Attention : J4A1

To all J4A1 member,

Our gathering will be helf on 27 February 2010 at Yen Thoong house. This event is open to all J4A1 classmate, spouse, child, and close friends.

Among the activities would be:

Illegal Casino by Janet Lee
Mini Mah Jong by Strawberry Bing
King of Billiard by George Tan
PSP games and movie
Karaoke by our own J4A1 idol..erhmm...class rap
Fusball competition by Yen Thoong
Beer Garden Party by Beer Taukeh aka JY
Prosperity Low Sang
Reunion Dinner planned by Ace Lim

So, all tun tun, tansri tansri, datuk datuk, datin datin of j4a1 sekalian, please make sure you all come on that day...The event start at 2pm until late night....just join in anytime within this period....

Thanks

Jade Emperor Birthday

On the 9th day of lunar calendar, Chinese celebrate Jade Emperor Birthday. The Tionghua especially the Hokkien will pay respect by having ritual and prayer at the stroke of 12am at the midnight.

With sugar cane and table full of offering, the Hokkien thank jade emperor for the saviour. Hokkien people in China back in years back was believed to be hidding in the sugar cane plantation during a war. It was on the 9th day that they manage to come out from the sugar cane plantation after the end of the war.

9th day of lunar calendar was then specially marks as a tribute to the Jade Emperor...

My prayer to Jade Emperor this year is to bless me with a straight pass in ACCA result that will be release on the Jade Emperor birthday itself...I really hope I can pass all papers....

Tien Kong....Pau Yu Pau Yu...

Why

Most blogger are emotional people....whether male or female, they are all the same....majority of us, the blogger, start blogging our emotionally secretly...knowing none will discover our blog...

However, sooner or later, someone notice the present of the blog...As a blogger, we change our style of writing. Less emotional one and more to pleasure reading...

Sooner, with more readers coming in, blog is no longer a place for expressing sadness...

Many of us start the same way...end the same way too...

There is more than hundred post that I never ever posted even thought I have written it. Yes, it was emotional...is no longer suitable for this blog....

Ya...maybe is good this way...

Today is 'ren re' the day where human born....I wish everyone Happy Birthday...

CNY so far

1st day : Celebrate and reunited with family

2nd day : Uncle house (kena long lecture)....Low Sang....Go house gambling

3rd day : Friend visit by 20 secondary school friend....Kent, Ji Leng and Max visit Klang....Vegetarian Dinner

4th day : Start work

5th day : Another boring day in work

6th day : Work again.....FGS Dong Zen Temple

Is the eve!

Today is the eve of Chinese New Year. For many today is already the start of a new year.

Early morning, Chinese will pray to the goddest and ancestor for the end of a year and beginning of a new year. Food offering, fruits and some kuih will be serve...

The whole day of CNY eve will be busy especially the kitchen. This is because everyone will be busy preparing for the reunion dinner. As time evolve, many family opt for eating at the restaurant and some make it easy by eating steamboat. As for me, my mother will be busy preparing food for the reunion dinner. My mom will be serving some of the Teohchew delicacy such as braised duck, steam chicken, fried fish with leak, Superior fish maw soup with pig stomach and lo hon chai.

Well, reunion dinner is a meaningful event as everyone in the family will be sitting together and eat together. Reunited and harmony...

Among the food serve in most reunion dinner would be prawn signified laughter, happiness and harmony while fish signified wealth. For some, they will cook 2 fish and will only eat one of them. Another fish will be left over to the next day signified wealth can be remain for another year.

After reunion dinner, family will get together and chat, watch CNY show and countdown to the new year. At stroke of 12 midnight, Chinese people will laid table with food offering to the goddess and hope the new year will bring all the best to the whole family. Firework will be light up to chase all evil and monster. The young one will stay up as late as possible signified a protection to the older generation from monster.

However, many of this tradition is no longer can be observe. Many have even left out reunion dinner due to busy with work and so on.

I hope everyone will enjoy Chinese New Year eve and have a great reunion dinner with your family...

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year

I would like to wish everyone a Prosperous Tiger Year

Hope tiger year bring you luck, fortune, good health, plentiful wealth, abundances of opportunities and endless happiness



Gong Xi Fa Cai

Power of Facebook

Living in the IT world, we cannot deny that communication style have change a lot. We use to utilise the public phone and house phone very much but nowadays hand phone and msn have started to replace the line phone...

Facebook is yet another awesome creation. Forgot about those danger that might appear in Facebook due to misused and misconduct of certain people, Facebook is an avenue of reunion and communication.

Today I come back from work just to be inform by my sister that someone post my childhood photo....In my mind, during my primary school, digital camera is not even invented and hardly there is people will go far by scanning the photo into Facebook.

How wrong am I.....photo that have been taken about 12-15 years ago suddenly appear on my profile...Well I been tag by someone of course.....and the 'reunion' party started with people adding me and I adding people.....Horrible was the word.....

Every single second people come and comment on those photo and every single second I need to refresh my mind recalling who is that.....Scary....very scary....

Sometime technology make me feel scary because during my childhood, I am such a horrible person.....so bad that I cannot even consider myself as a human....wahahaha

CNY & Food....

Ever heard of people complaining that they gain weight a lot during Chinese New Year?

Well, why not? the whole 15 days is full of eat and eat and eat....drink, drink and drink....

Remember traditionally people used to cook for whole day just for the reunion dinner? Nowadays most people no longer do that and simply have a good 8 course meal in restaurant or go for steamboat. Well, for me, my mom will still cook the traditional Teochew and mixed Hokkien food to usher Chinese New Year. Anyway, let us see what do certain food mean in Chinese New Year whether it was serve as food or an offering to the goddess.

Mandarin Oranges = Gold (Kam)
Nian Gou/Sticky Cake = Growing perfectly (Poo Poo Kau Shen)
Pineapple = Inviting good fortune (Ong Lai Ong Lai)
Apple = Harmony and Safe (Peng Peng Ann Ann)

Fish = Plentiful of wealth (Nian Nian You Tu)
Prawn = Happiness (hee hee haa haa)
Steamboat / Dumpling / Rice Flour ball = Tuan Yuan

Osyter = Good things (Ho Sie)
Fatt Choi = Good Wealth
Low Sang / Yee Sang - Life of fullness
Yam Basket = Abundance / Plentiful fortune
Fish Maw / Pig Stomach = Place to keep money
Abalone = Luxury
Choi Sam = Wealth
Poon Choi / Fortune Pot = Choices, Abundance, Wealth

Today is Lap Chun

Lap Chun is the day where we mark the beginning of the Spring Season. For Chinese, Lap Chun is consider a very important date.

Lap Chun mark the beginning of everything. Baby who is born today will have Tiger as their zodiak although the new year is yet to come.

You may hear from most people that this year is a bad year because there is no 'chun' for the year....What is that mean?

According to Chinese lunar calendar that start on 14 February 2010, there will be no 'lap chun' for the whole year. The next 'lap chun' will occur after 2011 Chinese New Year. A year with a missing of 'chun' is consider a year without anything. This is why marriage is strictly not encourage by most of the Chinese because it was said that the couple getting married this year will have no children. How true was that? I am not sure.

During Lap Chun, egg can easily stand. There is certain timing that you can observe this special occasion but frankly I missed it out. Well, I manage to get a video as a prove from youtube.


It was also said that if you wear red colour shirt and bank in money today, fortune and lucky will follow you the whole year. Wealth will always smile to you.

So since today is Lap Chun, I go and low sang with my collueage hopefully everything will be sang sang mang mang, low hei low hei....

Happy Lap Chun everyone

Chinese New Year ~ 15 days of celebration

Chinese New Year is around the corner and I believe all Chinese are busy preparing to usher the coming of a new year. This year will be a Tiger year. As we all are busy preparing for Chinese New Year, why not look back to some of the tradition that we might no longer follow and those that still in practise but started to be ignored to ensure that our next generation still know the real meaning of Chinese New Year.

Today I am going to write about 15 days of Chinese New Year and how each day have the hidden meaning behind.

Before CNY : Everyone busy cleaning the house and get ready to usher the CNY. Send off deity to report on our household even for the past one year to Jed Emperor

CNY eve : Reunion dinner.

First day : Welcome CNY with prayers, welcome the god of fortune, first day of lunar calender

Second day : Cantonese celebrate 'Hoi Nien' as a meaning of starting a business. Visited the gal side family for marriage person.

3rd and 4th: Bad day in lunar calendar. People avoid house visiting on this day but Chinese that do not celebrate Chinese New Year as nearest kin deceased within the past 3 days may visit or been visited by friend and family.

5th day : Traditionally people will eat 'kou chi' (dumpling) and open their businesses. It was the day of birth of the God of Fortune

6th day : No special event

7th day : Named the 'ren re' or directly translated to human day. It was the birthday of all Chinese and everyone will grow one year older today...

8th day : The eve of Jade Emperor Birthday. Hokkien people will have a good dinner to mark their beginning of Chinese New Year

9th day : The Jade Emperor Birthday. Hokkien people usher the Chinese New Year with sugar cane, deity house, food offering and lots of paper money...

10th - 14th day : Celebration mood still available. House visiting still been carried out

15th day : Chinese Valentine Day also known as Chap Goh Mei. It was also known as lantern day in certain country. It also mark the end of Chinese New Year Celebration

Worst...

Since I move back to klang, I get used to the traffic jam. The construction of bridge and driver who never have sense of consideration make Klang a hell for driving...

Well.....today I notice the jam in North Klang wasn't that bad anyway...

I was on the way back from Puchong and normal journey using NKVE and exit at Bukit Tinggi will take about 35 to 45 minutes. However, today traffic jam was totally a disaster.

I depart from Puchong around 6.40 and stuck in the jam from USJ. The radio mentions that there is accident near HICOM. After about 45 minutes of jamming, I arrive at Bukit Tinggi exit. A long 500 metre queue is noted.

Then what happen was my car have no chance to move for almost an hour. Well, the traffic light is always the cause of traffic jam as it turn red and green very fast. Thus I patiently waited for about an hour. However my car is still on the same spot for 45 minutes. I am really piss off by then. I put signal out to de-tour to pandamaran exit before though I never use the exit before.

When I was out from the queue, I notice the traffic light is down and that is the reason for such a long queue. As I de-tour to pandamaran exit, I noted another queue as long as a dragon. I know that the traffic jam was actually diverted from Bukit Tinggi exit. I decided to de-tour to Port Klang exit then...

Dark journey accompany my drive as all the street light is not functioning. Contenna and huge lorry is everywhere as I approaching Klang Port. Well, I am taking a longer route by at least 15 km to avoid those jamming.

I arrive home at 9.30, about 3 hours from my departure from Puchong.....Well...Tired and stress is my feeling now....and my leg is also numb!!!

Is a long month

We are merely on the 26th of January but the first 26 days of 2010 seem to be long enough for me.

Chinese New Year is just around the corner and frankly I do not have much mood toward it. Well, is just a normal day after all. The joy and excitement was not as great as duringt childhood where we light up the firework, stay up late for prayer and watch CNY show, travel around and have a long holiday.

Maybe we have forgotten some custom and meaning of celebration that we no longer enjoy the meaningful Chinese New Year.....

Beginning of year always bring us a lot of idea to change our life.....Improve lifestyle and so on.....But money will also be tight during beginning of the year as too much money were spent during the year end and new year....So all those plan for change of life remain a dream....hehe

Well.....I gonna blog about CNY tradition soon.....frankly lost mood to maintain this blog somehow...haha

UTAR now offer medicine course...

Sg Long campus which used to be my study is now upgraded to become a Faculty of Medicine and Health Science....

Congratulation to UTAR and now parent need not need to worry about financing their child for medicine courses......The course will be way cheaper than other university.....

It may take few years for UTAR to kickstart and built it reputation in medicine courses but I believe UTAR can do it.....

Now I am waiting, when will UTAR offer Law courses....hehehe

Commnunity Message

Dear Klangite,

This is to inform that the Jambatan Kota of Klang will be close from 22 January 2010 onward in relation to the construction of flyover in Jambatan Kota. Please plan your journey to avoid the jam...Thanks


.....stupid Spaz, please do it fast.....I already cannot stand the jam in Klang....

Haiti Disaster

When I was in form 2, my english language teacher give us a novel name 'Voodoo' for us to read. That is the first time I came to know about a county name Haiti with the capital city of Port Au Prince.

Today a 7 magnitute earthquake as near as 10 miles from the compact population if 1 million had damage properties and kills many lifes in Haiti.

I would like to express my condolences to Haiti and will pray for all victims in the disaster.

Lets us help as much as we can either in prayer or donatin to rebuilt the nation...

1st week of 2010

Everything goes well in first week of 2010....After a long weekend from new year leave, it was time to go back to work on last Monday.

Monday and Tuesday was dull in office with feeling of farewell for one of my senior. On Wednesday, she left for good and we have a grand farewell for her with large card with lotsa photos....Tuesday I go swim in Shah Alam aquatic center....For years I never jump into olympic size swimming pool...hehe

Well, I never bring a camera to my office before because our office is equip with camera. But on Wednesday I decided to bring my camera to snap some farewell photos...

For the very first time, I gonna put in my office photo featuring my cubicle...my asset (stationery) and my colleague..

Thursday and Friday is a silent day....just like the song silent night....We just need to be silent because someone is spying on us....hehehe....We even declare Thursday as Pisang Goreng Day and Friday as Nasi Lemak day....hehehe....Thanks to 'Unagi' who belanja us for 2 meal...hehehe...

Saturday another dull day since I don't have class to attend....Facebooking whole day and msn...Have a family chat and family dinner...

Sunday...my breakfast appointment cancel as my friend is not feeling well...my lunch appointment postpone to late lunch...But manage to have a good chat with 'soh poh' and fong yeah....

Well...that is the whole week one of 2010.....Hope next week will be more wonderful...

Eye on Malaysia

2007, Eye on Malaysia was launch in conjuction with Visit Malaysia Year 2007....

3 years later...Eye on Malaysia become the reason the whole world eyeing on Malaysia...

Today our proud icon have been temporarily shut down in regards to the legal action taken by one of the financier who have borrow large sum of loan to finance the huge ferris wheel...

Well, for me, I had yet to have chance to take the ride....and from the day of fame up to the moment of shame shut down, I still have one thing in mind......

Eye on Malaysia is just a waste of money....

Change

It have been almost 3 years since my first day writing on this blog. I write mainly on my daily work, feeling and things I enjoy doing.

However, now, things have change. I have lost the interest to post kiddy stuff, political and current affair and even my working experience. Many time I try to blog about my work but I end up deleting it. Same goes to political issue that I try not to mention here to avoid been jail up.

Working life is bored and I have lost the opportunity of travel frequently or outing with friends leading to fewer post about travel and eat. Even I eat a lot, most of the food posting have been transfer to my food blog.

I have really dry out in term of idea of what to post and what to write....Well, I spend more time facebooking rather than blogging now...

2010 is a year to change. Many things in my life deserve a change. I have been slacky for years....I shall live the life I dream.....and not dream the life I live...

Just back from swimming and feeling freeking tired. Well, it have been looooooooooong time ago since my last workout....Gaining weight ever since in university and never came down....

Well, I believe there is lot of thing to change....Change my glasses, change my hairstyle....Well, what next?

2010 Resolution

Well 2010 resolution do not run much from 2009 resolution as much of it is still not achieve or partially achieve. Thus 2010 is hopefully a year of achievement....Yeah...i gotta feeling...that this year is a good year...

1. Kill ACCA exam….must wear the robe and mortar this year!!!
2. Better income either side income, better offer or increment!!!
3. Healthy Healthy Healthy…. Sick record of less than 3 time
4. Weight management…..must lose weight by 5kg…
5. Upkeep my 2 blog…
6. New investment….
7. Save quarter of my salary
8. Charity work….this time not monetary but voluntary…
9. Earn my first cheque from nuffnang….which kinda impossible with my visitor hits now…
10. Buy a laptop for myself…
11. Buy a DSLR for myself…
12. Strike a lottery….Wahaha…dreaming….but let put it for a hope then….I can’t think of any new resolution…

I still maintained the 12 resolution format as it represent 1 achievement per month....so I do hope 2010 I can achieve all the resolution...

2010 is for sure a new year, better year and more things will happen. 2009 saw the worst year in my entire life and thus I will make sure 2010 is a new beginning, new Eddie..

Let review 2009 resolution….How many I achieve?

1.Save a quarter of my salary as saving
Partially achieve. First half of the year I did it. Second half of the year got more obligations so can’t achieve!

2. Continue my car instalment and PTPTN repayment
Achieve but PTPTN repayment still slow progress

3. Clear at least 3 ACCA paper by end of this year and get ready to clear it by mid 2010
Not achieve. Fail my P2. Clear all paper in December 2009 exam and hope can pass it.

4. Committed to 3 vegetarian meal per week and healthy breakfast everyday.
I am still a carnivore. But I do increase intake of vege and fruit…hehehe

5. Committed one hour everyday for ACCA study.
Badly fail….I committed one hour daily for facebook instead.

6. Take up CIA by the end of October 2009
Dreaming…..ACCA also not yet clear….Why the hell I go set this as my resolution?

7. Work hard for the June assessment. Make something out of it dude!!!
Wakaka…..get good grade but company announce no increment this year. Bonus as compensation instead! So I think this is consider fail also!

8. 1 charity per year...My target Famine 30 or AIDS day....
Yeah. I sponsor a child….Wahahaha

9. committed to 2 posting per week...average 100 post per year
Managed to post idiotic more than 100 post….consider ok la…

10. Reduce fat by another 5kg....
Erm…..reduce weight a bit but I don’t think got 5kg lo….keep on sick whole year….

11. Make first investment....I mean safe investment
Life insurance consider? I believe so…

12. Be happy and share happiness with people around me....
Not really achieve because I feel that 2009 is the worst year for me….Gloomy year….Sick and Sad….