6 months

Baby is 6 months old today. Compliments to my wife Sacha who is able to breast feed baby for six months consecutively, exceeding everyone’s expectations. I guess one should never underestimate the will of a mother.

Happy CNY

The Koo Family wishes everyone a Happy Chinese New Year. Gong Hee Fat Choy!!

Banks

I just open another bank account with OCBC bank for the purpose of having a safety deposit. That makes me having accounts with almost all banks in the country.
For my company: Maybank
For loan account: Standard Chartered, UOB
For current account: Public Bank, HSBC
For credit card: CIMB & City Bank
For safety deposit: OCBC Bank.
For share trading: Hong Leong
That’s total of 9 banks. Simply ridiculous. Next objective is to start eliminating some of this accounts.

Merry Christmas

Ho! Ho! Ho!

The Koo's Family wish everyone a Happy Merry Christmas and a Merry Happy New Year!




Yeah, time to reveal Christmas presents !!

Made in China

I hereby introduce another super value for money product from China.

"Super Energy Saving LED Bulb" - able to last 20,000 hours and cost only a few ringgit. A product strongly recommended by my father.

I thereby conduct experiments by compare it with an ordinary bulb worth 50 cents. For more accurate and persistent results, I installed up to three bulb for comparison.

In about two months later - final result: Super Power Saver LED Bulb 0 - 3 Ordinary cheap bulb.

All Super Power Saver LED Bulb are dead whilst the cheap bulb is still running strong.

Another great product made in China :)

100 days

My baby will be 100 days old in two days time. Although I did not manage to hold a 100 days party for him, I will ensure a 1 year party to be a success. These hundred days consist of sensational and tension moments and expect many more to come. With less than 100 days old, he has already attended three wedding dinners, and surprise many with his mature look. Many claims he looks like me although I don’t see much remembrance. Do people just say for the sake of saying or they can really tell I wonder.

Wine for Asia 2011

An interesting three days two nights trip for us. Plenty of great and good wine for tasting. Some of the top wines we have tasted include:

Bordeaux Blanc
Smith Haut Lafit Blanc 2008 (My rating 90 points)
Domaine de Chevalier Blanc 2007 (My rating 93)

Bordeaux Red
Domaine de Chevalier Rouge 2007 (My rating 91)
Chateau Figeac 2007 (My rating 91)
Leoville Barton 2007 (My rating 92)
Chateau Malartic Lagraviere 08 (My rating 90)
Smith Haut Lafit Rouge 2008 (My rating 90)
Chateau Beycheville 2008 (My rating 90)

Desert
Ch Surudaut 2008 (My rating 92)
Ch Climen 2008 (My rating 92)

Burgundy
Puligny Montrachet, Champ Gain, Bouchard Pere et Fils 08 (My rating: 88)
Aloxe Corton, Les Valozieres, Domaine Claude Chevalier et Fils 08 (My rating: 88)

The champion goes to

Domaine Rene Cacheux et Fils Vosne-Romanee "Les Suchots" Premier Cru 2008
(Cotes de Nuits, Burgundy, France) – (My rating 95 points)

Expert review:
93 Points - Wine Spectator Magazine (2007 vintage):
“Elegantly wrought, with strawberry, raspberry and floral aromas and flavors permeating the gossamer texture. This is pure and long, with a firm base of tannins, bright acidity and a lingering aftertaste of berry, spice and mineral. Best from 2012 through 2024. 175 cases made." –BS (2010)

Portrait Mode

Using the portrait mode in one of the camera’s function, we can smoothen one’s face to look like supermodel. The following two photos clearly indicate the before and after. Nonetheless, baby is super cute in either photo :)

Aperture and Focus

With the purchase of my new camera, I am gaining some basic knowledge in camera shooting. The following two photos are my rookie shots, same angle but different focal point using the function of aperture and focus. Interesting.

Draft versus bottle

During the years in the liquor industry, I frequently being asked if draft beers are better than bottle (and can beer) and why. Well, even my seven weeks baby knows that draft milk (breastfeeding) taste better than bottle milk. I am sure us adults can do better than the seven weeks old.

Doctor

This is the doctor who deliver baby Hong-Yi, therefore the first person Hong-Yi ever seen in his life (although I do see his hair before the doctor does).