We finally sold our car through ebay last week. Advertised it as a car with a damaged engine, to be wrecked or restore. Started the bid at 99 cent and the bid went really well even surpassing my expectation. The final bid was up to 355 dollars. Boleh la.
So long old friend.
You’re out buying groceries. You’ve bought everything you need except that little thing you reminded yourself to buy when you go out shopping. You’d wrote it down somewhere – ‘A list of things to buy’ when you go out & you totally forgot about it. You were just simply too preoccupied with your weekly groceries routine.
So here’s my idea.
What I would like is a handphone application such as in iPhone or Android base phones that utilize the geotagging & GPS feature of their phone and the typical notification reminder ring tone you have on your unit.
Here’s how it works.
First, the handphone needs to know your home location via geotagging.
Second, it needs to know if there is a list of things you want to buy when you go out.
Third, using the handphone GPS feature, it will know that if you’re not at home, then the application will send a notification of the things you’d put in your list.
Voilà – problem solved!
* I don’t know if there’s anything in the market but would be great if there’s already such thing though.
Sometimes I don’t like eating my own cooking. But when Ayu cooks, I drool just over the smell of her food. Ayu feels the same way too when she cooks. Does anyone else feels the same way too?
Why?
Because you can’t simply walk-in. You have to call first and ask whether you can walk-in.
You have to call & make an appointment a few days in advance.
A lot are closed on weekends. Saturdays are appointments base only.
One clinic even said they don’t accept new patients on Saturday!
GP’s here are more incline to look at the computer screen and type in your symptoms instead of looking at you properly.
When we brought Amir to the GP because of his eczema. The doctor had the nerve to show us a web page about eczema! We already saw that before we came to see the doctor! During consultation, the doctor literally read from the website. READING it to us.
Freaking unbelievable.
* On a slightly related note: Ayu self diagnosis leads her to believe she has conjunctivitis & just need the doctor’s prescription. She only has one final exam to pass to finally become a doctor. Pray for her health & success. Amin.
We got ourselves a Fuji FinePix S5700. It’s a high-end compact camera with a bit of dslr functions to play with. It’s lightweight & easy to use. And I must say that it can deliver some amazing shots.
I’m still learning the basic technique for its slr-like functions such as using the aperture priority mode, setting the right exposure level and just getting used to this camera. In my opinion, the greatest strength of this camera is the ability to get really amazing macro shots. Either in macro mode or zooming in from a few feet away, the shots are pretty impressive to me. But unfortunately it doesn’t have any image stabilizer. So what I did is either set a bigger aperture or a higher shutter speed to not get that camera shake effect. And it doesn’t save in raw as well. But overall its a pretty good camera and it’s starting to grow on me.
Enough talk, here are a few shots taken from it (All 4 are unedited).
When I was in primary school, I didn’t know the existent of vernacular schools. For me, it was just school. A place to learn, meet friends, play & do all sort of stuff that you normally do at school. It was fun and it was enjoyable. Now I wouldn’t lie to you that we can’t tell the difference of different races. But that sort of stuff just doesn’t matter when everyone speaks the same language to each other.
When I was in secondary school, I witness first hand the people who came from vernacular schools. They had to go into ‘kelas peralihan’ where they will learn to read, write & converse in Bahasa Malaysia. I heard nowadays, student with good UPSR results don’t have to go to these transition classes. I saw many of them that can read, converse and articulate themselves really well in BM but I also saw many of them that can’t. I remembered some can’t even form a sentence even when they reach Form 3.
To those that can’t fit in into their new school, interactions with other people becomes very limited. And if you can’t understand or even speak the same language, it becomes much more difficult. I won’t sugar coat you with anything, I saw groups of racially divided amongst them. Among us. And a sudden low-level of racism instilled, institutionalize & eventually normalize in our head. That it was happening, it’s normal and we should accept it. We try to find a place to fit it.
Every school has it’s own school brawl. This happens. Teenagers with raging hormones. Go figure. But when it happens because of racism, then you’ll see very ugly fights. I remembered that it once got so bad, that the police had to be called to my school. Round up the at the assembly in front of school for hours. I don’t remember if anyone was hauled up into the police truck or not. My memory is a bit murky here because I always try to avoid fights and I am less than interested to know who were fighting among who.
In university, we sort of drifted and socialize in our own comfort zone. It wasn’t because we didn’t want to mix with others or we find ourselves different. It just happened unintentionally. I guess everyone saw pass the charade and just want to be themselves.
So if you ask me whether a single stream school could eliminate all of this? Then I will say I don’t know but it’s a good start. But I don’t expect it to see immediate results. Because the parents of these children of the future is us. Education starts from home. If we fail to instill the right set of values and set an example for our kids, then no matter what the government do, it will not change us as a society.
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” – Alex Haley
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Since my childhood, I always thought that the reason that 2 of my toes on my left foot are joined together is because according to my mom, I was born early 20 days than expected. So my layman mind thought that it was a very perfect logical reason. That probably my toes didn’t had enough time to properly form. How little did I know then (and probably a bit naive 
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But that change since I met Ayu because every now and then she performs some medical examination on me. I discovered that I infact have syndactyly. But it’s an incomplete syndactyly, the skin is only joined part of the distance to the tip of the toe.
Not only that, I’d discovered that I also have Pes Planus. Flat feet. For the longest of time, until now I didn’t even know that it was a medical condition. No wonder that I always feel pain when I’m walking especially around the arch of my feet. So the next thing is I’m going to get myself a special insole that can support my arch. Hopefully this could at least lessen the pain that I feel every time I go out for a walk (or the occasional jog).
The government recently announce that 15 or more year old cars must be inspected at Puspakom before renewing their road tax starting next year. While I applaud this step to ensure that old and unsafe cars are scrapped from the public road however I can’t say the same for the inspection process.
This is because of Puspakom. It’s the sole agency that operates the inspection.
I remembered the last time I went to Puspakom for an inspection at Padang Jawa. The one besides the JPJ office. There was a very long queue that took hours to go through. This was not a normal queue where people line up to the counter. This was a queue of cars. Right from the entrance of Puspakom to the outer parameters of it’s borders. It was so long that it turn into a L-shaped queue.
The inspection itself didn’t took very long. I could say that it took only about 20 minutes. That’s it. The waiting took all day. People had to take their holiday just to go for an inspection themselves. Though I’ve heard that you could pay somebody for RM200 to do it.
That’s if you could trust leaving somebody else driving your car.
Semalam tengok filem Histeria dengan Ayu. 10 minit pertama cerita bermula dengan agak menarik. Tetapi makin lama movie ni macam tengok Alien Vs Predator + Jeepers Creepers.
Entahlah, unsur seram berakhir bagi aku bila aku dah nampak rupa hantu/raksasa. Sebenarnya, melihat sesuatu yang tiada bentuk dan rupa bagi aku lebih menyeramkan. Kelibat agak seram. Tapi raksasa bertaring tajam yang nampak macam Venom dalam cerita Spiderman campuran Predator tak menyeramkan langsung. Selain Liyana Jasmay (dari episod Tv/movie Kembali), kesemua lakonan watak utama agak kaku dan tampak kekok.
Namun begitu, jalan cerita boleh dikatakan agak menarik dan jika anda sukakan filem yang banyak menjerit dan darah terpercik sana-sini. Mungkin ini cerita untuk anda.
