Happy New Year 2012 & Happy Chinese New Year

PROSPERITY REIGNS THIS LUNAR NEW YEAR:   30 Dec 2011 – 5 Feb 2012   

Spring into the New Year with enticing performances as we usher in the Year of the Dragon.

Begin a year of good fortune with gifts and win attractive prizes as you shop at Mahkota Parade.

Our Main Highlights:

·         3^rd Annual Lion Dance on Stilts Championship

·         Prosperity Grove: Fund raising drive for Seck Kia Eenh Temple Cancer Fund

·         Abundant Rewards with HONG BAO redemption & Prosperity Treasures Draw

·         CNY Eve & 15 Days of Lion and Dragon Dance Performances to usher you into the New Year

·         As well as Chinese New Year Performances, Artists Appearances & Spreading of fortune by the God of Prosperity!

Age-old practices and skills thrive in Malacca. Suzanna Pillay speaks to three individuals who have made commercial ventures out of keeping their heritage alive

 EVERYONE knows Malacca as a state rich in heritage and culture.

It is one of the few places in Malaysia where traditional practices, cookery and skills handed down from one generation to the next are thriving as business enterprises.

Jone Theseira, Grace Tan and Alice Teh are some of the new generation of Malacca natives who not only keep their heritage alive but have also commercialised it.

-Blue dumplings and cendol

At East & West Rendevouz in Jonker Street, Tan’s nyonya dumplings keep the crowds coming back for more.  

Tan, who learnt to make these dumplings from her grandmother, makes the delicacy by the hundreds daily.  

Her dumplings are delicious mushroom-, meat- and wintermelon filling, encased in a half-white and striking-blue glutinous rice mixture.

The bright blue colouring for the dumpling comes from the bunga telang, or butterfly pea flower, as Tan believes in using only natural ingredients.

“The dumplings are popular with Singaporeans who flock to Malacca during the weekends to buy them,” she adds.

Aside from dumplings, she also sells pineapple tarts and a durian cendol that has become a hit with the crowd.

“Everything has the right balance of gula melaka, coconut milk and cendol, and with a dollop of durian to top it off, who could ask for more?” asks a regular customer.

 -A devil of a curry

Most people would balk at the idea of single-handedly preparing Portuguese Curry Dable (Devil Curry) for 1,200 people, but not  Theseira.

A dab hand at cooking, Theseira recently had the task of preparing the Portuguese dish for the recent 500th anniversary celebrations at the Portuguese Settlement in Ujong Pasir. The event marked the arrival of the Portuguese at the former Straits Settlement colony.

Theseira, who was born in the Portuguese Settlement, and still calls it home, runs a catering company and a restaurant specialising in Portuguese-style home cooking.

So what makes a good Portuguese curry dable?

“A Portuguese curry dable does not have belacan or jintan manis, and should be red in colour. Today, people put too many ingredients in the curry paste,” she says.

Cooking Portuguese food is close to her heart. Her father used to run a Portuguese restaurant in the settlement and she learnt the art of Portuguese cooking from observing her parents over the years.

Theseira now runs the J&J Corner at Medan Selera Portuguese, a restaurant that has been around for over 30 years.

Jone is working on a cookbook on Portuguese cuisine such as dry curry sekuk, curry semur, Portugese baked fish and ambilek, which have stood the test of time.

The book, she says, will be a balance of savoury, sweet and baked goods.

-Nyonya kebaya

Teh, the owner of Nirvana Collections in busy Jonker Street, keeps her cultural heritage alive not through food, but fashion.

She makes nyonya kebaya at her shop and Singaporeans can’t get enough of her designs.

Her creations range in price with the more complicated custom-made kebaya requiring special lace work fetching higher prices.

She says this is because the custom-made embroidered lacework is done by hand and can take between two and three months to finish.

Teh learnt the skill from her mother when she was just a schoolgirl.

“I remember learning  to cut out the embroidered lace panels by hand when I was in Standard Six. My mother taught me all my sewing skills.”

Read more: Businesses close to their hearts - Holiday - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/life-times/holiday/businesses-close-to-their-hearts-1.27716#ixzz1ieZZJ7v2

University Tourism Club To Promote Malaysia To Student Visitors

January 06, 2012 12:38 PM

University Tourism Club To Promote Malaysia To Student Visitors

MELAKA, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- 

The Tourism Ministry and Multimedia University (MMU) are collaborating to set up the first university tourism club in the country to disseminate information on tourism to student visitors from abroad, Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said here.

She said Multimedia University was selected for its strategic location in the Historical City of Melaka, a world heritage site.

"The club will be able to disseminate information on the uniqueness of tourism in Malaysia and Melaka, particularly to student visitors from Russia and the Middle East," she told reporters after launching a Chinese New Year carnival at the MMU Square Thursday night.

Dr Ng said the ministry would provide an initial grant of RM10,000 to the university to disseminate knowledge on tourism through seminars and such.

The ministry would also assist the club to train selected students of the university to become tour guides experienced in the history of Melaka, she said.

"The students can earn an income through this activity while helping to promote tourism in the state," she added.

MMU president Prof Datuk Dr Muhamad Rasat Muhamad said the combination of tourism and creative media involving multimedia is an interesting field to venture into and will provide greater employment opportunities to the students of the university.

He said MMU had initiated a project to document the various historical buildings in the state and country in the multimedia format.

-- BERNAMA

Happy New Year 2012 

They say an optimist stays up to see the New Year in.As a pessimist,I’ll just stay up to make sure the Old Year leaves.

             Happy New Year all!

In 2012, how About a little Shame?

The other day I was asked what one single thing could do the most to save our world and lives we live in nowadays. What one idea or tool might help us create a more just society? 

My answer was "shame."

Shame isn't always a wasted or negative emotion. On the contrary, it can perform an important and socially useful function. Shame enforces our moral values even when legal and political institutions are too broken or corrupt to do so. Our society must learn to develop a "moral economics," and morality should often be enforced through shame by society.

We live in a society where it's no longer considered shameful for husbands and wife's to play around.

 

For sons & daughters to cheat and lie to parents, for corporate and companies to cheat and lie to their workers; for government to enrich only their own.

The world is awash with laundered dirty money through drugs, crime and we the people close our eyes to the negative aspects of our society's members and sometimes we ourselves revel with them, all in the name of instant gratification and enjoyment; of course under cover of anonymity.

Our middle class kind of cynicism is so accepted, so ingrained in fact, that even the more liberal amongst us find it less tolerating more frightening. We live in a society where it's not shameful to let cheats and liars go unpunished while asking everyone else to pay the cost of their illegal enrichment. 

Nowadays, we allow ourselves, our politicians, & our esteemed leaders not to be ashamed of themselves when confronted with their faults and crimes! It is always some else's worry.

Incredible.

Perhaps no single change to our culture could do more to improve our lives than the rediscovery of the shame we used to attach to vile, greedy, selfish, and corrupt behavior amongst the men and women of today. This trait starts from us, our families to our immediate surroundings

Consider how far we've fallen:

Not long ago a person would have been ashamed to appear in public if they had shattered the trust and kind intentions of their loved ones, family and friends by either cheating innocent people, doing morally corruptible activities or plain and simple being caught doing wrong in the eyes of society.

Not long ago a politician who accepted and was sucked into the corrupting power of money and control immediately paid a steep price. 

Not long ago leaders, men and women of large were ashamed to openly advocate the making of money and power to be supreme to ethics, loyalty and kindness. Not so nowadays, and in fact the opposite holds true to us and our leaders today.

Now it is almost glamorous to be caught with their hands in the pie. Newspaper and magazines pay the shameless millions to be the first to report on their infidelities and crimes!

We the consumers expect all the titillating stories without any moral guidance to be read with our morning coffee to tsk , tsk, over. 

In 2012, it's time for shame to make a comeback.

Jewel in the Park (Indian restaurant)

G6 & F6, BB Bazaar, Bukit Beruang, Melaka Bukit Beruang, 75450, Melaka
Tel : 032310902
Opening Hours :	Weekdays : 11.30am -11pm Weekend : 8.30am - 10pm Tuesday : Close

“Amazing Experience in New Restaurant”

Food is great .... My personal fav is the cheese naan with butter chicken masala n aloo jeera... Service is good.. good ambience.. Good rates from price,service 'n food.

Corn Flour Chapati with lentil curry

Assorted Vegetables Fried/ Fresh / Flowery

Jewel in The Park is a North & South Indian cuisine restaurant. specializing in Tandoori Chicken, Veg & Non-Veg Briyanis. Located in Bukit Beruang,melaka.

Restoran ole Rasa

Warisan Resipi Tradisi

JUSTIFIKASI

Restoran Ole Rasa telah beroperasi sejak tahun 1997. Dengan hanya mempunyai sebuah cawangan, Restoran Ole Rasa berjaya meletakkan namanya sebaris dengan restoran-restoran lain yang terkemuka di negeri Melaka. Terletak di pusat bandar Melaka Bandaraya Bersejarah Restoran Ole Rasa sering menjadi tumpuan umum dalam destinasi makan-makan di negeri Melaka.

Pengalaman hampir 10 tahun dalam industri makanan Melayu telah mematangkan sistem pengurusan Restoran Ole Rasa hingga telah dicalonkan untuk kategori Sub-Sektor Pelancongan Makan-makan Restoran Melayu Terbaik Negeri Melaka. Pencalonan ini adalah satu pengiktirafan yang tertinggi yang pernah dicapai oleh Restoran Ole Rasa.



Restoran Ole Rasa dibuka pada setiap Isnin hingga Sabtu dari  jam 8.00 pagi hingga 6.00 petang.

SFESIFIKASI

Sememangnya makanan Melayu mempunyai potensi yang tinggi untuk diketengahkan ke peringkat antarabangsa, keaslian resipi tradisi yang di warisi selama beberapa generasi telah melahirkan suatu citarasa yang begitu spektakel.

Teknik, Warna, Rasa, Bau dan Hiasan adalah elemen yang paling penting dalam menentukan nilai kualiti sesuatu makanan dan dengan berbekalkan kesemua elemen ini serta ditambahkan lagi dengan warisan resipi turun temurun telah melahirkan Restoran Ole Rasa. Dengan mengetengahkan lebih dari 100 jenis masakan makanan Melayu termasyur yang pelbagai dari serata negeri di Malaysia telah menjadikan Restoran Ole Rasa antara pelopor makanan Melayu di Negeri Melaka.

Bukan hanya tertumpu kepada masakan lauk-pauk Melayu malahan Restoran Ole Rasa turut menyajikan pelbagai jenis kuih-muih Melayu tradisi dengan keaslian citarasanya yang terjamin, turut dihidangkan juga puluhan jenis pencuci mulut yang semestinya menjanjikan kepuasan dan kenikmatan optima kepada para pelanggan.

Restoran Ole Rasa turut menyediakan perkhidmatan katering untuk pelbagai acara, majlis dan perayaan seperti jamuan korporat, jamuan Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Hari Raya Aidiladha, Tahun Baru Cina, Sambutan Deepavali, majlis pertunangan dan perkahwinan.

Terdapat beberapa pakej yang menarik dengan harga yang berpatutan ditawarkan kepada para pelanggan yang menginginkan keselesaan dan kemudahan dalam sesebuah acara, majlis atau pun perayaan. Tawaran yang hebat dan menarik ini bakal menyediakan pelbagai hidangan mengikut citarasa pelanggan, antaranya menu barat, timur tengah, masakan cina, india dan masakan Melayu khususnya. Restoran Ole Rasa juga memberikan sesi percubaan merasa makanan (food testing) untuk beberapa kumpulan kecil kepada bakal pelanggannya.

Keupayaan dan kebolehan Restoran Ole Rasa dalam menyediakan perkhidmatan katering adalah berdasarkan profesionalisme dan etika kerja yang teratur di bawah sistem pengurusan yang sistematik. Kepuasan dan kepercayaan pelanggan adalah objektif utama yang lahir dalam organisasi Restoran Ole Rasa.

SAJIAN MELAYU
Asam Pedas Ayam/Daging/Ikan
Rendang Ayam/Daging
Kari Ayam/Daging/Ikan
Masak Lemak Ketam/ Siput Sedut/ Pucuk Ubi/Paku Pakis/Nangka
Masak Lemak Cili Padi Ayam/Daging/Ikan
Masak Pindang
Ayam/ Daging Masak Merah
Ayam/ Daging/Ikan Masak Tiga Rasa
Udang Sambal Petai
Sambal Goreng Ikan Bilis/Tempe/Kerang
Kerabu Mangga/Udang/Sotong
Ikan Bakar
Pais Ikan
Kuah Kacang
Sup Ayam/Daging/Ikan
Pelbagai Jenis Ikan Goreng
Telur Masin/Dadar/Mata Kerbau
Pelbagai Jenis Ulam-ulaman
Paceri Nenas/Mangga/Terung
Acar Buah
Kerang Rebus
Sambal Belacan
Cencaluk
Tempoyak
Ikan Masin
Hati/Mempedal Ayam/Daging/Goreng/Sambal
Nasi Lemak
Lontong
Laksa
Nasi /Mee/Bihun Goreng
Nasi Ayam
Roti Canai/ Murtabak/Telur
Bubur Nasi
Mee Kari/Rebus
Mee/Bihun Sup
Mee/Bihun Soto
Rori Jala
Bubur Kacang Hijau/Pulut Hitam/Cha-cha/Trigu/Barli/Som-som
Tapai Pulut
Cendol Pulut
Pengat Pisang/Durian
Pelbagai Jenis Kuih-muih


PAKEJ KATERING MENU BARAT/ TIMUR TENGAH/ MASAKAN CINA DAN INDIA BERGANTUNG KEPADA PERMINTAAN PELANGGAN, BERIKUT ANTARA MENU POPULAR:
Nasi Minyak/ Briyani
Ayam/ Daging Masak Kurma
Ayam Tandori
Dalca Ayam/Daging
Kebab Ayam/Daging
Papadom
Laddu
Acar Buah/Timun
Pelbagai Jenis Sayuran Dengan Biji Sawi
Ikan Masak Stim
Ikan Masak Shezchuan
Ayam Goreng Kong Pow
Ayam/ Daging Black Pepper
Baby Cabbage With Oyster Sauce
Mix Vegetables
Salad Sayur dan Buah
Ikan Masam Manis
Tauhu With Sesame Oil
Yong Tau Foo
Tauchu Masak Udang
Tauhu With Soo Hoon, Ginger & Shrimp Paste
Asparagus With Oyster Sauce
Spaghetti With Meat Ball
Fried Macaroni With Chicken or Meat
French Fries
Sausage & Nuggets
Beef Steak
Chicken Chop
Lamb Steak


KATERING TERDAHULU


Jamuan Korporat Mahkota Medical Centre Melaka
Jamuan Korporat OCBC, Jalan Hang Jebat Melaka
Jamuan Korporat Maybank, Melaka Raya Branch
Jamuan Korporat Bursa Saham Kuala Lumpur (BSKL)
Jamuan Korporat Hospital Ampang Puteri Kuala Lumpur
Jamuan Korporat Syarikat Petronas, Cawangan Jalan Semabok Melaka
Jamuan Korporat Abdul Company, Jonker Street Melaka
Grand Asian Chess Chalangge University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur
Japanese Occupation In East Asia Workshop University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur
Jamuan Hari Raya YB. Datuk Seri Affendy Norwawi
Jamuan Hari Raya YTM Tengku Maimunah Aminah Sultan Ahmad Shah
Jamuan Akhir Tahun Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Seri Tanjong Melaka
Jamuan-jamuan Perkahwinan

HUBUNGI KAMI

Restoran Ole Rasa amat mengalu-alukan kedatangan anda dengan tangan yang terbuka. Kepuasan anda adalah komitmen kami.

No. 264, Jalan Melaka Raya 3,
Taman Melaka Raya,
75000 Melaka.
016-6298340 (En. Ismail Hj. T. Abu Bakar)
013-3057853 (En. Sulaiman Hj. T. Abu Bakar)
Email: olerasa@yahoo.com

New Straits Times OnLine report:

One million waste bins to be given away

14 December 2011 |MELAKA: One million rubbish bins valued at RM120 million are to be given away free to all residential and business premises in Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Johor to facilitate the handling of solid waste.

Southern Waste Management (SWM) Environment Sdn Bhd general manager Adnan Ibrahim said residential premises would be supplied with a 120-litre capacity wheelie bin and business premises with a 240-litre wheelie bin in stages over three years.

Owners or occupants of the premises have to fill a form which will be distributed a week before they can collect the bins at a location and time to be announced by SWM, he said, adding that they have to bring along their identification card and a utility bill.

"The primary objective for the distribution of the bins is to raise awareness and educate the people on the proper way of disposing waste through the use of suitable, uniform, durable and environment-friendly bins," he told a news conference in Cheng here.

Adnan said all the bins bear a code number according to the location, and the particulars of the owners or occupants of the premises would be recorded in the SWM database to avoid exchange of the bins and to locate them easily should they go missing.

He said SWM would deliver the bins free of charge to owners or occupants of premises who are old or physically challenged. -- BERNAMA

Read more: One million waste bins to be given away - Latest - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/one-million-waste-bins-to-be-given-away-1.19262#ixzz1gZy8YiLQ

Mahkota Hospital Campaign

From 12^th December – 16^th December 2011, the Marketing Department  of Mahkota Hospital is organising a Information on Haemorrhoid Camp. 

For this camp, we will be offering FREE consultation + FREE proctoscopy test to the first 50 who registers with us. 

So if you, your family members or friends have problem on piles that require more information, take this opportunity to see our doctor today.

To register or further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Juliana at 016-656 8042 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            016-656 8042      end_of_the_skype_highlighting 
or 06-285 2800

MAHKOTA MEDICAL CENTRE Sdn. Bhd. (200619-H)

"Your Health, Our Passion"

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 Greetings from Hatten Group!

It’s the time to be merry this Christmas and the Management is proud to present “Tiny Blue Christmas”, bringing in blue cuddles to flood over Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall and Hatten Square! What are those blue cuddles that we are talking about?  It’s definitely THE SMURFS!

Among the major highlights for ‘Tiny Blue Christmas’ is the SMURFS mascot appearance, which is happening on 17 & 24 December. To add more joy to this Christmas, shopper can stand a chance to enjoy a 4D3N cruise to Phuket when they participate in the ‘Hunt For Gargamel Contest’ and ‘Count the Tiny Blue Cuddles Contest’ which starts 1 Dec – 25 Dec 2011.

The Management would like to take this opportunity to wish all  the MTA members Merry Christmas and a wonder New Year 2012!

Further information on ‘Tiny Blue Christmas’ can be found at Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall and Hatten Square Facebook Fan page or alternatively, to contact the Advertising & Promotions Department at            06-282 1828      .

p/s : enclosed herewith are the event posters for Tiny Blue Christmas

Thank you and hope you have a great time shopping in Dataran Pahlawan!