Chinese New Year is around the corner. We were busy doing the house-keeping to welcome the Year of the Ox . Very soon, we have to say “good-bye” to the Year of the Rat.
I spent half a day cleaning my bathroom and scrubbing the floor to make sure that all the dusts and dirts were cleaned away. Besides house-keeping, my family and I spent some time decorating our house with the Chinese New Year auspicious items.
“Gong Xi Fa Cai” Paper Fan (Good Wealth) :
God of Fortune :
Chinese Character “Fu” (Prosperity) :
Auspicious Cow Decorations :
Pussy Willow (Salix Caprea) :
Mandarin Oranges :
We also prepared food for the Chinese New Year reunion dinner on Sunday. One of our favourite dishes is abalone. I have taken some pictures after opening a few cans of abalone.
Double Abalone :
Abalone on the chopping board :
More pictures will be coming up in the next Blog post on the Chinese New Year reunion dinner. Stay tuned.
I had published a Blog post on 09 Jan 2009 pertaining to the purchase of the AKLTG’s newly-released book entitled “ Profit from the Panic ” at a pre-launch price. This book had finally been officially launched on 20 Jan 2009.
The 3 authors, namely Adam Khoo , Conrad Alvin Lim and Ryan Huang , had been interviewed by the news anchors of the Channel News Asia recently as the “ Profit from the Panic ” book was featured on its prime-time news.
Here is the interview of the “ Profit from the Panic ” authors by CNA :
As mentioned in my earlier Blog post, 100% of the authors royalties will be donated to charities. So far, there are 2 charities being identified and they are the Straits Times Pocket Money Fund and the AIDHA .
The ST Pocket Money Fund was initiated on 01 Oct 2000, ie. Children’s Day, by the Straits Times English newspaper. The aim is to raise the awareness of the plight of children from low-income families who were attending school without proper breakfast or pocket money to sustain their day in school.
AIDHA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of low income migrant women through financial education.
Buying this “ Profit from the Panic ” book is in a way helping the children and migrant women from the low-income families. Besides goodwill, you can learn how to gain profit from the panic in the current bearish stock markets as taught by the profound experts and national best-seller authors such as Adam Khoo, Conrad Alvin Lim and Ryan Huang.
I would say this is killing two birds with one stone if you pick up the “ Profit from the Panic ” book. Adam Khoo and his co-authors share the secrets on how you can earn money from the financial crisis. The choice is yours to make but please make a wise one.
Since I have so much free time this year due to the world economic slowdown, no excuse for me to say I have no time to send Chinese New Year greeting cards to people. 发送贺卡给我的朋友是让他们知道,我仍然认为他们和我祝愿他们。