Traffic Offense

There I was, driving to my alumni dinner in Royale Chulan, KL using Jalan Pekeliling. I took the turn off to Bulatan Kg Pandan and try to cut left to go towards Berjaya Times Square when I was topped by two traffic police doing 'ops' there.

TP : Encik dah belok pada tempat yang salah, minta IC & lesen ...

me : Salah macam mana tu?

TP : Encik sepatutnya buat bulatan baru boleh masuk sini. Encik kena tengok arrow kat jalan tu ..

me : Oh ye ke.. saya tak perasan sebab saya jarang masuk KL.

TP : Encik duduk mana ?

me : Saya duduk Puchong. kerja kat PJ, jarang masuk KL . Hari ini pun sebab ada function and kawan kata suruh belok kiri kat sini.

TP : Takpelah Encik.. kami akan tulis kesalahan seperti begini (shows me the previous summons slip)

me : ok.

The TP then went round the car, so called checking my road tax and other things.. I was ready for him to fill in the book and sign it off ..

TP : macam ni la Encik, kira saya kasi warning kat encik ajelah kali ini, lain kali jangan buat lagi ..

Hmmm... made me wonder whether he's trying to nego something from me or what, the moment he says I'm in the clear, I straight away drove off ...

Close encounter of the slithery kind

We were back in Pekan for the long CNY hols and also to celebrate Adi's birthday there. On the second day of CNY, about dusk, we heard a commotion coming from the chicken coop. A quick inspection by Peh confirmed that one of the chicken had been attacked by a python and the offending snake serpent is still there trying to swallow the lifeless chicken.

So out Peh went with a parang, torch light and a rope loop. I follow suit with my camera and flash, trying to capture the 'historical' event. I brought the boy along in order to show him how a live snake is being captured.

The snake had nowhere to go as it has exhausted itself in constricting the chicken. The chicken is not the normal ayam kampung, but of another variety, which is about 1.5 times the normal chicken, hence it had difficulty in swallowing the chicken whole. What Peh did was to knock the snake on the head and tie a loop around its neck and carried it away from the coop. The snake is about 2m in length, probably still a juvenile. From Peh's account, this is the third time the chickens had been attacked but as their sizes are a little bigger than your average chicken, it couldn't swallow it, hence the decision to kill the snake before it launches subsequent attacks.

The pics showed it all, plus the boy posing at the lifeless snake after its all done.

Trying to corner the phyton

Success!

Sizing the snake out

Aiman tak takut pun ...

The lifeless serpent

Do we have all the time in the world?

I'm still trying to achieve balance in my life. At the moment it was not as what I wanted it to be. As usual, new year work schedule is filled with activities and it has been taking me away from home a lot. Even when I'm in the office, the amount of work is SOOOO Much, that right now maybe its like waiting for the last straw to break the camel's back.

In an ideal world, I would like to have all my work during my office hours, with the rest of the time spent at home. I know I haven't been much of a help to the mrs, who's singlehandedly running the home and wish I could do something more to relieve her. Plus my kids are also commenting that I'm always outstation. Hmmm ...

Now even they are calling me to work during the weekends, and with the songel in my HR department, getting an off day for work done during the w.end is like asking for a pot of gold.

Now have to relook on how to reorganise my life with the current situation ...hope it would just be temporary...