Here Comes Genting Hong Kong!

So the Genting name is taking further flight. This time to Hongkong.

Star Cruises is proposing to change its name from “Star Cruises Limited” to “Genting HongKong Limited”.

Apparently the name change is aimed at aligning with the corporate strategy of the company in diversifying into land-based integrated resorts, casino and entertainment businesses, in addition to its existing principal businesses of cruise and cruise related operations.

According to a Star Curise spokesperson, thsi name change is alos to "reflects the Company’s primary place of listing and its affiliation with the Genting Group. Genting Berhad, the holding company of the Genting Group of companies, is listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad and is a substantial shareholder of the Company indirectly.”


Star Cruises says that the new company name will provide the company with a more appropriate identification and image which will benefit the company’s future business development and is in the interest of the company and the shareholders as a whole.

Portabello Mushrooms,Anyone?

Yes, you all have heard of the famous Portabello Road in London. They sell all kinds of trinkets, most of them from ages gone by. You will also find all kinds of books that you need for a real ow price at second-hand bookshops selling these.

Oh, yes, I am sure you remembered the movie, "Broomsticks and Bedknobs", starring a younger Angela Lansbury(Of 'Murder, She Wrote' fame, later on) as a apprentice witch undergoing a correspondence course in witchcraft. Could you recall the "flying bed" as it landed in Portabello Road in war-torn London of 1941?

Bigger Ones!

Smaller ones!

But these are different times. No Portabello Road flying beds. Just some culinary delights. These are Portabello mushrooms. Have you tasted them? Any good? Any magical flavoring to whet your palette and appetite?

I found them on sale at Tesco, Mutiara Damansara.

Raya Decorations get the Chop!

Yes, it truly shows that the recession is biting down hard this third quarter of 2009. Even the Raya celebrations has not be spared. I went to three supermarkets. What did I find? The first one in Kelana Jaya had no decorations at all. The other one selling furniture had only one discernible type of decoration of the 'hanging ketupats'. There was nothing to show in the other supermarkets in Mutiara Damansara.

Even the hampers stall looks quietly scarce. Were the rest sent out already?


However, they did play Hari Raya songs to ensure there is some token semblance of the coming festivity.

Recession must really be hard on the supermarkets these days and not only on us poor folks!