In loving memory of my beloved wife

The news of a pupil drown during the participation to 1Malaysia Camp at Kampar River really sank my heart. It was really a most sadden news for everyone.

I always doubt about the safety precaution by organizing committees for this type of so called camp, outing and even the national service. People always forget the safety manner but only burst the fun parts of it but risk the life of the love one.

I would really wonder why the students are required to cross the bridge at night escpecially now is the raining session? Why at night?

My elder always wanted to join this type of activities but I always refused. I would not agree for the elder to join unless I be presence. I own the sole responsibility of the kids. My elder, I hope you understand this. And I would want to see you build up with better confident, with some exposure of survival, able to swim and response to emergency but till then you are not authorized for all these activities.

I pray for the loss and some one will learn from this type of tragedy.

The shrimping (or shrimp fishing) is getting common in Ipoh as there is at two setup at my living area. The operation is somehow setup in an old fashion type. I would imagine that it could be resembled something like

1) customize family room with small pond and BBQ setup which can immediately cook the catch

2) table top with small shrimping rope to see the shrimp on the catch and also can immediate BBQ

This type of setup will definitely draw huge attention from youngsters and family as a gathering spots instead of getting rare old man type hobby of fishing.

May be I will need to get some funding sponsor and will setup this type of catch and cook yourself restaurant. Well at least in conceptual

Credit card is always the convenience cash replacement. This is always true especially at travel. Furthermore, with the recent snatch and run incidents, credit card will minimumly "protect" in some sense. This is provided the cancellation of credit card is done immediately before next swiping process.

The government decision to impose RM50 per credit card would not be a good idea at all. This tax should be imposed on bank as the card is issued by the bank and "forcefully" urging the client to spend with the card. The bank policy to almost freely give away credit card and thus result the bad debts should be the responsibility of bank as of not careful in client selection. Why the bad debts due to credit frault has to been divert to customers instead. I would want to see which bank will realize their responsibility and contribution to these bad debts and would subsidize the credit card tax. I would wait till the last week of Dec to cancel the excess cards.

I will choose to have the bank that has the best service to maintain the credit card. Or else, sorry, you are on the list of cancellation.

This is the gift that we bought together perhaps in year 1992 when my parents moved to a new house from a wooden hut. I could still remember we were choosing the gift of house warming at Ipoh. The shopping mall was Crescendo and now Olympia College.

The bell is still at front of my parents house. Whenever there are blowing winds, the bell still gives its sweetest jingle. It reminds me of you.

The elder one is always timid and shy to express especially at conflict or in stress. The little however tend to perference do not assume responsibility even when he was at fault.

There was an incident last night. The glass dining table somehow had one of its 4 legs "detached" but luckily the table did not collapse and broke. When I spotted that, two kids were holding the leg and trying to align it back. Quickly I applied glue to seal it back but worrying that the leg will be detached again and so the table will collapse. I will hope it will not.

I had interrogated them who was at fault and how this incident happen. They could not offer a good explanation although did provide some brief details. Apparently I found out that the glue had degraded and so with slight push, the leg would be bent. I had a talk to them and pretended wanted to can them. I demanded the admission of who were at fault...

The elder one claimed the little one had pushed the table and he saw the leg bent and so help to hold the table. He said the little instead went upstair and came back with toys assume nothing happen. I turned and asked the little one if this was so. He silence neither admit or deny but just stared pity at me. Then I led the elder inside the wash room and pretended canning his brother. He somehow explained further after this but still did not admit either. I asked him to stare at the wall for a while and tell me what had happened.

A while later, he told me that he pushed the table but did not aware that the leg had bent while he went up to locate toys. Upon returning he saw his brother holding the table and so he helped.OK, this is abit better.

The elder one however, leaked out to him that I never canned him... I hope the little one will learn something but not treading this as a game..

I would need to spend more time talk to these two prince of mine.

I had been noticing that I am on the way to have the weight gain. First of all, I started observing the dummy then the chubby face. I really do not like to see myself in this figure and will definitely trim down. May be I will need to have some exercise; may be I do need for some body trimming programme. Hmmm.... may be all I need is to control my diet?

The elder also on the same path of weight gaining. And he is so noticable. There are muscles building up on his body. May be two of us will need to work harder with exercise or else we will be fatty dad and son.

The protrait of our photo is still at the wall, at the back of the bed. I do not remember how long I did not have it washed but when I touched it with fingers, there are dusts. Dear, my apology for not taking care of this property.

The color of the photo still good and it always reminded me of our photography session... It was in year 1997. The photo is here to stay on.

This slogan remains as slogan. I still do not see anything that really concrete and reflective as 1Malaysia except a few poster and ministry's fancy.

What is that really has changed?

If nothing is going to be done, this is GREAT as slogan at least!

Every year since moved back from Penang, we always use the Raya break to have a quick short travel around. It was no different for this year, with only one exception... We headed to KL/PJ as this would always the best time to have shopping at this period with less hassle since majority would have been gone back for Kampung.

We had our stay at the Royale Bintang opposite Ikea. We tried a few times previously for this hotel but always being informed fully booked but this year we had our stay close to Ikea. The kids always enjoy inside the pet world with fishes, hamsters, snakes...There were only a handful few of shoppers around and we really enjoy leisurely.

There was one stop I had re-visited. It was the IOI mall. We had this visited a few times before as I could remember we also have the first visit to the first TESCO outlet in Malaysia in those early years. There had been so much changes as the main road is so wide and packed with shop lots now. The memory really stroke me a while when I halted there for sometime. Moments ago, I heard there is this RM5 Japan grocery shop, Daiso and spotted one inside the mall and so we decided to drop by. It was really a great shop. It was totally unlike those local RM5 shops. We are even losing in this type of sundry shop. Malaysian, where are you? Boleh? or just fancy with F1 team?

While shopping, we spotted something really interesting. There was a car with a little snail at the back, slowly climbing up to no where. Where is this little guy heading to? And the best part of it, the car owner did not aware till I informed him and he could care less and drove away with his little pet at the back. Great, may be I could find one here, LOL

I would always wanted to visit the Sunway Pyramid as there was quite a number of memory inside this mall...I bought the first video cam for our wedding dated back in 1997 in this mall and the video still functional now but capture no more video. You were using it for the elder one recording all the events when I was on assign to state in 2000. I still holding the tapes but I did not believe I have the courage to screen them now. I would still keep them and I will watch them one day. There was a ice skating sports inside the mall and it is still in business till today. We did not have any skating trial before, but we always leaning to have some watches and laugh whenever seeing people falling down and this was how bad manner we were on laughing over others. It was here as well in 1998 when KL was hosting the opening event for the commonwealth games that we spent the night with watching a movie with title "Sincity" and you had complained after the show that we should spend the time on the event of opening. I could still remember clearly your voice beside my ears. There was any sports opening ceremony I could watch together with you now. I am so sorry!

It was really good to have memory but this would great hurt if we could not share anything for any longer. So for all, please cherish all moments!

I lost my credit card. And I recalled it was my own mistake. I had a fuel pumping at the Petronas when I last used the credit card. After inserted to the machine and verify the use of language, I did not retrieve the card but proceed to have the pump. At the end, I remembered I was trying to retreat to have the receipt print out but I did not complete this thought but drove off. This definitely left my card to the suspect.

At 10.30pm after 8 hours later, I found out I could not have the card to make a payment. I called to the center and was informed the card had been charged RM200 x 3 in a Petronas station. I believed I would need to remember this for life for being misplaced a credit card and costed me RM600 within 8 hours.

I believed the card was on the hand of the station worker selling petrol illegally and I indeed sponsor the petrol as subsidy to others. How generous I was!

I heard one of the silliest joke. Someone who did not did her homework, but claim wanted to file up patent or right of usage of certain cultural name and or food cooking recipe or dishes.

Do you really know what is patent?

This is a reflective of ridiculous comment without homework but putting herself as a laughter to others.

I had been using the yellow man as my primary contact since end of 2005. I had been rather satisfy with its connection in town and did not really matter too much till recently. The story began like this...

At the end of last year, as I wish to register having a subline with inter free calls. And so I subscribed the Digi150 plan and the subline with RM30 committed fees or something like that. My phone bills normally in range of above RM150 and so I believed it would a better choice. It was till after April, I seriously cut down my spending on phone calls/SMS thus making my monthly usage only at around RM80 and so I could be blindly paying the balance RM70 or so. Therefore I decided to have the call plan changed to Digi50 in month June.

Forget to add in details; the Digi is registered under my sis's name as my name was barred due to some little amount which I had not paid up since year 1998. I could still remember the old phone number which was a choice of Soo King, my wife. The number was 012 xxx3484 which carried the car plate number of her first car. I still remembered we were on bed side by side when the number was activated through a sms to a phone. At that time, the choice of number available only be known till activation later and would be informed through a sms. Soo King was smiling like a winner as this was her favorite number...

Coming back to the complaint...

And so I could not request to change the call plan as I am not the primary registration party. And so I got hold of my sis to make the request with a call to the customer service center. It was done fairly easy. Then my bill of July at RM150. OK perhaps the change would be reflected in the month of August and so I wait. I did not pay the July bill. Then come August bill of RM150 and now I grew frustrated as the connection was suspended. Then a lady speaking in Mandarin identified as billing department girl. I could still remember her rudeness. "...If you are not paying then we will cut your line..." OK I said in my heart as if I care as the service had been suspended. Then on August 30, I had a call to the service center asking why the plan change was not activated and the record shown request of changes was in the month of June and so I request them to file an investigation.The service center could not take my instruction as I was not the primary line holder. My sis called again filing a complaint and request to change plan again. And so I thought everything would be resolved. It was not till Sept 11 when I called again to the center....

I was informed that there wasn't any request to investigate and would require my sis to call in again. I was furious by now and so clearly instruct the agent to write down clearly of the complaint as a remark and the primary line holder will call in immediately to activate and officially demand for investigation. My sis called minutes later and I call again making sure the complaint was finally lodged. And now the answer was yes and I was informed that within 48 hours to hear a response from DIGI. A few hours later, I received a sms with claim the complaint was now under investigation.

It was monday, after 48 hours and I called to the center again at 5.35pm and asking why I was not contacted to get informed on the outcome. The agent said someone from billing will be calling me as there was a note in the system claiming to call customer on Sept 14. On hearing this, I said now was already off office hour, would I still expecting a call? The answer was really wonderful.... Billing department works 24 hours and normally they will contact customer at night and so not to disturb customer at office hour. He requested me to wait till 9pm. And so I waited. No call. I thus made a call on Tuesday 9/15 morning, asking why no one was bother to call or contact me explaining to me the outcome. I as customer seem like more keen to get to know what went wrong and keep calling while Digi does not bother to have initiative to contact the customer who is already in furious mode. I demand a call back at 2pm or else I swift to other telco. Minutes later, I had a call from billing department and I was chairing a meeting then I demanded them to call me after 2pm as what I had mentioned earlier.

It was only 2.34pm I received a call clarifying everything and reverted all overcharge and reconnect of the line. It was concluded as Digi mistake. But again, I still refused to pay the full amount without the overcharge. Digi had requested me to pay the total amount inclusive of overcharge. I refused as why do I need to pay for the total amount inclusive of overcharge as the mistake was not me. Why do I need to pay for the overcharge as I did not make the mistake. I refused and finally they agreed to deduct immediately and requesting me to pay RM155 instead of RM438. I agreed with one condition to re-connect the line immediately. And so they did. Now my digi is on line again but I will significantly reduce the usage. Why I need to pay for such a not understanding company. Digi, you are losing me.

This is the week before the Raya. Raya always meant another few days of rest for us. Normally we will visit a place or two during the festive season. We normally will go to KL taking advantage of no jam in the city and shop around.

Last year, the kids and I were at Penang but this year still have not finalized the venue of a short rest yet. Perhaps will go to Cameron for some natural cooling trip. After the holiday, the kids will have extended day off for a week and I believed I will miss them for being staying with their grand mother side.

What is the true meaning of life with getting up, work, eat then sleep and everyday seem repeating similar rhythm with occasionally adding one of two extra tasks. I really thinking for some change of life with resigning from present job if I do not need to worry for cash. I believed I will not be able to retire any time sooner unless I strike the jackpot. This is always the poor man dream for striking jackpot.

Without realizing the date, it is soon approaching another of the mid autumn festival. I do not plan to buy any more lantern and I should believed those of you bought would be still in good shape for the kids.

Every year lantern festival will surely reminded me of our sit together at front of the house with a teapot of chinese tea, a few moon cakes, a few lit candles and lantern on the night of 8/15 (Lunar Calendar)

I yet to know how will I spend the night but definitely I believed the kids will be around. Perhaps I will tell them some of our stories if they would like to listen.