Thursday nights are happy nights but last night was one hell of a happy Thursday night! Hehe!

In late September, we got the news that our money in Paypal can now be transferred to Visa Debit Card. I can’t say it was like seeing a light at the end of the tunnel because our financial tunnel is honestly have always been brightly lighted like SMART Tunnel. So it is fair that I say the news was to me like seeing the light at Louis Vuitton boutique at the end of the dark Starhill corridor. If you know what I mean.

So following the good news, we decided to go for Al-Rajhi Bank Malaysia for the Visa Debit Card and very soon after we found ourselves floating like angels to Al-Rajhi Bandar Puteri to get one. And we must give credit to the bank’s excellent service, from the resourceful Pak Guard to the helpful Bank Manager; we got the debit card right there and then.

Though we itched and itched to transfer some money from our Paypal right away, we remained patient and waited until other Malaysians have proven successful in obtaining their Paypal money this way. But the wait was so excruciating, on the 28th of October (Sunday), Azman gatai pungkoq shrugged and what the heck, he transferred USD105.00 to Al-Rajhi. That’s USD5.00 for the fee Paypal required and USD100.00 for testing the water.

So the second phase of waiting began. I personally thought that the transfer would be successful by earliest Monday 5 Nov and Azman thought it will be much later than that. But praise Allah SWT yesterday 1 November 2007 RM328.28 was already credited into the Al-Rajhi account! That’s mere 4 days in processing! We were really happy! Even though the exchange rate is low ( 3.2828) but the foreign exchange rate Ringgit Malaysia (RM) to 1 US Dollar has dropped to 3.30 recently so how can we blame the bank? Besides the amount Al-Rajhi charged us was only RM1.00! Yea!

We were really pleased with this withdrawal success. It’s not the RM328.28 that we were celebrating but the convenience of withdrawing our money this way. Being typical sucker for celebrations, we went out for a nice dinner last night and of course our steaks were paid with Al-Rajhi debit card.

Thank you Al-Rajhi!

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In the morning when I was driving to the office the “ON” button of the car’s CD player was playing dumb to my finger’s command to start playing music. Was my two and a half year old metallic red car finally tired of my constant demand for a spin of Mawi Timbaland’s CD while transporting my butt all over the city? But how could I drive with the radio broken? What do you expect my left hand do if it can’t flip through radio channels while I drive? Hold on to the steering wheel? Puhleeez…

So after thinking really hard I pulled over at the road side. Turn off my car engine and then turn it back on. I pressed the button and once again I was served with the barbaric terrific melody from my favourite tune- Chaiya Chaiya Give it to Me! Hooray!

Later that evening at home, it was Azman’s beloved big screen HDTV’s turn to drive me up the wall. When I tried to switch it on, just like the usual I could hear the sound but now there was no picture. After 10 seconds, even the sound went off and the TV turned into stand by mode. Same frustrating thing happened again and again as I tried to get the TV on in time for my favorite show at 11. Dammit!

At last Azman came to aid, insisted that I must have hurt the television’s feeling hence the machine’s weird behavior. He tried my method with the remote too but failed. Then he pulled the TV off the power supply and then fed it with electricity again. He did this while cajoling the TV to listen to Mum and Dad. Yes, the TV is our first child, the one in my tummy is Abang Ngah. And so the TV cooperated nicely and I got to watch Spongebob at last.

Just what is wrong with the machines in our lives lately? I understand Bill Gate’s cheapos need to be rebooted every 15 minutes in order to function. But my car’s CD player and TV too? Sigh…. Machines Microsoftization need to be curbed immediately.

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Sensible Mum : As soon as we got to know that I was having a baby, my husband and I have done a lot of thinking and immediately prepare for the baby’s future …. We wanted everything to be convenient for her from the day she is born until she is all grown up…

Geeky Mum : Yeah, same here with Azman and I! In fact, the day our baby is born, we will register ******azman.com just for him! Just imagine the horror someday when he wants to develop his own website and someone else has taken that unique domain name?! Oh! What kind of parents are we if we can’t even get THAT pre-planned for our child?!

Sensible Mum : Actually the preparation I was talking about is college fund….

Geeky Mum : Aah..right…..

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