PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH, DIRECTOR OF SUNWAY GROUP AND WIFE OF PHILANTHROPIST/TYCOON TAN SRI JEFFREY CHEAH, HOSTED A BIRTHDAY BASH FOR MADAM DIANA BONG, MOTHER OF HANDSOME AND YOUNGEST DATO SRI EDMUND GOH. PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH HOSTED LAVISH LUNCH AT RESORT CAFE AT SUNWAY HOTEL, RESORT AND SPA THEN WE VISITED THEAN THOU TEMPLE TO PRAY TO THE 3 RESIDENT GODDESSES--- MATZU, THE GODDESS OF NANYANG OR SOUTHERN SEAS, KUAN YIN THE GODDESS OF MERCY AND SHUI WEI THE GODDESS OF THE WATERFRONT. DATO SRI EDMUND GOH THEN TOOK US TO CENTRAL MARKET AS WE HAVE NOT BEEN THERE FOR YEARS. PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH THEN HOSTED GRAND DINNER AT OVERSEA RESTAURANT IN JALAN IMBI WHERE WE FEASTED UNTIL WE COULD BARELY MOVE. I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED OVERSEA RESTAURANT HAD AS USUAL SOLD OUT THEIR SIEW YOKE OR CRISPY PORK THOUGH WE ARRIVED AT 6.30PM! VERY KERWEI LAIPING I MUST SAY!

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DATO KEE HUA CHEE, PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH THE HOST WITH MOST, BIRTHDAY GAL DIANA BONG AND HER HANDSOME SON DATO SRI DR MAJOR EDMUND GOH IN PRIVATE ROOM AT RESORT CAFE AT SUNWAY HOTEL, RESORT & SPA IN BANDAR SUNWAY

 IN EXECUTIVE SUITE 961 WHERE PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH IS HOSTING MOTHER AND SON DURING HER STAY IN KL

DIANA BONG, HER TALL, RICH AND HANDSOME SON DATO SRI  EDMUND GOH AND PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH AT THEAN HOU TEMPLE IN PERSIARAN INDAH, OFF JALAN SYED PUTRA, KUALA LUMPUR

SON AND MUM---DATO SRI MAJOR DR EDMUND GOH AND DIANA BONG 

IN FRONT OF MAZU OR THEAN HOW AS THE FUJIAN CHINESE CALL HER

DATO KEE HUA CHEE IN FRONT OF MAZU THE GODDESS OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS

DIANA BONG THE BIRTHDAY LADY, DATO KEE HUA CHEE AND DATO  SRI MAJOR EDMUND GOH

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH IS TALLER THAN DATO KEE HUA CHEE SO HE GETS THE EXTRA 'SRI TITLE

ANDY OOI AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH'S BED IN EXECUTIVE SUITE IN SUNWAY RESORT

VERY DE LUXE

DIN RELAXING 

ONE FOR THE ALBUM IN ROOM 961

NEW EXECUTIVE SUITE

DATO KEE HUA CHEE IN GREEN

OUR BIRTHDAY FEAST FOR DIANA BONG'S BIRTHDAY HOSTED BY PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH 

HAPPY BORTHDAY DIANA BONG!

PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH, DIANA BONG AND HER SON DATO SRI EDMUND GOH

DATO KEE HUA CHEE, PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH, DIANA BONG THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRANT AND DATO SRI EDMUND GOH

CUTTING THE CAKE

INSIDE THE PEOPLE MOVER OF DATO SRI EDMUND GOH!

ARRIVING AT THEAN HOU TEMPLE

THE 6-STOREY THEAN HOU TEMPLE WAS COMPLETED IN 1987 AND OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED IN 1989.

THEAN HOU TEMPLE IS THE BIGGEST OF ALL 150 MAZU TEMPLES IN MALAYSIA LOCATED ON 1.7 ACRE ON ROBSON HEIGHTS OWNED AND MANAGED BY SELANGOR AND FEDERAL TERRITORY HAINAN ASSOCIATION

THEAN HOW MEANS 'EMPRESS OF HEAVEN', TITLE GIVEN TO MAZU, DEIFIED FORM OF VILLAGE GIRL LIN MO NIANG (960-987) FROM SONG DYNASTY. THE FIRST MAZU TEMPLE WAS BUILT IN HER OWN VILLAGE ON MEIZHOU ISLAND OF PUTIEN IN FUJIAN PROVINCE OF CHINA.

NOW THERE ARE AROUND 5,000 MAZU OR MATSU TEMPLES GLOBALLY WORSHIPPED BY OVER 1.7 BILLION CHINESE WHO WORSHIPPED HER AS THEY DO BUDDHA, KUANYIN AND OTHER GODS

DIANA BONG, DATO SRI EDMUND GOH AND PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH WHOSE HUSBAND TAN SRI JEFFRET CHEAH IS ONE OF MALAYSIA'S RICHEST TYCOONS AND PHILANTHROPISTS

MAZU CULTURE WAS RECOGNISED BY UNESCO IN 2009 AS INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE WITH ITS MORAL, CHARITY AND HUMANITY VALUES

DIANA BONG AND PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH OF  SUNWAY

THE MAIN ALTAR DEDICATED TO MAZU THE GODDESS OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OR NANYANG WHO LOOKED AFTER SAILORS, FISHERMEN AND SEA TRAVELLERS 

PENNILESS CHINESE FROM SOUTHERN CHINA PRAYED TO MAZU FOR A SAFE JOURNEY TO NANYANG OR SOUTHEAST ASIA WHERE THEY COULD WORK AND SEND MONEY HOME

INDEED THE ANCESTORS OF THIS TRIO MIGRATED  FROM CHINA TO SEEK THEIR FORTUNE THROUGH BORING HARD WORK AND PRAYERS TO MAZU, BUDDHA AND KUANYIN 

MATSU OR MAZU USUALLY MEANS  MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER OR GRANNY BUT SHE ALSO HAS MORE THAN A DOZEN NAMES AND TITLES

PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH AND DIANA BONG, MOTHER OF DATO SRI EDMUND CHEAH, PRAY TO GODDESS OF HEAVEN MAZU WHO IS DIFFERENT FROM XI WANGMU, GODDESS OF WESTERN HEAVEN OR KUANYIN GREAT GODDESS OF MERCY WHO SAVED MY LIFE FROM PREMATURE DEATH WHEN I WAS A CHILD 

DOOR GOD

PRAY TO MAZU FOR A HAPPY LIFE 

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH, PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH AND DIANA BONG

DATO SRI MAJOR DR EDMUND GOH PRAYS TO MAZU OR MAZU-PO (GRANNY MAZU) OR A-MA (IN MACAU WHERE SHE IS PRE-EMINENT GODDESS) OR LING HUI FUREN (LADY OF NUMINOUS GRACE)

ANOTHER TITLE CONFERRED ON MAZU IS HOLY PRINCESS OF CLEAR PIETY, PURE FAITH AND HELPFUL RESPONSE

THE MALAYSIAN TITLE OF THEAN HOU MEANS QUEEN OF EMPRESS OF HEAVEN WHICH WAS CONFERRED ON MAZU IN 1683

ANOTHER TITLE IS TIAN FEI WHICH MEANS PRINCESS OF HEAVEN OR THE FULL TITLE HUGUO MINGZHU TIANFEI WHICH MEANS 'ILLUMINATING PRINCESS OF HEAVEN WHO PROTECTS THE NATION AND SHELTERS THE PEOPLE' WHCIH WAS CONFERRED IN 1281

DOORWAY

MAZU'S FULL AND GRANDOISE TITLES ARE ONLY ANNOUNCED DURING FORMAL AND GRAND OCCASIONS FULL OF POMP AND SPLENDOUR BUT NEVER, NEVER USED IN EMERGENCIES LIKE STORMS AND CATASTROPHES! IT IS BELIEVED WHEN YOU CALLED MAZU WITH HER FORMAL, IMPORTANT AND LONG TITLES, SHE WILL FEEL OBLIGED TO DRESS IN IMPERIAL ROBES AND JEWELS AND WILL TAKE LONGER TO APPEAR WHEREAS WHEN YOU CRY OUT HER NAME AS A-MA OR MAZU SHE WILL RESPOND IMMEDIATELY AS SAVIOUR! 

PRAY ALWAYS TO MAZU, MATSU OR AMA! 

NOTE HER HEAD GEAR WHICH IS THE CHINESE IMPERIAL CROWN WORN BY THE GODS AND ADOPTED BY SHIH HUANG TI THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA AND WILL BE WORN BY THE FUTURE EMPEROR OF CHINA!

HERE MAZU IS DRESSED AS HEAVENLY EMPRESS

MAZU WAS A DISCIPLE OF KUAN YIN AND COULD SEE THE FUTURE

AMONG  HER MANY EXPLOITS, THE MOST FAMOUS WAS WHEN SHE SPIRITUALLY LEFT HER WEAVING LOOM TO SAVE HER FATHER AND 3 BROTHERS CAUGHT IN A TYPHOON. MAZU GRABBED ALL FOUR BUT HER MOTHER, ASSUMING SHE WAS ILL, SHOOK HER STATIONARY BODY, CAUSING HER TO DROP HER FATHER WHO PERISHED. MAZU DIED YOUNG AGED 27 WHICH OFTEN MAKES ME WONDER WHY THEY REFER TO HER AS AMA OR GRANDMOTHER AS SHE WAS TOO YOUNG! VERY KERWEI

AS GODDESS OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF NANYANG MAZU'S TEMPLES WERE THE FIRST TO BE BUILT BY GRATEFUL SAILORS WHO ATTRIBUTED THEIR SAFE ARRIVAL TO MAZU

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH PRAYING TO SHU WEI THE GODDESS OF THE WATERFRONT 

NOTE THE GODDESS OF THE WATERFRONT DOES NOT WEAR THE TRADITIONAL CHINESE CROWN WITH DANGLING STRANDS OF PEARLS AS SHU WEI SHENG NIANG (HER FULL NAME) IS A HAINANESE GODDESS WORSHIPPED BY HAINAN PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE AND SHE IS NOT CONSIDERED A QUEEN OF HEAVEN JUST LIKE KUAN YIN THE GREAT GODDESS OF MERCY WHO SAVES ALL WHO CALLS HER NAME

SHUI WEI IS WORSHIPED BY HAINANESE PEOPLE AND SOME CHINESE ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE WATERFRONT OR SEA

SHUI WEI SHENG NIANG IS USUALLY WORSHIPPED ALONGSIDE MAZU AS IN THEAN HOU TEMPLE OR WITH THE 108 BROTHERS (OR SAINTS) WHO IS USUALLY DEPICTED AS A RED FACED SCHOLAR STATUE WHO PROTECTS SEAFARERS AND FISHERMEN OR THOSE CONNECTED TO THE SEVEN SEAS

SHUI WEI CULT STARTED WHEN A FISHERMAN NAMED PAN FOUND A STRANGE LARGE SLAB OF WOOD INSIDE HIS NET BUT HE THREW IT BACK INTO THE SEA. THE STRANGE BLOCK OF WOOD KEPT APPEARING INSIDE HIS NET  SO HE ASKED FOR A GREAT CATCH AND HE WOULD BUILD A TEMPLE TO HOUSE THE STATUE. HIS WISH WAS GRANTED BUT HE HAD NO MONEY TO CONSTRUCT ANYTHING. SO HE DECIDED TO BRING IT HOME, LEFT IT BESIDE HIS PIG STY AND FORGOT ABOUT IT. HIS PIGS FELL SICK AND THE VILLAGE CROPS DIED. VILLAGERS REPORTED A LADY SITTING ON PAN'S LYCHEE TREE TREE WEEPING WHICH REMINDED PAN OF HIS PROMISE. THE VILLAGERS RAISED ENOUGH MONEY BUT DID NOT KNOW WHERE TO BUILD BUT A CHILD APPEARED AND POINTED TO A LOCATION WHERE THE FIRST SHUI WEI TEMPLE WAS BUILT

THERE ARE MANY STORIES CONNECTED TO SHUI WEI BUT THEY ARE UNIQUE TO HAINAN ISLAND AND SHE IS THE MOST POWERFUL AND IMPORTANT HAINAN GODDESS. ALTHOUGH A GODDESS OF THE WATERFRONT, SHE IS SOMETIMES CALLED LADY SHUI WEI

PRAYERS TO KUAN YIN THE GODDESS OF MERCY WHO HEARS AND ANSWERS THE CRIES OF ALL SENTIENT BEINGS!

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH ALSO PRAYS TO KUAN YIN AS SHE HEARS THE SORROWS OF ALL SENTIENT BEINGS. IF IN TROUBLE, CALL HER NAME AND SHE WILL HELP YOU! 

KUAN YIN IS MOST FAMOUS AND BELOVED OF ALL CHINESE GODDESSES 

CALL HER NAME WHEN DISTRESSED AND SHE WILL OFFER  YOU SUCCOR LIKE HER AVATAR MOTHER MARY 

KUANYIN WEARS SIMPLE ROBES AND HAS BUDDHA IN HER HEAD TROUSSEAU 

KUAN YIN 

KUAN YIN OR AVALOKITESVARA THE GODDESS OF MERCY AND COMPASSION

PRAY TO HER OR JUST CALL HER NAME AND SHE WILL ANSWER

KUAN YIN LIKE OTHER ENLIGHTENED BEINGS, FORSOOK NIRVANA UNTIL ALL SENTIENT BEINGS ARE SAVED OR 'WHEN HELL IS EMPTIED OF SUFFERER' WHICH MAY TAKE A HELL OF ALONG TIME! 

MAZU AND KUAN YIN 

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH PRAYING TO MAZU

SHUI WEI THE GODDESS OF THE WATERFRONT AND MAZU

SCENIC GARDEN

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH AND HIS MOTHER DIANA BONG IN FRONT OF MAZU

FILIAL SON AND HIS MOTHER

THAT'S DATO SRI EDMUND GOH AND DIANA BONG

MAZU

DATO KEE HUA CHEE IS PROTECTED BY MAZU AS HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO SWIM 

DATO KEE HUA CHEE IS ENLIGHTENED BEING AND KNOWS ALL 

DATO KEE HUA CHEE IS THE ULTIMATE BUDDHIST AND IS CONSIDERED A LIVING DIVINITY 

A BODDHISATTVA AMONG US!

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH PRAYING 

PRAYERS TO MAZU

PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH MAKING HER USUAL DONATIONS 

INSIDE KUANG KUNG SHRINE BELOW

KUANG KUNG IS ALSO WORSHIPPED AS A PROTECTOR OF BUDDHIST DHARMA

KUAN KUNG IS ALSO ACCLAIMED AS DEMON CATCHER! HE IS THE ULTIMATE GHOST BUSTER! 

KUANG KUNG IS WORSHIPPED, BIZARRELY, BY POLICE IN HONG KONG WHERE HE HOLDS THE HALBERD (LONG SWORD) IN RIGHT HAND AND BY TRIADS WHO WORSHIP STATUES OF KUANG KUNG HOLDING HALBERDS IN LEFT HAND! VERY KERWEI LAIPING!

KUANG KUNG IS GOD OF WAR AND ALSO GOD OF EDUCATION

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ROOF PROTECTORS 

GODS OF PROSPERITY, WEALTH AND LONG LIFE

THEAN HOU TEMPLE VERY MAJESTIC AND PALATIAL

ANDY OOI AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

DATO KEE HUA CHEE AND ANDY OOI

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

SO TALL THIS DATO SRI EDMUND GOH SO KUAN CHUNG 

DIANA BONG, DATO KEE HUA CHEE AND DATO SRI EDMUND GOH

THE 3 FRIENDS

THE 4 IMPERIALS

DATO KEE HUA CHEE, PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH, DIANA BONG AND DATO SRI EDMUND GOH

PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH, DIANA BONG AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

THEN WE WENT TO CENTRAL MARKET WHICH I HAVE NOT ENTERED FOR YEARS! 

STILL VERY DE NICE AND A MUST-VISIT

DATO SRI EDMUND GOH WILL BY THIS GOLDEN KRIS WHEN HE BECOMES A TAN SRI SOON

PHOTO COPYING AT 3 SEN A PAGE NO WONDER TUTUP KEDAI THOUGH YOU WOULD HAVE TO PHOTOCOPY IN BULK AS HOW TO GIVE CHANGE 7 SEN IF YOU PHOTO COPIED ONE PAGE 

MY FAVORITE CHAR SIEW AT OVERSEA RESTAURANT IN JALAN IMBI HOSTED AGAIN BY PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH OF SUNWAY GROUP!

BEANCURD

FISH

DIANA BONG, GUEST FROM CHINA AND PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH

GUEST FROM CHINA, DIANA BONG, PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH AND DATO SRI EDMUND GOH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DIANA BONG AND THANK YOU PUAN SRI SUSAN CHEAH FOR HOSTING!