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This article explain why a presentation should not exceed 18 minutes total. For this, 15 minutes ideal meeting.  Not every meeting may be able to be done in 15 minutes, but for the general day to day stuff there's no reason to be wasting away for hours while nothing is accomplished. If you need a little help, try setting a 15 minute timer and when it goes off, meeting is done. If you guys heard of “meeting efficiency”, there are some company had begun practicing it. Why company practice meeting efficiency? 1. To improve productivity.    Employee able to attend several meetings/discussion in a day which also allow time for operation work related. 2. To avoid over shoot of meeting period due to limited meeting room available. This is to allow the room to free up on time for the next group that book the room. Rules in meeting efficiency: 1. 30 minutes is the maximum of a meeting for a group of less than 5 people and 1 hour is the maximum of a meeting for a group of more than 5 peop...

This post from FineDiningLovers shows a good idea on how to defrost a steak in 5 minutes without microwave oven. By placing two metal pot, with the one on the top fill with water. This method allows ambient heats. How? The process is actually quite simple. All users have to do is place the steak on a metal pan that’s been turned over, place a second pan on top of that and fill the top pan with water. The increased pressure from the water and something called ambient heat, which is conducted very well by metal, work to defrost the meat without any electricity needed. I'm going to try this when there is a chance.

This procedure is the most important process to be done by the couple. Especially the groom. It is as important as tea ceremony. Even for some couple that prefer honeymoon wedding, they still require to have at least a tea ceremony with the parents and of course betrothal not to miss. This two process is unavoidable for Chinese culture. The betrothal gifts are delivered up to a month and at least three days before the wedding day. The groom and a friend or a matchmaker will deliver the gifts on the auspicious date chosen. Betrothal gifts 娉礼 The betrothal gifts (quantity of the following items to be determined by the bride's parents) are packed in a multi-tiered wedding basket that is borrowed from a Chinese wedding cake shop and typically include: western and chinese wedding cakes, which you may choose either one too. Most people will choose Chinese wedding cakes. You can also replace with the big size "tau sar pneah". two bottles of brandy. You can replace it with red wi...

Things to Buy: Small Double Xi Plate (you can get it at any wedding shop) 2 Longans 2 Red Dates Dried Lotus Seeds Bai He (dried magnolia petals) 2 Red Packets (Any auspicious amount will do, eg. RM 8, 18, 28, 88) 4 Yan Ji (to place each at 4 corners of bed under mattress) 2 orange. * Take noted that all amount/figures need to be in even number. It means a pair / a couple. Procedures to Follow: 1) If groom's parents install, then couple give ang pow to each of them. 2) If couple install, no need ang pow for anybody. Some old people advise that parents to install are better. If only single parent, any happy married couple can do so. Just need to give ang pow to each of them. * A modern way of installation, the couple can get the bed ready probably left one corner bed sheet not tuck in or the pillow not place on top of the bed. Then when the old couple can just place the pillow and the rest of the stuff on the bed. It consider done by them too. 3) After an chuang, nobody supposed t...

As from my previous post about the Modern Simplified wedding, I write about the shorter process and shorter time required. However, on my own wedding, I choose traditional style of wedding ceremony. One of the main reason is that my wife want to have games during our wedding ceremony so that we can create some memorable moment for friends. After all the thought, I arrange for a dance session during the games. It took me couple of weeks to practice the dance choreograph and took me overnight to teach my friends. The second reason as our wedding dinner was not held at hotel but at restaurant. Therefore, it will lack of space for the tea ceremony. If make it at hotel, at least I can request for a small function room. The agenda as following. On Saturday noon, I gather my dance buddies for teaching the dance move. I choreograph the flow and arrangement for couple of hours. Just after 2 hours practice, I had to leave for the preparation of the wedding dinner. My buddies still practicing on...

I'm a married man. I had my wedding in traditional way but with a lot of simplification. However, both my cousin brother and my cousin sister, they had a even simplified way of wedding ceremony. Both of their wedding ceremony are quite similar as it had been known as modern simplified style. I had colleagues also having the same ceremony. I found a blog explain a traditional Chinese wedding style in Malaysia here . I'm not going to explain on this but I will talk more on the simplified wedding style. This style suitable especially if you have a lot of relatives comes from overseas or outstation and you want to make to as simple yet fulfill the most important part of the wedding. The bride and groom will book for a hall at the hotel where the wedding dinner take place. They will also request for a hotel room, or most of the time when they book a dinner night at the hotel, the management will provide a room for couple. They usually will choose to upgrade to a larger room (suites ...

I come through an article about  How to Get Over Your Fear of Investing . I'm personally a newbie in investment. I started stock investment last year 2013. Well if talk about investment, what is it actually? Is FD (Fixed Deposit) an investment? Property is an investment? If talk about FD, I had started to place FD since 10 years ago. It is because FD is safer and lower risk compare to others investment. In year 2009, property bloom happens in Malaysia. Ever since then, a lot of the properties spike almost double in less than 3 years. No doubt those invested/purchase few properties before 2009 will earn a big lump sum. I started to do business since year 2004. I was only age 20 at that time. I started small business related to broadband (Streamyx) registration, installation, PC services and etc. I was still studying in University at that moment. The work and business is tough. The return is too little and I'm looking for fast money. I stop this and move towards multi-level netwo...

When we think about Donnie Yen, we will link it to Ip Man. Previously when Ip Man release, a lot people pronounce it as I.P. Man or (Internet Protocol Man). I first also thought it was some hacking movie or Matrix alike type of movie due to the movie poster. It looks to me as Donnie Yen is an IP Man that able to travel into virtual world via Internet Protocol and have some kind of super power ability in the virtual world. In fact it turn out to be Yip Man, the master of Bruce Lee. It is quite at first as not many people planning to watch this but it turn out to be a great movie. People start recommending. After the Ip Man and Ip Man 2, he cast in few more great movie such as  Bodyguards and Assassins ,  Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen ,  Dragon  and etc. Then more bad movies coming. He cast in All's Well, Ends Well since 2009. It is not good movie but it just a Chinese New Year movies where lots of lame jokes kick in. Donnie Yen jokes is always Ip Man, Wing Chun and lot...

People often thought that becoming a project manager and people manager are the same things. Some things it is two different things. Well there are some points where it actually collides. In both case, it always had peoples to interact with. Human is so hard to predict and full of variety. Each and different individual had it's own mindset and own decision. When come to interaction with peoples, regardless project management or people management, you can be hated or be liked. A good project manager is the same as a good people manager which the members or staff respect and happy working with. Many says that project manager need to be micro to keep track on each task assigned and people manager need to be more macro than project manager. There is no wrong or right on this thought. It just that to be better, one should share the same thought regardless as a project manager or people manager. J. Keith Murnighan written a good research article on how manager should do less . Some poin...

About the 10 steps of spotting an investment scam , this is another spotting tips for the victims. It is sad if you have friends and families become a victim of scam. Even if it happens to yourself. Scam victims usually had been brain wash. Keep alert all time if any of this symptoms hit you or your nearby related.  They will ignore your advise and telling you that you do not understand their business nature, investment techniques and etc. They will start hunting for money like zombies. Borrow here, loan there. Scam victim zombies will look for money starting from closest one, families, relatives, friends, colleagues. If you receive calls from a friends or relatives that you haven't been keep in touch for years and suddenly ask you out for a drink, and when you arrive, they start talking about business with you, then good luck. They will ask you to keep this secret from others until you invest or join them. After the new victims join, step 3 above repeated. They will mention they h...

Be it a forex scam, gold investment scam, stock exchange scam, marketing scam or what so ever scam that related to fast money. There are few symptoms we can take note on. I have families and friends were victims to the scam. If you encounter any of the symptoms below, you are in deep shit. No such thing as guaranteed return. Eg. 3% per month, 8% per month and etc. If there are term guaranteed (it is either scam or illegal). Investment or business always have risk. Regardless how good the risk management, there are no guaranteed. There are always up and down for an investment and business. Fund manager must be licensed and register under certified bank/financial firm. A popular modern-day scam is the signal seller. Signal sellers are people who may be a retail firm, pooled asset manager, managed account company or individual trader who promises to trade based on professional recommendations that will make anyone wealthy. Brokers who are not regulated by the CFTC, NFA or their nation of ...

Running man Gary from Lesssang release his new first mini album name "Mr.Gae" on January 15, 2014. One of the track title "Shower Later" had become a hits in youtube. Of course due to his popularity as monday couple in running man variety show, the video become popular just on the day it was uploaded. Plus with the sexy erotic scene, it become even more popular. The song lyrics really sounds porn. And it also sounds like referring to Song Ji Hyo. Below is the MV for the Shower Later. And this are the screenshot of the erotic scene in the MV. This pretty lady looks a bit like Kristen Stewart. And a lot of boobs cleavage scene too. Also some popsticles sucking scene. One lady in the MV which resemble Hyuna (from the Gangnam style). Also got some wet and boobs squeezing scene. It is a nice song and "nice" MV. I manage to grab the translatation of the lyric somewhere on the net and combine it. Lyrics as below: 조금 이따 샤워해 이대로 더 나를 안아줘 jogeum itta syawohae idaero...

Shitakei mushroom is one of my favorite mushroom. You can buy that at any hypermarket either dried or wet type. Dried type you can keep for months but wet type can keep only for few weeks. However, wet type actually taste better. The mushroom taste are heavier. There are couple of types of shitakei mushroom. Common one are from China and expensive one are from Japan. If bought those wet type, it taste good with just simple stir fried. Ingredient: - 6 pieces of wet shitakei mushroom - 1 tablespoon butter - 1/4 teaspoon of salt Preparation: Wash the mushroom cleanly. Cut off the mushroom stem. Then slice the mushroom into half / quarter. Heat the pan with the butter. \ Add the slice mushroom and stir fried it slowly. The mushroom will slowly absorb the butter and the great smell will be release. Add some salt and cook until the white parts turn light brown. The mushroom is ready to serve. You can add some onion leave for taste or topping. This dish is very easy and simple to cook. It tas...

Kacang botol (Winged Bean/Four Angle Bean/Square Bean), ai shiii a lot of name for this vege. Mostly we can find this vege in economy rice. The cooking style most likely sambal fried. I try couple of times to replicate the taste. Here is the recipe. Ingredient: - 6-7 pieces kacang botol - 1 piece of onion (slice) - Dried prawn / replace with prawn - 2-3 cloves of garlic (chopped) - 2 tablespoon chili paste (cili giling) - 1 teaspoon belacan (shrimp paste) Preparation: 1. Cut the kacang botol about 1/2 inch. 2. Pour some oil and fry the belacan until it mix well with the oil. 3. If use dried prawn, cut the head and tail then blend it. If use prawn, it is best with peel off shell. 4. Stir-fried the dried prawn/prawn with the belacan. 5. Drop the garlic, garlic and chili paste into the pan. Stir for 5 minutes until the prawn cook. 6. The nice smell will come out and sometimes it may cause cough due to the spicy. 7. Drop the kacang botol and stir-fried for 1 minutes. Make sure the it is mi...

Broccoli always know as healthy vegetables. For me, I like dried mushroom the most due to the taste and smell. For softer and better taste, dried mushroom is better if soak overnight with water. Ingredient: - 4 pieces of dried mushroom soak overnight - 1/2 broccoli cut into pieces - 2 tablespoon Oyster sauce (can replace with vegetarian oyster sauce) - 1/4 teaspoon salt - 2 teaspoon rice wine - 2 cloves of chopped garlic - 2 teaspoon of corn flour Preparation: 1. Cut the mushroom into 4 sides. Means cutting it into 1/4. 2. Heat the pan with oil at high temperature. 3. Fried the garlic and mushroom.  4. Mix the oyster sauce with 1/2 cup of water. Pour the mix water. 5. Turn the temperature to medium and cover the pan. Cook for 10 minutes. 7. Drop the broccoli and salt. Cover the pan and cook for 5 minutes. 8. Pour the rice wine and stir. Then pour the corn flour (mix with water). This to create the gravy. 9. While pouring the corn flour, keep stirring it to avoid get sticky starch. Read...

I personally like steamed fish than fried fish. Basically fried fish is high cholesterol especially the deep fried one. It is also too heaty to our body. The thing I hate the most about fried fish is after frying the fish, it make my kitchen oily and smelly. That is why I prefer steam than fry. Steam fish also will contained the nutrient within the fish and the gravy. The nutrient from the fish will flow to the gravy and together with all the ingredients, it taste great and nutritious. Ingredient: - 1 piece of fish (any kind of prefer fish is fine) - Slice onion - Cut tomato - Slice ginger - Slice chinese mushroom - 2 piece of asam java - Slice red chilies - Chopped garlic - 1/4 teaspoon of salt Preparation: 1. Clean the fish and place it on top of the plate. You may wash the fish with salt. 2. Soak the asam java with some water, garlic, ginger, onion and mushroom for 5 minutes. 3. Pour the asam java sauce together with the ingredient on top of the fish. 4. Place the tomato and chilies...

Do not know what to cook for chicken? Tired of fried chicken? Teriyaki chicken is also one of the most simple marinated style. Ingredient: - 2-3 pieces of chopped chicken breast or thigh. Can be boneless but try to reserve skin. - 2 tablespoon of rice wine - white pepper - 2 tablespoon of sugar - 4 tablespoon of teriyaki sauce Preparation: 1. Mix all the ingredients into a bowl. Marinated it and keep cover and drop into the fridge for 1 hour. The longer the better. Marinate it in the early morning for lunch or marinate it during lunch and cook during dinner. 2. Pour some oil (1 tablespoon) on the fry pan. Heat the oil. 3. Drop the marinated chicken together with all the sauce. 4. Cook 5 minutes at 160 degree. Keep stirring. 5. Lower the temperature to 120 degree and keep stirring for 5 minutes. 6. Cover the pan and lower the temperature to 80 degree. Cook for 10 minutes. Stir it once it a while to avoid getting too sticky on the pan. 7. You will see the teriyaki sauce turning from ligh...

Japanese food always come in very handy cooking. Even a noob may able to cook a very nice curry. Japanese curry is nice if eat with rice. Ingredient: - 2 potato - 1 carrot - 1 onion (slice) - 3 cube of Japanese curry Preparation: 1. Pour some oil into the sauce pan / pot. 2. Heat the oil and drop the onion into it. 3. Stir fry the onion until the smell release from the pot. 4. Drop the cut carrot and potato. 5. Stir fry for 5 minutes at 120 degree. 6. Pour 2 bowl of water into it. Avoid pouring too much water so the curry will stay gravy. 7. Boil the soup for 15-20 minutes at 120 degree. The longer you boil, the softer the potato and carrot. I use to boil for 30 minutes. 8. Break the curry cube into small tiny pieces and drop into the soup. 9. Keep stirring the curry to avoid it get sticky at the bottom of the sauce pan / pot. Stir for 5 minutes and it is ready to serve. Serving size = 2 person Estimate time = 30 minutes Food Health = 6/10 Difficulty = 4/10

People nowadays don’t like sweet potato. When our grandparents still here, they like to tell us story how they actually survive during the World War II by eating sweet potato. The potato were steamed and eat by peeling off the skins. It may be not much taste but this is how people survive during war. Sweet potato is healthy food. Just that it is quite hard to make it delicious. If it is cook with Fried Yee Mee (the noodle use for cooking claypot noodle), the taste will be delicious. Ingredient: - 1 sweet potato - 2 packet of Fried Yee Mee - 2 tablespoon of Gei Ji (Lycium) - 1 teaspoon salt Preparation: 1. Boil a pot of water, estimate with 2 bowl of water. Place the chopped sweet potato and let it boil for 15 minutes until the potato turn tender. 2. Pour the sweet potato together with the water and blend it. 3. Pour the blend sweet potato back into the pot. Add the salt and Gei Ji. Boil it for 5 minutes. 4. Drop the fried Yee Mee into the potato soup.  5. Boil for 5 minutes. 6. It is r...

This is kind of western po piah style. Mission Wrap is a brand that can be found in Tesco. It is quite delicious with any kind of ingredient. Ingredient: - 2 piece of Mission Wrap - Salad vegetable - Tartar sauce - 2 Chicken Sausage - 1 Carrot, chopped - 1 Onion, chopped - Yellow Mustard - 1 boil egg - slice pickles Preparation: 1. Boil the sausage and egg. Heat the pan at medium temperature. Place the Mission Wrap on the pan and heat it for 1 minute per side. Place it on a plate. 2. Wipe some tartar sauce on the wrap. 3. Place some salad vegetable on the wrap. 4. Place the rest of the ingredient on the salad vegetable. May add additional sauce base on individual preference such as tomato sauce, chili sauce, olive oil, vinegar and etc. I add some dry parsley and white pepper for better tasting. 5. Roll and wrap it. Just the po piah way or Japanese hand roll style. 6. Serve with some vegetables as side dish. Serving size = 2 person Estimate time = 30 minutes Food Health = 7/10 Difficult...

When hungry at near midnight, or raining heavily outside, and not planning to have just bread with butter. Well Kon Lou Mee can be a nice and simple food taught by my mom.   Ingredients: - 1 tablespoon of thick soya sauce - 1 tablespoon of fried garlic oil - 1 teaspoon of Lea Perkins sauce - 1 teaspoon of sugar - 1 teaspoon of sesame oil - sprinkles of white pepper - 3/4 tablespoon of vegetarian oyster sauce - 1 packet of plain instant noodles.     Preparation: 1. Boil a pot of water. Wait until the water at boiling stage, drop the instant noodle. Avoid the instant noodle soak in the water for too long. Cook for 2 minutes and drain the water. 2. While waiting for the water to boil, start preparing the sauce. Drop all the ingredient into a bowl. Thick soya sauce, fried garlic oil, Lea Perkins sauce, sugar, sesame oil, white pepper and vegetarian oyster sauce. 3. Place the hot noodles into the bowl and start mixing it until it get evenly. May serve with vegetable. In my case, I serve wit...

Again, steamboat leftover. You won’t like eating porridge everyday. Therefore, sometimes noodle can be a good replacement and easy to cook. Ingredient: -  Chopped salad vegetable - Chicken Sausage - Pork meatball - Taiwan sausage with skin off - Fish ball - Thick rice noodle (you can replace with any noodles you like) - Fried garlic oil - Ginger slice - Sesame oil - 1/4 teaspoon of salt - 1/2 teaspoon of chicken stock - 1 teaspoon Lea Perkins sauce. Preparation: 1. Chopped slice the salad vegetable. 2. Boil a pot of water. Estimate with 2 and 1/2 bowl of water. 3. Drop the chicken sausage, pork meatball, fish ball, ginger slice and Taiwan sausage. Boil for 10 minutes. 4. Drop the sesame oil,  chicken stock, Lea Perkins sauce and teaspoon of salt. Stir it well. 5. Boil for 2 minute. 6. Boil another pot of water. At boiling peak, drop the noodles and cook. Make sure it is boiling before dropping the noodles else it will cause the noodle too soft and mashed. 7. Place the noodles in a bowl...

What to do with the steamboat ingredient after CNY? Easiest way to clear it is cooking porridge for two. Ingredient: - 1 cup of brown rice (estimate for 2 person) - Chicken slices/strips - Any green vegetables - Squid - Cuttlefish - Taiwan sausage - Pork meatball - Fried garlic oil (get some chopped garlic and fry in oil until golden brown) - White pepper - 1/4 teaspoon salt - 1 teaspoon Lea Perkins sauce - 1 tablespoon of Chinese rice wine - 1 teaspoon sesame oil Preparation: 1. Rinse and soak the brown rice in water for 2-4 hours. The longer period will make the rice softer. 2. Boil the brown rice with 4 cups of water.  3. Drop the chicken slices, squid, cuttlefish, Taiwan sausage (with skin off), and pork meatball. 4. Boil for 15 minutes with high temperature.  5. Lower the heat to low, and cook for 30 minutes. During this period, it is better to observe the boiling. Stir when the bubbles appear. This to make the porridge equally cook and avoid sticking to the pot. It will also make...

Since I’m not a pro cook, sometimes sauce play important part if the food doesn’t taste good. Malaysian like to eat with chili sauce or tomato ketchup. It just like a must sauce when eating western food. Of course we can see it at every local western food hawker stall. The waiter use to carry the chili sauce and tomato ketchup around. For me, I feel sometime it taste good with original taste. When making some food and if the taste isn’t enough, here my signature sauce; tartar sauce. Ingredient: Mayonnaise. (preferable real mayonnaise, those with soya bean oil in the ingredient) lemon juice (half a lemon) 1 piece of gherkins pickles (chopped) 1-2 onions (chopped) Yellow mustard White pepper Dry Parsley Preparation: 1. Pour all the mayonnaise into a bowl. I get it into a plastic ware as I’m going to keep it. 2. Chopped some gherkins pickles and onion. If you an onion lover, the more the better. Same goes to pickles. In my case, 1 piece of pickle and 2 red onion is just nice. Mix the pick...