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Mama and relatives from Kluang and China made a trip come down to KL on the Hari Raya Holiday.

As the Tour guide, my goal is to make sure they enjoy themselves in this trip.

When they arrive at my house, we had a nice dinner at the Hakka restuarant near by our house.( Most of us are Hakka )

At night, we have some games for everybody to play.

The next day, we went off to Genting Highland.

(Left) Statue of Mr. Lim Goh Tong( The founder of Genting Highland),  (Right) Clouds are everywhere.

Because of the public holiday, everywhere in Genting is full of people. We even getting to a place to have a proper meal is a big challenge. Luckily I was prepares… HAHA

3rd day, from Genting Highland, we passed by Batu Caves.

Batu Caves is the sacred place for the Hindu’s in Malaysia. They consist of three main caves and a number of smaller ones. The caves are made of limestone and 400 meters long and 100 meter high. They were discovered in 1892.

Next important destination that cannot be missed in Malaysia is Royal Selangor Pewter.

The moment you reach Royal Selangor Pewter, the tour guide in the factory shows us the process of making pewter, and they even offer courses in the factory to teach the tourist how to make their own pewter ( RM50 per class).

(Left) Malaysia - early money,  ( Right) Iron vessel for tin mining

The biggest Pewter beer mug according to the Guinness Book of Records.

Kuala Lumpur City Tour begins.

Twin Towers -the world’s tallest buildings from 1998 to 2004 if measured from the level of the main entrance to the structural top.

Istana Negara - King’s palace is the official residence of His Majesty, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia.

National Museum - interesting introduction to the history and culture of Malaysia

War Memorial - statue to celebrate a war or victory and to commemorate those who died or were injured in war.

Masjid Jamek - the oldest mosque in KL.

Old KTM Railway Station - this Moorish-style railway terminal was designed by the same architect for Masjid Jamek, A.B. Hubbock; in 1886.

Merdeka Square - the usual venue for the annual Hari Merdeka Parade (National Day Parade)

Beryl chocolate factory - Inside the factory, you can taste and buy all kinds of chocolate made in Malaysia.

We bought lots of these Tiramisu Almond White Chocolate. Taste great!

It’s a fun experience to show Mama, Ayi & Yizhang, Uncle Fanwen, Uncle Fanzhi, Rachael & Alex the City I live now. Because of their visiting, Me and Khai get the chance to learn and know more about KL. Hope you guys enjoy the trip! Heehee!!

This year’s birthday is very special to Khai, coz he is going to turn 30 years old next year! Wow, I cannot imagine myself turning 30, and neither does Khai! Haha!

Anywhere, this birthday is celebrated with lots of food and lots of enjoyment.

Khai insists to get his free Birthday Cake from Chilis.

My birthday present to Khai! — “STOP ANGRY COUPON” ~~ whenever Khai does nasty thing to me or makes me angry, he can use this coupon to calm me down, and I must forgive him immediately~ haha! ( written on Chilis receipt )

At night, we have a wonderful dinner with the family at THE SHIP, and Ma bake a nice chocolate cake for Khai!

Birthday wishes to Khai~ Good job dear! You manage to lose weight finally! Keep up the good job! And lose some more weight! Haha!

This September is a busy month! Lots of friends’ birthday and wedding fall on this month. Not only that, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also known as the Moon festival is around the corner as well.

On this festival, people might be thinking of the Story of Chang-Er, who took the elixir then fly to the Moon and the woodcutter Wu-Gang. Some may think of the 1st man who land on the moon-Neil Armstrong. I wonder would anybody think of the Werewolf… Haha!! But I personally think that, people would rather think of where to get a nice moon cake for this festival!

Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes habits, has a long history in China.  There are many different versions on the origin of moon cakes from Mid-Autumn Festival. The general version is: During the Tang dynasty, Emperor Tai, Li Shimin ordered his general Li Jing personally led his troops to crusade the North Turkic to put down their repeated violations. Li Jing triumphant return to  Capital on August 15. To celebrate the victory, they had a  great Carnival overnight in the Capital Chang-an. At that time, there was a Tibetan trader specially offer a round cake to the Emperor for the celebration party. Emperor Tai, Li Shimin was very glad, he took over the decoration of gorgeous cake box, took out a round cake, point to the sky and hoist to the moon said: “Hu cake should be invited toad (means this cake should be served to the moon).” Subsequently, a round cake was be distributed to the 100 Officers. Since then, eating moon cakes become the custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

I’m not a person who likes moon cake even though my face is like the moon.Haha!! But because of the competition of the market now, we can see all types of nice design moon cake coming out in this festival.

The filling of the traditional moon cake is made from lotus seed paste is surrounded by a relatively thin (2-3 mm) crust and may contain yolks from salted duck eggs.

Lets see some creative ideas from the Moon cake Sifu!!

These moon cake is come from the idea of Japan お菓子(okashi)

Cartoon character moon cake:

Chocolate moon cake:

At last, our Malaysian “Agak-agak” moon cake:

Few days ago, I had received a very meaningful email from my friend Kelly!

The Law of the Garbage Truck…..

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head
around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really friendly.

So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’ This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call ‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you. Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the street.

The bottom line is that successful people don’t let garbage trucks take over their day.

Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so…

‘Love the people who treat you right. Forgive the ones who don’t.’

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent
how you take it!

A Saturday afternoon, after the Karaok session in Sunway Pyramid, we(the Asia Online Mastery Gang) go “YAM CHA” at a donuts Cafe!

People are queuing up for the donuts! And just before we left, we saw this funny sign board! HAHA!!! Can you spot the joke in this picture???

My friend Hazel was telling me sale is going every where in Malaysia. But we don’t understand, why the model with this nice MEGA SALE shirt without wearing a pant?! And not only that, please looking carefully at the fingers!! Heehee

If you like the Movie -”Forrest Gump”, then you will definitely love this restaurant!

BUBBA GUMP SHRIMP CO has finally open in Malaysia. The 1st Branch is at The Street in The Curve.

Just for your information, BUBBA GUMP SHRIMP CO is a chain of seafood restaurants inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump. Launched in 1996 by Viacom Consumer Products (part of Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures, the distributor of Forrest Gump) and the Rusty Pelican Company, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. became the first theme restaurant inspired by a film. The restaurant is named after the movie’s main characters Benjamin Bufford “Bubba” Blue and Forrest Gump, who was inspired to go into the shrimping business by Bubba.

Khai and I first discovered this restaurant was on our registration for marriage anniversary day (07/07)! [P/S: there is many anniversary day, so I have to mention specifically, HAHA!!]

As you can see from the photos, the deco is just like what Bubba mentioned in the movie. This is his dream restaurant!

Look at what Khai is doing??!

The red “Stop Forrest Stop” sign is used to signal that a table needs service and the blue “Run Forrest Run” means that all is well. The ping-pong bat is the Dessert Menu.

We like these 2 dishes very much! Can you imagine Khai and I can finish all these?? haha

The 1st photo, it have 4 types of shrimps with chips. The cold shrimp are very fresh, all of shrimps in the plate taste great when you go with the special sauce.

The 2nd picture is my super favorite. Grill fish come with mash potatoes and shrimp. The nacho stick and the sauce is so Mexican!!! YUMMY

This restaurant has a great working culture. The staff were very polite and we will definitely come back many more times!

30 July, all of us received the news about our respected Teacher, Mr. Tan Hui Chong (陈徽崇老师) had left us.

This is not only a  greatest lost to our south Malaysia and also to the whole country.

I know Teacher Tan in high school (Foon Yew High School, JB). He is our school choir founder, and we sang many of his composition.

Teacher Tan is well-known musician, his life dedicated to music, cultural heritage, the local contribution to the development of music. He is also music composer of modern poetry, 24 seasonal drum original founder and Johor Dean of the School of Music and Art. Teacher Tan expediting 8 big performance associations in the school in his early years. He and his cultural friend Mr. Chen Zaifan established the first 24 seasonal drum team in the world in 1988 . In this, he was running the country teach the dark arts, not only to seasonal spread of the drum, also spread to Singapore, Taiwan and China and other places.

All the great thing he did as above, will always remember by all of us. But to me, personally I thanks him very much.

I remember when I just graduated from high school, I know I want to follow my passion and going to music line, so I started looking for University to further my music study. I set my goal to go to State, so I started to work and save money before I earn enough to pay the school fees. One day, I received a call from Teacher Tan, he told me about  1 of the choirs that he teaches urgently needed a pianist to play for them weekly, he was asking me whether I interested for this job. That time I haven’t got my car licence, no car to drive to that practice venue to work, so I told him about my problem. Few more days later, he managed to get a choir member to fetch me every week, and I started playing for them with a good salary. If I not mistaken, I serve in that choir for almost 3 years.

That was a great experience to me. The choir had been to many places to perform, I really learn a lot from them. All this, Thanks to Teacher Tan.

And I will never forget all the songs written by Teacher Tan. Especially this song -” The road to southern”  coz i have this honor to arrange the piano accompaniment for this song in Teacher Tan’s composition CD. It means a lot to me. All his composition will always sing by the art song performances and competitions. People will always remember all of them…… His music will forever play on in our hearts!

To Teacher Tan : Thanks for all the great things you did for Malaysian Chinese, coz you set the good example for us to follow. As a teacher myself now, you motivate me to push myself to be the best that I could.

2 months ago, Celine Tan from “THE EDGE–Personal Money” sent us an email, regarding an interview session with Khai.

He recently got approached because of his growing fame in cyberspace as a well respected Internet marketing writer and passive income business owner.

The interview has appeared in August. The content is talk about how to make passive income on cyberspace.

I still remember when we just got together 3 years ago. Khai was a salesman. And that time, he desired success so much, that told me that he wanted to buy me a grand piano by “Steinway and Sons” (The Ferrari of pianos).

Therefore, he join many opportunity talks. He has heard everything under the sun - from MLM to insurance, unit trust to money management, stock market to Forex and countless other ‘opportunity meetings’. We’ve even been to opportunity talks that people have never even heard of the industry - you name it, he’s got into it.

After we fell into many traps and lose thousands of dollars. It has gotten so bad that I had to support both of us through my piano teaching. He was so broke (much wiser but still broke) that when he told me that there was opportunities to make money on the Internet, I wanted to leave him because he was ‘up to one of those schemes again - like Ben Stiller in Night of the Museum).

Somehow, he convinced me that it was a worthwhile opportunity (again), and he borrowed RM100 from me to buy 2 books that teaches you how to make money online.

Fast Forward

The investment was worthwhile and the rest as they say, is history…

One and a half years later, he has turned from a broke salesman into 1 of the most sought after writers in Internet marketing and working at home fully. We get to watch movies anytime and go shopping any day, and now we live in our own house (moving out of his parent’s house).

Not only that, in figure wise….. Haahaa…..

Well, I can only say, I  proud of Him!

The scary and broke experience that we had in the past, will always motivate us to be a better person, better couple!

Thanks our parents! Thanks our friends that help us go through all this tough time!

We still have long way to go….. Praise the Lord!!!!

Yesterday night, Pa, Ma, Khai and me went for the first science fiction pop musical of Malaysia, which is sponsor by Honda at the Plenary Hall KLCC.

The story:

The year is 2035, and the accidental release of an electromagnetic charge from the earth’s core has wiped out everyone’s memory instantaneously.
The only survivor of this catastrophic accident is Moon, who decides it is her destiny to return to people their past, through the collection of evidence.
But then Moon’s right hand man, Kingsley, decides to form a New World by implanting new memories into people. He figures memories are unwanted baggage – so why inject years of misery, heartbreaks and disappointments into life when we can choose to start anew?

This is how I feel…….

The moral of the story– There is no perfect world or perfect life, is what you make out of it that counts. Most of the songs in the show based on familiar song and the actresses have great voices. Capoeira dance is widely use in the show. The props and costume is kind of boring, maybe is because low budget, but still acceptable. It is really a rojak show, mix all Malaysian dialect in the show, and most of the funny thing using Cantonese, I bet 50% of the audience don’t understand the jokes. But still, it is a good try! keep it up, Malaysian!

Two days ago, Melvin and Steve held a seminar on blogging, at the Crystal
Crown Hotel. We were so excited because Khai gave his testimony in the
seminar. We shared with the participants our experiences on how we actually
make money online. But something scary happened on our way home that night
after the seminar.

It was right before midnight, somewhere near our house……We stopped at a
traffic light, waiting for it to turn green. All of a sudden, we saw this
car "flying" towards us. In that split second, we knew we were sitting ducks
because our car was stationary. There was no time to react, no time to
scream or brace ourselves for the impact……..BAM! BAM! BAM! Well, since you
are reading this, you know we survived.

But right after impact, you cannot imagine our shock. We were too paralyzed
with fear and awe. Speechless and amazed that we survive this nightmare of
an accident with only minor injuries.

Thank God for miracles…. Amen.