Oops..taxpayers...

I found this article interesting when I browse through The Star online...

...I forgot to pay duty, says politician....

By SIRA HABIBU

ALOR STAR: “Oops, I forgot.”

This is the excuse given by one of the prominent politicians who have flouted Customs regulations by using a duty-free Nissan van on the mainland without paying duties.

“A Customs officer did remind me sometime this year to settle the duty by end of this year but I forgot. Thank you for reminding me,” said the politician when contacted yesterday.

The politician took the duty-free van from Langkawi about nine years ago. He said the van was actually used by the spouse for commercial purposes. The van needed to be overhauled several years ago and was sent to the workshop for repairs.

“However, many of the car parts were stolen and as such we had left it in the workshop for years,” she said.

The politician promised to send a letter to the Customs department soon to resolve the matter amicably.

“I will pay the duty,” he said.

Another prominent politician who was implicated said he had submitted a letter to the Customs director-general stating his intention of paying duty and keeping the duty-free Harley Davidson.

It was reported in The Star on Monday that two prominent politicians were among several VVIPs who have yet to pay duty after the vehicles were taken out of the duty-free island.

They are among the 79 people who have breached Clause 21 (1) of the Customs Duty Order (Exemption) 1988 by keeping vehicles away from the duty-free island for more than a month in a year.

So what do you think?
I wonder how I wonder why.. How to oops forgot to pay tax...hmmph think think think...

My botak dogs

See the differences? Cute? Lovely? ha! ha! Yes! Yes! Once again Cody (Shih Tzu) and Hobbes (Miniature Schnauzer) did their skin cut of the year. Hobbes's cut look like mat-rock type while Cody's kinda lady. Aiya; don't blame me for not keeping their furs as they hinted to me that it's hot nowadays so I make a decision for them lah..I think they will look just nice by Chinese New Year. What do U think?

Restaurant Wong Soon Kee, SS14

IT was a rainy Sunday when we drove to Mangkee's house at SS14. We decided to pit stop at Restaurant Wong Soon Kee, SS14 to "tapao" our late lunch at Lim Fried Chicken. 1st time for me though.. OMG the Q si-beh long and it's only selling Fried Chick, Nasi Lemak and Curry Chee Cheong Fun. Mangkee gave up Q-ing up but I told him I'll Q instead. As am Q-ing up for the food, I "kay poh-ly" snapped some pics to update in the blog. HuaaWaaa.. I telling you ah.. people behind me must have thought something wrong with me. Anyway, enjoy the pics. Err..forgot to ask about their biz operation day but they starts to sell during lunch hour. Besides Lim Fried Chicken, there's Wan Tan Mee, Beef noodles, Char Kuey Teow, Yee Mee & Pan Mee. According to SS14 resident, Mr. Mangkee "Pan Mee not so nice, Yee Mee ok-lah, Char Kuey Teow ok-ok, Lim Fried Chicken, Wan Tan Mee (see told you guys oredi, he sure said this one da bomb, favourite mah hahaha) & Beef noodles da bomb"

My foodie goodie rate: 8/10
(I think their Nasi Lemak could be better if they add in coconut milk-
Actually theirs is just white rice..)

Mangkee's lunch~~Lim Fried Chicken Nasi Lemak

Sate Kajang HJ. Samuri

Was at Sate Kajang HJ. Samuri, Damansara Uptown to celebrate Mangkee's job confirmation. Only 3 pics coz was busy eating till I forgot that I wanna blog about it. hahahaha... Their HQ is at Kajang; but don't need to drive up all the way as the have few branches in Klang Valley.

Thanks to Wikipedia, these are their branches:-

Klang Valley

1. Bangunan Datuk Nazir, Kajang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
2. Bandar Baru Bangi, Kajang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
3. In front of Metro Kajang, Kajang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
4. R&R Awan Besar, Shah Alam Expressway (Kesas), Kuala Lumpur
5. R&R Kinrara, Shah Alam Expressway (Kesas), Kuala Lumpur
6. R&R Dengkil, North-South Expressway Central Link, Selangor Darul Ehsan (Both bound)
7. R&R Elmina, Guthrie Corridor Expressway, Selangor Darul Ehsan (north bound)
8. Uptown, Damansara Utama, Selangor Darul Ehsan
9. Taipan USJ, UEP Subang Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan
10. Precinct 16, Putrajaya
11. Taman Melati, Ulu Kelang, Selangor Darul Ehsan.
12. Aked MARA, Bngunan MARA, Jalan Raja Laut

Others

1. Giant, Senawang, Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus

Nice environment (can be noisy if its pack-I guess), sate was good and good customer service (not sure how they served on weekend-when it's pack). The price was reasonable.. I paid RM24.00 for 10beef sate, 10chicken sate, 2 ketupat (finally can find some traditional ketupat, you know-lah most of the sate stall now served millennium ketupat hehe neh those in plastic bag, know which one?); 1 ABC, 1 mee-bandung & 2 drinks. My foodie goodie rate: 9/10

Hmmph...is your tummy making music yet? =)

Coda my boy

This is my boy Coda... Ain't he cute? He is 3yrs 2months now... Initially, I wanted to bring him to stay with me when I moved out from my parents. BUT my sis wanted to keep him as a guard dog. Well, I gotta admit he's good in this. The moment he sense stranger ; he will bark as loud as he can. He's alert but sometimes might be false alarm lah. He don't like cats and 1 stray dog near my house. he! he!

Not sure where Coda learns how to tell us when he's hungry, but he just will. Yes, he's also greedy boy~he likes KFC~ I used to give him 1pc but not anymore. Now he will just come to us whenever we have food on our hand. He skip taking dog food for 1yr but thank god he changed his mind last year. Well..with one requirement, must have fresh milk in the food. Else he will sniff and walk off.

Coda has to keep his fur short too. Why? Because mama said so. Gotta let him know in advance before I botak him, else he will show face. See the pic? Don't know where he learn the mulut senget pose. ha! ha! But sometimes he will give signal that he's very hot and want to be botak-ed. Well that's all about my boy..

We makan-ed, We burp-ed, We "tapao-ed"

I woke up 8am to watched our 50th Merdeka parade on TV, then I buzzed my parents "eh pa wanna go eat breakfast ah" Pa said "come-lah" Then go wake mangkee lor..abuthen.. me+mangkee went to pick them then headed to KL. 1st stopped (no pic) was at Overseas Restaurant, Jalan Imbi. I thought they served Dim Sum but takda wor..so we ate noodles, 1/4 roast duck, char siew & vege.. Food was delicious but portion small leh.

Mangkee paid: RM111.50. My foodie goodie rate : 6/10

The crowd at Petaling Street

pssst..Mangkee, why you snapped the same guy?!? LOLzzzz..

Petaling Street..Koon Kee Wan Tan Mee. This shop has been operating more than 50yrs. Koon Kee was the founder and R.I.P already. Now his son takes over the shop. Mangkee had double wan tan mee cause its his all time favourite. He can eat that for breakfast-lunch-dinner-supper. So ah..if you thinking what to buy for his birthday jeng! jeng! jeng! the answer is ? WAN TAN MEE wakakakaka... Thumbs up for their chicken feet, wan tan & "sui gau".I telling you..must go try. Oh ya, me mama said their char siew is good too. Mmmm..who wanna join me for my 2nd visit? Me papa paid for the meal was RM33.

My foodie goodie rate: 10/10

Last stopped was "sei-ngan-chai" (4-eyed guy) roast duck. We "tapao-ed". This is a must try if you're a duck lover.. the duck meat was tender & juicy..yummy! yummy! According to me mama, years back there were few stalls at the same area selling roast duck and in the end all close shop because the crowd preferred "sei-ngan-chai". RM38/duck & RM19 for 1/2 duck.

My foodie goodie rate: 10/10

P/s: Senapang the tuna-sing, the dim sum blog will be up later.

cina satu, pentagon telur...

Today kaypo on techie news,

Cina military kasi hantam to pentagon, cyberly~

The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials.The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack.
(finally the americans are admitting that their fort knox is not the stronghold anymore,bo-hoo-hooo)

Hackers from numerous locations in China spent several months probing the Pentagon system before overcoming its defences, according to people familiar with the matter.
(sys admins too busy buaya-ing no time tengok logs leh)
kakaak

cover up time,

The Pentagon is still investigating how much data was downloaded, but one person with knowledge of the attack said most of the information was probably “unclassified”. He said the event had forced officials to reconsider the kind of information they send over unsecured e-mail systems.

John Hamre, a Clinton-era deputy defence secretary involved with cyber security, said that while he had no knowledge of the June attack, criminal groups sometimes masked cyber attacks to make it appear they came from government computers in a particular country.

The National Security Council said the White House had created a team of experts to consider whether the administration needed to restrict the use of BlackBerries because of concerns about cyber espionage.

full url kat here

they all say hor, normally .edu, .mil , .gov websites are the easiest prey among hacking,

guess what kind of websites are hardest website to hack ?? guess la sikit

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.... the answer is pornography websites,e-commerce websites....... i shall leave it up to you to decide.

haha

peace out

Where U going on Merdeka Eve?

What you gonna do tonight? It’s a long weekend….

Friends been asking me "any plan for Merdeka Eve?".... Well frankly, during my teenage time I will be planning to go down town/somewhere to see fireworks. But that kinda spirit is no longer in me. Why? The parking rates is expensive (unless you park tepi jalan-lah), very crowded & freaking jam to go anywhere. Talk about jam, fug the road closure in KL starts 6pm today. Am sure everyone gonna get pissed..I hope you won’t get stuck in the jam. IF you are, Good Luck and Have Fun screaming in your car. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Oh well, I will be at home, grab some snacks and get ready to rumble with my DVDs collection. The next day, am gonna find my mama for breakfast and bring her out for the day.

I conclude my -3cents- with

HAPPY MERDEKA

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS peeps

Happy anniversary to u & i

Mangkee & I met back in 21 August 2005 and started dating since then. We've been through ups and down together, I tried to curi his pillow every night he! he! and am glad our relationship is still strong. Hope you (Mangkee) will treat me good good and manja me "kau kau" forever. Though you are very hot cow and I might be grumpy at times but I still love you, my sepet guy...eh wait, YOU HAVE TO LOVE ME MORE.. muahahahah

Happy 2nd Anniversary My Mangkee

Taiwan Plane Kaboom at Japan Airport

While everybody is worrying about all the volcano eruptions and hurricanes ,
the Taiwanese air carrier, China airlines decided to KABOOM @ Japan Southern Island, Okinawa..
summarize, Thank god nobody was killed, saw that news while having my mixed rice with my company's engineers, the first impression was, wahlaueh mother of god punya holy cow :P some plane just exploded,yes i know, i am 7+1 :P
for those who are hardworking and like to clicky click on links source

And to those that are lazy to open another window, just READ below LAH!!!!! :P~

TOKYO (Reuters) - A plane belonging to Taiwan's China Airlines Ltd. exploded and caught fire soon after landing on Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Monday, but officials said all 165 people on board had escaped safely.

The Boeing 737-800 plane, which had just arrived from Taipei, was already being evacuated when the left engine exploded, ripping the plane apart, officials and witnesses said.

"I saw several passengers evacuate from the plane using a chute. After a minute or so, I heard the sound of an explosion. It was a big explosion," said Tadahiro Hasuo, who told NHK he felt the heat of the blast while passing the airport in a taxi.

The charred remains of the plane lay broken on the tarmac near the terminal after the flames were extinguished, an hour after the explosion.

The nose of the plane sagged on its side, while the tail -- emblazoned with the airline's pink plum blossom symbol -- was intact at the other end.

In between, the blackened remains of the interior could be seen, with much of the roof of the plane gone.

Early investigations raised the possibility that leaking fuel may have caught fire.

"We don't have any information that suggests the accident was linked to terrorism. There is a possibility of the engine exploding and catching fire due to a fuel leak," a Naha airport police official told Reuters.

One member of the ground crew had been injured, Kyodo news agency reported.

The airline said the plane, which had 157 passengers and eight crew, had just undergone scheduled maintenance.

"Everything was working according to normal procedure. There was nothing wrong during the flight," China Airlines spokesman Johnson Sun told reporters.

China Airlines has a troubled safety record with four deadly accidents in the past 13 years, including a crash in the Japanese city of Nagoya in 1994 in which 264 people were killed.

Okinawa is a popular spot for beach holidays and the number of visitors to Japan from other parts of Asia has increased in recent years, with the lifting of visa restrictions.

(Additional reporting by Isabel Reynolds and Leika Kihara in Tokyo and Ralph Jennings in Taipei)

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QR matrix code

Hrm,why is this blog so diam 1 ah? nebermind,let me make some noise,
todays topic will be about QR matrix code,it definition of QR stands for "Quick Response" as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are most common in Japan, and are currently the most popular type of two dimensional code in Japan.

QR Codes are now used for inventory management in a wide variety of industries. Since 2003, convenience-oriented applications, aimed at relieving the user of the tedious task of entering data into their mobile phone, have been developed. QR Codes storing addresses and URLs are becoming increasingly common in magazines and advertisements in Japan. The addition of QR Codes on business cards is also becoming common, greatly simplifying the task of entering the personal details of a new acquaintance into the address book of one's mobile phone.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

weehee

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Some Sample QR Code

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Guest blogger from the zoo

Greetings humans,
i am now officially the guest blogger of travinslife :> *imitating homer, WOHOO*
it gives me great satisfaction to allow me rants bout my daily life at the zoo,my high and lows POV(Point of View,and no not the hamtai *winks) about worldwide issues ...
that's all for now
peace out dudes
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da BonnIe bLue a cozy place for a hair cut

I'm picky when it comes to hairstylist. It kinda freak me if the hairstylist only concentrate on the hair but no PR skill. I don't want autobot cutting my hair, ha! ha! ha! Basically I've tried quite a few before I met Des in year 2001. That time, he was just working in a shop but now he has a shop at Bandar Menjalara, Kepong. He work alone so gotta call and make appointment, else you'll end up sleeping there especially weekend. So everyone. this is the place I've been restyling my hair since 2001.Why have I been so loyal? Because his PR skill is good, styling is perfect (for me) and environment is cozy. Other than hairstylist job, Des also do make-up & some flower art work. Oh ya, his charges are almost same like other hair salon.

BONNIE BLUE

i wondered why it is call bonnie blue, can be bonnie rainbow, bonnie green..etc..right? right? lol..now am thinking if i have a shop in future, what should i name it? any suggestion?

Boon Tat Restaurant Seafood

I still remember Boon Tat was located in a wooden house before they moved to the current nice place (its just opposite the old one). Thou their food is quite pricey but its worth what we paid for. sooper dooper delicious if you love chilies. Actually, that's the main purpose we went there, for fresh and hot seafood. Guess, they have different style cooking the seafood too. 9 of us and the bill was RM390. Approx RM40/pax...I'll suggest you go in a group of 10 to share the cost..

BEFORE & AFTER

My foodie goodie rate: 10/10
fried chilies crab & *ham choy* meehoon soup with fishy


fried chilies prawn


aftermath

Boon Tat Restaurant Seafood
No. 6, Jalan Soon Huat Jetty, Off Jalan Papan Pandamaran, 42000 Port Klang
Tel : 603 - 3168 7116

03.08.2007

We gathered...we makan....we joked...we laughed..we take pics....

*We gathered at lil penang, the curve... we started to eat..mmmm..yummy food..*

common let's snap snap before the others reached

hmmmph, we seriously take these pics before?


BB hannah: I said gimme your watchie
June: No way..hoosay..

FAMILY

No matter how far we are, how busy we are....we'll always support everyone in everything they do...