These should be the largest ‘prosperity cats’ （招财猫） ever seen by me. Haha

Yeah. They are in 1 Utama New Wing, in case you would want to have a look at it.

To gauge its size, lets compare it to the kids around.

Elaborate stands and decors are generously erected around the stage.

An unending arrays of stalls selling hordes of Chinese New Year ‘must have’.

Fuh. A toy?

Able to shoot darts at 3 shot per seconds, complete with ammo belt.

It even come with a folding tripod and ammo box!

Which teenager would not want it to boast around?

Never realise toy gun have evolve so much!

After she spelled out the name, I was like: Huh? Who?

Immediately I realized someone had altered my cheque! The amount was unaltered though.

This is the image I got from the bank.

See how he blatantly wrote his name and his IC number on it.

Now I would have to visit the police station. Damn. Really KNS.

From now on, I guess I would only use Interbank GIRO transfer.

Verdict?

Though the appearance was inviting, and it cost three times more, the durian cendol in Melaka (San Shu Gong 三叔公） tasted much better.

Simple yet yummy!

Of course, at the main concourse, you would see the huge stage.

(With all the various celebrations, I have to wonder how much the management spent yearly on these thingy)

Various stalls littered the walkways, pushing their cookies, foods, and hampers.

TV shows were much better than movies! One good example would be Terminator Salvation. It was really not a good movie, with lousy plot and a nonsensical ending, if you would compare it to its siblings : Sarah Connor Chronicles. SCC was so much better, with interesting story line and full of unexpected twist.

Then I stumbled upon The Time Traveler’s Wife.

It was a love movie. Yeah, I didn’t really like any love movie. In fact, I usually switch off the TV after 10 minutes into those movies. Thus when I said I like it, it may came rather as a surprise, even to myself.

The movie was about Eric Bana as a time traveler. Contrary to the usual plot, in this movie, he could not dictate when he would travel or where he would travel to. He was just … a victim.

As he was doomed to a lonely life, he suddenly found that even with such an unpredictable lifestyle, there was someone who willing to accept him as he was. Rachel McAdam seemed to be in love with him, for some years, even before he met her!

I like this movie as it avoided all the pitfalls (or rather, all the popular selling points) of love movies:

1) Quarrel over petty things
2) Deciding who should change to fit who
3) Asking for things that are really not fit for us who are mere mortals

Instead, this movie touch on so many good points of human:

1) Even as traveler (willingly or unwillingly), he has a place call home where he can return to
2) Accept him as he is
3) Both of them are not selfish
4) They don’t ask for much in life, instead seemed only want to make those people around them happy

I would not even hesitate to say that this movie may rank within top three movies for 2009, on my list

To recoup their losses, banks had came up with various campaigns, including some dirty tactics.

One of the bank sent my wife a letter on December (just before 1 Jan 2010), stating that they had increased her credit limit to Rm35,000. Now, why would she need a credit limit which is more than 30 times her monthly expenditure?

(no, sorry, the picture is taken from the web)

One week later, the bank issued her a Platinum card.

Now we knew its trick. It was to increase the number of cards we own!

Immediately, we placed a call to its call centre. We insisted that we would want the card to be canceled without even being activated.

Dirty tricks indeed.