Moon Cake Festival

September 13, 2007 | 7 Comments

Historically it suppose to start somewhere in the 14th Century where Choo Yuen Cheong and his deputy Liu Po-wen orchestrated a surprise uprising in a State occupied by the Mongols. They used Moon Cakes which were filled with messages inside giving details of the attack. In short the revolt was successful and since then The Moon Cake Festival is celebrated among the Chinese people. Today rock's sister brought over a box of beautiful and lovely moon cakes (photo above). It is customary among the Chinese to give each other moon cakes, usually the younger to the elder! Being the eldest in the family, we end up with quite a few boxes of moon cakes! Basically our local Moon Cakes are filled with lotus pastes, bean paste, or a mixture of water-melon seeds and what nots. We even have durian flavoured moon cakes! Moon Cakes are usually taken with Chinese Tea but i guess the Chinese in Kelantan, one of our North-Eastern State take Moon Cakes with Coffee from their local favourite Coffee Outlet! Hey if you are visiting Malaysia and happen to be in Kelantan please drop by for its unique blend of coffee! Its call "Setarbak Kopi" can't miss it I guess and ask for the Open hours please!

A Love Affair

September 11, 2007 | 18 Comments

I must share this unique, a one-time only event in my life regarding durians. When I was in my teenage years, my dad brought home a huge durian which was called "Pumpkin Durian" or "King of Durians". It was humongous and when we opened it up it was actually a freak fruit, a durian within a durian! It was found in the State of Perak and I have never seen or heard of it anymore for the past 50 over years! Anyone had such an encounter?

Young Lovers

September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Referring to my recent post on ‘Demands of Love; I received a very interesting comment via email from this young blogger who volunteers with some Youth Organization, helping young people getting through difficult times and to prevent suicide. Having gone through a difficult patch himself, he can identify with the troubled youths. I find him matured for his age and his involvement in helping other young people, admirable.

In a gist, what he shared is that there is an ugly side to love when it gets too strong and he witnessed many young people’s lives destroyed, some choose suicide, drugs, intoxifications because of love be it with the opposite sex, family, or friends.

What I plan to do is to open this up to you all and let me hear your views in regards to what is mentioned above. For example is it true that there is indeed an ugly side of love when it is too strong or perhaps sharing your own experiences if you have had gone through similar turbulent love experiences as a youth and now looking back what you have got to say to the youths at present. You can email your generous comments to me at jhcheong@gmail.com. Thanks for sharing.

PS: Will write a link post summarizing all the comments received! :)

Foot & Mouth Disease

September 10, 2007 | 2 Comments

Tyres Expiry Date

September 8, 2007 | 2 Comments

Check for this Number on your Tyre: ( *3401* )

There is an asterisk at the beginning and at the end of this Number which is a Serial Number.

The first two digits ‘34’ indicates the week of the year has it been manufactured, In this case this Tyre was manufactured on the 34^th week of the year.

The last two digits represent the Year of Make. In this example it is ‘01’ meaning manufactured in the Year 2001.

Therefore, *3401* shows that the said Tyre is manufactured in the 34^th week in the year 2001.

Check all your Tyres for safety purposes. Do not use expired Tyres. They are likely to burst (especially when running in hot weather) because the rubber component may have hardened and cracked.

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