“All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.”
Robert Collier quotes (American motivational author, 1885-1950)
Feeling down in my luck since yesterday. So.. 加油 !!
The people are suffering - even resort to robbing the poor . Read news reported > sorry robber steals van
So while even the poor suffers getting rob, our police are busy fabricating evidence to bring down opposition leader (read latest article & proof by RPK) & not to mention those traffic police ~ hiding behind trees (true account- found them at the main road Senai main traffic junction) at traffic junctions to ‘catch’ the good people who beat the red traffic light by 1 second.
Yes.. the people are getting desperate. The poor rob the poor, the law enforcers lie then cheat & the good getting nabbed for beating the traffic light by a second.
Desperate enough indeed.. The poor robs because in need to survive, the law enforcers lie so that they can stay ‘rich’ & employed while the road law enforcers catch the good so that the good people can provide supplement income to the high cost of living in M’sia.
So.. who can we blame?
I have no idea what’s the words of the song.. cos its in korean… but I just know its just definitely ‘jiwang‘. The tune makes me happy, nolstalgic & light..
Korean Drama - Sassy Girl Chun Hyang OST - Mi Ahn Haeyah Hahnuhn Guhni (Korean)
Just one of many articles from one the many witty M’sians.. Finding laughter, answers & questions all in 1 simple write up.
I was debating with myself on Monday if I should go visit a sick relative in the hospital. At the end I went but what was the winning argument in going - I still do not know.
As I think back, my argument of not going revolves around - “‘m not that close to her”, “it will take so much time going there”, “I have to work tomorrow morning, there will be bad traffic jam”.. basically the arguments were all very selfish & cold. The other side of the arguments were “she’s so old now”, “we have company to go together”, “she would feel good if someone visits her”, “how could i be so cold” - she is afterall a relative.
So I went. Not like the sick aunt finds my company any interesting.. kept quiet most of the time while she & dad talked. Which brings me back to the question again - why do I need to be there?
Not even sure if its obligation because its family or because I have an actual ‘true’ empathy. But if i’m asking this question - its pretty obvious that “emotion” is not playing a very ‘big’ part here.
Harry A. Overstreet said
“The immature mind hops from one thing to another;
the mature mind seeks to follow through”
I thought & I hope
I start & I paused
I remain & I change
man.. Harry is right.. immature mind indeed…..
An actual account of the ‘corrupted’ govt. An SME takes on a project by which parts & materials needs to be purchased from the approved vendor list (AVL). Now - this is very normal practice as big corporates wants to ensure that suppliers / manufacturers uses the good grade materials that have shown reliability & not substandard ones. Of course the actual costs of these materials are known by the customer themselves ~ thus its not like the supplier can ’simply’ quote on project costs. So everything is set in motion, both supplier & customer agrees on the costs & price of the goods & services ~ works is being executed.. but wa.. la… something real odd happen..
Though the SME ONLY buy from the AVL list as per customer’s instructions BUT in fact because the final ‘customer’ here is VERY much link to the M’sia’s Petronas.. it is SET that one of the AVL for a specific part MUST be ANOTHER supplier which was not in the actual AVL’s of the customer. The customer quickly informed the SME on learning this NEW! change of events.., so this SME quickly go about to get the quote from this ‘OTHER’ company on the same material…& guess what’s the price ? Obviously the price will not be less than double than the ‘original’ AVL supplier. Now - this OTHER company is actually co-owned by the oxford grad sitting at the 4th floor. The difference is only Rm150,000 for 1 material & yet Petronas just posted their best ever profit ~ it could have been much bestest best ever maybe.. ?
How is the customer going to compensate the difference to the SME is another matter.. but ultimately ~ it will find its way to claim from that National Petroluem company..
This is just a very very small event experienced and it costs RM150,000 just because of some ‘connection’ where we are talking about the exact same goods. Can you inmagine how much have been ‘lost’ due to this type of ‘compulsory’ vendors used? It has enrich those unemployed but linked to the govt officials people.. the rest of us (ordinary hardworking tax paying folks) needs to continue to work doubly hard to get the same quality of goods that our neighbour country enjoys.
So.. how can an ordinary hardworking individual like me not get upset & not feel like giving up… How?
A really good written piece .. read here. It has sense & sensibility. I couldn’t agree more on what’s written. We are not as passionate as Thais. We do what we can but when our patience wears out or if its starts to obstruct us in getting our usual comforts, well - we would stop there.
So there - we have cast our votes, so please let’s start governing & debate on real issues of the people.
“How soon ‘not now‘ becomes ‘never’.”
Martin Luther quotes
Yes.. ‘not now’ has been on my mind for the past 2 days on just 1 specific task. Yes I dread doing this difficult task with such low return yet it is needed. Even making this blog entry is a form of ‘not now’ cause it gives me an excuse to do something else. But it is kind of scary when I read this quote.. ‘not now’ can turn into ‘never’ really quick….brrrr…
54-9-chicken-man (fif-tee-four-nine-chic-ken-man)
Definition: A 54 year old man physically yet have a 9 (5+4=9) year old mental developed mind and top it off with ‘chicken’ acts.
as cited by chonglee in Just-a-blog blog , edition 1 dated July 10,2008
Usual acts of 54-9-chicken-man
1) Physically 54 year old (from his birthdate)
2) Spread lies to the wrong target group
3) When confronted directly & objectively - tells the truth but continue with lies to the wrong target group
4) No courage to speak his own true mind or feelings instead feel the need to gather ’sympathies’
5) Act like a child, talks of betrayal to colleagues or subordinates
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