Marinated raw meat or seafood - Yummy???

This is only relevant to the people of Bolehland as this is a localized content for Malaysian.

Well, sometimes when you visit hypermarkets or supermarkets, be it Carrefour, Giant or Tesco, you might find trays of marinated raw meat or seafood selling at a premium price. All looking nice and tantalizing, however be warned that chances are the marinated meat or seafood that you’re so tempted to buy is not FRESH.

Most of the time, it is done to disguise the degraded quality of products. So it is always better to choose your meat and spices separately and spend a little more time to marinate them yourself.
The deciding factors of choosing a fresh piece of chicken wing or ikan kembong are the physical appearance and smell of the products. Once those are taken away, it will delude the customers buying decision.

Will the real leader please SPEAK UP!

I am not a believer of seniority at work. I am a firm believer of appraised performance. However, very often we’ll still get people sitting on top of you because of their seniority. It’s downright frustrating that in the event of any incident or problem that requires their position to speak up, they’ll choose to keep mum over the issue simply because they do not understand what is going on to make any intelligent comment!

To manage does not equal to lead. To become a manager simply doesn’t make you a leader in the process. Leaders in any given organization or fields of specialty have clear authority over their comments and speech. We often HEAR our managers but we will only LISTEN to the leaders.

Cai Shen Ye (God of Prosperity) is coming to town…

You better watch out, you better not cry
Better not pout, I'm telling you why
Cai Shen Ye is coming to town
He's making a list and checking it twice
Gonna find out who's naughty and nice
Cai Shen Ye is coming to town
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
Oh! You better watch out, you better not cry
Better not pout, I'm telling you why
Cai Shen Ye is coming to town

Time flies, Year of the Golden Pig, will come knocking on our doors on the 18th Feb 2007.

How to make it hard and “melt” slowly?

Hey, dun get too excited, I am running a healthy personal blog here, sorry to disappoint you but I don’t have any remedy to men out there needing a boost or two. :P

For those of you out there that fancy an ice-bed display during your next house warming or cocktail party, you can sprinkle some fine salt on your ice to make them harder. They will stay in shape for longer period of time and will not melt away too fast.

Mousey mousey where are you??

Baby Dee sent it to me today…



Caller : Hi, our printer is not working.
Customer Service : What is wrong with it?
Caller : Mouse is jammed.
Customer Service : Mouse? And how it is related to printer?
Caller : Mmmm.. Wait, I will send a picture.

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Perth -> Here we come!!

If you ask baby dee, the thing that she anticipates most from this trip -> she’ll tell you without hesitation that is to take a picture with joey!

Joey is actually the baby koala :D

The following website offers very good information about Perth, a must-read for people that is preparing for a trip to Perth. -> www.countrywide.com.au/

From my search for accomodation, the following websites came across as very comprehensive with good offers : http://www.wotif.com/ / http://www.asiarooms.com/ / www.australia-hotels.com.au/

Sorry sir, you cannot do that?

I was so excited about the MATF that I actually stayed up until the midnight on the day it was launched just to be one of the first to grab the air tickets, never mind that I was put on hold for more than half an hour -> I finally got the booking number, but here comes the twist, the holiday package is not confirmed as I need to make the payment.

I requested to make the payment via my credit card, but the answer I got is “No sir -> you cannot do that because you need to make your way down to either KL Sentral or HQ (@ Jln. Sultan Ismail) to do that because we need to issue all the vouchers and tickets. Gee whiz, when I was put on hold for half an hour the lady in IVR said to me repeatedly “You can now make your payment using credit cards over the phone, just check with our agents.” .. wat-te-verrrrrrrrrrrrr..

Here comes more, “Sir, please also remember to call in again on 4th Feb 2007, to make sure the hotel booking is confirmed.” I thought with all the advanced booking system now it could have been confirmed on the spot, obviously I was wrong. When I questioned them the answer given to me was 1st Feb 2007 is a public holiday, thus no one will be working, so they need more time to confirm??!!? I was then given a deadline of 4th Feb 2007 2.00pm to make the payment or my booking will be cancelled. So can I make a payment prior to 4th Feb? No sir because your hotel is not confirmed yet?!!?!

Frustrated and getting no help from the agent (whom even told me that they’re doing their best as this is a travel fair and everyone of them is working very hard and late). I just told him to cancel my booking.

Later in the morning, I booked and paid for the air tickets ONLINE and booked myself into the same hotel ONLINE at a cheaper bargain!

Moral of the story : Book your flight and Hotel ONLINE because it is FASTER and CHEAPER and not to mention that you don’t need to waste the time with some operator over the phone telling you that they’re doing wat-te-ver they could to assist you!