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Get cooking with The Skinny Cook

Since my wife is revamping her site at Liver Cancer, I was thinking: why don’t I do the same? Thinking is the important word here…

So I invite all of you who does some traveling and or some cooking, has fingers that want to desperately write words on a keyboard and if possible have a picture with . . . → Read More: Get cooking with The Skinny Cook

Know what you eat to lose weight

I am fighting a high cholesterol and I want to lose some weight (10 pounds only) so how do I do it? Eat less yes, but less of what?

To help me out I surfed the net and found this free calorie counter plus a food database where I can see which food contains how much calories. . . . → Read More: Know what you eat to lose weight

Lake Tahoe

I just dream to visit the USA again when 1 day customs are again more Malaysian friendly. And one place I always wanted to go to is Lake Tahoe in California: the "home-base of my fellow-continent-person Governor Arnold". Yah, I do zpeak a zimilar languaag…

Lake Tahoe Cabin in TahomaA charming decorated cabin at walking . . . → Read More: Lake Tahoe

Please help my wife with her cancer site

It is 3 months since father died and my dearest wife has finally found the courage and the energy of cleaning up fathers’ website about his Liver Cancer. I wish her good luck and of course will support her with anything needed in her Revamp of Metastatic Liver Cancer.

She asked me to post about healthy food . . . → Read More: Please help my wife with her cancer site

CRM software

When running a business, you want to focus on making sales and keeping your customers happy. That’s exactly the aim of AIMpromote newest crm software or Customer Relationship Software. To see how efficient they are, you can check them out yourself. Their customer support personnel are available via:

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Oldtown White Coffee

Oldtown White Coffee "Now Open" (Kini dibuka)

Every day I have been passing this building on the road in Kuala Lumpur, and today the first ‘restaurant thingy’ opened there is called "OldTown White Coffee".

For those not living in Malaysia: white coffee is a way of roasting coffee with margarine only. Compared to my father-in-laws’ Hainan coffee . . . → Read More: Oldtown White Coffee

How to win a celebrity date!

You must have seen already these reality dating shows like The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Joe Millionaire, and you have probably said: "jeeez, if that’s the only competition there is, I could have been the last men or woman standing." Yet there you are in your sofa: how to prove yourself right? Well: now you an prove . . . → Read More: How to win a celebrity date!

How to make soy milk

Making soy milk

How to make soy milk

Nothing beats home made soy milk, especially when you are making organic soy milk using organic soy beans. You don’t need a fancy soy milk maker: only if you are an addicted soy milk drinker, I advice you to buy an automatic soy milk maker. Otherwise you just . . . → Read More: How to make soy milk

I Backup and you?

You run a small business? Then you should backup too if you don’t want to curse and swear one day tearing your hair out saying; "I should have made a backup…". I know, because I am bald already… But I learned my lesson and look forward that you do the same.

To save you all this trouble . . . → Read More: I Backup and you?

Hibiscus flower

A while ago I mentioned about hibiscus pictures, I just love hibiscus flowers. I would love them even more if they would last longer than a day, could be cut and put in a vase.

These days it is very hot in Malaysia, and looking at the hibiscus flower with the blue sky and sun . . . → Read More: Hibiscus flower

Fresh from Florida

What do Florida farmers do when they are not making $87 billion providing food to the entire globe? Why do the Fresh From Florida farmers look as good as their crop and flowers? What do these farmers do after work?

Check out Florida’s fastest vegetable farmers in their newest YouTube video . . . → Read More: Fresh from Florida

Why I love Malaysia?

Why I love Malaysia as my second home? Because I love to do laundry.

Huh? let me rephrase that: because I love to see the laundry getting dry in hot Malaysia

Malaysia newspaper: never talk about dirty laundry…

So you take your sheets off your bed after waking up, put them in the machine, . . . → Read More: Why I love Malaysia?

Secrets making your own jewellery

Since women love secrets and jewellery, let me introduce you to the secrets of jewellery making in the comfort of your own home.

I know, you are not a goldsmith, nor am I. But by following the beautiful yet easy jewellery making projects from lallette.com, you could end up making this beautiful black rose cluster necklace . . . → Read More: Secrets making your own jewellery

Subliminal Seduction

Ever wanted to become a better partner, lose weight or get over your fears? Then you better browse through the Subliminal CD’s catalogue.

Subliminal CDs

"Subliminal" deals with your sub-conscience. "Subliminal messages" are messages you are not consciously aware of, but you receive them anyway through your sub-conscience. It’s like not watching the advertisements on your TV . . . → Read More: Subliminal Seduction

Creeper Plants

Malaysia is a beautiful country when it comes to butterflies and flowers Take this creeper climbin pant for instance growing in our garden:

Creeper plants: cute and harmless?

I am always amazed abut the strength of plants. The above creeper is climbing and winding around 2 trees in our garden. yesterday there was an heavy storm . . . → Read More: Creeper Plants

Southwest Air Ambulance

If you travel a lot, especially to places where health care is not so well established as in the US, then an air ambulance is the ideal solution. Wherever you are: if you are in serious need of medical care, air ambulances will find you and make sure to bring you to a place where you . . . → Read More: Southwest Air Ambulance

Our daily bread devotionals

Our daily bread devotionals: fresh bread on the motorbike…

"Honk-honk", "honk-honk" … that’s the sound we hear every day in the streets of Malaysia. A very devoted old Indian man with gray beard and moustache driving an overloaded bread truck… oops: he drives a tiny motorbike fully packed with bread and other goodies.

Every morning . . . → Read More: Our daily bread devotionals

Town of the sun: Obzor-Bulgaria

Obzor or "Town of the Sun" like the old Greeks called it, is a 2000 people small town with a 6 km long sandy beach on the at the Black Sea. Easy reachable as it is between the airports of the cities Bourgas and Varna. Obzor is a calm, quite town, even in the . . . → Read More: Town of the sun: Obzor-Bulgaria

Squirrel in attic

Squirrels in our attic, squirrels in my kitchen, squirrels in my toilet, squirrels on my paintings… that is on top of the painting,not inside like in a picture of squirrels…

Picture of Squirrel

Picture of squirrel

Squirrels are everywhere these days. Everywhere except for where they should be: up in the trees. Now unfortunately we cannot blame . . . → Read More: Squirrel in attic

Shopping cart software

I get many questions why I never sell things online? Well, that’s because I am still looking for ecommerce software that suits my needs. The latest I stumbled upon is shopping cart software from ASHOP.

You can watch an online video tutorial how ASHOP works. Better still: you can watch the above 2 demos of . . . → Read More: Shopping cart software

Digital Photo frame

Besides the Internet, the next best invention for me are digital cameras and digital phones. On a few days trip I can easily snap up 300 pictures, no kidding.

The only challenge is viewing your digital photos: how to show all these digital pictures to others? Downloading takes a lot of time and the viewer of . . . → Read More: Digital Photo frame

Read opinions before you buy

Whenever I need to buy appliances from espresso machines to lcd tvs, I start surfing the many consumer review websites in order to read as much reviews as possible. Then I narrow down the appliances with the best reviews and I go shopping to see the real thing

The problem is surfing through all these different consumer . . . → Read More: Read opinions before you buy

Best interest rates for your money

When people ask me how come I travel so much…

Then I answer : because I travel for a living. That is mostly not the answer they were looking for. People want to know where I get the money?

Then I answer : it’s not only about where you get the money, but also where you keep . . . → Read More: Best interest rates for your money

Spot the 7 mistakes: Malaysian Tourism

Can you spot the mistakes in the picture below?

I can hear you thinking: did the SkinnyCook forget to put the right picture to compare with?

Unfortunately, there is no right picture. This is how it is: another Malaysian cultural heritage clock tower at the verge of disappearance in the so called modernity of little towns. . . . → Read More: Spot the 7 mistakes: Malaysian Tourism

Why do I sell bananas?

Would you love to see TheSkinnyCcook go bananas?

Then add a comment and tell us

where we can find your best banana picture or
whatever has gone bananas in your life

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Goreng Pisang

Nasi goreng pisang ambon…. sounds familiar?

Yes, fried rice and that green banana liquor…

Did . . . → Read More: Why do I sell bananas?

Free Thai Dating Site

If you are a man looking for a woman, then I can tell you that the best, most lovely women are women from Asia. The word Asian Power is not only about this continent, but mainly about the women building up this continent. And on top of that: they are gorgeous!

But see for yourself at Chat . . . → Read More: Free Thai Dating Site

Sea Food Restaurant

Another reason why my cholesterol has reached never before heights is my change of diet. In Europe I hardly ate any seafood because:

the price was to high
you needed to drive long distance in order to get real fresh supply

Sea Food in Malaysia

It’s only fresh when it is still alive! That’s the way we do it . . . → Read More: Sea Food Restaurant

Free Recipes

Are you always trying to discover the best recipe on the Internet? Then have a look in the thousands of free recipes at cookingspot.com.

You can search for recipes per title or per keyword, and of course per category.

If you login you can make your own recipe box and you can be part of . . . → Read More: Free Recipes

Malaysian dress code

Everywhere you go, you should try to adapt to the local customs:

if you go to the opera, you wear an evening dress or a tuxedo,
if you go to a holy place you dress "holy" and if you go to a coffee shop in Malaysia…

Coffee shop dress code

Coffee shop dress code : "anythingscan"

If you . . . → Read More: Malaysian dress code

How to turn traffic into results

If you want to monetize the actions of your visitors on your side and you have no time to do your own SEO nor Internet marketing, then this Pay Per Click management software is a welcome solution for you.

This management software tool lets you access the 3 big PPC advertisers: google adwords, yahoo search . . . → Read More: How to turn traffic into results

Nasi Lemak, Cholesterol and Arthritis

Yes, these are the 3 words that keep in my mind these days.

Arthritis due to my finger that is not getting better, yet not getting worse, so that should be already a plus. Just that typing with an arthritis finger reminds you every second that something is not fully right. I started an Arthritis treatments . . . → Read More: Nasi Lemak, Cholesterol and Arthritis

How to have a smiling bookkeeper anywhere anytime!

If you run a small business like me, you probably have been overpaying your accountant as they basically keep your firm by the administrative balls. Therefore it is good to have a bookkeeper you can trust and that you can try out with no strings attached.

If you want to outsource your bookkeeping, try accountingparadise.com first. They . . . → Read More: How to have a smiling bookkeeper anywhere anytime!

What is this?

Well, on the left top you can see some stickers on the front window of our car. And if this is our car, then what you see in front is… heavy, heavy ‘rain forest’ rain!

Ever wondered why they call it ‘the rain forest’ here in Malaysia? Because when it rains, it rains cats and dogs . . . → Read More: What is this?

You decide WhoGets it!

Now this is fun! Do you love to win something, or even better, do you love to let others win something for free? Then whogets.com is the site for you!

How can you win or let others win a Nokia 2126 prepaid hand-phone or a black Freshwater pearl necklace? All you have to do is:

be 18 . . . → Read More: You decide WhoGets it!

Bo La Lot

Grilled Beef in Vine leaves

Bo La Lot : Vietnamese food

I love to eat this dish when I travel to Vietnam, so I was happy to try it out in the Vietnamese Restaurant in Bangsar Village 1, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Yet I imagine the meat used in Vietnam had some pork included, as the "drier" . . . → Read More: Bo La Lot

Hotel news online

Reading the news on a well designed website is still more fun than reading the news in an RSS reader. So I like to read the latest hotel news and updates at hotelclubnews.blogspot.com.

You can find the latest hotel news there, but also travel tips like :5 things you should do before booking a hotel.

Looking for . . . → Read More: Hotel news online

Hibiscus tree

Remember in my previous post about hibiscus pictures, I said that for all the places to visit I like the most for taking hibiscus pictures are Hawaii, Greece, Turkey and Malaysia?

The hibiscus flowers on the left are taken in Kos Island Greece. Although we all know Greece from the blue and white postcards: white houses with . . . → Read More: Hibiscus tree

Free Online Backup

Have you ever experienced a hard-disc crash? Well, I did. Of course I had taken a few backups, but exactly that: a few backups.

Now I just did a free online backup of my entire 2 GB hard-disc. It’s fast and easy: I followed the intuitive user friendly IDrive-E Classic online backup demo.

You just need to . . . → Read More: Free Online Backup

Hibiscus pictures

Where to take the best hibiscus pictures? Apart from Hawaii, I would say Malaysia.

Hibiscus is our national flower and hibiscus flowers are used in many tourism advertisements of Malaysia:

Hibiscus flower picture (yellow flowers)

Hibiscus pictures

Again, ask me 3 places to visit for taking hibiscus pictures, I say Hawaii, Greece-Turkey and Malaysia.

I will be . . . → Read More: Hibiscus pictures

3 Secrets of Malaysian Ice Coffee

Like anywhere else in the world, you can go into a restaurant and ask an ice coffee, like the Vietnamese ice coffee below in Bangsar Village, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Why is Malaysian ice coffee better?
1. Size matters

Yes, the size of this Malaysian ice coffee is twice as big as the above Vietnamese coffee.

2. Prize matters

The . . . → Read More: 3 Secrets of Malaysian Ice Coffee

Costa Rica Vacation

Costa Rica or "Rich Coast". Costa Rica, is Central Americas prime ecotourism destination, with a lot of national parks and biological reserves. Between the east coast and the west coast, or between the volcanoes and the beaches lies Hotel San Gildar: only 20 minutes away from the airport.

Hotel San Gildar is a cozy 27-room . . . → Read More: Costa Rica Vacation

Viet Nam Coffee

If you want to feel the feel of Viet Nam, indulge yourself in an authentic Viet Nam Coffee. No need to look for a Vietnamese coffee shop, no need to have Vietnamese coffee but make sure you have a…

Vietnamese coffee maker

These Vietnamese coffee makers can cost up to 1USD! Much cheaper than your local espresso machine!

. . . → Read More: Viet Nam Coffee

How to meet seaturtles in Hawaii

Do you remember the sea turtle last year that was rescued by snorkelers at Wailea, on the Big Island of Hawaii? I do, as it happened in may last year and I just love sea turtles, snorkeling and diving.

Living in Malaysia and our best friends living in Canada, we would love to meet up . . . → Read More: How to meet seaturtles in Hawaii

Hottest spot in Kuala Lumpur: Bangsar Village

I only left Malaysia for 2 months and now I came back: again lots and lots of things have changed. For one, the weather feel more hot, yet in Belgium, April had almost 30 degrees C (that is about 86 degrees F).

Bangsar Village 2

Bangsar Village 2 Opposite Madame Kwan’s

Bangsar Village now has a Siamese . . . → Read More: Hottest spot in Kuala Lumpur: Bangsar Village