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Each time the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, I miss having these glutinous rice balls. I didn't know where to get some. Last year, however, I made the effort to google and so based on good reviews, I had it at Dao (outlet at Damansara Jaya). Delicious with quite strong ginger syrup. Yum.   Years ago, we used to dine at Go Noodle regularly until they severely reduced the wine in its soup such that its difference with noodle soup at other shops didn't justify the price and our visit. Think this happened during the pandemic. Recently, we found out that they gave the option of adding RM 3 to add more wine and voila! It was the same as the original. Given the inflation the past few years, we think the additional RM 3 is fair. This time, I tried their  Nyonya curry noodle. It was quite delicious but there was so little vegetable, especially compared to that of their usual noodle.     One of my favourite types of cake. Unfortunately, I don't have anyone to share with here :( Ba...

News article: " Customs tribunal officer found dead, with neck, legs bound by cable ties " "A Customs tribunal officer was found dead this morning, with his neck and legs bound with cable ties. However, Kuala Lumpur police chief Rusdi Isa has ruled out foul play." 😮 "Rusdi advised the public not to speculate about the case." How could we not?!

    I might spend $100.

For years, I've been ordering Norwegian fjord trout (and the occassional Atlantic salmon when it was cheaper), fresh enough to be eaten raw, from Top Catch Fisheries at Taman Megah. I would place the order in advance and they would bill me in the morning of my requested pick-up date. I would order 300g of the fish but understandably they couldn't cut exactly that much from the bigger slab. Often, I would get slightly above it. If I recall correctly, the most I got was 330g. Couple of months ago, right after I put in my advance order, I was surprised to be billed right away for 300 gm. I reminded them that it as for pick-up in a few days time and not for the day itself, which they acknowledged. They want to speed-up the process, rather than billing me on that day. If payment wasn't made on that day, they requested that I remind them of my order that day. Incidentally, ever since they had a change of staff in charge of taking care of advance order, half of the time they forgo...

(Emphasis is mine, to show the mistakes) 1. Nine News article: "Canada's Trudeau resigns as Liberal Party leader, spelling end to time in power". Sentence: "He planned to stay on as prime minister until a new leader of the Liberal Party ." Hanging sentence.   2. Aljazeera article: "Trump announces US crypto reserve: What it is, and why it matters". Sentence: "And if the US government, through a reserve, holds a substantial chunk of the global volume of crypto tokens, it would be in a position to reduce the price volatilty curtentyluy associated with these digital currencies." 3. Free Malaysia Today article: "Macron wants ‘clear pressure’ on Moscow to accept ceasefire". Sentence: "In a statement released later Saturday, his office said Macron would Canada’s new prime minister Mark Carney on Monday to discuss the war in Ukraine and “other international crises”." 

Here are the average dividend yields on cost for shares that have paid out dividends: Share counters (2 of them) with no dividend yields just means that I have yet to receive at least a year's worth of dividends from these companies. The overall dividend yield on cost weighted by invested amount is 5.0% (vs 5.1% in previous review), excluding the 2 share counters mentioned above. There are 15 share counters with dividend yield (on cost) less than 5% (number of consecutive years of this low yield in bracket): Capland Ascott (1) CapitaLandInvest (1) ComfortDelGro (5) Delfi (1) Frasers L&C Tr (3) IFAST (6) Keppel DC REIT (3) Mapletree Log Tr (3) Micro-Mechanics (1) Parkway Life Reit (5) Raffles Medical (3) SGX (5) Sheng Siong (3) Singtel (3) UOB (6) (at 4.9%, it's very close to 5%) UOB's dividend yield of 4.9% is good since it's a bank. iFAST's low dividend yield is more than compensated by its huge unrealised capital gain but I might pare it down further. Parkway ...