Take.a.Dip

testing again

2007-06-14T20:05:00.000+08:00

testing

2007-05-17T12:53:00.000+08:00

SDARA 8286 Golf Championship

May 2007 Medal

Inaugural game was held at Seremban 3 Paradise Valley Golf Club on the 13th May 2007. As usual orang jauh sampai dulu. Light refreshment at club house before tee off, own account. Tee off around 1.50pm. Divided into two flights of four. Flight one, Dondeng, Baba, Kiyai & Potet. Flight two Kabu, Balok Upai & Madiah. Started with second nine. Exchange of partners at the next nine hole. Game concluded around 6.30pm with Dondeng, Upai & Kiyai leading the stand.

It is also agreed that the monthly medal to be held in the following months until final of Annual Medal, expected sometime in April 2008.

On the green, kurang sikit macam pro, kurang banyak mcm amatuer. Upai sekali putt masuk terus

It seems that everyone enjoys their game during this first monhtly medal.

Tee off with style

Dinner at Anjung Seri 2 Restaurant at Oakland Biz Ctr, Seremban 2. Potet couldn't join it, however, Dr. Asiong and Lecak joined the kuboran later.

Around 9.30pm everyone travels back to original destination.

Salam Ramadhan

2005-10-05T08:23:00.000+08:00

To all Muslim visitor(s),

Selamat menyambut Ramadhan.

Semoga segala amalan dapat dipertingkatkan dan diterima oleh Allah s.w.t.

Salam.

RM1 Coin confusing

2005-09-12T10:20:00.000+08:00

When BNM came out with this statement that the RM1 coin will cease to be legal tender effective from 7 December 2005, it has created lots of confusion to the public.

Bank Negara Malaysia announces today that effective 7 December 2005, the RM1 coin will cease to be legal tender and will be withdrawn from circulation.

The RM1 banknote will continue to be legal tender and will remain in circulation.

Members of the public will be given a three-month period from 7 September to 6 December 2005 to exchange the RM1 coins at face value without any charges at all branches of commercial banks, the main branches of Bank Simpanan Nasional and Bank Negara Malaysia's branches at Kuala Lumpur, Pulau Pinang, Johor Bahru, Kuala Terengganu, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu.

As expected, the traders and these people will be most affected by the decision.

Company badly hit by withdrawal of RM1 coin
Our company supplies and operates coin-operated self-service vending machines throughout the country. These machines use the RM1 coin. So you can imagine how shocked and upset we were on hearing the news of the withdrawal of the coin.

Bank Negara’s decision will badly affect operators of vending machines like us.

We cannot believe that when other countries have recently released new coins, we choose to remove our most widely used RM1 coin.

The withdrawal of the coin is going to cost my company and its customers more than RM200,000 to source and fit new coin acceptors to our machines.

Who is going to compensate us? Will a new coin be released soon?

Imagine that you can no longer use RM1 coin to get your trolleys at Giant or Carrefour, or you can not use the RM1 coin at some amusement parks. I know for sure that my kids may not able to ride the merry go round horses at level 5 of SOGO after the deadline unless they manage to re-configure the machines.

Question is, why is all the sudden?. One of this day I'm gonna catch up with Mr. Londe who's working with BNM to get the real story behind all this mess.

The worst part was that the BNM's press statement came only after one particular Chinese daily had broken the news.

The Old Man

2005-09-09T19:44:00.000+08:00

When the Old Man cried baby for his rights to speak on human rights at a human rights conference organised by SUHAKAM, P Ramakrishnan came in solid with this piece.

Remember how you trampled on Human Rights, Dr M?

Dr Mahathir Mohamad's response to the protest by some 30 NGOs that he should not have been invited by Suhakam to speak on human rights is pathetic. He reportedly asked, “Are they denying me my human rights?”

In insisting on his human rights, he has forgotten the human rights that he and his government had denied to thousands of citizens. What about their rights, Mahathir? Did you ever pause to ponder about the rights of those who were locked up based on unsubstantiated and dubious claims? Did it bother you that they lost many, many years of their freedom while you were in charge of this country? Did it ever disturb you that many wasted their best years of their lives locked up in your jails without any recourse to justice?

Do you remember that on Oct 27, 1987 during Operation Lallang, more than a hundred citizens were arrested and detained under the obnoxious ISA while you were the prime minister, home minister and justice minister? They were denied the right to a fair trial and subjected to a grave injustice: many of them were harshly interrogated, cruelly locked away in solitary confinement, and mercilessly tortured. What justice did you extend to them?

You denied our right to information by legislating an undemocratic law that kept under wraps many of the abuses of your administration. This Act protected those who should have been prosecuted. Do you remember Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor's case? He was found guilty of possession of a document that was classified under the Official Secrets Act and was convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.

But you must know, as we do, that Ezam's conviction only confirmed that there was a document from the public prosecutor recommending the prosecution of certain top Umno people who were holding important government posts. Didn't this sordid episode deny Ezam's right to expose corruption in high places?

And what about Anwar Ibrahim? Were his human rights any concern of yours? He was handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten up in a cowardly manner by your top police officer. He was then found guilty of what were widely believed to be trumped-up charges and languished in jail for six years. Were you concerned about Anwar's human rights? Instead, you came up with that flippant and silly remark that Anwar's injuries could have been self-inflicted.

When your position as Umno president was in danger, the bonus system was introduced in the Umno elections to provide 10 bonus votes for every nomination received. As the incumbent you had the advantages that came with your position which put any likely challenger under a great disadvantage. Were you bothered about the human rights of your prospective challengers?

And during the general elections, what human rights did you extend to the opposition? Did they get equal airtime? Were they given enough time to campaign and put forth their programme to the electorate?

Did you extend the same development funds to opposition MPs that you gave to Barisan MPs? What about the human rights of those people who elected opposition MPs? Did you give a thought to them? Instead, you punished the people who elected the opposition MPs and denied them their right to development funds. The money you denied these people did not come from Barisan Nasional coffers - but that didn’t bother you one bit.

How did you treat the democratically elected PBS government? Were the human rights that you now claim for yourself ever extended to the people of Sabah? And how did you treat the people of Terengganu who threw out the Barisan Nasional government in 2000? After the Barisan’s defeat, you stopped the petroleum royalties that the state government had been enjoying for so many years. What about the human rights of the people of Terengganu and Sabah and their right to development? Did it ever prick your conscience?

What about the human rights of the natives of Sarawak? Didn't your government ride rough-shod over their rights when the Bakun Dam project bulldozed over their human rights? How many were displaced and did they receive adequate compensation for their forceful displacement? Didn’t they lose their right to their native customary land and their traditional way of life?

It was the writer, Mary McCarthy, who said it all: “An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere.”

In your case, there were countless abuses and numerous human rights violations
during your long tenure of office. These cannot be so easily forgotten and glossed over. That is why we feel that your presence at the Suhakam Human Rights Day conference tomorrow is most inappropriate.

The writer is president of Aliran.

Enough said. Serves you right Old Man.

Langit ke Tujuh

2005-09-08T16:30:00.000+08:00

I like this song.

It has been getting heavy airplay lately.

Langit ke Tujuh

Dulu kau pernah berkata
Andai kata kita bercinta
Akan kau bina mahligai
Yang terapung di langit ke tujuh
Sememangnya seakan khayalan belaka
Aku tak percaya.....

c/o
Kata-katamu hanya mimpi di siang hari
Kemarau panjang
Berpanas jua
Berteduh tidak

Hati kecil tak memahami
Mahligai itu ada di syurga
Terangilah mata hati
Agar dapat ku mengerti....

The song was composed by Azmeer and sung by Sharifah Zarina.

May be because of the feel that the singer put in the song.

Mmm......the melody has been ringing in my head since morning. So infectious.

Warning: Don't google search on the title. You may get into langit ke tujuh Ayah Pin. :)

Oh God please help

2005-09-05T15:16:00.000+08:00

Oh God.................please help me.

So "£%^&&@ lazy today. Monday blues? Whatever.

Only managed to finish up and sent the first draft of the Info Memo to my client this morning. They were expecting it since last Thursday.

Let see, what else do I need to clear on my table:

(1) Opinion on conflict of interest on ABS issue. The merchant banker has been calling me since last Friday;

(2) Review comments and revise the documents for another PDS issue. I know the client will be calling soon;

(3) Application to Bursa for an off market transaction. Shuck! Why they didn't do it last time together with the earlier block of shares?

(4) An investment agreement for a client who wants to invest in a money changer business (not money laudering okay!). What they call it in malay? Pengurup Wang?. Where do they find that word in the first place.

Aarggggh. Tensionnya.

And my Maxis Data Card is not working. Cannot get connected. S****d. Always not functioning when I really needed it. Have to go to the Maxis centre again. It will be my third time!.

Commercialism in Sports

2005-08-25T09:55:00.000+08:00

I have said this in my earlier posting. Yes, it is time to change.

IBF want female players to ‘get glamorous’

The International Badminton Federation (IBF) are calling on their female players to wear more glamorous outfits, complaining that the traditional style of dress is too old fashioned.
The IBF deputy president Datuk Punch Gunalan said at the World Championships in Anaheim on Sunday that he wished the women would dress more like Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova.
“We are too old fashioned,” Gunalan said.
“Nowadays the girls are becoming a little better dressed. We need to be in the fashion world. So we would like to see players wear more appealing clothes to the public. By appealing, I mean use it for everyday use. So when people walk around, they would want to wear it. Unfortunately we are far away from that. Let’s take Maria Sharapova. Look at her tank tops. It is pretty.”
New Zealand bronze medallist Sara Runesten-Petersen said that she is in favour of anything that will attract more fans to the sport as long as it isn’t forced on them.
“I wouldn’t mind it. I can’t wear skimpy tops because of my shape but some of the girls have beautiful bodies so there is nothing to hide,” said Runesten-Petersen.
“Lots of girls wear skirts and skimpy tops why not when they play sports?
“I wouldn’t want to play in just a bra but a (tank) top is fine. Why not when you are a girl, look like a girl. But it should be up to the individual and not enforced.”
Olympic champion Zhang Ning, of China, said that she had no objection as long as it was done tastefully.
“It is acceptable to me,” said top seed Zhang. “The tank top is all right, just not the string top.”
Gunalan said that he was talking to attire manufacturers about coming up with some new ideas.
“There is too much monopoly right now for one company, Yonex. We need to get companies like Reebok, Nike and Adidas involved,” he said. – AFP

Yeah, they should sack the designers at Yonex. The earlier they do that, the better.

New Blog

2005-08-05T22:14:00.000+08:00

I have just created another blog.

Check this place.

Cerita Julia

2005-07-07T10:57:00.000+08:00

Cheewah, tajuk bukan main bagus lagi..

Dapat cerita ni dari e-mail sorang kawan.

Subject: Fw: Pandu cermat jiwa selamat "Abang ni, pakai tu elok-elok la sikit," kata Julia lembut sambil membetulkan pakaian Ahmad. Ahmad tersenyum memandang isterinya. "Cantik isteri abang hari ni," Ahmad mencubit pipi Julia lembut. "Ayah, ayah, cepat la yah," Liz dan Lin meluru masuk ke bilik kerana dah tak sabar-sabar nak bertolak pulang ke kampung. "Yelah, yelah, ayah dah siap ni." Julia hanya tersenyum melihat suaminya itu melayan karenah anak-anak mereka yang comel dan manja. "Abang, dah lama kita tak balik kampung macam ni,ye?" "Iyelah, maklumlah abang ni sibuk dengan urusan perniagaan. Baru kali ni abang ada peluang untuk cuti panjang." Ahmad berkata kepada isterinya tercinta. Perjalanan daripada KL ke Teluk Intan mengambil masa lebih kurang empat jam. Liz dan Lin dah pun terlelap kat kerusi belakang. Begitu juga dengan isterinya, Julia. "Tak sabar rasanya nak tiba kat kampung," Ahmad berkata dalam hati. Sedikit demi sedikit Ahmad menekan minyak keretanya. Semakin lama keretanya semakin laju dan Ahmad semakin seronok. Ahmad dah tak sabar untuk segera sampai ke kampungnya. Pedal minyak ditekannya lagi dan Honda Civicnya mula memecut. Ahmad cilok kiri, cilok kanan. Habis semua kenderaan dipotongnya. Bangga betul Ahmad masa tu. Terlupa dia sekejap pada anak dan isterinya yang sedang tidur. "Eh abang, kenapa bawa laju sangat ni?" tiba-tiba Julia terjaga dari tidurnya. "Tak ada apa la sayang, rileks... cepat sikit kita sampai kampung nanti." "Sabar bang, sabar. Biar lambat tak apa.... jangan laju sangat bang, Julia takut." Julia cuba memujuk Ahmad supaya memperlahankan kenderaannya. "Rileks Julia, tak ada apa-apa," Ahmad terus memotong bas ekspres di depannya tanpa was-was. "Haaa..kan, tengok. Tak ada apa-apa kan?" kata Ahmad setelah berjaya memotong bas ekspres tadi. "Sudah la tu bang." "Ha... tu ada satu lagi bas ekspres. Julia tengok abang motong dia aaa...." Ahmad terus masuk gear 3, pedal minyak ditekannya hingga jejak ke lantai. Ahmad terus membelok ke kanan untuk memotong dan.... di depannya tersergam sebuah lori balak yang besar dan gagah dan........BANG!!. "Julia....bangun nak," sayup-sayup terdengar suara emaknya. Julia membuka matanya. Dia terlihat emaknya di situ. "Mana abang Ahmad mak? Macammana dengan suami saya, mak? Liza, Linda....mana anak-anak saya mak?" Bertubi-tubi Julia menyoal emaknya. Julia tak dapat menahan kesedihannya lagi. Julia menangis semahu-mahunya di depan emaknya. Emaknya memandang Julia tepat-tepat. "Macamana dengan suami Julia mak, abang Ahmad?" Julia masih terus menangis. PANGGG!!. Kepala Julia ditampar oleh emaknya dengan tiba-tiba. Julia terdiam. Kenapa emaknya buat dia macam tu? "Banyak la engkau punya suami! Muka dahlah tak cun, study pun malas, kerja pun takde, ada hati nak berlaki. Apa punya anak dara la kau ni?? Tu la, tidur lagi senja-senja macam ni! Dah! Bangun pegi sembahyang! Asar pun dah nak habis!" Emaknya terus merungut sambil berlalu keluar.......dan Julia tersengih keseorangan.Rasa macam nak masuk dalam tin biskut!. hahahahahadhari.......Moral Cerita: Solatlah Asar dulu sebelum dipelempang oleh Ibu anda...

Trying and still trying...

2005-07-05T12:17:00.000+08:00

THIS IS MY THIRD/FOURTH ATTEMPT TO UPLOAD USING THE ADD IMAGE FEATURE. I GIVE UP.....where's my picture?

Can someone help.

2005-07-05T12:13:00.001+08:00

My youngest - also wanted to become a spider girl.
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Let's try again

2005-07-04T18:04:00.000+08:00

Arrghhh...still didn't work.

What happened to my two pictures that I tried to upload just now?

Why the first time was easy?

Spiderweb

2005-07-01T18:03:00.000+08:00

This post is to test the new 'add image' feature that Blogger just incorporated. Let see.......how it works.......

Whoa that's rather easy. Only thing is that it takes a while to upload the picture.

These are my daughters with their cousin.

I'd actually uploaded another 2 pictures. But didnot know where they ended up.

Minyak Naik?

2005-07-01T08:56:00.000+08:00

Aarrgh - Part 1

Heard over the radio this morning that PM quashed the rumours about the increase in petrol price which was expected to take effect today.

Buang masa aku balik rumah cepat-cepat lepas main futsal malam tadi and then isi minyak kereta NAZA Ria yang memang jenis telan minyak punya kereta.

Note: I even got an email from a staff about the purported price increase together with a gentle reminder that salary revision is overdue. Aaarrgh....

Aarrgh - Part 2

Maria Sharapova lost to Venus William in the Wimbledon semi-final match last nite (Malaysian time).

Venus 1 Goddess 0

HOWEVER hard she tried, however loud she grunted, Maria Sharapova could not save herself at Wimbledon last night. The Princess of tennis and reigning champion was overpowered and outshrieked by Venus Williams as the American booked her place in tomorrow’s final. The Russian teenager just crumbled against the force of Williams, who won 7-6 6-1 in 101 minutes.
This was the best match of these championships — but it was also the noisiest.

Excerpt from The Sun Online.

Aarrgh - Part 3

Tak de sorang pun Malaysian badminton players survived the third round of Singapore Open. Singles and doubles sama aje kantoi.

Malaysia Boleh

2005-06-19T16:49:00.000+08:00

A joke making rounds.

After digging to a depth of 100 metres last year, Russians scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.

Not to be outdone, in the weeks that followed, American scientists dug 200 metres and headlines in the US papers read: 'US scientistss have found traces of 2000-year old optical fibres, and have concluded that their ancestors already had advanced hi-tech digital telephone 1000 years earlier than the Russians.'

One week later, the Malaysian newspapers reported the following:

'After digging as deep as 500 metres, Malaysian scientists have found absolutely nothing. They have concluded that 5000 years ago, their ancestors were already using wirelss technology.'

Proud to be a Malaysian.....

Thanks to Aliran Monthly [2005: Vol25. No.2]

Serve Them Right

2005-06-16T08:49:00.000+08:00

Two brothers being sentenced to caned with six strokes of rattan by the Syariah High Court in Kuantan for drinking alcohol in public. Read more about it here. In pleading leniency, the offenders told the court that they were of lower income group. Stupid fools. If you don't have the money, go and drink syrup - it's much cheaper that the stouts that you drank.

That should serve them a good lesson and other Muslims too. Islam prohibits drinking of liquor. Period.

Lawak Pagi Senin

2005-06-13T09:10:00.000+08:00

I thought it may be good to start Monday morning after long school holiday with a joke.

"The Waiter"

Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange, but I ignored it. However, when the busboy brought out water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket, then looked around the room and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.

When the waiter came back to serve our soup I asked, "Why the spoon?"

"Well," he explained, "the restaurant's owners hired Andersen Consulting, experts in efficiency, in order to revamp all our processes. After several months of statistical analysis, they concluded that customers drop their spoons 73.84 percent more often than any other utensil. This represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel is prepared to deal with that contingency, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift."

As luck would have it I dropped my spoon and he was able to replace it with his spare spoon. "I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now." I was rather impressed.

The waiter served our main course and I continued to look around. I then noticed that there was a very thin string hanging out of the waiter's fly. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. My curiosity got the better of me and before he walked off, I asked the waiter, "Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?"

"Oh, certainly!" he answered, lowering his voice. "Not everyone is as observant as you. That consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we can save time in the restroom." "How so?"

"See," he continued, "by tying this string to the tip of you know what, we can pull it out over the urinal without touching it and that way eliminate the need to wash the hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39 percent."

"Okay, that makes sense, but . . . if the string helps you get it out, how do you put it back in?" "Well," he whispered, lowering his voice even further, "I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon".

[Thanks to sexyandfunny.com]

Kah kah kah, be careful never use the spoon readily available from the waiter's pocket.

Lawak Pak Pandir

2005-05-27T12:10:00.000+08:00

Dah lama tak update this blog. Dapat lawak ni dari email seorang kawan.

Cerita 1

Satu hari kecoh Pak Pandir panggil wartawan datang kerumah dia. Bila wartawan-wartawan sampai mereka pun bertanya "Ada apa yang menarik ni Pak Pandir?".

Pak Pandir pun kata.."Tenguk ni..aku tanam pokok rambutan tapi tumbuh pokok ubi kayu..hehehe".

"Waaa pelik ni Pak Pandir..cuba cerita kat kami..."

"5 bulan dulu aku ada tanam pokok rambutan kat sini..aku ingat lagi sebab aku ada tandakanya kat sini..."

"Dengan apa Pak Pandir tandakan?" tanya wartawan....

"Dengan batang ubi kayu", jawab Pak Pandir.

Cerita 2

Alkisahnya..hebohlah satu kampung....Pak Pandir mendapat tiket kapal terbang untuk menjadi tetamu Halim Othman dlm Pagi di ERA. Walaupun hanya kelas ekonomi..tapi bagi Pak Pandir...itu sudah cukup mengembirakanya.

Dipendekkan cerita..hari dijanji telah tiba..Pak Pandir pun sudah menunggu seawal subuh di lapangan terbang.

Kapal terbang sampai..Pak Pandir pun naiklah. Masuk jer kapal terbang, Pak pandir terus ambik tempat.

Sebelum kapal terbang berlepas, pramugari pun memeriksa penumpang supaya semua duduk ditempat masing-masing dan bersedia untuk berlepas..

Sekali pramugari nampak Pak Pandir duduk kat kerusi bisnes klass.. setahu
dia.. tak ada penumpang bisnes klass hari tu..

Dengan budi bahasa pramugari tu tegur.

"Pakcik, Pakcik tak boleh duduk kat sini.. boleh tak Pakcik pindah duduk
dibelakang..?"

"Eh.. bagus sungguh bude bahasa orang kapal terbang nii (pramugari)..takpalah nak.. Pakcik selesa dah kat sini.." (*mana tak selesanya...bisnes klass).

Mati akal pramugari tu.. semua pramugari dan pramugara (kecuali yang
terlampau) datang silih ganti..sakit kepala..

Pilot yang menunggu lama nak berlepas, bengong kenapa masih belum ada isyarat kata ok dari ketua pramugari.

Dia pun keluar tengok..pramugari sorang tu cerita..

Pilot tu pun pi lah kat Pak Pandir.."Pakcik.. boleh tengok tiket?"

Pak Pandir kasi tiket..

"Ooo.. Pakcik nak pi KL yer Pakcik?"

"yer nak..."

"taapi Pakcik.. kerusi nii pi Johor Bahru Pakcik.., kerusi belakang baru
pegi KL!"

"yerker nak.. nasib baiklah anak bagitau.."

What day is today?

2005-05-12T10:04:00.000+08:00

I'm confused.

What day is today. I know today is Thursday, but are we celebrating anything today?

I was confused because I saw a lady selling flowers (look like an Indonesian employee being sent by her florist-boss) in front of my daughter's school main gate this morning. There was a small manila card that read, 'Bunga untuk Hari Guru'.

Asked my daughter, "Hari ni Hari Guru ke?", because I thought the Teachers' Day was yesterday. "Tak de lah" was the reply I got. Normally schools throughout the country will celebrate Teachers' Day on the same day.

Later heard over the radio (ERA and MixFM) that today is "Hari Jururawat Sedunia".

Poor flower lady, she should be selling flowers in front of HKL.

Car-less

2005-05-10T17:31:00.000+08:00

This picture was taken yesterday morning when I was crossing the road to get to my favourite coffeeshop for breakfast. It was about 8.40 a.m. The road was so deserted I thought even a snail could make it to the other side safely.

I could proudly say that I contributed to this car-less scene because I took LRT to work yesterday instead of driving.

The truth is - many roads were closed because of the NAM meeting. So I decided not to take the risk. Better to take LRT than to get stuck in the traffic jam. Lucky me.

Jalan TAR, KL
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Greed

2005-05-06T14:40:00.000+08:00

Today's the Star and Malay Mail reported a (stupid) millionaire lost his RM3.0 millions to black money scam and a lady interior designer lost her RM200,000 in a Nigerian e-mail scam.

Why are these people are soooo f***king stupid? Though it was their money, but why are they so dumb? Didn't they ever read newspapers? Similar cases have been highlighted too many times in the news and they still fell prey to this bogus scheme. According to the paper, this year alone 12 cases have been reported with losses amounting RM3.9 million. Last year, there were 24 cases with losses amounting to more than 1.0 million.

The police, quite rightly pointed out that they were also investigating the victims as the police believed that the victims must have realised they were getting involved into something illegal but went ahead anyway, driven by greed.

Yes, there's nothing more than greed. In the case of the millionaire, he already have millions (of course, otherwise he would not be called one), three wives and 13 kids (as reported in the Star). He sold off jewellery belonging to his three wives as well as two houses and a car to raise the money and made out 20 payments totalling RM3mil over the past year before it dawned on him that he had been duped. What else do you want? More money?!!

Lots of money but nothing in the head. In this case, his eyes and mind were 'blackened' by GREED. Enuff said.

Pindai

2005-05-04T20:14:00.000+08:00

Can you guess what "Pindai" is?

Clue - its a malay word. And I just discovered that there is such Malay word when I went to Low Yat Plaza with a friend today.

Both of us were heavily bogged down with works but just too lazy to continue and too tired to finish them. Needing a break, I called Y, he told me he was bored and was reading newspaper to kill off his time. Fetched him and off we went to Low Yat. Spent more than two hours at one particular computer shop. I bought a new sleek looking rectractable mouse for RM35.00 while my friend bought the similar mouse together with other stuffs.

It was while browsing there I saw these words "Cetak, Salin dan Pindai" written on a photo printer box. Curious, I checked the English version - it says, "Print, Copy and Scan".

Fuh, lucky I do not need to take any Bahasa exams anymore.

P/s: My kids sure gonna love me more today. I bought them new cartoon DVDs.

Geram @ Era

2005-04-15T09:41:00.000+08:00

Heard this over Radio ERA when I was driving to office this morning.

Caller (female) : I geram sangat kat satu mamat minggu lepas.
K1 (radio announcer1) : apa dia dah buat kat awak?
Caller: dia bawak kereta kejap-kejap laju kejap-kejap brek.
K2 (radio announcer2): masa tu awak tengah drive kat belakang kereta dia lah?
Caller : ya
K2: awak ada nampak tanda 'P' tak kat kereta dia?
Caller: tak, takde
K1: agaknya dia saja nak test skill memandu awak kot?
Caller: sebenarnya ade ceritanya......bila saya dah geram sangat saya pun saing dengan kereta dia. Rupanya....ada makhluk kat atas peha dia....
K2: apasal? dia bawak kucing ke?
Caller: [tergelak] ada perempuan.....saya geram sangat, saya terus potong kereta dia dan buat emergency brek....mencanak dia....
K1 & K2: [gelak gila]
K2: lepas tu apa jadi?
Caller: lepas tu barulah si pompuan tu bangun betul-betulkan tudung...
K2: betul-betulkan kerusi [gelak lagi]
K1: masa tu siang hari ke tengah malam?
Caller: siang hari buta...lepas tu dia dah malu agaknya...terus dia pecut kereta. Hisssh, geram betulll....

Fuuh dahsyat makhluk2 kat Malaysia nih. Macam-macam ada.....

To K & K (Kiran n Khairil) you rocked this morning.

p/s - dulu aku tak de lah suka sangat kat Kiran masa dia on air sebelah malam dengan one lady announcer, tapi sejak dia pair dengan Khairil dalam 'Pagi di ERA', menjadi-jadi betul. Memang tak miss dengar pagi-pagi on the way to office.

Broadband, that is not

2005-04-09T10:36:00.000+08:00

Bloghopping and surfing is extremely testing my patience in the last few days because of the lousy services from Streamyx. Jeff is screaming mad and others as well.

It's a kind of habit to me to click on some sites and read blogs in between doing my works. Just to keep up with the latest news and read some interesting blogs - at the same time it helps release some stress.

So it's time we users to gang up and demand our rights to quatlity services by these ISPs. There is online petition going on right now. Please click here to sign up.

The last time we had this online petition on Maybank2U fees proved to be successful and showed that if we scream loud enough, those st***d people will listen.

Pokku's magic

2005-04-01T15:48:00.000+08:00

I was mesmerised with this beautiful poem I came accross in Pokku's blog.

It's no ordinary poem to me. I read, read and read again and again. Serio bulu rhoma. And I don't realised that the pronounciation/recitation in 'Merang language' could be so different.

Today is the First of April

2005-04-01T15:11:00.000+08:00

S*********t. Should have known.

But I don't expect Malaysiakini would also follow these April Fool's day thingy. See this and this. Tak guna betul.

I cannot forgive M'kini for this stupid thing.

The one who wrote the piece must be suspended like these two pranksters.

Sosej Halal

2005-03-30T11:50:00.000+08:00

In between the mad rush to keep up with so many urgent deadlines (yeah, I'm almost dead now) and trying to be as good father and husband as I could be, this e-mail that I received yesterday managed to make me burst into laughter.

Subject: SENARAI SOSEJ HALAL

Jenama sosej yang halal ialah bernama : "Husband"
Lain-lain nama seperti
" boyfriend"
" tunang " atau
"sugar dady"
adalah haram . Ini disahkan oleh JAWI, JAIS, Jakim dan semua jabatan agama islam seluruh negara. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
MAJULAH SOSEJ UNTUK NEGARA " SOSEJ BOLEH" SELAMAT MALAM DIMANA JUA ANDA BERADA ... SIANG PUN OK GAK

Kah, kah kaah.

She's cute

2005-03-03T16:11:00.000+08:00

Introducing my 20mths' old girl - Siti Nursakinah. Always playful.
Picture taken using my MotorolaE398.

she's cute isn't it?
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Missing Link

2005-03-02T17:28:00.000+08:00

Bloghopping will never be the same with the sudden demise of GongKapas Times. Aiyoo. At first I thought there must be something wrong with blogger.com when I could not access to GKT for my daily dose of DZ's musings.

It's look like other people are similarly clueless. You may want to read about it here and here.

Haze haze go away

2005-02-28T09:45:00.000+08:00

Could not stand the heat and haze for the last few days. KLCC was barely visible from my office last Friday.

Thank God it rained yesterday evening and the night before. Last night, I could see the stars again.

Heartbroken on the V-Day

2005-02-14T22:27:00.000+08:00

Came back early from office. Commented to Wife that the auto-gate seemed a bit off.

Beloved Wife smiled and quickly owned up her 'wrongdoings' - she admitted that she had crashed onto the gate while she was maneuvering our new family car to enter the house after fetching kids from school earlier today. The front bumper was dented and damaged a bit about two inches from the plate number.

But what to do? Takkan nak marah kot, tak sengaja.

Dearie, you break my heart on the Valentine's Day! Aduuus, .........

Quote of the day

2005-02-14T16:33:00.000+08:00

A hadith quoted in the wedding card of Helmi & Khairiyah (Saturday, 12 Feb 2005/3 Muharam 1426 Hijrah, Taman Ayer Molek Melaka)

Hawa dijadikan daripada tulang rusuk Adam, bukannya daripada kepala untuk menjadi atasnya, bukan dari kaki untuk menjadi alasnya melainkan dari sisinya untuk dijadikan teman hidupnya, dekat dengan lengannya untuk dilindungi dan dekat dihatinya untuk dicintai.

mmmm.

Happy CNY

2005-02-08T08:59:00.000+08:00

I was driving home when suddenly I remembered that I have not wished any of my chineses friends and clients with Happy New Year or sent cards to them.

Alamak. How forgetful I am. They never fail to send me Raya cards or wish me Selamat Hari Raya.

Adusss. Quick quick still got time to sms them.

Gong Xi Fa Chai.

Farewell to a friend

2005-02-03T11:54:00.000+08:00

Received these messages from a friend,

"kawan kita meninggal mlm td kul 9 mlm eksiden kat KL. arwah FZD. tlg bgtau kawan2. ari ni kebumi kat bkt katil melaka. From: Abu S. 7:43am 1-Feb-05"

"FZD meninggal, accident motor, ada kat hospital universiti, call GTR 4 d detail at <012***>. From: Abu S. 7.45am 1-Feb-05"

I was driving back from sending off my daughter to school when the messages came in. I was stunned. shocked. Wanted to call Abu to verify but that'd not be necessary. I'm sure he would not be playing jokes on this one. Took a while to recover from the initial shock. All thoughts about him came rushing to my mind. I have a lot of memories with FZD. We were classmates from form 1 all the way to form 5 and had spent 5 wonderful years in SDAR. He was good in hockey and played rugby for the school. Was popular among the seniors. Didn't expect to lose a dear friend a day after celebrating my 36th birthday.

Quickly forwarded the messages to other friends. I was surprised that none of my friends called me to verify or asked for further details. Perhaps they were also stunned with the news. Only at about noon Kamal called and we agreed to organise collecting contributions to be forwarded to the family of arwah.

Later, some details trickling in our yahoo e-groups:

aku, LNDL, GTR, guntur dan beberapa lagi kawan kita sempat pergi menziarahi arwah sebelum dikebumikan. menurut landol injuries mostly to the body. arwah was hit and thrown to the opposite lane before being hit by another vehicle. this happened somewhere along LDP near puchong. arwah left behind a wife and 4 beautiful kids. semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas rohnya.

Another friend wrote,

aku tak leh tido malam tadi mengenangkan arwah, terbayang2 muka dia ditambahkan lagi dengan tangisan anak dia yg paling kecik yg dok jerit "ayah..ayah.." masa arwah sedang dikafankan. Mak dia cium pipi arwah bagai tak nak lepas sampaikan bapa dia cakap "cukup lah tu Ibu...". Alhamdulillah aku sampai ngam2 lepas jenazah baru mandi, dia orang tengah lap dan sikat rambut arwah yg panjang. Kepala dan muka tak de apa2 injury may be becoz arwah pakai fullface helmet. Aku tak sanggup nak selak kain ihram yg diguna untuk lapkan arwah sebab cousin dia kata, bahagian rusuk kanan sampai ke peha dia hancur. Aku sempat tolong angkat arwah dari tempat mandi ke ruang tamu untuk dikafankan. Saat tu le aku tak perasan yg air mata aku rupanya dah meleleh ke pipi bila tengok isteri dia, mak dia, nenek dia dan anak2 dia menatap wajah arwah untuk kali terakhir.
Alhamdulillah jugak, arwah disembahyangkan sebanyak 2 kali, sekali dirumah dan sekali di masjid. Di masjid, sembahyang jenazah diimamkan oleh YDP PAS Melaka iaitu Ustaz Ghani Abd Rahman. Semasa talkin dibacakan di kubur, Ketua Menteri Melaka Datuk Ali Rustam muncul. Setakat yg aku tahu, selain aku, member2 yg sempat sampai ialah TLK,GTR, AYM, BB, LCK, KDK, KYI dan UP. May be ada yg sampai after 3pm , aku sendiri tak sempat jumpa UP.

Al Fatihah. Semoga Allah mencucuri rahamatNya dan menempatkan arwah bersama orang2 yang beriman.

Happy Birthday

2005-01-31T19:24:00.000+08:00

Today is my birthday and I'm officially 36.

The staffs from my department organised a small do for me. They ordered pizzas and bought a cake. Even then, as always, I was not really feeling at ease with this birthday celebration thingy - big or small. May be because I came from a simple kampung family where no emphasis was made on birthdays.

When I was a kid, birthday passed by just like any other day. In fact, I always thought that I grew a year older on the first day of the year. You know, when you moved from Darjah Satu to Darjah Dua, Darjah Dua to Darjah Tiga, from primary to secondary school and so on.

You were proud when your father told his friend that you're getting 'bigger' (sudah besar) and that you're entering a new class next year or when you were given certain 'responsibilities' marking your coming of certain age. The responsibilities that were earlier only reserved for your elder siblings.

And I didn't remember any of my friends celebrating birthdays or sending birthday cards when I was in my former secondary school, that's a big no no. Tak Rock lah. We macho guys tak main birthday - birthday nih.

So here I am now at 7.15 ++ p.m, still in the office trying to reflect on this birthday thingy and a client just called asking for favour whether I could draft and send them an urgent document by tonite.

Meanwhile, it's still raining out there and I had just sent my car for wax and polish at the car care centre downstairs. Adusss!!!.

Monday Blues

2005-01-31T17:26:00.001+08:00

No, I'm not talking about my Monday blues.

It seemed that my daughter was having problem getting up for school every Monday since she started her formal primary education. I found that she could get extremely difficult to wake up and to a certain extent, protested when I tried to wake he up for school on Monday morning.

This morning was no exception. She even cried when I carried her to the bathroom after all the coaxing and pujuk rayu did not work. But father has to do what father has to do. I poured on her with two gayung(s) of water.

"You don't want to brush your teeth, fine. But I'm still sending you to school".

Wife helped her with the school uniform and I sent her off to school. She was quiet all the way to school and I just put on my 'serious - no nonsense' face. Tak nak bagi can. But once we reached the school compound, suddenly just in a split second, she just changed to her real cheerful self. She salam(ed) with me, kissed my hand and pull her trolley bag towards her classroom - just like that - as if nothing happened at home 30 minutes ago.

Terasa macam buang karan aje pujuk rayu pagi tadi.

Not so good day

2005-01-28T15:22:00.000+08:00

To cap the miserable day yesterday, I watched MU being beaten 2-1 by Chelsea in the second leg of the League Cup Semi-final and then watched the beautiful Maria Sharapova lost to Serena Williams (2-6, 7-5 and 8-6) in a thrilling Australian Open semi-final. Arrrgh.

Hope to get good rest during the weekend. Planned to attend my chambie's wedding in Kajang before hitting the highway back to Ayer Keroh in our new family car.

Terkorban before Hari Raya Korban

2005-01-25T10:52:00.002+08:00

Alia posted her Raya Korban's picture so I decided to post mine.

The only difference is that, instead of the normal sacrificial animals, the korban in this case is my ....isk, isk... beloved car and yang terkorban is ..... me (read my pockets).

May be my beloved car was mad at me or merajuk because I'd posted another car's pictures in my previous posts on Friday the 14th.

My car was broken into and that someone stole my SmartTag. Can you believe it? And I had to spend close to RM500 to replace it and spent the whole day going to the police station, waiting to make report, waiting for the police's photographer to take pictures of the car, waiting again at the workshop for the replacement parts to arrive, waiting for the cermin to be fixed, waiting waiting and waiting until I dozed off at the workshop. Lucky the workshop has a large and comfortable sofas and I could take a nap while watching AXN channel.

Dah nak jadik - that's what takdir is all about, I suppose. The car was never parked outside my house compound before. But that fateful night (Monday the 17th) when I came back from office, I saw my car was nicely parked by my wife right in front of the gate. Wife has been driving my car for the past few days because I had traded in her Kembara and her replacement car was pending registration. So I parked my borrowed office car at the side of my house.

Next morning, I rushed out to send my daughter to school and was heading to office when I received a panic call from my wife that the driver's screen had been smashed. Made a U-turn and quickly made a call to the nearest police station on what to do next.

Being the first time victim, I was thinking that the police would be coming to my house together with their forensic team to dust my car for fingerprints and searching for clues (too much of CSI I guess), but alas, this was what transpired:

me: saya nak buat report pasal kereta saya kena pecah...
p: kat mana ni Encik?
me: kat Tmn Bukit ........
p: ada apa2 yang hilang?
me: err...rasanya takde
p: boleh ke datang buat report kat balai?
me: tapi...bukannya polis kena datang tengok kat tempat kejadian?
p: kereta tu boleh jalan tak?
me: boleh..(arrgh!!!! memanglah kereta tu masih boleh jalan sebab bukan enjinnya yg rosak)

So, cleaned up the mess in the car and went to make police report even though at that time I was not sure whether or not I wanted to make insurance claim on the damages. More importantly I thought that by making the report, the police will intensify their crime prevention rounds in my neighbourhood.

Stated in the report that no valuables were missing because at that time, I totally didn't realise that the SmartTag was missing. But thank God the thief didn't take away the new sunglasses that I bought for Wife last weekend and also my Motorola Bluetooth earpiece. Those things combined could cost me another RM800. Pheww.

2005-01-25T10:48:00.000+08:00

Hello? mana pegi gambar korban aku tadi?
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The driver's side of my screen that was smashed. The picture was taken after I had cleaned up some of the mess because I need to drive the car to the nearest police station.

2005-01-25T10:40:00.000+08:00

The korban before Hari Raya Korban
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2005-01-25T10:39:00.000+08:00

The "korban" before Hari Raya Korban.
Posted by Hello

2005-01-14T13:25:00.000+08:00

Testing again
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Yesss! Jadik, jadik - gambau dia keluau. I'm a genius.... No?

2005-01-14T11:10:00.000+08:00

Testing. First time user of hello

Last Quote on the Last Day of 2004

2004-12-31T14:39:00.000+08:00

"He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understand himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

(Quoted from DJ Sassy)

Tsunami - Aftermath Updated

2004-12-31T11:17:00.000+08:00

My fear about the victims in Acheh was confirmed as more and more International Relief Organisations reached the most devastated place being the nearest to the ephicentre of the earthquake.

I told my partner when we were having late night discussion with a client in at a mamak restaurant in TTDI last Monday night. I said to him that it just didnot make sense and defied logic if the number of victims of the earthquake from Acheh (as it was reported then) were in the region of 4 thousand people.

My reasoning was simple, the earthquake that hit the city of Bam, in the southern part of Iran at the Richter scale of 6.3 had claimed about 30 thousand lives. Then, there's no way the number could be so much smaller in Acheh if the earthquake registered 9.0 of the Richter scale.

The latest news in print media this morning is that the death toll in Indonesia alone may reach 400 thousand people (via the Star). I am glad to know that Malaysia's MERCY was amongst the earliest international relief team to send their team to Acheh. They have a very dedicated team of volunteers and I have pleasure of knowing a few of them.

A New Phase

2004-12-30T08:22:00.000+08:00

Today marked a new phase of my life.

Now I could proudly announce that I am a father of a school going child. Real school you know. Not the Kindie any more.

My first daugther, Syakirah will be in Primary Year One in a couple of days' time. Today is her so-called orientation day at the new school. I am excited. But not so sure about Kak Long since she's always been a quiet type. May be she's a bit worried.

I admit that I'm a bit worried though - all kinds of questions kept palying in my head.

What if Syakirah does not like school
What if she's being bullied by other students
What if she's not interested to learn
What if there is an phsycotic evil teacher at the school and always picking up on her
What if she could not get good grades

Yes, those and many many other questions came to my mind on my way sending my daughter to school. But I kept telling her to make friends, answer properly when being asked by her teacher, how good being in a real school would be bla, bla bla. She just kept quiet. I'm sure she's listening....

It was like a small funfare at the school compound. I could see all kinds of parents, worried mothers ushering their kids to the hall and then to the open assembly area where the briefing was held. Excited parents taking pictures using their camera-phones. A wife frantically calling her husband to come to the front to watch the assembly proceeding - but the husband was seemed disinterested. And yes, rocker Joe of WINGS sent his kid there too.

The orientation session ended at 10.00 a.m and through out the session from afar I saw my daughter looked a bit bored looking around and most of the time, kept to her self.

Now I started to get a bit more worried.

Tsunami hit Malaysian shore

2004-12-27T14:51:00.000+08:00

Received this SMS from a friend who is active in NGO/voluntary works,

Urgent! Ribut ombak besar melanda kg2 di Pantai Merdeka & Kuala Muda
lanjutan dari ribut Tsunami dilautan Hindi! Mohon bantuan pakaian & makanan
segera.

From: <***>. 7:14 pm 26-Dec-2004.

I thought it was a joke. New Year or Year End joke. Come on, Tsunami to hit Malaysian shore? My friend must be joking. I showed the message to my wife and she too, smiled and brushed it off as another "lawak". My limited Ilmu Alam knowledge only have Japan and its many islands as the likely places to be hit by Tsunami - hence the name.

A minute later I was stunned when I caught the news update on TV. Forgive me, even though I heard about the earthquake that rocked some where in Sumatera Indonesia earlier in the morning news, I never realised that the aftermath that hit Malaysia was just as devastating - considering Malaysia never had experience this kind of disaster.

My condolence to the families of those who died and perished in the tragedy yesterday.

I learnt that the earthquake hit the scale of 9 in its magnitude. Wait, that was higher that the one that hit Bam, Iran last year or was it last two years. [OH NO! - just check here - it actually happened almost one year ago.]

Apa nak jadi....

2004-12-20T14:33:00.000+08:00

Heard this news over the radio on my way to office.

SEREMBAN: Gara-gara bertanya bau busuk petai dalam tandas rumah, seorang pelajar tingkatan tiga retak jari manis akibat dibelasah bapanya yang terasa seolah-olah terasa disindir. Dalam kejadian jam 10.20 malam, 11 Disember lalu, di rumah mereka di Kampung Sekolah, Ampangan, dekat sini, mangsa dikatakan baru keluar dari tandas rumahnya.Mangsa kebetulan bertemu ibunya di dapur dan bertanya mengenai bau petai dalam tandas. Pertanyaan mangsa yang belajar di sebuah sekolah di Ampangan itu didengari bapanya yang sedang berehat di ruang tamu.Bapa mangsa, 44, seorang penganggur, terasa dia disindir dengan pertanyaan itu dan menganggap mangsa kurang ajar.Ini menyebabkan dia membelasah anaknya dengan tali pinggang hingga mengakibatkan jari manis mangsa retak ketika cuba menahan libasan tali pinggang berkenaan.

Harian Metro difahamkan, pada awalnya mangsa dan ibunya tidak mahu membuat laporan tetapi selepas berbincang bersama keluarga, mereka kemudian membuat laporan polis, Rabu lalu.Ketua Polis Daerah, Asisten Komisioner Mohammad Abdullah tidak dapat dihubungi untuk mengulas kejadian itu tetapi difahamkan polis menyiasat mengikut Seksyen 323 Kanun Keseksaan.
[Harian Metro Online 20Dec2004]

Wanted to laugh but ended up asking myself - apa nak jadi dunia sekarang ni?

Quote of the day

2004-12-16T17:38:00.000+08:00

"You can have the best people for the job but getting the wrong one out (of his position) is not easy" (Dato' Che Khalib, CEO of TNB in an interview with the Edge when asked about his challenges in TNB).

How true.

Another aaaaaargh?!!

2004-12-16T14:20:00.000+08:00

I refrained myself from posting anything last couple of days because I was not in the best state of mind. I'm afraid this blog would become more of a place where I vent my frustrations, tension and anger.

After I dropped my Moto the week before last, my car got dented and scrathed because of my own careless driving. The left rear door hit the column because of the tight bend I hastily took on my way back after a meeting on Monday the 6th.

Stopped at Giant on my way home to buy some car wax and polishing products because I thought some those scracthes could be eliminated through waxing and good polishing. But the things were still left in my car since the day I bought. Too lazy to wash and polish the car.

I decided to take stock of myself. Gone through what I have done for the last couple of weeks that I should not and pray forgiveness from God.

Sharifah Aini

2004-12-10T08:39:00.000+08:00

I wanted to blog on other things this morning but something caught my eyes while I was having my breakfast at the stall near my office just now.

"Kes S Aini angkara Jin" - Prof Dr. [***sorry could not remember his name...er Jahid or something].

So read the article of a tabloid one of the patron who was reading it at a table next to mine. Could not believe my eyes at first. Had to strain my neck trying to read the title of the article.

Well, people do anything and everything to sell newspapers these days.

When I was in secondary school, this particular tabloid was known for two things - first, for its sensational mystics/out of this world headlines and second, for one particular column on Syariah Court cases. The latter was hot amongst us guys because of the sensational and "cheap thrill" we got from reading the detailed description of the couples in action before they were caught by the officers from Jabatan Agama.

Those could probably be the reasons why they are still around till today.

Ooops...aaaaaAAAARGH

2004-12-04T10:54:00.000+08:00

Bought my Moto last Wednesday.

Unintentionally slipped out of my hand and dropped it in a small wet drain yesterday.

Now I think I have a problem. The modem in the phone may not be working. The phone could not be detected when I wanted to update/synchronise certain features. May not able to claim warranty because dropping your phone in a drain (whether intentionally or not) would surely have been excluded in the warranty clause.

Aiyoo...tensionnnnya nih.

God help me. Apa punya ujian Tuhan nak bagi ni (another soft reminder from someone up above?)

Shopping Guide - Do not do this

2004-12-01T18:26:00.000+08:00

First - do not buy in the spur of the moment.

Always plan what you want to buy. Check the prices. Resist any attempt to buy even though you were dumstruck with the beauty sleek design and all the wonders that thing could do for you. Happened to me when I was at Jeddah airport in the last days of Ramadhan en route to Madinah. Set my eyes on Sony latest digital camera - T11 at the duty free counter. Like the design and the features so much that I was willing to part RM2,600 for it without thinking twice. I was so convinced that I got good bargain for it.

To my horror, I found that the same camera is being sold for much RM1,799 at Sungei Wang Plaza. My Wife gonna kill me for this.

Second - never bring your friends - the types that were more than willing to make sure that you would spend your money.

Again, happened to me this afternoon. Met some friends for lunch since today is my 'raya day' after having completed my posa nam. During the lunch talked about buying a Bluetooth enabled phone. Guess what? They then drove me to Sungei Wang Plaza and after about an hour going around the telephone booths there, I ended buying this new Moto. Must admit that the saleswoman was impressive with her knowledge in the minute details of the phone unlike some other salespersons. Gonna spend the whole nite tonight to read the manual.
Now I got this HS820 Gigibiru.

Farewell....Sis

2004-12-01T09:21:00.000+08:00

Went back early from office because I wanted to send off my Sister and her family at KLIA. Bro-in-law has been transferred to Ahmedabad, India and most likely he would be stationed there for at least three years.

What a teary affair it was - just like in one of the drama swasta episodes. Sis was sobbing when she hugged me before leaving. Had to consoled her that India is just 3 hours' flight away from KL. And more importantly, I told her that God has decided that her family's rezeki is to be in India - at least for the time being.

Glad that my nephews were seemed upbeat with the new adventures of their lives. My brothers and I were actually concerned about them because they looked so down and dejected when the news of the transfer was first told by my Sis. Even during the recent Hari Raya, my brothers went extra mile to give them support and comfort and literally bought anything that they wished to have - Real Madrid's jerseys, new football boots and their parents agreed to buy them playstation, hip-hop styled pants and shoes etc.

My two nieces were still too small to understand why so many relatives and friends were at the airport to send them off. They probably thought that they were just going off for another holiday trip.

Take care Sis, promise to visit you soon.

Presentation for KLIFF 2004

2004-11-30T13:10:00.000+08:00

I thought I would not be involved in preparing any presentation material anymore as we are approaching the end of Y2004.

But suddenly I got SOS call from my partner to help him out in the preparation of his presentation materials for the KLIFF 2004. I was informed that he was 'upgraded' from being a moderator to become one of the speakers for one of the session.

Haiyoo, why this thing always happen when I am bogged down with some other extremely urgent things!!.

I have a love - hate relationship when it comes to preparing for seminar/conference presentation materials - whether for myself or for my partner. Most of the time the invitation would come well 3 - 4 months ahead of the scheduled programme date and give no excuse to decline ot to say that I will be busy or will have some other important engagements in the coming 4 months' time because you just never know whether you will have any assignment in the next four months' time. Sometimes you feel obliged because your expertise or experience is part of the knowledge that God has given to you to share with other fellows. So you said yes and agreed to become a speaker.

Four months down the road, when you are being piled up with all kinds of works/assignments and you are chasing deadlines, suddenly you receive a kind reminder from event coordinator asking about your presentation materials. That's the time when you feel like you want to pull your hair and scream - why the hell I have ever agreed to speak at that conference in the first place!!!.

But since it's not fair to the organiser to withdraw at the very last minute, you soldiered on - stayed up at nights trying to finish the presentation materials and send to the organiser at least a day before your scheduled event. During your session, you tried hard to keep the participants and yourself not to fall asleep.

After the event you just want to go back home feeling satisfied that you have managed the go through the crisis well but at the same time felt that you could have done better if you have more time to prepare(!!!). The same circle will repeat another time, another month.

Deciding what's best

2004-11-29T17:52:00.000+08:00

My eldest daughter is entering primary one next year - that's just about a month to go.

As young parents, my Wife and I were sometimes worry whether what we were doing or what we decided would be good or for the best interest of our kids. There is no standard Parental Guide to help you in this area.

So most of the times, while we try to give the best education to our kids, want them to go to the best kindergaten/school, want them to do this and that etc, we always try to understand whether our kids are happy with what they are doing or with what we want them to do.

My first daughter has an interesting character. She is beautiful, petite and has a nice smile but rather quiet compared to her younger sister. She is bright in the school and always eager to go to school. While she never delay in finishing her homeworks on other subjects, she seemed to dislike doing her Abacus homeworks.

I decided to enroll Syakirah to an Abacus class after being informed during a briefing at her school that Abacus would be one of the compulsory subjects for primary Year One beginning next year. Since the classes were to be conducted at the school, I thought it was a good opportunity for my daugther to familiarise herself with the school environment where she would be spending her primary years and at the same time, learned Abacus before the actual school session started.

[However, surprisingly, when I asked my brother and her wife (both are teachers) whether Abacus would be a compulsory subject for Year One next year, the answer given to me was NO].

Lately, I found that she was becoming more and more reluctant to do/finish the homeworks given to her. She refused to do them with her mother and insisted that she would only do the homeworks with me. Most of the time, the works could not be completed before her weekly class.

So last Saturday, I sat quietly with my daugther and asked her whether she still wanted to continue with her Abacus class. As expected, she said no and I agreed. I didn't want to force her to do what she didnot want to do in the first place. She has been doing well during her pre-school since she was four. I guess I do not have to worry too much. I believe that learning for kids must be fun.

Belated Eid Mubarak

2004-11-25T18:23:00.000+08:00

I promised in my last post that I will keep my postings short but more frequent. Hopefully I will not fail myself.

This is a belated Eid Mubarak wish to all of you. Maaf Zahir Batin.

I had the privilege of celebrating Aidilfitri one day earlier than in Malaysia because I was in Madinah for the last two days of Ramadhan. Had the chance to perform Eid prayer at the majestic Masjid Nabi before took a flight back to Jeddah at noon. Later that night boarded the plane back to KL. Reached KLIA at about 11.30 a.m. on Sunday.

Just could not describe my feelings when I went out of the arrival hall and were greeted by the sight of my three beautiful daughters wearing baju kurung with white tudungs (even my one and a half year girl was wearing matching blue baju kurung). My boy looked very handsome wearing blue baju melayu and songket sampin. And Wife too looked beautiful that day - you are always beautiful to me my dear.

I felt like I was the happiest and luckiest person in this world. I was happy that my Journey went smoothly and that I was able to perform my Umrah without any problem. Thank you God.

I pray and hope that I will be given another opportunity to visit the Holy Land again soon.

Giving up (almost)

2004-11-23T17:46:00.000+08:00

I was thinking of giving up blogging and this blog because I could hardly find time to blog. The thoughts to blog most of the time came when I was busy with something else or when I was away from from my laptop.

Whenever I do have the time, I would spent hours bloghopping or staring blank at the screen and ended up not writing anything. There were also time when my laptop suddenly "hang-ed" and I lost all my post and I got fed up to retype my postings.

Above all, I must admit that I am not a good writer - that's the main reason, I guess. Works and hectic schedules are just excuses.

I have been doing some serious thinking whether I should continue having this blog or just let it die quietly. But suddenly everything changed when I visited Alia's blog and realised that she had put my blog in her bloghopping lists. What a pleasant surprise. An honour in fact.

So because of that I am all fired up to keep this blog going and to do that I resolved that I will keep my posting short and blog more regularly.

The Journey

2004-10-28T14:07:00.000+08:00

Just received a call from my office's secretary telling me to get ready for the trip which will tentatively be either on the 1st or 2nd of November.

I was happy because finally at the very least the departure date is (almost) finalised. I have been keeping the news about my intended trip only to myself and Wife. How to tell some other people that you intended to go away for an important journey but you could not tell them when it would be if they would ever asked. Funny isn't it.

It was towards the end of the conversation that I realised, oh my God, I only have 3 days from today to be prepared! Suddenly many things rushed to my mind. I promise to complete and deliver a few assignments/documents by next week, got one meeting scheduled next Tuesday etc. I had earlier promised to my Wife to accompany her to look for her kebaya-raya. She didn't like what we had browsed at Ampang Point last weekend.

Got Iftar tonite at the Foster Homes in Damansara Utama. Tomorrow will be considered gone because I have three meetings to go through. Aaarghhh! *beep*beep* tensionnnn.

Need to cool down and re-arrange and prioritise the assignments.

OK, first thing to do is....to stop this writing and get going with the assignments now!!. Chow...

Pretty balls

2004-10-27T17:30:00.000+08:00

The recently concluded ATP Madrid Masters was hit by controversy when the organiser decided to replace the normal young volunteer ball boys and girls with models wearing slit skirts and tight tops with the name of the sponsor prominently displayed on their ample chest. The 19- to 28-year-olds were drafted in as ball-girls to replace the young fans who usually run around picking up stray balls and handing towels to players and will work in most of the televised matches at the tournament.

Parents of the teenagers they ousted felt it was a heartless move as they said the move have killed the children's dreams of sharing a court with their idols.

In the final last weekend, the eventual winner Marat Safin was shown being srayed with champagne by one of the pretty girls as her model colleagues looked on. Just like in Formula One and MotoGP.

How the game of tennis have changed over the years!

I remember in the early eighties when the tennis players wore simple white tennis shirts and shorts - remember Steffen Edberg? John McEnroe? or their female counterparts, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graff and Gabriella Sabatini?. Things started to change when younger generations took over in the likes of Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras and in the women circuit, Monica Seles and Martina Hingis.

Agassi and Sampras were among the earliest players started to wear denim shorts and refused to follow the conventional 'dress code'. I remember at one time, the English press covering Wimbledon Open were more interested in Seles' grunts and her pink panties than her play.

Then came Anna Kournikova which was a classic case of commercialism and marketing endorsement rather than about playing good tennis. She was one of the highest paid player from appearances and product endorsement eventhough she never won any tournament. Of course the William Sisters with their outrageous fashion statement.

Today, you will see female tennis players wearing all kinds of sexy dresses and of course, the sponsors like them, the TVs love them and the crowd have extra reason to watch and cheer upon.

I wonder how long it will take for these commercialism to creep into the more asian dominated sports like badminton and table tennis. Yeah......could not wait for that to happen. I hate to see our women shuttlers wearing those oversized t-shirts and shorts.

They're singing in the rain at ol' trafford

2004-10-26T16:32:00.000+08:00

What a match!

I am referring to the most anticipated match between MU and Arsenal last Sunday. Finally, MU ended Arsenal's unbeaten run with a 2-0 (controversial?) win. Well, the penalty was a bit dubious but nobody could deny the second goal by Rooney (I'm beginning to like this kid) was superb.

Arsenal however still retained the record of 49-unbeaten run in the modern premier league. It is unthinkable if there will be any team that could match that record.

I am happy that finally MU managed to pull their act together and won this important match. Otherwise they could just forget about the league title for this season.

But honestly I still think Arsenal is the most enticing team to watch. They have the best players for the whole departments (except may be, their german goalkeeper) . How I really missed those days when Cantona was playing for MU - that was the time when Cantona, Giggs, Keane, Beckham and Schemeichal were at their best.

Had fun sending SMS to ABU and SAP after the game.

Met THE MAN

2004-10-23T01:56:00.000+08:00

Yes, finally I had the chance to meet THE MAN personally.

So much that I have heard about him - from newspapers and from other reliable sources. About the elusive, low-profile corporate figure. About his generousities, his charities. About his conglemerate and corporate undertakings. Publicity shy and very rarely give any interview in the press. My friend Azam of Utusan got his chance of a lifetime to meet and interview the man last week - that interview came out in Mingguan Malaysia last Sunday. The Man said he gave the interview because he felt he was compelled to correct certain misunderstanding about him.

He is tall (I think he's a six footer). Lean body or may be he looked a bit thin because of his height. But, there's something charming about this guy. I guess may be because of his smile. The smile that never left his face during the meeting. Or may be because of his eyes. The eyes that showed the warmth and genuine interest when he listened to what others have to say during the discussion. He constantly cracked jokes at any given opportunity as if trying to water down the seriuosness of the matters on discussion.

I'm glad to have met him. Like I always do when I met any other successful malay corporate figures who are very humble and remain down to earth and more importantly they are god-fearing persons. Not that many that I have met so far though.

But still there is hope. If there was any lesson that I learnt today, it was that you could still be a successful in this cut-throat business world without forgeting your root and more importantly without sacrificing your religion and your principles.

On Being a Leader

2004-10-18T10:22:00.000+08:00

Had lunch with Dato' Ismail Kamus just a few days before Ramadhan.

We were talking about the qualities that a leader must possess and as usual, his view was simple and easy to relate. According to him, a leader must be like an imam in a prayer. If you are an imam in a prayer, you should not follow any other 'imam' or person in front of you. Because as an imam you are supposed to lead the makmum. At the same time the imam must always remember that a makmum could correct him if he (the imam) is wrong.

Those comments came about when we were discussing about the lack of decisiveness or firmness in decision making on the part of our current PM. Anyone familiar with the bidding to acquire strategic interest in DRB-Hicom from the Estate of the late Tan Sri Yahaya by two interested bidders would know that the final decision has not been out yet even after the bidding was closed some time ago.

Intense bidding by both parties seemed to make the situation more difficult for the PM to make his decision. It has been said that the PM has even appointed Azman Yahya (ex-Danaharta) to help to advise him on the matter and still, the decision not forthcoming as yet. Any group taking over that block of shares would surely need to have the government's blessings. One of the beneficiary of the Estate had even tried to throw the spanner by making an announcement that was reported last Sunday that the consortium led by NAZA had won the race.

But as far as the information that I knew, it's actually far from over.

Anyway, Dato Ismail Kamus has also adviced that nowadays, all imams need to add another phrase in their usual reminder just before the beginning of a prayer, "Penuhkan Saf, Betulkan Saf, Matikan Telipon!"

Ramadhan Mubarak

2004-10-15T01:25:00.000+08:00

Ghadan Ramadhan Ya Abi!

That's part of the conversation that my friends and I always remember and make us laugh every time we talk about our 'favourite' subject at the University. It's a conversation between a son with his father about the coming of Ramadhan and the family is going to the market to buy a certain type of delicacies for breaking fast.

Nothing so funny about the story in our Arabic workbook though but the story reminded us of how we struggled to learn the language since all of us did not have any basic in Arabic. Of course there were many more instances that in our Arabic classes that will never fail to make us laugh our heart out.

Salam Ramadhan.

Puasa officially starts this morning.

No title

2004-10-07T19:21:00.000+08:00

Dearest blog,

Apologies for not updating in the last few days.

Been busy with urgent works, very urgent works and extremely urgent works since last week. I did visit you regularly though - but just could not sit still and write something.

Daughters have been complaining that I have not been sending them to their kindie for the whole week. I am very sure Wife would want to complaint too, since she had to take over the "task" since last week. In actual fact, they were also frustrated that they could not catch me to express their dissapointment because by the time I reached home, Wife and kids all have long been asleep and the next morning I would rush to office even before Wife finished preparing breakfast for the kids. So much for a family life.

But this is going to end soon. Hopefully the assignment could be completed by next Tuesday. Then I will have to reward myself for all the trouble, stress, mental anguish etc that I have sufferred while attending to this particular assignment. I love happy ending........

What should I buy for myself? T630 would be nice...eh?

Going up...again!!!

2004-09-30T19:31:00.000+08:00

Just got the news that the government has approved for a 5 cent per litre increase for petrol starting from tomorrow. Someone has alerted Jeff Ooi about the increase at about 2 p.m and Malaysiakini posted to confirm the (sad) news at about 6 p.m. this evening.

I thought the last increase was as recent as last April.

Haiyo, need to fill up full tank on my way back from work tonite because this weekend I need to drive down south to Ayer Keroh to attend a wedding. This is the second time this year the government has quietly approved for the price increase. Mmm, need to tell/sms kawan2 about this....

Help...Who did this?

2004-09-29T10:58:00.000+08:00

I have not been doing justice to this Blog. Don't even have time to visit my own blog!!. That's terrible. When I checked out this morning, I realised that there was one comment from a visitor and were even more surprised that some of the words have been "linked" to a search page that was totally irrelevant.

How could that happened was a mystery for a guy with no IT knowledge like me.

Could any one help me to cancel or disable that "auto link" function before it starts to link every word in my blog?.

What? A free car for 276 people?!!!!

2004-09-16T13:18:00.000+08:00

I was at home resting because I was not feeling well. My body was all aching. Maybe it's the effect of the massage that I had the day earlier. Called office to cancel two of my three appointments. Had no choice but to attend the meeting that needed me to finalise the terms for the Bridging Facility for a consortium of banks in the afternoon. And it was one hell of the meeting. Chaotic may be mild the describe the meeting that went on until quarter to 9.00 in the evening. Missed the dinner that I was suppose to attend at PWTC.

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It was while having breakfast that I caught the picture of Oprah (Winfrey) sitting atop on a Pontiac G6 outside her Chicago Studio surrounded by some of the lucky 276 (yes, two hundred and seventy six!!!) audience who each received one of the new cars.

Apparently Oprah celebrated the 19th season of her talk show by giving every member of her audience a free car. The giveaway would have cost Oprah more than 3 million pound sterling (a whopping RM21 million). But it was reported that the cars were a gift from General Motors. Could not believe what I read.

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I know that we also have Oprah-like talk show helmed by Anita Sarawak. Now in its third season, if I'm not mistaken. Didn't quite follow the program, but I know that it has the same format and it also gave out some freebies and surprises to the audience and guests.

I remember watching one of the series in its first season when topic of adoption was discussed. Anita invited a childless couple to talk about their longing for a child, the red tape involved in a lawful adoption process. The couple informed that they have spent about 4-5 years to adopt one particular child from an orphanage but was constrained by some technicalities. If I was not mistaken, the child did not have birth documents and the lawful parents could not be traced. For the past 4-5 years the couple had informally "adopted" the child by visiting the child at the orphanage as if the child was theirs. The only thing they could not do was they could not bring the child back home.

When Anita asked what was their wish, the couple said they just wanted to bring the child home like any other parents. And guess what, Anita (by then trying hard not to cry) said their wish has been granted and announced that the relevant authorites have sorted out all the required documents and told the couple that they could now bring back the child as they wished.

I almost cried when the child was introduced to the audience and were hugged by the couple.

Now, it may not be in million of dollars, but still, that gift was certainly precious.

Budget 2005

2004-09-12T23:08:00.000+08:00

Pak Lah had revealed his first budget for the first time as the Prime Minister and Finance Minister on 10th September 2004.

As expected, smokers willl have to dig deeper into their pockets to sustain their habit. The tax have been announced to increase almost 40% per pack of 20 sticks. I am not a smoker but I found it interesting to note some of the reactions from the die hard smokers on the tax raise.

The Star on 11th September 2004 reported that many smokers interviewed would still continue smoking despite the increase. One male smoker said he would not quit smoking but will cut down on smoking [sounded too familiar?]. Another male interviewee said the increase would not stop him from smoking but he might opt for cheaper brands [again, had heard this somewhere before].

A female 21-year old college student said she would stop smoking if the price goes up to RM6.00 per pack. She said, health reasons are secondary to her. Her coursemate of 19 years old offerred an easy way out - she would be asking for extra pocket money from her parents!. Hmm.....clever girl.

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Sometimes when someone asked me why I did not smoke, jokingly I would tell him that I forgot to learn it when I was in school. Yes, those schooling years were the most critical time. It's also the time when peer pressure to smoke were at its peak.

I know how difficult it was then. I studied in an all boys' boarding school where smoking was the "in-thing". It's a symbol of the coming-of-age, macho, bravery, seniority and rebel etc. I would say 80 - 85% of my batch smoked - and most of them still are.

Blog, Blogging and Mindbogling

2004-09-12T22:09:00.000+08:00

Managed only four posts since inception on 24 August. That's not good enough. Not that I did not have anything to share or blog about but honestly, I have been drowned with my works in the last two weeks. Got three big and urgent projects and a few advisory matters to attend by myself have forced me to sideline my urge to continue writing in this blog.

On several occassions I had brought back my laptop hoping that I could manage to spend some time to write and get off my mind from the office works but obviously I failed miserably. My body was too tired and my mind have been drained after long working hours.

No, I'm not giving up so soon. I'm gonna keep this blog alive. Just need to give more commitment and time....and a better work management.

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My first encounter with a weblog and blogging was about one and a half year ago. Amongst my first and favourite blog is Screenshot - helmed by Jeff Ooi. Now also known as "Malaysia's Most Influential Blog". I salute Jeff for his dedication and tireless efforts to highlight and discuss on transparency, accountability and trying to make Malaysia a better place to live in.

However, it was Pak Adib aka The Reader - who had introduced me to the whole new world of blogging. From his blog, I realised that there are substantial numbers of blogs and bloggers in Malaysia. It was from there on I started bloghopping from one blog to another and currently I have a long list of blogs of fellow Malaysians that I have bookmarked and frequented. I must mention that there are a few of them that I visted several times a day for their updates.

After that I learned that to create and own a blog may be as easy as - but to maintain and keep a blog alive and interesting, would be totally a different ball game altogether.

Anwar is freed!

2004-09-02T13:57:00.000+08:00

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillha. Allahu Akbar

Thank You Allah, Thank You Allah, Thank You Allah. Allah is the greatest.

Yess! It is confirmed, it's official and it's not a cruel joke.

The Federal Court has finally redeemed itself and the judiciary in general when it allowed the appeal from Anwar on his conviction and sentence on sodomy charges.

I was expecting the verdict to be delivered during my meeting this morning and I knew the proceedings at the Federal Court has ended when SMSes and calls flooded my handphone. Luckily the phone was put on silent mode.

When one of the officer from my client's office who was sitting next to me showed the SMS that he had received, I could only managed to say Alhamdulillah and hope that it's not a bad joke. I know rumours have been circulating around since last few days that Anwar would be freed. I told myself not to be too gullible to believe until I could re-confirm with some other friends.

My sister called to confirm the news when I was driving back to office. Told her to wait 'till I check from Malaysiakini's website. Could not log into their website but managed to get confirmation from a news piece from BERNAMA's website. Some friends also e-mailed news from Bloomberg and Reuters.

So thank You God, You have answered our prayers. I just could not thank you enough. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.

I am so happy that I could not construct a proper sentence. I am so delighted that I wanted to cry. I am happy for Anwar, I am happy for his family.

More importantly, I am very happy that the Court has finally have the courage to CORRECT what is WRONG and showed that all is not lost in the Malaysian Judiciary.

TAKBIIIIR. ALLAHU AKBAR.

Camping In the House

2004-08-26T13:28:00.000+08:00

I wanted to stay late in the office last nite to finish off an opinion to a client when I remembered I had earlier in the morning promised to help Syakirah with her homework. My Beloved Wife was complaining that my first daughter has been playing all day since the school holidays started and has refused to do her homeworks. Yeah, even kindergarten kids have homeworks - lots of them for that matter.

I laid a bait for my daughter to complete her homeworks - if she could finish her homeworks, we would sleep in the tent that night. And walla!!. It worked. When I reached home for dinner, Syakirah was beaming with pride and showed me the homeworks that she had completed.

"Malam ni tidur khemah, boleh?"
"Okay".
"Sapa lagi nak tido khemah?"
"Abang nak....".
"Angah pun nak."
"Okay, malam ni semua tido khemah".

My kids have been asking me to buy a tent since early this year. I was glad when my sister came over last Saturday and brought a four men dome tent that her kids only used once long time ago. So I had put up a four men dome tent in front of the house for the kids to play with their cousins until evening and decided to shift the tent into the living room.

So all four of us slept in the tent last nite. Well at least for a while.

Soon after his two sisters have fallen asleep, my son was still wide awake. He had taken a long nap during the day so there's no point of forcing him to sleep.

Went upstairs to watch some TV and just listened to my son talking about what he did for whole day until he dozed off on my lap. Later Syafiqah came up when she realised that I was not sleeping beside her in the tent. Told her to sleep in front of the TV and I would carry her back to the tent. Both of us dozed off in front of the TV 'till morning.

What a Life

2004-08-25T16:09:00.000+08:00

Now I feel a bit calmer inside of me. May be because I have got a blog that I have been wanting for some time.

So after my first post at about 8.00 p.m. last nite, I tried to quickly finish drafting an agreement wanted by a client. I had earlier promised the client that (by hook or by crook) he will receive the draft before 8.30 a.m this morning. Otherwise he will be fried because he needed the draft to show to his CEO. But I could not continue because my mind was already thinking of something else and my body was restless to leave office.

So packed up my lap top and went to Ampang Sports Planet for my weekly dose of badminton session with some friends. Only four of us turned up - so really sweat myself out for a good two hours. Went home satisfied.

Later started to work on the draft agreement again before I called it quit at close to 2.00 a.m. Woke up at 5.00 a.m and continued with the draft. Finished it after one and a half hour later, had a final look before I e-mailed it to the client.

Waited until after 7.00 a.m before sending a SMS that the draft has been e-mailed.

Fuuhh, what a life.

Had lunch with client at Pan Pac KL today. Bought a book, "Hitam Putih Darul Arqam - Realiti Di Sebalik Pengharaman" by Mohd Sayuti Omar. Have to find TIME to read.

I want it, I need it, I gotta have it

2004-08-24T20:16:00.000+08:00

Yes, I want it, I need it and I really, really gotta have it.

And I'm talking about having my own blog. I have been wanting it long time ago, but I was just afraid to start one. All sorts of reasons flooding in my head why I shouldn't have it. TIME - is one of them. I do not have the luxury of time - to sit and start writing. I have lots and lots of work and crazy deadlines to meet.

But every time I ignore the 'urge' to have a blog, the more time I spent debating within myself why I should have it. The worst part, these 'debates' will get more serious at the time when I am supposed to be concentrating on finishing my works or catching deadlines.

But I couldn't take it any more. I gotta to have it.

And yesss! Now I have it.

Welcome, and see you soon..... (anyone there?)