My Majestic Hotel room tour 吉隆坡The Majestic Hotel酒店房间介绍

For the first time, I get the chance to stay in a luxury hotel for free! The Majestic Hotel Kuala Lumpur has everything it offers for. Here is the video on the room tour to show you.

How to enjoy favourite pastime with little cashflow

With rising prices of goods plus the recent Malaysian government implementation of SST beginning 1/9/2018, many would have to tighten their belts by reducing the luxury and to save more. But it doesn't mean you need to sacrifice your leisure until zero. Here I teach you some tips to save money and still able to enjoy your favourite leisure:

1) Enjoy when there is discount

On every visit to any eateries or shops, please aware of discounts and promotions to enjoy every benefits from food or purchases. Of course you need to study the terms and conditions plus spending needs prior to enjoy the discounted offer. Example of discounts are from Parkson.

2) Use promo codes

Whenever you're using online shopping or ordering voucher or transportation or online shopping, the discount will always comes in promo code. It basically advises you to insert the alphanumerical code to enjoy discounts with minimum purchase as per limited period while stock last. Quite useful for the services and shops you frequent patronize. Promo codes can be obtained from limited offer newsletter at website or directly from app, or rewarded from certain loyalty membership. Example of promo codes are Grab, Lazada, and Shoppee

3) Use coupons, vouchers

Similar to promo code, coupons and vouchers allows you to save on purchases and services, and it can be in paper form or in online form. The only differences is the voucher and coupons need to be purchased or obtained first but at the savings price compared to normal price. After the voucher is purchased, customer can present it to the cashier whom will scan the barcode and enter the code to redeem the voucher. Example of coupons and vouchers are AEON shopping vouchers and offer vouchers from MyDiGi app.

4) Use cashless e-wallet

Besides the convenience of cashless payment, most e-wallet also offer rewards and cashback under certain purchase or promotions. GrabPay for example rewards customers not only with GrabRewards points but also offers discounts and promotions as well when payment is made via GrabPay. Boost meanwhile offers shake cashback rewards plus voucher purchase at discounted price.


5) Be alert for any freebies and out coming promotions

Websites such cuponation.com.my, and malaysiafreebies.com offers varieties of discounts and promotions of the month. Customer can have prior knowledge on the promotions of the month prior to enjoying the offer.

How to get back to normal after the World Cup

I'm sure everything will be struggling to get back to normal life, particularly after one month of World Cup football seasons, right? Well here is some tips to get back on your life track after a long football fever:

1) Sell or store off your World Cup related memerobilia

Having those World Cup magazines, team scarves, World Cup merchandise which is only worth as collectibles after the World Cup? Well, you can either store it as memories or just sell it online via Carousell, Lazada, or Shopee. Who knows the items you may think useless and worthless may have demand somewhere? At least you can earn some money from it. One word of advice though, if your memorabilia involves team which performs horribly in this year World Cup edition, it might be worth quite even less as every football fans will remember that particular team disappointing performance!

2) Reschedule back your lifestyle after World Cup

Football season is over, now lets get back to work wholeheartedly. That is your own personal message on your life after football season, especially your sleeping pattern, diet habits, and family relations which much changed during the long football fever. Get disciplined on your own self and your relations with your family and back on track your good habit which you have lacked during the long football season.

3) Still have mood for football? Then wait for new season Premier League, La Liga, and Bundesliga

It will another one month or more before major football leagues in Europe will begin the new seasons. When it began, who knows you may watch some of the players whom had played in the World Cup plays for major club. It is not surprising that most players from most World Cup appearing countries will be signed by major clubs in Europe as their potential is fully realized.

Hari Raya greetings, 5 tips to stay alert during World Cup, and some useful Russian phrase 开斋节祝福，世界杯期间来保持精神的5个贴士，以及一些重要俄语用词

Here I presented the Hari Raya greetings for my Malay friends. To all my Malay friends, SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI, MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN. If I made any mistake during video shooting, please forgive my every wrong.

In this video the main focus is to share with you the 5 tips to maintain alertness during World Cup season, so that you can watch your favourite matches and still be alert at work. The 5 useful tips are actually is the same tips I shared in my previous blog post.

- Choose exciting match only
- Watch your diet during match
- Choose food and drinks to maintain alertness at work after watching late matches
- Do some light exercise or stretching when working in front of computer for a long time
- Practice healthy diet when watching a match.

As this year World Cup are hosted in Russia, I also included four useful Russian phrase for you to learn. I just include this as significance although I just mere search the translation online.

Please like and share my video plus subscribe to my channel. Also follow me on social media. You can also view this video at Dailymotion at http://dai.ly/x6m0iup. 

在这视频里我不但祝各位马来朋友开斋节快乐，而且我也提供了5个来在世界杯里观看球赛但可以在工作时间保持精神。我也带给你4句俄语用词来给大家学习。

How we Malaysian can maintain alertness and sleeping pattern during World Cup season?

Every four years, the whole world regardless of races, gender, age will come together for the FIFA World Cup. This year in 2018, the FIFA World Cup will be held in Russia.

As time difference between Malaysia and Russia (eastern side since all venues are focused there) is approximately 5 hours (it differs from cities as it has different timezone. The matches in the World Cup itself will be from 1700 to 2100 time frame (Russian time, timezone differs from cities throughout the country), which is equivalent to 2000 to 0200 (the next day) time frame (Malaysia time)

With most matches are at late night, all Malaysian football fans have no choice but to sacrifice their sleep for the quadannual event. So here I share the 5 most useful tips Malaysian can stay alert during World Cup season:

TIP 1 - Choose most exciting matches only (especially on working weekend)

This is the simplest rule to follow during World Cup season, choose only the most exciting matches to watch from the choices of 64 matches. It is almost impossible to watch all the matches especially in the first round which can severely disrupt your sleep, so plan ahead on which match to watch. It will not be a problem on the Friday night and weekends or during public holidays when you're not working, you can watch all the matches you want, but mind your sleep and health! For additional information, the Aidilfitri holidays (15/6 & 16/6 or extra depends on individual approved annual leave) falls during the World Cup season, so the holidays itself it up to you to decide the number to match to watch later.

TIP 2 - Food and bevearages to stay alert at work after watching a match.

After adhering the tip 1 above, when you're back at work, it goes without saying that you need to maintain alertness for productivity. Coffee is the best bevearages to maintain alertness as it contains caffeine, but drink it in moderate amount to avoid caffeine addiction. Other possible food or drinks to stay alert includes green tea, milo, chocolate, water, citrus fruits. All of these foods provides energy plus essential nutrients to help you stay up for the working day even after the long hour match.

TIP 3 - Brief exercise at work.

Another way to maintain alertness is do some light exercise before or during work. There is no need for vigorous exercise which may overstressing your body after less sleep from the World Cup matches. Do some minutes of stretching which not only relieve sore muscles and regain alertness. This rules can be applied as well after long hours at the computers, take some minutes out from the screen to do some stretching and eye exercise to reduce eye strain. 

TIP 4 - Plan your sleep and nap early.

Once you had planned the matches to watch in advance, based on the time of the match you need to establish the sleeping pattern plus nap pattern before and after the match. Let say for example, the match you want to watch is at 10pm Malaysian time, that means after dinner you need to set aside sufficient sleeping time immediately after dinner, plus after watching the match until the time you need to wake up in the morning like this:

7:00pm Back from work

7:30pm Quick dinner

8:00pm Brief sleep

10:00pm Your favourite matches

0:00am Sleep

7:30am Prepare to work

Of course the changes in pattern differs from individual sleeping time and time of your favourite matches, but most importantly plan ahead so that the excitement of the game will not severely disrupt your sleeping pattern. Avoid any activities or food that can disrupt your planned sleep. Every minutes of rest, nap, or better still, sleep can be critical to maintain your alertness.

TIP 5 - Avoid alcohol and caffeine during match, replace it with nutritious meal if possible.

The last tip to share here is avoid alcohol and caffeine during any match. Alcohol should be avoided as it can disrupt our normal body function as the aftermath of alcohol consumption can take longer time to dissipate, which might disrupt your work alertness, it also goes without saying that excessive alcohol consumption bad for your health especially liver, plus excessive consumption is dangerous especially if the individual requires driving. Caffeine consumption such as coffee, Coca-Cola should be reduced as it can disrupt your planned sleep pattern as per tip 4 above, which ironically the ingredient is vital for your work time later. Another drinks to be reduced during match are sugary drinks which is bad for your body sugar level.

If possible, try substitute both alcohol and caffeine with food rich in carbohydrates, protein, or fruit juices. In Malaysia, it can be difficult to find food alternatives for alcohol, caffeinated drinks, or sugary drinks. Since most of the World Cup matches are at late night, the matches will mostly broadcasted at 24 hours nasi kandar store or nightclubs, which most of the food and drinks are unhealthy. But fret not, there are some good alternative here such as - fruit juice, roti canai (with egg, banana, or sardine) in small amount, roti bakar (for early breakfast especially if you're watching late the 0200 match). Try to reduce your food and drinks at smaller portion level so that it will not disrupt your digestion at late night and sleeping pattern.

So hopefully the 5 tips I shared earlier can be used to maintain your alertness and health while you're enjoying the favourite World Cup matches. 

非回教在斋戒月可给马来回教尊重的5个贴士 5 tips for non Muslims to show respect for Muslims...

How Malaysian non-Muslims show respect to the Muslims during the fasting month of Ramadhan in my version Cantonese. Here is the 5 main tips:

1) Never feast or serve in front of Muslim during fasting time. Not only it is disrespectful, but it can also induce temptation among fasting Muslims. So please feast at the place away from Muslims, or seek permission when you have no choice but to have meal near them, as you don't mean to be rude to them. For this reason as well, some Muslim-operated eating premises will be closed during the Ramadhan fasting month.

2) Ask anything about Ramadhan month knowledge from Muslims. Because they have experience and know the full fasting rules during the month of Ramadhan. Do not pretend you all everything, instead seek answers from Muslim friends on the full knowledge. Be understandable and respectful of their culture and custom. This rule can also be applied on the fourth tip below.

3) Observe respectful etiquette at Ramadhan bazaar. Ramadhan bazaar normally opened few hours prior to breaking fast time with variety of foods and bevearages. It doesn't matter if you're Muslims or non-Muslims, you're welcome to visit and purchase the food and drinks there. However, please observe the rule 1 above after food purchase, or better still eat it at home. If you're been asked whether you're observing fast by the stall owner, politely answer them that you're fasting as well, or inform them you'll only have the food later after 7:30pm, which is few minutes after breaking fast times for all states in Malaysia. 

4) Be sincere in fasting and seek Muslim advice if you want to practice fasting. Some non-Muslim might be curious of the concept of fasting like the Muslims do. Personally you can practice it but you must do it sincerely with whole heart. Seek advice from Muslim friends as per rule 2 above. For novice it might be a struggle to shift from normal lifestyle to a restrained lifestyle during fasting so plan ahead to ensure the plan goes smoothly for you health sake. 

5) Join Muslims together for breaking fast by following certain etiquette. Breaking fast normally begins at sunset after 7:30pm, which is few minutes after breaking fast times for all states in Malaysia. Non-Muslims can join in for the breaking fast feast with Muslims by obeying rule 1 above prior to sunset azan sound from the mosque which signals time for breaking fast. Most importantly in multi cultural society Malaysia this event can tie the bonds of people from all races together, regardless of races, religions, and cultural background.

Those 5 useful might only be part of the rules, but I hoped it can be used to educate non-Muslims to fully respect the Muslims during the Ramadhan fasting month.

You can also view this video at Dailymotion at http://dai.ly/x6k07np. 

Starbucks Signature Lunch limited time offer. And it didn't even shown in Starbucks website!

Everyday, from 12pm-3pm at participating Starbucks branch throughout Malaysia, there will be a Signature Lunch offer. Yet surprisingly this offer is not appear in the Starbucks website nor the app itself. Most probably it is only for limited time while stock last which Starbucks only offer for visiting customer on that particular time.

But first of all, let me explain to you how this offer work. The Signature Lunch is available to you from 12pm - 3pm from only RM15 along with tall size drink purchase. Drinks valid for this offer are espresso and coffee, frappuccino, tea, or chocolate, which is part of the everyday menu. It doesn't matter what is the size of the drinks you purchase, whether it is tall (small size), grande (medium size), or venti (large size), you can choose any lunch of your choice (as shown in photos above) which consists of 

• Croissant Baguette Smoked & Cheese
• Spicy Minty Smoked Duck Flatbread
• Baked Chicken Teriyaki Sandwich
• Baked Ciabatta Mushroom Melt Sandwich
• Baked Hotmeal - choices of Baked Mac & Cheese or Baked Cheesy Chicken Potato

In addition, the RM15 Signature Lunch Set all comes with choices of Tall Bevearage - Freshly Brewed Coffee, Freshly Brewed Tea, or Americano. For handicrafted bevearage, you only need to add RM5 to pair with your favourite tall drinks.

The photo above is the proof of one of my purchased Signature Lunch Offer, which consists of Dark Mocha Frappuccino Grande size and Baked Mac & Cheese, which cost only RM22 after discount and I paid the amount using reloaded Starbucks membership card. (Original price - Drinks: RM18.60 + Lunch: RM11.60 = RM30.20)

Oh, have I mentioned discounts for Starbucks Signature Lunch purchase? Well you can have it when you paid the Signature Lunch purchase via your Starbucks membership card or via your Starbucks app. To begin enjoy the benefit of Starbucks via the app, download the app via the link below:

• Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starbucks.my&hl=en
• App Store - https://itunes.apple.com/my/app/starbucks-malaysia/id888509698?mt=8

Any upsize will have extra RM1 charge. Exception for this Signature Lunch Offer are promotional bevearage for both breakfast or lunch set. Not valid with other discount or promotion.

So make your every Starbucks drinks enjoyment even more worthwhile with the limited time offer Starbucks Signature Lunch, 12pm - 3pm at participating Starbucks Branch. Try it out today!

To locate the Starbucks branch near you, visit the link below:

http://www.starbucks.com.my/store-locator/search