Fun family time...

Here are some pictures of fun family time with hubby and little daughter...

Catuan air peringkat 4... >_<

NOTIS CATUAN BEKALAN AIR PERINGKAT KEEMPAT DAN LANJUTAN TEMPOH CATUAN DI PERINGKAT PERTAMA DAN KETIGA BAGI NEGERI SELANGOR, WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN KUALA LUMPUR DAN PUTRAJAYA

Adalah dimaklumkan berikutan keputusan Kerajaan Negeri Selangor untuk meningkatkan jumlah pengurangan pelepasan air mentah dari 500 Juta Liter Sehari (JLH) kepada 1,000 JLH dari Empangan Sungai Selangor dan 30 JLH dari Empangan Klang Gates, pihak SYABAS telah diminta oleh Kerajaan Negeri Selangor untuk menyediakan Pelan Catuan Bekalan Air Peringkat Keempat untuk dilaksanakan bagi menghadapi pengurangan bekalan air terawat yang disebabkan oleh keputusan ini.

Pelan Catuan Bekalan Air Peringkat Keempat ini telah diluluskan oleh Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Air Negara (SPAN) pada 28 Mac 2014. Perlaksanaan Pelan Catuan Bekalan Air Peringkat Keempat ini melibatkan beberapa kawasan baru sebagai tambahan kepada kawasan-kawasan yang terlibat di dalam Pelan Catuan Peringkat Ketiga di sembilan (9) wilayah iaitu daerah Gombak, Hulu Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Petaling, Klang/Shah Alam, Hulu Langat, Kuala Langat, Sepang dan Kuala Selangor.

Pelan Catuan Bekalan Air Peringkat Keempat akan berkuatkuasa mulai 4 April 2014 hingga 30 April 2014 atau ke satu tarikh yang akan diputuskan oleh Kerajaan Negeri Selangor. Pada masa yang sama, Pelan Catuan Bekalan Air Peringkat Pertama dan Ketiga yang sedang berjalan pada masa ini dilanjutkan mulai 1 April 2014 sehingga ke satu tarikh yang sama seiring dengan Pelan Catuan Bekalan Air Peringkat Ke Empat. 

Adalah dengan ini dimaklumkan juga bahawa Pelan Catuan Bekalan Air Peringkat Keempat ini akan dilaksanakan secara berasingan (separately) dengan jadual yang berlainan daripada Pelan Catuan Bekalan Air Peringkat Pertama dan Ketiga (Zon 1 dan 2).

Prawn fritters aka cucur udang..

Had some prawn fritters today, better known as cucur udang at the Restoran Noor in SG 1 in Taman Sri Gombak,  a stone's throw from my house.

These cucur udang are made from flour, eggs etc..etc.. And a prawn pressed to it and smothered with chilli sauce, in this case blended with nuts as well.

30 days challenge- day 19, 20 & 21

I am soooo horrible at updating this 30 days challenge on time .. He he.. 

Anyway, here goes my humble opinions on the matters...

Day 19- Disrespecting your parents..

This is of course a no-no.. We should respect our parents and any elderly people BUT... Sometimes they are unreasonable, so if and when they are unreasonable, I agree they need to be put on their place and corrected, but do it as politely as you can...  Not yell at them or even really throw things at them..

My son...

My son is here in KL with me. Well, for preparation to go off for his PLKN aka National Service stint. 

Yesterday morning we spend the day at the clinic getting his medical check ups and reports and today, we are at the Bank Simpanan Nasional opening an account for him. 

Recipes: Spicy Stir Fried Okra/Ladies Finger

This is just a simple dish I created from Bendi aka Okra

Ingredients:-
A) Onions
     Garlic
     Red Chilli
     Birds -eye Chilli/ Chilli Padi
     Anchovies
(Put all in a dry blender and blend it or pound it together)

Love scams...

For some people dating websites appear to be the answer to getting a partner. You can go online, set up a profile and start surfing the web for someone interesting.

Nowadays, not only on dating sites, these scammers are also approaching potential victims on social media.

A normal start would be the lines of.. "I fell in love with your beautiful photo and would love to know you better".... Etc..

You can flirt without seeing someone face to face and if there is no love spark, you can hit delete and carry on. And there are plenty of success stories.

Many of us know couples who met online and went on to have meaningful relationship.

But there is also a sinister online world where crooks and conmen lurk, pretending to be lonely people but in truth are seeking to cheat people out of their money, and  move on – jilting their victims.

When Rosie went online she hoped that the Internet would help her find love and a new partner. After a failed marriage, Rosie was looking for a second chance at romance.

Rosie  joined a dating website and met a man who called himself James. He said he was a widower and seemed nice and caring. Rosie was very interested. James seemed like a gentleman and a possible soul mate and it appeared to be mutual.

Although they never met in person, Rosie and James e-mailed and spoke on the phone for months.

James even said he was planning to move to where Rosie was and he wanted Rosie to be part of his new life in there.

“I’ve gone through your profile so many times,” he wrote. “You sound exactly like a woman I would love to get along with. I still don’t know what I did to be so lucky to have you in my life. I would love to meet you in person.”

But before that could happen, James told Rosie he had to take a business trip to Saudi Arabia. While there, he had an emergency: he’d forgotten his wallet with all his money and identification in a taxi.

James e-mailed Rosie that he was getting help from the consulate but, since they are so in love, she offered to send money so that he could get by in the meantime.

At first James declined Rosie’s offer but eventually he relented, promising to repay the money she advanced. Rosanna wired $5,000 via Western Union.

It wasn’t until weeks later that she found out that it was all a con – her money had vanished along with James.

This is how the scheme works: perpetrators target those looking for love online.

They create a false identity and begin communicating on dating websites. Once trust is established, they ask their unsuspecting victims for money.
They never meet in person.

One of the techniques identified is something called “love bombing” where victims are smothered with displays of affection, charm and flattery.

And the scammers carefully tailor their e-mails to play to the victims’ values and interests.

The things that make you tick, your kind of emotional passwords to your heart. These scammers keep detailed notes of the victims responses and they make themselves into that ideal person.

An ideal persona online that lowers victims defences and makes them vulnerable to send thousands of dollars to a fictitious character – someone they’ve never met. It’s a lesson many people learn the hard way.

It’s easy to fall into the trap. They say all the right things, they know how to win you over and it’s easy to fall for it.

So there you are.. Don't trust people you do not know at all online no matter how seemingly sweet or perfect....

Yippee, I am a millionaire!!!!

I just opened my email and oh gosh. There it was , this tempting email saying I've won USD1.35 million. The thoughts that rushed through me.. I can buy a luxury condo now.. And buy a round the world tour for 6 months, put some money in trust for my children...

Yeah right, I snorted. This is a bloody scam and not the first one I got. In the first place, I don't remember entering any contest in connection with Yahoo or Shell, so how the hell do they know who I am.... Secondly, Shell has warned of these scams long ago.

These scams consists of someone convincing you that a lot of money or an expensive prize is within your reach. At the last minute, however, you will be asked to advance some money to clear one last hurdle. After that, neither the scammers nor your money are seen again. 

So don't ever reply to that scam!!!! As painful as it is, just ignore it. Trash that email. Or not only will you NOT see any dollar of that so called prize but end up losing more then you bargain.

There are hundreds of  versions of this scam using many different names for the originator so if you may not see here the particular message that you may have received. The bottom line is the nature of the offer made

United States Secret Service mentioned that it is a scheme that has predate the Internet. It is known as "The Nigeria Advance Fee Scam" or the "Four-One-Nine", referring to the Nigerian law for fraud. The majority of the messages in the beginning were coming from people in Africa, especially Nigeria, but now the emails seem to be coming from every part of the globe. London, Paris, New York etc..etc...

Here are several different scenarios presented in the messages with the most common one telling you that there are millions of dollars sitting idle from a business deal, a government action, or an inheritance, and all you need to do is agree to let the money be run through your bank account or to help invest it in the U.S., and you'll get a commission, usually in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. 

Other emails claim to have unclaimed cash from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 or inheritance money from a victim of the Pentagon attack on the same day.

There is a version that claims to be from the former accountant of a son of Saddam Hussein as well.

Watch out for emails like this very one, which say you've won contests or lotteries that you never entered, have funds for you from a transaction that you never arranged, that you have won a prize but you need to pay for the shipping, or who say they need your credit card or other financial information in order to complete the transaction.

There are hundreds of other variations on those themes and, according to the U.S. Secret Service and other authorities, thousands of people who have lost hundreds of millions of dollars. 

The authorities receives an average of 100 phone calls and 300 to 500 pieces of correspondence per day about the advance fee scams and says that in 2001, there were reports from 3000 people who said they'd been scammed. 

Quite a number of them lost more than $300,000. Many people who've lost money don't report out of shame.

Here's an example of what might happen:

1. You receive a request from someone with the prospect of millions of dollars coming your way.

2. You reply and through a series of exchanges via email, fax, and phone, you are presented with documentation and very convincing proofs of the identities and the credentials of the people you are dealing with. 

3. You will be asked to provide information about yourself or your company including letterhead and other identification.

4. You may be asked to come see them in person in their country, or they may ask to come see you.

5. Very often, some strings will be pulled on your behalf such illegally getting you into the country that is your destination.

6. Once you are feeling good about the transaction and can taste the millions of dollars in your bank account, there is a sudden complication. 

You are told that the money is secure and ready to be transferred, but that in order to get it released, a government official needs to be bribed or a fee needs to be paid.

You are given a last-minute request to advance thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to get rid of the unexpected glitch. 

Or, in the worst cases, you may actually be trapped in a foreign country and will have to pay your way out. 

The amount of money the scammers ask for is based on how much they've learned about your assets.

If they think they can get hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, that's how much they'll ask for. If they know you can pay only a few thousand dollars, that's how much they'll ask for.

7. Then, bye-bye. You never see your money or those scammers again.

Something to take note is the scams will admit that the money is stolen or the result of criminal activity such as overcharging companies who did business with the country. 

That means that anyone who wants to get involved in the scheme has already agreed to participate in something that is "under the table". 

That cuts down on the number of them who complain to authorities after it's all over. There are many wealthy individuals who would rather endure the loss of the money than to admit that they got scammed while participating in something slippery.

Examples of some of the advance fee scam messages:-

Many of the emails will claim to be from the son, daughter, sibling, or wife of a former leader of an African country who was either kicked out of office or killed by his enemies. The family members have either been able to rescue the family fortune or have been able to put the funds into something like a European bank account or a safe deposit box. 

Some of them claim to be from the widow of a leader who escaped his enemies, but then died of cancer in another country. 

Others claim the government official died in the Word Trade Center on September 11, 2002 in New York.

*The bankers who wants to make you rich

These emails are supposedly from a bank official in an African country. 

He says he's aware of millions of dollars languishing in an old account left behind by a foreigner, typically an American or European, who died without heirs, usually in a plane crash. 

The bank official can arrange for you to be named as the next-of-kin and inherit the money.

  

*Government officials who are in a position to transfer funds

..Petroleum officials-A man who is in charge of petroleum for a country has padded his construction budget. He wants to make it appear as though you are a contractor receiving money.

...Various other government officials-Either propose a scam that makes you look like you are receiving legitimate payments from the government or are simply stealing money that they want to run through your account. They include utility officials.

...Officials in charge of clean-up of an oil spill-They admit overestimating the cost of cleaning the oil spill so they've got funds to invoice a phony company if you want to be it.

*The son or daughter of a wealthy businessman needs your help 

...Children of some gold or cocoa merchant says their father was secretly hiding a large sum of money. The father's enemies poisoned him to get the money and now the son or daughter is afraid of being killed. He or she knows where millions of dollars are hidden. He or she wants you to run the money through your bank for them.

*A banker or lawyer says he has millions of dollars of an inheritance that needs to be claimed and that he can arrange to have you named as the heir, transfer the money, and let you keep part of it for your trouble. 

*Phony lotteries and other winnings

...South Africa-You're the winner of the country's annual lottery.

...The Euro-Afro-Asian Sweepstake Lottery-Claiming to be from Amsterdam

...Notification of winnings of lotteries in the Netherlands

The lists goes on..... So hey, be careful!!!

Lobak Merah, Kopi atau Telur? Yang manakah sifat anda...

Jamil datang ke rumah Ustaz Ibrahim menceritakan bagaimana hidupnya diuji dengan penuh kesusahan. Jamil berkata beliau tidak mampu menghadapinya lagi dan ingin berputus asa. Jamil memberitahu Ustaz Ibrahim beliau teramat letih untuk meneruskan perjuangan dan berlawan… setelah satu masalah selesai, satu masalah baru pula timbul.

Ustaz Ibrahim hanya mendengar dan tidak berkata apa-apa. Beliau menyuruh Jamil mengikutnya ke dapur.

Jamil pun mengikut tanya bertanya. Ustaz Ibrahim mengisi air di dalam tiga periuk kecil dan mendidih ketiga-tiganya serentak.

Semasa air mendidih, Ustaz Ibrahim memasukkan lobak merah ke periuk pertama, telur ke periuk kedua dan biji kopi ke periuk ketiga.

Jamil bertanya, “Apa yang ustaz buat? Nak masak apa tu?”

Ustaz Ibrahim tidak berkata apa-apa dan membiarkan air mendidih selama 20 minit. Setelah 20 minit, Ustaz Ibrahim mengeluarkan lobak merah, telur dan biji kopi ke dalam sebuah mangkuk.

“Jamil, apa yang kamu nampak?”

“Lobak merah, telur dan kopi,” jawab Jamil.

Ustaz Ibrahim menyuruh Jamil untuk menyentuh lobak merah tersebut. Jamil terasa lembut.

Kemudian Ustaz Ibrahim menyuruh Jamil untuk memecahkan telur tersebut. Selepas mengupas kulitnya, Jamil dapat satu telur masak penuh.

Kemudian, Ustaz Jamil menyuruh Jamil mencuba air kopi di periuk ketiga. Jamil berasa rasanya penuh aroma kopi.

“Ustaz, apa maksud semua ini?” Jamil bertanya.

“Setiap benda ini (lobak merah, telur dan biji kopi) telah melalui kesusahan yang sama, iaitu air mendidih. Tapi setiap satunya memberikan reaksi berlainan.

Lobak merah masuk dalam keadaan keras, kuat dan kasar. Akan tetapi setelah melalui ujian air mendidih ia keluar lembik dan lemah.

Telur masuk dalam keadaan rapuh dan mudah pecah. Dalam cecair yang hanya dilindungi satu kulit yang nipis… akan tetapi setelah melalui ujian air didih, ia bertukar menjadi keras.

Bagi biji kopi pula… ini lebih menarik. Semasa mereka dalam air mendidih, mereka menukar seluruh air mendidih kepada air kopi yang wangi aroma seperti yang diminum Jamil tadi,
” terang Ustaz Ibrahim sambil tersenyum.

Mata Jamil seolah-olah terpukau dengan penjelasan Ustaz Ibrahim.

“Jadi, Jamil adalah yang mana satu? Bila kesusahan melanda, bagaimana Jamil menghadapinya? Lobak merah, telur ataupun biji kopi?” tanya Ustaz Ibrahim kepada Jamil yang tersentak dengan persoalan itu.

Wahai saudaraku,
Semasa ujian Allah datang mengetuk pintu kamu, bagaimana engkau harus menghadapinya?

Adakah kamu seperti lobak merah yang nampak kuat, tapi dengan sedikit ujian dan kesusahan, kamu bertukar menjadi lembik dan hilang segala kekuatan?

Ataupun kamu seperti telur dengan hati yang bagaikan cecair yang mudah dipengaruhi haba dan setelah melalui musibah, luaran kamu nampak tidak berubah, akan tetapi hati kamu dah bertukar menjadi keras, tidak gembira dan tidak beransur.

Ataupun kamu ialah biji kopi, semakin didih, kamu mampu mengubah keadaan situasi kamu sehingga keadaan itu mengeluarkan bau aroma yang menakjubkan.

Jadi siapakah kamu, wahai saudaraku?

Ingat, Allah tidak akan menguji seseorang melebihi kemampuannya. Apabila menghadapi kesusahan, ingatlah Allah sedang menguji kamu, dan aku berharap kamu bertindak seperti biji kopi, bertambah baik dan mengubah keadaan sekeliling kepada situasi positif.

Waktu yang paling sukar adalah masa terbaik untuk meningkatkan diri ke tahap yang lain.

Stop the blame game and support Malaysia

It's high time to stop the blame game and support our country.

In every incident in life, it is so easy to blame someone else or something else, but enough is enough.

Some of us so called Malaysians are embarrassing the hell out of other Malaysians but condemning ourselves and so on.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the Curve

Every school break, some malls will have school break promotions and such for children.

The Curve had the Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Unlike the original cartoon, the turtles have been revamped and now look cooler and cuter then ever.

Arts and craft for Anne

My little girl loves to join in arts and crafts activities at the mall.
Today she got the chance to join in the Fruit Ninja make your own bookmark workshop held at the eCurve.
She had some fun creating it with coloured papers and also glitters and crystal stickers provided by the organisers.