From Last Year

It looks like this year, the #AnakAnakMalaysia campaign was gaining traction. It had been for a number of years, and I still got the band from last year.

Merdeka was only a couple of days away. Guess it was a good time to wear them again!

Happy Merdeka Day. But first, I would be on call today …. please be kind!

Sunday at Maju Junction

We planned to have a look at MARA Digital last Sunday lunchtime and were deciding on where to park. Traffic was light though but sometimes you might get trapped in long queues. We do not mind a bit of walking.

In the end, we parked at the basement of Maju Junction and as we walked up, we noticed a nice cosy eating area run by Parkson. A nice surprise indeed as the place appeared to be well maintained and the food were reasonable. Not crowded at all for a Sunday Afternoon. Easy decision.

I had some nasi ayam"Real Food, Real People"Everything was nice and cleanMaking our way across to MARA DigitalI had some nasi ayam and Anita had some noodles. Next came the walk to the next block to Medan MARA where MARA Digital was located. We would definitely park here again. Access in and out of the car park was also quite straight forward ….

Saturday Afternoon

After a lighter than usual Saturday Morning clinic, I had a free afternoon. Decided to have a day out at KLCC with Anita with the boys staying in and Idlan occupied with the coming UPSR - although I had hardly seen him do any kind of work!

The weather was rather overcast but the rain earlier in the day helped with the air quality. It was starting to haze again …

We had some tea - unfortunately they ran out of tomato juice, so no Virgin Mary for Anita - at KLCC before going to do a bit of shopping. I ended up going back to Bangsar later having a haircut. A nice relaxing afternoon while gearing up for the return of football a bit later in the day. Unfortunately I had yet to get my Manchester United new shirt. They kept being sold out!

It was always good to have a Saturday afternoon off. It would be conferences and meeting in scheduled in the coming few weeks …

Speedy Gonzalez

Finally the day came for the installation to be made. I was offered a new Internet connection to our apartment a couple of weeks back and I didn't think twice. A new 500 Mbs Internet cable were being installed and I was the first few to sign up.

The installation was quick. And at the end of the work, we got a top speed of 420 Mbs up and down. Unfortunately the internal cables couldn't cope with the speed, but I won't go around complaining. That sort of speed were something most people could only dream of.

I managed to download my Mac OS update in 39 seconds. The size of the update file? Just over 2 Gb. I was sure that the speed would hover around 250 Mbs as I got more devices connected to the network. But that would be more than enough for Netflix. In 4K.

The Olympic Fever

At the rate we were going, the Rio 2016 Olympics was bound to be Malaysia's most successful yet. We had a silver and a couple of bronze in the bag. And we were still in contention for a couple more goals at least.

But the sad thing was the bickering back home about the support our athletes got on the way to Rio, or the lack of it. Some of the athlete had been vocal about the matter while in others, the lack of support was apparent.

To add to that, was the complaint the public had about the monetary packages awaiting the medal winners when they returned. Some had even been politicised. I guess when the economy was in dire straits, everybody were complaining. While sports was supposed to unite.

It should be fun to see when the dust settled. The politicians would claim that they had a stake in each of the winners effort. Why can't we just let our athletes compete and we support them before they win, rather than bask in their glory after? In that sense, at the back of our most successful Olympic effort, we were not moving forward at all...