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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

First mainland Chinese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Forbes Magazine :JACK MA

Jack Ma 
ranks as one of the world’s billionaires.
Ma was named the Financial Times’ 2013 Person of the Year
 because he personifies the Chinese internet,
 referring to him as the “godfather of China’s scrappy entrepreneurial spirit.”.

Jack Ma is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur.
 He is the Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group,
 a family of highly successful Internet-based businesses.

 He is also the first mainland Chinese entrepreneur
 to appear on the cover of
 Forbes Magazine 

Billionaire Jack Ma teaches you how to be successful in life and business here:



and I like this lesson the most, because I am old and retired already!:

Jack Ma: We are born to live and experience life.
I always tell myself that we are born here not to work, but to enjoy life. We are here to make things better for one another, and not to work. If you are spending your whole life working, you will certainly regret it.
No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.

and this: for my children, students and nieces/nephews...

Jack Ma: The 4 main questions the young generation must ponder on
  1. What is failure: Giving up is the greatest failure.
  2. What is resilience: Once you have been through hardships, grievances and disappointments, only then will you understand what is resilience.
  3. What your duties are: To be more diligent, hardworking, and ambitious than others.
  4. Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

Chinese online giant Alibaba went public this month and raised US$25 billion in its IPO. Founder Jack Ma has a 7.8% stake in the company.
Who are the other key shareholders of Alibaba and how much did they reap? Our list here, including the share of Singapore's Temasek Holdings.http://bit.ly/1rsEjHI

Chinese online commerce company Alibaba went public this month in the world's largest initial public offering (IPO), raising US$25 billion in all.
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Seafood Village at Malacca Portuguese Settlement/Joan and El' Chico's

We checked out of Casablanca
and used the Waze to get to the Portuguese Settlement, Malacca
  1. Map of portuguese settlement melaka
  2. Portuguese Settlement, Malacca
  3. The Portuguese Settlement is a Kristang community in Ujong Pasir, five km from Malacca City, Malaysia. Wikipedia
  4. AddressPerkampungan Portugis, 75050 Melaka


The Waze that got us there!!!! It was quite a drive to Ujong Pasir!

But we had heard so much of the Portuguese Seafood so we wanted to try some!

Welcome to the Portuguese Settlement
"In 1933, 11 hectares of land at Malacca were purchased with the purpose of creating a haven for scattered Kristang and their culture. The swampy land was cleared and 10 wooden houses with earth floors and attap roofs were built. Saint John's village, as that simple fishing village was originally known, soon attracted additional Kristang from all over Malaysia, and grew to become one of Malacca's main tourist attractions"

There is a school called Canossa Convent right opposite

and a Catholic shrine of Madonna and Child
on the huge carpark leading to the stalls fronting the Straits of Malacca
Huge posters showing folks in tradtional Portuguese costumes told us we came to the right place
There is a beautiful hotel here called Lisbon Hotel
but it now houses the Lim Kok Wing University in Tourism

Melaka University of Trourism
Enjoy the view of the Straits of Malacca from inswide our campus!
wow!!! nice view, right?
On a clear day like this, you can see as far as the horizon take you
Sorry, our DSLR was loaned to our daughter for her Brats programme so I used my Iphone 4
my iphone 4 is not so sharp and good now right?
Still waiting for iphone 6 which is not out in Malaysia yet.
camwhoring with Samsung Galaxy S 3




even took selfies

then we went to the complex for our famous seafood
 IKAN BAKAR lunch! 
 This is Joan, she is a Portuguese? Kristang?
 "The Kristang are a Malaysian ethnic group with mixed Portuguese and Malay and for some possibly Indian or Chinese ancestry, which arose during the Portuguese colonial period (16th to 17th century)."
she manages the Restoran Joan and El'Chico's and is one of the stalls that open for lunch..

Joan from "Joan and Chico"


Joan was busy getting her seafood ready
fish

mussels

bivalves

prawns
gigantic crabs

we ordered fish for the two of us
RM30.25
Basically it is wrapped in foil and burnt over an open fire,
when you open the foil, the fish tasted like steamed fish:
soft, white and succulent flesh piqued with sauce of blended spices

good!!


see? all done justice to!!


their extensive menu
we also ordered crab to go 
RM54.00 for 2 servings
for that price we got this!!
Value for money!!

after our satisfying lunch, we went to the Portuguese Heritage Museum which was sadly, closed
No Portuguese culture for me to soak it, except some lame posing 

Historical Artefacts of the Malacca Portuguese Settlement
that I could only peer at
the arch and facade that you can see when you enter the settlement
I hope you will come here to see this place for yourself

My son says come during christmas then you can see 
the whole settlement 
gaily decorated in the Christmas spirit
For now, hubby says, "well, I am happy I managed to come to the Portuguese Settlement!!"

HMMM...the story does not end there!
Back home, we enjoyed our chili crabs!
only RM54, less than 60 ringgit per kg!

see, how good the meal is!


Gigantic claws!!! wonderful sauce with a hint of sambal! 
spicy and hot!!!
A close up for you to drool and salivate on!