Saman

These stupid papers are the legal way used by the government to collect money from you whenever they ran out of money.

From left to right: Saman from Petaling Jaya, Penang, Kajang, Ipoh, Kuantan, and Penang (again)

In order to kapit that piece of chee-bye paper on your car windscreen, the government will have to build less parking spaces and parking ticket machines in a very populated area. For example, there will be only 5 parking lots in an area with 5 billion shops and offices.

This piece of paper is called parking offence ticket, or saman (Malay).

Until today, I already got 6 samans in 6 different places all over Peninsular Malaysia, all for parking offences such as:

1. Didn't show my parking coupons, tickets or whatever it is on my car dashboard (Different places different payment system, how the hell am I suppose to know?!)

2. Park at a yellow-lined roadside (Because there were not enough parking spaces available)

3. Park beside a road junction (Dangerous, I know, but imagine youself finding a parking space for more than 1 hour in a busy town, I'll say you have a very good patience if you keep finding)

4. Didn't pay for my parking fee (I got no coins ma...)

See... I have good reasons for all my offences. I don't understand why the enforcement bodies keep penalizing us normal citizens for minor offences whereas there are so many robbers, snatch thiefs, rapists, car thiefs or cold-blooded killers out there who live happily ever after?

Among all the samans that I got, the one from the Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya remains the most chee-bye saman.

Behold... on the left is the longest saman in Malaysia, don't play play

First of all, it was the longest saman I've ever got, I don't know why they wanted to print such long saman with all the contents of a law book printed on it. Stupid act number 1.

I got that saman because I parked at a yellow-lined roadside. Ok I admit that it's my fault because this may cause foerign investors to have bad impression on Malaysia thus causing a major economic downturn, but isn't it a bit too much to ask for RM100 for a parking offence? I can watch 10 movies at the cinema with that amount of money you know?! Stupid act number 2.

And one more thing, I think the people from the Majlis Bandaraya PJ who saman me must be stupid or he was sleeping while working, because he keyed in my car colour as unknown (tidak jelas). WTF?! Stupidest act ever.

Even a three years old can tell that my car is brown colour ok...

They should hire a smarter people next time.

Zoo Negara Malaysia

On one weekend I got so bored so I decided to go to the Zoo Negara (National Zoo) to check it out.

It's been more than 10 years since my last visit to the Zoo Negara, I still remember my last visit to Zoo Negara was with... erm... the standard six graduation trip? kua...


The zoo is managed by a non-governmental organization which is fully funded by only gate receipts and sponsors, so it didn't change much since decades ago, imagine how much food the animals needed, maintenance fees, workers salaries and macam-macam costs, they've already done a good job maintaining it until today and still managed to breed some endangered animals and add in some new animals.

So here are some of the pictures that i took in the zoo. I am not a zoologist so I don't know the exact names of some animals.

Fish


A penguin house with a few penguins inside


Hippopotamuses


Tupai Pahang that I saw at Tasik Chini


KFC


Pony


Giraffes


Big birds


Elephant


Hornbill


A deer trying to get food from me


Real lions


Fake lions


Some multiple shots of the tigers showing off their swimming skills


Buffalo


Damn big guinea pigs

See, my biology isn't that bad right, at least I managed to recognize all the animals.

The zoo also has free animal shows for to the visitors, but the shows are basically the same many years back. Parrots tricks, sea lions jumping here and there... How I wish that I can see Penguins flying a plane, just like in the movie Madagascar 2, that'll be fun.

Nonetheless, the show was still a hit among the visitors with the mini stadium fully packed.

Sorry for the blurry photos, I was late for the show because I got lost in the zoo and had to settle for a seat way behind the mini stadium.

Some other Tioman photos

Here are some of the other Tioman photos to share with you all:

My hotel at night

The good food at Tioman

The Berjaya Tioman Resort, I didn't stay there, too expensive for me.

At day:

The golf course

At night:

And my favourites, the sunset view of Tioman: