Anti-what?

Last week someone called to look for me but I was unavailable to talk to the person.

My colleague Nanie Enggam forgot the name of the caller and just mentioned the word - anti-biotic and anti-septic.

I thought she was talking about Lily Tan. haha (For those who does not know, my friend Lily is a pharmacist)

But she then said anti-virus.

Oh, she meant Winnie from KKIP Com Sdn. Bhd. We need to renew the anti-virus for some of the computers at work.

Mystery solved.

Deadlines for March 2008

Today I am extremely happy to receive the company’s bank statement for the month of February 2008.

What so unusual about this? Well this is the first time the bank statement arrived on the first week of the month ie. in record breaking time. Usually it would arrive around 15th to 20th.

And with the bank statement, I can proceed to do the 5% government custom tax that will be due for payment latest on 28 March 2008 to the Royal Malaysian Customs Department for income received for January and February 2008. The earlier I can get this over and done with, the more time I have to concentrate on completing the Form E ie. Return Form of an Employer for Remuneration for Year 2007 which is due at end of this month. The latest date I have to courier to Kuala Lumpur Inland Revenue Department will be 28 March 2008.

In between these two major deadlines this month, I will also be taking leave and spending a few days in Kuala Lumpur for Good Friday and Easter Sunday plus a few more. So time is really an essence this month.

I cannot complete the Form E for the moment because the company auditor is still finalising the audit of the Company Accounts for Year Ending 30 September 2007. Director’s fees and bonuses will be declared once the final figures are known. These figures have to be included inside the Form E.

(As of today, I completed payment to Inland Revenue Department, Employees Provident Fund, Sosial Security Organisation and Finance Company)

REMINDER to all: Your Form BE ie. Return Form of an Individual (Resident Who Does Not Carry on Business) for Year of Assessment 2007 will be due at the end of April 2008.

Mouth Rinse/Mouthwash

I had been using Oral-B Mouth Rinse for a few years. But for the past two months I had problems in replenishing my stock. I cannot find any at all the places that I went to ie. Giant and Servay Supermarkets, Guardian Pharmacy and Watsons.

In order to continue using one, I had to resort to alternative. That was when I found Pro-Care Mouthwash in Servay Supermarket. It costs RM7.95 per 500ml bottle. Oral-B costs around RM10 for the same quantity.

I always wish that I had looked after my teeth while I was younger. When I was in primary school, I loved visiting the school dentist twice a year. But from secondary school until adulthood, I did not care much about my teeth. The past five years I have been trying to make amends by seeing the dentist at least once a year. This is still not good enough but it is better than not visiting one at all. I also try to force myself to floss my teeth every night but I am not doing well in this area. I certainly need more discipline.

Big Difference – 5 or 25 minutes?

This afternoon there was another downpour but this time only for a short while. If the rain had continued to come down bucketsful like yesterday, I would have left work at 4.45p.m. to avoid the traffic congestion and flooding. Instead, I stayed and did overtime until 6p.m.

The drive home was a smooth one as compared to yesterday. I was home within 5 minutes as compared to 25 minutes yesterday. There were not many cars on the road. I think probably a lot of people decided to go home early so as to avoid a repetition of yesterday.

Today I also paid the house rates of assessment for the first quarter of this year since my office boy had to make some payments to Kota Kinabalu City Hall. Besides bill like this one, he also helps me to pay telephone, electricity, water, credit card and renewing road tax. Since I work 5.5 days per week, I do not have the liberty to go and pay all these bills. And therefore I am always thankful to my office boy for doing all these for me. Nothing comes free in this world so I would give him some cash or some food in return for the favours done for me.

Record Breaking Day

1. Bossed arrived work at 7a.m. and left around 7p.m.

2. I arrived work at 7.15a.m. and left at 6.45p.m.

3. Heavy downpour in the afternoon resulted in the road next to office being flooded. Thank God there is more than one route to go home.

4. Due to the heavy downpour, major traffic congestion on the road. Took me 25 minutes to get home for a mere 4 km journey. Lots of cars stranded on the highway.

5. Due to major traffic congestion, traffic police had to direct traffic.

6. I gave way to a lot of cars.

Rose Apple

This fruit is called Syzygium Jambos (scientific name) or rose apple or jambu (Malay).

It is one of my favourite tropical fruits. It is like eating apple but with more juice inside than apple and with a slight scent.

I like to eat the rose apple with a dash of prawn paste (sambal rojak) on top.

2 Roundabouts

I meant to blog about this long time ago but I did not have a chance to take the photo until today. But I only realised now the photo I took is not going to speak a thousand words!

These 2 roundabouts started appearing outside my housing estate about a year ago. They are situated so near each other that I think they must be one of its kind in the whole of Malaysia or maybe the whole universe!

I wonder what is the reasoning behind them. If it is to prevent car accidents, then a simpler solution would be to erect proper traffic signages at the road junctions. If it is to prevent traffic jam at one junction, it may work at that particular junction but it created bottlenecks at another junction.

So I reckon we are better off not having them at all.

Election Fever

Photo 1


Photo 2


Photo 3

With the Malaysian 12th General Election less than a week away, campaigning by the candidates is up by a few notches.

Photo 1 was taken outside the roundabout of my housing estate is a typical scenario occuring everywhere in this country during the campaigning period showing faces of the candidates and their respective party.

(Usually all the planks that are used to stick the faces of the candidates will disappear the next day after the election (Illegals using them to build their illegal dwellings???))

When I arrived home after lunch today, I found this book (Photo 2) (Report on Activities of Member of Parliament P.171 Sepanggar (name of place), YB Datuk Eric E Majimbun) and a leaflet (Photo 3) on the table. I wonder whether the candidate showed up personally or hired someone to deliver the book and leaflet.

U-Turn at Traffic Light

There are a number of traffic lights in Kota Kinabalu where a driver is allowed to make a U-Turn and this is one of them (the intersection at Jalan Kolam and Jalan Lintas).

The Proton Waja in these photos belong to my church friend Andrew Chan.

True Weight

Yesterday my colleague Nanie Enggam read somewhere on the internet (I did not ask which website) that our true weight is the weight straight after we have passed motion in the morning.

This morning straight after I passed motion, I weighed myself and the weight displayed was 42.5kg.

According to the body mass index calculation (bmi calculator), my result is as follows.

Your BMI is 19

BMI = 18.5 - 24.9
Weight Range = 91.6 - 123.3 lbs
Weight Status = Normal

Up until 16 months ago my weight was at a whooping 50kg. My clothes and pants still fitted me fine and so I did not realise the weight I was putting on until one fine day when I went to the tailor to get my work pants done. One of the workers mentioned that I have become fat as compared to the previous time I went there.

In order to lose weight although never intentionally, but for the sake of my own health, I started to cut down on my rice intake during dinnertime. I started to lose weight and now my weight is quite stable because I control my food intake instead of the other way round.