its getting cold now

its getting cold now here..and to make things worst, the wind is blowing stronger..
work is progressing slowly at the moment.
i receive my appointment letter yesterday, which mean i will not be getting my salary in malaysia starting next months...also mean that i am official an expatriate..a word i learnt 7 yrs ago.
i have open my local account number already, as mentioned before its a still developing country and almost everything is a new thing here...they have never seen badminton shuttlecock before.
back to the story, banking system here can be considered at its very early stage. when one opens an account with a bank, you can only save or withdraw money from the branch you open your account. your money is kept there and is not going anywhere...there's no account passbook to keep your transaction..what you have is your account number. ans that is important!!!
you get charged for keeping money and withdrawing money..
there's no ATM machine available and credit card is only in your dreams.
that is just how they do it here, people still prefer to keep their money in piggy bank..
there's no such things as unit trust nor dividen.
got work to do tomorrow...need sleep..

communications

i was here for couple of weeks few months ago, at that time i couldn't care less with how these guys here communicate with their love one back there in motherland.
now i know its not that simple...apart from emails and office phone facilities which sometimes loaded with ques, internet data plan was another alternative available.
but as i mention previously the condition is not fully matured yet, so setting high expectation oftenly resulted in devastation. ok, that is exaggerating..
there are 2 mobile telco services in these area. MTC (MTS) and i dont remember the other one. i'm using MTC with voice and data plan. data plan cost about usd30 for 1.5 gb...yes, thought digi and maxis and celcom is expensive? that for prepaid, not postpaid available. MTC is popular since expatriate can subscribe to it, the other one is not open for gaijin.
well, since most of us here at camp site using mtc, the bandwidth would sometimes overloaded and often spending time refreshing the pages to no avail.
i tried using skype to communicate to my wife, did not succeed, i think the goverment here restricted skype access. so i have been using whatsapp to communicate with her, which most of the time is unable to connect.
with 4 hours different, its kinda hard also.
its only been a week and i ramble a lot bout condition here..
update: i can use skype with office internet after office hours...

weeks in kiyanly

been a week already, its midnite here now. despite the cold chill wind outside, i feel its kinda hot in the room. open some windows to ventilate the room.
spoke to big boss here yesterday, who'd asked me to activate my transfer here. well, i actually never asked to be transfered here in the first place afterall. why would i?...
i kinda really missed my wife now, spoken thru phone is just not enough, and with the country internet services just making it worst. if i could grow a wing and flew back home, i would trade 10 years of my life time for that. gahhh....
i just wanna be home.....

its raining here today and any sooner probably some snow...

hoh, posted it in the wrong blog

the great land beyond

at the moment i am currently in kiyanly settlement. i'm not sure how long dhould i be here, but trying my best to be with my wife in kl as soon as possible.
i arrive here on monday, it was cold but not freezing yet. the worst have yet to come.
unlike other colleagues who are fortunate enough to be station in much better environment, here one can't have that much of expectation in socializing themselves.
there's not much can be done except for a regular routine of going to bazaar every weekends.


but overtime those routine activity will slowly kills...i myself over these 6 days have had enough of the food. but lets keep the question after a month.
although this camp site was supposed to have wifi facility, its useless since everybody is hogging on to the bandwidth. so most of us get a data plan from local mobile isp. its spells MTC but pronounce MTS... since it is cyrillic alphabet. too many people using the data plan making it congested as well and we're back to square one..internet is sucks...
work starts at 8 till 5, and since it is coming to winter now so it does not burden one much.. i think i could for a week without bath but that is just disgusting.
as i told my wife earlier, cats in this part of the world is somehow really have thick fur and unlike both kurap and fasha, are well maintain and hygenically clean. not saying that kurap and fasha is pengotor but the csts here seems to have a much higher degree of self cleanliness... heheheh..my wife persistenly asking whether i cud brind i back or not..
i think i need to have another heater for this room, its freezing in the night.
i wanted to load some photos together with this post, as mentioned earlier tje line is sucks.
owh, i am writing this via mobile.
will write more later...
dasdivaniya....

the walk and the talk

currently on medical leave…the longest i’ve ever been granted…six days in total..

ok, let see when was last i posted something here. amat malas nak menulis..lebih suka tgk gambar je.

this probably be my last week days in KL since imma be gone to turkmenistan next week. let see if my swollen eye is getting better or not before that. belum beli lagi winter clothing.

Those who know my wife would obviously know her interest in almost anything zombies especially those of george romero works. She is superexcited with the new series The Walking Dead, and now in the midst of collecting the graphic novel of which the series was based upon. Few months back prior to the pilot episode, we gone to kino looking for the novel and there was a lot in stores. bought a couple. i was surprise to know the novel became a hit after the series skyrocket in TV, and hardly found a stock pile of complete set yesterday when we were there to bought some of it.

arrr..i’m gonna miss fables volume 14 later. i admit i do like fables, but to imagine it making its way to TV series would not be a wise move (personally). some books (or graphic novel) are better kept in the way it should be, not transliterated to TV series or movies. Lots have failed in the transition.

rewind few weeks before, me and wife were in Big Bad Wolf buying lots of book and i myself in eons bought books for myself. At the moment i =’m slowly reading Robert Rankin titled The Japanese Devil Fish Girl.

yes, it look like that. not gonna do any review of the book, but i do enjoy reading it, fun.

now, back to current. with limited movability due to my eye infection, i have not bought anything for my trip next week. i should start preparing some checklist for myself. was thinking of buying extra phone for when i be there, this BB of me wont work  without BIS. i was eyeeing on the iphone4 (yes i know my wife sees iphone user as douche), i am interested in the insight given by effi on latest microsoft windows phone 7. all in all, i just want connectivity for my emails, FB, tweet dll..so either phone would justify. let give it a day or two..

the cats are behaving snobbish nowadays…tak layan makan balckwoods, next time i’ll be opening booth in amcorp mall utk sesi bergambar bersama binatang comel..rm2 per photo..enough to pay for their own food.