My amazing interview with radio One FM 91.3 - Mark Van Cuylenburg, Glenn Ong & Andre Hoeden

My amazing interview with the Flying Dutchman Mark Van Cuylenburg, Glenn Ong & Andre Hoeden of One FM

I got a called from Andre Hoeden, they  were interested to interview me on how I'm able to, from sleeping on the street to traveling the world, after the saw my story from the website Stomp Singapore Seen - Singaporean from sleeping in the street to travelling the world. which they got my phone and called me for an interview.

I was asked numerous questions through emails and had replied Andre Hoeden.

I went to SPH centre at Toa Payoh, Andre came down to fetch me upstairs to the studio.

In the first part we discuss about, on how I had stayed in a one room flat, with 10 persons staying, every night, I brought a cardboard and pillow out to the end of the corridor outside my house to sleep at 1130 pm at the end there, subjected to all weather conditions. And my family karmic illnesses, due to the hot stove, which need to steam the food.

I got to wait until all the residents there all asleep then can went out at 1130 pm, until I was 27 years old, when I had my own flat. For many years I needed to wake up early in the morning at 4 am to run the hawker stall.

Mark Van Cuylenburg, which he urged me to talk about the better time, which when I started chanting, I told them offline.

After that they play the advert, we continue on the second half, on how I found a job, a company - S'pore Press Holdings, which paid me 6 and the half month bonus, that was the turning point of my life, nearby my house, then after I worked 2 years  and able to buy a 3 room flat, and a co worker introduced me to stocks in 1990.

I  read everything I can about stocks and developed my method of picking the right stocks, the same method I used to forecast which topic the will come out when I retook my 3 subjects, which I predicted accurately, which topic would come out, that I didn't pass, and through the good fortune in investments and chanting, as Eric Yeo Kheng Leong had reintroduced it to me,

And through my investments, I am able to travels to many parts of the world. And raise a family with 2 kids. My 2 kids do well in their studies, My travelling around the world  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTNruPGLy8g&t=31s,piAJE88https://get.google.com/albumarchive/118358995002919924292/album/AF1QipMQPKbPgBNLP7HF8DZF19yKsZ4e7v4k-piAJE88

My elder son through my hours and hours of daimoku got the result way beyond my expectation, My young son got to edusave awards whereas most got one.

As we continued to discuss various aspect of my life on and off line. The 3 of us continued to discuss with. I had told them I chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

The last part is my lastest benefits.


Through chanting millions and millions of daimoku, offerings, activities, photostating the binders for members, I am able to transform my family poverty, disharmony and karmic illnesses. Through gohonzon power, I am able to surpass my potential beyond my imagination

The one room flat photo from Lau Kok Kok,

Photo from One FM - FM91.3

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http://www.jenniferteophotography.com/thats-life-blog/photo-documentary-on-poor-and-needy-elderly-folks-staying-at-old-hdb-one-room-flats-in-singapore

https://timesofmylife.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/1-room-flat/#comment-43518, a blogger describe how is the one room flat corridor

The amazing New York City tour

Brooklyn Bridge

Going to the New York City on my own was one of my most challenging experiences in my travels. In an amazing 4 different modes of transports, by shuttle bus, railway, subway and cab.

I took a shuttle bus from the hotel to the Brunswick station railway line to Penn station in NYC, then asked one lady she brought me to the subway, to take the subway to Canal Road station at New York City Chinatown.

                                           Photo: The train to Penn station

At 10.35am, which I started my journey, and  reached the Chinatown, after my meal at New Wong Hon restaurant at nearly 2 pm, and started walking to Brooklyn bridge, the crowd were huge, and then started walking to the Wall Street, which was barricaded.

                                        Photo; Deep fried squid at New Hon Wong

After taking some photos I walked back to Chinatown, ate a huge bowl of fish head soup. Then try finding the Canal Station this time is only 2 stations not 5 stations as before when I came. 

I got to keep asking people for directions. Walking up out of the station looking for Penn Station railway line and back to Brunswick Station at New Jersey to take a cab home to the hotel, the trip from New Jersey is more than 50 KM  and back to the hotel at 7 pm.  

Tomorrow morning the group got to leave the hotel and to tour NYC and then took a flight back to Singapore

I went on my own as the tour group went to shopping nearby at New Jersey. I toured NYC my own in case if I followed the tour group and miss something I was not able to see.

Wall Street

                                                Canal Street NYC Chinatown

                                                      NYC Chinatown

My post on facebook with the most likes, more then 570 likes

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My entry of a whole family chanting together, what an amazing interest shown

Henry at the gardens of the world

My most nerve wracking journey - Travelling to Hallstatt

Fortunately I am able to go there, with the discouragement of the Singapore tour agency, and the discouragement of the tour director there, I insisted on going there myself, took a cab from the hotel in Vienna, to the railway station, traveled 300KM. 

That day the group is going to Slovakia, I am going on my own to Hallstatt.

Mystically one person seated opposite me told me he is going there too, reach there still got to take a boat to the opposite shore.

This place is the photo I had framed for 20 over years from a SGI  magazine, which I hope to see, I am finally able to see it.

I still got to back to the return journey, I can't missed it, the tour group, which will leave Vienna tomorrow early morning,  Luckily met a lady sitting opposite said she too going to the same place too, to Vienna - my most nerve wracking journey.

The photograph on the train, by the German undergraduate, who was on the same route as me back to Vienna, we had a nice  conversations, she was studying filming, completed her holiday.

When we reached Vienna, help her brought the luggage down as the luggage was heavy

The adrenalin rushing trip to Neuschwanstein Castle

In my younger days, I saw a magazine of the german castles.The spectacular and magical castles fascinated me, I hope to see them one of these days.

The group  tour end in Czech. In Singapore I arranged with the tour agency to continue to travel to Munich to see the Neuschwanstein Castle on my own.

From Prague to Munich I nearly lost my way, after the tour group went separate ways on my own, I was directed in Singapore to take a train as the Singapore tour agency manager told me, as I asked the person at the enquiry counter, if by train I need to go upper floor to look at the electronic display board for the notice of the train arrival to board it.

As most people there at Prague don't speak english, they kept asking me to see the display board.

I wait until 11 pm and panic, I don't seem to see the train no on the ticket displayed on the board. and went into the train boarding area to ask.

There was a misunderstanding, which I went up myself and ask a staff there, which don't speak English, he told me to go inside the train, fortunately one person, while I was going into the train, told me this was not the train, after looking at the ticket.

So I went down to ask the enquiry counter staff, she brought me to a ticketing counter and directed me to a counter for me to decide to take a bus or train, to pay a fee to change it. My ticket supposed to choose between a coach and taking a long distance coach, we rush up, but it already gone.

Oberammergau Munich Germany on the way to Neuschwanstein Castle

So I got to go back to change the to to 1pm from 10.30 am. I reached  Munich 5 hours later, non stop on the coach and next morning walked 10 minutes to a place to wait for the coach,  which went to different locations to pick up passengers  to see the castle. http://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/palace/.

The heavy mist surrounding the castle

The tour director related the story of how the mad king was in heavily indebted ridden trying building this castle in the hair, the castle was very popular.

Even it was raining heavily yet it did not stop the huge crowd  waiting for the bus to bring them up to see the castle, I had seen the replicates of the castles in 3 Disneyland in 3 countries, this is the original one.

The inside was awesome and mystical, many come to see the exquisite crafts and objects sourced from all over Europe and the magnificence fittings.

Henry the travelling food gourmet around the world