To Highlands with Love, Oct 2007

October is special. It's the month, Chloe and I first met. And on 22 October 2007, we celebrated our 2nd Anniversary of our First Meeting ! In celebration, we made a quickie escapade to Cameron Highlands. The cool crisp air at Cameron Highlands was refreshing. We stayed at the majestic Lakehouse, an old English style mansion that sits atop a hill overlooking the "Lake" (it's actually a dam)! After checking-in, we drove towards Tanah Rata and Brinchang where we visited the vegetable and strawberries farm along the way. On the way back, we stopped at Smokehouse for a few pics. After a long day cruising up and down the highlands, we returned to our "mansion" for the night, for a romantic candlelight dinner. After dinner, we returned to our room where Chloe was to be surprised by a bed filled with red roses and I presented to her a bouquet of white lilies and white roses! She was ecstatic! Love you dear !

Oh! it's the Interactive Digital Billboard !

I was at the Mid Valley Gardens shopping mall about 3 weeks ago and guess what? I saw a plasma display being used as an interactive directory - this was the same idea we had proposed to several mall owners about 7 years ago. It is not something new. We knew, because we pioneered the idea but unfortunately it did not see the light of the day during our time. Just say, we were too early! How sad! We saw it coming but yet it wasn't fully understood then.

The Festival of the Nine Emperors, Oct 2007

On the first nine days of the ninth month of the Chinese calendar, there is this orthodox Chinese festival called the "Kow Wong Yeh" or literally known as "Festival of the Nine Emperors", which is celebrated predominantly by the Hokkiens and Cantonese. So, to give offerings to the nine emperors, we went to this famous Nine Emperor temple in Ampang New Village. It's always crowded here during this time. This is my second visit to the nine emperor's temple. I was here last year to accompany my wife (then girlfriend) to pray for blessings and repay the nine emperor's "loan". Since everything had went smoothly the year before, we braved the smoke and went through the same ritual this year, praying for blessings of good health, wealth and happiness.

At the Festival of Nine Emperors, it is a culture to seek out a loan from the divine for some heavenly windfall. So, we went to the nine emperor's banker to ask for a loan. Queue was short. Service was fast. And we were given a loan on the spot. No prior approval or credit checking was required. But there is a catch, the interest rate is very high (as we could expect from any non-banking institutions), the interest is minimum 200% per annum! So, if you guys see me strike it rich next year, you knowlah where to get a loan to proposperity!

Mr. CLAYPOT

There is this place in Cheras, that serves very good claypot chicken rice. How we know it's good? Well, it's always packed with diners and many people in Cheras knows about its famous claypot chicken rice. If the picture isn't yummy enough, go head to Taman Desa Aman, it's located on the single storey shophouses right next to the apartments. Once you enter the road, it's at the end corner lot and you will not miss it. Go try it yourself. By the way, it also serve very good teochew porridge, I was told.

Mr. Claypot
19, 21-Block C, Desa Aman 2,
Taman Desa Aman
(Next to the Desa Aman Food Court/Cheras Kelana Jaya Seafood Restaurant)
Tel : 012-6800729

11.30am-10.30pm

Yours SINCERE-ly, Pavilion

Welcome to the birth of the youngest and most trendy Sincere store todate. Located at the Pavilion KL, the newest landmark shopping destination in Bukit Bintang, Sincere Pavilion adopts the thematic design style of our Vivo City store in Singapore. It is also the largest Sincere store ever, covering about 3,400 sq ft over two floors.

We opened for business on 5 Oct 2007, after much delay. Many of our neighboring tenants remained under renovation. We are still waiting for them to open and enliven the area. For now, traffic remains sparse but we did managed to attract many curious first timer customer. Let's hope this is a good start to another successful Sincere store!