The following should be of interest for coin collectors. My grandpa said he has collected some coins when he was staying in New York in the past 7 years. Although I am not a coin collector myself, but I really feel exciting when I found some coins dated at 1700-2008 from his collection. There are few pieces of coins dated at around 1750, that cost $300 each piece. Last I have read some newspaper articles that some people are trying to buy some 1 sen ancient coins (not aware of the date of the coin) for Rm 300 - Rm 6,000 randomly. Therefore, from my prediction, these coins will definitely worth as much in the next 100 years. Worth collecting for me.


Caption: a set of coins


Caption: one piece of ancient coin, worth $300

I have been told that my amway membership is expiring soon, and therefore, we were planning to renew it (for membership purpose, the first time, you may need to pay RM 85.00 I think, and RM 35.00 in the second membership year, and you will get a RM 10,000 insurance). There is this new Amway building where I think it is worth paying a visit, and yet someone told me that they are going to have a mini supermarket to sell their suppliments and other products in that building itself. As soon as we reached to Amway centre, I realized that my sister has an existing account (we usually purchase and consume Amway suppliments, and have been more than 20 years now). Therefore, instead of renewing my acccount, we went to the building to close my account (one advantages that causes me to feel that Amway is a reliable company because they are willing to pay you back the amount that you spend if you dislike some of their products and / or membership). Finally, I am free from Amway again. Since we only consume the suppliments, and not working as a direct sales for Amway, so if anyone interested to have an Amway membership, either (1) contact the Amway directly yourself, or (2) I can introduce you to some friends :)

Caption: my grandma and I at the entrance of the Amway building

Later in the afternoon, we went to grandparent's home to meet up with Liz. After observing the picture (in the below) for a number of times, I realized that she is quite tall. She is not wearing a high heel shoes in the picture, and if she do, she will looks taller than me :)

Caption: Liz and I at grandparent's home

Since it is Saturday on that day, we have decided to have some fun. This time, my younger cousin brother followed us along. If you look carefully at the picture (below), you will observe a little 'devil' trying to massage my grandma lol. That little devil is him, and his name is Adam Lim. Seriously, he is a very cute and shy person, except he cried very often and will get offended very easily. Probably he is still a little kid of age 6. One special talent that he has, that is his mathematical calculation is brilliant. I assume if his parents willing to spend more money to allow him to study abroad in mathematical area in the future, he should have a bright future in this field (related to mathematics, i.e. scientist, mathematicians, like Einstein? :O and etc).

Caption: the little devil massaging my grandma

Anyway, firstly, we went for dinner in a restaurant. They ordered a lot of dishes. This time, we have chicken, fish, vegetables, what else, hmm, I think one of the dish is yam, and some mixture of seafoods. Thumbs up! I really love the chinese foods in Malaysia if I rate it based on the price and quality, of course, compared to the foods in the UK.

Caption: dinner in a chinese restaurant

After the dinner, we have decided to walk around the nightmarket. As usual, I am not really interested in walking in a nightmarket, probably due to the heat. The weather in Malaysia is always warm, very warm, and I assume the temperature should be around 34 degree celcius throughout the year. They sell many things in the nightmarket, similar to the Wembley morning market in London, UK, except the nightmarket in malaysia has more stuffs for sale, and at a more cheaper price.

Caption: went to a nearby nightmarket (or pasar malam)

Then, we went to IKEA. Usually, people will go to IKEA to buy furnitures. Our mission is different. Instead, we went there for free drinks, lol. Anyone who has an IKEA friendcard (mastercard) can have free drinks, such as coffee, tea and soft drinks (as much as you want). If you look at my grandpa, he drank at least 3 cups of coffee on that day, and complained that he could not sleep at night, lol. As a result, greediness will not bring a person anywhere.

Caption: having coffee in IKEA

We went home at approximately 12:00 AM that night. My uncle bought some bluray cd's, and asked us to watch that movie produced by Mel Gibson, namely Apocalypto. I rate it as an excellent movie. This is really a good movie to me, and I strongly suggest people who has not watch this movie, should spend 2-3 hours watching it. As for dessert, he asked us to try out some of the fruits (this is the first time I have ever seen a fruit like that) that he bought from his friends. I heard it is very expensive. RM 18.00 per kilogram (that is almost £3.50 per KG).

Caption: an un-named tropical fruit

This unknown tropical fruit, is a fruit that looks similar to a 'natal-plum'. Someone named it as "buah susu" in Malay, and if you interprete it into english, a "buah susu" means milk fruit. I do not see a drip of milk in this fruit and so, I think that is not the right name for this fruit. According to my uncle's friend, this fruit is a very famous fruit in Brazil and Indonesia. This fruit is very nutritious, especially for girls. I have asked, will eating this fruit be beneficial for guys and he said "not that I know, but it is very beneficial for girls who eat them". For girls, consuming this fruit will provide them a better skin texture / complexion. One of my friend told me the name of the fruit is called "Maracuja" (or called Maracuya in Spanish), is a type of juicy passion fruit, a native to South America and widely grown in different countries such as India, New Zeland, the Carribbean, Brazil, colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Califonia, southern Florida, Hawaii, Australia, East Africa, Israel and South Africa. Thanks to Swee Ling for the information.

Caption: the inner section of the tropical fruit

I think i did mentioned to Liz about the importance of this fruit to her, and I think I did mentioned about the 'buah susu' (milk fruit) thing, sounded like will enhance a ladies *cough* and that is why she has this facial expression when eating the fruit? I might be wrong though :)

Caption: this is what happens when you tell a girl that a fruit is good for them

It may look a little gross to you, and you may eat the whole inner section of the fruit, and yes, including the juicy seeds. Chew the seeds well, and swallow it. The fruit tastes like mango, except the texture of the fruit (the eatable section) looks more like the softer version of a pomegranate. We finish watching the movies at around 3:00 AM. Surprisingly, I met my uncle's cousin brother. I have not seen him for quite some time now. Last I heard he went to Johor (a state in Malaysia that was located near to Singapore) and build his career there.

Caption: my uncle's cousin brother and I

Lastly, this picture is for my younger brother who is currently staying in the UK. This is also one his favourite vegetable. In fact, he hated this vegetable, but on purpose, I named this as his 'favourite vege' lol. However, he can not get mad at me because both Liz and I have agreed to capture the picture of this vegetable for blogging purpose, specifically for him to read :)

Caption: white cabbage in Tesco

Due to the changes of daylight saving time, the time in the UK has now changed, and is officially an hour ahead. That means, an hour less for people in the UK to sleep :)

This is the 5th time going to the chinese doctor (the 2nd chinese doctor). First, they said the bone in my wrist has been dislocated. That is fine, they twisted my hand so many times, suffered for plenty of times now, but the fact is, they have cured the dislocation now. Thank god.

Acupuncture is a type of therapy is to promote health and alleviate pain and suffering. I heard it is a type of concepts for vital energy, energetic balance and energetic imbalance. For many years, this treatment has been vital and validated by chinese medical centres all over the world. Okay, let me get back to the story.

Since this is the 5th time visiting the chinese doctor, he suggests that the bone twisting method is no longer effective. He told me that "uncle will use a different method, a more effective one, using needles". The acupunture treatment is when the doctor uses is a method similar to how western doctors used to monitor the blood flow in the blood vessels, except western doctors will use different digital technologies (i.e. x-ray, ultrasound, etc.) for monitoring whilst the acupunturist will use some needles for monitoring. The doctor added, "this is not going to be painful" and gave me a smile. Well, it is not painful then. Come on, please do itr quick, because its getting late, 10.30 PM at that time. The first needle 'slotted', approximately 0.1 centimetre on my wrist. Well, that is fine, not feeling painful at all.


Caption : first needle

Then, I told the doctor that I wanted to capture some pictures for blogging purpose. This is why I have a few pictures now. When he poked the second needle into my hand, I started to feel the pain. I screamed but he just ignored me.

Caption: second needle

When he placed the 3rd needle in my wrist, I started to have some tears. This is the second time in my life for crying over something poked into my skin (the first time is when the doctors injected a needle for hepititis b, sometime in twenty years ago). This is insanely pain. The doctor said that he will be leaving the needles there for 30 minutes. Imagine how would i feel when 3 eedles were sticked into my skin for 30 minutes?

Caption: third needle

Finally, 30 minutes had passed. Finally. But the doctor said that he need to poke the last needle (forth needle) somewhere because he was thinking something is definitely wrong with the vein in my wrist. So he plased the whole 3.0 centimetre needle into the skin near my wrist, and tried moving my vein.

Caption: a picture of vein in a persons hand

He tried to reposition the vein on my wrist. He tried moving his needle in my skin, moving the needle in and out, left to right. Trust me, please do not go to an acupunturist. Either he do not know anything about acupuncture (my uncle went for acupuncture treatment somewhere and he feel no pain at all, instead, he feel relaxed) or my situation is very special. Anyway, a few minutes later, he removed the forth needle and asked me if it is still painful, lol? Hell I would say yes. I believe by saying "yes, I still feel painful", he will start 'messing' my vein with more needles. Sigh, actually I feel worst becase I feel the increment of pain in my hand than before meeting him.

The following day, I went to my family doctor. After several test, he believes that I need to visit a neurologist and not just a normal doctor. Then, we went to a neurologist for further consultation. A neurologist is a person who deals with disorders of the nervous system, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue, such as muscle. He suggested me to not go for an x-ray, instead should go for MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan. The MRI will be able to produce a very detail capture of my hand, including the nerve system on my hand. However, the MRI scan is very expensive (usually cost 20 times the price of a normal x-ray). Anyway, this neurologist said his initial scan has showed that it has nothing to do with the bone structure, instead, it has something to do with the vein and nerve system. There were lack of tissues in vein and in the nerve. He believe it is the stress that I have, causing this matter so serious now. So now, this has something to deal with the stress that possesses my brain, onto the nerve system. Firstly, he asked me to not move my right hand even for 1%, so typing (I can, with my left hand only, so writing journals and blogging will consume much more time now), driving, writting, etc. is prohibitted for the next 6 weeks :( However, that will only help to cure the vein tissues. He asked me to visit him again for the nerve system :(

I can not believe that the pain that I have been encountering was caused by so many factors, first bone dislocation, second the loss of tissue in the vein and third, the stress that I have, killing the tissues in the nerve system. Hopefully I will be fine soon. So students out there, especially music students, please do not give yourself too much pressure over studies and make sure to sleep on time (before 12.00 AM), and make sure you are sleeping at the right position.

In case *touch wood* you encountered similar problem, there do have several methods to treat it. Dr. Ru (the brain specialist whom I did specify in earlier posts) asked me to soak a clean cloth into hot water (60 degree celcius), dry it and cover the affected area of my wrist. He suggested me to do it for 2 times per day, (1) when I woke up early in the morning and again (2) before sleeping (simultaneously for 3 to 4 times, 30 minutes every session). That method will help removing abnormal tissues in the affected area.

Barbecue pork (chinese: char siu) is a popular roasted pork dish in the chinese cuisine. Usually, people will serve the barbecue pork with rice in most chinese restaurants.


Caption: barbecue pork

What a sweet memory! I look at my photo album the other day, and found some really nice pictures. Two pictures that I think worth posting here; both photos were captured by my elder brother, the first is a photo of my younger brother and I. I believe the photo was taken around 17 years ago, when we were at age 10 (me) and 7 (my younger brother). The second photo was taken two years later (15 years ago). That is a picture of us (four of us; my two cousin brothers Kean Meng and Kean Hon, and both of us) fighting over the computer for games, lol. I still think I looks cuter than my brother at that time (I think he will feel very frustrated when he see this picture posted here without his permission, and yet saying someone else looks cuter than him haha). Well, if this is a fact, what can I do, right? I am just joking *evil grin*


Caption: my brother and I (17 years ago)


Caption: the four of us, my two cousin brothers and the two of us

Anyway, i went to the chinese doctor again. This time, her hubby treated me. I assume that he has more experience in bone dislocation. I feel much better after meeting him, much more relief compared to the other time. Afterall, I still could not hold a pen on my right hand to write :( Probably need to pay him another visit soon, and hopefully by then, my hand will fully recover. I snapped a photo of the chinese clinic, and posted it here incase anyone would need a chinese doctor to cure their fractured hand some day.


Caption: the chinese clinic

Liz looks bored on that day, so I asked her to stand next to my grandpa's bonsai. Here is the picture taken.


Caption: liz and grandpa's bonsai collection

Then, we went to this chinese restaurant for food. The food is very delicious. The price is reasonable to me. Among all dishes, the tomyam squid and the ginger fish tastes excellent. The soy sauce chicken tasted just as good as from other high-class restaurants. Yummy!


Caption: tomyam squid


Caption: ginger fish


Caption: soy sauce chicken

After dinner, we went to subang parade and walk around. My sister asked us to keep her accompany in this electronic store. I think she plan to look around for electrical appliances, probably for marriage usage? :O lol. But hey, take a look at the price of this "Electrolux fridge", RM 8, 429 :( Who can afford to buy such pricey fridge?


Caption: the RM 8, 429 Electrolux fridge

Then, we went to a mamak stall (also known as mapley, a type of food established by indian muslims and serve mamak foods) for supper. A friend told me that there is this very famous mamak stall around the place I am currently staying. That is also a reason for us to try the foods that they serve. I had "roti tissue" (roti tissue derives from the combination of two words, (1) roti or bread (in english) and (2) tissue (a type of paper), tastes very crunchy and is a very creative mamak food) as supper. I can not believe to see more than 100 people sitting in this mamak stall that night. Afterall, the foods are alright, and I would rate it as moderate.

Caption: roti tissue

I think another reason that these group of people gathering there is not mainly for food, but they do enjoy watching football matches (in a HD projector) while enjoying sisha (also known as hookah, a type of turkish tobacco or called the water pipe for smoking). Different article will provide different understanding. Some said it originated from India, whilst some said from Turkey. Sisha is very famous in the UK. I often seen a lot people sitting down in some tobacco shop smoking sisha and I do not know what it is at that time. It looks exactly like tobacco, except that this smoke contain different flavour, such as herbal fruits.

Wolf berry, is a type of, berry, lol. Why is it called a 'happy berry'? It is a nickname given to this berry because of the sense of well-being it is said to induce. The wolf berry plant claimed to have grown in the Himalaya region.

Traditionally, we named it as Goji berry (pinyin: 枸杞, gǒuqǐ), a small deep red coloured berry. Chinese people will usually use this berry to boil herbal soup. Their basic understand makes them to believe that these berry will ONLY help to improve a person's vision.


Caption: ripe goji berries

If you assume that goji berries will only help a person to improve their vision, then you are wrong. Do not under estimate this berry by its look. It may look small to you, dried, and red in colour. Numerous research have proven that this berry is probably the most nutritious berry in comparison to other types of berries that exists in this world (i.e. raspberry, cherry, blueberry, blackberry, etc).


Caption: dried goji berries that are ready to be eaten

Why is this berry so important? Here is the story. Originally, western people treated this as a fruit for them, and yes, just a normal fruit like oranges. But most people would prefer eating oranges since it produces vitamin c to a human. Some people would think that kiwi is much more beneficial than oranges since it provides 5 times the vitamin c produces by an orange. Recently, researches have been conducted, examining the goji berries are a very rich source of vitamin c, that an ounce (unit: 1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams) of goji berry will provide 500 times of vitamin c than oranges. Years ago, we know that the acerola cherry is the best source of vitamin c where it produces 250 times of an orange. But the goji berry provides 500 times of vitamin c, twice the amount of vitamin c than the acerola cherry!

Goji berries are an excellent sauce of vitamin a, and that is also why it helps to improve a person's vision (from my understanding, red colour berries will usually provide vitamin a to a person). Goji berries also contain vitamins B1, B2, B6, and E; they are becoming a famous antioxidant (antioxidants can help to prevent the grow of the cancer disease in a human body). This is also why a large study in Japan suggests that goji berries can help kill many types of cancer cells. They have proven that goji berries can minimise more than 50% of the success rate of a cancer disease to affect human body.

Goji berries conferred significant protection for a person's liver. The reason is that this berry contained 18 types of acid amino (liver) and 21 trace minerals, linoleic acid, and more beta carotene than carrots (beta carotene is a substance from plants that the body converts into vitamin a). Goji is also beneficial for a person's lung and kidney channels. Other minerals contained in a goji berry include isoleucine, tryptophan, zinc, iron, copper, calcium, germanium, selenium, and phosphorus.

Goji Berries can be eaten dried as they are or made into a juice. Very special isn't it? I am sure many of us do not know that such a small berry will be so beneficial for a human. Therefore, I strongly suggest you people to consume more goji berries from today onwards.

Chong Swee Ling, a.k.a. my mui-mui (pinyin: unknown), age: 21 (i think), d.o.b: N/A, home adress: N/A.

We treated each other as siblings (usually, I will call her mui-mui) since year 2009. However, the above are the only information provided by her :( She dated me a couple of days ago, bringing me out with her kancil. When she gave me a phone call, I was about to lead her to somewhere else (a little confusion where there were 2 petrol stations around my place, one in the east and another in the west). Somehow, almost everyone who visitted us will have trouble looking for my home :S

Caption: Swee Ling loves to smile when she see 'food' / in the menu

Caption: Swee Ling was choosing a dessert for me and herself

We decided to try out something 'fresh' and since that is the only day (I think) I am free, so she took me to this restaurant for dinner in Petaling Jaya (PJ). I ordered this dish called the Hakka Lui Cha. This is the first time I taste something like this. Many friends have been telling me about this Hakka Lui Cha, so I have a basic understanding of what it is. From my understanding, this is a hakka tea based food consisting of a mixture of tea leaves. Two separate dishes, (1) some rice grounded together with various roasted nuts, seeds, grains, beans, and with some various of vegetables, and (2) a small bowl of savory chinese tea (usually green tea / oolong tea), and mixing (1) and (2) before eating them. If you look at the pictures in the below, you will have a rough idea of how this beverage looks like. Hmm, tasty? I am not sure. It tastes so traditional, giving me a very traditional feeling (a feeling of my grandmother feeding me with food when I was aged 4) when having this food lol.

Caption: Hakka Lui Cha (or Lei Cha, this picture was taken from other website)

Caption: Hakka Lui Cha with tea (this picture was taken from other website)

Then, she full tank her car with petrol, and took me around Kuala Lumpur. So nice of her for doing that. This is also the first time someone wasting money on petrol, driving me around PJ and Kuala Lumpur. A while later, she took me to Mont Kiara (somewhere in KL), in this dessert bar (I think), and yes, she is hungry again. She said "I loves eating, and I usually a lot". This vege-eater human breed can eat a lot serious. She can eat more than me! Ok no joke, this is a compliment by me. I still wonder how some people can eat continuously and not getting fat.

Caption: me and my mui-mui

Caption: dessert that we have

'We' had a slice of cheesy tofu cake and a cup of concentrate grape fruit juice as dessert. Although we shared the food together, including the drink, but she consume at least 93% of the dessert :) Somehow, I am really happy to see some people who can eat and smile at the same time. It is something worth observing.