Hotels around Bandar Sunway for Convocation Day

Year end is coming. There are more festivals to celebrate too.  For example: Hari Raya, Deepavali, National Day and Christmas day. Not to mentions, college or university convocation celebration are coming up too. Bandar Sunway is best known for its famous education hub in Peninsular Malaysia. There are more than 10 colleges or universities in this area.

College or university around Bandar Sunway
College or university around Bandar Sunway

Based on my past experience, there are times parent will look for hotels around higher education institute.

  • Parents often will stay one or two nights in Bandar Sunway to attend their children’s convocation day.
  • Sometime, it may not be convocation day. Parent or relatives may want to visit their kids during the college or university registration day.
  • Before children can find a hostel or accommodation, they may need to stay a few days around the area too.

Why Online Hotel Booking?

Some parent or students prefer to find hotel or accommodation after reaching the campus area. it is nothing wrong of it. But, let me show you a case study.

Each convocation event, there may be more than 1000 students graduate. One student may have 2 tickets for their family members to attend the convocation event. Malaysians or Indonesians still have this good “Kampung” spirit. We often bring the whole family members to attend convocation event. It will be harder to find a hotel on the convocation day. Thus, it is best to online booking for hotel before any important celebration.

#1 Various payment methods offered by Traveloka

Other than Malaysia related banks, Traveloka includes major oversea banks as your payment options too.

Various Payment Methods offered by Traveloka
Various Payment Methods offered by Traveloka

 

#2 Easy to compare and book

You can easily compare and select hotel types based on your needs.

Easy to compare and book. You can choose hotels based on your needs
Easy to compare and book. You can choose hotels based on your needs

 

#3 Unbiased review from Traveloka users and TripAdvisor

Reviews from other travel websites can be viewed in one glance.

Unbiased review from Traveloka users and Trip Adviser.
Unbiased review from Traveloka users and Trip Adviser.

 

To all graduates, I wish you all the best in your future career path.  Do remember to help your parent online booking for hotels before convocation day. Click here to book your Sunway hotel now!



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Philips, Homemaker’s Store in Johor Bahru

Philips lifestyle store is in Sutera Mall, Johor Bahu.
Philips Brand store is in Sutera Mall, Johor Bahu.

The Philips Brand Store is the second store in Malaysia.  Why Philips need to set up its brand store? I think the best answer is from my beloved mother – a Philips brand loyalty .

List of Philips brand electronic appliances in my house.
List of Philips brand electronic appliances in my house.

My mother trusts Philips brand very much.   Here is the list of items in my house.

  • Sandwich maker
  • Blender
  • Fruit juice maker
  • Hair straighter ( My sister bought it 10 years ago)
  • Light green hair dryer (My sister bought it 10 years ago)
  • Dark green hair dryer (My mother bought it 30 years ago. It is still functioning very well)
  • High-pressure cooker (We are still learning to use it)

All these items she bought from various point of sales, either in hypermarkets (E.G. JUSCO or Giant) or electrical shops along five-foot way. Just like any other shopper for household electrical appliances, there are more than a hundred, both local and foreign brands in the above-mentioned point of sales.

The employee was explaining high pressure cooker usage and information to my mother
The employee was explaining high-pressure cooker usage and information to my mother

 

I followed a few trips with her to shop for the above items. I noticed she would ignore any sale promoters of other brands who kept pursuing her to buy their brands. She also not tempted by any free gifts or promotional prices of similar item offered by other brands. She would just walk to Philips? I wonder why?
These are her answers:
She knew the ‘history of Philips”. Philips is one of the earliest or pioneer brands of consumer electrical appliances, founded more than 125 years ago by Dutch. Laymen like her used the term as ‘Continental brands’ with brand image of trustworthy, reliable, safety, and practicality. Most importantly, all Philips items are easy to wash after used. She just washes and rinse with running water, with little brushing, later air dry them and put back to the shelf.

Philips LifeStyle Store display area.
Philips Brand Store display area.

 

Her first 30 years old hairdryer is very handy, safe and convenient to use. Similarly with her fruit juicers, blender and sandwich-maker which are her helping maid in the kitchen. She prepares fresh fruit and vegetable juices and sandwiches most of the morning before she goes to work. The fine, pure juices extract from Philips keep our family members healthy. As we love spicy food, she would use the blender to grind chilies paste and other spices ingredients for chicken curry, she also blends barley grain after boiling barley water for us. She always says, “Without all these Philips helpers. We won’t have any healthy home cook food.

Without all these Philips helpers, We won’t have any healthy home cook food.”

It has never crossed our mind that there would be a specialist Philips Brand Store in Sutera Mall. To us, specialist store only refers to branded upmarket fashion products like Louis Vuitton where there are retail associates who give personalise services to customers by sharing story line behind each of their products.

Baby related products from Philips.
Baby related products from Philips.

It is indeed very resourceful for both of us after our first visit to this very Special- ALL PHILIPS Products”. Wow~ more handy – Philips air fryer, Philips slow- grind juicers, induction to vacuum  cleaners,baby item and etc. So, next time, you can stop by this store for better understanding on Philips products.

 

Philips Brand Store
Lot L3-273 & 274 (next to Takashima store),
Sutera Mall,
Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/4,
Taman Sutera Utama,
81300 Skudai,
Johor

Operating Hour:
Monday – Sunday
10:30am – 10:30pm

Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/JzNwyyyX9Dx
GPS:1.5178089,103.6716217

Facebook: www.facebook.com/PhilipsHomeLiving.my
Website: www.philips.com.my



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Ikea Damansara Gateway 1 Day Itinerary

IKEA Damansara is the largest IKEA store in Asia. What is IKEA? IKEA is a Scandinavian home furniture store. Most of the furnitures at IKEA are required buyers to Do it Yourself(DIY). There come the next question. Is it cheap? In my opinion, it is you pay what you get. While, for Mr. Ang, IKEA DIY items are “LEGO” for him. He just enjoys doing all the furniture building and home layout planning. (PS: that is why I married an engineer).

My family members were quite shock that Mr. Ang and I were going to spend our golden weekend at IKEA Damansara. We spent 2 days at IKEA Damansara just to do home furnishing shopping. It was great fun for us. We got to try out some good food around Damansara and Petaling Jaya. I listed the itinerary and the spending as below.

 

 

#ikea shopping trip on #labourday #lertravel

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1 May 2016, Sunday

08:30am Depart to Damansara, Selangor
01:00pm Lunch at Homemade Fish Head Noodle Noodle, 美味园鱼头米粉
02:00pm Check in 9Square Hotel (Book through ShopBackMY and Agoda).
02:30pm Have an afternoon nap
04:30pm Depart to Petaling Jaya.
05:10pm Dinner at My Burger Lab @ Sea Park
06:30pm Reach IKEA Damansara
06:45pm Find parking lot at e-Curve
07:30pm Enjoy IKEA ice cream
07:45pm Shopping at IKEA
09:30pm Pay bill and go back hotel
10:30pm Sleep

 

#throwback shopping at IKEA. #lertravel

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2 May 2016, Monday

07:30am Wake up and packing
08:00am Breakfast at nearby hawker centre
09:30am Reach IKEA and finding parking lot
09:50am Want to go for second breakfast but the IKEA restaurant is full house
10:00am Shopping at IKEA
11:45am Pay bill and enjoy IKEA frozen yogurt ice cream
12:00pm Depart to Johor Bahru
04:30pm Reach Johor Bahru


Expenses

Fish Head Noodle
9Square Hotel Queen Bed No Window Room
ShopBackMy
Dinner at BurgerLab
Breakfast
e-Curve Parking Fee
3 IKEA Frozen Yogurt Ice Cream
1 IKEA Ice Cream
2 IKEA Curry Puff
1 IKEA Hot Dog Bread
Fullen Mirror
2 Betydlig Wall
Rusch Wall Clock
2 Rast Bedside Tables
Racka Curtain
2 Albert Shelf
Lillnaggen shower squeegee
Billy Book shelf
6% GST @IKEA
Petrol
Toll fee
RM29.50
RM112.50
-RM4.80
RM36.70
RM15.00
RM3.00
RM4.50
RM1.00
RM2.00
RM2.00
RM75.00
RM3.80
RM59.80
RM9.90
RM118.00
RM6.90
RM139.00
RM24.68
RM65.00
RM40.00

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TOTAL expenses RM753.48


Google Map: #LerTravel IKEA Itinerary 2016


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3 Lessons I Learned from Fund Raising Event

12 March 2016

I attended Sunday Dhamma school in Metta Lodge since primary school. Metta Lodge had been a second home for me. This year, Metta Lodge has a mission. The mission is to raise fund for our new Buddhist building in Taman Johor Jaya. The fund-raising committee have organised a fund-raising event. The event’s topic was “Love & Peace Charity High Tea cum Floral Exhibition & Show”. This was my first time be a volunteer at fund-raising event. I learnt some lessons through this event.

Love & Peace Floral Exhibition
Love & Peace Floral Exhibition

Event: Love & Peace Charity High Tea cum Floral Exhibition & Show
Date: 12 – 13 March 2016
Day: Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10am – 5pm
Venue: Grand Blue Wave Hotel, Johor Bahru

1) Be Prepare

Before I reached the event hall, I always thought that the event was about floral arrangement exhibition. Sister Doris Looi was a regular devotee in Metta Lodge. We often saw her offer flowers in Metta Lodge. Thus, the altar usually has beautiful flowers arrangement. I was surprised to see that there were many performers were preparing for the Floral Show. In the end, Sister Chan assigned me to usher the guests.

2) Be Flexible

I was quite free during before the arrival of guests. I decided to snap some photos of the event. I was having great time to practice my photography skill. The floral arrangement were prepared by members of Ikebana Johor Bahru. The floral exhibition photo album can be view HERE.

For Public viewing of FLoral Exhibition Free AdmissionDate: 12 and 13 March 2016Day: Saturday and SundayTime: 10am…

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3) Always Have a Smile

und-raising chairman, Lim Hock Teck [Left] presenting a donation cheque to Metta Lodge Meditation Centre JB chairman, Heng Chai Teet
Image Credit: Peggy Log ~ My Johor Story.

Thank you to all the sponsors, guests and volunteers. Metta Lodge managed to raise RM119,500.00 through this event.

The future of Metta Lodge Building in Taman Johor Jaya.
Image Cerdit: Roam With Bee Blogspot

Metta Lodge need to raise more fund for the new building. There are several ways to make donation to Metta Lodge.

Donation Methods to Metta Lodge Building Fund

1) Visit Metta Lodge on Wesak Day.

The treasurer will issue donor a receipt. Donor can keep the receipt for tax planing.

Metta Lodge Buddhist Center
Image Credit: Google Map

Metta Lodge Buddhist Center
26, Jalan Rengas,
Taman Melodies,
80250 Johor Bahru, Johor
Tel: +607- 372-5500
Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/wnNMXo1nrGU2
GPS: 1.4908023,103.6954705

2) Email to Metta Lodge Chairman

Brother Heng is the Metta Lodge Chairman. You can email him at ctheng26@yahoo.com

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Let face the truth. One family member from Johor  will work in Singapore in order to support the family. The lucrative Singapore dollar has drawn  Johor’s talent pool for better salary opportunity. While, family member that work in Malaysia need to learn to manage the income well in order to save more money.

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This truth is proved by the recent traffic congestion at Woodland Causeway. However, it doesn’t mean that  with a Singapore dollar income can cover the living cost in Johor.  With great power (income power) come great responsibility (car loan, house loan, living expenses and other).  As a middle-income couple, the rising of living expenses is taking a toll on us. That is why, I will further discuss my last week topic on Smart Saver.

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New mission after marriage is to save money. We spend our money wisely for everything. We did our research before we make our decision. For example power charger. Recently, my laptop’s power charger was not functioning. I was checking around IT Mall and IT shops for the power charger price. Mostly sold at RM90++. In the end, I found the cheapest price at Lazada. It was sold RM45 during its 50% sale. That mean I saved RM40++ for my power charger. If you concern on the quality, I tested it out. The quality of the power charger is as good as written on the website. In conclusion, it will be good to compare before making any buying decision. Who know may be you can get the best deals on your online shopping?

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 Let me further share my experience with you. I just back from Boracay and Manila travelling.  We used AirAsiaGo for our accommodation booking. The accommodation are highly rated on TripAdvisor. It does live up to its standard too. I will share more of my Philippine trip on the next post. For now, you can Enjoy great AirAsiaGo promotion through ShopBack.my.  Stay Tune for next post.

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