Saturday, March 31, 2018

SOMERBYS TO LAUNCH NEW DURIAN FLAVORED CIDER TOMORROW---THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD! IMAGINE A BEERY CIDER LOADED WITH TINY BITS OF FERMENTING, DECOMPOSING DURIAN TO GIVE IT THE EXTRA KICK! YOU WILL EITHER LOVE IT (LIKE ME) OR RUN TO THE LOO COVERING YOUR MOUTH AND HOPING THE CONCOCTION WOULD NOT LEAK INBETWEEN YOUR FINGERS. SOMERBYS DURIAN CIDER IS BANNED IN EUROPE AS MAT SALLEH CANNT HANDLE THE PUNGENT, TOE-CURLING CIDER BUT THE MALAYSIAN BREWED CIDER IS HOPING TO CONQUER MAINLAND CHINA SINCE THE CHINESE LOVE OUR DURIAN FRUITS! CHECK OUT SOMERSBY FACEBOOK PAGE AND WIN FREE VOUCHERS TO TRY OUT THE NEW DURIAN FLAVOR AS WELL AS OTHER NEW FLAVORS!

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SOMERSBY TO LAUNCH DURIAN FLAVORED CIDER!

The first durian flavoured beer in the world!
DATO KEE HUA CHEE HOLDING A DURIAN AS A PRELUDE TO THE LAUNCH OF SOMERSBY DURIAN CIDER SELLING TOMORROW AT THE NORMAL PRICE AT SELECT OUTLETS
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Many of my darling readers have commented on the durian I was holding in my arm in the latest Somersby blogpost. 

Of course all were curious to know why I was holding a prickly durian poking its thorns into my delicate palm as durians and apple cider are generally not found in the same sentence.

What has durians got to do with Somersby cider?

If you also noticed, Somersby’s bigwigs like Gary Tan, Pearl Lai and top management team were sniggering and smirking in the group photo with me flaunting the durian.
GARY TAN, PEARL LAI AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE 
 THE DURIAN WAS A GIVEAWAY HINT OF THINGS TO COME
 A DURIAN CIDER WITH PIECES OF FERMENTING, DECOMPOSING DURIAN IS ENOUGH TO GIVE A KNEE-JERK REACTION
 LITTLE DID GUESTS AT THE RECENT SOMERSBY 'SOMERTIME, ANYTIME' PARTY AT GLASSHOUSE REALISE DATO KEE HUA CHEE WAS TOASTING SOMERSBY NEW DURIAN FLAVORED CIDER TO BE LAUNCHED TOMORROW! 
 THE KING OF FRUITS WILL SOON BE THE KING OF CIDERS
WILL SOMERSBY NEW DURIAN CIDER BE A MONSTER HIT OR JUST MONSTROUS IDEA?
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Ok, now I can let leak the secret!

SOMERSBY IS LAUNCHING THE WORLD’S FIRST DURIAN CIDER!

Sounds ghastly and vomity or fabulously fantastic?
After all, we already have durian flavoured ice cream, cupcakes and dessert pastries so why not a durian flavoured, sparkly beer?
The King of Fruits is now King of Ciders!

The durian is not the only new, exotic and out-of-this world flavour to be released either! Simultaneously as the durian, other flavors released this April include chilli padi, bitter guord, corinder, cheese, carrot, black beans, potatoes, winter melon, teh tarik, butterfly flowers and cherry blossom! 
 WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FLAVORS OR JUST WACKY AND WEIRD?
 BITTER MELON IMPARTS A SHARP, BITTER AFTER TASTE, PERFECT AFTER AN ACRIMONIOUS SPLIT 
 DARK, BROODY AND MOODY TO MATCH YOUR FOUL MOOD AFTER A DAY AT OFFICE
 FINE FOR FLIRTY SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES 
 I AM NOT BUGS BUNNY SO I PASS THIS OVER
 I AM A CHINA APEK WITH LOW LACTOSE TOLERANCE SO THIS KILLS ME
 HOT AND SPICY LIKE ME
 TASTES MORE LIKE A SOUP
 KILLER OR KING? YOU DECIDE
 NOT YOUR USUAL TEH TAREK
 I ONLY LIKE THE MAGENTA HUE
 SAKURA SEASON IS NOW AVAILABLE 24/7
REFRESHING BUT TAD BLAND


All these will join the current trio of Somersby Apple Cider, Blackberry Cider and Sparkling Rose which was launched at Roofino last December!

But since I was part of the Somersby Superlicious Sexy FlavorS campaign, I brought a durian to the Somersby Somertime party at Glasshouse as a prelude to the launch.

A sort of teaser of things to come.

As expected, some actually asked me jokingly if Somersby would be launching a durian cider to which I replied “Yes, the first in the world in April”! Naturally they were of two minds---was I playing along or telling the truth?

Now, the truth is out in all its pungent fragrance! Yes, the new Somersby Durian cider will be released to seduce or destroy our palate! You will either love it (like me) or hate it like many!

Anyway if Somersby Durian fails in Malaysia, there is always China as the mainlanders love our durians and import so many we are left with leftovers at high prices! So if the Chinese start importing Malaysian-brewed Somersby Durian, we will get to enjoy the real fruit in peace!



CHENG BENG AT BUKIT CHINA IN KOK LANAS, KELANTAN, TO CLEAN AND CLEAR THE GRAVES OF MY GRANDPARENTS, UNCLE KEE NAI TONG, COUSIN KEE HUA SOON AND THEN TO STANDING BUDDHA TEMPLE TO CHENG BENG MY COUSIN KEE HUI KANG ON 31 MARCH 2018. PAYING AND PRAYING RESPECTS TO OUR ELDERS IS INTRINSIC PART OF CHINESE CULTURE AND I AM SO DELIGHTED TO SEE THIS CUSTOM HAS GROWN STRONGER OVER THE YEARS AS MORE PEOPLE REALISE THE DEBT THEY OWE TO THEIR PARENTS, RELATIVES AND ANCESTORS.

KEE@FSWMAG.COM

MY COUSIN-IN-LAW KHIM AT MY GRANDFATHER'S GRAVE
BEAUTIFULLY CLEANED AND MAINTAINED 
I REMEMBER THIS CLEARLY THIS GRAVE SINCE I FIRST CAME TO BURY MY GRANDFATHER
VERDANT GREEN GRASS
MY COUSINS 
GRANDFATHER KEE'S GRAVE FROM THE TOP


KEE HUA HEAN AT OUR GRANDMOTHER'S GRAVE
THE GRASS HAD NOT BEEN PLANTED YET ON BARE EARTH
MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRAVE WITH THE PAIR OF CELESTIAL ANGELS THAT IMPRESSED ME SO MUCH WHEN I CAME AS A CHILD TO BURY HER
NICELY MAINTAINED BY BUKIT CINA AUTHORITY

DATO KEE HUA CHEE AT HIS PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER'S GRAVE IN BUKIT CINA, KELANTAN


THE MOUND RATHER STRANGE AT THIS GRAVE NEXT TO GRANDPA'S GRAVE
DUNNO WHY THE FAMILY LIKED THIS, MUST BE FOR FENG SHUI REASONS

KHIM AND LIM SUAY BOEY

KEE HUA HEAN AND HIS COUSIN-IN-LAWKEE ENG LEONG

NEARBY GRAVE WITH KIM CHUA SHAPED AS FLAGS---NEW INNOVATION WHICH CAN EASILY BE STUCK INTO EARTH AND WOULD NOT BE BLOWN AWAY BY WIND!




VERY IMPORTANT TOR TI KONG OR EARTH GOD WHO LOOKS AFTER AND PROTECTS GRAVES
PRAY TO HIM FIRST
THEN TO GRANDPA

SO CLEAN AND WELL MAINTAINED---HOPE GRANDFATHER IS HAPPY IN HEAVEN WITH HIS SON KEE NAI SENG, MY FATHER



LIM SUAY BOEY, HER SON KEE ENG LEONG, KHIM, KEE HUA HEAN AND HIS BRO KEE HUI BENG


KEE HUA HEAN, KEE HUI BENG, DATO KEE HUA CHEE, LIM SUAY BOEY AND KHIM
MAY OUR GRANDFATHER CONTINUE TO BLESS US. DEAR AH KONG!
LIM SUAY BOEY AND KHIM PRAYING TO THEIR GRANDFATHER-IN-LAW


THIS GRAVE VERY DE GRAND


KEE HUA HEAN CLEARING LEAVES FROM GRAVE OF KEE HUA SOON WHO TRAGICALLY DIED IN CAR CRASH 6068 WHEN HE WAS A PRE TEEN


KEE NAI TONG'S GRAVE
THE FATHER OF KEE HUA SOON
BOTH FATHER AND SON DIED IN PEUGEOT CAR ACCIDENT AND MAY THEY REST IN PEACE WITH BUDDHA 
KEE HUA HEAN SWEEPING DEAD LEAVES

SO MODERN STYLISH!



MY FIRST COUSIN KEE HUA SOON







MY TUASO LIM SUAY BOEY
LIM SUAY BOEY AND KHIM WERE HARDEST WORKING 



THAT'S MY NAME IN CHINESE---KEE HUA CHEE

MY GRANDFATHER'S GRAVE
PROTECTOR LION AT GRANDPA'S GRAVE
PROTECTOR FAIRY AT GRANDMA'S GRAVE
THEY WERE CLEAN GREY WHEN I FIRST SAW THEM BUT NOW THEY HAVE FADED AND BECOME DISCOLORED LIKE US ALL! KERWEI LAIPING


GRANDMA'S GRAVE







PRAYERS TO GRANDMOTHER KEE


DATO KEE HUA CHEE IN ALL WHITE 



LATEST TREND IS SPRINKLING GLITTERS AND SPARKLES ON GRAVE!




TRIBUTE TO GRANDMA



TOR TI KONG MAIN HALL 





YOUNG MALAY GIRL IN TUDUNG WORKING COLLECTING PARKING FEE OF RM 20 FOR MAINTENANCE AND GIVING 4 BOTTLES OF MINERAL WATER PER CAR
IN KELANTAN, MUSLIM GIRLS HAPPILY WORK AT CHINESE CEMETERIES WITHOUT QUALMS AS WE ARE SO TOLERANT OF EACH OTHER
I EXPECTED TO SEE CHINESE PEOPLE WORKING HERE BUT THERE WERE 2 MALAYI GIRLS IN TUDUNG, WELL DONE!

ENTRANCE TO FAMOUS BUKIT CINA IN KELANTAN



SITTING BUDDHA TEMPLE WHERE MY COUSIN KEE HUI KANG'S URN IS KEPT













STATUE OF TSITIGABHA OR KSITIGABA, ONE OF 4 IMPORTANT BUDDHAS. HE IS THE  BODDHISATVA OF THOSE SUFFERING IN HELL AS HE VOWED HE WOULD NOT BE A BUDDHA UNTIL HELL IS EMPTY OF ALL SUFFERERS WHICH MIGHT MEAN IT WOULD TALE FOREVER! HE ALSO VOWED TO LOOK AFTER AND GUIDE ALL SENTIENT BEINGS IN THE 6 WORLDS BETWEEN THE DEATH OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA AND ARRIVAL OF MAITREYA THE FUTURE BUDDHA
INSIDE THE MAIN CHAPEL OF SEATED BUDDHA IN KELANTAN



PRAYERS IN SESSION WITH CHANTING
KEE HUI KANG'S CUBICLE
MY COUSIN KEE HUI KANG




LADDER IF CUBICLE IS LOCATED HIGH

STILL GOT SPACES


FIRST PRAYERS TO KSITIGABHA TO ENSURE HE LEADS THE DECEASED TO HEAVEN AND GUIDE THEM TOWARDS BUDDHA
DATO KEE HUA CHEE, LIM SUAY BOOEY, KHIM AND KEE HUA HEAN



PRAYING IN FRONT OF KEE HUI KANG




KEE HUA HEAN'S PARENTS' CUBICLES. THE URNS HAVE BEEN REMOVED TO NILAI AT SEMENYIH 











DATO KEE HUA CHEE AT SITTING BUDDHA TEMPLE IN KELANTAN