Wednesday 25 December 2013

Christmas Day

Today is Christmas holiday. I am still on my annual leaves. We went to have spaghetti lunch in a bakery cafe at noon. Later, I came home to complete all of my pending blogging posts. At night, we have our dinner at home. We had a simple Christmas celebration just now as brother-in-law bought us a cake.

Frozen(2013) 24 Dec

*A replacement post for 24 Dec 2013

We went to watch Frozen in cinema. It was a nice Disney animation movie. The story is really touching. Not romance but sisterhood relationship. Thumbs up. Unfortunately little niece claimed that she wanted to sleep during the movie. In fact, she didn't like the loud audio system in cinema.

At night, my insurance agent shared some of his investment thought with me while settling on my previous request on the nomination matter.

Worrying Alarm 23 Dec

*A replacement post for 23 Dec 2013

I received an auto call from my home security system that one of the area in my house was violated. It was at the rear of my house. I was kinda worry. Luckily mum told me that it was possibly caused by the dropped of mop that she put near to that area. Eventually, it was true after we investigated it when reaching home.


Wet tissue melt? 22 Dec

*A replacement post for 22 Dec 2013

I was in a shopping mall and out of a sudden I had a stomach ache. The washroom in the mall was damn dirty. I did not fully get my business done as the washroom was all with sitting type of toilet bowls. I got it done partially via squatting on the toilet bowl. Mum gave me a wet tissue for hygiene purpose. I was wondering could the wet tissue melting because I just flushed it into the toilet bowl.


Spending 21 Dec

*A replacement post for 21 Dec 2013

Spending......
- dessert (kueh)
- joss stick container
- mop
- vegetables
- power cord (big difference at different shops)
- cloth hanger (for sister)
- brown rice
- po pia (kind of local side dish food)
- ground arrangement fee
- vegetarian raw material (boss not around)
- cloth container with roller and handler (too expensive and found at other places)

Weird staff 20 Dec

*A replacement post for 20 Dec 2013

I was wondering why my superior hired in so many "weird" ex-staff? I got to know from my colleague that there was a ex-colleague went through the legal path to fight for his employee RIGHT? He made everyone in the company fell in an awkward trouble. I doubted he was not aware on his own problem. Sigh......

Insurance agent 19 Dec

*A replacement post for 19 Dec 2013

I felt a bit angry with my insurance agent due to his poor service. He did not inform me anything on the request that I had made previously. I only got to know from online feedback that my request was rejected. Also, he did not reply my message and just an ignorance. I felt no trust to any insurance agent anymore. Better I settled everything by myself.

Courier from cemetery company 18 Dec

*A replacement post for 18 Dec 2013

I was kinda busy as I wanted to prepare for coming semester teaching material before my annual leaves. There were a lot of documents to be prepared.

I got a call for a courier postage on the day. I was wondering what was that document? After checking their air way bill via internet, it was from the cemetery company. Made me wondering what was the important document to be received when receiving the call.

Power cord for Notebook 17 Dec

*A replacement post for 17 Dec 2013

My power adapter was conked out on the day. Therefore I borrowed company's netbook temporarily.

Actually one of my colleague is damn knowledgeable. I only knew the voltage rating is the key of choosing power adapter for notebook. Current rating can be higher to power up the notebook. Previously I thought of over current may burn off the notebook. In fact, low current can't power up the machine.

When I reached home, I tried to troubleshoot on the adapter and found out the cause of failure was the power cord but not the adapter itself. The malfunction power cord was burnt and generated smoke. Luckily I managed cut off the power supply instantly.

Previously I thought of claiming the adapter as it was still less than one year when I bought from the online store. As promised by the store, I only needed to bear the postage fee to send the adapter to them. Luckily I did troubleshoot carefully or else I will encounter lost on the postage because power cord was not under warranty anymore.

Government Service 16 Dec

*A replacement post for 16 Dec 2013

We went to Immigration Department of Malaysia and National Registration Department of Malaysia for passport and identity card application. I can said their service was improving a lot. Fast and efficient. I managed to settle everything within 3 hours, from 7:30am to 10:30am. Only the identity card was pending for processing for about 10 working days. I got my passport at around 10:30am.

While waiting for the passport, we went to eat our breakfast in a nearby Chinese coffee shop. Then we shopped in a nearby hypermarket. This hypermarket gave bad experiences to me for a lot of times. This round, the security guard disallowed me from bringing in my bag even though I was already in the market for some time. He asked me to handover my bag to him when I planned to get the brochure at the customer service counter which was not available at that moment. I felt it was a bit uncomfortable of his deed. He should stop me from entering at the beginning. The situation was awkward like I was being suspected of stealing something from their store.

On our way home, the road design is really poor as it was really congested due to the bottle neck and sloping bridge whereby a lot of heavy vehicles that used it. They climbed slowly like a tortoise that made the traffic congestion. 

Later, we went to the travel and tour agency to ask further on the ground arrangement that we requested previously. We made the booking. The salesgirl asked about the person who serviced us previously because they had commission for each deals. Unfortunately I did not remember so I asked her to take the deal.

Sex Harrassment 15 Dec

*A replacement post for 15 Dec 2013

I was on duty in an education fair. Not many inquiries for my in-charged area.
 
I didn't really know how to tackle parents during the counseling. Sometimes my speaking became not fluent when talking with them. Sometimes I became very professional in explaining when it went smoothly. Unstable performance of me.

Anyway, we spent a lot of time in chatting with colleagues. I grabbed quite some information from them and knew better on our institution.

It was a pleasure that we were being fetched by our handsome young colleague to and fro the fair. I felt he was being touched (even on his shoulder) by a fat married woman colleague for a few times. Can I said it was sex harassment? LOL.

Packed Day 14 Dec

*A replacement post for 14 Dec 2013

Activities......
1. Local Sport Complex  - received cash from state government (Skim Mesra Usia Emas)
2. Bank - deposited cash (from the scheme)
3. House Developer Office - got 2014 calendar (allowable 2 pcs/pax, so asked mum to take also)
4. Lighting Shop - bought LED driver (unfriendly boss)
5. Clinic - mum saw doctor (friendly doctor)
6. Temple - gave donation (in charged person prepared fruit and tea for us)
7. Restaurant - ate lunch (met temple friend)
8. Watch & Spectacles Shop - adjusted mum's watch (RM5) and changed spectacles parts (FOC)
9. Electrical Appliances Repair Shop - took repaired steam cooker (tested and paid)
10. Petrol Station - filled in petrol (mum practiced)
11. Vegetarian Raw Material Supply Shop - found location (closed)
12. Home - rested

Pig Intestine 13 Dec

*A replacement post for 13 Dec 2013

I went to eat my dinner at a Chinese coffee shop while waiting for mum from her shopping with sister in KL. Oh my gosh, I accidentally poured the sauce from a dish with pig stomach/intestine to my rice. I thought it was tofu dish with sauce. I felt like wanted to vomit while eating. Yuack......

Career Future 12 Dec

*A replacement post for 12 Dec 2013

I discussed with one of my colleague about my coming semester workload. Kinda unbelievable and unacceptable arrangement. All the while, I remained silence didn't mean I didn't care. Definitely I would fight back if it was over my limitation.

During our lunch, there was a colleague seemed sorrow as another colleague triggered it. I guessed it was due to his research was extended for correction in a year. That's the scary part of research. No guaranteed and uncertainty.

LED driver 11 Dec

*A replacement post for 11 Dec 2013

It was a special day. It was 11.12.13 but I did nothing special.

I went out to buy LED bulb but got to know from the shopkeeper that the cause of the flickered light was perhaps the driver. Unfortunately he did not sell it. Other lighting shops were closed due to holiday so I had to buy in another day. Besides, we went to take mum's passport photo that was captured a few days ago. I also asked the photo shopkeeper whether my previous photo taken 2 years ago fit to the latest passport specification or not. The answer was it depends on the immigration department officer.

Other activities were......
-had lunch outside-sister was back in home
-took a nap at home

Bad day 10 Dec

*A replacement post for 10 Dec 2013

It wasn't my day.

I noticed that I forgot to bring my socks before entering the highway. Therefore I thought of borrowing socks from brother-in-law when I reached near to my working place. Unfortunately I found out that I also forgot to bring my notebook when I was half way in my journey to work. I had to reverse back home to take my stuffs. Consequently I had to face the ridiculous traffic jam in the journey as it was becoming late. As a result, I was late in company for a few minutes.

Besides, I got to know my coming semester workload was damn heavy from my colleague after their meeting. Damn it......Kinda dissapointing on their arrangement.

Also, I received call from sister that claimed mum was crying at home. After clarifying via phone call, mum told me that she had a fever and headache. I guessed she was sick due to missing dad. Me too :-(

Noisy Office 9 Dec

*A replacement post for 9 Dec 2013

- Filled in petrol (Shell)
- Helped mum to bank in cash (ATM)
- Worked as usual
- Applied to clear annual leaves (long leaves)

It was a bit noisy and annoying in the office on the day. A colleague was shouting and scolding  angrily at a problematic colleague again. In fact, he did not need to scold him in that manner. I was planning to talk to him so he can just let it be.

Airasia Ticketing 8 Dec

*A replacement post for 8 Dec 2013

Finally, we decided to go Chiangmai. I booked our air ticket and this was my first time of air ticket booking. It was such a new experience for me. There were a lot of additional charges for Airasia ticketing.

List of Airasia charges
(Main)
1. Ticket
2. Airport Tax
3. Fuel Surcharge
(Additional)
1. Seat - RM20/pax
2. Insurance - RM23/pax
3. Meal - RM12/set
4. Baggage - RM44/trip
5. Direct Debit Processing Fee - RM4/transaction

Travel agency 7 Dec

*A replacement post for 7 Dec 2013

We went to ask for information in another travel agency on the day. I felt their service was not professional. The branch manager is a Chinese but an English speaker. She was not really friendly in advising us on their ground arrangement packages.

Again, sister had a quarrel with mum and me on travel matter. Could you please be tolerate and considerate a bit? We wanted a free of mind trip. Travel with your in law will make us feel uncomfortable and uneasy.

Convincing 6 Dec

*A replacement post for 6 Dec 2013

I felt really worry and pressure after our school meeting. Our superior used a negative way to pressure us to work out on students intake. It was like we were being threatened if we do not cooperate in marketing task, we may end up with department closure.

Unfortunately, how do we market ourselves? Learning experience? Committed staff? We were really being demoralized. Good or bad were all depending on you, boss! You asked us to convince ourselves that we are better in order to convince our prospective students. However HOW if the reality is NOT?

Mental Disorder 5 Dec

*A replacement post for 5 Dec 2013

I have a colleague was in big trouble. He is going to get married soon. Unfortunately, he was being forced to resign and lost his job due to his poor working performance and attitude. How can he live in that manner? His partner aware on this issue? I believed he was suffering from mental disorder. Hope he will recover soon.

Meal Price Increase 4 Dec

*A replacement post for 4 Dec 2013

I noticed that the food price in my school's canteen was increasing gradually.

Mixed rice with 3 vegetable type dishes was about RM4.50. The old price was only about RM4. The increment was about 50 cents which was 12.5%. Oh my gosh! Where was the increment of my salary?

Over Prepare 3 Dec

*A replacement post for 3 Dec 2013

I over prepared my lesson on the day. My class was progressing slow by comparing with what I did prepare. I wasn't sure the reason, perhaps this was my first round of teaching for this subject.

Pleasure without cost increment 2 Dec

*A replacement post for 2 Dec 2013

I felt a lot of things do have price increment recently. How do I survive? Sigh......

Luckily, I still can pleasure myself without any price increment. LOL. Enjoy this sexy jack off guy.

Ground Arrangement 1 Dec

*A replacement post for 1 Dec 2013

This was my first time to request information at a travel and tour agency. We went to the agency which is located in a shopping mall near to my house.

In the shop, there were a lot of information of ground arrangement packages pasted on the wall. We proceeded to the customer service counter to ask for information. There was only one salesgirl over there. Before us, a customer was asking for the print out of ground arrangement packages. Therefore, we were asking for the same thing. I requested for the ground arrangement packages information for Cambodia (Phnom Penh), Thailand (Chiangmai) and Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh). The print out were complete with itinerary, price and etc...... The salesgirl was helping me to highlight all the needed cost for the trip, like ground arrangement fee, agent fee and tour guide/driver tipping. I was asking for procedures for this kind of arrangement. The salesgirl told me that I can buy air ticket by myself before booking for the ground arrangement packages as they were available all the time. Additional charges incurred by travel agency if they help to book air ticket.

After surveying on Airasia ticket, we planned to go Ho Chi Minh as the tickets were considerably cheap if compare to Chiangmai during Chinese New Year. Phnom Penh was not being considered as the ground arrangement was blocked out during Chinese New Year. Later, I told my sister about our survey and plan for the Ho Chi Minh trip. She got mad as we did not plan the trip in her convenience. She is such a complication woman.

Friday 20 December 2013

Lor Mee 30 Nov

*A replacement post for 30 Nov 2013

We went for hypermarket shopping and bought a lot of things included my niece schooling attire. It was really tiring.

Later, we went to eat lor mee and fried rice which was not really vegetarian food (we requested to change meat to vegetable, but still prawns were existing in the served food). From my observation in the restaurant, the food was kinda dirty as raw vegetables were being cut without soaking or cleaning with water. However, it was still famous with its noodles.

Food vs Stomach 29 Nov

*A replacement post for 29 Nov 2013

I had a stomachache and I went to toilet for a couple of times.

Suspected......
1. Breakfast oat too sticky which was prepared by mum?
2. Lunch mixed rice portion was too much?
3. Lunch mixed rice was not clean?

Students' group 28 Nov

*A replacement post for 28 Nov 2013

I joined my students' group in Facebook. I got an invitation from a student. I was not sure whether I was truly being invited by them or because of my requisition of joining. There were a lot of information and news to be grabbed from it. There was a video being secretly taken in the lesson too.   

Hopefully my students were comfortable to have me in their secret group. 

Car Alarm 27 Nov

*A replacement post for 27 Nov 2013

There was car alarm alert in my company's car park for awhile. I thought the alarm was from my car as I worried my car's battery was low charged. It was because my car was hardly to start up on that few days. Therefore I went to have a look in the car park. Luckily, it wasn't mine. It was my new colleague (Malay lady) car's alarm. There was something wrong with her car's alarm. The alarm triggered when she wanted to start up the engine. She sent her car for checking in a workshop. Problem was found from the battery of her car's remote control sensor. As what I remembered the battery cost was damn high (perhaps about RM20).

Pending stuff 26 Nov

*A replacement post for 26 Nov 2013

I kept on checking for Airasia cheap/promotion air tickets. I had no idea how to plan a holiday abroad. I thought of traveling during this December as I still have quite some annual leaves left. However, the pending stuff (government related on will) prohibited me from going oversea and I was kinda indecisive in the travel plan.

Neighbourhood 25 Nov

*A replacement post for 25 Nov 2013

An indian neighbour gave his name card to mum for contact exchange among neighbourhood. I only got to know he is a trainer and owned a company which is very near to my workplace. The training programmes are more likely spiritual enhancement and encouragement. He is so professional.

I was thinking of part time work at his place. I was dreaming too much and no action taken.

Sunday 1 December 2013

Batu Caves Visit 24 Nov

*A replacement post for 24 Nov 2013

Batu caves visit......

1. Climbed the staircase. Damn tiring and felt my brain was lack of oxygen.
2. Reached the peak. Accidentally stepped on a dead squirrel. Scary!!!
3. Donated money at the donation container in front of the temple on top of the caves.
4. Helped a foreigner English lady snapped photo when going down from the top of caves.
5. Obtained a red dot on my head from the Indian "Sifu" and donated money.
6. Lunch at a Chinese coffee shop.
7. Went to have a look at Forest Research Institute Malaysia.


Irresistably Supper 23 Nov

*A replacement post for 23 Nov 2013

It was very difficult to find the LAN cable extension adapter nearby my living area. Finally, I gave up in searching and bought a longer LAN cable for the connection of my Hypptv decoder and power line networking adapter. I bought with RM8 for a 3 meters long cable. Longer cable was needed as power line adapter and decoder were needed to be moved further between each others for a better TV cabinet location.

At night, I went to my aunt house for theory class. After the class, we had irresistably Hokkien Noodle for supper. In fact, it was damn unhealthy to have heavy food at late night.

Bored Class 22 Nov

*A replacement post for 22 Nov 2013

Recently, my students became reckless and they did not pay attention in my class. Was my class too boring for them?

Bazi 21 Nov

*A replacement post for 21 Nov 2013

I learnt something new from my colleague during our lunch. It was about the "Bazi". The correlation of date of birth and time that contains vital information of one's destiny.


"Wu Xing" - Wood, Water, Fire, Soil, Gold. They were important elements in "Bazi" as well.

1. Wood generating Fire
2. Fire generating Soil
3. Soil generating Gold
4. Gold generating Water
5. Water generating Wood

Non-vegan vs Vegan 20 Nov

*A replacement post for 20 Nov 2013

I did not really eat meat for quite some times. On the day, I went to have lunch with brother-in-law, sister, mum and niece. Sister ordered a noodle soup with dumpling and fish ball for me.

I ate the dumpling and fish ball as well because I thought this was hardly to be avoided in future since I will have company annual dinner and lunch soon. Our of sudden, I had an irritation throat while eating which caused me an embarrassing coughing for some times. 

I was thinking...... Did it due to my sensitive throat that was still non fully healed or because I took the meat? However, it is really not convenient for me to be a total vegan now.


I am Introvert 19 Nov

*A replacement post for 19 Nov 2013

I received a lot of miscalls. They were notifications of my house alarm. Mum triggered the house alarm accidentally when she wanted to go out. I only discovered the miscalls almost at the end of my class. Kinda dangerous as I did not notice it at once.

I had a class on the new subject that I just took up from a problematic ex-colleague. In fact, the subject is not easy to be taught. I felt my students did not pay attention during my class.

I discovered a new term via Facebook's friend sharing on the day as well. It was about an "introvert". I really found it was interesting. I felt it was well-fit to my characteristic. I am the kind of person who recharging myself by being alone. Being around people drains my energy.

Unfriendly Cafe 18 Nov

*A replacement post for 18 Nov 2013

I ate too little in the morning. 

Before my morning class, I felt kinda hungry. Therefore I went to buy an expensive and "branded" bread from my school cafeteria to fill my stomach.

Besides, my throat wasn't in good condition at recent days. I thought of buying coughing sweet from the cafeteria to soothe my throat but it was unavailable. Such an inconvenience and unfriendly cafeteria.