I’m not in the mood to post actually. Yesterday woke up early to send my dad to the hospital on my doctor’s advice. The doctor did suspect serious heart problems for my dad but after waiting for him in the A&E of Changi General Hospital, the results were finally out.

I didn’t manage to follow my dad since the health security was very tight in Singapore due to the H1N1 Alert. Only one visitor was allowed to accompany the patient. Before that all visitors and patients who wished to enter the hospital were needed to go through personal registration and health screening with the temperature taking and overseas travel declaration. After taking a face mask and going through the health screening were we allowed to enter the hospital. It’s as good as visiting an inmate.

Anyway after waiting for an hour or so, we were lucky since we came in very early in the morning, my dad results were out. After doing an ECG, sugar level test and BP, his result was an average borderline. No suspect of heart problems like what my dad had suspected he was having but he did have a high sugar level. Which means… my dad has been and always be a stubborn old man when food is concerned.

His suspect of heart problem was caused by severe gastric problems. So no stress, no hot and spicy food and certainly no chocolates for his diabetics. That completed, we just need to have a follow up check up for my old man next month just in case to look further into his health.

Unfortunately my dad doesn’t have an insurance when he was diagnosed with diabetes else the medical bills will be lesser. Makes me regret not working triple hard on my part-time to pay for his insurance. But then again, I was still studying and growing up in a large yet middle class income family is not an easy thing. I wonder if my elder siblings has taken a look at term life insurance rates online.

It had been a fun and tiring weekend. Spend all of my time playing with my elder sister’s kids. All of them were such an angel except when they have their screaming and crying bouts, they were sleepy so that’s excusable. Other than that, they were pure joy to play with.

For the two days they were here, I didn’t manage to play my Elder Scrolls. 3 kids who has an attention span of 5mins, so I need to be their constant play toy. Cry here, grinning and smiles there.. Babies are so cute, when they are still small that is.. *snickers*

Just came back from the doctor. I had to drag my dad out to see the GP about his constant chest pain, kidney side aching and his bad eyesight. Sure enough he is now being referred to the hospital, cardiologist to get his full check up. The GP suspects his heart problem and perhaps his kidney as he is constantly complaining of pain on his right ride.

So tomorrow I’m going to head out to NUH, get my dad loaded up onto the earliest transport to Singapore and get the doctor to run a full body check up on him. No way am I going to let him off the hook now that the doctor has confirmed the severity of his health condition.

Anyone who wish to contact me tomorrow, just sms or email me. I’m going to be occupied for the rest of the day at the hospital.

I am blaming and holding TMNET solely responsible for my inability to update my posts for a whole week. I kept having connection broken messages or slow connection problem and loading a site from a US server is as good as using snail mail. This is not the first time I faced this mess from TMNET and surely if they were to check my records, I can bet that I’m in one of the top complaint list of the year.

The other day I faced a chain reactions of mishaps. Three days back, my water supply was cut off even though I had paid my bills in full this time. Calling the customer service complain line was a terrible experience since SAJ rarely picks up their phone when a customer wish to express their dissatisfaction. Turns out that the main water pipe that supplied the residents of Nusa Betari, Tmn Tan Sri Yaccob and JB Perdana fresh water was damaged. An irresponsible contractor whom I think I know who, was accidentally damaged damaged the pipe while doing construction jobs at the site. The whole day was a dry and waterless time for me. The water supply was back at 3.20am the next day.

Oh but that wasn’t the only problem I faced. The next day, at 9.35am my electricity was disrupted. As usual, I turned off all the appliances and only left a lamp on so I’d know when the power is back online. The last time happened a blackout, a power surge destroyed all of my appliances, fried my 1.5 single core wiring, charcoaled my lamp ballast and cost me a bomb to repair everything. Even now, my emergency lights haven’t been changed yet. I’m betting that the whole set needs to be changed and that do cost a bomb.

Lucky for me, TNB has a great customer careline with all of my personal information recorded in their system so that I wouldn’t repeat to them my address etc like a broken record. It turns out the whole of Bukit Indah, Nusa Bestari, Tmn Tan Sri Yaccob, JB Perdana and those that falls into the same main power station were badly affected.

9.35am, no power, no lights, no fan.. a good way to fall back to sleep and that was what I did for 2hrs while waiting for the electricity to be up. Even my phone land lines were dead. Way to go for ‘efficiency’…

By the way, does anyone ever had an experience with slimming pills or fat burners before? I know that people usually take them as the fastest and easiest way to lose the weight without getting sweaty. I’ve never taken any pills before for my figure and was wondering whether it really works or not.

All my life I’ve always do a through regime of exercises whenever I feel that I’m getting fatter. I’ve always believed the best way to slim down, tone up, lessen the cholesterol level and practice good health is to exercise and more exercise.

I’m not sure if the pills can really lower down our cholesterol levels, lower the sugar levels for diabetic patients and increase the stamina of ourselves. So if anyone has ever had any experience in the slimming pills, please leave a holler or even better share liporexall reviews.

It had been a boring weekend. Didn’t do much except clean the house, cook for lunch and dinner and play my Sims2. I had wanted to purchase and get my hands on this new game that had earned a good score on the ratings board on Gamespot.com.

Dragons Age Origins was rated as the top pc game for computer role playing genre. The graphics depicted were fantastic and the controls were magnificent. Just by looking at the gameplay preview photos are enough to make my hands itch to get the game.

The best thing about it all lies on the developers. The genius behind of the whole game is non other than the makers of Baldur’s Gate™, Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™, and Mass Effect™. Oh yes.. Baldur’s Gate my dear gamers, the best game controls and labyrinth game I’ve ever encountered.

In the Dragons Age Origins, users can opt for whichever camera controls they wish and since I love my Baldur’s Gate, I’m glad they have that option like the picture showed below.

Unfortunately for gamers who are itching to get their hands on this marvelous game, you can only get it on the second half of 2009. It comes in PC, XBOX 360 and PS3. All the more reasons I should buy a PS3..hmm..

However, you can view and get more information on the game by visiting the official website at Dragons Age Origin. In the meantime, you can always play the available games in the market like Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

I wonder whether my friend who is having her holiday in one of the prestigious Las Vegas hotels knows about this new game. Like me, she too is a big fan of RPG fantasy games.

It’s amazing what changes Helium.com has made throughout a year. They have more writers, more topics, more advertisers and more articles stupidly written by irresponsible writer that didn’t do a comprehensive studies on the topics they were writing.

I’m not saying all the writers in Helium but a small group that makes me grit my teeth whenever I stumble upon such articles. Did these writers ever figured out that once a wrongly set of information is given out and published on the net, it can create confusion and at some point even destroys a person’s religious faith in his/her religion?

Writing an ariticle doesn’t mean taking an information from a source only. As a writer, a responsible and good writer, we have to research the topic that we are about to write on. We need to get as many information from many sources so we may be able to strike out what is the fact and what is the falsely changed or interpreted information. We can’t simply take the information which we think is the easiest to comprehend and most available one at hand.

Take the topic on “What makes us a good muslim” for example. I am not going to copy and paste the actual sentence that was written by the writer as Helium.com as rules and conditions about it. But the author, clearly he didn’t bother to do a through look up on the topic but instead just copied everything from Wikipedia.com, states that a muslim would get out of a conference/ meeting/ lecture etc the moment the prayer time has arrived and goes to a corner, takes out his rug and start praying, oblivious to the responsibilities he had before.

I don’t ever recalled and remembered in the Quran saying we, Muslim, had to drop everything and anything especially in an important event to head out and do our prayers. Yes, the five times per day prayers is an obligatory and we are advised/ forced to do our prayers during the specific prayer time before the next prayer session arrives.

But should our situation calls for us to skip our prayers time, we will then have to pay back the missed prayers in the nearest available time we have. We don’t ignore our responsibilities and turned a rude shoulder to our business clients or other people when prayers time arrives.

It really makes me wonder if Helium.com really harbors good writers or just irresponsible writers that does everything and anything to get a reward. After all they were the one that introduced the star award. With the star award, the writer can start earning his cash rewards on the the articles written.

However I personally dislike the star rating because it allows writers to rate other writer’s articles and it depends on the writer’s taste and qualification to rate the articles. It’s as good as the voting for your favourite singer on the SMS or online. If you don’t believe me, read this. They have updated their badges system award.

With upfront payments stated below for star awarded writers on every articles they write, I’m not surprised that the quality of the articles had become trash.

Upfront Payment Scheme for star writers:-

It has been almost a year plus since I last stepped into my motherland even though I’m right across the border. Things have changed alot since then and all of my favourite haunts have come and gone. There are things which I miss like the food, clean environment and there are a lot of things which I don’t like the MRT and the expensive travelling rates.

The price of chicken noodle in Far East Plaza last time used to be $2.50 each and yesterday when I stepped in and quench my yearning for my favourite food, the price has increased to $3.3o each and the chicken can be countable as pathetic. All the food has been economised. Big bowls now left with only the big bowl with lesser servings. But the shopping, wow.. things are quite remarkable and affordable. But after doing my quick exchange rate, JB is still the best.

But the night life and night drive is enjoyable. I finally were able to meet my old friends whom had been dying to meet me. Unfortunately only Lisa and her husband were able to meet me since I came in late, all thanks to my late chauffeur. Nothing has changed in Kent Ridge Park and the view is still as beautiful as ever.

The outing to Orchard and Clark Quay were kind of stressful to me. I’m so used to hop in and hop out to my exact location or nearest carpark however yesaterday was a test of my endurance and stamina. Sadly to say my stamina is terrible, my feet were aching, I was dehydrated and I keep searching for the nearest seat or foot reflexiology during my walkabout. I really missed JB badly then, there, I can find my foot reflexology at every mall for tired shoppers like me.

Already I had to compete for the entrance to the train and seats in the MRT, then I had to march from Dhoby Ghaut station to the interconnecting North East Line to take the train to Clark Quay. I can bet I lost a good amount of fats and water on my walk.

At least the walk to Clarke Quay was worth it. I made it in time for the sunset and the view was as fantastic as I last remembered. The river side walk was littered with artistic seats and gazebos. Couples can be seen everywhere and anywhere. The food was unfortunately were not for me. Its a clubbing and pubbing area, so no way can I get a yummy plate of Halal food unless I head for the the nearest Banquet or fast food outlet.

As much as I love Singapore, I have to cut my trip short and have to head back to JB tomorrow. I have work to complete, errands to finish and customers to pester with. Oh yeah for those who knows me, DON’T CALL ME!! Just SMS/ FB or email me if its urgent. The calling rates here using M’sian number is a killer lady.

We always hear and read about commuters in KL complaining about the irresponsible taxi drivers who insist on not using the meter when charging passengers. We also read about how the authorities always take tough actions, measures and even impersonate as a passenger to catch these errant drivers.

But has anyone ever complained about outside of KL like Johor Bahru for example? I doubt so and if there are, it will be minimal since most of them are not bothered to make an effort to complain to the LPKP. I happen to be one of the disgruntled commuters who had to frown and throw a tantrum every time the taxi drivers never use the meter.

The only time I could ever remember using a taxi that used and charged according to the meter is once, the cost was RM$12.50 from City Square to Tmn Tan Sri Yaccob. Most of the times the drivers even though turned on their meter, they never charge according to the meter, instead they marked up the price by 40%.

When asked why they never bothered to use the meter accordingly, their reason is the same, “Tak cukup nak hidup la” or translated into “Not enough to live”.

HELLO!! We are workers too and worked doubly hard to pay our expenses. We don’t make our own currency and have our signatures on every Malaysian Ringgit Notes. It’s not fair at all why we the passengers have to work so hard to afford our monthly expenses when the cab drivers take the easy  way out and charge us double the amount.

It’s as good as taking a parang onto our neck and slaughter us. We are not rich la brother.. You and I are Malaysians, what happen to the one heart and one country? I guess it doesn’t applies to money.

LPKP and JPJ should monitor and do their weekly operations in JB also and not just at the capital. I am sure Johorians would be more than happy to point the places which harbors errant taxi drivers. Places like the taxi stand at Jln Wong Ah Fook, beside the City Square where the old wet market used to be is one of them.

The drivers pick and choose their passengers and some even charged exaggerate taxi fare the moment we told them our destinations. Just because that’s the place where most shoppers and Malaysian who worked in Singapore will head to when they wish to return home doesn’t mean they have the permission to cut our throats. ‘Tis no wonder commuters would rather ask their family members to pick them up or take the public bus.

LPKP and JPJ should also their rounds in malls. A few months back I was charged RM30 from my Tebrau City to City Square. Oh yes, I did fuss and about to scratch the driver’s eyes out but lucky for the driver my elder brother was with me and calmed me down. Hey the distance is almost the same as from City Square to my house.

Oh even Jusco Bukit Indah.. Before the mall was around, the charge from Tmn Tan Sri Yaccob to Bukit Indah Roundabout park was RM4 but the moment the mall opened, the price was hiked to RM10. Some even had the cheek to charge RM16 when it first opened, saying the traffic jam is part of the cause.

Perhaps if commuters teamed up and blogged about this Irresponsible Taxi Drivers, the media would sniff about this post and scorched the awareness cell in the LPKP and JPJ.

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Testing.. Testing.. I’m hoping that this time my post works. Yesterday there was a major error in .. Not sure what the error was but if you were to visitZackire.com yesterday, you’d be able to see the blank white page with the message stating “Missing Post”.

It’s irritating. No post, no pages. All my previous posts and pages were deleted, missing in action and this time, I’m not responsible for the mess at all. In fact I am proud to say that I’m innocent in this missing post incident.

But I’m not happy about the who situation at all. The post which I was currently writing on were gone and forever lost in the big black whole. 1320 words, deleted, gone and never to be retrieved again.

Right anyway hopefully Gatorhost has repaired the errors so I will not need to see any more of the hideous glaring Missing Post message.

Sleepy morning and I solely blame it on the rainy morning and last night Anna and the King Classical. It was a good classical movie but I totally dislike the stupidity the creator were trying to portray of the Rama the fourth, King Mongkut. I love classical movies especially the old classical like Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins etc etc etc…

But I seriously, totally and fully against twisting the history of a country much less a monarch just to suit the viewers happiness and the director’s pleasure. The king doesn’t look and act that stupid. And the director must be really dumb as to be unable to differenciate the difference between a Thai like songs/ music and a Chinese inspired rythm, songs etc etc etc..

The way the Siamese actor were directed to speak in the Siamese tounge is horrendous and ridiculous. Where have all the studies and research on the country, culture and language gone to when they did this movie? It’s so obvious that during that era, none of the directors have ever done an in-depth studies on other countries except their own.

Negligence, arrogance and laziness will bring out the worse in the movie. Now everyone except in South-East Asia especially Thailand will think that the Rama look stupid and that the history of the Siam is alike to that Classical Movie etc etc etc…

The best example was my younger sister. She had thought that the history of Siam was alike in the movie after watching it and thank god she expressed her thoughts on the movie. I was able to explain to her and correct her on the history of Siam from Mongkut reign to Chulanlongkorn. I am so happy that history was and is still is my favorite subject. Thank you history classes!

The look she gave me when I told her the real information of the history of Siam was priceless. Yes, the story was just pure bullshit. It totally create its own ‘history’ and manipulate the core value to their whims and fancy. Which is why I hate and anti that movie from the first time I watched it.

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