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Living with Style @ The Cove

May 12, 2008 – 7:26 am

Recently I finished reading a book The Secret. I find that it is a good book and hope to share with all of you. The book is about Law Of Attraction. The Law Of Attraction states that “everything that’s coming into your life you are attracting into your life. And it’s attracted to you by virtue of the images you’re holding in your mind. It’s what you’re thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind are attracting to you”. - Rhonda Byrne.

You won’t believe that some of the greatest people in history like Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln and Einstein had practiced The Secret before. For me, it took me 6 months to really dig up more about The Secret. I was told by many people about Law Of Attraction by Anthony Robbins that it is very powerful and you have to believe in it. It’s like the Law Of Gravity that will not fail to apply on anything in this universe.

I didn’t really believe in it until I met a very successful businessman that is practising and reminding me about The Secret again. He told me, in order for you to get success you have to always feel good and visualise all the things that you want in life. The more detailed you visualise, the nearer you are to your goal. Anyway, feeling good and visualising about your success is good but do not be too overwhelmed as eventually this will make things worse.

After getting these advices, I decided to draw up a visual board of what I want in life and below is one of my dreams, a multimillion ringgit condo - The Cove. This is the first time I have visited this condo as it belongs to one of my customers. I was there to fix his wireless access.

The view from the condo which stands up to 3o floors and more and each floor only has a single unit.

The entrance to one of the blocks.

The walk way and the park.

The swimming pool

The view from the master bedroom.

Decoration inside the master bedroom

Even the bathroom also has its own Jacuzzi and Sauna room

The hall way and the living room

Even the size of the kitchen is bigger than my hall and living room.

The walkway to the guest rooms

Each of the guest room has a Plasma TV.

For those who wants success, hope that these pictures will help you on attracting your dream house. If this is not the type of dream house that you wish, then you need to find other pictures and hang it somewhere so that you can move toward to your goal.

stevengoh |

Lifestyle, Penang |

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First Vietnamese Fine Cuisine in Penang @ Miss Saigon, eGate

May 5, 2008 – 8:18 am

There are not much places selling Vietnamese food in Penang. The only place that I can recall is The Food Loaf at Gurney Plaza. However, so far in Penang there is no restaurant which offers authentic Vietnamese food.

Now there is one restaurant at eGate which offers fine Vietnamese cuisine. Last Friday was the first day of the restaurant’s grand opening. I am honoured to be invited by the owner to try out the food and entitled to 50% discount. Now, with all these privileges who still thinks that I am a weirdo food blogger who took pictures over my meal?

The actual location of Miss Saigon is located at eGate, Penang and it’s beside Georgetown Cafe and OldTown Cafe.

Wikimapia’s GPS:

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=5.3763751&lon=100.3157061&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2

The phone number is shown as below. If you are really in a hurry you can call to pre-order your food as the restaurant is still very new and needs longer preparation time.

These are restaurant’s staffs and the counter. Currently there is still no cashier machine and all the bill are calculated manually.

I love the decoration inside as it has a mixture of contemporary and traditional Vietnamese ambience.

My cup of tea which is the Vietnamese Lemongrass Tea. Actually, I wanted to try out Vietnamese Lotus Tea, however there it is not in stock yet. Fortunate enough the lemongrass tea actually tastes nice too, else I will be cursing up and down.

Someone has ordered A&W Root Beer Float. Hm….

Grilled Boneless Chicken Thigh Topped with Lemongrass Sauce. The chicken is well marinated with the lemongrass gravy served with broken rice and vege. The chicken tastes nice and makes your mouth watery when it is being served as the baked chicken with lemongrass really smell nice.

Traditional Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup. Beef slices and koay teow in clear beef broth, served with bean sprouts, mint leaves, lemon and green leaves. This is a very typical and traditional Pho (pronounce as fer) for their koay teow. Beef soup is very nice as they boiled with beef bones for long hours.

While having my dinner, I saw someone sitting across my table is looking at the menu and writing a lot on his diary too. I think he might be another food critic. Too bad I didn’t have a chance to know him. If anyone know him please tell me.

Vietnamese Southern Noodle, Stir Fried Beef. Fragrant beef and rice noodle, served with green salad, lemongrass, peanuts, mint leaves, cucumber and bean sprouts. The beef slices is quite similar tothe traditional Vietnamese beef noodle soup, the only difference is there are not much soup in here and they have changed the koay teow to rice noodle.

Fragrant Beef Baked in Bamboo Cup. The serving of this dish is very similar to grilled boneless chicken where there is vege and broken rice. This time the meat is served in a bamboo cup and on top is sprinkled with grained leamongrass. The meat was marinated before it was baked. I love the meat but the gravy is a bit too salty.

Editor’s Review (5 Stars Rank):

Taste
Price
Food Presentation
Service
Overall

Overall, I love the environment here as the place is very cozy. However, there is still room for improvement on their services and foods. I will make another “spot check” next month to see their progress.

stevengoh |

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Google Page Rank Refresh Again

May 5, 2008 – 7:44 am

I have just realised the google page rank has refreshed again recently. I remember the last time I wrote about Google Page Rank was back in January this year and the title is Google Refresh PR Status:

http://www.stevengoh.com/article/google-refresh-pr-status/

This week, Google has refreshed all the websites’ PR again. A few of the webpages were affected while some still remain the same. As for myself, I am quite happy as I have earned a PR4 for my webpage!

So far I have asked a few internet marketing gurus about the actual time Google does a review on all webpages’ PR status. However, their answers are uncertain. Now I can roughly estimate when the review is being done. From my last post about Google Page Rank until now is from Jan until April, means that Google will review once in every 3 months. So for those of you who want to score better PR, you need to start to work hard from now until July this year before the next review is conducted.

Some ups and down for the bloggers over the Page Rank.

Merdurian - Now in PR3, one of the good ways to get higher PR is don’t think how to gain PR with your blog and instead just write whatever which is relevent to your blog topic. Gain more external links by leaving comments at other people blogs.

BB Community - Great job done to bring back your PR, at least you stoppped writing about paid posts and now you have gained back a PR2.

SlowCatchUpKuan - Used to be at PR2 and now is in PR0, she got quality posts lately however still unable to get back her rank, not sure why unless she is willing to share with me what she has done to her blog or any coding added to her blog which pulled down her PR.

CheeChingy - Used to be PR2 also and now PR0, I think she is facing the same problem as SlowCatchUpKuan.

ChanLilian - The guru that teaches me on how to strive for higher PR still remains at PR4, not sure why? However according to her blog she has done something “notty” at the front page that’s why she is still stuck at 4. If I have the chance I would like to invite her out for an exclusive interview on how she earn her 5 figure income in blogging.

KennySia - Used to be in PR5 but now dropped to PR3, I think he doesn’t care much about page rank anymore as he is so famous now. Page Rank to him is just another cosmetic.

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Back to Nature @ Pantai Kerachut National Park

April 30, 2008 – 4:12 pm

Usually I will update my blog every weekend. But for the last weekend I have been to some where very special and nice. It is the Penang National Park - Pantai Kerachut. I have been here before and this is the second time we visited. This time we went together with a Nature Tour Guide who explained to us the various parts of the wild. I just love this place because I can let go of all my work and worries here.

Warning: this post will contain a lot of beautiful pictures, please be prepared to scroll until your fingers get cramps.

This is the entrance of the National Park. The office is made from wood to symbolise the nature. Unfortunately, it is sad to see that they had to cut off many beautiful trees in order to build this beautiful office. *Sigh*

The view after a short distance of the entrance.

Signboard reminder to public to protect and conserve the National Park

The hanging Pineapple. Note this is for display purpose only not for your mouth.

Bridge to Taman Negara (It reminds me of the movie “Bridge to Terabithia”)

Tongkat Ali tree, according to folk’s law the height of the tree is equivalent to the root of the tree.

According to our tour guide, this damn big tree can release cool air equivalent to 20 horse powers of air conditioners.

A kind of Fern leave

Trail from the way to Pantai Kerachut

I remember my biology teacher used to bring us a tree branch which has the smell of “Sarsi soft drink”, she asked us whether we knew the name of the tree and after 10 years now I can answer her. It’s called (Medang Kemangi - cinnamomum porrectum). For those who don’t believe it, come to smell it yourself, of course 50sen per smell.

Tree trunk which blocked the way but we still managed to cross over.

The dry season which made the stream even more shallow.

Monkey cup on the ground.

The place where we setup our tents.

Starting up the fire using woods, dry leaves and charcoal.

Some one is giving instruction on how to cook. I wonder the instructor knows how to cook.

Turtle at the hatching center, so cute.

Scenery by the seaside

The scene on the way to waterfall.

Waterfall at the hill side.

Thumbs up for the ladies.

Pictures of our tour guide in naked, priceless.

Somebody is so free to stack up the crystal stones.

I am squeezing myself into the picture as I am holding the camera.

Rock which resembles a rabbit

Rock which resembles a crocodile’s head.

On the way back to civilization.

Easier for me now, as the boat man helped us take the photo.

stevengoh |

Lifestyle, Travel, Penang |

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Revisit to Special Curry Stall @ BB Food Court

April 24, 2008 – 7:53 am

From now onwards, I have to be very careful with what I have written on my blog. Because I don’t know who will be reading my blog from time to time. Those of you who have been following up closely to my posts should notice that I have previously posted a Very Special Curry Mee at BB Food Court, link as below:

http://www.stevengoh.com/food/hawker-food/very-special-curry-noodle-bb-food-court/

I was told by my friend that the Curry Mee Owner has placed my article over the stall. Eventhough I visit this stall frequently I didn’t take notice of the article over there as it is placed towards the front entrance whereas I usually come in from the side entrance.

I was so surprised to see my article here as I have never mentioned to the owner that I will publish her article on the Internet. I just told her that I will help her to do free advertisement and allow myself to take the pictures of the stall. When asked about how she knew about this article she said her niece told her about this blog.

Well, for the crazy food blogger like me, finally I got my reward of one BIG bowl of curry mee with specially-added ingredients like sotong (squit), siow yok (roasted pork) and the usual stuffs like char siow (barbeque pork) and additional pork blood, yummy~~

By the way, the taste of the curry mee is still the best. I hope that she can keep up with the great taste and service. The reason is a lot of stalls have become commercialized after they are well-established, thus the food or service may not be that good as before.

stevengoh |

Penang Food, Spicy Food, Asian Food, Hawker Food, Chinese Food, Food |

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Enjoy Leisure And Nice Food @ Federal Place

April 19, 2008 – 7:40 pm

Looking for a place to relax after work or fancy having lunch in an air-conditioned place? Federal Place (previously known as Honolulu Club) is the most suitable place for you. As an appreciation to my frequent readers, there will be a 10% discount voucher for you to print out at the end of this post to bring it to Federal Place for any ala-carte food and beverages consumed. This offer is only available exclusively at StevenGoh.com. I would like to send this credit to the floor manager of Federal Place, Sabrina, who allows me to provide this special offer to my readers.

For those who read my post about The Best Tai Lok Mee In Town you might probably realised that I have mentioned about Honolulu Pub before. Now it has been renamed to Federal Place (联邦) as this place was a cinema back in the 80’s and the name was called Federal Cinema back then. To be more accurate the location of this place is located opposite Acer Service Centre at Jalan Dato Keramat. For those who would like to dine in during any special occasion, you may call first to make reservation:

Telephone:   04-226 5858, 227 6602 (Alvin/Sabrina)
Address:        341, Dato Keramat Road, 10460 Penang
Operation:   Restaurant is open daily inclusive weekends, 12:00noon - 2:30pm

At Federal Place, besides enjoying the great food here, office executives and businessmen will also find this as a good place to relax and have a mug or two. The pub is located just beside the restaurant. Below is the picture showing the interior decoration of Federal Place Restaurant. Currently they are having promotion - RM8 per dish from a selection of 88 dishes. This promotion is only valid during lunch time (12:00noon - 2:30pm daily including weekends). Each dish is sufficient for sharing between 3 to 4 pax. The variety of dishes includes soup, vegetable, chicken, meat, prawn and even fish fillet.

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Penang Food, Asian Food, Chinese Food, Penang, Food |

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Tasty Spicy Curry Mee and Fried Jawa Mee - BM Town

April 11, 2008 – 8:52 am

I was told by my reader that my food blog is concentrating on Penang Island only, my coverage over to the mainland is so weak. All right, for those who think my coverage is not strong enough “oversea” now I am penatrating Bukit Mertajam (BM) area. Next time I am going to wear yellow suite, see who still say my coverage is not strong enough.

The place that I have been this time is on the middle way from BM market place to St. Ann Church where it’s near to the Taman Berjaya. Wikimapia GPS location as below:

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=5.354696&lon=100.469638&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2

The first stall that I am going to introduce is the Curry Mee cum Koay Teow Theng cum Squid stall. Anyway, this stall is famous for the curry mee. Check out the newspaper cutting infront of the stall.

The color of the curry mee is quite red. However, it is not as hot and spicy as it looks to be. If the level of spicy can be rated from 1 to 5, I will place it at level 2. The taste of the curry mee is different from Penang as the coconut milk is very mild and the soup is a bit sweet. Overall the taste of this curry mee is very delicious and you don’t have to worry about the price, all the food in BM are much cheaper than in Penang.

Editor’s Review (5 Stars Rank):

Taste
Price
Food Presentation
Service
Overall

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stevengoh |

Penang Food, Spicy Food, Asian Food, Hawker Food, Bukit Mertajam, Chinese Food, Food |

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Looking for Discount Coupons?

April 10, 2008 – 12:45 am

As a smart consumer, I will usually compare prices. I prefer to buy something which has discounts rather than new arrivals. A good example is the Adidas sports shoe that I’m wearing. I bought it 3 months after my friend bought it and guess what, mine is only 70% of his.

A lot of people have the perception that cheap things are not good in quality. To me, discounted items is sometime due to stock clearance and at this moment their margin is always very slim or even break even. If you are the person who loves to get discount coupons, BestOnlineCoupons.com is the website that you must visit.

At BestOnlineCoupons.com, there are thousands of coupons for hundreds of online stores. You can always find the best shopping discounts and deals. Just for example, under the section of “Apparel & Clothing” you will find a few famous merchant like Adidas at Sale Section – Save up to 40%, GAP on Spring Sale, Nike Shoe Store on clearance and etc.