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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.)(
Start Here Pa.
18th.Apr.12. (Wed.) 2230hrs.
Went to town by bus to survey the Chinese writing brush and papers to practise writing the grandchildren's Chinese names. I plan to write their Chinese names on drawing papers myself to give them as souvenir when they come in May. Otherwise they will never know their names in Chinese. What the effect will ultimate imprint unto them is left to be seen.
20th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 2200hrs.
Let me continue with the Colonel's story. Arrived home after a week's holiday in the East Coast, as our car stopped at the gate I saw him curled up sound asleep in the porch. I called his name softly but there was no response, so I called his name lounder, he suddenly lift up his head to listen and turned his head to look at the direction where the sound came from and lo he saw me standing there and instantly ran to me and put his fore legs on me with his tail waging vigourously as if he was embracing me and making the gesture of kissing my body. Obviously he was very very happy to see again. How he must have felt during my absence I could not fathom. It
touched me deeply and till today I still can reflect on the scene vividly.
22nd.Apr.12. (Sun.) 1945hrs.
A sunny and hot Sunday. At 1200hrs the swearing-in ceremony for the Gao assn. was held in a restaurant near the assn. building. The past presidents of the assn. were invited to witness the ceremony. Heng Jin, his wife and son Peng Guan were present. Heng Jin donated RM10,000 to the assn. Actually we plan to give him a 81th. birthday party but he turned it down by saying that he never celebrate his birthday, so he think that it is not necessary to have one for the 81th. birthday as well. In response to the good gesture he donated the money. The whole process of the swearing-in ceremony went off smoothly and everyone present was happy. It cost the assn. nearly RM1,500.
After the lunch we adjourned to the assn. to hold the first committee members meeting for the new set of committee members. We set out the new tasks to be carried out for 2012. We decided to have our annual lunch to solicit funds on 9th. of November 2012. The meeting ended at 5pm.
25th.APr.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs.
Have been busy preparing the statements of account for second quarter of 2012 for P4D1. Other than that there was nothing worthwhile to note down. The problem we have is the large amount of debts. Yet the relevant authority is not coming out strongly to help to collect the amount due. Well, there is no use of complaining. We just slog on from day to day to the best of our ability.
2nd.May.12. (Wed.) 1435hrs.
Went for a 3 days 2 nithts tour of S'pore and Batam island of Indonesia from 27th. - 30th. of Apr. There was nothing great to see in Batam island really. Except the high rise hotels the rest of the town is just like the Malaysian kampongs. There is no luxuriou restaurants to cater for either Europeon or Chinese foods to talk about. There is no sunny and sandy beaches. So I just wonder what people go there for. For us we just want to satisfied our curiosity since there is a lot of reports of happenings on the island in the press.
We passed a night in a cheap hotel called 81 hotel in S'pore The air-con. is OK, the bed is comfortable but the tv is with few channels and there is no place to put your soiled clothes and there is no hook or rack to hang you wet towel. The next morning while waiting for the time to board the bus for home, of course I bought a copy of Chinese and English newspaper each to read and strangly enough I found that they were so boring and dry. In the past I used to enjoy reading the S'pore newspapers bothe in Chinese and English. Now I think since I can get the news and knowledge from the direct sources from the internet, so what we can read from the newspapers seem to be out of date already.
Yesterday was Labour Day, of course it was a holiday. Went to see the Chinese Navy training ship 'Chenghe" at South Port Port Klang. We were just allowed to go round the deck one complete round of the ship. It took us a great pain to have the opportunity to see it because the crowd was tremendous. I think this is an indication to the fact that the Chinese are proud of their ancestors' land although it is quite a small ship compared to the ones that are owned by the super-power, but the ray of hope is in the horizon that the day will come that the Chinese Navy will be as strong as that of other powers.
3nd.May.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs.
I pity the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guancheng that he failed to relise that he is valueless for the Western propoganda that is why they did not send a special plane to take him and his family away quickly.
4th.May.12. (Fri.) 2325hrs.
The weather is very very hot today. No rain.
Let me tell you another dag's story. This time is my grandpa's black dog. His name is 'itam' in Malay. The time was when I was about seven and eight years old. I still can visualise him curling on the floor mat in the centre of the main door of my grandpa's house. He was a quiet dog he did not simply bark for nothing. The next thing I remember about him in particular is that he used to sit in waiting when my auntie poured the biscuits into a big biscuit tin brought back from Melaka Town by my grandpa because she would give him two pieces after completing the job. He would be happy to eat them. The biscuit was from the left over bread cut into blocks and put into oven again to bake them dry. My grandpa used to buy them from a bakery in Melaka. We ate them with black coffee for breadfast.
6th.May.12. (Sun.) 1700hrs.
This part of KL is quiet, I don't know other part of KL is peaceful or not. Lately due to the gen. election is eminent so there is a lot of demonstrations going on.
Now that the mother of human rights and democracy had gone home, so there should not be any more of the blind dissident's drama going on. The staging of the drama was very well planned. They must have hoped that thousand and thousand of supporters of the blind man would go to the Thiananmen Square. They spared no efforts to creat trouble for other people.
10th.May.12. (Thu.) 2300hrs.
It took me three hours to go by train to Subang Jaya to bring back the maid from EM place by train as well. It will take as long if I use my car because of the jam etc. By train it cost only RM2.30 for the maid while as a senior citizen I got a free ride for three months otherwise it cost half ware for me.
In the evening there was a big thunder storm raging on for about two hours. So there was no evening walk.
12th.May.12. (Sat.) 0515hrs.
Woken up by the barks of the dogs at 4am and just couldn't fall asleep again. One of the annoying things of living with the Chinese neighbourhood is the barking dogs. Last time the noises made by the Chinese population was their loud talkings, loud radio music, car honkings etc.etc. When you go for morning walk you can hear them clapping their hands while walking. To me it is very annoying. I like to walk by myself quietly just to stop talking because people have been talking too much. All the troubles either big or small are caused by talkings. Comparatively the Chinese are more civilised now.
13th.May.12. (Sun.) 0435hrs.
This morning the dog-barking is less. it may be due to the cooler weather. Yesterday we spent the whole morning in the PUSPACOM. This time the PUSPACOM is totally reorganised and it had really got rid of the corruption activity like last time. We will see how long it will last.
We gave a farewel dinner to the maid who is going home after five years with us. We invited uncle Loon and wife, Mai Chin and her fatty daughter with her boy friend and the new maid. She will be leaving at llam with the Air Asia.
13th.May.12/ (Sun.) 2325hrs.
Went to SS's house with the maid at about 10am. Proceeded to the LCCT at about 1100hrs. After checking in they bid farewell to her wihtout me. We started our journey home at about 2pm and stopped at Taipan USJ for some food as we had missed our lunch. Sent EM to SS's house to pick up her car and maid. By the time we arrived home it was already about 4.30pm. Had a nap for one hour. Thinking of going for a walk at the Metropolitan garden but the darkening sky prevented me for that. It was already about 6.30pm.,so gave up the idea of the evening walk. As we were preparing to go out for our dinner uncle Loon called and asked us whether we are happy to go to his house for dinner as he had boiled chicken(pak cham kai) and chickem soup for dinner. So we ended up having dinner in his house. It was a delicious dinner.
16th.May.12. (Wed.) 2225hrs.
There is nothing to write about my psesonal life. It had been non eventful for the last three days. The weather is extremely hot and uncomfortable.
The US $2b loss by the JP Morgan is quite a news. That is what it is said in the Malay proverb that "tupai pandai pandai l0mgpat, satu hari jatoh juga". That is good enough for time being.
18th.May.12. (Fri.) 1755hrs.
Yesterday, went to top up my prepaid card for travelling in the Rapid transport system vehicles like Buses, LRT etc. at the Klang Bus Station LRT station. The Klang Bus station is being torn down to make way for the MRT station. Few other buildings will be involved and this has raised protest from the property ownners in the Sultan Street claiming that it is a historical heritage and it should be preserved as it is. I really don't know what is the real reason for it. I thought the MRT station will bring prosperity to the area. After seeing a lot of modern cities, KL is really a rundown city.
19th.May.12. (Sat.) 0000hrs.
Went to PUSPACOM again, this time passed the test. So we can relax for another six months.
Congratulations to the blind Chinese activist and his family members, they can now enjoy eating hamburgers in the country of its origin. They must be very happy now.
Another thing that linger in my mind that I just cannot put it away without sayng something about it that is the govt. of KMT Taiwan is buying 66 pieces of the F16 for now and other weaponry to follow soon. KMT Taiwan is hailed as presenting the Free and Democractic China and it has to depend on buying arms to protect its while the mainland China is developing its own weaponry, that is why they have been blamed for not transparant and as a threat etc. So as a Chinese whick China you prefer?
22nd.May.12. (Tue.) 2220hrs.
Sunday, went to Jln Pasar to see the sunday market and the Pudu big marke because we had not been there for three years.
Monday, took Sung Fong to the veteran office at the Jln. Tun Dr. Ismail to see what he can get from the dept. since he left the service without pension. The govt is giving RM 3,ooo to the ex-home guards, Junior Liason Officers, and AC's and other servicemen who serve during the Emergency from 1948-1964. The answer is there is nothing for him since he left the armed forces much later when the emergency was over. However they are trying to persude the govt. to give this bunch of ex-servicemen some aid.
To-night saw the footage from the TV that those potesters in the demonstration against the 20 summit held in Chicago is a bunch of timid, pale and frial crowd. I doubt there is anybody would care to listen to them.
24th.May.12. (Thu.) 1630hrs.
Wed. Went to the Public Bank headquarter at Jln. Raja Chulan to change the new names of signatory for the Koh's assn. cheques since the President and Treasurer of the assn. have changed after the 1912 AGM.
This morning went to JPJ to renew mom's driving licence.
27th.May.12 (Sun.) 1025hrs.
Life have been very quiet for the last few days.
This morning went to the Metropolitan garden for a morning exercise for about 45 minutes. Went to Tmn. Kolican for breakfast.
As I surf the net everyday, it dawns to me that I am very fortunate to be able to read and write Chinese. I can communicate with my Chinese ancestors through their writings and carving or whatever they left behind to tell us of their experiences etc., and to listen to their stories in their own language. Through the CNTV I have learnt that the Chinese had not been totally sleeping in the last five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can produce beautiful things. At this point of time the only thing the Chinese should do is to produce the war weaponries as good as if not better than the West and their have got.)
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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.
26th.Mar.12. 2010hrs.
Still feel weak after a week of flu followed by the cough. Yesterday went to the GAO assn. annual meeting plus the commitee members election. It went on smoothly as usual. One resolution is to give Heng Jin a birthday party in Sept. to commemorate his 81st. birthday as one of the founder members of the assn. I will head the organising committee for the preparation of the party.
29th.Mar.12. 2225hrs.
Went to see the govt. doc. at the Kampong Batu for my coughyesterday. The cough really made me uncomfortable. So remained at home for the whole day. No evening walk no nothing.
After taking the medicine, feel much better. Since the weather is fine so went to the taman for a small stroll
3rd.Apr.12. (Tue.) 1625hrs.
1st.Apr. (Sun.) Went to Melaka for Qingmin. The battery of Unser went flat in Machap new villege. At first we arrived at Jelutong but there was a heavy traffic jam, so we decided to go to Machap Baru to visit Ah Mok family. As we passed Machap Baru new villege we stopped at a coffee shop for a light breadfast. When we wanted to proceed to Ah Mok's house the vehicle failed to start. The local there helped us to get a machinic to replace the battery. We were really lucky it happened in the Chinese new villege otherwise you can just imagine.
After visiting Ah Mokl's family it was over 10 o'clock and when we went to do the praying it was quite unbearable of the hot sun. We went our way hurriedly with my all the graves. I apologised for being late this year and we will start from KL earlier next year. This year we started off at 6.30am from EM's house while last year we arrived at Jelutong while it was still dark.
2nd.Apr.(Mon.) stayed at home after yesterday's hatic day. (
Start Here Pa.
18th.Apr.12. (Wed.) 2230hrs.
Went to town by bus to survey the Chinese writing brush and papers to practise writing the grandchildren's Chinese names. I plan to write their Chinese names on drawing papers myself to give them as souvenir when they come in May. Otherwise they will never know their names in Chinese. What the effect will ultimate imprint unto them is left to be seen.
20th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 2200hrs.
Let me continue with the Colonel's story. Arrived home after a week's holiday in the East Coast, as our car stopped at the gate I saw him curled up sound asleep in the porch. I called his name softly but there was no response, so I called his name lounder, he suddenly lift up his head to listen and turned his head to look at the direction where the sound came from and lo he saw me standing there and instantly ran to me and put his fore legs on me with his tail waging vigourously as if he was embracing me and making the gesture of kissing my body. Obviously he was very very happy to see again. How he must have felt during my absence I could not fathom. It
touched me deeply and till today I still can reflect on the scene vividly.
22nd.Apr.12. (Sun.) 1945hrs.
A sunny and hot Sunday. At 1200hrs the swearing-in ceremony for the Gao assn. was held in a restaurant near the assn. building. The past presidents of the assn. were invited to witness the ceremony. Heng Jin, his wife and son Peng Guan were present. Heng Jin donated RM10,000 to the assn. Actually we plan to give him a 81th. birthday party but he turned it down by saying that he never celebrate his birthday, so he think that it is not necessary to have one for the 81th. birthday as well. In response to the good gesture he donated the money. The whole process of the swearing-in ceremony went off smoothly and everyone present was happy. It cost the assn. nearly RM1,500.
After the lunch we adjourned to the assn. to hold the first committee members meeting for the new set of committee members. We set out the new tasks to be carried out for 2012. We decided to have our annual lunch to solicit funds on 9th. of November 2012. The meeting ended at 5pm.
25th.APr.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs.
Have been busy preparing the statements of account for second quarter of 2012 for P4D1. Other than that there was nothing worthwhile to note down. The problem we have is the large amount of debts. Yet the relevant authority is not coming out strongly to help to collect the amount due. Well, there is no use of complaining. We just slog on from day to day to the best of our ability.
2nd.May.12. (Wed.) 1435hrs.
Went for a 3 days 2 nithts tour of S'pore and Batam island of Indonesia from 27th. - 30th. of Apr. There was nothing great to see in Batam island really. Except the high rise hotels the rest of the town is just like the Malaysian kampongs. There is no luxuriou restaurants to cater for either Europeon or Chinese foods to talk about. There is no sunny and sandy beaches. So I just wonder what people go there for. For us we just want to satisfied our curiosity since there is a lot of reports of happenings on the island in the press.
We passed a night in a cheap hotel called 81 hotel in S'pore The air-con. is OK, the bed is comfortable but the tv is with few channels and there is no place to put your soiled clothes and there is no hook or rack to hang you wet towel. The next morning while waiting for the time to board the bus for home, of course I bought a copy of Chinese and English newspaper each to read and strangly enough I found that they were so boring and dry. In the past I used to enjoy reading the S'pore newspapers bothe in Chinese and English. Now I think since I can get the news and knowledge from the direct sources from the internet, so what we can read from the newspapers seem to be out of date already.
Yesterday was Labour Day, of course it was a holiday. Went to see the Chinese Navy training ship 'Chenghe" at South Port Port Klang. We were just allowed to go round the deck one complete round of the ship. It took us a great pain to have the opportunity to see it because the crowd was tremendous. I think this is an indication to the fact that the Chinese are proud of their ancestors' land although it is quite a small ship compared to the ones that are owned by the super-power, but the ray of hope is in the horizon that the day will come that the Chinese Navy will be as strong as that of other powers.
3nd.May.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs.
I pity the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guancheng that he failed to relise that he is valueless for the Western propoganda that is why they did not send a special plane to take him and his family away quickly.
4th.May.12. (Fri.) 2325hrs.
The weather is very very hot today. No rain.
Let me tell you another dag's story. This time is my grandpa's black dog. His name is 'itam' in Malay. The time was when I was about seven and eight years old. I still can visualise him curling on the floor mat in the centre of the main door of my grandpa's house. He was a quiet dog he did not simply bark for nothing. The next thing I remember about him in particular is that he used to sit in waiting when my auntie poured the biscuits into a big biscuit tin brought back from Melaka Town by my grandpa because she would give him two pieces after completing the job. He would be happy to eat them. The biscuit was from the left over bread cut into blocks and put into oven again to bake them dry. My grandpa used to buy them from a bakery in Melaka. We ate them with black coffee for breadfast.
6th.May.12. (Sun.) 1700hrs.
This part of KL is quiet, I don't know other part of KL is peaceful or not. Lately due to the gen. election is eminent so there is a lot of demonstrations going on.
Now that the mother of human rights and democracy had gone home, so there should not be any more of the blind dissident's drama going on. The staging of the drama was very well planned. They must have hoped that thousand and thousand of supporters of the blind man would go to the Thiananmen Square. They spared no efforts to creat trouble for other people.
10th.May.12. (Thu.) 2300hrs.
It took me three hours to go by train to Subang Jaya to bring back the maid from EM place by train as well. It will take as long if I use my car because of the jam etc. By train it cost only RM2.30 for the maid while as a senior citizen I got a free ride for three months otherwise it cost half ware for me.
In the evening there was a big thunder storm raging on for about two hours. So there was no evening walk.
12th.May.12. (Sat.) 0515hrs.
Woken up by the barks of the dogs at 4am and just couldn't fall asleep again. One of the annoying things of living with the Chinese neighbourhood is the barking dogs. Last time the noises made by the Chinese population was their loud talkings, loud radio music, car honkings etc.etc. When you go for morning walk you can hear them clapping their hands while walking. To me it is very annoying. I like to walk by myself quietly just to stop talking because people have been talking too much. All the troubles either big or small are caused by talkings. Comparatively the Chinese are more civilised now.
13th.May.12. (Sun.) 0435hrs.
This morning the dog-barking is less. it may be due to the cooler weather. Yesterday we spent the whole morning in the PUSPACOM. This time the PUSPACOM is totally reorganised and it had really got rid of the corruption activity like last time. We will see how long it will last.
We gave a farewel dinner to the maid who is going home after five years with us. We invited uncle Loon and wife, Mai Chin and her fatty daughter with her boy friend and the new maid. She will be leaving at llam with the Air Asia.
13th.May.12/ (Sun.) 2325hrs.
Went to SS's house with the maid at about 10am. Proceeded to the LCCT at about 1100hrs. After checking in they bid farewell to her wihtout me. We started our journey home at about 2pm and stopped at Taipan USJ for some food as we had missed our lunch. Sent EM to SS's house to pick up her car and maid. By the time we arrived home it was already about 4.30pm. Had a nap for one hour. Thinking of going for a walk at the Metropolitan garden but the darkening sky prevented me for that. It was already about 6.30pm.,so gave up the idea of the evening walk. As we were preparing to go out for our dinner uncle Loon called and asked us whether we are happy to go to his house for dinner as he had boiled chicken(pak cham kai) and chickem soup for dinner. So we ended up having dinner in his house. It was a delicious dinner.
16th.May.12. (Wed.) 2225hrs.
There is nothing to write about my psesonal life. It had been non eventful for the last three days. The weather is extremely hot and uncomfortable.
The US $2b loss by the JP Morgan is quite a news. That is what it is said in the Malay proverb that "tupai pandai pandai l0mgpat, satu hari jatoh juga". That is good enough for time being.
18th.May.12. (Fri.) 1755hrs.
Yesterday, went to top up my prepaid card for travelling in the Rapid transport system vehicles like Buses, LRT etc. at the Klang Bus Station LRT station. The Klang Bus station is being torn down to make way for the MRT station. Few other buildings will be involved and this has raised protest from the property ownners in the Sultan Street claiming that it is a historical heritage and it should be preserved as it is. I really don't know what is the real reason for it. I thought the MRT station will bring prosperity to the area. After seeing a lot of modern cities, KL is really a rundown city.
19th.May.12. (Sat.) 0000hrs.
Went to PUSPACOM again, this time passed the test. So we can relax for another six months.
Congratulations to the blind Chinese activist and his family members, they can now enjoy eating hamburgers in the country of its origin. They must be very happy now.
Another thing that linger in my mind that I just cannot put it away without sayng something about it that is the govt. of KMT Taiwan is buying 66 pieces of the F16 for now and other weaponry to follow soon. KMT Taiwan is hailed as presenting the Free and Democractic China and it has to depend on buying arms to protect its while the mainland China is developing its own weaponry, that is why they have been blamed for not transparant and as a threat etc. So as a Chinese whick China you prefer?
22nd.May.12. (Tue.) 2220hrs.
Sunday, went to Jln Pasar to see the sunday market and the Pudu big marke because we had not been there for three years.
Monday, took Sung Fong to the veteran office at the Jln. Tun Dr. Ismail to see what he can get from the dept. since he left the service without pension. The govt is giving RM 3,ooo to the ex-home guards, Junior Liason Officers, and AC's and other servicemen who serve during the Emergency from 1948-1964. The answer is there is nothing for him since he left the armed forces much later when the emergency was over. However they are trying to persude the govt. to give this bunch of ex-servicemen some aid.
To-night saw the footage from the TV that those potesters in the demonstration against the 20 summit held in Chicago is a bunch of timid, pale and frial crowd. I doubt there is anybody would care to listen to them.
24th.May.12. (Thu.) 1630hrs.
Wed. Went to the Public Bank headquarter at Jln. Raja Chulan to change the new names of signatory for the Koh's assn. cheques since the President and Treasurer of the assn. have changed after the 1912 AGM.
This morning went to JPJ to renew mom's driving licence.
27th.May.12 (Sun.) 1025hrs.
Life have been very quiet for the last few days.
This morning went to the Metropolitan garden for a morning exercise for about 45 minutes. Went to Tmn. Kolican for breakfast.
As I surf the net everyday, it dawns to me that I am very fortunate to be able to read and write Chinese. I can communicate with my Chinese ancestors through their writings and carving or whatever they left behind to tell us of their experiences etc., and to listen to their stories in their own language. Through the CNTV I have learnt that the Chinese had not been totally sleeping in the last five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can produce beautiful things. At this point of time the only thing the Chinese should do is to produce the war weaponries as good as if not better than the West and their have got.) |
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Start Here Pa.
18th.Apr.12. (Wed.) 2230hrs.
Went to town by bus to survey the Chinese writing brush and papers to practise writing the grandchildren's Chinese names. I plan to write their Chinese names on drawing papers myself to give them as souvenir when they come in May. Otherwise they will never know their names in Chinese. What the effect will ultimate imprint unto them is left to be seen.
20th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 2200hrs.
Let me continue with the Colonel's story. Arrived home after a week's holiday in the East Coast, as our car stopped at the gate I saw him curled up sound asleep in the porch. I called his name softly but there was no response, so I called his name lounder, he suddenly lift up his head to listen and turned his head to look at the direction where the sound came from and lo he saw me standing there and instantly ran to me and put his fore legs on me with his tail waging vigourously as if he was embracing me and making the gesture of kissing my body. Obviously he was very very happy to see again. How he must have felt during my absence I could not fathom. It
touched me deeply and till today I still can reflect on the scene vividly.
22nd.Apr.12. (Sun.) 1945hrs.
A sunny and hot Sunday. At 1200hrs the swearing-in ceremony for the Gao assn. was held in a restaurant near the assn. building. The past presidents of the assn. were invited to witness the ceremony. Heng Jin, his wife and son Peng Guan were present. Heng Jin donated RM10,000 to the assn. Actually we plan to give him a 81th. birthday party but he turned it down by saying that he never celebrate his birthday, so he think that it is not necessary to have one for the 81th. birthday as well. In response to the good gesture he donated the money. The whole process of the swearing-in ceremony went off smoothly and everyone present was happy. It cost the assn. nearly RM1,500.
After the lunch we adjourned to the assn. to hold the first committee members meeting for the new set of committee members. We set out the new tasks to be carried out for 2012. We decided to have our annual lunch to solicit funds on 9th. of November 2012. The meeting ended at 5pm.
25th.APr.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs.
Have been busy preparing the statements of account for second quarter of 2012 for P4D1. Other than that there was nothing worthwhile to note down. The problem we have is the large amount of debts. Yet the relevant authority is not coming out strongly to help to collect the amount due. Well, there is no use of complaining. We just slog on from day to day to the best of our ability.
2nd.May.12. (Wed.) 1435hrs.
Went for a 3 days 2 nithts tour of S'pore and Batam island of Indonesia from 27th. - 30th. of Apr. There was nothing great to see in Batam island really. Except the high rise hotels the rest of the town is just like the Malaysian kampongs. There is no luxuriou restaurants to cater for either Europeon or Chinese foods to talk about. There is no sunny and sandy beaches. So I just wonder what people go there for. For us we just want to satisfied our curiosity since there is a lot of reports of happenings on the island in the press.
We passed a night in a cheap hotel called 81 hotel in S'pore The air-con. is OK, the bed is comfortable but the tv is with few channels and there is no place to put your soiled clothes and there is no hook or rack to hang you wet towel. The next morning while waiting for the time to board the bus for home, of course I bought a copy of Chinese and English newspaper each to read and strangly enough I found that they were so boring and dry. In the past I used to enjoy reading the S'pore newspapers bothe in Chinese and English. Now I think since I can get the news and knowledge from the direct sources from the internet, so what we can read from the newspapers seem to be out of date already.
Yesterday was Labour Day, of course it was a holiday. Went to see the Chinese Navy training ship 'Chenghe" at South Port Port Klang. We were just allowed to go round the deck one complete round of the ship. It took us a great pain to have the opportunity to see it because the crowd was tremendous. I think this is an indication to the fact that the Chinese are proud of their ancestors' land although it is quite a small ship compared to the ones that are owned by the super-power, but the ray of hope is in the horizon that the day will come that the Chinese Navy will be as strong as that of other powers.
3nd.May.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs.
I pity the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guancheng that he failed to relise that he is valueless for the Western propoganda that is why they did not send a special plane to take him and his family away quickly.
4th.May.12. (Fri.) 2325hrs.
The weather is very very hot today. No rain.
Let me tell you another dag's story. This time is my grandpa's black dog. His name is 'itam' in Malay. The time was when I was about seven and eight years old. I still can visualise him curling on the floor mat in the centre of the main door of my grandpa's house. He was a quiet dog he did not simply bark for nothing. The next thing I remember about him in particular is that he used to sit in waiting when my auntie poured the biscuits into a big biscuit tin brought back from Melaka Town by my grandpa because she would give him two pieces after completing the job. He would be happy to eat them. The biscuit was from the left over bread cut into blocks and put into oven again to bake them dry. My grandpa used to buy them from a bakery in Melaka. We ate them with black coffee for breadfast.
6th.May.12. (Sun.) 1700hrs.
This part of KL is quiet, I don't know other part of KL is peaceful or not. Lately due to the gen. election is eminent so there is a lot of demonstrations going on.
Now that the mother of human rights and democracy had gone home, so there should not be any more of the blind dissident's drama going on. The staging of the drama was very well planned. They must have hoped that thousand and thousand of supporters of the blind man would go to the Thiananmen Square. They spared no efforts to creat trouble for other people.
10th.May.12. (Thu.) 2300hrs.
It took me three hours to go by train to Subang Jaya to bring back the maid from EM place by train as well. It will take as long if I use my car because of the jam etc. By train it cost only RM2.30 for the maid while as a senior citizen I got a free ride for three months otherwise it cost half ware for me.
In the evening there was a big thunder storm raging on for about two hours. So there was no evening walk.
12th.May.12. (Sat.) 0515hrs.
Woken up by the barks of the dogs at 4am and just couldn't fall asleep again. One of the annoying things of living with the Chinese neighbourhood is the barking dogs. Last time the noises made by the Chinese population was their loud talkings, loud radio music, car honkings etc.etc. When you go for morning walk you can hear them clapping their hands while walking. To me it is very annoying. I like to walk by myself quietly just to stop talking because people have been talking too much. All the troubles either big or small are caused by talkings. Comparatively the Chinese are more civilised now.
13th.May.12. (Sun.) 0435hrs.
This morning the dog-barking is less. it may be due to the cooler weather. Yesterday we spent the whole morning in the PUSPACOM. This time the PUSPACOM is totally reorganised and it had really got rid of the corruption activity like last time. We will see how long it will last.
We gave a farewel dinner to the maid who is going home after five years with us. We invited uncle Loon and wife, Mai Chin and her fatty daughter with her boy friend and the new maid. She will be leaving at llam with the Air Asia.
13th.May.12/ (Sun.) 2325hrs.
Went to SS's house with the maid at about 10am. Proceeded to the LCCT at about 1100hrs. After checking in they bid farewell to her wihtout me. We started our journey home at about 2pm and stopped at Taipan USJ for some food as we had missed our lunch. Sent EM to SS's house to pick up her car and maid. By the time we arrived home it was already about 4.30pm. Had a nap for one hour. Thinking of going for a walk at the Metropolitan garden but the darkening sky prevented me for that. It was already about 6.30pm.,so gave up the idea of the evening walk. As we were preparing to go out for our dinner uncle Loon called and asked us whether we are happy to go to his house for dinner as he had boiled chicken(pak cham kai) and chickem soup for dinner. So we ended up having dinner in his house. It was a delicious dinner.
16th.May.12. (Wed.) 2225hrs.
There is nothing to write about my psesonal life. It had been non eventful for the last three days. The weather is extremely hot and uncomfortable.
The US $2b loss by the JP Morgan is quite a news. That is what it is said in the Malay proverb that "tupai pandai pandai l0mgpat, satu hari jatoh juga". That is good enough for time being.
18th.May.12. (Fri.) 1755hrs.
Yesterday, went to top up my prepaid card for travelling in the Rapid transport system vehicles like Buses, LRT etc. at the Klang Bus Station LRT station. The Klang Bus station is being torn down to make way for the MRT station. Few other buildings will be involved and this has raised protest from the property ownners in the Sultan Street claiming that it is a historical heritage and it should be preserved as it is. I really don't know what is the real reason for it. I thought the MRT station will bring prosperity to the area. After seeing a lot of modern cities, KL is really a rundown city.
19th.May.12. (Sat.) 0000hrs.
Went to PUSPACOM again, this time passed the test. So we can relax for another six months.
Congratulations to the blind Chinese activist and his family members, they can now enjoy eating hamburgers in the country of its origin. They must be very happy now.
Another thing that linger in my mind that I just cannot put it away without sayng something about it that is the govt. of KMT Taiwan is buying 66 pieces of the F16 for now and other weaponry to follow soon. KMT Taiwan is hailed as presenting the Free and Democractic China and it has to depend on buying arms to protect its while the mainland China is developing its own weaponry, that is why they have been blamed for not transparant and as a threat etc. So as a Chinese whick China you prefer?
22nd.May.12. (Tue.) 2220hrs.
Sunday, went to Jln Pasar to see the sunday market and the Pudu big marke because we had not been there for three years.
Monday, took Sung Fong to the veteran office at the Jln. Tun Dr. Ismail to see what he can get from the dept. since he left the service without pension. The govt is giving RM 3,ooo to the ex-home guards, Junior Liason Officers, and AC's and other servicemen who serve during the Emergency from 1948-1964. The answer is there is nothing for him since he left the armed forces much later when the emergency was over. However they are trying to persude the govt. to give this bunch of ex-servicemen some aid.
To-night saw the footage from the TV that those potesters in the demonstration against the 20 summit held in Chicago is a bunch of timid, pale and frial crowd. I doubt there is anybody would care to listen to them.
24th.May.12. (Thu.) 1630hrs.
Wed. Went to the Public Bank headquarter at Jln. Raja Chulan to change the new names of signatory for the Koh's assn. cheques since the President and Treasurer of the assn. have changed after the 1912 AGM.
This morning went to JPJ to renew mom's driving licence.
27th.May.12 (Sun.) 1025hrs.
Life have been very quiet for the last few days.
This morning went to the Metropolitan garden for a morning exercise for about 45 minutes. Went to Tmn. Kolican for breakfast.
As I surf the net everyday, it dawns to me that I am very fortunate to be able to read and write Chinese. I can communicate with my Chinese ancestors through their writings and carving or whatever they left behind to tell us of their experiences etc., and to listen to their stories in their own language. Through the CNTV I have learnt that the Chinese had not been totally sleeping in the last five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can produce beautiful things. At this point of time the only thing the Chinese should do is to produce the war weaponries as good as if not better than the West and their have got.)
11th.Jun.08.(Wed.) 0655hrs.
Three days have gone because my diary 2 has been full and cannot go on anymore. So to-day I start with diary 3.
If you want to know the bad news of China, you go into BBC, CNN, YAHOO and other Western websites to find out. But this morning I learnt a piece of good news from BBC website that is the Chinese had successfuly draining the water from the earth quake made lake that threaten the
dam or whatever. It must be a bad news for the Western media with no flooding and miserable news and pictures for them to publish. To tarnish the Chinese.
13th.Jun.08.(Fri.) 0710hrs.
Personally I have nothing to write about. Life goes on as normal. Normal means eat, sleep and we can say pass the time unprofitably in term of money or wisdom. But then events that do not concern me personally immediately is a plenty. It is boring to relate them. Such things like US election and our own political bickering etc.etc.. Isn't it boring?
Oh ya. I went away from here and came back again when this item came into my mind. That the Eastern Garden had been without street light for two nights before last night after my many complaints.
14th.Jun.08.(Sat.) 0735hrs.
Heaven had been torturing China with snowstorms,floods,cyclones,heavy rainstorms,landslides etc.etc.. It is fair that Heaven is now sending flood and bush fire to the USA, so that the Americans can taste a bit of the discomfort. They are very OK because their govt. is very rick and efficient. They get all the help they need and the insurance companys will make good their losses. So what is the problem?
Eia Mai had given me a RM500 cheque for father's day yesterday.
The white leaders of the ex-colonial powers are busy apologising to the idigenous people for what they have done to them I wonder why suddenly their conscience has got better of them. Of course when their ancestors were enslaving the Negros, graping the natives' land and shooting them at will, there was no human rights to talk about. There was no NGOs to protect the minority race.are There was no democracy to worry about. But now the white men using these beautiful names to usurp the Africans and the Asians so that they can come back again to be their lords.
16th.Jun.08.(Mon.)
Yesterday, representing GAO Assn. went to attend the KL Chinese Assembly Hall annual general meeting. Nothing much happening except passing a few resolutions which are talked about daily such as abolishing of the ISA etc. I voted against the proposal of abolishing the ISA. I always maintain that we need the ISA to put away the mischievers for the good of the general public. Of course the condamnation of the price rise of the petroleum and Chinese educations reforms etc. Nothing new but the same old stories.
18th.Jun.08.(Wed.) 1810hrs.
Yesterday went to the National Art Gallery in the morning. I have not been there for two or three years already. It is very well maintained and there is a small library for the readers.
This morning went to the Kuala Lumpur library. It is a very nice library but very much under-utilised because I saw only a handful of people there. I spent one hour on one of its about ten to twenty computers surfing the internet. I just want to feel how it works. It was good.
The next place I am going is the National Museum. It was under renovation when I went there about a year ago and now I think it must have been done.
19th.Jun.08.(Thu.) 1625hrs.
Actually I did not feel like writing this story but then I thought if someone in say a hundred years later happened to read this article then it may dawn to him that man marrying man and woman marrying woman started on this day in the advanced amd civilised America! In the natural wild animal kingdom the instinct of same sex having sexual acts is non-existance and now human animal having same-sex relationship is call what animal? I hope this happenings will occur more in this kind of animal kingdom (the same sex marry each other animal kingdom).
Went to the Tmn. Metropolitan for morning walk and stayed at home for the rest of the day. It rained heavily in the evening.
21st.Jun.08.(Sat.)1525hrs.
My gout started to disturb me again and this time it happened on my shoulder. So went to see doc.Lian, had a jab and got some medicine. It cost me RM32.oo plue the cream for itches otherwise it would be about RM 25.oo only. Stayed at home for the whole day.
After staying at home for the whole morning, we plan to go to Lip Wern's place at about 5pm with the chicken jinger. We plan to take a good picture.
22nd.Jun.08.(Sun.) 0925hrs.
The moment I started surfing the net I read that five coalition troops were killed Afganistan, four GIs one Polish soldier plus two soldiers were seriously wounded. If the Western reporters are happily reporting bad bad news from China why can I be very very happy to hear something bad from the opposite side. Heaven is quite fair in dealing with the earthly matters.
This is a glorious morning, the sun is bright and the air is cool. It is indeed pleasant.
25th.Jun.08.(Wed.) 1735hrs.
Monday acompanied mama to Petronas to get her diesel discount card to buy subsidised diesel. Stayed at home after that. Tuesday went to see the office clerk who works for the developer of the buildings which are supposed to be handed over to the owners to manage.(the Tmn Mastaria,GAO association is owning a unit and mama owns a unit).
This morning(Wed.) went to the developer's office with the Sec. of the Joint Management Commitee to discuss the procedures on handing over and taking over of the management office on 30th. of this month. So from 1st. July we will start to run our affairs.
In the afternoon part there was a bit of panic because mama's refuse to start. It was discovered that the battery went flate. Mama used the Wira to settle the problem temporarily until the battery is changed.
30th.Jun.08.(Mon.) 0730hrs.
Strange, I did not realise that I have not written anything for the last four clear days. I knew I did not write anything for the last few days but it was not so long. Anyway there was nothing much worth writing about. Life was going on as normal,li li lah lah.
Yesterday was a busy day. In the morning part we went to the Pasar Road to roam about to see what is going there and to see what new items are being sold there. We also went to the Pudu shopping complex which we have not visited for a long time. We bought a small cute old Chinese tea pot there. After that we went to the UE3 shopping complex which has become some sort of a Chinese antique shoping complex. There we bought a few old Chinese tea pots plus a Chairman Mao's quotations pamphlet. I had been wanting to read it for a long time but did not get the opportunity. It is just like the size of a Bible. It is easy to carry around and so it can be read like a Bible. It is easy to understand too and it touches the worldly things rather than the heavenly misteries.
1st.July.08.(Tue.) 2030hrs.
There is nothing going on in the day time. Actally I am preparing to go to bed and as usual I like to know what is going on in the world so that I can muse it over while dozing off. The head line happens to give me some idea worth recording. That Zambabwe president's spokeman to Western critics:"GO HANG". I think he is right in telling the critics off if they can survive on their own without wanting anything from them. They will do nothing good for the Zambabweans but remain critics. Good night.
4th.Jul.08.(Fri.) 0750hrs.
Two days had gone by, I had nothing worthwhile to put down in my daily record. Of course there are a lot of happenings go round but there was nothing really concern me personally.
The country is going through a period of high petrol price and so it drags in inflation. All activities are slowing down. The ramification is too large a subject to write. The whole world is being affected. At the moment no economists can tell what is causing the problem and how to cure it. So that's it.
5th.Jul.08.(Sat.) 1050hrs.
Hurray! Gcngratulations, how advance the Armericans are, just imagine a man has dilivered a baby girl. The only thing he cannot do is to breastfeed the baby. It is great, in America today, man marrying man, woman marrying woman. I won't be suprised in America you will find a human body with complete animal head, say a horse, a pid or a cow in years to come. At present there are a lot of Americans with the faces look like that of baboons and gorrilas,lah!
6th.Jul.08.(Sun.) 2025hrs.
Went to the Tesco supermarket in at Jln. Ipoh for about lhr. and went to Carfour super market after that just to sook around to see whether there is any items for sale or not, just to familirise myself.
Slept for one and a half hour before to GAO assn. for Chinese tea and chit chat about. Stayed at home for the rest of the evening.
9th.Jul.08.(Wed.)
My! two solid days slipped by without realising it. There were nothing happening that prompt me to write. Ah yah on Monday, that was 7th. of July. Eik Mai and I went to the Silverpark to attend the Joint Management Committee meeting. This is a new stuff that being established for the residents of the apartments to look after themselves in term of the common areas. Eik Mai and I cannot be elected as committee members because we are not the owner of the apartment. We went there to attend the meeting just to listen the going on.
8th. of July, that was Tuesday, I went to the Mastaria shoplots to sort out the keys problem because I am the Chairman of the six blocks of the shoplots Joint Management Committees.
This morning 9th. of July, wife and me went to Heng Jin's shop to pay the deposit for the coming trip to Cambodia-Angkowat during the second term school holiday. Also went to the Society Registration department to sort out the application for the changing of GAO association constitution. It had been delayed for about two years already.
11th.Jul.08.(Fri.) 1730hrs.
It is truely interesting to hear that the US black presidential candidate before being elected is already talking tough that he is intending to boycot the opening of the Olmpic ceremony.
So I leave it to you to imagine what is lying ahead if he is elected the president. It will be interesting to see the Black superMAN against the Yellow SUPERman in the world political and military arena.
12th.Jul.08.(Sat.) 2135hrs.
Mom had gone to Betong, Thailand and the maid had been sent to SS home, so I stay at home all by myself. Stayed at home until 5.30pm, went to Titiwangsa garden for a walk because it rain at the fourth mile Ipoh Road. I took a chance to go to Titiwangsa and it happened there was no rain there. I took a chance because it always happen like that, when it rains here it is fine on the other side.
According to the internet report, the French president Sarkozy(don't bother the spelling)said he will only attend the Olympic games opening ceremony with certain conditions. What I like to tell that bumb is, it does not matter whether he attends it or not. The Chinese are big enough not to need you anymore. Long live Chaiman Mao. You made it possible.
13th.Jul.08.(Sun)
Went to Brickfielf for the famous "Pork Mee". Then came home until the tea time in the GAO assn.
Mama came back from Betong about 9pm. She brought back a cooked chicken-the chicken cooked with the heated salt. So, thus a Sunday is gone.
17th.Jul.08.(Thu.)
Mine!Mine! three days had slip away without knowing it. Since there was nothing happening so I did write anything.
This morning I purposely went out to KL just to refresh myself. I went to the Sungai Wang shopping centre and the newly opened Pawilian shopping centre just to see around. I don't think we need to go there to buy things since all the things there can be found in the smaller shopping centres. I finally found a shop which deals in stamps and coins so I can dispose off my stamps collected over the years.
18th.Jul.08.(Fri.)
That's. The Pope just says a few words of reconciliations on the appology from the white government to the aborigines of Australia on the sins they had pepertrated onto them. Simple as that. You don't see pages and pages of condemnations churn out from the white racialistic human-rights gangsters if it is done by the Chinese.
19th.Jul.08.(Sat.) 0720hrs.
BBC web site, the title : Sacked coach attack China medal lust-Joseph Capousek. He complained that China is training their athletes will training the military. So, what's wrong with it. When the white men win the prizes in sports because they are superior in race but when someone else beside the white men then it is not right. That is their logic goes. Right?!
What I would like to tell Mr.Capousek is, the Chinese are no more "the sick men of Asia." The Chinese are going to be the superMEN of the world.
I got up at normal time at 5am and do my own style morning exercise for about forty five minutes. I have been doing this since my retirement since I have a lot of spare time now.
21st.Jul.08.(Mon.) 0710hrs.
When I do my morning exercises, I always toy in my mind as to what to write for the day. Of course there are so many things to write about. Many many subjects. So sometimes I think I don't want to write anything totally because I do not want to care for anything at all.
Like now the Pope is ending his tour of Australia after telling the youth of the world that don't be greedy and to love etc. Dalai Lama is touring Europe preaching for peace etc. while fighting for independence for Tibet which is the subject the whitemen like to pick for creating trouble for China. The US presidential candidate (Obama) is in Afganistan and mentions that the war against the militants will be pursued vigorously. The Western correspondents of various news agents are in Beijing busying looking for bad news to spoil the Olympic games.
As for myself I am very happy. I am healthy and strong and have a lot of food to each and a good house to live in, what else you want me to write about, who care about the world.
At 1231hrs. Ya! I just finished surfing the CNN. The impression I got from it is WORLD PEACE means the whole world must listen to the whitemen's commands. You do what they tell you to do.
23rd.Jul.08.(Wed.) 1855hrs.
There was nothing to prick my temper so there was no writing yesterday, Tuesday. Up to this point of time there is still nothing happened worth for me to put down in writing for posterity.
27th.Jul.08.(Sun.)2130hrs.
Without realising it three days had gone by without me writing at all. Thu. & Fri. were without anything happening. Yesterday Saturday went to attend a meeting about the strata titiles for apartments buyers in the Mastaria apartments. It is the same old story of adminstrative inefficiency that caused the delay and this inefficency is being exploited by the developers of the apartments. This is a widesppread problems in this country at the moment. In my mind this is quite a deliberate norms to make the land-developers to make more money as no developers had ever been punnished for the delay when it is apparent that they are using the strata titles as collateral to get loans from the bank.(I would like to say here that this is my impression I got from the various explainations given by the speakers from the Resident Assn. Officials. I stand to be corrected if I am wrong.) This is one of the reasons as to why the idea of build and then sell is not catching on.
Being a Sunday we went to Beranang sunday market just to roam about because I heard that there are a lot of exservicemen are living in that area. We hope to meet some of them but we arrived there at about 1130am and the Sunday market is already quite empty, so we decided to go on to Seremban and since we were there we went to the cffee shop which was run by our relatives. We discovered that she is no more running the coffee shop and we were given her home address. We went to see her there and found that she is still strong and healthy. We stayed there for a while and we dashed back to KL for tea session in the GAO assn. The GAO assn. people there also require my signature for the cheque. Came back at about 5.30, had a one hour nap, bathe and had dinner at 8pm. Watched and listened to the news and surfed the the net and this.
28th.Jul.08.(Mon.) 1320hrs.
"Sorry we may have killed women, children and other civilians" in Iraq, in Afgan and now in Pakistan. During the 2WW, the Jap used rifles, swords and fire to kill and burn but now the bombs are used. To bomb to kill the militants or taking revange, your guess is as good as mine.
This morning went to the Telecom department to register a phone line for the Joint Committee Management's office at the Mastaria appartment. In the afternoon the GAO assn. secretary Koh Lin Ten will be going to the Registrar of the Associations to submit the correct version of the revised assn. constitution for approval. I think that will be a day for me.
30th.Jul.08.(Wed.) 0725hrs.
Regretably the earthquake in Los Angeles is small I would like to see an earthquake as big as the one that just occurred in China lately and see how their govt. handle the situation. They have been critising about other people too much. Strange, where the hell the staff in those rubbish agencies get their pay for a living, I wonder.
31st.Jul.08.(Thu.) 1040hrs.
Every morning when I surf the net and read the newspapers there are so many complains lump onto China on everything that China do make me love more on the Chairman's thought. You have to deal with these capitalists, empirialists, and their lackeys mercilessly. It makes me realised that how bad the WHITEMEN can be. They are as bad as the people they condemn and critise.
It sounds that I am gloomy after reading the above statement but I am not. I record all these down for the people who had been domatised by the WHITEMEN's propagandas. Even my own children are totally influence by the western propagandas.
1st.Aug.08.(Fri.) 0830hrs.
Just finished surfing the Yahoo,BBC CNN and CHINADAILY. It is quite normal for the monkeys in the US congress to pass resolutions in condemning other countries. This time they have passed resolutions condemning Chinese govt. on the sins they can dream of just before the opening of the Olympics. If the Olympic is held in one of the Eropean countries or in America or in one of the countries that is to thier liking,they will praise it sky-high. I still remember when the English players were winning the Thomas Cup, they talked so much about the novelty of the cup and the games. After the Malayans won the cup repeatedly, they started to try to sideline the competitions. By now they don't even mention of the games at all. I quote this story just to illustrate how these bums are like. This is the morning session I may start again if I find something that prick my sparking red button.
2nd.Aug.08.(Sat.) 0735hrs.
Again just after surfing the nets. I just wonder why the foreign barbarisns are so kind to worry for the Chinese people's freedon of speech, etc. They cannot do any physical good things for the Chinese except giving flowery terminologies. In fact because of internet I am more Chinese than ever before because I can see the evil intentions of these barbarians. They come to your house and look for bad things to write about. Honestly they should not be allowed to enter your house. They will even rape your grandmother. They are worst than the sankes.
4th.Aug.08.(Mon.) 1515hrs.
My God, the BBC is using a big busts and voluptuous woman dressed in sexy T shirt to present a short film on disgracing the Chinese. I must admit that at my age it make me to want to see her again and again. You can see how smart the whitemen try to convey their message across.
This morning we went to the tour agency to pay up our trip to Cambodia.
5th.Aug.08.(Tue.) 0825hrs.
According to the old Chinese calendar, this is a ghost's month, in this month all the ghosts are let loose to roam around. This is true in China now because the ghosts are all over Beijing and they are white ghosts might you. They are everywhere in Beijing looking for the bad things to be high-lighted to the world. I really feel sory for them because they are really doing their up-most to do something to hurt people. When I look at them in the vedio film how defferent they are from my imaginery white men whom I thought are just, fair minded etc. They stoop so lowly to earn a living.
6th.Aug.08.(Wed.) 1755hrs.
I hope the Chinese govt. will uphold Chairman's thought and go on with the Olypics happily regardless whether the imperialists, colonialists and capitalists are coming or not. They are like old grumpy women babling all the way. They can smell where the dollars and cents are.
7th.Aug.08.(Thu.)
The Americans had played too many jokes to didgrace the Chinese. This time they flew in with masts on and then apolozised. As I had written earlier they slapped you and then apolozised with hazzy wordings and meanings. That is ok, it shows that they are not as civilised as they claimed to be.
Chase them away if they try to be 'kurang hajah'. They cann't afford to show their battle ships at Chinese rivers mouths like in olden days with the slightest excuses.
8th.Aug.08.(Fri.) 1245hrs.
To-night at 2000hrs, the opening ceremony of the 29th. Olympic Games will begin in Beijing, the capital of Neww China. I am really lucky to see this day arrived at last, otherwise I would be a disappointed Chinese who died as a disgraced member of a disgraced race - Chinese. Ever since I was born I only know of a poor and backward China. I read about the Japanese invasion,I read about the unequal treaties imposed by the Western powers. The civil wars after the WW2 and finally the establishment of the New China. So, what would you like to describe my feeling, simply happy, proud of the occasion?
I hope China is not going to end it here but to go on prospering to becaome a strong and rich country. To put the philosophies that were preached by the sages into practice to show the world that a country can be strong and yet peaceful towards the larger world.
9th.Aug.08.(Sat.) 1630hrs.
We watched the direct telecast of the opening of the 29th. Olympic Games by the RTM 1. It is really a disappointment because the telecast started at 2030hrs while the opening ceremony started at 2000hrs. So we missed the gist of the ceremony which showcased the culture of ancient China. I donn't really know whether this was done on purpose or by techincal problem. Theoretically the usual 2000hrs news can always be moved forward half an hour.
It was another victory for the Chinese. All the predictions,hopes and wishes of destruction for the event had come to pass. Isn't it a victory for the Chinese.
At this moment I learnt that the Chinses won a gold medal on woman weight lifting event while the Chez woman won a gold medal for shooting.
14th.Aug.08.(Thu.) 1810hrs.
Sad. I pressed the edit button instead of save page button, I lost what I had just written. I not only lost the last one but I also had lost what I had wrtten for the last few days.
I think I will stop here until I gather my mood of writing again.
15th.Aug.08.(Fri.) 1115hrs.
I just started to surf the internet with the Yahoo web site and it showed a filmlet by CNN on the old part of Beijing saying that the govt. tried to hide it by builing a wall around it. If you know of old Beijing there was something call 'hutong'. That is a kind of houses built in the square form and they are due for demolition for new housing estate. So what wrong with it? So it promts my mind to write this down so that it won't slip off mind later on. What I think is this if what journalism is all about writting bad on other people like the cheapskate newspapermen from the CNN, BBC etc. then it must be a lousy profession. In this case they mention of the communist govt. but not the Chinese. Well, it is the CPC that make China as what it is today while the people in the so-called democratic countries in Asia are fed with democracy and freedom only while living in poverty.
20th.Aug.08.(Wed.) 2145hrs.
Came back from Cambodia for five days trip. It was an educational trip rather than holiday trip because from it I learnt a bit of the Cambodia's people, history and culture. Otherwise I know of Cambodia on hear'says only.
The most unpleasant thing about the trip was too many beggars and children trying to sell all kinds of handy crafts. It was a pitiful sight. I wonder whether their national leaders realise the problems or not. If the answer is yes, I also wonder how can they sleep at night and how can they allow their smiling pictures being hung all over the two cities.
22th.Aug.08.(Fri.) 0855hrs.
It is a sunny morning. The sun is shining brightly and it tells us that the day will be a hot one. Got up as usual at 0500hrs inspite of being a school holiday. In theory I can get up at any time of the morning. I have made up my mind to get up early every morning and do my exercise and nap in the afternoons since I have all the time to do what I want.
It is 1735hrs now,it is raining heavily. I had just finished surfing the internet. The British prime minister is now in Beijing to attend the Olympic Games closing ceremony on the 24th.Aug.08. He was critised for going there and his reply was that he is going there to raise the question of "Human Rights" to the Chinese leaders. "Human Rights, Freedon of Speech, Press Freedom and Democracy" is the normal "Coyok" of the Western leaders when going to China. ("Koyok" is a kind of smelly black medicinal stuff used to paste on the part of the body ache of old Chinese. Its effectiveness is of questionable nowadays.)
23th.Aug.08.(Sat.) 2335hrs.
Nothing special to write. Lip Wern, his mom. and the maid came at 1700hrs and left at 2830hrs. He behaved very well today and he is such a lovely boy. That is when he hehave himself.
24th.Aug.08.(Sun.)
At last the Olympic Games were successfully over and closed. I do not want to make any comments but one thing is certain the Chinese had the capability and ability to organise something like the Olympics. With the gold medals tally if is proof that the Chinese are no longer the sick men of Asia.
The RTM2 once again disappointed the viewers with late starting and early finish.
27th.Aug.08.(Wed.) 0910hrs.
The Olympic had come to pass. The Chinese had accomplished another mission inspite of all kinds of criticisms. The next mission is the space exploration in Oct. followed by many exciting events like the expo in Shanghai in 2010 etc. Who care whether it is one party or multi-party rule as long as it brings peace,prosperity to the people and strength to the country.
The morning is very pleasant. The sun is shining brightly after the rain last night. The air is cool and pleasant. Datuk Anwar, the ex-deputy prime minister who was jailed won the by-election in Penang. It is hoped that he would bring changes into the govt.(It is a long story to tell all in this short space.)
The Russians have recognised the break away provinces of Georgia (S.Ossetia and Abkhazis) as independent states, that would keep the Americans and Europeans busy a bit, otherwise they are too free to mind other people's business.
28th.Aug.08.(Thu.) 0830hrs.
The rain prevented me from going to morning exercise in the park. Just dud the exercises at home for about one hour. At the moment it is gloomy and dark outside. The air is chilly. Mum bought two packets of nasi lemak'one for herself and one for me.
29th.Aug.08.(Fri.) 0740hrs.
Great news. The man who is preaching meditation for peaceful, happy life and positive thinking is rushed to hospital for adomen trouble. He is three years younger than I am, just 73yrs old. For me he is merely an agent for trouble makers of the Western powers. Wish him a speedy recovery.
30th.Aug.08.(Sat.) 2225hrs.
Today is Merdeka eve, the Budget was announced yesterday and it does not arouse any enthusiasm at large. The city is packed with vehicles. Other than that there is nothing to show it is special.
We spent the morning in the Ue3 shopping complex for about three hours to brow through the Chinese antiques. We bought two more tea pots for our collection.
Mum goes to a 80th. birthday dinner of her friend's mother at a restaurant in Bukit Bintang road. I drove her there and I came back home by bus because the whole presess of the dinner would easily take about three hours and I don't intend to wait there for so long.
31st.Aug.08.(Sun.)
Today is Merdeka day. Doing nothing special. Went to see an old member of GAO assn. who got a stroke with right side of the body paralysed. Had a one and a half hours of nab before going to the GAO assn. for Chinese tea. Stayed at home for the rest of the evening.
2nd.Sep.08.(Tue.) 1110hrs.
Yesterday was a holiday taking the place of Merdeka day holiday. Spent time with Lip Wern from about 11am. to 2pm. Had a nap, went to the Lake Garden for evening walk and ended up in the Dataran Merdeka and reached home at about 2030hrs.
This morning learnt from the newspaper that a fast double track railway line from Beijing to Shangai will be ready for use in 2012. It will only take five hours to travel between the two cities. As usual, I wonder if I am lucky enough to live to enjoy the first ride. By that time I will be 80yrs old. I had been lucky to be still alive on the completion of the three gorge dam and the glorious conclusiong of the Beijing Olmpics. When their dates of completion were announced befor their commencement I was thinking that I woldn't be still living. In fact I promised to meet my son's family together in Beijing during the Olympic but somehow they backed out saying that Beijing would be to crowded during that time. One thing puzzle me is that till today the tour agencies are not druming up trips to the three gorge dam. I would love to see the big lake being formed in the middle of central hilly part of China.
3rd.Sep.(Wed.) 1240hrs.
When Mynmar(Burmur) was hit by typhoon and flooding,the democratic countries of the West were sending food stuff,rescue helicopters and their aid workers came running eargerly to give help knowing that the Military gov. of that country would hinder their pretentious goodwill and so they make a big huha over the matter.
When Sichuan was rocked by earthquake, the Western reporters were swarminng in the spot hoping to see how the Chinese die and the 'kelang kabut'and very much disapointed to see that the relief effort of the Chinese govt. was in tip top efficiency. Therefore,NTR.
Now, the largest democratic country in the world is suffering from flooding but I don't see any food supply, rescue helicopters, rescue boats from the democratic countries of the West are present in the spot. Why!?
4th.Sep.(Thu.) 1755hrs.
Luckily went for morning walk, it rains for the whole afternoon and still raining.
7th.Sep.08.(Sun.) 1025hrs.
There was nothing happening yesterday. In the morning part went to Cheras area round to get to know it better. The rain mared the trip. Stayed home for the rest of the day. The rain interupted the evening walk.
Plan to drive round the nearby pool at about nine o'clock in the morning but mum was invited for a 'bak kut teh'. So I am waiting for her up to now (1035hrs).
