Cooking oil vs Engine oil

Photo of my car changing the engine oil (4t) at workshop
spare parts, Taman Muhibbah, Rawang, Sg. Mati.

16 December 2008
10.30 am - Send my car, Proton Satria, 1.3i model, year of manufactured 1999
(standard engine without any modification).
I bought the Vesawit cooking oil (palm oil) which cost me -/+RM14.00.
Change the air filter, and the oil filter as well.
11.45am - Start my journey from Muar to Segamat.
2.30pm - Arrived at Segamat.
3.30pm - Leaving for Kuala Lumpur for my new tudung stock.
6.30pm - Left KL.
9.00pm - Dinner at Restoran Jejantas Ayer Keroh, Melaka.
11.00 pm - Home

It seems that the 'minyak masak kelapa sawit buatan Malaysia' didn't cause any problem to my car. Even when I get there, the impression on the mechanic's face is a bit shock. He only happy to fill into my engine after I said "I've done it before".

The guy I met at Segamat told me that my car's engine sounds smooth and quiet!

So, the palm cooking oil tested and proven for day one. No harm and bad thing happen to my the car so far. I will give another report, probably next time I change the cooking oil again, before start frying the kentucky fried chicken! :p

The usage of cooking oil for engine oil replacement is not new.It was reported in Kosmo and few peoples has already tested them with testemonials. Their experience can be shared in Rohaizad's blog.

Hopefully the oil palm usage as an alternative for synthetic engine oil will be an advantage for peneroka FELDA as minyak sawit's price already dropped in the commodity stock exchange market.

The lovely view of Gunung Ledang,
captured on my way to Segamat.

Shoes thrown at Bush on Iraq trip

See the full story through the link below. American President was thrown with shoes by Iraqi when he give a speech. Check the video down below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk

Sincere smile

Gambar Adam Harith bersama Sofea

I like this photo. Even it is not a perfect picture of Adam Harith, the smile is beutiful... georgeous , (bak ka ta orang British..) Picture was taken on his 6th birthday , 3rd August 2008 at Muar. Next to him is Sofea (cousin).

I miss him. So much. I didn't see him since last raya puasa, after I sent him back to his mom. He is now in Terengganu, spending school holidays with the grandparents.

It is not easy for me to get strength sometimes, especially when I'm alone at home. That's why I still have to go out, selling tudung at pasar malam.When my life is busy meeting friends and customers, I can forget the pain, rather than staying home doing online business and stuffs online... Once in while, still the wound is bleeding.

It is pain in the ass.

Go.. goo.. goooo .. slow...

...Me work up late this morning, missed the Pasar Tani..again! What a waste! (time and income). Poor me, nobody laying next to me to wake me up.. (I need a princess!).

2008 is getting to the end. The online business (ebay) is slow.. slowing.. as it is quite late for pysical product get delivered just before christmas (for the gift). Anyway, my ofline business is getting better while others seems not happy for their sales.. (this is call business - sometimes you are on top, sometimes you go to the bottom).. + the school is opening and parents need to save some cash for the kids to start schooling again.

This is why I feel quite disappointed about my sleep.. (actually I went to bed @ 3am... don't blame me not to sleep, I'm dealing with 'jiwa kacau' ....sometimes). So what I should get this morning just gone.. (tak solat subuh tak menyesal!.. bad boy.. bad boy..).



Anyway, 2009 is showing up and again, everybody start talking about New Year Resolution (azam tahun baru).. Anything you want to achieve next year?

My way to KL, I saw....

Picture of Sungai Muar taken from the Muar second bridge

I went to Kuala Lumpur by bus last Thursday.. As usual, it is a mission to get more new stock for my tudung. Normally I just take a bus to get to KL. This is the reason why I just go by bus:

Less expenses rather than a car..
The cost by bus will take only RM32.00 (return ticket) + another RM5.00++ for LRT and another RM20.00 for the food and cig, made up total of RM57.00. If by car, the petrol is about RM70.00 (return) + toll RM50 + and food+ cig, made up a total of RM140.00.

I can relaxing and enjoy the view.
I can eat, playing golf game inside my Camera phone, snap photo, reply messages

No stress over the traffic jam.
This is what I really hate about Kuala Lumpur. Traffic congestion almost all the time (especially during peak hours). That's the main reason reason for me not to drive in KL

Exercise..
Seems that walking is a good exercise. Burn some fat on my belly and stimulate my body as I'm no longer work out on my normal 'simple exercise' - 20 minutes a day.


When the bus stuck on the traffic (along Jalan Loke Yew - if I'm not mistaken, I saw numbers of wedding / bridal shop, which providing the service for wedding ceremony, plus all gown and suits for the bride.



As we know, school holidays is the most busy schedule for marriage. From the couples, to tok kadi, pejabat agama / registeration, wedding photographer and the mak andam. Even today, there were so many void area for the sellers (I went to parit Sulong for pasar pagi - flee market). Most of the sellers (even customer) are attending the wedding ceremony held, spread out the country.

So my single friends out there (especially the bachelors blogger), when is your turn to get married?

Tudung.. Betudung memenuhi tuntutan agama atau...

Salam,
This post written in Malay Language to give 'more accurate terms'...

Aku sebagai seorang peniaga tudung menjaja tudung dengan pelbagai cara, teknik serta taktik untuk melariskan jualan. Kadangkala aku kesal, dalam kesibukan mencari rezeki, aku lupa untuk menanamkan niat, supaya si pembeli mendapat manfaat daripada apa yang aku jual. (Aku biasnya fikir untung, bukan fikir dapat beribadah, menggalakkan aweks-aweks yang ranggi, serta seksi memakai tudung).

Kadang-kadang aku terfikir (melalui dialog dengan para pelanggan wanita), sesetengah mereka hanya memenuhi tuntutan memakai tudung disebabkan "semua orang pakai, aku kena pakai". Pelbagai jenis tudung terdapat dipasaran, ada banyak nama diwujudkan , khas bagi melariskan jualan. Trend terkini adalah menggunakan nama artis , seperti tudung Heliza, Sheila Rusly, Sarimah, Waheeda, Siti Nurhaliza, tudung Mawi dan yang terbaru, tudung Ekin. Tidak terkecuali celebriti lelaki juga menjadi mangsa seperti tudung Dr. Sheikh Muzaffar dan Dato' K.

Gambar tudung Ikin (@ tudung ekin) daripada galeri Samadaddycool


Persoalan yang timbul,....... to be continued

Is this your dream car???

Photo shot location - Petronas Merlimau Melaka
Gambar - arkib samdaddycool

This popular alien space ship turbo has so many nick name. Among the name are bajak, bedozer, bulldozer, mesin keh (I heard how they pronounce this at the east coast), digger, and many more.. (check engineering vehicle).

If you think this is your hot vehicle, please reconsider as Petronas has launch new promotion, that ends by 31st january 2009. Petronas hot cars, cool cash promotion.
Plus RM 1, ooo, ooo ( 1 million!!!) cash prizes

This is sound insane!

Just grab a chance to win one of the hot cars - BMW 325i sports & Honda Civic Hybrid. The cash prizes - RM 50,000 x 4 winners, RM10,000 x 20 winners, and RM1,000 x 100 winners.

To put yourself on the list of the lucky person, what you have to do is purchase at least RM20 from any Petronas Station. Every purchase of RM20, entitle you for one entry.
Hmmm... how they can track the winner? It is simple, when purchasing, use any debit, credit, charge card, SmartPay or Kad Mesra. The system will track your details.

For more info, terms and condition, check the official website from Petronas.

Painting for money, blogging for what??

Recently I've been working very hard to increase my income for November and December. Since the world economy has been dropped and effecting the buying power of most citizens. My ebay sales also dropped and it is far from my expectation. I have to put more effort to do sales offline and do another option for internet marketing.

This matter really made me sick and I always push myself for another solution and be creative. Alhamdulillah, my effort start showing good results. Honestly, self employement is not as easy as I thought before, especially when all the bills and debt are due.

Luckyly I have a gift as I can produce an art material (painting). These paintings has been posted to United States today (combined 2 paintings bought from the same person) with the posting cost of RM110.30 (nearly 2 kg weight). It is a good start for me to generate extra income from batik painting (batik lukis @ batik tulis).

This batik painting (burgundy orchid) just framed today and I am thinking of get it listed on eBay Australia for auction tonight. I really aware to open an auction @ eBay.com as people try to be more careful on spending their money. Even Christmas is just around the corner, I don't want to put extra promotion for ebay dot com.




My Stonehenge Horizon original oil painting is still on auction and there is no bid while
the time left is 2 days and 10 hours. The bid starts at USD $19.99 and there were 2 person watching the item. Dunno if they are really interested or just spying. Hope the bid can increase for higher amount at the closing.

I'm doing this as an alternative of making money online, while blogging is still something that I can't find the rhythm yet ... Why I am blogging??? Perhaps I can be a millionaire through blog? Another reason to put me into blogging are affiliate program (this already paid me quite a lot! .. so far).

Istill remember the matter that made jump into blogging world is because of the goat (kambing jamnapari). The blog was created just to market the goat at the first place. Then, I was eager to generate money with Google Adsense, that forced me to setup few more blogs (free blogs using blogger platform)... One of the blogs created was samdaddycool.blogspot.com (formerly known as duit2duit.blogspot.com).. :)

Now I'm addicted to blog and the internet while trying to market my products online.

So what is your reason for blogging?