Back from Tour to Beijing

Yesterday, I came back from a 7-day trip to Beijing, Chende and Tianjin in China plus 1 night stopover in Concorde Inn in Kuala Lumpur. The flight back from KL to Penang was a little scarry. Apparently the pilot was not experienced in flying and halfway through the flight, the plane encountered bumpy ride. At one stage, the plane abruptly dropped 3 feet and the female passengers screamed. And the peanuts in my hand jumped out. It was not even flying through storm clouds unlike the flight from KL to Beijing which was rather bumpy with flashes of light outside. Even the landing from the Malaysian pilot was a rough one. I think this guy really needs to go for further course on how to manuever the plane before ferrying paying passengers like me.

My Tour to China Starting Tonight

Later this evening at 8:45pm, I will take Malaysian Airlines MH 1165 plane from Penang to Kuala Lumpur and arrive there at 10:40pm to transit there for a while. After that, I will take China Airlines CA 972, a 757 jet departing KL at 12:50am and arrive in Peking at 6:40am. It will be an 8-day guided tour of Beijing, Tianjin and Chende in China. On Sunday 5th of August, I will take China Airlines CA 971 from Peking departing at 5:00pm and arrive in KL at 11:20pm. We will stay 1 night in Concorde Inn Hotel, KLIA before departing at 11:50am on Malaysian Airlines MH 1142 to Penang. We should arrive Penang at 12:40pm in the afternoon and my youngest sister has taken leave from her Bayan Lepas factory to fetch us back.

I am looking forward to my first overseas trip since 2001 and it is about time to see some beautiful sights. I will walk on the Great Wall of China, visit Tiananman Square, Forbidden Palace, see pandas in a zoo and Chinese acrobatic performance and visit other places. Wish me journey mercies for this trip. In the meantime, there will not be any posts for 8 days from tomorrow onwards.

Back to Condominium in Subang Jaya

We were about to set forth and drive up to Penang from Kuala Lumpur this morning when my colleague discovered that the car's water pump is leaking. As we need to drive up about 400 miles, we need to have the water pump replace to avoid any problems along the highway. So we are back to the Subang Jaya condominium while the car is being serviced. Thank goodness it was discovered early before our trip back North. I shudder to think what will happen if the car breaks down in the middle of the road due to a leaking water pump. So while waiting, I am back to blogging to kill time.

Construction Software Buyer Guide

My company that I work for at my home office on a full time basis is into sports surface construction such as tennis courts, futsal arena, multi-purpose courts and so on. Perhaps we may need a Construction Software Buyer Guide to help us in our daily job. Construction software is software designed specifically for businesses that perform work on a project by project basis like ours and have a need to track and manage the individual costs (time, material and labor) associated with the project.

Companies that are involved with construction such as specialty sub contractors, home builders, developers, engineers typically use some type of construction software. The core purpose of most construction software systems is to facilitate the function of job costing which is the process of managing, estimating and tracking costs associated with a job.

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New Creation Church has Gone International

All churches preach Good News to its people. But the most annointed church I have ever attended was Pastor Joseph Prince’s New Creation Church. Now it has 15,000 members and still growing very fast. During my time in year 2000 while I was still in Singapore, it was about 6,000 members, then exploded to 12,000 member a couple of years later and now it has 15,000 members. People loved hearing the true Gospel and right preaching and teaching. It does not mix the Old Testament with the New Testament. You cannot mix Law and Grace together.

Around 2002, New Creation Church provided satellite services to parts of Africa like Uganda where the people get to watch the service live and the church gets to keep all the offerings. It was also beamed live to parts of India like Goa and Gujerat. And now by listening to his CDs, New Creation Church has gone a step further by broadcasting its services on DayStar Television Network from Mondays to Fridays at 2:00pm in the United States. This speaks volumes about my former paster’s very very annointed preaching and healing services. People get blessed listening to Pastor Prince preach the right Gospel and they are no longer under bondage by the Law in the Old Testament. Jesus came to set us free, and we should read the New Testament of much promises, grace and God’s Blessings. Sometimes I wish we get to watch Pastor Prince live on TV in Malaysia like the Americans. They are so blessed.

Fitness Singles

If you love going to the gym to workout and get fit, you might like to check out fitness singles from FitnessDates dot com. It provides an avenue for fitness singles to date and to know one another. The web site is well designed with pictures and profiles of the fitness singles for you to choose from. Just select the sex, the age range and postal code as the criteria and find your filtered selection in a jiffy. People with common interests tend to bond better and get along well. You can discuss about the food, diet and fitness plans that the two of you practiced to get fit and share common knowledge. This is a website to visit to find your fitness date.

Mortgages

When I bought my 3 room HDB flat in Commonwealth Drive, Singapore, I had to pay mortgage loans on installment basis. I borrowed money from the CPF (Central Provident Fund) to finance my small flat to stay alone. It was much better with more privacy compared to renting a room from the landlord. Sometimes you have landlords from hell and you just need breathing space. I rented for about 4 months before calling it quits and quickly got my own flat.

Mortages are loans which are put up as security or collateral to buy property. It is a loan in which the borrower (the mortgagor) offers a property and land as security to the lender (the mortgagee) until the loan is repaid. Repayments of the loan are usually made on a monthly basis over a long period of time, typically 25 years.

Before buying the flat which I stayed for about 1 year before coming back to Penang, I got home loan quotes from the planner. After he has explained in detail how much I need to pay for the installments, and calculation done properly, I then signed and bought the flat which I have since sold off for some profit.