Flasher

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Stupid Traffic Summons Check by 32244

I've just received a sms service from 32244 and the contents are as below

" FOC: Semak saman Trafik anda dgm SMS. Cepat sebelum terlambat. Taipkan SM dan sms ke 32244. Contoh SM 780101028888. Caj RM2 setiap msg terima"

English translation
FOC: Check your traffic summonses with SMS. Quick before its too late. Key in SM and send to 32244. Example SM 780101028888. A fee of RM2 will be charged for every message received.

Hmm... isn't there some sort of mistake? FOC checking of summonses but you have to pay?!?
I'm having a fun time receiving these spam SMS...

Hope this will enlighten your day as it did mine...

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Hassle to register into Chinese Primary School

I've heard that applications into a chinese school is a hassle but this year takes the cake. Recently my aunt tried to enroll her daughter into a nearby chinese school. She prepared a photocopy of both her's and the father's MyKad and also other relevant (that she thinks is necessary) document together with her. She queued up early morning together with the other hopeful parents, filling in forms and other pre-requisite for the enrollment. Little that she knows, trouble is about to strike when submitting the documents to the clerk.

The clerk made a fuss about different registered address for both father and child. That's not a real problem right? I'm sure some of us are having our hometown mailing address or some place if we're not locals or have recently shifted... My aunt has brought the required utility bills as proof of residence but is rejected by the clerk, on terms that there's a lot of fraud case, and that the bill is not the same name as my uncle. WTF??? If the residence that we're staying in is a family house, and those bills doesn't have our name, does that mean that we do not live there? The clerk has the nerves to ask my aunt to do the necessary changed to either of the utility bill to have the father's name put into it. What's the point of having MyKad when the details are not acceptable. My aunt asked around for alternative and was refered to the assistant principle.

There she submit the application to the vice principle and was inform of the same problem and that its a guideline given by the government. My aunt tried to reason with the vice principle and luckily it was understood. "Yes you're right about the condition" said the vice principle(VP). VP then asked to produce the birthcert to show that the name on the utility bill and my uncle was related. WTF??? What if the house was rented? Then parent's couldn't enroll thier child?
Again my aunt debated, and again the VP accepted that.

VP then asked for a letter from the listed name prooving that they stay there, together with the IC. Triple WTF!!!! If its a rented or the owner is overseas, how to get hold of them? Again debated and accepted but this is not the case for my aunt as she returned in the afternoon with the letter, IC, and also the PERSON himself to register. Luckily the ordeal is over having the application form submitted but she hear that there'll be another round of registration at the end of the year to confirm the placement.

After the whole ordeal, she was approached another parent who was there to pick up her child. She suggested some 'methods' that she used to enroll her child as she also had face the same problem. She said that in future, if you have these problems you can opt to do a donation to the school's funds and rest assured that your application WILL be guaranteed!