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10 Things to do during Chinese New Year 2016

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4 out of 10 CNY activities You Have Done it unconsciously.


Chinese New Year is HOLIDAY !!

1. PAY A VISIT TO SHOPPING MALL


Sunway Carnival Mall
Sunway Carnival Mall


Each shopping mall in Malaysia offers spectacular seasonal decoration especially during all-time favorite Chinese New Year. Sunway Carnival Mall might have spent thousands in order to signify the coming of Lunar new year festival. There is no need to pay to take a picture with your friends !

Branches of man-made Cherry blossom were one of the attraction where passerby could write and tag wishes cards onto the branch. Most popular wishes are health, relationship and job !

Check it out Suria Sabah Shopping mall's Chinese new year 2015 decoration ! Suria Sabah Chinese New Year decoration 2015


2.  LION DANCE


It was not Chinese New year without lion dance. Lion dance is a hired performance done with or without the rising platform. However, the lion dance is must to be performed with loud instruments. One will see the lion dance performers making an art out of mandarin orange or carrying a 4-words scroll to gift to the one who funded the performance.


3. CHINESE NEW YEAR 2016 MOVIES



Well known director Stephen Chow's the "mermaid" is one of the selected few films to debut during the highly coveted first week of the Chinese New Year . The film recorded as highest opening ticket sales in a week in many countries including Malaysia.


4. PURCHASE NEW CLOTHES


Parkson counter


There is no way throughout the Chinese New Year week wearing the traditional red Chinese costume. I suppose new clothes mean ward off previous year bad luck. It was really fun though !


5. DYE HAIR




There is no compulsory on this point. Everyone went to do some look adjustment in order to wow the crowd of relative. However, dying hair is not very accepted by any parents thinking as it would probably give a bad impression.



6. NIGHT CLUB

Cameo Penang

Cocktail tables full of booze. Singing and dancing with band and DJ. A night before Chinese new year eve 2016 ! The lightning effect is quite cool. It was a little bit intense knowing that the entrance fee was FREE


7. TEMPLE


真君大帝古庙

Crowded temple with overwhelming devotees performing burnt offerings.


8.  FAMILY-FRIENDLY LOCALLY HELD PERFORMANCE



Night singing performance !


9. POKER OR MAHJONG


Mahjong

Everyone love gambling during this time. Only on this festival occasion, The full of dust poker cards and discolored mahjong were taken out from store shelves. Most of them were not addicted to poker or mahjong gambling. After the festival, the mahjong and poker will see no light again until next CNY.

Poker

The perception is winning and losing is a matter of luck.



10. CHINESE RITUAL BEFORE MEAL



Ritual before meal
A god blessed meal

An offering before a meal. The food then will be properly placed at dining table.

10 Attractive about Seoul Garden Restaurant

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Seoul Garden Restaurant is expanding its reach nationwide. Managed by Zingrill Holdings based in Singapore.




Some attractive points to ponder about Seoul Garden restaurant :

- Buffet style with variety of drinks
- Halal
- "Do Serve Beef"
- no alcohol
 - Variety of ice-cream
- There are Chicken Bulgogi and Chicken Kim Chi
- Various dressing notably, Spicy Korean Chili 
- Seafood such as prawn, squid, clam and many more
- Cendol
- 5 Types of soup




It was a pretty serene environment. Food was all well prepared no single out-of-stock and empty scheme by the restaurant. Get inside became the only two customers unfortunately there were nothing for early bird !

Told the cashier we are going to have buffet here, she was happy to see both of us and pretty straightforward give us a receipt as I had paid her in advance.  There was a friendly looking staff following us to our favorite sitting spot. Pouring spicy Kim Chi Soup to the bowl and started the grill
Clean and neat walking freely with so many Korean food choices.



There were vegetables and appetizer but, This is my kind of appetizer. Golden Crispy roll, fries, fried rice.


Look closely, I greedily took yummy chicken bulgogi, chicken kimchi, chicken bbq. There were some vegetable and corn inside the kimchi soup.


Yummy Kim Chi soup Noodle. Excellent taste !

Seoul Garden Seafood

Was not in the mood eating seafood. The best part all seafood were fresh !


Not a big fan of seafood, grilled the prawn instead.



Herbal Soup !





Ice-Cream


Seoul Garden Tissue !


It might be the biggest "Halal" "Buffet" Korean Restaurants in Malaysia with so many outlets nationwide.


Seoul Garden website : http://www.seoulgarden.com.my/

Spent RM87.00 approximately RM43.50 per person.

Prosperity Burger vs Chicken Rice

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Make your move visit McDonalds and Chicken Rice Shop now as new menu rolled out in the month of January 2016



McDonalds Malaysia prosperity burger

Prosperity Burger is McD Malaysia festive menu only available when Chinese New Year is around the corner. A set of Prosperity Burger, come with Twister fries and Prosperity McFlizz. Honestly, The prosperity McFlizz is definitely easy to make. The ingredients are adding some orange with 80%. sprite. I have seen it and you probably could have seen it too since McDonald practice open kitchen  




Craving other than Prosperity Burger or feeling Prosperity burger too small portion for your appetite?

Introducing Chicken Rice Shop's Chinese new year menu,  It highly recommended due to its variety of delicious snacks especially the "Nyonya Pai Tee"and "The Pak Choy" with dark soy sauce and last but not least delicious mouth-watering Hainanese style Chicken with special kind of dressing.

The drink was exclude from the package though ! The cost is RM22 per person.

New Energy Drink Ranger in Southeast Asia

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It is not about comparing Giant Brand Red Bull and Ranger. It about introducing Ranger energy drink likened to Red Bull. Ranger energy drink is a new product from F&N Beverages Marketing Sdn Bhd





Sport Enthusiasm come from a can of Red Bull

Ever doubt why Red Bull is so successful with so many funding to advertise in every huge sport scenes. I would have never knew Red Bull if it was not the widespread advertisements and my love of extreme sport such as BMX.

Still, The article is not all about Rivalry of Red Bull the highly regarded in western countries. It about the emerging of Southeast Asia 's version of energy drink, "Ranger". Let start talk little bit about this new Energy drink

Hmm !!
  • Product : RANGER
  • Calories : 100ml = 71 KCAL, 17g Carb, 0g Protein, 0g Fat, 17g Sugar
  • Net Weight : 250ml
  • Status         : Halal , Made from Thailand
  • Manufacturer : Imported by F&N Beverages Marketing Sdn Bhd
  • Flavor : Energy Drink
  • Value (2014) : Vary (available in 7 Eleven)
  • Website : www. fnbm.com.my

After drinking Ranger, the feeling was like as a saying in popular anime "One Punch Man", 100 push- ups, sit-ups and 100 squats along with 10 km run. Realistically, I cant do that altogether but certainly it gives me a hope that I could have done that after drinking a can of RANGER. A very good feeling though !






In marketing world, This advertisement video connected the dot about Rivalry between Red Bull and Ranger. It is not obvious enough ? Sumatran tiger ward off an angry bull  ?

Grab a ranger today at nearest 7 -Eleven .


Men's Face Wash "Gatsby" Anti-Acne



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Men do wash their face occasionally.





 Gatsby Anti Acne

There is a sudden urge to maintain facial skin. It so useful for multiple occasion, attending wedding, party, date, outing with friends. There must be one time your girlfriend called you right after a workout or working overtime for a decent dinner, this is where face wash is critically needed. Imagine the sweat and smell on the face.

Face wash is a quick solution for any lazy men who are rushing for a meet up.  A compatible face wash for one that understands skin condition. There are face wash caters for oily face, acne, and even whitening.



no more obvious acne
Currently using anti-acne because main priority is to eliminate any available easily seen red dots / pimples. Besides, the above photo was taken after using Gatsby Anti-acne face wash. Well, skin does look good because phone camera fix it with beauty mode.