Getting My Car Fixed at Fasfik

A new car service station chain is popping up in the Klang Valley. The name of the car service station is Fasfik. I first got to know them after passing by their branch on my way to my office. They also sent flyers to my house and they advertise on a local radio. As always, being a person who always want to try out promotions and bargain plus I just got my first salary for my new employment, I went around town and found out that the nearest Fasfik service station branch is at Kepong.



After asking the personnel and bargaining the price for a full set of tyres for my car, I managed to secure a standard Dunlop SP 490 TL 175/60/R13 tyre for RM104 a piece which include a free balancing and wheel alignment services. I then added a brake fluid change since they've offered a 50% discount on all services. My budget back then was below RM500. After agreeing on the price and services, I gave my car keys to the mechanics and hang around taking photos of my car being serviced:


My Stock Standard Proton Iswara Aeroback 1.3L

The Car Service Job Begins
My Proton Iswara Aeroback floating above the ground..

The Mechanic sucking my old brake fluid out

The suction tank that stores bad oil

My New Dunlop 175/70/R13 Tyre Set

The Fasfik boys doing their jobs..

My car undergoing wheel alignment tuning

The wheel alignment pit

My invoice and a free wheel alignment and balancing service coupon

My total cost for the car service was RM465 and I paid cash. I think Fasfik gave me a really good price. I recommend them if you want a fast, good and cheap service for your car.

Although I once become a member of a car club, I don't think I am qualified to be a petrol head. I heard that a man's first wife is their car, that's not necessarily true. For me, a car is just a car. It's a mode of transportation. You'll know about how his car personality just by looking at his or her car or how much they spend on their car. Thanks to Fasfik mechanic (they spotted that my car is tilted on the driver's side), my next car service would be changing my shock absorber. That would require my car to undergo a wheel re-alignment. Lucky for me, they gave a transferable coupon for a free wheel alignment service. I'll definitely drop by their place again once I hunted down a pair of shock absorbers (again, a cheap and good one of course).

Unique Bedding: Enlightening Your Children Bedroom

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When I was younger, my bedding was dull and normal. All the sheets are plain, the only thing different was it had colours. Compared that to our parents or grandparent's time, they probably only have white bedding. Nowadays, we have constantly change the way we decorate our room, the way we dress and a lot more. No more do we have to make our children bed the same as what we had before. We can now have unique childrens bedding and spice up our children's bedroom. Check out the designs that I really like to have for my childrens bedding:




Besides bedding, the following is also personalized according to your liking:

• Throw Pillow
• Pillow Sham
• Lap Blanket
• Throw Blanket
• Bed Blanket
• Twin Duvet
• Twin Bedspread
• Queen Duvet
• Queen Bedspread
• King Duvet

If you have your own digital images, for instance you want to put your face on the bedding, the personalized custom bedding is available. All of the bedding products are made from high-quality material so you won't have to argue about the quality of your childrens bedding. Get your children bedding now!

Happy Birthday to Van Damme and Me

I'm not really a great fan of Jean Claude Van Damme but although his acting sometimes is rather cocky and wierd, I like his stunts plus his American is much more better than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I do wish I have a body like Van Damme since some say that my bone structure is well-built, however I am too lazy to work out. Old habit die hard. Oh well, Happy Birthday Van Damme! Happy Birthday to myself as well..hehe.. ;-D

The Working Day Before Hari Raya

Being a newbie in the company has it drawback. For instance, I don't have any holidays yet since I'm still under probation. I could apply for one but it'll affect my leave application in the future if I really need one. There are only 3 person in the company that doesn't apply for any leave, that would include myself of course.

What I really like when it's the holiday season especially Raya is the absence of other people. It is less crowded, it's not busy anymore and most of all, I have a lot of spaces. Too much I guess. Check out the Jalan Duta stretch which is normally jam-packed with cars during my morning drive to work and my office place:


Jalan Duta Stretch the day before Hari Raya 2007

No one is in my department?

A lot of my colleagues have already left town 2-3 days before today. If you are wondering why I'm still in town, I celebrate Hari Raya in Kuala Lumpur every year. My parents, my grandparents (except for my mother's family) are all living in KL. Simply saying, you can say that I am a native KL people. Still, I was born in Kedah and raised in Selangor, so can I confirmed myself of being a native KL? Anyway, I'm going back to work as usual on Tuesday. I hope next year would be different.

This year, I haven't sent any Hari Raya cards to anybody except for a few SMSes and E-cards. Well, I guess I was too occupied or is it just an excuse? Oh well, here's a card to all my muslim friends whoever you are reading this post.


"Selamat Hari Raya dan Maaf Zahir dan Batin (Eid Mubarak)"

Learning The ABCs of The New ERP: The Review

Since I am now involved in the enterprise solution industry, I find the last live webcast was quite informative. Basically, what I understand from the webcast is that organization needs Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to grow further ahead. Most of the presentation is geared towards software or implementation vendors that deliver ERP tools for the use of the buyers (my job role involves this as well). However, there are too many stuff that were way over my head which I have no idea yet. I might need some time to digest all the information I guess. Anyway, I've embedded the presentation slide on this blog post along with the recorded webcast if you are interested to learn about it.


View the recorded webcast for this presentation

Learning The ABCs of The New ERP

I'm waiting for the live webcast from ZDNet to start. It's 2am in the morning at the moment. Check out the webcast presentation window I'm staring at right now:



What is ERP? ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. Opss..My class is starting right now. I'll elaborate what I've learned when I finish this class. Got to concentrate on my class now. Bye..

Buka Puasa Feast at Marriott Putrajaya

Every year in the fasting month of Ramadan, I am lucky enough to have buka puasa (breaking of fast) at least once at some fancy hotel. Last year, I went to Equatorial Hotel organized by my father's company (a foreign company with a branch in KL). This year, joining an established company, apart of getting my first paycheck salary already banked into my account, I'm blessed with the opportunity to join a buka puasa feast at Marriott Putrajaya last Friday. As we all know, Marriott is a well known name in the hotel industry, it's actually a worldwide franchise having hotels and resorts all over the world. Marriott Putrajaya is owned by IOI Group and the cheapest room rate in Marriott Putrajaya is over RM500++. With that alone, the buka puasa feast cost RM95 per head. The grand total of the company treat came out to almost RM4000 for that night alone.

Check out the snapshot I've taken during my visit there:



I tried very hard to try out every dishes that they have but sadly, I failed. I almost vomited when I tried to shove some desert after taking up some lamb chop and some cheesecake. Furthermore, I almost upset my stomach by eating too much already. I wish I had bigger stomach..haha..

Check out the 7 Chefs, 7 Ramadan Kawah article here. I only tried 3 of the kawahs, I couldn't take more than that. I got home by midnight and went straight to bed with my full stomach.