Today's Happenings

Since 2003 the arrears of parking fee for the car under KK City Hall up to 30 June this year is RM19.80 but the excess charges amount to RM225.00 bringing the fees payable to RM244.80 ie. 12x more than the original amount due. This is NOT funny at all.

But under the grace period that is going on right now, the public can pay the arrears plus ONLY 5% of the excess charges which meant RM19.80 + RM11.25 (RM225.00 × 5%) = RM31.05 which is so much better that paying RM244.80. I paid mine today.

This evening as I left work, I wanted to take some sunset shots but as soon as I switched on the digital camera, straight away the batteries went dead and the shutter protecting the lens could not shut properly.

I was hoping that would not be the end of the camera. Upon arriving home, I quickly recharged the batteries for two minutes and put them inside the camera again. This time the shutter shut properly. I was glad.

These are the batteries that came with the first digital camera that I bought.

These are the extra batteries I bought to use with the first digital camera.

When I traded in the Nikon digital camera and bought the Canon digital camera, I was not given any batteries. Few days ago, when the office had to drop by the shop where I bought the camera to buy batteries for the company's digital camera, I told him to enquire for me about the problem I am encountering with these two lots of batteries. They told him to bring back everything to the shop.

This evening I met Lily Tan and Sophia Tsen at Fukurou Japanese Restaurant for dinner.

Sophia and I ordered the same thing ie. Sushi Moriawase, which was also the same thing I ordered last Sunday when I had lunch with Monica Leong. Lily ordered Gyuniku Udon.

As soon as our food arrived, I wanted to take shots of them but once again the batteries went dead on me. Argh!

The sashimi I had on Sunday tasted fresher as compared to tonight’s but they were still fresher than all those I had elsewhere.

Sophia liked the soup in the Gyuniku Udon.

After much consideration, I decided to become a member of this restaurant.

We stayed at the restaurant and chit-chatted until 10.30p.m. eventhough the restaurant supposed to close at 10p.m. At about closing time, a couple came and ordered food. They left just before we left.

New Things

1. New digital camera – Office boy helped me buy the Canon PowerShot A480 digital camera for RM390 after trading in the Nikon Coolpix L3. Yeah I have a new toy to play with.

2. Driver’s license renewal – Office boy had to go to the post office to renew the road tax for one of the company’s car. Therefore one of my colleagues and I requested him to renew our driver’s licence at the same time. Mine would only be expiring 2nd November while my colleague's expired two days ago.

3. When I arrived home after work just now, Aunty Alice asked whether I can smell 'it'. I asked her, 'Don't tell me mum cooked my all time favourite food?'. She wanted to know how I know. Well ... In fact mum did not cook it for about a year already I think.

This does look particularly appetising but it is my favourite food. Prawn dough before becoming prawn crackers. YUMMY!

4. Monica Leong works as the librarian at Institut Sinaran. She recommended me to read books by author Jeffrey Archer when we were window shopping at Popular Bookstore, City Mall recently.

I asked whether she could help me to borrow from her library. Yesterday she passed me the following book and tonight I will be starting to read it.

Digital Camera Enquiry

The office boy had some errands to do in the city and therefore I requested that he helped me to enquire about repair for the digital camera.

While he was at the shop called Investline Sdn. Bhd. located at the Kota Kinabalu Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry Building, he called and told me the repair would cost RM300! Goodness gracious me. I told him not to proceed and to ask for prices for new ones.

When he came back, he told me I could trade in my spoiled camera and get a Canon for RM390, original price of RM449 or get another Nikon for RM330 without trade in.

I need to think about it first before making a decision and to search the web for some information.

Easter Egg?

I ordered a HP cartridge for the office facsimile and this pink thing came with it as a gift from HP.

At first I thought with Easter just around the corner, maybe HP is giving me an Easter Egg. Haha

I did not have time to figure out it straight away and when I did, I discovered that it is a letter opener.

Cute ...

Air-Conditioner

One of the air-conditioners at work has been playing up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it would switch off by itself. At other times it would cause the electricity to trip.

Last week the boss decided that it was time to get a new one. This time the air-conditioner would be a ceiling mounted type and could blow to four directions. And one of those directions is towards me.

The air-conditioner was installed last Saturday and I stayed until 6.45p.m. so that the workers can make it fully functional. I only got the first taste of it for less than an hour that day.

Today everyone is back to work. I put the air-conditioner on 16 degrees Celcius. Before lunchtime, some people were already feeling the coldness and the boss requested the temperature be increased.

From now onwards I think I can wear more long sleeves to work. It is definitely the time to start wearing some of them which I have not gotten the chance to do so.

Pendrive

These are one of the wonders of technology. They are so easy to use to backup data and to bring around. Also to transfer data from one computer to another.

At first when it first came out, I had one with 512MB to use at work. Subsequently I bought one 1GB and then another one 2GB. The latest one I bought can store of up 8GB. I backup all my work and personal files in them.

Phone Technician

The house phone had been out of order for more than ten days. I only found out about it a week ago when I could not go online. After the Telekom phone technician came to fix the line, surfing the internet was not a problem but incoming and outgoing calls were not fixed. So I lodged in another complaint two days ago.

Today the Telekom phone technician came again. I have no idea whether the same person came or not because I was not home on both occasions.

Anyway after the technician repaired the phone today, mum called me and told me that the technician said I could no longer use the internet in my room anymore and that I have to put the pc downstairs. After I hung up the phone, I wanted to lodge a complaint to Telekom for such an incompetent employee. I have been using broadband for more than one and a half years and I did not encounter any such problem before. How come suddenly I cannot do that anymore? Anyway I did not call Telekom yet but instead came home to check things out first.

Mum kept on saying the technician said I cannot use the internet in my room anymore because he changed a gadget for the phone. I put my internet phone wire inside one of the holes of the gadget and came upstairs. My external modem could detect the phone line so I am able to surf from my room once again. So happy …

HP Deskjet F4185 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier

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St. Peter Chanel High School, Regents Park 1984, Year 10-7


St. Peter Chanel High School, Regents Park 1984, Staff

Last Saturday I called my company’s computer technician Mr. Ang to ask him to recommend me a scanner because I have a lot of photos to scan. I meant to buy one long time ago but I did not get around to doing it. Eventhough I solely have a scanner to use at work, I did not want to borrow it home to use.

Ang recommend me this All-in-One Printer, Scanner and Copier which can save me some money and storage space since I can use one thing for three purposes.

Today he delivered it to my office and I brought it home.

The first two photos I chose to scan were taken during my Year 10 – one is the photo of my class and the other one is the photo of the staff at my school in 1984. Why did I choose to choose to scan these two photos first?

Well, a promise is a promise. I have promised a schoolmate I would do it a few months back but I only got to do it now. Better late than never.

FOC Sony 29" TV

Jul 11, 2007, 8:09 pm

A week ago today, I was given a free 29" Sony TV! Ya, God is good.

The owner of the TV wanted to buy a new one and so gave away the old one. My lounge room table is large enough to accomodate this TV and the one I have has been moved up to my bedroom. But so far I haven't touched the TV in my bedroom yet as I seldom watch TV.