Quickie - 17/6/2009

Read in The Sun this morning that helpers (that's amah/bibik/maid to us Malaysians) are to be given a day off per week starting from next year. Seems fair, until you actually give it a real thought; The helpers are there to help you. So you need them 24/7, even on the weekends. Thankfully whoever thought of this might have one (or more) and thus gave the option of no day off but pay as usual (pay 7 days wage instead of 6). I know that some 'troubled' (or troublesome or scrupulous) employer will not give them any day off and pay them only 6 days wage, but then shame on them since there level of thinking is as low as the deepest sea (that low, you'd better not call them human...). All in all, i think this is fair (we're humans right? Humanitarian approach lah). The rest is down to the deal between the employer and the employed.

Another thing i found interesting in the papers this morning is regarding Saab being taken over by Koenigsegg (or as Jeremy Clarkson spells it; Koenigsegsonfiajbakikzazzdafhoaf...). Wow! Imagine having a really mad Saab. As i see it now, although Saab utilizes some of the older platforms of the old GM group, their cars are rather atractive and interesteing but as sensible as Volvo (which means very sensible). If Koe-whatever do take them up, the first thing i'd suggest is to put one of their powerful engines into the Saab cars and give them that madness that isn't there. That'll sure spruce up the brand~~~ or they could be even more mad and make that concept-X or sumthing (the one with the fighter jet like entry system)

Go on Koe-whatever. Take up Saab and make it proud!

Quickie - 16/6/2009

Still got this feeling of unbalance and loss of accuracy / sense of distance this morning. Yesterday, as i was walking back from the office to the car i somehow almost lost conciousness. Knowing very well it's really dangerous to faint on the busy delivery roads in Proton, i kept myself awake and stumbled slowly to Aoi-chan. There, things got worse with me losing that sense of distance thingy... and to add more, everything sounded like they're amplified 10x to my ears (5x this morning... this key tapping noise is beginning to bug me. Help!). Since i can't do much while sitting in Aoi-chan at the parking lot, i bravely drove (albeit slower than usual) back to Puchong and rested. Heck, i even gave in before 10pm when everything became worse.

Thank God it's a bit better this morning though. If i ever feel as dizzy again... i'll just stumble to the clinic at the front. Hope that there's nothing immensely wrong though...

And just to update on my stats, i've moved up one step on the ladder of marriage by finishing the Pre-marriage course last weekend with Nurul. Strangely, it seems that nothing can be done for the next few months as most of the documents and tests needed to be made or carried out only have a lifespan of 3 months. So say goodbye to early preparation and hello to final-minute preparation (typical of us Malaysians, wouldn't you agree?). Very nice whoever thought of this... VERY 'NICE'!

Urrrgh..... i feel sick. Doctor~~~

Quickie - 10/6/2009

Alhamdulillah~ My engagement with now my fiance went well last weekend. Thinking back, i did imagine that i'll one day be engaged with someone, and here i am.

Thank you Nurul... I love you so much.

Pics? i'll see whether i can make it to the cc tonite and upload it. Got tons of good ones, by virtue of an UNDeR gang member and one of our good friend. Here's hoping to share it too~~~

Anyhow, let's get back to reality. Another maid took refuge from her country's embassy. Reason? Abuse. How bad? Look at today's newspaper and see for yourself. i'm gutted.
What's up with Malaysians taking up a maid and then treating them like.... *tuuuuut? i mean, my family had a few in the past and frankly i've never seen the maid beat up like this. Heck, we never even laid a finger on them. And now, it's like we hear on the news occasionally that one is badly beaten up, not paid their promised salaray, denied of their religious faith and treated like *tuuuut.

Malaysians, please realise that even though that they are maids, they're never slaves. Slavery is only during the period when civilization haven't existed, and we are not in that period now. Grow up. If they don't do their work well, coach them or if you're lazy... chenge for another one. Don't be stupid and say "I am you master! Kneel before me and get punished for your (sometimes minute) errors!!!".

I know i'm being one sided here, but to the maids... please do play your role as well. You aren't paid to lounge around and do mistakes all of the time. But at the very least, please do let your "masters" know that you're human too... and you do slip up sometimes adn will try to improve as you go along.

Hm.... maybe some of us still live in the dark ages. Master and slave? Let's just leave that in the past.
bvc100 in support of better relationships between maids and employers.

Quickie - 4/5/2009

On the motorway; Glance around, open window, throw out rubbish, close window and look smug...
Everywhere else; Glance around, throw rubbish anywhere, look smug...

We Malaysians are generally rubbish, and by that i mean we create a lot and throw them away as we like. Just this morning i saw one idiot walking casually out of his house (a nearby flat to my apartment), glanced around, and threw his rubbish (one red medium sized plastic bag, full with whatever) into a drain, and popped back into his house... looking smug. Yesterday night as i walked by the community board of my aparment, there was a notice for us dwellers to throw away our rubbish at the designated rubbish room (that's what they called it) and not leave it in front of our doors. And guess what i found? My next door neighbour placing his/hers in front of their door.

What is it with us that we can't bother to throw away rubbish in a rubbish bin or at the designated place? Are we that bad and sad? i mean, c'mon! It's not like it takes a gazillion of energy for us to do it properly. Or maybe i can sum it up in one word; lazy. That's right, we are lazy. We're too lazy to do anything, so we're also lazy to dispose of our rubbish properly. Sickening.

And let's not start with the motorist. This is even worse. The most common sight would be the smoking idiot in front leisurely holding his cheap cigarette out whilst smoking it... and then throwing it away... again looking smug. Worse still, i once was following behind a van whose passenger suddenly threw out, and i'm not joking, a plastic bag full of rubbish whilst on the highway at about 100km/h. What a ###### (i ran out of words)!!!

Malaysians, i plead you. We're proud of our clean homes, we love clean surroundings, we love clean stuff. But are we really clean if we keep mucking up one simple task? Damn, i know i sometimes do throw small bits into the drain but that's it. Maybe the odd candy wrapper or two. Nothing else. Please do dispose of your rubbish properly. Do yourself some justice.
Don't be an idiot!

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~~~