2008 MTV Asia Award

Dear Friends & Families,

I’m just wondering that you all know that this year MTV’s Asia Awards are held here. That’s right! Is in our country, Malaysia!. It is unbelievable. They used to stage the Award show at Singapore and other country. This time they here!

MTV Asia Awards will be held at Genting’s Arena Stars on 2nd August 2008, 7pm. Anyone want to go to the show will be a let down because the entry of the show is per invite. The show is just for “INVITATION ONLY!“ so rest of you including me will have to watch thru our TV. At MTV channel. I will list down the showtimes later at below. This show host are.. Karen Mok! and Jared Leto. The show will start will performance from Pussy Cat Dolls! Meow! Don’t Cha! Below are the nominees..

Favourite Artist of Malaysia

• Faizal Tahir
• Nicholas Teo
• Pop Shuvit
• Dato Siti Nurhaliza

Favourite International Artist of Asia

• Avril Lavigne
• Fergie
• Justin Timberlake
• Linkin Park

Breakthrough Artist

• Daughtry
• Leona Lewis
• Mika
• One Republic

The Innovation Award

• Kanye West
• Goldfrapp
• Gwen Stefani
• Radiohead

Best Hook up

• Avril Lavigne ft. Lil’ Mama
• Beyonce ft. Shakira
• Rihanna ft. Jay-Z
• Timbaland ft. One Republic

Bring Da House Down

• Christina Aguilera
• Linkin Park
• Muse
• Black Eyed Peas

Video Star

• 30 Seconds to Mars
• Fergie
• Justice
• Panic At the Disco

The showtimes for the show will be as below:-

Premiere: Saturday, August 2 at 11.05pm

Repeats : Sunday, August 3, 12am and 9pm
Monday, August 4, 8.30am
Tuesday, August 5, 2.30pm
Wednesday, August 6, 12.00pm
Friday, August 8, 11.00am
Saturday, August 9, 3.30pm
Wednesday, August 13, 12.30pm
Thursday, August 14, 7am
Friday, August 15, 7.30pm
Sunday, August 17, 8.30am
Monday, August 18, 12.30pm
Sunday, August 24, 11.00pm

TVB’s 溏心风暴II之家好月圆 Moonlight Resonance Episode 1-4 preview

Dear Friends & Families,

        On July 28th, TVB simultaneously broadcast it’s latest drama series, 之家好月圆 Moonlight Resonance at Hong Kong and Malaysia Astro On Demand. This movie get a lot of hits during the first episode and as for today, 30th July 2008 will be third episode. ‘Moonlight Resonance’ First Episode Peaks At 34 Points. Everyone is rushing back home get clean up and take their dinner. Waiting infront their TV set. When the clock strike 9.30pm everyone will switch to the channel and follow up the series.

        Last night, the broadcast of the first episode received 33 points, peaking at 34 points, approximately 214,000 viewers tuned in. This beats last year’s “Heart of Greed” first episode rating of 28 points. While “Moonlight Resonances” is airing, ATV is also airing their series “Healing Souls” which was affected by a 1 point drop. Audiences’ evaluation of “Moonlight” has been great, saying that Lee Si Kei and Michelle Yim’s characters were portrayed well, Fala Chen was photogenic; Netizen say that the relationship issues were too chaotic, and some questioned why in the year 1995, there was the existence of Laan GAG. Before this, the highest first episode rating for TVB series was “Forensic Heroes II” which reached 34 points and “D.I.E” with 33 points.
( Got it from the Net!)

I have included a few preview episode here.. kindly view it and enjoy!

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

TVB’s Heart Of Greed(溏心風暴).

Dear Friends & Families,

         I know is a little late for me to write a review regarding this a year plus old series from Hong Kong’s TVB. This series which I like very most which glue me on the plastic chair or sofa for few hours staring on my 29′ TV or 17′ LCD monitor. This TVB series captures many audience hearts with its plots, romance and most of all the moral. The series I mentioning about is “Heart of Greed” or 溏心風暴.

         This series won a lot of awards during the Hong Kong’s TVB Anniversary Award. I was so disappointed that my favourite actor “Ha Yu”, don’t get any award such as Best Male Artist or Best Supporting Artist. In that series he acted very well on the role of the Man of the house, Tong Yan Gai (唐仁佳). A funny and happy go lucky man, husband and daddy. The new series called Moonlight Resonance or 溏心風暴之家好月圓,he is still the man of the house but I think the character has changed. Let’s get back to this movie, Heart of Greed.. Moonlight resonance you can read at my previous post. It has a total of 40 episodes and is available in DVDs at our local VCDs or DVDs Store. The reception for the series was excellent, garnering a massive 46 peak points and topping at 48 points within the final minutes of its series finale. Thus, Heart of Greed was only 2 points behind Dae Jang Geum, the highest rated drama on TVB that garnered 50 points. Critical reaction was also excellent. This was shown when a massive crowd turned out to watch the finale in a shopping centre, Discovery Park, together with the cast. This story synopsis I got it from the Internet, Wikipedia so enjoy!

          Tong Yan Gai owns a sea-products store. He has 4 children; On, Yat, Foon and Yun. Together, the Tong family run a happy family, full of laughter. He is married Hau and has a second wife called Kam. Hau had cancer and didn’t expect to survive and wanted Tong Yan Gai to be happy with another woman and wanted Kam take care of him after she dies, but she recovered. Kam thinks that she has no power in the family because she has no true status and becomes a woman stirring a range of petty acts that tend to haunt her in full circle. She seeks the family fortune and in order to do that she causes trouble in the family. Hau, a wise lady pulled the family back together and turned their frowns into smiles. Unfortunately, Hau’s cancer comes back and she dies leaving her struggling family behind.

        It seems like a peaceful family, but Kam starts planning evil ideas with Sum’s brother Sheung Joi Duk and together they cause a lot of trouble in the family. They plotted for years to find a means to take the family fortune and even created public false accusations about her own family in the media. Kam formed her own support group from the worst family members and in-laws to help plot against the Tong household to gain their family fortune. After much careful planning and even going as far as contaminating public opinion about the Tong family, she drove Tong Yan Gai into severe illness and eventually death from stroke. It’s there they began a long war against the Tong family in an attempt to invalidate the family will to take the family fortune for their own as a way to punish the Tong family’s “mistreatment” towards her. The family is in mayhem for once and they have only one person who can help them, Sheung Joi Sum. So begins the court case for the Tong family’s assets with Sheung Joi Sum representing the Tong family and Ching Leing’s lawyer rival, Dai Gerk Bat respresenting Kam.

The Characters as below:-

Tong Family

• Tong Yan-Gai (Ha Yu) – Gai is a 58 year old man who is in charge of the Tong family. He is a bubbly, fun and witty man who tries to run his family with laughs and joy. He is a self-proclaimed happy man of two wives, Ling Hau and Wong Sau Kam, four children, On, Yat, Foon, Yan and a seafood store, Tong Gei. He has a wealthy heritage and enjoys spending and giving the most of his time to his family. However, if things ever go wrong, he is known to chicken out and have no bravery whatsoever, giving him the name of Tong Yan Gwai (turtle). He is extremely protective of his children and would do whatever it takes to keep them safe and happy. Throughout the series, his character matures for the better, leading him to erase his Tong Yan Gwai nickname. Despite declining health due to stroke, he remember’s Hau’s words of wisdom in keeping his family together and he becomes a brave, generous and smart man, and he uses his new found confidence to confront Wong Sau Kam in his final moments in life.

• Ling Hau (Lee Sze Kei, Louise) – Hau is a 57 year old woman and she is the leading lady of the Tong family. Although she is a loving woman, she is extremely smart and honest and can tell who is a good person and who is a bad person. She is powerful and strong in her ways and would do anything to keep the Tong family running smoothly with smiles on their faces. She foresees Kam’s plotting antics and thus she kicks her out. During her declining health and final days of life, she spent them with her family in a happy manner. Even on her death bed, she was very-straight-forward in her act of not letting Kam back into her family.

• Wong Sau-Kam (Susanna Kwan) – Kam is a 52 year old woman who is second in charge of the Tong family and is a mistress of Tong Yan Gai. Kam was supposed to be the spouse of Tong Yan Gai, but because HK law made it illegal to have more than one wife, she was forced to be an unofficial second wife to Gai. Kam is an ungrateful and sinister figure and she strives to her best to retrieve the six hundred million dollar fortune of the Tong family. Kam is an highly petty, arrogant, and ungrateful figure and she strives to her best to retrieve the six hundred million dollar fortune of the Tong family. She’s a constant schemer when it comes to making plans to make the Tong family unhappy. She easily likes people that side with her and often surround herself with unsavory characters that appeases her ego and helps her scheme ways to get what she believes the Tong family has long over due owed her. She is a smart thinker when it comes to making plans to make the Tong family unhappy. She is an unhappy woman after thinking that she would have her rightful position of the leading lady in Tong family; instead she is neglected by Hau in her cheeky ways. At the end, she realises that she had been tricked by Duk and turns for the better, regretting her mistakes and becoming family again with the family.

• Tong Chi-On (Moses Chan) – On is a 30 year old man who strives to do his best for the Tong family. He has a helpful attitude toward his friends and family and keeps the smiles on everybody’s faces. Although his manner is regarded as loving and caring, he is gullible in his relationships and trusts in people too easily often leading to disastrous results. His greatest desire is to find his real family as he is an adopted son of the Tong family and not of true blood, it turns out he is really Gai’s son with a third woman. His love interest is Sheung Joi Sum and although she doesn’t love him, he still cares for her. He is a comic character in the beginning but by the end he matures greatly. He stands in the place of Hau after her death and is also straight-forward in his acts, rejecting Kam’s return to the family (much to the dismay of his father).

• Tong Chi-Yat, Tong Chi Foon, Tong Chi Yan (Bosco Wong, Chris Lai, Fala Chen) – The remaining of Gai’s children are 26, 21, and 17 years old respectively. Yat is an ambitious figure who strives to run a happy family with his controversial chain-smoking model wife, Cheuk Man-Lai (Tavia Yeung). Although Yat is ambitious, he listens to his mother and similar to her in the way he is also straight-forward. He is a figure that forgives and forgets. Foon is Kam’s only son and he is a growing filmmaker who has just graduated. Foon is an innocent figure who suffers greatly from Kam’s sudden outbursts which lead to her getting into trouble with family. He is character trying to find his place in a family without his mother. Yan is a youthful and playful figure who is always a pleasure to be around. She is a flirty figure at the beginning but slowly matures during the series. She loves her family members but can be very moody when she discovers that some of them are traitors.

• Ling Lei (Michelle Yim) – Lei is a 45 year old woman. She is the sister of Hau and is extremely biased and moody, especially against Kam. She wants the best for the Tong family and is the main reason for the Tong family’s wealth. She, like her sister is straight-forward and willing to forgive and forget. She stands in place of Hau and Gai after their deaths. She is loving of her family but strict in many ways.

• Ling Bo (Louis Yuen) – Bo is the 37 year-old greedy brother of Hau and Lei. He was a loving uncle when Hau was around, but became greedy after being bribed with cheques by Kam to side with her. He was invited join Kam’s side for a stake in the family assets, and created uproars in the Tong family after gambling away large sums of money from his family’s bank account.

• Cheuk Man Lai (Tavia Yeung) and her family(Various) – Lai is a 26 year old woman. She started off as a controversial chain-smoking model, with a violent husband who she had no more feelings with. However, she continued to respect her husband’s father and tried to conceal the details about her affair with Yat. After her divorce with her husband, she entered the Tong family, but very few people accepted her, including Hau. After the realisation of her mistakes, Hau accepts her. After she is accepted into the family and through thorough teachings from Hau, she matures to become a woman who loves the Tong family greatly and to be thankful all that she has in life. Lai’s family, in return, is a complete contrast to her. As extremely greedy people, they use the Tong family as a bank, and took $5,000,000 HKD in one visit to fund the restaurant that Hau offered them as a gift for Yat and Lai’s marriage. Lai’s family ultimately combine with Kam and Duk’s plot to obtain a share of the Tong assets. They are hated by the Tong’s including Lai herself. They never regret their mistakes, even by the end.

Others

• Sheung Joi Sum (Linda Chung) – Sum is a peaceful 25 year old girl and is a friend of Yan and On. She starts off the series as a poor, unconfident and struggling young woman trying to look after her father who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. On who had feelings for her was rejected by her because she loved another man, Ching Leung. It so happens that she manages to end up working with him in a lawyer firm. They would eventually develop a relationship, but because of their misunderstandings they would often argue and break up various times. Their final break up would be after Leung begins a third-party relationship with her best friend, Ha. Later on in the series she matures into a blooming young lady and becomes a confident emerging lawyer. On finally has a chance to confront her with a proposal after Leung’s death.

• Ching Leung (Raymond Lam) – Leung is a 27 year old renowned lawyer. He is Sum’s boyfriend towards the middle of the series. He is a moody but vigilant and caring figure who forever strives to do his best. Although he is a kind person, he has an inability to stay faithful and succumbs. At one point he had an affair with Sheung Joi Sum’s best friend Shui Mak Mak, but he kept it quiet and reconciled with Sheung Joi Sum without admitting anything about the matter. Eventually information would slip and Sheung Joi Sum actively demands to know who was the other woman, but Ching felt exposing this matter would ruin everything and insists for her to drop the matter since he admitted his mistakes and assures Sheung Joi Sum it would never happen again. Sheung Joi Sum wasn’t satisfied with such an answer and whenever he tries to comfort her, Tong Chi On would be around and he becomes jealous. After the big secret was exposed, everyone parted ways for some time and Leung would try to patch things between him and Sheung Joi Sum. He would eventually die from a car crash nearer the end of the series right before Sum forgives him.

• Shui Ming-Ha/Shui Mak Mak (Yoyo Mung) – Ha is Sum’s best friend. She is a self-centered and power-hungry young woman who has experienced many relationships, often with them ending with disastrous results. During the series, she develops romantic feelings for Leung and she eventually helps Leung cheat on Sum by being Leung’s girlfriend, leaving Sum hurt when she finds out. Ha went away and said that she married but it wasn’t true – she just wanted Sum to be happy. She returns one last time during Alfred’s funeral, regretting and appologising to Sum for forgiveness.

• Sheung Joi Duk (Lei Seng Cheung) – Duk He is Sum’s older brother and is the main antagonist in the series. He manages to turn Kam against the Tong family whilst she was living by herself when being kicked out of the family mansion by Hau. He is a greedy, smart but forlorn character who comes up with plans of taking the Tong family to court being hungry for the six hundred million dollars and he suffers from hair loss. In spite of On’s constant generous aid to him, he schemes to get a piece of the Tong’s family fortune while having multiple affairs with several women in mainland China. It’s he that gave the worst malicious plans for Kam to use against the Tong family after all On had done for him. After an unsuccessful court case for the Tong assets (It was Sum’s heartfelt speech in court that convinced Kam to give up the case), Duk tried get a reason and convince her to fight for the Tong fortune again, Kam, angry at him for his lies, attempts to run him over. He freaks and is never seen again.

• Lai Cheuk Lan/Cho Bang (Carrie Lam) – Cho Bang is Sum, Ha, and Yan’s good friend. She appears mostly in the beginning of the series, and less more into the middle and end. She is a very cheerful and caring friend to Yan, Sum and Ha.

List of Awards and Nominations:-

• TVB Anniversary Awards – Best Drama
  • Heart of Greed (溏心風暴)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • Moses Chan 陳豪 (as Tong Chi On/唐至安)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • Louise Li 李司棋 (as Ling Hau/凌巧)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – Best Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Louis Yuen 阮兆祥 (as Ling Bo/凌波)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – My Most Favourite Male Character Role
  • Moses Chan 陳豪 (as Tong Chi On/唐至安)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – My Most Favourite Female Character Role
  • Susanna Kwan 關菊英 (as Wong Sau Kam/王秀琴)
• Yahoo! Buzz Awards – Best Television Series
  • Heart of Greed(溏心風暴)
• Yahoo! Buzz Awards – Most Watched Series
  • Heart of Greed (溏心風暴)
• Mingpao Awards – Best Actress on Television
  • Louise Li 李司棋 (as Ling Hau/凌巧)
• Mingpao Awards – Best Series on Television
  • Heart of Greed (溏心風暴)
• The Next Magazine TV Awards 2008- Next Magazine Top Ten TV Programmes
  • Heart of Greed (溏心風暴)
• The Next Magazine TV Awards 2008- Next Magazine Top Ten TV Artists
  • Louise Li 李司棋 (as Ling Hau/凌巧)
• The Next Magazine TV Awards 2008- Next Magazine Top Ten TV Artists
  • Moses Chan 陳豪 (as Tong Chi On/唐至安)
• The Next Magazine TV Awards 2008- Next Magazine Top Ten TV Artists
  • Raymond Lam 林峯 (as Alfred Ching Leung/程亮)
• The Next Magazine TV Awards 2008- Next Magazine Top Ten TV Artists
  • Bosco Wong 黃宗澤 (as Gilbert Tong Chi Yat/唐至逸)
• The Next Magazine TV Awards 2008- Next Magazine Top Ten TV Artists
  • Linda Chung 鍾嘉欣 (as Sheung Joi Sum/常在心)
• The Next Magazine TV Awards 2008- Next Magazine Top Ten TV Artists
  • Susanna Kwan 關菊英 (as Wong Sau Kam/王秀琴)
• Television Committee Awards – Best Television Programs of 2007
  • Heart of Greed (溏心風暴) - 4th Place
• Number One Television Awards – Actress with Most Potential
  • Fala Chen 陳法拉

List of Nominations (Top 5 Finalists)

• TVB Anniversary Awards – Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • Ha Yu 夏雨 (as Tong Yan Gai/唐仁佳)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • Susanna Kwan 關菊英 (as Wong Sau Kam/王秀琴)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – My Most Favourite Male Character Role
  • Ha Yu 夏雨 (as Tong Yan Gai/唐仁佳)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – My Most Favourite Male Character Role
  • Raymond Lam 林峯 (as Alfred Ching Leung/程亮)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – My Most Favourite Female Character Role
  • Louise Li 李司棋 (as Ling Hau/凌巧)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – My Most Favourite Female Character Role
  • Linda Chung 鍾嘉欣 (as Sheung Joi Sum/常在心)
• TVB Anniversary Awards – Most Vastly Improved Actor
  • Chris Lai 黎諾懿
• TVB Anniversary Awards – Most Vastly Improved Actress
  • Fala Chen 陳法拉

IPhone 2.0 Firmware/Software.

Dear Friends & Families,

           When I went back and check the status of my blog, I get to knew that my blog got a lot “Hits” a day from the review category compare to my ghost and my daily life. I think I don’t have any interesting life at all. So I was thinking to write more of reviews, whether is food , technology or places. This time around I would like to share with you regarding the new firmware update or upgrade for Apple’s IPhone and IPod Touch. This firmware update is 2.0 series. It has lots of updates for securities to software for the EDGE version IPhone and IPod touch. After the January Update from Apple, they introduce this new firmware update for FREE! for EDGE IPhone users BUT IPod Touch user need to pay a minimal fee for this update.

              It was a sad news for me because I was thinking to get myself a brand new IPod Touch 32GB to replace my current old faithful 1st Generation of IPod Shuffle. IPod touch users had spend USD$9.99 when the January update launch for download. This time around to upgrade the firmware from 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 to 2.0 we need to fork out another USD$9.95. Come ON Steve! We’ve fork out previously USD$9.99, now you still need us to fork out another USD9.95. It seems illogical. Steve should charge a little lower for the previously upgraded users, eg: USD$4.99 or USD$5.99 .

             They call this new firmware update as “IPhone 2.0 Sofware Updates”. In this new update, it packaged a few new apps for the IPod Touch Users and EDGE IPhone users. The most common apps people are mentioning about is “Apps Store”. Apps store provide users to download new software from Apple’s Store and install right away into our IPhone or IPod. We can even download it to our computer first then sync it with iTunes. Next, is “Push Email with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync”. We can download and browse our company/business/corporate mails using IPhone or IPod. It even included Email, contacts, and calendar events be pushed instantly to our iPod touch. There is even an update on the keyboard where we can now write Chinese characters and other foreign language updates.

                Updates of software included the “Contacts”, where it simply the search of a contact thru a search column. Then we can have multiple calendar for work, home and more with just manage with a touch. Included Scienctif calculator, improved mails in managing it and even viewing attachments. This firmware update also include support of Apple’s latest service to replace “.Mac” that is “MobileMe”. This new service is where it keeps all our important information updated to all our devices. This service is pushing new changes to a cloud and disperse the new changes to all our devices. For more details visit Apple’s MobileMe website.

That’s not all for Apple’s 2.0 software updates. It also include January 2008 update into it. Google Maps, Mail, Weather, Web Clips, a customizable Home screen, and more.

For more info of Iphone 2.0 Software Update please visit Apple.com

Thank you!

Salmon Skins!!!

Dear Friends & Families,

         I would like to share one of my favourite foods from the East. Japanese Food! Yesterday, I was alone strolling at Jusco Seri Kembangan, don’t have any aims to eat or what to eat. I end up myself at Sushi King. My favourite places to be. I dare to say that I’ve been to most of the Sushi King’s outlets at the Klang Valley

        When I was sited in front of the chefs where I like to see he or she makes sushi.. When I was there most of my favourite’s sushi are there at the table top of the moving belt. Grab myself a plate of Kani Mayo, Kami Tama Maki, Golden Ball, Tori Karage, Deep Fried Prawn, Egg Mayo. I ordered an Ala-carte, Takoyaki. Then this time a special order! Not every Sushi King’s outlet the managers will place this orders. I ask.. “Do you have just the SALMON SKINS? You guys last time do sell them in a small bowl.” And the manager reply, “Yes, Sure.. last time we do have.”

 

          Spending almost 30 minutes stuffing all the sushi into my stomach and eagerly waiting my salmon skins. Then the manager brought the salmon skins from the kitchen. I was.. OMYG! Here it comes! The manager place a bowl of salmon skins in front of me and ask me to enjoy.. The salmon skins were so huge compare to the last time I ate. It was like the size of a sea weed and is tempura style! First taste was without the soya souce. It was perfectly TempuraED! Is hot..is crispy.. Is still remains the smells of the salmon skins! Wo ho ho! Second taste was with the sweet soya sauce, it was refreshing!

 Kudos to the Manager at the outlet and the chef who deep fried my salmon skins! Good service also. I’m very pleased that the manager able takes my order. Forgotten to take down his name.. If I had then his name will appeared here.

Thanks!

TVB’s Moonlight Resonance(溏心風暴之家好月圓)

Dear Friends & Families,

It has been time, that Hong Kong’s TVB is broadcasting their latest installment or series after the “Heart of Greed” that capture many audiences’ attentions, tears, laughter, and even fire!. On July’s 28th 2008! TVB broadcasting Moonlight Resonance or (溏心風暴之家好月圓) simultaneously at Hong Kong and Malaysia’s Astro on Demand.

Moonlight Resonance or (溏心風暴之家好月圓) is not the second season to “Heart Of Greed” but a totally new story with the same actors and actress. All the people in the series of “Heart Of Greed” are in this new series and added a few new actors and actress. This time around is not about Abalone but is mooncake business. This time around, is Michelle Yim act as the villian in the series. Previously, she was the sister of Louise Lee where her role as the caretaker of the family buisness. This time she is villian.. She really a good actress which she can act as good or villian.

Moonlight Resonance or (溏心風暴之家好月圓) story focus on Lee sze kei getting her family back together to the background of the bakery business. Is a big emphansize on her, her husband Ha yu and her kids Moses Chan, Raymond Lam, Tavia Yeung, Fala Chen, Lai Lok Yi, Vincent Wan and Ha Yu’s stepdaughter Linda Chung relationship. It also show how she stand up infront of her sister Susanna Kwan and her husband second wife Michelle Yim. More details:- http://tvcity.tvb.com/drama/moonlightresonance

So Remember people!

On 28th July 2008, Astro On Demand, 9.30pm,Total got 41 episodes!

Cast:-

The Chung Household

Actor	Role
Louise Lee	Chung Siu Hor (鍾笑荷)
Shirley Yeung	Chung Siu Hor(Young) (年輕鍾笑荷)
Susanna Kwan	Chung Siu Sa (鍾笑莎)
Raymond Lam	Gam Wing Ho (甘永好)
Tavia Yeung	Suen Hou Yuet (孫皓月)
Fala Chen	Gam Wing Heng (甘詠慶)
Louis Yuen	Yuen Yan Chi (袁恩賜)
Kate Tsui	Low Ga Mei (路嘉美)
Chow Chung	Chung Fan Dat(鍾泛達)
Dexter Yeung	Cheng Ga Lok (鄭家樂)

The Gam Household

Actor	Role
Ha Yu	Gam Tai Cho (甘泰祖)
Jack Wu	Gam Tai Cho(Young) (年輕甘泰祖)
Michelle Yim	Yan Hong (殷紅)
Moses Chan	Gam Wing Ga (甘永家)
Linda Chung	Yu So Chau (于素秋)
Chris Lai	Gam Wing Yuen (甘永圓)
Lee Heung Kam	Sheh Kwan Lai (佘君麗)
Vincent Wan	Gam Wing Chung (甘永中)
Lei Seng Cheung	Mak You Gong (麥友恭)
Fung So Bor	Sheh Lai Mui {佘麗梅}

Other

Actor	Role
Bosco Wong	Ling Chi-Shun (凌至信)
Wayne Lai	Nin Chi Yung (年子勇)
Tracy Ip	Unassigned
Astrid Chan	Miss La (拉姐)
Lei Kwok Nin	Yu Zhu Keung (于克強)
Claire Yiu	Wing Lam (詠琳)
Eric Li	Eric
Fanny Ip	Unassigned
Lily Leung	Unassigned
Mary Hon	Guen (娟)
Amy Ng	Unassigned
Dia Yiu Ming	Unassigned
Kitty Lau	Unassigned
Matt Yeung	Unassigned

Acer Aspire One

Dear Friends & Families,

         Good day to you, A few days back I went to Mines’ Shopping Center located at Seri Kembangan. It has been time.. I never set my foot there. There is a lot of changes, especially the top floor. It used to be deserted floor but not this time around I pay my visit there. Most of the “ITs” or Information Technology’s shop are now located at the top floor. There is a corner area where all mobile phones’ outlets or stores are located. It gives me the looks of Lowyat Plaza at Bukit Bintang.

        Well, I was strolling around and my devil and angel was fighting in my head whether to get myself a external hard disk. This month I was broke but I can swap it back but.. next month I still need to pay it back. While I was thinking.. I walk past a shop that sell computers’ hardware and even laptops or notebooks. I saw! I saw! I Saw it!!! It was the latest “Acer Aspire One” that just launch a day back. There were two girls testing out the Acer Aspire One or should we call it netbook? The store owner was persuading the girls to buy it. After the girls were discussing with the owner, I quickly walk over and place my big hand on it.. and test test.. test.. test.. flip.. all that I can do with it. The one I tested were in blue color. It looks terrific. 

       Acer’s Aspire One is a replacement of notebooks, PCs or handheld PCs. I’ll recommend it to all the first time user for using a computer. I think is best for my dad. (Dad this is easy for you to learn and get connected.) Acer’s this new netbook, I think the motive behind it is to take a piece of the pie of the share of market for Netbooks. Asus has it Eec netbook, and MSI’s has it Wind netbook. Now Acer want to compete with them.. they came out Acer Aspire One. I tested a while with the netbook so my review can’t determine which netbook you want. The Acer’s Aspire One, is very slim and light. The color for the netbook I tested was blue in color and it feels like metallic color. Oh lovely! but the downside of it is prone with fingerprints. Is not just on the extrior that is prone with fingerprints but also the interior, which the black panel of the screen. The keys are not that cramp, compare to Asus’s Eec. It is best to type with single finger. I’m not sure with others but I think the girls would get used to it very fast. The trackpad is similiar with Asus’s EEc but Acer’s Aspire One trackpad is more sensitive. The both left and right keys are located at the side not the top it.

      Acer Aspire One that I tested is based on the Linux OS. When I google it, I found out that Aspire One is using Linpus Linux Lite and is developed under Fedora project. Just correct me if I’m wrong. Just want to let you know that I’m downloading the Linpus Linux Lite while I’m writing this. Wanted to try on my Acer’s Travelmate 3000 series. Okay..cut the crap and moves on.. The interface looks a little similar with Asus’s EEc but I’ll prefer Asus’s EEc Interface compare to Acer’s Aspire One’s. Asus netbook using tab on the interface. We just click on the tab and we can locate all the programs we need. As for Acer is has four category on main screen. Each category doesn’t display all the programs in the category and we need to click the arrow to expand the category which I don’t like. Tested the web browser.. it uses Mozilla Firefox 2.3 and it support others plugin that for Firefox. Even tested on the games.. some games bundled with it, are unable to display or fit the whole screen.

     The camera is 0.3 megapixels is good enough for MSN or Yahoo messengering..it using Acer’s Crystal Eye webcam. The colors are sharp.. It using 8.9″ screen and the battery is 3 Cells only. The store owner said it can last for 3 hours but when I google it again, it only max out to 2 hours +. I think we can change the battery from 3 cells to 6 cells which is for Windows version Aspire One. Aspire One Linux version come with 8GB SSD(solid state disk) so we can’t change the hard disk.. and it comes with only 512MB RAM, which I think is good for Linux but not for Windows. I was hoping they came with 1GB RAM, worst is they don’t has space for memory upgrade. There is a compartment that is empty which I get to know they’re reserving it for WiMAX. GOOD! Acer Aspire One using Intel’s latest micro-processor which they call it Intel Atom processor. Currently, the SRP or price is RM1399 for the Linux with 8GB SSD version. Hoping Acer will enhance more..

For More Details:- http://www.acer.com/aspireone/

Food & Tea @ Jusco Cheras Selatan.

Dear Friends & Families,

        Long time I never write up about my favourite place for food. Well, I used to like to have my food at Jusco’s Cheras Selatan branch. The place was not packed with people during the initial completion of the buildings but nowdays you can see the traffics of peoples there starting to build up. My first, chinese food stall like those “Mongkok Char char Teng”  was this “FOOD & Tea”. The stall was nice and comfy the environment. There is a big half circle table at corner of the shop. There is even nice executive type chair right in front of the stall.

        For those who want to try out the food there, I’ll recommend you not to… During the initial start up of the branch at Jucso Cheras selatan, it was very nice. The environment to the tables, chairs and waiters. Nowdays, the place sukz alot. The waiters.. food.. environment.. and even the chairs.. Is not I hold grudge against them but really try to change abit! So let me complain.. first is the waiters…

        The waiters there something really make you throw blood. They never pay respect to the customers at all. While you’re placing orders, the waiters can suddenly looks at different directions and talk to his or her colleague. Worst is when he or she pick up a call from the mobile phone and stand there blah for few minutes. They even never introduce you food of the day or something else anymore. Come on.. I’m paying for the service tax.. Worst is I ordered two drinks and it come one.. it happen twice occasion I was there. The first occasion they bring me another cup. The second occasion, I think out of luck or something wrong with the way I speak? During the order I mention to the waiter 2 cup of BB jelly drink even he reply me “2 cup rite?”. Then.. after waited for almost 10min just one cup arrived.. I informed them again there is another cup.. and the waiter say “BB jelly drink?”, and I say yes.. “Another cup”. Another 10-20min even I finished all the dishes..Luckly, their didn’t charge me two cup.. if not I’ll Screw them!

       Food.. I used to like very much and makes me to go back there for more but not this time. The food quality now from good to bad. Once I order one of their chef’s favourite, some sort of deep fried popiah look bread with fruits and prawns salad type fillings. The outside was cold.. the filling is hot.. even worst is the fruits inside taste sour! After that.. I never order the dish anymore.. One and the LAST TIME! My girl girl like to drink the crab meat soup, is just like shark;sfins soup..first occasion was very nice.. hot and full, even thou is a small bowl only. The next occasion, we went there and my girl girl order the same soup and this time is mild hot and when serve to us.. she accidentally spill 1/3 of the soup. They never say sorry or replace with a new one.

     Environment.. now everyday packs with peoples. Sometimes you need to wait for 30min to get a table. Not to mention the time waiting for the food. Espcially on fridays and weekends.. the utensils or tables and etc.. the seats is not that comfy anymore because many people have sit on it.. the cushion seems very soft. The untensils sometimes they never clean properly and sometimes the plates or bowls there are some dents. I need to stop writing.. When I’m writting this.. my fire starts up!

Well below is some of the dishes I ordered from my LAST trip. LEft to right.. 1) Black pepper Pork Spagethi, 3) Cheese baked chicken white sauce rice, and “Sui Gau” soup.

Unlocking the Bible.

Dear Friends & Families,

        You all might be asking or something in your mind, what I’m doing? Well I was thinking a good title for this post. There is another title to it.. “The Story Teller”. After a few considerations, I think this title is more catchy. Don’t get me wrong that I’ll teach you how to read the bible or understand it. When I was young my dad will always tells me stories about Gods and nature of life. The favourite phase that I liked most from him and I’m using it now and apply to myself. “If you don’t believe now, later you’ll know when you grows up”.

       I learned alot from my dad. He always lecture me about this and that with stories. He’ll even buy me books, magazines and even show me newspapers cutting from him. He’ll ask me to read and understand it. This is another phrase I learned.. “Is not have you or haven’t you read it, but do you understand it”. Last weekend, when I was back at my hometown, my dad was with me at the dinning hall. I forgot what we talked about then suddenly he brings up the topic of “Revelation” from the bible. Oh ya… I remembered.. we’re talking about our current situation of our country. The mess of politics. Let’s don’t talk anything here.. I might get myself into trouble.. then the ISAs’ people will bring me in for a cup of coffee. ISA? Internal Security Act.

      My dad said, the days are numbered, and Lord will come and judge us. The End of Days. Well, I’m not those worshipper of end of days, so don’t worry.  In the bible, Revelation.. I like to call it the book of REVELATIONS. My dad was mentioning the second coming, where Jesus Christ will be born into Earth and sacrifice his life for us. I might get it wrong so please correct me if I’m wrong. Why my dad said like that? The current situation happening in our daily life, same sex  marriage, brothers killing brothers, natural disaster and etc. The Seven Seals, if you ever read.

First Seals – And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

Second Seals – And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take ^apeace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

Third Seals – And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.  A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

Fourth Seals – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with ^asword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Fifth Seals – I saw under the ^aaltar the souls of them that were ^bslain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and ^aavenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?And ^awhite ^brobes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should ^crest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

Sixth Seals – and, lo, there was a great ^bearthquake; and the ^csun became ^dblack as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as ^eblood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her ^auntimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. ^aAnd the heaven departed as a ^bscroll when it is rolled together; and every ^cmountain and island were moved out of their places.  And the ^akings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the ^bdens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the ^amountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great ^aday of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to ^bstand?

Seventh Seals – there was ^csilence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven ^atrumpets. And the seven angels which had the seven ^atrumpets prepared themselves to sound. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and ^afire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became ^ablood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.  And the third angel sounded, and there ^afell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the ^abottomless ^bpit.  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those ^amen which have not the ^bseal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek ^adeath, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound ^ain the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the ^anumber of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their ^amurders, nor of their ^bsorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little ^abook open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And the angel which I saw ^astand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the ^amystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ^aate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitterAnd he said unto me, Thou must prophesy ^aagain before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

And there was given me a ^areed like unto a rod: ^band the angel stood, saying, Rise, and ^cmeasure the temple of God, and the ^daltar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the ^aholy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give ^apower unto my two ^bwitnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to ^aturn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all ^bplagues, as often as they will. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall ^aovercome them, and ^bkill them.  And the same hour was there a great ^aearthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The ^akingdoms of this world are become the ^bkingdoms of our Lord, and of his ^cChrist; and he shall ^dreign for ever and ever.

McDonald’s Double Spicy Chicken McDeluxe, i’m lovin’ it!

Dear Friends & Families,

—> McD’s New Burger!

        I’ve always been a fast food lover. When I was kid, I got the opportunity to have fast food every weekend. My daddy will bring mummy and I to all kinds of fast food.. from KFC.. Grandy’s( no more lioe)..A&W to.. MCD.. I always get the opportunity to try all kind of new food in their menu. From their burgers..fried chickens and ice-creams.. What a blast! I still remember that I’ll hope my weekend come faster. When it reaches to Friday.. I was start planning where I want to eat.. HahaHaaa..

       This time MCD or McDonald introduce not new but enhance version of Spicy McDeluxe. I think mostly is because the hype of the “Mega MAC” that keeps the people in MCD’s marketing department to introduce new product in the menu. Sorry to tell you that I still haven’t got the chance to taste it. Well, got my fingers crossed that I’ll be having in a week time. My girl girl ate before after it launches here around 2-3days. She said the size is quite huge and it is very spicy. I think mostly because there is two spicy chicken ate together. Just wondering..how about you country..does any of your country got special food in the menu?