One fine day when I was maid-less, I lugged my two monkeys to the income tax department at Jalan Duta to pay my company’s taxes. Why didn’t I just get someone to get it paid for me? Because I like to get my hands dirty. I am on a mission (working together) to make change and to really make change, you need to get your hands dirty. How is one to solve a problem when one truly not know what the problem is? Has our Prime Minister sent his kids to a Sekolah Kebangsaan? Does he really know what issues parents, teachers and students face at the Sekolah Kebangsaan? It’s all fine and dandy too to bitch and complain about all the woes in our lives but instead of doing that, why not make a change? Take a leap with a positive step and pray that the rest follow if you don’t have the time nor resources to follow up…………everything starts with a first step.

I had never done it before, pay bills at the income tax department. It’s a huge acreage of Government Blocks beside a mosque and there is nowhere to park. All legal parking is taken assumingly by LHDN staff so we ended up parking in the middle of the road where cars had started forming their own parking line. I stepped out into the scorching sun and unbuckled T2 and kept instructing T1 to wait as I didn’t want her standing loosely on a main road. After putting on my bags that included the diaper bag (no, not Chanel) and documents bag, I lifted T2 onto one arm and then held T1’s hand and braved it tiringly up the hill towards the entrance. Halfway up, I was regretting that I hadn’t opened up the stroller instead but with my goals towards a fitter body, I trudged on.

Thankfully, the place to pay ALL income tax dues happens at one location – BLOCK 8A, which was almost if not the first block at the mosque facing entrance (you never really know where the main entrance is or at least, I don’t!). We were in and out in less than 10 minutes. I got a number, waited a few seconds, paid and got my receipts. EASY!!!

But I wasn’t done yet………and again regretted not having brought the stroller although this time forced T2 to walk at every indoor point. Mama was only carrying her outdoors when it was dangerous with cars. I still had to explore another department at the LHDN and that was the Withholding Tax department. All these income tax people must have been wondering what a strange sight to see this Mom struggling with her two kids! A lady at the Withholding Tax Department was most helpful and brought us to a room so the kids could draw whilst we discussed Withholding Tax issues. Bless her. Just for the record, her name is Ms Lim. Sorry, I just needed to do that.

After our little income tax adventure, we walked back again in the hot, hot sun and really, it is no wonder why I have back problems; I carry so much weight! And guess what? My car was boxed in! ARGH!!! Luckily though, the person who’d boxed my car in was still around carrying some foldable tables out of his van (setting up a lunch stall I think) and so I smiled and waited and told him to take his time. After all, I still had to unload myself and buckle T2 into her car seat…….

I thanked God for making my trip to yet another Government Agency a relatively easy one. And it’s great to get your hands dirty because now I know! I know how good or bad the service and processes are at the LHDN.

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.

Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.

Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.