Christmas Trees in Shopping Centres

First World Hotel, the world's biggest hotel, had put up a Christmas tree for people to hang their wishes (for people who have bought some stuff above RM50, which I did).







This tall Christmas tree was found at Berjaya Times Square.















The Curve did a magnificent job too in conjunction with the festive season.










Pavilion, being the latest shopping centre, was not left behind with their white christmas decor.














One Utama did an astounding decor. Find it really different from the usual ones.










Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) put up a gigantic Christmas tree right in the centre of the shopping centre.














Mid Valley's decor could be judged the best with the fairy tales' theme.










The Gurney Plaza in Penang tried to liven up the atmosphere by decorating with leafless wooden trees. Ran out of budget?














My own words "Where on earth did Queensbay Mall in Penang hire the interior decorator(s) from?"

Where did he/she learn that a Christmas tree is hung that way?? What was he/she trying to prove there? This is not creativity.
Tags: Christmas Tree, Christmas, Shopping Centre, First World Hotel, Berjaya Times Square, The Curve, Pavilion, One Utama, Kuala Lumpur City Centre, KLCC, Mid Valley, Gurney Plaza, Queensbay Mall, Interior Designer, Interior Decorator

Dinner at Shangri-La Hotel

Was at Lemon Garden Cafe, Shangri-La Hotel on Wednesday night celebrating my mom's birthday and found that it was fully packed with customers.

Just when you thought that being the most expensive buffet dinner (at RM112.70 - did this enter Malaysia's Book of Records?) in Malaysia and a weekday itself, it would not be packed. Good thing I did make a reservation a day earlier.

The left picture was taken at 7.30pm but by 8.00pm, it was filled.

Shangri-La did put up a Christmas tree made up of bottles right at their lounge.

Three Filipino ladies were belting out English songs. Their stage was located up above the lounge's bar counter.

Saw this nice orchid flowers at the lift area.

A nicely decorated lobby area of the hotel which contributed to the Christmas atmosphere.

Not only the hotel but Jalan Bukit Bintang was decorated to liven up the end of the year festive season. I took this road just to see how nice the place was and at 11.00pm, the traffic jam was still there.

Tags: Buffet Dinner, Lemon Garden Cafe, Shangri-La Hotel, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Christmas, Christmas Tree

China's Anti-Corruption Website

The China government has set-up a website where the China citizens could lodge corruption complaints/cases against government officials. That's a good step for China to fight against corruption.

An agency by the name of National Bureau of Corruption Prevention was given the green light to proceed with the new website. On the first day of operation, Monday - 17 December 2007, the website crashed tragically. Did the website crash because of virus?

The reason - the website traffic was sooooooo heavy that the server was unable to handle the traffic and it crashed. In other words, the citizens have at last found an avenue to lodge complaints and therefore, tons of complaints were submitted. The website - jubao.gov.cn (in chinese language). Not surprised to hear that as I have heard about corruptions in China from friends who are conducting business there.

I bet that the same would happen in Malaysia if an online submission was opened to the Malaysian public. Maybe unable to revive that server altogether.

Reading: Anti-Corruption Website Unveiled In China - China CSR
Tags: Corruption, China, National Bureau of Corruption Prevention, Jubao

Frightening Rides?

How frightening can these amusement park's rides be?

Tags: Amusement Park

The Tea Has Infection

A Hangzhou (in China) reporter used tea as his urine sample and asked 10 hospitals to analyze it. Six of the hospitals determined that he had an infection, and four of them prescribed medicine worth about 1,300 yuan in total. The Sanjia Hospital later determined that 90% of the tests on tea should be false positive and this supposedly showed that the problem was not with the hospitals. Ministry of Health spokesperson Mao Junan criticized the media for violation of the journalistic professional code of conduct.

That's funny ...... hehehe. I wonder what will Malaysian hospitals do. Could be even worse.

Reading: Medical Ethics Vs. Journalistic Ethics - Beijing Review
Tags: Tea, Infection, Hangzhou, China, Sanjia Hospital, Medical Ethics, Journalistic Ethics

Video Shoot at Hotel Premise

Our video shoot ventures have now taken us into a hotel premise, i.e. Hotel Maya at Jalan Ampang, located just right across the towering Petronas Twin Towers. We were there on Sunday night.
We had to write officially to them and was required to meet seven conditions prior to being allowed to do a video shoot.

One of the major ones being not allowed to show this video other than in the church premise on 25 Dec 2007 and cannot use it for commercial purpose. So, if you are interested to see what we have done, you have to visit my church on 25 Dec to view it.

We were given the group registration reception area for our video shoot.

Another condition was - video shooting to be done between 10.30pm and 3.00am. Ok, shouldn't be a problem. We were there by 11.15pm and finished the shooting by 2.00am. The bad news for this team that was there - we missed the two giant English Premier League matches on that same night. All we get was sms messages informing us of the results. There were 3 Liverpool fans, 1 Chelsea fan, 1 Arsenal fan and me being a Man Utd fan. You should have seen the 3 Liverpool fans' face when the sms messages came into our mobile phones.......hehehe

Nice bamboo trees just outside its window panes.
Saw this restaurant's table/chairs located just right beside an interior watch catchment area which is very shallow. Wondering whether any children had ran into the area????
The hotel was nicely decorated for the festive season.
As usual, they were anxious on the end results. Just can't wait to see how was their performance.
See that T-shirt which has our The Bridge logo worn by our video cameraman? Yeah, our video cameraman cum multimedia guy designed it and it was ordered by the whole drama team.

In this picture, it was a scene where the three wisemen were discussing about the direction in looking for the the newborn king.


Why were they in modern costumes? Well, I depicted this whole drama in a modern era.

With this video shoot done, we have one tiny weeny video scene left now. Phew! At last!
Tags: Christmas Drama, Christmas, Hotel Maya, The Bridge, Wisemen

Vegetarian Dishes

Went to a vegetarian restaurant by the name of Fan Cai Xiang at Taman Danau Desa during weekend with the family's older folks. It was packed with only one table left when we arrived. Given a choice I won't come to a vegetarian restaurant lah.
This was a buttered fried mushroom. Crunchy and tasty. Forget about whether it will give you high cholesterol due to the butter. It's superb.
This is char siew! Vegetarian style of course. Not bad though the taste is far from the actual char siew of course.








Now this is the ginger fish. Forgot the fish's name. Nice dish but definitely not fishy taste at all. It was partly beancurd.

I paid for the dinner. With seven main dishes, it cost us RM190 for 8 adults and 2 kids.

Always find vegetarian restaurants charge way too high for food that resembled the real thing. I could find a restaurant that cooks the real food at a cheaper price instead.
Tags: Vegetarian Dishes, Vegetarian Food, Fan Cai Xiang Vegetarian Restaurant, Taman Danau Desa