New plates for the Blazer *** 455
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008So, the time to get new tabs for the Blazer. The tabs are just the same as road tax in Malaysia. You renew it every year. The Blazer’s tabs were due in July. I took the renewal form from DMV (department of motor vehicle) to work so I can send the form with a check in. The company I work for is sweet enough to provide such services for its employees. We employees can renew our license tabs, boat license, motorcycle and don’t know what else that I didn’t bother to care for since I do not utilize them. How it works is I enclose the form from DMV and the check into an envelope provided by the license bureau. The license bureau officer comes once every Wednesday to the company to do all these license stuff for employees. If you drop the envelope off on Wednesday you can pick the tabs up after 12 noon the next day.
When I picked my tabs up on Thursday, I saw they included new plates, too. The first thing I saw on the plates was the numbers 455, and being a Chinese, it’s an automatic thing to get them Cantonese translation which means “die fast fast” (sei fai fai). I told that to DB’s since those plates will be going up on his Blazer, he said jokingly, “Great. Does that mean I will die faster?” He knows now that the number 4 is a number that should be avoided if possible in the Chinese community. I told him about the number 4 when I saw our house number which ends with a 4, too. But I know he is not superstitious and so am I, but it’s just so weird how it pops right into my brain bucket when I saw those numbers. Guess it’s the Chinese in me.














