So you guys must have been assuming, as what I've been expecting...

You guys must have been thinking that Cik Mat had just found the handphone, but I have yet revealed the true story behind it..

As we heard the radio like noise, only Cik Mat was curious enough to find out what the hell was that. When he find out the phone, there's someone calling and he picked up the phone and heard,

"Hello, I'm the owner of this phone. May I know who's speaking?"

"Yes, I'm Cik Mat. I've found your phone bla bla bla..."

"No, just keep my phone. I had terrible experience with that phone.. just keep it!"

And the caller hanged up. Cik Mat was terribly surprised, switched off the phone and started to figure things out. The Nokia N90 is now HIS.

*end of story*

The Tag

I'm doing this tag because Tina asked me to.. I knew I missed a few tags (and for those who tagged me, would you remind me back) but i've already lost tracked. Sorry guys..

So..

I am currently thinking of painting my car white and leave both hoods front and rear in black but i just cannot trust the people in workshop again. Never!

I just finished writing a minute of meeting. Been quite sometime not doing it. Duh!

I said i was single. Should i repeat it again? (that I'm not that available?)

I want to get married some years back but I don't know if I still want it now.

I wish that I'm living in the years when there are not so many things to think about rather than food and sex.

I hate the feeling of being dumped, cheated, rejected, betrayed, left out, ignored, misunderstood, lonely and many more, but i would still act kewl as usual.

I miss all the sweet time with my loved one.

I fear of not being able to fulfill, reach or getting something that i've been hoping or longing so much!

I hear lots of voices from my inner self telling me that I missed someone badly but I don't know who. I just do not know who, really.

I wonder if all mankind can actually live harmoniously without having to have the feeling of envy and jealousy to each other.

I regret nothing except for the opportunities that i didn't utilized.

I am not certain of what my life is going to be when the world is not in it's proper order anymore.

I sing when i feel like to. I can sing, my voice is nice, pleasant but not great. (said by Paul Moss)

I cry when i think i shouldn't. I shouldn't have cried when i encountered anything sad. But I just cannot hold it. Getting older made me became more sensitive.

I am wearing nothing but my short right now. I'd prefer to be naked all the time, and wish that I'm living in the ice age! Everyone was half naked or not wearing anything at all!

I made myself a nice tea just now. I love Peach tea very much!

I write about me and myself most of the time. Some other time, i write about issues.

I confused about what's happening around me. There are people who don't deserve what they have but still, people were supporting them for the wrong thing they did.

I need to buy a comfy house with huge land, a Honda Jazz, a BMW 3 series, a fishing boat, a 4WD pick up, a complete jamming and recording studio and room full with all the necessary electronic devices, then only I'll be happy and do nothing for the next 5 years!

I should have started doing what I'm doing now since the beginning. Now it's not too late but i may have achieved better!

I start playing music to express my inner self. That's why my music is a mess.

I finish this tag as to tag some more people to do this.

This tag goes to......!

1. Chikanoz
2. Eejay
3. Jojoe
4. Fara no H
5. Nashrex

That's it, thank you. (Sekian, Terima Kasih)

Last weekend, I went to Kuala Kangsar, Perak on an additional bus service, and it was such a horrible 10 hours on the bus. Was on the bus since 9.30pm, and reached Kuala Kangsar at around 8.30am the next morning.

Kuala Kangsar was such a very nice and quiet place. I've always liked such places; places like Kuala Kangsar, Taiping, Pontian, Mersing, Kukup, Port Dickson. Places of easy and lazy lifestyle with not so much cars around, especially Mersing.

I was fetched by my father's friend, Amir and we had a very nice breakfast there. What's so nice about the breakfast then? It wasn't the food. It was the weather. I was surrounded by Kuala Kangsar's people who behave differently, compared to those in big cities, either KL or JB. I don't know, but it's just different.

Then, back home, I was forced to join Amir to a Kenduri, or feast. The UMNO's Head of Pemuda's daughter is getting engaged. Not to my surprise, Datuk Nazri went to the Kenduri, as he was close to the Head of Pemuda and Amir himself. As Datuk Nazri saw Amir, he straight away sat beside me and we had lunch together.

I felt strange.

Datuk Nazri was unhappy as usual. Or maybe he can feel my strange feeling of dislikeness towards him but I was pretending to smile. At least I smiled, OK?

In the evening, we went out, together with Amir's Brother, Cik Mat and Amir's very cute and super cheerful daughter (thank god she's just 13 or I would fall in love with her), Farah. Just like the name of my sister. Now I knew 46 people with the name, either Fara, Farra, Farah or Farrah.

Faraj not yet.. hehe.. :p

We were by the side of the river, oh gosh i forgot to ask what river was that (as if i care hehehe) but it was nice, except for the fast current.

That night, we had the scheduled meeting and Taiping, here I come! We're going to visit the Head of Pemuda Umno relative there.

That was a lucky night for Cik Mat. As the 3 of us (me, amir and cik mat) were walking towards the hospital, we heard somekind of radio like noise near a motorbike but i just walked away. Cik Mat mystery of disappearance were later solved when he actually found a Nokia N90.

What a lucky night for Cik Mat. He just owned a new handphone then, for free. If we had our own newspaper, that would be the front page news!

The next morning, I had special roti telor for breakfast. It was super nice. There was a lot of no wonders then.

At around 3pm, me, amir and Farah were on the way to KL. Amir was heading to Jamal's concert, Farah was heading for MyTeam vs Malaysia match and I'm heading back to Seremban.

At around 8.50pm, I arrived in my Senawang house safely.

Thank god!

And Thank God that Malaysia beat MyTeam 2-1. Yay!

* Have u visited Malaysian's Friendster site? Try http://www.angau.com. It's free. It's Malaysian! It's fun!

I was supposed to be going to Senggarang to meet someone to discuss on a few things but as I arrived in Simpang Renggam's highway exit, i've got a phone call telling me that the discussion had to be cancelled. Frustrated, I drove back to JB slowly.

When I was driving slowly at the right lane, a yummilicious looking sports car was driving very closely to my back and i have to move to the left unfortunately.

It was a Nissan Fairlady 350Z, with a KL plate number.

And there was a Mercedesz S500 closely following the car.

I switched my tranny from 5th to 4th and start chasing.

The Merc was a peanut. I didn't take too long to overtake it at the speed of 225 km/h.

Then I was chasing the 350Z really hard. It was far ahead, plus it's so powerful than it was picking up really fast. I was head to butt with the 350Z till we reach the JB exit.

Just the 350Z paid the toll, i think he waited for me. As I passed the gate, i could see that he accelerated really damn fast as I was chasing him really close form the back.

After a few seconds of head to butt drama, I moved to the left and accelerated. At 210 km/h, it was another victory for B16A4.

A fairlady? Nah. Seems unbelievable, but it was such a refreshing moment!

A 1-0 B16A4 victory over a fairlady.

Then I would like to congratulate Taylor Hicks for his achievement in the American Idol, even though i like Chris Daughtry and Elliot Yamin much better.

Hmm.. Yamin, just like the name of my History teacher. He's always been pranked, fooled and bullied by the whole school.

But obviously I can't deny the fact that Katherine McPhee is pretty. I just can't take my eyes of her.

I even dreamt of her last night...!

As I've been busy lately, my phone has not been stop ringing. The calls were not only from my allies, partners, customers and prankers, but also from the banks.

I used to have 4 credit cards from 3 banks. That doesn't include 3 charge cards which I've cancelled 2 of them. The best thing, I only have only one credit card left, which the one from the Citibank. That doesn't mean that i'm already free from those calls.

I used to have a credit card from Bank Islam. That was my first credit card. The reason why they stopped my credit card was because I've forgotten to pay an amount of RM13.57 for 3 months. I paid RM50.00, but they've never ever reactivated my card, even after I sent them a letter.

Well, where's my RM36.43? That's Bank Islam?

No wonder they're on loss this year. Tak Berkat!

Later, I've got my Citibank and HSBC credit card. I used them regularly with regular payment every month. I hate serving interest; it's a waste of money for nothing. While I was using the HSBC cards normally, they started to call to offer me a lot of things like insurance, advance cash and so on, which to make me spend more and more and more. It had resulted me to be freaked out every time i gotta know that "It's the bank calling." Until one day, HSBC credit card office called me,

HSBC :: Hello, may I talk to Mr. Mohamad Izham?
Me :: Yeah, what up?
HSBC :: I'm calling from HSBC Credit...
Me :: Ok, I'm driving so what do u want?
HSBC :: Ok sir, since you have been a very good credit card user, we're offering to raise your credit card limit.
Me :: No thanks. I'm about to cancel the credit cards tomorrow. Good bye! (hung up)

I did! The next day!

And there's a call from Maybank as well. Have you ever got GOLD Visa & Mastercard being given free without having to apply for it? Haha.. I got, not once but twice!

Maybank :: Hello, Encik Mohamad Izham?
Me :: Yes, talking...
Maybank :: I'm Miss XXXX from Maybank would like to talk to Izham
Me :: Eh, i've already paid my house loan this month, so what's the problem?
Maybank :: No sir, Maybank has awarded you Visa & Mastercard Gold..
Me :: What? Come Again? I've never applied for such thing, so what the heck are you talking about?
Maybank :: Maybank is giving out these cards, complimentarily to those who succeeded to apply housing loan with us. We're giving it for free for life.
Me :: Wow that's kewl, so i can use it without paying?
Maybank :: Yes.
Me :: So I can use the card till maximum and I don't have to pay?
Maybank :: Errrrr no Sir. Only the fees are waived bla bla..
Me :: Hoi. Cancel the card la. I don't want. I've never applied, agreed or signed anything for the card. I won't be holding any responsiblities.
Maybank :: But sir, it's already approved..!
Me :: Gila la lu (u're crazy). Who ask you to approve it? How come i've got a credit card without me applying it? That's crazy. I will write on the papers about this.
Maybank :: Ok sir, nevermind. Good Bye!

That was pathetic. They've unfortunately forced the customer to accept the credit cards. Actually they have asked me to collect the credit card at the bank but I just ignored them. Then I remembered one interesting call from Citibank.

Venue :: In the toilet, I was doing my business.

Handphone :: Truttt truttt!
Me :: Hallo.
Citibank :: I'm Miss XXXXXX from Citibank. Bla bla bla bla)
Me :: (I pulled the toilet flush and took the handphone nearer to the toilet bowl)
Citibank :: So sir, what are you doing right now sir?
Me :: Berakla. Lu tak dengar ke? (I'm defecating, can't you hear?
Citibank :: (hung up)

Hahahahahaha.... A few days after that, another person from Citibank called me as well.

Citibank :: Hello Mr. Mohamad Izham. I'm Mr. XXXXXX from Citibank calling you for an advance cash offer. Are you free sir?
Me :: I don't want. Sorry
Citibank :: Okay sir, will you please give me just 5 minutes of your time?
Me :: I'm free but I just don't want because I can't afford it.
Citibank :: From our record, you've been paying regularly RMXXXX per month without fail. So basically, this is a very good offer to you. And from our record you were an engineer with XXX International. Please sir, just 5 minutes.
Me :: Haiya!!!! OK! 5 minutes!
Citibank :: ( Bla bla up to 10k bla bla very low interest bla bla 0.8% for XX months plan bla bla can pay all other credit cards bla bla bla for less than 5 minutes )
Me :: Eh u said 5 minutes? This is not even 5 minutes ma?
Citibank :: It doesn't matter sir. So would you agree to accept our advance cash offer? Or, do you have any other credit cards sir?
Me :: No I've already cancelled them because i can't afford to pay them. I'm no longer working right now.
Citibank :: So what do u do now sir?
Me :: I pick up tin cans, boxes, old newspaper and sell them for living.
Citibank :: Owh.. okay.. thank you sir.
Me :: (He must regretted the almost 10 minutes he spent with me, hehehehe)

And the last call I've got was from RHB a few days back! I'm sure the caller was freaken out to the max!

RHB :: May I talk to Mr. Mohamad Izham.
Me :: I'm driving right now, may i know who's speaking please?
RHB :: I'm Madam XXX from RHB Credit Card Center would like to offer you a credit card. Can we talk or should I call you later.
Me :: Nevermind. I don't think I can afford. I've cancelled all my credit....

(sounds of tyre screeching, me screaming, sounds of cars hitting, sound of broken things)

RHB :: Mr. Izham.. are u there? oh gosh oh gosh... what's happening..? (crying and hung up)
Me :: Hehehehehe..

I went and watch the movie last night. For me, it was quite enteresting eventhough my companion was sleeping most of the time; maybe because it was the last show of the day.

For most people, they may have certain knowledge of what they're gonna watch in the movie, for instance, most of those who went to watch the Lord of The Rings or Harry Potter may have had read the books, before they walk in to the cinema theater.

That's just not me. I like surprises. I like the unexpected. I hate expecting things to happen in the movies. More expectations would lead to more frustrations.

The same thing I did, when I was about to buy the movie tix yesterday. The only expectation i had in mind was, this movie is big! Big issues and controversies. That's why i dun really mind to pay RM12.00 for the tix. I've heard that this movie has got something todo with the christianity and so on, even Malaysian Portuguese people had petitioned the government to ban the film, but it does not well working.

I'm not gonna review the movie as I think that you people must go and watch the movie. It's a movie that would require you to be analytical, to memorize a few connecting facts, to have basic knowledge of christian movements and to understand that there are also differences in beliefs.

Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon in this movie, roled as an ancient symbols interpreter, Jean Reno as the Inspector Fache and Alfred Molina as one of the bishop. It's a movie that is full of riddles, logical thinking, unexpected, problem solving and an out of box imaginations.

The significance of this movie is about a school of thought that actually Jesus is a mortal human being in flesh and he even had a child with Mary Magdalene; which is contrary with the Vatican's belief of divine Christ. The movie is suggesting that Constantine commissioned and bankrolled a staff to manipulate existing texts of the original scriptures and thereby divinize the human Christ. Thus, question of Scripture's historic validity bears tremendous implications. We may have heard the arguments between the Old and New Testaments.

The movie is also suggesting a different history of christianity itself. Dubiously, there were a group of people who believe that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus, gave birth to Sarah and the people had also swear with their blood to Mary Magdanele, to protect the generation of Jesus till their last breathe. In contrary, another group of people which is believed to serve the Vatican, hunting down the Mary Magdalene's believer.

The protection of the Jesus's generation had becoming sophisticated by even involving the Swiss Bank to keep the secret treasure, that was believed to be inherited from Leonardo da Vinci, down to Sir Isaac Newton and now to the last Generation of Jesus. The Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known and worst-preserved piece, "The Last Supper" had made a lot of influence in the quest of searching the Holy Grail.

If you may still remember the movie, Stigmata, the same idea of how Vatican worked and acted towards the non-inline beliefs was exposed. The aramaic writings on the walls that was said as the original old testament is again suggesting the idea of the conflicting Old and New Testaments. There were also a theory suggesting that the Old and the New Testament does not share the same god.

Watching this movie overall, as a movie, it is a good one. It has never let my brain to stop thinking, analyze and relating the matters and facts in it.

Watching it as a muslim, there would be more conflicting issues. Knowing the Constantine's legalization of Christianity in 313 has made me understand further why did Islam came 269 years later. Certain thing in the Old Testaments that may have never been exposed, has led towards the quest to get rid of a new prophet (if we can remember properly in Islamic Sirah), that further lead to the creation of the New Testament, that is being used today.

A good reading on this matter would be here and here

I know I stand in line,
Until you think you have the time,
To spend an evening with me,
And if we go someplace to dance,
I know that there's a chance,
You won't be leaving with me....

The lyric has actually got nothing to do with this.

Today, I went to a place called Kong-Kong, somewhere near Masai/Pasir Gudang. It's a small jetty town, which most of the building were utilized for restaurant or coffee shop. It took me almost an hour from my house in Bandar Baru Uda to reach this place.

I thought it's gonna be a short journey but I was wrong.

I reached there at around 2PM, and I called my friend informing him my arrival. In fact, he was not around and I have to wait for him. I stepped in to one of the coffee shop, and as usual these people would be giving me a super weird look (especially that i arrived with a beetle), but i tried to be nice by smiling to them. Then I made some calls. I was so boring then.

I would see a few policemen were enjoying their leisure time at the other shop. As I was sipping my Kopi Tarik, I heard one of the patrol car was leaving but suddenly i heard people screaming. The patrol car hit the drainage beam and get stucked there!

I rushed there to see what had happened. I wanted to take pictures but that would be a disturbing act. People were busy talking to each other, discussing on how should the car be removed. The car was unable to move even an inch.

Initially, they tried to pull the car with a Ford Ranger, but the beam was too big for the car to get over it. Luckily the place was near to a construction place. Finally they decided to use the crane. It was such a big crane. Unbelieveable!

That was the patrol car's right front tyre stucked at the drainage beam, (you cannot see it from here). Look at the cables/wire. The cable/wire was connected to the huge crane. It was so big that I cannot put it into the picture.

The patrol car was successfully removed... but um...

I wonder what was the guy that i marked with the red pointer was doing?

Please ENLIGHTEN ME!!!!!!

* Pictures taken with my cheap camera phone. Not bad uh?

Someone showed me this..

An aquarius is a...

"Hot-hearted man who likes to do thing his way. He can suddenly decide to do something without thinking of it's outcome. He is the type of guy with an inside energizer, so if you fall in love with this type of guy be "patient", even if you have to follow him a bit. His creative mind could create fantastic idea any time. If you do not understand or can not follow him, you won't be with him for long."

"A man in this Zodiac will less likely to have a pale skin, and if he has a scar, it would be on his face or on his head. He moves very fast and very energetic, and he has a very self confident in himself. He is not the type to sit down and feel sorry or regret anything for long, especially with "Love". He loves justice. He dares to show his opinion or even argue about certain subject even he knows it might bring him problems. A straight forward type of guy."

"He hardly lies except if he think it is necessary and he is not a good liar anyway. He will not lie to you about serious matter, but if he lie he will lie only a small little thing. He is gifted with the ability to be a very social person. He could talk even about subject that he has no knowledge of. He interests only at the present time and look at the world positively. Many times he feels hurt because of reality, but he will not run away and he will overcome that difficulty."

"Even he is a high and self confident type and center his own thought as a main focus, but at the same time he is a kind, cute and polite guy. He certainly is not a mean person. He likes to help people who are in troubles even he is not asked to. He is the type who feels sorry if you remember bad things he said to you that he had already forgotten, but you did not. Belief him that he is very sorry and give him another chance."

"Once he decides to do something, he will put all his mind and energy in it either in his "Work", or "Love". He is the type who gamble anything in the casino, so do not even take him there. He does not like pessimistic, low energy, and depress person, especially no brain. Strangely he like to overpowered this type of people to assure that he is more superior."

"He like to be the first person to do something. You can see sparkling in his eyes, once he meet a new target or new lover. Once he is in love, he will act as if he never has love like this before. This minute he could be real sugar sweet, and later he could also be an icy cold, but do not blame him for that will only chase him away. He could fall in love again with another girl and act again like he never has this kind of love before. He could really love someone, but not a heart broken type for he thinks love is "excitement" and "Love goes on"."

"If you date this kind of guy, do not or avoid showing your face to him with face pack, face mask, always be presentable, nice and cute. If he is quiet not because he is shy, but he is only quietly thinking. If you have a chance to ask his X-girlfriend, she will tell you that he is not a shy or quiet type. If he is really and truly in love with you, he will never lie to you at all. How do you know if he loves you, bet on your faith! Love him and treat him steadily and do not try to find anything to argue with him, he will be with you for sure"

"If you are his lover or girlfriend and need to tell him something, go and say it out loud and straight forward because he hate long boring story. He hate to play games, chasing for love or being chased, so let him call you first. He likes a confident woman who also a good follower. If he gets mad at you, let him be for only a short time he will be normal again. You have to like and be able to get along with his friends, but he does not have to do so with all your friends."

"Don't ever think you could make him jealous by flirting with other man, he will just leave instead of making a scene because he is a confident man and has to be the first in everything"

Well got it? Italicised phrase were the 100%matching traits of mine.

So I'm really not the jealous type, what ever you say about my eye brows.

Sekian, Terima Kasih...

* Happy Teacher's Day!

Happy Mother's day!

I may have been the person with the most place i have been living in. Why?

I was born in Tampin, Negeri Sembilan (that explains why i've got '05' in my ID no.) Then, for a few months, my father has been transferred from a place to another (Jerantut, Mentakab, Raub, Temerloh; which is very well not in the order). So me and my mother were just following my father where ever he went to. (4)

Then my father was transferred to Kelantan. Starting from Tanah Merah. At this time, my brother, Ikhwan had just born. If I'm not mistaken, my brother Ikhwan was having problem with crying and u know what? I was sent to kampung to stay with my Nenek (Granma) and Mak Lang (My aunt). I started to remember things from Tanah Merah. I remembered a scene where my mom was using the washing machine to wash clothes and my Nenek and Mak Lang was also there. In Kelantan, my father was transferred twice, which the next destination was Kota Bharu. Here I knew some friends. Later, my father was transferred again to Machang. In Machang, my sister, Fadhlina was born. (3)

During those period, I was sent to Kampung a few times. My Nenek and my Mak Lang has become my 2nd and third mother. I remembered my Nenek will hug me the whole clod night. And I remembered at this one night, while I was talking to my Nenek before going to bed, I heard sounds like tiger roaring and walking in my Nenek's house compund. And I remembered that I wanted to give some money to my Nenek to fix her house.

Mak Lang was like my sparring partner. I remembered she took me seeing her boyfriend at that time (who happened to be my last Pak Lang). Until she got married, she took a great care of me while I'm in kampung.

Then my father was transferred to KL, we stayed in Batu 9 Cheras. We used to go back to kampung once in a while. I started my schooling days there till standard two. There, my sister Faizah was born when is was in standard one. Again she had craying problem as well.

Then my father was transferred again to Kuala Terengganu. There, we gotta know a few more friends. Azura, azureena and alin. The rest was like kamarul, kak ana and kak aida, who happened to be our neighbours in the governmental apartment. Auntie Aizan, the mother of Azura, azureena and alin has become another mother for us, i mean me, my bro ikhwan and fadhlina. Most of the time, she would drive my Father's BAA5621, which was a volkswagon beetle and sent everyone of us to school. She was really like a mother to me. I do talk to her sometime about how I feel. Shifting to another place is always pain in the butt. Terengganu is such a nice place to stay. I remembered a lot of funy things about me and Ikhwan there. Ikhwan used to wear a Barisan Nasional batch and walked around in the town. Hahaha.

2 years later, my father was offered (ordered actually) to further his knowledge in his field in West Germany. So, I was forced to go back to my kampung and continue my schooling there. After a year, my father came back and he was asked to start his work in Shah Alam. My father wanted me to follow him. I refused as I think i'd be comfortable in Kampung. Then I stay for another year in kampung, which My Nenek and My Mak Lang has again become my another mother, taking care of me. My family then stays in Shah Alam. (4)

I was offered into a residential school in Melaka. So I was there for 5 years. Within that 5 years, My father was tranferred again to Kulim Kedah for 3 years and later he was transferred again to Kuala Pilah.

During that 5 years, I have make some good friends and even connected to their families as well. There were 2 more moms, who later became my adopted mom, which was Hasid's mother and Sharul's mother. Both of them has become my very own mother, as they live nearer to my school and during the holidays, it's easier for me to go over their house rather than going back to my own. Buses to my kampung and Kuala Pilah was mere limited. To kulim was quite far. To get back to kulim straight, i have to take a bus to KL, and then take another bus to Kulim. So I have another 2 moms in my list. (2)

Then I proceed to further my studies. Again I was away from home. I stayed just for a few months with my mom after the SPM examination. I was offered to further my studies in 9 places, but being greedy, I took the one that was being offered by Telekom Malaysia, to do the diploma in Taiping for 2 years and then go oversea, but it turned something else. I was asked to further my study locally in the University that was going to be formed by Telekom and I was there till the year 2000 before I started to work and away from home again and again. As I was away from home, I became to close to another friend, who shared the same birthday with me, Romdzi! I turned to be so close to him and again she regarded me as her own son. One more mom in my list!

In the year 2000, my father was again transferred to the current post in JB. After 5 years of working in KL, I decided to quit and stay in JB. With my real mom!

So all together, I've been living in 13 different places, all over the country. That doesn't count that in Kuala Pilah and JB, we shifted from a house to another for q few times. In JB itself, we've shifted for (padi Mahsuri, Padi Malinja, Bukit Cagar, Bukit Aliff, Padi Ria) 5 times.

Now I'm 29. Out of that 29 years, I'm not very sure that in total, how many years I actually spent my life with my real mom. I was away since I was 12 years old. Then it continues till I was 17, then i started my diploma, then degree till I was 23, then I way away from her (working) until I was 28. If counted all those time when I was sent to kampung and everything, I actually spent less than 12 years out of my 29 years of living with my mom, not to mention with my father because it would be actually lesser.

Now, i've been living with her, here in JB for a year plus.

But all those away from her had made me to have a long list of other moms that i used to have. My Nenek, Mak Lang, Auntie Aizan, Hasid's Mom, Sharul's Mom and Romdzi's Mom. It's 7 altogether!

To all of you, I would love to wish Happy Mother's Day.

The only thing I can do was just to buy a cake yesterday. Even though it was not as nice as it looks, my mom was very excited and she told my Nenek and My Mak Lang to be home at kampung so we can be together and enjoy the cake.

Maybe during my wedding, I would be able to gather all my mom at one place. One day it will surely be!

Happy Mother's Day to my readers too!

The spelling seems correct to me.

One of my relative was hospitalized due to osteoporosis, which has led her backbone to bend and she cannot stand straight. She furthered with an operation and now being warded, and in a pretty bad shape. Needle points had caused her right hand to swell, which it doesn't seem normal to me.

I didn't really care about osteoporosis till this recent event, which i don't really think that osteoporosis really exist. I was wondering why do we have diseases we called as the 'New Gen Diseases'

Obviously, people from the previous generations, I mean our Malaysian previous generations were hardly suffering these diseases. They worked hard in the farms, sweat all day, eat healthy food, complete with all the required nutrients and mineral in the body. They are healthy because their nature of living forced them to be so.

So what's happening to us? Why were we so exposed to the risk of having these kind of diseases?

Unhealthy food

MSG guys! Pringles, maggi, cheezle, twisties, McDonalds, KFC.. just name it. And still it has become our favourite of all the time. Cancerous, high cholestrol, acidic and so on.

Unhealthy Lifestyle

Work in the office with bad environments, stressful colleagues and a lot of unfinished work. Driving in the jam, get stucked in the LRT, people rushing here and there, People driving slow on the fast lane, all these seem to be stressful to me no matter what.

Realize or not, we've taken a lot of things for granted, like 'makan sikit tak apa' (just a lil bit doesn't matter) because 'sikit2 lama2 jadi bukit' (now a little, keep it for along it'll be a lot).

I also heard that a lof of junkies that we eat would also drain out the calcium in the body. Gosh. And due to the modern appetite, most people (especially girls) says no to milk, vegetables, sea fish, beef, lamb and so on which is high in iron and calcium. A controlled amount of these food I believe is safe to consume.

How about Ulam? Tenggek Burung, Petai, Jering; those are good for stomach cleansing. The smell yucks but think of what if can do to your kidney. Have u seen (or heard) of buah mengkudu? It's really good for high blood people, same goes to buah sukun.

Maybe we should do something about it. Especially girls, osteoporosis is a practically serious threat, especially those with 'a bit extra fat', because your bones cannot forever hold ur 'extra body weight'.

And remember, good diet fairly compensated with good cardio and sweat job.

Hmmm, i really wonder why osteoporosis only for females. I remembered Taiko's brother joke about osteoporossis. May Taiko be kind enough to help me recalling it?

* Happy Mother's day! I bought a cake to celebrate the mother's day with my mom, my granma and my mak lang yesterday! Well the cake does not taste as nice as it look!

** Happy 22nd birthday to my sister, Faizah on last Thursday. May god bless you with your life.

Lumba Haram = Illegal Racing

I don't know where to start. It is not that I'm not used to drive superfast cars. To boast about the bad things I've done is not a pride at all. Well, it's was all the love to the adrenaline rush when I'm shivering at the driver's seat while waiting for the 'go' signal, maintaining the RPM at 3k, holding clutch at the most end..

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It was a very hot night. A few upgrades had just been nicely installed under my hood. The best thing was the computer reprogramming to remove the speed cut and to make a better flow for the fuel to be injected into combustion chamber when the pedal is being pushed to the max.

Since then, I've never tried to push my car to the limit. I don't know when should I do that as I don't have much time to do so, until I've got a call from a friend.

Along TT : Helo along, bila mau jumpa? Saya boling ini malam. (hello along, when are u gonna meet me. I'm bored tonight)

Me : Ok. Kita jumpa ini malam? (Alright, how about tonight?)

Along TT : OK.

That night, he came together with his friend Alex, who's driving an EVO6. You know what I'm saying right? An EVO6 that is.

We've been chit chatting when Along TT suddenly asked me can we test your car?

I was *Gulping* myself hard. A B16A4 vs. the legendary titaniumed 4G63T with a Garret turbine? They must be silly.

I refused as it's very unfair. Alex offered to exchange. I'll drive his while he'll drive mine. Hmm.. Very tempting. It's been so long not to be driving an EVO. Last time was when I tested drive an EVO9 end last year.

So Second-Link. HERE WE GO!

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I have a weird feeling about my car that night. As I was in the EVO6, i have never actually see my car in action as it was me all the time who was driving that car. My car is such a super beauty.

At the Nusajaya exit point we parked our car side by side and get ready. Secondlink was empty as usual and Along TT is the one who'll do the 'start-oh' thing.

Wah. I'm in the EVO. Driving an EVO need a way different method of launching. I'm not so sure about it but I'll just do my very best.

'GO!'

As Along TT said GO, I saw my car jumped ahead of me. Gosh! This EVO6 is not even jumping. Revved hard to 6.5 RPM when I already heard my car screaming beside me in the end of 2nd gear when I was just at the mid of my 2nd gear. My civic jumped further forward when it shifted to the 3rd gear. I'm losing! What the hell is this all about? My civic is ahead of this super EVO6? What's going on?

I didn't miss the gear, everything was perfect, not wheelspin as the whole thing grip nicely on the road. I may have been at par with my own Civic at one time but shifting gears has made me lacked by a few miliseconds behind.

I lost to my own Civic in an EVO6! As I clocked 225 km/h, my civic is still ahead of me!

As we stopped by the highway, he asked me what's wrong? I just tell him 'Tatau' (I don't know) while asking him to re-exchange our car and restart at another point. We counted together loudly and there we go for another round.

The EVO6 is now in front of me, as I realized something weird with my car. My car is revving to high 9ks with no problem. I was looking at all my meters without anymore concern on the race. As I shifted my gear, the rev will go down the least at 6.5k but the most astonishing part was,

When my speedometer is clocking more than 230km/h, the EVO6 was just behind me!

A 2-0 victory by VTEC!

* How would Mawi end up with Diana? Read it here..

Last weekend, Jom Heboh was held here in JB, near Festive Mall, which was actually just 5 minutes from my house.

And because (owh starting a sentence with an 'AND' is no good) of Jom Heboh, i missed going to the GYM 2 days (actually 3 days because on Monday I dun feel like going there, tired) because I may have to park my car so far from the GYM. The GYM is in the middle of Jom Heboh can u imagine that? And I don't think I can do my cardio while thousands of people would be looking at me then.

Saturday afternoon, I was driving back home from Plaza Angsana when I suddenly decided to drive through the main road to go back home.

The journey that was supposed to be as short as 8 minutes turned to be so tiring when i reached my house 50 minutes later. It's because the junction to Festive Mall (the place where Jom Heboh was held) were a just a few hundred meter from the junction which lead to my house.

So I decided, "Not Goin to Jom Heboh". No matter what!

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Last minute, My sister Farah was so hard headed on her decision to go to Jom Heboh. She actually wanted to see Fifi from the BersamaMu Program (if you watch TV3 every Monday from 9-10 PM, you'll know).

So with my sister driving, we made the move. So bad, as we came from a wrong direction, the junction leading to the place was closed. So we decided to park our car just by the main roadside (as everyone does) and walked for 10 minutes before we reach the place.

Most of the booth was closed, except for booth who were about to make their last minute sale. All the TV3 main booths were also closed. I told Farah that most of them were closed now so we might just wander around and look for something that we can do.

There's nothing.

We walked towards the concert stage. There are too many people.

Then we walked away, which we passed through a booth which there were crowds. It was Julie's Biscuit booth, which was promoting their latest ever product, the MyVito.

On my tiptoe, i cannot believe my eyes that Rosyam Noor was there. Hahaha! Honestly, he's not happy sitting there signing autographs for his fan.

I cannot stop laughing. What the hell he was doing there while all the other celebrities were on stage.

We continued walking and managed to buy a few things (CHEAP CHEAP!) and took them home. As we reached home, my sister Farah, started to make her sad face. I know why.

SHE WANTED TO WAIT FOR SITI NURHALIZA ON STAGE.

Well, she's still small. I do think she'd be able to that later. I'm so tired of so many people there.

* Someone in a debate/forum show being in a biscuit booth? Pathetic man! Maybe he should start a forum, should artist/celebrities be sitting at a biscuit booth?

** Do you know how did Ramly Burger started and now he's making RM200 million a year? Read it here

Apa itu pojok? (What is pojok)

Pojok is a malay word that carries two meaning which are 'a corner' or the other one 'satirical content in the form of drawing or writing'.

My intention is that this blog is meant to be my personal life blog as it used to be before. As lately i was keen on the national issues, which i think most of us is not being enlightened due to the lack of the knowing in the historical events and facts, and also due to my nature to get involved and voice out my thoughts.

For those who have referred this blog as the blog of issues/political/entertainmental blog, i would love to annouce that i'm opening another blog for this purpose. It's for the love of my family, folks and country. You might want your browser to http://izham-pojok.blogspot.com.

TQ.

Have you guys heard or read about the recent resignation of Datuk Shahrir Samad, the MP of Johor Bahru (the place I'm living hehe) no matter in the TV or newspapers? His action would cause him to be referred to BN's WHIP (i don't know what the hell whip is) which is Najib the DPM. The same thing has happened to Aziz Samsuddin and Bung Mokhtar when they tried to refer Rafidah and Sidek Hassan to the Parliament's Rights and Freedom committee regarding the AP issues.

It is all because they have seconded the motion brought up by the opposition (in this case Lim Kit Siang), even though it's regarding the integrity and credibility of a government officer like Rafidah and the latest, Mohd Said Yusof (who is also well-known of his big mouthed attitude), even though it's rightful and necessary.

I think all of us would agree to Lim if it's rightful and necessary.

So who is autocratical and dictatorous right now? Hehehe..

While reading some of Lim Kit Siang blog entries and comments, I have gone through this made-up conversation in the parliament, which has been synistically written to better picturize the situation of the corrupted mind and policy of the government's MPs.

One day, during an emergency seating of Parliament :

LKS : Honourable members of this house, in view of the imminent threat of a foreign force invading our shores, I would now like to move an urgent motion calling for conscription of our citizens to defend our beloved nation.
BN : [heckling and booing] Oi, Cina, dudok-lah. Jangan bising loh Tidah ada kerja lain!
SPEAKER : Motion denied as it has no remsemblance of public interest.
LKS : But … but …. but … do you realise that we are going to be invaded??? Please listen to me.
BN :[more heckling and booing]. Oi Lim, balik Cina oh. You ah, sangat bising. Saya nak balik ruman cepatlah!
SPEAKER : I said that the motion is denied. The subject is closed.

Later on, the DPM was interviewed by a very worried looking reporter.
REPORTER: Sir, in view of the imminence of war between a foreign nation, why didn’t the BN MPs support LKS on the conscription issue?
DPM : Very simple – we don’t support any motion forwarded by the Opposition.
REPORTER : But sir, we are talking about our country being attacked and lives and properties will be destroyed.
DPM : True, true, but as long as it comes from the Opposition, we will not support the motion. But nonetheless, I shall table the conscription motion myself tomorrow.
REPORTER : But isn’t it the same as supporting the Opposition??
DPM : But not if I re-phrase the motion to make it looks like it comes from the BN. How’s that?
REPORTER: But by then, wouldn’t it be too late to set things in motion to conscript the citizens. In a matter of weeks, the enemy forces would already be at our front door.
DPM : Oh well, sabar, sabar – that’s the way things go in our Parliamentary system. We just have to live with it.

* taken from a comment on Lim Kit Siang's Blog

** The action of Datuk Shahrir Samad should be commended. He's trying to protect the integrity and honour of the parliament itself.

*** But I'm halfly supporting Mohf Yusof of his action. Even though it's wrong to import the sawn timber of that particular size, to think of it, the national timber industry is suffering. Think of those who are working in the furnitural industry, sawmills, which most of them are the Malays. Where these people are supposed to be going when there's no more job for them. I wrote about this in Lim Kit Siang's Blog too.

THINK la all those custom officers! All of you are malays too!

This is merely political guys. Mohd Said Yusof is trying to back the industry (and the malays in general) and Shahrir is trying to protect the integrity.

They should have talked to each other first. The possible causes of Shahrir's resignation that might have not been publicized are:-

1. He realized later that yusof may have done the right thing
2. He's trying to prove that something has gone wrong with the government's policy (i believe he's been doing this for ages)
3. He's fed up with the BNBBC (what is BNBBC? BN Back Benchers Club aight?)
4. He's trying to show a gesture that he disagrees with a lot of things (that i do not want to write here as i might later be accused as to spread libel/rumours)
5. He's just bored and wanna go home.

Well, i've got a sis with a broken hearted soul right now. Another sister has written her rage of Mawi's thingy over the news/media papers.

Haha!

MORAL QUESTION

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By giving an
honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally. The test features
an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which. Please scroll
down slowly and give due consideration to each line.

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THE SITUATION

You are in Florida, Miami to be specific. There is chaos all around you
caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical
proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and
you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster.

The situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot career-making
photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing
under the water. Nature is unleashing all of its destructive fury.

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THE TEST

Suddenly you see a man in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not
to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the man looks
familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's George W. Bush! At the same
time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever.
You have two options--you can save the life of George W. Bush, or you can
shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, documenting the death of one
of the world's most powerful politicians.

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THE QUESTION

Here's the question, and please give an honest answer:

Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the classic
simplicity of black and white?

1. Credit Card

Like most of everyone else, I longed to own my very own credit card once I'm working. Even though my parents have been telling me not to use the credit card, I'm still having it, even though I'm actually not really a big spender, but with all the status-conscious friends back in Telekom RND, having a credit card is a signage of your higher status.

Stupid me, the approval of my Bank Islam Credit Card had opened the door for all other banks to sign me up for their credit cards. I still remembered that Citibank had actually offered to all the just graduated student to apply for their graduate credit card. I didn't apply for that, but I applied it later on, and it's approved.

Worst, the sweet talks had easily gets me going with that HSBC agent to apply for their credit cards. 3 cards, Mastercard, Visa and Amanah Mastercard. Even worst, I manage to apply for the Diner's Club charge card as well.

Diner's club has made me to leave all my friend far behind. Most of them can't even get their Citibank or HSBC card to be approved.

Well, it's not as good as you may think of for a lot of reasons!

1. Your credit card information will be shared with companies like insurance companies and holiday companies. They'll bug you over time to persuade you to buy their insurance or holiday package.
2. If you have no transactions, they'll call you and ask you to either make a cash withdrawals or balance transfer.
3. They'll call you even if your credit is just RM3.57
4. If you pay up late, you'll be charged 'a lil bit' extra.
5. Interest will be charged on your credit balance.
6. These cards will make you feel like you're capable to buy just anything! You're poor but you can afford a lot of expensive unnecessary things.

I decided to quit all this. I managed to cancel my Bank Islam Credit Card years ago. I just cancelled my HSBC credit cards last week. I'm gonna cancel my Diner's club membership anytime soon but i'm thinking of maintaining my Citibank's.

Oh I'm so relieved!

I would say having credit cards is one of the stupidest thing i've ever done! One is just enough!

2. Driving on highways on the holidays

Pity Malaysians!

Or should I say STUPID MALAYSIANS?

Don't get me wrong. This is not intended to insult or being harsh to anyone. You know I'm always joking in this way hehe.

Well, as a regular user of the highway, as I've always been up and down JB-KL. It's very common to face traffic jams from these spots:

Going south, from Nilai to Senawang

Going north, from Pedas Linggi to Seremban

Going south, from Kulai to JB

I'm not sure about going north (KL-Perlis) but I was told that, the traffic jams even worse!

It's very sad that PLUS (the highway concession owner) keep telling us that they were working on it, they mean the traffic jam but it would still happened.

It's even more sad that they didn't give us the way out of the mess, and let the drivers, who intended to go holiday to have some rest but turns out that they get home in stress of the traffic jam. All they know were just to open a lane in the opposite direction so that the bigger jam would be lesser as they can create another jam at the other oppositing direction.

What a stupid solution. Messy man!

THR radio could help but so far, it's not really helping without the cooperation with PLUS. The radio channel which is supposed to be helping people out during their highway journey turns to be an independent channel who report the traffic jams based on people calls. It turns out wrongly yesterday as they mentioned about the mass traffic jam from Machap to JB but the real thing is the traffic jams were only from Senai to JB.

Why THR and PLUS cannot work together?

As for me, as I always have this kind of grudging towards people, PLUS is the culprit.

Why?

I think they should have worked together with THR to help to highway users. But they don't.

They can put electronic sign boards to inform to users about the traffic jams ahead but they didn't.

Why again? It's because they do not want to lose the toll money if people opted to use the alternative route. So bad isn't it? The highway is meant to speed up the journey but it turns the other way around.

There was once, an accident occured, going south after the Pedas/Linggi toll. The lorry body was lying across the whole road that will cause the traffic to be totally stucked! The PLUS people did not even ask the people to take alternative route, but they were like 'imprison' them on the highway from 11PM to 5AM. A long wait of 6 hours!

That's so pathetic. More pathetic are we Malaysians. We already know that during the holidays, the highway will be jammed, but we still use it as there's no other route you can choose to use. True! It's quite true also. You know why?

Most of those drivers were only driving after the highways had been completely built.

No wonder.

Even though I'm also started to drive after the completion of the highway, I'm adventurous enough to explore the other routes for your guys! Here are some tips as well!

1. Listen to THR for updates!
2. (going north) If jam in the area between Pedas/Linggi to Seremban, exit at the Simpang Ampat/Masjid Tanah toll, and take the previous route of Tampin to Seremban.
3. Alternatively, you can take the route to Lubok China, to Port Dickson, To Sepang and KL.
4. (going south) If jam occured somewhere before Nilai toll, trust me, the jam is all the way up to Seremban/Senawang toll. Solution, take the Nilai exit, and take to old route to Seremban. Don's worry. There're signboards around.
5. (going south) if jam occured from Senai to JB, take the senai exit and all the way to JB on the other sleepy highway. No hassles.

It's a bit far, but at least it's not as boring as freezing in your car for hours. Not moving!