Have thou blog today?

Seeing how my blog is gathering more and more dust makes me wonder if I should keep this blog. Simply put, posting messages on Facebook is easier.

Does anybody read blogs anymore? Blogging now sounds so outdated.

Toll Valley aka Klang Valley?

I don't know if anyone has noticed it, but I think the Klang Valley has the highest number of tolls per area in the world. Let's see:-

1. Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong (LDP)
2. New Pantai Expressway (NPE)
3. Shah Alam Expressway (Kesas)
4. New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE)
5. Kerinchi Link
6. Penchala Link
7. Sprint Hwy (Jalan Duta to Uptown Damansara)
8. SMART
9. Sg. Besi Hwy
10. North South Expressway
11. Federal Hwy (Batu Tiga to Klang)
12. Guthrie Corridor Expressway
13. Ampang Elevated Hwy
14. Duta Ulu Klang Expressway (DUKE)
15. East West Link Hwy (linking Desa Waterpark to Taman Connaught)
16. Grand "Barrier" Saga Hwy (The famous hwy where ppl where fighting over a barrier)
17. Kajang SILK Hwy
18. KL Putrajaya Hwy (Maju)
19. Kota Kemuning-Federal Hwy Expressway (under construction)

Walau... 19 already!!!

Still got somemore either under construction, under planning stage or I miss out. Issit so hard to build a toll-free dual carriageway?

Pakatan should really come out with a Freeway to counter BN's obsession with Tollways.

Bricksmal: Malaysian Online Lego Community Portal and Forum

There is a new forum for Malaysian Lego enthusiasts at http://bricksmal.com/index.php

Started about a month already with now 56 members and growing. Got set reviews and discussions about current and upcoming sets.

If you like Lego, pop in and have a look :)

Should I head down south to Singapore?

I was having this thought for a long time already. From the day I started work here till now, this question always comes out everytime. Unfortunately it came out more frequently as of late.

There is something I am sensing not right here, have to somehow cabut before it is too late. I know some of you already cabut across the causeway, now I am wondering if I should go too.....

Patriotism is something from yesteryear. Gone are the days where you ask yourself what you should do for your country and not what your country should do for you.

Now recently I received 1 e-mail stating that if you have RM 3000 and a family (sole breadwinner) you simply cannot survive in KL. I did a little calculation so to speak, assuming I live in SJ and go to work in KL. Simply put, it is tough!

Petrol
Kilometers to and from work		30
RM per km		0.2
Average working days		21
		126
Kilometers to shopping/lepak		30
RM per km		0.2
Average days to lepak		5
		30
	Total petrol cost	156
LRT cost
LRT ticket (LRT only)		100
LRT station parking (RM 4*21 days, Taman Jaya)		84
Makan
Lunch at work		6
Working days		21
		126
Family cost
Parents and brother (good son)		600
Cost of Makan lunch and dinner weekend		50
No of weekend days		9
		450
	Sub-total family cost	1050
Car Costs
Road Tax (1.5 liter wira, from parents)		7.5
Servicing car (every 5k, 630km a month)		56.7
Insurance (1.5 liter wira, costs 10k, provided the insurance company such as P&O insurance dun hate old cars)		50.25
		114.45
House cost
Internet (RM 88 with line rental)		100
TNB (3 air-con in house, 1 for parents, 1 for bro, 1 for me)		350
Water (free, TQ PAKATAN RAKYAT!!!)		0
		450
	Total cost per month	RM1980.45

Oh dear, that is not even counting the following:-
Entertainment
Daily Newspaper
Insurance (our lives are so worthless)
Dating (you think can be single till die meh?)
Parking at shopping complexes and other locations when you go to site/meetings
Handphone
Toll
Toiletries
Car Loan
House Loan
Breakfast (forget makan roti, minum Milo and the like)

And to have someone saying we should change our lifestyle? Maybe we should change the country we live in or change where we live. Or maybe change the person who said we should change out lifestyle.

Ok, maybe can cut somemore, like not using air-con, not giving parents money and not using my car. But as a consultant which need to go for meetings and site meetings, you NEED a car. How about sales engineer? They too need a car to meet potential clients and bring along the brochures to let their clients see them. Using motor? Imagine how embrassing it is to tell your client "sorry sir, rain too heavy, cannot see you" or "sorry, I got motor only, cannot deliver sample board".

Can someone in Singapore/Korea/US/Australia do a cost calculation like the above to compare?

P.S: Sorry to rant so much on Hari Raya, just need an avenue to release all the negative thing in me.

Something Work related: Can a king size mattress fit into a lift?

As per the topic, can a king size mattress enter a normal lift? Yes ? No? Apparently this was one question my client asked me last Monday during a meeting.

Well I looked up bed sizes (kingcoil.com.my) and a king size mattress is 1830mm (W) by 1900mm (L). A typical 15 person lift is 1600mm (W) and 1550 (D). Looking at the numbers, 1.6m x 1.5m sure dun fit 1.83m x 1.9m.

However if one were to push the mattress horizontally on its side into the lift and place it across the floor in the lift car, the mattress can barely fit in. It can fit, I have drawn the mattress inside the lift car in autocad, but you do need to "bend" it a bit. If your mattress is thicker than 300mm then maybe it will be a little thougher. The mattress can go through the door because the door is 1m (W) by 2.1m (H), slightly bigger than our normal door. The lift car height is also high, 2.2m, so no problem hitting the roof of the lift car.

Of course the best option is to have a stretcher lift, where a stretcher lift of similar capacity can carry 2 or more mattress without bending the mattress to fit inside. A 15 person stretcher lift is 1.2m (W) and 2.1m (D), so you can just slide in the mattress into the lift on its side without bending.

That is why some condos dun have a stretcher lift, coz technically it is possible to fit a king size mattress into lift car. The questions is, can you actually do it when moving up into your unit?

The number of Legos I have to date

I did a inventory check with all my Lego parts, trying to sort all the pieces and bricks into their respective sets so that I may reconstruct them back. So far, some of the sets can be reconstructed fully, while others, well how do I put it, is missing a key "backbone" piece and cannot be build at all! not to mention the Lego man which came along with the set is missing.

So just how many sets do I own? After looking through some mysterious part and looking up the part directory Peeron.com to see which sets I have which I dun remember I even have (most probably bought for my brother, and I never saw it), the the total number of sets I have is a staggering 66 sets. Inclusive the latest acquisitions this year and the ones from yesteryear, Duplo, Fabuland, Technic and mostly Town. Even I was shocked to see I got so many :sweat:

But sadly when I was small I am not really that good in taking care of my stuff, so lots and lots of pieces are missing.

Transformers Revenge of the Sith

The new TF movie is coming up, called Revenge of the Sith...err, Fallen.

Hope that the Decepticons put up a HUGE fight and kill everyone :) Will optimus die? Well optimus die maybe Bumblebee got a change to be a the leader of the Autobots and maybe even better than that useless Rodimus.

As to if I will want to buy any TF figures, well needless to say, I have NOT bought a single TF 2 toy yet. The reason is:-
1) I have other more longer lasting, valueble "toys" to collect
2) My budget CANNOT sustain buying TF2 toys which have increase in price
3) TF toys dun a nostalgia or collectible impact compared to say Lego, where the pieces last a lifetime and my kids' kids can still play with it.
4) My BB08 is broken coz I accidentally push it the wrong way. So now stuck in robot mode lol
5) Running out of space to keep all these figures.
6) Transformers dun really have a big impact to my childhood memories unlike Matchbox Tomica Lego etc
7) Will try to focus on something other like trying to get in a relationship with someone, hopefully.