Thursday, March 20, 2008
Funny vid - Doggie humps his passed out master!
Never a good idea to pass out in public...
Courtesy of LiveLeak.com
Public Holiday! Its the birthday of Prophet Muhammad S.A.W
First of all, I would like to again congratulate Datuk Ong Tee Keat for being promoted to the position of Transport Minister of Malaysia by the PM!
The last week was really hectic, running here and there like a mad person plus the erratic weather. I really dunno whats happening to the climate nowadays, it never rained so much before, especially this time of the year. Now it practically rains everyday!
Besides the deadlines of my Human Resource Management and Challenges to Management assignments drawing nearer and nearer, I have recently found something new to stir my interest in making money (although I don't have any to start with.) and for once, it doesn't involve Insurance policies, Unit trusts, Multi-level marketing, Stocks and bonds, talking to strangers, cold-calling, bugging my family members to buy worthless things from me or God. (Thank goodness it doesn't involve the last 2!)
But like I said, if someone were to pre-qualify people to join in this program to make huge bucks, then I will be the first one that person will DIS-qualify as a prospect. This is because it involves an initial capital outlay of about RM30,000 and above. The whole week this term has been revolving in my head "Rich man getting richer game".
You'd think you finally 'cracked the code' and found the secret of how the rich becomes richer and the poor (that includes me for now) becomes poorer and poorer and how we wish a guy in a green suit with a feather on his cap riding a white horse would come along and drop sacks of gold coins on our front porch. Lo and behold! Lesson learnt: The rich became richer by using money. Period. After cracking my brain for many hours, weeks, days, months and years, I still can't think of any other way besides, well, robbing a bank (too risky), marrying into money (too sleazy) or conning rich old ladies (too cheap).
For the rest of you who do have money, you might want to check out this neat little investment strategy called 'Land Banking'. While driving home after dinner with my dearest in Pudu, I heard an ad on LiteFM on UK Land and the tagline was really catchy. "...consistently outperform every other investment instruments..." Wouldn't you think they would have at least some data to support what they blurt out on national radio?
In land banking you may find terms like Capital Preservation (Protection?), Capital growth (14.4% compounded and 22% simple interest) and things like 'land in the path of development' and seeking to double your investment in 4-6 years. For those who have attended introductory seminars in Land Banking, will find it very familiar and much so for those who have actually invested in Land Banking products, will find it very familiar plus highly rewarding and enjoyable! What it means in idiot terms (for people like me) is, 100-200% ROI in a couple of years! Impossible? I doubt so.
I'm a critic, but I'm also an optimist and an opportunist. When something good or bad comes along, I always like to play Horatio Cane and snap on my rubber glove and pretend I'm in a shoot of CSI: Miami although my head not always senget like his. We have to question whether good really is good and bad really is bad or good really is bad or bad really is good, right? There is a seminar on Land Banking coming up at Walton International (one of the major Land Banking players in Malaysia) at their 8th floor Wisma Genting office in KL on Sat 29th March 2008. If you're reading this and curious to find out more, do drop me an email at davegeh@gmail.com . We could make arrangements to meet up and go listen to what they have to say.
Monday, March 10, 2008
THERE IT CAME AND WENT! TSUNAMI?
Congratulations Datuk Ong Tee Keat for your win in P100.Pandan (Selangor) in GE12, 2008!
There it came and went. The general election that would go down into the annals of history (although I doubt that it will ever go into the history books for the newer generation of Malaysians whom we groom to take over our country to learn)
The one called the mother of all general elections, the tsunami wave of political change, people’s power and the most prominent one being, the dawn of a new Malaysia. Glued in front of the television with a bottle of Carlsberg from the nearby kopitiam and a bag of giant groundnuts till the wee hours of the morning waiting expectantly for the result of the 12th general election, I must admit that I, like millions of other Malaysians, were anxious and extremely curious about what the results would be like. Will the ‘giants’ rule another day or will the underdogs be given a chance to prove their worth, to walk their talk after 50 years of the ‘ruling coalition’ dominance.
Today, 2 days after the ‘tsunami’, I must admit that I’m still in a daze about the outcome. I must also admit that, I am one of those who actually bought in to the words of our PM advising us to “be thankful for what you have” and see no reason or rhyme to actually go against anything which I consider good. Life really was good for the past 5 years since the last election in 2004.
I actually was thankful for what I had, and even more thankful for what I didn’t have to go through, things like war, hunger, unemployment, sleeping on the street, foreign occupation and scarcity. After a while, it dawned upon me that, if I was living in Indonesia, as a Chinese (being the minority there), in face of a multitude of adversity and uncertainty, I can still have for myself if I work hard enough, enough food so that I wouldn’t die of hunger, a roof over my head so that I wouldn’t have to live out on the street and enough money in my pocket, so that I wouldn’t have to go beg others for it.
No matter who is in power, that person or group would still by all means do it’s best so that they do not run the country into the ground as they themselves live here too with their families and friends all around them. Who in their right mind would want chaos in their own ‘house’? This very thought had empowered me to adopt a wider take on politics and the economy which I would normally not really give a thought about.
Congratulations to the ruling coalition MP in the constituency which I had voted in for 2 general elections (P100.Pandan, Selangor), Datuk Ong Tee Keat (BN-MCA). Yes, I voted for him in 2004 and 2008, but only because he is a humble, hardworking, dedicated and caring person who have really listened to us and served us throughout the years. His banners and posters doesn’t even bear his honorific title, just his humble name. I have deep respect for him because he is walks his talk.
In the state assembly in my area, I would like to congratulate first time assemblywoman, Ms. Jenice Lee Ying Ha (DAP) for her impressive win in this area. The previous state assemblyman had really left many of us who have actually entrusted our vote to him utterly disappointed and frustrated for his lack of participation and presence, something we had wished he would have done something more about in the last 4 years or so. It is no surprise why he didn’t seek re-election this time around. Ms. Lee, we know you’ll dedicate yourself to doing a much better job and not let us down.
Although I can be considered a 2nd generation Pandan resident, buying a property here shortly before the 2004 general elections, I have lived in this area since 1999 after returning from studies overseas. It’s a really nice place cozy place to call home if you can forgive the lousy traffic jam that seems to centre around the MRR2 as you come from Cheras (Tesco Cheras) to the Pandan Indah flyover. Places of interest here include Steven’s Corner in Pandan Indah, ‘Mini-Genting’ an elevated stretch of road in the vicinity of Bkt Teratai where couples go to be close to each other while enjoying a great view of KL city especially at night. The night market and a wide variety of food outlets at Tmn Muda/Tmn Putra commercial centre (famous for it’s Buffet style Chinese mixed rice) is also famous amongst city folk.
Also equally famous here is the lake in Pandan Perdana where avid joggers, anglers and leisure seekers enjoy their morning and evening walks or just to relax and leave the hectic world behind. Pandan Indah is also home to MPAJ’s HQ. The night markets around Pandan Indah, Pandan Jaya and Taman Maju Jaya (Pandan Perdana) is also as famous and popular as those in Tmn Connaught, Seri Petaling and Damansara Utama.
I love this little spot on the map and hope that it remains beautiful, peaceful and lovely for as long as it can. It’s the way we like it and would like it to be for our future generations. All we hope for those we have entrusted our votes to is to keep it that way and possibly bring changes you deem necessary to make our lives better, both as residents of Pandan and as citizens of Malaysia.
There it came and went. The general election that would go down into the annals of history (although I doubt that it will ever go into the history books for the newer generation of Malaysians whom we groom to take over our country to learn)
The one called the mother of all general elections, the tsunami wave of political change, people’s power and the most prominent one being, the dawn of a new Malaysia. Glued in front of the television with a bottle of Carlsberg from the nearby kopitiam and a bag of giant groundnuts till the wee hours of the morning waiting expectantly for the result of the 12th general election, I must admit that I, like millions of other Malaysians, were anxious and extremely curious about what the results would be like. Will the ‘giants’ rule another day or will the underdogs be given a chance to prove their worth, to walk their talk after 50 years of the ‘ruling coalition’ dominance.
Today, 2 days after the ‘tsunami’, I must admit that I’m still in a daze about the outcome. I must also admit that, I am one of those who actually bought in to the words of our PM advising us to “be thankful for what you have” and see no reason or rhyme to actually go against anything which I consider good. Life really was good for the past 5 years since the last election in 2004.
I actually was thankful for what I had, and even more thankful for what I didn’t have to go through, things like war, hunger, unemployment, sleeping on the street, foreign occupation and scarcity. After a while, it dawned upon me that, if I was living in Indonesia, as a Chinese (being the minority there), in face of a multitude of adversity and uncertainty, I can still have for myself if I work hard enough, enough food so that I wouldn’t die of hunger, a roof over my head so that I wouldn’t have to live out on the street and enough money in my pocket, so that I wouldn’t have to go beg others for it.
No matter who is in power, that person or group would still by all means do it’s best so that they do not run the country into the ground as they themselves live here too with their families and friends all around them. Who in their right mind would want chaos in their own ‘house’? This very thought had empowered me to adopt a wider take on politics and the economy which I would normally not really give a thought about.
Congratulations to the ruling coalition MP in the constituency which I had voted in for 2 general elections (P100.Pandan, Selangor), Datuk Ong Tee Keat (BN-MCA). Yes, I voted for him in 2004 and 2008, but only because he is a humble, hardworking, dedicated and caring person who have really listened to us and served us throughout the years. His banners and posters doesn’t even bear his honorific title, just his humble name. I have deep respect for him because he is walks his talk.
In the state assembly in my area, I would like to congratulate first time assemblywoman, Ms. Jenice Lee Ying Ha (DAP) for her impressive win in this area. The previous state assemblyman had really left many of us who have actually entrusted our vote to him utterly disappointed and frustrated for his lack of participation and presence, something we had wished he would have done something more about in the last 4 years or so. It is no surprise why he didn’t seek re-election this time around. Ms. Lee, we know you’ll dedicate yourself to doing a much better job and not let us down.
Although I can be considered a 2nd generation Pandan resident, buying a property here shortly before the 2004 general elections, I have lived in this area since 1999 after returning from studies overseas. It’s a really nice place cozy place to call home if you can forgive the lousy traffic jam that seems to centre around the MRR2 as you come from Cheras (Tesco Cheras) to the Pandan Indah flyover. Places of interest here include Steven’s Corner in Pandan Indah, ‘Mini-Genting’ an elevated stretch of road in the vicinity of Bkt Teratai where couples go to be close to each other while enjoying a great view of KL city especially at night. The night market and a wide variety of food outlets at Tmn Muda/Tmn Putra commercial centre (famous for it’s Buffet style Chinese mixed rice) is also famous amongst city folk.
Also equally famous here is the lake in Pandan Perdana where avid joggers, anglers and leisure seekers enjoy their morning and evening walks or just to relax and leave the hectic world behind. Pandan Indah is also home to MPAJ’s HQ. The night markets around Pandan Indah, Pandan Jaya and Taman Maju Jaya (Pandan Perdana) is also as famous and popular as those in Tmn Connaught, Seri Petaling and Damansara Utama.
I love this little spot on the map and hope that it remains beautiful, peaceful and lovely for as long as it can. It’s the way we like it and would like it to be for our future generations. All we hope for those we have entrusted our votes to is to keep it that way and possibly bring changes you deem necessary to make our lives better, both as residents of Pandan and as citizens of Malaysia.
Click on the link to access the websites of Datuk Ong Tee Keat (MP for Pandan) and Ms. Jenice Lee (ADUN-Teratai)
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Strange Experience in KLCC
I was in KLCC after work yesterday to pay my Maxis Broadband bill at Menara Maxis, and since I rode my motorcycle to work, I had to park in the basement motorcycle park like everybody else. The parking fee alone cost me RM1.50. Well, that wasn't the strange experience I had. :")
While walking towards the escalator that leads up to the linkway between Suria and Menara Maxis, right in front of Auntie Anne's (I think), I suddenly had this 'spinning sensation' and lost my balance. It was as if the floor was all wobbly and stuff under me. It felt like walking on balloons, if you know what the feeling is like. And as I fought my way to stay upright these few seconds, up ahead was a security guard and I had to literally cling on to his arm to prevent from falling down.
Well our friend was of cos startled by what 'grabbed' him from behind. (Arm I mean) that he asked me to go take a sit at the nearby eatery bench. I told him that I was fine, I just felt the ground wobble under me as if there was a minor tremor right here in KL.
Later when I went in to the Maxis centre and told the girl across the counter about my little 'experience' a few mins ago, she told me that, KLCC was built with some 'Japanese technology' which incorporates a bubble at the bottom of the structure which allows the entire building to sway from left to right according to the wind speeds...bla...bla...bla... What a great bedtime story, she almost put me to sleep!
When I reached home later that night I pondered to myself was it my extreme schedule and lack of sleep that made me lose my balance right there in Suria? Or was it something else that happened in that 10 or so seconds that the ground went all vertigo on me. If it was fatigue, then how come from the carpark all the way up to the mall everything seemed fine for me?
Of late I've been keeping a really tight and busy schedule, with activities occuring every single second of the day, from work, to my studies, to my relationship to things like 'planning for a brighter future' reflections and step by step action taking. Nothing happens till you take action right? I think I remember Tony Robbins saying, Planning without action is a waste of time, or Dreaming without taking action is the beginning of delusion, or something along that lines.
Today, sitting in my office cubicle at 9am in the morning, down with flu, a bad cough and an even worst headache, I'm reflecting if I would make it out 'alive' in 2 years time. But like I promised myself time and time again, No regrets!
While walking towards the escalator that leads up to the linkway between Suria and Menara Maxis, right in front of Auntie Anne's (I think), I suddenly had this 'spinning sensation' and lost my balance. It was as if the floor was all wobbly and stuff under me. It felt like walking on balloons, if you know what the feeling is like. And as I fought my way to stay upright these few seconds, up ahead was a security guard and I had to literally cling on to his arm to prevent from falling down.
Well our friend was of cos startled by what 'grabbed' him from behind. (Arm I mean) that he asked me to go take a sit at the nearby eatery bench. I told him that I was fine, I just felt the ground wobble under me as if there was a minor tremor right here in KL.
Later when I went in to the Maxis centre and told the girl across the counter about my little 'experience' a few mins ago, she told me that, KLCC was built with some 'Japanese technology' which incorporates a bubble at the bottom of the structure which allows the entire building to sway from left to right according to the wind speeds...bla...bla...bla... What a great bedtime story, she almost put me to sleep!
When I reached home later that night I pondered to myself was it my extreme schedule and lack of sleep that made me lose my balance right there in Suria? Or was it something else that happened in that 10 or so seconds that the ground went all vertigo on me. If it was fatigue, then how come from the carpark all the way up to the mall everything seemed fine for me?
Of late I've been keeping a really tight and busy schedule, with activities occuring every single second of the day, from work, to my studies, to my relationship to things like 'planning for a brighter future' reflections and step by step action taking. Nothing happens till you take action right? I think I remember Tony Robbins saying, Planning without action is a waste of time, or Dreaming without taking action is the beginning of delusion, or something along that lines.
Today, sitting in my office cubicle at 9am in the morning, down with flu, a bad cough and an even worst headache, I'm reflecting if I would make it out 'alive' in 2 years time. But like I promised myself time and time again, No regrets!
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