Do You Feel Christmas Around the Town??

Merry Christmas!! Many places around Ipoh has been decorated with Christmas Decoration. Places such as Jalan Tambun near Sunway City Ipoh traffic light intersection, the dim glow of street lamps has been dwarfed by man made mistletoe outlined with neon tube lights. At the same time, inside of Sunway City Ipoh, all the leafless trees, in addition of the mistletoe and snowflakes, and also the statues of reindeer make the place looks like a winter wonderland.  

Other than Sunway City Ipoh, Ipoh Parade Shopping Centre has also done very creative and nice decoration. Ipoh Parade Shopping Centre has sculpture a Santa Claus out of balloons that extends his hands to greet customers.

It is so lively in Ipoh!

Source : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=391781910904395&set=a.391781717571081.96449.104916886257567&type=1&theater

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/12/24/metroperak/12495041&sec=metroperak

Senior Playground

Playground for seniors is actually popping up in U.S. and also other European countries. The senior playground consists of low-impact exercise equipment that are designed for adults. These are some of the pictures of London's first purpose built Senior Playground in Hyde Park, London, England.

Senior playground can help to improve physical health and mental health, and also at the same time improve balancing of elderly people. And some more it is fun!

Read more from where we linked these pictures from: http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/xyo7MsQm4_c/London+First+Pensioners+Playground+Opened/bSatQ5TD0Nx

Durian Party In Ipoh!!!

Perak Youth Division of the People's Progressive Party held a durian party recently. Durian known as the king of fruits, is well liked and enjoyed by many people, but at the same time there are people who don't like it.

Party's vice-president Ong Chee Keng organized this durian party to bring the community closer and get to know party's members better and at the same time get to know more people.

Source: http://ipohnews.my/2012/12/ppps-durian-party/

Restaurant Onn Kee in Ipoh

Whoever is from Ipoh, sure know about Restaurant Onn Kee which famous with their bean sprout chicken and also Hor Fan. This is some of their food.

And this is how inside and outside of the restaurant looks like.

You can enjoy this delicious food everyday if you retire here!

Source: http://leonhart2u.com/2010/08/31/food-drinks-restaurant-onn-kee%E5%AE%89%E8%AE%B0%E8%8A%BD%E8%8F%9C%E9%B8%A1%E6%B2%99%E6%B2%B3%E7%B2%89-ipoh/

Memory Lane, Sunday Flea Market In Ipoh

Memory lane is the popular Sunday flea market in Ipoh. Legal traders around that area are using standardized canopies with the words “Ipoh Memory Lane” and “Visit Perak 2012”. State government has spent RM200000 to provide the traders in Memory Lane with canopies of the same color and design.

http://ipohnews.my/2012/10/ipoh-memory-lane-flea-market-gets-fresh-new-look/

Travel Around Ipoh??

Travel around Ipoh is definitely not a problem. Ipoh is not really huge, you can travel around by car, taxi, buses or even bicycle if you don't mind. But travel around Ipoh with bicycle is not recommended of course, because of the hot sun and also rainy days.

Of course for retire people, if you are tired of driving for so many years already, or your body condition doesn't allowed you drive anymore, this is not a big problem, so no worries. In Ipoh, you can travel around with PerakTransit (Ipoh City Tour Bus) But the problem is that you have to spend some time on waiting the bus. Perak Transit is the company that run this bus service. PerakTransit is air-conditioned bus and handicapped-friendly.

Let's travel around with PerakTransit!

Take a look at Little India located at Ipoh

Ipoh not only full of delicious food and amazing view, but at the same time a place with long history. It is a place where bring back memories of old times before Malaysia turn into a developing a country. It is totally a good place for those people who interested in history and also those who wan to find back some of the building and places that are built during Britain was still in Malaysia. Retire here may remind you back some of the happy and sad moments at that time.

Today im going to introduce you all, Little India in Ipoh. This is one of the famous heritage in Ipoh. Early immigrants and merchants from India gather during the time when tin mining is emerged as an important industry in Kinta Valley. 

And here are some photo I taken from http://imagesofipoh.blogspot.com/2011/04/little-india-in-old-town.html :

Retire in Ipoh, you can surely get to know Chinese Culture, because most of the population there are Chinese. But at the same time, if you retire in Ipoh, you can also get to know about Indian's culture because of Little India at Ipoh.

Let's Enjoy Your Meal At Restaurant Sin Lean Lee

When talk about Ipoh, people most probably will think of their food. Whoever planning to retire in Ipoh can enjoy all different kind of good and super tasty local food. Sin Lean Lee which located at Jalan Bandar Timah-Jalan Panglima at Ipoh Old Town area. Sin Lean Lee is famous with their white coffee and also "Kam Chau Fun" or we usually will call it Char Kuey Teow (Fried Noodles).

To enjoy a meal with someone who are close with you is definitely something very enjoyable.

http://food-kakimakan.blogspot.com/2011/10/char-koay-teow-sin-lean-lee-ipoh.html
http://www.j2kfm.com/ipoh-old-town-golden-char-kuey-teow-sin-lean-lee-restaurant/
http://my.openrice.com/perak/restaurant/videos.htm?shopid=197040&position=1&page=1

Retirement is like a vacation

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

Jonathan Clements

http://www.newretirement.com/Planning101/Thoughts_On_Retirement.aspx#retirementPlan

Start planning for retirement...

And save money for retirement.

5 Steps To Choose Where To Retire

1) Choose a particular area.
Make random choices of areas that you would wish to retire to base on your own tastes or preference. And also how much is your saving for your retirement. Leisure style can also consider as part of the preferences of your choices. Come out with a list of preferable places consider to live in after you retire. This can help to narrow down the scope of choices. It can help to avoid you to get confuse to choose which place to retire because of too many places to choose.

2)Begin your research or survey.
Start off your internal and external research. Gather information through brainstorming yourself, ask people who are close to you for opinion, internet, library and also if you have the time, to to the selected places to see how do that place looks like as in term of environment, people, food, and etc.

3)Consider the cost of living
Have to compare the cost of living of your current living places and cost of living of the new place you are considering. Especially if you are plan to rely on your retirement benefits to meet the cost of living after you retire. Few things you have to pay more attention at, tax rates, expenses on food, housing and travelling. Of course at the same time there are other things to consider such as the expenses likely to be incurred on preferred leisure activities. You may end up need to consider of to work a part time job or etc or break completely from any form of employment.

4)What is the distance from your friends and extended families
Everyone need social needs. Of course nobody want to leave their close friends or families, it is the same for those who already retired. Find a place to retire which close to friends and family is a great ideal.

5)Break the tie
If there are two or more cities have same or similar characteristic qualities that you admire, establish a a way to separate the two in order to avoid any disagreements for instance in the case of a couple due to personal preferences. This will require digging deeper into the tying choices. You may consider such factor as the available job opportunities, the language used, cultural factors among others which will bring an overall difference and help you choose your place of retirement.

http://retirementforseniors.com/5-sensible-steps-to-choosing-where-to-retire#.UKylH4dQFqU

Five Best Places to Retire in Asia Pacific

Five Best Places to Retire in Asia Pacific

MALAYSIA:
Language: English is widely spoken and understood.
Climate: Good weather throughout the year.
Food: Everything is here. Eating is a national pastime and passion.
Safety: Generally safe throughout.
People: A cosmopolitan of peoples used to being accepting of everyone. Very friendly.
Transportation: Good roads, Great airports, Highway networks, etc.
Location: Short hop to Bali, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, ...

Nice Dim Sum at Foh San Ipoh

You can get a lot of nice food in Ipoh. One of them that are very famous in Ipoh is Dim Sum. And there is one very famous Chinese Restaurant that serve very nice Dim Sum. The name of the Chinese Restaurant is Foh San Restaurant.

Foh San is a located at Jalan Leong Sim Nam, Ipoh. Foh San Dim Sum Restaurant is serving not only Dim Sum, but at the same time Pau, fried food, pan fried food, porridge, baked food and etc. You can get a lot of different type of Chinese food there.

It is good for those who like to go for morning tea, especially to old folks, because they can spend their day chitchatting with their friends, family, relatives and etc.

RETIREMENT VILLAGES MALAYSIA: FIRST PURPOSE BUILT RETIREMENT VILLAGE COMING UP I...

TI Homes plans to build the first such facility in Malaysia. Whilst many other similar projects have been touted and talked about, TI Homes indeed is in the final process of planning of theirs to be located in northern Ipoh city. Backdropped by mountains and a forest reserve, this RV (Retirement Village) will appeal to across many mindsets. Just 5 minutes drive to the North-South Highway, one can just drive to Taiping in minutes or to KL in under 2 hours (all within legal speed limit).

ZENCARE LIFESTYLES AUSTRALIA is the consultant to the project, comprising 126 landed homes of various sizes ranging between 800 to 1,300 sq ft. The details of the project will be released upon project approval from the authorities.

Following Australian approaches, the village will have a resort like atmosphere with individual parking right outside the home. The photo shows a sample from an Australian RV.

Do watch out for more news and registration opening. Stay in touch.

Ipoh Places and Shops To Visit

Ipoh, My Hometown

This is a video made by Clement Chiang for Astro My Hometown series. Shared from YouTube.

The first purpose-built retirement village is coming up in Ipoh

Word is out that the plans for the 126 units of purpose-built retirement homes in the gated community is in the process of final planning and due for submission to the authorities. The developer Total Investment Sdn Bhd (TI HOMES) engaged the services of Australian consultants and will eventually operate with Australian expertise as well.
The location is known to be in MERU on the Chemor route just at the north-east section of Ipoh city. Backdropped by a picturesque forest reserve, the site promises peace and tranquility without being remote from amenities. The Mydin Hypermarket is just one kilometer away.
More updates on this will follow.

What will landed retirement homes be like? The ones in Australia are very pleasant.