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Do you know that while you open gmail.google.com, you can also chat with other people in your list of Google Talk? Today I had the opportunity to chat online with my client using Google Talk. There is a green round button beside the name if the person is online and happen to open Gmail. Simply click on the name and a chat window will display. Just type in the box and hit enter for the message to be sent over. Easy as that. It works on Windows, OSX and Linux operating systems. Google Talk is very basic and gets the message across without all the features and advertisements of a full blown messenger like Yahoo. You can go and try and see it for yourself.
Here is an interesting YouTube on Tic, the first hamster and Tac the second hamster. The video above has OVER 3,000,000 views since December 31, 2006 - incredible! Enjoy. I used to keep a pet golden hamster, a gift from my second sister during my varsity days. It helps to relieve stress from all the studying and I loved petting its fury pelt, warm body in my hands. But I also had to clean its cage weekly and shampoo it at the same time. While cleaning its cage from its droppings, I would put my pet hamster, affectionately called Hammy in a pail so that it won’t escape while cutting newspapers into stripes and mashed it into a ball as blanket for it when it curled up to sleep at night. I even bought a mini battery-operated clip fan for it.
Watch this hilarious why MCA video from Comedy Court. I like the Ali Baba part and bang balls. It is a spoof of the YMCA song with the lyrics changed to suit the recent political climate. This video came about as MCA has been almost defeated by the opposition. Though not as bad as MIC, it is still reeling from its losses to the electorate, causing Ong Ka Ting to reject a minister post to concentrate on rebuilding the party. But will he succeed? We shall know in the next general election in 2013.
Since the election on 8th March 2008, many members in UMNO and Barisan talked about building blogs as an alternative way to reach the people. They want to emulate DAP-PKR-PAS coalition parties which used the blogs to speak out to the public. This will enable the people to know the real truth behind every scandal and much more. And frankly speaking, I find that I am getting addicted to reading political blogs; more information that you cannot find in the mass media via newspapers.
I joined Herbalife, a multi-level marketing (MLM) or direct selling program just 3 days ago. It was so convenient. I paid by internet banking to my upline’s Maybank account and the next morning, it was delivered right to my door step by Skynet from Kuala Lumpur. Above are the items I have received from Herbalife. And I was introduced this by my upline who is also my Yahoo Messenger online chat friend based in KL. He has been doing this business for 3 years now since they started in Malaysia and have even gotten RM10,000 check in commissions from his 30 downlines.
I am happy I have made the right choice to reduce weight. As you can see, I love food too much and it is about time I need to reduce my weight for an optimum BMI (Body Mass Index). From the BMI chart, I am considered overweight but thank goodness not obese. So I bought Formula 1 nutritional shake of french vanilla flavor to replace my daily meals. Just 2 scoops with 250ml of water to replace my lunch and dinner. As of today, I have already lost 0.5kg after 2 days of drinking the vanilla shake. And it is delicious and not sweet at all. I have previously joined other MLM companies, all to no avail like Perfect Youth and Lampe Berger which cost a whopping RM30,000 just to be a count. I only paid RM98 for the business pack with distributor license and form. And another RM79.23, after 50% discount at cost price from my upline at a supervisor level, for the Formula 1 nutritional shake. For more details, check out here and see the pictures of consumers with slim sexy bodies from an otherwise obese body. By the way, F1 nutritional shake mix is the bestseller product of the company to help people reduce weight.
Herbalife was founded in 1980, a company that sells weight-loss, nutrition and skin-care products by multi-level marketing, also known as network marketing. In February 1980, Mark Hughes began selling the original Herbalife weight loss product from the trunk of his car. Mark started Herbalife with the help of physicians including a Nobel peace price winner for medicine after much research for the supplements. Herbalife started when Mark Hughes saw his own mother died at the young age of 36 due to efforts trying to lose weight from unworkable and sub-quality weight loss programs. The company now has grown by leaps and bounds, spread in 60 countries with multi-billion dollar profit. If you like to lose weight while earning money at the same time, drop me an email at diana [dot] tan [at] gmail [dot] com.
I had a very good weekend vacationing in Dorset Hotel in Larut Road, Penang. It was located just opposite Kentucky Fried Chicken’s outlet in a colonnial bungalow. It was also conveniently located opposite my church known as Georgetown Baptist Church with English services at 9:00am, 11:00am and Hokkien service at 4:30pm by Pastor Yeoh Guan Hock. That’s one of the reason why I booked this hotel instead of staying in Vistana Hotel like last weekend. Our church service venue has been changed from Relau to Larut Road in town. This is a much bigger place and better location which is quite established. Below are the photos taken from my camera.
View from our hotel room in Dorset Hotel.
See the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet at the bottom. Another view from our hotel room.
Writing table with lamp and mirror.
How comfortable the huge sofas in the lobby.
Bathroom of our hotel room. There’s a basket of freebies like shampoo, shower cap, cotton buds, sewing kit and soap in the corner.
I just make a donation to the Thai orphans through Pastor Cheah Chee Moon. His dream is to ensure the homeless children under his care in Chiang Rai, Thailand, acquire a sound education. To achieve this, the 46-year-old Penangite recently embarked on a fund-raising mission to collect money for the schooling expenditure of the 56 children in his centre, called Agape Home. Riding a 30-year-old Honda Cub, Cheah travelled from Thailand to Singapore through the west coast of peninsula Malaysia.
“I am hoping that people will generously donate a ringgit for every kilometre covered.” said Cheah, who expects to have ridden about 6,000km by the time he returns to Thailand. Cheah’s involvement with orphaned and destitute children in Thailand began in 1984 when he went there as a missionary worker.
He found that there were far too many of them, some ending on the streets after both their parents succumbed to AIDS. “Some of these children were also HIV-positive and needed special care,” said Cheah. “My heart went out to them and I decided to take up the challenge of giving them a better life.”
He added that these street children had little opportunity in life and no way of acquiring an education. After years of working hard as a missionary to take care of their needs, he set up Agape Home several years ago to take in destitute children and give them a proper education.
According to Cheah, he wanted the children in Agape Home to go as far as possible academically. “Once they are well-educated, they will be able to take good care of themselves,” said Cheah, who runs the home with the help of four workers. He said homeless children had better opportunities in Malaysia compared to Thailand as there were many centres in Malaysia catering to their needs.
Chap Goh Meh represents the fifteenth and final day of the Lunar New Year period as celebrated by Chinese communities. The term is from the Hokkien dialect and refers to the fifteenth day of the first month, which is the occasion of the first full moon of the New Year.
The occasion is marked by feasting and various festivities, including the consumption of tangyuan. In traditional Chinese culture, it is also celebrated as the Lantern Festival or the Shang Yuan Festival. In Southeast Asia, however, it coincides with the Chinese Valentine’s Day. It is also when young unmarried women gather to toss tangerines into the sea, in a hope that their future spouse will pick it up – a custom that originated in Penang, Malaysia. In the past, this was also the only day that unmarried ladies could be seen with their partners.
Yesterday I went to see an Indian lady doctor in Island Glades and she charged me a very expensive amount of RM55 just for a visit of cough without fever. And she gave me a strong anti-biotic which I don’t really need and charged me an exorbitant amount for it! Previously I did see her before and did tell her some of the medication I already have and there is no necessity to give to me. But still she insisted on me using her medication.
I had originally planned to visit Dr Por of Union Clinic in Jalan Gangsa, which is much cheaper and he doesn’t simply charge patients for medication that they don’t require. Twice before I went, the clinic was closed… most likely he went for dinner before opening again at supposedly 7:00pm to 9:00pm. It is just unfortunate that the time when I could visit him, the clinic was closed. And I have been resting at home, hopefully my cough will recover soon. I guess I ate too much heaty crackers during Chinese New Year.
Here are some photos taken around this season at various places to whet your appetite. I shall be going to Haadyai from tomorrow morning until the third day of Chinese New Year. In the meantime, there won’t be any blogging as I take a break. The van will come and pick us up at around 6:00am tomorrow to Lee Garden Hotel in Haadyai. My parents plan to get lots of cashew nuts which are cheaper there. Happy Chinese New Year to all my readers!
Shop selling all kind of Chinese New Year paraphernalia.
Red pussy willow. Commonly used to decorate homes during Chinese New Year.
Turquoise intricately designed antique bowls.
Pots of kumkuat that resemble mandarin oranges are a hot buy.
