Had a scare...

Hospital Angkatan Tentera Tuaku Mizan

Early yesterday morning received a call from my mum at 5:00 a.m asking me to take my dad to the hospital. His prostate is acting up again and he have not been able to relieve himself properly. Quickly had a shower and did my prayers and took him to the Emergency at the Military Hospital Tuanku Mizan. After around 20 minutes they saw him and gave him a shot of Frusemide which is a muscle relaxant. Took time but finally he managed to relieve himself. We returned home and I went on to work. I thought that was that. At 11:00 a.m my wife called me saying that my mum (who is not well herself) is driving my dad to the hospital again because he is still feeling a lot of discomfort. First I am concerned that he is going to the hospital again and then because my mum is driving. My dad is 72 this year while my mum is 68 this year.

Taken from www.webmd.com

I quickly rushed to the hospital. When I arrived they had already fixed a catheter to my dad and he was not comfortable. We had lunch and then went to the Urology Unit in Hospital Kuala Lumpur for what he thought was his appointment. Apparently we were told his appointment is on 26 March and not 26 February and we were advised to keep the tube there for 2 weeks. I am not too pleased as the tube is just a temporary solution. I wanted a better solution. Since the tube was put in temporarily we had to return to Hospital Tuanku Mizan again to put a tube that is able to last for 2 weeks. It was almost 4:00 p.m by that time when I returned home.

I was still tinkering with my repeater set-up still not working effectively. When I got a little sleepy and went up to take a nap. I never did take my nap as I received a message from a former colleague of mine in a past life who told me that some of our colleagues in our working place has been suspended due to some poison pen letters or some malicious blog. Quickly I updated our Group and there was a frenzy exchange of indignant remarks. I will call one of the ex colleagues later today. For now I have a meeting to attend. I will just leave with what is prostate. I am taking this from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate and Medline Plus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/prostatediseases.html. 

I will add on later on how to prevent prostate diseases since I want to know myself.

What a week

Abdul Nasi Briyani Batu Pahat Power

For reasons unknown last week was a tiring week for me. First my colleague brought us to Abdul Nasi Briyani Power. Its nasi beriani Batu Pahat. It is located here https://foursquare.com/v/abdul-briyani-power-batu-pahat/4cc7c3d1be874688138380af. Really good stuff. And that was on Tuesday. 

Low Sang

On Thursday my assistant and I hosted the ladies from our Shareholders to Gong Xi Fa Cai lunch at Unique Seafood in Citta Mall. Here https://foursquare.com/v/restoran-unique-seafood-subang/4f656b64e4b0e78c018a1422. Many many course meals, mainly seafood of course, unfortunately service was a little slow because there were too many people. The Low Sang (Mix Raw) or Yee Sang was done at the end instead of at the beginning since they have been misplaced..... This is the Yee Sang. The idea is to toss as high as possible while mixing for prosperity.

On Friday as a return gesture the ladies invited us for Low Sang at their office. There was also Lion Dance as well. Example of a lion dance. There was a pair. I did not bring my camera and my Blackberry takes lousy pics. Some lion dance includes various acrobatic moves this just involved eating oranges. The line for food was deemed too long so my old friend who worked there invited me to join them for nasi beriani at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail mosque. Nasi beriani again, his treat. So cannot really say no can I? Went there, did the damage, did the prayers, hang around his office for a short while bitching about stuff.

On Saturday my wife had to do some dessert table at Ikano Power Centre (IPC) in Mutiara Damansara. There were so much stuff and the cake was sooooo huge I had to help to send her. Parking there is atrocious. Once I dropped her off at the parking drop off I went for a 2 and a half hours of bliss i.e. reflexology in Damansara Utama then returned to pick her up.

Contemplating on buying a new television. Heart almost set on the Philips 3D TV. Good stuff. This one. My wife was very hungry. Picked up the children from in-laws place and went to Sakura Kristal in Taman Melawati for dinner. This is their blog. http://sakura-kristal.blogspot.com/. Never disappoints except for a little issue with lemonade that apparently was not sold in those giant mugs. But when told that I ordered exactly the same just a week before finally they relented. Was just about the call the cook, the sailor and the candle stick maker if I cannot get my gigantic mug of lemonade.

Sunday. My wife was all set to have our anniversary meal in Pangkor Village for the chilli crab and fried buns but it was closed on Sunday. Strange must be doing roaring business that it can afford to close for a whole day. So decided to go to Citta Mall instead again to Unique Seafood. Not as many people this time so we ordered chilli crab and the fried buns, which to my wife's delight they also have. My son had his homemade sizzling tofu and my daughter her lemon chicken without any lemon. It was yummeh! Delightful except for when they accosted us with the bill as they close at 3:00 p.m. With my fingers still sodden with the gravy I am a little annoyed that they can be so crass, what can we expect when you rely on foreign workers.

After that went to Time Square to get my son his school bag. He have gone through 4 bags in 9 months. Time Square have got good choice for bags but we are not fond of Time Square. Something about the aura there....Then we went to Festival City Mall to make my glasses. Not cheap at all. Settled for one at A Look. I love A Look the staff there is very polite and patient wherever we went. First went to A Look back when we were in Johor Bahru and have not stopped since. http://www.a-look.com.my/. 

Our new Epson Printer

Then we went to All IT to look at printers. The old staff there is no longer around. Wanted to get laser printer with wifi but it is quite dear. For wife's business finally settled on an EPSON Photo Printer. Seems complicated so will take my time to install it. Since it is wifi will no longer need cables, yeehaaa! At the same time as well, looking at improving the wifi signal strength by doing some workaround, installing repeaters, home plug etc. Will update more later. For now the repeater is not behaving itself. That ends my week. See you again next week.

Sunday...need to wash car

While I contemplate about washing the car let me share the song I cannot get enough of. Enjoy. Walk by Foo Fighters.

The week that was

Tanjung Belanja, Parit, Perak

Petai

Inside the petai plant

It ended with being eventful. Drove on a day trip to Tanjung Belanja  in Perak for a relative's wedding. That's Tanjung Belanja, if you speed you will miss it. It used to be a ferry terminal to cross the river to get from one side to the other. They are cousins on my mother's paternal side. We entered through Bidor and stopped to buy petai or parkia speciosa.This is the petai tree. The inside looks like this.

We met relatives never met before and many others. It also shed some light on the mystery that is my great grandfather Raja Mahadi bin? (that's the mystery). I will add on the pictures some day. It is still in my camera and I am not too keen on opening my dry cabinet where I keep my cameras.

The handsome X6

We left Kuala Lumpur at 8:30 a.m. arrived there at 12:00 p.m. and by 3:00 p.m were on way home. Journey was not eventful except for an X6 that was racing with a Lamborghini. I love X6. I hope I can get it some day. Currently I am driving its lesser sibling....Alhamdulillah.

We arrived at 6:00 p.m and only then I checked my Blackberry Torch 9800. Because we shouldn't text while driving, a big no no. Saw the message and I was aghast. A very good old friend of mine just lost her father. He passed away at 3:00 p.m. Al Fatihah. Instantly I called my wife who was with the children at my in-laws place in Ampang. Se left the children there and came rushing home. The long journey and exhaustion forgotten we needed to be by my friend's side quickly and we left soon after I completed my Maghrib prayers. 

We got to Federal Hill not before a miss turn and quickly entered. She immediately stood up with her face terribly upset. A little squeeze from me and a hug from my wife we told her of how much we were sorry and cared for her. The remains of her father was placed in the direction of the Qiblat and everyone was on the floor reading the Yassin and other Quranic verses. Shortly representatives from the mosque came to begin the Tahlil.Tahlil is read among others when there is death in the family or when one wishes to remember and honour the memories and life of someone who have passed away.

Kuey Teow Kerang Wangsa Maju

We stayed for a short while and left at around 10:00 p.m. Stopped by Wangsa Maju for the delectable char kuey teow. There it is in the middle. The only one worth mentioning in my opinion. On its left serves satay, tauhu bakar and otak-otak. So far only tasted the tauhu bakar. Good stuff. It means grilled tofu. Here it is. And that was Sunday.

Leha Kelfood in Taman Melati

Example of laksam

Monday was a day of rest. Still the Chinese New Year holidays. Did nothing much. Went to have lunch at Leha Kelfood. Great food there. I had two helpings of laksam that did not help my figure ahems and ayam percik. 

Tuesday did a little more. Went to meet a friend over the Card Project. (more about that much later) in A&W. It was Coney Tuesday so had the Coney Dog and the root beer float which is a must for any visit to A&W. Went home and wife made nasi lemak with fried chicken and sambal petai (see above). Delectable.

Fusion Ara Damansara

Example of cantonese kuey teow

Wednesday. Did not feel like going to work. Traffic was smooth. Many still on holiday. Had lunch at Fusion Ara Damansara. Here it is. Food is wonderful here. Normally I would go for nasi goreng ayam dara, to die for, and last week I had their char kuey teow, so today I wanted to try their cantonese kuey teow. This is it. Look something like that. 

Thursday we worked on a big project paper for a humongous project. Still not getting anywhere but the message of how critical it was have been drummed into everyone. Colleague brought nasi lemak and murtabak Singapore from Johor Bahru. Lovely stuff.

Don't Retire, Rewire

Friday, still not getting anywhere with my work. The due diligence and audit teams is driving me nuts at how inefficient they are. Pity such big names in accounting and legal fraternity but how poor is their discipline. Maybe it is a reflection of Gen Y or Z or maybe that I am getting old and cranky. Still stuck with the book Don't Retire, Rewire. This book. Great book. Been dabbling on this retiring for a while now. The crankiness of the corporate world is getting to me and when I saw this book got my AHA moment. Why retire when you can rewire. So I visited my dear friend's SOHO (Small Office Home Office) and shared an idea of mine that's been bugging me all month. Then he called his brother and we got the picture together. With all our ideas put together it just might work. We call this Project Kakibut. He's going to put together a more definitive design next week while I work on the strategies. The Project Sepakmula is facing some obstacles. The Kakibut is tough but doable with something concrete.

We did our Friday prayers in Kelana Jaya not before we had our favourite chicken rice there.The he hooked me to this new game on Ipad called The Room, great stuff for mystery and history buffs like us.

Now it is Saturday and my mum is looking to get the Samsung Galaxy Note II and everyone wants to tag along. Looks like we are going to have lunch somewhere. Wonder where....

Okay wonder no more we had lunch at Chicken Rice Shop. Ordered the Prosperity Set C. Boy am I stuffed. My mum have not bought any but I swear there's conspiracy afoot. At every turn when we wanted to see Iphone 5 they would show us a carefully wrapped package with the words almost similar "sorry, we do not have a demo model, but we can show you the one in the package but you need to confirm that you are buying it first......". And I go eh? With Samsung we can see touch, scroll, hold, weigh anything we want but with Iphone? Even the Mac store does not sell telco stuff only the other stuff. Because of the size and its user friendliness my mum is all set to get the Iphone 5. Once she gets it I am sure my dad will follow suit....even though he swears that his basic Nokia is enough for him....I know he have been looking at the smart phones for a while now only the price is deemed prohibitive.....we shall see.....

In meantime this morning I started a couple of projects. The idea was to fix the curtain brackets at the children's room, to cut a recalcitrant padlock that I've misplaced the key and to lay out the cables to connect my Unifi box to my Iptv box. (These are in 2 separate homes.) I have sort of finished the brackets. Need to do another hole but not in the mood to grab my drills. Been trying to cut the padlock with a bolt cutter (why does CSI make it look so simple) and it is official! I am a wuss...weakling...sigh.....Even using a file took ages and I happen to have the wrong type of Swiss Army Knife that is without a file. Where did I put my old one I have no idea. And the cables are still neatly wound in a plastic bag. Been there for the last 6 months now? What happened to the old one? Mouse or mice that's what happened. And my wife is so cheesed off with them that she caught all 3 or 4 of them. I am not good at such things another long baby story.

So that's the week that was.

To a Child, Love Is Spelled T-I-M-E Movie

To a Child, Love Is Spelled T-I-M-E Movie: I'm hopeful that this movie will make you stop and think a bit today about what is TRULY important. It is a remindeder of how crucial it is to "be there" for the important people in your life, and if you're a parent...you know there's really no one more important than your children.

I forgot I had a Blog!

Its just after the Chinese New Year Holidays, welcome to the year of the snake. I just checked and just realised that the last time I wrote was on 28 November 2007. A lot have happened since then. I changed jobs twice in 2008 and 2009. My daughter was born in 2008. I moved homes a few times. First from Kuala Terengganu to Johor Bahru in 2008. Then from Johor Bahru to Kuala Lumpur in 2009. And again in 2010 moved within the housing estate to be closer to my parents. How close? I am now their neighbour.

I originally planned for this blog to be my ramblings about everything and anything. Suddenly I received an email from my mother. She sent me this. http://www.lifesecretsonline.com/blog/2013/01/27/LoveIsSpelledTime/?Id=83420. Still figuring out how to add the video here. And suddenly it hits me. I want this blog to be my journal. Every single day until I breathe my last breath I will write about my daily happenings even if it is just one word.

A day in the life of an ordinary man, son, brother, husband, father, cousin, nephew, uncle, subordinate, superior, commuter, driver, colleague, customer, friend. We are many things to different people in our lives and we impact their lives in turn no matter how brief or fleeting.

If anyone were to come across this blog, welcome, enjoy your stay.