Life's Happenings

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Looking for Landed Property

Anyone knows of anyone who wanted to sell their house? Am looking for one at the moment and hopefully it meets the following criteria:-

Land size: 22 x 80 to 22 x 100
Built up area: 2500 square feet onwards
Renovations: Kitchen and upper floor's rooms are fully extended. Best if front portion has been extended too
Location: Sri Petaling and Happy Garden area (not used to other areas lah)
Condition: Hopefully could move in with minimum renovations and the house has not been built for umpteenth years

Have to resort to this search as the last few houses that I have viewed were not up to what I wanted. Following issues that were not favourable:-
* If the built up area was there, the price was way too exhorbitant.
* The house looks good but toilets were too small.
* Price was quiet alright but the location was not suitable.
* House was alright but in order to take that house, extensive renovation has to be done.
* Price alright, house looks just nice, renovations were up to mark but the empty land in front of the house was a surau (muslim prayer hall) reserved land. Not that I'm racist but you wouldn't want that sort of traffic right in front of your house, day in day out.
* House at suitable location with low price but would require extensive renovations from bottom

Thought it was easy to buy a landed property. Some real estate agents are helping me out.
Tags: Landed Property, Real Estate, Sri Petaling, Happy Garden

Hunting Around Mid Valley

Was at Mid Valley the other day, hunting for some stuff for niece's wedding. When it comes to food, it must be sufficient. Now let's see, which one has not been frequented for long long time. American Chili's it is.

Ordered the sizzling chicken fajita that came with three pieces of tortilla. It was good and took the bottomless Milo drink. Got a cup that was filled with ice and there you are - Iced Milo (two cups of it).

As for dessert, oh wow, the Chocolate Molten cake. A warm chocolate cake with chocolate fudge and an vanilla flavoured ice-cream to top it off.

Now this is the finished work of the air-conditioned bridge connecting the Mid Valley and Gardens. Back in September 2007, this place was totally different.

After getting what I wanted, went straight home and took a peep at my letterbox. Not surprised to see that our letterboxes being spammed.
Tags: The Gardens, Mid Valley, American Chili's, Spam, Chicken Fajita, Chocolate Molten Cake

Friday, January 25, 2008

Who Should Do What First?

You really have to read this report:-

Thieves leave area with no electricity
WE refer to the article under the heading 'Dream homes turn into nightmare' which appeared in StarMetro on Dec 27, 2007.

Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) would like to inform homeowners that the electricity supply to the housing area could not be supplied because TNB gadgets and cables in the area were stolen.
These items were stolen because there was no security at the area.

To prevent the theft from happening again, TNB, after holding discussions with the local council and residents committee, agreed that electricity supply would be connected only when residents move into their homes.

Based on the information provided by a representative of the residents committee last month, the owners have yet to move into their homes.

We urge TNB customers to call or SMS their complaints to 15454 should they encounter any problems with our service.

HUSSIN OTHMAN
General Manager
TNB Selangor (Distribution Division)

Found the above statement by TNB Selangor appalling. How are the residents going to move in when electricity is not connected? But on the other hand, if TNB was to re-connect the housing area and residents delayed their moves, the thieves would ransack the whole area again.

This is really another chicken and egg situation. In this case, who should do what first? Pity the homeowners in the first place as some could be financially strapped due to payment for two houses at the same time (be it housing loans or rentals).
Tags: Chicken and Egg, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, TNB, Electricity Supply

Football Bookies in Asia

When it comes to a major football tournament, I would get to see many people putting bets on matches being played on that night or nights to come. Heard of friends' offices that organised betting pools for a particular match or bet on tournament winner only.

During those same period, I have seen football bookies sitting in restaurants accepting bets via phone calls openly. Curiously, I did ask them what was the bet like for that match that we were watching. Many ways of betting quoted by him. Didn't place any though but he did ask me "want to bet or not?" ........... haha. Friendly guy anyway, maybe need to as to maintain good public relation.

The Interpol are getting ready for the coming Euro 2008 that would be held during June/July 2008 and the crackdown on football bookies were discussed in their Global Conference on Asian Organised Crime in Singapore recently. "Football bookies, here we come" - that could be Interpol's theme for 2008.

Wondering whether Interpol was involved in the on-going African Nations Cup? Benin's coach, Reinhard Fabisch, has publicly announced that he was approached by an African representative on behalf of a Singapore based syndicate. Later, his team lost 1-0 to Mali. Were his players on the take?

Have you placed any bets for the African Nations Cup? With Euro 2008 coming, I'm sure many one-off gamblers who are football fans would be placing tons of monies. As for me, would be grabbing lots of titbits in anticipation of those late night matches and maybe pop in lots of vitamin B.

It was such menace that made me lost interest in Malaysian football. Since the massive crackdown in the 1990s on dozens of players in the main local league, I have gave up hope on Malaysian football. With the pathetic display by the Malaysian football team in international matches, I found it hard to even read about it.

Somehow, Asian bookies tend to be at the forefront when major football tournaments are being organised.

Reading: Interpol cracks down on football betting - Stars
Tags: Football Bookies, Match Fixing, Interpol, Asian, Asian Bookies, Bookies, Bets, Gambling, Betting, Betting Syndicates, Football Betting, Football Gambling, Football, Soccer, Euro 2008, African Nations Cup, Malaysian Football, Reinhard Fabisch

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Punishment on Lazy Staff

Upon seeing this picture (in Funny Malaysia), I could actually recognise which staff was that (if you were a regular customer at this supermarket). What a way to punish a foreigner. Just because he is foreigner, the owner or supervisor thought it was alright to bully. Yeah, I called it bully because they wouldn't dare to retaliate as he was in a foreign land and don't know what to do.

Well, the notice did state "I was lazy". Maybe he was really lazy but still, he doesn't deserve such a punishment in this civilised country. Can you imagine an adult being punished like this? Really disgraceful.

Different people or organisation have different ways of punishing their staff.

Which supermarket? Sri Kota Supermarket located at Taman Danau Desa.
Tags: Sri Kota Supermarket, Taman Danau Desa, Punishment, Lazy Staff

Capsule Speakers

This mini capsule speaker, called X-mini, found in Singapore is a small gadget which could be hooked onto your laptop/pc produced by XMI Pte Ltd.

Would be fun to test its power.