Weird Procedures!

A very very good friend of mine, Miss J finally decided to tie the knot (Oh yah, it took ages for her to decide! Phew!). Hence, decided to call upon the National Registration Department to enquire about the procedures. To my surprise, I soon I found out that in order for them to register in KL, she needs to change the address stated in her Identity Card. Wondering why?

This is because both of them are from two different states. In order to register in KL, they must have KL address. Yah, that’s absurd! Luckily he is from KL, so that just leaves Miss J to change. So the confusion now is, which address is she going to use? Her current address where she is renting now? Her finance’s address, which he is renting as well? Or may be her future house, which they are still-hunting for! Or better still, put “yet to be decided!”

Oh god, what a wacky procedure. Who cares which address it is when you register, at the end of the day we are all children of Malaysia, right!…Hmmm, now I am having a little doubt. This brings to whole lots of things going on my head now, which is a taboo to talk about as government servant! Sigh!

Actually, there is only one thing that matters, both are single at the point of marriage!

It's a Bird, No its a Plane..No its SUPERMAN!

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This is the coolest and the best superman lived! Sigh!

Stupid Question!

People generally have high tendency to ask annoying questions. Most of the times they are ignorant and their counterpart have high level of tolerance to reply politely.

There are many common annoying question people tend to ask. Here are the top ten annoying question forwarded by a friend to me with the desirable answers.

Situation 1: At Movies

When you meet acquaintances/ friends at the movies

Question : Hey, what are you doing here?
Answer:Well, it's so hot , there were no cool cabs so I thought I'd watch some advertisements in the cool comfort of the theatre

Situation 2: In bus/LRT/Komuter When a fat girl (or any mankind) wearing pointed heeled steps on your feet

Questions: Sorry, did that hurt?
Answer: No, not at all, I am on local anesthesia ..why don’t you try again or should I try this time

More classic: The best part is at times, when there is no sorry and you make funny noises, instead of getting apologies, they will give you the dirty look as though it was you the one that bang them and made their hells hurt.

Situation 3 : At Funeral

Question : Why, Why him, of all people
Answer: Why? Would it be rather that have been you?

Situation 4: At restaurant

Question : It the --- dish good
Answer: No, its terrible and made of adulterated cement. We occasionally also spit on it

Situation 5 : Family Reunion

At a family get-together. When some distant aunt meets you after years

Question: You've become so big.
Answer: Well you haven't particularly shrunk yourself.

More classic: Some would be as old as my mom and would say, I saw you this small(and they put their hand low facing downwards) , now you are so big

Situation 6: Wedding!

Question: Is the guy you are marrying good?
Answer: No, he is a miserable wife-beating, insensitive lout..its just the money

More classic- wow you actually getting married!

Situation 7: Phone call at Midnight

Question : Sorry, were you sleeping
Answer: No, I was playing cricket for India at Shahrjah and just when you called Salim Malik was betting with me that Pakistan would win. What do you think?


Situation 8: New hairdo(especially a short one)

Question: Hey hay you had a haircut?
Answer: No, its autumn and I am shedding

Situation 9: At Dentist/hair saloon

When sharp object pointed at your mouth

Question: Tell me if it hurts
Answer: and while I am telling you, you tell me if I bite

More classic: the shampoo girl scrubs the head with hey sharp nail and then uses her comb to pull the hair straight while drying it as ask, does it hurt?

Situation 10: Smoker

Question: Oh, so you smoke
Answer: No, its miracle, it was a chalk and now its in flame

.......However the most classics one was situation 11 and 12, My personal experience.

Situation 11: weight loss

Question 1: How did you gain so much weight?
Or
Question 2: Wah, you have sickness is it? Loss so much weight?

Situation 11: Vegetarian


Question: what do you cook and eat…masak kosong( use nothing)? Guna ikan belis(do you use anchovies) ? Boleh makan kuah sahaja (you can just eat the curry)?

The Silent Occupant

You know how some people claim life to be mysterious thing; I am begaining to believe so. Two weeks ago, while visiting my little sister at the hospital my aunt was explaning her fear for mouse and refuses to buy her friends house due to it. We were laughing at her not knowing what were ahead of us.

Recently there was was a silent occupant roaming around our house. Just a couple of days before Deepavali, Ma found him sitting in a pail trying to escape. Ma freaked out and did search party for his mother. How ever, it was nowhere to be found and Ma was very upset!

The next day, at past midnight, Rusty found him hiding inside Ma’s cupboard. The moment Ma opened the door, Rusty barged in and chased him out. He ran for its life. Knowing the mouse is still alive somewhere in the house, Ma was getting pretty scared. You never know what that little creature could do.

So the following day we did another search party. I soon found traces of his dropping in my cupboard. Not knowing if it belongs to lizard or mouse, I cleaned it up. Two days latter I found it again. Hmm, I soon realize it indeed belongs to him and my room become his connection to the kitchen.

Then Deepavali came, and we were preparing a birthday cake for a friend when we realized that the all the food stock had tinny holes in it. It has been surviving with my couscous, my biscuits and noodles. Ah ha…finally we found his hiding place. Unfortunately he was now where around.

That night coming back from the party I did a spot check to see any dropping in my room but was shocked to see my tinny bottles pushed to the ground from my window frame. Its either the mouse ran up to escape or rusty pushed the bottles while trying to chase the mouse away! With that, we were all getting more frustrated.

Finally, yesterday, as Ma was cleaning her drawer for real, she encountered him hiding quietly on the bottom drawer. The moment he saw Ma, he ran to my room. Ma quickly sprayed mosquito spray to make it drowsy and come out of the room. It indeed ran out and hide under the fridge.

Ma realized that she could not handle him alone and calls for Pa. Both had weapon in their hand, Ma with her spray and Pa with a broom. The moment she sprayed, it ran under the nearby gas tank. Ma got even more frustrated. This time she asked for my help and I decline to kill it. Both Ma and Pa were all ready in their position. Ma quickly spared and lifted the tank for Pa to beat but instead it missed and ran up and down and left and pushed a little wooden stick covered at the bottom of the door and ran out for its life. Sigh! Ma was finally relieved her thing was save.

Women under ATTACK!

I am a true feminist. But when I received this forwarded mail from a friend, I laughed, even though I know it was insulting as there were indeed truth behind those nasty words. Hence, I felt sharing those humor with all.

So take a deep breath, sit back, relax and enjoy how men perceive women!

1. Shows how women are more complicating then men!

Man, when their one buttons spoils, they become useless. At least we have back up!

2. This describes women.

They complain yet they decline when there is no chemistry! Men...

3. How women think and act!
Who are they pleasing at then end of the day, Duh! Besides, if he is only spending $33 for 1 clothing, i doubt he can amuse any girl now a days!

4. How man thinks women are in charge.

This only occurs the first 10-15 years of marriage so the graph line need to go up beyond infinity! The older the man get, the stubborn they! Women have no choice but to listen to them for the fear of loosing their man to younger woman!

5. Finally, women are perceived as problem.

I guess the engineer who did this equation erased one more line: women equals to problem created by men...ha ha ha...

Mysterious Rainbow

Today I seems to agree with the saying every time one sees a rainbow, gods is there by your side.

Something was troubling my mind past couple of days and I was actually looking forward to see a rainbow, and its astonishing that I actually encountered one today!

I needed to pour petrol so used different route to office and encountered a rainbow. There is no way I could have seen it if I would have just simple poured petrol at Balakong or as usual pour it after work! I was simply destined to see it and this is indeed not the first time!

May be god did listen to my prayers. May be I do have mysterious connection with god as ma claims!

Buying a dog?

My sister sends me an email about when one needs to buy a dog. How ever, I feel the statements are contradictory when we talk about our dear old rusty. I will do the comparison and you can judge for your self…

Statements 1:

If you want someone who will eat whatever you put in front of him and never say its not quite as good as his mother made it ……

Rusty only eats what’s yummy and what’s goes inside my mouth (veg) and pa (for non veg). It definitely have to be tasty, smell good and presentable and preferred expensive. He needs fresh RO water, preferred cold with ice cubes. Ice cream, chocolates and pear almost everyday! And if the food is yummy like pear and jelly, don’t even put your hand near his mouth…it wont be there any longer! The only yucky food that goes inside his mouth is his tasteless chicken which ma has to run around the house to feed him. I pretty much assume he will be wondering why shuba girls is not eating this anyway?

Statement 2

If you want someone always willing to go out, at any hour, for as long and wherever you want . . . .

It only happens if you have a car! Anytime..anyday..24/7. Rusty on wheels I say! Rusty only goes out wee hour in the morning and after 11 at night. That happens only after going one round in my Kelisa. If not his butt would not move from the junction of my house. And its either his way or the high way. Monday to Friday, near our housing area, sat Sunday, have to be me, in the morning and must be opposite housing area. Imagine pooping in other people taman and I am the culprit to bring him there! And if there is fireworks…….you can say goodbye to walks…

Statement 3

If you want someone who will never touch the remote, doesn't care about football, and can sit next to you as you watch romantic movies...

For this, Rusty is my man! Rusty care less what you are watching …but be he smart enough to put pitiful pathetic face…and sighing zillion times and give you the dirty look…..why are you sitting on the couch when you can bring me out or run and play ball? For more intense, he will actually start to bring ball not one, not two…he has almost 7 different type of ball…and he is good at it!

Statement 4.

If you want someone who is content to get up on your bed just to warm your feet and whom you can push off if he snores . .

Dream on buddy! I think not. Rusty invades the bed just like the camel story, first the head, then the legs and his whole body.

And more important, don’t mess with him in bed. Touch him once and goes as fierce as a wolf… …sometimes when my pa/ma goes to the loo in the middle of the night, they will come back to see rusty sleeping on the pillow…

And at the end, the final statements says…. BUT, on the other hand, if you want someone who will never come when you call, ignores you totally when you come home, leaves hair all over the place, walks all over you, runs around all night and only comes home to eat and sleep, and acts as if your entire existence is solely to ensure his happiness, buy a cat.

…..I on the other hand will say …rusty is all that and I will keep my charming RUSTY. Despite being the four legged little devil, he is the best.…

Journey of 4 Pilgrims to Siem Reap-Day Four and Five, 18-19 August 2007

Day 4, 18 August 2007, Saturday

Huh, Sunrise Again?

By day four, both Mok and Ramnah were annoyed of waking up early to see sunrise. Nevertheless, not wanting to leave behind the excitement, they followed us another around to see our very last sun rise at Angkor.

Today, the weather looked good, no rain and no dark gloomy clouds. Unfortunately, there was no sign of sun at all. Feeling disappointed again, we headed to the our final temple tour called The Roluos group which is located at the opposite of grand tour. The Rolous groups, oldest of all temples, consist of 3 temples (Bakong, Preah Ko and Lolei) all located about 1-½ hours from Angkor Wat. The journey to Rolous was simply superb and unforgettable. We first drove to the other part of the Angkor bypassing busy little city with bustling locals especially in the market area and then road goes deep into villages with beautiful paddy field and village house.

This is how we travel early morning to Angkor WAt by tuk-tuk-we always let the other wonder how we four girls of different shades look like?

The First to be Built, Last to View!

Our first stop was Loleii, the smallest temple of all three. Unlike other places, this was the only temple that we didn’t hear the holly 1-dollar mantra. Instead, we heard children asking donation to help the mine victim. Not only that the children was extremely polite and nice, unlike the exposed devils in Angkor Wat. I was impressed. How ever, the temple was all ruined. The only thing left was the structures that was scattered all around. Despite being the first temple to be built in Siem Reap, no restoration has been made so far.

The small Loleii temple, despite being the first no restoration made! Typical Hindu temple.

Side view of the temple.

Up close and personal with the inscription on the temple wall. Looks like Sanskrit!

So we headed to the next temple, Bakong, the biggest and one of my personal favorites. It’s located in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by huge pond and an active monastery at the side of the temple. Similar to other temple, a long pathway linked to the main entrance that views the beautiful 3 set of gopura on high temple ground. The temple ground is very huge and has little gopuras all around the temple ground. The structure of the temple was a little like Banteay Srei. A little stairs lead to the second level where there were several small ruin gopura on both side. We walked around the temple and rested for a while enjoying the soft cooling morning breeze. Unlike Bayon or Phnom Bahkeng, there is nothing magical about the temple but it was indeed a nice place to rest and relax from the bustling crowd and the annoying kids.

The huge pond at the entrance of Bakong.

An active monastery at the corner of the temple.

Walkway through the beautiful Bakong temple.

Close up

Full view of Bakong with the similar sign board, "climb at your own risk"

The central gopuras

ME sitting behind the central gopura

The view from the central gopura. Below all ruin!

We then headed to the last temple, Preah Koh, which is all ruined and under restoration. But the beauty of the temple lies on the huge gopuras with beautiful carving and the Nandi’s sitting opposite each gopuras. By then, we were all done with temples and headed back to old market for our real shopping free.

The 3 gopuras of Preah Koh- currently under restoration!

Side View

Mega Sale!

We shopped and shopped and shopped till it was 1 o’clock and was time for lunch. We quickly headed back to our guesthouse, only to put or things and headed to our usual restaurant, the Angkor Famous. Feeling too stuffed but not satisfied with our shopping, we continued till it was 3.

The Perfect View, for Perfect End!

We rushed back to our guesthouse, quickly refreshed and headed to Blue Pumpkin, where our new young tuk-tuk driver (which we pre-booked yesterday) awaits us to take to Bakheng Hill to see our last sunset. Unlike Angkor Wat, Bakeng hill was crowded with twice the people. May be it best spot for sunset, may be its picturesque or may be its simply were not raining. Not wanting to miss the last opportunity to view the sunset, we rushed up to the hill as if we were in amazing race and spotted a nice perfect place. Instead, we ended up enjoying looking at people and the peculiar behavior as the sun never set.

By the time it was 6.30, the whole place was getting dark and the guard showed us out. Everyone was rushing down as they climbed up. Our tuk-tuk driver was already waiting for us. We then headed straight to the old market first to buy our usual stock of bread at Blue Pumpkin and then to our last shopping at night market, which was just around the corner. Since, it just around the corner, we paid him off and told him we would find our way back. The place was simply superb everything sold here was in high quality, had beautiful colors and design and was expensive. After shopping for sometime, we stopped at the restaurant to enjoy one last thing, the taste of local desert, which turn out to be quite nice. Satisfied with everything, we headed back home to do our packing.

The view of our last sunset at Bakheng:

How to enjoy watching sunset at Bahkeng Hill:

1. wear cool local scarf on the head

2. Pre book place in advance and dont even move inch ...its free..and first come first serve basis

3. You can sleep and view the sun set in wrong direction or simply use an umbrella to cover the sun

4. Or simply wear a colourful suits with matching head gear, face the sun and read a book

5. Or you do nothing above and take picture of your self!! He he he

Day 5, 19 August 2007, Sunday

The Return of Four Holly Saint!

It was our final day in Siem Reap and I could hardly sleep. We only woke up at 7 o’clock. No sunrise to Angkor Wat today as our pass was only valid for four days. We quickly repacked for the final time and headed to our usual Angkor Famous for breakfast. Instead, we ordered lunch. We had the taste of local bread, which turned to be better then our local French bread. Lingering to long at the restaurant we arrived late at the guesthouse and our taxi left. The owner was angry yet got for us another one. We said nothing. Quickly took the taxi to the airport to find out that our flight was delayed. However, miracle happened and it was rescheduled to the usual time. After 2 hours or sitting on the plane, it finally arrived at KLIA and our journey to Siem Reap ended.

ME and akka looking damn fresh..no sunrise today!

ME at Shadow of Angkor balcony.

Our last meal at Angkor Famous

My coffee which cost about US1.50. Sigh!

The taste of the local bread..yummy!

My vegetarian noodle...it taste as good as it looks..no MSG at all.