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1 3/4 cups (14 fl oz) coconut milk
2 tablespoons red curry paste
1/4 cup fish sauce
3 tablespoons sugar
1 cup ground peanuts (1 cut before ground)

Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for 15 minutes, stir constantly.

1 cup butter <br> 3/4 cup brown sugar <br> 1/2 cup white sugar <br> 2 eggs <br> 1 tsp. vanilla <br> 1 cup coconut <br> 1 tsp. salt <br> 1 1/2 cups flour <br> 1 tsp. baking soda <br> 3 cup oats <br> 1 cut chopped nuts (optional) <br> <br> <br> Mix butter and sugar together, add eggs one at a time, beat after each egg, add vanilla,flour, salt, and backing soda then mix. Add oats, nuts,and coconut mix well. Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375° F for about 12 minutes.	'''Ingredents''' <br> 1 Chicken<br> 2" Ginger<br> 8-10 pods Garlic<br> Vegetable (any leafy vegetable is good)<br> Stems (optional)<br> Noodles (optional)<br> Firm Tofu (optional)<br> '''Prep'''<br> Rinse chicken<br> Wash and smash ginger.<br> Peel and smash garlic.<br> Soak noodles. (if applicable)<br> '''Cooking'''<br> Put 12 cups of water in a pot on the stove.<br> Add garlic, ginger and chicken.<br> Bring to a boil and simmer 40 minutes.<br> (Strain out stems.)<br> Add (noodles and tofu and wait a few minutes then add) vegetable boil 2-5 minutes depending on the vegetable.<br> Serve hot.
	'''Ingredients''' <br> 4 Pork Chops <br> 1/8 cup lime juice <br> 1/8 cup grated onion <br> 1/4 teaspoon salt <br> 1/2 teaspoon pepper <br> 1/4 tablespoon of all purpose seasoning <br> 1/4 tablespoon dried basil <br> 3 garlic cloves pressed <br> '''Prep''' <br> Mix all ingredients lime juice through garlic in a container big enough to hold chops. <br> Place chops in marinade and marinade as long as you want. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Start grill. When ready place chops on the grill and cook till well done. Serve hot.
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about Talk	'''Ingredients'''<br> 6 medium yellow crook neck squash <br> 1 large purple onion <br> 3/4 - 1 cup of cornmeal <br> Olive or coconut oil <br> '''Prep'''<br> Slice squash thinly in a food processor.<br> Slice onion.<br> Mix onion, squash and cornmeal together in a big bowl and coat evenly.<br> '''Cook'''<br> Heat oil in large skillet.<br> Add squash mixture and cook two minutes on each side till it starts to brown.<br> Then adjust time accordingly so the squash doesn't burn.<br> Add more oil when necessary.<br> Cook till golden and serve hot.
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aboutpage Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1lb pork <br> 8 spring onion <br> 3 garlic <br> 2 cups water <br> 3 Tbs soy sauce <br> 16 oz medium or firm tofu <br> 2 Tbs cornstarch <br> 1/2 tsp white pepper <br> 2 Tbs palm oil <br> '''Prep''' <br> Mix pork, pepper, 1 Tbs of soy sauce, and cornstarch together. <br> Mince garlic. <br> Slice spring onion thinly. <br> Cut tofu into 1/2 inch cubes. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Heat palm oil in wok. <br> When hot at garlic and fry till slightly brown. <br> Add pork and fry will done. <br> Add tofu and cook 3 more minutes. <br> Add water soy sauce and half the spring onion. <br> Bring to a boil, and simmer for 5 minutes. <br> Garnish with the rest of the onion and serve hot on rice.
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aboutsite Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1 pound eggplant <br> 4 T oil <br> 3 cloves garlic <br> 1.5 inches ginger <br> 2 spring onions <br> 4 ounces ground pork <br> 2 T soy sauce <br> 1 t vinegar <br> 1/2 t sugar <br> 1 t seasame oil <br> 1/4 cup water or chicken stock <br> '''Prep''' <br> Slice eggplant into 1/2 centimeter slices. <br> Mince garlic and ginger. <br> Slice spring onion. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Heat 2 T oil in a wok. <br> Add eggplant and cook till soft. <br> Remove eggplant and add the rest of the oil. <br> Add garlic, ginger, and 1/2 the spring onion. <br> Fry for 30 seconds and add pork. <br> Break pork apart and cook till all of it hase changed color. <br> Add soy sauce, vinegar, and sugar. <br> Add the eggplant to meat. <br> Add the rest of the spring onion and water. <br> Cook 2 minutes and stir in sesame oil. <br> Serve hot on rice. <br>
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accesskey-compareselectedversions Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1/2 lb meat (any kind) <br> 3 garlic <br> 1 inch ginger <br> 1/3 lb green vegetables <br> 2 T oil <br> 1 onion <br> 2 cups water <br> 400-500 g rice noodles <br> 1 T cornstarch <br> 1 t white pepper <br> 2 T soy sauce <br> '''Prep''' <br> Mince garlic and ginger. <br> Slice onion thinly. <br> Slice meat thinly and cover with cornstarch and white pepper. <br> Wash veggies and cut into bite size pieces. <br> Soak noodles for at least 1 hour. <br> Drain when done. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Heat oil in large pan/wok. <br> When hot add garlic and ginger. <br> Fry till crisp. <br> Add meat and fry till no longer pink on the outside. <br> Add onion and cook till soft. <br> Add veggies, water, and soy sauce. <br> When it boils add noodles and cook till hot all the way through. <br> Serve hot or room temp.
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accesskey-diff Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1 four pound chicken <br> 2-3 inches ginger <br> 3 cloves garlic <br> 3 spring onion <br> 12 cups water <br> 2 T sesame oil <br> 3 T soy sauce <br> 1/2 cup chicken stock <br> 1 more clove garlic <br> 1 t cornstarch <br> '''Prep''' <br> Clean chicken. <br> Crush ginger, 3 garlic, and spring onion. <br> Mince the last garlic. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Place chicken, water, ginger, spring onion, and crushed garlic in a large pot. <br> Bring to a boil and simmer till chicken is done. (approx. 40-50 minutes) <br> When chicken is done plunge it into a bowl of ice water for five minutes. <br> Remove and cut. <br> Heat sesame oil in a small pot. <br> Add minced garlic and fry till it starts to brown. <br> Add soy sauce and chicken broth. <br> Mix cornstarch with 2 teaspoons cold water. <br> Add to sauce and let it boil. <br> Pour over cut chicken. <br> Serve hot or cold with rice and remaining chicken soup.
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accesskey-preview Talk	'''Oatmeal Cookies''' 1½ cup Butter (3 sticks) <br> 3½ cup whole wheat flour <br> 2 cup packed brown sugar <br> 2 eggs <br> 1½ tsp baking soda (at high altitude) <br> 2 tsp vanilla <br> ½ tsp baking powder <br> 1 tsp cinnamon <br> 4 cup rolled oats <br> Beat butter and sugar until creamy add egg and vanilla and mix add baking soda and baking powder mix preheat oven at 375 F add flour and cinnamon and mix add oats and mix cook 10-12 minutes
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accesskey-save Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1 pound lamb or beef heart <br> 5 1/2 inches ginger <br> 2 tablespoons of oil <br> 4 spring onions <br> 1 teaspoon sugar <br> 2 tablespoons soy sauce <br> 2 tablespoon cooking sherry <br> '''Prep''' <br> Slice lamb heart thinly. <br> Peel and slice ginger. <br> Cut spring onion into 5 cm pieces. <br> '''Marinade''' <br> Mix 1 tablespoon soy sauce, sugar and 1 tablespoon of ginger juice in large bowl or pie plate. <br> Add lamb heart and let it sit. '''Cooking''' <br> Heat oil in a wok. <br> When hot add ginger and fry till brown. <br> Add lamb and cook till no longer pink on the outside. <br> Add remainder of soy sauce, the sherry, and the spring onion. <br> Cook 30 second longer. <br> Serve hot over rice.
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accmailtitle Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 2 lb sliced beef flank or roast <br> 6 inches of ginger <br> 6 spring onions <br> 4 tablespoons soy sauce <br> 2 tablespoons cooking sherry <br> 4 tablespoons oil <br> 4 cups water <br> '''Prep''' <br> Slice the ginger into sticks. <br> Cut the spring onions into 5 cm pieces. <br> '''Cooking''' <br> Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan. Add half of ginger and onion to pan. When ginger is turning brown add half the beef. When beef is no longer pink on the outside add 2 cups of water and 2 tablespoons of soy sauce. Cook for about twenty minutes or until beef is done. Add sherry and spring onions and cook for 30 more seconds. Repeat all of the above for second batch. 2 pounds of beef serve about six people. Serve hot on rice.
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acct_creation_throttle_hit Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 2 tablespoons soy sauce <br> 6 tablespoons oil <br> 1 1/2 teaspoons sesame oil <br> 2 teaspoons salt <br> 2 teaspoons sugar <br> 4 slices of ginger <br> 4 spring onions <br> 16 pepper corns <br> 4 small pieces of cinnamon sticks <br> 4 star anise <br> 8 cloves <br> 1/4 cup of water <br> 1/4 cups of cooking sherry <br> 24 gizzards <br> '''Sauce''' <br> Mix the soy sauce and oils together in a large bowl. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Mix all the other ingredients together in a large pie plate. Heat steamer till boiling. Put in gizzards and cook for one hour. Remove gizzards and let cool till holdable. Cut gizzards thinly and discard seasoning that it cooked in. When sliced put gizzards in the sauce that you made earlier. Serve whenever ready. Eat with rice.
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actioncomplete Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1/2 loaf bread <br> 5 eggs <br> 3 tbs butter <br> '''Cook''' <br> Slice bread, then beet eggs in a separate bowl. Soak bread in egg. Put 2 1/2 tbs butter in pan. Fry bread till golden-brown.This will take at least two times to fry all bread.
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addedwatch Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 2 1lb fish. <br> 4 inches of ginger. <br> 2 tablespoons of soy sauce. <br> 1/4 teaspoons of white pepper. <br> 4 spring onions. <br> 3 cloves of garlic. <br> 1 teaspoon of sugar. <br> 1/2 teaspoon of salt. <br> 1/2 of a lime. <br> '''Prep''' <br> Peel and mince garlic. <br> Peel and slice ginger into matchsticks. <br> If need be degut and descale the fish. <br> Cut spring onion into 5cm pieces. <br> Mix the salt sugar and white pepper together and rub half of the mixture on each fish. <br> Place 1 seasoned fish and half of the ginger, garlic and soy sauce in a pie plate. <br> Do the same to the other fish. Squirt half of the lime on each fish. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Heat water in a steamer till it boils. When hot add One pie plate and let the fish steam for about 8 minutes. 30 seconds before it is done add half the spring onion. When done cook other fish and serve hot with rice. Serves about 4.
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addsection Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 2 lbs beef flank or skirt steak <br> 1 lemon <br> 2 teaspoons of garlic powder <br> 2 teaspoons of onion powder <br> 1 teaspoon black pepper <br> 1 tablespoons orageno <br> 1/2 teaspoons of salt <br> 4 bell peppers <br> 2 large yellow onions <br> 1 large purple onion <br> Tortillas for all present <br> '''Prep''' <br> Juice the lemon. <br> Mix the lemon juice, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper, orageno, and salt in a large pan. <br> Place the meat in the marinade and let it set for 2-4 hours. <br> Flip the meat once in a while. <br> While the meat is marinading chop the onions and peppers into medium sized pieces. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Start a grill. When hot grill the onions and peppers to your liking. When the onions and peppers are done grill the meat to your liking. While meat is cooking heat the tortillas. Once the meat is done cut it into about 1/4 inch thick strips. Serve the meat and vegetables with the tortillas and enjoy. Serves 6-8.
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allarticles Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> All those vegetable parts that you normally wouldn't put in any other dish. Example: califlower leaves, kale stems, brocli stems etc. <br> 4 lb beef marrow bones.(dog bones) <br> 8oz-1lb of soup bones. <br> 1 bunch of any green vegetables. <br> 2 carrots <br> 1 medium onion. <br> 4 inches of ginger. <br> 6 spring onion. <br> 1/2 pod of garlic. <br> 18-24 cups of water. <br> 300-500 grams of rice noodles '''Prep''' <br> Cut onion into fourths. <br> Smash the ginger. <br> Peel and smash the garlic. <br> Wash and slice 3 of the spring onions. <br> Wash the other 3. <br> Soak the noodles. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Place the "dog bones" and all the ingredients except the sliced spring onion and soup bone into a large pot. Turn on the fire and bring to a boil. Lower temperature and simmer for two hours. Add the soup bone and cook for another hour. When done drain soup into another pot. Keep bones and discard the rest. Reheat soup and add green vegetable. When vegetables are almost done add noodles. Depending on amount you want. Slice the meat of the soup bone. (You can bite it off the "dog bones"). Dish out noodles into bowls and garnish with the meat and spring onion. Serve hot.
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allinnamespace Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 5 spring onions <br> 3 tablespoons ginger <br> 2 star anise <br> 2 tablespoons soy sauce <br> 2 tablespoons black bean paste <br> 2 teaspoons sugar <br> 6 whole allspice <br> 6 whole pepper corns <br> 1/2 cup cooking sherry <br> 2 cloves garlic <br> 2 1/2 cups water <br> 2 1/2 pounds of beef tongue or heart <br> '''Prep''' <br> Cut spring onion into 5 cm pieces. <br> Cut the ginger into sticks. <br> Slice the garlic thinly. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Place all the above ingredients into a large pyrex or slow cooker. If in the slow cooker cook on higher for 4-5 hours. If in the pyrex cook in the oven at 275 for 2-3 hours. When done slice thinly and serve hot with rice. Serves 6-8.
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allmessages Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 2 cups flour <br> 1/2 cup butter <br> 1/2 teaspoon salt <br> 1/4 teaspoon Baking soda <br> 1 1/8 teaspoon BP <br> 3/4 cups buttermilk <br> '''Prep''' <br> Combine all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. <br> Cut in the butter till butter resembles small peas. <br> Add buttermilk and stir all ingredients are moist. <br> Place on floured surface and roll till 1/2 inch thick. <br> Cut into circles and place on a lightly greased pan. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Place biscuits in oven and cook for about 12 minutes or till light brown. Serve any time.
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allmessagescurrent Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 4 Pork Chops <br> 1/8 cup lime juice <br> 1/8 cup grated onion <br> 1/4 teaspoon salt <br> 1/2 teaspoon pepper <br> 1/4 tablespoon of all purpose seasoning <br> 1/4 tablespoon dried basil <br> 3 garlic cloves pressed <br> '''Prep''' <br> Mix all ingredients lime juice through garlic in a container big enough to hold chops. <br> Place chops in marinade and marinade as long as you want. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Start grill. When ready place chops on the grill and cook till well done. Serve hot.
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allmessagesdefault Talk	'''Ingredents''' <br> 1 Chicken<br> 2" Ginger<br> 8-10 pods Garlic<br> Vegetable (any leafy vegetable is good)<br> Stems (optional)<br> Noodles (optional)<br> Firm Tofu (optional)<br> '''Prep'''<br> Rinse chicken<br> Wash and smash ginger.<br> Peel and smash garlic.<br> Soak noodles. (if applicable)<br> '''Cooking'''<br> Put 12 cups of water in a pot on the stove.<br> Add garlic, ginger and chicken.<br> Bring to a boil and simmer 40 minutes.<br> (Strain out stems.)<br> Add (noodles and tofu and wait a few minutes then add) vegetable boil 2-5 minutes depending on the vegetable.<br> Serve hot.
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allmessagesname Talk	1 cup butter <br> 3/4 cup brown sugar <br> 1/2 cup white sugar <br> 2 eggs <br> 1 tsp. vanilla <br> 1 cup coconut <br> 1 tsp. salt <br> 1 1/2 cups flour <br> 1 tsp. baking soda <br> 3 cup oats <br> 1 cut chopped nuts (optional) <br> <br> <br> Mix butter and sugar together, add eggs one at a time, beat after each egg, add vanilla,flour, salt, and backing soda then mix. Add oats, nuts,and coconut mix well. Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375° F for about 12 minutes.
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allmessagestext Talk	1 3/4 cups (14 fl oz) coconut milk <br> 2 tablespoons red curry paste <br> 1/4 cup fish sauce <br> 3 tablespoons sugar <br> 1 cup ground peanuts (1 cut before ground) <br> <br> <br> Combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for 15 minutes, stir constantly.
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allnotinnamespace Talk	'''Karen's soup''' 1½ cup Butter (3 sticks) <br> 3½ cup whole wheat flour <br> 2 cup packed brown sugar <br> 2 eggs <br> 1½ tsp baking soda (at high altitude) <br> 2 tsp vanilla <br> ½ tsp baking powder <br> 1 tsp cinnamon <br> 4 cup rolled oats <br> Beat butter and sugar until creamy add egg and vanilla and mix add baking soda and baking powder mix preheat oven at 375 F add flour and cinnamon and mix add oats and mix cook 10-12 minutes
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allpages Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 2lb (1kg) pork spareribs <br> 1 Tablespoon sesame seeds <br> 2 spring onions <br> 4 cm ginger <br> 3 cloves garlic <br> 2 T sugar <br> 2 T cooking sherry <br> 1 T soy sauce <br> 2 t sesame oil <br> 2 cups hot water <br> 2 teaspoons cornstarch <br> 2 T oil <br> '''Prep''' <br> Cut ribs into 1 inch pieces. <br> Dry fry the sesame seeds till brown. <Br> Allow seeds to cool and then grind them. <br> Slice spring onion thinly. <br> Grate or mince ginger. <br> Mince garlic. <br> Mix cornstarch with 1 tablespoon of cold water. <br> Mix till smooth. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Heat non sesame oil in a large pot or wok. <br> Brown ribs until dark brown. <br> Drain excess oil. <br> Add half the sesame seeds. <br> Add the garlic, ginger, spring onions, water, sugar, sherry, sesame oil and soy sauce. <br> Bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes. <br> After the ribs are done add the cornstarch mixture to the gravy. <br> Let the gravy thicken and come to a boil again. <br> Remove from heat and sprinkle with remaining sesame seeds. <br> Serve hot one rice.
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allpagesfrom Talk	'''Grandma Kuehler's Christmas Cookies''' (adapted from recipe adjusted by Beth Kuehler Winner) 4 eggs 1 cup molasses 1 cup butter 1 cup Crisco or Extra Virgin Coconut Oil(softened or melted) 1 tablespoon ginger powder 1 tsp nutmeg 1 tablespoon cinnamon 16 oz. pecan pieces 8 oz walnut pieces 1 cup chopped dates (rinse sugar off) 1 cup applesauce 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup sour cream 2 teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 9 oz box white raisins or substitute with dried cranberries, currants, cherries or apricots 9 oz box dark raisins 7-9 cups flour (1/3 of the flour can be whole wheat) Stir soda into sour cream (sour cream will expand.) Cream butter, shortening, molasses, and sugars. Add fruits and nuts. Now add flour mixed with soda and baking powder alternately with sour cream. Refrigerate overnight (or at least 6 hours) for ease of handling. On floured surface, roll dough to 3/8 inch thickness and cut with cookie cutter. Bake in 350 degree oven for 12-14 minutes. Be careful not to overcook or they will be dry. You can freeze the dough to roll out at a later time. *Flour mixture should be 3/4 cup flour mixed with 3 tablespoons of sugar.
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allpagesnext Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1 1/2 cups brown rice (1 cup white) <br> 12 cups water/chicken broth <br> 1/2 pound fish <br> 1 tablespoon soy sauce <br> 2 tablespoons oil <br> 2 teaspoons salt <br> 3 spring onions <br> 1 inch ginger <br> '''Prep''' <br> Cut fish thinly and marinate in soy sauce and 1 tablespoon oil. <br> Cut ginger into thin sticks. <br> Cut onion thinly and set aside. <br> '''Cook''' <br> But rice and water/broth in a pot and bring to a boil. Simmer for 3 hours. Add salt to porridge and cook 1 minute. Add fish ginger and the remaining oil. Bring to boil and turn off. Serve in individual bowls with white pepper, the spring onion you cut earlier, and sesame oil.
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allpagesprev Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 2 lg garlic cloves <br> 1 jalapeño <br> 3 pound chicken <br> i inch ginger <br> 1/3 large purple onion <br> 1/4 cup water <br> 1 tsp. turmeric <br> 1 can coconut milk <br> 1 1/2 tablespoon curry powder <br> 3 cups potatoes <br> 1 tsp. salt <br> '''Prep''' <br> Cut chicken in to pieces Asian style. <br> Cut potatoes into one inch pieces. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Blend water, garlic, ginger, jalapeño, and onion until they are a paste. <br> Add turmeric, coconut milk, and curry powder to blended mixture. <br> Heat wok. <br> Add blended mixture to wok and simmer until you can smell the paste. <br> Add chicken and potatoes. <br> Cook chicken until no longer bloody on the outside. <br> Simmer for forty minutes. <br> Add salt after 30 minutes and water if necessary. <br> Serve hot or room temperature with rice. <br>
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allpagessubmit Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1 1/4 cups yellow cornmeal <br> 3/4 cup flour <br> 3 TBS sugar <br> 1 tsp backing powder <br> 1/2 tsp back soda <br> 1/2 tsp salt <br> 1 egg lightly beaten <br> 1 1/4 cup buttermilk <br> 2 TBS canola oil <br> '''Instructions''' <br> Preheat oven to 350°. <br> Coat 8" square pan in cooking spray. <br> Mix dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet ingredients in another bowl. <br> Mix together. <br> Bake untill when poked with a tooth pick, tooth pick comes out clean.(25-30 minutes.) <br> Let cool in pan for 5 minutes serve warm or room temperature.
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alphaindexline Talk	'''Ingredients'''<br> 3 Tbs Oil <br> 4 cloves garlic <br> 1 inch ginger <br> 1 Medium Onion <br> 1/2 lb meat (chicken, pork, beef)<br> 2 Tbs cornstarch <br> 1/4 tsp white pepper <br> 3 Tbs fish sauce OR 4 Tbs soy sauce <br> 4 cups green vegetables <br> 1/2 cups frozen vegetables <br> 5-6 cups cold cooked rice <br> 4 spring onions <br> 3 eggs <br> '''Prep'''<br> Slice onion thinly into half rings. <br> Mince the garlic and ginger. <br> Slice meat thinly and mix with the cornstarch and pepper. <br> Beat eggs. <br> Slice spring onion for garnish. <br> '''Cook'''<br> Heat oil in a wok. <br> When hot add garlic and ginger.<br> Fry for 30 seconds and add meat.<br> Cook meat till no longer pink on the outside.<br> Add the regular onion, and fry till translucent. <br> Add the frozen and green vegetables and one Tbs of fish sauce OR 2 Tbs of soy sauce.<br> Fry till the vegetables are thawed and wilted.<br> Add the rice and the rest of the fish sauce OR soy sauce.<br> Heat through and through.<br> Cook the eggs in omelet form and slice thinly.<br> When the rice is hot place it in a serving dish and garnish with the eggs and spring onion.<br>
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ancientpages Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1 T oil <br> 6 eggs <br> 1 4.25 oz can of sardines <br> 2 spring onion <br> 1/4 lb green vegetable <br> '''Prep''' <br> Beat eggs. <br> Slice spring onion, and vegetables very thinly. <br> Drain sardines of oil. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Heat oil in pan. <br> Add spring onion and fry till browning. <br> Add sardines and break apart. <br> Fry till sardines are crisp. <br> Add vegetable and fry till wilted. <br> Then add eggs and fry till done. <br> Serve hot or room temperature on rice.
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anontalk Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1/2 Tbs fragrant sesamy oil <br> 2 eggs <br> 1 inch ginger <br> '''Prep''' <br> Cut ginger into sticks <br> Slice spring onion, and vegetables very thinly. <br> Drain sardines of oil. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Heat oil in pan. <br> Add ginger, fry till crispy. <br> Add eggs, fry till 3/4 of white is hard. <br> Flip eggs, let fry till all of white is hard. <br> Remove eggs from pan. <br> Serve hot plan or on toast. <br>
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anonymous Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 3 lbs ground beef <br> 1 small purple onion <br> 1/4 tsp salt <br> 1/2 tsp black pepper <br> 1/2 tsp garlic powder <br> '''Prep''' <br> Chop onion. <br> Mix onion, salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion with meat. <br> Shape meat mixture into patties. (around 12) <br> '''Cook'''<br> Grill burgers.
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apr Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1 1/2 Tbs. curry powder <br> 1/2 tsp. salt <br> 9 chicken legs <br> 3-6 potatoes (optional) <br> '''Prep''' <br> Mix curry powder and salt together. <br> LIGHTLY rinse chicken legs. <br> Rub the curry powder-salt mixture on legs and place in two glass 9 x 13 inch pans. Wash and chop potatoes. <br> Place potatoes around chicken. <br> Preheat oven to 400°F. <br> '''Cook''' <br> Place chicken in hot oven and bake for one hour. <br> Remove chicken from oven. <br> Brush the some of the oil in the pan onto the chicken. <br> Place chicken in oven for 15 more minutes.
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april Talk	'''Ingredients''' <br> 1/2 cabbage <br> 1/2 medium onion <br> 3 pods garlic <br> 1 tsp sugar <br> 1/4 tsp salt <br> 1 Tbs oil <br> 1 lb. meat(optional)<br> '''Prep''' <br> Slice cabbage and onion. <br> Mince garlic. <br> Slice meat(if using) <br> '''Cook''' <br> Heat oil in large pan/wok. <br> When hot add garlic and onion. <br> Fry till onion is a bit past clear. <br> Add cabbage. <br> Fry till cabbage is tender (3-5 minutes). <br> Add salt and sugar. <br> Remove from pan. For meat cook the cabbage as above but without the garlic. <br> Remove cabbage from pan and add oil to pan. <br> Fry the garlic. <br> Add the meat and fry till done. <br> Add cabbage back to meat.
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article Talk	Ingredients <br> 250 gm butter (softened) <br> 230-240gm sugar <br> 1 tsp vanilla <br> 250 gm eggs (approximately 5 small eggs) <br> 250 gm self rising flour <br> 1 cup milk (250 gm) <br> Cream the butter and sugar together for 2 minutes. Add vanilla and eggs to mixture. Then add flour and milk alternately. Pour <br> batter into circular pan.Place in cold oven and turn it on to 300. Bake for 1 hour and enjoy!
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articleexists Talk	Ingredients <br> 2 large cloves garlic, minced <br> 2 Tbs. minced fresh ginger <br> 3/4 tsp. ground nutmeg <br> 1/2 tsp. ground cloves <br> 1/2 tsp. five-spice powder <br> 1/2 tsp. black pepper <br> 1 Tbs. brown sugar <br> 2 Tbs. soy sauce <br> 2 Tbs. oil <br> 1 1/2 lb. meaty spare ribs <br> 4 cups water <br> <br> <br> Cook <br> Mix all ingredients in crock-pot or roaster and cook for 4-6 hours or until tender. <br> Serve hot with rice.
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aug Talk	Birth date: 9.10.l932 Birthplace: Libis, Johore, Malaysia == 19??-19?? Bukit Beruang == Brought to the state of Malacca during the economy recession when my father sold off his rubber plot for not able to make a living in Libis and moved to Machap with my mother and sister. My brother Koh Kim Chan was born in Machap and my mother die due to the childbirth complication. I was then three year old. I did not know why and when my grandpa moved to Bukit Beruang which is five miles away from Malacca. I believe that my grandpa (this is my mother's father)was the first batch of immigrant from China who had married with local girl who have had Malay parentage. They were given plot of land to cultivate padi and vegetables to supply the town folks nearby. Because I had accompanied my grandpa many time to visit his graveyard for Cheng Beng when I was small but I never heard of his mother's graveyard. He used to travel to Machap to work in Ong Eng Tian estate. He and my father were the contractors who look after the estate by engaging the worker to clean the grass, to tap the trees and to see that the trees are not infected by termites etc. He owned an Austin car. He sold the car just before the second world war after the death of my grandma. My grandpa was the headman of village. He was the head of a small Chinese school controlling body. That is he looks after the teacher' salary and the school's running etc. He kept the tents for wedding occasion or funeral occasions and he was the arbitrator of any small disputes. He would be invited to any function in the village. He was also the keeper of the embroidered cloth used to cover the coffins. I first went to Chinese school across the road of my grandpa's house. My sister and I went to live with grandpa as you know without a mother it would be difficult for my father to look as for my brother he was given to someone to look after.(not given away. He was taken back to live with us at the age of six) When I went to school it was already 1938, the Japanese have attacked the China proper for about fifteen months (it started on 7th. July l937). The school was in a rectangular shape say forty feet long and thirty feet. At the end of the building was the teacher quarter and there was a small build facing the teacher quarters was the kitchen where the teacher prepare his meals. As far as I know he prepared his once a day for the whole day. As to when he prepared his meal I did not know as I had never seen his doing it. The building was made of plank wall with plenty wide windows and attap roof which is prevailing in the tropic during that time. Yes, I forget to add,at the left hand corner of the school building near the end of a small slop there was a well and a bath house for the teacher. There is nothing much to describe about the bath house it is a round shape of attap attachment.The kind of bathhouse used in the rural kampong and the bathhouses built for prisoners of wars in the films. The wall facing the pupils are hanging on three pictures the centre one on a higher position is the picture of the Father of China Dr.Sun Yet Sen,on the left Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek and on the right on the same level with the generalissimo was the Soon Chee Woon the brother-in-law of the generalissimo, his position was not very clear to me at that time. The generalissimo was young and handsome in his glistering uniform with the sandbrown and chestful for medals of various sizes. He was suppose to be the savior of China against the Japanese who tried to conquered China within three months.The generalissimo supposed to have followed Dr. Sun all along since the beginning for forming of Kuomintang Army (Kuomintang)is the Dr.Sun's party's name and in China the army belong to the party not the country even up to today. They say that the party has got to control the guns. However, Chiang is one of the Dr. Sun inner clique and due to his capability therefore he was entrusted with the running of the county. Above all I think the western world was also more trustful in him for his softness towards the western powers. His approach to the western powers were more or less like the Manchu attitude. Well, I can classify him as one of the warlord of those days. The warlords were interested in powers just like the emperors, they just think of passing down their power from generation to generation, they did not care the well being of the Chinese race and the welfare of the people. They gathered all the fortunetellers around the Palace watcher the auspicious times and days to offer offerings to the divine spirits so that they will reward them with good fortune to continue their prosperities. The next thing they do is to consume the herbs to strengthen their sex life so that they can enjoy with numerous concubines. However, the war continued and the Japs kept on pushing in with the atrocities that no human being had ever perpetrated to any other human beings before. We heard about these in Malaysia and we were frightened as we waited for the Japs to arrive. The mighty British was only a tiger paper and the fierce eagle (USA) was neutral in the war. So, humans kept on dying until they were hurt themselves. At the corner of the North East and North West of China there was a army of men (Communists) who were also fighting the Japs with an national programme to mold a nationalistic nation with Chinese nationalistic spirit and soul. They implemented land reform so that farmers own their own land on which they work on, the educational policy, etc. Chiang called them Bandits. The war continue throughout the second world war then the civil war and finally the Communists defeated Chiang and founded the People's Republic of China in lst. Oct. l949. Chiang lost the war in spite of the support of the US and the arms and ammunitions left over from the second world war. When the heart is not straight nothing good can come out of it. That is a heavenly rule. The Japs arrived in Malaya finally. I really do not remember the exact date but I saw them in my grandpa's house to conduct a thorough search in every house in the village. They took away my mother's sister's husband's car and one or two cars that belong to the town folk who tried to hide their cars in the village. We were so frightened as we had heard of them so much. All the women folks had left for the jungle to stay there for a few days. Somehow they did not come again to our village. Unfortunately at that time it was difficult to move about beyond our own village as the transportation was minimal. I wanted to see a head being chopped off and displayed in a round about at Bunga Raya, Newcome Road, Bukit Cina and River Side Road with the warning that no one should oppose the Japanese occupation force. Sad to say no one took me to see it. One or two prominent Chinese families who had helped to organised concerts and other activities to collect money to be sent to China to fund the war effort were killed wholesales. The fears that had been created in Malacca Town was difficult to describe. So when I listened to the news in the radio or television about war violence I would feel the same feeling of those days. == 19??-19?? Machap == My father took me and Kim Chan to Machap (16 miles from Malacca Town when Machap Bhru village is )to stay in his provision shop because he did not want us to be farmers if we were to stay with my grandpa. I think this happened after the Japs landed after six months and before the school reopened. I joined the new school, there were about a hundred pupils because Machap was a bigger place. In school, in name, we learn Japanese language but none of the five or six teachers in the school could speak a word of Japanese. Consequently we ended up learning Chinese. In fact I picked up more Chinese during these occupation years in school. The teachers told us a lot about the Japanese fighters in China etc.etc. In our daily life the Japs enforce more stringent rules in order to subdue us. The economic condition is getting worse daily. The imported goods had disappeared from the market, such as sugar, salt, flour, and even rice. They encourage us to grow our own food stuff or import from the neighbouring countries such as Indonesia and Thailand. The merchant in Malaka Town built bigger wooden tongkangs (boats) to carry dry chillies, salted fish, assam Jawa etc.etc. from Indonesia. While dried tapioca and some other produce came from Thailand, Malaya at that time was short of cultivated land for food stuff cultivation because the British used the available land for rubber cultivation. Therefore, a lot of people went hungry and finally die of starvation. In those days it was not only short of food produced but due to many factors, no job so no money to buy food, question of transportation of food produce, distribution system etc.etc. Anyway it was in wartime conditions. Strangely enough the Japs adopted old systems that were used by the old imperial China such as registering household personnel who move from place to place. When say A from Malacca Town goes to Mchap to visit us, A's name must be deleted from Malacca and add to Machap'list. The other system was the night watch of the village, conscription of workers for public works etc.etc. As far as I know those systems were used during the Chinese imperial dynasties hundred of years ago. The Japs really created a lot of miseries for the people of Asia instead of happiness promised. They were worse than the white colonialist at least they provided us with peaceful conditions for us to live on and work. I always wonder how come these small Japanese creatures could dare to dream that they could with such s small number of small men to conquer the whole of Asia for themselves. The Creator must be naive. During the Japs occupation days were passed gloomily, it appeared that some of fear was hanging in the atmosphere. Any misfortune could crop up suddenly. A traitor being murdered somewhere in the countryside. An MPAJA (Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army) was caught in the village. All these will send the police and local soldiers all over the village. There was no developments that would benefit the people but projects for war effort such as aerodrome like the Malacca air-port which was started at that time. A lot of conscripted workers died there while working on it. My school caretaker was conscripted to work there and he died of wound sustained from working there. It began from a small cut and the wound began to rot until he died. I did not carried out a survey or kept a record of death of people but in recollection I remember of seeing more death during the occupation days than any other time. One fine morning as usual we were doing through the morning chores-in this particular morning Kim Chan and I were attending our padi plot against the wild birds which came to feed on our padi so we had to chase them away. We learnt that a group of MPAJA personnel had emerged from the Jungle to walked on the street of Machap. We were told that the Japs had surrendered to the allied troops. we did not hear of the surrender as a rumours before this or anything like that. So, suddenly we found that the Banana Leaf currency was valueless and the British currency were back in circulation. Everyone of us was very happy, now that the hated Japs had all last being chased off. We were the lucky family. Before the war our shop was holding a rice distribution permit. So when the Japs came naturally we were the one who handled all the essential commodities distribution job, items like rice, salt, sugar and kerozene oil for lighting. Since we handled the item naturally we were never short of such item. What it meant was that we could have whole white rice to enjoy while others had to mix their rice with sweet potatoes. Sometime even sweet potatoes were in short supply because the folks living in towns want them badly because they did not grow sweet potatoes. Some of the poorer families could not afford sweet potatoes and had to rely on tapioca and this would cause beri-beri faster. Somehow our family did not suffer much on food as we had money to pay for food. My fried who died in 2007 who were living nest two doors away from our shop was not so lucky because his father was a Chinese physician so his shop was stuck with Chinese medicinal staff which could not filled the stomach. They were ever short of money to buy food because he had a lot of brothers and sisters. So they suffered from malaria and beri beri. Although his family went through the war but the fortune never returned to its prewar status. His father was taken away by the MPAJA and never heard of it again. His elder brother became the estate lorry driver and he became an estate worker. There was no killing spree in Machap or Bukit Berung. There were about four or five executions carried out in Machap and none whatsoever in Bukit Berung. As far as I could remember all of them were Chinese except one Malay. The Malay was a father of a policeman who was stationed in Machap and he of course acted excessively by beating people, in one instant I saw him chasing and beating a pork seller in front of all people. So when the Japs surrendered the MPAJA people looked for him and caught his father instead in Bachang,in Malacca Town. It seems that his father was also a big bully in the kampong. So that was the end of him. The rest were the informers. Some films and book described how the MPAJA personnel took hold of the kampong or town and carried out brutal killing etc.etc. well it did not happen within the sphere of our knowledge. The MPAJA disappeared from public as soon as the British troop arrived. We saw them driving through our town in their tanks from the north to the south. The did not stop or did anything to suggest that they were happy to be back. I am sure some of them knew what future hold for them. When things start settling down, the MCP (Malayan Communist Party) started their campaign to organise night class for youngsters. I was one of the attendees too. Otherwise there was nothing to do. We sang anti-Japanese songs and listening to stories, it made us very happy. I never remember that they tried to indoctrinate anyone with communist ideology and they never emphasized the segregation of racial origins, instead they emphasize the integration of various races into one. I think a film produced by the Singapore TV by the name 'three years and eight months' quite aptly describe the situation of the occupation. Tragically, the Japanese glorious days in the then Malaya lasted three years and eight months. What joy did they get out of it except the killing of peoples. During those three years and eight moths none of the Japanese soldier or personnel had shown any mercy to anyone of us by doing something good. They were totally merciless - what race that can be so ruthless? == 19??-19?? Malacca Town == While Machap took up a new lease of life a totally new chapter of my family life was also unfolding. The new chapter was going to change the course of our life for the future. We sold the shop in Machap and move to Malacca Town. Oh! how exciting it was. It was a Sunday morning we hired a small lorry and move only our bedding and personal belongs and move to Malacca to a new shop. The shop was belonging to a businessman who went to Machap to escape the Japanese capture and upon liberation he did have any plan for the shop so he passed it to us to rent it. We started business there until the 1980's when my uncle got enough of it. According to my uncle it was his idea that we move to Malacca Town. The MCP in Machap was becoming restless with their union movement over the Ong Eng Tian estate, the estate on which my father was working on. They stirred up strikes and agitate the workers to go against the management on every front. To put it in a nut shell they just want unrest. This was communists tactics all over the world. Some of the youngsters in the village at my age were asked to volunteered to the Communist cause. With these backdrop my uncle thought that it was best to run away. It was praise-worthy decision. We settled down in Malacca town peacefully and happy then we went to attend school. That was beginning of l947. In l948 a new historical chapter of Malayan history was to begin anew and would be more exciting. The inevitable finally happened. In l948 the MCP took up arms to fight the British Administration. It plunged the country into semi war situation. The government declared emergency through out the country. It did not affect everyone in the public life seriously except the rubber tappers, tin miners because they were the people who were directly contributing to the national income. If not for the sack of my father being directly involved in the industry it would not come to our consciousness at all. My father was wanted by the MCP members. He had to carry a pistol to protect himself. One of his staff was short dead. A colleague was killed and another wounded. The wounded one joined CID (Criminal Investigation Department) after he recovered from his wound. MCP were called Communist Terrorist(CT). They ambushed public vehicles, murder government informers, derailed railway tracks etc. they just wanted to created havoc as much as possible. This had been going on day in and day out until they killed the British High Commissioner in l951. I think the British must had thought that enough was enough so they brought in military general to be the High Commission to run the administration. His name was Sir General Templer. The call-up of youngsters after declaring emergency cause a stir in the Chinese community. Some of the youngsters went to China to escape the call-up and those who had been called up to serve in the police force spent a lot of money to bail themselves out. I was the only one that did not worry being called up. One, I was one or two years younger than the age required. Two I was interest to join the armed forces. I have always been interested to know the mechanism of the army. My analysis was very simple, ever since the European army came over to Asia colonizing, plundering, robbing, burning etc. they never met any worthwhile resistance from the countries that they invaded. No matter how rich that country's historical background in philosophical talents, astronomical achievements, da,da, all came to naught. They conquered India, Indo-China, Indonesia,Malaya, Brunei, Sarawak and Vietnam. Why?! That was what I wanted to know about. == 19??-19?? Taiping == In l952 the First Battalion Federation Regiment was formed in Taiping. I signed up without hesitation. I traveled by train to Taiping to join the camp at Kemunting Barrack. I was very happy, I was happy that I was free from my family and I am independent, I would give no one any more trouble to look after me. I enjoy the training and I even enjoy the food they provided. I slept in the barrack with other recruits. On my right with the regimental number 2010l7 an Indian fellow and on my left with the regimental number 201006 also an Indian fellow from Klang, Selangor. Sadly enough, both of them have passed away. The l0l7 died of gun shot wound due to his negligent while the other fellow die of natural death at the age of say fifty plus. The Federation Regiment comprised of three main racial groups, I.e. 40%Malays, 40% Chinese 20% Indians and Eurasians and others. The regiment had four cook-houses, i.e. Muslim coo-house cater for Muslim,Chinese cook-house cater for Chinese food while Indian cook-house cook Indian food.Anybody can have one of the three types of food provided he arranged with the messing officer well before hand. One morning during my recruit training I got a call to report to the company office to see the company officer commanding (company OC). There he asked me as to whether I like to be the officer mess caterer, that is a junior non-commission officer looking after the regiment's officers mess pertaining to daily maintenance of the mess. For instance its extra ration, cleanliness and daily routine stuff, liaison between the officer and its mess staff etc. Well, I turned it down instantly. Any offer of clerical position like orderly room clerical post, pay clerk, PRI clerical post all are not accepted. My purpose and intention of joining the army was very specific and clear, to learn the art of war although the war being waged here was jungle warfare. So, I and a few others were hand picked to attend various jungle warfare courses in PD run by Malay Regiment and Kota Tinggi run by the British Army. We were even sent to be attached to the Gurghar unit in Johore for a month to do the actual jungle patrol. We did not have the chance to contact the CT's. During our patrol through the jungle we saw some large old abandoned camps.The camp could have hold nothing less that forty to fifty members. That showed that the CT's were operating in a large group in the beginning of the up-rising. Then they split up in small groups as in the large group it presented a pretty target. The next reason was due to their internal differences in ideologies. No matter what was the reason or reasons they were obviously in the losing end. == 19??-19?? Port Dickson == The whole battalion moved from Taiping to Port Dickson camp in l954 and my company 'B' company became a training company. By then I was promoted to the rank of Sergeant to became a platoon sergeant. Somehow I did not know to say whether it was good luck to me or not the Company Sergeant Major was demoted to the rank of sergeant because live ammunitions were found in the empty cases of ammunitions which were sent to Singapore for recycle. Of course they complained to our unit of the discovery and it is grave offense. So I was chosen to fill the gap. I felt sorry for the ex-warrant officer.So I become a warrant officer holding the appointment of company sergeant major. My joy now was to run a body of roughly one hundred and twenty soldiers. It is said that the quarter master (holding the rank of staff sergeant, one rank below than the warrant officer two) is the mother of the company while the company sergeant major is the father of the company. The discipline and efficiency of the company largely depending on the grooming and training of company sergeant major and its platoons sergeants and other junior non-commission officers.. 22.Aug. 07: My right eye is getting better after the cataract second operation, the first operation was a fiasco. It was done by a lady doctor by the name of doctor Chew. I do not really know was the real reason she left a lot of remnant behind that gave me hell for two to three weeks. The last one was done by Doctor Fauzi. The operations were done in the university hospital in PJ. This morning went to armed forces pension office to submit claims for the lens and some payments for the eye-drops. It amounted to about six hundred over ringgits. However I have to wait for the refunds for about one month as they have run out of funds. So,we stay in Port Dickson for about thirteen months doing the recruits training to fill up the strength of the battalion. As I said earlier I joined the army is to learn the organisation of armed forces. In this case I had the opportunity to learn about the organisation of the British army. It was one of the best army in the world. I read the Queen Regulations,the MML(manual of military laws). All available weapons training pamphlets. == 19??-19?? Butterworth == From Port Dickson, the whole battalion moved to Butterworth. I was not sure which unit was stationed there but it was sure that the camp was occupied by either Australian or British battalion. At that time the talk between the MCP and the alliance party of Malaya plus the Singapore politicians were planning to hold talk before declaring independence. It was agreed that before and after the talk there be a safe passage for the MCP members to come for the talk. The talk was supposed to be held at Baling town and therefore all the security forces around certain miles around the Baling town had to be evacuated. Particularly the foreign troops, that was where we came in. For as soon as the talk was over and the time of amnesty was over my company that was the 'B' company of the lst.Bn. Federation Regiment moved in to Kroh near the Baling town but we did not carry out any jungle operation. The film called the Pork Chop Hill in Korean War.(Today is 30th. Aug. 2009): I am anxious to write this part before I forget to it. In the British Army they had this so called AKC thing to provide the troops with free cinema shows. It was operated with a small van which traveled to every small units in the outskirt of towns or villages. So one of these films was to the members of the Warrant Officers and Sgt.'s Mess in the Batu Cantonment. By that time I have already being transferred to Malaysian Maintenance Corps. During that time there were still many many British personnel were serving in the Ordnance Corps as the Malaysian Ordnance Corps was newly established to completely Malaysianised the army. Actually,not only the army, the police and other branches of the armed forces were in the same process. A young 19th.or 2oth. odd years old British student was called up for National Service in the British Army. He was trained for six months as normal and after the training he was sent to Korea war front. One day he led a section of the servicemen(ten to twelve men),to carried out patrol. When his team came to the top of the Pork Chop Hill, he was attacked by the Chinese volunteer army. And what follow just to see how he and his men killed the Chinese and at the end of it when the reinforcement came to rescued them he had the hill covered with the Chinese corpses. You should see how they make the Chinese looked so stupid when they were charging up the hill. That enraged me tremendously and I just could not controlled myself and stared screaming at the British audience. It was really humiliating to my race. I could not help it. When the war was over I was relieved to see that the Asian army for the first time fought a draw-war with the white men army ever since they came to Asia, otherwise they would have a free choice to do whatever they want. '''Did you get into trouble after creating the scene? AS''' 2nd.Sept.2007,Sunday. The Star newspaper publishes the picture of the American 4x100 team that won the gold medal in the World Athletics Championships in Japan yesterday. They are Leroy Dixon, Tyson Gay, Davis Patron and Wallace Spearmon and they are black. The ll0m hurdle winner is no more no less a pure Chinese. == 19??-19?? Sungai Udang == '''Where did mum come into the story? AS''' We stayed in Kroh for a few months then we moved to Kuala Kangsar. We stayed in Kuala Kangsar for a few months. Then we drifted to Johor for a while then to Ayer Tekar in Malacca. Finally we moved into our supposed to be our permanent home camp the Sungai Udang camp. The camp was specially build for the lst.Bn.Federation Regiment. Tengku Abdul Rahman who was the first Prime Minister came to officially opened the camp. It was in l957 after the declaration of independence. Our family was given a brand new WO married quarter in the camp. Our first son was born in Malacca General Hospital on the month of June 1957. It was in Kroh in l955 that I took two weeks annual leave to go back to Malacca to get married. I went back to work after one week of marriage. All the A,B,C,D, and HQ company, the complete regiment stay in one camp and did all the necessary training and prepared for the administration inspection. They called this the resting period for the regiment. The biggest event happened to me personally in l957 was being selected to be a pall bearer during the installation of the first Yang Di-Pertuan Agong in the istana. == 19??-19?? Kuala Lumpur MINDEF == The administration inspection took place in the early of l958. As far as I know it went on alright. Thus we stayed on in Sungai Udang camp until the month of August I was transfered to the Armed Forces Maintenance Corps which was being formed up in Kuala Lumpur. I was posted to the Purchasing Organisation of the corps based in MINDEF (the ministry of defence). So ended my career in the infantry unit of the armed forces.The exact date of my posting was 3rd August l958. It was a Sunday. I was sent to KL in a one tonner. Thus ended my five years nine months and two days of being an infantryman career. On the 4th. August l958 I reported duty to a new department(the purchasing organisation) of the Armed Forces Maintenance Corps in MINDEF. The head of the organisation was called Major Harris and the second man was WOl Chapman. The working atmosphere was very different from that of a infantry unit. The atmosphere here was very relax. There was no muster parade etc. You are just like a working staff of an office. You just walk into the office wearing military uniform. At that time the Malayan Armed Forces just formed up the logistic units to takeover from the logistic functions from the British army. == 19??-19?? Kuala Lumpur Batu Cantonment == The department was responsible for storing samples of military equipment that was used by the armed forces. Call for tenders and inspection of stores.The department remained in MINDEF until l961 it merged with the Central Ordnance Depot in the Batu Cantonment. Between that space of time I was sent to UK for training on Provision, Control and Account, and Storage Maintenance and Work Study. It was great to see how the British Army operate its supply system. During the training I had the opportunity of hopping from depot to depot. The training took about eleven months. When I came back I went straight to the Batu Cantonment.The Commanding Officer was Lt.Col. A.J. Luke. There were a lot of Mat. Salleh WO1 and WO2 and I did not get along with them very well and therefore I was not popular with them too. Because of that I stay as WO2 for ten years from l954 to l964. Luke took me off from the Purchasing Organisation because there was complaint from one of the tenderer that I had spoken during the tender board meeting in favour of a certain shoe maker and because of that he was awarded with the shoe contract. He put me in the stocktaking section until I got my W01 rank. Then he took me as COD chief clerk to work directly under his nose. To add to my misfortune, he got his second tour, that mean he had three more years to stay in COD. It boiled down to the fact that I would be a dead duck for another three years. The end of Luke's three years contract finally came. Lt-Col. Randal (I forgot his initial, if I am not mistaken was R.A.). After working under his command as a Chief Clerk, one day he told me that after all I am not a bad guy. When the vacancy for OEO (Ordnance Executive Officer) was available he did not object when my name was recommended by Major Hew to be put up for selection. Major Hew was the Admin Officer in the COD HQ at that time. I went for the selection board and I selected for promotion as a Lieutenant with effect from 25th. July l967. Needless to say I was very happy to be promoted. This is a big achievement to me as not many persons is so lucky to be an officer who join as a recruit. From my batch of recruits, four had been selected to be trained in Sandhurst Military Academy in England and they ended up as Lt-Cols.(the racial breakdown was one Indian, two Eurasian and one Malay). The Indian Officer was cashiered for bad conduct while still holding the rank of 2nd.Lt. after returning from Sandhurst. I am not very sure the fact but I learnt that one of the Eurasian Officers was also cashiered due to misappropriation of fund while he was employed in the intelligent department. As far as I can remember there were two more officers who rose from the rank and file were cashiered due to misappropriation of fund, one due to horse racing while the other was involved with woman. Only one officer who rose from the rank and file from the 1st. Fed. Reg. reached the rank of full Col.(he is an Eurasian who is still living while I write this stuff). The rank of OEO is on automatic promotion basic,i.e. Lt. for two years,Capt. for eight years and it will be promoted to Major, by then it will be too old for an OEO to remain in the Corps. That is why I ended up at the rank of Capt. as I was promoted a bit too late therefor I was short of eight months for the rank of Maj. when I reach the age of retirement that is 45yrs old. A recruit's pay when I join was fifty dollars minus two dollars for so called barrack damage. So the net pay was forty eight dollars. We were issued with a cake of soap a week, metal polish, shoe polish, a tin of cigarettes weekly. Uniforms were of course fully issued. We did not need civilian dress at all as we were nor allowed to wear civilian dress while we were doing the recruit training for six months. After the training we were allowed to wear civilian dress with neck ties when leaving barracks. Beer was available at fifty cents a big bottle sold in the canteen. At night I used to drink a big bottle whenever I was free. Do not think that we would be totally free at night as we were required to clean our equipment such as shining our boots, polish the metal should titles, collar batches etc. In the army our bedding and all the equipment must be in the tip top condition. So we do not have very much time to spend in the canteen. We have to spend time to maintain oneself to meet the military requirement in order to be named as best recruit if not at least in the top notch category. During the colonial days, the MOR (Malayan other ranks) was paid at the rate of a rubber tapper's monthly income. They reasoned that if a person did not join the army and worked as a rubber tapper his income per monthly would be like fifty or sixty dollars. So after recruit training a train solder was paid about sixty dollars. But for me I remember I was promoted to full corporal and was sent to do jungle operation training with the 1st.l0 Gurgher Bn. in Jamulong at Johore state for one and half month. Before returning to my own unit in Taiping I was promoted to Sergeant and sent to Jungle Warfare Training School in Kota Inggi in Johore for about six or eight weeks of training. After which my battalion went to Port Dickson and I was made a platoon Sgt. training new recruits. I remember like 21st of April l954 I was promoted to WO2 as a company Sgt. major to take over the place of the demoted Sgt. major after the incident of live rounds found in the empty cases. I hold the rank of W02 for about ten years then W0l for a few years then Lt. for two years, then Kapt. for eight over years until I reach the age of 45 at 9.l0.77. A total service of twenty five years and twenty two days. To sum up my army life, in the infantry battalion for about six years from 15th. Sep. li52 to 3rd. Aug. l958. It was quite hectic, the moving of camps was frequent the ceremony parades and the locations of camps were always in the isolated locations like in the rubber estates, in the fringes of new villages etc. Ceremony parades were for VVIPs, like birthday parades, merdeka parades etc.etc. I was the pall bearer for the installation of the first His Majesty the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong in the istana. == 19?? KOH (GAO) Association == The founding of KOH(GAO) association. The history of the existence of the various Chinese guilds and associations in Malaysia is well known already. Somehow strangely enough ever since I was young I have been quite interested in them for their aims and purposes. I think they are good in serving the community. My father was a member of the Koh association of Singapore, at that time Singapore was part of Malaya. Somehow it went into oblivion after the founder Koh Teck Kin passed away because we did not hear anything about it for many many years. Since there is no such association in Malaysia to represent the Koh clansman. After a lot of thinking, after overcoming the negative factors I brave myself to write to some of the Koh clansmen in KL to ask them what they think about forming a Koh association. I got the names from the telephone directory which sound like Koh because the spelling of Koh could be Kow, Kooh, Koo etc.etc. The only person I was sure about his surname was the KOH CHUAN HUAT and KOH HONG HUAT, they are both tea merchants. The respond was quite encouraging, so the first meeting was held in the Kum Leng restaurant to iron out the details. Finally the application was submitted and approval was granted. The first batch who signed up for membership was twelve.(the full story with dates and pictures is available at the association premises). It took twenty years to gather about hundred thousand ringgits to buy the association premises. After gotten the premises the membership soared and now there were about three hundred odd. On the 1st. of Dec. '07 the first inaugural meeting to discuss the formation of the world Koh association to be held in Xiame, Foochian,China. There will be twenty three members from Malaysian Koh association to attend the meeting. finally it is hoped that the association will be the centre of information pertaining the Koh clansmen in Malaysia. == 19?? Civilian Life == During my re-settlement period, that is six months before finishing the army service I had already registered the Koh Trading company to prepare to do business. I tried to be a equipment, spare parts, uniforms and other military goods supplier. Since I was from the purchasing organisation and also various stores officer in charge so it should logically present not much of problem. I would only take the "Local Purchase Orders" that means each order should not be more than a few thousand ringgit. In the first one or two years the business was good because the army was expanding due to the political situation in the regions. Then the good days finally tapering off. At the same time I was an AIA insurance agent, so the income was OK. However, the insurance business was also ended due to lack of clients. Joined security company which was owned by the ex-general of the armed forces for a few years. I even bought a share in the social escort business, the people who run this can of business is normally undependable so the business closed down after six months. Also at that time it was economic recession. I joined another security company for about one and half years before I ended being employed as an lottery agent. This also ended disastrously due to stronger competitor. One morning I discovered that my feces was black in colour, at first I ignored it as there was no pain in my stomach. Then at bout nine o'clock there was an acute pain in the stomch and a sudden purge with plenty of black stool. After the purge there was so pain in the stomach and SS and Lip advised me to go University Hospital for check-up and was admitted for a week. It was discovered that there was an internal bleeding in my stomach. After medication it is back to normal again. All this happened when I was 74yrs plus going to 75yrs old. After thirty years of effort it come to nothing. Lately I went for cataract operation on my right eye. According to the doctor the left eye is developing cataract and it needs operation when it become more acute. My molar tooth is hurting and the dentist is fixed for 7th. Nov. 07, Wednesday. I really feel old now. Who say old is gold. As it is now I have to spend more money to maintain my health. Luckily I get free medical treatment as a government pensioner. Today(3.ll.07), my and wife spent half a day in helping to look after Lip Wern as SS had gone to the Subang Medical Centre to look after her husband who had an backbone operation. We took him to EM's house to play. 4th.Nov.07.(Sunday): The internet connection was terrible. Rest and reading newspaper at home for half of the day until about four o'clock SS call us to go to EM's house to attend to Lip Wern while she went to see Phillip in the Subang Medical Centre. After her visit we all went to see Phillip with Lip Wern and ended up with a dinner given by Peter. Arrived home at about 1030 night. == Alcohol, Cigarettes, Drugs == Let me add something about my life. One, the drinking of alcohol. I came from a family with my father drinking alcohol. He used to drink hard alcohol such brandy of that sort. But I must remind you that he was a disciplined drinker. He would drink only after taking a bath and before dinner. He never got madly drunk. At the same time my uncle, that is my father's younger brother, he was also a kaki drinking. The same thing I never seek see him piss drunk. so due to those circumstances I automatically get accustomed to drinking. It came automatically to me in drinking. Since my first occupation was joining the army and beer was one of the item provided cheaply so naturally I took advantage of it. But again I want to remind you that I did not always get piss drunk and I had a rule that I mostly did not drink on Sundays because I used those days to take family for outings, such as swimming, going the Templer Park and other picnic spots because I wanted my children to learn and be close to nature. One thing I want to emphasize here that I want my off springs to be rugged rather than being softies. That was why I did not spend my time in the shopping complexes with them when they were young. While I was serving in the army I did not stock beer in my frig. I only drink in the WO and Sgt. mess when I was hold the rank of W0 and in the officer's mess when I became an officer. That is why although I had been drinking for over fifty years in and out of the army I still can kick out the habit. Now I have made a vow that I will drink again when I reach my 80th. birthday. But I will not make it a habit again. The reason I kicked out the habit is simply because I do not want to drink alcohol in front of my grand children. The thought of it came to me suddenly, that if I could picked up drinking alcohol so naturally by seeing my father and uncle drinking alcohol, then my decedents can also be the same. So, there be it. Good-bye my dear beer or any kind of alcohol. I find that without drinking alcohol one feels stronger and happier physically otherwise one will suffer the hangover. I do not really know why people like to torture themselves. Two, with the same thinking I kick out the smoking habit because smoking made me suffer from burnt lips, tongue, the wind pipe and lung. Smoking makes one tasteless when eating, hurting the lips and tongue and the feeling of mile pain in the wind pipe and lung at night and in the morning. So I thought what should I be tortured by the cigarettes. Whatever it is I have not been addicted to the two bad habits. Drug: Never touched. I had learned that majority of Chinese population of China had been poisoned by the white colonialists-British-by selling opium to them in the l9th century. That led to the so-call the opium war and that China lost Hong Kong to the British.During the Japanese occupation and immediately after the liberation I still could see the opium smokers lying down in the opium den smoking opium in Machap. Till today I still can remember the smoke coming out of the opium smoking. Don't tell me the evil of drugs, they make one useless. == Religion, Gambling, Partying == Religion: My grand father prayed the traditional god or gods.His house had worships altars. But when I went to Machap to live with my father and uncle there was altar in the shop house. I joined the villagers to pray on the religious festivals and also prayed in the Malay keramat. After moving to Malacca town after the Japanese occupation I entered the Methodist English school. There I learnt Bible stories for a few years before joining the army. In spite of these religions experiences I never take up praying. I feel that religion is a complex subject and also there is no one religion is so complete. I feel that religion can really change any person from what he really is. 18th.Nov.2007 (Sunday) went to association member's son's wedding dinner (held at 2pm in a Chinese middle school)with four members in the van. l9th.Nov.2007. Mum went to a tour of Thailand and Cambodia with her gang. Gambling. Never attempt on it. I like outdoor life so gambling is not my cup of tea. I don't like to be stuck in a room to play cards or whatever. Night clubbing. This is another thing I am not keen to get involve with. I presume it must be interesting to go nightclubbing. One can drink there and there are a lot of girl to mingle around. But I don't like to also get involve with. It does not mean that I am a pious man but partly I could not afford to do it. == Reading, Hobbies == Reading,I never miss doing it. But I what read don't seem to help me to reproduce it. That is why I did not excel in any exam or obtain good results on my courses which I attended during my service to show that I am a smart man. I read the newspapers and some books on history etc. Hobby, no one in particular. Like to drive around to look see wherever I can afford to reach. I think as person I am a lazy man, a man who is not attentive to details. No perseverance etc. etc. Well, it is not my own fault. I have been made that way. Tried to amend it but failed Today is 24th. Nov. 2007. I did not pen anything for the last few days because I could not think of anything to pen about. As it is now I still cannot think of anything to write about. Tomorrow there will be GAO association's 24th. year annual dinner to be held in a restaurant at l pm. There will be about three hundred guests and members to attend. Thirty one of us will be leaving for Xiamen on the 30th. Nov. 2007 to attend the inaugural meeting of the world GAO association. PA, WRITE ABOUT MONEY, CHILDREN, WIFE, RELATIVES, FRIENDS, SIGNIFICANT EVENTS. 27th.Nov.2007. Surfing the BBC website under title "Politics 'stifling $100 laptop'". The professor concerned is thinking of profit or benefits to the poor children who don't even have enough food to fill their stomach instead of to own a $100 computer. What they want the computer for, to learn about elections or to know about beautiful life the film stars in Holywood enjoy. The second article talk about the Chinese building of road in Etopiah. How the Chinese make so many of them so unhappy because they have to make way for the road. Which is better, to huild a road for them or just to be a sour grape? The time now is 11am and the date is 30th.Nov.2007. We are getting final preparation for X'man. We will depart KL for KLIA at about 3pm. and fly off at 7pm. for the first meeting on forming world GAO association. It is a pity, yesterday that was 9th. Dec. 07, I wrote about the two days events in Xiaman but I forgot to click 'save page'before closing the computer and this morning 10th.Dec.07. I discovered that it was missing. So I have to rewrite again. Day one of the meeting was devoted on talks and lectures on the history of GAO clansman and its migration. There were about six hundred members present but mainly came from various provinces of China. Delegates from foreigh coungties were Malaysia, Filipine and Singapore.One representative from UK, he is a neurologist from a research institution. The Singapore delegation was headed by a professor from social studies faculty, University Singapore. I think the speech from the neurologist was the most aspiring,dynamic and humarous. Generally the meeting was enlightening on the history of GAO clansman family. It apears that quite a number of our ancestors were high officials in the emperial courts and literary intellecturals and because of this they were persecuted and harassed when the dynasties changed. So they had to migrate from the north to the southern remote area. On the second day we were taken to visit ancestor grave and temples where they kept the record of the lineage of GAO families. We were given all these records in well printed book forms, so there should not be in talk talk only. All these books are kept in the association, so it will be a referrence centre for the GAO clansman in Malaysia. On the third day, that was 3rd.Dec.07, we visited a tea producing district. It is a hilly area, the road there are like that of our Cameron Highlands and Frasir Hill combined. They are windy and precarious.(note I use the words they are, because they are many roads leading to the hilly area everywhere is planted with tea.)It is really an eye opener. Of course during the days when the farmers from that area were migrating to this country was a different picture totally. Now the government is doing eveything possible to encourage export of tea to the world. At night we were taken to the city centre to see the tea city itself where all the shop dealing with tea leaves. The tea city is no smaller than Port Dickson town. From 4th. to 7th. Dec.07. we were taken by local tour agency to visit places of interests like ancient temples some of them date back to thousand of years, ancient bridge, fort to defend foreign intruders, family dwelling-fort built by detroned princes when their dynasty was overthrown. All of these relics were well preserved.That shows that when they say they have five thousand years of civilised history is true. The highways we were travelling on are as good as the Malaysian highways. When looking out of the window one can see rows and rows of cultivated greenery such as banana trees, sugercane trees, varioud type of vegetables no land was left uncultivated. In the ponds there were ducks or goose swimming busily seacher for food. I don't know whether they are hungry or it is their habit of searching for food when they are free. For I know they have nothing else to do!? With the beautiful hills, great rivers, glitering streams, the vast well cultivated farmlands and busy farmers toiling the land, China is not after all as bad as the negative reports and gloomy scenario churned out by the wenstern medias. China is certainly reviving to greatness. The trip was a great success. Tried to enter this entry into the diary but could not. l6 Dec.07 (Sunday0. No activity except surfing the net in the morning. Went to the assn. for tea and the normal meet-up at 3.30 up to 4.30pm. Went to the wedding dinner at 5.30 for tea ceremony before the dinner. The dinner started at 8pm. and it ended up at about 10.30. Our whole family was present. After the dinner we took the S'poreans to see the China Town, Pudu Bas station, Jln. Bukit Bintang, Jln.Higgs and Jln. Raja Laut before heading home. Reached home at about 12.30am. Strangely enough for the last two nights I got up at 3am and refused to fall asleep again. So I took a cup of tea and a few biscuits and went back to sleep again. The sleep was punctuated with waking up intermittently and got up at 7.30am the next moring. Well, there is nothing to be alarmed of,I put this in as a record only. 17th.Dec.07.(Monday) No activity nearly for the whole day because waiting for the opportunity to take the three S'poreans for sight-seeing but two of them spent the whole day shopping, so I did not have anything to do. In the evening I went for my walk. I walked a big loop. From home to the Batu village railway station and from walked along the river back home. A new Batu village railway station in being constructed for the electricfied double track train system. 18th.Dec.07.(Tuesday) Mama did not want to join her friends for morning tea session in the coffee shop so she joined me in going round. We had been bogged down at home so we want to go round round a bit. So we went to China town for a bowl of curry mee and 'yong tau foo' at the back lane there. Unfortunately our favourite stall was closed, so we ordered our curry mee from the next stall, it turned out the gravy was not hot enough and the taste of the crurry mee was not up to standard. After eating we walked through the Petaling street looking at the stalls. When we were at the Sultan Steet we went into one or two antique shops and bookshops to undate our knowledge. We finally ended up in the Ue3 shopping complex where exclusively sell Chinese wares such as books, magasines, antique, etc. We browse through the tea shops, bookshops antique shops till about 2pm. when we make our way home. 19th.Dec.07(Wed.) At abour eight thirty,received news of arrival of a new member of the Koh family. I named hin Fu Yi in Chinese. Fu Yi means prospourity in Chinese. As normal surfing the net and reading the newspaper the whole day until evening walk time. Went to see the work site of the road linking Jln. Kuching to Sentul. Up to bed time, there was nothing happening. 20th.Dec.07(Thu.) It is a Muslim holiday(Haji New Year). Spent half of morning in Wangso Maju Jusco shopping complex. In fact we took an old cntique clock to Kok Art Craft for repair but it was closed so we wander to Wangso Maju and we happened to discover the shopping complex and decided to drop in just to look-see. We only bought a bottle of Hero marmalade. In the evening while surfing the net I came across an article in the China.Org.Cn talking about an article written by Senior minister of Singapore published in Forbe magazine commenting on the rise of China and India. He stated that the growth of annual GDP of both countries is more or less the same and at the same time India possesses aircraft carrier and her armed forces are well trained based on western method and yet the western powers and the Japanese media do not make any accusation of Indian threat while capping China with " China Threat." The reason he stated that India is practising multi-party democracy and most of the Indians read and write English therefore the Western powers and the Jap are quite at east with India while China is practising different political system from that of the Western powers and also the speed of progress is fantastic that worry them. I do not know whether it is true that he does not know the real reason or he is being diplomatic not to mention the real reasons. First of all Chinese and Indians are totally two different races and with different cultural and historical back ground. India was colonised by the white power for three hundred over years while the white powers and the Japs did not have a single peaceful day while there were trying to subdue t China. The Western powers were being harassed ceaselessly and the Japs were totally beaten. The Western powers were in China beacuse of the weakness of the Manchu imperial government. Not the Chinese. 21st.Dec.07(Fri). Took the damadged clock to Koh Art and Craft at Melawati for repaired. We met bothe the old Kok and his wife. While mama was with the wife I was chatting with the old Kok listening to his story as to how he is passing his old age life. He is now 86 years old. The main problem he had was his legs went numb and the doctor made him walk again after seeing quite a number doctors who failed to put this right and worst of all he was told that since he is so old, it is a nomal phenomenon. He even had a brain operation to remove a blood clog. The various medical checks,they run up to about four thousand ringgits for the last few years. It seems that money can keep a person alife for quite a long while. An afternoon nap, afternoon tea,evening walk at the metropolitan lake, dinner and a ittle TV shows particularly news and that called for a day. Johore, Pahang Kuantan and Kelantan river are experiencing flood. 22nd.Dec.07(Sat). Stayed at home until the evening went toE.M's party. Yesterday was Chinese festival called "tong chak" means winter festival.It is the beginning of winter in China. Mama made some rice balls eaten with the sugar water. The Chinese believe that by eat the round rice ball we will be round and roll as the rice ball. I think the idea is we will be diplomatic, pramatic in out look, flexible in handling problems. I think these traits can be found in the Chinese race. It was a BBQ party with a few of Peter's friends. Of course there was plenty of food to eat and we stayed there up to about lam. The atmosphere was free and easy, that was why we enoyed it so much. 23rd.Dec.07(Sun). Got up at 6am. Had a cup of tea. Went to the park for a walk. It was a beautiful morning, sat down at the side of the pool, the breeze was cool, it would be ideal if the wheather is like this for the whole day. Went to the assn. for tea drinking as normal Sunday do. Normal chat nothing in particular. Went to bed at 10.30pm as the TV programme was lousy. 24th.Dec.07(Mon). Busy for the whole morning, taking mum to post office to redeem some of her saving premium money. Ferried her to see lawyer in Kepong to ask him about a will for I-6 Bamboo Garden, the law firm was closed for Christmas, then to Ma Chong tour agency to find out about her trip to Vietnam in Jln. Mahameru and finally to govt. clinic in Jln. Ipoh for her cough. Heavy tunder storm deprived me of my evening walk. Stayed home and watched my DVD about story on the rise of powerful countried from 15th. century. Countries like Portugal, Spain, Holland, England, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and USA. The DVD was produced by China, because China is now busy searching the experiences of those countries to be applied by herself in order to be strong and prosperous. 25th.Dec.07(Tue). It was a quiet X'mas day. One does not feel that it was a great religious holiday. I think people is tired of it all. Hope for world peace ?! Went to see Lip Wern for today is his birthday. Gave him a Panda mama cuddling a baby panda bought from the Xiemen airport on my way home from GAO clansman gadering on the lst. to 7th. Dec.07. I bought the panda because it symbling that the baby panda is like Lip Wern, the big female panda is like his mama and pada it is representing China. Had lunch and stayed there up to 3.30pm before heading for home. Same thing, it rained in the evening. Stayed home surfing the net, watched TV till bedtime. 26th.Dec.07(Wed). Went for a morning walk around the new wailway station area. Stayed at home for the whole day. Rained in the evening prevent any outdoor activity. By the way if you see any flame of the forest or the yellow flower trees around the Metropolita garden or along the river side then you should know who bring them there. I brought the flame of the forest flower seeds from the Bukit China (Chinese cemetaries) in Melaka to spreat them where they are now. The yellow flower seeds come from our lake garden. I see that our Metropolitan garden is lack of colours, so I thought some colours would make it more decorative.
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august Talk	Koh Kim Lock History continued (3rd.Dec.20028. Bukit Berung during my childhood days. It was a village situated about five miles away from Melaka town. It was mainly a Chinese farmers village. The farm houses were built far apart from each other and the farmland for cultivation for each farmer were also large. There were meant for wet padi planting. The whole aea was well irrigated. There was a man-made canal run through the middle of the village with small tributories running among the padi field (the Malays call the padi field 'sawah'). We can still see the main canal if we travel from my grandpa's house to Jelotong where the deads are burried. The head of the canel is at the Air Keroh, it was a very thick jungle then and we seldom went up there in those days. The reservoir is still there today although it is not as serene as in those days. We always blame the colonialist as being bad but to see what they had done to make the colonies productive, they deserve the profit they made out of the colonies. They must have done a lot of surveying and they must have employed a lot of labourers to dig the canal and build the road from Melaka town to Air Kroh. The water buffalos were not allowed to walk on the bunds of the cannal or the bunds of the tributories. If one is cought it will be a five dollar fine. Between Melaka town to my grandpa's farm there is a small town with a Hokkian run provition shop, a mamak coffe shop and a Hainanese coffee shop. There was a Malay school with Malay kampong. There was also a mosque. The road was red dusty one, when any vehicle passed by it stirred up a cloud of red dusty cloud. There was no public transport serving the village. People who wanted to go to Melaka town would use bicycle or private car. There was one private car ferry vegetables and people to town, whether it has any permit to do so it was an unknown matter. At that time only my grandpa had an Austin car in that village. Because he had to go to Machap to supervise his workers from time to time say four or five time a month. He had the contract to look after 1,000 acres of rubber estate in Machap while my fater had 1,000 acres of the other half of the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. Ong Eng Tiang had another l,000 acres of rubber estate at Tebong which is about six to seven miles away from Machap. The estate was looked after by my mother'second sister husband.(In Chinese I called him Ah Teor). He lived in a small town called Pasir about one mile away from Machap.He also had an Austin car. He could drive his own car while my grandpa had to employed a driver whose name was Wahup. In those days we only knew Austin for cars, Reliegh or Herculis for bicycles and the best and high class cigarettes were Craven 'A' black cat head brand in the 50stick round tin. Of course with other host of British made products. I presume at that time there was no such thing as free trade treaty etc. From my recollection life at that time was very peaceful until the year l937 when the Japs attacked the China proper when I heard about the looming of the second world war. The sound of war grew louder. Sometime my grandpa went to Melaka town with me to a small open field next to the Central Market to listen the radio broadcast on the war front, of course I did not understand the whole thing until they said that the Jap had landed on Malayan soil. Then I saw them when they came to our village and to my grandpa's house to grab the cars and petrol. As the war was approaching my grandma passed away. I think she died of lung cancer because she had suffered sever pain on and off for almost a year. One morning I was waken up and told that she had died. My grandpa sold the car away and I remember like a few months later the Jap arrived. In the village particularly around my grandpa's house they were a lot of Melaka townfolks came to take up refuge to escape the Japs, even Ong Eng Tiang put up a Malay type house next to my grandpa's house to take refuge and his large household including the servants took up refuge in the school building next to my grandpa's house. The whole area was just like a small town. They went back to Melaka town when the situation became stable. I think that was about two to three months after the Japs arrived. That was after the Japs had arrested the ones that they wanted and killed them emass. Those are the people who were active in organising the resistance against the war effort. My father was one of the figures in Machap who organised various activities to collect money to send to China to fight the Japs invasion. So he went into hiding too. The Japs knew so much about these anti-Japanese activists was because of the local informers, they were the culprits. The war had brought hardship to my grandpa's and my father's fortune. The rubber estate was left unproductive. My grandpa had to rely on his farm and my father spent his days in hiding in Melaka town with no income. On the second year of the occupation I and Kim Chan moved to Machap to live with my uncle who was helping to look after my father's small provision shop. In the beginning of the occupation we still had some business to do because we had a rice distribution licence. Rice, sugar, salt, kerosene and cloth were on ration. Slowly all these things disapeared from the market. We had to rely on local supply. We make our own sugar, we distill our own salt, we used coconut oil in lue of kerosene etc. Our bicycles used tyre without air type and out shoes were made from raw rubber sheets etc.etc. If the Japs were to stay for another two or three years we would be going back to the stone age. I do not know much about my grandpa's background. I only knew that his father came from China and he was the first generation born in Malaya. I was not told as to where he was born. I assumed that he was born in a house across the road below the present house where we lived. I was told that the house was built with large earthen brick blocks. He built the present house when he made some money. How he made the money I was not told. I presumed that it must be from his contract work with the rubber estate. I believed that he was the only son because I never hear anything about he had any broher or sister. In turn he also had only one son. I can remember when his son was born because I was already about five or six years old then. I remember that my grandma was suffering from hard labour because I was by her bedside. He adopted one son from one of his relative but I never saw the relative concerned. The adopted son was not a bright fellow and worked in the farm for the whole of his life. He produced one son from the first wife and he turned out to be not normal. He did not disturbed people but he could not live and work intelligently. He died miserably. I am sad to think of him. My grandpa: I do not know what to say about him. He is a normak sane individual. He was a person belonging to the old traditional norms. He did not believe in the Western medicine because he did not want to see Western trained doctors. He did not want to send very sick person to hospital for help. He sent us to school and he was the head of the school board but he never read newspaper or book. He knew of the importance of school but I don't think he knew why it is important. The only book I used to see him referring to was the book about weather and dates good for marriage,dates barial etc.etc.(all about what they call Feng Sui). He never take alcohol but his only son died of drinking at the age of fifty plus. He never drank pure water except luke warm thick Chinese tea. There was a special cotton padded box to keep his tea warm at all time. He seldom stay at home during the day time, what I heard was he spend his time in gambling. He would go round inspecting the sawah and he would lectured to his adopted son and others harshly during the dinner time. Our dinner was in three shifts. The first shift was for him, me, Kim Chan and other grand children. The secon shift was for the manhood, i.e. the adopted son, the farmhand, Ah Lian and his brother etc. The last shift was for women folks. He used to sit in a separate chair away from the head of the dinner table and gave all the lectures as what was wrong and what should be done etc. We seldom got togather to talk even at night because at night we had to chop a kind of grass to boil for feeding the pigs. This may take up two to three hours. My memory of those days is pleasant one although I used to get spanking from time to time. I think it was all of my own faults as I was very mischievious fellow. My grandma: I am afraid I have nothing much to tell about her. She is just like any other woman folk. What I know about her was she rared about two to thirty pigs and sold them when the pigs had come of age. She managed the house. Before Chinese New Year she would take us to Meleka Town to buy our new year outfit such as new shoes, hats, belts, shirts and shorts. The choosing of the colour of the hats and clothing took a long time and the fitness of shoes and hats were also determined by the elders. The criterion was the sizes of the hats,shoes etc. must be larger for one year's growth. A good hair cut was a must and I still remember the Indian barbers were talking so much amomong themselves. After all these were done we had to go back quickly before four or five o'clock for the pigs, the ducks and the chicken would be making noice for food. I remembered she suffered a lot before she died. Of course we were not told what she was suffering from. I remembered she died just not long before the Japanese arrival. My father: We didn't stay togather for long. I was raised up by my grandpa and grandma from as young as I could remember. When I went to live in Machap shophouse during the Japanese occupation (l942 to l945) he was staying in Melaka town. While I was in Machap I was staying with my uncle and his wife. My uncle was his youngest brother, another younger brother remained in China. I went away from Melaka in Sept. l952. Even when I was in Melaka we did not stay in the same roof as he was renting a room few door away from the shop to life with my step-mother and step-sister. So all in all we somewhat stay togather from middle of l946 to Sept. l952, 6yrs. To sum up about my father I would say that he was a good man as it should be. He was honest, straight forward, hard working and with vision. He was not a poplar person because of his no nonsense atitude in dealing with others but he was respected who understood him. The reason why I went to his village where he came from upon my first visit to China was my desire to know the back ground of his make-up so to speak. He came from a small remote village without much education. He never mentioned about his education but I had noticed that he could a bit of reading but he seldom read. If he did read once in a while it would be the newspaper only. His only aim in life just like any other overseas Chinese of the day was to be rich. In his case although he did not become rich but he tried to give education to his children to their most capability resulting that Kim Chan became a doctor. I did not become anybody because I was not good in study myself. His other actions showed that he was trying his upmost to elevate us to be successful in life. I was told that he bought a piano to present the school in which I sister was schooling. He bought a set of table tennis playing equiptment and a set of badminton playing equiptment for my sister to use. He also bought a swing and put it up at the back of the shop for her jus to make her happy to stay with him but unfortunate my sister did not stay in Machap with my dad for long. She went back to my grandpa's house again. I think this was due to the fact that my sister did not have good companion there. At that time very few fathers on earth would do so much to make a daughter happy. Between l939 to l941 I heard that my dad had taken anoter wife but I do not remember of seeing her even once and it ended up in divorce. I use the word another because he seemed to have dicorced the first wife before marrying my mother, of course I did not hear any story about the episode. My mum died when I was three while Kim Chan was three months old. So he took the third wife when I was between seven or eight years old. According to the story being told on and off I presum that the third wife was quite a young girl and that she was of course did not like to stayed in the shop day in and out. So frequent quarells ensued and finally divorce. Another strong point about him was he never gamble in his whole life for what I know of him. I never saw him pitch drunk although he was a regular drinker. He drank everyday but only after taking the evening bath and before eating dinner. The bad thing about this drink was he used to talk a bit too much and in a way it was out of tune due to the influence of the acohol, and this was a daily occurance. So he made himself an unpleasant person and it cost him the affection of the family. My uncle, that was my father's youngest brother. He had two younger brothers. The first younger brother hang himself in l951. I went to school at age six and the first teacher I had was my own uncle, in Bukit Beruang. I learnt that he came from China and had no job so he became a teacher in my school. My school was a small village school. There were about thirty to forty pupils. The standard range from standar one to four or five. There was only one teacher to teach all the subjects. The subjects being taught were of course reading, writing, arithmetic and letter writing. I remember the letter writing stuff very well because I alsway got detained in school for not able to reside the text of a letter and the next difficult thing was the multiplication table. A lot of pupils got trouble with the time table as they called it. When the Japanese was approachin Malaya, my father sensed the danger and so called my uncle to go back to look after his shop. At that time everybody was worrying on one thing or the other. Those who had young unmarried daughters worry that they may be raped by the Japs or the bad people during this disturbing time. So my uncle was vertually given one young girl as a wife (what I mean was with simple marriage ceremony.) I remembered that when I was in Machap with my uncle he used to gamble every night. He did not stayed home to eat dinner with us during the festive days like new year eve, cheng beng, dumpling festival day, and full moon festival etc. He had dinners with his friend who had a provision shop just like ours at the end of the street. Sometime he used to get drunk. He only remained in the shop when he was really necessary and when my father was present. Remember that my father was staying in Malacca Town hiding away from the Japs. After the Japanese occupation we move to Melaka town that was in the early l946. We ran a provision shop. We bought goods on bulk from the suppliers and in turn sold them to the smaller shops from the villages such as from Machap,Jasin etc. in smal quantity on credit term. Because of this it was difficult for us to make large profit and allowed the creditors to run away with debts. In l951 my father and my uncle split the business. The terms and conditions of the split were not clearly known to me. I still stayed in the shop until l952 when I joined the lst.Bn. Federation Regiment. In the beginning I was apprehensive of the army but later on I felt so free. I felt I had an opportunity in the army. Whatever it was, I did not feel hopeless. The feud between my father and uncle is simple. My father blamed my uncle for not hard working enough because he liked to get up late in the morning and of course his work was unsatisfatory in father eyes. My uncle despised my father for being inferior to his standard of education because my uncle spent more time in school and being better educated so he thought that he was more intelligent and more capable than my father. But the actual fact was my father was more capable of making money. He was supposed to be the richest person in that village. So their their partnership broke up when they split the busines in 1950. That is the reason lead me to believe that everyone should go on his own way never to work together with anyone. I think my story of my life with my family is over with me leaving to join the armed forces. My advice is never to live with relatives under any circumstances. Stay away from each other and peace will be on earth.
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autoblocker Talk	14 Dec 2007 I talked to Aik-Siong on the Skype. 15.Dec.2007 The first half of the day was at home surfing the net and reading newspaper. At 3pm. went to attend the Resident Association of the Mastiara Garden meeting which about the prevention of theft, snatch thief, stray dogs and cats and collection of rubbish etc. The normal stuff facing the city of Kuala Lumpur. I represented mother to attend the meeting just to see what is happening. I left the meeting at about 4.30 before it officially termited as it has become a chatting session. In the evening, mama's friends from Singapore came for dinner. They come to KL in order to attend mama's sister' daughter's wedding dinner at the Dynasty Hotel on 16 Dec 07. I stayed at home till bedtime at llpm. while mama took them to I-6, Bamboo Garden to see uncle Loon. 30st.Dec.07(Sun). Came back from Fraser's Hills after two days stay. The weather there was splendid and the air was very fresh. There is internet services available in the hotel, the charge is RM 9.oo per hour. 31st.Dec.07(Mon). Went to Lip Wern's house to keephim company while the two maids were fixing up new bed to replace the broken one caused by Lip Wern jumping on it frequently. We reached home at about 3pm for a nap. Stayed at home for the evening to watch TV. We packed up after seeing the finale of the new year celebration whick took place at Dataran Merdeka. For me and our family, there is not much to complain about for 2007. Of course it can be better if such thing as reducing the number of stray dogs, make the roads smoother, make the internet more efficient, keep the environment cleaner, etc. etc.. Well, let the big boys to think about the problems since they are paid for it. 1st.Jan.08(Tue). Wanted to buy a clock which will chime quarterly and hourly for Silver Park appartment ,so we ended up shopping for the whole morning in Sogo and the Orden cenima area. 2nd.Jan.08(Wed). Took mama to Jinjang market in the morning. Since the maid has gone to SS's house to help her in the house work as she will be having potlark party at about 3pm. so I was busy helping in the kitchen etc. A lot of time is taken up if there is no one to do the odd and pieces of chore in the house. Went to Matropolitan with Lip Wern and Sri. I enjoyed the outing very much because I saw how Lip Wern and Sri were so happy playing togather. What had gone through my mind was that if Lip Wern does not get Sri to look after him he would not be so happy boy today. 3rd.Jan.08(Thu). Today the schools reopen for 2008. As usual I got up at 5am to boil hot water for the day and also to make tea for mama. Checked her school bus for brake fluid, cooling water and engine oil. Normally I would check the battery water but due to a little drizzling so I postoned it. Stayed home for the whole day until bedtime. 4th.Jan.08(Fri). Stayed at home for the whole day. Rained in the evening, so no walk. 5th.Jan.08(Sat). Went for morning walk. Went to SS's house and then One Utama from one to four just to roam around. 6th.Jan.08(Sun). No morning walk. Stayed home until 3pm went to the assn. for chinese tea session up to 5pm. Mum and SS and her family test drive the new direct road from KL to Putra Jaya before they impose the road toll. 7th.Jan.08(Mon). Schooling day get up at normal 5am made tea etc. and did about 30mins of wrokout. Stayed home for the rest of day. 8th.Jan.o8(Tue). A normal day. Nothing spectifular happening. 9th.Jan.08(Wed). Stayed home the whole day. Surfing the computer, reading of newspaper and watched the VCD on Chinese 100 years of polical history starting from the opium war in l840 to the establishment of new China. 10th.Jan.08(Thu). Went to Ue3 shopping complex just to look see and at the end bought a DVD on western China and a chair Mao's ceramic statue. Just for the record it was reported that the US flatten a village just because six GI's were killed in the village. In all 9 GI's were killed in that district(Arab Jabour) since 2003 invasion. It was also reported that in total 151,000 Iraqis were killed since the 2003 invasion of the country. The Japs used to burned down the whole village when thier soldier was killed but now the village was flatten by bombs, so what is the difference. llth.Jan.08(Fri). Stayed home for the whole day. 12th.Jan.08(Sat). Accompanied mum to Petaling street to look through the Gurghas's stalls which are selling the stones for her missing stones. Bought some. Went to Jln. Lee Siok Yee street to have beef noodle in a road side eating shop located next to the Chinese temple. In the evening Lip Lern came and took him with mum to the Metropolitan park for a walk and played in the children played ground. He was very happy playing with a girl who is two or three years older than he is. He came to konw her last about two weeks ago in the same play ground. 13th.Jan.08(Sun). This is the third time I tried to enter this entery because there is some problem with the internet connection. For the last two or three days the connection had been very very bad. In the morning part of the day we went to the Sg. Buloh area to room around. We discovered a new high class housing estate being developed behind the newly built hospital. In the second part of the day we went to GAO association for the weekly tea session. It rained heavily for most part of the evening. 14th.Jan.08(Mon). Went to Brickfield area to room about in the morning part of the day. The area is very busy now because of the LRT station and the Central station located there. Went to see dentist Yip from 2pm to 4pm to patch up the left side molar. It rained very heavily from 3pm till the twilight time. 15th.Jan.08(Tue). E.M. wanted me to drive her to Mutiaria Shopping Complex to do her hair from 1130 to 2pm because there is no parking space there, so I stayed at home to do the requested service. It happened that SS also came to look at mama's hand phone because she complained that it did not ring when people rang up. Of course Lip Lern came and played until he was bored and kicked up some hoo haa before going home. Went to look at the construction of the new railway station at the fifth mile there and followed by going to the park to do some stretch up. 16th.Jan.08(Wed). Went to veteran offfice to collect check on the refund of the cataract operation done on my right eye by the university hospital on July 07. After that went to eat "mee rabus" at the back lane of Cambal Road (do not know the Malay name). 17th.Jan.08(Thu). Went to Titiwangsa park to read newspaper. The after part, sleep, surfing the net etc. The most interesting event in the net is about the sub-prime crisis. All the big banks in America and one or two from Eroupe war losing billions of dollars. I just wonder how this think could happen whereas all these banks are managed by the economic experts. The economics theroies cooked up by them seem to be not working for the well being of the ordinary folks. Note: when you read this passage years later, I am afraid you have to refer to the history of economy to understand the sequence of the crisis. It is too complicated to be described by a lay man. Even the experts seem to find it difficult to understand the whole thing. 18th.Jan.08(Fri). Stayed at home the whole day. Went to the park for walk in the evening. Aik Mai's piano day. 19th.Jan.08(Sat). Stayed at home in the morning. Mum was busy preparing the turkey for roasting. We have roat turkey every year just for fun. We picked up the habit of eating roast turkey during X'mas time from the British family. When I was in the army we were living with the British army families in the camp so we picked up the trend. In the evening In the SS came with the family and Lip Wern, his dad and maid and I went to the Metropolitan park as usual. At about eight pam when EM and her husband came we started the dinner. Mum invited Mi Chin and her daughters but only the eldest one came as the second one went to her friend birthday party. 20th.Jan.08(Sun). Went to Sg. Buloh area for familiarisation of the area and got lost half way and ended up in the Express Way, thus we had to make our way home vide the Express Way. The road signing is really misleading. In the afternoon part went to the association for tea session. After the tea session went to Lake Garden for a walk. We took the maid along as well, just to freshen her up. 21st.Jan.08(Mon). Stayed at home for the whole day except going for walking in the evening. The weather was hot and the sun was blazing. Had to turn on the air-con. for a short period to cool down the bed, the billows and the room. 22nd.Jan.08(Tue). Stayed at home again until the evening walk. Nothing to report. 23rd.Jan.08(Wed). To day is Thaipusam day(the Govt. had declared it as a FT and Selangor public holiday. Formally it was not FT's holiday as the FT day was a public holiday.) So we went to SS's house with a television set to replace the one that was stolen on the previous night. The thief broke into her house and ransacked it thoroughly. A television set and a notebook computer with some other bit and pieces of stuff were taken away. The burglary took place at about 7 to 8.30pm when they went out for shopping. The thief peeled off the iron grill and used a browbar to force open the wooden door. 24th.Jan.08(Thu). Stayed at home the whole day except went for evening walk with mum in the Metropolitan park. 25th.Jan.08(Fri). Stayed at home until went for evening walk at the Titiwang park at about nine thirty pm. Friday is EM's diano day so we had to wait for her to leave before we were able to go for walk. 26th.Jan.08(Sat). We again went to the Sg. Buloh area to see the development there. We get lost and end up appearing at the Batu Tiga near Klang. Did not go to the evening walk. 27th.Jan.08(Sun). Went to morning walk starting at 6.30am at the Batu Lima railway station. After that remained at home until 1.30pm went to the association for the committee members meeting. This is the last meeting for the 2007 sessiong before the AGM for 2008 season. In the evening I learnt the news of Surharto's the president of Indonesia death from the internet. His dieing condition was reported in our tv news every evening. Now at last we knew that he is dead. It seemed that he saved his country from the Communists but he did not save his people from poverty. 28th.Dec.08(Mon). Went to old places in town in the morning part. Stayed at home for the afternoon. Did not go for evening walk. Fell asleep from six to seven thirty pm. 29th.Jan.08(Tue). At about ll.30am went to see the association Honourary President Koh Heng Jin's shop with the assciation Treasurer Koh Thong Peng to pass back the balance from the last Xiaman trip payment and to pass the association account for his son to check before passing the AGM in March before submitting to the Society Registrar as he is the association's account auditor. It rained heavyly in the evening so there was no evening walk. Briefly about the going-on in the world lately beginning 2008. l. in US it is chocked with the subprime debacle. 2. in Europe a rogue trader is bankcrupting the French bank Societe Generale. 3. in Africa about 800 Kenyans had been killed in the aftermath of general election. 4. in Iraq the figurs of GI killed stood at 3940. in Malaysia the fever of general election if gripping the country waiting for the final word from the PM. 5. in China they are talking about forming a corporation in March to manufacture big airplanes like that of Boeing and Air Bus. 30th.Jan.08(Wed). Stayed at home until went for a evening walk at the park. 31st.Jan.(Thu). You see crazy or not? I had been using Dec. for the whole month until today I come to realise that it is January. So today is the last day of January 2008. Another day of complete rest except going for a evening walk with mum, maid and self in the park after mum finished her round at about 7.30pm. Staying at home I did a lot of reading, the newspaper and the internet. The internet is really informative. It can tell one practically everything. It is a double edge sword. (It had beeb corrected the next morning so it is back on the right track.) 1st.Feb.(Fri). Today is Willayah day so it is a holiday. Strangely enough there seem to be no celebration whatsoever. However we had a complete rest. Today is also Eik Mai's piano day so she came in the evening and taught a few students and we spent the whole evening chit chatting after dinner until she left at about 10pm. 2nd.Feb.(Sat). Went for a morning walk at the park to replace missed one yesterday. Morning walk is always nice and fresh but it is difficult to start it due to laziness. Well, that is so called human nature. Lip Wern is planning to come to the park this evening and stay here for a while because his dad is doing the night shift. So let us see what is going to happen. He is a pleasant boy until he becomes unrulely. 3rd.Feb.(Sun). Stayed at home until 3pm went to the association for tea session. After that went to Lake Garden with mum and the maid for evening walk. 4th.Feb.(Mon). The dead GI's figure is 3945 this morning. I hope the figure run up more quickly. I like to see them die daily to remind the Americans that it does not pay for being bad hearted. They love to see other people in trouble so that they can point finger to say that they are stupid and do not know how to manage their problems. Stayed at home the whole day and went for a walk in late evening with mum in the Metropolitan Park. 5th.Feb.(Tue). We had been walking so much in the last two to three days that we decided to stay in for the whole day. 6th.Feb.(Wed). Today is Chinese New Year eve. Our family as usual did not do a lot of socalled new year eve preparation. In the evening part of the day we went to the Lake Garden for a walk and then we proceeded to the Petaling Street for some flowers. At night we watched the CCTV 4 programe from China. It was a entertaining and educational programe.It is a break from the usual western staff. The best thing about it was its originality, even the dance was Chinese in itself. 7th.Feb.(Thu). Today is the first day of Chinese new year. This year is supposed to be a rat year and it is a very good year that is according to the Feng Sui master's explaination. Lately people is going to the Feng Sui masters more than usual. It is also fanned up by the newspapers and the public media. Even the other races are also talking about Feng Sui. I think it is due to the fact that there is nothing more concrete stuff such as ideological disputes to fight about so people tend fo divert their attention to something else. Feng Shui is one subject that one can argue endlessly. Went to Titiwangsa for a walk and relax in the evening. 8th.Feb.(Fri). Stayed at home until evening walk. Walked in Titiwangsa in the evening. 9th.Feb.(Sat). Went to Thian Hau Kong to watch the dance troup from China performed various dances from various ethnic groups in the South-West Sichuan provice with uncle Loon's wife and her mother in the morning. Came back at about three and had a nap until 5pm. Went for a walk at the Metropolitan Park with mum. 10th.Feb.(Sun). Normal, stayed at home and went for a evening walk. 11th.Feb.(Mon). Took mum to the Selayang Hospital for annual X ray in the morning. Normal evening walk. 12th.Feb.(Tue). Mum started her school bus operation again after a long CNY break. What it means is I have to get up at 5am to boil water and make a cup of good tea for her. This is the tradition started ever since the day we got married. I have to get up early when I was in the army to fight for the toilet and bathe before the morning parade. The official time to get up was 6am but then the time would be too short to prepare oneself for the morning parade which began at 7am after breakfast. Before joining the army when I was schooling I also got up at 5am in the morning to practise the Chinese calligraphy before going to school. By nature I like to get up early in the morning so that I feel that I would enjoy the day more fully. Since my father was working in the rubber estate, he had to wake up early to supervise the rubber tapers because the rubber tappers started tapping the rubber trees at about 5am. Because of all this ,that makes me to form the early birds habit. Stayed at home for the remainder of the day. Went for a walk in the park with mum after her evening bus trip at about 7.30pm. Took mum to the Selayang Hospital to collect her chest X ray film for the medical check-up. 13th.Feb.(Wed). Lazy day. Stayed at home and no evening walk. 14th.Feb.(Thu). My gout is giving me trouble again. Went to the govt. clinic for treatment. Stayed at home and went to the park with mum. Didn't walk a lot, just to sit around. 15th.Feb.(Fri). My gout made me stayed home in the morning part of the day. In the afternoon went to see the govt. doc. again as my gout did not get better. One more type of pills were given to me. After taking two pills no improvement was felt. The swelling persisted and I did not feel comfortable at all. 16th.Feb.(Sat). Went to see doctor Lian immediately after getting up because the swell was still on. Dcotor Lian gave me a jay with other tablets. The effect was trememdous after a few hours I was able to walk again. 17th.Feb.(Sun). GAO association hold an CNY open house for members. The attendance is very encouraging. EM and her husbane turned up for the occasion. SS cannot come because Lip Wern has another party to attend. 18th.-19th.(Mon.& Tue.). Went to see Dr.Lian for my gaut on Monday morning. Other than that stayed at home and went for evening strall. 20th-21st.(Wed.& Thu.) Nothing special to write about. Mainly stayed at home and went for evening walk. For one thing is sure I must go for walk every day. Either in the morning or evening. 22nd.Feb.(Fri.) SS and family came to our house. Lip Wern, his dad, his maid and I went to park to play around. They left after dinner. EM also was here. 23rd. Feb.(Sat.). EM and her husband and SS's came for CNY reunion dinner. We prepared shark fin soap, roasted duck, plain boiled chick and sweep sour fish as usual. From the internet learnt that one Amerian stealth bomber crashed. 24th.Feb.(Sun.) Complete rest at home. Went to GAO assn. for tea and chit chat. Now there is proposal that a headquarter for all the assns. related to surname only to be formed. The inaugural meeting will be held on 2nd. of Mar. I think that is not a bad idea. We can get togather to discuss ideas on how to improve the management, matters on how to benefit members and to attract more people to appreciated the idea on why the assns. should survive. 25th.&26th.Feb.(Mon.&Tue.) Nothing new to report. Thought of the day: The ex-prime minister of Israel (Ariel Sharon) laid in bed in coma celebrated his 80th. birthday. He had been in coma for the last two years. Do you believe it or not?! It is said that evil people takes a long time to breathe the last breath. 27th.Feb.08.(Wed.) In the evening went to Titiwangso for a big walk with mum after her trip. Watch two hours of DVD on the historIy of one of the Chin dynasty emperors. In the story the emperor went to inspect one of the towers of the Great Wall and while there he said to his entourage that the wall was useless and it was for show only. It cost a lot of manpower and resources to build it and yet it did not prevent the Manchu from entering and ruled China. It sound like what I had been thinking also. 28th.Feb.08.(Thu.) Normal day. The whole country is busy in gen. election. International scene, it is heartening to learn that the Russians are getting up to re-arm themself because the sole super-power is getting more threatening. 29th.Feb.08.(Fri.) It was raining in the evening. It prevent us from going for walk. The world largest airport terminal opened in Beijing. It is the third terminal for the Beijing International airport. It is designed by the British designer. The second interesting news item is one in a hundred persons in US is in prison. lst.Mar.08.(Sat.) Quiet Saturday morning,no activity. Went to a Chinese wedding party in Lukut near Port Dickson in the evening. A normal wedding dinner, late in starting, noisy and a earful of karaoke. 2nd.Mar.08.(Sun.) Went to the housing estates behing the Phonix shopping complex to look see. The area had developed so very much. Finally landed at SS's house to see Lip Wern. Went to the assn. for Sunday tea session. Napped at 5pm. to 7pm. 3rd.Mar.08.(Mon.) Went to town loaffing about and went to the Metropolitan garden for a walk. 4th.Mar.08.(Tue.) Went to the gov. clinic for normal check up. Everything is OK except the uric acid is slightly above average. Surf the internet and told that survey show that one third of Americans are too sleepy to wrok. If it had been two third would be better. 5th.Mar.08.(Wed.) Doing nothing except following SS taking the two maids to the immigration office for their IC's. In the evening we went to Titiwangsa for a walk. We went through the big circle. The nation is in the midst of general election. The voting date is 7th. of March. 6th.Mar.08.(Thu.) Went to Lian clinic to get some medicine for gout in case it happen while am in Vietnam for holiday and also the name of medicine for injection. Went to Titiwangsa for walk again. Memory: After the second world war we learnt that every American in America sacrify a meal a day to save the food for the hungery Chinese in China because at that time the Chinese were really miserable. But now the American is just being a sour grape because he can not compete with the Chinese. 7th.Mar.08.(Fri.) It is declared a school holiday so that schools will be used as polling stations as tomorow,Saturday, will be polling day. Had been staying home the whole morning and it is raining now, so it looks like there will be no evening walk for today. EM won't stay back for dinner because she had been invited for dinner somewhere else but SS will come for dinner as planned. Pop star Bjork is nothing but a cheap,screaming and monkying as normal western singer. So why she sing about independence all that. 17th.Mar.08(Mon.) Went to see the doctor for cold. Contracted the cold just before comming back from Vietnam. Slept for the last two days doing nothing. The lessons learnt from the Vietnamese trip. I. To see the country with my own eyes instead of listening from others. To feel the climate. To see the day to day life of Vietnames. 2. To see the relics left behind by the French. 3. To visit the war museum to see the American war machinery used in the Vietnam war. To see the torture house and method of torture tactics used to extract information from the Vietcong. To see the tunnels used by the Vietcong to move around underground. To see the atrocities commited by the aggressors. After seeing all these I am sure you will not love the Americans. The Americans were trying to bully the small nation with such a massive weapenry. Just like the saying goes they use the knief vlf slaughtering a bulld to slaughter a chicken. I admired the people who dared to fight the big bully and won. Had the Americans had their ways, the world would have been a different world today. 21th.Mar.08.(Fri.) There were nothing to write aboue for the last three day. Yesterday was Prophet Mohamed's birthday and therefore it was a holiday. In the evening SS and his whole family came for dinner. It was a simple birthday dinner for her 40th. birthday. This few days there are a lot of stories about the riot in Lasha,Tibet. It is the same like the old cold war rhetoric,prophesing the doom of China,etc. You can see how sinistic they are, they try to use every means available to try to sabotage the Olympic games. I am sure the Chinese is able to handle the situation. Let us watch the event closely and see the outcome! Good luck to the colonial dreamers. 24th.Mar.08.(Mon.) Nothing to report on Sat.22nd.Mar.08. 23rd.Mar.08.(Sun.) The GAO association held the AGM for 2008 and also it is a election year for office bearers for 2008-2009 session. I have been elected as vice-president. Heavy rain in the evening so there was no evening walk. At this poin of time it is 1230hrs, as I turned on the computer I learnt that four more US GI's died in Iraq. The death figure of GI's in Iraq now is 4,000 solid. I hope the Iraqi people will keep on fighting until the last GI is wiped off. Since there was no evening walk yesterday so I went for a walk this morning to replace the loss. 25th.Mar.08.(Tue.) According to the internet news, the Western racists are frantic with the successful litting of the Olympic flame. The Dalai is supposed to be the spirit figure of high standard. A number of books to teach people to attain happiness etc. had been profaned by him, so he must be a man of big thought and yet he tried to wrack the olympic game by creating a small riot in Tibet and here and there aroung Tibet. The rioting caused death and suffering to the innocent people and blamed the govt. that quelled the rioting. Absurd?!. When I was in school I was given the impression that the Western press were clean and honest but now they are as dirty as it can be. The whiteman are a bunch of liars too. 26th.Mar.08.(Wed.) It is now 0630hrs. It looks like the Frech president (Sacosky) is to boycot the opening ceremony of the Olympic because of the crackdown of the Tibetian riot I hope the Chiniese govt. will be strong enought to ignore all these nonsense and carry on with the games. Afterall it is nothing great about the Olympic games. It is nothing but one of the Western gimmicks and they make it sounds like a big thing. The Westerners can still be "kurung hajar" to the Chinese for now until the Chinese surpass them in economy, science and technology etc. 27th.Mar.08.(Thu.) It is 0645hrs. Now that Bush has come out to show his colour. The Western world had expected Taiwan's Chen would win the election and thus trouble would ensue. I wish the Chinese leaders will stand up the western world to proceed with the Olympic with or without theem. Just like fighting the Korean war. To deal with the white men only the fist will be appreciated because they have the cow boy mentality. The westerners are not happy because the Chinese put down the Tibetan disturbances. Freedom and democracy for the Tibetans? It must be a joke. If Tibet is free the white businessmen will make a good meal of those stupid punks. 28th.Mar.08.(Fri.) The 2000hrs news reported that there is a new kind of weapon being put into use in Iraq. The weapon is a kind of gaget that can produce a sharp sound that can cause the listeners to come out of hiding as far as from a mile away. The producers of the weapon were introducing the gaget with abandon of pride in them. It seems that those bright sparks spend a lot of time invenenting weapons just to hurt people. Stayed home and went for evening walk inspite of drizling. 31st.Mar.08.(Mon.) Noting exciting to write about. Stayed home and did the mandane stuff. It is 0700hrs. Turned on the internet, it seems that the Tibetan rioting is dieing off. Another western plot is failing. Let us see what next. It seems that those big boys are just like kids playing with the petty games. 31st.Mar.08.(Mon.) When the westerner businessmen came to China in the 1800. They saw the Chinese in a sorry state, poor and hungery. So was the first impression and thought that they would be in that state forever. But now they find that the Chinese are going to surpass them and so they becaome alarm and envious. As a result they find every opportunity to smear the Chinese. All because of one man who was branded as bandit changed the whole people and nation. 1st.Apr.08.(Tue.) It is 1210hrs now. Came back from University Hospital after examination of the right eye which was operated on for cataract in August '07. The result is good. Turned on the internet and learnt that there was a barrage of criticism from the Chinese netizens about the western media reports on the Tibetan riot. Needless to say the western media had and still till today have been telling lies all the time. During the colonial days they were the raja and the rest of the world were at their mercy. But today is different the the fools have become smart. All along the orang puteh are bunch of hyprocrites. 2nd.Apr.08.(Wed.) It is 1930hrs now. It is raining outside since 1600hrs this afternoon. There are so many troubles going on in the world that it is a waste of time to write amd to critise. All the troubles are created by the super-power which want to dominate the world by creating problems so it can put a hand in it. So that they can sell their weapons and creat jobs for the scientists and unemployed technocrats. 7th.Apr.08.(Mon.) There was nothing happening on 3rd. and 4th. of Aprial 08. Went to Melaka for Cheng Beng on 5th.Apr. and stayed in Alice's house for a night and came back to KL on Sunday evening. We were late for a day for Cheng Beng. It actually fell on 5th. Apr. 08 but because there was school on Saturday so mum cannot go for Cheng Beng. According to the Chinese custom it is alright to go to clean the graves three days before or after the actual day. We spent our free time on rounding the Melaka Town thoroughly. On Sunday we spent our morning on walking along the Melaka River enbankment. It is a good place for walking but unfortunately the town folks seem not interested to do so. Only a few tourists took the opportunity. My sister is now sickily with old age. She fell and hit on something and darkened half of her face. On the way of coming back to KL the traffice was very heavy and the rain made it more unpleasant. It was really stressful. 9th.Apr.08.(Wed.) It is 0930hrs now. I went to the Metropolitan Park for a short exercise as I missed the evening walk yesterday evening because it rain the for whole evening. The GI casualty figure in Iraq is 4024. The increment of the figure is a good reminder to the country which believes in superiority in weapons of war. I again read the book, David Copperfield. The book was used by my teacher to teach literature in l952. After that I read it again in my thirty just to test how much do I understand it compared to the first time I read it. The number of words I recognised and the meaning I understand from the writting etc.
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badaccess Talk	== 9 Apr 2008 == Start here pa. 11th.Apr.08.(Fri.)1000hrs. Luckily I can read Chinese, if I hear only from the Western reports like BBC website in particular, I would believe that the whole world is going against China hosting the so called the Olimpic Games. Those ruffians and hooligans who tried to disrupt the relay of Olympic torch are nothing but a small bunch of disspirited souls. They don't even know where Tibet is left alone the history of Tibet. The white men still dream of the old colonial days when they were supreme. I hope the Chinese will go on with the Olympics with or without the boycot. At 1225hrs, I learnt from the Xinhuanet that everyone of those who join in the disturbacne were paid 300 euro $. 12th.Apr.08.(Sat.)The time is really 1215am. Went for a morning walk at the Titiwangsa park because it was raining in the evening yesterday. I am really happy to find that the Chinese has won the battle on the disturbance on the Olympics torch relay. Their endeavour has really slapped on their own face. The tactics empployed are childish and crude. 13th.Apr.08.(Mon.) 0830hrs. Nothing interesting to write about for Sunday. Stayed at homw, Lip Wern came to the house in the evening and had fried rice. Did not go to the park because his mother did not want him to excite himself too much thus he can not fall asleep at night. Oh yes went to the association for tea session and for a chat. Nothing spectacular to write about. The Olympic torch relay and the Tibet issue still occupied the main news in TV and newspaper. I am surprised to see that a terrorist who encouraged to torch shops and killed people in monk's robe can be spiritual leader. I think a terrorist is bad terrorist or good terrorist depening who he kills. If he kill the white men that is a real terrorist, if the one that kill other colour people then that is a good terrorist. 15th.Apr.08.(Tue.) 1830hrs. There is nothing much to write about my daily life. Read the newspaper, a little on book, surf the net and sleep. Of course on surfing the net there are a lot of happenings for thought and conment. Of course there are a lot of happenings that do not bother me at all. I do not border on the issue of world food shortage because as long as I am OK why should border about the rest. My concentration now is devoted on the western plot against the Olympic. I am treating it as a drama from now on till the end of it. And see who will win. Up to this point of time it seems that the disruption on the relay of the torch has died down. Oh ya, mom and I had been to Tibet say in 2004 for a short tour(the normal tourist tour). Most unfortunately was we were not taken to see the whole city are or the farms instead we were taken to visit from one monastery to another to be told the history of Tibetan Buddhism. From what I had seen the Tibetan Bddhism is definitly not for me and I do not think that religion will ever give happiness to anyone who believe it. 17th.Apr.08.(Thu.) 1240hrs. I am glad that the Inernet makes me more Chinese than ever before, because I learn a lot from the net that what those whitemen had done and still doing to humiliate the Chinese. As a Chinese myself what you expect me to do? To be on their side to humiliate my own race? To be with them just because they say they love freedom and practice democracy? They had been running the whole world during the colonial days, what had they done for the people under their rule? Now that the Chinese are prosperous and the nation in strong, so they are jealous and try every means to subvert it. Glad to see the Chinese all over the world is united to ward off the wolf in the sheep skin. They had pretended far too long. They are the angels of yesterdays but the devils of todays. 18th.Apr.08.(Fri.) 0915hrs. If Jack Cafferty and people like him (the supremacists)from the CNN and BBC are allowed to slap the face of the Chinese in broad daylike in the name of free speech and freedom of press, why should not I slap their face in return by telling what is in my mind? In a nutshell I would like to declared that I am now totally converted to Chairman Mao's thought. I used to tell people who are close to me that if I can write a book, the title of my book would have been " I am sorry to you Chairman Mao". During the Chinese civil war I used to believe that Chiang Kai Shek was the man to save China to become a prosperoug and strong country. I used to believe the propogandas produced by the CIA and the western writers. Alas, how wrong I was. Mao Tze Thong was really the man who not only give life to China, he also save Asia from the imperialists and colocialists. His thought has given the impetus to people of the world who would like to save their countries for themselves. In Iraq they need a man like Vietcong general(Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap) who chased the French and Americans away from Vietnam to lead them to throw out the white invaders. 1265hrs. Learnt that China is building a naval base in Sanya, Hainan island at southtern most of China. It is a good news, let the whitemen do what they want as long as the Chinese temselves. It seems that the Japs like their white master express concern about the matter. The base will allow the Chinese navy to enter the Pacific freely unlike the base in Qindao which prevent them coming out without being detected. 19th.Apr.08.(Sat.) A few days ago the Tibetan spirit leader was in US giving spiritual talk, it looked like everybody present listened very very attentively, what a bunch of pious people and now the Pope is in US blessing the people, what a lucky people who are so blessed. What rejoice me is to learn that China has started building the fast rail from Beijing to Shanghai(18th.Apr.08). After completion it will only take five hours to complete the journey.(the distance is about l320kms I really hope that I will be in the inaugural run in 2013.(I am now is already 76yr. old). Who care as to whetheer the prime minster of Britian, the president of France and the chancellor of Germany will be attending the opening ceremony of the Olmpic games or not. 20th.Apr.08.(Sun.) Association lunch for the swearing in ceremony of the committee members for 2008-2009 at 1200hrs in a Chinese restaurant. The ceremony was held at 1400hrs in the association premises. The Olympic torch arrived KL this afternoon. The run will start from Mederka Stadium at 2300hrs tomorrow and ended in KLCC at about 1830hrs. The distance covered will be about 16km. It is reported that the Bangkok run was smooth. 21st.Apr.08.(Mon.) 0815hrs. After surfing the internet an idea come into my mind. The whitemen's freedom of apeech and democracy is simply "do to others but not to thyself." It means these western countries will allow the other people to come to their countries to demonstrate against their own countries. They allow the deposed ex-national leaders, corrupt officials and high profile criminals to take shelter in their countries under the name of fancy pretexts. 1345hrs. I love the Pope very much. He is full of love, he went to the Ground Zero in NY to pray for the victims of the 9/ll, (those peace loving people.) I just wonder as to why he did not pray for the victims of those innocent people who died under the American bombs in Iraq and Vietnam? Were they all people with hatred? I went to visit the War museum in Vietnam where one can see the massive tanks, the huge planes, the bombs and all sort of weapons used to kill the poor Vietnamese peasants and innocent population. Were they all bad people whose soul deserved to be banished to hell?! 22nd.Apr.08.(Tue.)0740hrs. Actually I don't wish to be a bore, but alas, early in the morning the internet reports that city of Paris gives Dalai Lama honorary citizenship. Then I have to chip in again because it has touched on my raw nerve. Of course the whitemen like people like DL because he is in yellow robe, walk in a pair of worn-off slippers, with a little muttering mouth and always in a begging posture. Wouldn't it be good if all the Chinese are like that. But alas again, the Chinese now are equipt with Chairman Mao's thought and that has make it different. Sorry, I am now happy because I have left off my steam. The torch run had gone on smoothly. 23rd.Apr.08.(Wed.) 0915hrs. Star dtd.23.4.08.(ed.) page N8. Titled - Dr.M:America causing insecurity in Asia. I would add that America causing the insecurity in places that are insecure to-day. His explaination is just the same as what I have in mind. Japan and south Korea don't believe in the US propaganda but since they had been historically relying on other big nation(such as China in olden days), so now they have to rely on the US instead in order to feel secure.I am totally bored with the US election. No matter whoever become the president of the USA it will be no peace to others. Woke up at 4am and refused to fall asleet again, so got up and watched the 20th. episode of the "Norished by the same river", a documentary film on the Lancang-Mekong river. The river that starts from the foot of the Hymalaya mountain in Yunang provice and runs through Mymanma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The film took three years to produce with the combined effort of the six countries. The film shows how this river is being tidied up to provide services to facilitate commercial activities to improve the standard of living for the people living along the river. The facilities such as jetties or inland ports, safe navigations etc.etc. I remember of reading an article written by a BBC correspondent telling us that the Chinese was improving the waterway for military purposes and that they were messing up the ecology system of the regions. You know la, the white supremacists are good at critising and condemning what the Asians do without constructive alternatives. 24th.Apr.08.(Thu.) 0910hrs. If you have the opportunity to invite between Dalai Lama and Osama bin Ladin to your house for tea, who would you choose? Without hesitation I would choose the latter. Reasons, you have to analyse the caracters of each of them individually. If you are asked to choose which leaders between the Dalai Lama and President Ahmadinejad of Iran to be the tue leader of a people, who would you choose? Both of them claim to be fighting for the freedom of their people. The Tibetans under DL will not only be DL's clique slaves but also be the play thing of the Western powers. I don't really sure of the date either today or yesterday, the city that is rampage with hooligans and rufficans has betowed free citizenship of the city to the DL. Why, becasue he got the capability to stir up trouble for the govt. It is simple if one can organise any riot against one's own govt. a Nobel Peace Prize is assured. The bigger the riot the faster one will get it. 25th.Apr.08.(Fri.) 1820hrs. Hurray! for the moment the "free Tibet" gang has been silent by the Five Star flags waving patriots. The strangest of all is that the "free tibet" group members are mostly white bums. The poor Tebatans are too poor to pay for their fares to follow the torch. 26th.Apr.08.(Sat.) 0715hrs. This edea popped into my mind that Prince William of Britain landed a military helicopter in the compound of his girl friend's house becasuse he wanted to see so much. I have been been thinking that how lucky China is without a bunch of parasitical people who only enjoying life without doing anything. It took China five thousand years to produce a person like Dr. Sun Yet Sen to have the idea of getting rid of the emperial system followed by the Mao Tse Dong thought that to completely rid of the feudal thinking of the Chinese people. Thus the Chinese thought is liberated from the feudal thining and feudal system marching forward the scientific thinking. It is interesting to read from the newspaper that another barking dog of the Western power has been award with the Congressional Gold Medal,the US congress's highest civilian honour, to Myanmar's sarong wearing Aung San Suu Kyi. The only thing for sure if she become the head of the Myanmar government is election, buying American firearms, invite the US military and police personnel to come to the country to train the military and police forces and allow the CIA to establish net-working to monitor her neighbors'activities. To subvert the stability of the region. 27th.Apr.08.(Sun.)0740hrs. This brief article may not be true at this point of time but it is for may be hundred years from now when someone is trying to find out what was like in a hundred years ago. The threat to whorld peace today is not from Communist China but is from the ex-colonial white powers, this including the Japs from the Far East. The reason is these powers have had the sweetness of colonialism in the past. Afterall America's prosperity is noless in depending on the blood, sweats and tears of the black Negros. The prosperity of Europe is tatally plundered from the colonies around the world. Even from the profit of selling opium to poison the people. The Japs had seen that colonialism has prospererd Europe and they tried to colonised the East and finally got burnt and now is a vassal of America.(In Chinese it means slaves of no sovereign nation.) During the cold-war there was the world Communist block to prevent them to overun the but now there is one really can stop them, so they are up to their mischief again trying to stir up all kind of troubles around the globe. 1400hrs. I am sick tired of the American election. I hope a riot will break out on the acquital of the police offices who killed the black bridgegroom. So we can see how the US police quell the crowd. 28th.Apr.08.(Mon.) 0950hrs. I am really sick with the American election "wayang". Whoever become the president it will be sorry for everyone. It will definitely be no happy message. Now that the free-Tebat episode has come to an end with disateroud failure, it show that how stupid these bright people can be as to pick this issue to disrupt the Olympics. 29th.Apr.08.(Tue.) 0645hrs. What a pleasant sight of the Olympic torch relay in Pyongyang, North Korea compared to the scene seen in Londan, Germany, France and Japan. What a chaotic scenario it was. That is the difference between a well disciplined civilise society and an animalistic society.(In Malay, kurang hajar.) 1853hr. Brovo! Nepal sent back a US man for having a Tebatan flag in his pack on the way to the Himalaya peak where the Olympic torch would be. That is the only way to keep the torch relay going on smoothly. 30th.Apr.08.(Wed.) 1149hrs. It is heartening after a long observation to note that the English educated Malaysians irrespective of racial origin are not swallowing Western media reports wholesales. The case in point is the Olympic torch relay and the Tebatan riot incidents. Fifty years ago, the whitemen were rich enough to fly here and there and they were the only people who could write English news items and articles to be published in the Eglish newspapers. The English newspapers were also controlled by the whitemen but now it is just the oppsite. The ordinary asians and the English educated asian journalists can fly to anywhere to see for themselves and write news item and articles for publication in the English newspapers. In short the whitemen now-a-days just cannot bull-shit like before. 1st.May.08.(Thu.) 0500hrs. Will be bringing two aid-conditioners to be fixed in Alice's house in Melaka, so that whenever we go to Melaka we will be able to sleep in air-coned room. When watching the WW2 documentary film I felt gleeful when I saw the allied planes carried out the bombing of the German cities, but now I feel hatred towards the US when I saw the craters caused by the US bombing in Vietnam It was pleasant to see the GI's in the film but now the Gl's look like a bunch of marauders in Iraq. They look cruel and full of hatred in their armoured vehicles. They are like the Japs during the WW2. When one Jap's solder was killed they would massacre the whole village but now the Americans will instead flatten the whole village by bombing. Oh! ya! in WW2 they were the liberators but now they are the invaders and murderers of women and children. Reached home from Melaka at bout 1930hrs. The highway was jammed with vehicles. 2nd.May.08.(Fri.) 0725hrs. While in Melaka Alice took us to a Nyonya's place where Nyonya delicacies like 'kuabelanda(love letters in roll form), kuabaulu and acha so on and so forth. This reminded me of the old days when I was staying with my grandpa time. At that time I was a grandson and now I am a grand father of five children from my own son and a grandson from my daughter's side. I therefore have come to a full circle of human life. If you ask me as to whether I would like to be born again, I would tell you a thousand No! 3rd.May.08.(Sat.) 1820hrs. Since I have come through a full circle of human life, thus I am quite qualified to write something about nature of 'MAN'. Once I flipped through the Britainica encyclopedia I came aross a Russian philosopher who described man as worthless, weak and rebellious(I forgot one more item). Well, I will conclusively say that MAN IS BASICALLY A PEST. Today, in the Chinese newspaper a mother and a woman appeal to the Ah Long to go the son/husband for money if he borrowed from them(Ah Longs) but don't come to them for money. I told my friend about the story and I told him that if this case happens to me I would ask the Ah Long to hire a hitman to finish him off on my account. Most of the men who borrowed money from Ah Long is for gambling, not for anything else. 4th.May.08.(Sun.)2140hrs. Spent the morning part of the day strolling town. Slept a while and then went to the Association for the weekily tea. The Olympic torch is in Chinese soil now. Like one of the onlookers says,that the Chinese people and the Chinese government will not allow the disturbances taken place in the foreigh countries to take place in China itself. 5th.May.08.(Mon.) 1430hrs. The weather is very pleasant this morning, cool and bright. And also the world is very much peaceful not much reports on killing in Iraq, Afgan and African continent. 6th.May.08.(Tue.) 1900hrs. Nothing to report today. Everything seems to be OK up to this time. Typhoon killed 100 over thousand people in Burma. The boring American election campaign is still going on. In Malaysia everything is as normal. 7th.May.08.(Wed.) 1055hrs. Went to the National Library yesterday and stayed there for about two hours. There was no much change except the new computer section where we can serve the net and enjoy some other services which I am not familiar with. I will spend more time in there since I am so free now. I renewed my membership after four years lapse. According to the news reports, the Western powers are very gleeful now that the Cubans are allowed to own personal computers and to serve the internet. The westerners always have this idea that the computers can turn people towards their side by getting their propaganda by surfing the internet. As for me it is just the opposite, the internet had converted me fully to Chairman's thought because the internet allows me to learn what is MZT's thought. Before I only learned through reading a bit here and there.So you see this internet thing is a double edged sward really. 8th.May.08.(Fri.)0725hrs. How gleeful the Western correspondents had been these few days, the Burmese typhoon disaster had given them so much capital to critise and condemn. The Iraqi war had caused more death and destruction but the Western press had nothing to say at all. I am happy to learn that the Olympic torch had sucessfuly reached the Qomolangma peak. To fulfill the task aimed for under criticisms, condamnations and disruption is more glorious than rebutting them in words. That is how China attain from achievements to achievemnts since Chairman Mao declared the formation of New China on lst.Oct.l949 Let us not to believe what the white shallow minded so-called writers tell us the stories. They are just bull sitting for a small fees. 9th.May.08.(Sat.)0940hrs. I think it is very wise of Burmese govt. not allowing foreigh aid workers into the country. Those white snakes will creat more troubles than helping. The foreign writers and photographers are busy writing miserable stories for world consumption and the photographers snapping pictures of begging children, crying wormen and dead bodies to show the world in the exhibitions around the world and be awarded with all kinds of prizes and titles. The BBC office in Babdag was hit by the militant rocket. You don't expect me to say that fortunately no one was killed. 10th.May.08.(Sun.) 0825hrs. Mum's 70th. birthday party went off pleasantly. Everyone was happy particularly with Lip Wern who ran all over the hall, singing with the mike etc. It was a memorable night. 12th.May.08.(Mon.) 1840hrs. The US and UK govts. are very very very anxious to so-called help Myanma with materil relief espcially with their experts. During the cold war time I would believe that they were really kind but now I would be very careful with their infiltration. They are fishing in the stirring waters man! Let us see what is to happen in the following days. Will they succeed with their ulterior intention or the Maynma govt. succeed in stopping them? The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. is being establised in Shanghai today hoping that one day is to become the rival of Airbus and Boeing. I write this down, so that one day if anyone is to read this will know how long the Chinese take to grasp the capability to manufacture the big aeroplane. For the Chinese is famous for their completing a task with unexpected speed which make their adversaries gasping with awe. 13th.May.08.(Tue.)1350hrs. The BBC site is asking "why the Burmese generals deported BBC reporters", I can answer that question for the Burmeses generals. What are the BBC reporters,(for that matter), what are all the foreign reporters there for besides busying themselves with the miserable stories for their newspapers to make money. 14th.May.08.(Wed.) 1000hrs. Went to the garden for monrning exercise. Lately I did not go there because I do the morning exercise at home and to Titiwangsa for evening walk and secondly I wanted to avoid being caught up with traffic jam at the Batu Lima village traffic light. Thirdly I was lazy to drive. Last time I used to walk in the morning but now I am scared to walk in the morning because a lot of the morning walkers had been killed because people now-a-days like to kill people for the pleasure of it. 15th.May.08.(Thu.) 1415hrs. The foreign press do not have a lot of bad news from the Chinese earth quake instead they say that because the Chinese want to save face due to the Olmpic that they do a good job in the rescue operation. They don't want to admit that the Chinese are as good as they are now. 16th.May.08.(Fri.) 1840hrs. My world today. The Chinese is still spare no effort to help the earthquake victims. The task is enormaus but tried very hard with the modern equipment. The Burmese is also helping their Cyclone Nargis victims under western press's criticisms and condemnations for refusing to allow the foreign aid workers in, in particular the US military personnel. The CNN has some sort of apologised for the Jack Cafferty's remarks about the Chinese being goons etc. I do not appreciate it at all. They are good at purposely humiliating you by saying what they wanted to say and then apologise grudginly. Well, that is my day today. I am happy after saying what I wanted to say. 18th.May.08.(Sun.) 0930hrs. Yesteray,there was nothing significant event to write about. The earthquake in China. The Burmese cyclone Nargis. The US election stuff. That's about all. This morning I am supposed to attend the veteran annual meeting at Bellamy Road. It is scheduled to start at 0830hrs. I think it is too early to start anything at that hour on a Sunday morning, so I absented myself. Afterall there is nothing happening after 30 years of retirement from the army except the pension. The veteran association is doing nothing for the members as far as I am concerned. The Malay members are busy asking for hawker licences and land etc. but how successful they are I am not sure. Those members with plenty of children may get some financial assistance. Other than that there is absolutely no activities that benefit the members in general. My GAO clansman association is more interesting. Even the Selangor Senior Citisen Association is laousy. After collecting the entrance fees, that's it, nothing happen after that. Although a computer class is being set up, then the frequent break down and the instructor spends too much time on his hand-phone make it unpleasant to continue. It is reported that one western report complain that the reporter was not allowed into the earthquake area immediately after it happened and thereby assused the Chinese govt. is not practicing "freedam of press". What, which is more important,to allow the reporter to go in first or to allow the rescuers first? As far as I know the western reporter likes to know how many Chinese killed and how bad is the damadge so that he can send the news back quickly to be the first paper to publish the news, so that his paper can make a lot money. They are just like the vultures waiting for smelly corps. 20th.May.08.(Tue.) Yesterday was Wesak day a public holiday. Went for morning walk and stay home for the whole day. We spent for about three hours in one Utama shopping complex on Saturday morning part of the day so it was a tiring day. In the evening news, it was reported that the ex-prime minister Tun Dr. Marhatar had voluntarily quit UMNO. He accused that UMNO has lost the support of the Malays because UMNO is weak and not fighting for the Malays. He blamed the present President of UMNO is the main reason for it. Well, as far as I am concerned UMNO has been rotting within itself long before this. The second item need writting about is the concerns for the victims of the Cyclon Nargis expressed by the Western Powers is so intense, I wonder why they love the Burmese so much? The most spectacular scence is that most of the staff in the so called relief centres are manned by the white men and women and they are makeing all sort of complains. 21st.May.08.(Wed.) So far no mass resignation of UMNO members as exhorted by the Tun Dr.M. At least majority of the members and leaders are supporting the present UMNO President-Pak Lah. 22nd.May.08.(Thu.) 1845hrs. Strangely enough there seem to be no big events happening to-day. Quiet in all fronts. Nobody is porking nobody. Is it the lull before the storm? China is recovering from the earthquake. (I think it is a great dispointment to the Western media who expected to have a lot of negative stories to write about.)I hope the Chinese all over the world will be more cohesive and more progressive. 24th.May.08.(Sat.) 1750hrs. Nothing to report, the same old thing. My daily life is just as happy as ever. This morning went to the Lip Wern's school to see him taking part in sports. After two years in school he seems to know what he is expected to do. The last sport day he seemed to just follow what he boy in front of him without knowing what was happening. 27th.May.08.(Tue.) 0750hrs. I think I want to stop writing about the Western rporters' reports on certain subjects and the Western media because it will be an endless process and it is waste of time and spoil my mood. It is suffice to say that the Westerners has no good things for anybody, they are out to stir trouble for their own benefit. Their media is a kind of weapon to usurp the peace of the world and attack in all fronts, culturally, economically, militarily and politically and the ultimation is the extermination of your race like what they have done to the Red Indians. I want to keep this as a historical record of event in my life that is the best film that had been produced in America is the plane that smashed into the Worl Trade Centre in NY. The joy of seeing it is overwhelming for words to describe. 29th.May.08.(Thu.)2045hrs. Came back from Fraser Hills about one hour ago. Passed a night there, enjoyed the quietness and the fresh sir and the cool breeze. Internet is available there now if we bring our own lap-top both in Pine resort and the Silver Park. Currently the massive renovation is being carried out. It is estimated that it be completed by Dec. of 2008. 30th.May.08.(Fri.) 0855hrs. It is a bright and cool morning after a cloudy and raining yesterday. If the weather is always like this then Malay Penensular would be a dieal place to live in besides its political and racial considerations. In the last four or five days I have had gout on my right ankle and purge on last two days, so I felt weak and unhappy. Went to the Govt. clinic but they gave me only pain killer which did not help then I went to see Dr. Lian who gave me a jab, pills for gout and pain killer that did it. 2nd.Jun.08.(Mon.) 0825hrs. No significant events that affect my personal life to write about. An uneventful Saturday passed by. Yesterday, a Sundaym, went to the Assn. for parents day celebration. It was a pleasant do. We had a lot of tip-bits to eat and children programmes to enjoy. At eight o'clock night went to the "P4D1 JOINT MANAGEMENT BODY" meeting. This body is being formed to look after our own block os building instead of the Developer of the estate. Otherwise life is pleasant. 7th.Jun.08.(Sat.) 1250hrs. Weithout realising it four days has elapsed. This is because I do not intend to be critical with anything. I just don't care. There are so many cronic things happening everyday so why bother, as long as I am ok why bother?! My daily life goes on as normal. Eat, sleep, exercise,surfing the net, read the English and Chinese newspapers plus the David Copperfield.
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badarticleerror Talk	9th.Sep.08.(Tue.) 1650hr. Yahoo reports that the US is planning to sell US7bil dollars worth of weapons to UAE for defence of course but defend from who. If Russia or China selling weapons to someone, it must be for aggression. I put this down because if someone happens to read this by accident in many many years to come, then it will be a piece of history. Took Rapid bus No. U80 to Shah Alam for a tour. Shah Alam is really a modern city. It is well planed. It is well maintained plus the residents there are Malays. They are mostly wage earners and therefore more discipline. To me the Chinese are rowdy and indiscipline. 10th.Sep.08.(Wed.) 21oohrs. Went to see Dr. Lian for gaout. Feeling painful in my sole. Take precaution before it swell. Saw Dr.Yip for the molar filling, because it hurt whenever I take hot drink. It turned out to be ok for time being. Spent the rest of the day at home except going for evening walk in the park. 11th.Sep.08.(Thu.) 0715hrs. It rain for about fifteen minutes and that make the morning cool and hope that the whole day will be cool too. Since last year the weather has been very good that is it does not make us feel like running away to Fraser Hills for cool air. It rains regularly after a few days of dry spell. Besides the weather I am just wondering as to what I should write about. Well,since it diary, it just be all about my daily life include my inner thoughts. I realised that I had been dwelling on the current affairs too much because I was angry with the foreigh reports on the Olympics etc. Now the Dalai Lama had been dumped aside as his usefullness had been exhausted. To begin with, at the age of 76 I really feel that I have entered into the real old age territory. I move slower, my right hand is shaky(find it difficult to write steadily). Eyesight is still good, teeth is about seventy per cent good. Digestion is weak, cannot eat full meal, everthing must be in small propotion. In fact it is more comfortable if the stomach is in empty state. No problem in driving, in fact I like to drive long distance sight seeing. Bodily in perfect condition with no pain in whatever part. Psychologically, don't like to meet and talk to people, fed up with people. 12th.Sep.08. (Fri.) 1330Hrs. Last night did not sleep very well due to stomcah not feeling well. The Indian curry may be the cause but lately I cannot take solid food at night. The digestive system does not function as well as before. Strong wind started to blow at about 2pm and followed with rain but not heavy. It lasted up to about five this morning. This make the day not hot and cloudy. Till now I still haven't had my morning shower otherwise we would rush for a showver immediately coming out of bed. I had a purge in the morning and so I had a small bowl of porridge for lunch. I am feeling quite well now. It looks like I have to be very careful with the amount of food intake I take otherwise my life will be very unpleasant. 15th.Sep.08.(Mon.) 0825hrs. Went to Malacca on Saturday afternoon and spent a night in Alice's place in order to attend Kevin's wedding dinner on Sunday night. Went to Dataran Palawan for a strall and bought a bateck shirt. Malacca is a heritage city depicting Malacca's historical relics as a gateway to the Western influence. Of course as usual the Chinese wedding dinners started serving food one and a half hours later than the time stated in the invitaion card. Noisy with singing and the record musics. Take about two to two and a half hours to finish the whole courses of dinner. Arrived KL at about l.30am. Went to bed at 3am as we had to go to SS's house to get the door key because mum left the keys to the maid who was deposited in SS's house while we were away. Woke up at 5am as usual for Monday morning's routine. 16th.Sep.08.(Tue.) 1830hrs. Went for a morning walk, a loop via the Bt.Lima railway station. Stayed home for the rest of the day. Received an e-mail from Faith,she can really write well grammatically and systematically. Replied and told her about it. 18th.Sep.08 (Thu.) 1350hrs. Yesterday was a routine day. No event worthy of recording. Today, I just came back from the national gallery. It is nice to be there.There, you got all the main stream newspapers, the Bahasa ones, the English ones, the Chinese one and the Tamil one ,so there shouldn't be any complain. I am real glad to learn that there is chaos in the US financial system. The bankcrupt of banks and other financial institutions. Finally the magic of creating something out of nothing is dome. Their financial experts were marvellous and now the day of reckoning has come to pass, they are left in the lurch. 19th.Sep.08 (Fri.) 2045hrs. In the morning went to the Registrar of Society to take back the (draft) amended constitution of GAO association for correction on the layout and spelling errors etc. Sent it to the typist for retype. Lip Wern came to the house at about six o'clock, went straight away to the park up to 7.30 pm. After dinner,television and played around up to nine o'clock when they went home. That is it, called a day. Oh yes before I go off, the internet says that the US gov. has come up with a plan to resure the country's financial crisis. No details have yet been announced. I hope they just don't just print more paper money to lend it to the banks to settle their debts. One more incident need to be recorded is the tainted milk power that endanger the lives of babies in China. I don't understand how come the Chinese are so naive as to do such a heinous thing after so many instances of dishonet acts. It is a disgrace to the Chinese. 20th.Sep.08.(Sat.)0030hrs. Slept the whole day and the body was feeling weak. In the evening part I felt better and went for evening walk at 1800hrs and came back at 1930hrs. Went a big round just to make myself really tired. Right now I am feeling excellent. 22nd.Sep.08.(Mon.) 1245hrs. Went to Klang to get the signature of the president of the GAO association on the revised constitution to be submited for approval from the society registerar. It was returned for re-type for some errors. It had been waiting for approval for over a year now and it had been returned for re-typing two or three times. Four of us Lian Teh(secretary),Thong Peng (treasurer),wife and myself were treated to a dinner in the restaurant.(Last night-Sunday night). It is reported this morning that the tainted milk powder had caused four deaths and about over 12 thousand sick. The incident had made me to think that after all the Chinese are not too far from what the white men had said about the Chinese. It is heartless of them to do such a thing to harm the children. 23rd.Sep.08.(Tue.) 0920hrs. The Chinese not only kill theiir own babies, they are killing themselves as well because people are no more trusting the safety of the their food stuff and other goods made in China. It is reported this morning that the head of the product quality control ministry had resigned. His predecessor was executed for taking bribe for non-norish milk powder that sickened babies. 25th.Sep.08.(Thu.) 1000hrs. There were nothing to write about yesterday. Feel lazy to write anything. There is nothing much to write about myself. Life is just very normal. But there are a lot of stories going around, like the American financial crisis, the Chinese tainted milk powder and the forthcoming launching of the Chinese space craft etc. Hope that the launch will be successful otherwise it will be a laughing stock. The tainted milk powder has confirmed my belief that the Chinese is a dishonet race in general. 27th.Sep.08.(Sat.) 2330hrs. Yesterday was a normal Friday. Went to Selangor club for dinner because Eik Mai had not spent up to her quota so she took us there for dinner. One thing I must put down in writing is that the beef steak and other food items served were lousy and obviously the waiters and waitress are not properly trained. Stayed at home the whole day except going to Lake Garden for evening walk. It was a very pleasant walk. The Chinese had launched three spacemen into space and one of them had appeared outside of the space capsul for a short while. I would be very happy if not for the tainted milk powder incident. I always wonder how come the Chinese can be so heartless as to knowingly poisoning people. 28th.Sep.08.(Sun.) 1810hrs. Stayed at home until went to the Gao assn. for committee meeting to discuss the coming 25th. year annual lunch and going to S'pore for the global clansman meeting to be held on 14th.-16th. of Nov. The 25th. annual lunch is to be held on the 30th. Nov. 08. The weather for now is cloudy and it drizzle intermittenly. So we don't go for evening walk. It look like we are going to idle at home for the whole evening. The Chinese Shenzhou 7 had returned safely. According to the CNN, it is nothing much of an achievement. 30th.Sep.08.(Tue.) 1843hrs. Today is Hari Raya eve, most of the Malay folks have 'balek kampong' and the non-muslims have gone on holiday one way or the other. The city is quieter. We went to buy Chinese tea from the usual tea merchant and also intended to see Heng Jin because we haven't seen him for quite sometime. In the Jane's information group conference it is stated that the Chinese is morderning its navy, air force and land forces and also developing new missiles etc. Why not? China had been ravaged and plundered by the western powers for a hundred years because she was weak. In fact the whole world had been done thoroughly by the western powders for hundred of years. So the wheel of fortune is to complete its full circle. 1st.Oct.08.(Wed.) 2145hrs. Today is the Hari Raya,went to IKEA and CURVE just to look see, to past time. Had a nap, hang around at home. 3rd.Oct.08. (Fri.) 0815hrs. Went for morning walking after two days of laziness and hamperred by rain. Yesterday evening went to see Lip Wern swimming in Damansara Selangor Club. Had dinner there and the rain stopped us from evening walk. I am OK friends but the world is in turmoil. The US is enjoying the presidential election and their financial crisis. The heartless Chinese is having the tainted milk powder problem and according to the internet report this morning that Russia is warning Ukrian not to arm Georgia. So everybody is having problems of their own, so that nobody has the time to disburb other people. Agreed, the Chinese are dumb, they don't have the system of checking food safety but why the credit fiasco can happen in US since they are so smart? If I am not mistaken, the banks in US give loans to people whom they know cannot afford pay back the loans and strangely enought those people who knowingly that they cannot afford to pay back the loans still apply for loans to buy houses, cars etc.etc.. So it is strange that this financial crisis crop up? 4th.Oct.08. (Sat.) 0810hrs. Boring morning. Got up at 5.30am, spent about 45mins boiling water, making tea, cooked rice(maid had gone to SS's house to help as she is inviting her friends for lunch). Did my morning exercise for about 45mins. Serf the net. The world seems to be more peaceful now with the normal stuff like the US presidential election (which has been going on for months, wasting time and money), the bailing out of the financial crisis and the Chinese tainted milk powder(which have affected my sysmpaty to the Chinese people until now, I think they are very unethical and dispicable). 5th.Oct.08.(Sun.) 1825hrs. Dull and quiet Sunday. Went to eat wanton mee at Jln. Mahameru and spent the morning at Titiwangso garden reading newspapers. Went to the GAO assn. for tea at 3pm. until 4.30pm. The time now is 2335hrs. Learnt from the internet that the banks in EU are also in crisis, they call it 'meltdown' instead bankrupt and they need to be bailout. The second item that interest me is that the Dalai Lamah is go for medical check, that rascal is only 73 years old. Good nite. 6th.Oct.08.(Mon.) 1250hrs. Now the financial cancer has come to EU, the gang of four (Brit.,France,Germany and Italy) is putting their heads togather trying to solve the problem. Now they are experiencing the failour of their magical economic formula. During the colonial era any formula spurt out by them would have been magical. The morning is cool and cloudy. It is quite comfortable. 7th.Oct.08.(Tue.) 2120hrs. Went for morning walk and stayed home until 12pm proceed to see eye doctor in University Hospital in P.J. Finished the check-up at about 4pm. The financial tsunami is raging on. The newspapers, TV reports are nothing else but share market and all the economic fallouts. 9th.Oct.08.(Thu.) 0635hrs. Yesterday was a normal happy day for me but in the world at large was, in US they are waiting to see the developement of the $700 bil. salvage package, in EU the heads of states(the gang of four)are having meetings to iron out a plan to save the collapse of their banks, in Malaysia we are waiting the announcement of the Prime Minister as to whether he will be contesting the UMNO presidency in the forcoming March UMNO election. Around Asia the stock market index fell dramatically. Today (time not sure)66years ago a boy by the name of Koh Kim Loci was born. So today is supposed to be my happy birthday but to me I wished I was not born. For what? To make the crowd. 10th.Oct.08.(Fri.) 0700hrs. Hi good morning. It is a cool pleasant morning. The internet tells me that the financial crisis in US and EU is still bad. Dalai Lama is hospitalised. The drone has killed 8 more Afghans and it appeared that lately the unmanned planes have killed a lot of people in that region. The killing field is now has moved to Afghan and Pakistan region. Nobody is bothered to saying rorry or anything like that. This is not the isolated incident. 12th.Oct.08.(Sun.) 2300hrs. Yesterday we spent more or less the whole day on Jainab birthday party in a hotel in PJ. At the end of it we were so tired. So we went to bed at about 9.30pm. Right now we just came back from a dinner party hosted by Jainab and her husband in a restaurant. We rested during the day. The world at large is peaceful as the financial storm is raging on. Every nation is busy in sorting out their financial problem. 14th.Oct.08.(Tue.) 0710hrs. Yesterday, took Rapid bus no. 88 went to Kota Damansara and back just to pass time. It was fun and tedious trip. Went to bed early and slept very soundly. Surfed the net after the usual morning exercise, found nothing interesting. The West is too busy with their economic troubles so they don't have the time and mood to creat troubles for others. 16th.Oct.08.(Thu.) 1345hrs. Yesterday spent the whole morning with the dentist Dr.Yip on my tooth ache and the planting of new tooth on the right side of my jaw as the left jaw had been overused. He spent a lot of time in explaining the process of the planting and the method of payment etc. because it costs about five thousand ringgits. The moment I told him that I would consider the proposal as it involves so much money and presently what I want him to do my filling done quickly he stopped short and asked to fix the appointment with the female clerk. In the evening attended the Housing Block Joint Committee meeting because the company that is engaged to carry out the normal manageent of the property had not carried the duties properly resulting that the electricity supply is being cut off so the common area of the property is in darkness. It was decided that a meeting with the management company be held on Friday at 8pm. to iron out the problems. This morning the sky is cloudy and threatening to rain, so I decided to stay home. Hope that this evening will be rain free so that we(my wife and I)can go for the evening walk. By the way according to the internet reports the Western World is still gripped with the stock market down-turn. 18th.Oct.08.(Sat.) 1620hrs. Yesterday(Fri.) was a quiet day for me. Due to rain there was no evening walk. This morning went to LW's concert in the kindergarten. It was quite fun seeing the children acting. The theme of the concert is mainly on environment protection. Worthy of note is we went for a bowl of mee in a coffee shop in SEA Park for breakffast and it is shocking to find that the coffee shop (the traditional Chinese type) was unkempt and the cost is high. We would imagine that the people living in PJ is of high standard. 19th.Oct.08.(Sun.) 2035hrs. I have been alone for the chole day, mum had gone to Singapore totoise island. It is a festival for some form of god in the island. Left the house for a bowl of mee at Tiong Shing road for breakfirst. Went straight to Gao assn. after reading newspapers in lake Titiwangsa at about two o'clock and remained there up to nearly 5pm. Slept for about one hour, did some exercise, watched TV news right up to now. Had a bowl of rice for dinner that is all. Mum is on the way home now. It rained on and off since 6pm. and is still drizzelling right now. 20th.Oct.08.(Mon.) 2130hrs. The morning was but I was not fine because I had stomach ache and a purge. I think I took dinner a bit late last night and the left over was a bit too old about two days old kept in the frig. So stayed at home for the whole day but went for an evening walk for one solid hour. It is raining now. The Western wold is facing economic problem, a very grave problem so the world is relatively quiet. 21st.Oct.08.(Tue.) 2025hrs. It has been raining since 2pm. It was fine in the morning. No activities for me, copletely resting the whole day. The world seems to be standing still because the heads of major developed counrties are sickened with the economic troubles. The trouble making NGO's are extremely docile because of possible lack of funds to be active. So nobody sees the Dalai Lama, An Sun Su Chi is forgotten and the anti-govt.demonstraion in Thailand is not getting support from the foreigh NGO's. They would have been very busy with this kind of hu-ha. 22nd.Oct.08.(Wed.) 1815hrs. The morning part of the day was very nice, cool, breezy and not sunny. But it started to rain at 4pm. by now it had stopped. Read newspapers and surfed the net. Everything seems to be peaceful. 23rd.Oct.08.(Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to see Heng Jin with Thong Peng to collect US$200.00 for the registration fees for GAO assn. meeting in Singapore on the 15th.,16th. of Noc.08. He will go with his son Peng Guan. After that we went to Thong Sin road for a bowl of Yun Dan mee at the corner coffee shop. Napped and surfed the net. Mum suggested that we go to Titiwangsa for a walk after dinner. I agreed although I had my morning walk. Mum had not been walking for quite sometime because of the rain. The world seems to be peaceful without any big event happening. All the world rascals are bogged down by the economic problems. Actually the cause of the trouble is simply because those economic experts created some certificates and named them with flowerly names and started trading on them for profit passing from one hand to another with borrowed money. When the time come for the payment of the borrowed money, they find that those papers are worthless and no more money to be borrowed. The banks gone bust. 30th.Oct.08. (Thu.) 0750hrs. Strange, all the previous entries from 16th. of Sep. to 28th. of Oct. 08 had disappeared. Yesterday spent the whole morning with the dentist in Subang accompanied by EM. After the dentist we went to One Pertama to buy bus tickets to Singapore for the GAO assn. celebration on the 15th. and 16th. of Oct.08. In the afternoon went to the Registra of Society to verify the approval of the change of assn. constitution. Feeling lazy and slept for two hours from 4pm. to 6pm. 1st.Nov.08.(Sat.) 0707hrs. When 'help' become interferrence. This is a long story for me to write and I don't know how to write it to express my inner feeling. The happening made me very angry, sad and a lot of other feelings. I only can put down the main point of it that is about the gathering of GAO assn. in Singapore. About the purchase of bus tickets for my fellow clan members. My daughter's reminding of getting back the payment and my wife's opinions of my fellow members,upset me for the whole night. The only person I blame is myself. The reason is I just cannot afford to leave everybody to be myself. At this hour (1810hrs), I am still cannot get over my mood over the incident last night. From now on I will write bit by bit about my wife as to what kind of a woman she is according to my understand of her. She cannot read or write eighter in Chinese or English and she is very lazy in learning. She was given the opportunity of learning English when we were just newly married when she stayed with my father in Melaka while I was away with the army. The teacher was an Indian English teacher liveing next door to my father's house. She stopped learning with no apparant reason. She speak loudly and very much like to bud in while other people still talking because she does not listen what other people talk while she has a lot of things in her mind to tell others. Never never never admit any errors, mistakes wrong reasons etc. always argue to the end. Like to linger around wasting time. Like diamonds and jellery stuff. Like to spend time plenty plenty plenty of it on shopping. Like to chit chap with people on any mundane subjects (in short gossipping stuff). 2nd.Nov.08.(Sun.) 1400hrs. The weather in the morning is pleasant with drizzling from midnight ending at about 6am. I just cannot get over my sore mood. Will stay at home until 3pm.,then I will go to the assn. for tea and evening walk. No heart to write anything else. 4th.Nov.08.(Tue.) 2150hrs. Yesterday, spent the whole day visiting assn. members asking them to attend the anniversary lunch function and ask them to donate to the assn. fund. Today, in the morning part went to the Lake Garden to while away the time. Had a nap and then went for evening walk along the railway line to see how the new track is getting on. Today is also American election day. Read an artical about the Obama's threat on changing China if he is elected President of USA. I remember the same was also said by the small Bush before but China is still the same while he is leaving office. I love to see how the new president of USA change China. 6th.Nov.08.(Thu.) 0705hrs. Yesterday, took Lip Wern to the Science Centre and spent the whole morning up to nearly 3pm.. Reached home at about 4pm. and nabbed up to 5.30pm. Learnt that Obama was elected to be the 44th president of USA. Finnally the Americans have learnt from the Chinese great leader and the Chief Engineer of modern China (Teng Siow Ping) that it does not matter whether it is a BLACK or WHITE cat as long as it is clever to catch mice is a good cat. So let us see what the USA black cat can do for the Americans. This morning went to the GAO assn. with Thong Peng and stayed there up to lunch time. Came back as normal had lunch and a nab up to 4.30pm. The rain prevented us fro going for a walk in the park. 8th.Nov.08. (Sat.) 0735hrs. Yesterday,nothing to report. Stayed at home the whole day except for the one hour evening walk along the railway track. The progress on the double electric track is going on smoothly. This morning is fine and cool. It is a perfect weather.There was no rain in yesterday evening and the night was warm needing airconditioning to sleep. The Western powders are busying with their economic problems and so the world is very much quieter. There is no demonstrations anyway even in Bangkok is quiet. Nobody is demonstrating and killing themselves for democracy etc. 9th.Nov.08.(Sun.) 2250hrs. Nothing to report for morning part of the day. Read newspaers and rested until tea time at the association. Then SS's family came for a crab dinner and stayed until 2000hrs. It had been very quiet. 10th.Nov.08. (Mon.) 2245hrs. Went to roam about Brickfield with nothing to do. The whole world is very very peaceful. The Wester powers are bogged down by their economic problems and they are really busy handling the crisis. In the home front, UMNO is busy with their own party election. The political situation is quiet now until the party election,depending who become the PM. No matter who become the prime minister the polical scenario will definitely be different from the past before the political sunamie. 12th.Nov.08.(Wed.) 1730hrs. Yesterday stayed at home for the whole day except went to Titiwangsa for a walk in the night at about nine thirty pm after Eik Mai went home after the music class. Because we are going to Singapore for the GAO assn. meeting on Friday morning, so she is replacing the classes. This morning sent the car for servicing at Subang and waited there until its completion and reached home about 12pm.. Because Peter recommended the machenic to us so we send our vehicles there for repair and servicing. Napped from 3.30pm and now I am here writing. It is raining quite heavily now and so it looks like we won't be going for a walk. Strange it is very quiet all over the world, there is no rioting, burning of vehicles in the streets, demonstrations for deocracy just because of the global economic crises? 13th.Nov.08.(Thu.) 2232hrs. Went to taste the food for the lunch for the forthcoming GAO assn. do. Other than that there is nothing much to write about. At night went to the Joint Committee meeting at eight to about ten. There is nothing much to talk about except people just refuse to pay the maintenance fees etc. Tomorrow we will be going to Singapore for the world GAO assn. meeting. There is nothing much to do actually except just to get together. Of course there will be lectures and exchanging of mementos. Anyway it will be fun to hear stories from other lands. 18th.Nov.08.(Tue.) Went to Singapore by bus to attend the GAO assn. convention for two days, Saturday and Sunday. Caught the bus from Singapore to KL at 1430hrs and arrived at 7.30pm. last night. The convention was fun and tiring. At lot of reports from various assn. from different part of the world. The associations are mainly from Asia. There were about 600 bundred members turned out. The next convention will be held in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand in 2010. We will certainly attend if I live long enough till then. After a night rest, I feel fresh and the morning is equally fine and cool. At about 1200hrs the Alamos tribepeople will be arriving. I would like to see how a crowded family life like. 19th.Nov.08.(Wed.) They are already here. They arrived at about 1500hrs. and one night had gone peacefully. No activity taking place this morning as they claimed being tired. However Aik Siong, his wife and the baby took an hour walk in the Metropolitan park 23th.Nov.08.(Sun.) 0935hrs. Wow, so many days had gone by and yet I did not realise that I had not written anything at all and still thinking that it was just like yesterday.Actually there is nothing much to write about. Everyday is just the same. This morning while surfing the net I came across an article in BBC about Chris. Patten's book. After failing to creat troubles for China during his tenur as the last governor of Hong Kong and now he has turned into a confused fortune teller telling all kinds of misfortunes for China and other Asian countries. This is not an unfamiliar habit of the Western bumbs. If they had been right, China had not been in existence today. When I was young during the cold war era I had read thousands and thousands of this kind of articles and books and yet China is growing ever stronger. The westerners are nothing but a bunch of grandmas and sour grapers. If democrycy means overturning and burning of buses, cars and damaging public propertyies then good luck to you "Democracy". 24th. Nov.08. (Mon.) 1315hrs. Read the Star and Nanyang and also surfed the Yahoo,BBC,CNN in the early part of the morning. Surfed the Asian sites after 1000hrs or later because by then only people would be working. The Americans do the spending and live luxuriously and thus bankrupt their banks and they are now asking the world to pay for it. That is what happening in the G20 meeting in Washinton. The most amazing thing to me is that since Aerica has so many smart economists telling people how to manage their money and expounded many many economic systems and yet they cannot solve their own economic problems. 27th.Nov.08.(Thu.) 1720hrs. It is raining heavily outside. Yesterday we were caught in the rain when we went to Titiwangsa for evening walk. Eik Hong and Foo Chai were sock to the skin. Luckily we went to the shed a step faster otherwise the small fellow would be caught in the rain as well. There was nothing much to write about. This morning we went to Puspacom to have the school bus for fitness testing. It failed due to faulty breaks and excessive smoke. So we have to go again. 28th.Nov.08.(Fri.) 1630hrs. The sky outside is darkening. Luckily went for morning walk at 7am. If it does not rain I will be going to the Lake Garden for a leisurely walk. The Indian govt. still have not settled the Mumbai attack. Some people are still held hostage. The rioters in Bangkok are still seiging the airport and many Malaysian and Singapore tourists are still stranded in the airport 2nd.Dec.08. (Tue.) 1835hrs. Again three days had gone by without me realising it. Saturday night attended the Chinese Assembly Hall 85th. anniversary dinner and on Sunday attended my own GAO association 25th anniversay lunch. Monday(lst. Dec.) nothing special happening so no writing. Small Bush before relinguishing his presidency said that he regretted that he started the Iraqi war on the belief that the Iraqi really owned the WMD. Well I had prophesied well before the war while people were talking as to whether America would attack Iraq or not, my answer was always affiramative that Small Bush would bang Saddam Hussen whether he really possessed the WMD or not because small Bush wanted to fulfill his father's wishes to finish off Sadam. Unfortunate for Sadam small Bush was put two terms into the White House. It does not matter now, ten of thousands of Iraqis had died and the country is in ruin as intended to. A purpose had been served. Who is to blame?! 5th.Dec.08.(Fri.) 1225hrs. The fixed deposit annual saving rate has been cut from 4% to 3.5% due to recession. As far as I knowe this is to make people to spend but not to save to stiulate the economy of the country. I don't see the logic in this. Say come to the end of in when I don't have any money, who is to give me. In the West one may have the welfare handout but in the Asian countries there is no such a thing, so what then? I have heard of the economic depression of the l929 and l930 when I was young. It seemed that my father was in ficancial ruin because of it because the rubber price at that time was at its lowest. My father was in the rubber industry so he was badly affected. My father was in the rubber industry for the whole of his life. He only made some money during the Korean War era when the rubber price was at its peak. So he bought some 20 to 30 acres of small holding and lived on it until he passed away in l967. 6th.Dec.08.(Sat.) 1700hrs. The recession is raging on. The price of crude oil is US44.00 per barrel and the palm oil price is also at its lowest. US, Europe and Japan are badly hit with job losses,business bankruptcy. As a onlooker it is a real spectacle. As a pensioner I am only affected by the inflation, that is to say my money power is weakened. Luckily the inflation rate is quite small at the moment. 7th.Dec.08. (Sun.) 1140hrs. Air Siong and his gang had departed for Melaka with mom, eik mai and her husband at about 1100hrs. I volunteer to stay behind. It is so peaceful now. So the French president Sarkozy met the Dalai Lamar ignoring the Chinese warning, the Chinses must teach the kurang haja French a lesson. 8th.Dec.08.(Mon.) 0840hrs. It has been raining since last night, in fact yesterday was cloudy for the whole day and it drizzled intermitently. The yearly north-east monsoon is already here. The whole gang had gone to Melaka and I am all alone at home. How peaceful it is. Now they talk about regreting for going into the Iraqi war based on flawed intelligence. Are you going to believe it?! They had been boasting how efficient their CIA was, they claimed that even Sadam fut in his office they would be able to detect it. If one's memory is good you can still remembers that they could not even wait for the completion of the UN WMD inspector's investigation. 9th.Dec.08.(Tue.) 0750hrs. I am very happy to learn from the internet that the publisher of Chicago Tribune and Los Ageles Times has filed for Chapter ll bankruptcy protection law. I hopr this is the begining of the media sunarmi so that there would be a lot of those rubbish reporters run out of job. Without them snooping around minding people's affairs and spreading rumours and lies on ohter people's countries, the world would be much more peaceful. 10th.Dec.08.(Wed.) 1750hrs. A fine day. Everything is going on nicely. So far I cannot think of anything to write about. China is celebrating their 30th. year of reform. From what I can feel she is doing very fine inspite of interference from the West and their lackey in Asia. It does not matter what form of govt. as long as it can provide the essentials of life for the people and build up the nation, it is a good govt. What I think what China should have now is a good economic policy which can ward off any interferrence from any quarter. 11th.Dec.08.(Thu.) 2130hrs. It is raining now, it started raining since about five o'clock. Tracy and I went to Metropolitan for an evening walk in a drizzle. In the afternoon went to JPJ to renew Poh Poh's bus sekolah driving licence. Other than that there was nothing much happening. The children have gone to antie Sing's place for a night. 14th.Dec.08.(Sun.) 1600hrs. It is raining on and off but not heavily and the sky is gloomly. Nothing much is happening, drove Tracy to the Metropitan park for morning walk that is about all. 16th.Dec.08.(Tue.) 1430hrs. The weather is fine but clouddy, it may rain anytime from now. The whole gang with Poh Poh and the maid have left fo Penang for four days and 3 nights at about 12 o'clock. I am left alone voluntarily. If someone would ask e what I think of the shoe thrower, I would say that he is a real hero without any hesitattion. (If you want to know the full story about the shoe throwing at the US president George Bush, you have to read the story yourself. It is too long for me to write it down here. Lately since the economic surnami, there are a lot of funny funny stories comeing out from the US, like the US $50 billions fraud, banks bankruptcy, credit card companies go down etc.etc. which one would have thought that it cannot happen in US because you believe that they are so efficient. 17th.Dec.08. (Wed.) 1750hrs. It is a fine, cloudy and cool day. Spent the morning rounding the city. Had a nap and now is planning to go for a evening walk at Titiwangso park. 18th.Dec.08.(Thu.) 0400hrs. Got up at 0300hrs, rolled in bed trying to sleep again but failed,so instead of wasting time in bed got up and turned on the computer and surfed the internet. Loh, what I found, I came to know that the Woolworth Stores in London are closing down in Jan. 2009 after operating for 99years. I first came to know about the store when I went to England in 1959 to 1960 for my military training. I heard quite a bit of story of the company and now it is going to close down. The news surprised me a lot. I must thank to the computer and the internet for it bring me a lot of stories to read and thus keep me profitably occupied. This morning I also read about Stanly Morgan's loss, Bernad L. Madoff Investment Securities etc.etc. 19th.Dec.08.(Fri.) 1728hrs. The weather is hot and humid. A perfect normal day for me. The gang has not arrived from Penang yet, they are now in Ipoh and poh poh is going to "ta pau" a beef noodle for me. No news from the internet I think those rascals of the world are busy with their economic problems. Banks are closing down, car factories are closing down also. As a onlooker from the outside it is a kind of fun. 21st.Dec.08.(Sun.) 1440hrs. Yesterday was a normal Saturday. Nothing to report. Today, the weather is fine, hot and humid. Hope that it will rain heavily to wash away all the rubbish and the stagnant water so that the mosquito eggs will not have enough time to hatch. The rain did come in the evening heavily for about fifteen minutes. I hope it did the job of fluching the stagnant water in the empty tins or on the ground. 23rd.Dec.08.(Tue.) 1855hrs. The performence of the computer is very bad in that the connection etc. is slow. It seems that everything we asked for was appearing very slowly, sometimes it won't appear at all. There is nothing much happening so there is nothing much to write about. The economic situation of the world is very bad for those writers to harp on because they involved the smart people in the west. 27th.Dec.08. (Saturday.) 1045hrs. Xmas come and gone. There is nothing special to write about. It seems that the businesses is very badly hit by the economic turmoil. We are now at Fraser Hill Silverpark apartment. We came here yesterday. The weather is cool and pleasant but slightly on the cold side. Whatever it is. it is very pleasant without any crowd. This is the first time I surf the computer here. The connection is OK, it may be due to today is being a Saturday. 31st.Dec.08.(Wed.) 0435hrs. Got up at 0400hrs, could not sleep again. So here I am surfing the internet. I am thankful to the internet because it enables me to pase my time fruitfully. Spent three days up at the Fraser Hill. Acturlly we intended to spent two nights up there and we found that the weather was so nince that we spent one more night. ( We here is referred to Aik Siong's family.) On our way back we went to Rauf and Bentong way. Yesterday 30th. Monday spent the whole morning with the dentist at Parkson, Subang and the cost was RM230.00. Had a nap and went for a walk at Titiwangso in the evening and finally went to mamak restoran at the Gurney Road. The old mamak maken shop that I used to go when I was in the Armed Forces because it is on the way to Mindef. That is how I spent my glorious day. 4th.Jan.09.(Sun.) 1050hrs. Actually there is nothing much for me to write about but in order to keep my diary going and to keep the habit of writing, so I just write something. Right now I am planning to take a ride in the car for a look see around KL city and ended up in the Lake Garden for a evening walk. 5th.Jan.09. (Mon.) 1630hrs. Feeling lasy for a walk this evening. The weather is fine and the gang has yet to arrive from Singapore. The day is peaceful and quiet. In the globle scene, the economic tsunami is still on but less talked about because it is happening in US and European countries like Britian, France and some other white nations so nobody like to talk and write about it. In the middle east Isreal has cut Gaza strip into three pieces. Other than that there is nothing much happening. 7th.Jan.09.(Wed.) 1130hrs. The morning is fine and cool. Personally it is nice and quiet for me. The election in Kuala Trengganu is going on fiercely although it does not affectly me but I do wish that BN be punished severly after fifty years of trickery with the national politics. 9th.Jan.09.(Fri.) 2020hrs. It is a fine day but a bit heaty. Nothing much going on. The economic meltdown makes eveything quiet. The economic experts seem to have nothing to offer for making the whole thing better unlike during the economic booming time they are busy making predictions and offering all sorts of theories. So far three billionairs have committed suicide because of economic rundown. One German jumpred onto a moving train, one American by shooting himself while the other American how he took his own life was not clear. It was reported that he was found dead at home. 11th.Jan.09.(Sun.) 1740hrs. Yesterday (Sat.) spent about 13hrs with Heng Jin and his wife. First we visited his shop and he took us to the restaurant next to his shop for lunch wiht Hokkien fried mee etc.. Then we went to his palm oil estate at Batang Berjuntai. His driver took us round the estate to look around explaing a bit of the palm oil trees to Aik Siong's children. After which wee were taken round the palm oil extraction mill for a quick visit. The manager of the mill took us round the mill by explaining the processes of the mill. By then it was 5pm and from there we proceeded to Kajang for a Satay dinner. All of us devoured the satay like hungery volves. After the satay meal we went to his house in Country Height. It is a huge house with a swimming pool in the centre of the house and fronted with a lake. We stayed there for about one hour by then it was already 11pm. By the time we arrived home, it was well passed 12pm. The house costs about 3.5 millions in 7 or 8 years ago and by now it should be worth about double the prise. This morning I woke up at about 6.30am and feeling quite fresh though. After breakfast mom and I took a car ride to the newly opened strect of road from Batu Cave to Ampang highway coming out at the Bukit Antarabangsa foot hill. 12th.Jan.09.(Mon.) 1855hrs. It is raining now, it started at about 1730hrs as I was preparing to go for a evening walk. This morning the weather was good. So far there is nothing happening worth writing about. Stayed home for the whole day. The gang will be leaving on Wed. night and now they have gone to PD with SS. Last night they spent a night in EM"s place to watch the England football match. 16th.Jan.09.(Fri.) 0650hrs. Last night I wrote about Thusday's event but when I click the Save Page and hit the enter butoon it went off totally. I wrote last night(Wednesday's night) that we sent them off to the airport for the lam flight. After seeing them off to the waiting labby we started to drive homw and reached home at about 1pm. The next morning I got up at 5pm as usual and did what I was supposed to do because the Bus Sekolah was going to run as normal. Yesterday the maid cleared and cleaned the whole house and the day was so quiet and calm without them. My daughter-in-law is a white American woman. I hope my grandson would be lucky engouh not to marry a white woman. If one is to marry a white woman one has to dialing-ing her for the whole day, the whole month, the whole year and one's whole life. All ancesters" Feng Sui will be wiped out. 18th.Jan.09. (Sun.) 0755hrs. Yesterday evening went to the Titiwangsa park for evening walk and ended up in the mamak coffee shop at Gurney Road for a mutabab and mee goreng dinner. Reached home at about 10pm. Aid Siong skyped us with his Fu Yi's photo. So, no writing. Friday night attended the wedding dinner of the grand son of Kok family of the ex-China Art Co. It was a grand dinner and the dishes were delicious. The Kok story is a tipical story of from rags to riches. He started off from a shop assistant and became a saleman and now he is more or less a sole supplier of antic furnitures in the city. The company that he used to work for had closed down due to the changes taken place in Batu Road area. Lip Wern family came to the house after dinner in the Chinese restaurant. Actully the mother arranged for him to come to the house and then proceed to the Metropolitan Park but he chosed to go to swim instead of going to the park. He chosed to swim because he just learnt swimming while the gang was here. 20th.Jan.09.(Tue.) 0900hrs. Yesterday was a normal day for me. In the morning went to the Metropolitan park for a walk and in the evening walked along the railway line just to see the progress made. The world seems to be immersed in the preparation of the inauguration of the 44th. president of the United States of America, Barack Obama. Everything else is peaceful. 21st.Jan.09.(Wed.) 0715hrs. The morning is a bit humid and uncomfortable but with the helf of the ceiling fan and table fan life if quite pleasant. We did not see the US presidential inauguration telecast because we don't subscribe the Astro station. So Barack Hussein Obama is the President of the most powerful nation on earth in history. He has the power to destroy the earth, the whole humanity. So let us see what he can do. Hope that he will not add more problems for the world and creat more miseries and sufferings. 22nd.Jan.09. (Thu.) 1850hrs. It is raining now. Yesterday evening it also rained for about half an hour heavily. Today the morning part was ok but it become humid and hot towards the afternoon. The rain will make it cooler at night. The day passed by normally with no earth sharttering events happening. But the economic turmoil is still raging on. The world had been living on the false prosperity that was created by America and now that bubble has burst. 24rd.Jan.09. (Sat.) 0900hrs. Yesterday went round Puchong are with the Rapid bus. With 2 ringgit fare one can go round anywhere for the whole day. This morning got up at 0530hrs, made a cup of red tea with a piece of Indian dried bread as biscuit for breakfast. Went to the Metropolitan Park for 50 minutes walk. The morning is lovely, bright and cool. Surf the net before taking a bath and get ready for the day. Now is 1730hrs, just after surfing the Yahoo and there was an article on the American policy on China. When Obama was campaigning for his presidency I remembered that he mentioned something about "to change" China and now he just came to work for two days he is already letting out some hints on dealing with China, so from now on let us see the process of how the black president is going to deal with the yellow men. I still can remember the spy plan incident immediately after the 43th. president of the USA took over power. How he and his secretary of state (gen. Collin Powell) threatened China over the release of the spy plane. 26th.Jan.09. (Mon.) 2055hrs. Today is the first day of Chinese New Year. For me it is a normal day. This is my attitude towards the so-called the Chinese New Year day. I just follow what everybody else is doing- eating. Strangely enough there is so quiet this year. There is no fire crackers at all for the whole day and even last night the New Year eve it was so quiet. That shows that if the authority enforced the law properly, anything can be done. Last time, they banned the firing of crackers but crackers were being sold openly. The custom department also did not discover the smuggling of fire crackers as much as the cases of smuggling before the new year like this year. Why? your guess is as good as mine. 27th.Jan.09. (Tue.) 1850hrs. So Mr. JR is the BBC's snoopy based in Beijing. He is reporting all the bad things happening in China. But, I bet you he can not cause a revolution in China. It took five thousand years and from billion and billion of people to produce one Chairman Mao. The present so-called activists, desidents ect. are nothing but small chiccos. I just wonder where they get their income to survive. Do they live on hand out from the foreign espionage agencies? 31st.Jan.09. (Sat.) 1400hrs. 28th.Jan.09. stayed at home for the whole day. 29th.Jan.09. went to Pagoh,Johore to visit a relative of mom suffering from nose cancer. Reached home at about 9pm. Came back via Melaka for a pork satay dinner. 30th.Jan.09. stayed home. EM and Peter visited us and gave us a RMl,000 ang pow each. They came in a sport Audi. According to mom it is very nice to look at and to ride in. Today is the eve of the Wilayah Day. It is raining now and it had been raining on and off since 1200hrs. Hope that tomorrow will be fine, so that the Wilayah Day celebration in Titiwangsa Lake will be a joyous one. 1st.Feb.09. (Sun.) 2100hrs. City Day celebration was held in Lake Titiwangsa. Did not go there, afraid of traffic jam. Sent Alice Soo to her frieds's funeral parlor. Went to mom's friend's house (nee eng). Stayed there for about one hour listen to the old stories. SS treated us to lunch at SS2 restaurant. Went to Metropolitan garden for a walk after a nap. Watched news at RTM One, a bit of entertainment programmes, that's it. 2nd.Feb.09. (Mon.) 2130hrs. Wilayah is having holiday today because Wilaysh Day fell on Sunday, yesterday. Went to Kepong Jusco to buy a short and sport trousers. Went for an evening walk at the Lake Metropolitan after two hours' nap. That's it, called for a day. 3rd.Feb.09. (Tue.) 1715hrs. It is raining heavily now. It is a pity that the 27 years old whiteman threw a shoe at the China's premier Yen Jiabao was not an inovator because the first person to do it was an Iraqi. He threw a pair of shoes one by one at the president of USA. Well, Michael Phelps don't be sorry for showing your picture on the inhaling of the marijuana, in fact I would like to see it more. It appears that London city is full of professional demonstrators otherwise where do they get their money to life on. 4th.Feb.09. (Wed.) l825hrs. It is drizzling now, it stops me from going on my evening walk. The internet connection is very lousy this evening. Went to buy a English-Chinese-Malay dictionary at Kepong Jusco for RM29.95. After that took a bus trip to Damansara Permai and returned home. The bus trip cost only RM 2.00 by Rapid bus service. (The RM2.00 bus fares system has to be explained separately.) Damansara satelite town is well maintained and appeared to be very orderly. Had a nap and usual cup of tea and here I am in front of the computer. Yesterday evening at about this time after a heavy shawer there was a flash flood around the Parliament House and caused a huge jam. 5th.Feb.09. (Thu.) 1915hrs. Luckily I went for a morning walk this morning because it is raining again. At about 1100hrs I took a bus trip down to Chow Kit thinking of getting another bus to Kepong area but took the wrong bus so went back to Chow Kit. To just passing the time I took a walk round the whole area. So it is enough exercise for me for today. 7th.Feb.09. (Sat.) 2105hrs. No writing yesterday. It was a normal day, morning walk for one hour and evening walk at Lake Titiwangsa plus the normal exercise with the fix gagets. Went to Bricksfield for a jalan jalan. Had a nab and stayed at home while mom has gone for CNY small makan at Si Mui's house. Will go for a morning walk tomorrow morning. 8th.Feb.09. (Sun.) 1345hrs. The net result of the Perak assembly council power struggle is BETRAYAL-MONERY-POWER. After that it will be use Power to make Money and more Betrayal. One needs not go to Shakspere's dramas for human frailty. 9th.Feb.09. (Mon.) Went to dentist and went round Shah Alam for a ride just want to know about the City. 10th.Feb.09. (Tue.) 1335hrs. The weather is fine,cool and sunny. It might rain this evening. Changed driving licemce for two more years. It rained in the evening, so no evening walk. 11th.Feb.09. (Wed.) 0950hrs. At this moment the weather is lovely. Cool and sunny. To make money is quite easy. Join the opposition party got elected and ross over to Ruling Party. It means millions ringits. 12th.Feb.09. (Thu.) 2100hrs. Took Rapid bus to One Utama changed a bus using the same ticket to K L and from KL back home. Starting at ll00hrs and ended at 1630hrs. That is a whole day. 14th.Feb.09. (Sat.) 1830hrs. No thing to write. Everyday is the same. At the moment I just came back from a Rapid Bus ride rounding the Cheras area. Got stuck with the traffic jam to and fro. The weather is getting hotter. The trees and grasses are withering. The world economic run down is still raging. Besides the shooting and bombing in the Gaza area, the rest of the world seems to be quieter. Uncle Sam is busy with his own problem and those busy body writers also find that it is shameful to bark on other people's affairs while their own affairs are in a mess. As it is now if they can keep their jobs would be very lucky already. 17th.Feb.09. (Tue.) 2200hrs. No connection for the whole Sunday. Went to Titiwangsa TM Point to complaint on Monday and I was to trouble shooting with them. Tried but not successful due my lack of techinical knowhow of the computer. Today is Tuesday, there was no connection for the morning part until about an hour ago I switched it on just to see what is happening for fun and lo the connection is back again. I am now connected to the world again. 19th.Feb.09. (Thu.) 1550hrs. The TM Net techician just left after reconnecting my computer which had been on and off for the few days since last Sunday. I feel so happy again otherwise it had been like a rock had been pressing on me. Really the computer makes life more fully. The weather is oppressing. It makes life slightly uncorfortable with the intense heat. 22nd.Feb.09. (Sun.) 0745hrs. There was nothing much happening on Friday, 20th. of Feb. I remembered that I stayed at home for the whole day and went for evening walk only. Yesterday, Saturday, 21st. Feb. went to the dentist for denture by bus at Subang Parade and spent half of the day in the Rapid Bus. I do not blame the bus but the traffic jam. I do not blame the road or the traffic system, it is just too many vehicles on the road and people is still buying more cars. People loves cars you see. So what is the problems? I just wonder why no one is really looking the real problem. The real problem of the world to-day is simply because there are too many people being produced. MAN is the real problem of the world. Now is 1715hrs. The computer's working speed is very slow. It is raining quite heavily after a short dry spell since the Chinese New Year about twenty days ago. Yesterday was particularly heaty. It is very comfortable now. 23rd.Feb.09. (Mon.) 1430hrs. It is a working Monday. The school bus is running. The weather is fine and quite cooling after the rain last night. Everythins is going on smoothly. 25th.Feb.09. (Wed.) 1645hrs. The sky is clouday. It rained in the early hours for a short while then it stopped and remain fine till now. Plan to go for an evening walk. 27th.Feb.09. (Fri.) 1450hrs. Went to KL for a round,so that I would not be cut off from civilisation by staying home all the time. Surfed the net this morning and found that the Chinese govt. had also publiched a report on the American abuse of human rights on the their people as well as foreigners in reply to the publication of the human rights abuse by the Chinese govt. That is the best way to counter their action instead of protesting aboud. 28th.Feb.09. (Sat.) 1855hrs. The rain stops me from going for an evening walk for now. I hope it will stop awhile more to neable me to go on for a walk. Nothing spectacular for me to write about. Stayed at home reading newspapers and surfing the net. The connection is real bad due to a glitch somewhere so the connection to foregin websites are bad that was announced by the TM net in the newspaper two days ago. It is anticipated that the normal connection will be restored on 3rd. of Mar. 1st.Mar.09. (Sun.) 18oohrs. It is raining now, it stop me from going for an evening walk. Luckily I went for the morning walk at the Metropolitan Park this morning. Because it is Sunday today I would like to go for evening walk at Titiwangsa with my wife as well. We went for a meal of mee at the Thong Shin road corner coffee shop then we visited the Tun Abdul Razak memorial at the Lake Garden. Strangely enough there was an absence of visitors. We came home at about two pm. Then u know what lah?! 4th.Mar.09. (Wed.) 0540hrs. The internet connection is good this morning. Yesterday, stayed at home and went for an evening walk in the drizril after a heavy storm and heavy down pour. At 6am Alice from Malacca will be up and I will be driving her to the "heart institute" for her heart examination. 5th.Mar.09. (Thu.) 0835hrs. Yesterday, took the rapid bus to Taman Desa and then changed bus to Melawati and back, all these for RM l. I had obtained the Senior citisen pass for half price. Went for a evening walk as weel, so it was dead tired. Sound sleep and got up fresh. Up to this point of time, nor sure what to do for the day. The morning is cool and bright. It is a pefect morning but of course it will get hotter and hotter. 8th.Mar.09. (Sun.) 0650hrs. Friday, spent the whole day in Subang Jaya at Carefour to get my and EM's old cars' third party insurance in order to claim the RM625.00 for the petrol subsidy. (The story of petwol subsidy is very long to describe here. I took the whole day because I went by bus and at the same time it was Friday. The muslims went for mosque from 1230hrs to 1430hrs. I was not aware of that and it happens that Takaful is a bumiputra company. Saturday, rested at home and went for evening walk after a heavy shower. It rains every evening pratically. Went to bed early at about 2230hrs and awoke at 0400hrs this morning. Now is 1830hrs and it is fine, we are preparing to go to Lake Titiwangsa for an evening walk. Aik Siong skyped me this afternoon and chatted a bit and we tounched on the subject of travelling in buses, in this case in Rapid bus. I told him about the small small matters encounted in the travelling and he asked me put it in writing for the fun of it. Well, I think it is a good idea and so I will jot it down in writing. Also this afternoon the big tree behind our house next to the mamak stall was fell to make way for the forthcoming traffic flow after the flyover to the camp and the road leading to the LRT parking nearby. 9th.Mar.09. (Mon.) 1230hrs. It is raining now and today is Mohammed's birthday,therefor it is a holiday. It is very quiet in the Tmn. Easter. There is no movement of vehicles and any other activities. Could not go for a an evening walk due to raining. 10th.Mar.09. (Tue.) 0745hs. The head line is: Obama adm. protests 'harassment' by Chinese vessels.It does not matter whether it is a white american or black american. The white president of usa sent spy plane to snoop on China when he became the president and now the black american president sent ship to seek trouble with the Chinese. This report must be read in conjunction with the recent Japanese naval activities in the disputed island in the Chinese territorial water.(for the moment I gorgot the name of the island.) The jap is trying to stir up trouble with the help of their masters with the excuse of the island. In addition the american is mentioning of the Spratly islands in the South China Sea so u can see that the trouble this time is about sea power superiority since the Chinese is active in their build-up of the sea power. At 1750hrs read the reply from China on the protest. Confirmed they are there purposely to creat trouble. They just cannot live without trouble. They always talk about international laws, etc.etc.. Went for a ride in the Rapid bus from 4th. mile Ipoh Road to Damasara area near the Chee Mui's place. There was no spectacular happenings except the noise from the TV screens and people talking aloud. 11th.Mar.09. (Wed.) 1810hrs. Actually it is time for me to go for evening walk but the rain makes it impossible. According to an article appeared in the Star newspaper yesterday it said that the Fraser Hill authority is allocated with 20 million Ringgets to upgragde the tourism facilities up there. So we can expect that more holiday makers will be going up there. Stayed at home the whole day. No bus ride today. 12th.Mar.09. (Thu.) 1915hrs. The internet connection is very good. The US is feeling the water with China by sending survey ship to survey the sea aroung the Hainan island just on the same spot as the spy-plane incident happened and passing bill on calling China to talk with Dalai Lama on the Tibet issue. Phillipine stake claims on the Sprateley Islands which China said that is theirs. The flashing points are all lined up to make trouble for the people in this region. No evening walk this evening because I had walked enough in the city this afternoon. 13th.Mar.09. (Fri.) 1845hrs. It rained the whole morning of the day, so no activity. At 16oohrs took mom to see her friend in the Selayang Hospital. She had a operation yesterday on her stomach to remove a small cancerous mole in some part of the stomach. Came back at 1700hrs to be ready for her bas sekolah trip at about 1800hrs. And now am serfing the net for news. The election 'sebok' had settled down in US and potential troubles are beginning to sprout up bit by bit, particularly in Asia. So let us see what a black president of USA will do for the world.
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badfilename Talk	16th. Mar.09. (Mon.) 0115hrs. Strange, I don't remember of writing anything on the 14th.Mar.09 which was Sat. not like the one shown above as (Tue.). However, on Saturday I went to Lake Titiwangsa to read my newspapers as my wife went to see her friend in the Selayang Hospital. Her friend had an operation on her stomach to remove a cancereous growth to prevent it from spreading. So I went to the Lake Titiwangsa to spend my time away. In the afternoon part I went to register myself for a Chinese pronunciation course in the Chinses Temple situated in front of Chinese Assembly Hall. At this point of time it is Monday morning at l o'clock, because yesterday was Sunday,we went to One Utama to do some shopping and came back late in the evening and I was very tired so went for a nap at about 7pm and got up at 1030pm and stay awake up to now. 17th.Mar.09. (Tue.) (this is written on 18th.Mar.09. at 0800hrs) While preparing to go out to get a ride in the Rapid bus for a yo-yo, ex-Kaptan Ramiah from EME came to visit me and spent about one hour chatting, by then the sun is getting too hot, so I abandoned the idea of going out. Stayed at home till time for evening walk at the Metropolitan Park. 19th.Mar.09. (Thu.) 0708hrs. I am now in Silver Park now, the weather is as good as usual and the air is really fresh. It looks like we are the only few families are here on holiday. 'Paper Tiger' is the best word to describe the Western financial system. If one would see their imposing banking, insurance and financial buildings and the 'gaya' of their so-called financial experts and other financial gurus, they are real tigers but in reality they are made of papers. 22nd.Mar.09. (Sun.) 1535hrs. Friday, we were still at the Fraser Hill. Saturday, we came down the hill at 0800hrs, we were the first and the only vehicle to come down. We came down early because we wanted to go through Bukit Peruntung via Rasa. The Chinese Pinyin class started at 1500hrs and ended at 1700hrs. So, that was the day. Today, Sunday, got up at 0630hrs, had a cup of tea and spent about 45min on the exercise and went to bed at 0800hrs and got up at 1000hrs. Mom and EM go to see the DIAMON exhibition at the KL conference hall, KL and still not back yet at this hour. It is reported the Chinese defence minister had sounded to the Japanese defence minister who is now in Beijing that China is to start building AIRCRAFT CARRIER next year and it my be completed in 2014. I hope I will be still around to witness the completion of the beast. Since I am on the subject I might as well put down in writing that I simply want to see China is at par with the most modern country in the world. 23rd.Mar.09. (Mon.) 1905hrs. Cancelled plan for an evening walk because I went for a bus ride in the afternoon. There already I walked quite a bit. The internet connetion to BBC and CNN sites had been quite bad these few days. ECONOMIC RECESSION, that term has a special significance to me. The story went like this, that I was born in Labis, Johore in 1932 my whole family moved to Malacca when I was three years old. The reason was due to economic recession at that time, the rubber industry was at the standstill and thus my father could not make a living there with a small plot of rubber platation, so he sold off the land and moved to Malacca. So that was his first setback in his fortune. Then the world economic picked up again he was doing fine with working in the rubber industry by being a contractor in a large rubber estate owned by Ong Eng Tian. The estate was located in the Machap district 16 miles away from the Malacca town. Then in 1942 the Jap. invaded the then Malaya and the story of Japanese occupation of Malaya is already well known. As far I know the Korean war was the golden period for the rubber industry. He made quite a big sum money during that period of time and he bought some plot of rubber land for his old age pension. He lived on it until he passed off. (Contrator's job is to engage rubber tapers to tape the rubber trees and labourers to maintain the estate by clearing the wanted shrubs, grasses and preventing termites going from trees to trees by digging trenches around in infested trees. The maintenance of drainage system etc. He also buy and sell small plot of estate on his own etc. for extra income.) Pa: Just to let you know that I am reading it everyday. You are really writing a lot now. Keep it up. Aik-Siong 25th.Mar.09. (Wed.) 2215hrs. Yesterday(Tue.)took the maid to the Indonesian Ambassy to renew her visa before leaving for home for holiday for one month. Waited for her to finish the task to bring her back took the whole morning. Sorry to say the efficiency of the ambassy need no mention. So the day is gone. This morning went to Melawati by bus to check the location of TNB(tenaga national berhad)because we have to change the electricity consumption rate from commbercial rate to housewhole rate for the apartment at the Mastralia flat. Located the office and found out that we have to write a letter to rectify the matter. They don't have ready form to be filled and finish the job. Had a nap and went for an evening walk. That ends another day. Read two articles on the economic crises, one is from the Chinese Ntional Bank boss proposing the setting up new system under the control of IMF instead of using the US$ as the basis of world currency and the other one is describing the US as a nation which runs its national economy just like Benard Madoff ran his Ponzi scheme. And now the bubble has burst. 26th.Mar.09. (Thu.) 2115hrs. Went to Melawati TNB to submit the request for change of the electricity rate by Rapid bus. By the time I reached home was about 2pm. As normal napped, afternoon tea and went for a walk. Before that I went to see Dr. Lian for my gout on my left hand shoulder. Had a jab and a few pills for RM 28.00. By this time I feel much better. 27th.Mar.09. (Fri.) 1900hrs. It looks like going to rain but it does not but it rains somewehere else because the lighings and thundering can be heard not far away. Secondly may be the drugs for gout make me a bit lethargic so no walk. Let me recall a bit of the old memory. When I was a teen I used to think that my dad was not smart enough in everything because he came from China and I can be better than him in all aspect of life including making money. So I tried to look for opportunities to make money. I read all kinds of business articles and all kinds of advertisements in the newspapers to see what is there for the picking. There are a lot a lot of articles on dealing with stocks and shares and how people make a fortune from it etc.etc. Since the shares buyings and sellings is the easiest and it can be done with small capitial so I went in to buy shares. I started roughly in l962 and up to today I am stuck with some useless shares. To sum up, this shares business is nothing but a big bluff. Well to know it thoroughly one has to dip a finger in it. What I am trying to say here is that I am actually no better than my father. Any gains over the years were swept away by waves of so-called economic recessions. Pa: I am glad you tried to be better just as I try to be better. We have made progress, just not spectacular progress. Aik-Siong. 31st.Mar.09. 1235hrs. Entry of the trip to Melaka for Qing Ming had gone missing. I may have forgoten to press the 'save page' key. Forget about Saturday because there was nothing much happening. However, on Sunday morning we got up at 0330hrs to get ready for the Qingming trip. We drove to EM's house at 0430hrs to join her in her Audi to Melaka. We went straight to the graveyard after breakfast in a coffee shop in Melaka Town. There was a small cave-in in the middle of the grave so we paid thirty Ringgits to two Malay guys to fill up the crack with earth. It won't be permanent but at least it sove the problem for this year. We will see what will happen next year. We went to Machap to visit one of our relavtives and the wife gave us a well dressed chicken as usual. After a chicken rice lunch at the same coffee shop in Melaka town we went to my sister house to rest until we start our trip home at about 4pm to avoid the traffic jam. EM liked the food served in that coffee shop very much. We were caught in a heavy rain when we drove from EM' house to our own house. However, we enjoyed the trip very much. We did it like that because EM and I did not fancy of staying a night in Melaka as there was nothing much to do there. True enough there appears a great Economis Mind in China who is proposing a new system to change the existing world economic system of the world. I hope his system will revolutionise it to make it fairer to every country in the world. Well, he is none other than the Governor of the Cental Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan. Let us see what will happen after the G20 meeting. 2nd.Apr.09. (Thu.) 0510hrs. Last night tried to write but the computer could not display the webpage. Stayed at home in the whole morning part of the day. At 2.30pm accompanied mom to collect keys from the tenant who rented the apartment in the Angkasa Villa. It was a middle eastern damily who stayed in the appartment for about seven months. Originally they intended to stay for one year somehow they changed the plan. According to the neighbourhood they were a croded family and they were noisy. The head of the block of the apartment complained that they dirtied the wall by putting their foot on the wall while waitting the lift and littered the rubbish bins compartment. In the evening went for a long walk to tire my body. This morning got up early and failed to fall asleep again, so I am writing this piece of art. At twelve o'clock will send the maid to the airport for her holiday trip back home for a month. I will take her to EM' house and from there will go to the airport in EM's car. EM will check her in and that's it. 3rd.Apr. 09. (Fri.) 1915hrs. The computer connection is lousy. Very very slow. Today a new Prime Minister is sworn in as the sixth PM of Malaysia. The future is left to be seen. The declaration of the G20 submmit has been declared today and just like the above the result is yet to be seen. However, the Chinese is doing their best to devise their own system to be independent from the Western encirclement. As for myself, went to Lake Titiwangsa to read newspapers in the morning part. In the evening the rain prevented me from my evening walk. 4th.Apr.09. (Sat.) 1930hrs. Went to attend the Pin Yin class in a Chinese temple in front of Chinese Assembly Hall from 2.30pm to 5pm. Originally it is 3-5pm but they give two extra half hour period for revision. I am really curious about the Pin Yin thing so in order to know it well I enrolled myself for the class. Let us don't talk about the money. All in all it well be twelve lessons. Went for morning walk in the Metropolitan park for about one hour fifteen mins. 5th.Apr.09. (Sun.) 2130hrs. A peaceful and restful Sunday. Went to the Lake Garden for a morning walk with mum at 0630hrs. We had a long walk plus the exercise at the end of it to make us really tired. Went to Tong Shin road corner coffee shop for Ipoh Sar Ho Fan and Kun Lou for breakfast. Came back at about 0930hrs and stayed home all the afternoon. It rained heavily from 2pm right up to about 6pm. There must be some area being flooded in KL. The North Korean has successfully put a space satelite into space without the South Korean and Japanese knowledge. Wonderful isn't it?! 6th.Apr.09. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday spent the whole morning in waiting for the electrician to come to repair mum's light in her room. The electrician finally came at 1230hrs and he took about half an hour to sort out the problem. It rain not very heavily for the whole afternoon. Went for evening walk in the drizzle. The weather this morning is cloudy and it drissles on and off. Mom and I went to visit a tour agency to find out a trip to either Laos, Burma and Indonesia during the school holiday in June. The only trip that is avaible at that time is to Burma, so we will inform the agency that we well make the trip. We just want to see how our neighbour is. Since the financial tsonami, I am keen in reading articals pertaining the economic situations. I just want to see what fate will befall onto US$. At the moment it is the supreme currency of the world. I was born in 1932, by the time I went to the village school near my grandpa's house at the age of six, the full scale Sino-Japanese was already on for one year. The Jap. started the war by occupying Manchuria in 1931, the full scale war was declared in l937 when they started to attack the China proper. So from that time onwards I began to hear about the war until the end of second world war in 1945. To make it more realistic the Jap. occupied this country for three years and eight months. At that time I did not read the newspaper but experienced it myself. I went to the Japanese school but none of the teachers could speak Japanese and so instead of learning Japanese the teacher told us more of the Chinese histories. That was the reason why I am very interested in Chinese history and love China. Since I am a Chinese, I feel strongly the humiliations perpetrated onto China and to its people by the foreign devils. That sin muct be repaid in full. After the second world war, the cold war and the Malayan Commuist Party up-rising resulting in the Emergency occupied my entire adulthood until my retirement from the armed forces. 8th.Apr.09.(Wed.) 2120hrs. Went to 1Utama shopping complex by Rapid bus to tire myself and to know the shopping complex more thoroughly otherwise it is so confusing just now. Napped and remained at home the whole evening with the computer. Between l946 to l949, I followed the civil war between the Communist Army(the Red Army) and Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)army very closely. After the establishment of the Communist regime I followed the events happening in China by reading reports churnched out by the Western propagando machinery. Needless to say one can imagine what kind of a picture had been painted by those reports. I may have written somewhere in my history as to why I joined the army. It is because I wanted to know how the Western army is organised and run. China had suffered a lot under their hands. I always wonder how come the Chinese with so many people could be cowed by a small force. By the time I know what it is about my whole life is already gone. Note: now the Chinese armyis called People Liberation Army.) 9th.Apr.09. (Thu.) 1345hrs. Back again on the Chinese civil war from 1946-1949. At that time I was in Chiang Kai Shek that was the Kuomintang camp. We were told that Kuomintang was fighting for democracy and freedom for the people and that the Communists were bandits. We were very happy when the Americans shipped shiploads after shiploads of weapons to help to win the war. We hardly realised that those were the old obsolet, and surplus weapons from the second world war. There was no better way to finish off the Chinamen. Alas! finally the Kuomintang was driven out of China mainland and fled to Taiwan island till today. I am glad that China is growing ever stronger day by day. They can manfacture anything that the West and Japanese can. Lately they are talking about building aircraftcarriers. They have a strong and efficient government. Finally they have found the path to survive for another five thousand years.Thank GOD! 10th.Apr.09. (Fri.) 1810hrs. The maid had left for a month holiday, so I have to do bit and piece of house chores like drying clothes, washing dishes, washing the vege etc. However I still have time to read, to surf the net and go for a walk. I am interested in reading the economic recession news. All those economic experts are at their wits end as to how to solve the problems. 12th.Apr.09. (Sun.) 0600hrs. I am now writing yesterday's story that is Saturday. Went to town to look for tour agency for trip to either Laos or Burma. After which went to Lake Garden for a while reading newspaper. Attended the Pin Yin class from 3 to 5PM. Attended a dinner party for full month celebration in a Chinese restaurant in Kepong. One thing need special mention is the waiting time. I tole mom that this is the last dinner I am going to attend any dinner unless it is absolutely important. The whole story is a lengthy one. To attend any "celebration dinner" as the Chinese call it is real torture. This morning at this hour we are planning to go to Lake Garden for a morning walk. 14th.Apr.09. (Tue.) 1835hrs. Yesterday,Monday, noting to report, very normal day. Went for evening walk, quite a long walk. I feel that I need a longer walk to be realy effective. Today is Tuesday, busy getting Gao assn. members to make up a group to go to China for a visit to our ancester homestead. So far there are six of us intending to go. Won't go for evening walk because I have had it enough already because went to town by Rapid bus. 16th.Apr.09 (Thu.) 2220hrs. Normal day nothing interesting to record. The world is still riling with the economic turmoil. I am glad that China is seizing this opportunity to make the RMB more widely used in home market and in Asia to avoid the peril of the $ and eventually become the world currency. 18th.Apr.09. (Sat.) 2220hrs. Since the absence of the maid I find that I have less time with the computer. I hardly realise that I have left off yesterday without any writing at all. Bits and pieces take up a lot of time and concentrations. This afternoon spent two hours with the Pin Yin class that is all. Of course I did not miss the world news from the Yahoo, BBC, CNN, Malaysiakini, Singapore Zaobao, China Daily, CRI, Xinhuanet and the Chinese Economic website. l9th.Apr.09. (Sun.) 1610hrs. It is cloudy today after three or four days of sunny days. It was really hot. Getting ready for anevening walk. At 10 this morning went to the association to call to China to find out the details on our trip for the ancestral birthplace celebration on 19-21 of May. The feeling now is that the world is more peaceful now than before when the "some seng" was the president of the strongest nation of the world. I hope it will last. 21st.Apr.09. (Tue.) 1415hrs. Yesterday (Mon.) was a normal day except I went for a long evening walk. This morning it started raining heavily from 0330hrs. Plan to remain at home until this evening for the evening walk. At about 9 thirty a.m. took mom and the maid Ana to the bank to send some money to the maid who is holidaying in Indonesia for her return journey from her kampong to the nearest airport to catch the plane. She had run out of money. China is celebrating the 60th. anniversary of the founding of her Navy fleet. This is also one of the results of MZD's thought which says that the Chinese must be "self-reliance and arduous struggle". If it is KMT, they will just buy the whole bunch from the US. 22nd.Apr.09. (Wed.) 1410hrs. "Queen Elizabeth celebrates 83rd Birthday"(the actual day was yesterday) reported in the Star and continued to say she was crowned in 1952 after the death of her father King George V1. Well, that sparked an old memory in me. At that time I just joined the lst. Bn. Federation Regiment and undergoing recruit training in Taiping. It was my fifth month of traing and I was selected with two other recruits, one of them is Indian while the other was a Eurasian to attend the coronation parade in London.At the same time I was selected to go for a special training in Port Dickson. I was sent home for two weeks holiday before going for the training. So Tan Poh Seng was selected to take my place for the parade. After completing the two weeks hihoday I was informed that the traing programe was cancelled, instead RMC was formed and thus I missed both the opportunities. At that time the then Malaya was the British colony, it was a poor country and the people was equally poor. New China was only about three years old and it was very very poor. But Britain was supposed to be no l country in the world. Between the Queen and I, we saw two different processes of changes taking place as we go along the road. The Queen saw the disintegration of her empire and I am very happy to see that Malaysia and China are getting ever stronger and prosperous. I just wonder how her feeling is right now. (Tan Poh Seng died of cancer in 1959 at the age of 35 while I was in Kuching. I dreamed of him that he was seriously ill and I wrote to mum to see him in the KL GH but it was too late she was told that he had just died.) 24th.Apr.09. (Fri.) 1830hrs. It looks like the trip to China is to be aborted due to lack of support. Heng Jin and his wife do not want to go because they do not like to travel with Southern Airline's Boeing 737. They want larger plane. I am not very keen of going because my wife cannot come with me because of her work. So it only left with the President and his wife. I will contact him tonight for confirmation. We can write a book on this subject if we are going into minute details from the brginning. The problem of the plane is because if we use Air Asia or MAS, there is the problem of connecting flight from Guangzhou to Wuhan. 29th.Apr.09. (Wed.) 1750hrs. Two days ago I wrote the story of the last few years of Hong Kong's return to China. In that I said that I have been lucky to have lived to see those days. At last China is solidly unified as a nation. (The story of the negotiations between China and Britain will be interesting to read.) Somehow when I click the 'save page' button it did not work. I have done nothing special today except reading newspapers, surfing and a little things about the house. It rained heavily from three to five o'clock and it has stopped with a cloudy sky. I am preparing for the evening walk. Tomorrow night we will go to Hatnya in southern Thailand for three days & two nights. I am replacing Chi Mai's place because she does not want to go because her friend does not want to go. 30th.Apr.09. (Thu.) 1645hrs. Went to the govt. clinic for the routine blood pressure check-up this morning. The result was very good. The doctor said that I look good and healthy, so the same medicine was prescribed for another four months. Blood checking in July one month before the blood pressure check. The whole process took about one and a half hours. The medical services for the ordinary folks in this country are really up-to-date. Rested at home in the afternoon and now we are getting ready for the Hatnai trip tonight. The swine flu has yet to reach us here. However, the govt. is ready for it since we know it well in advance. As it is now the world is riling under the economic meltdown and now the swine flu. 5th.May.09. (Tue.) 1750hrs. Returned from 3days and 2nights trip from Hatyai arrived at 10pm. last night. Enjoyed the trip quite satisfactorily. The town is clean and everything seems to be orderly. Plentiful of mangoes, and delicious pineapples. Hatyai is also more or less as a vice town with its tiger shows, "akua shows" and prostitutes. But one thing beaufiful is it without beggars unlike Cambodia. In spite of our Malaysian gov't effort of stemping off corruption, the police at the check points, immigration personnel and traffic police are still on the take. The Thai side is needless to say. All in all the trip was enjoyable, if not for anything but just to be away from home once in a while. 6th.May.09. (Wed.) 2150hrs. The first thing in the morning, took our maid to her embassy for passport renewal. They seem to be very strict now because they want to see the employers personally. Since we were not prepared for it so we have to do it again tomorrow morning. I was in my shorts and mom has to be home for her bas sekolah so we were left with no choice. Stayed at home for the rest of the day. Went for a evening walk in the evening in a drizzle. 7th.May.09. (Wed.) 0700hrs. Yesterday morning, the first thing we did was to go to the Indonesian ambassy to finish off the maid passport business. We started off as soon as mom came back from her round that was about 0730hrs. One of the official in the ambassy interviewed me and after that the whole thing finished at about 1130hrs. Stayed home for the rest of the day and went for an evening walk. That ends the day. 9th.May.09. (Sat.) 0845hrs. Yesterday morning we test run the stretch of newly built elevated road from Jalan Kuching to the Melawati as soon as mum came back from her round. Stayed home until the evening walk. That was the end of yesterday. Now let us go back a bit the yester-days. Our family moved to Melaka town not long after the WWll, so the time would had been aroung l946. I started to read newspaper after we moved to Melaka town because people living in the village at that time did not read newspapers, in fact they did not do any reading at all. Of course it was the Chinese newpaper because I was enrolled in the Chinese school. I started to read English newspaper in l948 when I went to the English school. The English shcool was a Methodist English School meant for overage pupils. At that time the schools were very strict with age because there were not many schools. When reading the Chinese newspaper, of course there were a lot of news reports on the Chinese civil wars between the Kuomintang and the Red Army(at that time it was not called People's Liberation Army as it is today). During the Japanese invasion both armies were fighting the Japs. together and split after the war inspite of mediation with the US army general. (The story of the Kuomintang and the Communists joined hands to fight the Japs make another interesting story. Will come later.) You will note that at that time I was interested in the civil wars in China. The first thing I read was the wars and of course later on the events that follows until today. But now I am quite relax on it because I know the Chinese is capable of running the counrty well if not better than the smart white men who run their own countries. But now since the Western economic fiasco I began to be interested in the Economic side. The first thing I read is the economic news. I love to read about their Banks and Business failures because they were the ones hwo have been boasting about their economics theories. 10th.May.09. (Sun.) 0710hrs. Yesterday, the morning part took mum to Mutiara at the Ipoh Road for hair cut. In the evening part took her to Eik Mai's house to pick up Eik Mai proceed to Subang Parade for facial massage. Finishing the massage went to shopping at the Cold Storage at the ground floor. Bold a small frozen turkey for roasting. Arrived home at about 8.30pm. Ya, I forgot to add just now that while waitting for them I went to the MPH next door to browse through the book store. How strange I found that it is so boring as all the subjects of the books are so familiar to me as they have been written again and again. I flipped through a TIME magazine and I found that the Americans are still talking as the old style, blowing their own trumpets. It reminded me of the old cold-war days. The renovation of Siow Sing's house is near completion and her family can move in anytime now. It seems that today is an auspicious day, so we held a token move-in ceremony by putting up a piece of red cloth on the main door and held a small makan party in the house. The party was only for our immediate relatives. The whole thing was over at about 1230hrs. Lip Wern's parents sent him to us to take him to swim at the Villa Ansana while they go to church to pray as they missed the church during the morning session . 13th.May.09. (Wed.) 1830hrs. For two days there were nothing to write about. The normal things, reading the newspapers, surfing the internet, napping and evening walks. So let me reflect on something about what I know a bit of the Chinese history. As far as I can remember Chiang Kai Shek at that time only did things that won the praises of the western medias particularly from the US. The next thing was to receive military aids from the US. His wife died in US. She went there after her busband's death. His grand children grew up and educated in US. In short he was making US as his home base. Truely if the Communists had occupied Taiwan he himself would had gone to US for santuary. 15th.May.09. (Fri.) 1820hrs. Yesterday NTR(nothing to report). This morning went to Publick Bank to transfer RM 20,000 back to Eik Mai's account book. She lent me the money to buy Govt. bond which pays 5% interest rate. Failed to get the bond so return the loan. Two days ago the Meteorogical station just announced that the present dry spell will drag on till November, it rained for two consecutive days. So the whether is not so hot but suffocating. So now, China is the second nation next to US given more say in the IMF. This is simply the beginning. 17th.May.09. (Sun.) 1710hrs. Yesterday(Sat), stayed at home in the morning part. Went to "Pin Ying" class in the afternoon then went to Eik Mai's birthday party at her house in Subang. It was a roast pork party instead of roast lamb for a change. It was an enjoyable night. The weather today is fine and not so heaty. Went to Ampang new village for "Yong Tou Foo" breakfast. Then proceeded to the Ampang Tasek township Paragon shopping mall to buy mom's shampoo. Had a nap and now we are getting ready to go to the Lake Garden for a walk. 18th.May.09. (Mon.) 1910hrs. Took the bus to town centre, had a bowl of beef noodle from the famous Forch Avenue beef noodle shop. It was delicious, it seems that today's noodle is specially good. From town centre, went to Damansara Damai which is located in the north of Kepong, just for fun. I think it is good to come out of the house from to time just to get the taste of human nature. The bus which took me to the town centre was competing with another company's bus for passengers, so they were busy overtaking each other to reach the next bus stop for passengers. So anyone can guess how it was like. All in all I spent about two and a half hours on my escapade. 20th.May.09. (Wed.) 1325hrs. yesterday was a quiet day. Went to SS's house to give her a bit of help while she went to renew LW's passport. Well, it did not turn out to be a hassle, I just have to wait in the Unser for about 45mins, it was all over. Ten years ago we had to line up at the immigration office from 4am to apply for a new passport or to renew one. At that time everything which was related to the govt. departments was a big problem. To send the bas sekolan for inspection, getting and renewing the driving licences, to get any kind of forms from the govt. departments was a battle of life and death. Thank GOD suddenlly the change took place and I do not really know how and when it happened. As far as I can remember Pak Lah the then prime minister paid a surpise visit to the immigration department and that shocked them up and since then the JPJ and all other departments seemed to improve tremendously. O ya, before I went to SS's house, mon and I went to the JPJ at Setapak to change the date of the Bas Sekolah inspection and I noticed that the JPJ's office and compound was very very well organised. The office floor was spotless like that of Bank of America and the offices were arranged systematically and surprise of all surprises the crowd was not so rowdy as before. May be we were too early. The weather this morning is fine and cloudy. It drizzled the whole night last night. Plan to stay at home until the evening walk time. 21st.May.09. (Thu.) 1730hrs. Yesterday evening for my walk I took the Rapid bus to the Tropicana Hotel and walked back all the way. Originally I planned to walk to the railway station and walk along the rainway track home but the traffic flow was very heavy, it was very difficult to cross the road to reach the railway station. The original small lane from the Ipoh road leading to the railway station has been taken up for the road proper. I mention this is because travelling by bus one has to put up with all kind of people, this one I want to high light about is the stinking passenger. This is the second one I encourtered yesterday. He was so stinking that everyone else put the hand on his/her nose once he stepped into the bus. This morning I went to SS's house again. This time my mission was to take her to the dentist to extract her wisdom tooth in Subang Parade and then went to pick LW from his private teacher's house and then back to Subang Parade to pick up SS back home. I came home after dropping them in PJ. It all lasted about one and a half hours. 23rd.May.09.(Sat.) 1245hrs. Yesterday morning went to JPJ again, this time was to renew mom's Public Vehicle driving linence. It was a breeze exercise. The rest of the day was spent as befolow: napped, went for evening walk and went to the Selangor Club padang with mom and the maid at 9pm and finally back home to bed after a good bath. That was about mid-night. This morning the weather is fine. I got up at about 6am, as usual boiled water and made tea for myself. At bout 6.30am mom and the maid got up. Mom had a cup of tea prepared by me and shot off to Jinjang market to by fresh roasted pork for her friends at the local market while I stayed at home with my newspapers. The rest of the day will be going to the Pin Yin class at 3pm. then for an evening walk and that will wrap up the day. 25th.May.09. (Mon.) 1740hrs. Yesterday was a quiet Sunday, stay at home the whole day alone while mom went round with Kthereen. Went to Lake Garden for evening walk by myself. It was very enjoyable. Went to KL Silverpark Snd. Bhd. at Batu Road to pay up the maintenance fees. Came back stayed at home till now. Plan to go to Titiwangsa park for a walk after dinner if it does not rain. The weather is hot and humid but it drizzle from time to time intermittenly. 27th.May.09. (Wed.) 1540hrs. Yesterday, stayed at home for the whole day until the evening walk. Walked a big round, to Batu Village railway station, the low-cost housing estate at the Batu Lima, crossed the mair road vide the sky bridge, along the river embankment, crossed the Ipoh Road and back to home. It all took about one and a half hour. Today will be the same. Stayed at home and wait for the evening walk. The morning part was sunny and hot and now it is gloomy without sunshine. It may rain but I hope it won't be so heavy that it will prevent me from my walk. 29th.May.09. (Fri.) 1745hrs. I remembered I wrote something last evening and it is not shown here now. May be I forgot to hit the 'save page' button. I wrote that I did not do anything except the evening walk. Well I would like to put in record what I normally do daily without fail. One thing for sure I will glance through the Chinese and English newspapers everyday. If I cnnot finish them I will keep them and finish them the next day. I will select the subjects which interest me for thorough reading. When I was in the armed forces they air dropped the newspapers and beer when they did the weekily fresh ration supply while we were in the deep jungle. The longest jungle operation we did was 28days in the state of Johore in the Mersing and Endou area with the First 10 Gurgah Battlion in 1958. Other than that we normally go in for one week or 10 days at a stretch. I read newspapers instead of books because in a book it contains a lot of the details which I consider is a waste of time to read them. It also takes a long time to finish a book. 30th.May.09. (Sat.) 1040hrs. The morning is fine, the street is quiet because Sat. is a off day for us now except the Chinese businesses, they still have not accepted the practice yet. 4th. of June is just a few days away, so the Western press is frying up the Tianmen Square indident by publishing the memoirs of Zhou Ziyang, the prime minister of that time. If indeed he had succeeded, China would have been nothing but a huge market for the American and European goods. China would have been going back to the Chiang Kai Sherk's days. When the Westerners praise a Chinese you can bet to your bottom that he is a good tool for them. I have been very fortunate that I can read both Chinese and English otherwise I would have been totally bluffed by them. 31st.May.09. (Sun.) 1935hrs. It had been raining since 5pm. so unable to go for a walk. Surfed the net instead. Got up at 6.30am. Read the newspapers so on and so forth, went out at 10am. round PJ, Puchong ended up in Kajang and returned to KL after a Satay meal. As I wrote yesterday the Western press particularly BBC is frying up the Tianmen Square stuff again and again running up to the 4th. June. One thing is very clear, it may be Zhou Ziyang's idea was very good and very correct but it is sad that he did not have the capability to put it into practice and also he did not have the followers to do it for him. So, to start a revolution is not all that simple. I have no sympathy for those who died in the Tianmen Square. 1st.Jun.09. (Mon) 1830hrs. I just finished my writing for today but it was erased off. I do not know why? However, I am trying again now. At 0800hrs this morning, mom and I went to line up at the post office for the first day covers. The first day covers were issued to commemorate the first visit of the Prime Minister Dato Sri. Najib Abdul Razak to the People's Republic of China. This is the first time I am doing this sort of thing because now I have the time. They issue two types but I only got one type. The next item I wrote is about the democrates in Hong Kong parading in the street to mourn the ghosts of the victims of the 4th. of June, 1989. I visited Beijing not long after the Tianmen Square incident that I was told by the tour guide of our group that the victims who were killed were not students but some of the people who went there just to join the fun. The students had long "chaboted" because they had inside information. They are now enjoying the "hambargers" in the foreigh countries. 2nd.Jun.09. (Tue.) 1800hrs. Woke up at 3am. and could not fall asleep again, so got up and serfed the net. Read the short story of GM motor company. It is just like we human beings, born, grow and die. Went to bed again and got up at 0615hrs, dressed up and went for morning exercise. It rained for two consecutive evenings so I have to go for the morning walk. It was so refreshing. It threatens to rain again at this moment. It rained this afternoon from about three to five pm. 3rd.Jun.09. (Wed.) 1630hrs. Went to Puspacom with mum's bus sekolah for the half yearly examination. The menace of the tauts is still the same. Mum's bus failed in the smoke emmission. We did give the "kau tim" fees as they call it. The CNN and BBC are reminding us of the Tianmen Square thing with the video shows and articles. If the disturbance had been successful, today the Secretary of Treasury would't need to go to Beijing. The BBC should focus more on their MPs fraudulent claims problems. They make interesting readings. 4th.Jun.09. (Thu.) 1615hrs. Went to Puspacom again for the emmission test. Passed the test. No "kau tim" money and the place was very quiet without the tauts. Todays is the day the whole world is supposed to mourn for the victims of the Tianmen Square heroes according to the Western Media. I think the memoirs is proof that Zhou was the insider of the whole thing. So it was no mistake that he was removed. The number of so-called innocent students killed in that incident is definitely no greater than the number of children and women kind in Iraq, Afganistan and Pakistan by blind bombings. It is still going on inspite of numerous confession of mistakes. So why the fuss about the Tianmen Square massacres. Why there was no commemoration on the Mai Lai massacre for the Veitnamese victimas for example? I can go on quoting many many incidents. Well, I am going to have my afternoon tea with a piece of good cake given me by SS and then we will be going to the Lake Garden for a walk. 6th.Jun.09. (Sat.) 0840hrs. Today is the Yang diPertuan Agong's official birthday, so it is a holiday. Surfed the net and read an article in the BBC web site written by the BBC Diplomatic Editor, Brian Hanrahan, on the Tiananmen Square incident. That sparked my thought on the subject and like to put my thought in writing for the future generations. Haha! The West could have exported the Democracy stuff to China long before the establishment of the New China by the great leader MDZ. Instead the world powers were shreding China like the vouchers. Well, the best way to put it across is that DEMOCRACY is just a Luxuary Cruise Yacht a poor man just does not have the time to go on the yacht cruising around. The Westerners can enjoy life simply because they had created the wealth from the profit of the Opium trade, the toils of slaves and the other oppressed peoples from the colonies before. If there is an opportunity they will not hesitate to do it again, I bet you. 8th.Jun.09. (Mon.) 2220hrs. Yesterday morning went to Imbi Road for breakfast after that went to the Hainanese Temple and then to Swee Ing's house. On our return we were called to the Gao association for tea. Went to Lake Garden for evening walk. Fetched the maid back from SS's house and that ended the day. The maid went to SS's new house to help cleaning it before she move in. Today is Monday, nothing special to write about. Tired of commenting anything that has nothing beneficial to myself. 9th.Jun.09. (Tue.) 1700hrs. It was a shining morning until about 3pm., it started raining and it is still drizzling now. I hope it will allow me for the evening walk. Life if peaceful. 11th.Jun.09. (Thu.) 0830hrs. Yesterday, I spent four and a half hours in the Science Centre with LW and the maid while his mother, poh poh and the maids cleaning and washing the new house. There was a kind of exhibition and in there was a kind of computer game that captivated him so much. I did not go in the exhibition hall because the entrance fee was RM10.00 per head. I was very tired and went to bed at 2130hrs. got up at 0530hrs. Did some exercise went to bed again and got up at 0730hrs. 14th.Jun.09. (Sun.) 0805hrs. Friday was a normal and peaceful day. EM came to teach at 1230hrs and went off at about 1330hrs after having lunch. Went for evening walk with mom and the maid. Saturday, that was yesterday, also a quiet day except for my Pin Yin class at 1500hrs. The exception was, took mom to join SS to attend the Silver Park meeting at the Mont Kiara clud at 1300hrs before going to the Pin Yin class. Two more sessions, the class will be over for the lower part, the middle part will begin after two weeks. If I am going to take the middle part I will do it next year because in September the GAO association will be sending a group of about ten members to join the Singapore team to China to visit the site where the first GAO clan supposedly originated. I am happy to see that President Ahmadinejad is re-elected for the political reasons. If people can be happy with the Tiananmen Square incident why not me with the President Ahmadinejad being re-elected. Today, Sunday, the morning is very pleasant. It rained in the later part of yesterday evening and also last night so the morning is cool and bright. 17th.Jun.09. (Wed.) 1435hrs. There was nothing happening for the last two days so there was no writing. It looks like today is also the same. I did not go out at all. Don't go round KL in the Rapid bus lately because the weather makes me reluctant to go out and secondly, it is advised that due to the HINI staff, try to avoid the crowded area, thirdly, the haze is back again. I do surf the net everyday though. Read some good articles written by some fair minded, sane and rationale people on the economic and political issues. 18th.Jun.09. (Thu.) 2210hrs. It is a fine and quiet day. Nothing to report. 20th.Jun.09. (Sat.) 2230hrs. This morning went to SS place to put mom in charge of cleaning the new house while I stayed in her old house to play with LW. In the afternoon went to my Pin Yin class and this is the second last session. Tomorrow will be the last session of the Pin Yin class and there will be a kind of tea party and giving out of certificates on the completion of the course. 21st.Jun.09. (Sun.) 2230hrs. Got the atendance certificate for the Manderine Pin Yin. So now I know something about the mystery of what is called Pin Yin. Since I know the Han characters so Pin Yin will only help me to pronouce the word more accurately, that is all. Ya today is father's day, what a great day for the fathers. Well, I hope fewer people will be willing to become fathers. 23rd.Jun.09. (Tue.) 1700hrs. Did nothing yesterday. Completely rested except went for evening walk for one solid hour. This morning went to a computer training centre in Kepong to enrol myself to learn more on computer, like internet and what not. 25th.Jun.09. (Thu.) 1805hrs. Went for the first computer training lesson in Tmn. Sri Bintang at Kepong. It is OK, at least learn somethng new. Three more sessions to follow. 27th.Jun.09. (Sat.) 2210hrs. For two days, went round Setapak,Ulu Klang, Gombak and Batu Caves with the Rapid Bus. After ten o'clock the bus passengers are a bit thin. Other than that I have nothing much to write about. The rest is rutine. By the way for record purposes, I read Chairman Mao's quotaions before going to sleep. 29th.Jun.09. (Mon.) 1220hrs. Yesterday, a quiet Sunday. Went for Wan Than Mee breadfast at Jln. Imbi. The mee seller moved from Jln. Thong Shin to this new shop. We used to patronised his mee and like it very much so we follow him to this new shop. After breakfast we went to LW's place to fetch our maid home, we loaned him the maid for a day to help in cleaning the new house. Now, the morning is cool and slightly cloudy. It is nice to stay home. 30th.Jun.09. (Tue.) 1600hrs. Went to the 2nd. session of the computer class at 1030hrs for an hour. The next lesson will be at ll00hrs tomorrow. A lot of corrupted Chinese officials, bankers and what not ran away with millions of dollars to the West and they are protected with the excuse that if they were to be sent back to China they would be shot. So what is the difference if a cheater like Madoff is sent to jail for 150 years from being shot. The difference is the Chinese bring in money while Madoff is swindling their money. Yes, no?! 5th.Jul.09. (Sun.) 1030hrs. It is a lovly morning. It was a winddy night and it was foggy in the early morning. Now it is a perfect weather. We got up here yesterday afternoon at 1pm gate time. The place is totally spruced up. The grass is trimmed and all the trees and shrubs are properly shaped. In fact the whole hill is really tidied up after getting RM20 million allocation. The only thing now is to maintain the standard. We plan to go back this evening at 4pm gate time. 7th.Jul.09. (Tue.) 1620hrs. Finished my last four-hour computer lessons. It adds quite a bit to my computer usage experience. Robert McNamara the US Defence Secrectary during the Vietnam War. He was one of the main artitects of the Vietnamese war had died at age 93 yesterday. I wonder how his soul is being treated in the next wrold. I have no sympathy for the Uighurs of Xinjiang in China. They are the ungrateful people. They were the people who were driven out from the Middle East and settled in Xinjiang region. 8th.Jul.09. (Wed.) 1335hrs. They open their mouths with the word "Democracy" and shut their mouths with the word "Human Rights" and they are living with borrowed money by issuing of so-called national or treasury bonds. With any slightest trouble in any country in any part of the world they will be the first to come out to support the trouble makers let it be racial, rioters and seperatists etc.etc. as long as there are people killed or bleedinds. They would normally harbour the criminals, corrupted officials and the half mad politicians that are beneficial to them to be their spokespersons for their particular country when the occasion arised. When do we call these type of people? 9th.Jul.09. (Thu.) 1335hrs. I am very glad to learn that China had quickly, swiftly, resolutely, firmly, unhesitatedly put down the disturbances in Xinjiang. The message is very clear. 10th. Jul. 09. (Fri.) 1850hrs. There is nothing special to write about to-day. The weather is fine and everything seems to be going on normally. I stay at home for the whole day. 11th. Jul.09. (Sat.) 0850hrs. Went to Metropolitan park for a morning walk. Read the newspaper and now here I am. She is staying far away in the strongest country in the waold and from there she is directing the killing and burning in her home land. Then the white reporters come to look at the place and send out reports pictures telling the world how bad the Chinese government is, so on and so forth. The only people who suffer in all this sort of thing is her own kind. I don't understand why they do this. 13th.Jul.09. (Mon.) 1950hrs. If one wants to know anything bad about China, first click on BBC, second on CNN, they are very good at it. However, BBC had established itself as the most reliable news station since the colonial days particularly to the English educated people. During the Japanese occupation there were people tortured to death by the Japs for tunining in to the BBC. For me, I had been always skeptical with the BBC news reports and their write up on the Asian affairs. By now I can safely say that I don't believe in any Western media's reporting. 15th.Jul.09. (Wed.) 2235hrs. There was no internet connection for the whole yesterday. Went to TM point at Titiwangsa to complain and surprisingly the connection came in at about 10pm. I was told to wait for the telecom techincian to contact me as to when he can come to look at the computer. So, I am so happpy to be able to spend my time gainfully to night. 16th.Jul.09. (Thu.) 2015hrs. A fine and peaceful day. Rode the Rapid bus to Gombak area-around the former Mimaland area. It took me four and a half hours for the trip. Started from Ipoh Road, changed bus at Titiwangsa bus station to 12th. mile Goambak and back. 19th.Jul.09. (Sun.) 1030hrs. Friday, did nothing, stayed at home. Saturday, went round town with mum. Visited a Chinese goods whole sale warehouse at Sg. Besi road. Rounded the Pudu, Jln. Pasar area. The weather is glorious at this moment. Nothing special happening. A yound Chinese an aide to the state assemblyman fell to his death from the MACC (anti-corruption) office building like the CIA or KGB style. He was from DAP and was taken in by the MACC for interrogation for misuse of allocation funds from the Govt. The incident happeened two days ago. 20th.Jul.09. (Mon.) 2145hrs. The aide was buried today. The incident had created a kind of gloomy atmosphere in the air. Someone can just be found dead at the foot of a building in such a mysterious circumstances. As for myself, I went to Kota Damansara with the Rapid Bus. I enjoyed the ride. It took me half of the morning, that is from 10am to 3.30 pm. 22nd.Jul.09. (Wed.) 2155hrs. Tuesday, went to Silverpark managing office to pay maintenance fees in the morning part. Stayed at home for the whole day except going to Metropolitan Park at night with Mom and the maid. Today is Wednesday. Nothing to report. Stayed at home for the day and went for evening walk. 23rd.Jul.09. (Thu.) 1730hrs. She had declared to be back in Asia. The experience we had was wherever she treaded there was nothing but sorrow and misery. ( I hope you know which country I mean.) Coincidentally I read an article in the internet carry the same idea as what I was thinking in my mind after reading the news that (she) is returning to Asia. The article mentioned that (she) had come to sow the seeds of trouble in the area. 24th.Jul.09. (Fri.) 2235hrs. Went to OUG in Rapid Bus, after which went to have a bowl of mee for lunch at about 2.30pm. in a coffee shop in Foch Avenue. Lost the false teeth after taking it out for the mee. Will go to the coffee shop again tomorrow to see whether they find it or not when they sweep the floor for the day. 26th.Jul.09. (Sun.) 2155hrs. The false teeth confirmed lost. The staff of the coffee shop did not find it when she swept the shop at end of the day's business. Mum had gone on 2 days and 2 nights tour of East Coast, Kelantan and Trengganu starting from Friday night. So I had been all alone for the last two days. Went to Klang for the Gao assn. committee meeting and lunch. Just for the sake of change instead of the normal norms. Had a nap and an evening walk at the lake Garden. 28th.Jul.09. (Tue.) 1140hrs. Yesterday went to the dentist to take the mould for my false teeth at Subang Parade. SS took me there by her car and I came home by Rapid Bus from Subang to the Klang bus stand and from Centrl Market by Metro Bus to Jln. Ipoh. All that took half of the day. Took a nap and went for eveing walk. Today, the Start with the title" Uighur premiere a sell-out Down Under". After reading the article I feel that the organiser of the film fesital and the film maker are gloating that they have achieved the purpose of antagonising so many many people. For mysself I would love to see a film showing the life of the originator of the Sept. 11, to see how he planned the whole plot. He is a real genius because he could fooled the people who have been always boasting about themselves and also he had changed the course of world history. I was so happy to see the plane that smashed into the tall building and the cowards screaming and scrabling for cover. 31st.Jul.09. (Fri.) 1735hrs. Wednesday, spent the whole morning in SS house to accompany LP and the maids because Sri. has gone to the University Hospital to report sick for stomach ache. Picked up LW from his class. Thursday, I myself went to the govt. clinic in the Ipoh Road to extract blood for examination and also to complain the right side of my adoman is feeling uncomfortable. The doc. wants me to take an X-ray before deciding what is the problem. Today, went to Selayang Hospital in the morning to make an appointment for the X-ray and so it was fixed for next Monday morning(3rd.Aug.09). Before the X-ray I was supposed to clear my stomach by taking pills for two days. Went to the dentist at Subang Parade to test the false teeth at 1200hrs. It turned out to be OK. The next appointment will be next Thursday.(7th.Aug.09). 1st.Aug.09. (Sat.) 1530hrs. Do you want to be known? Do like Rebiya Kadeer and Dalai did. Rebiya was invited to Japan immediately after the racial riot in Xinjiang where about 200 people were killed mostly th Han race. She will be invited to visit Australia after this, according to the news report today. In Japan Rebiya declared that more than 10,000 of her own race disappeared over night after the riot. They had disappeared without any trace whatsoever, probably being eatten up. If it is true, the disappearance should continue so that the Uigburs will perish from this earth quickly. The same thing happened to the Dalai, he was invited to visit Europe immediately after the riot in Tibet. 3rd.Aug.09. (Mon.) 1625hrs. Yesterday was Sunday, went to Kota Damansara for a look-see and tried to go to the Leper settlement but could not find the way due to poor road signs. Had a big Mac. for lunch at the Jln. Pahang outlet, all this was done with mom of course. In the evening, went to Lake Garden for a long walk and some exercises with the open air gym equipment. Today, Monday, went to the Selayang Hospital for my X-ray on the right bottom side of my abdomen because I feel painful on and off. I will confirm its readiness tomorrow before collecting it for the doctor to say what is wrong with me. 5th.Aug.09. (Wed.) 1240hrs. Yesterday, went to Selayang Hospital to collect the X-ray film. The result is OK, nothing wong is found. The doctor gave me some medecine to clear up my urine and asked me to return for a urine test on the 7th. of Aug. Today, the title 'Clinton, 2 journalsts depart DPRK for US' aroused my feeling of anger. This is a typical story of betrayal of one's own race for the foreign race for their own selfish end. (Please read the story.) The two reporters are no better than two dead corpses to their own kind. 7th.Aug.09. (Fri.) 1910hrs. Went round with Rapid Bus to Mah Sing kampong at the Subang district area. It is a newly opened industrial estate. It is at the outskirt of Subang Town. It took about one and a half hours of bus ride. So all in all I spent about five hours in the whole journey from home. It was an enjoyable exercise. The two US journalists of the Korean origin had done very well for the propaganda purpose with the tearful happiness and embraces of their saviours. It was all shown in the TV for the whole world to see. 9th.Aug.09. (Sun.) 1205hrs. Yesterday was Saturday, rested at home for the whole day after the long journey in the Rapid Bus on Friday. In the evening went to Lake Garden for walk and exercise. There was not many children playing due to the HINI and haze. However I enjoyed it very much. This morning got up at 6am. Read newspapers after tea and bread as usual. Plan to go to GAO assn. for chinese tea and after that go to SS's house to take LW to the Lake Garden. That will be the day. 11th.Aug.09. (Tue.) 1640hrs. After the Sunday evening walk, so stayed at home resting the whole Monday except walking to Taman Kok Lian in the afternoon just to get a bit of exercise and a bit of hot sun. This morning went to the govt. clinic for urine test. A trace of blood is still in it so I have to go back there next week. 15th.Aug.09. (Sat.) 1440hrs. The internet connection had been on and off for the last three to two days. Went to the TM point at the Titiwangsa to sort out the problem but it did not do a good job, till now the connection is still is still the smae. Rang up for Lip to come to have a look at it. It was terrible without the internet. I felt that I had been out of this world and also the time was so difficult to pass. However, there was nothing great happening in the last three days worth recording about. 17th.Aug.09. (Mon.) 1535hrs. To get help from the Telecom is really tough. They will push you off politely with all kind of excuses such as asking you to check your computer connections with funny funny technical terms as long as they don't have to do anything. My internet connection had been on and off for the last few days a least four days already. It is really frustrating. 20th.Aug.09. (Thu.) 0714hrs. The telecom man came to get my computer working again yesterday. It makes me very happy because it enables me to pass my time happily. There was nothing much to write about for the last few days. The days passed on peacefully and beautifully. 22nd.Aug.09. (Sat.) 1848hrs. Yesterday took Rapid Bus to One Utama via Damansara side i.e. by Northern route. The purpose was to explore the shopping complex to make more familiar. As it is now, we are so confuse with the shopping complex. Today is Sunday, I cut short the writting yesterday because mom was ready to go for the evening walk. We went to the lake garden for the walk. It was very very quiet because it was the first day of the muslims fasting month. 23rd.Aug.09. (Sun.) 1220hrs. Last night we watched the MJ TV show up to 0100hrs. Believe it or not before this I really did not know what he did and what he sang to make him so famous. As far as I know none of his songs is nice to me. I could not make out what he sang about except screaming. To me his dancing is so monotonous and meaningless. However, I must admit that a lot, a lot of people like it. I got up at seven and now we are prepaing to go to Melaka with EM for two nights stay. The newspaper is full of reports on the released of the Lockerbie bomber. It upsets the famalies of the victims of the disater in US and this I think served them right just like inviting the Dalai Lama and protecting Rebiya Kadeer by ignoring the feeling of others. 25th.Aug.09. (Tue.) 2010hrs. Went to Melaka with EM on Sunday evening because EM wanted to see Mai Wah. Passed two nights and returned this afternoon. Too tired to write anything. However, I enjoyed the walk in the Bukit China among the graves and walked along the river banks. 28th.Aug.09. (Fri.) 1050hrs. Telecom Malaysia blamed us for failing to pay June's bill, so they cut off our line for two days and just restored it this morning. We went to complain at the TM point yesterday they promised that the restpration would be done after four hours and that should be at 4.30pm yesterday. Of course it was uncomfortable without the internet surfing. lst.Sep.09. (Tue.) 1745hrs. Absent for two days. Went to Betong, a small Thai town as large as Seremban located in the Sourthern Thailand and North of Malaysian border. By road we have to go through Baling in Perak. That area was infested with the Malayan Communist Guerrillas during the Malayan Emergency(1948-1961). Now we know that they had a permanent base there and after the peace accord they opened it for us to visit to see how they had been living there. That is the reason I am interested to go there. What I found out that they were doing exactly like what the Viet Cong did in Vietnam except that it was in a smaller scale. Of course Viet Cong had the direct aid from China and Russia. 3rd.Sep.09. (Thu.) 2055hrs. The day when I spend RM 1.00 can go round the whole KL had come to an end on the 1st.Sep.09.. Now every trip must be paid separately. For example, last time I paid RM 1.00 ticket I could go to Jusco in Kepong and with the same ticket came back home. But now I have to spend RM 1.80 to go and come back. (Remember I am a senior citizen.) Yesterday I went to Chow Kit area for a walk and today I went to Kepong area for a walk at the same just wanted to know what the charging system is all about. 5th.Sep.09. (Sat.) 1535hrs. Yesterday went to pay the Silverpark apartment's maintenance fees but failed to do so because we could not get a place to park our car. The city was choked with Hari Raya shoppers. Rested at home for the rest of the day. This morning we went to collect our passports from the tour agency after getting the visa for China trip and returned after lunch at the Batu village. The city is jammed with vehicles. 8th.Sep.09. (Tue.) 1005hrs. Sunday, took our maid to SS house becasue SS and family went to PD for three days. Went to GAO assn. to find out the final details for my China trip. Went for evening walk and round up the day. Monday, that was yesterday, went to Silverpart office in town to pay the maintenance fees for the second quarter of '09. Also went to the business registration office to renew the business licence for the bas sekolah. At this poin of time there is no plan for today. It most probably will be a peaceful day. 18th.Sep.09. (Fri.) 1113hrs. Arrived home at about 0330hrs. this morning. It was an interesting and tiring journey. We moved every night from city to city. All in all we travelled about 15ookgs in the central region. We visited the origin of GAO ancester and his grave. The visit had fulfilled my wish of founding the GAO association. Impression of China: Every Chinese is like a worker-ant or worker-bee. It will definitly be a great nation. 23th.Sep.09. (Wed.) 1040hrs. Hari Rays fell on Sunday and Monday, so Tuesday took the place of Sunday. There was nothing much taking place during the long spell of holiday. We took the opportunity to go round the city and of caurse it was devoid of vehicles. We took a complete rest during the holidays. 27th.Sep.09. (Sun.) 0200hrs. I just find that I have nothing worthwhile to write about. When I read the newspapers daily I find that there are a lot of complaints. Practically complaints for every subject that is happening. My own problem lately is that I annot sleep a long deep sleep at night. I would get up after about one or one and a half hours stretch and then refused to fall asleep again. Other than that I am feeling OK. 29.Sep.09. (Tue.) 0334hrs. Neighbour's dog woke me up at 0230hrs. and could not fall asleep again, so got up and surfed the net. Yesterday, stayed at home the whole day. Went for a one hour forty five minutes evening walk. Went to bed at 2330hrs. 1st.Oct.09. (Thu.) 1346hrs. I wish China a happy 60th. National Day. I am really fortunate that in my twilight years I finally able to see a China that is growing from strength to strength. A China which can do things on its own ideas without resorting to copying from others. China had suffered a lot from the Imperialism, Colonalism and Militarism. I hopr when it becomes strong it will be a peaceful, co-operative and harmonious nation.
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badipaddress Talk	2010 April 24 Start here pa. 26th.Apr.10. (1430hrs.) It is nice to have the diary page back again. At least I can just scribble some nonsense in it. It may be able to tell volume after fifty years from now. 4th.May.10. (Tue.) 1100hrs. Don't know why the internet failed to connect. Called a chap to put it right and cost me RM 180.00. Secondly my diary 6 was filled to the brim. All these caused me stop writing for a few days. On the top of it I felt there was nothing worth writing about. This morning took the bus to town. Walked to Yow Chuan Plaza in Bukit Bintang from Kota Raya just to look around the computer stalls just to see if there is anything new. Well, sorry,there appeared to be nowmal stuff. 6th.May.10. (Wed.) 1755hrs. For the last few days when the computer blackout, the thing I missed most was the CCTV News. I just didn't know how to pass my time without it. EM had just left the house after the piano lessons and I am getting ready for my evening walk at 1830rhs because the sun is still shining brightly at this moment. The weather is not comforting. It is so humid in spite of it rains practically every envening. 9th.May.10. (Sun.) 0835hrs. It is a bright and if not for parking dogs it would be a quiet morning. The air is humid but not as humid as before. It is quite comfortable. I have nothing to write about' the world is kind to me. I surf the net knowing all the troubles in the world. I read the newpapers and learnt all the abull sit. I have enough of sleep and exercises so I feel very well and healthy. With all these, so what is the problem. By the way mum is in Hatnya. She will be back to-night. Pa: Glad that you healthy and happy. Keep it up. What did the computer repair man do for you? Aik-Siong 10th.May.10. (Mon.) 2235hrs. I am now in SS's house because we have to let LW to fall asleep before we come otherwise he will be too excited to go to sleep. We come here because mum has something to do with SS. By the way today is mum's biethday. We don't do anything to celebrate it. We treat it as a normal day. We have had enough of eating so there is nothing more to enjoy eating. Pa: We sent mum a Happy Birthday Card sometime back. Hope you have gotten that. We had sent something for Siow Sing's birthday but she says she hasn't received it after many many weeks! Did you see my question above? Aik-Siong 13th.May.10. (Thu.) 0734hrs. Today is the famous May13 of Malaysia. The Malay NGO by the name of GERAKAN KEBANGKITAN RAYAT (GERTAK）was planning to hold a rally themed 'MELAYU BANGKIT' in Trengganu today. It was reported that the former PM Mahatir was invited to speak at the rally. But alas it was cancelled on the advise of the Police. As to why they choose today to do it is a mystery. Your guess is as good as mine. The morning is cloudy and not so humid, it is quite pleasant. 15t.May.10. (Sat.) 1830hrs. The weather is fine for the whole day. I am waiting for it to cool down a bit before going for the evening walk. This morning mum and I went to the Jln. Pahang Mc.Donald for a pancake breadfast. Well, that is my day. Pa: Is GERTAK a politcal party? What is their goal? Aik-Siong 19th.May.10. (Wed.) 2200hrs. It is not a polical party, it's a Malay NG0 by the name of GERAKAN KEBANGKIAN RAYAT. It is fighting for the rights of the Malays. UMNO as a political party has got to be a bit subtle and diplomatic althought it represents the Malays. Today is another day although I had been a bit busy with the affairs of the JOB since we don't have a management company to run it for us. So we have to handle the business of running it ourselves, such thing like sending off the invoices and maintaining the satements of accounts etc. 22nd.May.10. (Sat.) 1820hrs. Went to Jln. Pahang Mc.Donald's for pan cakes breakfast with mum then went to town centre to look at the Pudu Raya bus station which is under renovation now. It will take about four months to be ready. The street is a pleasure to drive through now. It was a hell for motor vehicles. The new temporary station is located by the side of the City Police headquarters in front of the old pudu Prison. Actually it is better for it to be there permanently. Due to the bad economic situation, the old Pudu Prison and the Merdeka Stadium are still standing there in the rundown state. By the way the Pudu Preson is no more in use. Pa: You and mum seems to like McDonald's pancake. How did you discover it? Aik-Siong 26th.May.10. (Wed.) 0725hrs. Well, to answer your question is simple. I can read and write can't I? So I read the adverts and find out what is good to eat etc. Although I don't buy a lot of things but I do want to know what is avaible for us. I had been eating the pancakes in Singapore when you were there but stangely enough the pancakes have just been introduced to KL very lately. Pa: School is over. So everyone is in the holiday mood - watching movies, graduation parties, sleepovers, games, TV, etc. Aik-Siong 2nd.Jun.10. (Wed.) 0710hrs For us the two-week school holidays will begin at the end of this week. For the time being we don't have any holiday plan. Most probably we will stay in. I am not very keen of going to the Shanghai Expo after seeing the crowd in the CCTV news through the TVU player. CCTV news shows us about the expo at 1210hrs everyday. Of course it is more interesting if we can be there in person. At the moment there is no tour agency arranging to go to the expo exclusively. I am waiting to see the result of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 3rd.Jun.10. (Thu.) 2115hrs. Star 'Feds meet film director about spill' AP. Quite right get the film director to do something real for a change instead of creating the nonsense to make the fools' money. Ya, if they fail I would recommend that they come to Malaysia to ask for bomohs' help. Where are the MIT engineers? 5th.Jun.10. (Sat.) 0540hrs. Heaven is great, let the Big Brother has some discomfort with the oil spill. Otherwise they are too comfortable to creat mischief around the world. When one or two mad men started chopping people in the street in China the western press said it is a social unheaval due to discontend with the govt. Now that a taxi driver gunning down people in England, what do we call it? 8th.Jun.10. (Tue.) 1750hrs. This is the month of Jun. and Jun. 4th. had passed a few days ago. The foreign media is still bring up the Tiananmen Square thing again. Does it matter who ordered the use of force to crush the mob. The fact is without crushing the riot at that time it wouldn't have the China of today. It will be a scientific China in say ten years' time. That is what the Chinese had been fighting for all this time. Whoever wanted it to be as what it was during the era of the Manchu Dynasty must be a traitor to China. Every thinking Chinese will take it that the crushing of the Tiananmen mob was a blessing in disquise. Thank Heaven. 10th.Jun.10. (Thu.) 0505hrs. Yesterday,went to the Science Centre with Lip Wern. We spent more than 31/2 hrs in there. It seems that he enjoy staying there playing around with the digital staff. He made friends easily. It raining the whole evening so there was no evening walk, will walk this morning. It seems that the Afghans are better fighters than the Iraqis. They have done more harms to the Nato troops. That is good, let them know they just cannot walk in anywhere they like and win. 12th.Jun.10. (Sat.) 0818hrs. This morning at 0600hrs read the article 'China: the new Silican Valley ?' in the CNN website. It is a stimulating article. I write this down because I want to know as to when it will become reality. It was reported that China is currently in the number two position in the the super computer race. In the articles those smart people say that the Chinese education does not make the Chinese innovative until two generations to come. So they can still relax. Remember the hare in the hare and the tortoise race? I hope it will be like tath, so let us see! At the meantime let them dance and sing and relax in the beaches. 14th.Jun.10. (Mon.) 0730hrs. It is a cloudy morning but the air is humid. The humid weather had been here for quite sometime and it lasts longer this year. It makes us feel uncomfortable with sticky skin and the air is suffocating like. On Saturday night Lip Wern came to our house after riding the buggy and played at the children play ground. He brought along his Avata disc to show the film to us. Of course we have heard a lot about the film. We heard about its revolutionary creativity and innovation etc. etc. Well, it is a typical American stereotype. The Colonel is the typical American who believes in voilence military fire power to subdue other people. SS was busy cooking something to entertain the folks from Canada who were going back after about a week's stay. They came to celebrate Lip's mother's 85th. birthday. So she asked us to look after LW for a while. 18th.Jun.10. (Fri.) 1840hrs. I feel guilty for not writing anything at all for the last four days because I have nothing to write about. Of course there are a lot of things to talk about but will it help to solve them. So it is better to be silence and be happy. Let us be the spectators rather than the busybodies. Pa: You are doing well writing at all. How is the Koh Association? Are you watching World Cup football? Aik-Siong 20th.Jun.10. (Sun.) 2200hrs. I was born during the no fathers's day era, so father's day is not a celebrated day for me and I also think it has no real meaning in it. Just imagine if half of all the fathers are really fulfilly theirs obligations as fathers then the world would have been better than what it is now. We didn't know where to go so we decided to go to Sungei Wang for a jalan jalan and ended up at the Lot. 10 hawker center for lunch. I had my normal "wantan mee" while mama had a roasted duck rice. The hawkers in the Lot.10 are the ones that have had more than fifty's years history operating in KL city. They have been hand picked by the boss of Lot. 10 to carry out their business in there. The place was purposely designed for it. It is a decent place to eat our food. Next time when u people come back here we will never take u all to go to the hawker center in Kepong for food. It is a horrible place. Pa: That is interesting to know about Lot 10. What was the price of your wan ton mee? Aik-Siong. 22nd.Jun.10. (Tue.) 0825hrs. The price is reasonable at RM8.50 and the taste is good plus the place is of a high standard with the cleanliness etc. To put it in a nutshell it is worth it. If we want to maintain high standard of lifestyle we must pay for it if it is reasonable. The sequence of my surfing the internet is first I go to the BBC and second to the CNN and follow to the China Daily, Xinhuanet, Singaore's Zaobao and Malaysiakini. I go to the BBC first because it carries the whole world's news the fastest and also I read English faster than the Chinese. Secondly I can read bad news from China faster and more thoroughly because they love something bad to happen there. BBC also carries more UK and European news items. CNN carries more US news and also reporting negenative news from China extensively. They spice the Chinese news with the derogatory discriptions. They always try to give you the impression that the Chinese is all the time follow the tune of the Uncle Sam. This morning there was an article on the floating of the Yuen is a good example. (To know more must read the article yourself. It is in the CNN website.) Pa: I am glad that noodle were worth it. I once had wanton mee in Mandarin Hotel in Singapore which cost S$15 and it was horrible. Huge amounts of cha siew and wantan that was out of proportion with the mee. I am glad that you are reading the world. The internet has given everyone a chance to have their say and we are free to choose. Do recognize that nations are always competing - that is human nature. Love to you and mum. Aik-Siong 27th.Jun.10. (Sun.) 2045hrs. Well, it is time for me to write something. It had been a four-blank days. It didn't occur to me before but it occur to me this evening when I watch the TV news. I saw those G8 leaders laughing and jokingly walked to their conferences. I come to realise that they are nobody but "kaki hutang", they borrow money to run their countries. The only thing I admire them is their talkings. They can talk beautifully. 28th.Jun.10. (Mon.) 1600hrs. If I am not mistaken,yesterday I read a survey that most of the Americans believe that in the next 40yrs there will be a world war. At first I brushed it off as one of those nonsense staff as always appeared in the newspaper but then after pondering it a bit deeper it occurred to me that it can happen. U know why, now they 'hutang' to pass the days, in forty years time they will have nowhere to 'hutang' from, then they must start to rob, then of course there will be war. That was how the colonialism started because they started to rob other people because they have superior weapons. Isn't it logical?!. 29th.Jun.10. (Tue.) 2045hrs. I lernt from the history book that Chinese monks went to India to learn Buddhism and Indian philosophy etc.etc. I was thinking that why they didn't go a bit further to Greece or any other places where the modern civilisation was beginning to bloom. Well, my idea is being realised now. The Greece govt. had signed quite a bit of agreements with China among them is allowing the Chinese to build a hotel and that they are encouraging the Chinese tourists to visit the country. By so doing I hope that the Chinese will pick up some of the Western civilisations from them. So finally after seventy years at last I see it happens. Pa: Yep, the Chinese are on a roll. Hope that they are wise like Lee Kwan Yew. Singapore is rank only behind Geneva and Zurich as most livable cities. You are writing about your thoughts. That is great. Love Aik-Siong 3rd.Jul.10. (Sat.) 0400hrs. Lately, say beginning from this year, after about two hours of sleep I will wake up fresh refuse to fall asleep again. So, to kill time I surf the net. Luckily I have the computer to keep me amused. Yesterday I was reading about the deciphering of the 'Plato Code' by a professor and on the side line it was stated that Plato once said: Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Do you think I should say anything at all? Pa: I think you should always say as much as you can especially if you are wise. You need to convince the listeners that you are wise. That is why advertising is so so effective. They say more than anyone else. Do not be shy to talk now. You have the benefit of age and experience. Aik-Siong. testing testing 10th.Jul.10. (Sat.) 1830hrs. Now, I am back in business. It is raining now, it stops me from going for my evening walk. The hot spell seems to be over now. Fow time being I don't seem to have anything to write about, everything is more or less the same. 12th.Jul.10. (Mon.) 0025hrs. Well, to be exact now is Monday morning. Because I can't sleep, so I start to write this stuff. Being a Sunday we had a lot of time to nap so this is what happened. It was a peaceful Sunday. we had a lot of rest. In the evening part we went to the Lake Garden with the two maids and the little emperor LW because his parents wanted to go to Church without him. We enjoyed playing badminton and playing in the children play ground. We totally spent about two hours there before sending him back. 13th.Jul.10. (Tue.) 1830hrs. Went to town by bus and spent about 3hrs there so there is no evening walk. At the sametime it looks like it is going to rain. The purpose of going to town is to make myself tired. On returning from town I had a sound nap for more than an hour. True enough the rain is here already. 14th.Jul.10. (Wed.) 2330hrs. I took half an hour to write down today's event but unfortunately mum switch off the router before I could 'save page' it. She does not know what the heck the router is for. She just wants to save electricity. The time now is 0030hrs Thursday morning. So that's it, I am going to sleep. 17th.Jul.10. (Sat.) 1240hrs. I wanted to write something but when I opened up my computer I was tempted to surf the net first and once starting to surf the net it will be the end of it. Because there are so many things to read. So, this morning I started to begin with the Wiki first. Well, the morning is bright but not burning hot and mom and the maid had gone for shopping as to day is Saturday. I will be staying home till my evening walk time. Nowadays I do my exercise at the Taman Rainbow gargen with the various exercise equipt first before going for my walk. The whole process will take about two solid hours every day just to make myself really tired. It is noted that the West has quite successfully test flight the solar plane. That is typical of the West before anythinng else they started to talk about how to employ this technology into the military use. Currently their unmaned aeroplane had done a lot of killing on the civilian population in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 18th.Jul.10. (Sun.) 1830hrs. Actually EM invited us to go to Melaka to pay a visit to Mei Wah and the rest before she depart to Canada. I feel Melaka is so boring that I choose to stay back. We went to Kepong for a roas-duck lunch after which we went to a newly opened Tesco shopping mall near by for a look-see. On coming back we had a good nap. It is raining now so I just have to stay back from my evening walk. That will be my Sunday today. 20th.Jul.10. (Tue.) 1355hrs. Hurray!! The uncle sams have perfected the use of laser weapons to keep the world-peace. Most of the main Western papers are praising of its achievement. They are boasting about its capability. They are showing it off in the Famborough Air Show in England. I went to the air show when I was in England in 1959. At the mean time it was reported that the Chinese had destroyed their own satellite in space and the West is comdaming it for their own good reasons. To me it is great, since the chinese have the ability to make the wstern world alarm, that must be something fantastic. 22nd.Jul.10. (Thu.) 0100hrs. Got up after one and half hours of sleep. And now plus a bad cough in the middle of the night makes life quite uncomfortable. Surfed the net and come to this 'Green fury over China's golfing Hawaii' in the CNN. Just because people can do bigger things than they can they start to say a lot of nonsense. This is a typical sour grapes mentality of the westerners. They bring in the environmentalists all that sort of bull sit. If they build this kind of project in US, they would boast about the grand designs etc.etc., the normal stuff as normal. Betul busy body, lah! If something would happen to the three gorge dam today they would be laughing to death but they are numb now. I would say they are the 'hati busuk' lot. With that I am going to sleep again. testing testing 29th.Jul.10. (Thu.) 2120hrs. The electric railway line from Sentul to Batu Cave started operating today. In the morning to rode to Batu Cave and returned in the same coach and rode again in the evening for exercise purposes, so climbed the 272 stairs cases and returned. The ride was smooth, at least much better than before. It is smooth and not so noisy. It is for free now until 4th. of Aug after which the fare from Sentul to Batu Cave will be RM 2/=. For people living in our area it will be cheaper to take bus to the centre of KL. It also will only cost RM1/= only. 1st.Aug.10. (Sun.) 0725hrs. Wanted to write but after surfing the net it was too tired to write anything because there were so many things to read in the net. As I said before wherever they tread there will deaths and sufferings follow. Two or three days ago she came to attend the ASEAN summit meeting in Vietnam and spoke of her national interest in the South China seas there followed the flurry of claims on the islands in the area. Nations involved started to buy submarines, aircrafts and military build-up. 4th.Aug.10. (Wed.) 1305hrs. In the last few days I had been busy with the free train rides from Batu Kemtonmen station to Batu Cave as well as to Sentral station. I visited the old main railway station which I came to know in l952 when I took the train From Tampin railway station to Taiping to join the 1st. Bn. Federation Regiment. After which I used to stop at the station whenever I travelled between North and South of the country. In particular I liked to stop at the Gallaway Clud for a evening meal of baked beans, sausage, fried eggs, bacon and bread and of course BEER. Gallaway Clud was part of the NAFFI organisation for the Commenwealth troop staioned in the then Malaya. Note: we have to change train at the KL main station when we travelled between North and South or to East Coast. By the way the club was situated in front of the Mail Railway Station. Today is the last day of free train ride between Sentul and Batu Cave. 6th.Aug.10. (Fri.) 2230hrs. Went to the govt. clinic for my cough. The cough stop for two days after finishing the medicine and it started again last night. It had been quiet for the last days. Stayed at home and rest. 8th.Aug.10. (Sun.) 0835hrs. Yesterday (7.8.10. Sat.) attended the wedding of the daughter of my uncle's daughter in a church in old Klang Road. We arrived home at about three thirty pm. It was a simple church wedding followed by a buffet party. It was an enjoyable occasion where I met the old Malacca folks whom I had missed for so long. 9th.Aug.10. (Mon.) 2230hrs. Yesterday Sunday and today rested at home for the whole day except for the evening walk. Had quite a cough for about two weeks. 10th.Aug.10. (Tue.) 1815hrs. The weather is very oppressive, the body is sweaty all the time feeling very uncomfortable. I choose to stay at home because I did not get a good night sleep due to the caough. It is OK it well be over soon. Instead of the evening walk mum and I plan to take a train ride to KL. The school will be over a bit earlier due to the beginning of puasa month. To night they are going to see the moon so the puasa will start either tomorrow or day after tomorrow as usual. 14th.Aug.10. (Sat.) 0800hrs. After travelling by train to town, it is found that it is better than travelling by bus to KL. It costs RM l.00 to reach Sentral in Brickfield or any station before it. It is more comfortable with the ample air-con. So my previous assumption was totally wrong. The political situation in the Far East is again tense due to a number of military exercises held in the Yellow Seas and the South China Seas between the US and its stooges. As I wrote a few days ago wherever they tread it will be deaths and miseries. She came and spoke of her national interests in the Asean summit at the end of last month, that's it trouble is brewing since then. 15th.Aug.10. (Sun.) 0845hrs. During the Mancho time the Emperor would have gone to the Heavenly Temple to pray for devine mercy for the disasters that had happened in China. They could not do anything else except to leave the victims to their own fates. During the KMT time the govt. would wait for aids from their benefactors the Uncle Sam and other Western democratic countries. But now the govt. did not ask any help from anybody except mounting the rescue operations on their own. The Western press is quiet about it and the so-called activists normally are so noisy and are so noiseless now, so one can assume that the rescue effort must be OK. In Pakistan with the flood ravaging the country the picture is different and the reports from the Western press is somewhat hopeless. Of course they have an elected govt. elected by the people. So what? 17th.Aug.10. (Tue.) 1700hrs. I have a complete rest since yester and to-day because of gout. Went to the 24hr klinic at 0030hrs on Monday morning. It cost RM75.00 for it. At this point of time it is ok. Just finished reading from the BBC website that the US military is concerned about the rise of the Chinese military power. They are pulling out of Iraq very soon after messing up the poor country thoroughly and planning to pull out of Afghan pretty soon and now it is preparing a new advanture. How come the creator can creat these type of human beings to punish the mankind? 22nd.Aug.10. (Sun.) 2200hrs. Two days ago I wrote about my going to KL by train for beef noodle at the usual mee stall on the 19th. of Aug. The next day I did the same thing but this time I went to Lot. 10 for the beef noodle (kun lou) at the suposedly the best and the oldest mee seller in KL. But when I clicked on the 'Save page' it was not saved due to the some technical problem. Well, yesterday we went to FH just to see how it is now. The surrounding is kept clean but the buildings are getting old. According to the supervisor there some of the buildings' roof is rotting. At this point of time nobody seems to know what is going to happedn. 26th.Aug.10. (Thu.) 0750hrs. Life is going on prety well except for two things, one is the cough which does not show any sign of letting off. The second thing is the management office clerk had created a bit of discomfort by not banking in the collection for the month of August. We had to chase her to do it many many times. Finally she backed in the money at 7pm. We had thought that she may have used up the monery. Normally that is the case, people just cannot see monry. I am sending letters to the unitowners to bank in the maintenance and other fees direct to our own account instead of going through her from lst. of Sept. That will save us from misery and agony. 29th.Aug.10. (Sun.) 0850hrs. It is a fine Sunday morning. It is not very sunny but the air is humid. Mum is away in Hatnya and the house is in deep silence. The China Press reporter and a photographer came to visit the GAO assocition and held a discusson on the activities of the association yesterday afternoon. Hope that the publication of the association story will attract more GAO people to join. 30th.Aug.10. (Mon.) 2145hrs. Today is the Merdeka Day eve, I don't notice anything special. Went to town to pass time. Napped and went for a walk in the Metropolitan Garden. 4th.Sep.10. (Sat.) 1920hrs. Merdeka Day had come to pass there was nothing good and nothing bad happened. My daily life was unchange. Today Mum, I, the maid and LP took the train to Mid. Valley. The train was packed to and fro due to coming Hari Raya I think. We spent about three hours there roaming around. 7th.Sep.10. (Tue.) 2230hrs. Yesterday Mum and I took the train to Sentral and then change to monorail to Sg.Wang we plan to roam around there but a phone call spoiled our plan. The phone call was from a law firm telling us that a carrier serviceman will be delivering the house agreement to our house at about two pm. So we cut short our trip but finally the delivery was not done. The agreement is about a house belong to Ah Choo transferred to mum for giving her a loan to buy her present house. The agreement finally was delivered today afternoon. Today originally we planned to take a train trip stopping at Bank Negara and then to Sogo with LW thinking that he is having a school holiday. It turned out that he has a tuition class in the afternoon, so the trip was postphoned to tomorrow. His mother drove him to our house and kept him with us while she went for an hair cut. They left after her mother's hair-cut was done and mum had prepared his favourite fried rice was consumned. 10th.Sep.10. (Fri.) 1340hrs. Today is Hari Raya Adifiltri, so it is a holiday. The weather is cloudy and quite pleasantly cool. I am to rest at home and will go for the evening walk. I am anxiously waiting to see as to whether they will really carry out the burning of the Koran as planned on 9/11. 11th.Sep.10. (Sat.) 2120hrs. I am the saddest man this evening. I learnt from the 8pam TV news that the bonfire as promised did not materialised. I want it to happen so that the whole world will be in flame. That will make everybody busy to look after oneself. When everyone is at peace more mischief will be created to make people restless. This morning three of us took a train ride to midvalley for a spree. We spent the whole morning there until 4pm. Mum bought a pair of Adidas sport shoes for 300ringgits. 12th.Sep.10. A relax Sunday doing nothing. 13th.Sep.10. Spent the whole morning in doing something for the JOB such things like getting 2009's bank statements for Auditting since the Badaraya is asking for it etc. Read articles on 9/ll incident on its 9th. comemorations.It was a simple incident but on its 9th. year it had become something of a different character. Will the date of 9/11 be a turning point for USA. Just like the Chinese saying say: can a small spark turn into a wildfire? 15th.Sep.10. (Wed.) 2200hrs. Because of my cough syrup it makes me feel sleeping. So I have been sleeping more than ever before and it makes me feel lazy as well. Stayed at home since Monday after seeing the doctor. I feel better after taking the medicine. I had been seeing two doctors before this but it did not cure my cough but with this doctor she may have given me the right kind of medicine and it maes me feel very much better. I hope by tomorrow it will be totally cured. 18th.Sep.10. (1730hrs.) Finally Se Mui's wedding day had arrived. We went to his appartment to wait for the bride and the bridegroom to arrive for the "chim cha" ceremony but they were so late that all the guests were hungry and with their agreement we had the lunch without them. They finally arived at about 1.30pm and after the lengthy "chim cha" ceremony we left for home at about 3.30pm. After a short nap we are now going to SS's house to meet up with EM to proceed to the restaurant at Midvally in the Unser 21st.Sep.10. (1355hrs.) 19th. Sunday. Gao Assn. held a Moon Cake celebration for the members from 1500-1700hrs. 20th. Monday. The Han couple was taken by Mai Chin and the gang went to shopping for the whole day and had some kind of farewell dinner in a nearby restaurant with us attending. They left for Hainan Island this morning at 0600hrs. They rang up to say they have arrived at about 1000hrs. The sky is cloudy and the North-East monsoon is round the corner and more rainny days are expected. 23rd.Sep.10. (1750hrs.) 22nd.Sep.10. Attended a farewell dinner in a Bamboo Garden restaurant for the Tan group from Hainan island. So the wedding episod has come to and end. The new chapter is to begin. Let us see how the life story is to progress. Now I am interested in following the story of the forthcoming commenwealth sports meeting to be held in capital of India. I do not have to write too much but just read the reports from the BBC. They are trying to show off what they can do and so let see the result. The reason why I am so interested is because they are try hard to hold a this sporting event that will win the praise of the world being better than the Olypic Games held by China. 25th.Sep.10. (Sat.) 2223hrs. Today is supposed to be our 55th.wedding aniversary. So what? It is lucky that we are surviving quite smoothly thus far. There is no cause for any celebration. Let nature takes its own course. This afternoon we went to Sogo by train with LP. His mother went for facial and his father went to a wedding party so he was sent here for care. In order to pass time we went to Sogo to roam around. 26th.Sep.1O. (Sun.） 2O25hrs. Took the commuter train to Tanjong Malam to see how it feels. The unpleasnt part is taking a long time (about one hou( to wait at Rawang station to change train to Tanjong Malim, otherwise the trip was smooth. I am glad to live to see a Chinese national was freed by the Jap. and taken back to China with a chartered plane. The white men have had the honour of sending an aircraft carrier to rescue their single national from their adversary. 29th.Sep.10. (Wed.) 2120hrs. Went to Bukit Pelandok with five members of the Gao Assn. to see a sick son of a member of Gao Assn. We started off at about 10am and returned at about 5.30pm. It is a tiring day. We wasted a lot of time in talking nonsense. We had lunch in a restaurant in Sg. Pelek before heading back home. 22nd.Oct.10. (Fri.) 1715hrs. The new computer is finally with me. With a bit of adjustment, I finally can start it. It seems that the touch curser is very sensitive and thus make it difficult to use. 25th.Oct.10. (Mon.) 0700hrs. Before the formation of New China there was no "human rights" for the Chinese and the Asians in generat for that matter. The Westerners were supposed to be ruling the world. But now the same people are talking about "human rights" for the Chinese. To my rekoning it is MZD that gave the "human rights" to the Chinese. The rest is nothing but noise makers. The rest of them are nothing but noise makers. 6th.Nov.10. (Sat.) 0735hrs. The new computer needs to adjust to suit my style. So this done now. During the gap of time, I had been to Taipei to attend the second world GAO gathering accompanied by EM. Mum could not go because of the timing. The gathering is once in three years. The next one, that is the third one will be held in Henan provice in China in 2013. Henan province is supposed to be the birth place of the Han race of the Chinese population. The actual gathering took place on 31st. Oct. but we arrived there two days before and left one day after. 16th.Nov.10. (Tue.) 0730hrs. I have been thinking, that, how lucky I am to have the chance to see the 'sick man of Asia' has now recovered and become the strong and healthy man before I close my eyes. Up to last night the Chinese had won 53 gold medals for ahead of the rest. Today the Westerners are comparing the Chinese and the Indians like that of the Hare and the Tortoise in the classic story of the race of 'the Hare and the Tortoise'. The outcome of the race was the tortoise won the race. Of course the story didn't mention the colour of the hare neither the tortoise. I guess the hare must be white while the tortoise is of the normal colour. But this time the race is between the Yellow Hare and Black Tortoise. I bet you the Black Tortoise will never be so lucky. 20th.Nov.10. (Sat.) 0925hrs. For the last few days life had been peaceful and quiet. By this morning China has got l26 gold far far ahead of that of S.Korea and Japan. The Chinese is also playing with aeroplanes now. In no time they will be manufactruing big planes to compete with the West. All these good tidings make me feel very happy. 22nd.Nov.10. (Mon.) 2155hrs. There is nothing special to write about my daily life except that in the evenings I took the comuter train to the KL railway station and walked to the Lake Garden for my exercise and on completion walked back to the station and returned home. All that took about two and half hours or three depending how long I have to wait for the train. The next thing is the Black tortoise is far behind the Chinese medal tally in the Asian Games. 25th.Nov.10. (Thu.) 1735hrs. It is now Northwest monsoon, so it rains every day. It is pouring now. There was nothing special happening for the last few days. 26th.Nov.10. (Fri.) 1415hrs. Didn't I say wherever the Americans go there will death and misery. Why should there be war exercise when there is no war. Isn't it the cold war is over? It is just that the Americans are not comfortable when there is peace. They need wars to sustain their war machinery. They need wars to show off their ego and their supperiority. 28th.Nov.10. (Sun.) 0930hrs. Mom is in Penang, she left yesterday for a week-end tour. I checked on the internet news for any news from the Korea peninsula as the US-South Korean war exercise begins. As it is now it looks like the so-called the free world seems to like to creat trouble around the world. Oh yah! I forgot to add this this morning, that the Asian Games had come to a close with 199 gold, 119 silver and 98 bronze medals China should not be called as 'the sick man of Asia' any more. The next target is to become first in the scientific achievement. 2nd.Dec.10. (Thu.) 0510hrs. (30th Tue.)Kok Art's boss had passed away so we to went to his house at Zooview Garden to pay our last respect. The funeral will be held at 2pm today. He passed away on last Saturday at age ninety. (1st.Wed.)Went to Heng Jin's shop to buy tea and ended up with a Hong Kong style roasted goose and duck lunch at Tmn Maluri,Cheras. Paid by him. 6th.Dec.10. (Mon.) 2213hrs. There is nothing much to write about my personal life. But I feel that the political atmoshpere in Asia is sort of clouded with war since the unmber one super power declared that it is coming back to this part of the world just recently. During the cold war era we alway pointed our finger towrads the Eastern Block for any trouble but now the cold war is gone and yet the world is still tense with the threat of war. Whose fault is it?. The imperialists and the colonialists are ever ready for war to plunder and killing. 9th.Dec.10. (Thu.) 2125hrs. The weather is very much cooler due to the North-East monsoon. It rains most of the evenings. I don't do anything except reading the newspapers and surf the net. The world is far from peaceful in spite of people being given the Nobel Peace Prize. The joke is the people who is receiving the award is far from promoting peace. To have a peace of mind is best not to think of anything. 10th.Dec.10. (Fri.) 2130hrs. Glad to see that a lot of people domestically and internationally support China on the issue of the Nobel Peace prize. People has realised the ploy of the West. Their trickery and bluff do not work like before any more. 15th.Dec.10. (Wed.) 2045hrs. Everything is going on well, there is nothing to write. 20.Dec.10. (Mon.) 0015hrs. In this few days it looks like S.Korea is set to have a fight with the N.Korea. The Jap. is also trying to be funning by holding war drill etc. 25th.Dec.10. (Sat.) 1425hrs. Lazy to write. In the last few days my cough had eased a lot. It is OK now. The dentist took out my left side molar three days ago. A new denture will be decided after three months. The tense situation in the Korean peninsular seemsed to have subsided at least for time being. The S.Korean and the Jap seemed to be very aggressive with the support of hteir ferous master. 28th.Dec.10. (Tue.) 2220hrs. Went to University Hosp. for appt. for left eye cataract operation. The date is 18th.Jan.2011. I am very lucky to get such a close date. There was a big crowd of patients. I expected the date of operation will be far away but it turned out to be otherwise. I am very happy about it. Went for a bowl of Sa Ho Woun and then to have a foot massage with Lip in SS2. 1st.Jan.11. (Sat.) 0800hrs. A cool new year morning. Yesterday was declared a holiday because our football team won the South-East Asian cup final so the PM declared a holiday to belebrate. So we are having a cool three-day holidays. You see how fortunate we Malaysians are! 7th.Jan.11. (Fri.) 0740hrs. Yesterday spent the whole morning in the University Hospital for ECG and other preparation for my left eye cataract operation on the 19.Jan.11. Just only before this I was reading that China had sucessfuly develped the "aircraft carrier killer" missiles from the BBC. I also learnt that China is expanding her millitary might to fight against the American apresence in Asia. How glad I am! 9th.Jan.11. (Sun.) 1030hrs. Yesterday evening we sent Lip to the airport for Japan for a short computer course. Poverty walks in the main door, happiness jumps out of the window. That is what really hapen in America now. They are no more very civilise now. They start shooting now. What is going to happen later is yet to be seen. 12th.Jan.11. (Wed.) 0030hrs. The Chinese had successfully flight-tested her J20 stealth fighter plane. I can safely say that China is finally a modern, industrialised and scientific nation. I am glad that it happens during my life time. 16th.Jan.11. (Sat.) 0540hrs. Cool morning it is very nice. It is a noisy morning with the dog barks and clock alarm ring while the lazy sleeper failed to wake up. Surfed the BBC and CNN. 20th.Jan.11. (Thu.) 1820hrs. A lot of water had passed though under bridge in the past four days. First the GAO assn. president's second and the last son got married. Attended the wedding dinner at Klang with EM and mum. It was a hundred-table Chinese dinner. Heng Jin and his wife and son were with us in the same table. The occassion happened on 17th. Sunday. Second, went to have my left eye cataract operation, it went on smoothly. This morning went for follow-up check-up. President Hu's visit to US seemed to be very cordial and friendly. It is not as if a war between the two countries is erupting as painted by the medias. 29th.Jan.11. (Sat.) 1848hra. Eight solid days had gone by without me sritting anything at all. After the left eye operation, went for a series of tests and so I felt too lazy to concentrate in anything. Afterall the world had gone by peacefully or traumatically as normal. This morning went to visit the newly opened bus-station meant for south bound buses. It is an ultra modern bus station located near the Sg. Besi area. 30th.Jan.11. (Sun.) 2100hrs. The western vultures are overjoyed with the riots in the Middle East region. They love to see troubles eithter or small. 2nd.Feb.11. (Tue.) 1735hrs. Last night we had a family reunion dinner. To make it a bit unusual so ordered a steamed port leg from the nearby restaurant. The soup was still the favourite. The rest of the dishes were all the same. Next year we will order a Hakka favourite dish for a change. Strange this idea never occurred to us before, only now I feel that the dinner had been monotonous. As usual we will celebrate the Rabbit year as any other CNY. 6th.Feb.11. (Sun.)1740hrs. Today is the 4th. day of the CNY. Went up to the Silverpark on the First Day of CNY and spent two nights there. The surrounding is well kept but the buildings are in poor conditions. With the JMB doing the maintenance job itself it is hoped that it will be OK. It is rumoured that the strata title will be issued in May this year or so. Plus the property boom is in progress it is hoped that the price of the property there will be OK too. However we should disposed of the unit when the price is right. With about four thousand ringgits of annual maintenance fees we can spend about ten days of holiday up there in the hotel without the hassles. 25th.Feb.11. (Fri.) 2350hrs. I am glad that I am back again after lighting put off the computer for about twenty days. Lip provided me with the spare one in order for me to pass my time. Well it is quite late now, I will begin writting again when I am really happy. 26th.Feb.11. (Sat.) 1530hrs. Hope that Col. Gaddafi is not a mere paper tiger. Just prove you are a real hero. Give the mobsters a good fight. Otherwise they may think that a govt. can be toppled just using FaceBook or Internet as suggested by the West. 1st.Mar.11. (Tue.) Went to govt. clinic at Batu Lima for the routine blood pressure check. The previous blood test results show that Cholesterol is slightly above the tolerable level other than that everything else is OK. Lately with the turmoil in the Middle East the West is try to stir trouble with China with the so-called 'Jasmine revolution" with the Facebook and Twitter ect. I just wonder why they want all teses troubles. What benefits do they expect from it? Or it is their joy in seeing this sort of thing happening in the whole world. Indeed God bless them. 3rd.Mar.11. (Thu.) 1940hrs. There is nothing to write about my daily life. Read English and Chinese newspapers and the surf the net in both languages. Well, I can say that I know something what is going on in the world. I am not mad but I am glad that Col. Gaddafi is putting down the unplanned and rowdy mob demonstration. Let them learn that just come out shouting for democracy and freedom of speech that pleases the West will do the trick is getting nowhere. 4th. Mar.11. (Fri.) 1835hrs. I am OK I have had a good day. I am glad to see that Gaddafi is fighting back strongly. Don't let the ruffians see the day. 10th.Mar.11. (Sat.) 0720hrs. Learnt from the BBC website that a team of BBC reporters had been beaten up by the Libyan solders while trying to reach a war jone area. I think they have now met their match otherwise they think that they are high and mighty. 11th.Mar.11. (Fri.) 0715hrs. I am glad to read that Col. Gaddafi is putting the 'Facebook revolution' down. How can you allow people using facebook to creat all the trouble. Put them down!!! I salute u Col. 12th.Mar.11. (Sat.) 1845hrs. Col. Gaddafi is really lucky indeed to have a loyal son who is willing to fight for him. His govt. is more organised to stand the onslaught. 14th.Mar.11. (Mon.) 2205hrs. There is a lot of praises for the Japanese govertment and the Japanese people on the latest disaster for being calm, orderly and helpful etc.etc. Sorry to say the only memory of the Japanese for me is the unhuman acts they had done to us during the three and eight months of occupation during the WWll. Their behavour is still vividly ingrained in my mind. They are not humans. ingraved in my mind. I have no love for them. 17th.Mar.11. (Thu.) 1430hrs. I am very happy to learn that Col. Gaddafi is winning. It does not matter how u win the war as along as u win it. 18th.Mar.11. (Fri.) 1635hrs. It is reported in the Chinadaily.com that France if taking military action against Libya within hours. Well, I hope they get a bloody nose for it. 19th.Mar.11. (Sat.) 0835hrs. The West imposed no-fly zone in Libya because they wanted to protect the civilian population but in Pakistan the drone killed 38 civilians nobody said anything. Talk about using military force, the West will be too willing to carry it out quickly and deligently. 20th.Mar.11. (Sun.) 0905hrs. It is a lovely Sunday morning, it is sunny and cool. It is a perfect weather to live in but this will be over after eleven o'clock. Now it is clear that the so-call rebels in Libya are not the sons of Libyan but agents of foreigh powers. After taking over the power this bunch of people will do no good for the ordinary folks of Libya but to serve the interest of the powers that them in. God bless the ordinary Libyans. 21st.Mar.11. (Mon.) 2315hrs. While a lot of the Malaysians sympathise and offer help whatever we can to help the Japanese victims of the tsunami, it surprised me to read in the Star that the Japanese govt. anounced that it supports the bombing of Libya. That shows that the Japanese colonial and imperialistic mind-set. 22nd.Mar.11. (Tue.) 1745hrs. By looking at the Western powers using the air power I hope that China is wise enought to develope better weaponry to counter the West when the time arrives. Don't let them fool us that they are peace loving people. They will eat you up without hasitation whenever they can. 25th.Mar.11. (Fri.) 1810hrs. l. I notice that the poor South Eastian nations are generously donate money to the wealthy Japanese although they are the victims of the tsunami. I think it would be more beneficial to send more workers to help them to clean up the rubbish if they love the Japanese so much. 2. I think SEX has become the main battle cry for the Malaysian politics. 3. I think the West is really smart because their 'SMART BOMBS' don't kill civillians except the enemies. 31st.Mar.11. (Wed.) 1720hrs. 1. It is a pity that Col. Gaddafi is helpless under the imperialist bombing. He is not like the Gen. Giap of North Vietnam that gave the French and American colonalists a bloody nose that they will remember till the end of the world. 2. The election is round the corner,sex viodeo and sexual elements are widely used to smear the opposition party member. 3. When the Americans soldiers kill the Afgan civilians the explaination is they are young and ignorant and thus is excusable but not other people do it. 4. I thought hacking into other foreign country's computer machine is a smart thing to do, so what is wrong if the Australian PM's parliamentary computer and the foreign and defence ministers' machine are all suspected of being hacked. (China suspected to be CULPRIT - AFP). The real problem is can u do it or not, not whether it is right or wrong. 5th.Apr.11. (Tue.) 1440hrs. Went to Melaka for Qing Min last Sunday (3rd.Apr.11). It was a pleasant trip. My father grave needs a bit of fill up as the coffin has rotten. We will bring changkul on our next trip. My mother's tombstone appeared to be old and dark. The inscriptons also cannot be seen clearly. I was told that the grave cannot be touched unless on Qing Min day and at the sametime I am thinking that let nature takes its course. 7th.Apr.11. (Thu.) 2250hrs. Too lazy to write anything. 8th.Apr.ll. (Fri.) 1523hrs. Mr. Ai WeiWei is only one rotten egg in the Chinese society. The well being of l.3 billion people is more important. 9th.Apr.11. (Sat.) 1345hrs. Of course they will not apologise whether the bombs kill the freedom fighters or Gaddifi's soldier as long as they are Libyans afterall they asked for it. The Malaysians are really generous lots they even take away the poor school children's pocket money to donate to the victims of the Japanese earth quake and tsunami. The Japanese are so rich and on top of it they have the richest nation as friend to help them. We have alot alot of poor people need help. What a paradox! 14th.Apr.ll. (Thu.) 1800hrs. I stopped the 'The Star' newspaper with effect yesterday. I am fed-up with it. It is so Western orientated. I keep the Nanyang for news from the Chinese community but it is still unsatisfactory for me because it is belonging to the MCA so it is so bias. With the computer I can get more news from various sources. 16th.Apr.ll. (Sat.) 0840hrs. I am sure that the West is overjoyed at this time that Middle East and Africa are in turmoil. Now they are fanning trouble for China. During the cold war era the Eatern Block was blamed for creating trouble around the world but now we can see who is the real culprit of the world. 18th.Apr.11. (Mon.) 1720hrs. Just finished reading the latest news from Lybya. Of course the Lybyans are suffering but whose fault is it? I think that is what the West loves to see. They would be happier to see the Chinese like that. 21st.Apr.ll. (Thu.) 2235hrs. Whenever I oped my computer I always click on CNN and BBC for the latest news. To my relief I learnt that the WFP( i really don't know what WFP stands for) is feeding the refugees from Libya. How kind they are?! 28th.Apr.11. (Thu.) 1255hrs. Good news, bad news, too many things happening. So have no heart to write. News from China is encouraging. They are tackling their problems with wits and wisdom. That is all that important. 2nd. May.ll. (Mon.) 2325hrs. I am unhappy. 12th.May.11. (Thu.) 1830hrs. Had been busy writing to the three grand children who wanted to know about the story of Jap. occupation of Malaya, the Communist upring and the history of Gao and Han family. Life for me is just the same. Reading newspapers (by the way I have stop subcribing the Star), surfing the net, walk, eat and sleep. Read the Star on line. The weather is very hot and it is forcasted that it will last next September. 16th.May.ll (Mon.) 0430hrs. Got up at 0400hrs and could not fall asleep again. Wanted to check how serious is the flood in the US in the CNN but not a word on the flood. It was full of middle east and african troubling news, they are gleefully reporting on those subject. That is what they want to happen, so that they will have a field day reporting and taking pictures for exhibition. That is that kind of freedom they want to bring to other people except themselves. 6th.Jun.11. (Mon.) 1655hrs. Saw a short strip of film on 4th. June on Tiananmen square on CNN. Glad that China quelled the disturbance resolutely. 19th.Jun.ll. (Sun.) 1630hrs. The official friendly visit of the 23 members of the Singpore GAO assn. ended this morning after a hefty meal of Bak Kut Tae. The 3 days visit was a memorable one. It will foster our friendly relationship. Actually before the mendeka there was only one 'Koh Clansmen Association' for both countries. My father was a member of the assn. Unfortunately his membership certificate was burnt off with his other belongings when he passed away as normal with Chinese custom. I think this is one of the factors that motivated me to initiate the formation of the Koh Clansmen Association of FT and Selangor and finally changed to the "GAO Clansmen of Malaysia". Koh has become GAO because of the Chinese pinying. 20th.Jun.11. (Mon.) 1940hrs. The weather is very very hot. Went to Brickfied to while away the morning part of the day. Checked the e-mail about half an hour ago and saw Dr.YF's e-mail thanking us for the reception on their visit. Replied immediately. 22nd.Jun.11. (Wed.) 1725hrs. Went to Dr. Chua the dentist at Subang Parade to fill up my teeth on the left side of the upper jaw. It took three hours to finish the job and cost me two hundred ringgits. Permitted to drink after two hours and six hours eating solid food. At this moment I am feeling damn hungry. He is recommending me to see a specialist in Damansara Perdana for a root canal for another tooth on the right side of the upper jaw. The appointment will at ll o'clock tomorrow. 24th.Jun.11. (Fri.) 0730hrs. Yesterday, went to see the Root Canal specialist at Damansara Perdana to discuss as to whether the specific tooth can be salvaged or not and the cost. So an appointment is made on Monday 27th. Jun. 2011 to carry out the operation. It rained in the evening and this made the night cooler and more comfortable. 25th.Jun.11. (Sat.) 0830hrs. Yesterday, went to Sentul Post Office to collect a letter from RHB bank. As the Assn. wanted to close the account with the bank because it is inconvenient for us to use the bank, so it sent us the last cheque to close the account. Stayed home until the evening, took the KTM to Batu Cave to climb the 271 steps for exercise. Took the train from Batu Cantonmen at 1832hrs and retured on 2005hrs train. 26th.Jun.ll. (Sun.) 0520hrs. This is for yesterday's story. Test-drive on the newly completed 33km stretch of road from Templer Park to Kuala Selangor. It is toll-free for a month. In the evening went to the small garden in Tmn Rainbow for exercise. It was a very hot day. 30th.Jun.ll. (Thu.) 2200hrs The weather is getting kinder, it is not so hot and it rained quite many times. For the last few days there was nothing worthwile to write about except for my root canal. I have to go back on the 11th. of June to know as to whether the tooth can be saved or not. 1st.Jul.11. (Fri.) 2330hrs. The weather is very hot today. Stayed at home to rest. The story of CPC and KMT has been my favourite subject ever since I started to read. Today CPC celebrates its 90th. birthday in a grand scale. Its has every reason to celebrate since it makes China as what it is today while KMT is stil at its old habits of buying destructive weapons from its master to fight their own kind. The KMT have done nothing for the Chinese to be proud of except trumpeting Democracy. 3rd.Jul. ll. (Sun.) 1455hrs. It is cloudy afternoon. It rained in the morning and it prevented three of us from climbing a small hill in Menjalala near Kepong. We have heard about the hill from many Gao assn. members, so we decided to climb it this morning but alas the rain. If it does not rain this evening then I will go for my usual evening walk in the Kg. Batu area. 5th.Jul.11. (Tue.) 0000hrs. Mon. weather fine, stayed in doing nothing. Today, weather fine but not very hot, went to the veteran dept. at the Tabong Haji complex to check the claim of the refund of the cataract lens. It was submitted on 29 Mar. 2011. Told to wait for a while more. Had a one and a half hours nab followed by the usual evening walk. 8th.Jul.11. (Fri.) 1835hrs. This evening I will not go for the usual evening walk because I spent the morning walking in town. 10.Jul.11. (Sun.) 0445hrs. Yesterday, it was a quiet day for where I live, stayed at home and clicked on Malaysiakini for news what was happening in town. Went to the Xu Shi assn. for their annual dinner in the evening. 11.Jul.11. (Mon.) 2100hrs. The day is fine. Went to see the dentist at 1030hrs and was told to come again on 17th. of August. Now have just returned from the evening walk and watching the 8pm Mandarine news and 830pm English news. The angels of death are hovering the Asian sky now, their calls for human souls and blood are getting lounder from day to day. The atmosphere is just like the prelude of the Second World War when the Japanese were accusing other countries of their wrong doings.
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badretype Talk	== Weekly Shopping Trip == I am going to do my weekly shopping. I have jotted down a list of items since the last shopping trip. For each item: Show me which store and which aisle I can get it? I pick a choice. Give me a list of items sorted by which store and which aisle. Nice to have features: Website reminds me of regularly ordered items. == To Do == Save user data. Make it work in Internet Explorer. (urgent) Search every where. == Bugs == I renamed the list title. Clicked update and got an error. (Has Been Altered in new images) I cannot cancel an edit. I can update only. (Its because items = OrderedCollection. whatever is edited cannot be got back. Atleast I havent figured out a way. Shall try to. My List is not updated when I create a new list. (Needs to be done) Display Details Bug, always 'SHOW' in FF and not rendered in IE (Needs to be done)
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badtitle Talk	== To Do == I type item. Click/Search Store. I should get a list of stores carrying that item. If not, show lists of stores to include that item. I ALSO NEED A WAY TO CREATE A NEW STORE INSTANTLY TO INCLUDE THAT ITEM. == Bugs == I had a long list. I clicked to delete a store in the list and caartz hanged. == Brainstorming == New search method: Type item. Click either 'show items' or 'show lists containing item'. 'show items' just shows all the items from all lists that has the search string like searching for 'rice' returns Whole foods rice 1 lb Whole foods basmati rice 1 bag Ta Lin long grain rice 25 lb Click on any item to send to the edit list. Allow user to edit the item before sending. 'show lists containing item' shows lists containing the search string like: askoh1 2007 Dec 26 Santa Fe shopping Click on any list to view or edit. When viewing, items can be sent to the edit list. When editing it can be the starting point of a new list. == How to install caartz on a local machine. == Download and Open Damien's Web image (Not Ramon, as I haven't tested it )[http://squeak.ofset.org/squeak-web/] Unzip into c:\squeak\damien\caartz\. Copy from private ftp <br> Cryptography-RJT.7.mcz <br> Caartz-Model-rajiv.5.mcz <br> Caartz-View-rajiv.5.mcz <br> askoh123DB <br> Caartz-Config-rajiv.3.mcz <br> into <br> c:\squeak\damien\caartz\package-cache\ <br> folder. Open Monticello browser. Add a Repository in it, pointing to <br> c:\squeak\damien\caartz\package-cache\ <br> Load the packages in this order a) Cryptography b) Model, c) Config, d) View. Execute these code in a Workspace (snippets separated by comments at a time) <br> "Run once in virgin image only." <br> ARSiteDB enablePersistence . <br> ARSiteDB users: Dictionary new. <br> "Executing this, creates new user, and adds the username,pwd and email to ARSiteDB users, which is saved in /usersDB folder" <br> ARSiteDB users <br> at: 'askoh123' <br> put: (ARSiteSimpleUser <br> userName: 'askoh123' <br> password: (MD5 hashMessage: 'askoh123') asInteger asString <br> email: 'askoh@askoh.com'). <br> ARSiteDB saveRepository. <br> "Reading RefStrm file into a temp variable" <br> fRead := ReferenceStream oldFileNamed: ('c:\squeak\damien\caartz\package-cache\askoh123DB'). <br> koh := fRead next. <br> fRead close. <br> "The code is new as I am moving back one step as 7272 image didn't have favourites in userDB. The corrupt file I mailed you was a ReferenceStream out from Server image after I run the above code. Somehow it got corrupt" <br> koh favourites: OrderedCollection new. <br> "putting Read RefStream into an instance of ARSiteSuperUser. Upon saving, a new fileDB is saved in /users/askoh123 named 1. Upon further saving, the file number keeps incrementing" <br> tempUser := ARSiteSuperUser new. <br> tempUser fileUser: koh. <br> tempUser userName: 'askoh123'. <br> tempUser saveRepository. <br> "By default, WAKom (Commanche Server) is started on port 8080 of a virgin image. To accomodate extra characters (French and others), execute the following code in Workspace" WAKom stop. <br> WAKomEncoded39 startOn: 8080 "or any port no" <br> Once you are done with these, go to [http://localhost:8080/seaside/config] username: admin pwd: seaside Add application named 'caartz'. Configure it by adding SULibrary. Set Root Component to ToDoHome. Set Session Class to ToDoSession Save, Close. If everything goes fine, [http://localhost:8080/seaside/caartz] should land you on Caartz homepage, and askoh123 account would work fine.
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blanknamespace Talk	* Download and Burn Ubuntu Desktop 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) for 32 Bit X86 System (Though our server is AMD64) from http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/ * Go to terminal and type '''sudo aptitude update''' , it would take some time to update the OS. Then type '''sudo aptitude upgrade''' * Change IP Address setting from DHCP to Static by System> Network > WiredConnection> Properties . Set it as Static IP and give a Static IP in your LAN. (Usually it is 192.168.1.1 ). So set your Server IP address as 192.168.1.100 * Remote Desktop: Follow instructions on http://www.maddhat.com/?p=15 * No-ip Client Installation: Follow instructions # Go to System>Admininstration>Synaptec Package Manager # Search for '''no-ip''' # Right click on no-ip and select Mark for Install # Accept any dependencies/upgrades of other packages # Click on Tick Mark to Start Installation # After installation is complete, go to terminal and type '''sudo no-ip -C''' # It will ask for no-ip username, password and the accounts that should be updated and also set an update interval (10 mins), when it asks to "Run a script after successful instal", Select No and your settings are written to /etc/no-ip.conf * Install Apache2 and PHP5 from http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Gutsy#How_to_install_Apache_and_PHP5 * Once Apache and PHP are installed, to test Apache go to http://localhost * To test PHP, create a file phpinfo.php in default Apache Directory ( which is /var/www/apache2-default). Type '''sudo pico /var/www/apache2-default/phpinfo.php''' and in the pico editor, type '''<?php phpinfo() ?>''' and save and exit. Now go to http://localhost/apache2-default/phpinfo.php, you would see All the info related to PHP installed on your server. Once you test this, delete this file due to security reasons as it exposes all your server information. Nice Explanation and configuration of Apache2 at http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-gutsy , I am noting whatever is done by me # Create directories in /var/www of all the websites the server is going to host. In our case, they are htp://demo1.no-ip.org and http://demo2.no-ip.org. Type '''sudo mkdir /var/www/demo1.no-ip.org''' , hit enter and '''sudo mkdir /var/www/demo2.no-ip.org''' and hit enter. Create a simple index.html in each of these 2 directories. # '''sudo pico /etc/apache2/apache2.conf''' , go to last line and add '''Servername Caartz.com''' , set '''ServerTokens Prod''' , set '''ServerSignature Off''', type '''NameVirtualHost :80''' Save and exit and then restart Apache by typing '''sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart''' # Now we need to create Virtual hosts of these websites. '''cd /etc/apache2/sites-available''' , and you see default there. open it by '''sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/default''' . Remove the first line and change the second line to '''<VirtualHost :80>''' . Observe that public directory is /var/www . So for each of our hosted websites,we need one similar file which tells apache what to do. We shall create simple config files for these. '''<VirtualHost :80> ServerName demo1.no-ip.org DirectoryIndex index.html DocumentRoot /var/www/demo1.no-ip.org </VirtualHost>''' #Once both the config files are created, Enable the sites by typing''' sudo a2ensite demo1.no-ip.org''' , and '''sudo a2ensite demo2.no-ip.org''' . restart apache by '''sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload''' * Now that we have apache installed and port forwarded (port 80) to our server from Router settings, we should be able to access the above created websites from any system outside of our LAN. I doubt if you can access these sites within LAN. * Lets add Squeak repository details to /etc/apt/sources.list by '''sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list''' and add the following 2 lines: # '''deb http://ftp.squeak.org/debain/ stable main''' # '''deb-src http://ftp.squeak.org/debian/ stable main ''' , and save and exit * install squeak by typing '''sudo aptitude install squeak''' , I am not sure if the latest version on the Debian repository is Squeak 3.77 which gets installed. * Install Postgresql by '''sudo aptitude install postgresql-8.2''' . Then create postgres user in both PostgreSQL and as a Linux user. #'''sudo su postgres -c psql template1''' #'''template1=# ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'secretPassword' ;''' #'''template1=# \q''' # #'''sudo passwd -d postgres''' #'''sudo su postgres -c passwd''' #Enter the password as entered above * '''sudo /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/postgresql.conf''' # Uncomment the line 'listen_addresses = 'localhost' ' * '''sudo /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/pg_hba.conf ''' # change md5 to password in IPV4 Place the old Postgresql in a directory which has 777 permission (Thats actually requred when you export your Postgres DB). To import your old SQL file . Create a Database named 'ARDB' #'''sudo -u postgres createdb ARDB''' #'''su postgres''' #'''pg_restore -d ARDB ardb.tar''' #restart postgres #'''/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 restart''' Move all Caartz files (images, changes, SqueakSources , users , seaside-images/Css files etc) to /var/www/caartz.no-ip.org CD to /var/www/caartz.no-ip.org , and then '''squeakvm caartzDell & ''' or from FileSystem, go to that directory and rightclick on caartzDell.image and associate it to open with squeakvm, which is in /usr/bin/ , after doing this, Seaside Image starts running. In a workspace, execute WAKom StartOn:9091. '''sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/caartz.no-ip.org''' and enter the following text into it. #LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.http.so LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so <VirtualHost :80> ServerName caartz.no-ip.org RewriteEngine On ProxyPreserveHost On DocumentRoot /var/www/caartz.no-ip.org #Proxy the request to Seaside on port 8080 RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.)$ http://localhost:9091/seaside/caartz$1 [P,L] </VirtualHost> <Proxy > Order allow,deny Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyVia Block Enable the new website by '''sudo a2ensite caartz.no-ip.org''', by doing this, a symbolic link is created in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled * Save and Exit and you can restart apache by '''sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart''' * People outside of your LAN can access the website by pointing the browser to http://caartz.no-ip.org * You cannot access this site from within LAN as caartz.no-ip.org doesnt go out of your Router itselt. To overcome that, let Apache listen to port 9000 by #'''sudo pico /etc/apache2/ports.conf''' and add '''Listen 9000''' , this makes Apache to listen to port 80, which is default and also port 9000 # Add another virtual Host by, '''sudo pico /etc/apache2/sites-available/caartzLocal.conf''' and enter the following text. Note the changes in <VirtualHost localhost:9000> # LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.http.so LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so <VirtualHost localhost:9000> ServerName caartzLocal RewriteEngine On ProxyPreserveHost On DocumentRoot /var/www/caartz.no-ip.org #Proxy the request to Seaside on port 8080 RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.)$ http://localhost:9091/seaside/caartz$1 [P,L] </VirtualHost> <Proxy > Order allow,deny Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyVia Block * Now enable the localSite by '''sudo a2ensite caartzLocal''' and restart apache by '''sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart'''. Browse to http://localhost:9090/ from the server or if you want to access this within the LAN, try http://192.168.0.50:9000/ where 192.168.0.50 is the static IP of the Home-Server we had set earlier * Now, we shall install MySQL by '''sudo aptitude install mysql''' , it will prompt you to enter root password, and enter it. * Create a DB in MySQL '''mysql -u root -p''', it will ask for root password, Enter it and it will tak you to MySQL prompt,. There enter '''CREATE DATEABASE CaartzKBDB;'''. Then in the mysql prmpt, type '''GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO 'KBUser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'TopSecretPassword' WITH GRANT OPTION; ''' *THere was a problem with KnowldegeBase installation as we are using no-ip. Looks like KB was finding itself on no.ip.org domain, which is hosted elsewhere.. Finally I mobed KB to smallguru server. The URL is http://www.smallguru.com/caartkb , Its up and running. Made appropriate changes in Caartz Image to point to the new URL. Hope Caartz is somewhat done for now.
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blockedtitle Talk	This will serves as a record of work done on the project Squeak DLL. ==VS SqueakVM== [[VS SqueakVM 4.0]] [[VS SqueakVM 3.10]] [[VS SqueakVM 3.9 (1)]] [[VS SqueakVM 3.9 (2)]] ==Embedded Squeak== Update 18 Jan 2010: Please take a look at [[Embedded Squeak]]. With only console input, [http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/squeak/ Embedded Squeak] is probably what we need for a Squeak DLL. #Download [http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/squeak/squeak22embedded10.zip Embedded Squeak]. This zip file comes with Squeak.exe and also the source code. Squeak.exe may be use to experience Embedded Squeak. I'm going to use the source code for VS compilation so that I can step through it (in debug mode). #Open Visual Studio, create a new project. e.g. name it ''EmbeddedSqueak'', under directory ''C:\Work\EmbeddedSqueak''. #From the zip file, extract these following files into working directory. e.g. ''C:\Work\EmbeddedSqueak''. ##ImageFileInMemory.c ##interp.c ##sqMiscPrims.c ##sqEmbedded.c ##sqFilePrims.c ##sqWin32.h ##sq.h ##sqConfig.h ##sqMachDep.h ##sqPlatformSpecific.h ##readme.txt ##Squeak.ini #Right-click on the project name, choose ''Add'' -> ''Existing item..'', add all .h and .c files above to the project. #Right-click on project name, choose ''Properties''. Under ''Configuration Properties'' -> ''C/C++'' -> ''Preprocessor'' -> ''Preprocessor Definitions'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_WINDOWS;__i386__;_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE;VM_NAME=\"Squeak\";_USE_32BIT_TIME_T;EMBEDDED''. #Now, build can be successfully carried out. But, trying to debug will cause runtime error. Error message: ''The variable 'result' is being used without being initialized''. Edit line 6697 in ''interp.c'', i.e. ''int result = 0;''. Do the same for any similar error pops up. #Build the project, and debug it. Type in Smalltalk expression, e.g. ''0.1234 class'', returns ''Float''. ==Note== ''30 June 2009 ref:8'' DLL limitation: plugin is expected to link against main application. But dll doesn't link back to application. Solution: #Create a way for dll to receive a pointer to an object defined in the main application. #The sub-DLL solution: create a small dll to link against real dll. This dll can export all symbols needed in a plug-ins. #The .def & .a solution: create a .def and .a set of files from main application. These files can later be used to link the DLLs. This solution is to trick the linker and later the LoadLibrary() function to look in the main application for symbols. #The edll solution == Virtual Machine Work == #Build VM's with Visual Studio and GCC for Squeak, Cobalt, Pharo, Cog. #Make every package self contained and ready to run and debug independently. #Keep them up to date. #Show how to make named primitives. #Show how to make plugins. #Make SimulatorInterpreter work. #Make VM handle callbacks. #Make VM run as DLL or shared library. == Virtual Machine Questions == 1.How is interp.c generated? interp.c is generated by VMMaker in Squeak. It is written in Slang, it include Interpreter and ObjectMemory class mainly. Changes can be made to these classes in Squeak, and VMMaker will translate it into C. 2.What does VMMaker do? Translate Slang into C. Manage location (directory) of each file for a VM build, including platform specific files. See [[VMMaker]]. ==Other pages available== #[[VS SqueakVM 3.10]] #[[VS SqueakVM 3.9 (1)]] #[[VS SqueakVM 3.9 (2)]] #[[Embedded Squeak]] #[[SqueakDLL]] #[[SqueakDLL4.0]] #[[VMMaker]] #[[Squeak Virtual Machine]] #[[Interpreter Simulator]] #[[Slang Browser]] #[[Work with SketchUp]]
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blockip Talk	Documentation of Visual Studio build of SqueakVM 4.0. If you want to play with it immediately, get it [http://askoh.com/squeakdll/SqueakVM4.0.zip here]. Otherwise, follow instruction below to build a VS SqueakVM 4.0. Note: in case rebuild cause any error, follow step 1 of subtitle: ''Squeak'', include directories =Build= Download [http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.2-bin.zip SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.2-bin] and [http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.2-src.zip SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.2-src]. Extract SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.2-src into root directory, eg. "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\4.0\demo" in my case. This will be root directory for source code, VS projects and also the solution file. You will get "MyRoot\platforms" and "MyRoot\winbuild", which in my case "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\4.0\demo\platforms". Download [http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.1.zip Squeak 4.1 image]. Open-up Visual Studio (VC 2008 Express), choose Empty Project, create new project named Squeak4.0. Set location to "MyRoot\Projects", in my case "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\4.0\demo\Projects". Uncheck ''Create directory for solution''. Close the solution. Cut ''Squeak4.0.sln'' and ''Squeak4.0.ncb'' from "MyRoot\Projects\Squeak4.0", and paste it at "MyRoot". Open up ''Squeak4.0.sln'', ignore pop-up warnings. Right-click on ''Squeak4.0(unavailable)'', remove it. At ''File -> Add -> Existing Projects...'', go into "MyRoot\Projects\Squeak4.0" and add ''Squeak4.0.vcproj''. Steps above needed to achieve directory-tree of desire. ==Squeak== Under ''Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories'', make sure to select ''Include files'' at ''Show directories for:'', then add in the following: $(SolutionDir)\winbuild\src\vm $(SolutionDir)\platforms\win32\build\vm $(SolutionDir)\platforms\win32\vm $(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\vm Right-click on ''Squeak4.0'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. Repeat this step, add these files to the project. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\vm" : interp.h sqNamedPrims.h interp.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\vm" : *sq.h sqNamedPrims.c sqVirtualMachine.c "MyRoot\platforms\win32\vm" : *sqConfig.h sqWin32.h sqWin32Prefs.h version.h sqWin32Alloc.c sqWin32Args.c sqWin32Directory.c sqWin32Exports.c sqWin32ExternalPrims.c sqWin32Intel.c sqWin32PluginSupport.c sqWin32Prefs.c sqWin32Service.c sqWin32Stubs.c sqWin32Utils.c sqWin32Window.c version.c "MyRoot\platforms\win32\misc" : (Add to Resource File) *Squeak.rc resource.h Under ''Configuration Properties -> General'', set ''Character Set'' to ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_WINDOWS;__i386__;_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE;_MSC_VER;_USE_32BIT_TIME_T''. Under ''C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Basic Runtime Checks'', choose ''Default''. Under ''C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Runtime Library'', choose ''Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Browse Information -> Enable Browse Information'', choose ''Include All Browse Information (/FR)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Show Includes'', choose ''Yes (/showIncludes)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Undefine Preprocessor Definitions'', fill in ''UNICODE''. Under ''Linker -> General -> Enable Incremental Linking'', choose ''Yes (/INCREMENTAL)''. Under ''Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies'', fill in ''winmm.lib msvcrtd.lib Version.lib''. Under ''Linker -> Input -> Ignore All Default Libraries'', choose ''Yes (/NODEFAULTLIB)''. Under ''Linker -> System -> SubSystem'', choose ''Windows (/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS)''. Under ''Linker -> Advanced-> Randomized Base Address'', choose ''Disable Image Randomization (/DYNAMICBASE:NO)''. Under ''Linker -> Advanced-> Data Execution Prevention (DEP)'', choose ''Default''. Click on Apply, then OK. Some adjustment to the coding. *Open ''version.h'', change content to ''#define VM_BUILD_STRING "Win32 built on " __DATE__ " "__TIME__ " Compiler: Visual Studio 2008"'' ''sqMemoryAccess.h'' line 166, delete <pre>static void inline flag(char ignored) { (void)ignored; } </pre> replace it with ''#define flag() ; '' ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 39, add the line ''void HideSplashScreen(void);'' ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 525, comment out the entire line. ''//__asm__ __volatile__ ("rdtsc" : "=A" (value));''. ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 534, change ''void SetDefaultPrinter()'' to ''void SetDefaultPrinterSqueak()''. ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 2879, replace ''ofn.lpstrTitle = L""VM_NAME": Please select an image file...";'' with ''ofn.lpstrTitle = TEXT(VM_NAME": Please select an image file...");''. ''sqWin32Prefs.c'' line 362, change ''SetDefaultPrinter();'' to ''SetDefaultPrinterSqueak();''. ''sqWin32Intel.c'' line 332-353, comment out these lines. ''sqWin32Intel.c'' line 191, change ''printf'' to ''_printf''. We'll ignore it. ''sqWin32Intel.c'' line 204, change ''fprintf'' to ''_fprintf''. We'll ignore it. ''sqWin32.h'' line227-228, add these lines''#define VM_NAME "Squeak" #define VM_VERSION "SqueakDLL"'' ''sq.h'' line 447-448, add these lines. ''#define strdup _strdup'', ''#define strnicmp _strnicmp'' and ''#define warnPrintf printf'' ==B2DPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''B2DPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''B2DPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\B2DPlugin" : B2DPlugin.c Open ''B2DPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''B2DPlugin''. ==BitBltPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''BitBltPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''BitBltPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\BitBltPlugin" : BitBltPlugin.c Open ''BitBltPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''BitBltPlugin''. ==BMPReadWriterPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''BMPReadWriterPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''BMPReadWriterPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\BMPReadWriterPlugin" : BMPReadWriterPlugin.c Open ''BMPReadWriterPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''BMPReadWriterPlugin''. ==FilePlugin== Create a new empty project named ''FilePlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''FilePlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\FilePlugin" : FilePlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\FilePlugin" : FilePlugin.h sqFilePluginBasicPrims.c "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\FilePlugin" : sqWin32FilePrims.c Open ''FilePlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\FilePlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''FilePlugin''. ==DropPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''DropPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''DropPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\DropPlugin" : DropPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\DropPlugin" : DropPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\DropPlugin" : sqWin32Drop.c Open ''DropPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\DropPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''DropPlugin''. ==HostWindowPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''HostWindowPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''HostWindowPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\HostWindowPlugin" : HostWindowPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\HostWindowPlugin" : HostWindowPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\HostWindowPlugin" : sqWin32HostWindowPlugin.c Open ''HostWindowPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\HostWindowPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''HostWindowPlugin''. ==SecurityPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''SecurityPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''SecurityPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\SecurityPlugin" : SecurityPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\SecurityPlugin" : SecurityPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\SecurityPlugin" : sqWin32Security.c Open ''HostWindowPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\SecurityPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. ''sqWin32Security.c'', line 17, ''static HRESULT __stdcall (shGetFolderPath)(HWND, int, HANDLE, DWORD, WCHAR);'', delete ''__stdcall''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''SecurityPlugin''. ==SocketPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''SocketPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''SocketPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\SocketPlugin" : SocketPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\SocketPlugin" : SocketPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\SocketPlugin" : sqWin32NewNet.c Open ''HostWindowPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\SocketPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''Librarian -> General -> Additional Dependencies'', choose ''Ws2_32.lib''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''SocketPlugin''. ==JoystickTabletPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''JoystickTabletPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''JoystickTabletPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\winbuild\src\JoystickTabletPlugin" : JoystickTabletPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin" : JoystickTabletPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin" : sqWin32Joystick.c Open ''HostWindowPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''JoystickTabletPlugin''. ==Finally..== Modify ''sqNamedPrims.h'' as follows. <pre> /* This is an automatically generated table of all builtin modules in the VM / extern sqExport vm_exports[]; extern sqExport os_exports[]; extern sqExport BMPReadWriterPlugin_exports[]; extern sqExport B2DPlugin_exports[]; extern sqExport BitBltPlugin_exports[]; extern sqExport DropPlugin_exports[]; extern sqExport FilePlugin_exports[]; extern sqExport HostWindowPlugin_exports[]; extern sqExport JoystickTabletPlugin_exports[]; extern sqExport SecurityPlugin_exports[]; extern sqExport SocketPlugin_exports[]; sqExport pluginExports[] = { vm_exports, os_exports, BMPReadWriterPlugin_exports, B2DPlugin_exports, BitBltPlugin_exports, DropPlugin_exports, FilePlugin_exports, HostWindowPlugin_exports, JoystickTabletPlugin_exports, SecurityPlugin_exports, SocketPlugin_exports, NULL }; </pre> =Directory Tree= =Note= #Make sure to copy ''splash.bmp'' into "MyRoot\Projects\Squeak4.0", so that during debug, Squeak can find it, and open-up Squeak window. Without it, Squeak window wouldn't show up. ''splash.bmp'' can be found in Squeak package, along side with image and Squeak executable. #Extract ''Squeak 4.1-image.zip'' into "MyRoot\Projects\Squeak4.0". #
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blockipsuccesssub Talk	Documentation of Visual Studio build of SqueakVM 3.10. If you want to play with it immediately, get it [http://www.askoh.net/mmu/beepeng/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.10/VSSqueak3.10.zip here]. Otherwise, follow instruction below to build a VS SqueakVM 3.10. Note: in case rebuild cause any error, follow step 1 of subtitle: ''Squeak'', include directories We will build 3.10 version of SqueakVM. We will need to download platform specific files from Squeak source release. Next, we will generate independent files (plugins and interpreter) from VMMaker. =Tools= Download [http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.7-src.zip SqueakVM Win32-3.10.7 source]. Extract it, then copy only directory named ''platforms'' into root directory, eg. "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\3.10\demo\VS2008" in my case. This will be root directory for source code, VS projects and also the solution file. You will get "MyRoot\platforms", in my case "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\3.10\demo\VS2008\platforms". Delete ''winbuild'', we are going to generate our own version of ''winbuild'' from VMMaker. Download [http://ftp.squeak.org/3.10/win/Squeak3.10.2-7179-win32.zip Squeak 3.10 & image]. Setup the image with VMMaker package. Follow [[VMMaker]] page to learn more about VMMaker. In VMMaker UI, select the following as internal plugin. I'm not sure which are the "must-have" plugins. So, I will just follow the previous configuration since they work. #BallonEnginePlugin(B2DPlugin) #BitBltSimulation(BitBltPlugin) #BMPReadWriterPlugin #FilePlugin #DropPlugin #HostWindowPlugin #SecurityPlugin #SocketPlugin #JoystickTabletPlugin Use VMMaker to generate source into "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\3.10\demo\VS2008\platforms\win32\build\src". At this point, all files are ready to be use in VM building. =Building= Open-up Visual Studio (VC 2008 Express), choose Empty Project, create new project named Squeak. Set location to "MyRoot\Projects", in my case "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\3.10\demo\VS2008\Projects". Uncheck ''Create directory for solution''. Close the solution. Cut ''Squeak.sln'' and ''Squeak.ncb'' from "MyRoot\Projects\Squeak", and paste it at "MyRoot". Open up ''Squeak.sln'', ignore pop-up warnings. Right-click on ''Squeak(unavailable)'', remove it. At ''File -> Add -> Existing Projects...'', go into "MyRoot\Projects\Squeak" and add ''Squeak.vcproj''. Steps above needed to achieve directory-tree of desire. ==Squeak== Under ''Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories'', make sure to select ''Include files'' at ''Show directories for:'', then add in the following: $(SolutionDir)\winbuild\src\vm $(SolutionDir)\platforms\win32\build\vm $(SolutionDir)\platforms\win32\vm $(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\vm $(SolutionDir)\platforms\win32\build\src\vm Right-click on ''Squeak'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. Repeat this step, add these files to the project. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\vm" : interp.h sqNamedPrims.h interp.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\vm" : sq.h sqNamedPrims.c sqVirtualMachine.c "MyRoot\platforms\win32\vm" : *sqConfig.h sqWin32.h sqWin32Prefs.h version.h sqWin32Alloc.c sqWin32Args.c sqWin32Directory.c sqWin32Exports.c sqWin32ExternalPrims.c sqWin32Intel.c sqWin32PluginSupport.c sqWin32Prefs.c sqWin32Service.c sqWin32Stubs.c sqWin32Utils.c sqWin32Window.c version.c "MyRoot\platforms\win32\misc" : (Add to Resource File) *Squeak.rc resource.h Under ''Configuration Properties -> General'', set ''Character Set'' to ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_WINDOWS;__i386__;_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE;VM_NAME=\"Squeak\";_USE_32BIT_TIME_T''. Under ''C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Basic Runtime Checks'', choose ''Default''. Under ''C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Runtime Library'', choose ''Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Browse Information -> Enable Browse Information'', choose ''Include All Browse Information (/FR)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Show Includes'', choose ''Yes (/showIncludes)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Undefine Preprocessor Definitions'', fill in ''UNICODE''. Under ''Linker -> General -> Enable Incremental Linking'', choose ''Yes (/INCREMENTAL)''. Under ''Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies'', fill in ''winmm.lib msvcrtd.lib Version.lib''. Under ''Linker -> Input -> Ignore All Default Libraries'', choose ''Yes (/NODEFAULTLIB)''. Under ''Linker -> System -> SubSystem'', choose ''Windows (/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS)''. Under ''Linker -> Advanced-> Randomized Base Address'', choose ''Disable Image Randomization (/DYNAMICBASE:NO)''. Under ''Linker -> Advanced-> Data Execution Prevention (DEP)'', choose ''Default''. Click on Apply, then OK. Some adjustment to the coding. *Open ''version.h'', change content to ''#define VM_BUILD_STRING "Win32 built on " __DATE__ " "__TIME__ " Compiler: Visual Studio 2008"'' ''sqMemoryAccess.h'' line 166, delete <pre>static void inline flag(char ignored) { (void)ignored; } </pre> replace it with ''#define flag() ; '' ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 38, add the line ''void HideSplashScreen(void);'' ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 519, comment out the entire line. ''//__asm__ __volatile__ ("rdtsc" : "=A" (value));''. ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 528, change ''void SetDefaultPrinter()'' to ''void SetDefaultPrinterSqueak()''. ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 2777, replace''ofn.lpstrTitle = L""VM_NAME": Please select an image file...";'' with ''ofn.lpstrTitle = TEXT(VM_NAME": Please select an image file...");''. ''sqWin32Prefs.c'' line 368, change ''SetDefaultPrinter();'' to ''SetDefaultPrinterSqueak();''. ''sqWin32Intel.c'' line 317-338, comment out these lines. ''sqWin32Intel.c'' line 176, change ''printf'' to ''_printf''. We'll ignore it. ''sq.h'' line 420, add these lines. ''#define strdup _strdup'', ''#define strnicmp _strnicmp'' and ''#define warnPrintf printf'' ==B2DPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''B2DPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''B2DPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\B2DPlugin" : B2DPlugin.c Open ''B2DPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''B2DPlugin''. ==BitBltPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''BitBltPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''BitBltPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\BitBltPlugin" : BitBltPlugin.c Open ''BitBltPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''BitBltPlugin''. ==BMPReadWriterPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''BMPReadWriterPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''BMPReadWriterPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\BMPReadWriterPlugin" : BMPReadWriterPlugin.c Open ''BMPReadWriterPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''BMPReadWriterPlugin''. ==FilePlugin== Create a new empty project named ''FilePlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''FilePlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\FilePlugin" : FilePlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\FilePlugin" : FilePlugin.h sqFilePluginBasicPrims.c "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\FilePlugin" : sqWin32FilePrims.c Open ''FilePlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\FilePlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''FilePlugin''. ==DropPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''DropPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''DropPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\DropPlugin" : DropPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\DropPlugin" : DropPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\DropPlugin" : sqWin32Drop.c Open ''DropPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\DropPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''DropPlugin''. ==HostWindowPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''HostWindowPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''HostWindowPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\HostWindowPlugin" : HostWindowPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\HostWindowPlugin" : HostWindowPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\HostWindowPlugin" : sqWin32HostWindowPlugin.c Open ''HostWindowPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\HostWindowPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''HostWindowPlugin''. ==SecurityPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''SecurityPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''SecurityPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\SecurityPlugin" : SecurityPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\SecurityPlugin" : SecurityPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\SecurityPlugin" : sqWin32Security.c Open ''HostWindowPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\SecurityPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''SecurityPlugin''. ==SocketPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''SocketPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''SocketPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\SocketPlugin" : SocketPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\SocketPlugin" : SocketPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\SocketPlugin" : sqWin32NewNet.c Open ''HostWindowPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\SocketPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''Librarian -> General -> Additional Dependencies'', choose ''Ws2_32.lib''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''SocketPlugin''. ==JoystickTabletPlugin== Create a new empty project named ''JoystickTabletPlugin''. Fill in ''Location:'' as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under ''Solution:'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''JoystickTabletPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. "MyRoot\platforms\win32\build\src\JoystickTabletPlugin" : JoystickTabletPlugin.c "MyRoot\platforms\Cross\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin" : JoystickTabletPlugin.h "MyRoot\platforms\win32\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin" : sqWin32Joystick.c Open ''HostWindowPlugin'' Property Pages. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in "$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin". Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Click on Apply, then OK. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''JoystickTabletPlugin''. =Directory Tree= =Note= #Make sure to copy ''splash.bmp'' into "MyRoot\Projects\Squeak", so that during debug, Squeak can find it, and open-up Squeak window. Without it, Squeak window wouldn't show up. ''splash.bmp'' can be found in Squeak package, along side with image and Squeak executable. #Copy an image to the same directory, so that you wouldn't need to manually choose an image every time running(debugging) Squeak in VS. #
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blockiptext Talk	=VS SqueakVM 3.9 (2)= Download [http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/Squeak-Win32-3.2.3-src.zip SqueakVM-Win32-3.9.2-src] =Project Squeak= Open VS, '''I'm using VC 2008 Express''', choose ''Empty Project'', create new project named ''Squeak''. Set ''Location'' to your working directory eg, "C:\VSSqueakVM". Under ''Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories'', make sure to select ''Include files'' at ''Show directories for:'', add in the following: $(SolutionDir)\winbuild\src\vm $(SolutionDir)\src\vm $(SolutionDir)\platforms\win32\vm $(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\vm Extract SqueakVM-Win32-3.9.2-src into working directory. you will have two folders in the directory, ''platform'' and ''winbuild'', along with project Squeak. Right-click on ''Squeak'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. Repeat this step, add these files to the project. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\vm : interp.h sqNamedPrims.h interp.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\Cross\vm : sq.h sqNamedPrims.c sqVirtualMachine.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\win32\vm : sqConfig.h sqWin32.h sqWin32Prefs.h version.h sqWin32Alloc.c sqWin32Args.c sqWin32Directory.c sqWin32Exports.c sqWin32ExternalPrims.c sqWin32Intel.c sqWin32PluginSupport.c sqWin32Prefs.c sqWin32Service.c sqWin32Stubs.c sqWin32Utils.c sqWin32Window.c version.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\win32\misc : Squeak.rc resource.h (Add to Resource File) Open ''Squeak Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General'', set ''Character Set'' to ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_WINDOWS;__i386__;_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE;VM_NAME=\"Squeak\";_USE_32BIT_TIME_T''. Under ''C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Basic Runtime Checks'', choose ''Default''. Under ''C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Runtime Library'', choose ''Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Browse Information -> Enable Browse Information'', choose ''Include All Browse Information (/FR)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Show Includes'', choose ''Yes (/showIncludes)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Undefine Preprocessor Definitions'', fill in ''UNICODE''. Under ''Linker -> General -> Enable Incremental Linking'', choose ''Yes (/INCREMENTAL)''. Under ''Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies'', fill in ''winmm.lib msvcrtd.lib''. Under ''Linker -> Input -> Ignore All Default Libraries'', choose ''Yes (/NODEFAULTLIB)''. Under ''Linker -> System -> SubSystem'', choose ''Windows (/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS)''. Under ''Linker -> Advanced-> Randomized Base Address'', choose ''Disable Image Randomization (/DYNAMICBASE:NO)''. Under ''Linker -> Advanced-> Data Execution Prevention (DEP)'', choose ''Default''. *Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. At this point, building the project gives error. In ''sqWin32Prefs.c'', line 368. Comment out ''// SetDefaultPrinter();''. Do a search for ''flag("Dan");'' and ''flag("sizeLowBits");'', comment each out. eg, ''// flag("Dan");'' *Comment out ''static void inline flag(char ignored) {}'', in ''sqmemoryaccess.h'' line 166. Open ''version.h'', change content to ''#define VM_BUILD_STRING "Win32 built on " __DATE__ " "__TIME__ " Compiler: Visual Studio 2008"'' In ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 512, change ''void SetDefaultPrinter()'' to ''void SetDefaultPrinterSqueak()'' Search for ''strdup'' and ''strnicmp'', change each to ''_strdup'' and ''_strnicmp'' respectively. Open ''sqNamedPrims.h'', comment out all ''plugin_exports;'' except the first two and those plugins being used in this build. eg, <pre>sqExport pluginExports[] = { vm_exports, os_exports, BMPReadWriterPlugin_exports, ... SocketPlugin_exports, /ADPCMCodecPlugin_exports, ... UUIDPlugin_exports,/ NULL };</pre> Open sqWin32Intel.c, at about lineline 177-215, add in <code>#if 0</code> and <code>#endif</code>. Eg. <pre>#if 0 int __cdecl printf(const char fmt, ...) { va_list al; ... } int __cdecl fprintf(FILE fp, const char fmt, ...) { va_list al; ... } int __cdecl putchar(int c) { return printf("%c",c); } #endif</pre> Next, add plugins to the solution. =B2DPlugin= Create a new empty project named ''B2DPlugin''. Under ''Solution'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''B2DPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\B2DPlugin : B2DPlugin.c Open ''B2DPlugin Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''B2DPlugin''. =BitBltPlugin= Create a new empty project named ''BitBltPlugin'' (or add new project). Under ''Solution'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''BitBltPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\BitBltPlugin : BitBltPlugin.c Open ''BitBltPlugin Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''BitBltPlugin''. =BMPReadWriterPlugin= Create a new empty project named ''BMPReadWriterPlugin'' (or add new project). Under ''Solution'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''BMPReadWriterPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\BMPReadWriterPlugin : BMPReadWriterPlugin.c Open ''BMPReadWriterPlugin Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''BMPReadWriterPlugin''. =FilePlugin= Create a new empty project named ''FilePlugin'' (or add new project). Under ''Solution'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''FilePlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\FilePlugin : FilePlugin.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\Cross\plugins\FilePlugin : FilePlugin.h sqFilePluginBasicPrims.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\win32\plugins\FilePlugin : sqWin32FilePrims.c Open ''FilePlugin Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in ''"$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\FilePlugin"''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''FilePlugin''. =DropPlugin= Create a new empty project named ''DropPlugin'' (or add new project). Under ''Solution'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''DropPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\DropPlugin : DropPlugin.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\Cross\plugins\DropPlugin : DropPlugin.h C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\win32\plugins\DropPlugin : sqWin32Drop.c Open ''DropPlugin Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in ''"$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\DropPlugin"''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''DropPlugin''. Search for ''strdup'' in ''sqWin32Drop.c'', change each to ''_strdup''. =HostWindowPlugin= Create a new empty project named ''HostWindowPlugin'' (or add new project). Under ''Solution'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''HostWindowPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\HostWindowPlugin : HostWindowPlugin.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\Cross\plugins\HostWindowPlugin : HostWindowPlugin.h C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\win32\plugins\HostWindowPlugin : sqWin32HostWindowPlugin.c Open ''HostWindowPlugin Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in ''"$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\HostWindowPlugin"''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''HostWindowPlugin''. =SecurityPlugin= Create a new empty project named ''SecurityPlugin'' (or add new project). Under ''Solution'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''SecurityPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\SecurityPlugin : SecurityPlugin.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\Cross\plugins\SecurityPlugin : SecurityPlugin.h C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\win32\plugins\SecurityPlugin : sqWin32Security.c Open ''SecurityPlugin Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in ''"$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\SecurityPlugin"''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''SecurityPlugin''. =SocketPlugin= Create a new empty project named ''SocketPlugin'' (or add new project). Under ''Solution'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''SocketPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\SocketPlugin : SocketPlugin.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\Cross\plugins\SocketPlugin : SocketPlugin.h C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\win32\plugins\SocketPlugin : sqWin32NewNet.c Open ''SocketPlugin Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in ''"$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\SocketPlugin"''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Under ''Librarian -> General -> Additional Dependencies'', choose ''Ws2_32.lib''. Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''SocketPlugin''. =JoystickTabletPlugin= Create a new empty project named ''JoystickTabletPlugin'' (or add new project). Under ''Solution'', choose ''add to solution''. Right-clicked ''JoystickTabletPlugin'', choose ''Add -> Existing Item...''. C:\VSSqueakVM\winbuild\src\JoystickTabletPlugin : JoystickTabletPlugin.c C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\Cross\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin : JoystickTabletPlugin.h C:\VSSqueakVM\platforms\win32\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin : sqWin32Joystick.c Open ''JoystickTabletPlugin Property Pages''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', choose ''Static Library (.lib)''. Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set'', choose ''Use Unicode Character Set''. Under ''C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories'', fill in ''"$(SolutionDir)\platforms\Cross\plugins\JoystickTabletPlugin"''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_LIB;SQUEAK_BUILTIN_PLUGIN''. Under ''C/C++ -> Advanced -> Compile As'', choose ''Compile as C Code (/TC)''. Click on ''Apply'', then ''OK''. Right-click ''Squeak'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''JoystickTabletPlugin''. At this point, compilation should give no error. You can step through the code in debug mode and examine.
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blocklink Talk	Draw a clear line separating input and Squeak interpret (inclusive of GC). From embedded Squeak, Smalltalk code send in as String. Which part of code responsible to take in command line and interpret? How SqueakVM interpret character String then execute? primitiveResponse() normalSend() =VS Embedded Squeak= Documentation of Visual Studio build of Embedded Squeak. If you want to play with it immediately, get it [http://www.askoh.net/mmu/beepeng/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.2(embedded)/VSSqueakEmbedded.zip here]. Otherwise, follow instruction below to build a VS Embedded Squeak. ==Setup== Open-up Visual Studio (VC 2008 Express), choose Visual C++ Empty Project, create new project named ''EmbeddedSqueak''. Set location to "MyRoot\Projects", in my case "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\3.2(embedded)\SqueakEmbedded\VS2008\Projects". Uncheck ''Create directory for solution''. Close the solution. Cut ''EmbeddedSqueak.sln'' and ''EmbeddedSqueak.ncb'' from "MyRoot\Projects\EmbeddedSqueak", and paste it at "MyRoot". Open up ''EmbeddedSqueak.sln'', ignore pop-up warnings. Right-click on ''EmbeddedSqueak(unavailable)'', remove it. At ''File -> Add -> Existing Projects...'', go into "MyRoot\Projects\EmbeddedSqueak" and add EmbeddedSqueak.vcproj. Steps above done to achieve directory-tree of desire. ==Building== #Download [http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/squeak/squeak22embedded10.zip Embedded Squeak]. #Create a directory under "MyRoot", name it "Source". Extract EmbeddedSqueak zip into "MyRoot\Source". #Right-click on the project name, choose ''Add'' -> ''Existing item..'', add the following .h and .c files to the project. ##ImageFileInMemory.c ##interp.c ##sqMiscPrims.c ##sqEmbedded.c ##sqFilePrims.c ##sqWin32.h ##sq.h ##sqConfig.h ##sqMachDep.h ##sqPlatformSpecific.h #Right-click on project name, choose ''Properties''. Under ''Configuration Properties'' -> ''C/C++'' -> ''Preprocessor'' -> ''Preprocessor Definitions'', fill in ''WIN32;_DEBUG;_WINDOWS;__i386__;_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE;VM_NAME=\"Squeak\";_USE_32BIT_TIME_T;EMBEDDED''. #Now, build can be successfully carried out. But, trying to debug will cause runtime error. Error message: ''The variable 'result' is being used without being initialized''. Edit line 6697 in ''interp.c'', i.e. ''int result = 0;''. Do the same for any similar error pops up. #Build the project, and debug it. Type in Smalltalk expression, e.g. ''0.1234 class'', returns ''Float''. =I/O Primitive= Primitives with index 90 through 105. primitiveMousePoint primitiveCursorLocPut(primitiveFail) primitiveCursorLink(primitiveFail) primitiveInputSemaphore primitiveSampleInterval(primitiveFail) primitiveInputWord primitiveCopyBits primitiveSnapshot primitiveTimeWordsInto(primitiveFail) primitiveTickWordsInto(primitiveFail) primitiveSignalAtTick(primitiveFail) primitiveBeCursor primitiveBeDisplay primitiveScanCharacters primitiveDrawLoop primitiveStringReplace *primitiveStringReplace Call stack: main() -> interpret() 'case131' -> normalSend() -> sendSelectorToClass() -> executeNewMethod() -> primitiveResponse() 'case105' =sqEmbedded.c= Include minimal support code for Embedded Squeak system. Most primitives were stubbed out. Image processing =sqFilePrims.c= File I/O is not available in Embedded Squeak, since no image will be read(image is embedded into Squeak). Most functions were stubbed out, since they are useless to Embedded Squeak. Image is read as an array in memory. =sqMiscPrims.c=
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blocklistline Talk	=source= [http://askoh.com/squeakdll/video/20100401/ Video 1] [http://askoh.com/squeakdll/20100330/SqueakDLL-20100330.zip SqueakDLL 1] =31 March 2010= ===Compile SqueakVM as DLL=== Squeak.exe need to be compile as Squeak.dll, a main program will link against it. MainProgram.exe will have nothing but a main.c file. main.c will have the handle to Squeak.dll, reference to Squeak.dll functions. Squeak.dll will have some minor changes. It will be break into two main parts. First part will run from previous entry point(WinMain()) to the point right before ''interpret()'' -- ''SqueakInit()''. Second part will be ''interpret()'' loop -- ''SqueakInterp()''. Instead if ''interpret(void''), my interpret() will take an argument-(char* sqExp), ''interpret(char* sqExp)''. The argument will have a smalltalk command sent from main to Squeak.dll side. At Squeak.dll, I add a global ''dllString'', to ease the process of ''sqExp'', from here on, ''sqExp'' will be refer to as ''dllString''. Follows will be how it works. #main setup to use Squeak.dll #main will call SqueakInit() which will run Squeak.dll from entry point to right before interpret() loop #main will prompt user for input(Smalltalk command), eg, "3 class" or "3 asFloat". And this input will be the ''sqExp'' to send to Squeak.dll #main call SqueakInterp(sqExp), passing Smalltalk command to Squeak.dll #main print the result when Squeak.dll returns with result string #Again, main will prompt user for Smalltalk command, call SqueakInterp() etc. ===primitiveCString=== I start with writing a primitive to pass C String from C to Squeak. I learn from primitiveVMPath, as it passes vm path (C String) into Squeak. I choose a primitiveObsoleteIndexedPrimitive, 169, for no specific reason, and replace it with primitiveCString. <pre>sqInt primitiveCString(void) { sqInt sz; sqInt s; sz = strlen(dllString); s = instantiateClassindexableSize(splObj(ClassString), sz); getCStringLength(s + BaseHeaderSize, sz); popthenPush(1, s); }</pre> ===processDLLString=== A method is needed at Squeak-side to get string from C, process and return to main. For that I create a class named "SqueakDLL". "SqueakDLL" will have interface methods to primitives, and a method to process string. <pre>processDLLString \| str result dll \| dll := SqueakDLL new. str := dll primCString. result := (Compiler evaluate: str) printString. dll primReturnString: result size: result size</pre> ===primitiveReturnString=== After execution, the result need to be send from Squeak to Squeak.dll, and then return to main.exe. For this, I have a primitiveReturnString to do the job(primitive 170). <pre>sqInt primitiveReturnString(void){ sqInt i,count; char* s; count = integerValueOf(popStack()); s = popStack() + BaseHeaderSize;//get argument 1 for (i= 0; i < count; i++) dllString[i]= s[i]; dllString[count] = '\0'; }</pre> After the primitive, result need to be return to main.exe. Therefore, I place a ''return'' at the end of bytecode 131(singleExtendedSendBytecode), with condition current primitive index is 170. <pre>l47: /* end internalExecuteNewMethod /; / begin fetchNextBytecode / currentBytecode = byteAtPointer(++localIP); if(primitiveIndex == 170) return;</pre> ===dllLoop=== So far, if I run main.exe, main will have Squeak.dll runs, opens up a windows. I need to manually doIt "SqueakDLL processDLLString" to get the process going. For this, I add a method to the class ''SqueakDLL'', which will processDLLString run infinitely as a process. <pre>dllLoop [[true] whileTrue: [SqueakDLL processDLLString]]forkAt: 30</pre> The process is place slightly below the priority of the Squeak GUI. I then doIt "SqueakDLL dllLoop", and save the image. Finally, I build Squeak.dll to be headless. = 22 March 2010 = #Make Squeak compile as a DLL, have a main program(CAD) link-against Squeak.dll. #Start main program, main program will call the dll function SqueakInit(), which will have Squeak start up, with image loaded*, etc.. Squeak.dll will return just right before it enter interpret() loop. #Main program then call dll function SqueakInterp(squeakExpression) with a String-squeakExpression as its argument. ''squeakExpression will be the expression to be execute by Squeak.dll.'' Enter interp() loop. #At this point of time, activeContext will have a method ready to process squeakExpression, or maybe a high priority process. #The method, or process, will have to call a primitiveReadString to get squeakExpression from C(squeak.dll). Then, execute squeakExpression as perhaps just a DoIt. Method ends with a primitiveReturnString, return result as a String to the main program.
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blocklogentry Talk	=Squeak4.0= Follow [[VS SqueakVM 4.0]], and continue. Get [http://askoh.com/squeakdll/Squeakdll4.zip Squeak DLL], use and debug it immediately. =Squeak4.0 DLL= Open ''Squeak4.0.sln'' Right-clicked ''Squeak4.0'', choose ''Add -> New Item...''. Choose ''Visual C++ -> code -> C++ File(.cpp)'', and fill name with ''dll.c''. <pre>#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include "dll.h" EXPORT int SqueakInterp(int rcvr, char* selector, int arg) { atom = 0; return interpret(rcvr, selector, arg, ""); } EXPORT int SqueakInterp1(int rcvr, char* selector, char* arg){ atom = 1; return interpret(rcvr, selector, -1, arg); } EXPORT int SqueakGetFloat(int floatOop, double* floatValue){ dllFloatValueOf(floatOop, floatValue); } EXPORT void SqueakInit(void) { squeakMain(); }</pre> Right-clicked ''Squeak4.0'', choose ''Add -> New Item...''. Choose Visual C++ -> code -> Header File(.h), and fill name with ''dll.h''. <pre>#ifdef BUILD_DLL / DLL export / #define EXPORT __declspec(dllexport) #else / EXE import / #define EXPORT __declspec(dllimport) #endif int atom; EXPORT int SqueakInterp(int rcvr, char selector, int arg); EXPORT int SqueakInterp1(int rcvr, char* selector, char* arg); EXPORT int SqueakGetFloat(int floatOop, double floatValue); EXPORT void SqueakInit(void);</pre> Under ''Configuration Properties -> General -> Configuration Type'', set ''Dynamic Library(.dll)''. Under ''C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definition'', fill in ''BUILD_DLL;WIN32;_DEBUG;_WINDOWS;__i386__;_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE;VM_NAME=\"Squeak\";_USE_32BIT_TIME_T;VM_VERSION=\"SqueakDLL\"''. ''interp.c'' line 715, add these lines <pre>static sqInt dllMemory[20]; sqInt memCount = 0; sqInt dllRcvr; char* dllSelector; char dllArgString; sqInt dllArg; sqInt interpReturn; </pre> ''interp.c'' line 4920, add these lines <pre>int dllFloatValueOf(sqInt floatOop, double* floatValue){ floatValue = floatValueOf(dllMemory[floatOop]); }</pre> ''interp.c'' line 6450-6461, replace these lines with <pre>sqInt interpret(int rcvr, char* selector, int arg, char* argString) { sqInt localReturnValue; sqInt localReturnContext; sqInt localHomeContext; char* localSP; char* localIP; sqInt currentBytecode; dllRcvr = rcvr; dllSelector = selector; dllArgString = argString; dllArg = arg; interpReturn = 0;</pre> ''interp.c'' line 8557, add these lines <pre>if(interpReturn) return memCount++;</pre> ''interp.c'' line 21931, add these lines <pre> sqInt primitiveCString(void) { sqInt sz; sqInt s; //printTop(); sz = cStringlength(); s = instantiateClassindexableSize(splObj(ClassString), sz); getCStringLength(s + BaseHeaderSize, sz); popthenPush(1, s); } sqInt primitiveReturnString(void){ static sqInt temp; if ( interpReturn == 0) { interpReturn = 1; temp = nilObject(); } temp = dllMemory[memCount]= popStack(); if(!isIntegerObject(temp)) addGCRoot(&dllMemory[memCount]); } sqInt primitiveRcvrArg(void){ sqInt rcvrOrArg; usqInt oop; rcvrOrArg = integerValueOf(popStack()); if(rcvrOrArg && (dllArg != -1)) popthenPush(1, dllMemory[dllArg]); else if ((rcvrOrArg == 0) && (dllRcvr != -1)) popthenPush(1, dllMemory[dllRcvr]); else popthenPush(1, nilObj); }</pre> ''sqWin32Window.c'' line 2518, add these lines <pre>int cStringlength(void) { return lstrlen(dllSelector); } int getCStringLength(int cStringIndex, int length) { char cString= (char )cStringIndex; int count, i; char anyString [100]; strcpy(anyString, dllSelector); count = lstrlen(anyString); for (i= 0; i < count; i++) cString[i]= (char) anyString[i]; / will remove leading zeros from unicode / return count; }</pre> ''sq.h'' line 446, add these lines <pre>extern char dllSelector; extern char dllArgString;</pre> ''sqWin32Intel.c'' line 1194, edit <pre>int squeakMain (HINSTANCE hInst, </pre> ''sqWin32Intel.c'' line 1211, edit <pre> GetModuleFileNameW(null, vmNameW, MAX_PATH);</pre> ''sqWin32Intel.c'' line 1179, comment the line <pre>// interpret();</pre> =MainProgram= Create a new empty project named ''MainProgram''. Fill in Location: as "MyRoot\VS2008\Projects". Under Solution:, choose add to solution. Right-clicked ''MainProgram'', choose ''Add -> New Item...''. Choose ''Visual C++ -> code -> C++ File(.cpp)'', and fill name with ''main.c''. <pre>#include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> #define sqPtr int struct point{ sqPtr sPoint; double x; double y; }; struct line { sqPtr sline; struct point start; struct point end; double length; }; char sqExpression[50]= ""; double getFloat(sqPtr floatOop); void setPoint(struct line aLine, struct point aPoint, double x, double y); void lineNew(struct line aLine); void pointNew(struct point aPoint, int x, int y); void printPoint(struct point aPoint); void printVelocity(struct line aLine); void setStartPoint(struct line aLine, double x, double y); void setEndPoint(struct line aLine, double x, double y); void setVelocity(struct line aLine, double x, double y); void getStartPoint(struct line aLine); void getEndPoint(struct line aLine); int main () { typedef void (pfunc)(); struct line cline1; /Windows handle/ HANDLE hdll; /A pointer to a function/ pfunc SqueakInit; pfunc SqueakInterp1; pfunc SqueakInterp2; /LoadLibrary/ hdll = LoadLibrary("Squeak4.0.dll"); /GetProcAddress/ SqueakInit = (pfunc)GetProcAddress(hdll, "SqueakInit"); SqueakInterp1 = (pfunc)GetProcAddress(hdll, "SqueakInterp1"); SqueakInterp2 = (pfunc)GetProcAddress(hdll, "SqueakInterp2"); SqueakInit(); //create a line lineNew(&cline1); printPoint(&cline1.start); //0@0 printPoint(&cline1.end); //3@3 printVelocity(&cline1); //1@1 //set start point setStartPoint(&cline1, 1.1, 3.3); printPoint(&cline1.start); //1.1@3.3 printPoint(&cline1.end); //3@3 printVelocity(&cline1); //1@1 //set velocity setVelocity(&cline1, 0.01, 0.03); printVelocity(&cline1); //0.01@0.03 //move 1.1s perform4(cline1.sline, "moveTime:", "1.1"); printPoint(&cline1.start); //1.1@3.3 printPoint(&cline1.end); //3@3 printVelocity(&cline1); //1@1 getStartPoint(&cline1); getEndPoint(&cline1); printPoint(&cline1.start); //1.111@3.311 printPoint(&cline1.end); //3.011@3.011 return 0; } sqPtr perform1(char selector){ return SqueakInterp( -1, selector, -1);; } sqPtr perform2(sqPtr rcvr, char* selector){ return SqueakInterp(rcvr, selector, -1); } sqPtr perform3(sqPtr rcvr, char* selector, sqPtr args){ return SqueakInterp(rcvr, selector, args); } sqPtr perform4(sqPtr rcvr, char* selector, char* args){ return SqueakInterp1(rcvr, selector, args); } void printPoint(struct point aPoint){ printf("\nPoint: %f @ %f", aPoint->x, aPoint->y); } void getStartPoint(struct line aLine){ float x, y; sqPtr aPoint; aPoint = perform2(aLine->sline, "startPoint"); aLine->start.x = getFloat(perform2(aPoint, "x")); aLine->start.y = getFloat(perform2(aPoint, "y")); } void getEndPoint(struct line aLine){ float x, y; sqPtr aPoint; aPoint = perform2(aLine->sline, "endPoint"); aLine->end.x = getFloat(perform2(aPoint, "x")); aLine->end.y = getFloat(perform2(aPoint, "y")); } void printVelocity(struct line aLine){ float x, y; sqPtr velocity; velocity = perform2(aLine->sline, "velocity"); x = getFloat(perform2(velocity, "x")); y = getFloat(perform2(velocity, "y")); printf("\nVelocity: %f @ %f", x, y); } void setStartPoint(struct line aLine, double x, double y){ //exe side point aLine->start.x = x; aLine->start.y = y; //dll side point sprintf(sqExpression, "%f@%f", x, y ); aLine->start.sPoint = perform1(&sqExpression); perform3(aLine->sline, "startPoint:", aLine->start.sPoint); } void setEndPoint(struct line aLine, double x, double y){ //exe side point aLine->end.x = x; aLine->end.y = y; //dll side point sprintf(sqExpression, "%f@%f", x, y ); aLine->end.sPoint = perform1(&sqExpression); perform3(aLine->sline, "endPoint:", aLine->end.sPoint); } //set velocity at smalltalk side only. void setVelocity(struct line aLine, double x, double y){ //velocity only stored at dll side sprintf(sqExpression, "%f@%f", x, y ); perform3(aLine->sline, "velocity:", perform1(&sqExpression)); } double getFloat(sqPtr floatOop){ double temp; SqueakGetFloat(floatOop, &temp); return temp; } void lineNew(struct line aLine){ aLine->sline = perform1("SqLine new"); setStartPoint(aLine, 0, 0); setEndPoint(aLine, 3, 3); setVelocity(aLine, 1, 1); aLine->length = perform2(aLine->sline, "length"); } </pre> Right-click on ''MainProgram'', choose ''Set as StartUp Project''. Right-click on ''MainProgram'', choose ''Project Dependencies...'', check ''Squeak4.0''. =Debug= Copy ''Squeak4.1.changes'', ''Squeak4.1.image'' and ''SqueakV41.sources'' into ''MyRoot/Debug''. Click ''Debug'', choose the correct image file. *In Squeak window, open a workspace, execute this once "SqueakDLL initialise" and then execute/debug "SqueakDLL processDLL" for every exe call to dll.
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blocklogpage Talk	Please read more about VMMaker at [http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2105]. Here, I assume reader already read about [[VS SqueakVM 3.10]]. Otherwise, please get a copy of [http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.7-src.zip SqueakVM Win32-3.10.7 source]. There will be a directory named ''platforms'', which is vital to generating C code from VMMaker. Parent of ''platforms'' will be "root-dir" in this document. Eg, in my case, I have "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\3.10\demo\VS2008\platforms". =Setup= #Get Squeak 3.10 start-up with a 3.10 image. For instance, ''SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.7'' with a ''Squeak3.10.1-7175-basic.image''. #Drag a ''Package Loader (SqueakMap)'' from Tools tab on the right-top corner. Search for ''VMMaker'' in the search field on the top left field. Right-click on ''VMMaker'' and select install. Click on yes/proceed on messages pop up/warning prompt. The installation might take some time. #Close the ''Package Loader'' window and drag a ''Browser'' from Tool tab. Search for ''VMMaker'' and select ''VMMaker-Building -> Win32VMMaker''. Right-Click on ''Win32VMMaker'' and select remove class. Click yes on prompt. #Drag a ''File List'' from Tools tab. Go to "root-dir\platforms\win32\build" directory, find for ''Win32VMMaker.st'' then click on file in. ''Win32VMMaker.st'' is one of many files in Squeak source release which we downloaded earlier in [[VS SqueakVM 3.10]]. Close ''File List''. #Double check. Now Win32VMMaker as subclass of VMMaker. =Generate= #In ''Workspace'', type this ''VMMakerTool openInWorld'', and ''do it''. #VMMaker UI show up. Fill in "root-dir\platforms" at ''Path to platform code''. Eg., in my case, I will fill in "C:\Smalltalk\Squeak\3.10\demo\VS2008\platforms". Fill in "root-dir\platforms\win32\build\src" at ''Path to generate sources''. #Now, choose plugins to be added to the SqueakVM you are about to build. Drag the plugin chosen from ''Plugins not built'' to either ''Internal plugins'' or ''External plugins''. #Next, click on either ''Entire'', ''Core+Internal'' or ''External'', depend on what do you want VMMaker to generate. ''Entire'': Generate entirely, Squeak VM and all plugins. Both internal and external.''Core+Internal'': Generate only Squeak VM and all internal plugins.**''External'': Generate only external plugins. #Use ''Load'' and ''Save'' button to save and load desire VM configuration. This mean, remember what are the internal and external plugins to be build with a version of VM build. =Note= #If a plugin cannot be added to ''Internal Plugins'' or ''External Plugins'' panel, most likely, the path to platform files is not set properly. In other words, check the directory filled in at ''Path to platform code''. It should be the path to Squeak source downloaded (root-dir\platforms). #Check if source generate correctly into "root-dir\platforms\win32\build\src". If the directory is empty, check if directory correctly entered at ''Path to generated sources''.
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blocklogtext Talk	=MethodContext & BlockContext= {\| class="wikitable" border="1" \|- !Index !MethodContext !BlockContext \|- style="vertical-align:top;" \|<tt>0<br /> 1<br /> 2<br /> 3<br /> 4<br /> 5<br /> 6</tt> \|Sender<br /> InstructionPointer<br /> StackPointer<br /> Method<br /> -<br /> Receiver<br /> TempFrameStart \|Caller<br /> InstructionPointer<br /> StackPointer<br /> BlockArgumentCount<br /> InitialPointer<br /> HomeContext<br /> - \|} =Object Header= =CompiledMethod Header= {\| class="wikitable" border="1" \|- !header \|- !literal frame ... \|- !bytecodes ... ... \|} =Special Objects= <pre> 0.NilObject 1.FalseObject 2.TrueObject 3.SchedulerAssociation 4.ClassBitmap 5.ClassInteger 6.ClassString 7.ClassArray 8."SmalltalkDictionary" "Do not delete!" 9.ClassFloat 10.ClassMethodContext 11.ClassBlockContext 12.ClassPoint 13.ClassLargePositiveInteger 14.TheDisplay 15.ClassMessage 16.ClassCompiledMethod 17.TheLowSpaceSemaphore 18.ClassSemaphore 19.ClassCharacter 20.SelectorDoesNotUnderstand 21.SelectorCannotReturn 22.ProcessSignalingLowSpace "was TheInputSemaphore" 23.SpecialSelectors 24.CharacterTable 25.SelectorMustBeBoolean 26.ClassByteArray 27.ClassProcess 28.CompactClasses 29.TheTimerSemaphore 30.TheInterruptSemaphore 34.SelectorCannotInterpret 35.MethodContextProto 37.BlockContextProto 38.ExternalObjectsArray 39.ClassPseudoContext 40.ClassTranslatedMethod 41.TheFinalizationSemaphore 42.ClassLargeNegativeInteger 43.ClassExternalAddress 44.ClassExternalStructure 45.ClassExternalData 46.ClassExternalFunction 47.ClassExternalLibrary 48.SelectorAboutToReturn 49.SelectorRunWithIn </pre> =Interpreter Simulator= #Download [http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/Squeak3.9.1-final-7075-withSources.zip Squeak 3.9.1-full] and [http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.9.2-bin.zip SqueakVM 3.9.2]. One with the image, and the other with Squeak.exe. #Extract them into directory of your choice. Make sure image file and Squeak.exe are in same directory. #Download four ChangeSets into current directory. (to correct interpreterSimulator) ##[http://bugs.squeak.org/file_download.php?file_id=2877&type=bug InterpreterSimulator-3.9-fixes.1.cs] ##[http://bugs.squeak.org/file_download.php?file_id=2906&type=bug InterpreterSimulator-fixes.1.cs] ##[http://bugs.squeak.org/file_download.php?file_id=2908&type=bug InterpreterSimulatorFixes-al.1.cs] ##[http://bugs.squeak.org/file_download.php?file_id=2914&type=bug InterpreterSimulator-fixes-mtf.1.cs] #Open up Squeak.exe with image ''Squeak3.9.1-final-7075.image'' #Load VMMaker package with SqueakMap Package Loader, find ''VMMaker'' and install. Click ''yes'' or ''proceed'' on any warning. #Open ''File List'', and find for the four ChangeSet files (*.cs). File in each of them. #Open a workspace, write the following and doit. <pre>ObjectMemory initializeWithBytesToWord: Smalltalk wordSize</pre> #Change the desktop color to something different. #Save image as ''simulator.image''. #Copy the following, doit in workspace. <pre>(InterpreterSimulator new openOn: 'Squeak3.9.1-final-7075.image') test</pre> #Wait with patient until interpreterSimulator shows up with image chosen.
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bold_sample Talk	=Ready to run image= [[Media:InterpreterSimulator.zip]] [[Media:InterpreterSimulator-image.zip]] =Step by step guide= #Download [http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/Squeak3.9.1-final-7075-withSources.zip Squeak 3.9.1-full] and [http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.9.2-bin.zip SqueakVM 3.9.2]. One with the image, and the other with Squeak.exe. #Extract them into directory of your choice. Make sure image file and Squeak.exe are in same directory. #Download four ChangeSets into current directory. (to correct interpreterSimulator) ##[http://bugs.squeak.org/file_download.php?file_id=2877&type=bug InterpreterSimulator-3.9-fixes.1.cs] ##[http://bugs.squeak.org/file_download.php?file_id=2906&type=bug InterpreterSimulator-fixes.1.cs] ##[http://bugs.squeak.org/file_download.php?file_id=2908&type=bug InterpreterSimulatorFixes-al.1.cs] ##[http://bugs.squeak.org/file_download.php?file_id=2914&type=bug InterpreterSimulator-fixes-mtf.1.cs] #Open up Squeak.exe with image ''Squeak3.9.1-final-7075.image'' #Load VMMaker package with SqueakMap Package Loader, find ''VMMaker'' and install. Click ''yes'' or ''proceed'' on any warning. ''SqueakMap Package Loader : left-mouse-click -> open.. -> SqueakMap Package Loader'' #Open ''File List'', and find for the four ChangeSet files (.cs). File in each of them. #Open a workspace, write the following and doit. <pre>ObjectMemory initializeWithBytesToWord: Smalltalk wordSize</pre> #Change the desktop color to something different. #Save image as ''simulator.image''. #Copy the following, doit in workspace. <pre>(InterpreterSimulator new openOn: 'Squeak3.9.1-final-7075.image') test</pre> #Wait with patient until interpreterSimulator shows up with image chosen. #To open-up InterpreterSimulator UI, doit in workspace. <pre>(InterpreterSimulator new openOn: 'Squeak3.9.1-final-7075.image') openAsMorph test</pre>. You might want to put a "self halt" at the end of openAsMorph method, and then adjust the size of the window.
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cancel Talk	Boon Keat: Document your work here. i will just add in all the codes that load the palette set and dialog. palette set interface, /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices; namespace AddonC { public class CreatePalette { private PaletteSet ps; [CommandMethod("Cre")] public void Cre() { ps = new Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows.PaletteSet("Motion Explorer"); ps.MinimumSize = new System.Drawing.Size(300, 300); System.Windows.Forms.UserControl treeview = new ModelessForm(); ps.Add("test", treeview); ps.Visible = true; } } } ///////////////////////////////////////////////// creating this palette by typing the command the command "Create" dialog type ///////////////////////////////////////////////// using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows; namespace DialogBox { public class Dialogboxconfig { [CommandMethod("DialogBox")] public void DialogBox() { Dialog Modal = new Dialog(); Application.ShowModalDialog(Modal); } } } ///////////////////////////////////////////////// create the dialog box by typing dialogbox To perform load-time initialization, we must implement a specific class to allow this. To do this the class needs to implement the IExtensionApplication .NET interface and expose an assembly-level attribute which specifies this class as the ExtensionApplication. The class can then respond to one-time load and unload events. example: [assembly: ExtensionApplication(typeof(test.testClass))] class testClass : IExtensionApplication { public void Initialize() { testAddMenu(); } } } UPDATED this part is the whole thing that links together this is the the code to create a CUIX file for the main menu //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Geometry; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Customization; using System.Collections.Specialized; namespace MotionAddon { class CUIMenu { public static void CUI_menu() { const string MA_CuiFile = "c:\\Motion.cuix"; const string MA_CuiFileToSend = "c:/Motion.cuix"; const string MA_CuiSectionName = "Motion"; string mainCui = Application.GetSystemVariable("MENUNAME") + ".cuix"; CustomizationSection Main_CUI = new CustomizationSection(mainCui); PartialCuiFileCollection pcfc = Main_CUI.PartialCuiFiles; Editor ed = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor; if (pcfc.Contains(MA_CuiFile)) { ed.WriteMessage("\nMotion Addon CUI \"" + MA_CuiFile + "\" already loaded."); } else { if (System.IO.File.Exists(MA_CuiFile)) { ed.WriteMessage("\nMotion Addon CUI \"" + MA_CuiFile + "\" exists - loading it."); } else { ed.WriteMessage("\nMotion Addon CUI \"" + MA_CuiFile + "\" does not exist - building it."); CustomizationSection CusSec = new CustomizationSection(); CusSec.MenuGroupName = MA_CuiSectionName; MacroGroup mg = new MacroGroup(MA_CuiSectionName, CusSec.MenuGroup); MenuMacro mm1 = new MenuMacro(mg, "LoadExplorer", "CreateExplorer", "ID_Load"); MenuMacro mm2 = new MenuMacro(mg, "Simulation", "Simulation", "ID_Simulation"); ed.WriteMessage("\nWritting Code......"); StringCollection sc = new StringCollection(); sc.Add("POP15"); PopMenu pm = new PopMenu(MA_CuiSectionName, sc, "ID_POP", CusSec.MenuGroup); PopMenuItem pmi1 = new PopMenuItem(mm1, "Motion Explorer", pm, -1); PopMenuItem pmi2 = new PopMenuItem(mm2, "Simulation", pm, -1); ed.WriteMessage("\nSaving File......"); System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(@"C:\Motion"); CusSec.SaveAs(MA_CuiFile); ed.WriteMessage("\nFile Saved"); } } } } } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// to auto run the dll on netload we have to use the IExtension thing ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime; [assembly: ExtensionApplication(typeof(MotionAddon.AddMotionMenu))] namespace MotionAddon { public class AddMotionMenu : IExtensionApplication { public void Initialize() { CreateMenu(); CUIMenu.CUI_menu(); MotionInterface.CreateExplorer(); } public void Terminate() { } void Click_Explorer(object Sender, EventArgs e) { MotionInterface.CreateExplorer(); } void Click_Simulator(object Sender, EventArgs e) { //MotionInterface.CreateSimulator(); } ContextMenuExtension addon_menu; void CreateMenu() { try { addon_menu = new ContextMenuExtension(); addon_menu.Title = "Motion"; MenuItem mi_1 = new MenuItem("Motion Explorer"); MenuItem mi_2 = new MenuItem("Enable Simulator"); addon_menu.MenuItems.Add(mi_1); addon_menu.MenuItems.Add(mi_2); mi_1.Click += new EventHandler(Click_Explorer); mi_2.Click += new EventHandler(Click_Simulator); Application.AddDefaultContextMenuExtension(addon_menu); } catch { } } } } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// this is how i create all the explorer and dialog /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime; namespace MotionAddon { public class MotionInterface { static PaletteSet ps; [CommandMethod("CreateExplorer")] public static void CreateExplorer() { ps = new PaletteSet("Motion Explorer"); ps.MinimumSize = new System.Drawing.Size(170,400); System.Windows.Forms.UserControl m_e = new MotionExplorer(); ps.Add("Motion", m_e); ps.Visible = true; } public static void CreateSimulationBox() { SimulationDialog Dialog = new SimulationDialog(); Application.ShowModalDialog(Dialog); } } } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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categoriespagetext Talk	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).
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category_header Talk	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. start writing again.
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changed Talk	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..
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changepassword Talk	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.
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clearyourcache Talk	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.
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compareselectedversions Talk	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.
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confirm Talk	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.
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confirmdeletetext Talk	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.
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confirmemail Talk	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 recklessness.
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confirmemail_error Talk	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. Bintand 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.
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confirmemail_invalid Talk	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. Bintand 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.
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confirmemail_loggedin Talk	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. Bintand 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.).
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confirmemail_send Talk	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. Bintand 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.
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confirmemail_sendfailed Talk	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. Bintand 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.
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confirmemail_sent Talk	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. Bintand 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.
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confirmemail_subject Talk	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. Bintand 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.
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confirmemail_success Talk	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.
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confirmemail_text Talk	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.
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contribslink Talk	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.
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contributions Talk	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.
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copyright Talk	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.
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copyrightpage Talk	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..
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copyrightpagename Talk	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.
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created Talk	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 island 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.
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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.
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cur Talk	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.
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currentevents Talk	2011 June 24 13th.Jul.11. (Wed.) 2305hrs. Went to TNB hq. at Melawati to settle the electricity deposit for the JMB P4D1. Stayed home until time for the evening walk. Actually went to the Popular Book Store to just look see for any new things happening or not. 15th.Jul.11. (Fri.) 2035hrs. Went to University Hospital for eye check. It is found that both eyes are very ok, the next check will be six months from today. Heavy rain prevented me for my evening walk, otherwise the day was just as normal. 17th.Jul.11. (Sun.) 2045hrs. Just came back from FH after spending a night there. The surounding is very well maintained now since taken over by the JMB. Due to lack of funds the buildings need facelift badly and urgently. 20th.Jul.ll. (Wed.) 1050hrs. Just wonder who was the first guy who used the word 'golden age' for the old people. How can it be golden age while the old people have to see the doctors so frequently for so many kinds of illness. In this month alone I have been to UH for my eyes, the dentist and yesterday to the clinic for the result of the blood test. Luckily there is not much of a big problem. Is that what is 'golden age'. It must be kidding?! 23rd.Jul.ll. (Sat.) 2130hrs. The good news is Lai Changxing the greatest Chinese smuggler is on his way home after escaping arrest for 12yrs by living in Canada. The bombing and shooting in Norway will wake up the Norvegians I hope otherwise they are very complacent and creat mischief to others from time to time. 25th.Jul.ll. (Mon.) 1905hrs. Went to Midvalley this morning by train. Bought some imported biscuits from Mark and Spancer. Went to MPH to look at the latest issue of the Chinese English and English Chinese dictionary. Didn't buy any. I already have a smaller version one. I am glad that Col. Gadaffi is still in Lybia,let the Nato nations that take part in the bombing of Lybia bomb themselves into bankcrupcy. Just don't let them win easily. 28th.Jul.ll. (Fri.) 0013hrs. Yesterday stayed at home except going for the evening walk. Watched the CNTV and surfed the net. Glad to know that the Chinese submesible ship can reach the dept of 5188m. The Chinese is also trying to outfit a aircraft carrier for training. It is better to be late than never. The KMT gov. in Taiwan is waiting for their foreign uncle to up-grade their warplanes as it has always been. lst.Jul.11. (Mon) 0430hrs. I am waiting anxiously to see what will be the US debt ceiling voting result. 2nd.Jul.11. (Tue.) 2315hrs. As expected the result of the debt-ceiling drama is always ended undramatically as any other issues. All that debates and arguments are for show only. More debts will be more troubles waiting ahead. Once it is in debt it is difficult to be solvent again. 6th.Jul.11. (Sat.) 2115hrs. Actually, there seems to be nothing worthy to write about. Life have been going on normally. The morning exercise and the evening walk is never missed. 10th.Jul.11. (Wed.) 1255hrs. Now that the flame is burning in their own backyard, so let us see how they handle the situation. Do you remember the torch grabbing for the Beijing Olympic, how gleeful they were? 11th.Jul.11. (Thu.) 2250hrs. The BBC is really great, with the riot in its own country it still has the time to worry about famous Chinese artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei with the title "Artist Ai 'felt close to death.' There are a lot of articles about their own social problems. So mind your problems before you laugh at other people. 20th.Aug.ll. (Sat) Wow! had been lasy for nine days but actually there is nothing fresh to write about. The whole world is bore. The war in Lybia is still going on, the most interesting thing is that they are not shooting at the human enemy but to the thin air. I presume that they don't kill but to make a lot of noise to frighten the enemy. They dressed in singlet and don't carry any ration or ammo. They don't take aim but just shoot blankly into the opposit side. You don't see any man or soldier being killed. The news from the foreign news agency is comical. Kol. Gaddafi's sons had been killed so many times but still appearing. The NATO has got another month to drop their bombs then it will depend whether they still can afford to carry on or not. 24th.Aug.11. (Wed.) 1240hrs. Does it matter who win, afterall the people who died were Libyans and the survivours will have to work to pay for the bombs and ammo given to win the hulaha - the Libyans. The real winners are the people who hid behind the screen. Pity isn't it? 6th.Sep.ll. (Tue.) 1005hrs. Went to Zhangjianjie (central part of China) for an eight days tour, from 28th. Aug. to 4th. Sep.. In between visited MZT's former house, his Stone Statue in Shaoshan village. I took a round walk and paid a three bows respect to the statute.The main attraction is the rocky formations in the park. Both of us climbed the famour 999 steps to reach the heaveny stone gate. The steps are just like the normal staircase steps. Quite a number of people who are younger than we are were scared to do it. From Changsha city to Zhangjiajie where the rocky park is is about three hundred over miles apart, along the way I was gled to see the new brick houses, the padi field was covered with golden ripe padi and various greenery. The highway is smooth and the whole length of the road is covered with trees and well-kept shrubs in the middle of the roads. In my heart I can feel the dynamism of China. Talk of Changsha city, it has a special meaning to me because it was mentioned in the book 'Defeat into Victory' by Field-Marshal Viscount Slim that the only victory for China from the long Sino-Japanese war during the WWll was in the battle of Changsha city. Of course this is only his own opinion. He was the commander of the allied forces in Burma at that time. 2011/09/10 Good writing. Interesting to hear your thinking. Aik-Siong llth.Sep.ll (Sun.) 1030hrs. Today is a very good day, it is cloudy and so it is not hot. It rains for a while in the evening but it did not prevent me from my evening walk at the Metropolitan park. Indeed it is a very good Sep.ll. It should be more of the Sep.ll days. 15th.Sep.11. (Thu.) 2205hrs. It is foolish to believe that the Libyans are free now, the real victors are the bombs and ammunitions suppliers. They are the people who will have the total free hands to set the stage for next episodes of events. episodes of events to come. 20th.Sep.ll. (Tue.) 2240hrs. The weather is kinder now, it is not so hot and humid. The North-East monsoon is already here. It rains practically everyday, either in the evening or morning. Well, life is normal for me. Knowing a lot of the world affairs from the internet. The West is in deep trouble with the national debts. They had been showing off with their luxurious lifestyle to the world with the borrowed money and now it is hard for them to pay back the debts. 22nd.Sep.ll. (Thu.) 2135hrs. The weather is splendid. It is cloudy and cool. Poor Chinese KMT in Taiwan, they are still at their old ways. They are jubilant at being able to buy arms from their old time uncle to kill their own kind. They even seek approval for their presidential election. Just wonder since when the Chinese had been so disgraceful. 27th.Sep.ll. (Wed.) 1120hrs. The morning is cool and bright. Last night was a dog-barking free night because the three young strays were taken away by the Bandaraya dog catchers. In Malaysia it is a trend that most of the Chinese households will keep one dog or may be more and that because some dogs are kept behind the fence and some are free to roam around so there will be a lot of barking going on. In the evening the dogs that are kept behind fences make speicial noises and barkings. I am a Chinese but I do not like to keep dogs because I do not want spending time to care of them. I want to spend time on my own. Strangely enough I did not see any dogs running around in the streets in China. Another interesting thing is I did not see any birds flying in the sky or on the trees even in the wooded area. I have noticed this on my many trips that I have been to China. I am sure you might have guessed the answer in my mind. 29th.Sep.11. (Thu.) 2333hrs. In the morning part went to attend the funeral of a member of Gao Assn. He died of kidney failure at age of 56. Watched the whole process of the space lab Tiangong l launch in CNTV from 2100hrs to about 2140hrs when it was announced that it is successful. Switched to BBC just to confirm how fast is the BBC, true enough it was there in its web site with a sourish head line "Tiangong-l launch betrays China's earthly ambitions". I do not really understand what the white men try to mean. But not a word is mentioned in the ll pm world news in MTV l in Malaysia. 10th.Nov.ll. (Thu.) 0920hrs. The day is fine. Went to JMB office for a while and went for the evening walk. Get ready to go to S,pore early in the morning by bus to attend the S'pore GAO association's 63th. anniversary celebration dinner. We have 10 members to attend. The S'pore GAO association was established in l948 before the separation and therefore it was the only association to represent the GAO clansmen in the then Malaya. My father was a member of the association. It is called Koh association because GAO is pronounced in Hokkien dialect as Koh. I remember my father was issued with a membership certificate and it was burnt when he passed away because it is believed that whatever belongs to him must be burnt to follow him. When I am there I will try to trace as to whether any record to this effect is still being held by the assn.. 14th.Nov.ll. (Mon.) 2140hrs. The 60th. celebration dinner was great, there were plenty of singing and the women section presented lovly dances. They must have put in a lot of hard work. Mum and EM spent the whole Sat. on shopping while I roam around the see more of the Singapore. Spent the Sunday morning to look for Koh assn. premise and finally found it. Spent about half an hour there taking some pictures and found there is no record of my father's membership. Went round the waterfront and took 4.30pm bus home. Worthy of note was Heng Jin donated S$10,000 to the S'pore Koh assn. that night. The joke was he asked me to announce it to the audience, instead I announced it as one hunder dollars so it was put right immediately by their president. 21st.Nov.11. (Mon.) 1950hrs. This evening is special, it is not raining. Went for morning walk because scared that it may rain in the evening. Went to town for a walk about to pass time. 22nd.Nov.ll. (Tue.) 2055hrs. Went to Batu Cave with mum, maid and Lip Wern and spent about three hours there and went to Kepong for roast-duck lunch. He wanted to go there to shoot at the monkeys with the toy gun. But then when we were he took pity on the monkeys and did not shoot them at all instead he tried to scare the pigeons and shot at them playfully. After lunch his mother came to take him home. By the way we took the train to Batu Cave and it was quite an enjoyable afternoon. It rained in the evening but I went to the Tmn. Rainbow for my evening excise for about thirty five mins. when the rain stopped at about seven. 24th.Nov.11. (Thu.) 2315hrs. Today is a fine day, there was no rain at all. Life is quiet for all of us. We went to have an Indian curry lunch at the Tmn Mastiara and went for an evening walk as usual. Mum is getting ready to go to Hatnyai with the Han gang because they feel that they should all get together once in a while. They will start going at 6.30 tomorrow morning and return on Sunday night. 28th.Nov.ll. (Mon.) 1910hrs. I have been living single life for the past three days while mum and maid went to Hatnya in Thailand. The rain is stopping me from going for an evening walk. Yesterday evening was the same, the monsoon rain is in its full force now. In the morning part went to Putrajaya by bus and took the innercity bus to go round the city for fifty sens only. The bus is going round the town to serve the residents to move place to place within the town. The town is well planned and it is kept very clean and tidy. Sorry I am still nor sure whether Putrajaya is a city or town. lst.Dec.ll. (Thu.) 2245hrs. Normal day wirhout any worthwhile event to write about. 4th.Dec.11. (Sun.) 0530hrs. 2.12.ll. (Fri.) Went to Machap to attend my grandpa's great grand son's wedding dinner. It was a grand dinner and we drove back after the dinner at 10pm and reach KL at 2am. My grandpa's son grew up with me but the rest of the family was not known to me until very lately. Last night that was 3.12.ll, went to attend Loke assn. 39th. anniversary. 7th.Dec.ll. (Wed.) 2240hrs. It rains daily but it does not cause big problems. Life goes on as usual. Tomorrow night we will be attending another assn. dinner to be held in a Chinese school hall at Sentul. I think this will be the last assn. dinner for 2011. 9th.De.ll. (Fri.) 1625hrs. No rain up to this point of time, it may suddenly start thundering and pour with rain. Went to JPJ with mum this morning and to the management office for a while. Last night attended the "The Federation of Malaysia Chinese Surname Associations" lst. annual aniversary dinner. It is the mother of all the surname associations in this country. I think this is a good idea so that we have a leader to co-ordinate and initiate all the conducive activities. 12th.Dec.ll. (Mon.) 2145hrs. Fine day. Read newspapers and surfed the net. Knew a lot of the world affairs. The EU seems to have agreed on the solutions to solve their economic problems except to see the end results to come. Iran seems to have the technical know-how to capture the pilotless plance from their enemy. I hope they really have it so that the super power can be checked for their wrecklessness. 15th.Dec.ll. (Thu.) 1900hrs. It is raining now so cannot go for a walk. Yesterday evening also rained but it stopped at about this time, it made my shoes wet when I insisted in walking. According to the news report it flooded the Bt. Bintang and Cheras area. So far the monsoon rain has not done a lot of damage in the country. 18th.Dec.11. (Sun.) 1700hrs. Cloudy day but without rain. Non-eventful Friday and Saturday except that we took Mei Wah and her husband to a Chineses restaurant dinner in Jinjang. We fetched them from EM's house and sent them back by train from our Batu Kentonman station after the dinner at 2244hrs because the train go straight from here to Subang Jaya station. They rang up to say that they have arrived at about 0hrs. 24th.Dec.11. (Sat.) 1815hrs. It had been peaceful and quiet for the past 5 days. Nothing special to write about. It has been cloudy but fine day. No evening walk for this evening because we are waitting for Lip Wern to come to celebrate his birthday as well as the X'mas. Strangely enough we don't hear any X'mas songs and music at all. Not like before we could feel X'mas is coming with the X'mas songs and hymn in the air. It is like the CNY without the firecrackers. 31st.Dec.ll. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Xmas had come and gone. As nomal we did nothing special except the usual turkey dinner with the family members only on Thursday night (29th.Dec.ll.). 3rd.Jan.12. (Tue.) 2135hrs. Went up to Fraser's Hill on lst.Jan.12. for two nights. The place is well maintained by the JMB except that the whole compleks should be completely re-white washed otherwise it looks terrible. It is not done because the unit owners are not paying their dues. Hope that with the present JMB's conserted effort to collect the dues from the unit owners, the resort will be put to its proper conditions. 8th.Jan.12 (Sun.) 2240hrs. It had not rained for about two weeks so the weather is very stuffy and hot. It is not very comfortable for our daily life. Life had been pretty normal for the last five days. 14th.Jan.12. (Sat.) 1045hrs. It is a lovely morning. It is fine, the sun is not too hot and the air is cool. Got up at six in the morning and went to the Tmn Rainbow's small park for exercise because I missed the evening walk yesterday due to raining. Surfed the net and learnt that the Euro crisis is appearing again and the situation between Iran and the West is very quiet. I think this is so-called the lull before the storm. 27th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 2300hrs. Luckily, went to Tmn. Rainbow for the morning exercise because it rained in the evening so it prevented me from going my evening walk. As I drove out of the gate a police patrol car was at the back of me. It signaled me to stop. I stopped and asked why, was told that my road tax has expired. True enough I had been driving without insurance and road tax since Nov. 20ll. I asked them to let me off for RM50 otherwise I will have to pay RM600.00 fine. So, that is how it goes, both of us benefitted. The question is how do they know that my road taxed had expired as they were driving behind me. That is the magic. However I have no bone to grind. Stayed home for the rest of the day surfing the net and reading the newspapers. 29th.Jan.12. (Sun.) 0250hrs. Actually I wanted to write before I went to bed last night but the internet failed to function. Luckily I went for a long morning walk yesterday morning because it rained heavily in the evening. Peter and EM came at about 1130hrs and Peter gave me and PP a RM1,000 ang pow each. EM had given the ang pows earlier. I went to lunch at the batu tiga coffee shop because mum had gone for lunch with her friends. Napped and stayed at home for the rest of the evening due to the raining. 30th.Jan.12. (Mon.) 2200hrs. Went to renew the insurance and road tax and spent the rest of the morning roaming the city. The city is still half asleep not until day after tomorrow after the ninth day of the lunar calendar. Beside that life is as normal. I went to the city by bus and returned by train. 31st.Jan.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Today is the nineth day of the Chinese New Year and it is the Hokkian people's new year day. Last night was their new year eve and therefore they let off a lot of firecrackers to welcome the big day. The noise continues right up to 2am. It rained heavily from 5am right up to about 6.30am. So the whole day was cloudy and the air was quite cool. Went to the JMB office to see if there is anything for me to do. That wraps up my day. lst.Feb.12. 2225hrs. 1st. of Feb. is the Wilayah Day and therefore it is a holiday. Dare not venture out of the area where we live because the city will be crowded with the foreign workers. Went to Batu Cave by train for my evening exercise by climbing the 272 steps up and down. It is crowded there because they are preparing for the Thaipusum festival on the 6th. of this month. They are putting up the tents, installing the lamp posts etc.etc.. Some early whoshippers are doing their praying before the actual date in order to avoid the maddening crowd. 2nd.Feb.12. (Thu.) 2110hrs. Tried on the sky-walk around the Jln. Perak area connecting various high rise buildings and ending up at the Pavilian complex and the convention hall. That area is newly built up area in the golden triangle. The sky-walk is like a big container-like structure built above the ground with air-con for pedestrians to walk with comfort. The rain stopped me for about half an hour to reach the KL railway station to board the train. After boarding the train it moved slowly with several stops on the way and when it reached the Sentul station the passengers were told to come down to wait for another train to take them to Batu Cave without any explaination. The waiting took about forty five minutes when the train came from Batu Cave to take us to Batu Cave. The reason was the train was running on one track because there was some repare work being carried out on the other line. By the time I reached home it was alredy four forty five. I was really dead tired. Had a bath, had a cup of Chinese tea then watched my favorite CCTV4 programme from 5 to 6pm and had a 45mins nap and had the dinner and back to normal again. 4th.Feb.12. (Sat.) 2130hrs. I do not know why I was so tired last. I was so sleepy that I went to bed at about 9.30pm. Slept well for the night and got up 6am. Went to the Tmn. Rainbow small park for exercise at about 7am for about one hour. I don't like the park there because it is small and the people there are all regulars so u keep on seeing them and the next thing is the barking dogs. It is really anonying, since the residents there are more well off so they buy bigger dogs so that they bark louder. It is status symbol that kind of thing. Went to the JMB office to make out a cheque for the electricity bill and after that went to Mamak coffee shop for a tea tarek and a roti chanai for lunch. As for the rest of the day just stayed home. Since today is Saturday so life is at its laziest point. 5th.Feb.12. Sun. 2330hrs. The biggest event of today is the GAO association CNY celebration. EM and I attended it without mum as she had other programme with her group of friends. I donated RM100, EM donated RM80.00 and Heng Jin asked me to donate RM200.00 for him while he is away in S'pore. There was quite a big crowd. The programme started from lpm until 3pm. Of course ang pow for the children is a must and the lucky draws and quessing games for the attendents were also arranged. The food were fried mee, fried meehoom, chicken curry and one or two other tib bits plus an assortment of fruits of course with the mandarine oranges. The party went on quite happily with everybody smiling away till the end. The next big event was we went round the lake at the Taman Metropolitan for our evening walk. It took us a solid one hour walk. 7th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 2125hrs. How nice? yesterday was Prophet Mohd's birthday, it was a holiday. Stayed home until in the evening went to Lake Garden for evening walk and had a mamak fried mee and mutton matabab for dinner. The maid was taken away by EM to help her in preparation of the NYC party in her house. Today is Thaipusum day and it is a holiday too. Went to EM's house for lunch on the left over of the last night party. After lunch EM and mum went for their own programme while I went for a foot massage. I was very tired and had a nap for about one hour. No evening exercise. 9th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 0705hrs.(Note: this event is for 8th.Feb.12) It was very crowded in the govt. clinic at the Kg. Batu, it took me three hours to see the doctor for my normal check up. The reason was due to the holiday on Wed. The result of the check-up was normal. The next check-up will be in four months time. 10th.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2330hrs. Yesterday, that was Thursday, morning went to JMB office to check on the clerk's performance. Received a complaint from one of the unit owners that a water tank from the roof top is over flowing. The problem was fixed by 6pm. This morning went to see Heng Jin and also to collect the RM200.00 that I paid for him for the CNY do held by the GAO assn. last Sunday as he was away from KL on that day. Reached home is already 2pm and what followed was a daily rutine for me. 12th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 2220hrs. Yesterday (Sat.) went to JMB office to clear a bit of the paper works like getting ready the lst. qtr. statements and getting the cheque to pay up the TNB bill etc., in the marning part as for the afternoon it is the normal routine. Today is Sunday, stayed at home for the whole day except the evening walk. Tried to got to the Kepong lake garden for the evening walk but the traffic was too heavy so we turned back to our Metropolitan garden. So another week is gone. 15th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2220hrs. Monday, busy with the JMB office for the morning part. Tuesday, went to town at 1044hrs train for a short break after remaining in the Ipoh Road for so many days. Asked the roof repair man to come to look at the roof leak at the P4D1 but he is unable to come due to his eyes problem, will come on Friday. Went to a coleague's house to discuss about the statement/ invoice of the lst.qtr for 2012. That had taken up the whole morning. 19th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 2215hrs. It had been quite busy for the last few days for the JMB affairs. AGM for 2012 was held on Sat. 18th. Feb. The turn-out was very poor. Today Sunday GAO association held its committee members meeting befor the AGM for 2012 at 2pm at the association premise to prepare for the new set of committee members for the next two years. 23rd.Feb.12. (Thu.) 2145hrs. Nothing special happening in the last three days. Had been quite busy running between home and the JMB office because the clerk had gone to see the doctor in the general hospital and getting the roof repairer to mend the leak in the block etc. This morning I went to the govt. clinik to see the doctor for my urine test. Two weeks ago when seeing the doctor for the routine check-up I told the doc. that the colour of my urine is yellowish, so he sent me for a urine test and it was found that there is a small trace of blood in it, so he told me to come again in two weeks time for another test. Unfortunately it was found it conatin more blood in it in today's test, so he is sending me to Selayang hospital for a X-ray on the 27th. Feb.. 26th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 0815hrs. Loving Sunday morning. It is quiet and peaceful. It seems that the dog-barking is kept to its minimum otherwise the first thing one hears is the barkings of the dogs. Yesterday evening went to the KL Sentul by train and explore the surroungding area just to familiary what is going on there. The area is developing tremendously. It is definitely going to be another mear business centre of the KL city. Due to the composition of the populations there I think it is really not an intelligent place to live in. 28th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0920hrs. Just rang up the Selayang Hospital X ray department to find out whether the X ray film taken yesterday is ready for collection or not. The answer is that the printing machine is having some problem so ask me to phone again in the afternoon. The two days of medication and controlled diet (without solid food) before the X ray made me quite weak. Eatings after the X ray made me fresh as before again. Hope that there will be no big problem. 1st.Mar.12. (Thu.) 0435hrs. Went to Seleyang Hospital to collect the X ray film and will see the doctor today. It was a rainny day yesterday. In spite of the rain I still went for my evening walk under the shops verenda up to the Batu Village KTM station and took the train back. Luckily found an umbrella in the station when I alighted the train, that saved me from being drenched form the Batu Kentonmen station to the house. lst..Mar.12. (Thu.) 2310jrs. The doctor had seen the X-ray film and read the report and told me that there is nothing wrong with me. He asked me to continue monitoring my urine and see whether there is any change in its colour. So it is a relief for me. 5th.Mar.12. (Mon.) 2120hrs. 2nd.Mar. Fri. went to land office to pay the land tax for P4D1. Because I went by bus, so it took me the whole morning to finish the job. 3rd.Mar. Sat. Nothing special. 4th.Mar. Sun. Went to mom's friend's son tortoureous wedding dinner at Jinjang chinese restaurant. 5th.Mar. Mon. After the drinking and eating on the wedding dinner, it makes me feel uncomfortable for the whole day until after the evening walk. It is quite ok now. 8th.Mar.12. (Thu.) 0300hrs. 6th. had been busy with the JMB administrative matters like sending out demand letters to unit owners who owes the maintenance fees. 7th. went downtown to spend the morning part of the day. It rained contineously from about five right up to about 9pm. No evening walk. 10th.Mar.12. (Sat.) 1220hrs. Life had been peaceful and quiet for the past two days. The weather had been good as well. Its was cloudy. We are now ready to go to the airport tonight to catch the plane to China. The weather there seems to be very cold but we will make the best of it. We are ready. 18th.Mar.l2. (Sun.) 2235hrs. Returned from a week's field study of the Chinese History. I had studied it from the book when I was at school and now I went to the acturl places concerned. Qingdao was taken from the Ching dynasty by Germany at the end of 19 century and occupied it right up to the end of the first world war when Germany lost the war. The League of Nations past it to the Japanese when they split German's possession at the end of the war. The Chinese got it back after the end of the VWll and the KMT govt. let the American to use it as a naval base. It only returned back to the Chinese after the liberation of the enclave by the PLA. The second place I was most interested to visit is Qufu the Confucius's old home, Confucius Temple and Confucius Cemetery where only his decendants were allowed to be buried. I am fortunate enough to get a genuine white wine that is brewed according to the formula used by the Kong family. (Kong is the actual surname of Confucius.) We also climbed the Mt. Taisan which is said that only the worthy emperors of China were allowed to go up there to pray. Beside that we went to see part of the Yellow River that passes through the Jinan city. In a nutshell we enjoyed the tour very much inspite of the fact that our legs were swollen with so much of walking. 22nd.Mar.12. 2225hrs. Completely grounded by the flu for the last three days, only now I feel a bit better. Luckily I don't have to see the doctor but by taking two panadol three times a day. Hope that by tomorrow it will be completely OK. 24th.Mar.12. 1920hrs. Feeling much better today. This morning went to the Tmn. Rainbow small garden for some exercise. Other than that just stayed in.
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currentevents-url Talk	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.
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currentrev Talk	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
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currentrevisionlink Talk	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.
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databaseerror Talk	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. 6th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 0845hrs. It is a cloudy morning. It rained heavily in the Metropolitan garden yesterday evening but there was not a drop in our area. I only realised it when I reached there for my walk. It is strange, actually it should be a dry season at this time of the year. Normally the dry spell starts from after the Chinese New Year till end of June. This is the time the grass turn brown, padi field is parched and even some wells run out of water. I remember when I was small many a time we went to the spring at the foot of the forest for water while a wide strech of padi field went dry. Our cat caught a lot of the iken ruan from the small pools of water from the padi field and brought them back to the house. Some of the buffaloes died of thirst. Of course what I am writing about is the serious cases but this sort of scenarios usually happen in this period of time of the year until the change of the monsoon season. 8th.Apr.12. (Sun.) 2210hrs. At 2.30 am this morning I learnt from the BBC website that the Chinese pro-democracry activist Fang Lizhi who fled to the West in a foreign embassy's car during the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 had died at the age of 76 in a foreign land. Somehow lately I was just wondering what had happened to him after he ran away. In the morning went to Tmn Rainbow garden for a morning exercise to replace the missed enening walk due to the fact that we went for a steak dinner in Subang Jaya on Sat. night. Went to Lake Garden for a stroll with mom and the two maids just to get away from it all for a while.
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dateformat Talk	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. 6th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 0845hrs. It is a cloudy morning. It rained heavily in the Metropolitan garden yesterday evening but there was not a drop in our area. I only realised it when I reached there for my walk. It is strange, actually it should be a dry season at this time of the year. Normally the dry spell starts from after the Chinese New Year till end of June. This is the time the grass turn brown, padi field is parched and even some wells run out of water. I remember when I was small many a time we went to the spring at the foot of the forest for water while a wide strech of padi field went dry. Our cat caught a lot of the iken ruan from the small pools of water from the padi field and brought them back to the house. Some of the buffaloes died of thirst. Of course what I am writing about is the serious cases but this sort of scenarios usually happen in this period of time of the year until the change of the monsoon season. 8th.Apr.12. (Sun.) 2210hrs. At 2.30 am this morning I learnt from the BBC website that the Chinese pro-democracry activist Fang Lizhi who fled to the West in a foreign embassy's car during the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 had died at the age of 76 in a foreign land. Somehow lately I was just wondering what had happened to him after he ran away. In the morning went to Tmn Rainbow garden for a morning exercise to replace the missed enening walk due to the fact that we went for a steak dinner in Subang Jaya on Sat. night. Went to Lake Garden for a stroll with mom and the two maids just to get away from it all for a while.
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dberrortext Talk	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. 6th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 0845hrs. It is a cloudy morning. It rained heavily in the Metropolitan garden yesterday evening but there was not a drop in our area. I only realised it when I reached there for my walk. It is strange, actually it should be a dry season at this time of the year. Normally the dry spell starts from after the Chinese New Year till end of June. This is the time the grass turn brown, padi field is parched and even some wells run out of water. I remember when I was small many a time we went to the spring at the foot of the forest for water while a wide strech of padi field went dry. Our cat caught a lot of the iken ruan from the small pools of water from the padi field and brought them back to the house. Some of the buffaloes died of thirst. Of course what I am writing about is the serious cases but this sort of scenarios usually happen in this period of time of the year until the change of the monsoon season. 8th.Apr.12. (Sun.) 2210hrs. At 2.30 am this morning I learnt from the BBC website that the Chinese pro-democracry activist Fang Lizhi who fled to the West in a foreign embassy's car during the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 had died at the age of 76 in a foreign land. Somehow lately I was just wondering what had happened to him after he ran away. In the morning went to Tmn Rainbow garden for a morning exercise to replace the missed enening walk due to the fact that we went for a steak dinner in Subang Jaya on Sat. night. Went to Lake Garden for a stroll with mom and the two maids just to get away from it all for a while. 12th.Apr.12. (Thu.) 2110hrs. Momday was a very normal day. Tuesday as per Monday very normal. Wednesday was new Agong's installation day so it was a holiday. Mainly stayed at home as the town will be packed with people. Today Thursday stayed home but went for a long evening walk. It had been fine for the last two days with the hot afternoons. I had been spending a lot of time in watching the China Central Television because I find that it is very educational. Learnt a lot about China. Its history, culture, its economy activities etc. I enjoyed it tremendrously.
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deadendpages Talk	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. 6th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 0845hrs. It is a cloudy morning. It rained heavily in the Metropolitan garden yesterday evening but there was not a drop in our area. I only realised it when I reached there for my walk. It is strange, actually it should be a dry season at this time of the year. Normally the dry spell starts from after the Chinese New Year till end of June. This is the time the grass turn brown, padi field is parched and even some wells run out of water. I remember when I was small many a time we went to the spring at the foot of the forest for water while a wide strech of padi field went dry. Our cat caught a lot of the iken ruan from the small pools of water from the padi field and brought them back to the house. Some of the buffaloes died of thirst. Of course what I am writing about is the serious cases but this sort of scenarios usually happen in this period of time of the year until the change of the monsoon season. 8th.Apr.12. (Sun.) 2210hrs. At 2.30 am this morning I learnt from the BBC website that the Chinese pro-democracry activist Fang Lizhi who fled to the West in a foreign embassy's car during the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 had died at the age of 76 in a foreign land. Somehow lately I was just wondering what had happened to him after he ran away. In the morning went to Tmn Rainbow garden for a morning exercise to replace the missed enening walk due to the fact that we went for a steak dinner in Subang Jaya on Sat. night. Went to Lake Garden for a stroll with mom and the two maids just to get away from it all for a while. 12th.Apr.12. (Thu.) 2110hrs. Momday was a very normal day. Tuesday as per Monday very normal. Wednesday was new Agong's installation day so it was a holiday. Mainly stayed at home as the town will be packed with people. Today Thursday stayed home but went for a long evening walk. It had been fine for the last two days with the hot afternoons. I had been spending a lot of time in watching the China Central Television because I find that it is very educational. Learnt a lot about China. Its history, culture, its economy activities etc. I enjoyed it tremendrously. 13th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 2205hrs Once I was having a brown dog. I named him Colonel. I used to take him with me for my evening walk everyday without fail. He would be waiting for me at the door at 5pm after my afternoon tea. He would be barking if I am late and he would be restless when he saw me puting on my shoes slowly. My youngest daughter took pity on him when she saw it as a puppy left by the roadside. I learnt a lot about dogs from this fellow. He died from other dog's bite wound because he used to chased after bitches. Took him to see the vet. many times over bite wounds and finally I asked the vet to put him to sleep because of bite wound again. It cost me 60 ringgits for it. One of the things that I learnt from the dogs is that they are more ferocious in the presence of their masters. They will bark more fiercely and behave more aggresively. I think the present political and military tension in the Asia Pacific region is no less than due to this natural animal instint in human being. These small nations suddenly become braver,more aggressive in dealing with their neighbours. The evening rain stopped at about 6pm and that allowed me to go to Tmn. Rainbow garden for my evening exercise for about one solid hour.
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default Talk	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. 6th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 0845hrs. It is a cloudy morning. It rained heavily in the Metropolitan garden yesterday evening but there was not a drop in our area. I only realised it when I reached there for my walk. It is strange, actually it should be a dry season at this time of the year. Normally the dry spell starts from after the Chinese New Year till end of June. This is the time the grass turn brown, padi field is parched and even some wells run out of water. I remember when I was small many a time we went to the spring at the foot of the forest for water while a wide strech of padi field went dry. Our cat caught a lot of the iken ruan from the small pools of water from the padi field and brought them back to the house. Some of the buffaloes died of thirst. Of course what I am writing about is the serious cases but this sort of scenarios usually happen in this period of time of the year until the change of the monsoon season. 8th.Apr.12. (Sun.) 2210hrs. At 2.30 am this morning I learnt from the BBC website that the Chinese pro-democracry activist Fang Lizhi who fled to the West in a foreign embassy's car during the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 had died at the age of 76 in a foreign land. Somehow lately I was just wondering what had happened to him after he ran away. In the morning went to Tmn Rainbow garden for a morning exercise to replace the missed enening walk due to the fact that we went for a steak dinner in Subang Jaya on Sat. night. Went to Lake Garden for a stroll with mom and the two maids just to get away from it all for a while. 12th.Apr.12. (Thu.) 2110hrs. Momday was a very normal day. Tuesday as per Monday very normal. Wednesday was new Agong's installation day so it was a holiday. Mainly stayed at home as the town will be packed with people. Today Thursday stayed home but went for a long evening walk. It had been fine for the last two days with the hot afternoons. I had been spending a lot of time in watching the China Central Television because I find that it is very educational. Learnt a lot about China. Its history, culture, its economy activities etc. I enjoyed it tremendrously. 13th.Apr.12. (Fri.) 2205hrs Once I was having a brown dog. I named him Colonel. I used to take him with me for my evening walk everyday without fail. He would be waiting for me at the door at 5pm after my afternoon tea. He would be barking if I am late and he would be restless when he saw me puting on my shoes slowly. My youngest daughter took pity on him when she saw it as a puppy left by the roadside. I learnt a lot about dogs from this fellow. He died from other dog's bite wound because he used to chased after bitches. Took him to see the vet. many times over bite wounds and finally I asked the vet to put him to sleep because of bite wound again. It cost me 60 ringgits for it. One of the things that I learnt from the dogs is that they are more ferocious in the presence of their masters. They will bark more fiercely and behave more aggresively. I think the present political and military tension in the Asia Pacific region is no less than due to this natural animal instint in human being. These small nations suddenly become braver,more aggressive in dealing with their neighbours. The evening rain stopped at about 6pm and that allowed me to go to Tmn. Rainbow garden for my evening exercise for about one solid hour. 15th.Apr.12. (Sun.) 1940hrs. Went up to F.Hill on Sat. for a night only. We just wanted to see the condition there. I think from now on it will be properly managed under the JMB. The manager seems to be eager to improve the condition there. However I don't think it is wise enough to keep the apartment there since the weather condition is not conducive for long term living because it is excessively damp. The atmosphere is saturated with water vapour. 16th.Apr.12. (Mon.) 2315hrs. The only sweet memory about Colonel that stay in my mind is the evening walks that we had together. He was always walking ahead of me, whenever people saw him they already knew I cannot be very far away. To make sure that I am at the back he would turn his head to see from time to time. There was no talking, no arguments, in silence we seemed to understand each other. The only time he broke rank from me was when the bitches were in heat season. He would be missing until two or three o'clock in the morning when he barked at the front gate. I would come down to open the gate to let him in and then you can hear him gulping the water.
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defemailsubject Talk	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.
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delete_and_move Talk	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.
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delete_and_move_reason Talk	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.Apr.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.
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delete_and_move_text Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.
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deletecomment Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.
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deletedarticle Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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 hope 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.
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deletedrev Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.
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deletedrevision Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.
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deletedtext Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.
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deletepage Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.12. (Wed.) 2225hrs. There is nothing to write about my psesonal life. 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deletethispage Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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?
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deletionlog Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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 Chikago are a bunch timid, pale and frial.
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dellogpage Talk	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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.Apr.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.
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diff Talk	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. 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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. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap.
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disambiguations Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their house.
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disambiguationspage Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday.
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disclaimerpage Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do.
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disclaimers Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm.
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doubleredirects Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now.
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doubleredirectstext Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. 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edit Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared.
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edit-externally Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013.
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edit-externally-help Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol.
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editcomment Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine.
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editconflict Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nab I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make sleep sleep soundly tonight.
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edithelp Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning.
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edithelppage Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful.
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editing Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want.
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editingcomment Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear.
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editingold Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about.
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editingsection Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carfour will be there and the surround is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names.
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editsection Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill.
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editthispage Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the Chinese from the status of "the sick of Asia" to the sporting strong nation. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally without the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of Japanese.
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editusergroup Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals.
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emailconfirmlink Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principals of "faster, higner and better', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye!
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emailfrom Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us.
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emailmessage Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong.
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emailpage Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2.
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emailpagetext Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy.
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emailsend Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years.
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emailsent Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant.
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emailsenttext Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us.
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emailsubject Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs.
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emailto Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly.
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enotif_body Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for solution.
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enotif_lastvisited Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for salvation.
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enotif_mailer Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom.
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enotif_reset Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!.
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enotif_subject Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63th. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of laying wreaths to the martyr tomb in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2.
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enterlockreason Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63th. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of laying wreaths to the Monument of the People Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2.
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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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2.
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errorpagetitle Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal.
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exbeforeblank Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through.
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exblank Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now.
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excontent Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all.
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excontentauthor Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house.
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exif-aperturevalue Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.Oct.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service.
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exif-artist Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.Oct.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survoy in say in one hundred years from now.
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exif-bitspersample Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.Oct.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now.
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exif-brightnessvalue Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.Oct.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Oct.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?!
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exif-cfapattern Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment.
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exif-colorspace Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise.
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exif-colorspace-1 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field.
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exif-colorspace-ffff.h Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners also laugh at the Chinese about face they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read and write basic Chinese language otherwise one will be duffed by the reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is in point.
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exif-componentsconfiguration Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example.
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exif-componentsconfiguration-0 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satlite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new.
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exif-componentsconfiguration-1 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never.
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exif-componentsconfiguration-2 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it.
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exif-componentsconfiguration-3 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility.
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exif-componentsconfiguration-4 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite?
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exif-componentsconfiguration-5 Talk	'''Grandma Kuehler's Christmas Cookies''' (adapted from recipe adjusted by Beth Kuehler Winner) 4 eggs 1 cup molasses 1 cup butter 1 cup Crisco or Extra Virgin Coconut Oil(softened or melted) 1 tablespoon ginger powder 1 tsp nutmeg 1 tablespoon cinnamon 16 oz. pecan pieces 8 oz walnut pieces 1 cup chopped dates (rinse sugar off) 1 cup applesauce 2 cups sucanad 1 cup sour cream 2 teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 4 oz craisins 7-8 oz box dark raisins 7-9 cups flour (1/3 of the flour can be whole wheat) Stir soda into sour cream (sour cream will expand.) Cream butter, shortening, molasses, and sugars. Add fruits and nuts. Now add flour mixed with salt and baking powder alternately with sour cream. Refrigerate overnight (or at least 6 hours) for ease of handling. On floured* surface, roll dough to 3/8 inch thickness and cut with cookie cutter. Bake in 350 degree oven for 12-14 minutes. Be careful not to overcook or they will be dry. You can freeze the dough to roll out at a later time. *Flour mixture should be 3/4 cup flour mixed with 3 tablespoons of sugar.
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exif-componentsconfiguration-6 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction.
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exif-compressedbitsperpixel Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner.
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exif-compression Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night.
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exif-compression-1 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remains the same.
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exif-compression-6 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same.
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exif-contrast Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.)
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exif-contrast-0 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old.
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exif-contrast-1 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943.
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exif-contrast-2 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while.
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exif-copyright Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while. 8th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 1250hrs. After the war the rubber industry came to life again but the situation is totally different from that of before the war. Now the anti colonialism sentiment was at its height. The Malaya Communist Party was instigation the labour movement to disrupt the rubber industry in order to cripple the economy. The intimidation of the rubber tappers, the slashing of rubber trees and even killing of the rubber estate administrative staff were rampant. So being a rubber estate contractor is risky and difficult. One of my father's staff was ambushed and killed by the guerrillas. Most of these guys were the MPAJA during the occupation and it happened that the chap killed was one of them before and refused to join them again. Luckily we had moved down to Malacca town by this time. We moved down to Malacca immediately after the war because my father realised that to live in the remote village is not condusive for our future.
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exif-customrendered Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while. 8th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 1250hrs. After the war the rubber industry came to life again but the situation is totally different from that of before the war. Now the anti colonialism sentiment was at its height. The Malaya Communist Party was instigation the labour movement to disrupt the rubber industry in order to cripple the economy. The intimidation of the rubber tappers, the slashing of rubber trees and even killing of the rubber estate administrative staff were rampant. So being a rubber estate contractor is risky and difficult. One of my father's staff was ambushed and killed by the guerrillas. Most of these guys were the MPAJA during the occupation and it happened that the chap killed was one of them before and refused to join them again. Luckily we had moved down to Malacca town by this time. We moved down to Malacca immediately after the war because my father realised that to live in the remote village is not condusive for our future. The emergency was declared in 1948.
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exif-customrendered-0 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while. 8th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 1250hrs. After the war the rubber industry came to life again but the situation is totally different from that of before the war. Now the anti colonialism sentiment was at its height. The Malaya Communist Party was instigation the labour movement to disrupt the rubber industry in order to cripple the economy. The intimidation of the rubber tappers, the slashing of rubber trees and even killing of the rubber estate administrative staff were rampant. So being a rubber estate contractor is risky and difficult. One of my father's staff was ambushed and killed by the guerrillas. Most of these guys were the MPAJA during the occupation and it happened that the chap killed was one of them before and refused to join them again. Luckily we had moved down to Malacca town by this time. We moved down to Malacca immediately after the war because my father realised that to live in the remote village is not condusive for our future. The emergency was declared in 1948. 9th.Feb.12. (Sat.) 2000hrs. Today is the Chinese New Year eve. Somehow I don't have any special memory about this occasion. When I was staying in Bukit Berung in the farm house the only special thing that happened was a brighter evening because my grandpa lighted up the big kerozen lamp. The air was pumped into the kerozen tank and it made hissing sound when it was lighted up. I don't remember of any special dinner of that kind. Of course the woman folkd were busy preparing the CNY kookies a few days before this day. When I was staying in Machap was a bit different because it was a village, there were many more people and also my uncle and anty were more Chinese in nature. We had the so-called round table CNY eve dinner. At that time I was allowed to drink a bit of the rice wine. When I was in the armed force there was no celetration whatsoever. As far as I am concerned the next two days were holiday. I did not rushed home for the new year etc. In Malaysia we have the "balek kampong" thing in China they also have this kind of going back to the villages for new year. I wonder why people want to create this kind of chaos. Well, that is what human being is all about.
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exif-customrendered-1 Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while. 8th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 1250hrs. After the war the rubber industry came to life again but the situation is totally different from that of before the war. Now the anti colonialism sentiment was at its height. The Malaya Communist Party was instigation the labour movement to disrupt the rubber industry in order to cripple the economy. The intimidation of the rubber tappers, the slashing of rubber trees and even killing of the rubber estate administrative staff were rampant. So being a rubber estate contractor is risky and difficult. One of my father's staff was ambushed and killed by the guerrillas. Most of these guys were the MPAJA during the occupation and it happened that the chap killed was one of them before and refused to join them again. Luckily we had moved down to Malacca town by this time. We moved down to Malacca immediately after the war because my father realised that to live in the remote village is not condusive for our future. The emergency was declared in 1948. 9th.Feb.12. (Sat.) 2000hrs. Today is the Chinese New Year eve. Somehow I don't have any special memory about this occasion. When I was staying in Bukit Berung in the farm house the only special thing that happened was a brighter evening because my grandpa lighted up the big kerozen lamp. The air was pumped into the kerozen tank and it made hissing sound when it was lighted up. I don't remember of any special dinner of that kind. Of course the woman folkd were busy preparing the CNY kookies a few days before this day. When I was staying in Machap was a bit different because it was a village, there were many more people and also my uncle and anty were more Chinese in nature. We had the so-called round table CNY eve dinner. At that time I was allowed to drink a bit of the rice wine. When I was in the armed forces there was no celetration whatsoever. As far as I am concerned the next two days were holiday. I did not rushed home for the new year etc. In Malaysia we have the "balek kampong" thing in China they also have this kind of going back to the villages for new year. I wonder why people want to create this kind of chaos. Well, that is what human being is all about. 10th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1020hrs. (The first day of CNY). This morning is really, really quiet. Beside the wave of fire-cracker firing to usher in the new year there was no more firing of the crackers light previously and strangely enough there is tatolly no sound crackers. Lately the Chinese had been told to be more sensitive to other race's feeling instead of making excessive noise. I think I strongly support the idea.
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exif-datetime Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while. 8th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 1250hrs. After the war the rubber industry came to life again but the situation is totally different from that of before the war. Now the anti colonialism sentiment was at its height. The Malaya Communist Party was instigation the labour movement to disrupt the rubber industry in order to cripple the economy. The intimidation of the rubber tappers, the slashing of rubber trees and even killing of the rubber estate administrative staff were rampant. So being a rubber estate contractor is risky and difficult. One of my father's staff was ambushed and killed by the guerrillas. Most of these guys were the MPAJA during the occupation and it happened that the chap killed was one of them before and refused to join them again. Luckily we had moved down to Malacca town by this time. We moved down to Malacca immediately after the war because my father realised that to live in the remote village is not condusive for our future. The emergency was declared in 1948. 9th.Feb.12. (Sat.) 2000hrs. Today is the Chinese New Year eve. Somehow I don't have any special memory about this occasion. When I was staying in Bukit Berung in the farm house the only special thing that happened was a brighter evening because my grandpa lighted up the big kerozen lamp. The air was pumped into the kerozen tank and it made hissing sound when it was lighted up. I don't remember of any special dinner of that kind. Of course the woman folkd were busy preparing the CNY kookies a few days before this day. When I was staying in Machap was a bit different because it was a village, there were many more people and also my uncle and anty were more Chinese in nature. We had the so-called round table CNY eve dinner. At that time I was allowed to drink a bit of the rice wine. When I was in the armed forces there was no celetration whatsoever. As far as I am concerned the next two days were holiday. I did not rushed home for the new year etc. In Malaysia we have the "balek kampong" thing in China they also have this kind of going back to the villages for new year. I wonder why people want to create this kind of chaos. Well, that is what human being is all about. 10th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1020hrs. (The first day of CNY). This morning is really, really quiet. Beside the wave of fire-cracker firing to usher in the new year there was no more firing of the crackers light previously and strangely enough there is tatolly no sound crackers. Lately the Chinese had been told to be more sensitive to other race's feeling instead of making excessive noise. I think I strongly support the idea. 15th.Feb.12. (Fri.) 0710hrs. Day befor last that was 13rh. I wrote something and when I typed "Save page" the whole thing was gone. Yesterday all of us (Aik Siong, wife and the youngest son Fu Yee) went to Kelaka for a one day trip. We visited my sis and my uncle family. We had a good lunch in a Hainanese restaurant. We finally arrived home at about twelve pm.
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exif-datetimedigitized Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while. 8th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 1250hrs. After the war the rubber industry came to life again but the situation is totally different from that of before the war. Now the anti colonialism sentiment was at its height. The Malaya Communist Party was instigation the labour movement to disrupt the rubber industry in order to cripple the economy. The intimidation of the rubber tappers, the slashing of rubber trees and even killing of the rubber estate administrative staff were rampant. So being a rubber estate contractor is risky and difficult. One of my father's staff was ambushed and killed by the guerrillas. Most of these guys were the MPAJA during the occupation and it happened that the chap killed was one of them before and refused to join them again. Luckily we had moved down to Malacca town by this time. We moved down to Malacca immediately after the war because my father realised that to live in the remote village is not condusive for our future. The emergency was declared in 1948. 9th.Feb.12. (Sat.) 2000hrs. Today is the Chinese New Year eve. Somehow I don't have any special memory about this occasion. When I was staying in Bukit Berung in the farm house the only special thing that happened was a brighter evening because my grandpa lighted up the big kerozen lamp. The air was pumped into the kerozen tank and it made hissing sound when it was lighted up. I don't remember of any special dinner of that kind. Of course the woman folkd were busy preparing the CNY kookies a few days before this day. When I was staying in Machap was a bit different because it was a village, there were many more people and also my uncle and anty were more Chinese in nature. We had the so-called round table CNY eve dinner. At that time I was allowed to drink a bit of the rice wine. When I was in the armed forces there was no celetration whatsoever. As far as I am concerned the next two days were holiday. I did not rushed home for the new year etc. In Malaysia we have the "balek kampong" thing in China they also have this kind of going back to the villages for new year. I wonder why people want to create this kind of chaos. Well, that is what human being is all about. 10th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1020hrs. (The first day of CNY). This morning is really, really quiet. Beside the wave of fire-cracker firing to usher in the new year there was no more firing of the crackers light previously and strangely enough there is tatolly no sound crackers. Lately the Chinese had been told to be more sensitive to other race's feeling instead of making excessive noise. I think I strongly support the idea. 15th.Feb.12. (Fri.) 0710hrs. Day befor last that was 13rh. I wrote something and when I typed "Save page" the whole thing was gone. Yesterday all of us (Aik Siong, wife and the youngest son Fu Yee) went to Kelaka for a one day trip. We visited my sis and my uncle family. We had a good lunch in a Hainanese restaurant. We finally arrived home at about twelve pm. 1st.Mac.13. (Fri.) 0440hrs. It looks like the KMT and CPC are moving forward to join hands like during the WW2 to fight against the foreign aggressors.
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exif-datetimeoriginal Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while. 8th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 1250hrs. After the war the rubber industry came to life again but the situation is totally different from that of before the war. Now the anti colonialism sentiment was at its height. The Malaya Communist Party was instigation the labour movement to disrupt the rubber industry in order to cripple the economy. The intimidation of the rubber tappers, the slashing of rubber trees and even killing of the rubber estate administrative staff were rampant. So being a rubber estate contractor is risky and difficult. One of my father's staff was ambushed and killed by the guerrillas. Most of these guys were the MPAJA during the occupation and it happened that the chap killed was one of them before and refused to join them again. Luckily we had moved down to Malacca town by this time. We moved down to Malacca immediately after the war because my father realised that to live in the remote village is not condusive for our future. The emergency was declared in 1948. 9th.Feb.12. (Sat.) 2000hrs. Today is the Chinese New Year eve. Somehow I don't have any special memory about this occasion. When I was staying in Bukit Berung in the farm house the only special thing that happened was a brighter evening because my grandpa lighted up the big kerozen lamp. The air was pumped into the kerozen tank and it made hissing sound when it was lighted up. I don't remember of any special dinner of that kind. Of course the woman folkd were busy preparing the CNY kookies a few days before this day. When I was staying in Machap was a bit different because it was a village, there were many more people and also my uncle and anty were more Chinese in nature. We had the so-called round table CNY eve dinner. At that time I was allowed to drink a bit of the rice wine. When I was in the armed forces there was no celetration whatsoever. As far as I am concerned the next two days were holiday. I did not rushed home for the new year etc. In Malaysia we have the "balek kampong" thing in China they also have this kind of going back to the villages for new year. I wonder why people want to create this kind of chaos. Well, that is what human being is all about. 10th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1020hrs. (The first day of CNY). This morning is really, really quiet. Beside the wave of fire-cracker firing to usher in the new year there was no more firing of the crackers light previously and strangely enough there is tatolly no sound crackers. Lately the Chinese had been told to be more sensitive to other race's feeling instead of making excessive noise. I think I strongly support the idea. 15th.Feb.12. (Fri.) 0710hrs. Day befor last that was 13rh. I wrote something and when I typed "Save page" the whole thing was gone. Yesterday all of us (Aik Siong, wife and the youngest son Fu Yee) went to Kelaka for a one day trip. We visited my sis and my uncle family. We had a good lunch in a Hainanese restaurant. We finally arrived home at about twelve pm. 1st.Mac.13. (Fri.) 0440hrs. It looks like the KMT and CPC are moving forward to join hands like during the WW2 to fight against the foreign aggressors. 2nd.Mac.13. (Sat.) 1640hrs. It is no harm in paraded the criminals that killed the 13 Chinese fishermen being led to be executed in the CCTV. The action is no more insensitive than a lot of similar cases happening in Iraq, Afghanistan etc, etc.
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exif-devicesettingdescription Talk	?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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while. 8th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 1250hrs. After the war the rubber industry came to life again but the situation is totally different from that of before the war. Now the anti colonialism sentiment was at its height. The Malaya Communist Party was instigation the labour movement to disrupt the rubber industry in order to cripple the economy. The intimidation of the rubber tappers, the slashing of rubber trees and even killing of the rubber estate administrative staff were rampant. So being a rubber estate contractor is risky and difficult. One of my father's staff was ambushed and killed by the guerrillas. Most of these guys were the MPAJA during the occupation and it happened that the chap killed was one of them before and refused to join them again. Luckily we had moved down to Malacca town by this time. We moved down to Malacca immediately after the war because my father realised that to live in the remote village is not condusive for our future. The emergency was declared in 1948. 9th.Feb.12. (Sat.) 2000hrs. Today is the Chinese New Year eve. Somehow I don't have any special memory about this occasion. When I was staying in Bukit Berung in the farm house the only special thing that happened was a brighter evening because my grandpa lighted up the big kerozen lamp. The air was pumped into the kerozen tank and it made hissing sound when it was lighted up. I don't remember of any special dinner of that kind. Of course the woman folkd were busy preparing the CNY kookies a few days before this day. When I was staying in Machap was a bit different because it was a village, there were many more people and also my uncle and anty were more Chinese in nature. We had the so-called round table CNY eve dinner. At that time I was allowed to drink a bit of the rice wine. When I was in the armed forces there was no celetration whatsoever. As far as I am concerned the next two days were holiday. I did not rushed home for the new year etc. In Malaysia we have the "balek kampong" thing in China they also have this kind of going back to the villages for new year. I wonder why people want to create this kind of chaos. Well, that is what human being is all about. 10th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1020hrs. (The first day of CNY). This morning is really, really quiet. Beside the wave of fire-cracker firing to usher in the new year there was no more firing of the crackers light previously and strangely enough there is tatolly no sound crackers. Lately the Chinese had been told to be more sensitive to other race's feeling instead of making excessive noise. I think I strongly support the idea. 15th.Feb.12. (Fri.) 0710hrs. Day befor last that was 13rh. I wrote something and when I typed "Save page" the whole thing was gone. Yesterday all of us (Aik Siong, wife and the youngest son Fu Yee) went to Kelaka for a one day trip. We visited my sis and my uncle family. We had a good lunch in a Hainanese restaurant. We finally arrived home at about twelve pm. 1st.Mac.13. (Fri.) 0440hrs. It looks like the KMT and CPC are moving forward to join hands like during the WW2 to fight against the foreign aggressors. 2nd.Mac.13. (Sat.) 1640hrs. It is no harm in paraded the criminals that killed the 13 Chinese fishermen being led to be executed in the CCTV. The action is no more insensitive than a lot of similar cases happening in Iraq, Afghanistan etc, etc. 7th.Mac.12. (Thu.) 0400hrs. I feel a kind of sad on the loss of Mr. Hugo Chavez.
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exif-exposuremode-1 Talk	Ingredients <br> 250-300 gm butter (softened) <br> 220-240gm sugar <br> 1/2 Tbsp vanilla <br> 250-300 gm eggs (approximately 6 small eggs) <br> 250-300 gm self rising flour <br> 1 cup milk (250 gm) <br> Cream the butter and sugar together for 2 minutes. Add vanilla and eggs to mixture. Then add flour and milk alternately. Pour <br> batter into circular pan. Place in cold oven and turn it on to 360 degrees. Bake for 25 minutes and enjoy!
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exif-exposureprogram Talk	Walnut, Cranberry, Chocolate, Oatmeal Cookies 1.5 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 1.25 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3 cups old-fashioned oats 1 cup white chocolate chips 1 cup dried cranberries (boil in water for 1 min to soften) 1 cup black walnuts, roughly chopped 1. Preheat oven to 350F. 2. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. 3. Combine butter and sugars and beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Add flour mixture; mix well. Add oats, chocolate chips, cranberries and black walnuts; stir well. 4. Drop dough by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets. 5. Bake about 9 minutes, until just golden brown. Let cool I minute on baking sheets; remove to wire rack. Let cool completely. Makes about 4 dozen.
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exif-exposureprogram-0 Talk	Walnut, Cranberry, Chocolate, Oatmeal Cookies 1.5 cup all-purpose flour <br> 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 1.25 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3 cups old-fashioned oats 1 cup white chocolate chips 1 cup dried cranberries (boil in water for 1 min to soften) 1 cup black walnuts, roughly chopped 1. Preheat oven to 350F. 2. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. 3. Combine butter and sugars and beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Add flour mixture; mix well. Add oats, chocolate chips, cranberries and black walnuts; stir well. 4. Drop dough by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets. 5. Bake about 9 minutes, until just golden brown. Let cool I minute on baking sheets; remove to wire rack. Let cool completely. Makes about 4 dozen.
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exif-exposureprogram-1 Talk	1.5 cup all-purpose flour <br> 1 teaspoon baking soda <br> 1/2 teaspoon salt <br> 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened <br> 1.25 cup sugar <br> 2 eggs <br> 2 teaspoons vanilla extract <br> 3 cups old-fashioned oats <br> 1 cup white chocolate chips <br> 1 cup dried cranberries (boil in water for 1 min to soften) <br> 1 cup black walnuts, roughly chopped <br> <br> 1. Preheat oven to 350F. <br> 2. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. <br> 3. Combine butter and sugars and beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add egg and vanilla; beat well. Add flour mixture; mix well. Add oats, chocolate chips, cranberries and black walnuts; stir well. <br> 4. Drop dough by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets. <br> 5. Bake about 9 minutes, until just golden brown. Let cool I minute on baking sheets; remove to wire rack. Let cool completely. Makes about 4 dozen. <br>
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exif-exposureprogram-2 Talk	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 past five thousand years of their history. They have the brain and a pair of good hands with which they can create 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 have got. 29th.May.12. (Tue.) 0735hrs. Sunday, the wowan section of the GAO assn. held a small party for the mothers' day. As usual the small makan and some games for the children etc. It was an enjoyable gathering. At the same time we watched the Thomas Cup final match between China and South Korea. All of us were very happy to see how the Chinese badminton players trashed the South Korean. The Chinese team is very much superior than the South Korean team in term of physical fittness and skill of playing the game. Hope that the Chinese national football team will be as formidable as well after the clean-up operation. Monday, it was a quiet day until the arrival of my uncle's twp daughters. They brought two bottles of sweet wine from Meleka for us for cooking purposes. We chatted until 3pm and took them for a Mamak curry lunch. We took them round the Metropolitan garden and a visit to the Gao assn. premises for a look. No evening walk as I was tired without tht afternoon nap. 31st.May.12. (Thu.) 2130hrs. Tuesday lunch time went to the KLIA to fetch the five grand sons and daughters. They ate a late lunch at about 1530hrs. SS took them to the Metropolitan garden in the evening, then rested and went to dinner without dinner. They stayed home in the day and taken to Jalan Aloa by EM and Peter for dinner on the Malaysian hawker food. Today they were taken out by SS for the whole day and now(2135hrs) EM and Peter are coming to take them to pass the night in their hous. 2nd.June.12 (Sat.)1020hrs. Yesterday (Fri) since mom was going to Jinjang market so I hitched a ride for my yee mee breakfast. After lunch mom and I went to the stampping dept. to frank the rental agreement. No evening walk, poceeded to EM's house for Peter's birthday roast-pig dinner party. The children were there too. We left the house at twelve midnight. Today is a public holiday, Agong's birthday. 5th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 0940h. Sunday, the grand children left for Penang in the morning. Went to the assn. to see the children doing the Chinese calligraphy practices. I also wanted to know what is new on the callighraphy side. I have lost touch with the subject for a long time. Monday, went to Lumut by bus alone, just to see how the small town looks like now. I saw a small portion of the town only. Without a car one can only walk so much. It took four hours to reach there and another four hours to come back. By the time I reached homw it was 10pm already. It has improved a lot with new jetty for tourists to go to Pangkoh Island. I started off at 9.15am from Pudu Raya new bus station. However I enjoyed the trip, it made me tired and something new to do. 8th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 1320hrs. Mon.& Tue. mainly stayed home except going to P4D1 to collect maintenance fees for banking. Thursday, went to Melaka to show them my mother's and father's graveyards particularly to the youngest fellow. Then went to Machap Bahru to show them to Ah Mok's wife as to how they look like. She gave us five durians and up to this time they are still there intact. Came back from Machap we met up with Lip Wern in the Air Kroh Melaka wonderland. It is a new amusement park situated in the site just newly cleared in the former forest reserved land. I still remember the Air Kroh area was a thick jungle with plenty of large and tall trees but now it is developed into human housing estates. After the swimming went to a restaurant for dinner and went to my sister's house to see how she is like. We finally reached home at about 1030pm. 12th.Jun.12. (Tue.) 2325hrs. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, just lazing around at home feeling so tired-like about the trip to Melaka particularly to the wonderland where we have to wait for the children for two to three hours without properly resting place. Monday, my stomach was giving me some trouble after eating the mutton curry. I even missed my evening walk. Today (Tue.) although not 100% to the mark but still went for a 1 1/2 hrs slow evening walk and feel much better now. 15th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2335hrs. Wed. and Thu. were two free days. Don't remember of doing anything in particular. Wed. went to the JMB office to check on the clerk to see whether she comes to the office in time or not. Thu. went to town to while the time away. As I had said earlier that it is very fortunate that I can read Chinese. Take today for example I surfed the Chinese web site, it spends a lot of time in describing the preparations of the launching of its spaceship and also report on their submersible returned to surface after reaching the dept of 6,500 meters undersea. The western websites did not utter a single word about these things except magnifying the forced abortion with photo images etc. 17th.Jun.12 (Sun.)2240hra. I have just finished my writting for Sat. and Sun. and when I clicked Save page it just disappeared. Saturday, took the children to see Heng Jin at 1030am. He gave RM 100.oo ang poh to each of them. Then he took us to a lunch at the restaurant near his shop. The disces were the same as the one that he gave three and a half years ago. The children seemed to enjoy it. Took them to see the KL tower, we did not go up the tower due to the hazy condition. Reached home at about 3pm. Turned on the CCTV 4 to see the preparation of the launching of the Shienzhou 9. Took them to uncle Loong there to see large screen TV on the actual launching. This is to let them see the Chinese style of launching space ship. The Chinese truely "Cina boleh". KMT China could never never have done it. The most they can do is to hitch a ride in the foreinger's spaceship. They would be very very grateful to them for giving such a favour. Sunday, went to look for the "Persatuan Hainan Wenchang Kuala Lumpur" started from 10 am. We took about two hours to find it with uncle Loon together. We were given a packet of chicken rice with a bottle of mineral water. The Chinese govt is building a roacket launching pad in that part of Hainan and with that I hope to be able to see the launching of Chinese spaceship in the near future. The latest news I heard it will be ready by end of 1013. 20th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 1335hrs. Mon. & Wed. knocked down by the current flu. Went to the govt. clinic and got some cough syrup and panadol. 23rd.Jun.12. (Sat.) 1145hrs. Have been sleepy and having headache for the past two to three days. Mom also is having a tough time with the flue. I think it is the haze that is the main culprit. However, I am getting better while mom has gone to see the private doctor for better medicine. 25th.Jun.12. (Mon.) 2135hrs. Sunday, in the evening went to EM's house for Fu Yee's birthday lamb BBQ party. The only invited guests were Heng Jin and his wife, the rest were family member. It was an enjoyable evening. We reached home at about lam. This morning went to see the doctor again for my flu and cough. This time it is a female Chinese doc. She prescribed me for sore throat, cough and stopping the flam. After the first taking and a nap I find it doing wonders for me. I am now goind to take the second round, hope that it will make me sleep soundly tonight. 29th.Jun.12. (Fri.) 2230hrs. The children have gone home. Peace and quiet has returned. We woke up at 3am. and took them to the airport at 4am.. That was on 27th.June. Wed. It is quite pleasant to see them grow. They are no more baby except the yougest fellow. We don't talk so freely like when they were young. We don't play anymore but to walk to talk and do anything more maturely. 3rd.Jul.12. (Tue.) 0000hrs. l.Jul.(Sun.) A "bak chang"(rice dumpling) competition was held in our association and you know what, our dumpling got the lst. price. Of course we did not make them ourselves but we asked the dumpling maker to make the best ones for us. We were not really very proud of it, just to join the fun. In the evening we attended a birthday party in the Hokkien association in Klang. It was for the mother of our ex-association president, Mr. Tiam Fatt. It was her 80th. birthday and the ang pow collected will be donated to a Chinese girl school in Klang because Mr. Tiam Fatt is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the school. It is understood that the collection was around one hundred twenty over thousand ringgits. We went in Heng Jin's van with EM. Today, went to the JMB office to stand in for the clerk who went to take the oral driving test in the morning part. As usual went for my evening exercise. 8th.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0845hrs. It is a fine and cool Sunday morning because it rained lightly last night. The dogs strangely are silent. I think they are also resting because of the cool weather. It was a quiet and a peaceful week, I can find nothing to write about. I had been staying at home for the whole week because I had been sleeping less at night due to a light cough in the early hours of the morning. 12th.Jul.12. (Thu.) 2215hrs. It had been very quiet for the past four days except preparing the 3qtr.STATEMENTS/INVOICES for the Block P4D1 and sent them to the individual unit owners. Last night went to dinner in PJ to entertain Mdm. Han and her daughter Other than that everything seems to be peaceful. 14th.July.12 (Sat.) 2145hrs. Morning went to Tmn. Rainbow small garden for exercise. In the evening went to Batu Cave to climb the 272 steps for exercise. I am really disappointed that they did not burn the Chinese made Olympic uniforms as suggested because I want them to be mad, the madder the better. Don't be surprised in twenty or thirty years time they may have to travel in Chinese made air crafts to go to wherever they want. 17th.Jul.12. (Tue.) 2235hrs. Life have been going on very normally for the past three days. I can think of nothing interesting to write about. It had been raining pretty much for the past three days. One of the unit owners in the P4D1 reported leaking in the roof yesterday. Went to look at it and promised that I will find a repairman to put it right. The leak had been repaired before but it started to leak again. The repairman promised to come tomorrow, so I hope he will really appear. 22nd.Jul.12. (Sun.) 0550hrs. After surfing the net I am sitting here figuring what to write. It seems that I can think of nothing of significant to write about for the past four days to write about. 25th.Jul.12. (Wed.) 2210hrs. On Sunday attended the GAO assn. annual lunch meeting at 1400hrs to discuss the arrangement for the day. We have had plenty of experience on the matter, so there was nothing much to discuss about. On Monday took the roof repairman to look at the unit that reported leaking. He agreed to do the repair job for RM 1,800 but so far he did not come back to say as to when he will start the job. Will call him tomorrow. Today went to the Rivercity at the 3rd. mile Ipoh Road to see what is going on there. Well, Carrefour will be there and the surrounding is full of makan shops with foreigh names and traditional local names. 31st.Jul.12. (Tue.) 25hrs. Went up to FH on Sat. morning and returned on Sunday. Started coming down at about 1200hrs, so we had a lot of spare time we turned in to the Bantang Kali new village to see the village and also we turned in to the Kampong Dato Harun to have a look. We did not know there is a small water-fall at the end of the kampong until now. It is a pleasant Malay kampong because it is a new purposely designed one unlike the new village it was set up during the Emergency era. Under the JMB, Silver Park is well maintained. I can say that the management is doing it with the intention of making it a good holiday resort. Not only the intention but it is done systematically with tenical know-how. It is also learnt that they are installing the WiFi system for every lock of the Silverpark complex. The FH authority is also building a theme park as well at the vacant land used to be the carpark before. The future looks bright for the Hill. 2nd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 1635hrs. Busy watching Olympics. I am very lucky to be able to live to see the day the Chinese from "the sick of Asia" to the day that they win the Olypic gold medals. The Olypics of the forty up the time before the birth of New China was totally void of the Chnese participants. The strongest Asians atheletes were a handful of the Japanese. I was also quite convinced to believe that the Chinese will never win any medals from the Olypics left alone winning gold medals. We were told that we are rice eaters and rice contains a lot of carbohydrate and therefore make us weaker unlike the Europeans they are stronger. The other reasons were that we were poor and also stupid for not knowing how to play games etc. After the WW11 the Chinese schools were mostly dominated by the KMT whick was pro-Western world. KMT believed that the Western world would help them to build up China so they praised whatever the Westerners do expecting us to follow them. I think the main reason they did that because they did not have plan whatsoever to run the country. They just copied what the West did. Simple isn't it? Everyone in and out of the govt. was amassing money and put them in the foreign banks particularly the military generals and warlords. If anything happen they would be the first ones to run the to country in which they put the money in. 6th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1335hrs. Well done China. With the principles of "faster, higner and stronger', the Chincese will eventually win eighty percent of the medals of the Olypincs. They are many misters gooddy gooddy talk about this and that but to me winning the medals is the finally goal of any sports. Bye,bye! 11th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 2300hrs. Went to Seremban to visit a relative of mom. After the visit went to eat beef noodle supposed to be very tasty but it turned out to be not so for us but a lot of people were eating it. Come back to KL by the old road. Our journey was smooth because one of mom's relative's son who is familiar with Seremban drove the van for us. 13th.Aug.12. (Mon.) 1320hrs. Finally the London Olympic Games has come to an end. China's medal position is second but to my mind the actual situation is the Chinese as a racial group has got the most medals. The simple fact is some country's medals are won by many ethnic groups put in together. Shoot me if I am wrong. 19th.Aug.12. (Sun.) 1045hrs. Today is the Hari Raya Puasa, our Taman is very very quiet. Mon has gone to Pangkoh Island with her gang. Life has been normal with us so there is nothing much to write about. KL is being transformed with the construction of the MRT from Sg. Buloh to Kajang. The main station in KL is located at the old Klang bus stand. The new bus stand is already ready for use. The old Klang bus stand building is already demolised. Two other large building nearby will also go to make way for MRT station. I hope I will still be alive to ride the train. 23rd.Aug.12. (Thu.) 0450hrs. Lately got up very early. at about 3am and cannot fall asleep again, so in order to pass the time fruitfully is to surf the net. The political atmosphere in Asia is best described as tense with all the military exercises going on. The feeling is just like the situation before the beginning of the WW 2. 25th.Aug.12. (Sat.) 0325hrs. Woken up by the neighbour's dog consistant barking and being not able to fall asleep again so here I am. Lately it had been raining in the evening quite frequently so I did not get to exercise properly. I felt that I desperately need a long walk. It was drizzling lightly when I took the train to KL train station hoping that it did not rain in KL. True enough it did not rain in KL but the road was wet, that showed that it had been raining there too. While there went to have a bowl of the famous beef noodle and from there walked to Chow Kit Road bus station to take the Rapid bus home. According to the small gaget that measures the walking steps one makes I have taken about 14,000 walking steps for the whole yesterday, that was four thousand more than the recommended number of walking steps. It is recommended by the medical expert that one must walk at least 10,000 steps a day in order to keep fit and healthy. 28th.Aug.12. (Tue.) 0950hrs. Last Sunday I joined mum's one day trip to Broga in Negeri Sembilan. Broga was a hot spot duering the Emergemcy days. Sgt. Norkan from my 'B' coy. was promoted to 2 Lt. transferred to Malay Regiment was sent there, that is why the name Broga has a special meaning to me. It is a small village at the end of the road. Lately the SHORTIES appear to be very ferocious since they joined up with a strong friend. Whatever it is if they still stupidly believe that they are stronger than China and try to fight with China again, it will be the total end of their race. They don't have to wait for one thousand years. lst.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0625hrs. Went for a day's trip by tour bus to Bentong and Raub. We know the area pretty well but we still want to know what the tour people can tell us. The only place that we did not know is the little so-called farm resort in the middle of the rubber estate near Raub. They took us there for lunch. We went round the Raub town and went back to Bentong for mixed 'ice-kacang' topped up with ice-cream in a shop which we did not hear of it before. The trip ended with a dinner in Desar Jaya area in a normal restaurant. Well, I forgot to write something that made me unhappy about what I saw during the trip. When we visited a temple in the outskirts of Bentong I saw six birds were kept in each birdcage hanging around the temple premises. The second unhappy episode was two monkeys were caged ia a small cage each in the resort compound. The birds and monkeys were trying to escape ceaselessly. 3rd.Sep.12. (Mon.) 2320hrs. Attended a final meeting for the 9th. Sep. GAO assn. lunch yesterday. Everything went on smoothly. It is learnt that eleven members of the Singapore GAO assn. will be coming to join us. 9th.Sep.12. (Sun.) 1040hrs. Getting ready to attend the GAO assn. lunch to be held at 1200hrs. 10th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 0215hrs. The GAO assn. 29th. birday lunch went on according to plan with 31 tables served. The S'pore GAO assn. members were also present. They started from S'pore at 6.15am and arrived here at about 1pm. As usual of any Chinese dinner or lunch party, it was noisy with singing and loud music. However it went on smoothly. 21st.Sep.12. (Fri.) 0335hrs. In this critical time the Chinese must go back to the Chairman's thought for strength and wisdom. 25th.Sep.12. (Tue.) 2150hrs. 22nd. Sat. NTR. 23rd. Sun. GAO assn. held the moon cake festival. The normal celebration. Eating and children games. 24th. Mon. No activities. Today went to Putrajaya to take the bus sekolah permit. The global "Sam Seng" has eventually come knocking at the China's front door. So as a Chinese what must I do?!. 1st.Oct.12. (Mon.) 1255hrs. Yesterday was the Mid-autum festival day and the day to pray for grandpa, so we went to Uncle Loon house for lunch with the Han family. Of course Uncle Loon was doing the cooking. To day is the China 63rd. year national day. I watched the whole ceremony of the top Chinese leaders laid flower baskets at the Monument of the People's Heroes in the Tienanmen Square in the CCTV. I hope that the Chinese people will rise up against the enemy again as call for in the Chinese national anthem. This time the aggressor will be very much stronger than that of WW2. 9th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0835hrs. Today is my birthday. Normally I don't remember my own birthday because I never celebrate my birthday. On Sunday night (7th. Oct.) I was given a big and expensive dinner by EM and SS. It cost about three thousand RM. Before the dinner I was told that Peter Alinger and his wife from Switzerland was giving us a dinner. When I arrived at the dinning room I was greeted with all present wishing me a "happy birthday." The ex-secretary of the GAO assn. of S'pore Yong Fatt was also present. He flew in from S'pore specially for this. He also gave me an expensive Sony camera as a birthday present. Heng Jing, wife and his son Peng Guan were also present. The dinner ended at about ll.30pm. 8th. Oct. Monday, EM and I took Yong Fatt to Putra Jaya for a look-see and then to Air Asia terminal. 16th.Oct.12. (Tue.) 0400hrs. Woke up at 3am. and refuse to fall asleep again. Strangely enough lately have been waking up at 3am practically every morning. Sometimes able to fall asleep again and sometimes it won't fall asleep again and remain awake. I think this is another kind of suffering that old age has got to go through. Come back from after reading the article titled "Eight ways China is changing your world." By Angus Foster. BBC News, Beijing in the BBC website. I was born and grow up in the world ruled by the whiteman "Tuan", so what is wrong in changing to Chinese as "Tuan" now. 21st.Oct.12. (Sun.) 1845hrs. We took a drive to the Ampang village and its surrounding area just to see what is it like and found that the develpment there is fantastic. We find it difficult to recongnise the places where we had been before and this only have happened in the last three to four years time. From Ampang village we went through the Ululangat area and came out in nineth mile Cheras Road and back to KL. We spent about four hours all in all. 4th.Nov.12.(Sun.) 0625hrs. The raining season is really upon us now. It rains everyday for the past one week. Luckily it did not creat any big disaster except some small flooding here and there so far. Life is going on as normal for us and I still go for my walk whenever possible. Yesterday I went to Titiwangso park in spite of drizsling. There, the out door exercise equiptment area is partly covered with canopy. The lake restaurant 'Nylayen' is being torn down due to old age. What is to come up is still unkown to us. It is drizzling outside now. so I have to do my exercise in the house. 7th.NOv.12. (Wed.) 1325hrs. The GAO assn. has installed the unifi and I am now trying it out with my computer. The members feel that with this system on it will attract more members and their family members to come to enjoy the facilities. It costs the assn. RM149.00 per month. We have agreed to try it out for two years to decide to let it stay or terminate the service. Added on at 1830hrs. There are many articles on MZT in CNN, after reading them new thought came to my mind. MZT is not dead his thought is the guiding star for the Chinese race forever and ever. It is the CNN may not survive say in one hundred years from now. 9th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1235hrs. Just asked goole that what is the percentage of us citisens voted in the last election. There appear to be no direct answer forth coming. Why?! 10th.Nov.12. (Sat.) 0500hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again. No exercise yesterday evening due to the rain, that may be the reason. At he moment there is no rain, hope to be able to go to do some exercise in the small garden at the Rainbow garden. Don't like the so-called Rainbow Garden because it is cramped and small and the dogs are all barking at the same time. I go there is because of the exercise equiptment. 12th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1845hrs. Yesterday being Sunday went to Ipoh on a one day tour. I took uncle Loon's place because he could not go due a dinner on yesterday night. There was nothing spectacular about the trip. All the participants are the old folks and the idea is just to pass the time. In Ipoh we visited a Tibetan Buddhist Temple whish was celebrating some sort of festival. Took us to a pomelo stall in the pomelo orchard for the folks to buy pomelo direct from the grower. Lunch, after which went to visit another temple at the foot of a clifff on our way back to KL. Had our dinner at Kampar town and preceeded home. Arrived at KL at about 9.30pm. We were very tired and had a good night sleep. At 8am went to Rainbow park for an hour exercise. It is drizzling now, so no exercise. 14th.Nov.12. (Wed.) 2140hrs. Yesterday was a Deepavali holiday. Beside the morning exercise no other activity. Complete rest at home. This morning took mom to Selayang Hospital for the eye check up. It took the whole morning. There was no other activity except surfing the internet. Ya see too much of the CCTV programmes, learnt that the Chinese can now fly in the sky and also sail the wide four seas. Seventy odd years ago I wouldn't dream of this happening. Hope one day the Chinese will be supreme in every field. 16th.Nov.12. (Fri.) 1648hrs. The Westerners always laugh at the Chinese about face, they say that the Chinese is afraid of losing face. Well, in the case of the BBC scandal, it is precisely about face. They hushed up the case in the beginning because they did not want to lose face. They want to make it that they are pious people. I know this because I was under their service before. In order to know precisely what is happening in China one must be able to read, to write, to understand the basic Chinese language and also its history particularly the recent 100 years before the formation of the new China in 1st Oct. 1949, otherwise one will be duffed by the distorted reports produced by the Western news agencies. The reports on the CPC 18th. congress held in Beijing recently is classic example. 22nd.Nov.12. (Thu.) 1845hrs. Went to Rainbow park for morning exercise beause it rained yesterday eveninng. Went to Kepong satllite town to book a trip to Southern China for 5days 4nights tour on 18th. Nov. 12. Walked around the place to see what is new. 27th.Nov.12. (Mon.) 1850hrs. Glad to learn that the Chinese can now land and take-off their fighter plane from the aircraft carrier. Of course there is nothing to gloat about it because the West have done it from fifty or sixty years ago. Nonetheless it is a beginning for the Chinese. As it is said it is better late than never. 6th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 0024hrs. I always think what will happen to me because of my this writing. I am writing this is just to record what I see and feel about events happening around me. Because this is a small part of history during my life time. As it is npw I have been living on this earth for the past eighty years. So I can tell you my small part of world history as I know of. My history is plain and simple. So I am stubbornly keep on writing it. 9th.Dec.12. (Sun.) 1320hrs. Tt is a humid,hot and quiet Sunday morning. Now the crows do not make a lot of noise any more because I have been systematically scared them away with my catapult. Last night we attended a dinner hosted by the Loke assn. The food was good and the beer was flowing freely because the manager of Tiger Beer is Loke. Next week on the 14th of Dec. ten of our GAO assn. members will be going to Melaka for another assn. dinner party. We have installed the UNIFI system in the assn. Hope that more members will come to use the facility. 15th.Dec.12. (Sat.) 1725hrs. Attended the Melaka five surname assn. dinner with ten members of three family members. We started off at 10 o'clock and reached therw at about 1.30pm. We were treated with lunch by one of the Gao member. After that some the member went to see the old fort. Sadly the rain spoilt the visit. The dinner started at 2000hrs and finished off at around 2230hrs. We finally arrived home at about 0200hrs. It was a very pleasant trip. North Korea put their satellite into orbit with their own made rocket and this had been seen as a sin to the so-call free world. I wonder why? They have been proud of their advanced technologies and all the secret weapons etc. So what is wrong with the North Korean's satellite? 26th.Dec.12. (Wed.) 2335hrs. Having very bad flu after returning from a 5days 4nights tour of Southern China haoliday trip last Sunday. I am happy to see that China is really in good shape. KL is no comparition to the cities we visited in cleanliness and maintenance of trees and shrubs along the city roads. We visited many places and they are well maintained. I am sure they can't keep so many places nice just for the tourists to see because we travelled widely. We even went to the farm to pluck strawberries and chatted with the farmer without any obstruction. 2nd.Jan.13. (Wed.) 2220hrs. At the end of everyday I find that there is nothing interesting to write and hope that something interesting wiil happen the next day then I will write but the feeling of yesterday's evening is the same and thus one more day is gone. For the past seven days the only extraordinary event was attending the dinner held by the all surnames assn. of Malaysia dinner. 11th.Jan.12. (Fri.) 0345hrs. Get up at 3am and cannot fall asleep again. So here I am. Have to go to the University Hospital for eyes check up for 8am. appoinntment time. Life is going on very normally, all activities are around in KL area. Less rain and is humid. Unpleasant in the day time and unpleasant to sleep at night. 17th.Jan.12. (Thu.) 1010hrs. Went up to the Fraser's Hill last week-end. Everything remain the same. lst.Feb.12. (Fri.) 2110hrs. Today is the Federal Territory Day and it is a holiday for the FT. We stayed at home to be on the safe side e.e. don't want to be stuck in the traffice jam etc. Now come to my father's story as requested by my son. He came to Malaya in around between l897 and l900. At that time the rubber trees were found to be able to be planted in a large scale basis, so large number of workers is required to do the planting job. So my father was one of the workers who was recruited. At that time he was only 19 years old. He was a farmer in his native village and farming skill is essential to do the planting of rubber trees. He must had been a good man as at the end of his life he ended up as being a small rubber estate holder. I did not check up really how many acres of rubber holding he had after he passed away because he willed it to my sister. But I heard from my sis was around thirteen to twenty acres of it. He left a house to me worth around ten thousand dollars in l976. Subsequently I sold it to my sis who was staying in the house at that time for ten thousand dollars and use the money to put down as down paying for the present house. The balance 17,500 dollars was paid by the hosuing allowance from the army. (Note; at that time we were using dollars not ringgin.) 3rd.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1800hrs. Attended Chee Mai's wedding dinner. As usual it is tough to attend any Chineese dinner party because one has to wait and wait for it to start and secondly it is usually noisey. I think last night one was exceptionally longer to wait. The reason I say my father was a good man because at that time the labourers who came from China would easily became opium-smoking addicts or habitual gamblers or die of some kind of sexual related dieses. Of course he worked and saved hard too. By the age of 30 he was a contractor for the Ong Eng Tiang rubber estate. A rubber contractor's responsibilities was to recruit rubber tappers to tap the rubber trees, keep the estate clear of wild plants, to see that the rubber trees are not infested with white ants. By then he was one of the hingest income earners in the village. He got married and I was born in 1932, my sister was three years older and my younger brother two years younger. My mohter passed away when my brother was three months old. 5th.Feb.12. (Tue.) 0440hrs. Got up at 4am and cannot fall asleep again, so spend the time surfing the net. I am not very clear about the story from the death of my mother till the beginning of the world war 2, that was about the end of l941, But I can get a rough pictures of what happened from bits and pieces of what had been mentioned from conversations between family members. He got married again in Machap and that my sister was ataying with them, my brother was given to a nyona single mother to look after while I stayed with my grandpa in Bukit Berung, Malacca. After several years they got separated, my sis. came to stay with my grandpa until she got married during the Japanese occupation roughly in 1943. 6th.Feb.12. (Wed.) 2135hrs. Rained in the evening, no exercise. He went to live in Malacca town because he was avoiding the Japanese spies or the informers. In those days one word from one of these people will end up in the Japanese Kempitai (as far as I know it was used to mention of the Japanese MP detention camp). Before the Japanese invaded Malaya the Malayan Chinese here organised various activities to collect money for the Chinese Govt. in China to fight the Jap. so when they arrived here they started to hunt these people down. Since my father was one of the people involved in this activity, needless to say he was in danger. The rubber industry was at the stand still, so he had to live on his saving. The shop in Machap was looked after by my uncle. At the later stage of the occupation he only cmae to Machap onece in a while. 8th.Feb.12. (Thu.) 1250hrs. After the war the rubber industry came to life again but the situation is totally different from that of before the war. Now the anti colonialism sentiment was at its height. The Malaya Communist Party was instigation the labour movement to disrupt the rubber industry in order to cripple the economy. The intimidation of the rubber tappers, the slashing of rubber trees and even killing of the rubber estate administrative staff were rampant. So being a rubber estate contractor is risky and difficult. One of my father's staff was ambushed and killed by the guerrillas. Most of these guys were the MPAJA during the occupation and it happened that the chap killed was one of them before and refused to join them again. Luckily we had moved down to Malacca town by this time. We moved down to Malacca immediately after the war because my father realised that to live in the remote village is not condusive for our future. The emergency was declared in 1948. 9th.Feb.12. (Sat.) 2000hrs. Today is the Chinese New Year eve. Somehow I don't have any special memory about this occasion. When I was staying in Bukit Berung in the farm house the only special thing that happened was a brighter evening because my grandpa lighted up the big kerozen lamp. The air was pumped into the kerozen tank and it made hissing sound when it was lighted up. I don't remember of any special dinner of that kind. Of course the woman folkd were busy preparing the CNY kookies a few days before this day. When I was staying in Machap was a bit different because it was a village, there were many more people and also my uncle and anty were more Chinese in nature. We had the so-called round table CNY eve dinner. At that time I was allowed to drink a bit of the rice wine. When I was in the armed forces there was no celetration whatsoever. As far as I am concerned the next two days were holiday. I did not rushed home for the new year etc. In Malaysia we have the "balek kampong" thing in China they also have this kind of going back to the villages for new year. I wonder why people want to create this kind of chaos. Well, that is what human being is all about. 10th.Feb.12. (Sun.) 1020hrs. (The first day of CNY). This morning is really, really quiet. Beside the wave of fire-cracker firing to usher in the new year there was no more firing of the crackers light previously and strangely enough there is tatolly no sound crackers. Lately the Chinese had been told to be more sensitive to other race's feeling instead of making excessive noise. I think I strongly support the idea. 15th.Feb.12. (Fri.) 0710hrs. Day befor last that was 13rh. I wrote something and when I typed "Save page" the whole thing was gone. Yesterday all of us (Aik Siong, wife and the youngest son Fu Yee) went to Kelaka for a one day trip. We visited my sis and my uncle family. We had a good lunch in a Hainanese restaurant. We finally arrived home at about twelve pm. 1st.Mac.13. (Fri.) 0440hrs. It looks like the KMT and CPC are moving forward to join hands like during the WW2 to fight against the foreign aggressors. 2nd.Mac.13. (Sat.) 1640hrs. It is no harm in paraded the criminals that killed the 13 Chinese fishermen being led to be executed in the CCTV. The action is no more insensitive than a lot of similar cases happening in Iraq, Afghanistan etc, etc. 7th.Mac.12. (Thu.) 0400hrs. I feel a kind of sad on the loss of Mr. Hugo Chavez.
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exif-fnumber Talk	Start here for 2014. 23rd .Mar.2014. Glad that I can start my writing again. My story. 24th.Mar.2014. I am really happy to see that Russia has finally comes out to stop the encroachment of the Western colonialists. I do not mind seeing another cold-war. I have thought that the world would be peaceful after the ending of the cold-war which was started after the end of the WWll,but they took advantage of the situation in order to totally colonized the whole world. 3rd.Apr.2014. President Putin I hope u will keep on marching forward. U are my hero. 13th. Apr. 2014. It makes me very happy to see what is happening in Ukriane. As what people say "do to them as what they do to others." They have created a lot of trouble in Asia. Stop the West before they enslave the whole world. 28th.Apr.2014. I am glad that Russia is standing up against the world no.1 supper power. I hope that Russia will move to Asia to cuounter the encroachment as early as possible. We must stop them before it is too late. 07th.May.2014. I am following the situation in the Ukriane closely. I am glad that Russia is standing up to Western trickeries. Russia should also come to Asia to balance up the power of the trouble makers.
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exif-gaincontrol Talk	6 cloves garlic 2lbs pork belly Five spice? White pepper? White onion cut in wedges Apple Wedges Salt to cover top generously Score top of pork belly Dry off with paper towel and rub five spice and white pepper on Slit side one inch to insert garlic Make bed of aluminum foil to fit pork belly and put sliced apple and onion in bottom Put pork belly on top and cover with salt Bake at 350 for 45-60 min till salt sticks together Peel off salt Bake in oven at 400 for 20-30 min till top is crispy Slice in half inch strips then slice strips into cubes Sauce Serve with lime, soy sauce, fish sauce chili mixture. 3 parts lime, 2 parts soy sauce, 1 part fish sauce and chili to taste.
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exif-gaincontrol-0 Talk	6 cloves garlic<br> 2lbs pork belly <br> Five spice?<br> White pepper?<br> White onion cut in wedges<br> Apple Wedges<br> Salt to cover top generously<br> Score top of pork belly<br> Dry off with paper towel and rub five spice and white pepper on<br> Slit side one inch to insert garlic<br> Make bed of aluminum foil to fit pork belly and put sliced apple and onion in bottom<br> Put pork belly on top and cover with salt<br> Bake at 350 for 45-60 min till salt sticks together<br> Peel off salt<br> Bake in oven at 400 for 20-30 min till top is crispy<br> Slice in half inch strips then slice strips into cubes<br> Sauce<br> Serve with lime, soy sauce, fish sauce chili mixture.<br> 3 parts lime, 2 parts soy sauce, 1 part fish sauce and chili to taste.<br>
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exif-gaincontrol-1 Talk	Start here for 2014. 23rd .Mar.2014. Glad that I can start my writing again. My story. 24th.Mar.2014. I am really happy to see that Russia has finally comes out to stop the encroachment of the Western colonialists. I do not mind seeing another cold-war. I have thought that the world would be peaceful after the ending of the cold-war which was started after the end of the WWll,but they took advantage of the situation in order to totally colonized the whole world. 3rd.Apr.2014. President Putin I hope u will keep on marching forward. U are my hero. 13th. Apr. 2014. It makes me very happy to see what is happening in Ukriane. As what people say "do to them as what they do to others." They have created a lot of trouble in Asia. Stop the West before they enslave the whole world. 28th.Apr.2014. I am glad that Russia is standing up against the world no.1 supper power. I hope that Russia will move to Asia to cuounter the encroachment as early as possible. We must stop them before it is too late. 07th.May.2014. I am following the situation in the Ukriane closely. I am glad that Russia is standing up to Western trickeries. Russia should also come to Asia to balance up the power of the trouble makers. 24th.May.2014. Very glad to see that Russia and China have come together to counter balance the encroachment of the western powers in Asia. 5th.Jun.2014. Had the Chinese govt. failed to crush the Tiananman demonstration,China would had been led by the nose by now by the imperialists and colonialists. 30th.Jan.2016. Spoke to aik siog.
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tog-enotifusertalkpages Talk	E-mail me when my user talk page is changed
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uncategorizedpages-summary Talk
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upload_source_file Talk	(a file on your computer)
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