Once Upon A Time……….

January 30, 2008 | 23 Comments

Once upon a time in the lush green Kinta Valley and amidst blue mining ponds, a tragic incident happened to a mother and her seven children. The wooden cottage where she lived with her family caught fire and the cruel raging fire killed her seven children but she escaped hugging just a pillow to her bosom. The cottage was burnt to ashes and her husband was out in town and did not realized what happened back home
Two years after that tragedy, they had a new baby who came at the right time to console their aching hearts and they loved this boy very much and named him Blessings & Prosperity. Life went back to normal after this new addition and they relocated to the nearest mining town. Perhaps to escape from another fire which was so common in wooden cottages and to avoid their new born baby from being taken away by another fire. Soon Blessings Prosperity grew up to be a cute little boy.

In a twinkle of the eye, Blessings Prosperity went to college in the Capital City of Kuala Lumpur doing his Electrical Power Course. Upon graduation he was trained to be a technician in Telecommunications.

I guess by now you all know who I am writing about! Is me, bokjae! Just sharing a bit more of myself to you folks as well as see how I slowly aged!!!!! This post was really inspired by another fellow blogger at VersaCreations who asked me one day why I never blogged about my daughters!

After working for a couple of years I met Rock and we started dating and after 4 years, got married. Here are some photos of us in our hay days so to say.

Not long after our marriage, I left her back in KL while I went overseas pursued my Undergrad Course in Electrical Engineering in Glasgow. By then she was already pregnant with our eldest, and because of that she could not join me in UK, moreover she had to continue teaching to support herself and the baby who was due soon. My fashion then was bell-bottom pants and long hair! Arrgh!

During my first summer holidays home, I was feeling so strange for then I was a Daddy! It took Sharlene a few days to get used to this stranger who suddenly appeared in her life. I guess no amount of telling her by Rock that her daddy is coming back soon to cuddle her could allay her fears of this total stranger!

After my graduation, I rushed home to my wife and daughter immediately and took over the role of provider to my family and soon there were two more additions to our family, Justin or Jay two years after Sharlene and Dawn our youngest daughter with a gap of 10 years!

Now, they are all grown-up, looking young and beautiful whereas we are slowly turning grey and no longer looking so great!

Our children return around November every year and leave just before the Chinese New Year! They had just returned lately to their respective places and perhaps missing them spurs this post. In life its about learning and listening to our own parent’s past experiences, the history of the family and then our own turn to lead our next generation but we must learn to listen to them and learning from them the current trends and post modern culture of their generation! Joy is about listening, learning and living life to the fullest with gratitude with thanksgiving to Almighty God!

Zip Bags

January 28, 2008 | 9 Comments

Many people travel with luggages that are of the Zip type. Personally I used these type of luggages. Just received this video from a friend and to my horror, the security of Zip Bags are scary! Its not so much of having your personal things stolen but more of some drug trafficker slipping into your bag a packet of drugs! You become the carrier who brings the drug out of Customs and if you managed to get past the Officers you still run into the risk of getting robbed off your bag by these drug traffickers, moreover your life may be in danger too! If you are caught with the drugs it would be a tough thing to prove your innocence! Hey! watch this video and be smart!

Ichiban Podcast

January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment

One of my good friend and fellow blogger has started a Podcast Show together with another buddy of his. It is a weekly, every Monday affair. They discussed mostly about things in Japan in the eyes of a foreigner. Listened to his first two shows and find the discussion very interesting and refreshing. Check it out at http://www.ichibanpodcast.com/ . The whole podcast is conducted in Cantonese though. thank God its not in Japanese!

Mariuca’s Big Bang Theory

January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

What a way to start the New Year with this Big Bang World Record Meme by Mariuca! Its a great way to gain new links and its easy to do, just follow the simple instructions! Everyone is welcome!

*Start Copy Here*

You do not have to be tagged to play along. This game is simple and so are the rules.

  1. Copy from *Start Copy Here* through *End Copy Here*
  2. Add your site(s) to the list. Just be sure to post at each site you add.
  3. Tag or don’t tag, your choice, however, the more tags you create the bigger the list will grow.
  4. Let me know your blog’s name and url by leaving me a comment HERE. I will add you to the master list. (If you would like the scroll box code, leave me your email address and I will email it to you.)
  5. Come back and copy the master list back to your site, often. This process will allow late-comers to get as much link benefit as the first ones in.

1-Attitude, the Ultimate Power 2-Juliana’s Site 3-Rusin Roundup 4-Grow Rich Along With Me 5-Comedy Plus 6-lynda’s loft 7-Amel’s Realm 8-MAX 9-Speedcat Hollydale 10-Mariuca 11-Complain Complain Complain 12-Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery 13-Life Is A Roller Coaster 14-Sugar Queen’s Dream 15-First Time Dad 16-Life 17-My Life 18-The Painted Veil 19-My Thoughts 20-DatCurious.com 21-Little Aussie Cynic 22-A Nice Place in the Sun 23-DatMoney.com 24-Lady Java’s Lounge 25-Cat Tales 26-A Total Blog 27-At Your Service 28-Listening, Learning, Living 29-

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TM Broadband Sucks!

January 27, 2008 | 3 Comments

Since my last posting a week ago, my internet connection was terribly slow. It takes forever to load a single web page let alone do any postings or browsing. Heard too many complaints about Telekom Malaysia’s Broadband Service and sad to say I agree with most people and declare “TM Broadband Service Sucks!” There is another alternative to TM but heard that its service also sucks! Guess Malaysians got to tolerate this until a third alternative comes along if it ever happens.

Apart from the horribly poor service, TM’s CRM and attitude also Sucks! Whenever they perform maintenance on their system; naturally the broadband service is interrupted but they do not have the courtesy to inform their subscribers! The subscribers are supposedly to understand and tolerate the service interruption without so much of an apology. Why they cannot inform in advance is hard to understand but the other Service Providers of Electricity, Water etc can even send letters to inform and apologize. As the owner of the Nation’s Telecommunications Networks they are unable to do that seems ludicrous. The specialists in connecting people are not communicating well? What a joke!

Anyway, with such poor service, it definitely affects those Internet Marketers who work from home and dependent on the broadband connections to operate. Hey! it affects their daily earnings as well. For bloggers its like a ‘forced holiday’ which I experienced for about a week! For me its not so much the earnings but unable to respond to emails and comments, blog hopping thats what is so frustrating. Checked with others locally and it seems this recent problem is a nationwide encounter! My apologies to my readers, visitors and fellow bloggers if it seems that I was not responsive or rude but its more of being disconnected from the internet due to TM’s dismal service! I did contact them but their reply was just a “nothing wrong!” To me it is a one sided contract when we sign-up with TM and wonder if we can claim for breech of contract since they are not delivering the service as promised! One week out in a month is a 25% failure rate!

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