Day +123

I am fine. I went to church this morning. I just would like to share with you some photos today.













The moustache grew too long. I cannot be lazy anymore; else they will disturb my eating. So I shaved them.














Have you ever heard of "organic" helmet? It is so healthy compared to normal helmet. That is why Joseph and Daniel like to wear them so much :-)


Adriel would like to protect herself from haze.


Aaron said he dared to play with Python.

See you next post :-)

Day +122

I am fine today. Let me continue the story about story books.

When I was studying in primary five, someone lent me three of the Four Great Classical Novels (四大名著): Water Margin (水浒传), Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三国演义) and Journey to the West(西游记). Another one called Dream of the Red Chamber(红楼梦) was too difficult for me to understand, so I did not read it. I was addicted in reading these novels. I remembered I always started reading the novel inside my house until it was too dark for me to see the words in the evening. Then I moved out from the house and continued reading it at the staircase outside because it was brighter there. After I could not see the words outside the house, I turned back to light up the kerosene lamp and continue reading. These books kept me busy for quite some time, so that I did not have to beg my cousin for story books.

At that time, I did not know how to use a Chinese dictionary to check the pronunciation of words. We were using Traditional Chinese ZhuYin(Bopomofo) phonetic system instead of HanYu PinYin as we use today. Unfortunately, the teacher did not teach the ZhuYin in school, so even though I managed to find the word in the dictionary, I would not know how to pronounce it. In the end, I just guess the pronunciation (有边读边，没边读中间). This is why my Chinese pronunciation is still so lousy today (一塌糊涂) :-(

Anyway, it is not fair to compare my situation with what my children have today. And there is no point for me to explain to them the difficulty that I experienced in getting story books to read and how much interest I had in reading when I was young. Nowadays, they enjoyed all sort of entertainments such as television and computer games, which are definitely more interesting than reading. Who knows if I was also given these attractive entertainments, I was still interested in reading?

See you next post :-)

Day +121

I am fine today. I have recovered from coughing and running nose.

Last week, I purchased 40 Chinese story books from Popular Bookshop. These books are from China. They are very cheap especially after forty to fifty percent discount.

When I brought these books home happily to show to my eldest son Daniel, he looked unhappy. “Why you buy so many?” he questioned. I said the books are for him to read. “I don’t like to read these books!” he answered. In the end, it looks like these story books bring extra burden to him :-(

Many children today fail to appreciate how fortunate they are (身在福中不知福). When I was at his age, I experienced great difficulty to find story books to read. My family could not afford to buy books. Furthermore, the primary school that I studied did not want to operate a library, even though the government supplied many story books to it. They just left piles of story books in a room to gather dust. I always drooled with envy (垂涎三尺) when I saw the books.

In the village, I had a cousin who purchased many story books. He locked all the books in a cupboard with glass doors. Unfortunately, he was quite selfish and did not like to share the books with me. Again, I always drooled with envy when I saw those nicely arranged story books in the cupboard. If his mood was good and I was fortunate, he might let me read one book after continuous begging.

To be continued and see you next post :-)

Day +120

I am fine today. Now continue the child specialist story…

Since no other child clinic was open, my wife brought Aaron to that clinic. I warned my wife to exercise extra caution against the specialist. My wife told me later that the clinic is really advanced. The registration, medical record and prescription are all computerized. Within minutes upon a new registration, the patient will receive a very well laminated registration card with bar code on it. When the patient comes to see the doctor again, the nurse just scans the registration card with bar code reader, all medical records are at the fingertip in a split second. Furthermore, the specialist prescribes medicine by scanning in the prescription through bar code reader. What a brilliant approach! It is a paperless and the most efficient clinic that I ever know.

Unfortunately, after the computerization process, the specialist himself got “computerized” as well :-( My wife told me that he behaved exactly like a robot. He listened like robot, talked like robot and thought like robot. After achieving a “paperless” environment for the clinic, the specialist became “emotionless”. He always put on his long, cold and serious face.

If he engaged me as his programmer, I will definitely reprogram his face so that it looks round, warm and always cheerful. I believe this would attract more patients and bring him more profit. Nevertheless, he might still want to maintain the old long, cold and serious face. Because this type of expression indicates to you how serious your child or even your condition is, and thus making the high treatment fee seems to be very reasonable to you :-)

See you next post :-)

Day +119

I am quite fine today, with mild coughing and running nose.

My youngest son who is six months old was having fever last Thursday. This was the first time he fell sick. My wife gave him Paracetamol a few times, but the fever still came back a few hours after he took the medicine. The next day, we decided to bring him to see a doctor. Due to Deepavali and Hari Raya Aidilfitri holiday, most clinics were closed.

However, one child specialist clinic nearby my house was open. This clinic is the most “hardworking” child specialist clinic we ever know. It always closes later and opens earlier than other clinics during festive season. But many people including me dare not visit the clinic because we felt that the doctor is too commercial. He used to prescribe many strong medicine and charge very expensively. Few years ago when we brought our eldest son Daniel to have vaccination there, the doctor persuaded my wife and me to have Hepatitis A vaccination. When we later visited a GP (General Practitioner, non-specialist doctor) and requested him to give us second dose of the vaccination, the GP refused. “Who asked you to have this vaccination?” he questioned.

There was once a few people infected with a type of African Meningitis in this country. The child specialist almost convinced my sister to have the whole family vaccinated against meningitis. I believe he over exaggerated the danger of the disease. I advised my sister to seek a second opinion about this. In the end, she called a GP regarding this. The GP advised her that the vaccination was completely unnecessary. In fact, the GP didn’t even know where to get the vaccine!

We can conclude from the cases above that although it is a child clinic, its appetite is clearly beyond catching “small fish”. It is a child clinic that practices a policy called “一网打尽，大小通吃” (Catch all fish; regardless they are small or big).

To be continued and see you next post :-)

Day +118

I am fine today. Now continue my Pizza story…

I will persuade 10 patients in the ward to try Pizza when their white blood count is lowest. Since the white blood count will surely pick up when it reaches the lowest level, so my Pizza is guaranteed to work for all of them. If three of them believe my “testimony” and then each of them convinced another three to believe it, I will have at least 13 (1+3+9) members in my network with 13 testimonies. If these 13 members go out again with each of them convinced another three and so on, both the testimony and network will grow quickly.

Oh now I see Business! Profit! Money! With my testimony, why not setup a Pizza company and market it under Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) structure. Suddenly I find myself a new job :-) Another thing, instead of calling it Domino Pizza, I should called it Doremon Pizza and priced it RM150 per large pizza :-) To make it look more natural and healthy and different from Domino Pizza, just sprinkle the topping with spirulina, chorella, olive oil, potassium salt…

Wake up, David! Oh sorry, I am dreaming. If you are just happen selling products similar to Doremon Pizza, I am not dreaming about you, I am dreaming about “him” only. If you still suspect that I am talking about you, just remember that “you” are always “you”, “him” is always “him”, and how can you be “you” and also “him” at the same time? So it is impossible I am talking about you.

Please don’t believe the story above and I also declare here seriously that neither Domino Pizza nor Doremon Pizza or whatever Pizza could bring whatever benefits as I mentioned above. In fact I did purchase 2 large Domino Pizzas last Friday for dinner upon Daniel’s request. He said we did not eat Pizza for many months already, so I agreed. My wife and I ate two slices each, but Joseph and Daniel ate four slices each. I am surprised they managed to finish a whole large Pizza in a single meal. No Pizza is allowed in the next two months, although it is not fair to my wife and me because we ate 2 slices each only.

See you next post :-)

Day +117

My Blood Count Today:
Red Blood Count (RBC) = 113(Normal 130-180)
Platelet = 99(Normal 150-450)
White Blood Count (WBC) = 4.2(Normal 4 - 11)
Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) = 2.604 (Normal 1.5 - 8.0)
Potassium = 4.6(Normal 3.5 - 5.2)

I went to do my follow-up today. The blood count result show very encouraging improvement. Finally, the white blood count reached normal level while platelet and red blood count also increased significantly.

The next follow-up will be two weeks later. The doctor also cut down the ciclosporin (prevent GVHD) dosage from 100mg per day to 75mg per day.

What did I do to make the white blood count improve so well? Eating Pizza :-) And listen (or read) carefully; the Pizza must be of large size thick thrust with Aloha Chicken topping from Domino. After months of low white blood count, I just eat two slices on last Friday as dinner and my white blood count increased to normal level today. Unbelievable! Now I know that Pizza is better than Neupogen, a growth factor which promotes the growth of white cells. A large Pizza costs about RM15 (after discount) while a dose of growth factor Neupogen costs RM260. Furthermore, unlike Neupogen, Pizza is not drug; it is a natural nutritious food which does not cause any size effect.

Since Pizza is natural food, it is not subjected to the control of Food and Drug Administration (FDA). No troublesome process such as clinical trial is required in releasing Pizza as nutritious product. Therefore, you can eat as much as you can. It is impossible it would cause you any harm because it is just natural food.

Oh Yes, it strengthened my immune system magically. My blood report is the proof. And since weak immune system is the root cause of all diseases, Pizza is effective for all diseases. It even boost your IQ, EQ and whatever Q that ever exists in this earth. Furthermore, it also made you look 10 years younger, slimmer, sleep better, energetic… One stone kills all birds. Oh no, that stone also kills all animals, from mouse to lion king and yes, it also kills all sea creatures from “sotong”(squid) to giant blue whale :-) One stone kills everything! Ha! Ha!

To be continued and see you next post :-)

Day +116

I am fine today.

I was very happy to be able to attend the church service this morning after four months of absence due to bone marrow transplant. My church was celebrating its 9th anniversary in the service. I was delightful to see many new faces attending the service. This means the church is growing :-)

Even though I put on 3M N95 mask all the time, many church members took photograph with me. The church also organized a potluck lunch after the service. Pastor said that our church is blessed with many “烹饪高手“(Master Cooks) who always prepared very delicious dishes. On the other hand, it is also blessed with many “master eaters” who are at least as gluttonous as me, if not more as me. Our guest speaker, in his message, said that a good church is a church with members who are united under all circumstances. I believe eating must be one of the circumstances even he did not mention it explicitly. So the unity was demonstrated immediately with so many members enjoying the food. Ya, I like this church. With so much delicious food to enjoy, how could I dislike it?

However, I could not enjoy the food this time because I still don’t know how to eat with the mask on. Please teach me if you know so that I will not miss those delicious foods again. I dared not took off the mask because I heard coughing here and there. Furthermore, my youngest son, Aaron, is having fever. So I had to leave earlier with my wife and Aaron, leaving behind my maid and the rest of the children to enjoy the food.

On the way home, we stopped by a bakery shop to buy some bread for lunch. In order to make sure that the breads were fresh, we only purchase those breads that were still hot or just came out from oven.

I had bread for lunch only and remembering those delicious foods that I missed, I am very hungry now . Got to check if the dinner is ready…

See you next post :-)

Day +115

I am fine today. Now continue my story at UH…

It was coincidence that my eldest sister came from Kuching, Sarawak on that night. She is a government school teacher teaching in Chinese primary school and she took half-paid leave to come here. I thanked God that she came at the best time because I needed most help during fever. My wife was about seven and half months pregnant at that time, so she could not stayed in the hospital overnight to take care of me. Since the nurses have to look after many patients, to have someone to lend a hand during fever is really helpful. She stayed in the hospital day and night to take care of me.

On 6 March 2006 (Day 15), my creatinine level in the blood reached 165 µmole/L, which is way above the normal level of 121 µmole/L. This reading serves as an alarm that my kidney function was degrading. Because of this, the doctor replaced the anti-fungus drug Amphoteracin B with Cancidas which has much fewer side effects compared to Amphoteracin B. I did not have to be given sleeping drugs before receiving it and it took only one hour to complete a dose. The creatinine level also dropped to normal level after a few days. However, the drug was not without side effect. The biggest side effect was it made me poorer because it was so expensive. The first dose which was called loading dose cost me RM1000 and the subsequent dose cost RM785 each.

I was discharged on 13 March 2006 (Day 22) and I stayed in the ward for 27 days. I managed to compete the very long novel “天龙八部”(The Demi Gods and Semi Devils) by Jinyong (金庸). During the period I was also given intravenous antibiotic called Tazocin, a few platelets and red blood transfusion, potassium infusion and other drugs. I also experienced water retention which made my stomach looked like a pregnant woman :-(

Since then, I never stopp taking anti-fungus medication until now. Initially I was given expensive drug called Sporanox in liquid form. After the bone marrow transplant, I take a less expensive and less effective Sporanox pill.

See you next post :-)

Day +114

I am fine today. Now continue my story at UH…

On Day 12, my blood’s creatinine level rose to 137 µmole/L. The normal range should be somewhere between 50 and 121 µmole/L. Creatinine is a chemical waste produced from muscle metabolism. The kidney filtered it out from the blood stream and disposes it through urine. A high level of creatinine in blood indicates that the kidney is not functioning properly. The high level of creatinine level in my blood showed that my kidney function had been affected by Amphoteracin B.

I experienced fever on 4 March 2006 (Day 13). This was within my expectation because based on my experience, fever would normally occur on someday between Day 13 and Day 16. In the evening on that day when I just about to feel the “heat of fever”, I complained to one of the nurses who came to administer drug to me, “Susahlah saya berdemam lagi” (It is unfortunate for me to have fever again). The nurse was so kind to offer me a more isolated room which was partitioned for two beds with a common access door. Each partition has its own attached bath room and more importantly, patient could limit the visitors to avoid visitor-carried infection.

The ward supposed to limit the number of visitors because many patients were having very low immunity. Thus unhealthy visitors can easily spread diseases to the patients in the ward. Considering the risk of infection of myself and other patients, I declined many visitors during my chemotherapy. However, I was once “amazed” to see a total of 15 visitors coming to the ward at the same time to visit a patient. Due to reasons unknown to me, the ward failed to limit the number of visitors even though the staffs tried to do it.

After the nurse put me to sleep to receive Amphoteracin B at about 8:30pm, they moved me and all my belongings to the isolated room.

See you next post :-)

Day +113

I am fine today. Now continue my story at UH…

After a worry-full night, I returned to the same operation table and felt even more worried to find out that the same radiologist was going to fix the line for me. “How come she becomes her own teacher today? How could she learn from herself?” but I dared not question her. The only thing that I could do was to pray, to recite Bible verses and to shiver harder.

The PICC line was successfully inserted only after three attempts. This added another two holes on my right arm :-( The radiologist encountered the same problem while trying to fix the PICC head. After many attempts, another radiologist came to help, but failed to insert the head either. Finally, a more experienced radiologist took over the procedure. Fortunately, she managed to push in the head in the end. A half an hour procedure took one and half hour to finish. What a procedure!

When I returned to the ward, I raised both arms proudly to show the nurses the new and old PICC lines. Indeed I was the only one who had two PICC lines at that time. The old PICC line on my left arm would only be removed if the new one could perform well. I encountered many patients experienced inflammation, leaking and blocked or punctured PICC line just a few days after the line was fixed. The line had to be removed if patients experienced these problems. Fortunately, the new PICC line worked well and the left PICC line was removed on 3 March 2006 (Day 12) after serving me for about 3 months.

See you next post :-)

Day +112

I am fine today. Now continue my story at UH…

Just after I was admitted to the ward, I informed the hematologist who treated me in Kuching that I was infected with Aspergillus fungus. He warned me that the treatment could be tedious and my PICC line might need to be removed as part of the treatment. As mentioned in my Day +57 blog, this PICC was installed on my left arm after much difficulty during my first chemotherapy in NMSC, Kuching. The removal was necessary in case the fungus infection was caused by fungus growing in the PICC line.

After a few days I received the warning, the chief hematologist in UH “demanded” my PICC line be removed. The appointment to install a new PICC line was fixed on the afternoon of 1 March 2006 (Day 10). I was very nervous to go through this procedure due to my bad experience while installing the first PICC. I was shivering, praying and reciting Bible verses on the operation table while the radiologist inserting the line into my right arm. I experienced great pain initially. The radiologist said the pain could be due to blood clot in the vein. And I believed that the clot might be resulted from the failed attempt to fix the PICC line on my right arm during my first chemotherapy.

In the end, the radiologist managed to put the PICC line in place. When I was just about to feel relieved, the radiologist told me she experienced difficulty to fix PICC head into my arm. She said my skin became very tough after chemotherapy. The procedure was finally abandoned after many attempts, even with different types of head. She said she will ask her teacher to fix the line for me early in the morning the next day. Only then I realized that the radiologist was a student who was learning to fix the PICC line :-(

See you next post :-)

Day +111

I am fine today. I would like to continue sharing my third chemotherapy experience at UH.

My chemotherapy was completed in the morning of 24 February 2005 (Day 5) and as usual, I had to wait for the blood count to drop and then pick up again before I could be discharged. Since it is almost impossible to avoid fever when the white blood count dropped to a level almost equal to zero, we always tell people that we were “waiting for fever” after completing the chemo drug.

A CT scan was performed on Day 8 to check the condition of my chest and abdominal region. This scan was necessary to check whether my lung and other organs such as kidney and intestines were infected with fungus. I was asked to fast after the breakfast. The doctor set up an intravenous line on my hand for the injection of a solution into my vein. According to the nurse, the PICC could not be used for this purpose because the solution was too thick to be administered through the PICC and it might block the PICC line. Just before the scan was carried out, the nurse asked me to drink a glass of yellowish solution. I was happy because I thought the nurse “belanja” (treats) me with nice orange juice, but I was nearly vomit on the spot as the drink tasted like iodine solution. :-( In the end, they asked me to lie down on a table-like structure, hold my breath, and then let a big noisy rotating cylinder run across it. When I returned to the ward, I vomited and experienced stomach upset. Of course, I had no appetite to eat any food on that day.

It was very fortunate that the CT scan result showed no sign of fungus infection; or else I might need to be treated with Amphoteracin B for three months.

The doctor also started to give Neupogen (growth factor) injection to me on Day 8, hoping that it would stimulate my bone marrow to produce white blood cells faster.

See you next post :-)

Day +110

I am fine today. I would like to continue sharing my third chemotherapy experience at UH.

I developed fever, cold and chill on 16, February 2006, one day after I received Amphoteracin B. The nurse told me this could be due to reaction to the drug and it should be alright if the fever did not persist.

I planned to enjoy reading a novel called “天龙八部”(The Demi Gods and Semi Devils), which is written by Jinyong (金庸). This novel is very long, but I could not make much progress because I was sleepy all day long.

My third round of chemotherapy started on 20, February 2006 (Day 1). The first two rounds of chemotherapy were called induction chemotherapy. If a patient managed to enter complete remission after the induction chemotherapy, he/she will be given a few rounds of consolidation chemotherapies which uses two types of drug called VP16(Etopside) and Ara-C over a duration of four days. VP16 was given once a day and each dose took one hour to finish, while Ara-C was given twice a day with each dose took three hours to finish.

During the first 4 days of chemotherapy, I was very busy receiving different types of drug. You might think that those who were busy should be the nurses, not me because they had to prepare and administer drug to me. Yes, I supposed to relax but I worried bubbles generated within the plastic tube would go into my vein which would result bubbles in my blood stream. These bubbles might be generated when the drug reacted with the plastic. So I had to “jaga” (monitor) all tubes that were connected to my PICC. If I spotted bubbles inside them, I would knock them off immediately before they went into my vein. I am now as good as the nurse in knocking off the bubbles :-)

See you next post :-)

Day +109

The doctor told me that the blood culture of blood sample taken on 23rd, January 2006 grew a type of fungus called Aspergillus. They were going to give me a type of drug called Amphoteracine B for four to six weeks. The drug could cause reactions such as chill, cold and fever. I was given a test dose in the afternoon to see if I could “tahan” (stand) the drug and I passed the test.

The first real dose of Amphoteracin B started at 8:00pm. The nurse mixed the drug in a 500ml normal saline solution. The resulting solution was yellowish in color and it was covered with a black envelop to prevent exposure to light. The solution was then administered to the patient intravenously through a flow control machine. The nurse would adjust the flow to 30ml per hour first. The speed was then gradually increased to a maximum of 100ml per hour if there was no reaction. They found out that I could tolerate the maximum speed, so it took about 5 to 6 hours to complete a dose of the drug.

The nurse gave two type of “sleeping” drugs called Pethidine and Phenergen through injection before giving Amphoteracin B. These two drugs made me relax instantly and sleep quickly. An auntie who was taking care of her daughter next to my bed told me how powerful these “sleeping” drugs are. She said a patient who received the drugs would fall to sleep before she counted to 10. One night, she complained that she could not sleep. “Ask the nurse to give you Pethidine and Phenergen and let me count for you this time.” I advised her :-)

See you next post.

Day +108

I am fine today. I would like to continue sharing with you my treatment at UH.

As mentioned on my blog Day +91, I was discharged from the hematology ward after second chemotherapy on 1st, February 2006. The doctor did my third Bone Marrow Aspiration (BMA) on 16, February 2006 and scheduled to start the third chemotherapy on 16th, February 2006.

It was important for me to hand over my work to other staffs to make sure that the software development project that we were embarking on will continue smoothly. Therefore I went to work occasionally while waiting for the next round of chemotherapy to start.

While I was busy in the office on the morning of 15, February 2006, the clerk of the hematology ward called me and informed me that the doctor would like to admit me to the ward immediately. I could sense that something was wrong because they used to delay the admission for chemotherapy due to unavailability of bed, but now they wanted to admit me earlier. Why couldn’t they just wait for one day? Anyway, I am a good guy (?), I just “obeyed”, stopped my work, packed my stuffs and went to hospital immediately.

See you next post.

Day +107

I am fine today.

I received a call from the car workshop owner asking me to collect my car today. He said he managed to buy an engine from a different source. This enables me to get my car back earlier than expected.

The total cost of this repair and related expenses is about RM2650. The breakdown is as follow:

1. Daihatsu 1000cc second hand engine -------RM1600
2. Workmanship -----------------------------------RM 300
3. Service (timing belt, engine oil etc..)--------RM 400
4. Update the Car Registration Card ------------RM 350
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--------------------------------------------------------RM 2650
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The Daihatsu 1000cc engine is more expensive because it is rare. The total cost of replacing an engine can be kept below RM2000 for a more popular car.

Even though I have to pay quite an amount of money to get the car back, I am still happy. Why should I be happy after losing money? The reason is very simple. I just have to be happy to prevent myself from losing more. If I am sad, I not only lose money but also lose happiness, and losing happiness might in turn cause a dent on my heath to make me a big loser. So happiness stops me from losing more.

If you still think that there is no reason for me to be happy. Then think about my medical fee. The government paid for me more than RM100, 000 medical fees until now. Subtracting RM2650 from RM100, 000, I still gain RM97, 350. So there is no reason for me not to be happy given that the amount that I gain is much more compared to what I lose.

If you still think that my reason is not logical. Then listen to what Bible tells us, “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” Matthew 6:27

See you next post and wish you happy always :-)

Day +106

I am fine today.

My wife is a government school teacher teaching in Chinese primary school. Due to my sickness, she applied for half-paid leaves from January 2006 until she gave birth to Aaron in the middle of April 2006. The government servants here are entitled for six months of half-paid leaves under certain circumstances. After the two months full-paid maternity leaves from middle of April to the middle of June 2006, she finished off the balanced half-paid leaves entitlement and then applied for unpaid leaves. With this, she takes one year leave and only needs to teach when the school opens in January 2007.

She still received her full salary and allowances even though she is on half-paid or un-paid leaves until now. This means the government is overpaying her. A few days ago, she received a notice from her school that required her to pay back the overpaid amount to the government. The total amount that she owed the government is about RM16400. The proposed pay-back consists of a one-off payment of RM9600, with the balance of RM6800 to be deducted from her next year salary.

I am “amazed” to know that the education department needs almost one year to adjust her salary. It is just like an old car that needs one year to stop after applying the brake. Who know a transplant will fix the problem?

See you next post :-)

Day +105

I am fine today.

The towing truck driver who towed my car to Puchong on Sunday is a young Malay guy. I followed the truck to come back to Puchong. The driver talked a lot on the way.

At one point of his talking, he said that he could not see any future for himself. I responded to him that with those “hak istimewa Melayu” (Malay Special Rights), he should have a bright future. He said those “hak istimewa Melayu” is “politicians talk”, he benefits nothing from it. He told me his understanding of the special rights should be in the form of reduced school fees for his children, half toll fee, half price of sugar and other stuffs. “As a Chinese, what kind of special rights do you see I received from Government?” he asked. What he said is quite true. A few rich one “hijacked” much of the goodies to make them richer, and many poor one remains poor. So the New Economy Policy becomes a tool for the rich one to marginalize the poor one, and then blame other races of marginalizing them :-( After enjoying the goodies, their appetite increased and wanted more, from 30% to 60% of equity.

Our prime minister promised that he would listen to the truth from the people, but when someone spoke the truth, he quickly dismissed it as “irresponsible”.

The truck driver told me that he is extremely “kecewa” (disappointed) with the Government just before he shake hand and said goodbye to me. I am also extremely “kecewa” to accept the empty promise given by the government to implement a “clean, incorruptible, trustworthy, accountable, just, efficient, competent, people-oriented administration prepared to listen to the truth from the people”.

Many of us feel “kecewa” and helpless with this situation. Who know a transplant will fix the problem?

See you next post :-)

Day +104

I am fine today.

My brother and I went to see the workshop owner yesterday to discuss the best way to fix the car. The owner said overhauling the engine would cost about RM3000 while replacing the engine costs RM2800. The second hand Daihatsu Charade engine is imported from Japan and there is no guarantee it will performance well. The other alternative is to sell the car and get a new one. The owner called his friend who is doing second hand car business and found out that the car costs less than RM3000. He recommended me to change the engine. His friend who is importing second hand car engine from Japan has one unit of Daihatsu engine left.

I called the workshop owner this morning to ask him to replace the car engine for me. Unfortunately, the engine was sold out. So we have to wait for the next shipment of car engine from Japan after Hari Raya and Deepavali holiday.

My old car, 1.3L Proton Wira also encountered overheat problem a few years ago due to leaking of the cooling tank. The car stopped automatically before the engine was damaged due to overheat. It is a pity that Daihatsu does not implement this feature.

I am not the only one who encountered this problem. My second sister in Sarawak also has an old Daihatsu car. She told me she changed the car engine twice due to overheating :-( But the cost of replacing the engine there is a lot cheaper.

I went for bone marrow transplant and my car will be going for engine transplant. Two transplants in four months :-)

See you next post :-)