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On the 9/11/2010 Joerg was involved in an accident at Enstek, Sepang, near his working place. Fortunately nothing happened to him or the driver of the other car! Our poor 4wheel Toyota has lost one of its 'eyes' and the bumper and side were badly dented! Look at the other driver pointing his fingers at Joerg and look at his proton!



Now we still have to claim his insurance but the bad news is that they will replace with 2nd hand parts as the 4wheel is considered 'old'! The car is at the workshop and we don't know how long it will be 'hospitalised'!




Then we went to collect the BMW which was also costing us a lot of RM since we bought it! Every weekend it is also landing at the workshop! The last complain was the brake pump which was rather dangerous said Mr Chin the mechanic! Let's keep our fingers crossed that there will be no more surprises!
So, we will take a look at the weekly progress of our fence in Mersing....

Our life in Johor Bahru and Mersing........

The 1st week of November is gone and we have another time of teenage rebellion with Dominik. On Thursday, his friend Till was supposed to come home with him but he was not given permission by his parents. So Niki decided to go to his friend, Jannis' place without any prearrangement with me. At 6pm he was still not home but sent me an sms to say that he wanted to stay overnight at Jannis. If I don't like it then he can stay overnight at Till! Then he sms me to say that he was on his way to Till's home. (After Vati's call with Till's mum we realised that he had lied where he was!) Well, I didn't agree as it was not discussed before and would like him to come home. After rejecting our phone calls, we decided to contact the parents of Till after many tries. When we finally got through, the mother of Till called his son and managed to convey our message that Niki should call us back to say that he is on his way home! He only came home at 11pm! What a theatre! Vati has a serious tell off with Niki and warn him that we will sent him to the boarding school if he continues on misbehaving! After much thought I am thinking it might not be a bad idea to prevent further friction between us and they will also teach/guide him and help him to do his homework! The costs is also not so far off from the schooling in Singapore! This may be one alternative....
Our Mersing project proceeds with the fence......
First week....

Second week.....

Third week....

And who is visiting my garden?

Our garden tortoise was getting adventurous and heading for the water pond!

November 2010!

Whoa, the last post was in August and now we are in November! Heh, what happened in September and October?? Both months were not a healthy time for me as I was down with migraine, menopausal symptoms, cough and influenza and finally stomach aches and cramps! Fortunately we have Sabine & Stefan to distract me of my misery! Sabine also brought along Remifermin to help me with my menopause discomfort! Dominik has 1 week Autumn holidays and so we could join them in KL and Ipoh! In Ipoh, we stayed at the railway station hotel which was old and not well maintained. We went to 'makan' at the famous chicken taugeh kwayteow restaurant but the famous dim sum restaurant was under renovation. We ended up in a neighbouring restaurant with dim sum too. I bought lots of biscuits and pomelos, things which Ipoh is famous for!






We had a reunion dinner with my family members in Puchong with two full tables of 10 course dinner!




Boo.... that's what I want to say!
Meanwhile after school started for Niki on the 18/10, we have only complaints from the teachers that Niki has been failing all his tests and undone homework for the first quarter of the new school year! Well, I have anticipated it since he was only on the laptop most of the time right till midnight although the next day was test! Anyway we had a lot of discussions and talks and Niki finally decided that he wants to do better for his studies and he's going to try harder for the 2nd quarter to avoid going to the 'hauptschule' standard - but he really has to work extra hard like in a marathon race...... Must finish the race even if it is gruelling!
The next thing we did was we finally purchase our apartment in Singapore at Sherwood Towers, Jalan Anak Bukit! We have been a few times to look at several apartments and hesitate to buy as it was so expensive. But we did an impromptu purchase last month (10.10.2010!) for a 1388sq ft. apartment. Did we do the correct thing? Well, time will tell..... So, beginning next year we have to start on the renovation works for this place and Joerg will be busy also with our Mersing project. Well, are we prepared for a busy 2011??? Not forgetting, Sabine and Stefan will be shifting to Singapore too.... 2011 - It will be a year of many changes......