Swordie Bloggie

At about 9pm just now, while watching tv, I saw something crawling near the staircase. When I look at it carefully, the thing is a tortoise…

I rush to my car an get my super duper Canon PowerShot S5 🙂

My nephews was so excited at the creature… but some how scared with it… u know lah kids…

The dogs are barking on it… the tortoise looks scared… its head was poping out and in when it saw the dog or us.

  
The kids are excited with the creature… tortoise.

  
They have to chase away the dogs so that the tortoise can move.

  
Tortoise: “I better run away before the dogs comes back”

  
It actualy try to run but I got pitty on it, so I lifted it and put it near the swamp… “bye bye tortoise” the kids said.

Last Friday, I went to pay our outstanding water bill… $460.00!!!

It was an outstanding bill since year 80s… well it was not our fault. They issued us an extra bill 4 years ago for about $1200.00 if I’m not mistaken. We don’t remember skipping paying any bills… but I think this must be caused by their ‘idiot’ meter reader… they simply make up some amount then throw our bill somewhere whithout checking our meter… then pass the copy to their office to be entered into the system…

We did not pay it immediately… until there was an installment program to pay water bill. When we took the program, I think I paid $150 only then spread the balance to 6 month installment.

After that, I did not pay for one year I think… until they started cutting water supply. When they cut our water supply… I rushed to them and pay some amont then spread the balance to 6 months installment again… 🙂 then never pay after that. 

Then after another year… they started cutting water supply again… I have to rush to them again and pay some amount and spread the balance to another 6 months installment…

Then, last week, we received another notice… but this time, since the amount is already small, I just pay the full amount. This month, I’m poorer $460.00 🙁

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I was given 6 tickets for the SMSM Charity Concert about 3 weeks ago. I put in on my desk… unfortunately it was piled with some papers after that. I forgot about it until I accidentally lifted one paper and saw the ticket this evening before leaving the office.

When I check the details… OMG!!! The dinner is for tomorrow!!! Each ticket cost $150… ohh noooo… where the heck am I going to find $900?… I just spend about $460 this afternoon for outstanding water bill… talk about that later.

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While checking for Endeavour’s safe landing at NASA website, I came across with an article… NASA Helps Halt High-Speed Pursuits… woookay… NASA is about high-speed… but pursuits?… what the heck are they pursuit-ing (pursuing) now? ALIEN?… have they found ALIEN? Alien spaceship?… YES? NO?…

OK, before I go on…  back to the Endeavour first… Endeavour and its crew landed safely at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 21, 2007, capping a nearly 13-day mission to the International Space Station. The 3-inch gouge on its belly caused by a chunk of insulation foam that flew off the fuel tank on it launched on August, 8, did not endangered it during its fiery return… it was not repaired as planed.

OK, back to the pursuit thingy…

When I check it out… it actually about stopping CAR!!! Stopping criminal’s car while being pursuit… and not alien’s car or spaceship. The aticle said:

“Thanks in part to NASA research, law enforcement now has better “teeth” to take a bite out of crime. A tire deflation device (TDD) is a strip that contains embedded metal spikes. The strip is thrown over the road in front of a speeding vehicle, deflating the tires and forcing it to stop. This device lets law enforcement stop a speeding vehicle safely, often without the need of a dangerous high-speed pursuit.”

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Today, there was a workers union meeting… well it’s not exactly workers union like the one you see on TV or movie… it just that every category of staff are represented and the representative will present issues regarding their working condition, environment, etc in this meeting.

Since our representative is on leave, I wanted to ‘volunteer’ myself… because there was no news who will replace our representative. I wanted to bring one important issue about our position… this morning, I received SMS from the chairman… well I called him last night about my intention and he not sure too if there will be a representative for us. He informed that there is a representative… OK then, I doesn’t have to attend the meeting. So, I just email the issue I wanted to bring to our representative… and I’m hoping it will be looked into… so that we can get ‘promoted’ and get extra salary 😛

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This morning, I was hoping for rain… but it was blown away.

Around 3pm, the rain came back from the interior… and it was still raining heavily on my way back around 6.30pm.

The clock shows 7.30pm now, and looks like the rain will not stop soon…

Ben must be getting worried because every time it rains heavily, his place will get flooded easily 🙁

The worse is when the interior (mountains) rains, millions liters of rain water will come down into the rivers… causing floods at lower part of the mountains.

Photo I took at the Penampang Bypass Traffic Junction.