How hard is it to withdraw RM10?

A simple answer would be easy and a shorter version would be ez. All you have to do is que to the atm machine, punch some number and there you are, RM10 deducted from your savings account. For those not in favour of the ATM machine, fill up form, take your que number and walk up to the counter and there you are, a RM10 bill.

I have a Bank Bumiputra savings account since in 1996. The Bank was later transformed to Bumiputra Commerce Bank and finally to CIMB Bank. I was Given a Juwara card and then later to the ugly coloured BCB ATM card. When the bank was transformed to CIMB Bank, they say the customers could continue using their old card.

Since started working in 2001, the tiger head bank was my primary account that i used and therefore the balance i had in BCB was made as some sort of backup in case there were any emergency. Since there was no emergency and the lack on Internet Banking at BCB, i just kept the card in my wallet as a backup if i needed some extra money. Unfortunately, no such situation ever occured. As far as i know, i still had a few ringgit in there.

Came one day when i was curios about my account, i used the ATM facility machine. I tried to withdraw a RM10 but it said that the account is not active. Ok, fair enough. I tried to deposit some money via the CDM machine. Unfortunately, it said that the card is inactive and please see the bank.

Right after Friday prayers today, i went to CIMB branch at Masjid India. The teller updated my book and according to her, i must withdraw some money to get the account active again. So i filled up a form and started queing up again. By the time my turn came, the teller was looking rather curiously at my savings account book. He went to see his supervisor (i think) and he told me that he couldn't see my sample signature at the book. What the hell? It's not my problem. All i had to do was sign that damn thing and the bank staff would laminate it. How the hell should i know whether could i see it or not under the UV light. The person that did that should have some sort of QC control. So the supervisor then told me that it's better for me to go up to the CIMB at Dayabumi where i first opened my account. The other way was that i would have to wait 1 or 2 hours time to get a signature specimen from Dayabumi branch. What the hell? 1 or 2 hours time just to confirm that I am Me. I gave up hope and left.

On my way back to the office feeling unsatisfied, i then went to the CIMB Jalan Tun Perak. This time the que was a little bit longer. When it's finally my turn, the same process went on again. The staff said it's easier for me to walkup to Dayabumi. Hold on, i don't have all day to go to Dayabumi just to confirm that I am Me. Easier said then done.

I then asked them whether could they request the specimen now and i will come by next monday. She then said, tunggu "Isnin lah" ( Wait till monday then ). I questioned them why couldn't you just request for the specimen now rather then wait till monday. If i walk up on monday i will have to wait again and again just to get that stupid specimen and they themselves will have to request it anyway. It's just a phonecall and a fax away. After arguing then finally she agreed to it but they will require my biometric finger print and keep my banking book. Well fine, it's not that i could do anything with it anyway. After all the comotion i finally walked out and said thank you. I will comeby again by next monday.

What did I gain after all this.

1- Anger

2 - Tired and pain

What didn't I gain

1 - My RM10

2 - My account reactivated

3 - Confirmation of I am Me.

What do i have to do again

1 - Come by to the Bank again to get my RM10

2 - Take back my banking book + activation of account status.

What did i learn.

According to one of the banker, if i deposited money through the counter, my account status will still be inactive. Therefore to keep your account from being inactive, you have to withdraw money. Hmmm, quite weird don't you think so. It reminds me that i have not withdrawn any money from my ASB since a few years but continue to deposit money. Wonder whether my ASB itself is inactive because i did withdraw any money.

So conclusion, withdraw money to get your account activated. Depositing in money doesn't count. Banks, please have a better QC when asking for signature specimen.

ps: should have just put in RM1 to withdraw in the withdrawal form. That would really brighten up the day.

Congratulations Nizar

I was at APSH waiting for wifey's turn to be called to be checked up by the doctor. Then suddenly a familiar face went in to the clinic. It was Nizar, my friend and neighbour since primary school. Seems that his wife's waterbag already broke and i guess it was almost time to deliver. Wow what a day for the good old doctor. After the doctor checked his wife out, i guess they had to go straight to the delivery room.

I received a text message saying that his wife has safely delivered their second baby with a whooping 3.12kg in weight and 55cm in length at 8.30pm on 26 Nov 2008. Hmm, much bigger than Sofea.

Anyway, Alhamdulillah that everything went well. Congratulations again to Nizar and Sharmila for being blessed with their second child.

Putrajaya Waterski World Cup 2008

We were over at Presint 6 Putrajaya last Saturday for the said event. It seems that wifey’s company was some sort of involved in ammending one of the booth. So once again Sofea and me have been forced to go the said event. We reached there around 10 am heading up there via the KL – Putrajaya highway. It’s my first time there. The road were very wide and there were not many vehicles on the road. Only setback is the toll is quite pricey. It’s a RM4 for one way.

Upon reaching there, the sun was way on our head. Luckily the booth had fans running that in a way helped us to cool down. Wifey’s booth was responsible for handling games. One of the being the famous buzzer sound if you touch the track, the one you could see Mr Bean playing.

As wifey was busy manning the booth, I took the opportunity to see a few stunts from the water-skiers. Hmm, they are really good. I’ve never seen an event like this before. All the participants were from overseas. While I was into watching the game, little Sofea was also busy exploring the palladium seats. Luckily it was not full house so there was quite a number of place where she could explore. The hot sun and heat did not slow her down

Right in front of the booth was a small man made beach complete together with the sands. As we did not know they were such a thing, wifey made the move by putting Sofea into the “sea”. At first it was just a little “water tasting” but hey, who could resist water. Finally she was stripped down except for her diapers. Oh well, as long as she’s happy and doesn’t get sick, I’m okay with it.

After her “gedebushh”, she was rather feeling sleepy and finally fell asleep on my shoulder. That gave us an excuse to go back a little earlier than scheduled. It already 3.30pm by then. So we headed back home after that.

I never knew there were such place in Putrajaya. The facilities and landscaped there was rather excellent as well as their cleanliness. There were also a public pool there where they charge you RM2 for 2 hours. Not bad eh. For that, I respect the architecture of Putrajaya. You rock!!!

The event management that managed the game booth ( including the clown )can be contacted at:

Desantris Maya Sdn Bhd

8-1, Avenue 1, Avenue Ampang,

68000 Ampang

Selangor Darul Ehsan

Phone : +60342925001

Fax : +60342925002

Raya is Over?

What?? It’s over?? But I haven’t even started yet. *lol*. Dammit, missed the deadline. Well there you go, time really flies this time aroung. Don’t know why, but really it is moving way faster than it should.

Well since it’s a stale story, I guess it’ll just be better to let the picture do the talking. Overall, last Raya was okay though the fever really had me fighting there. Finally it went away on the fourth day and luckily it was no dengue fever.

Thank you seems to be the hardest word ?

I was searched by one of my bosses early in the morning according to one of my colleague. Not even before i have arrived to work yet. As his room can see clearly who walks in and out of the office, i was called upon even before i had the chance to put my backpack on my workstation yet. It seems he has a problem with his computer. I've checked it out and it seems his processor was runnig at 100% and the memory usage keeps on increasing even though there were no programs running. He said that he needed the laptop to be ready before afternoon.

So okay then. Being a guy who likes to help out others, i stayed on figuring what could be the problem as it was not detected by the Anti Virus. According to a friend of mine, that laptop was recently fixed by the IT department. He said the IT department said the problem was because of the battery. Wait a minute ? Come again.

Now i've heard some stories but this isn't one of them. I know that if a laptop runs on battery the performance is somehow lower. But changing a battery because the CPU is utilised at 100%?? Where did the dude graduated from?

After carefully analysing, i finally found a process that was running within windows and utilising the memory like nobody's business. After researching it through Google, i finally found the cause. The culprint process was winmgmt.exe. Not to be confused with WinMgmt. Yup, the capital letters.

So after spending so much time, i decided to go commando to the registry editor deleting every single registry that had connection with the culprit. Copied and restored the original WinMgmt exe and dll file, the CPU was running at correct resources again. By then, the boss was still out of his room in a meeting so i left the laptop there.

Before going back home later that evening, i went back to the office again and asking him whether his laptop is okay? He said no and it still had problem. WTF? i went straightly to the computer and checking the memory and cpu usage right in front of him. And then he said, oh it's ok. That was it.

That was it? What ever happened to a simple thank you. I waisted half a day doing something that a whole department couldn't do and not even a simple thank you. Yeah thanks a lot dude. Be sure to look for me again when the lights, thumbrive or radio is not functioning well. Oh by the way, this was not part of my jobscope. I'm hurt.

Moral of the story:
1 - where's my thank you
2 - 100% cpu and memory utilisation is not caused by a problematic laptop battery.