Wow what a fitting name !...guess you can only call an ass an ass....so mad. Trying to watch Ugly Betty on Tv shack and cant even download 1% in 20 mins. Might as well be living in Inner Mongolia at least I know there arent any line going out and into the Gur.
Mas has so many promotions...yeh yeh ...on paper only, tried getting in...." no match "....maybe if I choose to go somewhere not on their promo list or even on their flight route , I may just get a ticket...hahaha.
As if all this daylight robbery promos arent enough, we get fleeced by sesb and the telecoms too. Gosh we are so stupid, cheated left right and centre and still we pay our bills on time and upgrade our computers and built bigger houses which consume even more electricity which we dont have. We talk about it everyday at the coffee shops, the men I mean,....talk talk talk, blowing hot air, ...still no electricity, no fast internet connection, no water, no power to do anything !!!!
We Sabahans are a peaceful lot. So peaceful that we can fall asleep with our eyes open. If you think its hog wash, then think again...how many years have we suffered this and how many years have the people sitting up there done doodley squat for us?
I blame it all on the Mas and Airasia promos.....they have all gone on a permanent holiday !! So what are you waiting for? In true Sandakan fashion, if you cant beat them join them.........have a nice holiday, that is, after you have spent all your holiday money giving angpows to the numerous weddings slotted for this auspicious month and the next!!!....hahahahahh
If you feel miserable after giving away a small fortune in red packets to people you dont really know or like, then go and watch 2012...it might make you feel better cos ...you wont be needing all that doe anyway....have fun !
Monday, November 16, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Hu ?
Guess what President Hu jin tou of the China visited my family home in melaka and no one invited me?.....hahahaha, not that i would have gone cos it would be the chicken and duck senario all over again !!! Anyway I am sure my parents who got to be there and shook hands with him were happy, I can only guess. We left China so long I dont think there is any "family ties" there....so remote that even Tibet seems like next door.
What an event. According to my mum it was more like the circus came to town. There were 'pat pors and pat kongs' than the visiting chinamen. All the local digitaries who wanted their faces plastered in the newspaper were inattendance, as if Mr Hu needed them to hold the toilet paper for him. Oh well, politicians will be politicians, empty vessels.
For what its worth it was still an honor for the Chan family. Guess his photo will be up next to the photo of ' The little Nonya ' Soon we have to put up a wall of fame like in those restaurants visited by all the you know whos.....kaypos and the kaypo-chees as we Nonya would say....lol... wait till the president pf North Korea visits. Then the whole state of Melaka will be filled with NATO security people.
I was just thinking, luckily he didnt ask to eat babi ponteh....hahaha...now where would we get halal pork to feed all the dutuks who were in attendance??
What an event. According to my mum it was more like the circus came to town. There were 'pat pors and pat kongs' than the visiting chinamen. All the local digitaries who wanted their faces plastered in the newspaper were inattendance, as if Mr Hu needed them to hold the toilet paper for him. Oh well, politicians will be politicians, empty vessels.
For what its worth it was still an honor for the Chan family. Guess his photo will be up next to the photo of ' The little Nonya ' Soon we have to put up a wall of fame like in those restaurants visited by all the you know whos.....kaypos and the kaypo-chees as we Nonya would say....lol... wait till the president pf North Korea visits. Then the whole state of Melaka will be filled with NATO security people.
I was just thinking, luckily he didnt ask to eat babi ponteh....hahaha...now where would we get halal pork to feed all the dutuks who were in attendance??
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Give it a miss
If you read of a new eating place opening up in town, I suggest you give it a miss till after about 3 weeks. If they are still open then by all means go. We went to have breakfats at the new place at mile 4 ( Datuk Hon's developement ) called Yum Yum. Well, bring soemthing to read cos the food took 40 mins to come out that is, they forgot the order and then took so long to serve. Talk about teething problems.! This is mega denture recontruction!!! A table of men just walked off!
I heard that Secret Recipe was full everynite they opened. Good for them. Dont go either until everyone has tasted it and got fedup of paying so much for something which costs a fraction if eaten outside.....hahaha.
Heard that another place sells very good nasi lemak. Will tell you where when I remember...hahaha. The question is what is "good" . For those who havent tried the nasi lemak from west malaysia would say that those sold here is good. Let me enlighten you, the nasi lemak sold in west malaysia, especially if the stall is beside a big and dirty monsoon drain, by a main road with heavy traffic passing by is the best! Those sold in cleaner environment ....humm, not so tasty....go figure it out!! This friday i will try the steamboat at 1 Malaysia in Trig Hill...its by the road right? Then maybe ....
I heard that Secret Recipe was full everynite they opened. Good for them. Dont go either until everyone has tasted it and got fedup of paying so much for something which costs a fraction if eaten outside.....hahaha.
Heard that another place sells very good nasi lemak. Will tell you where when I remember...hahaha. The question is what is "good" . For those who havent tried the nasi lemak from west malaysia would say that those sold here is good. Let me enlighten you, the nasi lemak sold in west malaysia, especially if the stall is beside a big and dirty monsoon drain, by a main road with heavy traffic passing by is the best! Those sold in cleaner environment ....humm, not so tasty....go figure it out!! This friday i will try the steamboat at 1 Malaysia in Trig Hill...its by the road right? Then maybe ....
Where did 2009 go?
Oh my gosh! 2009 is almost over and I still havent been to the moon, won a nobel prize, got elected PM , learnt how to cook,sew and garden and worst still havent even finished reading the bible I started ions ago.
Where have all those days , weeks, years and decades gone to? One day I was 18 and now....hmm past half a century. I really dont know. Now it seems the days are zooming past. Everyday my hours are full to the point of spilling over to the next day. Is this good or bad? Seems like I dont have time to stop and smell the roses or, in this case in Sandakan, smell the tong sampah pah!!!!.
2 weeks ago I was in Sri Lanka and now I am thinking of what to pack for Australia. Next year I plan to learn new things if I can find time to do so. The kids are growing older and we are aging....ahhhhhh. I am begining to see eye bags and fine lines around you know where. The small cabin bags around the eyes are turning to super size luggage. Beware all, once you reach the ripe age of 50, everything either drops , thanks to Einstein and his theory of gravity or, increase in multiples of 7. The worst thing to me is the worsening of the eye sight. Now I have to wear my reading glasses just to eat fish!!!.
The only good thing about aging is that you dont give a dam about what people say and think....cos you cant hear them anyway...hahahaha....although you still have to act civilized , that is until you reach 80, then you can say and do what ever you want and blame it on senility!!!! Not much to look forward to is it?
On the brighter side of life, all your friends are either older then you..heheh..or only slightly younger. I like being me now. I find life fun and precious. I feel blessed that my boys have their heads screwed on the right way 90% of the time. How I got this right for all 4 of them only God knows. Praise the Lord for this miracle. If I could patent the formula I would be richer then Bill gates. The other 10% of the time my boys "think" they know more then us about life and reality. Guess we have to let them discover for themselves, only then will it become a lesson in life. As long as they dont plan to join al Queda or join a jihad, they are 'free' to explore ( within limits, of course )
News flash!!!! there is no such thing as freedom, not even when you turn 80. And that, children IS a fact of life.
Where have all those days , weeks, years and decades gone to? One day I was 18 and now....hmm past half a century. I really dont know. Now it seems the days are zooming past. Everyday my hours are full to the point of spilling over to the next day. Is this good or bad? Seems like I dont have time to stop and smell the roses or, in this case in Sandakan, smell the tong sampah pah!!!!.
2 weeks ago I was in Sri Lanka and now I am thinking of what to pack for Australia. Next year I plan to learn new things if I can find time to do so. The kids are growing older and we are aging....ahhhhhh. I am begining to see eye bags and fine lines around you know where. The small cabin bags around the eyes are turning to super size luggage. Beware all, once you reach the ripe age of 50, everything either drops , thanks to Einstein and his theory of gravity or, increase in multiples of 7. The worst thing to me is the worsening of the eye sight. Now I have to wear my reading glasses just to eat fish!!!.
The only good thing about aging is that you dont give a dam about what people say and think....cos you cant hear them anyway...hahahaha....although you still have to act civilized , that is until you reach 80, then you can say and do what ever you want and blame it on senility!!!! Not much to look forward to is it?
On the brighter side of life, all your friends are either older then you..heheh..or only slightly younger. I like being me now. I find life fun and precious. I feel blessed that my boys have their heads screwed on the right way 90% of the time. How I got this right for all 4 of them only God knows. Praise the Lord for this miracle. If I could patent the formula I would be richer then Bill gates. The other 10% of the time my boys "think" they know more then us about life and reality. Guess we have to let them discover for themselves, only then will it become a lesson in life. As long as they dont plan to join al Queda or join a jihad, they are 'free' to explore ( within limits, of course )
News flash!!!! there is no such thing as freedom, not even when you turn 80. And that, children IS a fact of life.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Home at last
Oh its so good to be back home. I have been away for 19 days. The first 7 days all i saw was the hospital and its canteen. I did go to the shopping centre but it was only for 1 1/2 hrs. Then, after that I had no transport so stuck again at the mercy of others...hahaha. It was only when we went to Sri lanka that we all enjoyed ourselves so much.
What a great country to visit. We saw many Tamils but no tigers. We had a lot of Sri Lanka food, its isnt the same as Indian food, but to the chinese taste buds all curries taste the same.
The hotels we spent our nites in were as good as those here, 5 stars, the service was very good and the toilets clean !....oh so important. The best part was the fellowship we had together. We started as strangers and ended up as friends with plans to visit each other. The world isnt that big after all.
The ladies in Sri Lanka were so friendly, the beauty of the inner wheel friendship sisterhood! They laid out goodies for us to eat, that its no wander they need 6 yards for their saris!. If we had stayed any longer we too would have to buy saris and wear as our clothes wouldnt fit.....food glorious food !
There are many places of interest to see but bacause of time constrains and our meeting schedules in Colombo and Kandy we only saw 1 of the 7 world heritage sites this time. We visited the Holy temple of the Tooth ( Sri Dalada Mallgawa )the most sacred shrine in Buddhism. It is here that the sacred tooth of Buddha is enshrined. Opened to public once in every 6 years. Of course we missed it by a year or so....hahaha. So we saw only the "casket", actually I would call it the pagoda which enshrined the sacred tooth. We were all looking for the casket as in "coffin' so, many of us didnt see as we were looking for what we thought as coffin !....haha.
All in all it was a great trip, the tip of the icing. More to come if we visit Sri lanka again.
Anyway I feel that this country, Island of prosperity, Sri meaning prosperity and lanka meaning island, deserves another visit. Now that i know how good the food is, I will get ready my 9 yrad sari so i dont have to worry about ill fitting clothes.
What a great country to visit. We saw many Tamils but no tigers. We had a lot of Sri Lanka food, its isnt the same as Indian food, but to the chinese taste buds all curries taste the same.
The hotels we spent our nites in were as good as those here, 5 stars, the service was very good and the toilets clean !....oh so important. The best part was the fellowship we had together. We started as strangers and ended up as friends with plans to visit each other. The world isnt that big after all.
The ladies in Sri Lanka were so friendly, the beauty of the inner wheel friendship sisterhood! They laid out goodies for us to eat, that its no wander they need 6 yards for their saris!. If we had stayed any longer we too would have to buy saris and wear as our clothes wouldnt fit.....food glorious food !
There are many places of interest to see but bacause of time constrains and our meeting schedules in Colombo and Kandy we only saw 1 of the 7 world heritage sites this time. We visited the Holy temple of the Tooth ( Sri Dalada Mallgawa )the most sacred shrine in Buddhism. It is here that the sacred tooth of Buddha is enshrined. Opened to public once in every 6 years. Of course we missed it by a year or so....hahaha. So we saw only the "casket", actually I would call it the pagoda which enshrined the sacred tooth. We were all looking for the casket as in "coffin' so, many of us didnt see as we were looking for what we thought as coffin !....haha.
All in all it was a great trip, the tip of the icing. More to come if we visit Sri lanka again.
Anyway I feel that this country, Island of prosperity, Sri meaning prosperity and lanka meaning island, deserves another visit. Now that i know how good the food is, I will get ready my 9 yrad sari so i dont have to worry about ill fitting clothes.
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