28th July 08 :Celebrate Teacher's Day

Just one week after Hou You Sea Food , we had opportunity to taste the other Penang Teluk Kumbar Sea food again. On 28th of July, that is the Monday evening me and family members went to attend Teacher's Day Celebration for Jian's primary school. This is the first time , PIBG held the occasion in Hai Boey Sea Food Restaurant.
We have not been here for almost three years and this restaurant has gone into expansion and renovation. The kitchen become bigger as well as the toilet is newly build. Car park are equipped with lamp post. There are even swings connected to trees branches near sea side and become wonderful place for kids,especially Jian who love beach so much!

Lots of lobsters and crabs for you to choose. But tonight they are not our favour. We had 8 courses dinner tonite. There are as in the following :-

(1) Appetizer with 4 separate dishes: deer's meat, fried crispy durian,

(2) Sharp Fin (which is really yummy yummy)

(3) Herbal Chicken (the soup is so delicious)

(4) Nestum Fried Big Prawns

(5) Vegetables with mushroom etc.

(6) Steamed Fish assorted with garlic and

green sambal (fish is fresh and big)

(7) Yam Rice with ingredients

(8) Cold desserts (longan jelly)

The food is great and worth for money.Besides, we had a performance
on the stage by part time singer who is alumni of the Primary school. She is active and excellent singer. As overall view, I love the food and event that night.

Cloth diapers to help create a green world!

Just tested out a set of one size cloth diapers on my little Wei Zhi which already 4 months old.
To my surprise the soft lining area seemed to be more dry than the disposable diapers that I used. This value pack come with three different colours and with 6 inserts. These cloth diapers can served as fancy pant too.I have always read about the benefit of using cloth diapers in saving money and natural touch of fabric. Besides it is environment friendly product and is usable.Cloth diapers can be wash, reuse and recycle. With cloth diapers we are not throwing thousands of pounds of non-biodegradable waste into the landfills each year.

But it is not cheap to buy cloth diapers, they may cost RM50~RM80 for 1 cloth diaper with two inserts. Yes,in long term, cloth diapers is more economic.If you do the math, cloth wins. Example: Assuming usage for 2 years for 2 kids. You Save = RM 3,194 for 2 years

Disposables diapers (Average 3 diapers per day)
(2190pcs x RM0.80)

Two lovely brothers...

He he, let me introduce myself.I am Jian, a big brother of Wei Zhi.

Sometimes, I feel that I am a super hero as I am so tall and strong compare to my little baby brother. Of course,not forgetting I am seven years older than him.

Shh, to tell you the secret identity of me. Noticed what I wear? It's a batman suit,but I didn't put on the mask because i dare not scare the baby. I love my brother so much and miss him when he is not around. I help to stop Wei's crying by clapping hands and making funny sound.

Well, it works every time I tried, believe it!

Furthermore, I enjoy kissing baby Wei Zhi's cheek and singing to him. Well,I hope the time will be turned faster because I can't wait to have little Wei Zhi playing with me,especially hide and seek.

Technical Training

The whole week, we had training to refresh some technical knowledge.

It is about the transmission line theory, Signal Integrity problem, S- parameter,Smith Chart,HSPICE simulation etc.

I remembered how tediuos we had to draw the Smith Chart during tertiary study but now just with a click on the software.The results comes out fast and accurate.

20th July :Family gathering at sea side restaurant.

It is Sunday evening, and we had a family gathering at the sea side restaurant "Hou You".Too bad that it was raining and we could not took any scenery photoes.

Well, we have special guests , my younger sister who get married and lives in Ipoh.My younger brother who study medicine and back for 2 months holiday.All together 12 persons, including my mum and parents in law.

We order the special ingredient Satay (Jian's favourite), Fried squid,Luo Soon Sambal Prawn,Kap Pa wine soup, Clay Pot Tau Foo,Curry big prawn,Honey Chicken, sour spicy Crab(3) and kam Hiang Crab(3). But sorry we don't have the opportunity to take the photoes of food because we are busy eating. Next time, maybe.

I know that everyone of us is so full that we even consider to cancel the order of last dish.
Bill total up RM223 including drinks, quite reasonable ah!

Little Wei Zhi on diarrhea!

Poor little Wei Zhi had diarrhea last few days and his face shrink in dimension. We sent him to pediatrician and luckily the sickness stop.

I wondered whether it is the sign of teething but it seemed too early.Up to date , he is only 3 months and 23 days old.
Now, he would like to sit on lap and watch cartoons! Yeah, his eyes is focusing towards the TV but who knows.

Relaxing on grandma's lap is a wonderful thing for him.

9 July 08 : Dinner at Passion of Kerala

On 9 July, we had a dinner with the Director from US. Actually our department is separated into several small groups and each group is meant to brought him out for one night Penang food. Passion of Kerala is our choice to taste the South Indian banana leaf cuisine.

This "Passion of Kerala" we went is a new branch at New World Park.The environment here is much relax and cool compared to the old branch ...Of course the price is higher too.

So, as you can see in the picture, it uses banana leaf as the “plate” to place the rice and assortment of mixed vegetables, mutton, curry chicken or fish curry etc. It is also served with Papadum (a crispy flatbread). We ordered Masala Chicken,Molly Fish,Fried Crispy Squid,Fried Bawal Fish etc. My favourite is fried squid.

Ok, the bill total up RM170.75 for 8 adults.

Baby monitor from my colleagues

Well,this cute baby monitor is a lovely new born present from my Char colleagues.But it took sometime to reach my hand as it need someone to hand carry it all the way from US. Guess who he is?

This is indeed a very useful tools when I want to leave baby alone while baby takes a nap. The portable receiver will enable me to listen to any sound baby made while attending to other thing.

This baby monitor consists of a transmitter which need powered up and the portable receiver with 3 AAA size battery or DC adapter. I was about to plug the transmitter directly to the power point that I remembered US power voltage is 110VAC!!Local voltage of 230VAC will definitely spoilt the product. So, I need a step down mini transformer for conversion.

Thanks to my char colleagues (especially CK),cheers.

KWSP withdrawal for investment

For your information, KWSP has implemented new scheme for the members to transfer money from account 1 to invest in approved mutual fund. The following table show the minimum amount should be in account one. For example if you are 30 years old and having RM40,000 in your account one then (40,000-18,000)*20%=4,400.
That means you can invest RM4,400 in approved mutual fund.

Matta fair Penang

Relax yourself beyond the hectic life.


Penang matta Fair is held in PISA from 4th July to 6th July.
Don't miss this chance to grab travelling package under promotion.
For me, I am temporary tight up with my infant,at least for one year.

How much is enough for education fund?

How much education fund should I prepare?
30K?50K?80K?120K?

From statistical survey, the education fund needed as per today is estimated as:-

Category Amount
Local Government 30,000
Local Private 60,000
Local Twining 100,000
Overseas 200,000

Of course, the fees and living charges very much depends on courses and area. However, this provide us an overview of education cost. One important point we need to consider is about inflation rate. A 6% inflation rate will cause the education fund needed to be double in 12 years duration.
For my elder son, Jian,we bought him Investment Linked Education Insurans RM1800 per annum when he was 1 year old. Now he just celebrated his 7 year old birthday.Surprisingly, the investment return is higher than maximum projected return of 11% in the proposal table. I think the calculation is base on amount invested after deducting insurans charges from premium. This year onwards , we increase the premium to cater for higher education fee.

My little Wei Zhi

Well, this photo is taken when Wei Zhi was 2 months plus. BB consumes 3-4 ooze of milk on 2th month and weighted around 5.7kg. Sometimes he can't finish the milk and resulting the milk go to long waiting"lucky" our dog.

Now my little Wei Zhi always observe environment and people.He will response to Anggugu as “gu” but seldom smile when awaken, very cool. He smiles in his dreams. :)

Struggle in petrol rise..

From 5th June ,Petrol price increase tremendously from RM1.92 to RM2.70/liter.

Recently the normal people like me can feel the power of inflation affecting our household expenses. Thus, here are a few steps I suggested hoping to maintain to the same amount as previous.

(a) Car pool with my hubby daily since our company is actually nearby.
(b) Go out early by 15 minutes to avoid peak hour traffic jam which ensure smooth driving.
(c) Maintain speed of 64km/h according to Epoch Times,it is the optimum speed to consume little fuel.
(d) Take out the extra load from the car that not frequently used.For us,it's the stroller.
(c) Evaluate fuel saver online which is a magnetized piece.I just purchased one cost me RM99 to be installed near to carburetor of the car.