Day +194

I am fine today. Now back to talk about my pre-transplant preparation and struggle. Continue from my blog Day +158.

As explained in my blog Day +157, in order to find a suitable donor, all of my 8 brothers and sisters did a HLA typing. The test was done in UH and each test cost RM550. The total amount that I paid was 8 x RM550 + RM550 (myself) = RM4400.

I issued 3 cheques to UH on 21 January, 22 February and 23 February 2006 with a total amount of RM4400. Do you know what happened to the cheques? Not even cleared by now!

About 4 months after I issued the cheques, a man called Zakaria met my brother Richard in UH to discuss the payment. We did not know who he was. He took out the three cheques and suggested Richard to exchange them with cash. In order to encourage us to hand him cash, he said he would give us a discount of RM550. A ‘win-win’ solution, isn’t it? However, Richard declined. After this, they lose interest totally at the cheques until they ‘forgot’ to bank them in.

This thing corrupted people mind, corrupted the administration and then corrupted the nation. This is merely the tip of an iceberg (冰山一角). There were so many promises that these things will be ‘handled’ by the ‘top’, but the greatest ‘win-win’ deals are struck on the ‘top’. I looked at this as a top-down syndrome. The tremendous amount of effortless income generated through these deals make the ‘top’ too weak to handle themselves :-( Sigh! This is another Malaysia Boleh!

They returned the three cheques to me on 21 December 2006 and requested me to send them new one because they were expired. I will definitely pay them. However, how do I know next year this time they won’t return the new cheque again and ask me to issue another one?

Never mind-lah, be patient. I will just wait until they ‘beg’ me frantically for the cheque before issuing them a new one. This is to make sure that they will bank in this time before the 6 months expiry period.

See you next post :-)