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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:

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

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.

Dee is 1 of the nicest guy i met in Khai international IM group of friends!

This funny, caring & wealthy brother always makes people around him feel happy and tomorrow we are supposed to be in his important party, but something blessed happened, God has better plan for him! Praise the Lord!

We are quite busy these few months, won’t be able to fly to Jakarta to celebrate with you!

But don’t worry, we won’t leave you alone just like this!

This is our present for you! Enjoy the nite! This girl is better than the original 1 that you should have! I’m so bad rite??? Heehee!!!

I love my friend Song very much! Because I love her so much, me and Khai always wonder why such a sweet girl like her is still single. So, beside my housework and piano teaching, beside Khai’s IM work, our biggest interest is to match make our friends. And this sweet girl understands how much we care about her, she never said "NO" to us before.

As usual, Song starts to hang with our circle of friends more and more. And I always though that one day she will find her Mr.Right  through all this gathering that me and Khai "specially arrange" for her. But I never though that day came so fast, SHE IS SINGLE NO MORE!  I’m so happy for her, but too bad, her boyfriend is a stranger to me. I felt sorry to my guy friends, because SONG IS SINGLE NO MORE! What should they do ???? Haizzzzz

Our "Song’s Mission" was never accomplished and because of this, first, we need to know this "stranger" in person, and check him out!! So we have a German grub together with Song’s boyfriend,Ricky, at Bavarian Bierhaus.

Ric & Song…….. In Love……..

Our goose pimples would stand up just by looking at them…….

P/S to Ric,

Don’t be deceived by her size,

actually Song has a big appetite!

Heehee!!

The biggest challenge that I have in my marriage life is cooking.

This is my very 1st home-cooking, quite terrible rite??? I know!

Things get better this time!  HeeHee!!

Eating out in Malaysia is so convenient & so cheap. When come to friends gathering, we can hang out in mamak, kopitiam, even fancy restaurant…. So people hardly cook at home, including us! The other reason is my cooking skill was so "good" that even the mouse only dare to stare at it, not dare to eat! haha!

Since Khai was sick, Song and I decide to cook at home. Even though there is no much ingredient in my small little kitchen, but still, we manage to make a simple and tasty spaghetti for this Saturday night.

After finished the dinner, we chilled at home, and played our latest boardgame. Even though the food might not taste as good as the restaurant, but we really enjoyed that moment. heehee!

More Detail about my dear friend - Song

hei Khai, do you think I have the potential to be a good copywriter as well? HeeHee

Khai was sick for 1 whole week. Poor him, poor me…. When he was sick, I became very very busy. I’ve try my very best to make him feel comfortable. I fed him, I entertained him, even flush water after he used the toilet bowl for him. So my dear friends, please pray hard for his recovery!

A cool towel on his forehead, a funny comic, and Piglet by his side!

*piglet* - we "adopted her" from Penang Gurney Plaza theme park by Rm4. She is 1 of our bed mates!

During the last weekend, our resident association ( BU 7 & 10 ) held a carnival at one of the parks around our ‘Taman’. The purpose of this carnival is to raise funds for the MAA kidney charity fund. It was quite a noble event so we decided to eat our lunch and have some fun!

Most of the resident here were really supportive and they showed up to donate their money for this event. My mother-in-law, Deborah and her dancing friends gave a helping hand and helped to prepare an assortment of food and drinks to sell at the stores. Some even went as far as to outsource hawkers and even Domino Pizza, as well as contribute their own home made dishes.

Khai were strolling around the park looking at some of the games. Most of the games looked very easy on the surface but in actual fact, posed quite a challenge for Khai, even though he had been playing games all his life. He came across a number of challenges, but because of charity, we didn’t mind spending a lot of money on the games. Thankfully he won me a lollypop as a consolation prize! Thanks, dear!

Khai also bought me a new toy during the past week. The name of the toy is called My Melody, a close comrade of Hello Kitty. My Melody is my most favorite toy of all time. I’ve been playing with it since I was very young and I have an abundance of stickers, posters and little imitations of My Melody. In Malaysia, we came across a lot of imitations. Some of them do not even look remotely close to what My Melody actually looks like. But Khai finally found an original version of the toy. The toy cost RM140 - which is more than Khai’s car maintenance!

So why did Khai spend so much money on the toy? I guess he really wanted some burgers in return, and stop me to control his diet…

Have you ever been to zoo negara?

Few months ago, Rachel and I had a sudden urge to visit Zoo Negara. When Khai and Alex heard that, they were shocked and refused to participate in our trip. Unfortunately they couldn’t say no to their lovely wives and so we managed to begin our little zoo adventure.

Zoo Negara is in Setapak. You can see the road sign along the way from Jalan Ampang.

To enter the zoo, you will have to pay RM 15 per person.

Here are some pictures we had taken during our little adventure.

It’s quite nice experience. If you don’t feel like walking under the hot sun, you can take the zoo train. They will take you around the zoo and stop at all the important locations.

So if you have the chance next time, make sure you go to zoo negara!