Once Upon A Time....

I would like to tell everybody out there about my bad experience in paying "cukai tanah". Every year, we as a good citizen were reminded to pay our cukai pintu and tanah. The sooner the better. If you failed to do so they(pejabat tanah bahagian hasil) are going to denda you...they are firm about this...they will not listen to any of your reasons..coz to them you are just making excuses .....

Yesterday my mum helped me to pay the cukai as I have a meeting with my son's teacher.. to my suprised the clerk incharged informed my mum that I have to make double payment to include the penalty payment for last year's cukai....my mum urged the clerk to check again through their computer system...after checking the result was i didn't make any payment last year...jeng! jeng!jeng!

Got the message from my mum...went back home..found out last year's receipt then went back to Pejabat Tanah...of course when I reached them I demand for detail explanation about this issue... to cut the long story short...nobody can give any explanation except keep on blaming the computer system( I wonder system apa yang pejabat tanah guna...payment yang di buat setahun dulu belum appear lagi dalam system) and the worst thing is that nobody buka mulut minta maaf and the clerk incharged guna bahasa yang amat kasar sekali...

Points to ponder:

1) what if I have lost my last year's receipt...dalam system kata I tak bayar...so nak tak nak I kena bayar lagi lah kan..kan..kan...

2) kalau kita lewat bayar...system bole detect plak nak denda berapa...kena bayar tanpa kompromi...tak bayar ...denda lagi...

3) jadi sekarang ni terbalik... pej tanah tak record payment yang dah setahun di buat....apa yang pembayar cukai bole buat...

4) kalau sorang RM 150 (the amount that I have to pay).. kalau 100 org yang tak di rekod payment...duit pegi mana?... itu baru 100 org ...rasanya kalau betul masalah system...ramai lagi agaknya...antara sedar ngan idak je...

5) macam mana bole lepas audit last year ...Payment received tak telly ngan kat dalam system..

6) yang paling nak tau system apa yang diguna...kalau lah payment yang setahun lepas system tak dapat detect baik buat cara manual....

the rest of the day trying to get in touch with the top person in charged... hoping to get a clearer explanation and of course nak buat official aduan tentang sikap amat kurang ajar pekerja dia melayan pembayar cukai like me...and again to my suprised.. nobody in the office...daripada Pegawai Bahagian Hasil kat Pejabat tanah daerah sampai la Pengarah Pejabat Tanah negeri semuanya tak ada ...mesyuarat!!!Agaknya Sunday adalah hari org pejabat tanah bermesyuarat...

ish!ish!ish! dah 50 tahun kita Merdeka ye...gini rupanya....

Students and Politic

One tabloid reported about the registration of a new political party .Nothing extraordinary about this except this party is fully designed and supported by students.I personally not sure about the truth of this story .As far as I know, students in Malaysian universities are governed by Akta Universiti which prohibit them from doing this kind of thing.

To all students out there...I think it is good if all of you focused on your study rather than wasting time doing this 'political'things. Let the politician deal with political issues. They are paid to do this.You can seriously put yourself in the political arena after graduating. Mind you, good academic background will of course provide extra credit later in life including in politics. If you failed, don't dream that people will vote for you. This is politics and not Malaysian Idiol or AF.

Perhaps universities should be more lenient by providing proper place for students to express their opinion including political opinion. Talking about political issues and involvement in politics are two different things.A "free zone"where students are allowed to make their own speech about anything might be a good start. After all,ability to speak in public and express their opinion in a more constructive way are good even if they do not want to be a Menteri Besar later.

Naik..Naik...Naik....

As a wife and a mother of three children 'cooking" has become a routine. I am not a good cook far from becoming a chef But trying very hard to ensure my family eat "homemade" food...Last week end when i did my "marketing" I was suprised to find out I have to pay RM1.30 for a small ikat of pucuk paku...the same size of pucuk paku only cost me RM 1 last year...
then i have to pay RM 8.00 for a kg of ikan selar kuning...We are not talking about luxury food here..we are talking about a very simple kampung style kind of food..not to mention about harga chicken and beef..RM 50.00 a day to the market is nothing now!..

I always think I am among the fortunate to have the opportunity to work and stay in a "kampung" area..definitely based on the low cost of living...but now that thought might not reflects the reality anymore...what can I do ? well ..nothing much except exercising my "power" during the next election....ha..ha... when will that be?

kawan,rakan,teman,sahabat...

Can anybody explain on the meaning of the above three familiar words? sounds very easy haaa...to be perfectly honest ,I my self sometimes get confuse with it.. to me 'kawan' refers to the people who is interested to know you or make an effort to know you or in the process of knowing you.."rakan" may be explained as your "kawan" who has something in common with you...that's why people called "rakan sekerja"...eventhough you hate your officemate you still have to use the word rakan sekerja to describe your relationship...what about teman?..Teman refers to a more meaningful and sentimental relationship with our "kawan"....betul ke ni? pretty sure about this..if not tak kan ada word "teman hidup"..finally..we end up with "sahabat"...rasanya "sahabat" will be a very very small portion of our big pool of "kawan"...

why do i write about these three words? .. well, lately i realised that some of us do not care or couldn't be bothered to care about our kawan, rakan, teman or sahabat...whether we like it or not ..we tend to become very insensitive,intolerate,self centered in our daily actions including our actions toward the three groups listed above...i have met people declared to be your kawan one day and yet act like they never knew you the next day...and people yang hanya akan 'berkawan" if only that other person brings benefit to her/him...As for me I still percaya no matter who you are...you are still hamba Allah... and always tell my self "ular yang menyusur akar tak akan hilang bisanya"...


So to all my kawan, rakan, teman and sahabat out there...if you somehow realised that I have become a very insensitive and self centered person ... please "wake me up"....maklum lah saya pun manusia....

GamePlan..

My two sons sibuk nak tengok wayang...so we went to the cinema..Actually they wanted to watch Orang Minyak coz according to their friends konon-kononnya seram le that movie....but there was no Orang Minyak...only two movies available i.e. Allien and something (can't remember the exact title) coz I hate all the previous Allien stories...and another one is Game plan...both of them wanted to watch that Allien movie...I guessed due to the stupid picture of that Allien..But that movie is strictly for 18 and above...so we end up with Game plan...
Lakonan The Rock...to those out there..Gameplan ni best le...suitable for family ...demonstrate the father's love towards his daughter...so kalau anak anak sibuk ajak tengok wayang..why not tengok gameplan....

Research report..

Yesterday I received a phone call asking about my research report....Alamak dah overdue le plak....This time banyak betul masalah nak menghabiskan the report...I should have submitted it in Dec but one of the members tak dapat bagi commitment...so I have to do her part..Bila dah start class... punya le busy...tak sempat....harap harap dapat le antor end of January....

Sekolah...oh Sekolah..

New year begin...sekolah pun mula...new uniform..new shoes...BUT still with the same OLD problem ....BEG BERAT!!!!!!

Few days ago..i heard one Dr (sorry can't remember his name) talked about the maximum weight yang bole budak bawa...he said the maximum weight yang bole budak angkat is 10% dari berat badan budak tu...If not..later in life budak tu akan dapat masalah backbone...

As a parents of course that satement risaukan I....my eldest son at the age of 12 baru 26 kg...meaning that dia HANYA bole angkat beg with the mximum weight of 2.6kg...the reality..there are days yang dia have to galas beg lebih kurang with his own weight!!!...

During the taklimat bersama waris session on the first day of school..the headmistress said parents MUST make sure the students follow strickly their timetable...bring only those books yang nak guna... so that no more complaint about beg berat....

The next day I personally check my son's timetable to ensure that he brings only the necessary books to school..but ...balik je sekolah..he complained one of the teachers marah him coz he didn't bring one of the books...the crazy thing about it is that subject /book is NOT listed in the timetable for that day..... So... Cakap Tarak Serupa Bikin.....

I wonder why the Kementerian did not provide locker to the students...kalau computer yang harga berjuta bole bagi...rasanya locker will not cost that much....OR maybe anak anak menteri tak complaint coz most of them may be go to the private school which definitely have different environment...

Conclusionnya...bila la BEG BERAT ni akan selesai......

That stupid Minister...

Malaysia Boleh!!!!...rasanya that the best remark to respond to the latest "kisah benar" created by one of the top persons in the government. His pengakuan of being a "romantic" hero in the video has bring a new phenomena in this country ...apa taknya...our new generation will have the impression that if u make something immoral...the best way is to publicly declare it so that u can somehow turn urself to be a hero and don't forget to bring along your friends to back you up....heran...ada plak yang dok back up.....

so don't waste our time trying to control and educate our teenagers about the danger of having free sex and the tendency of getting AIDS...the most influential person in that field dah bagi a good example....what a remarkable start for the new year....or is this the new way of celebrating New Year!!

"the most important thing now is that my family has accepted my apology..."Hey old man...I would like to remind u ..in case u have forgotten this phrase due to your old age...to forgive and to forget are two different things...(the first one easy, the second one not that simple maaa.....) so best of luck to you!!!

next one...don't try to switch the focus of the issue....to highlight that u didn't create the video urself...it's someone else creative work!...luckily u didn't blame the Feng Shui of that nostalgic hotel room....whoever did it and with whatever reason is secondary...the point is u shouldn't do that immoral thing especially at your "golden age".

Well Malaysian...Happy New Year....