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Hidden Treasure & Great Foods @ Balik Pulau

May 30, 2008 – 9:00 am

For those who want to get away from this small hectic and busy Penang Island, Balik Pulau is an express way to regain and recharge yourself. There are a few ways to get to Balik Pulau. You can use the route from Paya Terubong or from Bukit Jambul. If you have plenty of time to take a longer route with sea side view, you can follow the Teluk Bahang Road. No matter which road you use you will never be lost in Penang. Even if you are lost you don’t have to be panicked as you are still in a small Penang Island.

This photo is at the junction of Paya Terubong to Balik Pulau. There is a Police Station between the terrace houses, so user-friendly. If you are staying beside you will be guaranteed of safety as there won’t have break-in’s or any crime activities.

The scene below showed where we stopped by at the highest level of Balik Pulau with an aerial view of the town.

The big and small islands joining together is known as Tortoise Island to the old folks in Balik Pulau.

Damn ‘potong stim’ (doomed to disappointment), all the scenery around were so nice except for a couple who were hugging and kissing with ‘kelakuan yang tidak senonoh’ (inappropriate behavior) in public. Possibility the conversation as below:

Girl: “Dear, I feel headache after the winding road.”
Guy: “Not to be too worry dear, let me cure your headache by giving you a warm hug and kiss.”
Girl: “Don’t be like that dear, later some one like Steven Goh capture our picture and publish to the whole world how?”
Guy: “$%#& that Steven Goh. Ask him to talk to me only after our ’hangat’ (heat) session.”

That was just half way to our destination, the place which we were heading was an orchard located at some additional 15 minutes away. The picture below is our destination.

Fresh hanging buah petai, sure all the aunties will want to pick. As you know the price of these buah petai are so expensive nowadays.

A concrete house beside the buah petai tree where the owner rares sparrows. I am not sure why this building has an ASTRO? Do the birds watch Discovery Channel?

Two guard dogs came to collect parking fees from us.

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Aid for China Relief

May 23, 2008 – 8:49 pm

If you had read about my previous post on I Can’t Help Them All, At Least I Do What I Can to Help is about saving life for the people in Myanmar of cyclone and also earthquake in China, have you done your part yet?

At my place, there are people collecting donation or organizing charities sales for the aiding survivors of China and Myanmar. There are road side concert setup start singing from 7pm until 1pm non stop mainly just for the charity of china earthquake and also free porridge provided with donation collection for the same purpose too.

For StevenGoh.com I myself had donated nearly USD$50 in term of cash and also items to the survivors aid in China.

In London BackgammonMasters Online Blackjack, Poker and Backgammon Board is generously aiding survivors of the earthquake in China. Backgammon has offered to match $5 for every $1 donated from a months worth of tournament buy-ins ranging from $4.50 to $200. Players will participate in backgammon and blackjack tournaments where all of the prize money will go directly to the UNICEF organization whose main focus of attention and assistance is on child victims of the quake.

So many people had done their parts, have you?

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Whole Day Event On Wesak Day @ Penang

May 23, 2008 – 9:10 am

May 19th is Lord Buddha’s birthday. To all the Buddhists, I would like to wish you all a Happy Wesak Day. For non-Buddhists, wishing all of you a Happy Holiday.

In Penang, the celebration of Wesak day is very grand. I have visited 5 temples and watched the Wesak procession float on that night. I’ve been walking the whole day and busy clicking away with my camera. For those who read this post, you will be enjoying endless scrolls of pictures.

My first stop, the “Tzu Chi”, Penang. Although I am not the member of “Tzu Zhi”, I respect their huge charity commitments to the needy. It is one of the organizations that really reach out to the poor and disabled regardless of their background or races. I’ve seen them at many places during the bad times like Tsunami and landslides.

This is the main entrance of “Tzu Chi”

The balcony at the side wing, allowing people to relax or study.

The surrounding is full of “Zen” and is recharging my “Qi”.

Inside the hall, you will see this crystal structure, was told that this is the Master and the founder of “Tzu Chi”.

The Buddhist scripts are crafted on the bamboos and arranged on the wall.

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I Can’t Help Them All, At Least I Do What I Can to Help

May 22, 2008 – 12:39 am

There are a lot of tragic happend lately, not about Dr. Tun Mahathir.

I am talking about something even bigger and even more terrifying. Is about the cyclone in Myanmar,

And the earthquake in China.

After watching these pictures, I really hope that I can fly there to save their life, but if I am flying there, who is going to save my car loan and bills? I really appreciate and respect the voluntary workers that helping out at there. Again, for me I can’t do much to help them. I wanted to donate to the Milo can that some organization had setup by the road side, but don’t know whether they are genuine?

Thanks to BB Community that sending me an reminder that telling me I can pay via Paypal. Seen we always earn from pay post via paypal and also do a lot of fund transfers with their service, so far they never fail us. Therefore, I had decided to donate via paypal.

For me I only manage to donate USD10 to the China victims. I really hope that all of us can do something to help both Myanmar and China victims back to their normal life again.

For those that wish to pay via paypal, you can login to paypal website and scroll to the bottom of the page and select either Myanmar Cyclone Victime Help or China Earthquake Relief. If you have the ability, you might also consider helping both.

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Tech-Savvy Shopping @ DealTime.co.uk

May 21, 2008 – 11:59 pm

Dealtime.co.uk is part of the shopping.com network. Dealtime.co.uk is helping tech-savvy shoppers to find the right product at the right price.

Dealtime.co.uk is selling products range from appliances, books, clothing, laptop, electronics etc. Whenever you name it, they are all here. DealTime.co.uk is one of the fastest growing shopping destinations on Internet, with millions of products and thousands of merchants.

If you are looking for a range of goods from digital cameras, washing machines, LCD TVs, iPods, through laptops to notebooks, this is the right place to be. There is recent news that showing the price comparison and also product reviews. Hurry up, visit Dealtime.co.uk now and don’t miss out the great offer!

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Nice Spicy Food, Banana Leaf @ Passions Of Kerala

May 20, 2008 – 9:04 am

Ever since a hectic incident about BSA sending letter personally to all the small, medium industries, a lot of my customer also received the love letter. In this letter BSA is very caring about the licensing issue, they will offer FREE concerned checkup services to certain companies and if found there are pirated softwares installed, they will issue empathy summons to them. Well, thanks to the touching BSA, I have to check and perform individual inventories to all my customers’ PC to make sure that there are no piracy in their system, hence I got no time to update my post.

Finally these are all over now and I can have some rest and continue with what I have left of. For those who love to eat Indian food especially banana leaf rice, Passions of Kerala is the place you should visit. It is located in Services Road off Burma Road.

Below is the Wikimapia’s GPS location:

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=5.4254286&lon=100.3203195&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2&show=/8168432/

The is the view outside the restaurant at Services Road.

Ok, this lady is called Cindy and she was joining us for our lunch. She is still single and looking for good guy. If anyone is interested to know her please drop me a comment. By the way, I don’t know if she is too unique or I am too out. She told me that this is her first time taking banana leaf rice. While having it she commented that banana leaf rice is nothing so special because she was expecting banana leaves to be grained and cooked together with the rice. Anyone who is willing to teach her more about our local tradition and delicacies especially banana leaf rice, please also drop me comments.

The Heineken-sponsored “Passions Of Kerala” signboard.

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One-Stop Web Hosting Directory

May 14, 2008 – 8:34 am

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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.