At least Somebody is Watching or in Fear

SHAH ALAM: Its been raining heavily in TTDI Jaya the last few days. We were spared floods this time around but the same cannot be said about Kuala Lumpur. Our thoughts and prayers for those affected by the flash floods last week and on Sunday.

I heard about the KL floods on Sunday while watching Tv3 Midnite news. The first thing that came to mind was the fact that it was lucky that I went back home early.

I left my office at Jalan Tun Razak about 1pm. I was supposed to be working until 7pm but due to system failure, my colleague and me left for home early. It was a lucky break otherwise both of us would have been stuck in KL that night.

Anyhow when I fetched my son at school today I saw two excavators busy patching up the wall of the earth drain. Since its been raining heavily the last few days, the gushing water from the cleared land have been wreaking havoc on the earth drain.

I cannot believed that MBSA had not order Guthrie Properties to make the drain into concrete culvert. I know its more expensive but it will certainly prevent any chance of floods in TTDI Jaya.

By grace of god, the drain remained standing even with the heavy rains in the last few days. But the excavators at the site today clearly revealed that the drain and its walls are fragile. Another bout of heavy rain might just cause it to fail.

Lets hope its after school hours.

My Team or Their Team?

KUALA LUMPUR: I was watching the TV3 8pm news tonight (8/6/07) and one of the news bulletin (sports) was about Myteam programme in Indonesia.

I believe this is taking our supposed kinship with the Indonesians to the extreme.

According to its "WHAT started as purely an entertaining and fun project has become a serious endeavour for Khairy Jamaluddin and his team.
MyTeam began as a reality show to unearth new football talents nationwide. Today, the fledgling MyTeam has garnered support from many quarters. They have teamed up with UPB and have already made an early impact in the M-League. "

Now for the second season of the reality show, they have set-up Myteam Indonesia. Huh! Arent we are supposed to get unearth our very own football diamonds?

In the 70s, we were among the top football teams in Asia. We were on par with the South Koreans, Saudi and Iran.

Since the last 20 years, however, we have been in the dumps, even losing to the Philippines. Every one including me is in despair over our football team performance.

I think most has given up hope that a Malaysian team will ever repeat the performances of the 70s team that they had adopted English Premier League teams as their favourite.

The matter have gone so bad that they even risked Malaysian football being banned by FIFA and AFC over the Manchester United Asia tour, claiming it is just a matter of tourism.


And now this Myteam Indonesia venture. What do they expect to get? Having a bunch of Indonesians beating us in our soil using our money? Ah, its just a reality show they will say and Indonesia is our kin.

Don't they realised the Indons have been whooping our behind in badminton for the last 50 years and their footballers have been trying to do that in the last 20 years?
And they want to find their rough diamonds?

Those who thought of this venture must certainly forgotten what a Scottish coach once said to embark on this blue-ob-blue mission.

What was the advice? "Football is not a matter of life and death. Its more important than that.

Change The Flight Plan 3

SHAH ALAM: You may strained your eyes to see the Cessna 182 but undoubtedly this video shows that airplanes from Subang Airport do fly over the schools in TDDI Jaya.

As the video was shot on June 2, no pupils were at the schools, it is the holidays.

It is however frustating as the earlier flight of the Transmile cargo jet shows that they knew that the schools were there but they continue to ignore them.




Hopefully I will get a HD video camera soon. Until then I have to rely on my Nokia N73 phone