// The Obnoxious 5xmom

My little darling. He is getting chubby and though he does have his exercise, he can eats. A lot. Especially white rice. Must. Exercise.

This is my dinner. Actually, we went to Tao Cuisine yesterday evening amidst the flood. The place was packed and they wanted to put us on the five foot way, with the rain pouring down. So, I beh shiok and cabut. Somemore they are so strictly with the charges, wanting to charge my 11 yrs old adult charge and my barely eat Japanese foods 5 yrs old boy children fare. I don’t want to pay RM300 to sit in the rain

Since it is my birthday, I buy lottery lor. Who knows, maybe lucky leh? RM16 million jackpot prize wor. In case you do not know, Christians like me can buy lotteries but I mustn’t sacrifice food money for gambling. If one does that, it is a sin.

Lots of camwhoring session. Every one has a camera phone or camera so we shoot each other.

This yet to be 12 years old lala boy is going to sit for his UPSR on Tuesday. He is going to be the first batch of students who studied Science and Mathematics in English to sit for UPSR. Our very smart Education Minister is now worrying if their policy on studying in English has caused some sectors to be short-changed.

To my son, it is sap-sap sui for those subjects. But his BM suxs. When he told me he got a B in BM for his trial UPSR, I went, “woohoo! hallelujah!” I thought he cannot even pass. Oh well, I always believe parents shouldn’t sweat too much over 11-12 years old kids. Mine never attend tuition nor study. That’s why I am still alive and he is still having his head in one piece. Grrrr…..Boys are late bloomers and though they may be a little bit dumb in primary school, they will do ok secondary school.

And I must openly say that I personally find it rather distasteful for parents to place special intention prayers for their 11-12 years to pass UPSR exam. I know it is good to teach kids faith and God-ly stuffs but it is a little bit of ‘passing the buck to Jesus if you didn’t do well in your exam’ kinda deal. Normally our church will hold a special mass for these kids. But there are parents who went out of their ways to place a sum of money, put their children’s name in the list to be prayed for during weekend masses. Usually, people pray for their deceased souls or someone going through illness. Serious, we mustn’t treat 11-12 years old like their future depends on God alone.

Moreover, it doesn’t matter how well 11-12 years old kids do in UPSR because the freaking secondary schools are there for them. What’s the purpose of being so competitive and so kiasu lah?

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The Chief Minister at flood area in Penang

I pick up these photos on some Chinese forum and wonder why only the Chinese papers feature the flood in Penang? Like they say, a picture says a thousand words.

The above is my phone’s SMS. It was from one of the CM’s staff. This afternoon, he told me the CM is still at the various locations which were affected by the Penang flood.

Salute you, Mr. CM!

Meanwhile, yesterday or was it day before yesterday, my atm told me the CM went up to Penang Hill. (atm went hiking every morning and even bumped into LKS hiking alone) I read in the papers that the Federal Government was the one holding back the funds to repair the funicular train. I was like WTF!?!? Do you remember I ranted about Gerakan Chia Kwang Chye urging the Penang State Government to repair the train fast? Sad that the folks staying up in Penang Hill are put through these hardships while the Fed Gov. is holding the money, squeezing the PR led State Government, while BN is fanning fire.

I am glad that Gerakan has slowly come to some senses. Gerakan may quit Barisan. They should heed Tony Pua’s call to Gerakan and MCA to leave the Dark Side and join the Jedi Knights.

I am utterly disgusted with the sandiwara put up by Pak Lah and his UMNO gang. Be gentlemen lah. One means one, two means two. Don’t be like tarak tulang, one minute say Ahmad must apologise, next minute say cannot find him and then defended him and now, they are shaking hand and Pak Lah said, :

“What happened is supposed to be a practice of freedom of speech and to voice opinions according to what is felt by the person who made the statement. But what was not supposed to happen has…

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Pak Lah, what freedom of speech? If got such thing as freedom of speech in Malaysia, why Syed Hamid is threatening to put RPK into ISA? Real man doesn’t twist and turn and flip flop like you do.

I just scolded one woman, “Boh nau eh” because she strewn pau skin to feed pigeons in the midst of people eating this morning! I am going to repeat to Pak Lah and his gang. “Chia chia boh nau eh. Ancua cho cheng hoo?” Nay, go interpret lah. Freedom of speech mah, I am only voicing my opinions nia.

Folks, if you take the photo of the CM, please credit the source. I think it is Kwong Wah but their website seems to be down.

(yayaya, I know it is my birthday and I am NOT suppose to blog but who cares lah, CM is my #1 hero mah but I terlajak to PM pulak)

Thanks for all the birthday wishes on my Facebook, face to face, sms and the earlier comments.

I am still too busy to celebrate lah. Hopefully will get around to do it tonight.

Anyway, no big deal lah. As you get older, you tend to bother less about birthdays.

I woke up since 5.05 am this morning. *yawns* I will go back to sleep after my Christmas choir practice. *swt* It is only September but we are practising for Christmas already.

After mass this morning, I told Father FA, “Father, it’s my birthday! Can you say a blessing for me?”

Father FA joked, “Your birthday! Why don’t you proclaim it just now? After you have said, A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Romans, say, “It’s my birthday!” Aha, I wish! I was still scolding self for pronouncing covet wrongly! Ish, ish, ish. Covet is supposed to sound like cover with a t. Not covet with a vet like an animal doctor. Yerrr….How I know wor, I never covet thy neighbour’s loukong mahhh.

Again, thanks for the wishes. Gotta run!

So, being 44 means :

1) Early 40?

2) Mid 40?

or bluff people I am 38?

Which one?

That I won’t be so critical of myself;

That I will learn to forgive myself;

That I will not lose the vigour to serve Him;

That I will always be sincere and truthful;

That I will always possess this guts I have till the end;

That I will always have the faith to let Him lead;

That I will be less of a control freak;

That I will learn to laugh at myself;

and allow others to do the same.

That I won’t be afraid to give fully to a cause, a person or a reason I believe in;

That I will always remain rooted in His Word;

That I will be forever obnoxious, infectious, warm, loving, selfless and never pretentious.

Despite of all the above……

that I will know when to love myself and never forget to put my own happiness first.

In Christ’s name, I pray.

Amen!

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Flood! Flood waters go up as high as knee deep in Jalan Air Itam outside the Penang State Mosque. The direction from town to Air Itam is flooded.

But we got to Han Chiang anyhow but…..the car park is flooded and we can see water rising fast. We were late due to the jams and trying to find a way to get from Tesco (where I was earlier) to Han Chiang.

The above is the car park outside Han Chiang college. Initially, we went to the wrong part and ended up in some Wanita MCA event. LOL. In the end, after much pondering, we decided it is safer for us to find our way home instead of attending the forum. We already have one car in the workshop due to flood waters, so we cannot afford our only car to rosak. Lucky the Jalan Batu Gantung/Chung Ling/Jalan Air Itam was not submerged in flood water. The river next to the Little Sisters of the Poor is full already.

Water has gone into our lift shaft and the lift is not useable anymore. This is madness!

Photo taken about 30 minutes ago, around 10 pm. The water barely enter the ground floor apartment unit because they have made their ground level higher.

My sister’s house in Pantai Jerjak is flooded as well but they too had made their ground higher and water only enter their toilet, from the toilet bowl and drain pipe. Ewwss…

So, it was not just a simple flood but affects a lot of places (read AnilNetto’s blog on the places affected in this Penang flood). It is still raining and I better get to sleep soon. Busy day tomorrow ‘cos I have to do a last minute replacement for a lector at 7 am, choir practice at 10.45 am and after that, then only I have time for anything else (like my birthday). I hope the water goes down tonight or else…

Fulamak! My area is flooded after just a few hours of heavy rain. The cars in my apartment have moved out to the next door school which is on higher grounds. Meanwhile those landed properties kena teruk because flood water has entered their homes.

Several cars are stalled already. But some greenhorns who do not care drove through and their cars eventually stalled. These are mothers who came to fetch their children after tuition.

The main longkang is the culprit because the flood water is supposed to flow to a river. But somewhere must be blocked by either rubbish thrown by irresponsible folks or building materials left by irresponsible developer.

The women here were standing helplessly because their cars are right in the middle of the flood. Water has entered their cars already.

And you know what? The water stinks! I came back and my little boy said, “Mommy, you so smelly. You pee in your pants ah?” LOL. Ewwss….

I have uploaded a video and when Youtube processed it, I will post it. Meantime….*teet teet teet…SMS to SOS that Kawasan Air Putih, Taman Lumba Kuda is flooded*

1 hour later….

water is rising and here’s a shot of my apartment ground floor

And when you have nothing else to do….you sing Umbrella and dance in the rain!

Woi, Penang folks….Want to go to this forum tonight?

It is in Han Chiang College.

Time : 8 pm

Date : TODAY, SATURDAY 6th September 2008

Speakers : Jeff Ooi, Toh Kin Woon, Josh Hong and Dr. Mujahid Yusuf Rawa.

Entry from JeffOoi’s blog on the purpose of this forum :

While the business community expresses despair at the protracted political uncertainty, and aspiring politicians take aim at claiming a pound of flesh off BN, the grassroots might be bewildered with the diverse potentialities a 916 could bring.

I feel we need to prepare the ground, and to explain to the masses of the options and potential scenarios — good and bad — in the days to come. Especially so, as Umno will not give up without putting up a ferocious fight while its component partners choose to jump the leopard-can’t-change-its-spot racist ship.

For my part, I will speak among friends at two fora in Ipoh (Chinese medium) and Penang (English medium) on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Hope to see you there.

I think I want to go because who knows…maybe got drama to see leh? Nay, like that Bar Council one? Then I can take pikchures and got lotsa stories to tell.

So, see you there! Watch out for the red t-shirt with ‘The Obnoxious 5XMOM’ in reflective materials and the Nikon yellow strap, ok? If you see me, come and wish me an early Happy Birthday wor. Heh, perasan saja.