He's Leaving Home

So... as of last Wednesday the 25th of March, I've moved out of my flat in Mahkota Hotel and moved into an apartment suite in Straits Meridian Hotel. This should be on a temporary basis as stuffing 3 bedrooms worth of stuff into 1 bedroom is rather... stuffy.

Straits Meridian Hotel

I've also handed over the Mahkota flat to the tenant Fredricks yesterday.

The strange thing is; since then; I've had the Beatles's song "She's Leaving Home" playing in my brain.

..."bye bye"

Passport Woes

Today I got a new passport. My old passport would be expiring in 6 months time and the Jabatan Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri, (Home Office) sent me a reminder, which I thought was extremely customer friendly.

So today I went to the Malacca branch to renew my passport believing that this should take no more then the 2 hours as trumpeted by the Ministry and many people who had applied their passports recently. Judging from their new customer friendly approach, I foolishly accepted the 2 hour time-frame. Silly me!!!

The much trumpeted 2 hour time-frame starts ticking only after you have submitted all the necessary documents and monies. It does not include the time you have to wait to que for your que number, the time you have to wait for your photograph to be taken, the time you spend waiting for your IC to be photocopied, or the time you waste waiting for your number to be called to the counter.

Having spent one and a half hours doing all of the above, I then received my passport 2 hours later!!!

WHAT A BUNCH OF CHEATS!!!!

Talk about lies, damn lies and Civil Servants!!! Grrrr....

Linguistic Dyslexia

I received the following AV file from Drax today.





Coincidentally, I received the definition of Spoonerism; which is the linguistic form highlighted by the Italian man; from dictionary.com yesterday.

spoon⋅er⋅ism

–noun

the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in a blushing crow for a crushing blow.

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Moving

I shall be moving out of my flat at the end of this week. It's been let out to an expat working for Infineon, who made me an offer I found difficult to refuse. This plus the fact that I'm looking for a landed property to move into which will be more conducive for Marmite meant that it was an easy decision to make.

So I'm now currently in house-hunting mode and shall be moving to Straits Meridian as a temporary measure.

Although the flat is being let out fully-furnished, meaning that I don't have to move any furniture, I've discovered that this partial move is much more difficult then moving everything as I have to organise what to take and what to leave behind. Also I have to further organise my belongings into "Stuff that won't see the light of day for six months", "Stuff that I'll need immediately" and "Stuff which I might need within six months".

Ah.. the stress.

BPL

With Man. Utd. and Chelsea losing tonight, it olny needs Liverpool to lose tomorrow for all to be well in the world again.

Man. Utd.'s comeback

After this week's mauling by Liverpool and the UEFA Champion's League draw, the perfect comeback by Man. Utd. would be to beat Liverpool in the Champion's League Cup final.

Wishful thinking of course, but ... quite possible.

Wisdom

Another corking quote from the BBC web-site.

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."
Brian O'Driscoll when asked about his relationship with England coach Martin Johnson. (Davod Ennis, Ireland). Eh? Ed.

Whisky Views

If you've read my profile, you would know that most of the reflections here are formed from the bottom of a whisky glass... the more obscure reflections are formed through a heavy bottom whisky tumbler!!! ;-))

The point is.... why doesn't my whisky glass give me these views!!!