What the heck, PJ parking summon, AGAIN?!

Okie, it was totally my fault that I am in a rush and did not bother to check the time and punch in a parking ticket on yesterday. It was just simply a visit to Atria, for less than 10 minutes, and there you go... I had a love letter from MBPJ, which will cost me RM 100. Well, I reluctantly accepted this love letter, and kept it inside my bag. Thought of to pay it if there is any early settlement discount or so...However, to my disappointment, there is actually none (I mean, no early payment discount mentioned in the summon ticket). Google-ed and checked some forums, and found out that some had mentioned to pay it at MBPJ office will have discount of 70% and to pay RM30. I am not too sure about this, as I have yet to pay my summon (it is still inside my bag, and I did not have the time yet to visit MBPJ office). Since internet and online payment is widely use in modern days, I thought I can pay it by checking it over at MBPJ website and to double confirm on the settlement.



Sigh... to my disappointment again (or should I not be placing any hope; this is still gov agency, right?) the summon has not even been updated yet to MBPJ website. I am trying to be responsible for my wrong doing, in which parking without displaying the parking ticket was indeed wrong; and I am willing to pay the summon. However, look at this kind of system, will you ever felt that you wanted to pay for it, when you could not even check it via online system? To drive over to MBPJ at Jalan Yong Sook Lin at PJ (mind you, we have to find parking again when reached there!) is hectic and cumbersome to most of us. Some of us whom are not local, and we would not want to trouble ourselves to run this errand thinking that we might ended up lost or creating another summon for us. It is still, best to have a proper system for us to pay our fine, and to get this done. Although many had mentioned that local authority summon would not cost us any harm, yet, I know it is my responsibility to pay that frigging fine (which I am indeed wrong at the beginning).



>>Update: The summon had been uploaded by MBPJ to their site, however, after I had paid for it using my credit card since 25th Feb, there is no update on the status of this payment. I had experience a few unfortunate event, in which Ii had to drive to MBPJ office to check on the mentioned summon, and there is nothing much they can do for me, but to pass my case to their IT department instead. Luckily, on of their IT staff is quite friendly and helpful, and willing to check it  out for me on their system. However, nothing much she can do, as she had mentioned to me that there might be slow update from their finance department which had caused the MBPJ summons pending update on payment status.



To check your summon from MBPJ, you might want to visit this link (it might be down, since they need to update summons and etc).

Bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia

Sila ambil perhatian terhadap borang palsu yang disebarkan oleh pihak yang ingin meraut keuntungan seiringan dengan perlancaran BR1M oleh Kerajaan Malaysia.



Borang yang terdapat di laman web Kementerian Kewangan Malaysia (http://www.treasury.gov.my/pdf/br1m/Borang_BR1M.pdf) TIADA arahan untuk mengisi Nombor Akaun Bank. Salinan yang diperlukan hanyalah salinan MyKad (salinan mykad bagi semua tangungan termasuk suami/isteri) dan penyata gaji (jika ada).



Bagi penduduk Kampar, borang BR1M boleh diperolehi di Pejabat Daerah Dan Tanah Kampar (Unit pembangunan Luar bandar).



Pemohonan boleh dibuat dari 5 haribulan Disember 2011 sehingga 31 haribulan Disember 2011 Tarikh akhir permohonan bagi sesi kedua ialah 10 haribulan Februari 2012. Waktu urusan pejabat ialah dari pukul 9 pagi hingga 5 petang.



(Bagi mereka yang telah menerima surat bantuan, bolehlah menziarahi bank yang ditetapkan : MayBank, CIMB, dan BSN)

"system down"

Went to capture passport photo...



To my horror... I could not find any...



And when I found one, it was about 3pm in the late afternoon. So, I quickly acquired the photos and drove to Kelana Jaya looking for Plaza A (it was because the Migration Department had moved there from HELP college). I asked the guy at the front desk regarding to the process...



Unfortunately, the system down today, and all could not be processed. Even with that, those whom manage to submit the form today had to return on Sunday to collect the passport, due to the "snail" system.



Omg!!! I asked the guy, what about Terminal 3? He answered that here is also Terminal 3 office, as previously they are situated near Terminal 3 and they moved to Plaza A Kelana Jaya. WHAT?!



However, he kindly suggested to go to either Putrajaya or try my luck at Hartamas, as their system might not have congestion and might not been down. Sigh~ That means, I would not be able to submit the application for the passport. The other alternative is to submit it when I am back at hometown, whereby my bro wanted to renew his passport. Maybe I can try my luck on either Saturday or Sunday. Hopefully that they will not have system down (finger-crossed).



I wonder when will the government try to upgrade the immigration system, so that there will be less "system down" excuse..

Puduraya bus terminal...

Puduraya Shut down

The puduraya bus terminal, now deserted and the government wanted to make renovation as well as to get the whole place more organised. Over the years, this bus terminal never rest as it was frequently loaded by a large number of buses as well as the the passengers. Those from Northern and Southern states that took public transportation to Klang Valley should be very familiar with the Puduraya Bus Terminal.

I still remember how congested, how bad the traffic jams and also how terrible and horrible the look of Puduraya when I took the bus from there up to Northern State. I found out that the Puduraya bus terminal was so unorganised, having all sort of stinky smell at the basement portion as well as the heat when waiting for bus to arrive before boarding them.

The buses operators, keep on shouting and luring passengers to buy tickets from their counter, as well as those unauthorised black sheep trying to sell their tickets to earn more. Usually this happened during peak hours and peak days for returning home-state. The ticketing price never been clearly stated. The bus tickets operators never been honest to the passengers. All they did were to get you purchased their tickets whereby the claimed the bus already waiting for get passengers in; also mentioning that they will be departing on time! What the heck! All are liars. Since when this bus tickets operators been honest? I had been cheated to purchase a ticket with a double pricing with an excuse that the bus was a holiday-usage bus used for vacation. The bus was waiting to get passengers at that moment, and those who wanted to get to the destination on time will be interested. Furthermore, that was peak hours, and weekend which was a good time to return home-state. This is how the bus operators earn extra income. They lure you to purchase their tickets, and little did I know that the bus was not there and they keep on explaining that the traffic jams caused it to be late. How on earth it will be late, if the bus operators mentioned that the bus already waiting to depart? Liars!

Now that I had owned a car, I never will go back to Puduraya, unless it is very necessary. Anyway, the Puduraya bus terminal now was shut down and relocated temporary.......I will felt that the residents at the nearby area will relief for a smoother traffic at surrounding... (Well, that's my opinion). There are still available operators for destination such as Genting Highland. I wonder how would the Puduraya Bus terminal looks like, when the renovation is done.

The Puduraya bus terminal should be given a new look. There are a lot of foreign passengers taking buses from Puduraya bus terminal to various places. For my point of view, I would expect the Puduraya to actually shifted to a more spacious place, rather than to stay congested in the same Puduraya with limited space available. How on earth that the traffic over there at Puduraya will be fine, if every now and then the same small place even have more and more buses, passengers, as well as taxi and private vehicles?

Since this bus terminal has to bear buses from both North and South, I suppose the bus terminal deserve to be expanded?

Strays being treated badly

"Treat strays better

The MB of Perak should instruct Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh to stop shooting stray dogs. Dis is very cruel act towards the animals. Dog have feelings too just like human. — Cheah.

Dr Zambry, pls check on ur staff at Ipoh local council, who r ruthlessly killing n abusing stray dogs in Ipoh. NGOs, pls check up on them n do an expose on this matter.

Dog shooters in Ipoh r very cruel, they just simply kill innocent lives for nothing. Tis cruel act should stop immediately b4 it gets worse. — Jack" (Taken from TheStar eNews, Saturday March 20, 2010)

Wow, here again...I repeat AGAIN... I read that the Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh shoot stray dogs like they are above the law to kill lives of strays.

Once, I witnessed by myself, the way they hunt for stray dogs at my hometown, Kampar...using something similar like a spear to poke the stray dogs and get them out from hiding underneath cars. Then, they either strangle them to death on the spot, cause I guess they (those from the authority) were either very hating these poor dogs or they really want to get rid of every single dog in Kampar. So cruel. They did not even mind if your eyes are nailing on them. They were just way too arrogant and felt superior in killing stray dogs.

Those blood stained on the road, from the cruel poking to the stray dogs was also left unattended. I saw some residents nearby, whom they also having dogs as pet, directly keep their dogs inside the house. Me too, did the same thing as to close the main door and watched from the window while keeping Lucky in the house barking non-stop.

Hearing those poor dogs sound getting weaker and weaker due to the pain and bleeding, I found myself hating those people whom catch stray dogs. Why they need to apply such a cruel way? Why they need to show this to the residents? Not only adults were watching, but also school children whom some of them crying to their parents begging of not killing the dogs.

If the authority wanted to catch stray dogs, why not stray cats as well? Cats also spread diseases and also can cause serious public health concern. If they wanted to euthanise the stray, they should do it the proper way. Killing stray at public is just like uncut movie scene of a murderer killing the victim.

These authorities be it from Kampar or Ipoh had always been complain by the public regarding to their way of catching stray dogs. Why the repeat the same cruel catching method?

If I do not mistaken, there had been a news regarding a dog inside a house compound being shot to death in front of a small girl. The girl was so shocked, that she had to seek psychology doctor for treatment of trauma shock. The dog itself inside a house compound and the shooter supposedly cannot even shoot the dog even if it did not carry the dog license. These people are getting wilder everytime they are catching stray dogs. They did not even think of the consequences of their action in public will cause trauma to the pet lover.

Are they stupid? Didn't they think about that every creature having their role on earth as the creation of God. Don't they know what if MERCY?

If they can kill stray just like that at public, I can assure to you, they can also kill human at public, cause shooter can missed their target and innocent public will be the victim!

Why the government, as well as those who call the the authority thought of this matter? Are they *ss-brained and filled with grass? If not, why they did not even responded to the public urge of not shooting stray dogs at public, using more humane way to handle strays? Oh, there are always reasons for the authorities of hiding behind the bush. They will always said, they did not been inform of such a thing, they did not approved of such a way, they did not aware of having shooters killing strays in front of small kids...blah blah blah...

Well, enough for the excuses! We are just sick of your stupid excuses. Stop giving us the excuses! Abolish shooting of strays!!!!!

p/s: I had been reading such news since I was in primary school, and now even after Uni and I still read such news! Where is humanity? Humanity had been gone from these people ever since the shooting and killing of strays made legal in Malaysia!