NMEDA is a non-profit organization that promotes safe driving and equipment for disabled people. They ensure the safety and reliability of vehicles and modifications to enhance accessibility for all people. Also the members(Dealers) sell handicap vans and vehicle modifications for disabled people and must adhere to the safety standards of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Isn’t it great to know that there are people who care for those having disabilities? I don’t think I heard of such organization in Malaysia. Anyone heard of it?

As a student that is studying early childhood education, we are required to learn about special needs children. From there, it had made me aware that these individuals require special help and everyone’s need is different. They are different from us whom most likely to be able to adapt to anything and one size fits all. For them, they are unique therefore the services, equipments or activities for them must be carefully designed to ensure that they get the most out of them and most importantly making sure it is safe for them. Not to forget about the elderly too. They also need special attention.

Here’s something that you might want to know about Quality Assurance Program (QAP) so that you can have a peace of mind:

The Quality Assurance Program (QAP) is the only nationally recognized accreditation program for the Adaptive Mobility Equipment Industry. It is based on the principle that in order to satisfy customers consistently, companies must have a systematic and documented approach to quality.

If only Malaysia has such organization and program. It will make the country a better place for the disabled as we all know that we do not have enough support for those with special needs. If you are based in the US, why don’t you check the site out and see if you can find the nearest qualified dealer in your place and share with me here as I have quite a number of US visitors and they might benefit from it if they need such service.

Here’s what you can do that I had just found out from watching a Taiwanese beauty show, Queen/女人我最大 (Nu Ren Wo Zui Da).

Use it as your neck cream!! That way, your eye cream/gel won’t go to waste. This is because according to the show, our skin around the eyes and neck are similar therefore eye cream/gel is more suitable for your neck.

Now, you don’t have to waste that expensive eye cream anymore. Your neck can use it. Give attention to your neck because if it aged, it will make you look at least 5 years older(I don’t remember the actual number but definitely more than 5 years) than your actual age!

Hopefully this post is useful you

Anyway, I realize that this year’s Merdeka celebration is very quiet, even the national celebration was done in the indoor stadium at Bukit Jalil instead of having it outdoor. Not only that, it seems like many Sarawakians and Sabahans aren’t really in the mood to celebrate it too, at least that’s what I notice in my Facebook. Almost all(the East Malaysians) said that they feel that it is not significant to them and all they care is the Malaysia Day on the 16th September. To them, they said that 31st August is the independence of Malaya(West Malaysia) and it’s not independence of Malaysia. Well… In a way, it’s logically and correct.

To me, without 31st August, there won’t be Malaysia. Without the independence of Malaya, there won’t be Malaysia. However, saying that 31st August is Malaysia’s independence day is not right. Malaysia was only formed on 16th September 1963 when Sabah and Sarawak joined the federation.

Until this day, I’m proud to be a Malaysian(especially a Sarawakian) despite all the shortcomings of the country. We are so much better than other countries, we are very lucky to be able to live peacefully and for you to able to be here and read this post, it is enough to be thankful of as you are not out there trying to scavenge for food, have no water or electricity, sleeping on the street and so on. We should be thankful for that. No doubt we complain about this and that but that’s just part of life, who doesn’t complain? Everyone has their own opinion on every single thing. We cannot deny that. Furthermore, you can afford to complain about the lousy broadband, the food served in some eateries being not nice, lousy customer service and so on unlike other countries which are war-torn and poor, those people don’t get the luxury of complaining about these petty stuffs.

However, I still don’t get the 1Malaysia thing, sorry. I’m too dumb to understand as we here have been living harmoniously together, at least for this part of Malaysia.

Muslims or non-Muslims sitting together in a non-halal open air market or coffee shop enjoying each other company and eating from the same plate, it’s not an issue.

Non-Muslim eating or drinking in front of the Muslims during fasting month, it is also never an issue. Of course, most will not do it in front of their Muslim friends out of respect but even if it’s done, it’s not an issue.

Muslims and non-Muslims sitting together in an eatery, one having mee goreng and another having kolomee(pork version) is not an issue too! So, 1Malaysia is in a way irrelevant to us(Sabahans and Sarawakians).

Besides that, I’m sure we all notice some fine prints stating “Valid in Malaysia. Inclusive of Sabah and Sarawak” or otherwise. *LOL* OK… Really *LOL* I’m speechless. 1Malaysia eh? Aren’t Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia?

No matter what, that’s what happening around us, that’s parts and parcels of our lives here. There’s still a long way to go for Malaysia, there’s still a lot to learn and grow. It’s never easy.

At least I know I’m proud of my citizenship unlike some people that who are Malaysians but not living in Malaysia because they said that they see no hope and feel ashame with the country at the same time having the nerves to challenge or direct us Malaysians living in Malaysia to fight for our rights, calling us names and so on as if they are living above the rest yet they themselves take the easy way out by leaving the country.

Com’on, if you are so great and so concern of your home country, you should be here to fight for what you think is good and not talk cock and “directing” the people here to do whatever you think that should be done by hiding outside the country! Talk is cheap, anyone can talk. Can you do it? You can’t. Also, commented us for being stupid and so on. You sure have your rights of speech but I do no respect people like you and I’m sure other Malaysians won’t appreciate your 2 cents too. We don’t have to hear from cowards like you.

Just like what some people said, “kalau tidak suka, keluar!“, keluarlah you go… If you can afford it, then why not, right? If you can’t, how? You will have to fight for your survival here. For those that manage to keluar, you don’t have to look down on those who can’t afford to do it, you should salute them for having the guts to stay back unlike you, they are stronger than you are, they make the unfavourable situation works for them. No matter how fuck up their country is, it’s still home for them.

Lastly, hope all of you have a great holiday. It’s back to work again tomorrow.

Celebrations is a collection of assorted chocolates manufactured by Mars. It consists of the miniature version of those chocolates. I prefer to have this rather than buying the individual bars. The size is small and easy to handle, also don’t have to worry about not able to finish one whole bar. I know I can’t finish one normal size bar. If not mistaken, different country has different chocolate variety in the box. This one here is from the UK.

Will share some of them with you, the others I either got no chance to take the photos of them because they were finished up by my family or nothing special with its look.

Left: Bounty (coconut filling coated in milk chocolate), this small miniature bar is fine for me, if I’m going to have the one whole big bar, I really can’t finish the whole thing, too sweet for me too. Uncle Lee, here you go hehehe… Miniature one for you.

Right: Mars (plain nougat, caramel and chocolate), I never like Mars bar, too sweet for my liking. However, this small one is fine with me

Left: MilkyWay (not sure how to call that white filling in the chocolate), I kind of like this but I don’t think I can stand the sweetness of the original sized bar.

Right: Galaxy Truffle (milk chocolate shell with galaxy milk chocolate truffle inside), quite nice, I like this. Then again, can’t eat this much, very sweet ;p

Left: Galaxy Caramel (Galaxy milk chocolate shell with caramel filling), not really a fan of caramel.

Right: There’s 8 types in the box.

I love Snickers, I thought I had taken a photo of it but found out that I didn’t.

Malteaser (chocolate with little malty honeycomb bits), I prefer the original Malteaser rather than this miniature one.

Galaxy, nothing special, it’s just plain milk chocolate.

Overall, I really love this box. It’s so addictive and we finished this box really fast compare to other chocolates.

The place looked so colourful with red, green, and yellow colour scheme. You can only see green here ;p I didn’t include the photos of the other part of the place.

Left: Sweet Sour Chicken with Rice(RM5), not satisfied with it, the presentation could be better and the taste really not suit my palette. Too sweet for me.

Right: Fried Tomato Mee with Seafood(RM5.20), same case. This was even sweeter. Why was the sauce so red? Even the prawns became red -.-”

They have promotion set now, available until 15th October. A set of chicken rice(roasted or steam chicken) + 1 soft drink.

Left: Roasted chicken, the look wasn’t bad, taste wise I think it wasn’t that bad but nothing outstanding, at least better than the two earlier on.

Right: Steamed chicken, hmm… How to go wrong with this? It’s just steamed chicken *LOL*

Overall, I personally feel that there’s still a lot of room for improvement especially for the food.

August is ending soon. Time really flies. Next Tuesday will be a public holiday, our National Day. Then, it will be Hari Raya Aidilfitri. If I have a semester break now or my bro does not have classes next week, I’ll be in Singapore now and will only come back on Wednesday. Too bad… I’m still stuck here.

I’m very random today. Think I better go to sleep early and go to church tomorrow, I skipped quite a lot of services lately because I didn’t want to wake up and slept very late the night before ;p

All right, that’s all for now.

Seeing the result, I really have no idea to laugh or to cry. I was disappointed with my listening test as I couldn’t hear the conversation clearly and almost threw the mark of one whole section away. I was thinking, if lucky, I might get a 7 else it will be 6.5. Who knows?!?! WOW! I almost got blown away with what I’m getting! 8.5, only 0.5 to the perfect 9, the highest band score! I never expect this result. I don’t understand how on earth it happened. I’m not going to complain of course, it’s so much better than what I had wished for. It had saved my ass too! If it’s not because of this, I won’t be getting an overall band of 7.

Reading, I was expecting a 7.5 or 7. I got 7. At least in the range of 7. Phew…

Writing, expected it but I was hoping to get a 7 as I read many band 7 essay samples, it’s not hard to achieve that. If I had the time to check my writing, then I think I’ll get a 7 for it but I didn’t have the time. Sigh…

Speaking, LOL… Expected to get lousy band but did not expect a 6, quite disappointing. Oh well… I really messed up. Instead of talking formally, I was yapping away like talking to my friends. Blek…

With such result, I’m not so sure whether they accept it or not as the offer letter mentioned that I must get band 7 for all components but the prospectus stated that an average 7 is enough. So… I’m not really sure.

Now, I’ll just have to wait to see whether they accept my score or not. If not, I have to resit! I don’t want!!! Sigh… Really don’t know to cry or laugh, worry or relieve. Cross my fingers, I don’t want to resit

I guess it’s only the number of chocolate chips that doubled in the cookies but not the chocolate in the cookies.

Here you go… No more dyed end also, it’s now my original colour, virgin hair. It was blown dry, my curls will be back after the next wash. It won’t look this long after that

Usually when I cut my hair, there will be some changes to it but nothing much this time ;p just shortened it, still very long right? My brother said it seemed not cut ;p hahaha… No bang too as I feel quite lazy to maintain one and decided to let it grow out.

Wonder should I get it coloured again? Hmmm… Means spend money again, I don’t think I’ll dye it any sooner, no money to spare. Just let it be.

Right: The Chicken Gordon Bleu (RM17.50), boneless whole chicken breast filled with cheese and chicken ham accompanied with gratin potatoes and cream sauce. I’ve never try any Chicken Cordon Bleu in my life, this is my first time, this wasn’t that bad for my taste palette but it’s quite filling for me, I had a bit of difficulty trying to finish the whole plate of food, lucky my mom helped a bit. If you hate cheese or creamy food or seriously on diet, this is not for you haha… For RM17.50 with such portion, not bad. The gratin potatoes was quite nice.

Overall, it was a pleasant experience for me, service was good also. Guess I’m lucky as I did hear some negative feedback of the place either about the food or service. No complain from me.