BVC100 Special Announcement

Err.... God i'm late in informing you guys about this. But it's better now nonetheless.

I'm getting engaged. It'll be on this Saturday, 6/6/2009

... coinciding with Agong's Birthday.

With whom? Well... it's a long story. To cut it short, i met my soon to be fiance in PROTON, but she's in a different department. Somehow or another, she seemed like the person i've longed to find for so long. And here we are.

Date for marriage? Well... that one i'll announce later. But whenever it is, i'll be sure to put it here as a special invitation for you all.

Would also like to take the opportunity to say Happy Birthday to our beloved Agong, congratulation to KE (my now former housemate), Izad, Pakya, Zayd and the others (forgive me if i miss out your names) who got married last weekend or getting married this weekend. May Allah bless our lives~~~

Quickie - 3/6/2009

Another RM few million in the dust, literally. The news that the still new-ish (1 year old if i'm not mistaked) sports complex (the main stadium) at Terengganu losing it's roof is rather embarassing. And a bit of a shocker. You see, last week we were shocked with the news of a building soon to be demolished crashing down and killing 7 in the process. Before, we heard of newly completed buildings cracking here and there, bursting it's water supply pipes, yada yada yada... the list goes on.

What bothers me is the fact that these buildings are made under the government with people's money (bar the one last week. Dunno why the don't do the controlled demolishing via explosives though, seemed like a better choice). And it doesn't come cheap. So if the buildings made are as strudy as cornflakes, where does the money spend on making them go? For heavens sake guys, if anyone out there reading this is involved in another project of making a public/government building and is currently choosing a contractor for it, please please please avoid the cheapest one AT ALL COST. We know it's good to save, but sometimes by spending more you get a whole whole lot more. And if by spending the extra money makes the buildings not detonate itself, leak or have any other embarrasing faults, then the people's money is better and well spent.

Quickie - 26/5/2009

Phew. What a weekend. Though the crowd wasn't interested in whatever that we're doing at CAE or ED, the Karnival PROTON Bersama Rakyat was a fun experience. Partially due to the uniqueness of the crowd (non-Metropolitan types; different background and interest), but mostly what i experienced. Which brings me neatly on to the reason of why i dread travelling by bus. Sorry but i can't hold it in, i hate busses and i personally dislike the egoistic and insanely dangerous way the bus driver (we travelled by bus. Why? Don't ask me) drove with us and our stuff in it. Which begs the question; Haven't these people realized that the mercy of the passengers' lives are in their hands? Don't they know that even if they went into hiding from the authorities should their stupidity cause a fatal accident, will hunt them for the rest of their lives?

I could go on, but i don't want to remember it. This is the last. That's it. No more busses for me. Why this today and not yesterday? The DJs on the radio this morning plucked this topic for discussion (though their focus was on the public transportation system) and somehow, i got ticked. Again, i state my stand; i hate busses.

Oh, and i hate whoever is proposing that Chin Peng and his communist friends from the black Malaysian history be given the right to return 'home'. What home? They've got none here in Malaysia. And if they did in the past, then there's no more then, now adn forever. Politics or not, it just isn't right. Don't want to comment further, but i'm in the camp of against for this issue. Nobody in their right of mind would, and if someone did... then their mind isn't straight.

Quickie - 21/5/2009

Alhamdulillah.... we're almost H1N1 free. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who was involved; the people who could've been infected, the medics who was monitoring them, the authorities that covered everything else. Thank you.

I'll be heading to Jeli today along with a few colleagues from R&D PROTON. We're having a mini carnival there on the 23rd of May. But i've yet to know exactly where... Anyway, yours truly is representing the department as usual. i'm looking forward to the event, but not so to the journey... by bus. i'm sorry but the last time i was on one, it was the journey back to KL from Kelantan. The driver happily watched the movie on his telly (offset for the viewer's convenience and not to be seen from the driver's seat, which he did) and slept halfway through the movie whilst still 'driving' the bus. Thank God i'm still here... Hope this one doesn't do any of the things i mentioned, yet doesn't do anything at all.

Insya-Allah.... Amiin. Gulp!

Quickie - 19/5/2009

Hmmmm... still early. Got in the office very very early today. Odd, but good since i can put something up here~

Heard on the radio this morning that 69 of all of the passengers aboard the AirAsia plane to Penang with the Influenza A suspect have yet to come up and surrender themselves to the authorities for monitoring. And as usual, being Malaysians, i'm quite sure there out there somewhere in hiding. Too scared to face the truth and too selfish to care.

I wonder what they're thinking? Could it be; A. "I'm scared. I don't want to know if I've been infected and what they'll do to me if I am...", or (which i think is more, shall we say, realistic?) B. " I don't care if I'm infected or not. If I am, then I don't care if the other people of Malaysia suffers as well".

Look guys, don't turn this into a big issue. Why the authorities are doing so is to protect you and everyone around. Even if you are infected, they'll do their best to heal you. That's it. Why is it so hard for you to surrender yourselves? Look at the people around you, your loved ones. If you ARE infected, do you want them to be the first to get it from you??? C'mon! As Russel Peters said in one of his stage acts; Be a man! (or woman)

Please, i beg you to go. Get the medical attention you deserve and if you do fall in the process, people will recognise your bravery to avoid the other Malaysians from getting it. And to those that have done so.... i thank and salute you~