Not The New Year

I don't celebrate the new year. I don't even celebrate Merdeka!

I cherish only the yearly Awwal Muharrom's now.

All these colonial things are meaningless for me. They are just relics. And hedonistic in nature.

I will pray my wishes and resolutions on the Islamic New Year instead.

Islam Above All!

Green Ice

Been attending a soft skills seminar for the second day today.

I should have brought STELLAR for its first day last night. But I forgot the late-night bowling session. And in turn, I have to take the ERL instead, because the bus service to Putrajaya stops at 10pm. Waste of money!

The upside is though, for two days, I ate like there's no tomorrow. The lunchtime green ice-cream was a delight! Yes I betrayed two of three sinusitis no-nos already.

And last night's bowling was okay I guess. I got more than 100 for each of the two rounds, which is good enough for me.

Well, that's all for now.

Long Ride Alone With Him?

Been imagining me driving on a long journey with Muzaffar in my Mini for a while already.

Maybe on a small journey around Selangor, on a 300km ride like what I do five years ago.

Or something like backpacking.

Only with him.

And leave Mama and Adidek alone at home for a day or two, for their own sweet time together.

I would love to bring all three, but Mama doesn't like STELLAR. Furthermore, STELLAR doesn't have rear seat belts. So there...

I have yet to find the time, and have yet to replace the ball joints to my suspension.

Probably after doing that, it will commence.

Did A 140

Only two out of five departments are open today.

By the way, I tried the new KL-Putrajaya highway today.

Some of the prominent points I gathered during the drive was:

• It will be 10km before I even entered the highway.
• Max speed at first will be 60kph, and then 90kph.
• There's a rest area almost immediately, which is the aptly named Seri Kembangan R&R.
• The first exit will be Bukit Jalil, and the first landmark I see there was Sports Complex, and then Endah Parade.

Will try it again on my way back.

By the way, I ended up doing 48km, almost 6km more than my usual one-way mileage. So I guess, back to taking the bus then...

Refreshment Drive

After more than a month's wait, I finally gave up and picked up my Mini on Monday.

The mechanic's too busy, so I might as well do the repairs somewhere else. He did repair, of all things, the brakes, which are spongy.

Pending stuffs to repair, are fan belt replacement, clutch release bearing replacement, ball joint repairs, and some more stuffs of smaller importance.

I already felt like giving my car a refresher drive for a few days.

Afterwards, I will get back to using bus.

Very Close To Being Ideal

I think I am slimmer, or am I full of myself.

I regularly saw myself doing 60 or 61 on the scale. And I beamed a hidden smile everytime.

But knowing my scale always read a kilo less, probably I am really doing 61 or 62 instead.

Judging by my belt notch, I can safely say that I have lost about 1.5 to 2 inches at my lower waist.

My upper waist, no comment. My abs, not yet multi-packed, to say the least.

But I do feel healthier nowadays, apart from the canker sores, which still persists.

Probably from my current eating restrictions. And lots of walking in between transits.

New Home 2

The new home we just moved in at Precinct 11 is okay, I think. Only there are several glitches.

Most of it involves "nature"

• The drain outlet of the lower floor toilet is clogged. Lucky it didn't involve the toilet bowl contents.
• The fan of two rooms are creaking and clunking loudly.
• The lights of the top balcony and the house number illuminator is not functioning.
• The store is wet from two drain pipes that leak.
• Some water taps drip.
• The garage is a wee bit on the narrow side.

Other than that, everything else is perfect. And we both agreed that we like the house somehow.

Unpacking has yet to finish, and a lot more are deemed suitable for disposal.

Next, I felt like exploring the neighborhood with my bike.

Probably after that, look for a spot for my RC Mini to terrorize.

And hopefully all will be done in a week or two.

I am already suffering from multiple canker sores from the pressures of moving house. So that reminds me to really be serious in disposing the less needed stuffs, to minimize pressure for the much anticipated moving in 2009 to Dengkil.

New Home 1

Moving house is really tedious.

I am not keen at all about it.

Furthermore all the packing of small stuffs are the actual cause of pain among all.

Thus, I admit, that I had hoarded a lot of junks in.

That's why I have made up my mind to explore all of the things I hoarded over the years (4 long years, since July 2003) and to eliminate most of it.

I have a year or a bit more to do it.

And then, probably the house in Dengkil is ready for occupation, and we will have a bare minimum of stuffs to bring over. Like we hoped for, minimum clutter, maximum space.

Hopefully it will be easier to maintain and clean up. And less vermins loitering around.

We Are Moving

We are moving.

Personally it's not a good timing for moving, as we booked a house already in Dengkil. But thinking I am doing a great favor for my wife, I agreed anyway.

The irony is, both the letter of instruction to move and the letter of approval of housing loan came together on the same day, the 22nd of October! How coincidental...

Much to our relief, it is a large enough unit, and I anticipate enjoying the life in it, however short the stint is.

Come December 10, the big moving truck will haul most of the big stuffs, but we are already starting to do things on our own.

Trafficking?

Demonstrators are NOT to be blamed for the traffic snarls.

For one, the traffic was controlled by the police.

Blame the police!

We asked for a spot to demonstrate, and was dismissed. Of course we will take it to the streets.

And of course, the businessmen and ladies are only concerned about making money, that is economics. They will not care for social and political stuffs anyway. What do they expect?

Both the latter concerns them too.