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14/01/2010

Be Prepared for Road Accidents/Breakdown

I've described about the road accident I encountered last year in my previous posting here and here. I would like to go back further into my memory lane on why I started taking towing services.

When I was still using a Kelisa back in 2006, some mishap happened to my car. The rear tire rod broke causing the car to sway excessively even at 30km/h. I had to sent the car to the workshop for repairs since I can't even go more than 30km/h. At that time, I was staying in Bandar Seri Permaisuri, Cheras. I wanted to tow my car to Perodua Service Centre in Keramat where I use to send my car for periodic service. It is about 20km away.

I thought I was lucky since I took up a motor insurance coverage which stated that they offered FREE towing service to the customers. So I called the insurance company to request for the towing service. To my surprise and disappointment, the operator told me that they don't actually offer that service. They can only guide and recommend on which tower to use. I have to pay for the towing service. The operator then called their panel tower and sent him to me.

Guess how much did it cost for the 20km towing service? RM120! RM110 after discount! Like it or not, I have to pay since I had no options. Later I found out that whatever towing services offered together with your motor insurance are just gimmick! They merely don't offer the service like in my case, or they only cover for a short distance. More than that, you have to fork out your own money.

Since then, I've never failed to take up towing services independently. I only pay RM70 per year for that service which includes personal accident coverage. And when I need it the most during that accident, the service came to my rescue. I always remind people around me to take up that kind of service but somehow many of them are reluctant. Perhaps when they need it the most, then only will they realize the importance of it. Be it Road Warrior or AAM, just take one and be prepared in case something wrong happens.

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22/04/2009

Child Prostitution in The Philippines

There are four hundred to five hundred thousand people being prostituted in the Philippines, most of which are women or young girls. But prostitution also affects children, both boys and girls, older males, and transvestites. A recent study showed that seventy-five thousand children are being prostituted in the Philippines. Children from ages eleven to fifteen reported that their relatives introduced them to prostitution. Filipino men are the main users of Filipinas in prostitution.

The Philippines ranks fourth in the world when it comes to child prostitution. Three thousand three hundred and sixty six more children are forced every year into prostitution. Prostitution is not a business, it is an industry in the Philippines.

SEX TOURISM CONTINUED.. Tourists mostly from Australia, the United States and Great Britain use these prostitutes. Like it or not, these tourists engage in sexual acts with mostly underage girls that work at bars or on streets.Thanx for reading..

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08/04/2009

…this thing called love

In light of the upcoming celebration of hearts, I would like to pay tribute to those who have been bitten by the love bug some time in their lives – that makes it everybody… Yes, even you out there who thinks you haven’t experienced the real thing before. You may rephrase it any way you want, it is still that extraordinary feeling that made you smile when everyone else thought there was nothing there to smile about. Yes, that’s it and no denial please.

I skyped my friends & colleagues about what they think of that four-letter word and guess what? I actually had fun asking. Anyway, most may be familiar to you from all those slam books you have answered way back in grade school, some may seem a little cornier than usual and some might even make your heads spin…but what the heck, it’s so powerful that people write about it, no matter how harebrained it came out sometimes…

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08/04/2009

Moon of My Red Meadows

I haven’t written anything for quite a long time. Not because there’s nothing happen in my life. Many people come in and go in my door step. Stories I have been through. The sad book, the joy adventure and lonely romantic journey. My body surrenders to the situation where I accepted that I can’t control everything. My mind tries to fight but in the end it just flows with the rhythm life has prepared for me.

People grief on the contrary, singing meadow of the night in the feeling of greatness. I told myself to never let go of that secure feeling I have since long ago. Not even when somebody trying to dig cracks in my wall of defense. He may get through me but never have me whole. I am belonging to my shadow and my shadow only. Everybody lies they said, everybody have their own secrets they said and I have mine too.

The world can break me like crystal on a hard concrete road in the middle of nowhere; I will never be found. God pick up my pieces as He picked up my shattered faith. It’s raining crucifix and angels now. They fall right between my eyes and show me the only truth the world ever known. They are inside me filling my emptiness with realism and ropes from the thread you made for me.

My days are fine like a sailor on a sunny day out far on the horizon of watery world. Seagulls lead me to my sanctuary. Wisdom words are my prayers, strength is my belief. Like the old wise king in his golden days. I’m calm like the water itself carries so many peacefulness inside it and all the drifting dreams it has. Creatures swimming inside my skin building castles of commiseration, deep underground.

Shame to myself who’s been letting my guard down and let myself in the maze of my own super-dramatic life line. I let myself drifted to the sound of my own amusement which leads to nothingness. In the result of my own disappointment I cried for help. Dripping melody of my sanctuary let’s dance to this tune of oddness that each of us has creates to satisfy our solitary lives.

But then I realize that this just had to stop. My mind is one and I’m the captain of this boat. I can’t keep jumping ship just to feed my ego and lust. I’m about to finish on this dramatizing every events and start to pull my head out from the dirt. Looking to the great big horizon where I see copies of myself lining up in an army of me. Ready to defend and replace me whenever I go start destroying myself on the folktales about ‘love’.

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