ITIS not meant to be...

we all know how frustrating government-related websites but this makes me laugh this morning.

i need to find out how traffic is to town so i check out itis.com.my. expectedly the result:



VIDEO LOST??!!!

or video never found! a few years ago i checked this site out too and it had similar results. don't they know of service and repair? this supposed cam position is about 3 minutes away from their office so what's their excuse? oh, and this result appears on all the other cam positions i clicked on.

and this site is advertised everywhere on those electronic signboards on our roads to enable us to plan our journey.

another money-wasting institution...

like that pic? it's at Tanjung Aru beach in Kota Kinabalu. i think i hang out here more often than Port Dickson, which is a thousand kms closer.

nice place to hang out, drink coconut water, and eat chicken wings. other food is average or below average. it's breezy and nice to see people hang around and have fun by the sea. water looks dodgy but there are those who play in it... mesti gatal after mandi!

those who live by the sea will never understand us city folk's fascination with going to the ocean and taking in the vast expanse that the horizon over water affords... aaahhh...sigh...

random funny line for the day:

came across this acronym when i googled it (don't ask why, it's a lucid stroke of inspiration at three in the morning)

ABCDEFG = A Boy Can Do Everything for a Girl


yeahhhhh sure. c'mon it's not the 20th century anymore. duhhh.

do me a favour - i'm trying out the Google Adsense feature where we get paid for clicking on ads.

i know, i hate clicking on online ads, but i tried a couple and they're OK, cos they are targetted ads. so if i write about 'Kota Kinabalu', then there'll be ads from hotels in KK and the such. useful, right? so - thank you for the favour : )

speaking of kota kinabalu - i'll be there again in June (yayyyyy!) cos we're bringing our newborn to visit the family there. yippeee! maybe i'll hang around in KK for a night to catch up with friends.

back to watching Life... a good series, tell you more about it later.

it's a lazy hazy smurf-ey day...

aaahhhh... sundays are always remarkable. after a decent night's sleep (which consisted of falling asleep mid-way through a Prison Break episode), to awaken to a chorus of chirping birds, laughing kids, and families off to do their sunday thang, can only serve to charge the spirit in so many ways.

THEN i got down to business of devouring episode after episode of Prison Break Season Four. man, these tv networks are really milking the idea dry. how many times in a season can the characters escape from one cell after another??? this is serious houdini shite, y'all.

it's getting repetitive but at the same time, ridiculously addictive! what is it with watching michael, lincoln and gang, season after season, doing the same thing over and over again, mainly getting into trouble, then getting out of it, then finding another shit-hole to jump right in. dudes! be like the rest of the criminals, run to thailand and that would be the end of it. full-stop.



went for dinner at this place called Ayam Penyet Ria (took a brochure home to show off as you can see). Food is delicious, with our faves being the fried chicken and the brinjal. everything's good there, including the gado-gado, soto ayam and pecel.

Sadly haven't been able to try out their Bakso which is either perpetually sold out or has been struck off the menu. sigh.

only thing is i've had better es teler but it goes well with the meal. wish they'd put in the avocado, that would've made all the difference to a good dessert.


for those of you wanting to try some indonesian food, the map is below. it's easy, sunway mentari, opposite sunway pyramid. syokkkkk! i think the indon students living around there make it their regular dining place : )




(still trying to make sense of posting pics on blogger...)

just read this about turning your lights off or leaving them on when you move about your home. so it seems it's better to flick em on and off often, use less electricity and all that. only thing is it will shorten your appliance's life-span, obviously.

doing my bit for the planet : )

definitely will make more long-term sense than the over-hyped "Earth Day" event which looked more like a money-making and publicity stunt than anything else.

so, for one hour, we will participate. then for the rest of our aimless lives, we throw rubbish out our cars, we spit wantonly, deposit chewing gum anywhere we want to (god some landed on my head just tonight! mo-fos! i will get you!), leave our soiled baby diapers by the pool (if you know where i live, do tread carefully...), and the list just goes on and on and on and on.

sadly, i'm no recycling angel either : ( i feel guilt every time i take out the trash. really i do.

speaking of which, whatever happened to those recycling bins that appeared for a while all over the place? hmmm... must ask the guy who started that business, you know, where companies place ads on the dustbins (correction, recycling bins). another observation is that malaysians just don't know how to separate their trash into plastic, paper, glass. trash is trash and will go anywhere we please, thank you.

oh me oh my, environmental issues do get me all boiled up....