Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
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May 3, 2010

Anniversary, Bandung, Rumah dan Income Tax (Sila Carik Persamaannya)


Lama gile tak berblogging, huhuhu..

Update terbaru ialah, aku tukar keje (lagi). Tapi berbeza tukar keje kali ni ialah aku naik position, so rasa agak berbaloi la tukar tu. Ni dah masuk bulan kedua pun, so far not so good hahaha. Plan nak carik keje lain lagi. Bukan apa, aku rasa aku tak sesuai ah keje kat sini. Workload ok jek, takde la aku kena balik tengah-tengah malam pun. Just that aku rasa aku tak sesuai kat sini (dan ada la sebab-sebab lain lagi). Pasal tempat keje lama pulak, ikutkan aku takde la rasa nak tukar keje sangat pun. Keje aku kat sana dah ok. Gaji memang macam yang aku nak, tiap-tiap tahun ada increment, bonus pun ada, colleagues sumer ok. Tapi tak ok kat part management hahaha, dan membuatkan aku calo. Takpela, daripada aku dok sakit hati hari-hari baik aku blah ye tak. Win-win situation untuk diorang dan juga aku.

Anyway, bulan 3 hari tu aku menyambut anniversary yang ke satu. Konon plan asal nak gi Cameron, tapi lupa lak masa tu cuti sekolah. Harapan la nak dapat hotel yang kosong, aku tanya habis sumer fully booked. Konon-konon nak pegi la jugak redah, tapi memikirkan nanti kat atas tu bersesak so plan tu dibatalkan ditangguhkan. Kepada sayang, nanti akan ada proper anniversary celebration yek.

So sudahnya hari tu kitorang pegi KL Tower, sebab sayang aku ni tak penah pegi seumur hidup dia. Aku penah pegi dah dulu, takde la rasa best sangat pun. Setakat naik atas tu pastu tengok-tengok KL (google map ada, tengok dari situ je sudah..). Tapi aku last pegi tu pun masa aku sekolah rendah, ada la lebih dari 10 tahun. Banyak pulak benda baru rupanya kat situ. Dah ada mini zoo la, main kete F1 la, naik keldai la. Konon plan nak ajak gi makan kat Restoran Seri Angkasa atas tu, tapi tengok dinner package dia pun sorang dah RM75+ ke baper tah. Cancel terus. Review pun kata takde la best sangat makanan dia, setakat atmosphere je yang best. Alah nak atmosphere best, umah sewa aku skang pun best apa. Tingkat 22 tu, tinggi gile. Tarik je meja gi tepi tingkap, pasang lilin sebatang, tutup sumer lampu. Dah dapat scenario candle light dinner on the sky, wahahaha. Not to say aku tak romantik, tapi sebab benda dah ada. So improvise je la kan untuk mendapatkan suasana huhuhu. Ok la kat KL Tower tu, sampai ke petang jugak la kitorang kat sana. Kul 4 camtu kitorang cabut ke Curve pulak. Curve tu menghabiskan masa la kiranya, gi tengok movie & dinner. Dinner kat restoran nama Chocolate ke apa tah. Makanan so-so, tak padan ngan harga pun. Aku rasa sebab speciality dia coklat, yang kitorang gatal gi order entrees ngan main course. Tapi coklat stroberi dia sedap la jugak. Abis makan tu gi tengok movie (pertanyaan kepada wifey: citer apa ek..? update: Citer The Green Zone, best gile. Matt Damon berlakon. muka baby face takde tokoh jadik askar, jadik special force jek sudah mcm dlm Bourne series tu) kat Platinum Suite Curve. Menghabiskan masa sejam jugak la, sebab kat situ ada free Internet, massage chair & ape-ke-benda lagi tah. So suggested kalau korang gi tengok movie kat situ, masuk sejam (atau 2 jam) awal dari waktu movie untuk enjoy mende-mende ni. Bayar mahal tapi tak guna buat apa.

Last month lak, first time aku naik ketebang gi obersi (note: naik ketebang banyak kali dah, naik ketebang gi obersi yang first time). Takde la obersi sangat pun, Indonesia jek (atau lebih tepat, Bandung). Wifey first time naik ketebang dan juga melangkah kuar Mesia. Sian gak aa tengok dia takut masa ketebang tu take-off & landing, sebab tak penah ada experience kena gegar-gegar camtu hahaha. Aku lak dok takutkan dia kata kalau kena air turbulance, lagi takut sebab ketebang gegar kuat gile huhuhu. Dalam kul 10:30am local time, kitorang landing (Mesia kul 11:30, kita sejam awal). Jadik darat la kejap amik-amik gambar kat ketebang tu, sampai kena marah ngan ground crew sebab melambatkan diorang nak load on baggage orang yang nak balik ke Mesia pulak. Masa beratur untuk check kat kastam tu pulak, insiden klakar berlaku. Kitorang ada letak kuih pau dalam beg. Pak kastam ni nampak kat monitor dia, dah suspek dadah ke apa kut. Abis kena bongkar mende tu. "Ini apa, makanan ya?" sambil buat gaya acu tangan ke mulut. Kuar je dari airport tu, abis kitorang gelak gile. Tak sangka lak pau tu boleh jadi isu. Ha pastu, betul-betul masa landing balik kat LCCT tu (ye, saya naik AirAsia) ada air turbulance hahaha. Kepucatan jelas terpamer di muka wifey. Air turbulance tu disebabkan ada ketebang Singapore Airlines yang baru naik, so angin dia tu tolak ketebang kitorang yang tengah nak landing ni.

Kat Bandung tu kitorang ada la shopping sket-sket. Tapi aku lebih kepada nak survey harga barang etc. Ada gak plan nak datang balik pastu borong mende yang murah-murah kat sana & jual kat Mesia. Aku plak dok membayangkan boleh dapat t-shirt harga RM5 selai, sekali takde pun bai. Abang ipar aku kata skang dah naik harga, dulu-dulu boleh la dapat camtu. Pesal la dulu-dulu aku tak terpikir nak gi Bandung, kalau tak dah jadik bisnesmen dah aku skang ni. Tapi camne pun, harga tetap murah dari Mesia. Abis merata la factory outlet tu kitorang masuk. Kaki ni sampai lenguh-lenguh dah. Pastu pegi jugak Tangkuban Perahu, sebab orang kata best. Lawa gak la, nampak ada asap-asap sulfur tu. Dah namanya kawah gunung berapi, sahih la ada sulfur. Sape yang agak-agak tak tahan bau belerang tu, boleh la skip tempat ni dari agenda. Tapi tobat la aku tak pegi dah tempat ni. Bukan tak tahan mende, tak tahan ngan ulat-ulat penjual barang tu. Dok ngekor je kitorang gi mana, padahal mulut aku ni berbuih dah cakap aku taknak ngan barang-barang diorang tu. Aku ni pikir sebab tempat orang, so malas la nak sound sangat. Aku senyum jela elok-elok pastu cakap taknak. Kalau kat sini diorang buat camtu, mau kena bahasa ngan aku dah agaknya. Memang menguji persediaan mental dan fizikal tul nak ngadap diorang tu. So advise aku, korang takyah la pegi Tangkuban Perahu tu. Wat sakit ati je nanti. Hari seterusnya lak, diabiskan ngan shopping. Alah ikutkan, 90% agenda shopping je. Akak ipar aku tu dah macam orang Indon lak aku tengok, ape tempat yang dia tak tau. Aku rasa kalau kitorang tinggalkan dia kat sana pun, dia boleh survive kut. Laju je berborak dengan pak supir tu. Tapi bila tanya balik, rupanya dia pun tak paham apa yang pak supir tu cakap hahahaha.

Gi sana kitorang stay kat guest house, nama dia Orange's Home. Elok la pun sebab ikutkan tentatif program pun kitorang kuar bekfes dalam kul 8am, balik ke bilik tu kul 10pm. Ape hal sampai 14 jam kuar shopping hahaha. So memang la tak berbaloi nak amik hotel mahal-mahal kalau program korang tu nak shopping. Bilik tu guna untuk mandi, tukar baju ngan tido je sudah. Swimming pool sumer tu takyah, bidaah je tu dari segi hukum shopping. Korang adalah digalakkan untuk beli sebotol air mineral sorang, sebab air mineral pun rege singgit lebih (5000 rupiah, dalam singgit tiga posen). Bukan sebab berkira dengan singgit tu, tapi sebab nanti duit rupiah abis. Kalau kat Mesia lain la ada ATM, takde duit cucuk jela. Kat sana nak cucuk jadah apa. Eh tapi ada CIMB Niaga, tak sure pulak kalau masuk kad CIMB sini boleh kuar duit ke tak.

Ni pehal panjang benar update pasal Bandung ni..

Update pasal rumah pulak. Rumah aku dah nak siap, physically. Aku tengok diorang dah buat final touch up dah pun. Structurely, aku leh kata dah siap la. Tapi administratively, belum pun. Sebab baru la minggu lepas aku gi bayar deposit air dengan api, terbang la RM390. Dengar citer kata CF dapat ujung tahun ni. Aku memang dah prepare pun, boleh gak aku kuar duit KWSP buat tambah bayar loan rumah (agenda tersembunyi, duit tu akan digunakan untuk buat kitchen cabinet & plaster siling). Kut dapat belas-belas ribu ke, banyak gak modification boleh dibuat huhuhu.

Income tax, baru settle Jumaat lepas. Betul-betul last day tu la baru aku buat, perangai tak berubah dari tahun lepas. Actually aku dah fill in awal-awal pun, cuma aku tak digitally signed je borang dia. Malas nak sign awal-awal tu sebab aku kena bayar lagi RM290. Tapi minggu lepas aku tergerak la nak tengok balik mende tu, rupanya ada lagi mende yg aku tak claim hahaha. Lepas claim sumer tu, dapat la aku refund RM100+. Memula tu ingatkan refund RM700+, aku dah nak naik gile dah (plan beli facemask paintball hahaha). Tapi rupanya RM100+ je. Takpela, duit gak. Mekasih ye Ketua Kerajaan Langit, bagi aku rezeki. Kalo nak cara-cara isi e-Filing tu, sila gi kat sini (link dapat dari Azhar). Akak ni tax agent, so apa dia cakap tu betul la. Alah korang isi jela ikut cara dia tu, jangan banyak bunyik boleh tak. Tahun depan akan make sure dapat refund lebih dari tu, huhuhu.
Nota: Saya tak tipu income tax, saya hanya claim apa yang memang saya boleh claim. Resit sumer ada tersedia.

Ah panjang la pulak update, penat dah aku. Nanti la aku sambung lagi, bulan ogos nanti aku update lagi wahahaha. Untuk gambar, silalah menghadap blog wifey. Aku memang malas nak bubuh gambar.

p/s: pak supir kitorang hari tu nama dia Pak Asep, muka dia macam Nas Ahmad. aku ada tergerak nak tanya ada tak dia terjah mana-mana artis, tapi tak sampai ati pulak. baik orangnya ni, tolong aku & wifey pilih kek kukus kat ape-tah-nama-kedai-tu (wifey, sila refresh memori saya. update: Kartikasari. sebelah meja kitorang tu ada awek 2 orang, adik ipar aku dok usha pastu curik-curik amik gambar)
p/s/s: supir supir pun, ada facebook nih!! tapi aku add sampai skang dia tak accept, hampeh tul.

Jan 26, 2009

Updates!!

Ok, a lot to update. Firstly, marriage things are almost complete. Left back all those official things like submitting forms etc, but that will be settled this Wednesday hopefully. Next step will be printing out invitation cards and sending them out. Too bad my wedding is scheduled at the same day as ex-KT 9899 10 years reunion, so I won't be able to join my schoolmates in KT. I *might* make a 3G call that day to see how the reunion is and to send my regards to other schoolmates. Damn I love technology haha.

A few weekends back Izma and I went for a picnic at Sungai Congkak. Went there with my younger brother and sister. It was an impromptu plan actually, so we didn't really prepare anything to go there. Just bring our spare clothes, towels, bought some snacks and off we go in the water. My younger brother sure looked frenzied, it's been ages since he went for a picnic like that. We snapped a couple of pictures, and in effort to get a good shot the camera had to be sacrificed with some splash haha. Thank God nothing bad happened to it, else I'd be cursing myself for not being careful.

Stupid adik peeing behind some trees
Watching over younger siblings
Jump!!
Our lunch, Sate Kajang Hj Samuri

It was a refreshing trip by the way, most probably because a few weeks earlier work had become a major issue to Izma and I. We found that the picnic do freshen up our mind and spirit, and it was a timely decision to go with the plan after all. We really went all out that day, doing water splash and all like some kids. But I guess this was what made us relieved, by letting our minds free from day-to-day problems. A second trip can be assured in the near future, maybe after our marriage.

On a more serious issue, what a way to welcome the 2009 by inciting Gaza conflict. I'm not gonna comment on this issue, because I'm sure most of you can get your information from local newspapers or television newscast. Actually I'm quite awed with the military technology used by the Israelis (no I do not condone the killing of Palestinians, so stop calling me infidel or traitor or whatnot). Only in the event like this can we see the latest military technologies being rolled out and tested in warfare environment. Things like Apache gunship are things of the past. We've already saw Apache in action in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom, maybe a quick peek at Predator on the later. But the use of white phosphorus bomb and cluster bombs are something new. Although these are not latest technology, but we never see it in action due to international convention that prevents these to be used for the sake of humanity. I certainly was amazed at the image of cluster bomb in action, where one big bomb dropped multiple small payloads to a designated area. Sure does save cost and ammunition. But then, yeah, it was never a fair fight over there. Huge difference of military technology, and yet not many things have changed. It's their fight after all, I'm sure the same thing gets repeated in future.

Oh ya, before I forgot. My wedding ceremonies will be on the 28th of March (Izma's side) and 4th of April (my side). People, please come. Especially my four V4E-S1 cronies. I do expect some nice gifts though, am never shame to ask for anything from you guys. Things priced RM50 or above are greatly welcomed, thank you.

I'm currently staying alone at home. Everybody else went back to hometown on this 4-days holiday. I do have some works to be finished so I skipped going back too. This has been a perfect time for me to improve my cooking skills. Made sambal sotong on Saturday for dinner, nasi goreng kicap on Sunday lunch, sambal sardin on Sunday dinner and just now nasi goreng kicap improvised (with added cabbage & spinach). All those are edible as well as got some taste. I still remember my first attempt making nasi goreng, and I do remember I ate it  with full force since it had no taste at all. So I'm giving myself a pat in the back for the improvement and I'm sure to improve more in the future. Thanks to Izma for instructions on the sambal sotong. Oh by the way, I slowly started to get the meaning of secukup rasa etc. No more needing to know exactly how many spoons of salt do I need to pinch in. I guess experiences do come with mistakes, LOL.

This is a video of us, having fun by ourselves in Sungai Congkak..