Happy New Year 2008

Another year gone by and we grow older.

Looking back the time I am glad that I have endeavored some events pretty cool. Though financially isn't better than I wish for, I am still happy with what had happened to me. Obviously my life today is better than 5 years ago, if ever anyone of you asked me what would happen to me for the years to come I will not hesitate to tell everybody I will make progress and subsequently my life in 5 years time will be better than today.

I still dreaming of running a business by 40yrs old. I have map everything in my mind what I want to do. If somebody ask me what is the business plan, I can tell the plan. The only lack right now is the capital. And this has been my resolution for the past 10 yrs or so. I never change the resolution. Never quit building my dream.

New year coming and I am looking forward to embrace the experience, the learning that can make me better person, for my family, my neighbors, my friend and the later, my business partners (I want to call my staff business partner) and business associates.

Good bye 2007. I am looking forward for new year with new opportunity and I know the opportunity lies from 1st January till 31st Dec 2008.

I Look For The Path For Success. Selamat Tahun Baru kawan ....................... btw, what resolutions you set for 2008?

Bomba training day 1

My department organized bomba training to the Emergengy Responce Team members and to the securities of the parent company.

Its more like refreshment training for the ERT members and its an induction training for the securities.

This is the 3rd training for the ERT members and I found that the training material and presentation has becoming more and more interesting and professional. I reckon this is because Jabatan Bomba has recently recruiting people with higher certificate than they has practiced before, or probably young graduates have found that the carrier with Jabatan Bomba are no longer 'kerja ikhtiar akhir' after they have formed engineering and forensic division that work similar ti CSI. Pretty interesting I thought.

I believe most of you know what to do before the fire starts, during the fire and post fire event. What I want to share with you here is what you need to do when your car caught fire in the high way.

Since most Malaysian do not carry fire extinguisher in their car ( I have one but already in my boot for 5 years and bomba thought that I shall change to new canister), if the incident occur, we might loose one the biggest property in your life. Mine would probably ok la pasal hutang pun tinggal berapa bulan lagi but mind you even newly brand mercedes also can get into fire.

So what you need to do when yourcar get into fire, in an area where you cannot find water from the stream along the high way. Well, in any incident, we must first call the bomba and later call high way operator. Done with that we may signal helps by mean waving our hand by in a safe area to the express busses and oil tanker. Bomba and puspakom have requested them to have fire extinguisher in their vehicles.

In many cases, it have saves many cars if not all but at least with that action it will prevent the car from total lost. No matter what happen, wait until the bomba comes to verify the incident pasal report bomba ajer yg laku for claim insurance

Ok olllllsssssssssss, I got to go for 2nd day bomba training. I'll pass another tip(s) that I find worth sharing to you after the training.

Beautiful mind

The other day Arc and I watched TV3 late night movie titled Beautiful Mind. A story about Nobel Laurette winner who got Phd. on his 22nd birthday with his thesis on modern economic approaches that change the world economic today ........... Mind you, his dissertation merely 22 pages that warrant him a Phd.

Well ............ John Nash was a genius from Princeton University, New Jersey. He was trying himself hard to find some original issue for his Phd and he has corrected Adam Smith's view on free market activities that has been widely used for more than 150years before 1950s'. He has successfully made the thesis with the support of his imaginary friend by the name Charles.

Because of his success, he has been admitted to MIT in the Wheeler Institute and worked for Pentagon besides lecturing MIT student. It is during this time that his delusion has became worst that he is some of important people in the US Army that can read numbers pattern for translate into information or communication from Russia Intelligent during the cold war. His delusion commander officer, Parcher asked him to crack figures from newspaper and magazine and send report to the secret office and rendezvous.

His friend and wife thought he is crazy and send them to mental hospital. In his 30th, he was identified as a person with Schizophrenia. It is a mental disease because when the person depressed, they started to talked to their imaginary friends and we probably think that they talked alone. For 30 years he fought the disease and with strong support from his wife and his friend, he finally overcame the delusion by ignoring to talk to their imaginary friend.

With the help of his old buddy that has became head of department in Princeton, he was accepted to use the library all years, until one day he has successfully manage to solve problem that Riemann (A Deutsch mathematician) could not manage to finished. One of the student who worked on similar equations noticed and they started to chat.

He later started to teach young Princeton student and his friend agreed to seek approval from the Princeton BOD to accept him as a lecturer under special post assigned to him.

In 1994 he received Nobel Prize for his thesis that change the free market view in todays market.

The character played by Russel Crowe took me to my colleague and one of the Dr in my division. They have some character similar to what Russel Crowe (Profesor John Nash) have. My colleague sits next to my cubicle and we called him ***kimia since he is really good in chemistry. He even trying to split hydrogen from water and collect the hydrogen to be a fuel and that small hydrogen had popped in his home. Luckily it was a very small amount.

The other Dr, ha yg ini yg menghapiri sikap sikap John Nash nih, Bahaya nih .............. wakakakakaka

You can get a short bibliography of John Nash from http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mwalker/NashStory.htm or TAG PROFESSOR JOHN NASH in your search engine.

Sekitar Raya Korban

Selamat Menyambut Hari Raya Korban olllllllllllllllllsssssss

Alhamdullilah antara kita yg sudah lepas menunaikan ibadah kurban dan bagi para haji lengkap sudah ibadah haji mereka semalam. Semoga yang mengerjakan haji di Tanah Suci dapat haji mabrur. Aku, Bila ehhhh nak pegi. Duit tabung haji asal dah banyak sket ajer aku susutkan kekekekekekeke. Insyaalah ada rezeki nanti aku sampai la. Yang penting itu hutang hutang kasi bereskan laaaaa.

So semalam, perut aku tak la nak kata berapa bagus. Lepas solat sunat aidul adha, aku terus melompat tanpa tunggu khutbah raya. Bergegas aku ke rumah cari toilet. Al maklum surau aku tuh dewan solat ajer yg dah siap, bilik air masih dalam pembinaan lagi. Sampaikan masa aku keluar rumah semula utk ibadah korban, jiran aku terus sergah aku; 'ko cirit beret ke' aku iakan ajer memang dah kenakan hahahahaha.

Adik Arc mewakilkan bahagian korban dia kat aku pasal kat Bintulu sana tempat dia mengajar surau tak ada buat majlis korban dan selainnya Cina ajer yg ramai. Itu yang dibuat korban kat tempat aku tuh. Sebelum itu puas aku menunggu makluman dari jawatankuasa majlis korban untuk mendapatkan bahagian lembu yg ketiga pasal masa aku book tuh cuma dah confirm 4 bahagian ajer. Kata dorang kalau cukup 7 bahagian maka adik aku dapatlah buat ibadat korban, kalau tak, tak dapat la nak buat.

Alhamdulillah sehari sebelum majlis dah dapat confirmkan 7 bahagian dan dapat la adik Arc melaksanakan ibadah korban dia. Tapi penat juga aku sebelum majlis tu main kejar kejar dgn tok imam, tok siak dan sorang AJK tuh.

Masing masing tak ada kat tempat yg janji nak jumpa. Kat Surau masa ohor pun tak ada, Tok Imam dah lari ke Semenyih terus dari tempat/cafe dia di Kajang. Tok Siak yang sepatut half day masih lagi kat KL dan yg sorang tuh masa beritahu aku malam tuh mmg dia tak dapat tunggu pasal dia mengajar sampai lewat petang.

Kesudahannya petang Rabu tuh aku tunggu sampai Asar kat surau. Dan mereka tak juga ada. So aku terus la ke rumah tok imam walau aku tahu mmg tak ada org sebab semua keluarga dia masih kat kafe dia dan tok siak pulak berselng pintu rumah dgn tok imam. Baru aku tahu isteri tok iman kakak kepada tok siak. Elok la tu rumah dekat dekat. Nasib la masa aku memanggil mangkil tok imam, tok siak baru sampai dari KL. Terus aku baeri tahu AJK dah konfem nama adik aku dan terus aku serahkan duit korban. Sebahagian lembu RM350 dan aku rasa memang itu harga sekarang la. Aku kena bergegas ke Serdang pula pasal dah janji dengan mak aku nak ziarah kubur arwah bapa aku lepas Asar.

So semalam korban dijalankan dan seperti hari hari lain aku cuma terer bila melapah daging yang besar besar ajer. kekekekekke, selebihnya aku serahkan yang ahli ajer la, bagi yang terer tulang, yang datang bawak kapak tuh aku bagi tulang ajer lepas aku lapah daging. Bahagian dalaman lembu yang terer, buruh Indon yang buat surau tu kerjakan. Pakcik pakcik yang tak larat kejenya timbang ajer dan selebihnya termasuk yg perempuan siap siap nak masak sup tulang dan nasi ajer. Aku tak tunggu makan pun kat surau pasal Arc kata Cik Long nak datang tengahari, aku nak kena hidupkan api untuk BBQ.

Aku balik cepat dan aku siapsiapkan api. Tak lama lepas tuh bukan Cik long yang sampai, jiran depan rumah aku yang sampai dulu kerana mereka terpaksa beraya kat Bangi pasal jalan masuk ke kampung dia banjir dan tak ada kenderaan boleh lalu. Padahal dia ada buat korban adik beradik kat kampung tu.

Aku buat soto, Arc buat bergedil dan marinate ayam dan daging utk BBQ dan bapa Arc masak rendang ayam. Itu ajerla yg kami jamukan utk orang. Cik Long sama Dr. Royce and the gang sampai lbh kurang 4.30ptg kot, masa tu aku tengah nak masak BBQ utk 2nd wave. Mana tau ada kawan kawan nak datang lagi kan, sedara lagi yg kata nak datang tak sampai sampai.

Malamnya baru la aku ke Serdang, makan makan pulak kat rumah mak aku, letih woooooo. Aku ajak Arc balik jma 10.30pm dan by 11.30pm aku dah masuk tidor. Tapi tidor aku tak aman pasal pasal kejap kejap aku kena flush. Hampeh ajer.

Hari ini aku masuk keje kawan aku kejutkan wei dah nak pegi solat Jumaat nih. Ngantuk sungguh aku kat opis. Untungnya kat dalam opis nih ada 4 orang ajer wakakakakakaka. Suka aku

Powerfull words over lunch

I have seen on movies that most business are dealt over dining table. Some says on a golf course but I reckon during the play they just chatting, ice breaking only. Later after they done with all the holes, they deal the business over lunch or probably dinner or what not.

Some of us also gossiping during having meals. Am I not right? kekekekekekekekeke ......... well what I want to say here is that ironically the power of our words become more convincing and powerful when we talked when we in the midst of having weal. I try to figure it out why but not to avail until this moment. Can somebody explain to me. The observation that I've made I used to talk with our internal auditors.

As the head of Quality and Safety I have limited of resources, with one Quality Engineer and one Safety Engineer. I have 6 technicians that help my Quality Section to maintain the quality of products. As of the quality system, ia dibawah batu jemala patik. Huh, Angah knows very well la kan the responsibility.

The quality system at my place has been long established and have been maintained very well. Although I have limited number of resources, I still have the committee to help me to maintain the quality system. Its a paksa rela term whereby the previous manager send an instruction to every manager to have the quality guy representative in their modules to maintain their quality system in their respective module. The later, they were send for quality system training and subsequently became internal auditors.

I have 4 senior personnels that have been internal auditor since the inception of our internal audit committee. They have all submitted their resignation letter from being internal auditor. I never said that I will except their resignation, not until I get replacement from their respective module manager. I knew they tired of being internal auditor without being recognize by other people. Yes, we have said thank you for every effort they have made and I reckon that alone will not help to motivate them.

So everything change today. Last two weeks ago I reviewed my department budget and I have RM4K excess that still can be utilized. I sought opinion from my director to organize an appreciation lunch as a token of appreciation to all the internal auditors. I know its a small gesture that the management can show how we appreciate them. My director says they deserve the treat and we organize the lunch at our training room.

So during the lunch, I sat with two of the senior personnel to say thank you for their job and explain how I am thankful with their effort, that reduce my burden in maintaining quality system in their respective module. I explain to them that it will be difficult to maintain the quality system in the coming future when they no longer in the loop. We will have a real mass production next year and cant afford to neglect our quality system. I explain to them its hard to get the replacement that have a well verse of quality systems.

To my surprise one of the personnel said; with this kind of treatment and appreciation (refer to the appreciation lunch), I will not hesitate to continue as an internal auditor. And the second personnel also agreed to continue to be internal auditor. Hahahahahahaha power ayat aku. They agreed to continue to internal auditors, so after that I sat with another personnel and told him that the two personnel agreed to continue as internal auditor and he also agreed to join them. Hahahahahahahaha, I relieved. Sekarang tinggal lagi sorang, kena tunggu dia balik dari maternity leave nih. Meanwhile aku KIV akan ajer surat dia.

Power ke ayat aku hahahahahahaha

Hopefull, next year our quality system will maintain good and better.

Arc's Grandpa Passed Away

Al Fatihah ..............

At the age 82yrs old, Hassan Bin Soaud rested in peace yesterday.

Semoga Allah letakkan ia disamping orang yang beramal soleh. Amin

And there is a story yesterday;

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aku: Ehh, apa datuk buat kat sini
DJ: Visit my uncle
aku: ur uncle
DJ: ha ah
Arc's uncle: Hey J. Jemput tengok pakcik dulu, dah nak kapan dah tu.
: Zi, DJ nih cousin mak ko
aku: la, DJ duduk depan rumah saya
DJ: Padan la rasa rasa mcm kenal ajer. Dari hari tu nak tanya tanya tapi tak berkesempatan.

and DJ pun masuk tengok pakcik dia.

Dan malam itu adik beradik mak aku pun bercerita la pasal si DJ nih and wakakakakakaka, aku tahu la rahsia dia kekekekekeke. Tapi aku reportkan kat dorang yg DJ nih mmg baik org nya dan bermasyarakat kat tempat aku nih. In fact dia antara org yg terawal menderma sejumlah wang yg sangat besar membina surau tempat aku yg berharga RM 800K lebih itu.

Dulu business hebat tapi pasal geng dgn org kebencian kerajaan, byk business dia kena tarik balik. Alhamdulillah business dia bertambah baik semula tanpa patron dari kerajaan. Dan khabarnya akan berpindah lagi dari rumah depan rumah aku, ke banglo dia yang khabarnya luas dia bersamaan dengan satu blok rumah aku.

Itu la kisahnya, kadang kadang kita kenal sedara kita kat tempat tempat macam ini la, hadiri kematian, kenduri perkahwinan dan perkara perkara yg sebegitu la. DJ nih pulak mmg jarang visit keluarga mak mertua aku, kecuali kakak dia akan visit atuk Arc setiap tahun dan singgah kat rumah MIL aku.

Kecik ajer dunia ini kan

Are all certificates matterrrrrrrrrrs?

I would like to respond this to an entry made by Anne.

I am a firm believer that education is important. That is the very reason why I furthering my study for Master. Not that I could distinguish with other people that I am executive with Master, like my workplace would love to do in a very short future. Yeah I tell you friend that my employer would like to discriminate poeple with cerfiticates with their employee ID card. Soooo pathetic.

I continue my study because I want my children to emulate me. I want them to know that in order to taste success, they got to work, not only smart, but hard as well. I want them to know that whenever exam approaching they must surrender everything and start to study, instead of watching TV and play PS2. So what I preached must congruent with my action which I did.

But are all certificates matter in this life. Well heaven knows it isn't happen that way. Simply because Allmighty Allah is great. If all peopel in the worlds are smart I could not imagine what will happen to us right now.

I know most parents would be proud if their children graduated from university or from one of the best colleges. I can vividly remember the face of my mum when I rejected the offer from Mombushua Japan. My mum taught that I rejected the offer on purpose, as a protest, for not allowing me to get into TUDM Flight Cadet Officer and stopped me to get into UTM which they felt it just a waste of registration money if I quit Politeknik.

No, I didn't do it on purpose. I was in love with Arc that I could not think myself studying for another 5 yrs to complete my degree. I told my mum that I will fly for UK that could offer me 2 yrs to complete my degree. Save 3 yrs and meaning that I could marry Arc lagi cepat la kan. I tried to comfort my mum and she still upset with my decision to go for UK simply because the new intake would be the following years. The rest is history when I graduated from Liverpool University. My mum proud with me because I finally got the certificate. Would that really matter.

I have a neighbour in Serdang how he admire me for being able to study abroad, not like his sons that school until form 5 with SAP certificates. I told him that certificate does not mean the whole things will comes good on me. No................... I still got to pay JPA for the loan and the numbers, walllaaaaaa.............. you guess.

Well, I look to my friend even with SAP certificates they still live good, have his own house and car that is far off better than mine (bagi aku la kan kete Korea tu lagi baik la kan dr proton, tak caya tanya DJ Elf Pemantun Tegar Sinar FM). Run a business even tough small but still return profit at the end of year. He didn't have any technical certificates but are hiring a chargemen that graduated from ILSAS and mind you, from Politeknik. Tell me if this is not something.

I know conservative minded peopel will think that education is the only 'property' they have these days. Its not entirely true. There are other things that can make up people for better living. Not just degree certificate or master.

My friend is just a small story that I can put up as an example. Lets look at people who have similar background to my friend. People from abroad. Kan org kita suka dengar benda benda dr abroad nih. Do you know Anthony Robbins? He is the author of best selling book, UNLIMITED POWER. Well he is not Dr Dale Carnegie or Dr Stephen Covey. He is a high school dropped out and made a living by writing inspiring and motivational books. He do not have any doctarate in any field and still writes book from observation he made and from self study he conducted to improve himself. Not only that he had inspired himself, he have inspired million of people. Another author that inspired me is Og Mandino, a millionaire writer of THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD. Being dumped by his wife and have made an attempt to suicide, he turned calamity to success.

Lets look to Anita Roddick, the founder of BODY SHOPS. She never completed her study from a university in Israel and look with what she has built today. A lot of Phd holder, a biologist working for her company to make her product even more environmentally and animal friendly. Don't you think this is amazing. What about the ex richest man in the world, Mr Gates and Mr Dell from Dell corporation. Both of them never completed their study and have build computers and network empire around the globe. Do you still believe that certificates are all matters. As off my personal opinion, it is not.

When I read the success of some personality figures, I found that the Peeeeeeeeeeeeeees are all matter; Passion, Patient, Perseverance and Persistent.

Dream any dream you want and make action to make other people proud of you and when you start to work out your action, do with the 4 Ps. This is all I can say, certificates is just a paper. There are some other things that a family can proud off.

Overnight stay at PGH

Early of the month we took our children for an overnight stay at PGH. We book 2 deluxes room and plan to have them connected to each other. Unfortunately PGH do not have connecting room and suggested us to upgrade from deluxes to suite. As long as I do not have to pay extra charges it will be fine with me. So we change to suite and the hotel will give another bed for the kids.

The suite is big, they have all the facilities every business men need. Internet is readily available at the room and the fee, walllaaaa, RM 40 per hour. I didn't dare to hook my laptop to the network. The TVs complete with ESPN Chanel which I enjoyed watching EPL league between Newcastle and uhhhhhhhh I forgot.

The kids were enjoying themselves in the pool as well as in the jacuzzi in our suite. Arc wanted to have jacuzzi late night but she was exhausted and have a shower instead. There are many people in the pool on Saturday afternoon and Arc asked Shasha and Liyana to continue in the jacuzzi.

Me, hahahahaha, I was struggling to complete my dissertation. I am now relieved that I have completed the dissertation after our stay at PGH. Next I will have a real holiday, minus the book.

Finally, my dissertation

Happy Birthday!!

Selamat Hari Jadi Shasha!!!

Dah 7 tahun anak ibu.....