First Wok Day of the Year

Wok Day, yupe, I meant WOK day!

Suddenly all Vendors refuse to grant extension of time for completion of Sale and Purchase Agreement and Borrower rang up scolding why I didn’t follow up with the Bank for loan release... hey, I am not your “little pony” ey!

Worst still... there I was like “an ant on a hot wok” (thus the “wok day”)... yelling at the secretary who can still act cucumber… not affected at all!

First thing in the morning, I “demanded” her to finish advice drawdown because I want them out TODAY… she just “ya ya” at me…

Half day’s gone I don’t see any draft on my desk yet. I “Sabar” only… at till 4pm “beh tahan” liao, I asked her, any drawdown done yet? You want me to check for you after 5pm? She just reply’ “Ah, you check one first lar!” Aiyoh if you have done one edi, let me check lar need I ask you for it? Or she intended to finished all 9 drawdowns and then gave it all to me at one go? Goodness me!

People usually hates bosses that gave them work near close of office… well, I have a secretary who does that to me!

Sometimes I really wonder, who’s the boss?!

Lost and Found

I’ve forgotten when (one of those Christmas Eve Concert rehearsal) but one day I found out I only got my car remote key’s casing… the “ingredient” went to twilight zone. I have no idea how to lost it because managed to use it to open my car door and drove back from the church.

Then today, I happen to found the chip quietly sitting at a small slot between driver’s seat and the car door… and sure enough the battery is also found not far from that spot… Lost and Found at last!

Lucky New Year 2011 :)

Vet Ordeal

Noticed Little Dan started to cough
I panicked because I worry it could be heart worm infection…
After losing Boyboy to that dreadful decease… I am not taking any risk
Next day brought Little Dan to the vet!

The vet didn’t even examine Little Dan, merely asked me what’s wrong, no blood test, no physical exam, not stethoscope… in fact she didn’t even touched Little Dan!!!

She just saw two words written on Little Dan’s medical card “anjing garang” (fierce dog) and decides she is not taking any risk! |||

I can’t help thinking in my mind: If you can’t love a dog… and willing to risk your “safety” trying to cure them, why become a vet?

I told her Little Dan started to cough like vomiting… the vet straight away says, “oh that’s kernal cough”… but from what I learn from the internet, when a dog coughs, it could be due to many reasons… and the vet should at least examine and listen to the dog’s lungs!

And because Little Dan is an “anjing garang” they have to trapped him between the door and the grill to gave him the injections… I hate to see Little Dan went through that ordeal… he freaked out and was crying… lucky the ordeal went over very fast but still made Little Dan shakey… just look at him after the injections, hiding below the chairs and poke him head between my mom’s legs for little security!
 

I have decided not to go to this vet anymore if I could choose not to!

My Ipod Touch

Yippie… finally got my ipod touch!

Ipod Touch 4g

Ordered this new toy today… can’t wait!

It will be my own Christmas Present to myself, purchased in faith of the “unseen” bonus I hope I am getting this month… (I’d better get one… )

Yamaha Music Concert 2010

When I was told the concert will be held at Sabah Trade Centre…
I went… duh! How to have a concert at an exhibition hall? I never knew there’s actually a mini theatre there! Here it is… I made a rough calculation (54 seats x 14 rows) of the hall capacity at over 750… that’s not bad! (We could have had our Church Christmas Concert here! Instead of using the parish hall which is not air conditioned and an acoustic failure!)

My performance is at the very end of the concert… an ensemble of music playing the Scars of Time (opening theme of the game Chrono Crusade)

And that’s me in the middle… playing the flute

The concert is finally over… now is the time to fully concentrate on the Church Christmas Concert... so busy!

Transfer by way of Love and Affection

I cannot agree to the ARR “panel”’s answer to Q13 (on the handout given to us on 20.11.10 “die-lock”)!

1^st Schedule is based on “consideration or amount secured”, not on “value” of property.

So even if we were to apply 1^st Schedule to a MoT (by love and affection) transaction, the fees chargeable will be 0 x whatever % applicable in accordance to the 1^st Schedule Fee (which correct me if I’m wrong, in accordance with Rule 2 under 1^st Schedule ie 75% of the full scale).

However, there is a minimum scale charge of RM500 provided under the same Schedule.

As such I would take it that for love and affection transaction, there should be a standard minimal charge of RM500.

I do not consider conveyance on love and affection not worth of fees, but it is in fact a simple transaction. Work only involves preparing the MoT form, adjudication at SDO and registration at CLO.

In my practice experience, MoT by love and affection transactions are mostly genuine father and son or between spouse transactions, even the government allows them special exemption (parents to issue 50%, between spouse is 0%). I don’t see why we need to charge full scale based on “property value” on such transactions. To me, this kind of transaction even if we could only charge RM500 is a way back to the society as well (we are already getting so much charging full scales for SPA transactions and Loan transactions).

Most of them are local folks who only has one property their entire life and they just want to transfer that particular land or house to their children before they die. When I tell them they have to pay so much legal fees, they would ask for an alternative, and that would be a Will… but advise them it would be way more expensive when it comes to estate matter (where Schedule 9 applies). After hearing that, they would leave miserably… thinking why can’t they even “afford” to leave their property to their children.

And if the client is of rich family with a lot of properties, then charge each and every MoT (love and affection) transaction at RM500 separately (we would still earn enough, well maybe cannot go Europe tour but I’m fine with a trip to Hong Kong).

I don’t give a single cent discount to any other situation where ARR is applicable.

I just don’t think there is “consideration” involved in a love and affection transaction.
And I don’t consider charging RM500 for such transaction as being giving discount!