Sheer Ignorance or just plain idiotic?

I received an email from a friend, with regards to an 'idiot driver' who apparently parks at the disabled parking bay at one of the local mall. Somehow he manage to park smack right in between of both bays, which will not register the parking bays as occupied (it has some sensor that emits a red light if it detects a car in the parking bay, parked below the light)

My response to him is that, the driver might be handicapped for all you know, which prompts the driver to park there in the first place. If thats the case, it should be no problem but if he's physically able, there could only one explanation...

That respective driver is definitely 'handicapped' up there, where the brain should reside. Aiyoh!!!

BYFTO Day (Bring Your Family To Office Day)

Learned from Imah, that the proposed Family Day trip in July to Tiara PD has been cancelled. The reason? Budgetary constraint. Now its going to be held as a Family Day/Sports Carnival event at the field near... The Office. What?!!

IMHO, even if we are experiencing budget constraint, lets go to somewhere else BUT please, do not to hold the event at The Office. Anywhere but The Office. We could even go to Cerakah or even FRIM. Its near enough, but its definitely a change of scenery from The Office.

Even if we want to hold a sports carnival, FRIM has a field to cater to that. It has canopy walkway, an arboretum and a river runs thru it for the nature lover in all of us. who knows we could get the younger generation to be interested in nature.

Maybe I should get more info about FRIM and share with The OC. Maybe I should just do that. 

XII National Games

We have the tendency to build good sports facility, especially for international, regional or national sporting events, The National Games are held once every two years, and this year its in their 12th edition, at the new City of KT.

I was part of The Office team to go there, not on scientific capacity, more as an observer. The limited number of rooms available, means that we are lucky enough to have a bungalow to call our base. I was only there for two days, due to some urgent matters at home, but it was good visit.

The Main sports complex was huge, easily 7-8 stories high at its highest point, more or less modeled after the S.Alam stadium complex, with a nearby indoor stadium for gymnastics among other. The main stadium has a 48 lanes bowling alley and squash courts in its 'belly' to make it a multi sports complex.

Anyway, while I was there, the contractors are busy putting the finishing touch on the running lanes, jumps area and also electronics. It seems like a rushed job, and heard that it still hasn't certified by the world body and no test event has been run there prior to the Games. Quite surprising, but then again the organisers do plan a dry run a day before the competition due to start.

Anyway, two of the thing that came to mind are, the massive maintenance work needed for the sports complex and whether the sports complex (and its facilities) will be fully utilised after the Games. That, we'll just have to wait and see :)

Level 2 Brainstormers

In my line of work, its not unusual to have working weekends due to the fact that most sporting event are held over the weekend. But last weekend, I was in Malacca, not for a sporting event but for a brainstorming kind.

It was a Level 2 course, and the CC are finalising the curricula. As I was there in Level 1 last year, i was again invited, which later I realise the real reason behind my invite. It seems that CC are unable to secure Dr Khairi for the pow wow, so I was there with Dr Ong (who never went to Level 1) to try and make sense of the half completed Level 2 notes by Dr Khairi.

It started slowly, as my partner is a bit lost as he has never been to a pow wow before but as we're finishing, with help from our motor learning neighbour, we manage to finish at least 70% of task at hand. Reminds me that translating someone else's work is never easy, especially if its from the national language to English. And our national language is NOT Dr Ong's mother tongue either, so its a hit and miss approach of sort. And to translate scientific term some more?

Anyway, currently I'm helping my partner to finish the last few parts of Level 2, translating two set of questions into our national language. Hope it'll be done by tonight. Cant wait to attend the Level 2 course on the 23-25th June, especially the part that we help compile.

Puteri Resort, we bid adieu :)

Puteri Resort is a nice place actually. It has a big swimming pool, a kids pool, wading pool, jacuzzi, a playground, a tennis cum basketball court and even an obstacle course.

The rooms are big enough and the TV channels are adequate, with sports, movies and kids satellite channel. One of my favorite things (and its not necessarily food) is they have wifi, even if its only at the lobby. On most of my trips, the availability of access to world wide web always ranks highly in my choice of hotels, be it local or overseas. So in a way, this resort scores up there (and the access is quite fast, another bonus point)

The spread at the Coffee House are varied enough, and the dessert corner would be a hit with the patrons, especially with ABCs and free flowing ice creams. The salad bar are a bit out of the way, but its worth visiting as with the noodles section. The Mee Bandung are good. No wonder, coupled with a reasonable room rate, and good corporate package, its almost always full (at least while I'm there).

Some of the pics taken at Puteri Resort, Air Keroh...

Puteri Resort Part II (visits and more visits)

Due to staying up late last night, I almost overslept. Nasib baik tak miss breakfast :) The usual hotel fare but somehow the hash browns are soggy. Alamak, baru nak puji the place for their many spreads.

Anyway, last night called Angel, just to check whether she's in town, so we could hang out. Somehow i totally forgot that she broke her leg a few weeks back, so it seems that a courtesy visit is in order. She also told me that Marsh' baby is also at the hospital due to fever. Definitely two visit later this evening.

After the afternoon session, make my way to town. Actually, I plan to go during lunch break, but decided against it as there are too many cars on the road (don't want to miss any of the brainstorming session, konon) and too short a time.

Upon reaching Malacca GH, call Marsh and check with her the exact location. Hey, its just my luck that I'm allowed to go into the Nursery and see the baby. Somehow the lady at the counter think that I'm related to Marsh. A'qila Izzara(h) is recovering and she sleeps well (she's on her best behaviour, according to Marsh).

After spending some time there (actually I was chased away by the counter lady), make my way to Ujung Pasir, to look for Taman Sinn. Somehow Angel is not too knowledgeable about her Taman, ended up making a few rounds baru la jumpa rumah dia.

Angel is still in crutches, but her operations would are healing nicely. We talked for a while (in a hushed tone) as her mother do not know the exact cause of her injury, she told her mum that its an office accident. Haiyyo! Only could spend a short time there, but at least I managed to visit both Angel and Marsh (and baby A'qila) during my stay there.

Get well soon all of you... (err, we miss your comments at the forum, Marsh)

Puteri Resort Part I

I am in Malacca this weekend for a pow wow with the experts in the field but not going to talk about that, thats too boring. At least, the place we're staying are nice, quite cheap and have nice facilities for the kids and adults too.

I reached there a quarter after 8pm, expecting things to already started but it seems that most of the scientist have not arrived yet and the briefing will only be held at 9pm. Checked in, learned that I'll have the room to myself (should have brought significant other along), met Along at the lobby and he told me to have dinner first. Ceh, already ate along the way thinking that I'll be late. Rugi, rugi!!

Check our the coffee house, not too bad other that its packed. Puteri Resort, Air Keroh seems to be a popular choice for either a corporate course, pow wow or just a family gathering. the food was OK, they even have fried crabs... unfortunately, I was full already (actually I couldn't find an available seat. Hhhmrrppphhh! Go upstairs, freshen up and get ready for the briefing.

Apparently they have wifi at the lobby, so guess where I'll be lepaking? The briefing is short, due to somehow the CC fellas forgot to bring the projector. So where else, the lobby it is. Unfortunately, some other patron managed to get hold of the karaoke system and preceded to butcher some clasic/rock/oldies/pop songs. Me and Along can't help to be Randy and Simon that night...

With wifi at the lobby, i finally retire to bed at almost 2am...