Cycling at Taman Botani Negara aka Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam

One of the best places to experience easy, fun cycling in KL would be this place: Taman Botani Negara or formerly known as Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam or also formerly Bukit Cerakah which is located at Shah Alam. My first visit to this place was way back when I was very young somewhere in the early 90's. I remembered it was a long journey outside of KL and the road was still new. I think most people still know this place as Bukit Cerakah instead of that botani name or the lengthy taman pertanian name.

A lil bit confused on how my site is being crawled and indexed

Lately, I've been doing a lot of testing and checking on how my site is being crawled and indexed on the SERP ( Search Engine Ranking Page). In this case how my site will look like if I run a search in Google. Oh you may be asking, why do I bother to run a search on my site? The reason is simple. The better I rank on SERP or Google, the more traffic I shall gain. And why is traffic important to me? With traffic, comes Money! Yes, as simple as that. If you are still clueless about why I'm so concern about this, go do yourself a favour and start Googling on SEO. Yep! Haha.

Rotating Banner at Life's a commotion!

Just so you all know, those rotating banner or pictures are photos captured by yours truly! Images are taken from a non-fancy-schmancy 2 mega pixels and 3 mega pixels cameras with some contrast, brightness, layer masked editing in Photoshop. I gotta tell you, I do miss doing those wall paper/ website designs with Photoshop during my very first job!

Here's a little briefing about my banners:

Dr. Oz's Seven-Minute Workout

I'm a big fan of Oprah and it's almost natural for fans to follow up on everything from the Oprah Show. And thanks to her, I begin to adore Dr. Oz! I love him because he's so downright straight forward in pointing out health issues and there are so much to learn from him. In short, he's just awesome.

Hiking up Broga Hill, Semenyih

I'm proud to announce that I've hiked or climbed up this Broga Hill for the third consecutive times now! YAY! I figured that on the second climb that would be the last of Broga for me, but what the heck, who could turn down another invitation of Broga  when the sole purpose of climbing is to capture images of the scenery and the climbers! The 'cam-whoring' addition to the climb was good enough a reason for me to continue on the third Broga Hill hike of the year and I wonder if there is going to be more hike on this hill after this.

Butt Exercise with Bob Harper

Ever wanted to have those really cute, tight hot butt? And haven't you fall in love with Bob Harper already after watching episodes after episodes of that "The Biggest Loser" show? Haha. I know one thing for sure, I love to have a hot looking butt and I think Bob Harper is so darn cute. With athletic figure and all, he is to die for! Unfortunately for us ladies, he is so taken, I think he is. Haha.

Terry Fox Run KL 2009

Terry Fox Run is listed on my list of to-dos and unfortunately, I didn't make it for the run this year. The event was held on 1st November at Taman Tasik Perdana (Lake Garden), KL. As for now, I couldn't find any reviews yet about the run this year but I've came across at people's pictures posing with their Terry Fox's t-shirts and I thought the Tees look pretty rad!

Snorkeling at Mamutik Island,Kota Kinabalu

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One of the top things to do this year was to visit Sabah mainly because I've never been there before. Haha. Tickets all set and hotel booked, we flew to Kota Kinabalu, hopped on our little red ride with *M, pre checked-in the hotel, straight on drove to Jesselton Jetty, hurriedly rushed to the waiting boat and off we went on the coolest, bumpiest, beautiful boat ride towards Mamutik Island, Sabah. All that we managed to cover within the first 1 hour we stepped foot at Kota Kinabalu. Pretty amazing, huh! Lol!

Mamutik Island is so breathtakingly beautiful and I suppose so are the rest of the islands in Sabah. Mamutik Island is one the five islands located inside the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, Kota Kinabalu. Initially the plan was to snorkel at Gaya Island but we were told that the island was not clean enough for snorkeling on that day, so we went to Mamutik instead. I think it's the nearest island from Jesselton Jetty and it's boasted to be the best place for first time scuba divers and a good spot for snorkeling. Since FF, my partner in crime didn't know how to swim, we KIV our scuba PADI licensing for next time around. Hehe.

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Upon arriving, we wasted no time, quickly changed into our bathing suits, put on our life jackets and snorkeled on. The water was so clear, blue in color and you get to see the most colorful of all fishes in there. There were also corals and this weird looking black thorn plant sticking out at the bottom of the sea. Snorkeling was so much fun and I couldn't imagine how it will be like if I were to scuba dive. We spent hours in the water and it was noon and the sun were directly under our head but we didn't care. Haha. I got so caught up snorkeling and moving around with the school of fish that I could even touch them while they swim and I really felt like I was in a huge, beautiful aquarium. The best part was when I ended up following this super colorful fish and guess what, the fish pooped while swimming and I saw puffed of whitish coming out from its rear. How cool was that! =)

I also went for some diving (without the life jacket of course) to check out the fishes and corals closed up. It felt really good because I just love the sea and it's amazing how different is life down under.It's just so beautiful!
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We got tired of swimming after sometime and ended up chilling on the beach and enjoyed the afternoon sea breeze. Of course we had to do our essential cam-whoring sessions and man, the pictures looks good! Later that afternoon, we hopped on our boat back to the jetty and yes, the boat ride was incredibly fun as well. On the way back, we get to see some parts of Kota Kinabalu town and left the beautiful islands behind for more adventure in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

*M - M is our local guide for the whole trip and without him, we'll be so lost in Sabah. Thanks man!
** Boat price for snorkeling is around MYR40 ( I think so). The price is inclusive of life jacket, snorkeling googles and round trip to the island. You got to remember to bring your own food and water into the island because you'll be hanging out on the island for a couple of hours.There's also an information booth at the island and I think you can book for other activities like scuba, those parachute from the boat thingy and also banana boat from this information booth.
***Tickets for this trip can be purchased at the jetty counter and you get to choose other trips too like island hopping and others.

Are you game for a White Water Rafting experience?

I know I'm game and up for it because you know what I've DONE it! My first ever white water rafting a.k.a WWR experience was at Sg.Kampar, Gopeng. When one of the Mat Sallehs who were about to go for their first WWR that afternoon asked how was it? I just had to say with full of enthusiasm, "IT WAS AWESOME!". And that got them all hyped up and excited!

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Driving 101

I'm trying to keep up on adding interesting posts in this Life's a commotion! and I thought about this post last night, while driving pretty fast and in sleepy mode. Yes, I do get sleepy while driving especially when it's late at night. Here is the Driving 101 that I ended up doing and some of the things that I found other people do too.

Driving 101:

Spice of India I

Since today marks the celebration of Deepavali or Diwali for Hindus around the world, I'm going to share with you readers on my list of favourites Indian culinary delights. My introduction into Indian cuisine started since young because being the true Malaysian I am, hehe, my closest friends have always been Indians and I remember having lunches, dinner parties and of course Diwali open house lunches over at my their homes. Nothing gets better from anything home made. My Indian cuisine experience has been even more delightful recently with a little help from my short stay over in India last year.

Back to why Life's a commotion! initially started

As some of you must have noticed, I have changed the title of this blog from Money Making Blogger to something that is already so familiar to me and some of you too! I'm now back on how this writing episodes in my life initially started and yes, I am going to settle for  'Life's a commotion!' as my blog title.

Express Brekkie Recipe - Pukkola

This is my simplified version of a really delish, hearty, healthy brekkie that I got to know from Jamie Oliver, my no. 1 favourite chef! Jamie calls it as a Pukkola. A combination of 'Pukka' and 'Oliver'. If you've live long enough to master the English accent or you happen to speak Hindi, you'll know what 'Pukka' means.

Oopsy...did I miss out on this site?

Oh yes, I did! I'm having one of those writer's block going about, hence the zero update. Since I'm trying to figure out a so called niche for this site, I suppose I'm not doing a pretty good job at it. I just don't know which niche I should stick on to. So far, it's been a random choice between: Travel, Outdoor Adventure, Cooking and Books. Sounds pretty boring for you people? and oh, I don't think I can keep up writing about Techie, Money making stuffs because I prefer reading them on others site instead.

What's new at Money Making Blogger?

I guess I'm pretty much caught up in researching for keywords and making a list of them so that I can use up keywords in each of my future post. Besides that, I'm also 'discovering' everything new about Wordpress.org be it it's Widgets, Plugins, hard coding things on my theme editor, checking out on my server stats, checking on my error stats and stuffs like that.

Choosing the right Web Hosting

To tell you the truth, there's no 'right' web hosting out there not until you have a go at one yourself. I spent quite sometime deliberating on the 'best' hosting provider between Hostgator, GoDaddy, BlueHost and a few others and finally I settled for hosting with BlueHost.com.

BlueHost a.k.a BH easily becomes the 'perfect' choice because it's highly recommended by Wordpress and of course noobs like myself (I'm a newbie in both WP and hosting) will go for it too. So far so good, until this week I was having a short downtime but the problem resolved almost immediately and I did chat with the online support team and he explained me 'stuffs' or suffice to say, nothing that I should worry about.

However, what got me worrying was this warning :

• Your account is actively experiencing CPU limiting factors (throttling).


• During the past 24 hours your account has been throttled for a total of 81841.459 seconds.

And throttling keeps on increasing every seconds.

I'm not quite sure what effect will it have on my site. I've read that page load will be slower than usual and some people are experiencing a decreasing number of traffic too. At the moment, I've raised a ticket and waiting for the support's feedback. Worse to worse, I'll ignore the throttling issue completely and see how long will this site last before it's either suspended or crashed.

Oh well, that's the cost you have to pay for shared hosting eh.=)

Money making Blogger

I'm not sure about this site's title. Money making Blogger? Haha... It's a bit corny and I have to admit, I'm laughing at myself just a little bit. Titles are suppose to be catchy, no? Until I can think of other better title to put up with, I'm pretty happy ( I think so I am) with the one I have right now.

Why people should have a Twitter Account?

The answers are :

1. First and foremost, I HAVE a Twitter account myself. Check out for Yasz_A.
2. It's way better than FB because with applications like TweetDeck, you get to shout out at multiple places like Twitter, FB, Friendster, etc all at once.
3. You get to follow up on the latest, I do mean, latest updates from celebs, travel people, business people, news and pretty much anyone that you happen to Follow in your Twitter.
4. You get to do viral marketing too with Twitter! If you are into internet marketing, this is your best bet for marketing.
5. Everybody else is twittering, so why not you?? Come on, since you are online like all the time during office hours, it doesn't hurt to Twitter as well. Hehe.

So, you are still not ready to jump on the bandwagon like everybody else? Shame on you then...harhar..No, really. Do subscribe on Twitter if you don't want to lose out from the game!

Why people should have a Twitter Account?

The answers are :

1. First and foremost, I HAVE a Twitter account myself. Check out for Yasz_A.
2. It's way better than FB because with applications like TweetDeck, you get to shout out at multiple places like Twitter, FB, Friendster, etc all at once.
3. You get to follow up on the latest, I do mean, latest updates from celebs, travel people, business people, news and pretty much anyone that you happen to Follow in your Twitter.
4. You get to do viral marketing too with Twitter! If you are into internet marketing, this is your best bet for marketing.
5. Everybody else is twittering, so why not you?? Come on, since you are online like all the time during office hours, it doesn't hurt to Twitter as well. Hehe.

So, you are still not ready to jump on the bandwagon like everybody else? Shame on you then...harhar..No, really. Do subscribe on Twitter if you don't want to lose out from the game!

How to create tinyurl at your website?

Ever since people are crazy about tweeting in Twitter, your best bet to squeeze a URL link within the limited amount of characters allowed in a tweet is by having a tinyURL.

What is Tiny URL again? (*you may be asking this too!).
TinyURL is a way for you to shorten the length of a particular long URL into a tiny URL.

So how does it works?
Simply browse over to let say, http://tinyurl.com/ , enter any long URL that you have and it'll get converted to something tiny like this : http://tinyurl.com/lagxuw

There are many websites that provide tinyurl services. Simply google for tinyurl to get the list. All in all, they provide pretty much the same basic service with a slight additional features in some sites.