Life Of A Typical Malay - August 1999

Saturday 28/8/1999

Left for Tanjung Karang after Asar, it rained since morning. The drive was not too smooth, lots of cars, what a heavy traffic it was.

Abang The was out, spent the evening clowning around with my nieces and nephews.

Harga called at 8-30 pm and we decided to meet somewhere near Kuala Selangor, 15 km away. He was late, busy preparing things for that big day, he said. Had a nice dinner at one seafood restaurant overlooking the river, such a nice view.

Then followed him to one furniture centre, I was a bit hesistant but he insisted, he even asked me to choose the best bedroom set for him. Within his budget of course. I was honored.

Didn't go to bed until 1-00 am, after monkeying around with Qayyum, Ika, Iwan and Ira again. Their favourite uncle.

Sunday 29/8/1999

I shouldn't have left before lunch, Akak The was busy preparing lunch when I said, "OK, I'm leaving now..."

Why so soon?

It's going to rain, you know I hate driving when it pours.

I thought you are going to have lunch with us.

Lain kali sajalah, Akak The.

We are going home to Raub next weekend, baliklah nanti, biar ramai sikit.

I'm thinking of going to Kuantan next week, to Cherating for a bit of holidays. I'm not trading that Monday 6th, it's a public holiday in the US, Labor Day.

Yes, I'm going to Cherating Saturday morning, oh I can't wait to have fun jet-skiing again.

The rest of the day was spent doing some readings and stuff. It's 11-00 pm now and I'm logging off, I need to go to Sirim tomorrow, perhaps I have to go see En Mahadi after that.

Monday 30/8/1999

I was already at Block 9, Sirim when Azizan arrived. Spoke with his superior for a few minutes, can't remember what his name was. He promised to expedite the process of issuing that last payment.

Azizan seemed to be very interested in helping me getting the payment. I gave up long time ago. I'll leave it to him then, I don't care, as long as I get the money, obviously I will have to give him some coffee money. I have to discuss with En Mahadi first. I don't really know this stuff, perhaps a few thousand. Heck, that's quite a lot of money.

Went for a quick breakfast at Hotel ITM with him, then dropped him off infront of Block 12.

Rushed home to type a letter to Sirim, then called En Mahadi but he was not in.

I seriously think that I am allergic to eating crab. I ate lots of crabs the past 2 days, dinner with Harga, and yesterday too, I had another. I will get terrible headache after that. This has become so obvious now. I remember the last time I had headache - I had that bloody thing the night before. Oh, I'm not going to touch that creatures again, I'll try not to...

On a brighter side, looks like I'll be moving soon. Maybe not too soon. I just registered my own domain name today. Yay, good on ya Zainal. No, it's not www.zainal.com, that was taken long ago. Not www.toomany.com either, that domain is someone else's. Not that cool a name anyway.

Oh, I can't tell you what my domain name is right now, I wish I could but I guess it'll take a few months to move everything to my new cyberhome. Registering the name itself takes a month, setting up, transferring stuff and data etc will take some times. I'm not in a hurry to move in but I plan to use that domain within these few months. I have no idea what to do with this page of mine, maybe I'll keep this page alive, maybe I'll make it my mirror site, or perhaps I'll have 2. Far too early to tell, hopefully everything will be ok, I know nuts about this domain thingy.

I will definitely not going to abandon this page. It has become part of me, the childish part of me, the other side of me. Oh, I can't wait to get old...*LOL*...not that I'm still young though.

Coffee and cotton sank again tonight, true, August has so many "lowests"...lowest in 5 years, lowest in 10 years blah blah blah...

Wanted to leave early to avoid traffic but it rained heavily. Went to Kumar's workplace, chatted with him for half an hour. He loaned me 2 of his pirated vcds, The Mummy and Entrapment.

The night erupted at 12-00 midnight, shouts of Merdeka! Merdeka! everywhere. Tomorrow's Independence Day and as usual KL was packed with revellers, old and young, everyone was in merdeka spirit.

On my way home tonight, I took the road leading to Merdeka Square, gosh, it was a mistake. we were basically crawling. At 3-00 am ? Everyone was driving towards the square, I saw people everywhere, waiting for tomorrow perhaps, to see merdeka parade.

Hmmm....wonder why I'm not that patriotic....

Tuesday 31/8/1999

Today was a Public Holiday, everyone was in a very happy mood. I don't know, I was in bed the whole afternoon. Then spent a few hours working on my laptop, doing a bit of this and a bit of that. Some graphics, shockwave flash, and some dhtml stuff. None was to my satisfaction. Maybe I should learn more before trying my hands at these. I should first open help files or go visit tutorial pages instead of running the programe and doing it blindly.

Called Dollah (Temerloh) and Nadzmi (Kuantan) informing them about my holidays this weekend. Dollah asked me to stop for breakfast/lunch at his house. Temerloh is halfway between KL and Kuantan. It's a good idea to stop somewhere for a breather. And Temerloh sounds like the best place. Nadzmi sounded so happy, he promised to go out for dinner that Saturday night. He suggested that I stay in Kuantan instead of Cherating, it's a bit far from his house.

Ida called tonight telling me about one ceramah by DAP (Lim Kit Siang & Lim Guan Eng) in Segambut, right infront of her house. Been there once, attending a ceramah by PAS leaders. But it was a bit late, I was already at the office.

I was alone again tonight, Dominic was not around, to the official opening ceremony of Petronas Twin Towers.

Cotton showed a bit of improvement, it climbed to 50-00, everyone predicted the price to dip below 48-35 (the lowest), but it did not. Coffee played below 90-00 all night long. Confusing, or maybe directionless...


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