The Day It's OK To Change To (Be A Better) 'U'

Dear Diary,

Nombor telefon saya ialah 01X-XXXX 810
(mimpi lah nak letak number penuh kat sini :D).

A couple of years ago, upon registering my postpaid number,
I deliberately chose 810 to end my mobile number
because 8 haribulan 10 (October 8th) is my birthday.

Eventually, even my future cars (my next car has to be a hybrid, please please please Mitsubishi, make-up your mind in bringing MiEV to Malaysia already!) will be numbered XXX 810 because, I am obviously full of myself, proud of my birthday, supaya mak bangga anak sulung dia bangga dengan tarikh dia lahirkan anak pertama dia dan supaya orang tak lupa birthday kita *hint hint*.

By then I thought, kalaulah masa tu ada service provider bernombor 018
selain daripada the common 012, 013, 016 dan 019, alangkah bagusnya..
And if only my number could read 018 XXXX 810, alangkah indahnya!

If you still didn't know it by now,
SEKARANG SUNGGUH-SUNGGUH ADA!



















But would I be crazy enough
to change my number and service provider
just to satisfy my OCD and just so that my number looks as if it's tailored for me?

Hmmm.

After checking out their website and postpaid plan,
I am seriously considering (switching to 018 U-Mobile) because:

1. I really like the fact that there is NO OTHER service provider that does not imply 30 second block except for U-Mobile (true at time of publishing)! Strictly 1 second billing, which means all your voice calls and video calls are charged by the second so you only pay for the exact seconds you use!

2. There is absolutely NO ACCESS FEE! Now all I'll be charged for are my phone calls, video calls, SMS and MMS usage! Kalau tak, sebulan buta-buta kena bayar RM50 ke, RM80 ke just for access fee when that RM50 or RM80 dah boleh buat pakai call dah.

3. And guess what, since almost every phone is 3G equipped now, U-Mobile's rate for phone calls and video calls are exactly the same! Why only hear voices if you can even see the person you are calling (errr, and also to check if they are exactly where they say they are?)

Even if your phone is not yet 3G-ed, U-Mobile has just the package
so that you can use your dream phone at a cheaper-than-market price!
Tak percaya? Tengok ni..

















4. Untuk adik-adik yang lebih selesa menggunakan prepaid,
pek permulaan U-Mobile 018 Prabayar adalah PERCUMA!
Sungguh! Betul! Tak tipu!

5. My current service provider has been sangat-sangat mengecewakan:

- During the recent new year's eve, all SMSes to me arrived two hours later!
I was waiting high and low for texts from Julie because we were supposed to meet up at The Curve
for New Year celebration but her SMS that was written and sent to me two hours earlier arrived two hours later! When it was almost new year!

- My service provider that does not provide automatic roaming whenever I go out of the country, not even when I go to Singapore! I hope that explains why on some weekends you couldn't reach me or your SMS to me was not even sent. Oh, I went to Singapore 8 times last year alone!

- If you stay in Damansara Perdana, almost all service provider's receptions are poor! I hope U-Mobile's will be a lot better so I don't get disconnected for no reason during important business calls anymore.


If you share the same disappointments with your current service provider,
if you have any question regarding U-Mobile 018's many other winning advantages,
seriously, really, TRY ME, drop me your questions to this entry's comment box
and (for the first time, erkkk..) I will answer regarding question MYSELF.

(Note that only related and approved questions will be answered)

Join me to be more 'U' by switching to U-Mobile!
Even if you don't want to change your number like me,
you can still keep your very number but only change your service provider to U-Mobile!


Kawan-kawan dan saudara mara,
bersedialah menanti SMS dari saya
mengumumkan pertukaran nombor ye?

Hari Untuk Memperbaiki Diri!

(Satu lagi entri penuh bahasa ibunda untuk menambahkan pening-pening lalat kita semua!)

Kawan-kawan dan adik-adik tercinta,

Standard lah, membesar di sekolah berasrama penuh, semua perempuan pulak tu,
mesti banyak koleksi cerita kelakar pasal ‘period’ kan?
Waktu di STF dulu, period dipanggil ‘bejot’,
kira macam kita punya secret code lah.
Walhal semua cikgu lelaki pun arif bejot tu apa.
Rasanya budak STF sekarang panggil bejot lagi ke?
Hmm.

Masih berkisar tentang bejot,

..ketika melawat sanak-saudara Raya yang lepas,
rasanya cerita yang Kak Ninie (macam Kak Yong RTM pulak rasanya)
nak cerita ni dah diceritakan dalam dua puluh kali rasanya..













Kak Yong Ninie dan Baby,
gambar raya tahun lepas
sebab rambut masih pendek, belum perm
dan make-up masih tak 'on'
sebab belum dicover MAC Mineralizer



Kak Ninie ada empat orang adik-beradik perempuan, tak termasuk kita,
ada Si Iqah yang putih (18 tahun ),
Si Iqin yang tinggi (umur baru 12 tapi tinggi 2 inci daripada kita!) dan
Si Baby (7 tahun) yang sangat comel tapi mulut sangat bising.



















Baby dan Iqin,
gambar tahun lepas jugak
sebab Iqin tinggi dia 156sm sekarang :(



Kalau musim cuti sekolah, semua ada kat rumah,
nanti kita, Iqah, Iqin termasuk Emak kita orang sekali akan bejot sama-sama.
Rasanya kita pernah baca yang kalau sekumpulan perempuan dalam very close fraternity, kitar bejotnya macam synchronized gitu.

Jadi masa mak dan adik-adik perempuan Kak Ninie yang dah besar bejot bersama-sama,
si kecik tu selalulah rasa terpinggir..

Tiap-tiap petang, Baby dan Iqin berjalan kaki pergi sekolah agama di Masjid Saidina Abu Bakar, Bangsar. T hari Baby mengada terlampau, dia akan telefon Kak Ninie buat suara cute sambil merengek paksa kita ambik dia balik sekolah agama. Padahal sekolah agama dia (serius ni!) hanya 10 METER dari pintu pagar belakang rumah! Kalau Bangsar Village, dalam 20 meter. Tapi masih kena lintas Jalan Ara yang super sibuk, jadi selalunya ada lah Ammar (11 tahun) yang dah besar sikit akan pimpin Baby lintas jalan bila dia balik sekolah agama.

Maka ceritanya,
lebih kurang sebulan sebelum puasa lepas,
masa semua girls in the house bejot,
Baby jadi boring.

Bila dia boring,
otak dia mulalah pakat dengan mulut dia jadi super kreatif.

Beberapa hari sebelumnya, Iqah yang dah masuk universiti kata
dia tak boleh ambik Baby balik sekolah agama sebab “Iqah uzur, tak boleh masuk masjid.”
Bila Iqah bejot, kebiasaannya Iqin pun akan bejot sama.
Jadi Iqin akan balik sekolah agama awal sikit sebab,
“Iqin uzur, tak payah mengaji dan sembahyang Asar dekat masjid.”

Malamnya, Iqah call kita mengekek ketawa sambil berkongsi cerita,
“Along, along. Tau tak adik Baby Along tipu Mak apa hari ni?
Iqah dengan Iqin kan uzur, jadi Baby kena balik sekolah agama dengan Ammar.
Tapi tadi dia balik sorang-sorang.
Dia kata dia tak payah sembahyang Asar sebab dia ZUHUR!!!”

Ya Allah, penipuan melampau kan?
Tapi nasib baik salah sebut, maka jadi comel.
Kurang sikit kena marah dengan mak.















Yee haa! Jumpa satu lagi gambar sopan dengan Baby. Tapi ni bukan waktu raya, tapi majlis perkahwinan Juliana kesayangan kami berdua. Memang muka nakal dan 'kita-tahu-kita-kiut' Si Baby ni, kan?




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Masih berkisar hal bejot,
untuk adik-adik yang selalu bergantung pada tuala wanita yang bagus
untuk perlindungan pada saat-saat datang bulan,
jenama tuala wanita terkemuka, KOTEX
ada sesuatu yang super best untuk adik-adik semua!

Kalau adik-adik
(I am stressing adik-adik because this contest is only open for girls
of age 13 to 21, tsk tsk.. Are we that old?) boleh ceritakan pada Kotex
“Satu perkara yang anda ingin perbaiki untuk mencapai cita-cita”
dalam kurang daripada 150 patah perkataan
(tapi kenalah tulis dengan kreatif, belajar dari Baby, adik Kak Ninie tu),
Kotex mungkin boleh tolong adik-adik mengubahnya di KEM KOTEX 2008!

Lagi best, ia akan berlangsung di Club Med, Pantai Cherating
bersama para selebriti tempatan antaranya pelakon-pelakon Kisah Kaisara, Ahli Fiqir dan Angkakasawan Pertama Negara kita!

Di Kem Kotex ni nanti,
ada bermacam-macam aktiviti yang membolehkan adik-adik mengenali diri sendiri,
mengenalpasti potensi terpendam adik-adik supaya kita boleh memperbaiki diri kita dan
mengejar impian hidup tanpa membuang masa lagi!

Tambah lagi, Club Med Cherating merupakan antara resort percutian tepi pantai
yang paling ekslusif di Malaysia tau!


















































(Gambar ihsan Google.com)

Cantik yang amat kan, Club Med Cherating ni?

Sebab dia tepi pantai,
boleh bergambar main pasir dibelakangi matahari terbenam,
atau kedua-duanya sekali sambil buat yoga macam ni pun boleh!
He hee..
















Tapi gambar ni, Kak Ninie kat Bali lah, he he..




Klik poster ini untuk tak membuang masa lagi,
tarikh tutup dah dekat ni!
























Antara syarat-syarat pertandingan ni,
untuk tidak membuang masa KITA yang tak layak :(,

• Jawapan mesti ditaip atau ditulis (dengan kemas) dalam bentuk esei,
tak payah panjang-panjang sebab jawapan adik-adik tak boleh lebih daripada 150 patah perkataan.
Satu perenggan je pun dah cukup :)
• Peserta mestilah PEREMPUAN dan berumur antara 13 hingga 21 tahun
• Penyertaan perlu dihantar ke
‘Kem Kotex® 2008’,
PO Box 8615,
Pejabat Pos Kelana Jaya,
46793 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
dan perlu sampai ke meja penganjur sebelum 5.30 petang, 31 Oktober 2008
(on the irony, the closing date is on bloody Halloween day!)

Untuk mengetahui lebih lanjut lagi terma pertandingan,
klik http://www.kotex.com.my/kem2008/TermCond.htm

dan borang penyertaan boleh dimuatturun dan dicetak dari
http://www.kotex.com.my/kem2008/printPage2.asp, mudah kan?

50 penulis bertuah berpeluang menyertai KEM KOTEX 2008
yang akan berlangsung dari 17 – 19 Disember 2009 di Club Med Cherating, Pahang!
Makan-minum, penginapan dan pengangkutan ditanggung sepenuhnya tau!

Kak Ninie pun nak join kalau boleh,
dapat berjemur dan penginapan percuma di Club Med, best tu!
Tapi tsk tsk, baru minggu lepas hari jadi ke 26..
Syarat paling utama pun kantoi..

Tapi untuk adik-adik yang layak,
ataupun kawan-kawan yang ada adik perempuan umur 13-21 tahun,
jangan lupa, penyertaan ditutup pada hari Halloween, tau!

Mulakan menulis to get changing sekarang,
kalau tidak, menyesal nanti.
Asyik kena tukar pad je pulak..
'Zuhur' tak sudah. He hee..

The Day Speed Is Not A (Fear) Factor

Dear Diary,

Firstly,
go buy Kosmo! today :)

Secondly, during my absence for the next three days for the first ever and highly anticipated Singapore F1 Night Race (Grand Prix In The City), I'll leave you with my experience of being a co-driver for 2 laps at F1 Circuit Sepang, last month.

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For weeks, I have been nagging and asking my Supertall if I am eligible enough for the Red Bull Female Driver Search ad I have been seeing on telly. I might be a fast driver (blame the 240bhp Batmobile) but I am not quite sure if I have almost sure I don't have the defensive driving technique and skills.

Supertall answered, "Go try lah. I'll train you. We'll start by playing Gran Turismo 4 that even Lewis Hamilton swears by."

"Ermm, your Xbox punya Need For Speed: Carbon tak boleh ke? Banyak supercar best-best!"

"That one for buta-buta driving langgar tembok sana. Kita GT4 on PS2 first, then we'll take to car to Sepang, OK?"

Eh, dia pulak yang excited.

Notwithstanding, before we even manage to do that, I received a call from Nuffnang informing that I am one of the lucky 5 Malaysian female bloggers to experience the speeding thrill of Red Bull Female Driver Search on Sepang F1 circuit a couple of Saturday evenings ago!

More than I expected,
Supertall was wayyyy more excited than I was!

So that Saturday evening, off to Sepang circuit we went.
(Oh, did you know that you can reach KLIA in only 20 minutes
using the new KL-Putrajaya highway?)

When we reached the circuit, aiyooo..
My mata almost terbeliak seeing bersepah and berderet-deret Ferrari, Porche, vintage Jaguar in front of my very eyes, racing against each other!




















And then I saw and was introduced to this.














Integra DC2 that last year's Red Bull Female Driver Search winners / rookies use.
What a sweet baby.

"Errrr, can I take this baby for a spin? On this track?"

"Can, can! Later, in your dreams tonight ok? But take pictures now, can. Do lah all your yoga inside the car."

Tsk tsk..






















































With yoga and adidas, you can drive using your legs. Jangan main-main!


Shortly after, Irma, the Red Bull lady called after my endless and hopeless effort of driving their car (I personally think, she feared that I was going to fly on the car).

When asked how did Red Bull choose the five female bloggers,
they explained it was mainly based on hits (I thank you all my lovely 376,+++ readers).
And that apparently, I drive a fast car, hmmm..

"Ok girls, now Puteri, one of our winners from last year's search will take you on the track. Can you all handle speed?"

Speed, I can handle, lady.
But helmet hair, I cannot!

Driving an Evo VII engined SUV, I thought I can handle speed.

But after two laps of 280 t0320 km/h on straight lanes and 180km/h on corners
maneuvered effortlessly by Puteri,
I immediately felt carsick.

Suddenly I recalled one of the two fears I have: sea and speed.
I experienced the same effect I always get when I am on roller coasters.
I screamed my yoga lungs out for the first 10 seconds and then, I froze to stones.

I kid you not.

I was seen puking shaking when Puteri returned me to the pit.
















































Everybody got worried because I behaved like a mad woman
flexing around, twisting upside down in my helmet when I got out of the car.

The drive was exhilarating!
Out of the world madness!
Out of the body testimony!

And Red Bull was nice enough to offer my Supertall a ride too!
Although he looked more like Malaysia's next Angkasawan in the racing suit.

Unlike me, Supertall didn't get shaken at all!
I might not have his the balls for this.
How lah to be Red Bull's next Female Driver macam ni?

But again, maybe it was only the passenger-seat-trauma I was experiencing.
If it were me driving, mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe I can handle it.

After all, just like yoga, you don't get to be that good a driver in one day, kan?

With split open legs,
I thank Red Bull and Nuffnang for the unforgettable experience.












The Yoga Instructor is here if Red Bull wants a spineless ambassador :)













Red Bull dearest, can you imagine how nice this will look on your billboards? ;)


If you aspire to be the next Red Bull Female Driver Search winner (like me!),
click on the Red Bull Female Driver Search ad to my right-hand side panel
if it's not the Red Bull Female Driver Search ad you are seeing,
simply click this.

Some of the basic requirements are:
- FEMALE (Red Bull rep told me, ada jugak males yang apply tu)
- between 18 to 30 years old
- possess valid Malaysian driving license
- able to drive manual
- not taller than 5 feet
- super flexible
- blonde
- vain

(The last four are obviously fictional. Why soooo serious?
Just so that MY chance of being selected is higher.
Jahat kan?)

Application form and more non-fictional requirements can be found at
www.redbull.com.my/rbfds.

Winners will be given the opportunity of a lifetime to train under the trustee leadership of Kenvin Low, Chief Trainer of Asia Advanced Driving Academy (AADA) in preparation of Merdeka Millennium Endurance (MME) Race they winners get to represent Red Bull for, next year. Winners will also get massive coverage in local media, last years winners were featured in established magazines such as FHM and Harper's Bazaar (so the 'vain' requirement might not be so fictional afterall, innit?)!

Application closes on 17 October 2008.
(If I were to be even more cruel, I would have written 17 October 2009.
But then, mati hidup semula Red Bull wouldn’t wanna befriend me anymore. He hee..)