How To Pay MBPJ Compounds (a.k.a. Saman) Online

Nowadays, many payments can be made online and that's including fines for traffic related offences. Not proud of it, but I paid the fines. So, no time is not a good excuse for not paying summonses. Well, the traffic offence was parking related and it happened in a place located in Petaling Jaya under Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya (MBPJ). At first, I thought it is "Majlis Perbandaran Petaling Jaya" and I typed "MPPJ" and Google suggested "MBPJ" instead.

Anyway, after I found the hardcopy "saman" clipped between the window wiper and the car front mirror, I checked online and it was not updated. I forgot how long it took to update in the system, but I think not more than one week, forget the details already.

Anyway, to check the status of the "saman" from the MBPJ, click the MBPJ website. The BM version is "http://www.mbpj.gov.my/" and English version is "http://www.mbpj.gov.my/en". 

1. From the right hand side drop down menu, choose "semakan kompaun"

choose "semakan kompaun" from the right hand side menu

2. After enter the "Sistem Semakan Kompaun Kenderaan Online", insert the vehicle registration plate number and click "cari".

insert the vehicle registration plate number

3. The summary of the fines or compounds of the particular vehicle plate number will come out.

If the vehicle has open compounds , the details like compound number (no. kompaun), vehicle number (no. kenderaan), identification card number (no. kad pengenalan), total fines (amaun dikompaun), date of the compound (tarikh kampaun) and status of the compound (taraf kompaun) will be shown.

example of the summary (already delete the details)

If the vehicle has no compounds, the MBPJ will congratulate you and stated no compound for vehicle number xxxx (Tahniah, tiada rekod kompaun untuk NO KENDERAAN xxxx).

if no compound

4. From the compound number, can proceed to payment. Go back to the main MBPJ homepage and on the right hand side drop down menu, click "Epay@MBPJ".

click "Epay@MBPJ"

5. Then, the log in page will prompt and request for Id pengguna (user ID) and kata laluan (password). 

log in page

For those that not yet register with MBPJ, just click the first "klik disini" and register.

6. After log in, will enter the page "Sistem Pengurusan Perhubungan Pelanggan". At the drop menu menu next to the "Kemudahan", choose "kompaun trafic & Pelbagai". 

choose "kompaun trafic & Pelbagai"

7. Result as below will be shown. The "No kompaun (compound number)", status of the compound and total amount will be displayed. Tick the square box next to the amount (in this case, RM70) and click "Daftar ke akaun".

tick the square hole & click "Dafter ke akaun"

8. Next a page named "Bayaran" will come out. Just tick the square box and then click "Bayar"

tick the square hole & click "Bayar"

9. Method of payment is the next, the sentence on upper left is "Pilihan Mod Pembayaran". Only credit card (Visa / Mastercard) is accepted. One of my friends told me that she once paid with online banking with CIMB Clicks. However, when I wanted to pay, only the credit card is accepted. Click either the "Mastercard" or "Visa", then click the square box with "Kad Kredit".

click the "Mastercard  or Visa" and then "Kad Kredit"

10. Like in any other online purchasing using credit / debit cards, just enter the credit card details and click "pay" on the lower right.

enter the credit card details and click "pay"

11. After the payment is made, one will be lead into the "Rekod Transaksi (transaction record)". The status will show "berjaya (success)". 

Rekod transaksi

The system is quite straight forward, but if the MBPJ accept online banking, it will be better. From my conversions with friends, we noticed that RM30 was deducted from the total amount when we paid the fines. So, those that still owe saman, better pay now, or else cannot renew road tax because it will link with JPJ database. source: here.

University of Malaya Convocation 2015

19th & 20th October 2015

Two of my younger brothers were having their graduation last month, one on 19th October and another on 20th October. Since I took leave for both days, I volunteered to become their photographer on their graduation days. Since we reside at Selangor, it's not far from UM, but not that near either, if one stuck at Federal Highway, it would be so near, yet so far. So, We left the house at 5.30am and reached UM before 6.30am, normally during non peak hour at afternoon, the trip would normally take two hours. If peak hour at the morning, give or take around three hours. Well, my family would rather reached early than stuck at the traffic jam, so, we left early.

The graduates were instructed to gather at the designated area by 7.30am, since parents were not allowed in that early, I accompanied my parents to have breakfast at one of the food stalls manned by the various societies or colleges in UM. After that, my parents enter the DTC, while I waited outside.

Dewan Tunku Canselor of University of Malaya (DTC)

Parents queueing up to enter DTC

Graduates and family members leaving the DTC after the convocation ceremony

Bonding Time With Family

Lately, the TNB electricity supply to my residential area was quite erratic, I have experienced power supply off a few times for the pass one month. Most of the time, the power supply would recover after a short period, but one time, it dragged until a few hours. 

I am a typical person who spend most of my time in front of the computer, so when the power supply was off, I felt so empty inside. But, I managed to spend some quality time with my family, everyone dropped their phones, computers and just talked. It's quite nice, temporarily offline and bond with family. 

Simple Steps To Draw A Bear

I still remember when I was in primary school, a Malay Language teacher taught us how to draw a bear using a very simple method. I am never good at arty stuffs, so from that time onwards, I drew bear just like the way she taught me years ago. It came with a song, somehow I couldn't recall the whole song, just remember there were many "bulat" in the lyrics. 

*bulat (Malay) = circle

Simple steps to draw a not so cute bear

“Go Green” with Near New Banknotes for Chinese New Year

To me, Chinese New Year is the time for family gathering, not the food, not the angpow and certainly not the holiday. Last year, I was in Japan during Chinese New Year because my stint in Japan would end on March, since it was just about two months time before I could go home for good,  I decided not to go home during CNY, it was a big mistake, I ended up crying when I watched all those CNY advertisements (especially the advertisements by Bernas and Petronas) and I felt so sad! Anyway, now I am at home, I can have a gathering with all my family members this year for Chinese New Year. Yeah! 

From July 2013, Bank Negara started the drive and encourage the public to use near new banknotes for angpow during Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Chinese New Year. Apparently, Bank Negara will print around 750 million pieces of RM1 and RM5 banknotes for the festivals, but 70% of it will be deposited back into the bank without any transaction or payment. Wow, the most interesting fact is printing that 500 million pieces of banknotes will consume more than 80 tonnes of ink and 2 million kWh of electricity which is enough to power 7,500 Malaysian homes for a month! (source: BNM)

New Year's Resolutions 2014

Resolutions are meant to be broken, hahaha! Although I am pretty sure that I will not be able to fulfil all of my resolutions, I will at least successfully accomplish one or two resolutions!

1. Read at least one book per month. I just bought 20 books from Big Bad Wolf Book Sale. Even if I do follow this, I will use up to 20 months to finish all the books. Start small first, if too ambitious, maybe I will not do it at all. 
2. Do sit up at least once per week for exercise's sake
3. Cut down on coffee intake. (maximum 1 cup per day)
4. Improve my skill in parallel parking.
5. Attempt a 10 km marathon.
6. Learn basic Tagalog (actually, the target is just to finish reading the book)
7. Learn Microsoft Access
8. Improve my report writing skill
9. Always keep my room tidy (my desk in my office is very organized though)
10. Do not get angry easily (this is tough!)
11. Sleep early and cut down on internet time. 

Japanese people will pray in a local shrine on 1st January

Go Green with Baby Diapers

My mom helps to babysit a baby during the day for quite some time. Well, she gets to earn extra money and it's a way to pass time. I just realized that she re-use diaper's cover. Well, it's a trick that many mothers knew, just sharing this out for those who don't know.

1. Take a used soiled diaper, make a hole at one side, remove all the cotton, wash it and dry it under the sun (it helps to kill germ too!).
2. After dry, take a clean cloth, fold it and insert through the hole made earlier.
3. It's good to use! (after use, have to clean both the cover and cloth)

Green Diapers

Paying with Large Denomination Bills and Small Denomination coins

Read something interesting on Nikkan-Spa, according to a poll conducted by the website, one of the things that the cashier in the convenience store hates is customer paying with 10000 yen bills! Especially during rush hour or during night time when the cash register is short of 1000 yen bills. 

Another survey among restaurant cashiers shows that they dislike receiving coins for payment. It's inconvenient during rush hour. 

Well, this reminds me of my cashier days around 10 years ago. I worked as a cashier in a supermarket while waiting for my university entrance letter. Apart from meeting a lot of interesting and good people, I met many quirky and difficult customers. I can really relate with the cashiers from the survey.

Number one dislike is customers who bought small stuff (cheap, mainly) that costs less than RM5 and paid with RM100. I think their objective was to get small change, but that would cause trouble for the cashier later. The supermarket would only provide 10 pieces of RM10 note, 10 pieces of RM5 note, 100 pieces of RM1 note and coins worth RM50 every morning as a start up. (*Mmmm, not sure whether this is the correct amount or not, it was kind of long long time ago, but almost there). In a scenario like I mentioned above, I would run out of small change fast and getting a replenishment of small change was not easy, had to wait for the chief cashier! If there's no customer waiting in the queue, I wouldn't mind the wait, but it's not pretty when the customers started to show 'the face' to everybody! 

My Phones

I got my first phone, the 'Indestructible Nokia 3310' in 2002. It costs around RM500++ when I bought it. I used it for four years before it got pick pocketed in Klang Bus Station. I was so furious with the pick pocket, I treasured the phone very much! I had to go to the Maxis Centre in KLCC to replace my SIM card, waste of time and money!

Nokia 3310 (the indestructible Nokia)-photo from Wikipedia

Supermoon 23rd June 2013

When I send my brother to his friend's house, I noticed the moon is very round and big. Then, I remembered that the newspaper reported that on 22nd and 23rd June, the full moon is the closest and largest full moon of 2013. Luckily the haze condition is not so serious tonight and I could see the moon, it was kind of dreamy (I think it is aided by the haze too!). The only minus point is that the air is reeking of burnt smell from the haze. Ah, I miss the fresh air. I hope that heavy rain will come and wash away all the haze. Praying!

Closest and largest full moon of 2013 (taken using my phone, so blur and small!)

Innovative Way to Paint the Wall with Patterned Paint Roller

Although I don't buy stuff online, I like to visit the online retail shops. I love looking at the photos. I came across this cute thingy at eBay, I have to share it out, really nice, a patterned paint roller. Hahaha, who needs wall paper when this kind of tool is available! However, I will not do this kind of thing because painting is such a chore. I had other concern too though, the painter must have a very steady hand, he or she cannot have a shaky hand, or else the painted wall will become a disaster. For the normal paint roller without pattern, I could paint vertically or horizontally or in any directions that I like and the end result would not be too bad.

Another concern is what if I become tired with the pattern and want to change it. How to remove the paint? Or can I just repaint the wall with another colour? Will the wall surface become uneven? Wah, so complicated! My wall will be in green colour for as long as I can stand to it.

Ahhhhh, still it is very beautiful!! For those who loves DIY, this is a very good tool to own.

Patterned Paint Roller (photo from ebay)

Say 'No' to Tobacco

31st May 2013 is World No Tobacco Day by WHO (World Health Organization). I really don't like smokers and I hate the second hand smoke. So, every time the prime minister announces the budget statement, I welcomed the increase of tax on cigarettes. However, many continue to smoke, don't understand at all!

In Japan, one of the things I don't like when having party with colleagues was that many of them smoke, so the whole room would reek of smokes. So difficult to breath. There is a campaign where 22nd for every months are "No Tobacco Day". 22nd is chosen because "22" looks like two swans, and swan sounds like  'suwan / スワン / 吸わん', which means smoking. The company that I worked for also tried to make the work place more inconvenient to smoke, previously, a designated smoking room was available inside the office building, however, now people have to go out of the building to smoke and the frequency also reduced. 

non smoking day (禁煙の日) - taken from http://blog.canpan.info/nobeokahc/archive/200 

Lighting Safety

My home was struck by lighting last week, and the casualties were router, television, my brother's desktop LAN port, my laptop AC adapter charger, two ceiling fans,  TV antenna and ceiling. Luckily, we were all fine, no one was hurt. 

I think that the lighting struck the antenna first, then the power transferred to the ceiling beneath it and caused the portion of ceiling to drop. The antenna was burnt into pieces. So horrible!

the damaged ceiling

even the wall has burned mark

A Funny Guide to Get a Date by Rocketnews24

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/08/22/a-japanese-womans-guide-for-getting-a-date-the-omurice-trick-works-every-time/

I read this first on Japantoday, I found it to be funny, but the comments from the visitors were more hilarious. There were 4 tips, 

1. Play tech dumb
2. Bubble over enthusiasm
3. Bump up the cute level
4. The Omurice Trick

Well, tips number one to number 3 are still acceptable. The number four is totally unacceptable for me. Getting emotional and hysterical over an egg meal? Feeling sad for the little chickens that have not been born? That girl might as well become a vegetarian. I wondered where the author found the tips. I don't know about males, but as a female, I will not like that kind of girls. One comment from a reader in Japantoday was, "I will run a mile if I meet a girl like that!". 

As for play tech-dumb, in my opinion, most of my female colleagues in Japan are more advanced than male colleagues, they are the first to embrace the smartphones, join Facebook, use and buy apps, update the software, teaching the male colleagues how to use the smartphones, etc. 

While for the "bump up the cute level", from my non-Japanese male friends opinion, some are too theatrical and with too high pitched voice. Once, I heard a man (non-Japanese) told his friend that, "everything is Kawai sou! Kawai Sou!" Hahahah! However, I had no courage to ask my Japanese male colleagues about this though! On the other hand, I think that most probably Japanese males like cute girls and cute girls have market in the dating department. So, girls act cute for the men only!

(kawaii sou 可愛そう = very cute!)

Online Banking Scam

Checking emails on my seldom used email account. To my surprise, after Maybank2u and Cimb Clicks online scams, now even RHB is being used!

online banking scam

OMG! After all the education by the CIMB and Maybank to their customers, now the fraudsters shift target to other banks' users. They really evolved fast to cheat people.

25th November 2012
Addition: checking my mail, haiz! another scam mail, this time AmBank is used.

Russian Car - Lada 2107

With all the new designs coming out from all the car manufacturers, a 2010 car model would look old compared to the 2012 model. So, I was very surprised when I saw the picture of Russian Lada 2107. The look was so 80s. However, don't be shock, it is still being manufactured and enjoyed good sales in Russia!

Lada 2107 (picture source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Riva)

Well, the main reason people bought it because it was cheap. Since this car still uses the old technology without much electronic components, it was relatively easy to maintain. I think that maybe this car gives a nostalgic feeling too, the 80s!

What Google "autocomplete" Recommends in Japan from A to Z - Part 2

On my previous piece, I checked the Google "autocomplete" recommends in Japan from 'A' to 'Z'. 

However, I found that when I typed 'A' in Japanese character, the result was different. So, I changed the keyboard to Japanese IME and rechecked. Almost all the results were same, except for 'A-あ', 'I-い' and 'U-う'. So, below was what the Google "autocomplete" recommends in Japan from 'あ' to 'ｚ'.

What Google "autocomplete" Recommends in Japan from A to Z - Part 1

After the "What Google 'autocomplete' Recommends in Malaysia from A to Z", I searched for the Japan info on the topic. It seems that, on March 2012, Google was ordered by a Japanese court to delete certain terms from autocomplete. This was due to a court case which involved an unidentified man who was concerned that typing in his name linked him with crimes he was not involved with. However, according to the news article, Google said it was reviewing the order, they haven't carried out the court's request. 

Well, anyway, the result of 'autocomplete' for Japan surprised me, I was very unfamiliar with most of the stuffs.

I joined Pinterest today

9th September 2012

While browsing through 'the star online' this morning, I came across an article about Pinterest, it seems interesting. It is a virtual pinboard that helps people build collections online. So, I signed up. 

A member of Pinterest!

Then, I read on further to understand how it works. I installed the "Pin it" button on my bookmarks, it was very easy, just drag the "Pin it" button from "Goodies" to the bookmarks bar. 

1. For starters, I create a board named "Japan wonders"
2. Open my blog entries on Japan travel
3. click the "Pin it" button
4. a page looks like below will come out, after click on the image that I desired, it returns to the original page.
5. Then, I opened my board on Pinterest. The image is in my board already

"pin it" in pinterest

After that, I tried on other websites and 'pin' on the images I liked, kind of interesting. If I need to revisit the website, I could just find it in my Pinterest board. So far, I created two boards, "Food" and "Japan wonders". Mmmm, I am thinking how long I will maintain this account, maybe long, maybe short, who knows? Hahaha!

pins on my board

What Google "autocomplete" Recommends in Malaysia from A to Z

Read something interesting in BBC news "Google autocomplete: The Internet Where You Are", it seems that for every geographical differences, the autocomplete will be different, so I decided to make a list for Malaysia too for comparison. Hahahah!

alphabet	champion	first runner-up	second runner-up
A	airasia	anm	astro
B	berita harian	blogger	beautifulnara
C	cimb	celcom	currency converter
D	Digi	Digi games	dailymotion
E	Euro 2012	eBay	Era FM
F	Facebook	Firefly	Facebook login
G	google	google translate	Gmail
H	hotmail	Harian Metro	Harakah
I	Ikea	Instagram	Iphone5
J	Jobstreet	JPA	JPJ
K	Kosmo	KWSP	KeepVid
L	lelong	Livescore	lowyat
M	mudah	maybank2u	Malaysiakini
N	narutoget	nokia	nissan
O	oh bulan	Olympic 2012	oum
P	PTPTN	public bank	pps
Q	quotes	qq	qvod player
R	resepi	RHB	roti kaya
S	saps	spa	samsung
T	translate	Twitter	Tonton
U	utusan	uitm	upu
V	video	Volkswagen	vgmc
W	www.facebook.com	www.youtube.com	wikipedia
X	xe	xda	xiaxue
Y	youtube	yahoo	y8
Z	zalora	zoom a	zedge

※ This data was collected on 7th September 2012