I believe many people including myself had decided to cancel some of our credit cards when the government announced that the credit card tax will be imposed starting early this year. The RM50 tax on each principle card and RM25 on supplementary card are going to bring huge tax income for the government but it becomes a burden for most of the card holders just like me as it going to cost me RM500 for nothing since I own about 10 credit cards from different banks. Out of these 10 cards only 2 of those cards are frequently swiped and I keep the rest of the cards simply because there are no annual fees imposed on them.

The bank officer did inform me that even though I submitted the cancellation form but the head office is very likely going to re-issue another card for me. Obviously he did not cheat me; I received another upgraded card with increased credit limit from them shortly after my cancellation. I was shocked and can’t believe it when I saw the credit limit. It is 7X of my previous limit and even exceeding my annual income.

May be they just simply push the credit limit to retain their customer but is it going to create another financial problem in the future? Pushing the financial limit is totally different from pushing the camera’s ISO. It is far too risky for me to push my credit to that limit.

Frankly speaking i am not a chocolate lover but i love to try different type of chocolate. Recently my aunt brought us a box of chocolate from England during her holiday back in Kuching. The chocolates look so delicious that i just can’t make up my mind which one to choose so I randomly picked a star-shape chocolate truffle out of the box and put into my mouth. To my surprise, it was a gingerbread chocolate troffle. I never thought that the strong gingerbread taste can merge with those sweet chocolate.

Life is just like a box of chocolate, you never know what you will get. :-)

Beginning of 2010, i was transferred to my new project site at Samarahan which we previously completed the phase 1 development about 3 years back.

Initially it sound like a good news for me as it only takes me 10 minutes drive from my house to the office. Anywhere, the problem arises as every morning i got to send my little boy to my parent’s house which take me about another 25 minutes drive too. The worst thing is that my house is located in between my parent’s house and my office which means i need to travel longer distance. As a consequence, i spend about 2 hours on the road daily just to travel in between them and the heavy traffic in the evening hours really exhausting my mind. May be 2 hours drive is nothing for somebody but it is really annoying for me to spend 2 hours on the road for that merely 60km drive.

The same junctions which were jammed few years back remain the same even though i saw many road widening works are in progress. Is that our traffic grow too fast? or our traffic management far lagging behind.

My last visit to KL last year saw lot of OldTown White Coffee outlets in town but unfortunately my trip was so short that i can’t drop by any of them just to have a cup of the famous OldTown white coffee. It was lately when OldTown White Coffee opened their first outlet in Sarawak then only i managed to have the chance to have a sip of the famous cafe.

Last Saturday, my wife and i decided to have our lunch at OldTown White Coffee in KIA while we were waiting for my parent’s flight from Brunei. Surprisingly there were not much customers there during the afternoon. Well, the white coffee really taste good till the last drop but frankly speaking the foods are below my expectation. The foods look much different from the photographic pictures shown in the menu and the taste also can’t match the authentic famous Ipoh Hor Fun and curry mee.

I miss the delicious Ipoh Hor Fun that i tried few years back when i dropped by Ipoh town with Yen Pei. May be i should plan a trip back to Ipoh town just to revisit those delicacies.

OldTown White Coffee outlet in KIA's arrival hall

The OldTown Ipoh Chicken Hor Fun for my wife

The OldTown Curry Mee, just can't match the taste of those curry mee that i used to have every week while i studied in KL.

The famous OldTown White Coffee that taste good till the last drop.