Long Weekends

One of the Malaysian state, the Selangor state is enjoying 4 long weekends in a roll.

It started off with the state's Sultan birthday on 11th Dec (Friday), followed by Awal Muharam, the Islamic New Year (on 18th Dec (Friday), Christmas on 25th Dec (Friday) and 1st Jan (Friday).

A CCTV installer from that state said these consecutive long weekends with 4-days week made him lazy.

I hope he is not as lazy as this road painter.

No CCTV Sunday #22 Constantin Pilavios

Thanks to Barbara Tam

Merry X'mas

Merry Christmas to my all my fellow CCTV installers.

Please enjoy this Ingenious and very tasteful Christmas advertisement for the Solaria Plaza in Fukuoka City, Japan.

Guacamole Dip

Some customers literally abused their CCTV gear and expect those gear are still covered by the warranty.

We had come across warranty claiming gear like INDOOR dome camera covered with dust and mud, Digital Video Recorder damaged by corrosive chemicals, camera covered in paint, melted housing, gear mutilated by animals etc.

Few months ago, I took this photo at a wedding reception. To me those warranty claims are like complaining to the chef of this raped Guacamole Dip.

No CCTV Sunday #21 City of Angels (1998)

The other day I stumbled upon this movie on cable TV while flipping through channels late at night.

I had almost forgotten this movie which I had watched more than 10 years ago.

Call me sissy if you must but this movie is very refreshing and touching. The film has exactly what today movies are lacking, a good and meaningful storyline.

For those who are too young to missed the movie. The whole story can sum up by the fallen angel Nicolas Cage last line, "I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it."

"Lethal" Infrared

A CCTV customer called us the other day to verify a "fact".

He said one of his company staff told him that the infrared emitting from the IR camera is lethal.

I must compliment his staff vivid imagination and cunningness. IR is harmful never cross my mind. To me IR is just as plain as another spectrum of light.

I kindly advised my customer to pay attention to his staffs instead of the infrared being emitted at night from the infrared camera when his staff is not even in the office.



But just for the hack of it, I checked on the Internet and I can sum it up in the following statement;

Infrared (IR) is a part of electromagnetic spectrum and lies just beyond red color of visible light. All human beings are exposed to infrared in the form of the sun and even through the household electric lamp. It has no known adverse effect on living cells.

Basic CCTV System

Yesterday a CCTV prospect came to us.

He said he would like to set up a surveillance system at his factory in Shah Alam.

"Dun push me no big cctv system, what I need is a simplest basic 4 channels DVR system and my in house technician will put it up," he demanded.

Later we found out that his factory has 150 workers.

Stinky Armpits Sniffing

A CCTV installer complained to us that he does not have a life.

He said his CCTV customers call him when their CCTV systems are down and out even in the middle of the night and during public holidays.

Well, like it or not, that is part and parcel of a CCTV installer life, at least we don't have to sniff sweaty stinky armpits.

Balancing Act

When we design and to propose a CCTV system to our prospect, we will try our very best to strike a balance between the overall system deployment cost and the system effectiveness.




In order to give our customer a value for money CCTV system.

Kids with Nanny

A friend of mine bought me dinner the other day for helping him to put up a cctv system at his apartment before his foreign maid arrived.

Both my friend and his wife are working and they have 2 kids age 3 and 4.

From the recorded cctv video footage he had discovered his maid had eaten his kids' food and had fed the kids with baby formula.

Well, I suppose those kids were very fortunate that their nanny did not caused them any long term physical harm as their parent had found out their maid gluttonous behavior soon enough.

No CCTV Sunday #20 Kuala Lumpur Best Foodcourt

Lot 10 Hutong probable is currently the best foodcourt in Malaysia.

The basement of Lot 10 shopping mall in the heart of Kuala Lumpur houses the Lot 10 Hutong food court, touted as a food court that brings in well known hawkers to make up the 27 restaurants and kiosks offering signature dishes.

Those famous with names including char siu wantan noodles from Ho Weng Kee in PJ, Hon Kee porridge from Cecil Street, Popiah from Campbell, Kim Lian Kee's black lard-rich Hokkien mee, Soong Kee's beef noodles from Jalan Silang (one of my favorate), Pandamaran Mo Sang Kor bak kut teh, Ipoh chicken rice from Jalan Gasing, Seremban Siew Bao, Kong Tai Singapore Hokkien noodles and many more.

This new food court will especially appeal to pork lovers, as it serves non halal food which rarely seen in Malaysia shopping mall's food court.

New Coat of Paint

Last month a CCTV prospect complained his wife's car was constantly vandalized as the car was parked outside his house.

He said he would like to deploy a big outdoor camera to monitor the car before he repaint his wife's car.

Two days before the CCTV system was deployed, his wife's car was given a fresh coat of paint by the vandal.


(This is not his wife's car, but to show you what an unwanted new coat of paint can do to a car)

Little Help

Yesterday a customer called to seek CCTV technical support.

One of our technician offered his help, she asked him if he was the "chief technician", she said if he was not the "chief technician" she refused to spend time explaining her CCTV problems to him.

This customer is either snobbish or ignorant.

Most of the time, problems face by CCTV customers are minor and very common which required no rocket scientist.

Little problem required only little help.

Different Perspective

An owner of a few IT retail outlets called us to relocate some CCTV cameras which we had helped him to deploy last year.

For the entire last week he filled in his store manager place at one of his IT outlet, as both the store manager and supervisor were on leave.

During that week, he discovered he could evade the CCTV cameras detection despite his carefully placement of the cameras last year.

He said he will work in his other IT outlets as well, to have a different perspective or point of view at the working environment, so that to seek out the loophole(s) not only in the surveillance system but other company's systems and practices.