Good vacation plan for your kids - Visit MAHA 2010

As you are scrambling to plan for what your kids can do during this holiday, you may consider bringing them to MAHA 2010 Expo. It is a Malaysian Agriculture, Horticulture and Agrotourism Show. It can be an eye-opening for your kids to see various kind of livestock, plants, herbs, etc.

It may turn up to be a good 'field trip' for your kids in this holiday.

It is good to go early in the morning or towards the evening to avoid exhaustion from hot weather. Do bring along some drinking water and umbrella.

Well, if you are creative enough, morph the trip into an interesting vacation trip. And if you are travelling from outstation, then after the trip, you may proceed to Putrajaya, the administrative city to view the panoramic sceneries that will leave you awestruck.


Details are as follows:
Venue : Malaysia Agro-Exposition Park, Serdang (MAEPS)
Date : 26 Nov - 5 Dec 2010
Time : 10.00 am - 10.00pm
Entrance : Free

Tip on the direction to the venue:
If you are coming from NS highway, exit at UPM toll and drive towards the Puchong direction.

Location map:

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Popular Warehouse Books Clearance Sale 17-28 Nov 2010

Date : 17 Nov 2010 (Wed) - 28 Nov 2010 (Sunday)

Company : Popular

Location:  The Summit USJ, Persiaran Kewajipan , USJ 1 , 47600 Subang Jaya , Malaysia

Items on sales rebates up to 70% Off (Popular Card Members Preview Day 17 Nov 2010)


The venue is in front of OldTown White Coffee Kopitiam. There are a lot of books on sales and the discount is tremendous and the crowd is huge.

Bargain Hunting at Big Bad Wolf Sales 2010

Grrgh, 'I am baack!'

 

 The entrance to the hall.  

You can see a lot of people are engrossed with the books on sales.

 

 My purchase. Two bags of book. Of course most of the books are not for me. Most of the books are for my kids. :)

Books for my reading 'assignment.' Good 'execution' for great 'Success!'

I manage to get some good bargain from the Big Bad Wolf Sales 2010. It was quite a rush for me as I had to wait for my wife to be back from work. We took a wrong turn to the location and only arrived 20 mins before they close for the day. More of doing the rush hour. Fortunately for us, all the customers, including me, were given an extra time to conclude our sales.

The books on sales are really a real bargain and a lot of people who went bought a lot of books because the price of the books was really affordable.  

The sales assistant (all of them are young people) were very enthusiastics in serving their customers. Some of the assistants were busy moving around to get names and contact numbers of the people who were there. It was good to see the organizer is taking the initiatives to built a database of customers for their future events. But, I am not sure whether they will have a software to manage their customer database. Also, since they are getting names via the manual way, I guess they will have a challenging time to do the data entry of all the names of the customers who went there. I hope that they do have a software to manage the all their customers who went for the event so that all their customers would be informed of their future events via email or SMS.

Perhaps, they should have it more often - once every quarter or at least once in six months.

Well, kudos to the organizer in a novel effort to encourage more Malaysian to read!



Big Bad Wolf Books Sales 2010 - Must Go

Big Bad Wolf Books Sales 2010 is currently on.

Date: 12-17 November 2010
Time: 10am-9pm
Venue: South City Plaza, Seri Kembangan

Unbelievable price of books! Do bring along huge bags to contain your purchase!
Perhaps, you may want to bring along trolley bag(s) to ease the transportation of the heavy books!

Happy shopping!

Whaaat? You plan to send your kids to Kumon?

Years ago when I planned to send my kids to Kumon to learn up Math, some of the friends reacted in a surprising manner, 'Whaaat? You plan to send your kids to Kumon?' To them, to teach Math or English to kids of few years old is not a big deal. Actually, I have the same thoughts as well. But, why did I go ahead to send my kids to Kumon? Basically, there are two reasons.

To me, sending the kids to Kumon is not about the kids learning the content, meaning it is not about the kids picking up Math or English. It is about cultivating discipline in the kids. Kumon method is about having the kids consistently do homework (in worksheet style) each day.  Well, to teach the kids Math or English for a short period of time is an easy tasks but what about teaching them everyday for a few years? If you honest enough, you will agree with me that it can be a very challenging task.

Another point about Kumon method is the inherent ability to nudge students unconsciously to a higher level in well-paced and steady manner. Which means that after a period of time every kids, if they follow the system consistently and diligently, they can be very good in the subject matter.

My head is not big enough

The other day my little boy, aged 4, was doing his math problem and he blurted out a statement, "My head is not big enough, therefore I cannot think!" You know, I got a bit (or should I say a BIG) stun...Don't know what to say. Does he know what he is saying or is he finding an excuse not to do his math problem? At his age, his 'seemingly smart' statement is excuse-able.

Thinking about the statement, do we need a big head to think? If yes, then everyone's head will look like alien from the outer space.:P...But, we all know that we do not need to have a big head to think. but as long as we have brain, we can think....It is not the size that matters, but the process is. We get solution by thinking. We get better solution by thinking. We get great solution by thinking. Plainly speak, we create solution by putting on the thinking cap. Arh, let us start to think how to make this world (or at least, Malaysia) a better place to live..

The genius seems to say, 'Think more!'

Small note: Sometimes, rest your brain a bit. Don't think too much!

Waste not, just pack!

A few days ago I saw something that left me awestruck! It was on the matter of food packing!'

Normally, if you hear people tell you to pack food at a public events, how would you feel? Great? Or yeik, not for me? Of course, if the food packing is to deprive others of their rightful portion, then it should not be encouraged. In fact, the persons doing such thing should be counselled.

But, I saw this lady pack the leftovers. Initially, like most people, felt a bit akward but later realize she is setting a very good example of person who gleans every bit of food (or resources) to ensure no wastages. It is definitely great to see people packing the leftovers to ensure no wastages!

Bear in mind that these leftovers are not necessarily bad or rotten food but the extra portions due to either over preparation or lower number of participants (inaccurate projections; aha, somebody did not do a good job..:P) in an event. Most of the time, the leftovers end up in the trash bin. In some cases, the quantity is huge. In other cases, the food thrown away are considered 'luxurious' even to the middle-income earners.  Why the waste? With the amount of wastages, it can be used to feed several needy families.

So, if you pack the leftovers, it should be encouraged so that there would not be any wastages. Of course, minus the inedible stuff.... like bones, fruit skins, etc....Pack the edible ones and leave the inedible...Pass them to your family members, relatives, friends, boss, subordinate, customers, the needy ones, etc.

So, the next time, when you are attending trainings, seminars or conferences, remember to get ready your food container.

WASTE NOT, JUST PACK!


Psst: We should have a campaign to "Waste not, Just pack!"