Money No Enough 2

Ten years had passed since the movie Money No Enough was released. I enjoyed that show very much and am so glad to know that Money No Enough 2 will be released sometime in middle part of this year.

I'm sure this is a good time since costs have been escalating and it is true that Money is really not enough. I worry about how people are now so concern over this issue that lots of negative influence might spur people to make quick buck too. Crime rate is already increasing. If costs go up further, some petty thefts might even be pushed to do more worst things. There are some who just need money to put food on the table.

At the same time, here is a little YouTube reminder ad collaborating Money No Enough 2 and public service ad for you to enjoy.

Compatibility Signs

Most of my friends are on Facebook. It is easy to get carried away and add the applications, poke, bite, challenge and fight each other. Besides that I am also a sucker for astrology and the like. I enjoy reading my own horoscope as well as those of my family and friends too. Sometimes it takes a little push from the the horoscope advice or reading between the lines to kick start my day. When it is a good read, it makes me happy.



Try out the new application Biotrend - Facebook Horoscope that helps you get in tune with your Rhythms, Emotional state and more. It is interesting. You also get to see the compatible friends who are in Facebook too.

Any More Good Hainanese Food in Penang?

Penang used to have it's good chefs that were Hainanese. Not that they cooked Hainanese food only, their Western meals were absolutely delicious. They have always been very good chefs, no doubt and many of them are men, and the husbands in most Hainanese cooks and sews too. My aunt and her husband is a very good example. He can cook a mean curry as well as sew clothes better than my aunt.

When I was younger, we used to patronized Loke Thye Kee (not sure if these are the actual spellings) for dinner meals and gatherings like birthdays. It was the place to go and we'd be sitting on the roof top part that is open ala Al-fresco. Life was much simpler then and it was very nice to sit and dine. The popular dishes were usually the Chap Chye of course. I loved the way the carved their carrots into patterns. There was pride in every dish they served.

I missed most were Hainanese Chicken Chops. I remembered the Old Frees Association had good Hainanese food but I'm not so sure what happens now, if the Cafe is still there.

Strollers Than Turn Heads

It is every mom's dream to be able to have a baby and look chic at the same time. Going out baby can be quite a daunting task especially when one has baby in arms, baby bag as well as a bulky stroller in the other arm. If you have seen Mutsy's range of strollers, you would very much agree that their strollers have always been the admiration of many mothers and passersby alike. Recently, Mutsy had also released two new strollers into their range, that will be the envy of many parents.

Check out the Mutsy Slider - a lightweight cool looking stroller that is compact, low weight and allows mummy to face baby facing in or watch the world. The upper part of this stroller, when detached folds into a very small frame and the best thing about it is, it is very easy to handle! The seat can also be positioned into 3 positions.

If you are looking for one for a very young infant, the new Mutsy 4 Rider "NEXT" Cargo Range is also a very trendy looking transportation for baby. It has a bassinet, cover, mattress pad and a compartment to store your baby's things conveniently. For more information, colour and price, you may check out the range at Barebabies.com

For the trendy mum's Mutsy's strollers never failed to turn heads. Mutsy's strollers are very convenient and comes equipped with bassinets and seats and allows flexibility in transportation with it's unique modular construction systems. Test drive a Mutsy at your nearest store. Or take advantage of a 10% off from Barebabies.com with discount code - mutsy10off.

Organ Donation Awareness - Please Pass Around

I received this from Liza. This tag is to create an awareness to the urgent need for Organ Donation. Read about the story below and find out the unconditional love from a mother to her son.

This award is extra special because Crystal created it in honor of the donor who saved her sons life. Her son Noah had to have a heart transplant when he was just over a month old. This award is supposed to help raise awareness of the importance of organ donation.

So, here are the rules Crystal gave:
The rules of this award are: SHARE THE LOVE!!!

Share this award with all those blogs out there that you love. All the people who make you smile. All those that make you laugh. All those that make your day. All those that leave uplifting comments on your blog.

**All I ask, is that you include a link to this post with the award and ask your recipient to do the same**

As you may have recently seen on my side bar, I have finally created a custom blog award!! I have wanted to do this for a long time but never came up with something that “fit”. I didn’t want just anything. It had to be something that meant something to me. And what could mean more than Sharing the Love by giving you pieces of my heart??

So I created this award in Honor Of The Donor That Saved Noah’s Life. I share this award with those of you whose love and friendship have enriched my life and made my world a better place. I hope by passing this award around the blogging world we can all help raise awareness of the need for Organ Donation.

I would like to share this tag with all my blogger friends who would like to play their part in passing this tag around. Please do help.

Shaolin Girl - Japanese Spin off of Shaolin Soccer

Lately there has been many movies that is looking East with Shaolins and Kungfu stunts in the works. Martial art movies sells well. Even previous US release of the Karate Kid was a hit and had sequels to the first. We have also seen the success of Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and many shows linking the the East with the West.

Even cartoons are following the motion, for instance - Kungfu Panda that was just released recently.

In the works to be released soon on is a movie that was inspired by Stephen Chow's hit Shaolin Soccer. It is titled Shaolin Girl. Stephen Chow, who gains wide popularity and reputation in Japan was engaged as a consultant for this Japanese new film, which stars Japanese actress Kou Shibasaki. Two familiar faces from Shaolin Soccer joins the crew in this movie.


Watch the Shaolin Girl trailer here.




This one below is Shaolin Soccer

Callback Box on Websites

There are many online business that offers retail, services and more. When the readers or customers need more information, they click and navigate on the online site and search for required information for answers. Sometimes they may have more questions or information and would like to be contacted personally than wait for email quotations. Many of these are potential customers for business. These people wastes no time in communication.

I know many online business owners who often work away from offices and travel from place to place. They are not present in the office waiting for customers' requests. The need to check online for email enquiries can be cumbersome. These business owners also would prefer to be out sourcing for goods or other products. Some of them do not station telemarketing service agents to cut down on overhead costs. So how can one not miss out a call by customers?

A solution is using a product called ProCallback by Mercia Networks. This is a very simple application whereby you add a callback box to your website. When the person keys in their phone number, the callback box will alert you by sending you an sms and the number of that person. That way, you will be able to get back to the caller on time, and not miss any potential business sale or enquiries. I think this is a must have for companies with limited staff resource to handle calls.

Sleepy Virus

I have been jinxed by the sleepy virus lately. I keep yawning non stop. It is the school holidays and there is no excuse that I have not enough sleep either. I don't stay up as late to blog, nor do i wake up as early either. In the afternoon, I can't keep my eyes opened. I get naps in between my girls' tuition or writing classes or other activities. Previously I would just spend the one hour or more at the mall shopping for groceries while waiting for her to finish. But in the past week, I came back home to catch up on an hour sleep after sending her for tuition, activities and yet again after piano.

Now my little one has the duty of waking me up to fetch sis. hahahah.. in the mornings i'd be up only near 8am when my normal routine is 6am. By late morning, I'd be yawning and feel like a nap again! And that happens in the early or late afternoons. yawn... i'd be lying on my bed, reading a page of my Reader's Digest or Buddha teachings and my eyes get droopy.

Did you ever felt like that? I really need a kick start to do some exercise to get some adrenalin pumping..

A Little Goes A Long Way

Over the weekend, I had a good read about an article about how an individual or average human being empowers him or herself to make a change for the wellbeing of others. Basically, this article comes under the interactive platform called Make Your Mark which is under the Reader's Digest online website. In RD.com - Make Your Mark, it contains many articles written about the heroic acts of the everyday person like teacher Patti Hall, who together with her students raised a large sum of $12,000 for the building of a dam for villagers in Kenya.

Another favourite article I read was about a little old lady who at 77 had already been spending more than 2 decades of her time helping out a poverty-stricken Caribbean in her 42nd trip. Helen's first trip to Haiti was an eye opener. Seeing naked boys roaming the streets and families that lived in poor conditions, she decided to do her best to help them in fund raising ways, writing for financial assistance from major businesses and scavenging for old clothes or hand me downs to bring to the people in Haiti. She also made sure that education is provided for and spend much time for funding and recruitment matters so the poor kids could go to school. After more than 20 years, much of her efforts have shown improvement and the place have spruced up, and there is more awareness about education and the need to change for the better.

I really take my hats of to Helen for her noble ways and how she had not used age as a barrier to helping out. Now when I am out shopping for things, I think twice about how lucky and blessed I am to be able to have my three meals compared about those who would think when their next meal may be. You can read more about Make Your Mark stories from Reader's Digest Homepage

There is also a weekly challenge section in the Reader's Digest website. It has pledges that allows you to take, which contributes to the betterment of society in more ways than one. Take the pledge and give hope to someone else in the world. Every little step is a step nearer to someone else's hope.

Here is an example of Pledge for Week of April 28 - May 4

Help End Hunger

Step: Build your vocabulary and feed the hungry. Go to freerice.com and see how many words you can define. For each right answer, 20 grains of rice go to the United Nations World Food Program.

Stretch: Watch the video at storyofstuff.com. It clearly and succinctly ties together consumerism, politics, health, economics, and the environment -- in just 20 minutes.

Leap: Give a gift that keeps on giving and help people feed themselves. Donate the equivalent of a heifer ($500), a llama ($150), a pig ($120), a flock of chicks ($20), or a share of these and any number of other animals at heifer.org.

You can make the difference too.

Miku From Penang

Pic Above: Frozen Miku from Penang

Apart from Tau Sar Phneah that I brought back from Penang, my mom ordered some Miku for me. It had been years since i've had Miku and i do miss it. She ordered from a shop at Penang Road, just doors away from the Ong Kongsi. She told me that place had been selling Miku for many years and many of her friends and my sis' friends will book their mikus in advance for collection to bring to other states in KL.

Mom ordered 5 pairs for me to take to KL of which 3 pairs were for sis. I actually wanted only a pair as I wasn't sure if it will spoil when I bring it back to Sg. But Sis and Mum says I can freeze it and then when I want to eat it, just steam it over the boiler, it should be fine. That got me salivating. When I got back to Sg, I made sure I had my 'Cold Storage' butter (SCS, actually) all nicely cut up into those think coffeeshop toast type. That will be so yummy on my warm steamed miku bread.

Compare the Best Price in Shopping

Shopping online is a weakness I admit defeat. There are so many shopping sites and I can just be on my pc whole day just surfing, checking information for products that are interesting, worth buying or even something that attracts me enough to buy it for a friend. There are many things in online shopping that you cannot get from the brick and mortar shop. Last week, after trying out Xbox at a friend's home, we decided to look for one online. We knew the market rate that was selling in the mall, the gadget shop near home and across the causeway. We decided to check it out online and see if we can find more competitive pricing instead.

That is when I realised that I don't have to surf into so many online stores or go into search engines. MiracleShopper Comparison Shopping has everything we need to know. All we did was key in our specific requirements for the Xbox and the website will sort out a list of matches and list out up to 7 or 10 stores that offers the same product online. That really save a lot of trouble for us. There are also reviews that had been posted by buyers, details on the product, shipping information (some even throw in free shipping based on minimum amount order) and some even throw in freebies! MiracleShopper Comparison Shopping really understands what it's customers wants and does not subject it's customers to buying from just a selected source. In all honesty and frank, I think I shall be doing most of my shopping from this site, because they have practically everything on site, including the kitchen sink! (pun intended)

Which Tau Sar Phneah is the BEST?

Before I made the trip back to Singapore, my mum made sure I could take home with me some of the Penang delectables I have been missing. One thing that I took with me was of course the Penang Tau Sar Phneah that I have been longing for before making the trip home.

In the recent years, I realised that many shops that produced the Tau Sar Phneah is no longer the same as before. Most of the popular ones like Ghee Hiang and the Him Hiang doesn't taste as good as before. Perhaps their popularity and change of hands had them losing some important ingredients and probably like what some would say to cut corners and maximise profits. Ghee Hiang used to be the ultimate but few years back they did not live up to their expectations. Even Him Hiang that was somewhere in CY Choy area and relocated in Burmah Road later on tasted dry and wasn't any good. If I would get their Tau Sar Phneah, I'd might as well just buy from any Tom, Dick and Harry shop in Singapore which would have tasted even better.


However, there is one consolation of which I am still able to get good quality Tau Sar Phneah that is moist, contains lard (how can an original Tau Sar Phneah be without lard) and is fresh from daily bakes. It is none other than Soon Hiang, at Kuantan Road. This is the BEST that I've tasted among so many I've tried for many years, for now. There is none other that can compare in terms of taste and quality, now that Ghee Hiang and Him Heang seemed not keen to save themselves. In fact out of 10 Penangite friends I know, 9 would give a thumbsdown. And the remaining 1, would just buy it for convenience sake.