1st week of Ramadhan

Nasi kerabu is one of the various irresistable Kelantanese yummilicious meal and the whole week since Ramadhan, fans of Nasi Kerabu has been flooding with Nasi Kerabu pictures on Facebook challenging the desire for Nasi Kerabu during Puasa..... mengidam!

Picture from Azzah Amran's facebook profile

Today, I came home early at 5pm after various failed attempts to stay awake at work... and.... 'pucuk dicipta, ulam mendatang' (right phrase?), Nasi Kerabu was the main dish for breaking fast... !! Mum's home cook Nasi Kerabu.... and the last 2 hours before breaking fast was dreadful and longest.

Ramadhan is so magical... There was no urge for cigarette, food or no thirst for water or sex... But a major problem with staying awake... and a moody temperament.

It was a hard struggle from the regular daily few pack of 'ciggie' & jugs of daily coffee withdrawal syndrome and after days and nights of pure patients... I woke up to realise it is only a week of fasting with another 3 weeks to go......

Alhamdulillah, the one week only fasting thusfar went well although I appeared like a walking zombie with dark black ring around the eye.

It is customary every year during Ramadhan that we engaged Ustaz Khairullah everyday for isya' and terawih prayer at the house. The jemaah comprised of the siblings, nieces and nephews as well as all the off-duty security guards and maids as well as friends.

Ramadhan is also a month that foster closest of relationships between siblings, family and friends that get together everyday for breaking fast and prayer.

All the best and enjoy the beauty of Ramadhan.





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Damansara Perdana........ SOS..

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One of my corporate offices is located at the Damansara Perdana Business Centre that was developed by Saujana Triangle Sdn Bhd, a member of the MK Land Holdings Berhad Group of Companies. Damansara Perdana is a 750 acres intergrated township and is part of the golden triangle of Petaling Jaya that was first launched in 1996.

I bought a few shoplots, commercial properties as well condominiums at Damansara Perdana since its first launching. As a developer, EMKAY never failed to deliver its promise. Damansara Perdana is a good investment but at the rate the township is being maintained, current investors, the public as well as companies may soon dissappear and shy away from Damansara Perdana.

Crime rate at Damansara Perdana is increasing every month. People at Damansara Perdana are being mugged, burglared, robbed almost daily. I was one of the first few business owners in Damansara Perdana and I have had countless burglaries.

If you ever visited Damansara Perdana, you can see EMkay Security Guards in white uniform crowding the township from the moment you enter the Damansara Perdana.. but i take it, the Guards' principal responsibility is only to block and reserve parking space for EMKAY group Bosses & Management.... and some road traffic activity.

With the increasing crime rate, we can only wonder the actual function of those security guards in white ala white elephant... redundant.

Public area cleanlines, lift maintenance and other services at Damansara Perdana was outsourced to theAllied Group Property Services Sdn Bhd. Every business or property owner at Damansara Perdana had to pay service charge to this company for the maintenance and if you ever walked using the staircase or took the lift at the business centre.......... you will notice the filthy, dirty and NOT-maintained area! but the monthly maintenance fees are diligently reminded and collected!

Allied Group Property in turn appointed HPL Elevator Sdn Bhd for the maintainance of the lift & elevators.... and what maintaintance did the HPL Elevator Sdn Bhd undertook....? when the lift breakdown a few times a week!

I am provoked to blog EMKAY's poor service and maintainance at Damansara Perdana when my pregnant staff, Zura was stuck in the lift alone and was stucked for an hour although she pressed the emergency bell (located on the panel in the lift) without any answer or response from HPL, Allied or any members of EMKAY group. Giving up pressing the yellow emergency bell, Zura then called the emergency telephone number at the sticker pasted in the lift below:


The call was picked up by a lady name NORA but NORA failed to send any rescue team or technician!!! ........ although she assured the rescue team will be there..

After another hour of waiting and crying for help, my office with the help of the neighbour FORCED OPEN THE LIFT door to rescue the poor lady.

The rescue team never came nor appear at the scene and when my office complained the following day, they say they could not locate their technician or rescue team. Zura, although pregnant but was lucky that she can use her handphone during the incident. Most of the time, there is no handphone network in the lift. She was also lucky the incident took place during peak hours but if the incident happen at late nights when there are nobody around to help?

I am disturbed by this incident. It happen to a pregnant lady..... It can also happen to me, my associate, customer or family members or anybody!!!!! a complain letter was submitted to EMKAY, Allied Property and HPL but todate, there is still no reply.

Damansara Perdana is not what it used to be......... crime rate, cleanliness and now health and welfare hazard....... !! Buyers Beware

Love is blind...? now it is only partially blind with a visit to the medical centre & Bank Negara...

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I recently met four old friends whom regrettably went through a divorce or break-ups; two were married with children and the other two were engaged. Although infidelity was partly the trigger point, the break-up was also ignited by financial traumas and dramatic health deterioration.

The four friends were 2 guys and 2 ladies. Three divorced were sought by the women and only one divorced was filed by the husband but all four couples did not know both their spouse's physical and financial health... pre-marital. in short, they were married into or inherited once married, an ocean of debts and problems.

In a capitalist world of the new millenium, being geared is almost inevitable but being too highly geared may be irreversible and can affect the marriage.

Similarly, we always take for granted our health and accepted the spouse in whichever and whatever form the partner is, in the name of love... and became a widow later without any preparation when she discovered the spouse had cancer. One of the three friends that I recently met, filed a divorced when they discovered the spouse had Herpes... ? I knew both of them quite well and they both are not a 'born-angel' sort of speak.. they could have been infected in their previous relationship. It was a lame excuse.

I do not mean, everybody should leave out anybody with STDs, or anybody suffering from cancer or those that survived cancer otherwise, being a cancer survivor, I too will be a bachelor for the rest of my life but at least, get to know each other's health condition the moment you are involved in a relationship and the pledge 'till death do us apart' would really apply since both then knew and accepted each other's actual health condition before marriage. Nonetheless, an early discovery is always good to prepare for the worse.

Nonetheless, with a thorough blood check that includes Sexually Transmitted Disease, you can be assured of your spouse's cleanliness, rather than accused each other in the future akin of my friend without even knowing that point of 'exposure' could have been in the past relationship.

More importantly, it is imperative to have a financial check done before taking a step further into the relationship. Not many are aware but the Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia) do provide this service. Unlike in Europe when everybody can check anybody's financial status (subject to some conditions), in Malaysia only the Bank Negara provide such a service. It is called the Central Credit Reference Information System (CCRIS).

Walk to the Bank Negara and informed the Bank reception counter that you would like a CCRIS check done. For only RM10 (Ringgit Malaysia Ten only) you can have the details of ALL EXISTING FINANCIAL INSTITUTION CREDIT under your name or your name joint with another person, your name under a sole proprietor, under a partnership or professional body. The report will also informed all outstanding credit facilities under "close supervision" by financial institutions as well as any application for additional credit facilities within the last 12 months (for more details click: Info). CCRIS also provide a credit patterns or historical loan repayment trend... hence a good or poor paymaster.

You can ONLY check YOUR OWN (or your company's) financial record and not for others and the report will only state the gearing or the credit facilities (example: credit card, car loans, housing, overdraft etc) under your name.

The report will not display your assets (example: fix deposit, investments, share holdings, fully paid properties etc) so you cannot go 'fishing' at Bank Negara but if you have a partner and love each other, you should include Bank Negara as a compulsory dating point and get to know each other's financial background... There are alot of fraud cases too where your name was used for unknown loan application or used to buy a car that you never knew existed... and this is one problem best known early to avoid inevitable legacy.

A date or a walk to the Bank Negara before marriage may also save your future. You can only dream of buying a new house or a new car or travel oversea on holiday if you & spouse are credit-worthy but if your spouse is banckrupted or blacklisted by financial instutions? ...you cant even leave Malaysia.


Be wise... do the blood and CCRIS credit check before its too late.......................

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The craving started even before Ramadhan.....

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I went to Jusco after a BIG BUFFET lunch with a few Proton dealers at the One World Hotel to replenished my organic oat bran that I consumed for breakfast daily as staple food... soon for 'Sahur' too. I was distracted away from the organic oat counter by the strong Durian aroma which unhesitatingly, I grabbed 2 boxes of their best durian... I have low resistant for Durian. "I want to eat now!!" ...I said to the sales attendance. He laughed, passed me the price sticker and asked me to pay first at the counter which I did and I ended up eating the whole RM50 per pack durian instantly.

Perhaps I was hungry.. again.. although lunch was extraordinarily a bigger portion barely 4 hours ago. This cravings are common as it get nearer to the Fasting month and it gets worse during the fasting month.. but I reckon its worth craving for Durian now than during fasting. It didnt help when my cousin Ervin, earlier today, happily listed all the food he ate in preparation to Ramadhan.

As though the Durian did not satisfy the cravings, we drove 2 hours to the Sepang Gold Coast for more food.....

Well of course, the 2 hours drive was for an initial site-visit to see our investment there. The development was expected to be completed this year end... and so far, everything on schedule.

It is a beautiful piece of development barely 1 hour drive from KLIA.

The developer's price was barely RM1 million per unit but the current market price had appreciated to almost RM2million.

At the Sepang Gold Coast, I was informed the development was 95% sold and 80% was sold to foreigner. Only 15% buyer were local Malaysian.

I was bored with all the updates and my thought went wild when I saw the sign that read "The Sunset Beach Restaurant".... cravings!! cravings!! cravings!!

We sat and I had one of the best medium-well cooked Lamb Rack, button mushroom and other varieties.... The official photographer my sis Emi, took so many photos but then being under training (forever).. and almost a week later, those photos are still comfortably sleeping in the camera SD memory card.

This was only the synopsis of the various cravings I had.. a friend of mine was highly recommending Horse Meat in Rawang... I am quite adventurous with food but Horse meat? I wanted to try until I was told the Horse that was slaughtered were all "RETIRED-RACE" horses... I would rather have a young, fresh & virgin horse... but daging Kuda Pencen? :-D


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Once upon a time a decade ago with umno.........

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I attended the launching of Prof Khairil Anas's first book of a series of 4, on the Evolution of Leadership Theories & studies by the Deputy Prime Minister YAB Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at the Shangri La Hotel, Putrajaya today on 18 August 2009.

At the function, I met some old and made many new friends, mostly from UMNO. I also met many 'Facebook Friends' for the first time although we regularly interacted on Facebook.

I discovered many politicians whom are my regular blog followers... thank you for the support.

Everybody at the function are UMNO loyalist and being a loyalist, some were quite offended with some of my blog posting... which I am grateful for the sincere remark... unlike some hypocritical politicians whom acted as a 'bro' in front.. then back-stabbed or threw stone then hide akin of anonymous blogger.

I am glad those that knew me (although for the first time), approached, spoke and clarified with me on some of my sensitive blog posts. My blog post was never meant to be offensive and if taken positively, it can be in capitalised in our favour.

A more diplomatic friends that came forward, asked which UMNO division am I attached to? but a more blunt question threw at me was... "if I am for or against UMNO?" "Reading through my blog, I do not sounded UMNO..." A few friends further added. Looking at both the defensive and offensive mode of some friends, I will avoid mentioning their name and will only refer to him as HE or Them.

There are so many questions and issues that needed clarification but to understand, we have to travel a decade back. I never thought of becoming active in UMNO until I met Dato Seri Dr Mohamed Khir Toyo whom was then the Selangor Chief Minister and his aide Datuk Dr Karim Hj Mansor at an official Proton function almost a decade ago. A day after that function, I received a call from Dr Karim, whom asked me to meet him at the Chief Minister's office the following day.

At the Chief Minister's office, I was asked to be actively involved in politic which I hesitated as I knew little about politic but after an hour, I was made to belief that UMNO needed younger leaders and barely 26 years old then, I fit his criteria... and so said Dr Karim but I declined diplomatically citing lack of exposure in politic as the main reason and asked for a grace period to deliberate.

I called and met a good friend, Dato Farid Ariffin (President MAKNA) and seek his advice. Farid strongly advised against going into Politic and asked to concentrate in business instead. I spoke to other close friends and other politicians as well as my dad and many encourages it though some strongly objected.....

After much deliberation, I called, met and spoke over and over again with Dr Karim. I said, I do not have any ambition in politic but I want to serve UMNO which Dr Karim explained the many ways to serve. Being in UMNO branch is a long process to be in power, explained Dr Karim. There are shorter way but I needed to be at the division level which again I hesitated. I did not want to create any unnecessary enemy, I did not have any ambition to be a politician. I just wanted to serve UMNO being a product of UMNO/Barisan Nasional government's policies.

Disappointed with my decision, Dr Karim suggested that I should at least open up my own UMNO branch, which although reluctant, I said yes. Dr Karim said, 'if I have no immediate ambition to be at division, then I should be in Puchong and support YB Dato Satim Diman whom was a very established Division chief, and controls one of the most stable division'. Dato Satim is a legend in UMNO and undefeated for many years in Serdang/Puchong and I should support him. Having a small business in Puchong, I agree to support Dato Satim.

And so the birth of my first direct exposure in political circle... via Dr Karim & Dr Khir Toyo whom first adopted me into UMNO circle almost a decade ago. I quickly gathered most of my family members, relatives, staff and business associates in Puchong to be registered as an UMNO member under my soon to be established UMNO branch with a simple resolution to eradicate 'Unemployment' in Puchong. Within less than a month, I submitted the application to set-up a new branch with the list of 111 young and eager professionals as a new members at the new proposed branch. Their membership was fully paid with the application. 90% of the names submitted was not yet an UMNO member.

Until today, I cant find any UMNO division that could stood proud to claim their division or constituency has zero unemployment. In fact, I do not think the division even had or monitors the unemployment statistic. I brainstormed and completed a 1-5 year plan to achieve the resolution. I cannot disappoint Dr Karim whom had invested alot of his time then to make me understand politic, I thought to myself... and thought further, it was the least that I could do for UMNO.

Being eager and enthusiastic, within less than a month later, with the help of Amir Shafi I met almost all of Dato Satim's Division & Youth exco members and communicated the plan to achieve the 'zero unemployment' resolution under my proposed UMNO branch... via business and employment opportunity capitalising from the government assistant for SMEs.

Unfounded rumours quickly spread and existing exco felt unease and threatened. I only wanted my own small umno branch having agreed with Dr Karim to serve umno. The rumours brought a few division, youth exco members and supporters seeking for my clarifation if I had any intention to go forward to division. Some unnecessarily pledged support which I immediately brushed out but some too came to threat, pre-warned and re-clarified my stand (again and again), including the Deputy Division chief then, Dato Hasnan Wahid. I re-clarified and re-iterate my only interest is in my small umno branch and none at division.

After various inquiries and follow up on the status of my new branch formation without success, Ir Rosly who was then in-charge of new branch application and membership (now Dato Satim's division Vice-Chief) ran out of reasoning to give.. At one junture, he said the division had endorsed my application and my Branch file was forwarded to UMNO State office and a week later he changed his statement and said my application was still under review....? Weeks and months passed by and finally, a year after submission, I was informed that both the application file and the membership fees submitted to formed the new branch went missing and dissappeared. I spoke again to both Dr karim and Dato Satim without success and gathered mine and the new members as well as the establishment of my new branch was not welcome. I did not re-submit my application but that marked the end of that episode. Since then, it has been all about business and had lost contact with all friends from UMNO Serdang/Puchong including Dr Karim... except for Ariffin Osman and Amir Shafi whom I occasionally contacted.

Now, almost a decade later, and for already a decade, I became an enthusiast observer and a strong 'external' supporter instead. I am still passionate with UMNO and Barisan National election manifest and resolutions. If there existed any weaknesses within UMNO, it should be debated within UMNO and should not be politicized by the opposition whom standalone, does not even have any pragmatic future direction.

So to answer those inquires from many friend's email, on Facebook and those that I met at Prof Anas's book launching.... yes, there is no doubt of my support for UMNO and will not join any other party although I had my share of very bad experiences with setting up an UMNO branch... but bygones remain bygones. It is a decade later but I am with UMNO and always will. There is no future in the opposition... they are good at picking on UMNO's weaknesses without any pragmatic or own vision... unlike the Vision 2020 that I am still very passionate about.

and again, my apology for almost a decade of silence to those whom supported me in opening up the UMNO branch way back in 2002... I never had the opportunity to clarify and apologized individually to all. When I check @ UMNO ONLINE REGISTRATION via the IC number submitted during the branch application submission, majority are still a non-umno member. I trust you have remained neutral and did not join the opposition.... or did you?

Although my branch file was lost with Dato Satim's official, copies of all documentations are still intact. Am I still interested to open an umno branch..? No, I am not interested but I will be a strong and aggressive supporter to UMNO though I wont blindly agree on everything. Some of the members in the proposed branch was unknown to me but was brought in by other pro-tem committee members. The list of 111 members that was previously submitted is as follows:

	PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF UMNO CAWANGAN PUSAT BANDAR PUCHONG 2002
1	ARMIN BANIAZ PAHAMIN
2	NOOR ARMAN PUTRA MAHADI
3	NOOR ERVIN SHAHRIZ DATUK NORDIN
4	F. R. RAZDEAN
5	KHAIRUL ANNUAR HASHIM
6	AHMAD KHAIRIE ZULKIFLI
7	JOHAN NASIR
8	AL JAZZURA KHAN
9	MOHD SOBRI BIN JAAFAR
10	AHMAD NAZMI BIN ABDUL RAHMAN
11	AZHAR SULAIMAN
12	AZAIDI BIN MOHD LAZIM
13	ZARIR SALLEH
14	IZHAM BIN ISMAIL
15	OSNY SHU-HARRY SHUIB
16	YUSRI NASIR
17	MOHD IDHAM BIN ISMAIL
18	SHARFATEN ANIZA BINTI MD KASSIM (via Apeq)
19	AZIZAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ (via Apeq)
20	CHEMPAKA EMALIN
21	SHARIFAH RAFIAH BINTI SYED YAHYA
22	NAWAL RAFEZA BINTI ZULKIFLI
23	HAFIZ BIN KAMMEL RIZA
24	MOHD KHAIRUL ANUAR
25	ROSE EMINI
26	JUNAIDAH BINTI YUSOF
27	ZAINAB MOHAMAD
28	MUZAFIQ AFFYULZAIFUZAN BIN MUHAMMAD (via Apeq)
29	DATO' PAHAMIN A RAJAB
30	AZHAR SULAIMAN
31	NORKIYAH IBRAHIM
32	MAHMUD BIN ABDULLAH
33	ISKANDAR ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO
34	TERATAI EDITHY
35	JEFFRI OSMAN
36	TREESNA AZURA DATO' JOHAR
37	MALYANNA ABDUL MALIK
38	MASWADY RAKION
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39	JAILANI MAMAT
40	ZAHARAH BINTI ABU JOHAN
41	TG MUZZAMMIL TG MAKRAM
42	JAMAL BIN JOHARI
43	MOHD FAIZUL SIDI AHMAD
44	TENGKU FAIRA EDNA TENGKU ISKANDAR
45	BISRAFEL BIJURI
46	ROSMAZA RAMLI
47	NORAZLIA BINTI AHMAD
48	MOHAMED @ MAHMOOD BIN MOHD NOR
49	WAN ZAHARI BIN HANAF
50	MOHD NAZRUL IZAM BIN MANSOR
51	WAN ROSMADIY BIN WAN YUSOF
52	MOHAMAD AZAM BIN YUNUS
53	AZMI BIN MOHAMAD
54	ENA NOOR RASHIDA BIN ABDUL RASHID
55	FAKIRUDDIN ALI AHMAD BIN ABU BAKAR
56	NORHAIZAN BINTI ABD SHUKOR
57	ABDUL MUHAIMIN BIN NASIR
58	MOHAIZAR BIN MOHAMAD
59	NIK IZYAN BT NIK ISMAIL
60	MARWAN BIN MOHD NOOR
61	MOHD FAIDZHIR IDRIS
62	MOHD LUQMAN HAKIM BIN ABDULLAH
63	NAWAL AINI BINTI ZULKIFLI
64	NURAZURA BINTI KHALILI
65	HUSIN JALI
66	ADNAN JALANI
67	NIK MOHD IZAFIZAL BIN HAJI NIK ISMAIL
68	JOHAR MOHD YUSOFF
69	MOHD ANAZIM
70	SYED HASRIL ALYAHYA BIN SYED SAPIAA
71	MOHD RHIZA DATO' GHAZI
72	CHE NOR HAYATI BTE CHE BACHIK
73	NOOR SYAHIRA SURYA DATO' NOORDIN
74	HAR ZANI AZMI PROBITAS
75	AHMAD RAFIQ ZULKIFLI
76	AZLIN AZIZ
77	ED SIMOR KHAN
78	MOHD HAZLI ZAKARIA
79	ZAHARI BIN HANAFI
80	TG ASMARUL
81	DR AZHAR ISHAK
82	MOHD AZMI HJ SIDEK
83	MOHD AIDIL BIN DAUD
84	RAZI KHAN BIN RASHID
85	MOHD ZULKIFLI ABD JALIL (MENS REVIEW)
86	RIZAL CIMB
87	MOHD ZAIDI BIN ALI (via arman)
88	MOHD ZAKI ALIAS (via ARMAN)
89	RAFIQ KHAN BIN AKBAR KHAN (via DR AZHAR)
90	TABIRA BIN TAHIR (via DR AZHAR)
91	NIK SAZHANI RAJA ABDULLAH (cia DR AZHAR)
92	AZLI BIN NORDIN (via dr azhar)
93	MOHD AINUL HAKEEM BIN RAMLEE
94	ZAI MUNIRA ABDUL RASHID
95	NURIN MOHD NOOR (via osny)
96	ADE KADRIS ABDUL RAHMAN
97	KHUSAINI ZAKARIA
98	NIK AIDIL MARIA NIK SAPEIA
99	FARIHAN HATMI BIJURI
100	MUHAMMAD FARID SULAIMAN
101	NOOR HISYAM B. SABRALMULISI
102	MOHD ZAINI AHMAD
103	ANIS HAFIZA HASSAN
104	NOREEN RASLINDA RASHID
105	ROSMAN MUSA
106	MOHD KHAIRI HASSAN
107	ABDULLAH ABDUL WAHAB
108	KHAIRUL AMRIE
109	MOHD HAFIZOL OMAR
110	NURUL HISHAM B. ISMAIL
111	GHAZALAINI BIN GHAZALI

Although it has been almost a decade, it is never too late to apologize... I hope. I apologized to the above friends for that time wasted.

Last but not least, a special CONGRATULATION to Prof. Hj Khairil Anas on a well written book. The launching was smooth, well-planned and well-organised. It is great to meet old friends from the same circle. I had known Anas for almost 15 years since we were in United Kingdom and although successful, he remained as humble. I am always proud to see my friends and peers succeed in their field and specialty. I am still writting my books but was delayed by endless work and business schedule.... ya ya yaa... i know.. same reason.

The "educational background" of other politicial party Youth exco members are still a "Work In Progress" but is on my list of priority.

Stay Tune..........

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Bvlgary....? Burglary..... burglarrrriiii... BURRRGLAAARY!!!! ...... its not funny!

Bvlgary....? Burglary..... burglarrrriiii... BURRRGLAAARY!!!! ...... its not funny!

My first experience being burglared was during teen.... I rented a small 180 sq ft hostel room during undergraduate study at the University of Buckingham for STR230 a month paid with a STR291 MARA scholarship a month. I entered my room after a good clubbing night out to discover all the new assets that I still owe my credit card were all missing... HiFi stereo, notebook, alarm clock (the reason why I missed so many lectures since), watches, rings, even my brand new socks.....

16 years later... todate, I have been burglared and robbed (even with parangs) more than 20 times. All the burglaries except for that teenage student life, was within the last 2 years at Fasfik outlets at various locations in Petaling Jaya except today. Today, Fasfik Corporate Office and my office at Damansara Perdana was burglared.... a clean sweep sort of speak, the 49" plasma TVs that connects and displayed all realtime cctv videos of all my businesses, about a dozen Computers and other items including various foreign currencies that I safe-kept at office for travelling.

The day before my office was hit, the Mamak store below my office was robbed by a few Indians with Parangs. A few months ago, my dad's law firm Pahamin & Pahamin (Advocate & Solicitor) was burglared.. also at Damansara Perdana.

Barely 3 weeks ago, on the 27th July 2009, Home Ministry via its website started a poll to gauge the public's view on the Country's level of safety and the government's performance in safe guarding the people's safety and security. According to the poll, 97% of the total respondence felt unsafe due to the current high crime rate and 95% respondent felt the government had not done their best to ensure the best safety to the public (see: the Star).

I consider myself part of the 95% statistics that felt more could be done to combat crime and part of the 97% statistic that do not feel safe.

But bitching alone would not reduce the crime rate... thinking outloud and brainstorming on counter measures ... I like the recommendation from my Fasfik Head of Manpower Development, Kamarul Arifin Zainal's suggestion to enrol 100 of fasfik crew as part of People's Volunteer Corporation (RELA)... in fact, I might volunteer to be one too.


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A few people is a year older this weekend...

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TGI Friday... or was it Thank God Its Friday...? or more appropriately Oh My God its Friday... again!! ..........and its the last weekend before the fasting month.

I did not just forget that its already the weekend and the fasting month is next week but I forgot too that this weekend was my youngest niece's birthday...... Raisa Myrin Jasmine.... and my brother in law's birthday.. Rhiza Ghazi ..... and another brother in law's birthday......... Rafiq Zulkifli..... Ashraf's Birthday.... Brandon's Birthday and... I hope I did not forget any others... sometimes too I forget that I am many many years old too.




So many are a year older this weekend but there is only ONE that I knew that will turn ONE year old this weekend... my youngest niece, the adorable Raisa.











The theme for Raisa's birthday was 'Princess" and she became a ONE year old Princess...











The cake was the shape of a princess's crown and Melor's house was decorated into a party play ground...

The Birthday girl's eldest cousin Kasih Leia Ixora...








On the right: is Raisa's elder sister Raina & her cousin Aaraf..





And of course... Princess Raisa's TWO and ONLY uncles.. (one that 'maintain-macho' with a long hair), and TOk POK.....





and we sang the traditional 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRINCESS RAISA.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.....
LA... LA..... LA......








.......... and all the cousins except for the birthday.. girl blew the cake......









After the party ended.. all of the Princess's guests... a wonderful party pack was given... ALL GUESTS except for the UNCLE!!!! grrrr..









Although it was a fantasy came true for Princess Raisa on her birthday...... and after we finished eating the cake.. the crown, part of the cake made of icing, was presented to the birthday girl's sister, Raiqa...

Raiqa too wanted to be a Princess!!!!


BUT WAIT the 'Cheeky' Aunt Chik too wanted to be a princess....








and goodness... Raisa's mummy too wanted to be Princess Mummy......!!!

oh well I thought... since everybody is in the mood, I mind as well be a Prince too....

OOoo NO NO No noooo...... Raisa's Daddy cant be a Prince............ it is his birthday too!!!!!

Raisa's daddy... aka Uncle Ja.. aka Rhiza is too old to be a Prince.. and 1 cake is not enough for candles equivalent to his age.. so, Rhiza needed too many cakes ...




















and a Birthday song is by default... even for an old man... :-p

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RHIZA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RHIZA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RHIZA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RHIZA

and you can see Rhiza's face turned red........






and rhiza puff and he puff....
and oh no............... so many candles....



















Dont worry Tok.. there is enough cake for everybody.. Rhiza is 34 years old.. there should be more than 34 cakes available... uhuks...







.......and of course, there are Party pack for all Rhiza's Guests too....







Rhiza's birthday party was suppose to be a karoeke party... having received a Karoeke and Home theatre set for his birthday!! but being the shy-guy............. he never invited any of his guests to sing!!! ................ in fear of being asked to sing!! he did not have enough practice yet... and he practice all day till dawn.... maybe he will sing for next year's birthday.......... anyhow..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RHIZA....

Last but not least.......... my brother in law Rafiq's birthday......... my thousand apology !!!! ......that I could not attend... sorry. I wanted to go.... but was soooo exhausted and mentally drained but your birthday was not forgotten... and dont worry about adding another candle on your cake.. I am sure it wont add up any more white hair to your lovely groomed hair.......

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAFIQ..........

There were 2 more Birthday parties this weekend which my deputy Aaraf Pahamin aka Armin JR attended representing the family..... hopefully soon Armin JR can start attending meetings on my behalf too...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHRAF

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANDON

Sorry didnt have any pictures at the time of posting....

and that is the end of my 'eating-full' weekend... next weekend, I am sure there wont be any more parties to attend, everybody will be busy trying to stay awake while fasting or busy eating in hiding... either way........ good luck & all the best! Selamat Menyambut RAMADHAN.



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Blog, Facebook & DAP Youth.. (part vii)

Update:

12/09/09 Edward Ling Sieak Meeng was earlier listed without any blog page. Correction: Edward has both an FB account as well as a Blogger. His Blog details has been ammended below. (Note: thank you for the update Edward).

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This is the 7th series of various political parties youth exco members 'presence-analysis' on cyber & Blogosphere. I've completed the list of Cabinet Minister on Facebook (FB) & personal Blog, UMNO Youth, MCA Youth, Gerakan Youth, PAS Youth and PKR Youth (AMK). I am not bothered to seek and search for the list of MIC Youth exco when both their MIC website and MIC Youth Website are not even bothered to list their youth exco members and googling them seems futile.

The list of DAP Youth executive committee or known as DAP Socialist Youth (DAPSY) committee members was obtained from DAP main website.

DAPSY seems to be the most active on cyber with 70% of their exco are connected on cyber via either FB or Blog or both compared to 53% UMNO Youth, 23% MCA, 22% Gerakan Youth, 52% PAS Youth, 49% AMK (PKR Youth).


12 of DAPSY, 8 PAS Youth and 5 AMK owns both FB and Blog compared to 7 UMNO Youth, 3 MCA Youth and 1 Gerakan Youth despite having a smaller number of exco members.

1) Chairman (& Political Bureau) : Loke Siew Fook (See: Fook FB, Fook Blog)
2) Dep (& Members Recruitment Bureau) : Jenice Lee Ying Ha (see: Jenice FB, Jenice Blog)
3) Vice: Wong Kah Woh (see: Woh FB, Wong Blog)
4) National Sec (Voters Reg Bureau) : Loh Chee Heng (see: Loh FB, Loh Blog)
5) Nat Publicity Sect: Ng Wei Aik (see: Ng FB, Ng Blog)
6) Asst Nat Pub Sect: Ong Boon Piow (see: Ong FB, Ong Blog)
7) Teo Kok Seong (see: Seong FB, Seong Blog)
8) Gobind Singh Deo (Legal Affair Bureau) (see: Gobind FB, Gobind Blog)
9) Khoo Poay Tiong (see: Tiong FB, Tiong Blog)
10) Choong Siew Onn (see: Onn FB, Onn Blog)
11) Political Education Affair Director: Ooi Leng Hang (see: Ooi FB, Ooi Blog)
12) Ling Sieak Meeng, Edward (see: Meeng FB, No Blog)

5 DAPSY, 10 AMK, 5 PAS Youth are registered ONLY on FB but without any Blog compared to 14 UMNO Youth, 4 MCA and 1 Gerakan Youth.

13) Asst Nat Tresurer: Lau Keng Ee (see: Ee FB, NO Blog)
14) Yeoh Soon Hin (see: Hin FB, NO Blog)
15) Cheong Chee Khing (see: Khing FB, No Blog)
16) V. Sivakumar (see: Siva FB, NO Blog)
17) Int Affair Bureau Director: Medaline Chang She Yun (see: Medaline FB, NO Blog)

3 DAPSY, 4 PAS Youth, 6 AMK only owns a Blog without any FB compared to 2 UMNO Youth, 4 MCA Youth and 3 Gerakan Youth.

18) Asst. Nat. Sec: Tey Kok Kiew (see: NO FB, Tey Blog)
19) National Org Sect: Eddie Chang Teck Chee (see: NO FB, Eddie Blog)
20) Asst Nat Org Sect: Carmen Leong ooi Kuan (see: NO FB, Carmen Blog)

ONLY 10 DAPSY, 19 PAS Youth, 25 AMK are WITHOUT any FB or Blog compared to 20 UMNO Youth, 22 MCA Youth and 18 Gerakan Youth.

21) Vice Chairman: Violet Yong Wui Wui
22) Varsity Affair Bereau Director: Tan Hong Pin (see: NO FB, NO Blog)
23) Nat Treasurer: Leong Ooi Yee (see: NO FB, NO Blog)
24) Ng Suee Lim (see: NO FB, NO Blog)
25) Teo Eng Ching (see: NO FB, NO Blog)
26) Tiew Way Keng (see: NO FB, NO Blog)
27) Chan Su Sann (see: NO FB, NO Blog)
28) Kuan Perk Siong (see: NO FB, NO Blog)

As a conclusion to the series of "Blog, Facebook & all youth component Party", the youth opposition are more active and strongly support their alliance (and maybe confusing the public on various remark and allegation) on cyber compared to our youth alliance.

If our youth exco continue to be inactive, the cyber-sphere will continue to be dominated by the opposition. With the advancement of technology, communication via cyber-sphere is the cheapest and most effective...

Next series will be to list the educational background of all youth exco member. Todate, although I have emailed to the respective youth chief for their exco member's education background but I have not received any reply. Perhaps, even the youth council too does not keep any record or verify their exco members educational background. Surprisingly, education does not seem to be a priority in the selection or election of youth exco members... or does it?

Stay Tune...


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Blog, Facebook & Gerakan Youth and MIC Youth.. (part vi)

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Searching for Gerakan Youth and MIC Youth latest exco members list was the hardest. Both the Gerakan main website and MIC main website or MIC Youth Website DO NOT DISPLAY THEIR YOUTH COMMITTEE members.. so much for recognising their youth Wing... so much for solidarity... or maybe they do not recognise their youth wing?

Their 2008-2011 exco members list is not even available on google search except announcement for both parties' Youth Chief Lim Si pin and MIC Youth Chief T. Mohan; unlike UMNO Youth, PAS Youth and PKR Youth (AMK). So much time wasted just to search for the list of Gerakan and MIC youth exco members..... After browsing the few hundred thousand google search result, I finally found Gerakan exco list from the star newspaper dated 11 October 2008 (see: the Star).

Gerakan Youth Chief Lim Si Pin has his own blog (see below) but wrote and displayed nothing of his elected executive committee members. In fact, Gerakan Youth does not even have any official website.... When Si Pin was elected as the Youth Chief, his main agenda was to convert the youth wing into an ISO 9000 quality.... but maybe a 'syiiok sendiri' election manifesto since his exco list is even non-existence...

I cant believe such an important 26 years old Gerakan Youth wing without their own website.

... and ONLY 4 of GERAKAN EXCO owns a blog BUT 3 Blogs are written in Chinese... so much for Gerakan Youth's stand being a party for ALL MALAYSIAN (irrespective of race) ?..... and ONLY 2 Exco registered on Facebook (FB). There are more cabinet minister on Facebook (see: Minister FB) than the the total Gerakan Youth exco.


Gerakan Youth Exco:

1) Chief: Lim Si Pin (NO FB, SiPin Blog)
2) Deputy : Oh Tong Keong (NO FB, Keong Blog)
3) Vice 1: YB Liang Teck Meng, ( NO FB, NO Blog)
4) Vice 2: David Ang Chin Tat (NO FB, NO Blog)
5) Vice 3: Vincent Hooi Wy-Hon

6) Yap Chen Heng
7) Tan kok Seong
8) Hng Chee Wey (Wey FB, Wey Blog)
9) Alex Ong Yeok Leng
10) Jack Cheow Woon San
11) Khor Hock Peng
12) A. Kuhan
13) Lau Hoi Keong
14) Chong Chee Yen (there's a few FB account by this name & I could not verify which belongs to Gerakan Youth exco)
15) Cheah Chee Kuan
16) Ou Kwee hua
17) Khoo Kha Shin
18) Ong Teng Boon (Boon FB - I could verify if this account belong to the Gerakan EXCO)
19) Dr Dominic Lau Hoe Chai (NO FB,Dom Blog)
20) Ong Boon Hong
21) Tan Keit Hock
22) Chia Gim Tiong
23) Chang Shui Kiong

Gerakan Youth wing was set up in 1983 and Lim Si Pin was the first Youth Chief elected by delegate since establishment. There have never been any contest for the Youth Chief... perhaps the reason why Gerakan is still in Flinstone age but with the new Chief.... ?

Thus far, the PKR Youth alliance, PKR Youth (AMK) & PAS seemed to be more active with blogs and Facebook interaction compared to Barisan National Youth alliance, UMNO Youth, MCA Youth and Gerakan.

Our youth alliance under BN really needed to improve our presence on cyber and blogosphere. I gave up searching for MIC Youth exco list.... probably MIC Youth exco is so insignificant that even the MIC Youth Website doesnt display their exco members...

As per earlier series (part i-v), I stand corrected if the detail is inaccurate. Please advice and keep me posted of any inaccuracy. The source of information is accurate as far as the information available on cyber search.

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