In loving memory of my beloved wife

I thought of having the mother day celebration with my mum but she has gone on a trip to Thailand. So this will be the year of not celebrating the day with my mum. Instead, I will join my kids to have their mother day celebration.

I do not bake these cupcake but instead I have these order through a friend of mine. These are nicely made and baked. If you are interested, do visit her blog at http://lea-oven.blogspot.com. It is however too sad that she will be leaving Ipoh soon. Where can I have these cakes again?

If you are around in Ipoh and looking for food that are consider plain (not too salty without too much of ajinomoto), drop by to these two restaurant. The first one is pork free with a nice environment of free wifi access. The second one is a vegeterian shop and normally is crowded with peoples. These are not superb food but great if you are in a hurry and yet do not want to look for water to quench your thrist and eat under the hot sun. Both are air conditioned.

Have a trial!

At last, I believed I have been introduced with a truly Iphone killer to my likes. This is the newly launched HTC Touch Diamond. The customized TouchFLO is really amazing at least on the promo video. I will need to test it only can feel if the touch sensitivity can really compete with Iphone.

You can see the promo TOUCHFLO interface video here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5fetcaQIaA

Is it really perform as if in the video??

Before the evening heavy downpour, I managed to snap images of rains drops on the roof. I need to quickly snap these images as the rains quickly splashing to the balcony.

Phiew, that was closed!

These type of playground, I bet one can easily observe everywhere, be it shopping mall, garden etc. It always painted in attractive color as attraction to children.
I still remembered my type of play ground during my days were just the sandy ground with self innovated games like "gasing games, kite flying that self made and occasionally for kite fighting, spider catching and fighting etc. etc. All such occasions had been long vanished and even I am back at my home town, I can see no more of such games being played. The children will be either playing at the modern day playground or TV games.

I bet I will need to have my kids for fishing training sometimes soon.

Woolley Food Court or better known as "Cendawan Haven" by local is one of the common places for eatery. It was once famous with its curry noodles in 90s but losing out due to its outdated facilities, choice of food and appearance. It did not at all attractive to youngsters who perfer those coffee shop type of outlets for food.

It has been renovated I believed last year and formally changed its appearance now with inclusion of LCD TV and more appealing enviroment.

To me, it can be still a place to be visited if you are not particular about the food. But let be informed that the price of food is not cheap any more or at all.

Jusco at Kinta City has recently added another franchised outlet to its newly renovated food court. It is the "Big Apple Donuts & Coffee"

There is at least a crowd of lines up of miminum 20 customers along the queue. It is really my luck that two of my kids have never like donuts or else I bet I would have to wait at least half an hour for these fancy cookies.

I have this gift of crystal Betta in blue some years back. I had been keeping it in my closet till recently that I have made it as my travel guardian and accompany. It will accompany me all the while whenever I am driving.

There is only one Betta here as male Betta can never be kept more than one in a single territory. I hope I will get another Betta to match up as a pair soon. It is alone here! Will it leads me for some idea of when to find the missing other?

I always complain my spouse that she has bundles of pairs of shoes at her car while she is only wearing one at a time with the others as spares. Never to my awareness that, indeed my car also filled with pairs of shoes of my kids!

My little kid captured this image when he was toying with the Nokia phone. I only come to know about this situation when I checked the phone images today. Amazing! I have 4 pairs of extra shoes inside my car accompanying me all the times. Thanks to my kids that I did not role model for what I had complained of!

When I was leaving Tesco last night after some late night shopping (approx 10pm), I noticed that the car park was having some youngsters with some coupons on hands and eyeing for some "prey" for scratch and win.

I managed to snatch a photo through my Nokia phone and when I was passing by, he is still pursuading the prospective "client"

Scratch and Win is preying on the greeds of human beings and always will find some "unfortunate victims" Well, who is to blame for, if one is not greed to be pursuaded to try one's "luck" in such easy winning "contest". All the best! Only one's self consciousness will win such temptation.

I had been enjoying the white coffee at old town kopitiam since 2004 till recently. I still like the slightly different coffee aroma compare to street side coffee, but not the price.

I remembered for a typical classic white coffee was sold at RM1.50 sometimes ago but now has been increased to RM2.50. This is an increase of 67%! I believed the street side coffee still selling at around RM1.30 - RM1.50 and what has made this old town white coffee worth another 67% This is simply no no no. Of course, I can afford the coffee but I will be avoiding such place now if possible as it is merely commercialized too much now and do not give me the traditional feel of "kopitiam" I would prefer an open air street side in bamboo chair table with some coffees and chit chat with some old friends. Well, those will be old days in 90...

The introduction of Iphone has ignited a wave of changes to phone manufacturers. Now most of the manufacturers are trying to innovatively copy the Iphone fully TOUCH screen type of design. HTC and LG are two of the most successful with quite a bundled of phones provide alternative touch experiences.

Once you have used Iphone, you will be attracted by its touch innovation and the responsive interface of the touch experience. So far, yet, in my opinion, there is no other phones that yet come close to it.

Recently, I tried one of the latest LG innovation of touch base phone, LG viewty with 5MB xenon flash camera phone, the LG KU990 Viewty. This is a really light device and sexy in design. It looks exactly like a digital camera when one looks at its back. This is also a fully touch base phone with customized LG own interface. The touch responses still lose to Iphone but edge away from HTC WM6 phone.

I had change the native LG interface to an Iphone alike interface and walla, it makes me feel like owning an Iphone with 5MB camera and 3G wireless connection.

Hallo..I have an Iphone with 5MB camera and 3G wireless connection. Would you be admiring this phone?

Siamese Betta Fighting fish has extremely attractive color on its fins and body. It is even more appealing when they are aggresive with meeting another male to its territories.

With its fighting behavior, I like to keep it inside my watery plants pot on my study table as a "guardian"

There other dumping ground which i had its image captured weeks ago now finally being "cleaned" up with rubbish dumping ban order by the mayor.

And the site has also been setup with a sand devider to "block" vehicles from going inside to dump thier loads. Great!

I possessed two driving licenses. One in Malaysia while the other one in Arizona. But both of them are now expired! And I had never realized that I need to re-new the driving license! Ha!

Do not stop me when you are seeing I am driving on the road again. I remembered a news on The Star that we can re-new driver license on internet and have it delivered to our desk at an extra charge. Where is the kiosk or internet web url? Anyone?

There are several unit trust funds I had invested since beginning of 2007. They have indeed generated negative yield since the fall of share prices since November 2007.

How much will be the loss? On paper, it accounted at least approximately 20% of the total funds invested. In comparison, stock market recent plunging caused me another 25% poorer even though I am holding a most profitable company in Malaysia (Genting)

I am buying again now seeing the lower price of this stock at RM6.45/= Well as comparison, before it splitted, the share was peak at approx. RM45/=

I am aiming for another potential stock and this will be my telco provider, The Digi Yellow man. Here I come, Digi.

It does not has a camera, black screen, no wifi, no 3G, no color, no mp3 or no memory extension. But it still my best back up phone companion.

You deserve it, Nokia 1110i!

Last week there were three managers leaving the company I am serving now with prospective advancement elsewhere. This week, there is another tender of resignation from another of my friends...

Is it a good sight or a signal of movement for myself?

I have had several parties contacted for prospective cross-over and yet I am still "not" considering..

I will decide after July may be as it will mark two and half years of service and I am definitely want to gauge my value when the time is right.

I do not remember when is the year that has the e-filing implemented for income tax. I only manage to try out this year although I consider myself quite e-centric as I settled all my utilities bills and transactions online, but not the income tax yet!

The process seems simple and straight-forward but the only issue could be the server may not be stable as some of the times are speedy but some times it take ages to load a page. It could be also because there are more people rushing for last minute e-filing before the deadlines.

I find this e-filing is simple and convenient.

Kudos!

This is the so called "Feng Shui" plant at my home. It is placed at the entrance of the main door as the house is "ridiculously" designed with the front door directly leads to the accessing ladder. There was a divider separating the front door and the ladder but I had indeed removed the divider as I feel it had blocked the "gas flow" or "chi"

I put the water plant there simply because I believed that all living plants will have a "life field" that able to block or filter the direct impact of the chi. I still want to "allow" the chi to be directed inside but must be filtered off.

May be some "feng shui master" will tell me other stories with more improvement, but at this moment I find with the removal of the divider, it brightened the spot greatly and thus making the area more spacious. Well, may be the only dislike is the plant I find them not too green as I always like more greenery.