i received a lot of emails in a day ... this one worth posted here.
A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience,
> raised a glass of water and asked
> 'How heavy is this glass of water?'
>
> Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
>
> The lecturer replied, 'The absolute weight doesn't matter.
> It depends on how long you try to hold it.
>
> If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.
>
> If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.
>
> If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.
>
> In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the
> heavier it becomes.'
>
> He continued,
>
> 'And that's the way it is with stress management.
>
> If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later,
>
> as the burden becomes increasingly heavy,
>
> we won't be able to carry on. '
>
> 'As with the glass of water,
>
> you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again.
>
> When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.'
>
> 'So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down
>
> Don't carry it home
>
> You can pick it up tomorrow.
>
> Whatever burdens you're carrying now,
>
> let them down for a moment if you can.'
>
> So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right
> now.
>
> Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.
>
> Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
>
> * Accept that some days you're the pigeon,
> and some days you're the statue.
>
> * Always keep your words soft and sweet,
> just in case you have to eat them.
>
> * Always read stuff that will make you look good
> if you die in the middle of it.
>
> * Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be
> recalled by their maker.
>
> * If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
>
> * If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again,
> it was probably worth it.
>
> * It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply be kind to
> others.
>
> * Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
> because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
>
> * Nobody cares if you can't dance w ell.
> Just get up and dance.
>
> * Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
>
> * The second mouse gets the cheese.
>
> * When everything's coming your way,
> you're in the wrong lane.
>
> * Birthdays are good for you.
> The more you have, the longer you live.
>
> * You may be only one person in the world,
> but you may also be the world to one person.
>
> * Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
>
> * We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are
> pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are
> different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
>
>
> *A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
>
> Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you
> today...
Monday, November 10, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
obama president?
1) i dont really care that much about who american president is and i dont understand why a lot of people pay so much attention to all that. for me it is not to be taken at face value. whatever good impression displayed to the public it is always a massive well orchestrated machinery behind it. it is not simple policy and ballot box democracy. media impression is bigger element not to be discounted ... broad brush overview - probably i've read too many conspiracy novels ???
2) american media influence is something we cannot denied . since we get to know 'the box' - used to be wooden box with sliding door and legs and big crowd faced it to watch the low pixel black and white images of six million dollar man and all that , without we realised we have allowed our world view to be blurred by their vision and impression. However what i heard from a friend who went there about 1 month ago( i've never been to the us myself) - the american tvs show mostly american shows and news but almost blanket the american from other news and issues in the world and only 5% of americans have passport - how ignorant they are to the rest of the world ...and yet people of the world care so much about o b a m a ?
2) american media influence is something we cannot denied . since we get to know 'the box' - used to be wooden box with sliding door and legs and big crowd faced it to watch the low pixel black and white images of six million dollar man and all that , without we realised we have allowed our world view to be blurred by their vision and impression. However what i heard from a friend who went there about 1 month ago( i've never been to the us myself) - the american tvs show mostly american shows and news but almost blanket the american from other news and issues in the world and only 5% of americans have passport - how ignorant they are to the rest of the world ...and yet people of the world care so much about o b a m a ?
Friday, October 17, 2008
october catch up
1) yes i have not written for quite a while .... more than a month to be exact ... but for those who know me ....can always catch up in my other sites ... well while waiting for my wife to fetch me .... maybe good to pen down something to kill the time.
2) we are still swarmed with hari raya spirit ...so i think it is not too late to wish you all selamat hari raya... hope we all enjoy the celebration in whatever means and will .... as usual aidifitri has always come with anticipation to me and left with memories ....unique one everytime
3) went to dubai recently. dubai always gives me certain feeling of excitement - it is big boys playground .... the pace of development is difficult to comprehend .... at the turn of the millenium ... i hardly heard about the place ....but now the sands in the dessert have been sculpted into hundreds if not thousands of skyscrapers .....as usual i would pause and try to relate this to history ...i am not historian and my knowledge about it graces at the top most layer only ...very shallow. i imagine what is happening in dubai and uae as how ancient emperors of past civilisations created their legacies ....what moves this is vision of strong leadership - one of the ingredients and of course plus deep pockets and others....
4) apart from that .... being away from home and not watching bernama tv or tv3 news ... exposed me to the reality of the world and uninsulated news...buzz words around were economic recession .... despite being gung ho about development there were shaky feelings in the air about the free fall of the stock market in dubai, abu dhabi and the rest of gcc .... again my comprehension about economy is worst than my history knowledge ...but from what i gathered the numbers indicate whether we would get bonus next year or not ... or even worse whether we could get to keep our job next month or not ...got a message in my facebook page from a friend in uk that he had become casualty of the thing called redundancy ...well that what translates when stock market fall to people on the street...
5) thats all for now .... weekend comes again .... what weekend means during this month of syawal is we have to set for another round of open house trail ....not a bad thing ...it is part of modern day malaysian culture that promote silaturrahim ....
2) we are still swarmed with hari raya spirit ...so i think it is not too late to wish you all selamat hari raya... hope we all enjoy the celebration in whatever means and will .... as usual aidifitri has always come with anticipation to me and left with memories ....unique one everytime
3) went to dubai recently. dubai always gives me certain feeling of excitement - it is big boys playground .... the pace of development is difficult to comprehend .... at the turn of the millenium ... i hardly heard about the place ....but now the sands in the dessert have been sculpted into hundreds if not thousands of skyscrapers .....as usual i would pause and try to relate this to history ...i am not historian and my knowledge about it graces at the top most layer only ...very shallow. i imagine what is happening in dubai and uae as how ancient emperors of past civilisations created their legacies ....what moves this is vision of strong leadership - one of the ingredients and of course plus deep pockets and others....
4) apart from that .... being away from home and not watching bernama tv or tv3 news ... exposed me to the reality of the world and uninsulated news...buzz words around were economic recession .... despite being gung ho about development there were shaky feelings in the air about the free fall of the stock market in dubai, abu dhabi and the rest of gcc .... again my comprehension about economy is worst than my history knowledge ...but from what i gathered the numbers indicate whether we would get bonus next year or not ... or even worse whether we could get to keep our job next month or not ...got a message in my facebook page from a friend in uk that he had become casualty of the thing called redundancy ...well that what translates when stock market fall to people on the street...
5) thats all for now .... weekend comes again .... what weekend means during this month of syawal is we have to set for another round of open house trail ....not a bad thing ...it is part of modern day malaysian culture that promote silaturrahim ....
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
16 ramadhan / 16 september
16.09.2008 - i believe like most people in the country ...this date is being waited with anticipation .... no ...not exactly due to malaysia day ... it has been about 45 malaysia days before and i dont think people pay that much attention as today ... i dont remember 20,000 people gather in a stadium just solely to celebrate malaysia day eve like last night... not many people even remember the date 'malaysia' was born ... the question now will it happen or not ? ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Ulat + express bus + ticket balik raya
about a week ago there was a discussion on how to eliminate the 'ulat' or touts in the bus stations especially puduraya on one of the local radio stations... that initiates me to put my thought around that issues.
when i first set foot in the city more than 20 years ago, i was quite impressed with how bus tickets were transacted in puduraya during that time. it was orderly with all the ticket sellers sat quietly inside the designated booths. the booths were well lit and uniformly labelled according to bus companies.. no sight of the sellers pushing their hands out of the booth windows waving and shouting trying to attract the customers let alone ulats wondering around intimidatingly luring the passengers..
However things had chaotically gone backwards recently ... the situation at the ticketing area at puduraya is almost similar to the selayang wholesale market...
the solution could be ... get rid of all the manual ticket sellers ... get online . yes bus ticket should be sold online . people can buy tickets from the comfort of their work stations in the office or at home or wherever wi-fi could reach them ...no you dont even need computer - you can by tickets from your pda or 3G handphones... to those who are not that IT literate or do not have access to these facilities, probably petrol station or post office could offer this service .... our modern sophisticated society should move on in prallel with the time ... just a thought !
when i first set foot in the city more than 20 years ago, i was quite impressed with how bus tickets were transacted in puduraya during that time. it was orderly with all the ticket sellers sat quietly inside the designated booths. the booths were well lit and uniformly labelled according to bus companies.. no sight of the sellers pushing their hands out of the booth windows waving and shouting trying to attract the customers let alone ulats wondering around intimidatingly luring the passengers..
However things had chaotically gone backwards recently ... the situation at the ticketing area at puduraya is almost similar to the selayang wholesale market...
the solution could be ... get rid of all the manual ticket sellers ... get online . yes bus ticket should be sold online . people can buy tickets from the comfort of their work stations in the office or at home or wherever wi-fi could reach them ...no you dont even need computer - you can by tickets from your pda or 3G handphones... to those who are not that IT literate or do not have access to these facilities, probably petrol station or post office could offer this service .... our modern sophisticated society should move on in prallel with the time ... just a thought !
Friday, September 5, 2008
Salam Ramadhan
I hope it is not too late to wish happy ramadhan to all . nowadays it is pretty common to receive sms wishes on whatever ocassions and one of them is ramadhan ... among the wishes that i received is copied below and sent by one of my friends from dubai ...i wanted to post it as soon as i received it however the 'procrastination' disease is still in my vein - so delayed again ... btw this is the wishes note
"..Salams, my name is shabaan, i am advising you that my neighbour, ramadhan will be visiting you soon with his wife roza and two children sehri and iftaar. they will be accompanied by three grand children rahmat, barakat and touba, they will leave after 30 days by eid airlines. treasure them and you will be blessed. Ramadhan mubarak ."
well...we only have 25 more days to treasure them ... better late than never
"..Salams, my name is shabaan, i am advising you that my neighbour, ramadhan will be visiting you soon with his wife roza and two children sehri and iftaar. they will be accompanied by three grand children rahmat, barakat and touba, they will leave after 30 days by eid airlines. treasure them and you will be blessed. Ramadhan mubarak ."
well...we only have 25 more days to treasure them ... better late than never
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Merdeka
yes ...we are celebrating 'merdeka' again ! ....51st time and counting ...just to refresh the literal meaning of it .... i paste down the defination as found in the online kamus dewan bahasa dan pustaka below ....
1) MERDEKA
merdeka: bebas, lepas, berdiri, bersendiri, berleluasa, berdikari, langgas; memerdekakan: membebaskan, melepaskan, memberhentikan, mengeluarkan; kemerdekaan: kebebasan, kelepasan, hak asasi
Tesaurus Bahasa Melayu Dewan (1998)
2) MERDEKA
bebas, lepas, berdiri, bersendiri, berleluasa, berdikari, langgas
Tesaurus Bahasa Melayu Dewan (1998)
bebas, lepas, berdiri, bersendiri, berleluasa, berdikari, langgas
Tesaurus Bahasa Melayu Dewan (1998)
3) MERDEKA
bebas drpd penjajahan, kurungan, naungan dll; tidak bergantung pd yg lain; berdiri sendiri: Malaysia negara yg ~ dan berdaulat. memerdekakan memberikan kebebasan; melepaskan drpd penjajahan, kurungan dll. kemerdekaan keadaan merdeka atau bebas; kebebasa
Kamus Pelajar
bebas drpd penjajahan, kurungan, naungan dll; tidak bergantung pd yg lain; berdiri sendiri: Malaysia negara yg ~ dan berdaulat. memerdekakan memberikan kebebasan; melepaskan drpd penjajahan, kurungan dll. kemerdekaan keadaan merdeka atau bebas; kebebasa
Kamus Pelajar
4) MERDEKA
(merdéka) bebas (drpd penjajahan, kurungan, naungan, dll), lepas (drpd tebusan, tuntutan), berdiri sendiri, tidak bergantung pd yg lain: Malaysia ialah sebuah negara yg ~ dan berdaulat; besok ia jadi seorang awam yg ~ dan tidak lagi menjadi perajurit y
Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga
(merdéka) bebas (drpd penjajahan, kurungan, naungan, dll), lepas (drpd tebusan, tuntutan), berdiri sendiri, tidak bergantung pd yg lain: Malaysia ialah sebuah negara yg ~ dan berdaulat; besok ia jadi seorang awam yg ~ dan tidak lagi menjadi perajurit y
Kamus Dewan Edisi Tiga
Friday, August 22, 2008
we are what we eat ....
my wife emailed me this article ......
Rupanya tanpa kita sedari, dalam makanan yang kita makan sehari-hari, kita tak boleh sembarangan. Hal inilah penyebab terjadinya berbagai penyakit antara lain penyakit kencing manis, lumpuh, sakit jantung, keracunan makanan dan lain2 penyakit. Apabila anda telah mengetahui ilmu ini, tolonglah ajarkan kepada yg lainnya.
Inipun adalah diet Rasullulah SAW kita juga. Ustaz Abdullah Mahmood mengungkapkan, Rasullulah tak pernah sakit perut sepanjang hayatnya kerana pandai menjaga makanannya sehari-hari. Insya Allah kalau anda ikut diet Rasullullah ini, anda takkan menderita sakit perut ataupun keracunan makanan.
Jangan makan SUSU bersama DAGING
Jangan makan DAGING bersama IKAN
Jangan makan IKAN bersama SUSU
Jangan makan AYAM bersama SUSU
Jangan makan IKAN bersama TELUR
Jangan makan IKAN bersama DAUN SALAD
Jangan makan SUSU bersama CUKA
Jangan makan BUAH bersama SUSU CTH :- KOKTEL
CARA MAKAN
• JANGAN MAKAN BUAH SETELAH MAKAN NASI , SEBALIKNYA MAKANLAH
BUAH TERLEBIH DAHULU, BARU MAKAN NASI.
• TIDUR 1 JAM SETELAH MAKAN TENGAH HARI.
• JANGAN SESEKALI TINGGAL MAKAN MALAM . BARANG SIAPA YG TINGGAL
MAKAN MALAM DIA AKAN DIMAKAN USIA DAN KOLESTEROL DALAM BADAN AKAN BERGANDA.
Nampak memang sulit.. tapi, kalau tak percaya... cubalah.
Pengaruhnya tidak dalam jangka pendek.... Akan berpengaruh bila kita sudah tua nanti.
• Dalam kitab juga melarang kita makan makanan darat bercampur
dengan makanan laut.
Nabi pernah mencegah kita makan ikan bersama susu. Kerana akan cepat mendapat penyakit. Ini terbukti oleh ilmuwan yang menemukan bahawa dalam daging ayam mengandung ion+ sedangkan dalam ikan mengandung ion- , jika dalam makanan kita ayam bercampur dengan ikan maka akan terjadi reaksi biokimia yang akan dapat merosak usus kita.
o Al-Quran juga mengajarkan kita menjaga kesihatan spt membuat
amalan antara lain:
o Mandi Pagi sebelum subuh, sekurang kurangnya sejam sebelum
matahari terbit. Air sejuk yang meresap kedalam badan dapat mengurangi penimbunan lemak. Kita boleh saksikan orang yang mandi pagi kebanyakan badan tak gemuk.
o Rasulullah mengamalkan minum segelas air sejuk (bukan air
ais) setiap pagi. Mujarabnya Insya Allah jauh dari penyakit (susah mendapat sakit).
o Waktu sembahyang subuh disunatkan kita bertafakur (iaitu
sujud sekurang kurangnya seminit setelah membaca doa). Kita akan terhindar dari sakit kepala atau migrain. Ini terbukti oleh para ilmuwan yang membuat kajian kenapa dalam sehari perlu kita sujud.
Ahli-ahli sains telah menemui beberapa milimeter ruang udara dalam saluran darah di kepala yg tidak dipenuhi darah. Dengan bersujud maka darah akan mengalir keruang tersebut.
o Nabi juga mengajar kita makan dengan tangan dan bila habis
hendaklah menjilat jari. Begitu juga ahli saintis telah menemukan bahwa enzim banyak terkandung di celah jari, yaitu 10 kali ganda terdapat dalam air liur. (enzim sejenis alat percerna makanan).
Wassalam...
Sama-samalah kita mengamalkannya. ......
WallahuA'lam
Rupanya tanpa kita sedari, dalam makanan yang kita makan sehari-hari, kita tak boleh sembarangan. Hal inilah penyebab terjadinya berbagai penyakit antara lain penyakit kencing manis, lumpuh, sakit jantung, keracunan makanan dan lain2 penyakit. Apabila anda telah mengetahui ilmu ini, tolonglah ajarkan kepada yg lainnya.
Inipun adalah diet Rasullulah SAW kita juga. Ustaz Abdullah Mahmood mengungkapkan, Rasullulah tak pernah sakit perut sepanjang hayatnya kerana pandai menjaga makanannya sehari-hari. Insya Allah kalau anda ikut diet Rasullullah ini, anda takkan menderita sakit perut ataupun keracunan makanan.
Jangan makan SUSU bersama DAGING
Jangan makan DAGING bersama IKAN
Jangan makan IKAN bersama SUSU
Jangan makan AYAM bersama SUSU
Jangan makan IKAN bersama TELUR
Jangan makan IKAN bersama DAUN SALAD
Jangan makan SUSU bersama CUKA
Jangan makan BUAH bersama SUSU CTH :- KOKTEL
CARA MAKAN
• JANGAN MAKAN BUAH SETELAH MAKAN NASI , SEBALIKNYA MAKANLAH
BUAH TERLEBIH DAHULU, BARU MAKAN NASI.
• TIDUR 1 JAM SETELAH MAKAN TENGAH HARI.
• JANGAN SESEKALI TINGGAL MAKAN MALAM . BARANG SIAPA YG TINGGAL
MAKAN MALAM DIA AKAN DIMAKAN USIA DAN KOLESTEROL DALAM BADAN AKAN BERGANDA.
Nampak memang sulit.. tapi, kalau tak percaya... cubalah.
Pengaruhnya tidak dalam jangka pendek.... Akan berpengaruh bila kita sudah tua nanti.
• Dalam kitab juga melarang kita makan makanan darat bercampur
dengan makanan laut.
Nabi pernah mencegah kita makan ikan bersama susu. Kerana akan cepat mendapat penyakit. Ini terbukti oleh ilmuwan yang menemukan bahawa dalam daging ayam mengandung ion+ sedangkan dalam ikan mengandung ion- , jika dalam makanan kita ayam bercampur dengan ikan maka akan terjadi reaksi biokimia yang akan dapat merosak usus kita.
o Al-Quran juga mengajarkan kita menjaga kesihatan spt membuat
amalan antara lain:
o Mandi Pagi sebelum subuh, sekurang kurangnya sejam sebelum
matahari terbit. Air sejuk yang meresap kedalam badan dapat mengurangi penimbunan lemak. Kita boleh saksikan orang yang mandi pagi kebanyakan badan tak gemuk.
o Rasulullah mengamalkan minum segelas air sejuk (bukan air
ais) setiap pagi. Mujarabnya Insya Allah jauh dari penyakit (susah mendapat sakit).
o Waktu sembahyang subuh disunatkan kita bertafakur (iaitu
sujud sekurang kurangnya seminit setelah membaca doa). Kita akan terhindar dari sakit kepala atau migrain. Ini terbukti oleh para ilmuwan yang membuat kajian kenapa dalam sehari perlu kita sujud.
Ahli-ahli sains telah menemui beberapa milimeter ruang udara dalam saluran darah di kepala yg tidak dipenuhi darah. Dengan bersujud maka darah akan mengalir keruang tersebut.
o Nabi juga mengajar kita makan dengan tangan dan bila habis
hendaklah menjilat jari. Begitu juga ahli saintis telah menemukan bahwa enzim banyak terkandung di celah jari, yaitu 10 kali ganda terdapat dalam air liur. (enzim sejenis alat percerna makanan).
Wassalam...
Sama-samalah kita mengamalkannya. ......
WallahuA'lam
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
celebrating mediocrity?
malaysia is just a tiny nation in the olympic ....nothing to shout about ..probably just as 'great' as 'malawi' - a country we always accidently choose when fill online forms on the internet..i am afraid there is very little reason for us to be proud of our country's involvement in the world's greatest event.
we were dished out with a false hope that this year is our best chance to obtain our first olympic gold medal ....with all this hype ..we were glued to the tele on last sunday night just to see our best gold medal prospect can't even lift up his head... overwhelmed by chinese crowd... what a nuisance crowd ...they should have kept quite so that our player would not be so nervous and the whole world could enjoy the best badminton game in the world as expected from the world's no 1 and no 2 players ... should we blamed the crowd? .... world's best players should be able to handle bigger tsunami than this .... at home a lot of people praised 'his performance'
yes ....as always a nation that celebrates mediocrity .... mediocrity that exists everywhere in the country... but always smoke screened as 'achievement'
on another note i just wonder ...how much we spent for the olympic this time around? .... all the years our 'olympian' spent overseas preparing to be no .....err....57 (not even shown in the medal tally ranking ...as if we are not exist at all....btw is 'malawi' in the ranking?)...
would it be better for the money to be spent on building a university ... a unversity that have the best facilities ... paying the best teachers in the world ...and hopefully attracting the best students in the world ...based solely on 'merit' ... with hope that one day this university would produce the best brain who can think of how to make our country a truly great nation where nobody disputes it ...and everyone of us can be proud of...
Sunday, August 17, 2008
winds of change
for me sunday is not the same as say 2 or 3 years ago . those were the time when sundays were spent (if happened to be at home) by flipping through pages of newspapers after newspapers. nowadays i hardly buy newspapers anymore. reason ...newspapers are quite expensive ...besides the content is not worth to pay for...my income which buys less nowadays better spent on other more pressing matters like milk or diapers for my children ...
what do i do on sundays ? ...yes exactly what i am doing now ...surfing (or in the case of today updating my blogs) ...more independent news and views can be found over the internet and the blogs ...and for me, they are more reliable as the filtering or editing process can be done ourselves ...we can judge what to absorb or reject ... without realising it, we are changing our lifestyle
i can't avoid to touch on what happened in permatang pauh yesterday ....some say it was about 40k of people against 5k accompanying the candidates of the by election. my reflection on that scenario is that there are a strong current of people that hungry for change... from the images, i can see that they are just ordinary people on the street - silent majority that have nothing to gain but just emerged to demonstrate that they are supporting a force of changes ... a force to be reckoned with .... we cant avoid changes instead we must embrace it with hope that it would be for the better ....
photo source : http://kickdefella.wordpress.com/
Friday, August 15, 2008
new baby
it has been more than 2 weeks since my last posting ... slack again in pretending to be a writer ...or a blogger.
as usual or as normally anticipated from a human being, excuse is coming along as a result of such shortcomings . yes what is the excuse this time .... oh yes i just got a new baby - my wife just delivered our 3rd child ... a lovely baby girl. well not 'just' - it has been more than 2 weeks already. right! you can imagine how hectic of excitement in my household at the moment or at least for the last 2 weeks.
what i want to share here is my amazement with the medical staff in the labour room - their action is like a clockwork. know where to put 7 types of funny shapes scissors, forcepts, unwrap sterile equipment etc for the doctor to use precisely. what amazed me more is they can carry out measurement without looking just using their fingers! very professional indeed. these are the kind of people who deserve the iso certificate ... they can always pass the audit with their eyes close anytime of the year without prior warning!
as usual or as normally anticipated from a human being, excuse is coming along as a result of such shortcomings . yes what is the excuse this time .... oh yes i just got a new baby - my wife just delivered our 3rd child ... a lovely baby girl. well not 'just' - it has been more than 2 weeks already. right! you can imagine how hectic of excitement in my household at the moment or at least for the last 2 weeks.
what i want to share here is my amazement with the medical staff in the labour room - their action is like a clockwork. know where to put 7 types of funny shapes scissors, forcepts, unwrap sterile equipment etc for the doctor to use precisely. what amazed me more is they can carry out measurement without looking just using their fingers! very professional indeed. these are the kind of people who deserve the iso certificate ... they can always pass the audit with their eyes close anytime of the year without prior warning!
Monday, July 28, 2008
brain drain
in today's management meeting .... one issue raised again by one of my colleagues was a new staff supposed to join us but turned down last minute ....reason - other irresistable offer from the middle east .... the same thing happened about two months ago where a few people resigned because of more seductive offer from singapore .... yes as we are pushing very hard to become a global player, we are suffering serious brain drain at home ....our local based companies with good track record and portfolio just cannot compete internationally because we do not have good people to do work on the ground .... reason is MONEY ...
the problem was asked to a minister during a conference last week .... seeking for a solution ...but the answer received is just .... 'well as a young professional we must be patriotic to our country ! ... the country needs you .... bla...bla...bla' ..wow!.. full of rhetorics ! ...but in this materialistic world ... we can't feed people with rhetorics words ....pls be real ...on one side we are talking about becoming industrialised first world developed nation etc...etc...etc but on the other side, professionals-pretty large pool of national resources if not treasure - expensively created through various education programs are paid at the third world rate and being pinched by other countries ... what a waste !
our professionals pay rate have been stagnant for at least 10 years ...yes there have been pay rises every year ...but there was massive pay cut during 1998 crisis that have never been restored ... with current cost of living with ringgit buys less ..i believe proffesionals should get at least 2.5 times what we are getting now ...that is the only way we could retain good local brain whom jpa, mara, petronas etc invested years ago and at the same time attract international experts that would smoothen the transfer of technology and bring the country to another height .... but as for now our country could only attract the cheapest labour the world could offer .... pls address the professional brain ... we do not have enough thinking people ......
the problem was asked to a minister during a conference last week .... seeking for a solution ...but the answer received is just .... 'well as a young professional we must be patriotic to our country ! ... the country needs you .... bla...bla...bla' ..wow!.. full of rhetorics ! ...but in this materialistic world ... we can't feed people with rhetorics words ....pls be real ...on one side we are talking about becoming industrialised first world developed nation etc...etc...etc but on the other side, professionals-pretty large pool of national resources if not treasure - expensively created through various education programs are paid at the third world rate and being pinched by other countries ... what a waste !
our professionals pay rate have been stagnant for at least 10 years ...yes there have been pay rises every year ...but there was massive pay cut during 1998 crisis that have never been restored ... with current cost of living with ringgit buys less ..i believe proffesionals should get at least 2.5 times what we are getting now ...that is the only way we could retain good local brain whom jpa, mara, petronas etc invested years ago and at the same time attract international experts that would smoothen the transfer of technology and bring the country to another height .... but as for now our country could only attract the cheapest labour the world could offer .... pls address the professional brain ... we do not have enough thinking people ......
Sunday, July 27, 2008
pulau pisang : history lesson is not boring !
i watched majalah 3 last night ... featuring pulau pisang? pulau what ? ...yes like other small islands surrounding our great nations .... nobody realised its existence.... just like we do not really know what are inside boxes in our store rooms eventhough we had carried the same boxes 3 times in the past because we moved houses 3 times ....see how ignorant we are..
back to pulau pisang stories ...well from the visuals nothing spectacular can explicitly be seen from the physical of the island ... no beautiful long white sandy beaches ...no colourful corals ... what could be appreciated are mouth watering durians, juicy mangoes and abundant of other tropical fruits.... hey hang on a minute .... have we viewed it from geographical aspects? ... there must be some strategic values to it to earn it having a light house on it .... and the light house is managed by singapore government ! ... yes singapore ... our good sophisticated neighbour ...
as a simple man on the street ... the fact that a foreign government 'invade' our 'sovereign' land and manage our resources just not in! ...yes we are living in a sovereign land - merdeka and berdaulat since half a century ago and we stick our little national flags on our cars every year to remind us that we live in a merdeka country ... and yet we allow other people to sit on our land and they could be snooping into our backyard or even worst peeping into our bathrooms!
of course there are historical baggages and legal complications attached to this issue ...but again for a simple malaysian like me, i just could not understand why we allow other country to manage our strategic property .... and who knows one day they could go to the beautiful 'the hague' again and claim that it belongs to them .... a fact that just being recorded in our history book few months ago .... see history is interesting afterall ... it guides us so that we would not repeat the same mistakes again !
back to pulau pisang stories ...well from the visuals nothing spectacular can explicitly be seen from the physical of the island ... no beautiful long white sandy beaches ...no colourful corals ... what could be appreciated are mouth watering durians, juicy mangoes and abundant of other tropical fruits.... hey hang on a minute .... have we viewed it from geographical aspects? ... there must be some strategic values to it to earn it having a light house on it .... and the light house is managed by singapore government ! ... yes singapore ... our good sophisticated neighbour ...
as a simple man on the street ... the fact that a foreign government 'invade' our 'sovereign' land and manage our resources just not in! ...yes we are living in a sovereign land - merdeka and berdaulat since half a century ago and we stick our little national flags on our cars every year to remind us that we live in a merdeka country ... and yet we allow other people to sit on our land and they could be snooping into our backyard or even worst peeping into our bathrooms!
of course there are historical baggages and legal complications attached to this issue ...but again for a simple malaysian like me, i just could not understand why we allow other country to manage our strategic property .... and who knows one day they could go to the beautiful 'the hague' again and claim that it belongs to them .... a fact that just being recorded in our history book few months ago .... see history is interesting afterall ... it guides us so that we would not repeat the same mistakes again !
Friday, July 25, 2008
mosque in your building
i have a bit of spare time during my lunch break today ... i guess i can squeeze in some thoughts here... the reason is illustrated in the scenarios below...
last week i went to perform my friday prayers in klcc mosque not very far from my office in jln yap kwan seng ...the ordeal was... with slippers i have to walk along the narrow footpaths (pretty common in kl) along jln yap kwan seng, jalan ampang by the side of the 'posh first world' building - petronas twin towers (remember i was wearing my 'selipar jepun' of different colours since i lost the perfect match ones the week before in the same mosque ) under the hot sun for more than 1 km to reach the mosque. Once reached there, i could not find space inside the shaded prayer hall ... have to make myself comfortable by the side of the steps again under the hot sun whilst listening to the khutbah and continued my prayer at the same spot . On the way back i followed the same route except for slight diversion to another 'posh high end building' - avenue k (again - i still dragging my 'selipar jepun' on the polished marble floor ) for my quick bite ... and reached office 5 minutes after designated lunch break for friday of 1 and 1/2 hrs ...1/2 hour more than normal days. with sweaty body due to midday forced work out i was ready to work !
now lets compare with the friday prayer experience today ...instead of walking... i pressed the lift button to my office basement parking ... got into the comfort of controlled environment in my car and drove off to tabung haji building ...well not that smooth tough due to lunch hour traffic but the time was well spent enriching my knowledge from ikim.fm ...once reached the level 6 parking of the building ...jumped into the lift, went down straight to basement hall where friday prayer was conducted.... yes i still wore the same 'selipar jepun' but nobody noticed since i was all the while in the car and in the building where everybody wear slippers...after prayer went out to the front of the building ...got myself a tapau of nasi beriyani with 3 dishes for 6 ringgit only !...plus 2 ringgit for parking ... reached the office 20 minutes from time ... took lunch and still have 10 minutes to spare here ...relax and calm to spent the rest of the day working - no sweat at all!
mmm ... where is this writing leading to? ... don't you ever wonder why can't the mosques located in our office building like the one in tabung haji building instead? Rather than providing a small surau in the oddest corner of a building where you need pretty good navigational skills to find and hardly 7 people can squeeze in for the population of hundreds muslim in that building ... why can't provide a real mosque ...say for 200 people ? what? cannot justify the investment due to wasted rental space? ... i guess you can double up the mosque or rather the prayer hall as multipurpose hall for other usage during non-praying time... for muslims and non-muslim as well (more transparency to non-muslim) ...i believe with the added facilities sure the building could fetch more premium rental rate more than enough to cover the lost rental space ...no.. you dont have locate it on the 'expensive' penthouse level...it could be located possibly on top of parking podium where close enough to the office community ...as close as the facilities such as gym or food court ....the side effects would be ... additional avenue to promote interaction between people in that community + more covenient for people to pray (friday prayer or 5 times prayer) + more people would pray + more praying people would create people with better value + people with better value would become better and more efficient workers (well they got back to their desk quicker and fresher to begin with)+ better worker would create better society and so forth... dont forget opportunity opened up for non-muslim to get to know islam better ....better understanding of islam would make them more tolerable when announcement such as 'no lipstick for muslim women except for theirs husbands were made '...special additional 1/2 hour lunch break for friday may also not needed anymore ....... sorry ladies no more shopping on friday yaa!
the immediate side effect is ... just imagine if the futsal court on the basement of the petronas twin towers converted to prayer hall ... the sights of hundreds of people wearing 'selipar jepun' marching in front of marks & spencer in suria klcc attracting weird looks from japanese tourist would become things of the past ... klcc mosque can also nicely fit comfortable number of people .... no more sight of people from more than 50 other surrounding buildings praying on the pavement next to the mosque's steps...
you could also imagine no more sights of people praying along the klang river bank eventhough the physical presence of the mosque is on the other side of the river...yes in masjid jamek .. and also no more people praying in front of masjid jamek lrt ticketing machines competing with people buying tickets to get back to their office...all this is because buildings like bank muamalat, ocbc, hsbc and others in the vicinity have their own mosques inside.
on the environmental aspects ... less cars would jammed up the road to the mosques or to the tabung haji building ... less situation of double or triple parkings in front of mosques ....and etc etc
in the age where impression, branding and image are important, i feel that the sight of muslim people dragging 'selipar jepun' , praying on the road sides, cars recklessly double or triple park in front of mosques blocking the traffic ignoring the traffic law do not do justice to the image of islam.... afterall muslims are rule and law abiding civil people ....and muslim should always look 'hebat'... well in the case of illegal parking of course traffic police would not issue you tickets ... how worst policemen could be than issuing summon tickets to people who are praying!
of course this is just a broad brush thought that need more refinement and detailed study and planning especially on the aspects of compliance to the al quran and hadith ... but i think it worth to look at ....to make it happpen is the political will .... they key word for the present lifestyle is 'convenience'... the difficult things would distract people ... lets bring the mosques and islam to the people .... mosques are not for people to look at and admire ... but i believe it is the heart of the community .... if the muslims working in the tabung haji building can have the privillege of having mosques few steps away from their desks why cant muslims in ambank tower or wisma selangor dredging ....?
last week i went to perform my friday prayers in klcc mosque not very far from my office in jln yap kwan seng ...the ordeal was... with slippers i have to walk along the narrow footpaths (pretty common in kl) along jln yap kwan seng, jalan ampang by the side of the 'posh first world' building - petronas twin towers (remember i was wearing my 'selipar jepun' of different colours since i lost the perfect match ones the week before in the same mosque ) under the hot sun for more than 1 km to reach the mosque. Once reached there, i could not find space inside the shaded prayer hall ... have to make myself comfortable by the side of the steps again under the hot sun whilst listening to the khutbah and continued my prayer at the same spot . On the way back i followed the same route except for slight diversion to another 'posh high end building' - avenue k (again - i still dragging my 'selipar jepun' on the polished marble floor ) for my quick bite ... and reached office 5 minutes after designated lunch break for friday of 1 and 1/2 hrs ...1/2 hour more than normal days. with sweaty body due to midday forced work out i was ready to work !
now lets compare with the friday prayer experience today ...instead of walking... i pressed the lift button to my office basement parking ... got into the comfort of controlled environment in my car and drove off to tabung haji building ...well not that smooth tough due to lunch hour traffic but the time was well spent enriching my knowledge from ikim.fm ...once reached the level 6 parking of the building ...jumped into the lift, went down straight to basement hall where friday prayer was conducted.... yes i still wore the same 'selipar jepun' but nobody noticed since i was all the while in the car and in the building where everybody wear slippers...after prayer went out to the front of the building ...got myself a tapau of nasi beriyani with 3 dishes for 6 ringgit only !...plus 2 ringgit for parking ... reached the office 20 minutes from time ... took lunch and still have 10 minutes to spare here ...relax and calm to spent the rest of the day working - no sweat at all!
mmm ... where is this writing leading to? ... don't you ever wonder why can't the mosques located in our office building like the one in tabung haji building instead? Rather than providing a small surau in the oddest corner of a building where you need pretty good navigational skills to find and hardly 7 people can squeeze in for the population of hundreds muslim in that building ... why can't provide a real mosque ...say for 200 people ? what? cannot justify the investment due to wasted rental space? ... i guess you can double up the mosque or rather the prayer hall as multipurpose hall for other usage during non-praying time... for muslims and non-muslim as well (more transparency to non-muslim) ...i believe with the added facilities sure the building could fetch more premium rental rate more than enough to cover the lost rental space ...no.. you dont have locate it on the 'expensive' penthouse level...it could be located possibly on top of parking podium where close enough to the office community ...as close as the facilities such as gym or food court ....the side effects would be ... additional avenue to promote interaction between people in that community + more covenient for people to pray (friday prayer or 5 times prayer) + more people would pray + more praying people would create people with better value + people with better value would become better and more efficient workers (well they got back to their desk quicker and fresher to begin with)+ better worker would create better society and so forth... dont forget opportunity opened up for non-muslim to get to know islam better ....better understanding of islam would make them more tolerable when announcement such as 'no lipstick for muslim women except for theirs husbands were made '...special additional 1/2 hour lunch break for friday may also not needed anymore ....... sorry ladies no more shopping on friday yaa!
the immediate side effect is ... just imagine if the futsal court on the basement of the petronas twin towers converted to prayer hall ... the sights of hundreds of people wearing 'selipar jepun' marching in front of marks & spencer in suria klcc attracting weird looks from japanese tourist would become things of the past ... klcc mosque can also nicely fit comfortable number of people .... no more sight of people from more than 50 other surrounding buildings praying on the pavement next to the mosque's steps...
you could also imagine no more sights of people praying along the klang river bank eventhough the physical presence of the mosque is on the other side of the river...yes in masjid jamek .. and also no more people praying in front of masjid jamek lrt ticketing machines competing with people buying tickets to get back to their office...all this is because buildings like bank muamalat, ocbc, hsbc and others in the vicinity have their own mosques inside.
on the environmental aspects ... less cars would jammed up the road to the mosques or to the tabung haji building ... less situation of double or triple parkings in front of mosques ....and etc etc
in the age where impression, branding and image are important, i feel that the sight of muslim people dragging 'selipar jepun' , praying on the road sides, cars recklessly double or triple park in front of mosques blocking the traffic ignoring the traffic law do not do justice to the image of islam.... afterall muslims are rule and law abiding civil people ....and muslim should always look 'hebat'... well in the case of illegal parking of course traffic police would not issue you tickets ... how worst policemen could be than issuing summon tickets to people who are praying!
of course this is just a broad brush thought that need more refinement and detailed study and planning especially on the aspects of compliance to the al quran and hadith ... but i think it worth to look at ....to make it happpen is the political will .... they key word for the present lifestyle is 'convenience'... the difficult things would distract people ... lets bring the mosques and islam to the people .... mosques are not for people to look at and admire ... but i believe it is the heart of the community .... if the muslims working in the tabung haji building can have the privillege of having mosques few steps away from their desks why cant muslims in ambank tower or wisma selangor dredging ....?
vermicelli in the price control item
just happened to watch morning news today and a piece of good news is that vermicelli or 'bihun' and 'susu tumbesaran' had been included in the price control item.... yeah surely it would help in reducing the 7% inflation as reported recently. I guess it would certainly reduce burden to some people as i noticed that a lot of my colleagues now start having 'bihun goreng' (sold for breakfast) for lunch nowadays. This is i supposed in line with the 'changing of lifestyle' suggestion due to 'worldwide' oil price hike.... i hope somebody would start cracking their heads to revamp our economic architecture at 'macro' level for the betterment of daily lives in malaysia so that our honourable minister would not have to make piece meal announcements like this....
Thursday, July 24, 2008
july thought
It seems very long time since i last penned down my thought or add any post here. Many things had changed since then more so on the political velocity. I dont think it matters so much because i dont believe this page attract that many visitors anyway. It just serves to provide virtual transit to link to other interesting sites. To those who happen to lay your eyes on this piece i pledge that i would write more regularly .... till then enjoy hopping to other 'cyber thoughts' from here!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Perak MB : Lets move on
while a lot of malaysians are harbouring hope for a brighter future in this new coalition government some old guards seem cannot depart from their political racial cocoon and engaged a frustrating 'reverse' gear for the new move. However gladly the new generation of his team members that primarily selected by the people they supposed to govern have more senses than their seniors and ignored the direction. What puzzles a lot of people is why in the first place they agreed officially to put forward the so called 3 names if there was no agreement between them?
Anwar Demands `Major' Changes in Malaysia Race Rules
By Stephanie Phang and Angus Whitley - via malaysiatoday
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
BUKAmata08
19.02.08- the blog was born... BUKAmata is a combination of two simple malay words which literally means OPENeye and the suffix '08' is the year it was created. it is very simple ...a reflection of simplicity of the author. the actual meaning of the blog title as mirrorred in the contents is left OPEN for the readers' (if any) interpretations ..... hopefully it will stir something from your 'open eyes' to your 'open minds'..... happy reading.
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