Global Warming

Recently there are a lot of news, articles and awareness campaigns about global warming. I believe there are many people who are now aware of global warming but have not done much about it, including myself. Sometimes I feel a bit guilty about it.

When I stayed in hotel, I used to leave everything on, lights, air con, heater, simply because I thought I have paid for them. I liked to put a paper card in the key slot so that lights and air con are always turned on even when I am going out. But when I stayed in the hotel 2 days ago, I thought about climate change and switched everything off when I was not using it.

This is only a small change but I think it is a good start for me. Actually even a simple change in your daily life can make a difference.

Dormant Account

When I was small, I like to open many bank accounts and get as many ATM cards, not that I had lots of money, but somehow felt proud to have more cards. Over the years I have closed many of them, leaving 2 that I use frequently except the stupid Bumiputra Commerce which requires me to close at the branch which I opened it...really stupid (I opened at Batu Gajah when studied in Perak).

Yesterday I just found a passbook from Bank Simpanan Nasional. I have almost forgotten that this bank still exists. I can only remember its ATM machine was always out of order whenever you wanted to use it. I didn't know that I still have a few hundred bucks and the last update date was Feb 97...Luckily according to them I still can get back the money from Bank Negara by filling up a form.

Lesson learned...it's better not to have too many bank accounts...number of accounts doesn't matter, only the amount in the account does.