Hey YOU..DoN’t B1OcK the BlOgGerZ

Singa took us for a treat to Bagan Lalang, need to say that he planned very well. His wife and son joined us, we had fun. However we missed the road to bagan lalang He ordered quite a number of seafood which added gastronomy. Singa thanks for your treat !! We shall go again !!

My weekend was really booked for many functions and outings with my family and collegues. The most remarkable one was attending a great word-could- never-express performance at Istana Budaya - Sivagamiyin Sabatham (SS). The story is about long love-lorn between 2 kingdoms , Pallava and Vathapi.

 

My sis bought Franco and Aggie new shirt, frankie looked like gangsta with number 88 printed on it, the tshirt is body hugging and he can hardly move after that. Both brother and sister was napping around. They looked adorable and cute.

I found this cool site that translates tamil words,

Check it out at http://www.quillpad.com , Tested my name in tamil and the output is awesome ..!!

வீழ்வெஷ்வாரி ம்கேசவாமூற்த்தி

This is few snaps taken when my mom and my old aged grandma at her native in RajaMundhry. My grandma always wanted to take dip in Godavari. The Godavari has been held as a special place of pilgrimage for many thousands of years. Many famous personalities, including Baladeva (5000 years ago) and more recently Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (500 years ago) have bathed in her waters as an act of worship. - Source from Wikipedia.

It is dirty but in India it is normal

Last month 24th we went Jimmy & Nong Thai Bbq to celebrate my bf’s birthday. My parents, aunt, my sis and of course the b’day baby was in. The environment as usual was noisy with killer aromatic of bbq spices and sauces. We ordered quite many type of seafood combo - Such as Udang with Petai , bbqed squid which was juicy and tender, Fried Lala which was very fresh and succulent, Kangkung belacan, Steamed Siakap with Thai sauce , bbqed Cockles with shell - this was very special cause it is served hot with special spicy Thai bbq sauce. Not forgetting the grilled crab - yummy yummy.. I think we almost ordered all the food tht is avail in the Menu card.. ahahaha. Finally the bill came,  you won’t believe it .. the price was damn reasonable for that much of food items, something which I didn’t expect at all.. Yeah !! I think all the subsequent parties in future, I may want to have it at this place. It uses the hawker concept in closed area.

It was his first experience to have this kinda magnamanious birthday party, although it was not grand bash but i think he enjoyed it very much. But he is kinda of shy.. trying to be in his best looks infront of his in law .. hehehe. Impressing them ??.. Nahh.. they are already impressed with you

Visit my fotopage for the photos.

You must have read papers , articles and talk show hitting reality in our brains that in few years to come our savings might not be enough or undervalued. This had really knocked some sense to me thinking way back…Before a packet of nasi lemak cost me only 50 cents & you have everything including decent amount of rice, egg and sambal. But today the same nasi lemak cost you RM1.00 without egg, if you add egg then it will cost RM1.50. Just in 10years the price of nasi lemak is 100% doubled. What does this tell us ??? The value depreciates with inflation mushrooming higher and higher everyear. Well it is just nasi lemak , go out and survey the price for other items.. you will be shocked ! You can’t find cone ice-cream for 20cents , sweet bun for 20cents and a bowl of Cendol remains RM0.50 but the size of the bowl is very small !! Few gulps and you are done. Either the price is higher or the size shrinks !! LOL.

A month ago i read an article, EPF money is not enough for a person to survive on retirement after 55 years old, it don’t even last for good 10 years. At the age of  65 you will totally dependant on your children hoping they will support your needs, they will but how long ? They have their own family to take care and what about YOU ?? Old Folk homes ?? Start working ?? But can you work ? Do you have the energy and health to continue working ?? Im not threatening but this is just painful truth that is hard to digest.

We need to improve our lifestyle, plan for our retirement and be financially independent. You should make your money work for you and not vice-versa. Beat the damn inflation, with oil prices hiking  and gold prices far from what I can imagine. I don’t even dare to enter any gold shops anymore  We as humans are capable of learning, adapting, changing our mentality , and renewing ourselves to be better approach for greater financial freedom.

There are few ways of achieving your total financial freedoom :-

1. Invest in valuable properties/ Real Estates ( house, shoplot’s or apartments) before investing survey the area and surroundings.

2. Invest your money in Unit Trusts. The returns are pretty good and eventually you will gain by manupulating your dollar and cents. The amount doesn’t need to be huge, do Dollar Cost Averaging.

3. If you have Huge EPF which is giving you peanuts and trust me you will not be able to beat the inflation in next 20 years to come. It is your money and you need to decide which gives you higher returns. If you have more than 50K in your account 1, why not withdraw 20% of the excess and invest in Unit Trust, it does you good and plus your return will be much higher than 5.5%. Some of the Unit trust investment has even produced 15% return per year, this is proven track record.

3. Don’t dream your FD will give sustain your survival periods. By putting in FD you are making someone else richer and you…: ( ??

4. Invest in gold, it is valuale commodity today and at presents.

You may find that I didn’t mention anything about investing in Sharemarket, well it is only for those rich with extra $$$ and it is risky, the market can aggravate in a night and tumble the next day. I emphasize more towards something less risk (moderate risk) and at the same time you can stretch your Ringgits & guide you towards freedom.

If you would like to know more, don’t hesistate to contact me.  - ONBVN

This was the era where the Kanths and Hassan made a plunge of huge money in cinema industry..I had the sudden interest to watch Tamil 80’s movie, last week after work , i watched Aruvadai Naal untill wee hours.. Good movie, felt very nostalgic, it was about typical Chirst-Hindu love story but was taken very differently. The villain is just a scumbag and Prabhu acted very childishly. Anyway the ending was not something that i loved to watch. There is one song "Devanin Koil" , was kinda meaningful. Listen to the lyrics carefully.

Next I watched Keladi Kanmani, but this movie is based on Mother’s love, Anu disapproved her dad’s second marriage after demiss of her mother ( She was a kid then)  but when she grows up she was diagnosed with renal failure and has few months to live..typical tamil story. So she orders her bf Ramesh Aravind to look for her dad’s sweetheart, she wants them to rekindle the long lost relationship. The movie also depicted true love for mother, where Anu will save her mom’s breathe in a tube pillow. Something that is alive and moving from her mom.. very touching. Listen to this tune "Karpoora Mullai" & "Mannil Intha" where SPB sings without breathing. Good sentimental hits with Lalitha raagam !! Initially i thought it was lovey-dovey based, very draggy and bored… but it started add spices after she was diagnosed with sickness. ..Good watch !!

Yesterday after our monthly meeting, I decided to take my staffs for a lunch treat at Manhattan Fish , Alamanda Putrajaya. There was only few people in the restaurant , so we placed our order for foods and drinks and chit chatting all the way long. I had 2 new joiners joining the team.. so we had so many thing to talk.. after 30min our drinks arrived., I was getting a bit impatient because I have a meeting scheduled after 2pm, after much follows up and stares 2 of my collegues food arrived, that is after 45 min , We was amazed as the fish and prawns are burned not only that even the calamari is also burned.. I wonder whether those guys have just started to learn cooking . More people started to come and all of their foods was served and not mine .. After 1hour 40min of waiting.. my food arrived.. as usual the food is cold although it was flamed, the calamari was hard and i just lost mood to eat…appetite gone.

When i went to settle the bill, another surprise was waiting for me.. i was charged for something that was not delivered, i even demanded to remove the service charge for their pooooooooooooor service. I was already fuming and flaming.. he better give me a discount.. Well he did .  I did ask him why the service was slow, it seems 2 people have resigned just before we stepped in.., We was unlucky then..

What they should have done :-

1. Before taking the order’s please alarm the customer how long they need to wait, come on it is office hours so most of us need to get back to work on timely !!

2. Don’t burn the food.. you just screwed spoil the image of Manhattan.

3. Deliver what you promise, if you say you will check how long the food will take to be served , please revert to the customer.. don’t make them to wait..

4. Don’t charge for something that you didn’t deliver.

Moral of the story : I will never go back to the restaurant again !!! They have just lost 5 customers..