Soursop as natural remedy to cancer

Facebook is now the new news channel. One can really save a lot of time from flipping through papers and watching the TV to now the latest happenings of the world. It feels like, we  have positively progressing towards closing in the  physical distance of the world.

News travel with a click of a mouse or by the touch of smartphones. How marvellous  Facebook to me is the best thing that has ever happened in social media. Blog now comes second in my list. Oh well... But still blogging is most fulfilling as I could write endlessly.

Now back to facebook. Things people share everyday are amazing stuffs sometimes. Of course I do have those annoying friends who keep on updating their thoughts and activities every few seconds that drives people insane but still I don't really mind it. If that's what makes them sane, then by all means go ahead, be insane all they like. Many a time, facebook made my day by just reading statuses of friends, exchanging comments or by reading updates from pages that I 'liked'.

For me, my facebook usage is mainly to update myself of latest news, keeping in touch with friends that matters and in researching of trends to be useful for my work. Not so much in Sharing my personal stuffs. Scary. I am glad that I'm mature enough to know the harmful side of Facebook .

Today, I am inspired to write this posting because of information I've found in Facebook about cancer. Ever since my Mom died off cervical cancer, anything about cancer will trigger some kind of sadness in me. So I read this information about the natural cure of cancer. It can bdr found from soursop fruit and tree. In Asia this fruit is called 'durian belanda'. One of the tastiest fruits ever to my taste buds . I like this fruits a lot. Couldn't believe that it has a remedial effect to cancer cells.

It makes me sad that I didn't know it earlier. A lot of things came to light only after the passing of my Mom. Sigh....

Well, no matter, if this soursop really is good to anyone else, by all means, please give it a try. Read the article about it here.

Posting this via my smart phone. Will polish it later with pictures. Meantime, take care of your health.

The Importance of education

Here I am on Chinese New Year day, alone. How I missed my old career in the hospitality line. I will be the busiest sosial butterfly doing lohsang the whole month of the New Year. But now my path has changed. I am on another road for some reasons.

Education line is also something I am passionate about. I believe in the importance of education to every human being. It seperates us from one another. Education can change lives from being ignorance to being learned. It helps us to become a better decision maker. Most importantly, it creates our pathway to a career and accumulation or wealth. Now that sums it all.

Most people thought that education can only be had from schools. Well part of it is true but not in totality. I believe that a person must at least complete his/her formal education to a minimum level of a first college degree. Later he/she can choose to either continue to a post graduate studies to be a specialist in his/her chosen career. However, education means knowledge that it should be in balance between academic and a life's degree or a life's lessons. Only then, you get to be a fully functional human being on your way to succeses.

Of course there're lots of successful people out there who are non-formally educated but surely along the way, they educated themselves via other means. For instance, knowledge of survival  using other people's strengths and skills to work things out for you. A good life lesson will enable a person to compensate his/her weaknesses. Good reading habit could make a person a learned human being no less that a graduate person.

This is just my random thoughts of today.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Mandarin Oranges, Ang Pau and Firecrackers. Wishing all Chinese the best of celebration with friends and family. Mwah! Mwah!

Starting the Engine of 2013

To commemorate the importance of 2013, I kicked start the year by attending a live performance of 27th Anugerah Juara Lagu 2013 in Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil last Sunday. It turned out to be fun and exciting. More than the expected. Happy :-*

One thing obvious about Malaysia is that it has many good singers. Amazing voices and exquisite performances.

New Year 2013

Great New Year celebration. First with family and second with my best friend in KL. I had a very simple celebration as usual. Just music and lots of people dancing together. I am relieved and almost with feelings of liberation that 2012 has closed its curtain. Now is time to move forward.

Land of Cik Siti Wan Kembang

Famous Kelantanese delicacy, Nasi Kerabu

2012 has almost come to a close and I find myself racing to post more stories which I have been procrastinating lately. Reason being, I was too busy or too caught up with numerous hobbies.

Yes, I went to Kelantan, the land of Cik Siti Wan Kembang. I wrote about the history before in my posting. Just click on the link. 

This time, I went with my good friend Pava as he was conducting one of his team building event at the state. We had our event at the Villa Danialla Beach Resort, a very tastefully decorated resort located in Tok Bali, Bachock, Kelantan. Surprisingly the resort was so beautiful, it took my breath away. May be I shall write about it in another posting.  

In this posting I just want to write about my craving for Nasi Kerabu and my trip to Pasar Besar Siti Kadijah. 

Ground Floor - The Wet Market
The Big Market of Pasar Besar Siti Kadijah

So we went to Kelantan via flight. It took us only about an hour from KL to Kelantan via flight in comparison with the unconventional method via driving a car, it took about 5-8 hours. So we saved a lot of time and energy. By the time we reached the airport, we rented a car to mobilise ourselves. The drive from airport to the resort took us about 45 minutes. 

The last day before we went back to KL, I urged the team to visit Koto Bharu, the capital of Kelantan State. I wanted to visit Pasar Besar Siti Kadijah to buy batik caftan dress for my sister. I promised them the dress. The journey from Tok Bali to Kota Bharu took us about 45 minutes. We do not know the way being non-native but thanks to the GPS, we found our destination.

Yours truly from the 2nd floor.

I managed to buy the batik caftan as promised for everyone with a reasonable price. This is also contributed by the fact that we went to the market early at the time the shops were just opening. I was excited since we left the resort because I knew I could bargain a good price for just about anything. It is believed among the traders there that first customer whom visited the store is important to 'pecah telur'. It means to break the egg. They believed that if they could sell it to the first customer who enters, they will get a continuous sale throughout the day. 

3rd floor  is for the dry stuffs.
Do not leave the market without buying some kepopok

Happy with my batik caftans, we went into the market to buy some other stuffs. I bought some keropok too. Keropok ikan tamban is my choice because it was made from ikan tamban, my favourite fish when it's fried. Nyum nyum.

Just before we go off to the airport, we went looking for Nasi Kerabu as what have been decided at the beginning of our trip to Kelantan. We promised ourselves, never to leave Kelantan without having one. And we got one! 

In Kelantan itself, the taste was out of this world. I ate every single grain of rice. Not even one left on my plate. That good it was! 

Satiated with all that we have desired, we reached Kuala Lumpur safely with a happy heart. Nice trip to be remembered :)

Bestest Friends Reunion 2012

Bestest friends reunion 2012 - Mona, Liza, Bibi and Bibi's daughter

I must record this historical meeting with my bestest of friends, Mona and Bibi. This unplanned meeting happened early this December. I was taken by surprised that Bibi called me out of a sudden for a meeting. It has been soooo long that the three of us didn't meet up due to our different directions in life. We forgot to even say hi to each other until this fateful meeting at Tony Roma's @ Pavillion, KL.

I have written about our last meeting in 2005. My Goodness! That long we had been separated. Unlike with Mona, I met her all the time. Our meeting was quite constant since graduation. We even met quite a lot during lunch time because both of us are in KL. But Bibi was totally in a different land. She is always in Miri, Sarawak and she was always busy with her family. Now she has 3 boys and 1 daughter.We got to see her latest addition, a 5 months old baby boy. Huwaa!!! I just can't believe it myself.

She was in KL for a family annual holiday. Although she has come to KL numerous times, she had never called us in fear that she might interrupt our lives. We keep ourselves updated via facebook and once in a blue moon by phone.

Once met, it was like the olden times. It was like we were never been separated. It felt just like home. Unfortunately time flies. We find it hard to say goodbye. I had lots of stuff to update her and she to update me. We promised to meet more often in the near future.

I love these two ladies, Mona and Bibi with my life. We have been best friends since our university's days. We were inseparable. We have known each other like nobody has even known us in this life. Old friends indeed is like wine. It gets better when it's aged :)