Chronicles of Bubu G: The Prelude

February 24th, 2012 1 comment

My little Bubu decided to come early. Thinking back to events leading up to his arrival, I think sometimes superstition things you heard from grannies and aunties and mothers could be true.

They said pregnant lady cannot carry someone else’s baby. The Saturday before Bubu’s arrival, we attended the full moon lunch of Szer’s friend. Szer carried that baby for a while. I too carried the baby.

The same Saturday afternoon, my generous BIL, Mr. BLG transported the baby cot to my house using the powerful Mitsubishi Fuso lorry that he sells. Again we defied superstition by moving in furnitures into the house. Superstition had it that during pregnancy, you should not move house and move furnitures in the house else the baby will be miscarried or come early.

After the cot was brought in, we went and bought mattress for Bubu. Prior to the baby cot, I bought a diaper changing table from Ikea and assembled it during CNY holidays. Could that have played a part in Bubu’s early arrival?

We have bought a lot of essential baby stuffs throughout the pregnancy period until that mattress, which was the last big item that Bubu really needs. We’ve got all other newborn essential stuffs earlier, ranging from bottles to stroller to car seat to clothes, playing mat, toys, diapers, bottle steriliser, breast pumps etc.

To look at another perspective of things, his arrival is somewhat timely. Perhaps this is fate and it is his destiny to arrive on the very first day of the 2nd month of the lunar Water Dragon year. In Gregory calendar, he arrived on 22-2-2012 at 2208 hrs. Such an auspicious arrival time I as a daddy would say of my son. Sze’s birthdate is 22-08, mine 08-02 and now my son 22-02. I guess 2 and 8 are our family’s lucky number. I then look at the photos I took on my phone, and guess what I found. Recently my wife bought me a Gshock watch for my birthday. I took a photo of the Mudman and the time was… 22:02 ! Is that a coincidence of Bubu’s arrival date??? I wonder.

Monday, 20/2/12, I stretched myself to a cross country drive for work for surveys at Cheras, Lukut and Sg. Pelek. Thats because I wanted to go see an opthalmologist on Tuesday morning at Sime Darby hospital… the same place Sze goes for checkups and see Bubu’s doctor. I had an appointment that morning. The very same morning, Sze alerted me of Bubu’s possible early arrival. We rushed to the hospital and Sze was admitted to the delivery ward right away and started the countdown and I went and see my doctor at another floor. After waiting for almost 2 days, after numerous contractions and lets be frank, jabs , my little Bubu finally arrived on that auspicious time. 2 hours short of 2 days.

Having stayed at the delivery ward for almost 2 days, I can say, you never seen life if you have not been to the delivery room. Walking around the ward alone is very scary when you hear women in labour screaming like _______. That’s scarier than being in the labour room, I’d guess, from a father’s perspective.

Fathers can never replace the position, noble deeds and sufferings of mothers. That’s why there’s only “Mama Hao” song and there will never be a “Papa Hao” song.

Both mom and son are in good condition. Hopefully Bubu’s jaundice will be cured.

And here I would like to finally announce his name, Lucas G aka Bubu G.

Daddy loves you and mummy.

Categories: Life

A dragon is born

February 23rd, 2012 No comments

Bubu G arrived on 22/2/2012 at 10.08pm. Healthy boy.

Both mother and son are ok.

I’m very happy.

Categories: Life

Sit

February 14th, 2012 No comments

I just realised that I sit a lot in a day.

After waking up every morning, I’ll sit on the throne for big business before shower. After that, I would sit at the dining table for breakfast. Then I would sit in the car driving to work. Sitting in a traffic jam is very likely. When I reach office, I’ll be sitting in front of the computer tapping on the keyboard doing reports. If there’s no new assignment, I’ll be in the office, sitting at my desk.

Then when lunch time comes, I’ll be sitting in a restaurant with colleagues. After lunch, work continues at the desk. I’ll be sitting till 5-6pm. In between, maybe going to the toilet and coffee machine will have me walking for a while.

At about 6pm, when I leave the office, I’ll be sitting in a traffic jam. This will take at least 1 hour before reaching home. By the time I reach dinner place, it will be dinner time and straight I go and sit at the dining table. After dinner, I’ll spend sometime reading The Star newspaper. Again I’ll be sitting on the sofa. Then I’ll drive home (sitting in the car). Once home, I’ll be sitting on the throne for the evening business. Magazine or The Sun newspaper will be read while sitting on the throne.

After business and shower, I’ll sit on the sofa in front of the idiot box…or sometimes in front of the laptop computer surfing Internet. Sometimes, read something on the sofa.

Then off I go to bed. Maybe I should do some sit-ups before bedtime.

Maybe it’s time to read newspaper standing. Watch TV standing.

Categories: Life

Amanah Saham 1Malaysia: The reply

February 13th, 2012 No comments

The buggers sent me a very vague reply to entertain me… and notice, there’s no signatory name. They’re afraid to put their name.

THEY HAVE NOT ADDRESSED THE REAL QUESTIONS:

  1. WHY IS THERE A QUOTA BASED ON ETHNIC RACE FOR THE UNIT TRUST FUND?

  2. WHERE IS THE 1MALAYSIA SPIRIT?

 

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Tuan/Puan,

 

Kami dengan hormatnya merujuk kepada emel tuan/puan mengenai perkara di atas.

Untuk makluman, pada masa ini, unit Amanah Saham 1Malaysia (AS1M) bagi kuota kaum Cina telah habis dilanggan. Walaubagaimanapun, dari masa ke semasa, sekiranya ada terdapat unit yang dijual balik oleh pemegang unit sediada, unit berkenaan boleh dilanggan oleh pelanggan lain.

Pemegang unit boleh membuat semakan unit sediada di mana-mana Pejabat ASNB atau Ejen-ejen ASNB (Maybank, CIMB Bank, RHB Bank atau Pejabat Pos) yang berhampiran.

Selain dari itu, sekiranya tuan/puan berminat untuk melabur di dalam unit amanah ASNB yang lain, dana yang masih lagi ada ialah seperti berikut:

Amanah Saham Nasional 3 Imbang (ASN 3)
Amanah Saham Gemilang (ASG)

Sekiranya tuan/puan memerlukan sebarang maklumat lanjut, sila hubungi kami di 03-2057 3000 atau layari laman web kami di www.asnb.com.my.

Sekian, terima kasih.

Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad

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House

February 12th, 2012 No comments

One of the reason why housing is so expensive in urban area is because of the shitty public transportation that we have. The nightmare of having to commute to work everyday for at least 3 hours on the road will put off a lot of people. Therefore they are maximising the land use around the urban and suburban area with high-density apartments and flats. No matter how many blocks of apartment or condominium you build, there’ll always be demand and got snapped up in a relatively short time… most of the time by investors who wanna flip and make money.

If the public transport is good, there’ll be less traffic jam and I can opt to stay further out of KL i.e. Shah Alam, Klang, Rawang, Putrajaya, Cyberjaya etc. because I can travel to work with the daily traffic nightmare.

Everyone wants to stay around town so that they can cut short travel time (with traffic jam included) and this demand has drove up the house prices in urban areas. So, at the end of the day, it comes back to public transportation.

But if public transport is improved, car sales will drop for all carmakers in Malaysia and this MAY cause Proton to go bankrupt when other carmakers slash prices to boost sales . National pride will be affected there. Then consumption of fuel will also drop…. less profit for Petronas. Again, national pride will be affected. Then there will be no more reason to build highways anymore. As you can see, highways doesn’t solve the traffic jam problem. It only make it a lil bit more convenient to travel. WE NEED TO TAKE THE CARS OFF THE ROAD. THE SAME AMOUNT OF CARS OR MORE WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

I think it’s all inter-related. The taxes and profits (direct or indirect) and perhaps some carrots they get from transportation related industries i.e. vehicle taxes, AP, oil, rubber etc makes it better off than implementing good public transports.

Categories: Bloggy

RIP to the Queen of Love

February 12th, 2012 No comments

RIP to Whitney Houston… the undoubtedly Queen of Love. Most of her songs are about “love”… and what a coincidence with the Valentine’s love season.

So here’s my favourite Whitney Houston song for you all parents and parents-to-be out there:

 

I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

[Chorus]
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I’ll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can’t take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be

[Chorus]

And if by chance, that special place
That you’ve been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love

Categories: Life

Amanah Saham 1Malaysia (AS1M)

February 9th, 2012 No comments

Tuan,

Nama Ahli: endroo G
No Ahli: 088888888
No. KP: 880208-14-8888
No Telefon: 012-3456789

Merujuk perkara di atas, saya ingin membuat pertanyaan tentang menambah bilangan unit (top up funds) untuk pelaburan Amanah Saham 1Malaysia.

Saya difahamkan oleh cawangan ejen syarikat anda iaitu Maybank, bahawa unit yang diperuntukan untuk rakyat yang berbangsa Cina sudah habis manakala unit untuk rakyat berbangsa Melayu, India dan lain-lain bangsa masih ada banyak dan boleh “dibeli” serta-merta. Sebagai seorang rakyat Malaysia keturunan Cina yang menetap di tanahair ini, saya difahamkan oleh pegawai di cawangan bank tersebut bahawa saya tidak dapat menambah pelaburan saya buat masa ini. Saya juga digalakkan untuk mengunjungi cawangan ejen AS1M terdekat pada setiap hari (jika boleh) untuk mencuba nasib.

Ini menimbulkan satu persoalan iaitu: adakah Amanah Saham 1Malaysia betul-betul untuk kebaikkan rakyat Malaysia sejagat? Mana perginya semangat 1Malaysia dimana kelayakkan tidak dilihat dari segi bangsa seseorang?!

Saya berharap kemusykilan ini dapat dijelaskan. Sekian terima kasih.

 

Yang benar,

endroo G

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