Reading a recent post and the interview with a possible UMNO president candidate Ku Li, looks like I can also be a candidate for ISA!!
Ku Li: No. We must review it so that it cannot be abused to detain people whom they don't like. Currently. they can detain you because they don't like your long hair or another person who is fat.
Ha ha!!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
15th Sept - a tiring week
On the political front, 16th Sept came and went without much happening, though 17th was a lot more interesting! Despite the misgivings of many of the real Anwar, I think it is still worth a gamble to have his party and coalition take over the Government as soon as possible. The current corrupt, racist Government has to go!!!
Spent 3.5 days at my Denai Alam house doing up the electricals. Added lights, fans, and also corrected a faulty wiring. The wireman had switched a wire in one of the panels resulting in one light point with no power whatever you do and another light point having power all the time no matter what you do. Luckily the logical technical me is still there despite the years of doing management!!
Had neglected to wash my cars for the past 2 weeks due to one reason or another and so I decided to wash both of them and wax and polished them after. Took me almost 3 hours doing both cars by myself. Not sure if it was all my sweat on the tee shirt (totally soaked) or water from the wash. I would think it was sweat with just a little from the wash.
Together with the sweat from doing the electricals in my Denai Alam house, I must have sweated a bucket for the week!
Spent 3.5 days at my Denai Alam house doing up the electricals. Added lights, fans, and also corrected a faulty wiring. The wireman had switched a wire in one of the panels resulting in one light point with no power whatever you do and another light point having power all the time no matter what you do. Luckily the logical technical me is still there despite the years of doing management!!
Had neglected to wash my cars for the past 2 weeks due to one reason or another and so I decided to wash both of them and wax and polished them after. Took me almost 3 hours doing both cars by myself. Not sure if it was all my sweat on the tee shirt (totally soaked) or water from the wash. I would think it was sweat with just a little from the wash.
Together with the sweat from doing the electricals in my Denai Alam house, I must have sweated a bucket for the week!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Mid Autumn Festival 2008
Mid Autumn Festival is celebrated by Chinese everywhere. In China, it is also a public holiday. It falls on the 15th day of the 8th Lunar Month (which means that if one follows the Gregorian calendar, it kinda move around). This year, the festival falls on 14th Sept 2008. For the sake of convenience, most people celebrated the day on Saturday (13th), because if one were to celebrate it on 14th, you would have to wrap up earlier as the following day is a working day.
For me, this year's celebration was on a very much smaller scale. Only 7th Aunt, Wendy and my brother Danny Kit were invited for dinner. Everyone else has their own families and dinners to attend to. Mum prepared steamed chicken, roast pork , soup (made from dried vegetables - not preserved vegetables) and a vegetable dish of sweet peas, mushrooms, bean curd and other stuff. She had also bought 6 crabs from the market earlier in the morning. So I had to abandon any thoughts of starting on the electrical works in my Denai Alam house as I was expected to prepare the crabs and serve up black pepper crabs. Sorry - no photos taken. Busy day.
After our dinner, My wife, Alex and I dropped Danny back in the center of town - he had his own activities for a Saturday night. And we skedaddled to Vincent's parents house. Alex had wanted to light up lanterns with Madeline. She had agreed and also told us that BBQ would be available!!. By the way, Mid Autumn festival is also known as Lantern festival or mooncake festival. The festival has a story behind it. See here for the details.
We started the night with Alex, Madeline and my wife preparing the lanterns.
Once those were up, the BBQ pit was fired up. Took quite a while to get that fired up - and Vincent's dad did all the work. 
I think I ate too much for dinner. 
I was feeling lethargic throughout the night (lazy lah!!). There were 2 dogs in the compound - both are NOT friendly to strangers. 
But Rocky was the fiercer one. Everytime Alex made sudden movements - he would growled and bark at him, 
I had to remind Alex to walk and talk normally and not act hyper as he is apt to do sometimes.
One thing we learn very fast was that paper lanterns burns and they burn very fast. throughout the night, lanterns just went up in flames in a very sudden manner. So much so, I was waiting with my camera - ready to take a shot of a burning lantern. No such luck.
The nearest I got was seeing smoke from a couple of the lanterns.
Took some shots and then the smoke fizzled out. Still, as you can see, the bottom of the lanterns have been burnt. 
We must have lost at least 5 lanterns that night.
Luckily we celebrated on 13th. Tonight is the 14th as I make this entry and it has been raining since 5pm!!
For me, this year's celebration was on a very much smaller scale. Only 7th Aunt, Wendy and my brother Danny Kit were invited for dinner. Everyone else has their own families and dinners to attend to. Mum prepared steamed chicken, roast pork , soup (made from dried vegetables - not preserved vegetables) and a vegetable dish of sweet peas, mushrooms, bean curd and other stuff. She had also bought 6 crabs from the market earlier in the morning. So I had to abandon any thoughts of starting on the electrical works in my Denai Alam house as I was expected to prepare the crabs and serve up black pepper crabs. Sorry - no photos taken. Busy day.
After our dinner, My wife, Alex and I dropped Danny back in the center of town - he had his own activities for a Saturday night. And we skedaddled to Vincent's parents house. Alex had wanted to light up lanterns with Madeline. She had agreed and also told us that BBQ would be available!!. By the way, Mid Autumn festival is also known as Lantern festival or mooncake festival. The festival has a story behind it. See here for the details.
We started the night with Alex, Madeline and my wife preparing the lanterns.
Once those were up, the BBQ pit was fired up. Took quite a while to get that fired up - and Vincent's dad did all the work. 
I think I ate too much for dinner. 
I was feeling lethargic throughout the night (lazy lah!!). There were 2 dogs in the compound - both are NOT friendly to strangers. 
But Rocky was the fiercer one. Everytime Alex made sudden movements - he would growled and bark at him, 
I had to remind Alex to walk and talk normally and not act hyper as he is apt to do sometimes.One thing we learn very fast was that paper lanterns burns and they burn very fast. throughout the night, lanterns just went up in flames in a very sudden manner. So much so, I was waiting with my camera - ready to take a shot of a burning lantern. No such luck.
The nearest I got was seeing smoke from a couple of the lanterns.
Took some shots and then the smoke fizzled out. Still, as you can see, the bottom of the lanterns have been burnt. 
We must have lost at least 5 lanterns that night.Luckily we celebrated on 13th. Tonight is the 14th as I make this entry and it has been raining since 5pm!!
Sunday, September 7, 2008
I got an I-Jerry!!!
Finally - after waiting for quite a while, my I-Jerry has arrived. It is a speaker which works differently. It needs a hard surface in order for the sound to be transmitted. Lift it off the table and it is speechless. Got one for Elaine too. She had been just as anxious as me waiting for it's arrival.
ESSI Asia Sdn Bhd (758945-K)
B-3A-26, Block B, Merchant Square,
Jalan Tropicana Selatan 1, PJU 3,
47410 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan,
West Malaysia.
Tel: +603-7883 0636 Fax: +603-7883 0955
Email: mailto:info@essiasia.com.my
The sound from the little guy is clear and crisp. Been trying all types of music on it for a while. Jerry also comes with 1G of memory so you can input from music players, such as, CD, MD player, or copy from the notebook PC, MP3, MP4, etc, and it can play them on a standalone basis.
Product Specifications:
Fashionable and lovely
Volume control on its ears
Max. output power: 12W
Input AC voltage: 100V-240V
Output DC voltage: 12V
Static current: 1A
Frequency response: 100-17KHz
Sensitivity: 80db
Size: 128*75*75mm
Weight: 740g
If anyone is interested to find out more similar products, go to this site. Or write toFashionable and lovely
Volume control on its ears
Max. output power: 12W
Input AC voltage: 100V-240V
Output DC voltage: 12V
Static current: 1A
Frequency response: 100-17KHz
Sensitivity: 80db
Size: 128*75*75mm
Weight: 740g
ESSI Asia Sdn Bhd (758945-K)
B-3A-26, Block B, Merchant Square,
Jalan Tropicana Selatan 1, PJU 3,
47410 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan,
West Malaysia.
Tel: +603-7883 0636 Fax: +603-7883 0955
Email: mailto:info@essiasia.com.my
Thanks Vincent for helping to get them.
Mid Valley/ The Gardens - 7th Sept 2008
My family spent almost 8 hours at Mid Valley and The Gardens today. I think that was the longest time we had ever spent in the shopping complex. Halfway through, Alex was already complaining that his feet was tired...... but they miraculously became okay again when he was told that I had permission from a sponsor to get him his Sony PSP today!!
We were at the shopping complex by 10.30am to avoid the lack of parking lots. Anytime you arrive after 12,30pm on a weekend, you can be assured of little or NO parking lots available. You would have to wait and hope that someone would be leaving near where you are waiting. These waits can be as long as an hour.
First we went to the GAP. I had RM1000.00 worth of vouchers to spend!! Won that some time back and then was told that I could not use it during sales (which was the whole of last month!). Alex and my wife managed to grab a few Tees, some socks and even a backpack. That came to RM802. Used RM800 of the vouchers and paid the difference in cash - all RM2 of it. Got a free water bottle and a free membership added to the whole deal. Okay I guess, since I only spend RM2 cash for everything.
Then we decided to explore the Gardens. We had never gone beyond the 1st floor on all our visits. We got something at Marks and Spencer. Walked into a couple of mobile phone shops. I was looking for a second phone for private use. The Gardens even had ketupat shaped lanterns hanging all over.
Was this suppose to be Tanglung Raya?? Went all the way up to Borders (the bookshop) and the GSC Cinema level. By then Alex was thirsty, so we decided to try the "Delights of Gurney Drive" located on level 3 (use the middle escalators, not the ones at the Isetan or Robinsons ends). 
They had 16 hawker style stalls located all around the dining area offering authentic Penang fare. They claim that they had 16 chefs from Penang preparing the food. You can just make out some of the stalls behind my wife.
Alex and wife are not big eaters, so I ended up ordering Char Kway Teow and
Sotong Kangkong (squid with morning glory), 
a glass of ice lemon tea (which was more lemon and little tea with lots of ice). Wife ordered what she thought was pig stomach noodles. Turns out to be Pig Intestines with kidney noodles. Food was good but pricey. As an example, Char Kway Teow was RM12.80 +10% (svc charge), which Little Penang Cafe in Mid valley only charged RM9.80 for the same thing. Of course the typical hawker only charges RM4 or so in most places.
After lunch, we popped over to Mid Valley. Walked on every 1st and 2nd floors of Jusco, Toys R'Us and so on and by then Alex was complaining of tired feet. According to my pedometer, we had only done about 8000 steps so far. So i suggested that we stopped over at Burger King for a rest and drinks. While he was resting, I popped over to the Samsung shop next to Besk Denki. After a big of haggling, decided on a Samsung SGH-L760 for my second phone. Very basic features - only MP3, 2M camera and 3G. Nothing fancy.
I had SMSed a sponsor if i could buy the PSP for Alex today, since we were there. Sponsor agreed and I told Alex. Eyes lit up immediately. No more tired feet. Made our way up to the 3rd floor. First shop which we had inquired previously had no stock of the Mint Green Slim and Lite PSP. So we went to a second shop. Package, including downloading up to 7 games onto a 4G memory card, came to RM979. By the time we were finished, it was almost 6pm!!
Loooong day!
We were at the shopping complex by 10.30am to avoid the lack of parking lots. Anytime you arrive after 12,30pm on a weekend, you can be assured of little or NO parking lots available. You would have to wait and hope that someone would be leaving near where you are waiting. These waits can be as long as an hour.
First we went to the GAP. I had RM1000.00 worth of vouchers to spend!! Won that some time back and then was told that I could not use it during sales (which was the whole of last month!). Alex and my wife managed to grab a few Tees, some socks and even a backpack. That came to RM802. Used RM800 of the vouchers and paid the difference in cash - all RM2 of it. Got a free water bottle and a free membership added to the whole deal. Okay I guess, since I only spend RM2 cash for everything.
Then we decided to explore the Gardens. We had never gone beyond the 1st floor on all our visits. We got something at Marks and Spencer. Walked into a couple of mobile phone shops. I was looking for a second phone for private use. The Gardens even had ketupat shaped lanterns hanging all over.
Was this suppose to be Tanglung Raya?? Went all the way up to Borders (the bookshop) and the GSC Cinema level. By then Alex was thirsty, so we decided to try the "Delights of Gurney Drive" located on level 3 (use the middle escalators, not the ones at the Isetan or Robinsons ends). 
They had 16 hawker style stalls located all around the dining area offering authentic Penang fare. They claim that they had 16 chefs from Penang preparing the food. You can just make out some of the stalls behind my wife.
Alex and wife are not big eaters, so I ended up ordering Char Kway Teow and
Sotong Kangkong (squid with morning glory), 
a glass of ice lemon tea (which was more lemon and little tea with lots of ice). Wife ordered what she thought was pig stomach noodles. Turns out to be Pig Intestines with kidney noodles. Food was good but pricey. As an example, Char Kway Teow was RM12.80 +10% (svc charge), which Little Penang Cafe in Mid valley only charged RM9.80 for the same thing. Of course the typical hawker only charges RM4 or so in most places.After lunch, we popped over to Mid Valley. Walked on every 1st and 2nd floors of Jusco, Toys R'Us and so on and by then Alex was complaining of tired feet. According to my pedometer, we had only done about 8000 steps so far. So i suggested that we stopped over at Burger King for a rest and drinks. While he was resting, I popped over to the Samsung shop next to Besk Denki. After a big of haggling, decided on a Samsung SGH-L760 for my second phone. Very basic features - only MP3, 2M camera and 3G. Nothing fancy.
I had SMSed a sponsor if i could buy the PSP for Alex today, since we were there. Sponsor agreed and I told Alex. Eyes lit up immediately. No more tired feet. Made our way up to the 3rd floor. First shop which we had inquired previously had no stock of the Mint Green Slim and Lite PSP. So we went to a second shop. Package, including downloading up to 7 games onto a 4G memory card, came to RM979. By the time we were finished, it was almost 6pm!!
Loooong day!
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