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wasting yet more of my borrowed time online, hopping here there and everywhere, and got to know so many trivia in the process. found AFDLIN SHAUKI has a blog as well--woohoo!

Sultan Brunei has remarried a TV3 presenter who is the same age as me. googled her name and found her on a list of people wanting personalised number plates in Malaysia.

from here I also found out that my (desired) number, RM5, is getting quite near on the list. kakUmi did say I'd had to wait a bit for it to come up (I asked her to book me the number in 2003). the only downside is that as 5 is a single number, it is deemed as a nombor bernilai utama (high value number). so the deposit I need to pay should I so desire to have it on my car would be RM2,000 (around or about £300). that's worth a small Gucci bag, or that Nokia I so covet.... or again, a lifetime supply of socks for Biskut bought at Poundstretchers.

I also found out that my dad's plates are both classified as popular numbers. good on him, it only cost him RM200, which I think he didn't even have to pay back then when he got the cars.

all this when I have about 20,000 words to write for a deadline on Monday.

waaarrggh!