It's Hari Raya Celebration again...

First of all, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all my Muslim friends of all races and Selamat Bercuti to all my friends who are on holidays during this festival season.

Time really flies...it another year gone if we use the last Raya as benchmark. Soon, it will be Christmas coming...then...2010 countdown... I am not kidding here and guess what, I have just received invitation from my social club to confirm on the limited place for the 2010 New Year Countdown !

For my corporate life, we are already counting our last lap and how to ensure we push the last drop of our energy to survive in the race.

Time is really precious. It never stops and never waits. The best remedy of time is it heals, at least I rated so...so we must not just let it ticks away without getting all its 'catering" for you...

In Malaysia, we have four days of holiday including the weekend. A good time to go for short trip and do anything you want, be insane to your work for a moment...(not breaking any laws of course) so that we could reorganise ourself when we starts back in the office or the real world on Wednesday.

I have planned out my holidays...just want to relax...have good food, plenty of it with my family and then exercise a lot so that can eat more...I will also drive out to Semenggoh bringing my kids to see Mr. Tee & Heroes' cousins who are being rehabilitated.

Oh yes...visiting my Muslims friends is a must during this Raya....so good food and company will be there...and my kids just love it!

Dreaming To Success

I "dream" to success everyday as;

a) I have my own time...doing what I want with my loved ones...not tie down with regiment timing...
b) I have the financial and physical means to bring family, my siblings & family for holiday every quarterly...especially my parents to AhMuo, China (my ancestry rooting), Beijing, Rome, Jerusalem....)
c) I am able to help those in need whether in financial, time or energy...

and do not need to worry about monetary liabilities...although life challenges I need them to be stronger in facing the colourful life.

In multi-level marketing, this is the promise and idea selling to all the under achievers or achievers. Everyone is attracted to shorten their journey to success and I am not excluded. I want to be successful since 15 years back...

After working for 14 years ++ (in 10 days time, it will be my complete full cycle of 14 years in insurance line), I have tasted success but yet to fully grap and graduated from it...but to some, yes...I am happy for the achievement and I hope to complete my dream in shortest time before the big figure as tickling away in the clock placed on this blog..:-)

It is not a day dreaming...but a dream to achieve as I written down and reflect it almost all the time. Questions been raised, obstacles being overcame and mounting challenges continue to whack my course to success. A lot of support is indeed needed from my wife, family and buddies also friends out there...I thank them for the love and joy of seeing the help sent to me. For all those who are not aware how appreciate I am to them, I pray for their success too.

It is nearer than 14 years ago...but the road is steeper as i could comprehend with my personal experiences when climbing the Mount Kinabalu. To reach the top (for which I have not short of 1km), it requires much more than just dreaming...

But importantly, I must not give up !...I must keep trying...and everyday i know I am nearer to the point of success that I wish...wish me, pray for me my friends, I need your support in your laughters, joys, tips, clarity, sincerity, point blank on my weaknesses to improve and opportunity to help you as to help myself...

See you at the top !

The Best Beef Noodles In Singapore

It is in Ang Mo Kio, as my brother in law (in yellow shirt, 2nd last) brought us there for the best beef noodles in town. As witnessed, the long que is never ending as customers waited for their turn to order (as they que orderly...but not at our local here, further not self service le).

Why it is the best as proclaimed ?! It is voted by Singaporeans and for many years, they have reigned undisputed champion ! (I wonder this idea can be passed to Dato WSK for Sibu's tourism, if we could also highlight and award the best Kampua Mee !)

Okay, let's see the photos taken....

a) Curry beef noodles...

It is delicious...man, as I typed my words...my salivas keep flushing out...huh !

b) Kuaytiaw beef...I like the curry better...

So, guys/gals...make sure you ask for this best beef noodles if you are in Singapore...go early before you wipe your eyes with tissues.

A Bless Friday

I felt specially bless today, as I have managed to present my case.
I felt specially bless today, as I learnt new things from my colleagues especially the financial "C"
I felt specially bless today, as my Executive Director treated me starbucks
I felt specially bless today, as I have my stomach filled up with good nutrituous food
I felt specially bless today, as I have reached home safely and had a nice hot bath...
I felt specially bless today, as I could blog my blessings today and share with all of you....

There are so many blessings given to me everyday and I want to remind myself of not being blinded by few small or big problems irritating the pleasure as it could be still a blessing in disguise...plus channelling this blessings to everyone I mingle, communicate, socialise and do...as by practising this mode, I will make myself the channel of blessings, an instrument of LOVE for Almighty God the Father.

Thank you for blessing me and loving me plus all the readers of my Blog...

Ocean Park in Three Hours

It was a fast track as we completed our tour of Ocean Park in 3 hours with of course Panda watching and Dolphin show - the main two attractions in the park. However, we did not manage to play any of the games.

The photo is showing the entrance to the world's longest escalator!

A roller coaster at the side of the hill.

One of the Panda, just awaken for while from afternoon nap. The other one deep in her sleep.

Oh, yes at the Panda Sanctuary, there is a show of many type of gold fish with showing of its origins. The following are two of my favourites.

During my teen I like to rear gold fish. O liong, Tut Bah, Sai Tau, Sai Kong blah blah...all are shown there. I have taken all the photos of them but would not be albe to share with all of you here...may be I could just upload to FB photo album, there you could also enjoy of god's creation.

Tourism Year

This year may just be the tourism year for MGB & family. :-)

However with the H1N1 scare and is deteriorating during this time of the year, it seems that the sales of air tickets is getting hottier...probably the players are expecting the sliding of demand of air travels due to the worry of the flu. This "pressure" sales is giving higher temptation for us to look and plan ahead of our next outing.

Hey, before dreaming on the next trip, I would like to share with all my recent trip to Macau, Hong Kong, and Shenzen from 4th June to 8th June in celebrating my 10th anniversary with my one and only darling with whom i have two wonderful "cahaya mata". Well, we may categorise as the 3rd overseas trip (exclude Singapore/WM) together since the last two to Australia Gold Coast and Sydney/Brisbane back in 1999 and 2005 respectively.

It is a wonderful trip together, exploring the oriental cities, the pearl of the east and the one that we have been watching all these while in our life. It is like to refreshment moment as it is like the backyard of our mind as many of the key places have been shown in most of the Hong Kong moviews/serials. I did not do much talking as I only speak a little Cantonese so I let my girlfriend did the talking as she is quite fluent in it. I like to hear the hongkies Cantonese as their sland is like music. I am quite impressed with the conversation among them as they could communicate in high understanding of each other as I observed from the people on the street. They will normally give a quite assuring response as compared to our own locals in our place.

On the first day (evening), we have been to the Ladies' Street, a bigger version of Petaling Street. You must bargain smartly for a good price but then if you are going to Shenzen, then better focus your money in Shenzen. There is also a Men's Street (red lights street), but did not make to the street...:-(

It was a free and easy for the first day (evening as we only reached HK at about 3pm).

The next morning, we had follow a small tour group (all Malaysian). After the dimsum breakfast, we went through the Stars Valley to enjoy the scenery of the Hong Kong's skyscrapers as per above photo, Hong Kong Island's public beach passing by Jackie Chan's mansion and also others. We are also supposed to visit the Madam Tussaud's musuem but we did not manage to go as we do not have the time... :-( i miss the statue of Andy Lau, Michael Jackson.. sobs...

A visit to a jewellery and herbal shops is a must as this is where the tour agency/guides earn their extra tips. We had visited Jackie Chan's jewellery shop (how true...I dun know).

After lunch, we went to Ocean Park but did not play any of the games though we have watched the dolphin show...as we were busy taking pictures of great scenery. Actually, we should spend a day there to relax and experience like what we have gone through in the Dream World in Gold Coast...By 5.30pm, we have to catch our train to Shenzen as our dinner at Shenzen is scheduled at 8pm. Zoom...we go !

Hey, though we had only spent 2 days and a night in HK, it is definite a sweet experience. We have planned to go back sometime this year bringing our RM (Rachel and Moses) to visit the DisneyLand, definitely spend a day there and also another day in Ocean Park.

to be continued...

Safety First, Not Convenience

I must share with you this important lesson but often being ignored due to convenience.

My wife's car was broken into last Thursday night when she parked at Jalan Song. Before going for her dinner (alone as I was on travelling to Sibu), she had transfered her office bag to her car booth (Waja), then she locked up and armed the car's alarm. Within 10 minutes as far she could recall, she return to her car and shocked to find out that the right rear car window was smashed and the back seat was unbuckled and her office bag was missing. She was in total shock and called me to inform. A few important documents and office keys were in the bag. In our mind then, we were very unhappy to face such bad situation. However, a police report were need to be made to report the lost in view of the important document. I quickly called Heroes to help out as he has experience (he had also met with similar incident a month ago...his losses was heavier (thanks buddy) :-)...

The agony of losing or suffering from the breakage was not enough as along her way to police station, she was stopped for two offences. Guess what ?

OML, she was first caught not switching on the head light and second, she was on the phone with me. It was really a bad day (as I listened to the conversation of her with the police, it was heartache indeed but I could not do anything but listen...). But thank God, the police only summoned her on the headlight but not the handphone incident as the police was aware that the car was broken into a few minutes earlier and she was still in shocking condition (thanks for the understanding).

At the police station, it was revealed that there were few cases of breakins and robberies on the same day. Ours is considered minor. We felt that we are lucky to have suffered this minor loss and we could have avoided the loss if we have been more alert and responsible.

This incident is purely due to convenience...lessons learnt are as follow;

a) If we wish to put our bags/belongings into the car booth, do it before our journey to destination (best is do not put in the car booth) as if we do it at the destination, we do not know who are watching us from the vicinity.
b) Use handfree :-) no matter how short or how important is the call..