Waiting mum and dad

Voice of KM Chong Wednesday, June 18, 2008 comments (0)

At one of raining evening, I went to the kid school to pick him up from the school. At my arrival, there had been couples of mums waiting patiently outside and chit chat in a loud tone.
As I went to the school immediate after the office, I was still in the office attire with long sleeve and slack. And I also notice that I could be the only male waiting there. It was like a age long waiting even though I just need to wait for 20 minutes.
When the school bell finally rang, I quickly grab my kid and rush out.
It was not a good experience at all.



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Gold Fish in a pot

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On Monday night, I went to a nearby Japanese restaurant and there is a fish pond as a decoration at the left side of the entrance.
What made me feel uncomfortable was that there are two gold fishes kept at the small pot with limit space for swim. This would be like a cage for the fish and torturing the fish.




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Annual performance review

Voice of KM Chong Sunday, June 15, 2008 comments (0)

It was the time for annual performance review again. It is a time for the report card of service provided. I have 7 engineers/senior engineers reporting to my session of which I will need to rate and rank them accordingly to P1/2/3/4 base on the performance they had provided since last year.
Although I do not practise favourtism, there will be some messages I will need to be delivered particularly on poor performers. There is a statement that claims manager is to be unreasonable and to manage the unreasonable. Seriously, I could have all of them rated as P2 but I will need to careful on doing so as I could have delivered a wrong message on some who did not perform well.

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Another night with FLU

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I believed I had yet recovered from last week illness. Last night, I felt kind of cold and shivering with running nose. The backache was so severe that I could hardly sleep. I took a panadol as relief for the pain and finally get to some sleep but the moment I wake up the next morning, I find myself having fever and measured at 100F. I had been on the bed whole day trying to rest and regain some strength, but I failed as the condition worsen. Normally, I am kind of stubborn seeking medical treatment, as I would know that the physician will likely issue me pain-killer, antibiotic, cough syrup or may be vitamin.
This round, I use the traditional herbs and trying to sweat more so the heat can be released from the body. I had my whole suit filled with sweats and yet I did not feel I had regain any strength but instead feeling much painful at the back. Finally, I drove to seek a medical consultation and like expect, I came home with painkiller, antibiotic, cough syrup.

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OSIM uYoyo

Voice of KM Chong Saturday, June 14, 2008 comments (0)

The OSIM uYoyo delivered to me on Thursday and this was an implusive purchase that would "endanger" my finance to save up RM10k for another investment.
Nevertheless, this massage chair really live up to its name as a healthy chair as after the 30 minutes massages, I find myself sleep better and better relief of my back pain. Although I would need to tight my belt for another few months, but the price to my own health will be greatly compensated.
I am now with air condition turn on, soft sentimental music and blogging with the massage program activated. And I must say that the chair influence me to sleep whenever I have it turn on.

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Unboxing the Touch Diamond

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Diamond is forever and always a best friend to lady. Until now, man find another best mobility companion, it is the Touch Diamond. It carries price of a diamond for the phone at RM2799/=.
This is a light weight and rather slim phone in all black design. It resembled the Stealth F117 (to me at least) with some diamond cut back plate.
The phone is powered by a crippled WM6.1 but with a brand new interface of TouchFLO 3D which significantly increase the style of the phone and closely resembled Iphone multitouch features. The Touch interface and responses had been greatly improved as compare to all other HTC and smartphone and come really close to compete Iphone, if not due to its crippled microsoft WM6.1.
The phone comes in quite a number of innovations. One feature I like is the vibrational alert to inform that the calls have been picked up or answered. You will not require to hold the phone to your ear during the dial period (which suppose to be the period with heavy electromagnetic impact). Next, the phone can be put into mute mode with just flip the phone over and place it face down. This action will force the call to be ignore and muted the incoming calls. The power on button for Diamond is rather flat and does not provide much feel to be pressed. One with fat fingers could be difficult to feel if the button has been pressed. However, there is another way to wake up the phone without pressing the power on button. You just need to withdraw the stylus and the phone will be waken up for usage. These little tweaks are really handy and putting the phone as fancy gadget.
A friend of mine has passed me the phone for trial. And I must yell at this friend although I feel thankful for his trust to let me use his Diamond. Overall, the impression of the phone is satisfactory. The responses are fast and sufficient for normal daily usage although some improvement of speed definitely welcome. However, there are at least some complaints that I will need to call HTC for improvement. The battery get really hot when I am using it for calls after 10 minutes. A side camera button will be welcomed although not absolutely required. The speaker could have been better as I can hear some cracking sound with full volume of the speaker. The speaker on volume could have been louder and I personally find the volume is too soft. A slot for external memory will be great.
In short the phone is another innovation of the aged WM6 OS. Though it can be better enhanced and worth to be called as Diamond, but I will not sign my credit card on this phone yet. Reason being, I believed I will want to really see and feel the Iphone 3G before making another buy. Not to say that I really really over spent for this month!
Touch Diamond... A man mobility companion



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Aquatic plants and my aquarium

Voice of KM Chong Monday, June 9, 2008 comments (0)

I had been trying to plant aquatic plants to the aquarium. I remembered spending over thousand acquiring the CO2 tank, light source etc. but after a year, I still do not manage to grow aquatic plants like one of my admires.
May be this is what moeny will buy! I believed I will shop again next week searching for those "carpet plants" to plant the whole aquarium in green. But at least, I am glad that I had manage to stop the whole tank of fish being killed due to some unknown reasons. A few weeks ago, the aquarium population had been reduced to 1/3 of its peaks.
I will need to spend some more time in "landscaping" again.


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Some accompany at nights with Nite

Voice of KM Chong Sunday, June 8, 2008 comments (1)

Suddenly I found some light drinking really help to provide better sleep. And so I bought some more of the Nite. It is an alcoholic juice at low 5% alcohol. They come with apple, grape, strawberry etc favours.
They are also priced cheaper as compare to those beer. I had never like drinking beer before except with "kaki" and at special occasion. Since I do not have any more "kaki" I do not drink beer anymore.
And so I drunk two of them tonight to help me for a good sleep. Though I was not drunk, but I found myself with red face and eyes as well as rather spinning head.
I will still need to wake up for some cycling in 6.30am later. Before this, I will still indulge in drink.

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Fish Therapy? I will introduce Shrimp Therapy instead

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I saw there is "health center" started to introduce Fish Therapy as a way to replenish or rejuvenile the dead skin and in the same time getting some "massaging" effect on the tired legs.
It is really a cool idea having such a wondering commercialized therapy. I believed one can see there are multiple health programms; be it foot reflexology (if do not believed me, just walk along the Jalan Bukit Bintang and you will be amazed with lines up of shops plus some "pretty gals" around as promoter); body massage, spa etc and now Fish Therapy being one of the latest to town. I did not try out such a wonderful promotion yet as I still skeptical. I looked at the fishes, they appeared no different as compare to Tilapia. I could be wrong!
Having myself halted for awhile observing the Fish Therapy, I started to think if I can start "inventing" shrimp therapy? May be let thousand of shrimps performing massage on your body?
If not, what about bees stung therapy? Ants bite therapy?? LOL

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A Restaurant to be avoided : 夜来香 (Yeh Lai Onn)

Voice of KM Chong Saturday, June 7, 2008 comments (1)

Today, I tried a restaurant named Yeh Lai Onn (夜来香) which really meant "shit" in Chinese. There were plentiful of customers waiting there and so I believed the food could be nice and worthwhile to be tried out. I ordered a garlic-ginger steam Tilapia, saulted crab, Seremban eggs and a vege and supposed to be anticipating a good tasty delight for dinner. However, the eat out totally turned out to be miserable and annoyance.
First the vege and rices are served in rather cold. Secondly, the dishes were late and separated. I almost finished up all the rices before the fish and crab were served. I was still fined with this if the food were indeed worth to be waited for.
However, it was not as I hope for. The Tilapia was smelly and cannot be swallowed. Even two of my kids could not take a bite of it. And so I complainted about the fish. This is where the tension began. The girl who took ordered on hearing this immediately turned to no able to understand cantonese and asked me in Mandarin. WTF...I thought just now you took order in cantonese? Are you trying to pretend or try to avoid being responsible!
Next, the fish was taken back to the kitchen, and a minute later, I believed the lady owner of the restaurant come to offer some explanation... "This is fresh fish and we do not know if it was smelly or what; but this is the fish favour...." She did not even feel ashamed on serving a customer with smelly fish! Next she offered no apology or price cut or anything or in sense of guilt but rather protraited a message that "well, it was the fish problem but not me.. and you have eaten it, so be it..." This treatment was where I felt so much annoyed!
Wait a minute, I am paying and you are saying you are not responsible if the dishes were edible. You do not even felt responsible or need to console your annoying customer!
Fine, I mentioned to the lady, this will be the last of my visit to this restaurant. And she just walked off without bothering if will be losing a new trying customer who get annoyed with the type of service and food being provided. And so I paid the bill of RM68 with a smelly Tilapia that we did not eat.
All the best to you, SHIT (Yeh Lai Onn) restaurant. No wonder you named yourself as SHIT

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RM2.70 per litre for petrol

Voice of KM Chong Wednesday, June 4, 2008 comments (0)

June 5, 2008 will mark another major petrol price hike again and this round will be the highest in Malaysia history with RM0.78 increase. This is really insane and we are still being told that our Malaysian inflation rate is low at 4% per annum.
At leaving the office, I happened to pass by some petrol stations and thought of why not fill up the tank before 12am tonight so I can still enjoy a tankful of RM1.92 petrol. However, the long queue and lines of cars at the stations really drive me off and I felt so upset that it is the first time on my way home, there are traffic jam. The traffic jam is due to the lines up of cars in to the petrol station to have the last minutes rush of cheap petrol.
I am actually looking forward to go to KL this week but now seeing this high price of petrol price, I could be calling off the thoughts.
I am wondering what is actually mean for Malaysia, a nation with petroleum export for foreign exchange but we suffer with the fluactuation of the crude oil price. Am I wrong that Petronas is earning billion every years?

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Re-align for the second half of 2008

Voice of KM Chong Sunday, June 1, 2008 comments (0)

There had been rather emotional weeks before June 2008. 151 days had passed and now it is June 1, 2008 and I will need to check and re-align if my 2008 resolutions are meeting or remain as resolutions!
First of all, I do not know why I cannot save up some cash for past 5 months as compare to 2007 I would have invested several thousands to trust funds etc. But 2008, I have nothing on my hand yet. This will need to be analyzed and first priority
Second, I find my health condition is somehow started to deteriorate; there are some signatures of high blood pressure, anxiety, sleepless etc. I bet I will need to start control some diets and embarked on regular exersizes. Next, I also noticed that my anger is easily triggered, even by small matters. I started to throw tantrums.

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