Care For Children - Village Fete (3): Shadow Puppet show - a dying art

Kids watching the show:

But what amuse me was seeing how the puppeteers maneuvered at the back.

Care For Children - Village Fete (2): Icons

Pic: Kids asking for the pics of my icons. I just printed from my notebook and stuck on the table as was short of time. 

Pic: Girls liked the Jing Jing Professor.

Pic: Boys liked the Wei Wei Lion.

Pic: Myself being young again eating candy floss!

Care For Children - Village Fete (1): My booth

Pic: The poster for the event

Pic: The office of Care For Children.

Pic: My tent at the extreme right.

Pic: My little poster of my support characters.

Pic: The crowd.

Dinner at Summer Palace Chinese Restaurant, Beijing

I forgot to take a photo of the best dish. It was a simple noodle soup. The noodle was really nice as northern China is more noodles than rice cf to southern China and the soup was boiled with fish until the bones melted. 3 bowls for me anytime!

Below is  a pic of a white chicken dish. 

Below is a prawn starter bit look at the deco on the top left of the dish.

Below is a yummy pork rib dish.

Below is a radish starter arranged as a flower.
Below are Shanghai crabs.

Tiens Group in Tianjin

Tiens Group, headquartered in Tianjin is an international company integrated in Finance, Real Estate, Education, Culture and Logistics.

Tiens also has developed over 1,000 consumer products using innovative and advance biotechnology.

Visit their website and look at their 1,200 acres Tiens International Health Park

I was looking for the HQ but stopped wrongly at their hotel for internal use. After all, Tiens has operations in 105 countries and have 50,000 stores globally, so I guess when the international staff comes in for training, there is no need to look for hotels to house them.

Pic: below is their hotel in their premises.

The Tiens University
Pic: Me and Mr.Cao Zheng, Product Management Department Manager, Global Research c& Development Center.

Good Article From Adam Khoo--author of " I am gifted so are you "

A Blog Posted by Singapore 's Youngest Millionaire

By Adam Khoo In Money |

Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars at my offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Suzhou (China). I am in the airport almost every other week so I get to bump into many people who have attended my seminars or have read my books.

Recently, someone came up to me on a plane to KL and looked rather shocked. He asked, 'How come a millionaire like you is travelling economy?' My reply was, 'That's why I am a millionaire.' He still looked pretty confused. This again confirms that greatest lie ever told about wealth (which I wrote about in my latest book 'Secrets of Self Made Millionaires'). Many people have been brainwashed to think that millionaires have to wear Gucci, Hugo Boss, Rolex, and sit on first class in air travel. This is why so many people never become rich because the moment that earn more money, they think that it is only natural that they spend more, putting them back to square one.

The truth is that most self-made millionaires are frugal and only spend on what is necessary and of value. That is why they are able to accumulate and multiply their wealth so much faster. Over the last 7 years, I have saved about 80% of my income while today I save only about 60% (because I have my wife, mother in law, 2 maids, 2 kids, etc. to support). Still, it is way above most people who save 10% of their income (if they are lucky). I refuse to buy a first class ticket or to buy a $300 shirt because I think that it is a complete waste of money. However, I happily pay $1,300 to send my 2-year old daughter to Julia Gabriel Speech and Drama without thinking twice.

When I joined the YEO (Young Entrepreneur's Organization) a few years back (YEO is an exclusive club open to those who are under 40 and make over $1m a year in their own business) I discovered that those who were self-made thought like me. Many of them with net worths well over $5m, travelled economy class and some even drove Toyota's and Nissans (not Audis, Mercs, BMWs).

I noticed that it was only those who never had to work hard to build their own wealth (there were also a few ministers' and tycoons' sons in the club) who spent like there was no tomorrow. Somehow, when you did not have to build everything from scratch, you do not really value money. This is precisely the reason why a family's wealth (no matter how much) rarely lasts past the third generation. Thank God my rich dad (oh no! I sound like Kiyosaki) foresaw this terrible possibility and refused to give me a cent to start my business.

Then some people ask me, 'What is the point in making so much money if you don't enjoy it?' The thing is that I don't really find happiness in buying branded clothes, jewellery or sitting first class. Even if buying something makes me happy it is only for a while, it does not last. Material happiness never lasts, it just give you a quick fix. After a while you feel lousy again and have to buy the next thing which you think will make you happy. I always think that if you need material things to make you happy, then you live a pretty sad and unfulfilled life.

Instead, what make ME happy is when I see my children laughing and playing and learning so fast. What makes me happy is when I see by companies and trainers reaching more and more people every year in so many more countries. What makes me really happy is when I read all the emails about how my books and seminars have touched and inspired someone's life. What makes me really happy is reading all your wonderful posts about how this BLOG is inspiring you. This happiness makes me feel really good for a long time, much much more than what a Rolex would do for me.

I think the point I want to put across is that happiness must come from doing your life's work (be in teaching, building homes, designing, trading, winning tournaments etc.) and the money that comes is only a by-product. If you hate what you are doing and rely on the money you earn to make you happy by buying stuff, then I think that you are living a life of meaningless.

At my publisher's office

With a few of my books.

I went to get some books for my Beijing trip.

Divino's in Bangsar

Divino's - a branch of Denise wine in Bangsar

Pic: good wine selection

Pic: Private room. Do order the English custard pudding (yummy!)

Buttered Fish Fillet - Malaysian Chinese Fish and Chips

This is one of my favourite fish dishes, buttered fish fillet. The westerners fry it with batter, but here it fried with egg white and coconut. Really yummy!

Not all places can do this well. I normally eat this at Langat Fishing Seafood and Beer Garden.

Baby Wild Boar Meat

In Malaysia, only the orang asli (indigenous inhabitants) can hunt for wild meats!

Water Chestnuts

Look at the huge water chestnuts being sold on the streets in Humen.

Water chestnuts - where would Chinese food be without them? The knobby vegetable with the papery brown skin is a staple in Chinese cooking. The water chestnut is actually not a nut at all, but an aquatic vegetable that grows in marshes. (This is why the ones that you purchase in the store may have a muddy coating.) The name "water chestnut" comes from the fact that it resembles a chestnut in shape and coloring. Indigenous to Southeast Asia, it has been cultivated in China since ancient times.

Nutritionally, water chestnuts are a good source of potassium and fiber. They are low in sodium, and fat is virtually non-existent. Caloriewise, one cup of water chestnut slices contains about one hundred-thirty calories. Low carb dieters, beware: water chestnuts are high in carbohydrates. You may try replacing them with low carb bamboo shoots.

广州多健贸易有限公司 - 公司简介

广州多健贸易有限公司是医疗保健行业的先驱。我们运用了最新的生产和营养诀窍为基础，以生产出可以造福社会大众的优质产品。

我们公司在健康教育方面有丰富的经验，而我们的医务主任也曾经编写15本健康书籍。我们相信最好的医疗方法就是教育。

广州多健贸易有限公司旨在传授健康教育给中国公众，并且针对我们目标群体的保健需要，提供有效的，适当的以及优质的保健产品。

Dochen Swiss Collagen for Asian market

Well, finally rolled it out. I bought this image from an image bank but will be looking for a suitable model in China for a photo shoot.

Drinking, Chinese style

Ever seen the big wine pot on Chinese films like Drunken Master starring Jacky Chan?

Well here is "sao sing" wine that has a strong after kick. The wine is being kept and dispensed in a huge Johnny Walker bottle.

A few glass of this is enough to knock you off.

Perfect (China) Co.Ltd

Perfect (China) Co.Ltd 完美（中国）日用品有限公司 is the 2nd largest direct sales company in China, only to Amway.

The office is in Zhongsan 中山, 1.5 hour drive from Guangzhou.

I must say the headquarters here is like a city in itself.

When I took this picture I felt very proud that a Malaysian entrepreneur Dato' Khoo, has achieved so much in China. 

You can see 3 of Perfect's billboards in the prime area of Guangzhou's Baiyun Airport (at the entrance), a testament of their success and business strength.

Bitter-gourd and beef rice

Bitter gourd in Malaysia is really bitter but in China is not but really nice.

Fashion Statement

I saw these funny glasses in a shop in Humen. It has no lens :-). More like shades than glasses.

I bought a white pair for RMB25.00 just for fun.

J Cellar - a beautifully decorated restaurant in Citic Plaza, Tianhe with excellent food

Batu caves - a Kuala Lumpur tourist attraction

Batu caves is a Malaysian tourist attraction and is a limestone  hill which has a series of caves and cave temples. It is one of the most popular Hindu shrines outside of India.

 

Pic above: Me and my high school friend Jerome Teakle.

Above; There 272 steps. Not a lot but consider that during Thaipussam a Hindu festival, people pull carriages etc with hooks at their back (hooked into the flesh) and they have to drag it up.

Pic above: the cave top