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d24blog@yahoo.com24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-85206404161504040432009-05-24T06:32:00.004-04:002009-05-24T06:38:08.773-04:00Zee Avi - Malaysian songwriter/singer new album (May 09)Had been listening to 'Bitter Heart' by Zee Avi, Miri-born girl from youtube.Got famous from youtube and headed to LA, USA to cut her 1st album.Check her up at www.zeeavi.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdXDgaEgaJ8Nice catchy song and below is the lyric:Sun rays come down as seen when they hit the ground,Children spinning around till they24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-66097697033334754872009-05-11T03:08:00.002-04:002009-05-11T03:12:53.693-04:00Email from Philly to kids dated 28 March 2005Hello kids and dearestHave a nice long weekends break b'cos of EasterHoliday here, ie have Friday off.On Friday, went to Philly Museum of Arts. B'cos mycompany donated a lot of money to this Museum, I getto go in for free by showing my company card withphoto (just had this b'cos I need this pass to go intomy US office). If not, have to pay USD 10 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-65611144088109090172009-05-11T03:01:00.002-04:002009-05-11T03:06:34.027-04:00email to kids dated 25 March, 2005 from Phillyhello kidsmore stories for u all:last weekends, dad went to reading terminal marketwhere the old movie 'Witness' was filmed (harrisonford) with the amish kid. there are still amish peoplestaying in lancaster a nearby town (they do not useelectricity nor drive cars. their transport is horsecart but sometimes, they also ride on other peoplecars to go to24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-7118054487246621812009-04-30T03:22:00.004-04:002009-04-30T03:29:50.537-04:00Some photos from Philly, dated March 200511street - some of the street i walked by on the wayto office.cityskyline - nearby to my hotelsunrise at 6 am and set around 6 pm now.it is good as longer sunlight. this week is alreadystarts of spring but weather is still cold. some areanearby to philly still have some snow fall thismorning.phillysnow - from my hotel room window, looking downis the car 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-35570590431806920442009-04-30T03:18:00.001-04:002009-04-30T03:20:42.733-04:00Email to home from Philly, dated March 25, 2005 (Thursday)Hello kids & dearHow're you been getting along without your daddyaround? Hope all of you have been behaving well andhelp dad to look after mum. :) Remember to practiseyour piano and finish up your homeworks. Put fewringgits in your schoolbags just in case, sometimes,you forgotten to get your money for recess or lunchfrom mum. Nice talking 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-62357974987066826692009-04-30T03:15:00.001-04:002009-04-30T03:16:57.486-04:00Email from Philly to home, dated March 20, 2005 (Sunday)hibought a kid raincoat for usd 1 (rm 3.80) from the usd1 dollar shop today. did not buy any other thing as nomood for shopping. feeling lonely nowadays as has to eat dinners aloneand stayed in room alone. weekdays are ok as will betoo tired to think much. the newspaper here are quiteboring, not much news. last week, the news are mainlyon 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-49838623530654479332009-04-30T03:12:00.000-04:002009-04-30T03:13:54.099-04:00Email from Philly to home, dated 18 March 2005still feeling jetlag. yesterday, slept at 10 pm andthis morning, woke up at 4 am and tried to sleep butcannot sleep. had dinner at a chinese restaurant, fried beef kwayteow. very big serving, i can only finished 1/3 of theplate. it's crazy the serving here! weather is stillcold as i can see some snow at edge of the carparkfrom my hotel's window in the24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-67405832405220255422009-04-30T03:10:00.002-04:002009-04-30T03:11:21.852-04:00Email from Philly to home, dated 17 March 2005hihope u're feeling better now after the good rest.pls use the FD if needed as my salary etc wouldn't goin until end of the month.a lot of works in this project as the dateline is verytight. target is still end april for my work tocomplete. problem holding back my work is therequirements from other teams are not coming in yet asthey also have not 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-18315099505925517782009-04-30T03:07:00.002-04:002009-04-30T03:08:52.529-04:00Email from Philly to home, dated 15 March 2005HiInside hotel room no. 1124 at Hampton Inn, Philly now after Indonesian dinner, bath, and then sent out my laundry (had to leave them at counter).tried calling your cellphone at 8:15 am M'sia time butno one answer. was walking back to hotel and it was socold as there was wind blowing. suspect it is below 0celcius. today's temp was 0-7 Celcius. dinner24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-41281371783267164932009-04-30T02:58:00.004-04:002009-04-30T03:04:08.921-04:00Email to home from Philly USA - dated 12 March 2005Hihad chinese dinner yesterday nite. cost usd 22 for twodishes, duck with rice and octopus fried with vege.cannot finish as too much. slept early as too tiredsince can only get 3 hours sleep on thursday nite.lunch - out with my new boss, Ralph Ruocco (who also had his35th year service breakfast party yesterday) andanother colleague, Dawn Bordogna24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-18949719608268236812009-04-30T02:54:00.002-04:002009-04-30T02:56:42.522-04:00Hello from Philly, USA - email dated March 11, 2005Hi,Below some news from me in Philly, USA:KL to Stockholm took 13 hours. A bit of turbulence inIndia and Pakistan but overall, quite smooth flight.Stopover at Stockholm for 2 hours and price is quitehigh at this Sweden airport. Xchange rate is USD 1 =Sweden dollar 6.2. Calculated the beer can costs RM 8.There were snow every here in Sweden and 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-86756784356858916032009-04-30T02:50:00.001-04:002009-04-30T02:51:34.597-04:00Chap Goh May - 15th day of Chinese New Year, email dated 23 Feb 2005Hi guysHappy Chap Goh Mei to you all! (15th day of ChineseNew Year) Les, time to go to some lake or river toniteand checkup those maidens or PYTs throwing mandarinoranges into the water, to get good hubby. Wear afloat as I don't wish you to be too excited and getdrowned by the temptation of lust over there.Today is a lucky day 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-87153962464509561882009-04-30T02:44:00.002-04:002009-04-30T02:48:11.932-04:00Story from Shanghai - Email dated Dec 26, 2004howdy guys,shanghai is definitely booming as tall buildings keptpopping up here and there, like mushrooms after rains.property price here has shot up quite a lot,easilymore than 50% since 2-3 years ago. my m'sian colleaguerented a 3 bedroom furnished apartment for around rm3k, which is 5 minutes walk to shanghai office (Hitech Plaza).carrefours are 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-3036713061198982092009-04-30T02:39:00.001-04:002009-04-30T02:42:23.244-04:00Hello from Songjiang, Shanghai China - Email dated Dec 23, 2004hi guys,have been here since sunday early morning and will beback by tomorrow evening. was bumped up to 1st classduring my flight so that i could sleep better but didnot get much sleep since the flight is quite short ie5 hours and need 1 hour to eat my supper of satayswith red wines before i fall asleep. on sunday, wentto yu yuan plus24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-2608192564089384862009-04-30T02:35:00.002-04:002009-04-30T02:37:39.399-04:00Sungai Buloh's Punchow (Selangor)- Written Dec 27, 2004Attached the aboved for your virtual partaking of thisdelicious plus succulent sauces dish, which need topre-order one day ahead and cost RM 200. It is fit for10 adults with rice and there will be leftover if someare small-eaters! Maybe, will arrange a CNY lunch ordinner in Feb (go dutch unless your uncle looi kenaToto RM 2 million tomorrow).24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-29594727703980795362009-04-30T02:26:00.005-04:002009-04-30T02:32:13.140-04:00Email dated August 30, 2004 - MentakabI will be posting some old emails that I recovered from my yahoo's account.Hi guysSelamat Merdeka Day to all and now is the closingceremony for Olympics 2004! M'sia tak-boleh in thisOlympics as we won a big zero medal, what a joke withthe amount of monies paid to train our athletes withforeigners trainers etc. Our badminton team failed usand it's time to roll24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-65336631964324023232009-02-26T23:55:00.003-05:002009-02-27T00:12:58.962-05:00My mum - Miss Ngborn in Fukien, china, stayed there till she was around 10 years old. she felled into paddyfield and it was winter and she had bad cold (pneumonia). so, grandfather sent her to betong (south thailand) as grandpa was doing biz. in this town. grandpa owned few shops here and also, loaned monies out and make more money via loan interest.grandma died when my mum is quite young. mum 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-89281445326735076992009-02-19T04:55:00.002-05:002009-02-19T05:07:54.237-05:0027 to 30 December 2008 - Tour de Siem Reap (Angkor Wat and its surroundings)Written: Early January 2009happy belated new year to all and families! markets are recovering and hope you can salvage some of your hard-earned cash from the markets this new year.just got back from a refreshing 4-days vacation in angkor kingdom. met pete teo, the songwriter/singer and ex-minister of tourism on the same 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-7047489847392419152008-11-26T07:44:00.001-05:002008-11-26T07:46:54.708-05:00I Come, I Saw and I Conquer - Rome, Italy (Oct 2006)A great sunny morning for my partner, Queenie and I as we both got driven by my brother in law to Stanstead airport, UK to catch a flight to Rome. Checkin was smooth and then, we waited to be called to the plane. Announcement said the flight will be delayed due to crews caught in a bad jam. With another one hour delay, we patiently waited and 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-10278836664025835322008-10-30T03:03:00.003-04:002008-10-30T03:08:43.492-04:00Frying Ozzie Dollars and World Financial MeltdownsThe world is getting to be a scary place to live, as bad news came one after another.First, credit crunch then Financial giants collapsed (Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and AIG even had problem and need to be rescued etc) and markets plummetting and Ozzie dollars also got sold (and dropped from rm3.10 per aud1 to rm 2.20 and now, hovers around 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-69677612293143749332008-07-31T03:05:00.002-04:002008-07-31T03:17:31.228-04:00Paul Theroux - My favorite authorjust completed reading his novel, blinding light 438 pages. took me many many weeks to finish as got disrupted and distracted. spent close to 6 weeks to complete while reading my fortune, newsweek plus some other books, ram charan etc. quite a nice and intriguing novel about slade steadman on a trip to ecuador with his girldfriend, ava took a drug that blinded him24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-2176922360602184962008-07-31T02:21:00.002-04:002008-07-31T02:41:33.722-04:00Shanghai - July 21 to 26In Shanghai for 1 week meeting at Pudong. Had some wonderful dinners at Tang Dynasty Restaurant near Renaissance Pudong Hotel (love the shanghainese cold steamed chicken with rice-wine sauce) and Shintaro Japanese Restaurant inside Four Season Hotel.Plus, my favorite Mao Restaurant in Sofitel Hotel, Nanjing Lu. Bought some handbags for my wife at Shanghai Science Museum (24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-56914318149268988102008-05-15T05:18:00.002-04:002008-05-15T05:30:21.360-04:00Food food food - Ngow Kee's Beef Noodlebeen eating nice food last few days. last friday, may 9 2008 was in pu yuan's restaurant (hokkienese dishes like fried yam noodle, tanghoo, pek-kor, juicy porkribs etc) for farewell lunch for a colleague who is leaving to take up a new job in singapore (basf), a competitor. may 10, dinner at happy garden to celebrate mothers' day and may 11, had brunch at 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-55579618065439354002008-03-12T03:14:00.002-04:002008-03-12T03:34:56.969-04:00Election news-March 12 2008results is out on monday.for parliament seats, bn won 140 and oppositions won 82 seats. bn still rule the country but have stronger opposition voices and eyes to watch and vet thru spendings. for states seats, bn won 307 and opposition 198. kedah, penang, perak, selangor and kelantan falls to oppositions. penang dap, lim guan eng becomes chief minister (from an 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3582411.post-27008544722911323242008-03-12T02:59:00.002-04:002008-03-12T03:07:29.033-04:00Election Day and Post-election Results 8-9 March 2008went for breakfast and then, headed to nearby school to cast my vote with wife.very fast as no queue and completed this voting process within 5 minutes.saw lim lip eng, the dap candidate there but he kept a low profile.at nite, as results and rumors out from sms and cellphones and tv news, all stayed awake as we listened to bad news for 24http://www.blogger.com/profile/15612486183354477547noreply@blogger.com0