Exercise Regime

1^st: Warming up

sam fu kap~~~~~~~~~
kap hei~~~~~~`
fu hei~~~~
ok. now can FONG PEI ~~~
(must read in cantonese)

2^ND: Stretching


pom cak cak pom cak cak...

3^rd: the upper body exercise



4rd: lower body exercise (moving to left and back)


5^th: lower body exercise (moving to right and back)


6^th: Head exercise (make sure to do the 2^nd part, it works!)

LV1:

LV2:
i got TIT TAO GONG!!!
ai...cah~~~~~~~~

7^th: whole body exercise

LV1


LV2


LV3
i wana buang all SUI HEI...

8^th: Jumping exercise: The Pose is key! but remember to jump!


9^th: relax

LV1


LV2


LV3 over: Well done!

money money come...
money money come.....

2007年 星座運程 - 巨蟹座

	巨蟹座 6月21日─7月22日升職加薪有希望

工作運強勁，只要肯付出，就一定有收穫。可惜2007年戀愛運極差，單身者難覓意中人，有伴侶的亦宜小心金錢瓜葛，最重要保持充份溝通和謹慎理財。

人氣運低亦代表工作中沒有貴人幫助，因此集中精神更緊要。

今年對于巨蟹座來說，是個充滿契機與無限機會的一年。前兩年默默努力的勤奮巨蟹，明顯感受到辛勤工作后，得到豐富收穫的甜美滋味。

改變與機會不斷衝擊著2006年的巨蟹，雖讓生性喜愛穩定和平靜的你內心有些衝突與掙扎，但改變后的成長與隨之而來的收穫，會讓你大大的感到滿足。

巨蟹座特征。。。。。

性格內向，情緒化和感性，易為小事情緒低落，遇到困難往往會獨自解決，內心世界令人難以理解。不過，具有母性的巨蟹座，喜歡照顧別人，是值得付託終生的伴侶。

最佳對象︰山羊、雙魚

最投緣朋友︰天蠍、雙魚

最不投緣︰人馬、水瓶

健康 有利瘦身

2007年進行瘦身或排毒計劃將十分順利和見效，而且2月19日前，健康意識更持續高企，有助改善不良生活習慣。

健康上要注意飲食所引發的問題，天生消化系統容易出毛病的你，特別容易發生拉肚子、便秘和腸胃炎等疾病。

提醒你要少吃你最愛的甜食，多吃蔬菜水果，最重要的是保持充足的睡眠，那么保證你2007一整年都可以健健康康喔！

愛情 珍惜真愛

2007年的愛情運勢上，可能不若整體運勢的順心與充滿驚喜，尤其1月份你可能會陷入感情僵局中。

這可能是你的心還沒準備好迎接一段感情，就貿然接受了愛的感召，導致心有余而力不足的情況發生。

不過，感情深厚的你其實也十分期待一段深遠長久的愛情，8月份時，你將深深體會真愛所帶來的力量，開始明白該如何珍惜與照顧一段值得的愛。

事業 有望加薪

2006年底至2007年秋季，工作運無往不利，而且抱積極事業心，只要不怕付出，加薪一定有你份。

以往沒有對你多加注意的上司或老闆，開始發現你默默努力的成果而對你另眼相看。

6、7月是工作運勢達到高峰的關鍵期，此時暫拋開你害羞低調的個性，勇于表達自我，把構思已久的企劃案或計劃書提上檯面，你將會得到非常踏實的成就感。

學業 惡補數理

學業上要多努力，尤其在記憶方面的練習，多朗讀背誦，下半年過后耀眼的成績將有目共睹，你付出的努力不會白費。

不過，巨蟹座的小朋友在學業上打群體戰會比較好，例如：組讀書會互相激勵，今年在文科部份比較強，數理就比較容易遇到挫折，更會因此就放棄不念，故家長宜多關心注意。

小巨蟹要注意均衡發展，不要老是唸自己喜歡的幾科，記得要把落后的給惡補回來。

財運 人緣招財

在新的一年，大吉星相不斷成形，更照亮了財宮內的戀愛星，令人緣成為招引財運的最大力量，人事關係多多少少會帶來賺錢機會，宜加緊把握！

2007年的巨蟹座在財運上還算平穩，今年會有小小的投資機會，讓你開始觸及各種投資方法的領域，而且有越鑽研越感興趣的趨勢。

不過，要提醒你的是，決定投資時要謹慎評估，太過衝動或是考慮太多都不適當，因為這兩種狀況都會讓你在判斷上產生失誤。

小叮嚀。。。。。

在2007年亮相是必須的，沒辦法逃避，與其抗拒不如欣然接受，變成喜歡的跨出那一大步；還有，記得學著用別人看你的眼光看自己，就知道自己的價值所在。

(Source: China Press)

Vanilla in Malaysia

Vanilla plant's healthy, flowering and produce beans in my father plantation. Besides the vanilla bean are new flower grow up. This Photo taken 17 September 2006 by me.

Malaysia also has a vanilla industry but production is small. The Vanilla orchid species that flavour our ice-creams, soft drinks and other dishes, originated in Mexico, but have been successfully transplanted to places such as Madagascar and Uganda, and is an important cash crop there. The global vanilla industry has been hot news in recent years thanks to some unusual weather conditions in 2003 and 2004 that destroyed many vanilla farms, raising prices from around US$40 or RM140 a kilo to US$600 or MR2130 per kilo by 2005.

Hoping to glean a fast fortune, many countries such as India and Indonesia rushed to found vanilla farms, only to find that good weather and subsequent overproduction have driven the price down to as low as US$20 – US$30 (RM70 – RM105).

Current reports state that world production is some 1700 tonnes a year, and that Madagascar, the world’s top vanilla producer, will put at least 1800 tonnes on the market all by itself. All signs that floriculture may be a sounder, safer option than the vanilla market.

(Source: The Star - Saturday February 10, 2007)

Sweet Memories at Juara Beach Pulau Tioman 2006

We took photo for memory.




Photo taken at Mersing Jetty & inside the speed boat.
Juara Beach is located on the mid east of Tioman Island.

The beautiful and peaceful beach , you sure like it !


Snorkeling in crystal clear water.The sand of this beach is snow white and smooth.

Minister: Production of palm oil done in sustainable manner

My father old tractor.

Hope that Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities announce the new technology or method to increase production yield of 35 tonnes or more oil palm fresh fruit bunches per hectare per year and 25% oil extraction rate as soon as possible.

KUALA LUMPUR: The production of palm oil is done in a sustainable manner in Malaysia, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui on Tuesday.

Through its research and development (R&D) efforts, Malaysia had developed environmentally-friendly practices in oil palm management and production, he said during the opening of Seminar on Oil Palm Industry in Malaysia on Tuesday.

Chin said efforts to tarnish the image of palm oil on nutritional grounds in the 1980s were unsuccessful because of scientific R&D findings in favour of palm oil obtained from renowned R&D institutions worldwide.

In recent times, the industry again faced negative publicity campaign due to opposition to opening of new oil palm plantations, he said.

“There is pressure for palm oil to be from green and sustainable production and this must be seriously looked into,” he said.

Chin said the Government has set a 35:25 vision, which refers to production yield of 35 tonnes oil palm fresh fruit bunches per hectare per year and 25% oil extraction rate by 2020.

That means doubling palm oil obtained per hectare from 3.93 tonnes per year to over 8 tonnes per year.

(Source: The Star)

History of Vanilla

My brother with the vanilla bean in my father oil palm plantation.

Vanilla was one of the many items of cuisine first encountered by the Spanish upon meeting with theAztecs, which they subsequently introduced into Europe. The Aztecs called vanilla tlilxóchitl words tlilli ("black") and xóchitl ("flower"). This name, given in spite of the vanilla flower's white or pale yellow colour, indicates that their focus was on the colour of the coveted ripe pod, rather than the flower petals. ("black flower"), derived from theNahuatl

In ancientMexico, the Totonac people were regarded as the producers of the best vanilla. The Totonac are from the region now known as the state of Veracruz (Papantla, Mexico, holds itself out as the origin of vanilla). They continued to be the world's chief producers of the flavouring through the mid19th century. At that time,French vanilla growers in Mexico traded their knowledge of artificial pollination for the Totonac knowledge of preparing the pods.

In 1518, while the Spanish Conquistador Cortez was seeking the treasures of the New World, he observed the Aztec emperor Montezuma enjoying a royal beverage of Vanilla scented chocolate. He was so impressed by thls kingly drink that when he and his men returned to Europe, they took bags of cocoa and Vanilla along with the gold, silver and jewels of Montezuma's fallen empire. Within half a century after Cortez made his discovery, Spanish factories were preparing Vanilla-flavored chocolate. For some time Europeans continued to use Vanilla only in combination with the cocoa bean.

In 1602, however, Vanilla began to be used as a flavoring on its own, the suggestion of Queen Elizabeth's apothecary, Hugh Morgan. Since then Vanilla has soared in popularity, making it more popular than chocolate or any other flavor known before or since. For more than 300 years after its discovery by Cortez, Vanilla was produced only in its native Mexico.

Plantings were tried in many countries, but the delicate orchid never bore fruit. The mystery was not solved until 1836, when a Belgian named Charles Morren found that common insects cannot pollinate the Vanilla orchid. He observed that a tiny bee, the Melipone, which is found only in the Vanilla districts of Mexico, is uniquely equipped to bring the plant to fertilization. The bee did not survive outside Mexico and so Morren developed a method of hand-pollinating Vanilla blossoms.

Shortly after Morren's discovery, the French started to cultivate Vanilla on many of their islands in the Indian Ocean, East and West Indies and French Oceania, the Dutch planted it in Indonesia and the British in Southern India. Eventually the French took Vanilla to Reunion, an island off Madagascar's coast. There a former slave named Edmond Albius perfected a quick and simple method of hand-pollinating which is still used to this day.

This was the impetus of major cultivation in the Indian Ocean area. Scientists specializing in biotechnology have been working for several years with Vanilla plants to improve and optimize the vanilla flavor. They use tissue culture techniques to propagate Vanilla orchid plant cells with desirable flavor characteristics.

For centuries, vanilla has been one of the most familiar flavors, fundamental to western cuisine. Commonly used to flavor desserts, beverages, milk products, and coffee, vanilla has become one of the most loved flavors of the western palate.

It is believed, the Totonaca people of Mexico were the first cultivators of vanilla, during Mesoamerican times. They believed that the Gods had bestowed this exotic fruit upon them. Vanilla continues to be cultivated in the eastern portions of tropical Mexico.

In the 14th century, the Spanish conquistadors under Cortez, watched Montezuma, Emperor of the Aztecs, pulverize vanilla beans, combine them with chocolate and serve it as a drink in golden goblets to his most honored guests.

The Spanish caught on quickly and by the middle of the 15th century, were importing it to Europe to use as a flavor in the manufacture of chocolate.

As European explorers and their attendant botanical recorders and collectors combed the forests of Central and South America, vanilla became more common in Europe. Europeans followed the example of the tribes in the New World and used vanilla in the production of medicine, as a nerve stimulant and as an aphrodisiac.

By the early 1800's vanilla plants were growing in botanical collections in Germany and France. Horticulturists were experimenting with conditions for its growth. From Europe it was transported to Reunion, Mauritius and the Malagasy Republic. In the new tropical colonies, slave labor discovered that hand pollination of the flowers was necessary to produce vanilla beans.

From these points, vanilla plants were taken to Indonesia, the Seychelles, and the Comoros Islands. At approximately the same time, vanilla was introduced as a crop in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.

The market price of vanilla rose dramatically in the late 1970s, due to a typhoon. Prices stayed stable at this level through the early 1980s, due to the pressure of recently introduced Indonesian vanilla. In the mid 1980s, the cartel that had controlled vanilla prices and distribution since its creation in 1930 disbanded. Prices dropped 70% over the next few years, to nearly $20 USD per kilo. This changed, due to typhoon Huddah, which struck early in the year 2000. The typhoon, political instability, and poor weather in the third year drove vanilla prices to an astonishing $500 USD per kilo in 2004. A good crop, coupled with decreased demand, have pushed the market price down to the $40 per kilo range in the middle of 2005.

(Source: Internet)

端午节~~裹蒸棕

你有看过这么大张的棕叶吗？每年我家的裹蒸棕都是用这种所谓棕叶包的呢！

我爸爸正在砍棕叶以让妈妈包裹蒸棕。

Do you see the biggest size"zhong zi" compare with normal "zhong zi" before? How to eat? Simple, decoct the "zhong zi". This special "zhong zi" is my favorite.

Even though "Duan Wu Jie" not yet coming, but my mum already make the "zhong zi". Yummy.

鉅富祖籍耍本色（第四篇） ＊福建幫＊

1天內拿到賭牌
林梧桐白手起家

“Uncle Lim”，是大家對今年4月剛歡慶90大壽的丹斯里林梧桐的暱稱。

新一代賭王的光環，則慢慢在丹斯里林國泰身上成形。

油棕園及蒲種區產業發展，卻是丹斯里李深靜的代表作之一。

雖然三者看似風馬牛不相及，但難掩蓋福建人低調行事的謙卑作風。

林梧桐 祖籍：安溪

從身無分文到富甲一方，林梧桐一手將荒蕪的雲頂高原打造成聞名國內外的避署、旅遊兼娛樂勝地，並與雲頂（GENTING，3182，主板貿易）劃上等號。

這位白手起家的經典傳奇人物，1918年在中國福建省安溪出世，16歲喪父后獨挑母親與7名弟妹的生活重擔，1941年從中國南下大馬，在叔父手下做個每日工資只有80仙的學徒。

日軍侵佔馬來亞期間，他當過小販，戰后轉行賣廢鐵，從而成立建發實業公司，承包建築工程，並在採礦業務賺取不少錢。

60年代初期，林梧桐承建金馬崙高原水力發電廠，觸發他想在吉隆坡附近高原，發展旅遊休閒業的意念，開發賭場就成為致力追求的目標。

林國泰

30多年前，他在已故國父兼首任首相東姑阿都拉曼協助下，一天內申請到經營賭場的執照，被譽為“全世界最快取得賭場執照的人”。

冀全球排第3

早在70年代后期，雲頂便已朝向業務多元化發展，以旅遊休閒業紮根，進而開發種植業、產業發展、能源、造紙、石油及天然氣及海上郵輪業務。

2004年，林梧桐宣佈退休，正式把雲頂集團掌管大權交給次子林國泰，自己則退居幕后。

林國泰青出於藍

林梧桐為雲頂奠下強穩根基后，再由林國泰擴大版圖至世界多個角落。

林梧桐曾表示，很滿意林國泰這位接班人，並形容他是個有自己行事風格、幹練且聰敏的企業家。

除了將雲頂業務版圖，透過麗星郵輪（Star Cruise）擴至公海，林國泰更將賭業投資拓展至美國、英國、盧森堡、澳洲和菲律賓等地，成為亞洲最大賭業上市公司。

成功取得英國最大賭場營運業者，史丹利休閒（Stanley Leisure）的控制股權后，在林國泰領軍下，雲頂贏得新加坡第2張賭場營運執照，一年內雙喜臨門。

雄心壯志的林國泰甚至放眼，雲頂10年內成為全球第3大休閒娛樂兼博奕集團，並積極透過麗星郵輪進軍澳門博彩業。

雖然林國泰表現青出于藍，新一代賭王風彩逐漸成形，他卻像父親一樣，待人謙卑，行事低調，不愛出風頭，雖然掌控龐大集團及身兼許多要職，卻一直避免成為鎂光燈焦點。

購園坵賺第1桶金．李深靜親力親為

李深靜 祖籍：永春

李深靜是位在油棕園長大的貧苦人家孩子，年少時曾沿戶兜售冰淇淋養家，最終憑著苦幹及不斷掌握機會，崛起為擁有萬頃土地的企業鉅子。

年輕時，他做過園坵管理員，能操一口流利的淡米爾語，較后曾管理位于巴生附近的油棕園，自己還經營一家汽油站。

據稱，李深靜聯合數位巴生商家，向丹斯里李萊生購買柔佛數千英畝園坵，從中得利上百萬令吉，賺得人生第一桶金。

后來，他從事房業發展，首個計劃即是加影附近的南順發花園，但真正讓他開始嶄露頭角的，卻是獨力收購氣體製造業者工業氧氣（Industrial Oxygen）一役。

成為IOI集團（IOICORP，1961，主板種植）前身的工業氧氣大股東及管理人后，李深靜1985年開始通過一系列企業及土地收購活動，進軍油棕種植及產業發展領域。

1989年，甘文丁機構（Kamunting）旗下南洛園坵待價而沽，當時逐鹿者眾多，李深靜在最后期限前才接獲獻議。

4.7億購南洛

但他在短短一天內，決定通過工業氧氣出價5億令吉（過后改為4.7億令吉），高價收購南洛園坵和其它資產（包括棕油廠、樹膠及可可加工廠），震驚大馬商界。

工業氧氣原已擁有1萬5556公頃油棕、樹膠及可可園，加上南洛園坵資產，頓時躋身為當時五大種植股之一。

李深靜深懂週期性的種植業無法常保盈利，所以高價出售部份地段作為其它用途（包括房地產、休閒勝地及高爾夫球場），從中賺取厚利。

蒲種產業先鋒

蒲種今日朝氣蓬勃的發展，歸功于李深靜的獨到眼光。

1989年杪，李深靜購買蒲種406英畝土地，全面推行價值達10億令吉的混合房屋發展計劃，成為蒲種區產業發展先驅。

蒲種當時僅是一片遼闊無垠的園坵地，在別人眼里或是毫無希望的土地，在李深靜眼中，卻是黃金地。

他深信，有朝一日蒲種將發展成比八打靈再也還要現代化的城鎮。

蒲種今日朝氣蓬勃的發展，就應驗了李深靜的獨到眼光。

如今，除了身兼IOI集團及IOI產業（IOIPROP，1635，主板產業）執行主席，李深靜也積極為多家公司、協會及社會組織，提供諮詢及引導。

值得一提的是，翻查過往資料時，赫然發現，李深靜多年來保持低調作風，特別是以個人為主的報導竟屈指可數。

Father's Day 2007

My parent

We celebrated father's day at home at last Sunday - 17 June 2007.

Ice cream cake - yummy! My father can't eat the cake made from egg so i bought the ice cream cake for my daddy.

Wow! Ice cream cake very difficult to cut.

Father's Day D.I.Y Cards done by my kids.

Early in the Father's Day morning,they put the card in front of the washroom's mirror before their daddy wake up.My husband was surprise to see these cards !

It was done by Yoong Kee.

It was done by Jian Wei.