In loving memory of my beloved wife

Woke up in the morning receiving a not very happy SMS. It claimed there was confirmed case in one of the local mall at its food court. I did not know how true is this type of SMS as it could spread like wild fire. I decided not to circulate and will end at me. It would not require an unnecessary panic for the local.

For me, I would still have the same precautions. The kids would have orange flavor cord liver oil and vitamin C. Whenever they are out, they will be wearing masks. It would however, require constant reminder to the elder as his character is "tak apa" and so always would forget washing hands.

This afternoon, I will need to have an inspection on a shoplot to determine if I will start another mini start up of an trading haven for Transformers fans. Probes and responses seem to be good as there are always demands for collectors series and obsoleted transformers. Hmmm but with this start up, I believed I would lose the weekend with the kids unless I am bringing them to be guardians of the shop or let them playing with the precious figures.

Btw, the name has been pre-decided as TF Harbor, although the kids want it to be named as Maxtron.

Everything seem ok but I picked up the elder half an hour later due to the inspection. It was indeed great that he did not complain but just asked how and when would the shop be ready.

I planned to have the kids at the polo ground for some evening exercise but when I opened my eyes, it was already 7pm. We could just have the dinner at a nearby restaurant. My apology kids, I had made another empty promise. I promised them to take them to have the morning walk at the nearby hill in the next morning. I hope I could ready accomplish this promise, although it would be always tiring to be awaken in the early morning. After dinner, we were indeed at the mall where it was rumored with H1N1. I did not how true it was again, but I did observe the numbers of shoppers had been greatly and significantly reduced. Even almost all store keepers had their masks on. May be it was just pre-cautious. May be it was just approaching to the shop closing. May be!

We went home after I bought another bottle of vit-C. Btw, the little one will be having his dance performance on Sunday 4pm. Pls be with us as this would be his first stage performance. I knew the little one will be able to have a great show to us.

At 11am, I was browsing the old photo at Picasa. Those were the photo which we were having the vacation at Washington DC. It was in April with the Sakura blossom session. We flied to New York before we took a bus for a journey of 4 hours to Washington DC.

I still remembered at the journey, the bus had no air conditioning and indeed had to open up the air ventilation at the roof of the bus. It was not a pleasant trip at all. I could still recall some of the fake memory of the routes and scenery along the trip. There was also an incident. We were lining up at the Central Bus Station to get on the bus, but were disturbed by a group of youngster (of three perhaps) where they were trying to ask for some money from us. We did not bother them but they kept insisting till a nice old lady and man start to intervene asking them to be off. The elders indeed tried to shield us from getting disturbed by them. We felt so touching as they "protected" us like their family. I could remember the front lady also demanding them to get lost and had some argument with them. Along this, we could only remain silence but the elderly encouraged us to talk to them instead of bothering the three disturbing youngsters. And so, with the protection, we got on to the bus and set off to Washington. Thank you!

At arrival to the Washington, a friend of mine found himself with some infection at leg which require some attention and immediately docked to the nearby hospital and could not join us in the wandering around. He missed all the nice scenery of Washington DC and the Sakura blossom.

We had the walk around to the park but I could not remember the way of return. And thus causing you have to walk almost the whole of the Washington DC city. We lost about 2 hours and I had the little one with me while you were holding the elder hand to walk. You were still fit for this excersize but now I felt so sorry for having you to walk for so long. We should indeed have a cab and return to hotel within 15 minutes. But I remembered you saying, if the kids were not crying and complaining, you would like to walk with me.

The phrase still in my memory. I would like to walk again. You will with me right!

Kids, your mother is a tough lady and she is a great mother. She is!

For the past several nights, I started to re-experience waking up or mind wake up in the midth of the night. After the wake up, it is always difficult to get back to sleep as the mind will wander wildly for imagination, past memories, what if or blank. It is making me to be a bit exhausted upon actual physical wake up at 6.40am. I could need some sleeping aids perhaps. May be, I could have some cough medication before the sleep... LOL since I do not access to sleeping pill yet. Although I do have some stock as they were the leftover from you, but I still dare not consuming it as I always afraid overslept till missing the school for the kids!

This morning, I start feeling some heat at my body and the lips also cracked due to internal burning. I always believed drinking more water will help as this is always my remedy to mild fever. I am also afraid of the H1N1 attack and such I started to swallow a teaspoon-ful of cord liver oil. The kids are consuming daily a teaspoon-full of cord liver oil and Vit-C to boost the antibody

There was somehow, I still felt crippled as the elder is now in a rather bad habit. He did not flush the toilet bowl after usage and this is still repeated after being reminded for a few times. He is also practising less hygience as he did not wash his face upon wake up and at brushing his teeth. He is less concern about his appearance and he does not tug-in his school uniform properly. There are at less several others which annoyed me as this is not my expectation. He is seldom talk to me and upon my questioning, he is always remain silence and claimed he will comply but then after a few times, he repeats. I will definitely need some patience on him now.

Today I have the kids to have masks on when they go to the nursery and school. It is just another hopeful pre-caution. The kids are somehow like the idea of having masks as they see wearing it as some form of amusement. However, I warn the elder as he is playful and could be sharing with his friends. The elder's character is always forgiving and easy going; where I believed if he is bullied by friends, he will still remain quiet. I warned of not sharing and if the mask has been taken and used by friends, dispose it and inform me at the end of day. I will surely attend to the school and warn the other kids. The little one on this context, play smart quoting that he will not share. He always acts smart by hearing what we communicate and repeat after us. This is the difference of the kids.

It was ashamed to the ministry of healthy that claiming temperature checking will be carried out in all school. But when I check with the elder, he said there is nothing like this but the teachers indeed asked them to go hospital to check. I felt so bad about this as it was reported as A but in the fact is B. I will take our self-precautious by having temperature check at beginning of the journey to school. The situation of H1N1 is getting from bad to worse and this really worrisome.

If needed, I will have the kids at home more instead of those public area.

This morning, I received a strange number call. It was from the Aeon Credit and it was a male voice at the other end. He spoke with a few mistakes, first with wrong name of the company he represent and also speak rather bad English.

He was actually trying to enquire my interest in the credit protection. At the moment I just finished saying No. He cut the line without any words. How rude and strange. With this type of service, I just rang another call to the card center to terminate the credit card. Sorry, but you had annoyed me.

The twitter was known to me some months ago but I did not really bother it although I had registered. Similarly for the facebook and friendster. I could just occasionally login to exchange a few lines of comments to some friends and play some stupid games when I was really bore.

Now, I would try to twitter more.

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I am normally not an impulse shoppers and so I would carry a few of credit cards as I do not want to have too much of cash inside the wallet. Of course I also do not have too much cash available. There had been several purchases that I utilized the credit installment and this really get my finance out of control.

The installment rocked up to 15% of my income and I had been servicing them. I did not notice my financial status is already in red alert till recently I calculated the monthly expenditures. The total committed expenses are now twin-tower high to 70%. The situation will not improve till Dec before I completely paid up some credit usages. It was worsen as the source of income did not increase and I do not have other side incomes but I spent a few thousand on my new toys.

Now, I began feeling the financial pressure. Immediately I had cut back some regular unnecessary spending and utility cost. It was really ashamed that I would need to sell off some gadgets every month so I could have some breathe in every month for spending.

Kids, I am sorry but the toys buying every week will need to be cut!

There will be no exclusive dinner at weekend.

No phone renewal

No more credit card in my wallet

Before my parents moved to a double storey terrace house, we were brought up inside a wooden house with zinc ceiling, beside an always flood river bank, surrounded with pests, rats and may be even snakes. Most importantly it was illegal in some sense! Every year my dad would need to beg the MDKS with some channel for TOL (aka temporarily occupancy license) and so would not be demolished.

And we were lucky that our hut was not located in a strategic location that has any hidden commercial potential and so the hut still standing till today after 31 years later. I could still remember before the hut was finished building, I would sleep inside it without any walls but only with some parts of ceiling. This was continued for a few nights. I was even scolded by the BM teacher for not combing the hairs. Now I would reply the teacher that, I did not even have a place to sleep, where could possibly I could find a comb. Those were old days.

A few days ago and now here and then, I read about a nearby state with some "illegal house" pending demolition and they "villagers" are offered with some sense of compensation of 1 to 1 house exchange for double storey terrace. I am truly amaze and continue puzzle that what would the kids want if not a secured and permanent house to stay in. I do not believe they like to be in a tension area whereby seeing bulldozers, police, flesh fence etc. I do not have a detailed follow up on this case. But I believed there are always people that "beri betis minta paha" and commonly these are people who do not need to worry but "brave" enough as the frontliner.

I am sure the villagers have no time to read news and or read this blog, but I really hope that they will peacefully accept a move order with a replacement of a brand new double storey. It is for the future of the kids to have a better place to live on. An illegal house for a double storey terrace, I could not image if this was the offer to my parent's old wooden hut! I would definitely accept it and live on.

Please be considerate for the kids! Not your personal agenda!

In the evening I have a brief shopping at Jusco and it was just another approaching weekend evening. There were some shoppers perhaps in a couple of ten but I glimpsed that there was a few of them wearing masks. They were shopping and dining in a group. I could see them were teenagers but not Malaysian. I turned around trying to checking if there were others wearing masks. I found another family, a Malay family were too wearing masks.

Is this a sight of arrival of H1N1?

I believed there is one special moment of today. On 12:34:56 date 7/8/09 or 7/8/9, the time is aligned to 123456789. Wow!

There is always special moment of every calendar year.

It will be 10:10:10 on 10/10/10

Then there is 11:11:11 on 11/11/11

and 12:12:12 on 12/12/12

Wow... so many special moments

But I hope every moment will be special and meaningful to everyone

I read a wonderful comment from someone in nearby state over the matter of restricting beer in some area...

I stay in an area that do not have assess to some neccesity after midnight. I will need to drive for a mile or two to cater for the need when I need. I believed most of the people also will do the same. When there is a need, they can just drive or go there no matter how far or slightly far. By restricting beer in a local area, it really does not mean it will stop some one (who suppose not to be) from drinking beer. When there is a need, they just wander to the other area and buy more back and store at home...

If it is a legal items, by mean or not by mean, it is valid to be sold at any area. But of course we can restrict the person from selling to some one who is not "legal" to buy. I still remember when I was a teenager, I commonly seeing some of my friends had cigarettes but the cafe or canteen did not sell this. So? If not this store, they can buy at some other stall... may be 1 mile or 10 mile. It really does not matter.

This is not the fix.

I did not happen to remember how many wawasan fund being launched ever since the new leadership took charge in our nation, but I do remember there is already a few of them. If not, 4 of them within a short period of time.

This is truly amazingly as where would all these gathered fund goes to? I laughed whenever these fund is launched. And I bet there will be another a few before the end of the year. Time will tell!

How could the couple do this at my car and still did not bother me when I was yelling at them and demanded to leave my car or I would snap a photo to upload to youtube. Obviously they did not comply to my request. And here they were, for being no manners without seeking my authorization before having the sex at my premises.

It was another wednesday again. Last week, we just had the gathering session at your place with kids and others. Time really really fly. Before I realized, it is the 323 days after your departure. And today, I was unwillingly to drop by but when I was driving, I just drove to see you again. Today, the weather was cool and cloudy. But I still have the sunglasses on... For a simple reason.

I again could not control the tears when I tried to test myself if I already forgotten. But it was not. I still have not healed yet. The same memory still ran wild in my mind. It is still painful. When will I recover?

I remembered there was someone commented personally to me that I am just trying to show off as of how much I will miss you and I am a hypo. It really meaningless now to remorse. May be I am, but sharing a feeling and be brave to share and confess really require a lot of courage and I did. I am still felt terribly sorry for not taking good care to you and did not treasure and cherish the best of our time together. And I believed this could be the reason why I am still feeling the pain. How are you now, my dear?

I still do not have an answer yet!

I hope the kids can be ready sooner for me to share all these to them.

It was another normal Sunday. The weather somehow chilly with some wind. It was a really great Sunday for outing. But too bad, when I have my head straighten up, it was already almost time for lunch.

Today I added another two great Prime to my collection. And it was also today I had the glass cabinet started displaying with Prime. The highest value of my collection so far is this MP01 at RM400/=. It is yet not a new set as it is hardly can find any new set. And it was lucky that I manage to grab this first issue of the MP01 and I believed the age of this prime should be more than 3 years old. Somehow, I only getting this "second class" MP01 as it is the 20th anniversary version by Hasbro instead of the famous TAKARA. Both are equal but the value for Takara seem higher somehow for some reasons which I do not understand.

The second prime that to my like is the THS02. This is the small tiny little prime when it stands beside the MP01. I believed it measured not more than 4" but yet the build quality is really first class and it also bear its designer name. How Cool! And of course I got a new set for this at a premium...well RM300/=

There are at least another two Prime I am still looking forward to own. They are the Galaxy Convoy and Fire Convoy. I wish they will be in my collection soon. Btw, I met some collectors on Saturday night. It is also who I gotten the MP01 and they are really interesting guys who only aged around late 20 but yet the collections are 10x more than my initial counts.

Well, at least I find some focus to rely on now and I wish the kids will follow me too...although I kind of reluctant to allow them playing the Prime as the kids are really rough! LOL.

And tonight I have the kids to sleep with me. This is for some economical reason as I could save the electricity of turning on two air conditioners to one. Somehow I believed I will like to be close to them again. May be in a year or two, they will not like to be beside me soon when they are becoming more and more independence. So I will need to take the chance now...haha

At the end of the bath, I was stepping out from the bath tub and when my right foot stepped on the floor, I slipped. Thus I lost the balance with whole body hitting hard on to the floor. It was immediately acute pain at my spina and back. At the fall, there was still 1 - 2 seconds while I was almost on the fly (before hitting to the floor), my mind was really blank and thought of nothing but I could see the wash room ceiling and the next moment I regain my conscious, it was me moaning on the floor. I landed with my back and it was lucky that I did not have the head hit on to the toilet bowl or bath tub.

If I had hitted the back of my head to the toilet bowl or bath tub, I believed I would have been unconscious or see you at any time soon.

There are two things on my minds now...

1) I really need to have my will written down now

2) all the floor of the washroom must be coverred with those anti slippering mat

I still do not know if I suffer more severe damage due to the fall but I guess after a night of sleep, all the severity will emerge and I better get ready for it.

It is so fast... It is your "birthday" tomorrow. Last year, we did not manage to have the occasion celebrated as we were at the hospital and you did not like the idea of having any event inside the hospital. You were not fit for the occasion as well. I would rather we rest more as you could hardly sleep that time. I remembered I chased away the nurse who tried have the regular routine examination on you. You were half asleep and it was so difficult to have you rest.

This year, I went to have some flowers and prepared two cards for you. One will be from me and the one from the kids. And I was not feeling well with running nose and hopefully it will not be another incident of H1N1. I hope I will not infect the kids for flu. May be it was due to body fatigue and the flu, my emotional was rather disturbed and some memory of old events rush back, screening in front of me and all of these suddenly made my tears run down again. It was especially when the kids handed me their writing and drawing on the cards. I will bring the cards to you and I wish you will read them. Soo King, you will be forever in our mind and memory.

Happy Birthday and your wish to have the kids well taken care off will be granted and I promise you. They are my lovely kids and support. Oh ya, forget... I inherited a lot of gestures from you now... One being the way how I would hang the pants exactly like you and I believed it will be with me forever as I will hang the clothing under the sun everyday.. Ya, I need to wash the clothes everyday now. I hope you remembered there were times where we were hanging the clothes together as there were just so many of them; easily 30 - 50 pairs with 3/4 belong to the kids.

Yesterday, some inspiration to have a larger collection of Optimus Prime had urged me to drive to KL to buy-all-in-one-shot. There are seven of them, of which are old generation Prime which could be difficult to find now in shop. I reached home at 6.30pm and by the time I finished having them aligned, it was already 8pm. The kids were eyeing eagerly for the Prime but I warned them of touching but not "destroy" The kids are well known as destroyer.

I am still looking into other prime figures but will be more cautious for price then. After all, this is not a one-time-invest hobby.

Do you like the Prime?

I have opted to change the already worn out tyre and was advised to have regular wheel alignment and balancing for every 10k km. The car also require another service at its 40km milage. Both of these services are considered unexpected expenses but it is necessary to perform this service. The service center also inform me that it will be time to have the timing belt changed in the next service... my God! and the car also has a cracked windshield which is just pending to be shattered into piece. I hope it will be the last major service before year end.

Btw, the is something I wish to show you, the little one has managed to pedal the bicycle with the balancing wheels at two sides. He could ride fast now although still does not know how to apply the brakes. But he is enjoying his riding at every evening whenever he has the chance to cycle. He has grown up a lot, but getting more naughty and mischievous but I hope I will not spoil him.

I spent at least 2 hours in this painting and kind of like its used metal appearance and some battle damage signature. With this painting, I found another hobby --> repainting the transformers

Last night I was having a dinner and my friend suggested to have some casual street hawker delight and so we went to the "tong sui kai" but perhaps it was really too early, 80% of them were either not setup or closed. The traffic also was terrible as it was nearby to the Sam Tet primary school.

So, we tried to locate another stalls and I suggested the Hainan village chicken rice. But we decide not do so as it was dinner times and I only could observe 2 tables were occupied. My theory was that if the food are good, at this moment, the restaurant should have at least 80% full. And so, my friend suggested the nearby "Bentong fish ball" as it was supposed to be good and famous. There are around 8 tables occupied and only 2 of them were not yet served with food. There were at least 8 - 10 staffs around. For being first time to the shop, I walked to the food preparatory personnel trying to order our food and asking where was a bowl so I could pick. But I was told to be seated as their staffs would come and serve. OK OK! And so I sat there waiting. A middle aged short harsh voiced lady approached to take the order of drink. Fine, I order a drink. It was already 5 minutes and at the serve of the drink, the same lady asked me to pay and I was already furious and replied why there was no staffs to take my order as I only saw them gathered at the food preparatory area and there were at least 8 of them. The lady replied some one would come. I looked at her and she was waiting for my payment. I ignored and said "get the money from me when someone take my order" And so she left us alone. Immediately I saw her taking order from another customer and picking up the dishes. I watched and overheard that she yelled "I already take order of two tables...."

On hearing this and without hesitate, I asked my friend to leave the restaurant and did not look back. In this world now, you are not the only one who sell this type of food and you have nothing too great and why I will need to have my money to you while I was not honour as customer at all. What a shame! This is CHINESE stall. It is a shameful old style of operation. Good Luck to you. Another shop on my blacklist.

Last night, I had a chance of 1 hour break after dropping the elder to his music class. So I was windows shopping with my little one at a nearby mall. It is "The Store". It was a weekday and the time was approximate 8pm and so there was only a few shoppers. The entire store seem empty and quiet. We walked up to the third floor where it is the children and toy session. We stopped by the rack where there is a couple of "transformers" and "Gundam". There was already a guy, a rather tall and seem quite good looking guy there eyeing on Gundam. He took down the box and put it back. Walk away then come back. Repeated a few times. I was still at nearby, may be just 5 foot steps away. Suddenly I heard plastic bag wrapping sound, then I saw this guy picking up the plastic bag with a box of Gundam inside the bag and he walked away without looking back. While he was doing this act, he turned back to observe but he did not bother me who were at his front. It was as if I would not bother to report. I saw him walking to the escalator and descending to exit without paying a penny.

This was a shoplifting and it happened. It was just a simple trick and thus an item was stolen.

I mentioned this to the nearby keeper, but he also did not seem to be interested. I looked around but found no security guard. And so I left the mall wishing it good luck as it was so simple to shoplift items from it and its staffs do not bother.

What a shame to the shoplifter !

I repeatedly mentioned this incident to the kids reminding them do not shoplifting and I could buy them what they want. This incident also reminded me that I too fell in this trap before of shoplifting when I was young. But those would be for eraser, ruler etc. Worst case would be just changing a pricy price tag to a lower price tag. I still paid for the items. Haha...but this was still consider a crime and I did. I had paid off by then. This really remind me

It was another birthday for my mom. She is now turning to 66 and started to show some sight of aging. She has white hairs, wrinkles, joints pain, loss of memory and most importantly, she really old now as compare to my young memory of her. I always remember her younger appearance when I was in secondary school. She is a very dedicated woman and will never complaint for the kids although I always mischievous and disappointing her sometimes.

She will do anything for me and I know she cares for me the most, for being her youngest son. I knew it. I still remembered there was an incident of my mother queuing up at the bank to purchase a bank draft for her son. That was in 1991 when I just completed my STPM. I was indeed hoping to further my studies in Singapore since I knew I would not be getting in to the local U as I failed to acquire satisfactory results. It was really my most disappointing moment in my study life. I must confessed that (indeed only a few of my friends know this) I indeed thought of commit suicide as I had disappointed myself and my family. I did, it was a split second of thought. I did not remember what had made me to change this thought but I never did or so I would really disappointed my dearest mother.

She queued up for 2 hours and was riding to the bank with her bicycle and in the fact that, I could be the one doing so. But the shame of getting a poor results had made me embarrass to be out of the house. I was among the top student but I fell flat for the results...

I was really behaving strangely after the results. I did not talk to my family about how would I plan the studies nor my choice of studies. She was really worry but only to talk to one of my friend and since then I realized, I must not fail her again.

It was also at this time, with the accompany of SooKing bringing me back to the confidence of myself and moving forward to face the challenge of life so I will not disappoint the women of my life, Mother and Soo King.

To both of my dearest women, Thank you and I remembered all you have done for me, and I would not be myself as what as of now without your encouragement and support. I do remember and will always cherish. I must apologize for all wrong doings that pierced to your heart. I am sorry.

It was a bad influence from a good friend. He indeed motivated me towards joining him in the saga of transformers collection. But I would only interested on Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee. I have now 3 optimus prime, 1 bumble bee and 6 others. I am also have the 4 tiny petronas transformers set. (Bumble bee, Starscrew, Megatron and Optimus Prime) These are really meant for my kids so they will not disturb the bigger cousins.

This evening, I had also re-furnished the second living hall with a cabinet to host the Transformers. I hope I will able to find more of my likes and continue to pursue this collection. After all, they are really nice collection toys for memory.

There is a pot of "bird of paradise" which I have since early 2008. It only flowered once and it was the reason I bought it home. Since then, it never has any blossom and I was truly sad and trying all I could to bring it to flower. But it never did for more 15 months.

Amazingly, early this month, I could see it showing sight of blossom and it was almost like a miracle as it never did. Could it be the sight of paradise is accepting you or is this the sight you want me to remember you? I always remember this month is special for you. I do.

This week, the emotion drastically changed. I am easily upset and moody. I will fuss for a simple incident or item for hours and yet giving self heart-beating torture. It is because whenever I get angry, I am finding myself the sense of high blood pressure.

I had been nagging for sometimes since Tuesday and keep on complaining to a friend of mine. It was not really the problem of the person but I could not adjust or adapt myself to almost all situation. I am easily upset!

Today, I am making a fuss again as being FFK for some simple visit. I did not at all like the idea of FFK. Yet, the FFK was not informed to me till I checked up. I am really upset!

And alternatively I also felt terribly sorry for the kids as the little fell off the chair when he tried to climb up to the chair to off a light. The switch is way too high for him and the roller chair slipped thus he fell and cried. I was mad at this and punished them both. He cried even louder. After all, I was the one suffered as I was inspecting him when he asleep. It is simple to punish but the pains are really felt on me. Kids, please do not upset with me.

I am sorry but please help daddy for being good but not naughty.

I will again need to meditate to control my emotion.

My friend called me for the arrival of the "bumble bee" which I had waited for two weeks. After collected from his house and post the bath, I was already seated to prepare for the transformation...

It is at least 10 days I did not put a word on the blog here. Indeed I did capture quite a number of images and topics to share, but I just a bit too lazy to login to the blog but instead just resting on bed. It is sometime so relaxing just on bed without any thoughts and worry.

Ya, before I forget, I will still comment on some observations recently.

First, I started to see mushrooming of a red company. It was "SunRider". Everyone can start seeing it at almost every corner. Within a few hundred, one will see another outlet and another outlet. I do not know and do not care to know the nature of this company, but it is too many in the town making an eye sore. I will bet to "cut my head" if this company not going to be off the scene within 6 months. It may be doing good but without a good management to control the number to mushroom within doorsteps, customers will be confused and drive away. Good Luck. "SunRider", you just remind me the "KLG" or "MyFC"

Second...I started to feel life is so repetitive. Every week i am virtually and physically doing and repeating the same routine. It seems there is too much of routine schedule. And, I had stopped the morning sports. I get too tired after every trip fetching the elder to school. I would rather have another 30 minutes rest on bed. Then it will be followed by the routine preparation of the little one for his nursery then I reach the office for again non stop issues of yelling and arguing..May be I will need some juice to my life now. I try to ignite some sparks. OK OK I will

third, it is fast approaching to your birthday. This year, the lunar calendar and western calendar fall on the same day. I believed for this type of matching, it will happen once every 12 - 15 years. The last coincident took place in your 21 year old I believed. I may be having a trip to BM. I will need to "close" your wish made about 16 years ago at the St. Anne event. You have made it and I knew I will need to close it. I am also wanted to have a final wish to St. Anne so you have a peaceful life now and forever without any suffering of sadness and illness. I will want to close my wish to St. Anne. It was already almost 16 years I did not visit this event and I will go back for once and may be the last time.

July 26 will mark a closing chapter for your wish as we have been granted not one but twice gifts. The elder and little one are the greatest gift of all times. We will see you on this July 29th.

This week is the week of the screen for the follow up sequence to the box office " Transformer". I was fortunate as manage to have grab tickets for Saturday evening shows while the seats were reported have been sold out till next week.
It was also this week that I bought 7 transformers action figures. I normally do not keen on action figures although I always would like to own a few. There are some others on my possession which I happened to buy them while I was in State. Those are just FF series and Sango series for occasion display at home. Having 7 of them in one shot was a record for me. Perhaps I will add more as I still do not manage to get the "bumble bee". I will also adding some other Japanese action figure which happen to be my childhood dream of owning them. Now I can definitely afford them.

The kids, however thought that these would be their toys but I immediately correct them as these would be for display only. Kids, when you grow up a little more with more careful and appreciating expensive toys, I will pass on these to you. After all, who else will I give them to?

This morning, I arrived early to the complex while it was only few customers shopping around. It was really boring as there was really nothing new and fancy to shop around. I was at the counter chatting with friends when there was a girl passed by. She drew all our attention. This was not because she was gorgeous or pretty... But she wore a T-shirt with the collar price tag still hanging at her back. It was almost instantly observed by everyone. I did not understand why the girl was so careless as I remembered girls will always check the clothes again after they bought and brought them home. They will always have another try on at home. And so all price tags and labels supposedly removed by then.
It was, however the opposite for this girl. She does not have eyes stunning figure nor eyes catching impression. But she was really catching our attention. She prompted me to walk towards her but to only snap a photo of the tangling price tag. Perhaps it was an expensive shirt that she will need to keep the price tag so it can be re-sold as new... as what I normally did for my gadget when I bought them new. I will keep all labels, marks in original form so I can re-sell later claiming as new... LOL!

I used Iphone in Sept 2007 when it only had two versions. It was the limited 4GB and 8GB. I could remember that even the 4GB version was sold at USD399 that year. And I bought one from a vietnamese student who "imported" the iphone for some profit. Since then, Iphone spent around 50 days on my hands. It had (i used past tense here) an innovative and interactive user interface, bright LCD, excellent sensitivity with capacitive touch, stunning camera quality. It had also a bunch of shortfalls; mono speaker, low volume ring tones etc. I was still quite ok with the lack of mms and sms forwarding as well as video taking as I usually seldom utilize such functions. That time, it was (again I used past tense here) truly the king of the mobile phone. I even convinced myself and frieds of mine that once you were introduced to Iphone, you will never want to try other phones. This was the claim I made till Iphone 3G.
1 year later, Apple launched a remake of Iphone with almost no improvement of design and ignore users needs. There was still no mms and video taking etc. The screen is yellowish now as compare to first generation and except for the 3G connection, I do not really see a need for an upgrade at all. I do not see battery improvement or other features that match to other mobile phones are offering. Some others are (i used present tense here) learning and offering some counter measures slowly and progressively. Windows Mobile is to be blamed for nothing not updating its aged old platform and still using stylus based touch which lost innovation to the finger touch. HTC soon offer the touch flo as the counter measure and soon become the de facto to the WM platform now. WM phones still lack the intuitive and responsive touch sensitive as compare to Iphone and thus some had abandon the WM to join the Iphone mainly due to its stylist and design fancy. Yeah, I am using iphone!
Here we are told that there will be iphone 3GS, again there is little innovative as compare to the first Iphone. Still the same form factor, same GUI, same old dated design, same out technology etc. I felt like being cheated as this is the new iphone. It almost seem that Apple does not has a new design at all but just to plainly remake a model with some added new functions and launch for its fans. Why did Apple offer a new design? This is really like cheating the customers.
I do not see other phone maker offer a new series phone without any design changes but still call them as new model. What really a shame to Apple.
With other phone makers learning the tactics of Apple and offering great phones with refreshing design and up to date technology, I believed Iphone will be at the end of life soon. It will surely rejected by customers in another 1 year if the trend of this type of new series release to be taken place.
i am using an iphone...but the design was 3 years old and features were 2 years old. Do I need this type of Iphone?

It is soon another year of father day. It will also mean another year. Normally, I do not buy gifts to both of my fathers as I will always spend the dinner times with them. But this year, I will buy a gift for them as a token of your memorial. I do not choose too much on these gifts as I will know for whatever I buy, the fathers will like them. So here I am with a pair of Nike Air sports shoes for my dad and a Giordino T'shirt for your father. I will keep buying the gifts for the next and next father day.

The discomfort and dryness of the throat woke me up in early morning. I found myself still have slight higher temperature than normal. The muscles are aching probably due to the start of the daily excersize which I could have strain myself. I stopped the excercise today and have a day of rest. I will continue on Friday. I need to consistent on this commitment of regular excersize. Not only for myself but a responsiblity to the kids. I would really worry if I need to hospitalize for whatever reason.
The kids were sleeping beside me last night and making the king size bed a bit crowded. The little one asked why I need such a big size bed if I am sleeping alone. I did not answer on this but reminding him that we will go swimming on Saturday morning. I also remembered that there was a weekend morning that I brought them to swim at the MPI pool while you were resting at the bench observing from afar. You were complaining about easy tiredness thus did not join the kids. You snapped a photo of us from afar and I believed you could be smiling observing the kids.

Today, the little one presented me his gift for me. It was wrapped in gift package and he did the wrapping all by himself according to him. There is something heavy inside but I guess it could be one of his toy. He had also has a drawing of people having dinner.
Kid, thank you for your thought!

As usual, I woke up at 6.30am to get ready the elder to his morning school. I always will leave the little one in sleep when I am fetching the elder to school. I could prepare him a milk and remind him I will be away for 15 minutes and so he will be staying at home alone. He normally nodded his head and falls back to sleep. Today, however I did not awake him reminding him that I would be away. And so upon return, I saw him cry standing at front of the gate. He was looking for me and his elder brother. He could not locate us and did not remember that we would be away and so he cried. I am so sorry seeing him crying. I hugged him and comfort him by saying will never leave him alone without informing him. He understood the circumstances but just need me to remind him and or bring him over to my bed, as he always like to be on my bed. As usually, he always like to be beside me. Kid, I am sorry to have left you alone and made you crying. I am sorry.

The fever seem did not want to surrender to my body defense system. It is still visiting me till today, after 5 days. This thus making me as a suspect of possibly denque fever. It was somehow also quite aching and tiring for me with the fever. I did not prescribe any medication but instead battling the fever with rest and heat absorption through herbs and plain water.
I hope I will win this battle!