The man who won Lunas constituency, YB Saifuddin, came to town. He was going to give a speech on 1) Why BA won in Lunas and 2) The current condition of Anwar Ibrahim. Police erected roadblocks in all entrance areas leading to the assembly. Even, the dark unlit street was not spared. Me and my friends just had to pass them. They just looked at our face and let us through. At the assembly, there were about 20 to 50 policemen, not counting the ones in plain clothes. What was the commotion all about? Why there was the need of this show of force? It's clear that the police force has been used for political gain of the party in control, ie BN! These policemen had, for sure, other better things to do than being the slaves of politicians. They should have taken care the raising crime rate in Johor Bahru and the drug addicts at the empty warehouse at JB train station. NO! Some politicians had to instruct them to guard roads just to intimidate people. But we are no fools. We have done nothing wrong. Despite the roadblocks, many supporters turn up at the gathering. The assembly was peaceful, you can see kids and women listening to the speech. I enjoyed the speech, it was both, informative and entertaining. No matter how hard the policemen tried to maintain their fierce serious look, they also could not help laughing at jokes cracked by the speaker.

Gotta go to the football field and see a soccer tournament. I'm not playing this time.

The most stupid thing to do is to go shopping with a group of female executives. I did that mistake in Langkawi, the so called shopping paradise. These ladies are my collegues from work, we were on working-holiday assignment/excursion. I refrained myself from buying anything for 2 reasons: 1) I prefer to travel light 2) I don't have much money. The ladies bought tonnes of stuffs, corelle, acoroc, melamine (mostly branded kitchenware). You guys tell me, who has to carry the goods for them? They looked around, they saw me carrying nothing but a can of chocolate. The asked me to carry the stuff for them. Being a gentlement, I obliged. So much for traveling light!

They have 20 minutes and yet they asked me to put 1/2 inch thick report of info into their multimedia presentation. On top of that they asked for audio, video and animation. I don't think they know what they want. 20 minute presentation at 2 minute perslide, one vcan only afford 10 slides.

Just came back from Langkawi. Nice Island with cheap food and branded goods. Guy Laroche wallet has 20% discount but still I couldn't buy it. Who want a $400 wallet when you can only afford to fill it with coins. Nevertheless I bought myself fake made in Thailand Manchester United jersey for $25 and Hawaiian Shirts for $15 each.

My org. play soccer against a teenager team. We were trashed. The result was 10-1. We lost big time!

My life is full of meetings because I serve many bosses. Sometimes I call for meetings because at certain level I'm the boss of some people. Yes, I'm busy but the learning experience is incredibly rewarding. Just take one example, just because they need me to serve in the Quality Circle group, I got to go to Langkawi to attend on of the big meeting..yes...Mahader's Paradise Island. I'll be having fun in the sea, sun, & sand on the company's ca$h! Life is great!

It's has been a helluva week. Timenet disconnected the connection while verifying my password. I tried several times and then i gave up. Maybe there is a conspiracy against me. The RM22000 software that my coworker bought for our lab is not compatible with our computers. She then handed me the problem to solve.

I attended a course on LAN and at the same time I also booked a sit at Visual Basic training session. What was I thinking?! I can't clone myself and be at 2 places at the same time. Using my persuasion technique plus the power of IT head, I asked my subordinate to replace me for Visual Basic. He seemed reluctant, but I know he'd thank me for this.

I managed to setup a website for It Unit of my org. People will not disturb me at my office with problems like lost screensaver, lost icons, pinter can't print etc. The have to put their problems in writing using a web form. I'll then direct the report to my technician. Whether my technician will act on it or not that another story. Nothing in my intray today! It's a miracle.

Went to KeAdilan Rally last nite. The point to remember based on Ezam's speech is NEVER TRUST UTUSAN and never take point from Utusan to argue with people.

Found in private message zone of HARIMAU JADIAN GUESTBOOK : "Saya akan menerbitkan sebuah tabloid mengenai ******** dan ****** bulan March/April nanti, insyaalah. Oleh itu, saya sedang mencari penulis-penulis sambilan untuk memenuhi ruangan dan ingin menjemput saudara untuk menjadi salah seorang daripadanya. Itupun jika saudara berminat. Sila hubungi saya melalui email ataupun ditalian 017-*******."
A proposal to become a writer for a tabloid. Wow! Opportunity knocks...but it could be a trap for this old tiger. Don't worry guys, I'll be careful.

HARIMAU JADIAN GUESTBOOK - [ Provided by: Webmaster Station ]
Somebody Wrote in my guestbook...
"This site quit funny, however, most of the jokes are cetak rompak. visit my site for quality jokes."

and guess what, I have the same comment about his website. FYI, I've been looking for a competitor to benchmark, well until I find a hotter website, his will do. It's fun to have an arch enemy.

CORPORATE TAKEOVER
It used to be Onelist.com, then it turned to Egroups.com and now it's Yahoogroups. Within less than two years the mailinglist service that I use to distribute my e-zine changes hands. And I got to inform the subscribers about the changes.But on 2nd thought, I don't think they care.
Lately my life has become a living hell. Too many things to do and so little time. I discover as expected, I know little about my job. Just today I took a proxy server and asked a programmer and 2 technicians to configure the servers. Do I know what is a proxy server? NO! Even the proggramer and the technicians failed to make me understand. Nevertheless, during my monthly report I will report to my superiors that I managed to install a proxy server in our building. They will say.. Proxy Server....? What the...whateverlah...but this new guy is really impressive! Yes fellow friends, I'm the shortsighted king thet rule the blinds!

DATSUN 120Y
Tried to organized a big event, online gathering of LTP subscribers but my notice of meeting was baunced back to me. Damn! I got to reschedule the gathering. My sister organized an open house eating feast. Her boyfriend came. I hate his gut. I wish I could kick his ass but I need to be polite to guest so I just ignore him. My brother serviced his car but after that he couldn't start his car. He mistakenly disorganized the spark plugs of his Datsun 120Y. Funny when we finally discovered the mistake. Nevertheless his cas seems to produce an explosion sound every 3 seconds.

BUYING A HOUSE
Top ten things I look for when choosing a house other than size and price.
1. Surau/Mosque
2. Neighbor
3. Nearby school
4. Extra parking space outside the fence of the house
5. Entry point from the main road
6. Sun setting and rising orientation
7. Away from flood (Hill area is a preference)
8. Nearby shops
9. History of the developer
10. Near to workplace.

VCD
I raed my own wrutings and found errors and typos...I'll not edit them. They are here to stay. Nobody cares, for all I know, I'm the only one who read my journals. If there are teachers of ESL outthere, aha..U have no power whatsover over me!

Back to today's topic. Notice this whenever you buy pirated VCDs, the beginning part of a VCD does not necessarily represents the whole. What the pirate did was..they insert an introduction of Dolby Stereao taken from a very fine DVD. Thus, just the first 3 minute introduction is crystal clear and the second part of the the VCD is just crap taken in a cinema. If you really need to test the VCD, it's save to view DIsc 2 of the package not disc 1 where the intro is located. Enjoy your shopping. LOng live pirated VCDs!!!

Damn! I thought my new post would give me more free time. My in-tray is full of letters & memos calling for meeting. When will I get to play with the computers? Hopefully during this weekend. But they give me new office, PC, parking space access to other 10 pc's in the office after working hour and the photocopy machine. In my latest meeting I asked for RM1000 scanner to be put on my table. They agreed without argument. It seems I power but I don't have time to play with my toys.

I am given the responsibility to be the speaker for our community Marhaban group (Team of people that recite Choral Poetry about the Prophet). We visited houses, recite the poetry, I greeted the hosts, wish them happy hari raya. Ask for forgiveness of whatever wrong we did toward them. My speeches last night was simple and short. Why? I needed to finish the round early as Dr. Hassan Ali (Activist) was coming to the nearby housing estate. Some of my fellow neighbors can read me like a book. I was a little bit embarassed. I didn't want to be labeled as opposition extremist. We finished the round about 10.30pm. I rushed to my car and dash to the rally. The funny thing was, as I drove around to find a parking space, I saw my neighbors were doing the same. We are all supporters of Islamic based movement. My anxiety was just a waste of brain cell energy.

-mahdzan.com- the mahdzan family cyber portal
PLANNING
I found the website above. Very interesting. I wish i had time to come up with something like that for my family. I know enough to do it, just that I got no time. Just this morning I presented my 2 year job masterplan for my organisation in a meeting. I presented very fast and at the same time I leave some technical jargons enough to make them scratch their head and leave their mouth hanging. I hope they buy my bluff. FYI, i can do the whole planning within 6 months. My strategy, if later on I produce more than I plan...I'll be looked at as a Superman! More bonus maybe :)

OPEN HOUSE
I entered the double storey house of one of the siblings of deputy ministers. The house was nicely decorated with expensive decors. Expensive is a little bit subjective, let's just say I can't afford to buy those things thus they are expensive. I was there because of the host open house invitation. I ate roti jala (I notice I like to talk about food in my log). The other guests had left and I got special treatment from the host. We conversed about today's business climate and UMNO's problems. He's an UMNO but he complained a lot about its leaderships. Here are some juicy predictions & comments from him: 1) Hishammudin time has come. He'll dbe ropped from certain important post. 2) Abdullah needs to control Najib, Tyson and Muhyidin in order to control UMNo. 3) Dr. M is not afraid of PAS and Keadilan but he's more afraid of the UMNO sharks that are waiting for the time he steps down from the thrown. 4) malay unity meeting with PAs is UMNO's trap. And at 5.00 pm, I left the house with full stomach.

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