroadband.gov.my to register a new account for free, then you can use the internet service at those designated places in Penang

The list of places that provide free WI-FI service are stated on www.mybroadband.gov.my