I Am Getting Fat!!!....Again

Have been eating quite a lot recently and coupled with bad back, which prevented me from doing any exercises of any sort, the weight is starting to rear its ugly bulges. Uh..oh...

Not only have I been eating a lot, have been eating badly too, what with fried stuffs, loaves of bread and dinner at some buffet restaurant AND late night SUPPER!!! Bulging, bulging. BULDGED!!!

I have to discipline myself again. Fruits for this coming week only, for me, I suppose. Lucky me, I enjoy fruits.

My best friend told me his staff, one of his anyway, is pretty "big" and she simply loves junk food and she drink coffee with seven (7) tablespoon of sugar!!! What??? She is courting trouble, definitely. I have seen her before, she would be at least 3 - 3.5 times my size. At 7 spoons coupled with junk food at every free hours, it is a time bomb waiting to explode. Don't all this people loves their own body? 7 spoons? At my worst, I only took 3 spoonfuls and that in itself is already a very bad and indulging act. Gosh!!!

That is why people always say that the young are always reckless. They tend to forget that they will get old someday. When you are old, whatever abuses you put your body through will start to revenge back. And it will probably be too late to regret it. Better be safe than sorry, and you will look better too. With so many pros, I wonder why some people still over indulge...Habits and influences, I guess. Oh well, to each his own then.

Telling It As It Is

I have expected the phone call from a friend, I know he always call whenever I go hermit-ing.

I have been avoiding quite a number of people, for many reasons, some I have stated in some of the previous posts. And I was very sure that someone will eventually call me to advise me; to forgive and forget, etc etc.

Much as I expected the phone call, but when I talked to him, only then I realised how deeply I was hurt. Tears pooled in the eyes, voice quivered, it took a lot of self control for it felt like I was at the verge of breaking down when describing the feeling of betrayal and misplaced trust and loyalty. I resolved not to put myself is such situation again, ever.

After telling all that has been bottled up, I am not sure I feel much better but at least, I can say that I am satisfied that someone heard what is in my heart and my mind.

How it goes from there, it doesn't matter anymore. I don't care, I won't care and I can't care. Definitely. I should not waver despite whatever people says. I can be stubborn and when I decided to be stubborn, I am really really stubborn, hahaha. Come what may in the way and I will just go and collide head to head with it. I won't treasure people who don't know how to treasure me back. Hahaha.

The Thistle And The Rose

I just started a new book. Reading, I mean. Though one of these days, I might even start my own book, who knows???

Anyway, the title of the book is "The Thistle And The Rose" by Jean Plaidy

You see, when I buy books, I don't have any particular fondness of any genre, I just take what took my fancy while browsing a book store, except some fantasy genre. I do like them a lot, what I called the D&D genre. Anyway, I don't know why I chose this book, aside from it being on offer. I just started reading a few pages and I am beginning to like it very much.

I quote from page 2,"They were both headstrong, wilful, loving to indulge themselves, furious with any who opposed them." ....Apparently, this is quite a norm rather than exception, no? And why should I not be allowed to be furious when people opposes me? As long as we did it civilly, why not, right? Also, what's wrong with indulging oneself, as long as it is not excessively? Probably, to a certain extent, it was like reading what I am feeling right now, hahaha.

Another quote from page 5 (I am up to page 5 presently and felt that I must write some comments before I continue reading it, I have a feeling it will occupy quite some of my time yet), "Of course, Margaret thought, that had changed everything. He was surrounded by sycophants, all eager to be friends with the boy who would one day be King; and Henry did not appear to see what their flattery meant - but perhaps he did though, and loved it so much that he would accept it eagerly no matter what lay behind it." And unquote.

How apt. How very apt. The beauty of the prose aside, the simplicity and truth of it really strike a chord to my heart. It was applicable in the court of kings long past and it still applies present day, be it kings or just mere someone with a bit of title. People are naturally drawn to money and power. Can't blame them though.

I guess people can't really deviate from their shepherd and sheep mentality. We are creature of society and we always seek approval. Pretty tiring, no? I don't know why people always want to cage themselves with glass wall. Don't do this. Don't do that. Don't show your underwear!! Don't keep to yourself. Don't be angry. Why? Why? Why? Bottling everything up will create even more problem in later days. The best thing? Don't listen to any of it. How to do it? Easy. Avoid the source. That settled many things, right? And who says escapism is not a good thing? Occasionally, you need to give youself a breather and a personal space. Me, I have here to vent all my bottled up feeling.

Anyone who can relate to all this junk, seriously, you need to have a blog of your own. You would go crazy by bottling all up. Vent out your frustration and tomorrow would be better. Or be extremely rich and successful so people would suck up to you. Like the sycophants and Henry, as quoted above from the book, The Thistle and the rose. Nice book by the look of it. Go and locate one if you are a bookworm.

I am going to continue with the book. Ciao.

Friendship Is Important...Is It?

Someone close advised me that friendship is very important. As many would have guessed, I am pretty much in "bad" mood over this stupid sentiment. Do I give up principle and belief for friendship, no matter how fleeting that friendship actually felt, or do I give up the so-called friendship for principle?

I know, deep down, I have already made my decision. It might not be the best, it might not be wise, it might not even be correct but at least, it is my very own decision, not forced down my throat with all the mumbo jumbo about how important this is, how important that is, blah blah blah....

To me, one thing matters the most, loyalty. I am blindly loyal to real friends. And I expect no less than that. I can turn one eye blind over any imperfection, for, no one is perfect. If I am not perfect myself, I can't be expecting other people to be perfect either, right? Though I have stated over and over again, I don't tolerate fools, so, it is only fair that I should avoid being one too. Except and unless by choice that is. A "pretending" fool.

Loyalty and playing by the give and take rules make one relationship works. If you give all the way, or expected to give all the way, you will soon feel the strain. By any yard stick, if you are expected to do something, remember how it is like that instead of you having to do it, why not the other fellow do it? Why must it be you all the time? We always give in once in awhile in our lives, but if you are EXPECTED to give in without any question, EVERYTIME, that is like taking things too far. I don't like that and I rather don't get involved if that is the end that I have to face.

Make no mistake, friendship is important. But so is many other things in life. True friends stay true and stand by you, those friends will deserve unwavering loyalty and reciprocal friendship. The others, well, it is nice knowing you. Let's see how it goes from there. Thank you very much, hahaha.

The Future Is Anyone's Guess

People moves on.

One of my senior staff confirmed to want to leave. I can't stop him, he says he is young and he wants to venture out on his own. Doing the same line of business of course. My best wishes to him, to start at present economic climate is not the wisest of decision, in my personal opinion but nobody knows for certain what is in store for the future, right?

Anyway, life goes on. We will feel a bit short handed, but we will survive. People do come and go. I can't be expecting people to work for me their whole life, though that will be great, hahaha.

Anyway, got an email from a friend, who, I know for sure knows something but aren't telling. He wants to be a peacemaker I suppose but then, I am not in the mood for peace, not yet anyway...I prefer to cocoon myself in the knowledge that the less contact I have, the less hurt I could feel. Beside, I don't hide my contempt well. It will show. I am practically an open book. Sagitarrius are known to have two strong personalities, yin-yang if you may. Coupled with the name Thomas, hmm, you have one recipe for a strong personality with two extremes.

I keep scores. Not particularly for keeping even but just to ensure the scale is balanced most of the time. I don't mind a bit of tilting but in the end, it must not be too lopsided. I expect to give as much as receive but if it has been one way traffic after a while, I moved on. I don't invest on a relationship that goes one way. It is pretty tiring and disappointing, I might as well form a new one, right? But in the end, I am pretty much a loner, a Lone Ranger of sort. Have been doing things my way, still doing things my own way and will continue to do so way into the future. I change a bit, but I won't change in totality. Bad boy me, hehehe.

Sunday Is Supposed To Be Sleep In Day!!

It is 1.41 a.m., local time, now, here, presently, at this instance.

I got up at 7.30 a.m, yesterday. I didn't really sleep for the past few days. Too many things to attend to.

Today, attended the Kiwanis Down Syndrome Fund Raising Treasure Hunt briefing. Started at 9.00 a.m, got there about 10.00 a.m, my sister was there to earlier, so, she registered for me already. The hunt will be this weekend, 3d2n outings, with my family forming a team and my sister family another team. It will be the first time we are hunting as separate teams. I am not putting much hope in winning anything though because Kiwanis Hunt is THE hunt of the year and one of the toughest ever, with almost every known hunters will join, not so much for the prizes but the rankings. Hunters are competitive lot and Kiwanis Hunt is more or less like the Wimbledon in tennis or World Cup in football, IMHO.

Finished everything by 11.00 a.m., and went to One Utama Shopping Mall. Called Miu to check if she will be around the area so I can pass her the things Jamie sent but apparently it was not to be. While in the Mall, bought another long-sleeved t-shirt. Almost bought three but I still have a few new ones not "officiated" yet, so, I have to resist, for the time being.

Then, after we were done with window shopping, the kids and I ended up in Atria for the book fair (which is like, forever there) and bought some really cheap books. My son enjoy reading as much as I do and he bought about 6 books and I bought about 4 books.

And lastly, we went to Yuan Restaurant again and when we reached there, it wasn't even opened yet! I think we were one of the first to arrive and by 5.00 p.m., crowds were forming. We got table soon enough and had a wonderful meal, stuffed to the max as usual. We finished our early dinner by 7.00 p.m and got home before 8.00 p.m. Read some book, watched some TV shows and here I am, updating the day event before calling it a night. Tired but overall, a wonderfully spent day. Ciao.

Picking Up From Where We Left..

As mentioned, I went down to Singapore for a quick day trip to meet up a business associate. It was pretty tiring to go up and down like that but it was worth it.

Well, it was a good meeting nevertheless. For a meeting without much agenda, we had a very good talk for almost 2 1/2 hours straight, I never expected to be enjoying the talk and discussion but I did. He was like an old friend, though I have not seen him for the last 5 years but we were able to hit it off, I guess, that is life. I find him to be too nice and I am glad for a new nice person as an addition to my circle of friends.

After we were done with the formal meet up, I was able to meet up with two very old friends and my niece. All three of them made the effort to rush and meet me before I fly back, together with my business associate cum new friend.

Both friends, I have not seen for like, years and years and years. My guestimate, 15 years ago was the last time we met. And we were able to chat like old time, like, we were just together yesterday having coffee, never ceases to fascinate me. I guess, friendship forged when you were youngsters striving out in the real world, in the rat race world makes the friendship more able to withstand long period of inactivity.

The other topic that came out was, the both of them were also on weight losing mission. Is it the in thing? Or is it the age-catching up vanity thing? Or is it really the health issue? Can you imagine, a bunch of almost 40s, males, talking about weights and diets like a group of teenager girls? hahaha.

But honestly, I was surprised that even my friends felt the same obsession to lose weight, at approximately the same time. We probably caught some kind of dormant wavelength when we were working together and it was just triggered recently? I probably will need to check and call on a few others to see if they too are on diet and weight losing mission......Very Stephen King-ish, NOT...

As for my niece, she worked in Singapore and without realising it, it has been five years since she started working there. How time flies...I am glad that she is doing fine because she is one of the niece that practically, grew up under our watch, my sister and I. Of all my nieces and nephews, I guess, she is the closest to us all. Life is such that some how or rather, those who grew up together will inevitably stay close and understanding each other better. Strange is the way of nature.

Alright, I have to wake up early tomorrow, there is another treasure hunt and I need to sleep now. I am tired, one of the most tired day of my life but it is all worth it. I am happy and I will definitely sleep with sweet dreams tonight, most probably, or dreamless, for I really am tired. Ciao...

Blogging From Airport Lounge

I am at the airport, waiting for my flight to Singapore.

For the first time, I am using the Premium Lounge, hehehe. I don't know how much it will cost but supposingly to be free??

Anyway, am making a day trip to meet up with a business partner.

Delicate Situations

When you are in position of certain power or authority, you have many decisions to make, which will affect and set another chain of reaction going. What you do, what you decide, all will have effects, somehow or rather.

My staffs were being offered higher pay. They were undecided, to stay or to move on. At present market situation, it is a wonder that people are still throwing money around..If they were junior staffs, it will be easy to make decision but when it involved senior staffs, I guess, a lot of consideration must go into it. What these people don't realise is that any decision forced upon me, will have another reaction to others that work for me too. Very delicate and tough balancing act.

In the end, there were compromise, we meet half way and we will take it from there. I don't know when there will be another round of staff pinching. Crazy people!!

Same goes for other matters. It was impressed on me that some issues about our residential area was not attended to satisfactorily. I thought everyone would have the common goal to ensure that matters be righted so we can live worries free. But when push comes to shove, apparently, people are still conservative and don't want to offend anyone. Fair enough, I can relate to that. Still, a spade is a spade and being Malaysians, we have rarely asserted our rights to the extent of being stripped away of it without us realising it.

The infamous Malaysian attitude of "Tidak Apa" (Nevermind) is so entrenched in our pysche that we rather swallow all the bitter pill than fighting it. I, along with many of the younger, so called X-Generation, those born in 60s and 70s, are in the twilight zone, we are more aggresive and blunt but just not blunt enough. We still have a wee bit of reservation.

I guess, one more generation down, we will get a more assertive people, people who knows their rights and will not let others take it away without a fair resistance. This applies in all walks of life. Politics, economy, education, everything!

Personal Motives??

Eventually, people will think about self preservation and self interest, with personal agenda, which in the end boils down to money.

I have been around, I have been a keen observer and I have made quite accurate deduction. The thing is, many people don't know that other people would observe them. Just as much as I didn't know people are observing and making notes of my shortcomings too.

My main weakness I guess is my inability to really hide my emotions and feelings. You could tell that I wear them on my sleeves. If I am angry or not happy, it will show very clearly. Over time, I don't even bother to hide it anymore.

But in a way, I guess that wearing my emotion on my sleeves is better character than those people who smile in front of you and then stab you at the back. At least, I don't back-stab, as far as I can remember though, unless there might be some I might have accidentally, but I doubt it.

And I have also learned recently that apparently, I am not the goody two shoes guy I have been led to believe too. At the face of it, everyone agrees that I am decently good guy but behind my back, I was the devil incarnate? I am being overtly dramatic here but that's basically the gist of it.

Little do those people realise that at least, I make my feelings known, be it angry, sad, dissappointment, happy and whatnots. Of course, it is human nature for wanting to be accepted, for the good as much as the bad but one thing to be remembered is, nobody is perfect, everyone have their good points as much as their bad points.

At times, I feel very tired if I have to put on a mask to deal with people. In those instances, I just decided not to deal with people at all, after all, the mask I wear normally don't do a good job at hiding my feeling when it was worn on my sleeves, thus betraying my mask. Am I making sense?

In most probablity, readers will be confused but given the circumstances, I guess, people will understand what I am trying to get through.

On a lighter note, I am wondering, is my back ache due to the "back-stabbing" of recent times? And I am about fully recovered, meaning, the season for back-stabbing is over? What a co-incidence, I suppose...

Of Underwear And Exposure

Hehehehe, I guess that title would grab some attention?

First and foremost, I am an advocate for "if you have got it, flaunt it"

I also believe that human body is one of the most beautiful object in the world. Ehem..

Anyway, the subject came about because a few of my "friends" who happened to tumble onto my blogs, saw my posting on Cam-whoring and they were laughing at me because some of the photos were showing bits of underwear. I was like, come on, grow up, be real. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Why are they so excited over a little bit of skin and some underwear showing? Heck!! I would dare to pose nude even, if the price is right, hahaha.

I can't believe that some people can still be so easily excited at this age over some skin! Probably because many people would not dare to do what I just did, it is probably easier to put down what I did than admiring the guts for it (even the lack of literal "guts" - belly - was condemned as skinny). Well, excuse me, I prefer skinny frame to bulging pregnant looking guts anytime, hahaha.

Say what you like, the fact that I dare to do it speaks volume and it actually is no big deal if you are open-minded enough. If you are not, too bad, don't visit and read and view whatever is posted.

Another Day Passes

Have been pretty busy for the past few days.

I can't remember much of what has happened, except that I had a few dining / eating to attend, forgo my beloved treasure hunt to attend another meaningless meeting. At least treasure hunt stimulates my grey cells, meeting kills them!!!

Also, I get to gauge pretty closely how real and how loyal are my friends. I guess, at times, loyalty does not begets loyalty. But that is the price one have to pay for living among society. Still, the compensation is that, you will find out the truth eventually.

Somebody once told me, if one day, when you are facing death and you can looked around and count more than one friend who stood there and will be missing you, you are already very blessed, for they are as good as family.

I don't know if I will have such friend(s) but I guess, I will find out, some time, in the not too distant future???

It is pretty late (or early morning), I probably should get some sleep before I get more morbid. Lack of sleep does strange things to one's mind.

SMS

A few smses that flew between a friend and myself, with slight modification. Upon re-reading, it sounded like some wise words, so, I decided to post it for keeping.

"Don't listen to what others say. I would know who to spend time with and who not to, given the choice. And I have kept my distance on other reason not solely because of what was assumed. Do have faith in my judgement"

"Friendship is two sided knife. And it has to give as much as take. Let it be, I treasure friendship as much but mostly, the deserving ones"

"Let's not be the judge and jury."

"Better to give than take, show the generous side of us."

Back Pain, Again!!

Like people said, if you injured your back or get back ache, it will recur.

Mine, it didn't really go away, YET!! The excruciating pain is no more there, after the first session. But I don't dare to go for second time.

It has been like, what? 3 weeks?

I am now trying the Bowen Technique, whatever is that! It alleviates the pain and discomfort and is less painful treatment overall.

I am giving it a shot and if still the pain nagged at me, I will have to go back to the "Tik Tah Low" and if all else fail, I guess, hospital it is....touch wood.

People!!

It is pretty frustrating when you are dealing with busybodies and what we Malaysians call KPC, the worst is, KPC never realise that they are KPC!!

I have a "friend" who is resident KPC and I have on many occasions, tried to avoid having too much of an association with "it" but it angers me when people go behind my back and tries to backstab me with my friends, best friend at that!

I called up and give "it" a piece of my mind. "It" could have acted on other's instruction but whatever it is, at least a courtesy notification would have saved agitation on so many people's heart. As it is, fortunately, my friendship with my friend has withstand harsher test than this but unwarranted disturbance are a big NO NO for me, not from someone whom I also happened to know for years and years! Grrgghh!! Why are people so thick skulled and thick skinned? (I am at time like that too, but not ALL the time)

I would not use "cuss" words on "it" but I am pretty close to. I just am very frustrated with some silly people fighting over silly things. Some people are just making a mountain out of a molehill. Come on, grow up!! Not everything have hidden agenda behind it. Just let it be, just let what will be, be! Why can't people just leave Providence alone and do our best and let God do the rest? I am not saying just lie and die. But don't draw wedges between friends.

I am so dissappointed that I feel that I should just ignore and give up. After all, I don't have that many years left in me to wallow and be agitated. Time flies. Time REALLY flies and before I know it, I could be facing my "expiry date" or "used by" date. Why bother with a this silly bickering, though, I must admit, it add colours to the fabric of life.

Silly people. Busybodies. Just hope they remember to pray hard that the same things don't happen to themselves. What goes around, comes around.

Nokia 5800

My best friend gave me a NOKIA 5800. A brand NEW one!



Initially, I told him No. But he asked me to just take it. And now, I like it a lot. How do you express thanks to friend for gift like this?

Human always love gifts and presents. It is the joy of giving and receiving. But to be beneficiary of such expensive presents, it is hard to explain the feeling. I don't know how I feel, except very happy and very touched.

How to express my thanks? Anyway, I am going to tell him that I like the phone very much and just a plain thank you for the time being will do. When there is opportunity, then, probably I can thank him again.

Anyway, I am going to send this post to him to let him know that I really am touched and happy with the present, though, I feel a little bit guilty for such an expensive indulgence....

Strange Sensations

You know, it has been like 6 months since I put on my braces for my teeth. Within that six months, there had been a lot of "movement" and I can feel the difference.

It used to be that I can only feel part of the teeth from top and bottom touching each other evenly, probably around 20% of it only, now, it is more like 40 - 50 %. It is very strange feeling, hahaha.

I am very curious too because two of the gaps for tooth being pulled out is closed totally, no gap. It is very strange to know it was there but it is no more there, hahaha.

Now, only the left and front teeth remains to move into place. I am very hopeful that all will be in place by year end. Crossing my fingers.

Harley Inventor

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Harley Inventor The inventor of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Arthur Davidson , died and went to heaven. At the gates, St. Peter told Arthur. 'Since you've been such a good man and your motorcycles have changed the world, your reward is, you can hang out with anyone you want to in heaven.' Arthur thought about it for a minute and then said, ' I want to hang out with God.' St. Peter took Arthur to the Throne Room, and introduced him to God. God recognized Arthur and commented, 'Okay, so you were the one who invented the Harley-Davidson motorcycle? ' Arthur said, 'Yeah, that's me...' God commented: 'Well, what's the big deal in inventing something that's pretty unstable, makes noise and pollution and can't run without a road?' Arthur was a bit embarrassed, but finally spoke, 'Excuse me, but aren't you the inventor of woman?' God said, 'Ah, yes.' 'Well,' said Arthur, 'professional to professional, you have some major design flaws in your invention ! 1. There's too much inconsistency in the front-end suspension 2. It chatters constantly at high speeds 3. Most rear ends are too soft and wobble about too much 4. The intake is placed way too close to the exhaust 5. The maintenance costs are outrageous!!!! 'Hmmmmm, you may have some good points there,' replied God, 'hold on.' God went to his Celestial supercomputer, typed in a few words and waited for the results. The computer printed out a slip of paper and God read it. 'Well, it may be true that my invention is flawed,' God said to Arthur, 'but according to these numbers, more men are riding my invention than yours'.

Have Tools Will Travel

It is the kiting season. Everywhere, there are sellers selling kites.

I bought two kites for my kids. The smallest one, as they have NEVER played kites before. To think that I used to make my own kites from old spreadsheet newspaper, using either bamboos, but mostly, fronds from coconut leaves! For the string, I only "borrowed" it from my mom's sewing machine, wrapped around an empty milk can, to be "returned" after use. Talk about recycling!

Nowadays, the string are nylons. The kites, I believed is made from some sort of nylon fabric or something along that line. My son had a kite earlier, but we never flew it because it was broken, so, I have some spare nylong string from that time. Only, it doesn't come with a reeler.

Since I bought two kites, but I only bought ONE reeler (because if I buy another set of reeler with string, then, I would have 3 sets of string, hope you understand what I mean)

So, when I got home, I took out my toolbox and scour around the house for some "discards", things that I didn't throw because I thought, it might come in handy some time. So, I got some soft flat woods from the joss stick support (now made into the "sail" of the reeler), another piece of stick from a left-over during my house's renovation, small hook from the curtain's railing, some beads and a few this and that.

The end result?

Lookie here...




The string was from the old set, transfered from normal roll into this home-made reeler.

The top most is the curtain railing's part, to guide the string when reeling back.

The handle at the blade is a small wooden bead.

The green thingy was some decoration from a dismantled old alarm clock, years ago, which so happened to be left inside the tool box, just to provide some grip on the stick.

The color black was from old left over spray paint.

The black thing slightly higher than the green thingy is the stopper, to stop the "sail" from moving, lest the string get tangled, I don't know which part that rubber thing came from, but it serves it's purposes, hahaha.

I would have preferred to use two pieces of biscuit tin's cover for the "sail" instead of nailing two pieces of thin wood to form a cross as the string would inevitably, get stuck occasionally, especially if you reel it in too fast and was not looking. But it will do, I guess, since I didn't have any empty tins around at the time, hahaha.

Now compared this to what I bought (the other set)




Of course, it looked more high-end but it doesn't have a stopper, mine does, hahaha.

It wasn't that expensive but it's a matter of fun doing it, the creativity of it and the recycling of old stuff that makes the whole endeavour such fun and gives satisfaction. Of course it would be very much nicer if everything is brand new but hey, this way, less thing get thrown into the landfill, right?

Both of the items together, bought off the shop and hand-made.

Country of Posts

While on the way to income tax department earlier on, I was at a traffic lights junction and I suddenly realised what is it that had been irritating me, beside the lack of trees on the Malaysian roads. There are too many posts. There are lamp posts, traffic light posts, road sign posts, telephone pole posts and God knows what else.

Look at these photos. It doesn't even do justice to what I have said as it only captured a small corner of it!


Can you count the number of lamp posts, whatever posts and others free standing poles? All within, say, about 4 - 10 meters of each other?

I mean, not only it is a waste of resources and money, it is an eyesore too. Why can't some of the posts accomodate all those things in one? After all, lamp posts are high enough. People pay scant attention to road signs anyway, to have it located under traffic lights would at least get their attention as traffic lights sure will attract most driver's attention. I can understand that probably the utilities might not want to share their poles but if the authority insists, I guess they could have shared it.

In place of poles, how nice it would be to have trees instead. We are blessed with fertile land and yet the authority just plainly cement whatever open spaces and leave it at that. It reflect heats back and cars will turn on their aircond full blast, which in turn will again release more heat from their compressors and the list goes round and round. End of the day? We are burdened with high temperature and unbearable weather.

Just a few days ago, as I was entering my car, I just checked the outside weather from the car thermometer and guess what was the reading? 42 degrees celcius!! Fair enough that my car was stationary but it couldn't be to far wrong anyway! As my car moved, the reading went down to 39 degrees, which is still very high by any count! I remember last time, anything above 36 degree is already unbearable. When is the power that be will learn that the lacking of greens will create havoc no matter what? Not that I am a tree hugger but at least, I am environmentally conscious. Urggh, if only I have the power to make decisions, hahaha.

2nd Earliest Post

You would probably have guessed that I woke up early today. Woke up or sleepless, take your pick. I had slept early the past few days (not by choice, by necessity to rest my back) and to be frank, noticed that my skin does appear to look better with sufficient sleep, thus, I told myself that I must sleep early (I slept at 12.30 yesterday, so much for calling it in early huh?). If vanity can not keep me in bed, nothing much will, I guess. So, I must choose to believe that I can sleep early and will do so, starting tonight, ehem..

Well, with sleep eluding me, what else to do but to play around with computer, that's how I discovered the comments thingy (the post earlier, the EARLIEST post I ever made). And just now, taking a break from surfing, I looked out the window and saw two of my neighbour's maids washing cars. It seemed to be a pre-requisite for being a maid, or having a maid. You are expected to wash car everyday.

One side of me sees the practicality to it but another side of me was like, hmm, that is very early. I guess the maids (most maids anyway) will have to wake up around 5.30 am? When at times, that is like, I have been to bed for less than 3 hours? At least, some bosses treat their maids nice, as another human.

Another side of me was like, ooww, come on, can't you let them sleep a bit later? I do come across some that don't treat them as human at all. I was like going to slap these employers silly, the maids have mother too you know.

I do know that a Stila Crazed Friend of mine will take strongly to this issue, if she is not too busy Stila-la-ing.  For myself, employing maid would be a luxury. Make no bones about it, it should be "quite affordable" but do I really need one? If I were to look at my wife, I guess, I pretty much need to get one to enlighten her home works. At the very least, she can sleep a little bit later by letting the maid get the kids readied for school. The silver lining would be the kids have their mom instead of maid. Beside, looking it through another lenses, it was nothing too heavy and then, I would have to put up with stranger in the house too. So, I have considered it for very long and at the moment, the "I want more privacy" side of me won.

But I think sooner or later, I would probably have to hire one, at least my car will see piped water everyday instead of once every six months!!! Don't get me wrong, I am the type of person who buy things to work for me, not buy things and then labour over it. Like washing car for instance. And I don't like to send my car to the cleaner every so often because the minute I sent them, it will rain. And don't get me wrong that I am the type who mistreated the maid by washing the cars everyday. Of course it doesn't have to be daily, what, water is free? The maid probably would and might die of boredom too because there is nothing much else to do if they were to work for us because when I really assessed it, there doesn't seemed to be much to do to really warrant a maid. Hmm, pros and cons, pros and cons. 

Anyway, HAPPY LABOUR DAY. It is 1st of May and for the first time, I think, I didn't sleep in for a public holiday. What a waste of day opportunity, huh?

Same time, I have agreed to give the staffs' an off day tomorrow, making it a long weekend, provided if there is any urgent matter, one two fellas will attend to it, which they agreed. Am I a good boss or am I a good boss? hehehe.

Hmm, I do seemed a bit chatty today, aint' I? Later, probably around 10.00 a.m, I would be going to a charity bazaar in Port Klang, charity for the handicapped children's home in Port Klang. Probably help up a bit, depending on how my back can hold up standing. If the weather gets too hot, I would probably leave earlier. I have agreed on "monetary contribution" but I thought, if I can help out else way, I might as well do. That's what you get when you mingled with all the charitable and kind people...you tend to become like them....

Later in the evening, would have to go to a neighbour's house, to discuss some issues pertaining to our place and clear off some accounts for money collected during our New Year's Eve Countdown Party and to be adjourned to a Steamboat Buffet Dinner. Honestly, my stomach must be wondering what's wrong with me, I seemed to be eating big meals this past few days, non-stop. I don't want to be yo-yo-ing between putting on and putting off weight, especially now that I can't exercise to burn off the calories. But in Malaysia, every meets always end in feasts. Ggrrhh....

Well, that pretty much concludes today croaking. I might have to go a lie down for a while now that I have hunched so long in front of the computer, the back seemed to be screaming, let me rest!!!!

Comments

I just realised that I was very silly where this blogger service is concerned. I have added a lot of features in the blog because, like everyone else, we just don't want to "lose out", right?

I was just reading from my post for some comments and I realised, instead of having to click each post for comments (ok, just for information, I would receive the same comment via email, only when I don't want to log into my Gmail that I read from the posts, ok), I could just click "Comments" from the "Croaks Trail" and ta da...every comments would be displayed from the latest to whenever I want to. Jeezz,,,now I felt silly.

But, it's better late than never!!! Gosh, now I know how to read comments from other's page too, if they have the same thing, especially when you want to know if the author replied to your comment or not. There is so much thing that we are still discovering and that really make one feels so small. Here's to discovery!!!