Ex-NSTP staff trip Bali Beijing Shanghai

Ex-NSTP staff {New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad retirees) will be leaving for Bali on 20^th of April this year.

Their next destination will be Beijing and Shanghai during the third quarter of 2010.

Jeya Dev the retired General Manager of Advertising says for a healthy, happy and active lifestyle, you should join the group. Jeya Dev can be contacted at 013-3308961

Former NSTP staff are welcome to attend the NSTP Retiree Club which meet every first Tuesday of the Month at the Royal Selangor Club, Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur. This means that the next meeting will be this coming Tuesday, 6^th April 2010. See Location map, Selangor Club:

Jeya Dev, former General Manager, New Straits Times Press

Location map, Royal Selangor Club (Kelab Diraja Selangor), Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur

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NSTP retirees' group meeting at Royal Selangor Club

Jeya Dev, former General Manager, New Straits Times Press

A group of NSTP (New Straits Times Press) retirees are meeting regularly at the Royal Selangor Club (refer to map below) every first Tuesday of every month at 7.00pm. The NSTP retirees' group was formed by P.C. Shivadas, former NSTP group editor, and Jeya Dev, former NSTP General Manager in 2006.

There are on the average around 20 of the retiree participating the informal and lively group meeting at the Royal Selangor Club every month. The NSTP retiree group have organized many trips in the past including trips to Chiang Mai, Phuket and Langkawi, Cambodia and is planning trips to Bali, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Gold Coast Australia. The NSTP retiree group also offers much welcomed support to NSTP retiree who have fallen sick.

Retired staff of NSTP are encouraged to join the retiree group. For more details, call Jeya Dev at 013-330 8961

Taiping: A place for retiree (pensioner): Cheap food

Taiping is a beautiful, peaceful town with an exquisite Lake Garden blessed with of flora and century-old rain trees, helped by plentiful rainfall. According to Wikipedia, Taiping with an average annual rainfall is about 4,000mm is also the wettest town in Peninsular Malaysia.

But there is more to Taiping than just its beautiful Lake Garden and copious rainfall. The food also cheaper,very delicious and the cost living low. It is not for nothing that Taiping has been nicknamed "The Pensioners' Paradise" or "Retirees' town". Now maybe it should also be nicknamed "Single Mom's Paradise" as it seems lots of women who lost their husband and found life hard to cope elsewhere have moved to Taiping.

Cheap and Delicious Food in Taiping

You can now add one more thing for which Taiping can be famous for, a stall in Jalan Kamunity Stesyen manned by Abu Bakar Md. Ali, a retired soldier. Abu Bakar sells his laksa, kuey teow soup, bee hun soup and mee kuah at only RM1. In the Klang Valley, you will have to pay anything from RM3 to RM4.50 or more, depending on where you choose to dine. Order satay and you will only be charged 15 sen per stick, a price you can never get anywhere else in Peninsular Malaysia.

Abu Bakar even have a dinner package comprising a medium-size fried bawal (pomfret), a plate of rice, a bowl of curry gravy with bits of lady fingers, a plate of ulam (salad), and sauces to go with the pomfret, at only RM4. In the Klang Valley, the fried bawal (pomfret) alone will probably cost you almost as much. Chicken rice is served at an amazingly low price of RM1.50 a plate!!!! Try to order a plate of chicken rice in the Klang Valley and see how much you get charged for it.

Want drinks to wash down the food? No problem. Order a glass of teh tarik or kopi tarik (boiling hot tea or coffee cooled by successively pouring from a container held high to another container held much lower) and it will set you back only 60 sen.

Interested in low budget meals and drinks? Hop over to Jalan Kamunity Stesyen, Taiping, and look for the sole Petronas petrol station and you will see Abu Bakar's low budget stall right next to it. It is opened everyday starting at 5pm and closes at 11.30pm.