Tesselaar Tulip Festival

First time i went to a tulip farm. Pretty and freezing cold...

Checkout the tulips

Hokkaido Trip

Photos worth a thousand words.

My first 2 weeks in Melbourne

9 April - reached Melbourne. Checked in to my Apartment at Caroline street.
10 April - first day work at my office. I realised that actually not many colleagues i have in the Melbourne office
14 April - My first weekend in Melbourne. Went Chadstone Mall with Lynette, Ming and Sharon. Were invited to have dinner in their "house" too. Actually their house is the size of our bangalow in Malaysia.
15 April - Went to City alone. Visited Federation square.

20 April - My colleague went back to KL. So from tomorrow onwards i will have dinner alone.
21 April - Can u all imagine, today is a raining day in Melbourne. Whole day raining. I planned to follow the Golden trail to walk around the Melbourne city. But end up need to change my plan to Victoria market.

Btw, something on my way to the Victoria market. let me put it down in my next blog.

22 April - Here i am, in the State Library. Will try cover the china town and esplanade Market, if possible. Shops and stalls here close really early.

Those I've ommitted means working day, nothing much to write. :)

I'm in Melbourne

This is my second weekend in Melbourne. As I do not have internet access from my apartment, it won't be possible for me to update my blog even i have plenty of time. Currently I'm in the Melbourne State Library, which offer free internet access for limited time. May be i can utilise it to update my blog once a week. :)

New friend in Melbourne

On my way to Victoria Market yesterday, someone came by to offer me help. (i was holding and keep checking the map, must have looked blur in the rain)

Guess what, he gave me his number and ask me to call him. Uh... that's not what normally happen to me, so i was a bit stunt. The story not finished yet...

As he wrote me his number, the tram passed, and gone. So he offered me to take me to lunch... i accepted the offer. (well, he insisted)

We talked for about 30 minutes (that's his lunch hour). nothing happened, but he would like me to give him a call so that he can bring me around in Melbourne.

Oh... this is just for the record. Don't think i'm so daring to call a stranger to bring me out. Might just drop him email to say hi only. :)

Legal road roberry

Protest for unfair toll hike

I wonder, can the government setup some online polls for us to vote/voice out opinion before they make their decision on something? After all, this is our country (and it always involves our money). Everybody has the say, not just the leaders, right?

And i wonder, can the government account be more transparent? Anyway we can go to 'audit' the account? How do we know how our government spend our money? based on budget? Did they mention they paying the roadbuilders few billions during the budget?

冬至!

又有汤圆吃了。

3 more weeks...

yes, am counting down now...

3 more weeks, a lot of things will happen. What's my plan in the last 3 weeks of year 2006? Let me see:

try to finish reading the books laid next to my bed (they are there for at least 3 months already)

learn up visual basic and .net (requirement from my new company, hey, but no complaint)

watch another series after i finish my current one (now is still '24')

plan to make the yummy cheesecake again, may be during the christmas weekend (do make reservation with me if you are interested, priority will be given to people i can easily meet)

any more suggestion?

my Whisky

Special request from sharlene, and for those who are curious, dang dang dang dang...

A warm rainy afternoon

Believe it or not, we can always find guardian angel around.

Today i was caught in the rain after my lunch. As usual, I parked my car at carrefour, had lunch in subang parade. Soon after my lunch, it was already raining heavily. I waited at the exit, while deciding whether i should go out from the carpark exit facing carrefour, a malay girl came out with an umbrella. After a glance, she asked me where i wanted to go...

As she was also heading carrefour to 'ta pau' lunch (this is exactly the word she used), she is kind enough to let me share the umbrella with her. How sweet...

Under maintenance

Just switched to beta blogger. Will need sometime to apply the template, please bare with the default template first...

What's wrong these days?

There are 2 issues that caught my attention these few days...

• The original issue - The shameless technician zoomed the CCTV onto the thighs of the women journalists
  --> already shocking enough especially amongs the ladies. Do we need to be 100% alert all the time?
  
  The joke - Penang Municipal Council president and his brainless response
  --> Can they please stop blaming on victims, and let's focus on the issue. (i know, this is not the first time they do this when they can't find better thing to say. Oh... we just want justice, not an excuse or accuse)

The Star: It’s the sexy dress, says council president

• Officer try to frame civilian
  --> what kind of officers we have? hopeless... next time when officers request to visit our house, must snap shot their photo and id first. And that owner is already very smart, cause he only allowed 2 officers to enter the house. But that was because he already had a bad experience prior to this.

The Star: Officer tried to frame me, says houseowner

Breaking news... WE FOUND BABE!!

Our neighbour suddenly came to us, and tipped us that there is a dalmation puppy wandering near his house. Wow! my mother just ran there and truely, found babe in between the bushes just opposite that neighbour's house. (about 10 houses away from our house) Poor babe, she must be scared, cold and hungry.

We suspect that babe is dumped there after the thief discovered that she is a female puppy. of course, the other possibility is that she ran away from our house, but this is not very possible as the hole in between the gate are much more smaller than her size.

Thousand thanks to our neighbour... hurray!

Breaking news... babe is lost!

This morning, around 10am, heard my mother rushing to my brother's room and said that the puppy is lost. We have searched the whole house, and the neighbourhood.

It's not possible that babe can escape from our house. We suspect that someone came by and stole the babe, because Whisky barked very loudly around 9 something. But my mother didn't go check as Whisky always bark at car he doesn't like.

sigh... Please, if anyone happen to see my babe in your neighbourhood, let me know. She's only 6 weeks old.

Touch & Go... service = extra charge?

I used to find it difficult to reload my Touch & go card. Below are the possible reload methods:

• Some of the LRT T&G counter (free)
• Some of the highway tolls (counter / T&G lane with reload service, free)
• ATM machine (impose RM 0.50 service charge per reload)
• Zing card (impose RM 2 per auto reload)
• Some of the Petronas petrol station (free until 15th November 2006)
• Other agents (impose RM0.50 according to touch n go website)

I said it's difficult, because i wouldn't want to pay extra for the reloading service, hence ATM machine and Zing card is totally out of the story. And most tolls that i passes everyday do not have the counter / T&G lane with reload service. (i wonder why)

So, ever since i got to know that some Petronas station also provide reload service, i have been reloading my card in Petronas station. And the reload is free, until 15th November 2006. I saw the notice at the Petronas counter today. From 15th November onwards, they will impose RM 0.50 for each reload transaction.

My question is, why should we pay them the service charge for reloading? It makes no sense at all as the company that provide the service should bare all cost instead of letting the consumers to absorb the cost. (imagine you need to pay extra for buying prepaid reload coupon in 7-11)

And do you know that, the Touch & go card already cost you RM 10. This is not a deposit, you can't refund it. The best part is, if you were to terminate the card, and want to get the balance refund, they will charge you another RM 5. Oh... according to the website, if you want to report a card lost, and get the balance transferred to your new card, remember to register your card first)

Sleeping babe

Babe

Oopss... excuse me, need to pee now.




The polka dots already gone. Now left the white babe alone in the box. She is hyperactive, and yet adorable, but beware, she has sharp teeth.

Although we keep her in a box, she will still find her way out - smart girl.
Although she can escape from the box, she will still cry for help - baby girl.

She keeps biting everything, including her father, yes my Whisky.

But Whisky still like to play with her, just that he will never ever allow her near his food only.

Oh yeah, i nearly forget, that she is still a baby, in the dog's world.

Financial planning (for beginner) - Part I

I met up with my insurance agent today. She shared with me the "ideal" salary allocation that we should be practising.

Puppies arrived...

Brother just brought home 2 of Whisky's daughters. Cute and energetic puppies, one with more dots, another one is quite plain. Oh gosh... Whisky had been busy sniffing at them the whole nite. What is he trying to do? And whenever the puppies pee, Whisky will pee at the same spot again?? And why the puppies pee so often? I think it will be another sleepless nite for Whisky, as well as my brother. Let's see what will happen tomorrow.

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