Russian Watches?

For the past one week, I have been wearing a Poljot (it should have been pronounced as Poloit) watch which I bought a year ago  and to be more specified, it is a Poljot Baikal Chronograph with Moon phase. Many of my friends have commented that it is a nice timepiece but not too sure what brand? I decided to write a short article about it!

We, Malaysians are quite ignorant about watches made in Russia or Germany. There are many reputable watch brands made by them but really unknown to the public. For instance, Buran, Poljot and Vostok.

We are very lucky as there is a watch shop called Red Army Watches ( http://redarmywatches.com/ ) in Tropicana Mall and the 2nd outlet in Pavillion which carry these watches. I believed Red Army Watches are from Singapore.

So far, I have worn it twice as the complicated part is to adjust the moon phase before I can really enjoyed wearing it. Again, I have to bring it back to the shop so that they can adjust for me. Haha, don't ask me how but I think that is the best and hassle-free way!!!

In fact, the staff there said he is more than happy to do it because they are also not so familiar with it. It's a good training for them too!

Baikal is the most beautiful and also the deepest lake of the world (1637 m) and holds one fifth of all fresh water resources of the planet. 300 Siberian rivers flow into this lake! Its age is estimated about 30 million years. Its fantastic flora and fauna have no equal anywhere in the world. The lake is particularly attractive for tourists and photographs in the winter time. The glassy, iridescent surface and the gleaming light-blue snow are ravishing in their incredibly beauty. The lake "Baikal" is part of the "world heritage of nature" of the UNESCO.

The watch is elegantly crafted to signify the beauty of the lake.

By the way, it is a manual winding watch so you better wind it every two days.

Is perfection that important?

It was Christmas eve 2010 and I was having tea with a couple of friends at a restaurant in uptown after lunch hour. Obviously, we have chosen the wrong place, the Mid Valley Shopping Centre because the whole area was very jam. There were still a lot of last minute shoppers!

We were talking about my last article in the blog, "personal mission" and the ladies started to talk about perfection. One mentioned that her mission is to have a perfect husband, a perfect job and ideally a perfect make over.

We were all burst into laughter when I suggested her to find a bulldog, cos that will solve the hubby problem. Spent RM30K in Marie France for a total make over and be the mistress to a billionaire. Haha!

Well, is perfection really that important? I always believe that seeking perfection will do more harm than good. It is basically just an illusion or perception and yet we see a lot of singles out there still hoping to meet a perfect partner or job.

Most of the time we human beings didn't realise that even we are not perfect. So how to find a perfectionist? How to find a perfect job? Well, I also suggested that why don't we look at the matter in a different angle? Honestly, I never believe in perfection but betterment.

Analyse our current situation and plan for our immediate future. Can we see a betterment in our plan? Most of the time,  if you follow the right instinct, you will find a better-self. Once you achieved that, your perception will change towards the environment and who knows, out of the blue you may just find the Mr or Ms Right or the job that you are on is the right career?

A happy self is a perfect life.

Let's get back to reality. Strive for our future.






  

Personal Mission

I have been talking to so many people about company mission but have we ever thot of mapping out our own personal mission?!

Living our life with a personal map is the toughest thing because most of our time we have sunkened into the company mission. We woke up with it and slept with it too! That's the worst thing that we have ever encountered. Well, I guessed by then, it's time to move on!

Do not set limitations to our personal mission and do not set rediculous mission that you know you won't be able to achieve. Let's start with reorganising ourselves in our daily routine life. Well, when you started to think about "routine" we are well awared that there are a lot of unnecessary stuffs in our life but we are just being too ignorant to rectify them.

Kick start it by grabbing a piece of paper and start writing the follows:
1) what have you been doing?
2) what would you like to do?
3) what will you do in the next 12 months?

Try matching the above 3 categories and start eliminating what you do not need. Then, you will have a clearer guide on your personal mission.

However, the most important factor is that you have to drive your mission to ensure it can be materialised over the next 12 months!

So, spend a little time during this holiday period to start mapping out your personal mission for 2011.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!!!

Shark meat for health

One evening, I decided to take my family for seafood and initially we wanted to dine at Tak Fook in Bandar Puteri. Upon arrival, we spotted another seafood restaurant opposite the restaurant and decided to switch our bearing. The restaurant is called Nice-To-Eat Seafood Restaurant.

The lady boss was nice and told us that they specialised in shark meat. They served black shark and baby shark and have several ways of cooking. My youngest boy was real excited as he has not tasted shark meat.

I ordered a coupled of seafood dishes and also the fried sliced black shark meat with curry powder. I was a little worried about the smell (for those who luv shark meat will know what I meant) but it came out right!!! The kids liked it too.

Worth giving yourselves a try.

Solar Energy to light up a City

Recently a friend was with me discussing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of plcs and we touched on the energy saving topic. He immediately showed me a video which he recorded at nite of a icon building in DeZhou, China. It was lited with Led lightings and more than 85% of the building is energised by solar power.

Most part of the city is lited by solar energy and claimed to be undertaking by this company, Humin Group. Being ignorant, I went to the internet and found out that DeZhou is one of the model city in the world as the future ecocity and the world solar congress was held in this place a coupled of months ago.

I really thought u can only see this in anime but never expect a place in China would have it done. Bravo to Humin Group! There is a video which u can see to believe.
Follow this link http://www.himin.com/english/

Malaysia really has a lot to catch up and I urged more plcs look into CSR programs truely!

I will dropby in my next visit to see this city.

Total feast with Giant Garoupa

Last week I visited my friend in Kepong and his family owned a tea house there. I used to buy my tea from them those days. It was quite late and we decided to have dinner and he brought me to a shop in no 8 Jalan Metro Perdana, Barat 3, Taman Usahawan in Kepong Utara. It is actually those shops opposite the Jusco complex.

It is called Restaurant WK (Wong Kee) and they claimed to be the estuary grouper specialist. My friend testified that this is the best shop for giant Garoupa (lung tun).

We ordered a few dishes and he recommended a few real good stuffs:

We started with the steam sliced giant Garoupa.

The fish maw and fish ball soup is also great.

We decided not to take rice and ordered a fish porridge.

And the hilite of the evening, the sliced fish soup.

It was a great evening with all dishes from giant garoupa and the bill come up to be below RM200. I thot it is really value for money!

U can called to book at 03-6259 5826 or Mr Heng 016 280 5639.