Brace yourself - inflation is coming

Hi,

Today, I've woke up that inflation is creeping up since the petrol price increase on 6th June. When buying my chee cheong fun breakfast , I realized that it's costing 3.70 for 3 piece of cheong fun and 2 side variety. Wow ! I used to eat at 50 cents a piece but 70 cents a piece ? Come on, next time, no people will afford to eat breakfast. Else what we all heard, makan roti lor.... (literally meant that we only afford to eat bread here as a culture of not enough money/frugal) The 2nd shock of my life was at the Boh Loong coffee shop to take away for my Teh-C (A concoction of tea + evaporated milk). Price had increased 10 cents to RM 1.60 ! When asked the owner of the coffee shop, he said price of the milk can had increased and he already foresee that his increased will be lower than market rate by 10 cents ! Talk about prediction !

Now that in the coming months our electricity bill will be up as well. I foresee lot more shop out there will increase their price to cover their operations. Why can't those shop think about innovation and alternative solution in rendering out the product/service ? I truly disappointed in this. Looking for easy way out instead of thinking through is becoming everybody's thought. I wonder when will salaried employee have their turn in increasing in salary.... Do you think our Deputy Prime Minister commented that we should change our lifestyle is just another no "walk the talk" principle...

Best wishes to our friend

This afternoon Ah Jue was meeting up with a friend who is getting married next month. Her name is Ah Moi Moi lor, she passed a lovely invitation card to Ah Jue and she was attracted to the second page of the invitation card(the card got 4 pages one). It was printed with some beautiful and meaningful quotations and Ah Jue would like to share with you that.

Yesterday...
We discovered love, gently unfolding in our hearts
Whispering of the joy to come,

Today...
Our dreams will come true
Creating memories that we'll cherish for a lifetime,

Tomorrow...
We begin a new journey hand in hand
Eager to explore a world of promise,

Forever...
We will share our everlasting love
As Husband & Wife

To our friend Ah Moi Moi,

Congratulations!
Best wishes to you and husband,

May you be happy, healthy and wealthy.

祝你幸福美满！

Dhamma talk cum mini concert with Ravenna Michalsen

Hi,

This evening, me and Ah Bi was fortunate enough to know that there's a dhamma talk by a Buddhist songstress Ravenna. Ah Jue know about this from an e-mail distribution list send by Nalanda Buddhist society. For those who don't know her, she was born in The States. The talk was held in Nalanda Buddhist Society in Serdang. The talk started at 8.30pm. During the talk, Ravenna sang to us live from numbers from her album. It's a truly out of this world experience. This was our first time we've heard live singing of dhamma song from someone outside Malaysia ! Her singing style is different from normal dhamma song that I've heard. Her voice was powerful and having diverse vocal variety. It reminds me of The Cranberries in the early years though. While explaining some famous Buddhist figures and concept in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, she include her singing to reinforced her idea across. Occasionally, she'll ask for response from the floor to keep us interested. Fortunately, her song indeed mesmerized us. Soon the talk change to a mini concert with us singing along in 2 of the songs. Me and Ah Bi lost count on number of songs she had sang. All in all, it ended around 9.45pm. Time just fly by without us really realizing. We were served with refreshment courtesy of Nalanda with Red bean soup, fried meehon, cakes etc afterwards. 3X Sadhu to them for providing such a wonderful food and place to listen to Dhamma. We hope today's merits that we've accumulated will be shared by all sentient beings...

Before we leave, we do bought a CD from her 2nd album - Dharma Song and we even get her to autograph our CD too :) If you want to know her more, she's available in iTunes, Facebook and MySpace. Check her song out if you interested. There's even interview from another blog as well.

The Wonder Cat Woman

Ah Bi and Ah Jue were rushing to open this blog yesterday due to 'The Wonder Cat Woman' incident. The incident was like this:

Once upon a night around 8.30 pm...Tonight is a happy night due to that Ah Jue had finally completed his toastmaster stage I. Both of them were celebrating by having 'Nando' chickens tapau from the office and is free!! he he... The grilled chicken thigh is tasteless without the specialty chilli sauces... well... throat not feeling well after eating that and feeling uncomfortable. After the chicken dinner, Ah Jue as usual act as the dish cleaner had done a good job on it and leaving his beloved Ah Bi enjoying her favourite HK series. Time past .. dak dak dak...

The scene is like this:

Around 9.15pm, Ah Bi was busy sitting on their Victorian flower printed coach and watching her favourite HK series called 'Best Selling Skills'. While Ah Jue was half naked (the upper part) due to the hot weather lately and sitting on the small stool also watching the same show. Suddenly, a stray cat appeared jumping from the stair case to the ground floor steadily and rushing out to the front door by jumping through the grill within split second without making any extra noise. Ah Bi got a shock! Ah Jue also got a shock! They looked at each other and confirmed that both of them saw the same thing. Is Wonder Cat!! The Wonder Cat with Kung Fu!! Ah Bi and Ah Jue wonder how she (assume is wonder cat woman) got in to their house??? They were checking around from upstair to ground floor, everything is fine and neat. Nothing was messed up!! Then Ah Bi started to think whether this is a hint or the cat maybe the messenger of something? Of course Ah Jue will said don't believe in those thing. After the night, Ah Bi and Ah Jue concluded that the Wonder Cat Woman was actually on her way to achieve her mission impossible under the order of her Boss called Fatty Cat!! ha ha...

Unfortunately, Ah Bi didn't manage to capture her photo but to describe her appearance, she looks like normal stray cat, grey in colour, fit, strong and bigger than normal stray cat (which means she is not that normal). Anyone who found this cat, please ask her to stop and take a photo and ask for her autograph as she is ... The Wonder Cat Woman!!! and share la...