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00:26, 25 Koh Kim Lock History continued (3rd.Dec.20028. Bukit Berung during my childhood days. It was a village situated about five miles away from Melaka town. It was mainly a Chinese farmers village. The farm houses were built far apart from each other and the farmland for cultivation for each farmer were also large. There were meant for wet padi planting. The whole aea was well irrigated. There was a man-made canal run through the middle of the village with small tributories running among the padi field (the Malays call the padi field 'sawah'). We can still see the main canal if we travel from my grandpa's house to Jelotong where the deads are burried. The head of the canel is at the Air Keroh, it was a very thick jungle then and we seldom went up there in those days. The reservoir is still there today although it is not as serene as in those days. We always blame the colonialist as being bad but to see what they had done to make the colonies productive, they deserve the profit they made out of the colonies. They must have done a lot of surveying and they must have employed a lot of labourers to dig the canal and build the road from Melaka town to Air Kroh. The water buffalos were not allowed to walk on the bunds of the cannal or the bunds of the tributories. If one is cought it will be a five dollar fine. Between Melaka town to my grandpa's farm there is a small town with a Hokkian run provition shop, a mamak coffe shop and a Hainanese coffee shop. There was a Malay school with Malay kampong. There was also a mosque. The road was red dusty one, when any vehicle passed by it stirred up a cloud of red dusty cloud. There was no public transport serving the village. People who wanted to go to Melaka town would use bicycle or private car. There was one private car ferry vegetables and people to town, whether it has any permit to do so it was an unknown matter. At that time only my grandpa had an Austin car in that village. Because he had to go to Machap to supervise his workers from time to time say four or five time a month. He had the contract to look after 1,000 acres of rubber estate in Machap while my fater had 1,000 acres of the other half of the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. Ong Eng Tiang had another l,000 acres of rubber estate at Tebong which is about six to seven miles away from Machap. The estate was looked after by my mother'second sister husband.(In Chinese I called him Ah Teor). He lived in a small town called Pasir about one mile away from Machap.He also had an Austin car. He could drive his own car while my grandpa had to employed a driver whose name was Wahup. In those days we only knew Austin for cars, Reliegh or Herculis for bicycles and the best and high class cigarettes were Craven 'A' black cat head brand in the 50stick round tin. Of course with other host of British made products. I presume at that time there was no such thing as free trade treaty etc. From my recollection life at that time was very peaceful until the year l937 when the Japs attacked the China proper when I heard about the looming of the second world war. The sound of war grew louder. Sometime my grandpa went to Melaka town with me to a small open field next to the Central Market to listen the radio broadcast on the war front, of course I did not understand the whole thing until they said that the Jap had landed on Malayan soil. Then I saw them when they came to our village and to my grandpa's house to grab the cars and petrol. As the war was approaching my grandma passed away. I think she died of lung cancer because she had suffered sever pain on and off for almost a year. One morning I was waken up and told that she had died. My grandpa sold the car away and I remember like a few months later the Jap arrived. In the village particularly around my grandpa's house they were a lot of Melaka townfolks came to take up refuge to escape the Japs, even Ong Eng Tiang put up a Malay type house next to my grandpa's house to take refuge and his large household including the servants took up refuge in the school building next to my grandpa's house. The whole area was just like a small town. They went back to Melaka town when the situation became stable. I think that was about two to three months after the Japs arrived. That was after the Japs had arrested the ones that they wanted and killed them emass. Those are the people who were active in organising the resistance against the war effort. My father was one of the figures in Machap who organised various activities to collect money to send to China to fight the Japs invasion. So he went into hiding too. The Japs knew so much about these anti-Japanese activists was because of the local informers, they were the culprits. The war had brought hardship to my grandpa's and my father's fortune. The rubber estate was left unproductive. My grandpa had to rely on his farm and my father spent his days in hiding in Melaka town with no income. On the second year of the occupation I and Kim Chan moved to Machap to live with my uncle who was helping to look after my father's small provision shop. In the beginning of the occupation we still had some business to do because we had a rice distribution licence. Rice, sugar, salt, kerosene and cloth were on ration. Slowly all these things disapeared from the market. We had to rely on local supply. We make our own sugar, we distill our own salt, we used coconut oil in lue of kerosene etc. Our bicycles used tyre without air type and out shoes were made from raw rubber sheets etc.etc. If the Japs were to stay for another two or three years we would be going back to the stone age. I do not know much about my grandpa's background. I only knew that his father came from China and he was the first generation born in Malaya. I was not told as to where he was born. I assumed that he was born in a house across the road below the present house where we lived. I was told that the house was built with large earthen brick blocks. He built the present house when he made some money. How he made the money I was not told. I presumed that it must be from his contract work with the rubber estate. I believed that he was the only son because I never hear anything about he had any broher or sister. In turn he also had only one son. I can remember when his son was born because I was already about five or six years old then. I remember that my grandma was suffering from hard labour because I was by her bedside. He adopted one son from one of his relative but I never saw the relative concerned. The adopted son was not a bright fellow and worked in the farm for the whole of his life. He produced one son from the first wife and he turned out to be not normal. He did not disturbed people but he could not live and work intelligently. He died miserably. I am sad to think of him. My grandpa: I do not know what to say about him. He is a normak sane individual. He was a person belonging to the old traditional norms. He did not believe in the Western medicine because he did not want to see Western trained doctors. He did not want to send very sick person to hospital for help. He sent us to school and he was the head of the school board but he never read newspaper or book. He knew of the importance of school but I don't think he knew why it is important. The only book I used to see him referring to was the book about weather and dates good for marriage,dates barial etc.etc.(all about what they call Feng Sui). He never take alcohol but his only son died of drinking at the age of fifty plus. He never drank pure water except luke warm thick Chinese tea. There was a special cotton padded box to keep his tea warm at all time. He seldom stay at home during the day time, what I heard was he spend his time in gambling. He would go round inspecting the sawah and he would lectured to his adopted son and others harshly during the dinner time. Our dinner was in three shifts. The first shift was for him, me, Kim Chan and other grand children. The secon shift was for the manhood, i.e. the adopted son, the farmhand, Ah Lian and his brother etc. The last shift was for women folks. He used to sit in a separate chair away from the head of the dinner table and gave all the lectures as what was wrong and what should be done etc. We seldom got togather to talk even at night because at night we had to chop a kind of grass to boil for feeding the pigs. This may take up two to three hours. My memory of those days is pleasant one although I used to get spanking from time to time. I think it was all of my own faults as I was very mischievious fellow. My grandma: I am afraid I have nothing much to tell about her. She is just like any other woman folk. What I know about her was she rared about two to thirty pigs and sold them when the pigs had come of age. She managed the house. Before Chinese New Year she would take us to Meleka Town to buy our new year outfit such as new shoes, hats, belts, shirts and shorts. The choosing of the colour of the hats and clothing took a long time and the fitness of shoes and hats were also determined by the elders. The criterion was the sizes of the hats,shoes etc. must be larger for one year's growth. A good hair cut was a must and I still remember the Indian barbers were talking so much amomong themselves. After all these were done we had to go back quickly before four or five o'clock for the pigs, the ducks and the chicken would be making noice for food. I remembered she suffered a lot before she died. Of course we were not told what she was suffering from. I remembered she died just not long before the Japanese arrival. My father: We didn't stay togather for long. I was raised up by my grandpa and grandma from as young as I could remember. When I went to live in Machap shophouse during the Japanese occupation (l942 to l945) he was staying in Melaka town. While I was in Machap I was staying with my uncle and his wife. My uncle was his youngest brother, another younger brother remained in China. I went away from Melaka in Sept. l952. Even when I was in Melaka we did not stay in the same roof as he was renting a room few door away from the shop to life with my step-mother and step-sister. So all in all we somewhat stay togather from middle of l946 to Sept. l952, 6yrs. To sum up about my father I would say that he was a good man as it should be. He was honest, straight forward, hard working and with vision. He was not a poplar person because of his no nonsense atitude in dealing with others but he was respected who understood him. The reason why I went to his village where he came from upon my first visit to China was my desire to know the back ground of his make-up so to speak. He came from a small remote village without much education. He never mentioned about his education but I had noticed that he could a bit of reading but he seldom read. If he did read once in a while it would be the newspaper only. His only aim in life just like any other overseas Chinese of the day was to be rich. In his case although he did not become rich but he tried to give education to his children to their most capability resulting that Kim Chan became a doctor. I did not become anybody because I was not good in study myself. His other actions showed that he was trying his upmost to elevate us to be successful in life. I was told that he bought a piano to present the school in which I sister was schooling. He bought a set of table tennis playing equiptment and a set of badminton playing equiptment for my sister to use. He also bought a swing and put it up at the back of the shop for her jus to make her happy to stay with him but unfortunate my sister did not stay in Machap with my dad for long. She went back to my grandpa's house again. I think this was due to the fact that my sister did not have good companion there. At that time very few fathers on earth would do so much to make a daughter happy. Between l939 to l941 I heard that my dad had taken anoter wife but I do not remember of seeing her even once and it ended up in divorce. I use the word another because he seemed to have dicorced the first wife before marrying my mother, of course I did not hear any story about the episode. My mum died when I was three while Kim Chan was three months old. So he took the third wife when I was between seven or eight years old. According to the story being told on and off I presum that the third wife was quite a young girl and that she was of course did not like to stayed in the shop day in and out. So frequent quarells ensued and finally divorce. Another strong point about him was he never gamble in his whole life for what I know of him. I never saw him pitch drunk although he was a regular drinker. He drank everyday but only after taking the evening bath and before eating dinner. The bad thing about this drink was he used to talk a bit too much and in a way it was out of tune due to the influence of the acohol, and this was a daily occurance. So he made himself an unpleasant person and it cost him the affection of the family. My uncle, that was my father's youngest brother. He had two younger brothers. The first younger brother hang himself in l951. I went to school at age six and the first teacher I had was my own uncle, in Bukit Beruang. I learnt that he came from China and had no job so he became a teacher in my school. My school was a small village school. There were about thirty to forty pupils. The standard range from standar one to four or five. There was only one teacher to teach all the subjects. The subjects being taught were of course reading, writing, arithmetic and letter writing. I remember the letter writing stuff very well because I alsway got detained in school for not able to reside the text of a letter and the next difficult thing was the multiplication table. A lot of pupils got trouble with the time table as they called it. When the Japanese was approachin Malaya, my father sensed the danger and so called my uncle to go back to look after his shop. At that time everybody was worrying on one thing or the other. Those who had young unmarried daughters worry that they may be raped by the Japs or the bad people during this disturbing time. So my uncle was vertually given one young girl as a wife (what I mean was with simple marriage ceremony.) I remembered that when I was in Machap with my uncle he used to gamble every night. He did not stayed home to eat dinner with us during the festive days like new year eve, cheng beng, dumpling festival day, and full moon festival etc. He had dinners with his friend who had a provision shop just like ours at the end of the street. Sometime he used to get drunk. He only remained in the shop when he was really necessary and when my father was present. Remember that my father was staying in Malacca Town hiding away from the Japs. After the Japanese occupation we move to Melaka town that was in the early l946. We ran a provision shop. We bought goods on bulk from the suppliers and in turn sold them to the smaller shops from the villages such as from Machap,Jasin etc. in smal quantity on credit term. Because of this it was difficult for us to make large profit and allowed the creditors to run away with debts. In l951 my father and my uncle split the business. The terms and conditions of the split were not clearly known to me. I still stayed in the shop until l952 when I joined the lst.Bn. Federation Regiment. In the beginning I was apprehensive of the army but later on I felt so free. I felt I had an opportunity in the army. Whatever it was, I did not feel hopeless. The feud between my father and uncle is simple. My father blamed my uncle for not hard working enough because he liked to get up late in the morning and of course his work was unsatisfatory in father eyes. My uncle despised my father for being inferior to his standard of education because my uncle spent more time in school and being better educated so he thought that he was more intelligent and more capable than my father. But the actual fact was my father was more capable of making money. He was supposed to be the richest person in that village. So their their partnership broke up when they split the busines in 1950. That is the reason lead me to believe that everyone should go on his own way never to work together with anyone. I think my story of my life with my family is over with me leaving to join the armed forces. My advice is never to live with relatives under any circumstances. Stay away from each other and peace will be on earth. 2024
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* Download and Burn Ubuntu Desktop 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) for 32 Bit X86 System (Though our server is AMD64) from http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/ * Go to terminal and type '''sudo aptitude update''' , it would take some time to update the OS. Then type '''sudo aptitude upgrade''' * Change IP Address setting from DHCP to Static by System> Network > WiredConnection> Properties . Set it as Static IP and give a Static IP in your LAN. (Usually it is 192.168.1.1 ). So set your Server IP address as 192.168.1.100 * Remote Desktop: Follow instructions on http://www.maddhat.com/?p=15 * No-ip Client Installation: Follow instructions # Go to System>Admininstration>Synaptec Package Manager # Search for '''no-ip''' # Right click on no-ip and select Mark for Install # Accept any dependencies/upgrades of other packages # Click on Tick Mark to Start Installation # After installation is complete, go to terminal and type '''sudo no-ip -C''' # It will ask for no-ip username, password and the accounts that should be updated and also set an update interval (10 mins), when it asks to "Run a script after successful instal", Select No and your settings are written to /etc/no-ip.conf * Install Apache2 and PHP5 from http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Gutsy#How_to_install_Apache_and_PHP5 * Once Apache and PHP are installed, to test Apache go to http://localhost * To test PHP, create a file phpinfo.php in default Apache Directory ( which is /var/www/apache2-default). Type '''sudo pico /var/www/apache2-default/phpinfo.php''' and in the pico editor, type '''<?php phpinfo() ?>''' and save and exit. Now go to http://localhost/apache2-default/phpinfo.php, you would see All the info related to PHP installed on your server. Once you test this, delete this file due to security reasons as it exposes all your server information. *Nice Explanation and configuration of Apache2 at http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-gutsy , I am noting whatever is done by me # Create directories in /var/www of all the websites the server is going to host. In our case, they are htp://demo1.no-ip.org and http://demo2.no-ip.org. Type '''sudo mkdir /var/www/demo1.no-ip.org''' , hit enter and '''sudo mkdir /var/www/demo2.no-ip.org''' and hit enter. Create a simple index.html in each of these 2 directories. # '''sudo pico /etc/apache2/apache2.conf''' , go to last line and add '''Servername Caartz.com''' , set '''ServerTokens Prod''' , set '''ServerSignature Off''', type '''NameVirtualHost *:80''' Save and exit and then restart Apache by typing '''sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart''' # Now we need to create Virtual hosts of these websites. '''cd /etc/apache2/sites-available''' , and you see default there. open it by '''sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/default''' . Remove the first line and change the second line to '''<VirtualHost *:80>''' . Observe that public directory is /var/www . So for each of our hosted websites,we need one similar file which tells apache what to do. We shall create simple config files for these. '''<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName demo1.no-ip.org DirectoryIndex index.html DocumentRoot /var/www/demo1.no-ip.org </VirtualHost>''' #Once both the config files are created, Enable the sites by typing''' sudo a2ensite demo1.no-ip.org''' , and '''sudo a2ensite demo2.no-ip.org''' . restart apache by '''sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload''' * Now that we have apache installed and port forwarded (port 80) to our server from Router settings, we should be able to access the above created websites from any system outside of our LAN. I doubt if you can access these sites within LAN. * Lets add Squeak repository details to /etc/apt/sources.list by '''sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list''' and add the following 2 lines: # '''deb http://ftp.squeak.org/debain/ stable main''' # '''deb-src http://ftp.squeak.org/debian/ stable main ''' , and save and exit * install squeak by typing '''sudo aptitude install squeak''' , I am not sure if the latest version on the Debian repository is Squeak 3.77 which gets installed. * Install Postgresql by '''sudo aptitude install postgresql-8.2''' . Then create postgres user in both PostgreSQL and as a Linux user. #'''sudo su postgres -c psql template1''' #'''template1=# ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'secretPassword' ;''' #'''template1=# \q''' # #'''sudo passwd -d postgres''' #'''sudo su postgres -c passwd''' #Enter the password as entered above * '''sudo /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/postgresql.conf''' # Uncomment the line 'listen_addresses = 'localhost' ' * '''sudo /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/pg_hba.conf ''' # change md5 to password in IPV4 *Place the old Postgresql in a directory which has 777 permission (Thats actually requred when you export your Postgres DB). To import your old SQL file . Create a Database named 'ARDB' #'''sudo -u postgres createdb ARDB''' #'''su postgres''' #'''pg_restore -d ARDB ardb.tar''' #restart postgres #'''/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 restart''' *Move all Caartz files (images, changes, SqueakSources , users , seaside-images/Css files etc) to /var/www/caartz.no-ip.org *CD to /var/www/caartz.no-ip.org , and then '''squeakvm caartzDell & ''' or from FileSystem, go to that directory and rightclick on caartzDell.image and associate it to open with squeakvm, which is in /usr/bin/ , after doing this, Seaside Image starts running. In a workspace, execute WAKom StartOn:9091. *'''sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/caartz.no-ip.org''' and enter the following text into it. #LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.http.so LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName caartz.no-ip.org RewriteEngine On ProxyPreserveHost On DocumentRoot /var/www/caartz.no-ip.org #Proxy the request to Seaside on port 8080 RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://localhost:9091/seaside/caartz$1 [P,L] </VirtualHost> <Proxy *> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyVia Block * Enable the new website by '''sudo a2ensite caartz.no-ip.org''', by doing this, a symbolic link is created in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled * Save and Exit and you can restart apache by '''sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart''' * People outside of your LAN can access the website by pointing the browser to http://caartz.no-ip.org * You cannot access this site from within LAN as caartz.no-ip.org doesnt go out of your Router itselt. To overcome that, let Apache listen to port 9000 by #'''sudo pico /etc/apache2/ports.conf''' and add '''Listen 9000''' , this makes Apache to listen to port 80, which is default and also port 9000 # Add another virtual Host by, '''sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/caartzLocal.conf''' and enter the following text. Note the changes in <VirtualHost localhost:9000> # LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.http.so LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so <VirtualHost localhost:9000> ServerName caartzLocal RewriteEngine On ProxyPreserveHost On DocumentRoot /var/www/caartz.no-ip.org #Proxy the request to Seaside on port 8080 RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://localhost:9091/seaside/caartz$1 [P,L] </VirtualHost> <Proxy *> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyVia Block * Now enable the localSite by '''sudo a2ensite caartzLocal''' and restart apache by '''sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart'''. Browse to http://localhost:9090/ from the server or if you want to access this within the LAN, try http://192.168.0.50:9000/ where 192.168.0.50 is the static IP of the Home-Server we had set earlier * Now, we shall install MySQL by '''sudo aptitude install mysql''' , it will prompt you to enter root password, and enter it. * Create a DB in MySQL '''mysql -u root -p''', it will ask for root password, Enter it and it will tak you to MySQL prompt,. There enter '''CREATE DATEABASE CaartzKBDB;'''. Then in the mysql prmpt, type '''GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'KBUser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'TopSecretPassword' WITH GRANT OPTION; ''' *THere was a problem with KnowldegeBase installation as we are using no-ip. Looks like KB was finding itself on no.ip.org domain, which is hosted elsewhere.. Finally I mobed KB to smallguru server. The URL is http://www.smallguru.com/caartkb , Its up and running. Made appropriate changes in Caartz Image to point to the new URL. Hope Caartz is somewhat done for now.
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2011 June 24 13th.Jul.11. (Wed.) 2305hrs. Went to TNB hq. at Melawati to settle the electricity deposit for the JMB P4D1. Stayed home until time for the evening walk. Actually went to the Popular Book Store to just look see for any new things happening or not. 15th.Jul.11. (Fri.) 2035hrs. Went to University Hospital for eye check. It is found that both eyes are very ok, the next check will be six months from today. Heavy rain prevented me for my evening walk, otherwise the day was just as normal. 17th.Jul.11. (Sun.) 2045hrs. Just came back from FH after spending a night there. The surounding is very well maintained now since taken over by the JMB. Due to lack of funds the buildings need facelift badly and urgently. 20th.Jul.ll. (Wed.) 1050hrs. Just wonder who was the first guy who used the word 'golden age' for the old people. How can it be golden age while the old people have to see the doctors so frequently for so many kinds of illness. In this month alone I have been to UH for my eyes, the dentist and yesterday to the clinic for the result of the blood test. Luckily there is not much of a big problem. Is that what is 'golden age'. It must be kidding?! 23rd.Jul.ll. (Sat.) 2130hrs. The good news is Lai Changxing the greatest Chinese smuggler is on his way home after escaping arrest for 12yrs by living in Canada. The bombing and shooting in Norway will wake up the Norvegians I hope otherwise they are very complacent and creat mischief to others from time to time. 25th.Jul.ll. (Mon.) 1905hrs. Went to Midvalley this morning by train. Bought some imported biscuits from Mark and Spancer. Went to MPH to look at the latest issue of the Chinese English and English Chinese dictionary. Didn't buy any. I already have a smaller version one. I am glad that Col. Gadaffi is still in Lybia,let the Nato nations that take part in the bombing of Lybia bomb themselves into bankcrupcy. Just don't let them win easily. 28th.Jul.ll. (Fri.) 0013hrs. Yesterday stayed at home except going for the evening walk. Watched the CNTV and surfed the net. Glad to know that the Chinese submesible ship can reach the dept of 5188m. The Chinese is also trying to outfit a aircraft carrier for training. It is better to be late than never. The KMT gov. in Taiwan is waiting for their foreign uncle to up-grade their warplanes as it has always been. lst.Jul.11. (Mon) 0430hrs. I am waiting anxiously to see what will be the US debt ceiling voting result. 2nd.Jul.11. (Tue.) 2315hrs. As expected the result of the debt-ceiling drama is always ended undramatically as any other issues. All that debates and arguments are for show only. More debts will be more troubles waiting ahead. Once it is in debt it is difficult to be solvent again. 6th.Jul.11. (Sat.) 2115hrs. Actually, there seems to be nothing worthy to write about. Life have been going on normally. The morning exercise and the evening walk is never missed. 10th.Jul.11. (Wed.) 1255hrs. Now that the flame is burning in their own backyard, so let us see how they handle the situation. Do you remember the torch grabbing for the Beijing Olympic, how gleeful they were? 11th.Jul.11. (Thu.) 2250hrs. The BBC is really great, with the riot in its own country it still has the time to worry about famous Chinese artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei with the title "Artist Ai 'felt close to death.' There are a lot of articles about their own social problems. So mind your problems before you laugh at other people. 20th.Aug.ll. (Sat) Wow! had been lasy for nine days but actually there is nothing fresh to write about. The whole world is bore. The war in Lybia is still going on, the most interesting thing is that they are not shooting at the human enemy but to the thin air. I presume that they don't kill but to make a lot of noise to frighten the enemy. They dressed in singlet and don't carry any ration or ammo. They don't take aim but just shoot blankly into the opposit side. You don't see any man or soldier being killed. The news from the foreign news agency is comical. Kol. Gaddafi's sons had been killed so many times but still appearing. The NATO has got another month to drop their bombs then it will depend whether they still can afford to carry on or not. 24th.Aug.11. (Wed.) 1240hrs. Does it matter who win, afterall the people who died were Libyans and the survivours will have to work to pay for the bombs and ammo given to win the hulaha - the Libyans. The real winners are the people who hid behind the screen. Pity isn't it? 6th.Sep.ll. (Tue.) 1005hrs. Went to Zhangjianjie (central part of China) for an eight days tour, from 28th. Aug. to 4th. Sep.. In between visited MZT's former house, his Stone Statue in Shaoshan village. I took a round walk and paid a three bows respect to the statute.The main attraction is the rocky formations in the park. Both of us climbed the famour 999 steps to reach the heaveny stone gate. The steps are just like the normal staircase steps. Quite a number of people who are younger than we are were scared to do it. From Changsha city to Zhangjiajie where the rocky park is is about three hundred over miles apart, along the way I was gled to see the new brick houses, the padi field was covered with golden ripe padi and various greenery. The highway is smooth and the whole length of the road is covered with trees and well-kept shrubs in the middle of the roads. In my heart I can feel the dynamism of China. Talk of Changsha city, it has a special meaning to me because it was mentioned in the book 'Defeat into Victory' by Field-Marshal Viscount Slim that the only victory for China from the long Sino-Japanese war during the WWll was in the battle of Changsha city. Of course this is only his own opinion. He was the commander of the allied forces in Burma at that time. 2011/09/10 Good writing. Interesting to hear your thinking. Aik-Siong llth.Sep.ll (Sun.) 1030hrs. Today is a very good day, it is cloudy and so it is not hot. It rains for a while in the evening but it did not prevent me from my evening walk at the Metropolitan park. Indeed it is a very good Sep.ll. It should be more of the Sep.ll days. 15th.Sep.11. (Thu.) 2205hrs. It is foolish to believe that the Libyans are free now, the real victors are the bombs and ammunitions suppliers. They are the people who will have the total free hands to set the stage for next episodes of events. episodes of events to come. 20th.Sep.ll. (Tue.) 2240hrs. The weather is kinder now, it is not so hot and humid. The North-East monsoon is already here. It rains practically everyday, either in the evening or morning. Well, life is normal for me. Knowing a lot of the world affairs from the internet. The West is in deep trouble with the national debts. They had been showing off with their luxurious lifestyle to the world with the borrowed money and now it is hard for them to pay back the debts. 22nd.Sep.ll. (Thu.) 2135hrs. The weather is splendid. It is cloudy and cool. Poor Chinese KMT in Taiwan, they are still at their old ways. They are jubilant at being able to buy arms from their old time uncle to kill their own kind. They even seek approval for their presidential election. Just wonder since when the Chinese had been so disgraceful. 27th.Sep.ll. (Wed.) 1120hrs. The morning is cool and bright. Last night was a dog-barking free night because the three young strays were taken away by the Bandaraya dog catchers. In Malaysia it is a trend that most of the Chinese households will keep one dog or may be more and that because some dogs are kept behind the fence and some are free to roam around so there will be a lot of barking going on. In the evening the dogs that are kept behind fences make speicial noises and barkings. I am a Chinese but I do not like to keep dogs because I do not want spending time to care of them. I want to spend time on my own. Strangely enough I did not see any dogs running around in the streets in China. Another interesting thing is I did not see any birds flying in the sky or on the trees even in the wooded area. I have noticed this on my many trips that I have been to China. I am sure you might have guessed the answer in my mind. 29th.Sep.11. (Thu.) 2333hrs. In the morning part went to attend the funeral of a member of Gao Assn. He died of kidney failure at age of 56. Watched the whole process of the space lab Tiangong l launch in CNTV from 2100hrs to about 2140hrs when it was announced that it is successful. Switched to BBC just to confirm how fast is the BBC, true enough it was there in its web site with a sourish head line "Tiangong-l launch betrays China's earthly ambitions". I do not really understand what the white men try to mean. But not a word is mentioned in the ll pm world news in MTV l in Malaysia. 10th.Nov.ll. (Thu.) 0920hrs. The day is fine. Went to JMB office for a while and went for the evening walk. Get ready to go to S,pore early in the morning by bus to attend the S'pore GAO association's 63th. anniversary celebration dinner. We have 10 members to attend. The S'pore GAO association was established in l948 before the separation and therefore it was the only association to represent the GAO clansmen in the then Malaya. My father was a member of the association. It is called Koh association because GAO is pronounced in Hokkien dialect as Koh. I remember my father was issued with a membership certificate and it was burnt when he passed away because it is believed that whatever belongs to him must be burnt to follow him. When I am there I will try to trace as to whether any record to this effect is still being held by the assn.. 14th.Nov.ll. (Mon.) 2140hrs. The 60th. celebration dinner was great, there were plenty of singing and the women section presented lovly dances. They must have put in a lot of hard work. Mum and EM spent the whole Sat. on shopping while I roam around the see more of the Singapore. Spent the Sunday morning to look for Koh assn. premise and finally found it. Spent about half an hour there taking some pictures and found there is no record of my father's membership. Went round the waterfront and took 4.30pm bus home. Worthy of note was Heng Jin donated S$10,000 to the S'pore Koh assn. that night. The joke was he asked me to announce it to the audience, instead I announced it as one hunder dollars so it was put right immediately by their president. 21st.Nov.11. (Mon.) 1950hrs. This evening is special, it is not raining. Went for morning walk because scared that it may rain in the evening. Went to town for a walk about to pass time. 22nd.Nov.ll. (Tue.) 2055hrs. Went to Batu Cave with mum, maid and Lip Wern and spent about three hours there and went to Kepong for roast-duck lunch. He wanted to go there to shoot at the monkeys with the toy gun. But then when we were he took pity on the monkeys and did not shoot them at all instead he tried to scare the pigeons and shot at them playfully. After lunch his mother came to take him home. By the way we took the train to Batu Cave and it was quite an enjoyable afternoon. It rained in the evening but I went to the Tmn. Rainbow for my evening excise for about thirty five mins. when the rain stopped at about seven. 24th.Nov.11. (Thu.) 2315hrs. Today is a fine day, there was no rain at all. Life is quiet for all of us. We went to have an Indian curry lunch at the Tmn Mastiara and went for an evening walk as usual. Mum is getting ready to go to Hatnyai with the Han gang because they feel that they should all get together once in a while. They will start going at 6.30 tomorrow morning and return on Sunday night. 28th.Nov.ll. (Mon.) 1910hrs. I have been living single life for the past three days while mum and maid went to Hatnya in Thailand. The rain is stopping me from going for an evening walk. Yesterday evening was the same, the monsoon rain is in its full force now. In the morning part went to Putrajaya by bus and took the innercity bus to go round the city for fifty sens only. The bus is going round the town to serve the residents to move place to place within the town. The town is well planned and it is kept very clean and tidy. Sorry I am still nor sure whether Putrajaya is a city or town. lst.Dec.ll. (Thu.) 2245hrs. Normal day wirhout any worthwhile event to write about. 4th.Dec.11. (Sun.) 0530hrs. 2.12.ll. (Fri.) Went to Machap to attend my grandpa's great grand son's wedding dinner. It was a grand dinner and we drove back after the dinner at 10pm and reach KL at 2am. My grandpa's son grew up with me but the rest of the family was not known to me until very lately. Last night that was 3.12.ll, went to attend Loke assn. 39th. anniversary. 7th.Dec.ll. (Wed.) 2240hrs. It rains daily but it does not cause big problems. Life goes on as usual. Tomorrow night we will be attending another assn. dinner to be held in a Chinese school hall at Sentul. I think this will be the last assn. dinner for 2011. 9th.De.ll. (Fri.) 1625hrs. No rain up to this point of time, it may suddenly start thundering and pour with rain. Went to JPJ with mum this morning and to the management office for a while. Last night attended the "The Federation of Malaysia Chinese Surname Associations" lst. annual aniversary dinner. It is the mother of all the surname associations in this country. I think this is a good idea so that we have a leader to co-ordinate and initiate all the conducive activities. 12th.Dec.ll. (Mon.) 2145hrs. Fine day. Read newspapers and surfed the net. Knew a lot of the world affairs. The EU seems to have agreed on the solutions to solve their economic problems except to see the end results to come. Iran seems to have the technical know-how to capture the pilotless plance from their enemy. I hope they really have it so that the super power can be checked for their wrecklessness. 15th.Dec.ll. (Thu.) 1900hrs. It is raining now so cannot go for a walk. Yesterday evening also rained but it stopped at about this time, it made my shoes wet when I insisted in walking. According to the news report it flooded the Bt. Bintang and Cheras area. So far the monsoon rain has not done a lot of damage in the country. 18th.Dec.11. (Sun.) 1700hrs. Cloudy day but without rain. Non-eventful Friday and Saturday except that we took Mei Wah and her husband to a Chineses restaurant dinner in Jinjang. We fetched them from EM's house and sent them back by train from our Batu Kentonman station after the dinner at 2244hrs because the train go straight from here to Subang Jaya station. They rang up to say that they have arrived at about 0hrs. 24th.Dec.11. (Sat.) 1815hrs. It had been peaceful and quiet for the past 5 days. Nothing special to write about. It has been cloudy but fine day. No evening walk for this evening because we are waitting for Lip Wern to come to celebrate his birthday as well as the X'mas. Strangely enough we don't hear any X'mas songs and music at all. Not like before we could feel X'mas is coming with the X'mas songs and hymn in the air. It is like the CNY without the firecrackers. 31st.Dec.ll. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Xmas had come and gone. As nomal we did nothing special except the usual turkey dinner with the family members only on Thursday night (29th.Dec.ll.). 3rd.Jan.12. (Tue.) 2135hrs. Went up to Fraser's Hill on lst.Jan.12. for two nights. The place is well maintained by the JMB except that the whole compleks should be completely re-white washed otherwise it looks terrible. It is not done because the unit owners are not paying their dues. Hope that with the present JMB's conserted effort to collect the dues from the unit owners, the resort will be put to its proper conditions. 8th.Jan.12 (Sun.) 2240hrs. It had not rained for about two weeks so the weather is very stuffy and hot. It is not very comfortable for our daily life. Life had been pretty normal for the last five days. 14th.Jan.12. (Sat.) 1045hrs. It is a lovely morning. It is fine, the sun is not too hot and the air is cool. Got up at six in the morning and went to the Tmn Rainbow's small park for exercise because I missed the evening walk yesterday due to raining. Surfed the net and learnt that the Euro crisis is appearing again and the situation between Iran and the West is very quiet. I think this is so-called the lull before the storm. 27th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 2300hrs. Luckily, went to Tmn. Rainbow for the morning exercise because it rained in the evening so it prevented me from going my evening walk. As I drove out of the gate a police patrol car was at the back of me. It signaled me to stop. I stopped and asked why, was told that my road tax has expired. True enough I had been driving without insurance and road tax since Nov. 20ll. I asked them to let me off for RM50 otherwise I will have to pay RM600.00 fine. So, that is how it goes, both of us benefitted. The question is how do they know that my road taxed had expired as they were driving behind me. That is the magic. However I have no bone to grind. Stayed home for the rest of the day surfing the net and reading the newspapers. 29th.Jan.12. (Sun.) 0250hrs. Actually I wanted to write before I went to bed last night but the internet failed to function. Luckily I went for a long morning walk yesterday morning because it rained heavily in the evening. Peter and EM came at about 1130hrs and Peter gave me and PP a RM1,000 ang pow each. EM had given the ang pows earlier. I went to lunch at the batu tiga coffee shop because mum had gone for lunch with her friends. Napped and stayed at home for the rest of the evening due to the raining. 30th.Jan.12. (Mon.) 2200hrs. Went to renew the insurance and road tax and spent the rest of the morning roaming the city. The city is still half asleep not until day after tomorrow after the ninth day of the lunar calendar. Beside that life is as normal. I went to the city by bus and returned by train. 31st.Jan.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Today is the nineth day of the Chinese New Year and it is the Hokkian people's new year day. Last night was their new year eve and therefore they let off a lot of firecrackers to welcome the big day. The noise continues right up to 2am. It rained heavily from 5am right up to about 6.30am. So the whole day was cloudy and the air was quite cool. Went to the JMB office to see if there is anything for me to do. That wraps up my day. lst.Feb.12. 2225hrs. 1st. of Feb. is the Wilayah Day and therefore it is a holiday. Dare not venture out of the area where we live because the city will be crowded with the foreign workers. Went to Batu Cave by train for my evening exercise by climbing the 272 steps up and down. It is crowded there because they are preparing for the Thaipusum festival on the 6th. of this month. They are putting up the tents, installing the lamp posts etc.etc.. Some early whoshippers are doing their praying before the actual date in order to avoid the maddening crowd. 2nd.Feb.12. (Thu.) 2110hrs. Tried on the sky-walk around the Jln. Perak area connecting various high rise buildings and ending up at the Pavilian complex and the convention hall. That area is newly built up area in the golden triangle. The sky-walk is like a big container-like structure built above the ground with air-con for pedestrians to walk with comfort. The rain stopped me for about half an hour to reach the KL railway station to board the train. After boarding the train it moved slowly with several stops on the way and when it reached the Sentul station the passengers were told to come down to wait for another train to take them to Batu Cave without any explaination. The waiting took about forty five minutes when the train came from Batu Cave to take us to Batu Cave. The reason was the train was running on one track because there was some repare work being carried out on the other line. By the time I reached home it was alredy four forty five. I was really dead tired. Had a bath, had a cup of Chinese tea then watched my favorite CCTV4 programme from 5 to 6pm and had a 45mins nap and had the dinner and back to normal again. 4th.Feb.12. (Sat.) 2130hrs. I do not know why I was so tired last. I was so sleepy that I went to bed at about 9.30pm. Slept well for the night and got up 6am. Went to the Tmn. Rainbow small park for exercise at about 7am for about one hour. I don't like the park there because it is small and the people there are all regulars so u keep on seeing them and the next thing is the barking dogs. It is really anonying, since the residents there are more well off so they buy bigger dogs so that they bark louder. It is status symbol that kind of thing. Went to the JMB office to make out a cheque for the electricity bill and after that went to Mamak coffee shop for a tea tarek and a roti chanai for lunch. As for the rest of the day just stayed home. Since today is Saturday so life is at its laziest point. 5th.Feb.12. Sun. 2330hrs. The biggest event of today is the GAO association CNY celebration. EM and I attended it without mum as she had other programme with her group of friends. I donated RM100, EM donated RM80.00 and Heng Jin asked me to donate RM200.00 for him while he is away in S'pore. There was quite a big crowd. The programme started from lpm until 3pm. Of course ang pow for the children is a must and the lucky draws and quessing games for the attendents were also arranged. The food were fried mee, fried meehoom, chicken curry and one or two other tib bits plus an assortment of fruits of course with the mandarine oranges. The party went on quite happily with everybody smiling away till the end. The next big event was we went round the lake at the Taman Metropolitan for our evening walk. It took us a solid one hour walk. 7th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 2125hrs. How nice? yesterday was Prophet Mohd's birthday, it was a holiday. Stayed home until in the evening went to Lake Garden for evening walk and had a mamak fried mee and mutton matabab for dinner. The maid was taken away by EM to help her in preparation of the NYC party in her house. Today is Thaipusum day and it is a holiday too. Went to EM's house for lunch on the left over of the last night party. After lunch EM and mum went for their own programme while I went for a foot massage. I was very tired and had a nap for about one hour. No evening exercise. 9th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 0705hrs.(Note: this event is for 8th.Feb.12) It was very crowded in the govt. clinic at the Kg. Batu, it took me three hours to see the doctor for my normal check up. The reason was due to the holiday on Wed. The result of the check-up was normal. The next check-up will be in four months time. 10th.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2330hrs. Yesterday, that was Thursday, morning went to JMB office to check on the clerk's performance. Received a complaint from one of the unit owners that a water tank from the roof top is over flowing. The problem was fixed by 6pm. This morning went to see Heng Jin and also to collect the RM200.00 that I paid for him for the CNY do held by the GAO assn. last Sunday as he was away from KL on that day. Reached home is already 2pm and what followed was a daily rutine for me. 12th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 2220hrs. Yesterday (Sat.) went to JMB office to clear a bit of the paper works like getting ready the lst. qtr. statements and getting the cheque to pay up the TNB bill etc., in the marning part as for the afternoon it is the normal routine. Today is Sunday, stayed at home for the whole day except the evening walk. Tried to got to the Kepong lake garden for the evening walk but the traffic was too heavy so we turned back to our Metropolitan garden. So another week is gone. 15th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2220hrs. Monday, busy with the JMB office for the morning part. Tuesday, went to town at 1044hrs train for a short break after remaining in the Ipoh Road for so many days. Asked the roof repair man to come to look at the roof leak at the P4D1 but he is unable to come due to his eyes problem, will come on Friday. Went to a coleague's house to discuss about the statement/ invoice of the lst.qtr for 2012. That had taken up the whole morning. 19th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 2215hrs. It had been quite busy for the last few days for the JMB affairs. AGM for 2012 was held on Sat. 18th. Feb. The turn-out was very poor. Today Sunday GAO association held its committee members meeting befor the AGM for 2012 at 2pm at the association premise to prepare for the new set of committee members for the next two years. 23rd.Feb.12. (Thu.) 2145hrs. Nothing special happening in the last three days. Had been quite busy running between home and the JMB office because the clerk had gone to see the doctor in the general hospital and getting the roof repairer to mend the leak in the block etc. This morning I went to the govt. clinik to see the doctor for my urine test. Two weeks ago when seeing the doctor for the routine check-up I told the doc. that the colour of my urine is yellowish, so he sent me for a urine test and it was found that there is a small trace of blood in it, so he told me to come again in two weeks time for another test. Unfortunately it was found it conatin more blood in it in today's test, so he is sending me to Selayang hospital for a X-ray on the 27th. Feb.. 26th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 0815hrs. Loving Sunday morning. It is quiet and peaceful. It seems that the dog-barking is kept to its minimum otherwise the first thing one hears is the barkings of the dogs. Yesterday evening went to the KL Sentul by train and explore the surroungding area just to familiary what is going on there. The area is developing tremendously. It is definitely going to be another mear business centre of the KL city. Due to the composition of the populations there I think it is really not an intelligent place to live in. 28th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0920hrs. Just rang up the Selayang Hospital X ray department to find out whether the X ray film taken yesterday is ready for collection or not. The answer is that the printing machine is having some problem so ask me to phone again in the afternoon. The two days of medication and controlled diet (without solid food) before the X ray made me quite weak. Eatings after the X ray made me fresh as before again. Hope that there will be no big problem. 1st.Mar.12. (Thu.) 0435hrs. Went to Seleyang Hospital to collect the X ray film and will see the doctor today. It was a rainny day yesterday. In spite of the rain I still went for my evening walk under the shops verenda up to the Batu Village KTM station and took the train back. Luckily found an umbrella in the station when I alighted the train, that saved me from being drenched form the Batu Kentonmen station to the house. lst..Mar.12. (Thu.) 2310jrs. The doctor had seen the X-ray film and read the report and told me that there is nothing wrong with me. He asked me to continue monitoring my urine and see whether there is any change in its colour. So it is a relief for me. 5th.Mar.12. (Mon.) 2120hrs. 2nd.Mar. Fri. went to land office to pay the land tax for P4D1. Because I went by bus, so it took me the whole morning to finish the job. 3rd.Mar. Sat. Nothing special. 4th.Mar. Sun. Went to mom's friend's son tortoureous wedding dinner at Jinjang chinese restaurant. 5th.Mar. Mon. After the drinking and eating on the wedding dinner, it makes me feel uncomfortable for the whole day until after the evening walk. It is quite ok now. 8th.Mar.12. (Thu.) 0300hrs. 6th. had been busy with the JMB administrative matters like sending out demand letters to unit owners who owes the maintenance fees. 7th. went downtown to spend the morning part of the day. It rained contineously from about five right up to about 9pm. No evening walk. 10th.Mar.12. (Sat.) 1220hrs. Life had been peaceful and quiet for the past two days. The weather had been good as well. Its was cloudy. We are now ready to go to the airport tonight to catch the plane to China. The weather there seems to be very cold but we will make the best of it. We are ready. 18th.Mar.l2. (Sun.) 2235hrs. Returned from a week's field study of the Chinese History. I had studied it from the book when I was at school and now I went to the acturl places concerned. Qingdao was taken from the Ching dynasty by Germany at the end of 19 century and occupied it right up to the end of the first world war when Germany lost the war. The League of Nations past it to the Japanese when they split German's possession at the end of the war. The Chinese got it back after the end of the VWll and the KMT govt. let the American to use it as a naval base. It only returned back to the Chinese after the liberation of the enclave by the PLA. The second place I was most interested to visit is Qufu the Confucius's old home, Confucius Temple and Confucius Cemetery where only his decendants were allowed to be buried. I am fortunate enough to get a genuine white wine that is brewed according to the formula used by the Kong family. (Kong is the actual surname of Confucius.) We also climbed the Mt. Taisan which is said that only the worthy emperors of China were allowed to go up there to pray. Beside that we went to see part of the Yellow River that passes through the Jinan city. In a nutshell we enjoyed the tour very much inspite of the fact that our legs were swollen with so much of walking. 22nd.Mar.12. 2225hrs. Completely grounded by the flu for the last three days, only now I feel a bit better. Luckily I don't have to see the doctor but by taking two panadol three times a day. Hope that by tomorrow it will be completely OK. 24th.Mar.12. 1920hrs. Feeling much better today. This morning went to the Tmn. Rainbow small garden for some exercise. Other than that just stayed in.
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