Baggage oh Baggage!

On 21st December 2008, 4 of us took a 9.25am Airasia flight from Kuala Lumpur heading to Lawas via Kota Kinabalu. It is an annual affair for us to travel to Lawas to celebrate Christmas in Lawas with our Lunbawang relatives. I will talk about Lawas and Lunbawang in my later postings.

Despite the early scare that one of us could not find her IC during the check in, everything went well. We landed around 12.00 noon and after a smooth immigration check, we went to the Baggage Collection Area. There were many people waiting for their bags. I queued up at the carousel and collected 2 out of 3 bags, i waited and waited and waited the 3rd bag but it was not forthcoming. The number of people dwindled from 200-300 to 50 then to 10 then to me alone! Still i was there staring at the conveyor belt hoping for the stupid brown bag to appear!

Then i was approached by an Airsia ground crew, Kevin Kiang. He said there were a few more flights coming from KL and asked to me to see whether my brown bag was on the flights that were arriving soon, so, more waiting. Damn, i hate to wait but there i was .....waited....waited....waited until 2.00 pm. To cut the long story short, he told me that no point staring at the carousel as Santa wont be coming and deliver my brown bag! Damn! What a way to start a holiday!

He said there was good news and bad news......never knew there was good news when my bag not with me! Really felt like telling him how i felt at that point of time. The good news was it was very unlikely that my bag was taken/stolen by other passenger as he said my bag did not travel from KL to KK on the same flight. I asked how he knew it since Airasia they not tag or scan our luggage like Fedex does so that they can trace our luggage, he said he just knew it! Airasia must have telepathic training for their crews i think!

The bad news was he didn't know where in the world my brown bag was at that point of time! He promised he will trace it and revert to me soonest possible.

I think he saw the disappointment or more like anger on my face before he broke another 'good news' to me. if they can't trace my luggage in 7 days, Airasia will compensate me, RM 49.00 for every kilogram that i checked in. That means i will get.....9kg x RM 49.00 = RM 441.00. Wahlau.........RM 441.00????? My brown bag costs half of it, how about my brand new clothes......how about my brand new pants......how about my brand new underwears???? Who is going to pay for that?

Haiiii......... i was supposed to do some island hoppings like Preciouspea did but even my swimming trunk was in the brown bag......thanks to Airasia, we cancelled the itinerary in KK and headed straight to Lawas which took us around 3 hours drive from KK.

Will talk about the trip from KK to Lawas later!

Calories Burned During Sex

REMOVING HER CLOTHES:
With her consent - 12 Calories
Without her consent - 2,187 Calories


OPENING HER BRA:
With both hands - 8 Calories
With one hand - 12 Calories
With your teeth - 485 Calories


PUTTING ON A CONDOM:
With an erection - 6 Calories
Without an erection - 3,315 Calories


POSITIONS:
Missionary - 12 Calories
69 lying down - 78 Calories
69 standing up - 812 Calories
Wheelbarrow - 216 Calories
Doggy Style - 326 Calories
Italian chandelier - 2,912 Calories


ORGASMS:
Real - 112 Calories
Fake - 1,315 Calories


POST ORGASM:
Lying in bed hugging - 18 Calories
Getting up immediately - 36 Calories

Explaining why you got out of bed immediately - 816 Calories


GETTING A 2nd ERECTION:

If you are:
20-29 years - 36 Calories
30-39 years - 80 Calories
40-49 years - 124 Calories
50-59 years - 1,972 Calories
60-69 years - 7,916 Calories
70 and over - Results are still pending


DRESSING AFTERWARDS:
Calmly.. - 32 Calories
In a hurry - 98 Calories

Her father knocking at the door - 5,218 Calories
With your wife knocking at the door - 13,521 Calories

Right now, as you read this,69 Million People are having SEX !

And you're on the computer !!!

Get a life man!

Note:Credit to the original author & researcher.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas has had a long and varied history. It has been celebrated by many different people in many different places and in many different ways.

Every one of us celebrates Christmas for different reasons; church goers are happy because it is the day that Jesus was born some 2000 years ago, children are happy with all the gifts & cookies, holiday makers are glad because this is the time you can go to most of the places and see wonderful lights decoration, parents are happy to see their children return to their nest, some are just happy because it is a holiday! Whatever reason it might be, aren't all of us agree it is a joyous season? A season to love and cherish the love ones! How we wish that it is Christmas every day.

If your love ones are not with you today, just cherish the moments you had together!

Mr Big wishes you a Merry & Joyous Christmas! May God bless you!!!

Parenting?

Damn! It has been 2 weeks and i was still coughing! I have not gone to pay my doctor a visit not because i was scared of the needle but i hate to wait....really hate it! Anyway my cough is getting worse and really have not much choice.

I went to my regular clinic and the torture began....wait...wait and wait! In the waiting room, there were 1 lady in her 30s and 3 children ( i think aged 1,2 & 5 ). The children were adorable and quite well behaved. Then 2 ladies in their late 20s came in and approached the family, i believe they were the children aunties.

The nurse called their number, it seems that the youngest one was sick and the aunty carried her to the doctor's room, the other 2 wanted to follow. Then all hell broke loose, the mother was screaming on top of his lung telling the children to sit down, " You two rascals better sit down or else i will slap you to death!".....it was so frightening that even i sat straight after hearing her! She continued, " You two are damn useless.......really useless, better go and die!". Wait a minute i asked myself, did i hear correctly....she asked the children to go and die because they wanted to follow the youngest sister? I might have heard wrongly, must be!

I think the children other aunty noticed that i was damned uncomfortable, she brought the children out of the clinic. Thank God, what a relief i said to myself. A few minutes later they came back with drinks and ice-cream in their hands, the whole ordeal started again. " Eat...eat...thats all you know, cant even behave properly......useless *^%$*#*! if you dropped the ice-cream, i will ask you to lick the floor %^$^*!"

Then another patient walked and this lady yelled louder, it seems to me that she was enjoying the spotlight.

I am not being judgemental nor i am a parenting expert but i am surely its really bad to the children confidence and morale if you keep yelling at them in front of strangers at a public place. I am sure the kids were traumatised, at least i am sure i was and still am! I am sure that was not the right thing to do, i have read somewhere that the best way to reprimand a child would be in private, but do praise them in public! How true!

They took their medicine and went home.....really pity the children! I am sure the mother meant no harm but the harm was done whether she meant it or not!

The nurse called my number......after the whole episode i thought i needed to have my blood pressure checked too !!!!

Malaysian & Accident (2)

Let us continue our discussion about what actually attracts Malaysian to stop at every accident scene. I think the best way to solve the mystery would be to know the type of people who were there. i have categorised them as below;

1. The good-hearted-civilian

These people are really the one that are genuinely concern about the victim, he stops to help, normally they are the one who will call the police & ambulance.

2. The KPC (Ke-poh-ci)

These people are there just want to know what is happening. They are very curious about everything. Once there was a crowd, he will be there and will interview every one that was there. They are the one who will let everyone they know about the accident.

3. The Judi-kaki

These type of people will be there for one thing and one thing only, the vehicles number, they are the punters. Don't look down on these people, they really analyse the whole accident, sometimes better than the police. Among the information they need to know; what time the accident happened, how many victims, the car got spinned or not...etc. For instance, for a vehicle with registration number '1234', if it turned turtle, he will buy 4321! if it hits directly, he will buy '1234', you got the idea?

4. The Got-nothing-to-do

These guys really got nothing to do, he will stop at every accident. He wont ask many questions but will just stand there and watch. For what you asked? I dont have a clue, he just like to be there!

5. The Broadcaster

Normally there are only 2 or 3 of them, they are the most hardwoking type, they will ask for as many details and will disseminate to everyone who care to listen. He will talk and talk and talk until he is tired or you are tired.

So now we have a clearer picture of the crowd but i dont think we solve the mystery conclusively though. I think the only and best answer would be " We are unique, we are Malaysian"! Thats the way we are!

Malaysian & Accident (1)

Malaysian are funny and some times weird people! Government can spend thousands of ringgit to organise functions like Dengue awareness campaign, AIDS campaign, Health talk, blood donation.....etc but you could hardly see 30 persons (if you are lucky) who will attend the function voluntarily. But once there is an accident, you can have hundreds of people gather around the scene within minutes, from young to old, from rich to poor of all races.....hey, who said Malaysia got problem with unity?

Last few days, one of my Mat Salleh friends got into an accident and i was there to be his translator. He was puzzled with all the people around him, he asked why were there so many people. Ok, then i was puzzled, " What? you mean you don't see this in your country?" He said no way there will be so many people to stop and look an accident scene in his home country, they have better things to do!.

Oooppss, he crossed the line! There is no way the kiasu side of me will let him to talk like that about my fellow countrymen, i have to defend my fellow brothers & sisters! No way that i was going to let a Mat Salleh to say that we Malaysian got nothing better to do other than looking at accident scene, eventhough i have known him for quite a while.

" Mate, your countrymen are terrible, how could they not stop and look...err...i mean to help? We Malaysian are very concern of each other,there is no way that we could just pass by without lending our help, that's wrong! We stop to look at the victim to see whether he is a friend or a family member? We stop to check the vehicle number for 4D ....err......i mean to know the owner. We need to gather as much info about the accident, you know why? Its because we will tell everyone about the accident, from aunty in the market to the officer in the bank will know about the accident within hours, we do this so that everyone is aware that accident can happen to everyone and they should drive carefully!"

My friend started to nod his head in agreement! "Yeah, it makes sense.....Malaysia is truly a great country!"

Ok, now since i have done my civic duty defending my fellow Malaysians, let us be truthful to ourselve, aren't we too were puzzled at times why Malaysians like to stop and look at an accident scene? Every morning the radio DJ will annouce there was a congestion in some place and the main reason of the heavy traffic was because motorists slowed down and look at the scene! Why huh? Why we like to stop and look huh? Its really a great mystery and i shall dsicuss about it tomorrow.......now i have to be in a police station as a translator!

By the way, no one was badly injured in the accident!

"Tang Yuan" or "Kuih Ee"

Its the time of the year again where you can see aunties at home making small round Tang Yuan (glutinous rice) by rolling little pinches of glutinous rice flour into round balls of red and snow white hues. The children normally will try to help but ending up messing the whole house with white flour,.............. its Dong Zhi or the Winter Solstice Festival. We Melaka Peranakan (Baba & Nyonya) call it "Kuih Ee", literally means round cake.

Dong Zhi is the second most important date in the Chinese Calendar, after Chinese New Year. It is also the day of the longest night and shortest day, signaling the start of winter. While we don't have winter in Malaysia, the Chinese here still celebrate this festival. The downside of this festival is one is considered 1 year older when you eat the Tang Yuan, as the elders believe.

White tangyuan

The size of the white tang yuan is bigger than the red one.

Basically there are 2 types of tangyuan, the sweet and the salty one. For the sweet type you put the white & red tang yuan in a bowl before you pour sweet syrup in. Gingers were added in the sweet syrup to add some spicy taste and pandan leaves for its aroma.

The smaller red tang yuan.

I believe it is for auspicious reason that the Chinese put in red tang yuan to mix with the white ones. Newly weds are supposed to eat sweet kuih-ee on their wedding day too, for good luck and sweet marriage i suppose.

As for the salty type, only the white tang yuan was used and it was cooked like a normal soup. Beancurd, chicken or pork slices were added in the salty tang yuan.

I prefer the sweet type though....it brings back fond childhood memories!

Nowadays tang yuan comes in many types of fillings, kiwi paste, strawberry, peanuts.......i have not seen durian fillings though. Besides that the tang yuan are also very colourful nowadays ranging from blue to yellow.

If you have no clue on how to make tang yuan, no worry, you can just drop by any supermarkets and pick up instant tang yuan. Go home and just boil them.

Dont find excuses for not celebrating.....you will still get older whether you eat tang yuan or not!