The Bold & Bountiful

Okaaay... so it has been a long sabbatical from blogging. With all the happenings around me I decided to kick back and enjoy the drama. I was also enjoying working so much and being a slave to make ends meet that I had no time to blog.

Okay, that was a joke. No seriously, its a cry for divine intervention...

Anyways, I was actually enjoying myself by just kicking back and watching the drama unfold between our government and the opposition. It's really interesting to note how each one of them are carefully balancing their effort to deny any accusations and to spurt out propaganda and words to try and gain the support of the people. This unfortunately have caused the people to be more and more confuse.

I started off writing recap on the happenings to our country's politics, but then decided to delete what I've written cos' I'm not going to repeat it in my blog today. If you haven't been reading the papers or watching the news, then you're really an ignorant bastard! Pick up a paper today and read it! Know what is happening so when the time comes, you know which side you want to be!

Today's news on TheStar, Najib says that he is not weak or scared. That he has a good set of track records to prove it. Owh reeeaaallly? I bet a hudreds of other businessmen who have done business with the government that has you involved knows that to just make an appointment to see you means chipping out another few grand. Good track record? So far the good track record  I see you are goo

d at is saying 'yes' to the PM all the time. It seems thats what you're very good at. He was saying how his overwhelming vote from the last election shows his integrity, well if you want to put it that way... lets see you try that again now... I bet your feet will feel so cold and your spine will be chilled.

Last night I was watching the debate between Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the de facto deputy prime minister of Malaysia and YB  Ahmad Shabery Cheek, the Information Minister for Malaysia. The topic was titled, 'Form the government today, reduce fuel prices tomorrow'. It was quite entertaining really to watch even though the whole debate was in Bahasa Melayu language. I did not watch this live as I did not have any television at home. I read about this debate yesterday in TheStar and thought it'll be something interesting to watch. Indeed it was.

In the debate, Anwar was pretty good. He was on track and kept to the topic and he handled the questions and attacks professionally with f

acts to support his views. This was no surprise about him who used to be a lecturer at Oxford and John Hopkin's College. As for Shabery, he was pretty much put to shame from my point of view. As an 'opposing' side to this debate, being that it was Anwar's challenge, Shabery has failed to defend much of the governments policy on the recent fuel hike. Not only that, it seems like he keeps deviating from the main topic and did not actually answer the questions that were asked to him by Anwar's panel or side was never even answered. Throughout the whole session he was twisting and turning words to return them back at Anwar. Even the person from Shabery's side who was supposed to ask the question was out of line. When it was his turn to ask a question to Anwar, he made a speech instead, or more accurately voicing his point of view. It looked more like he wanted to be the main debater himself! Anwar then later corrected him which caused the few people in the audience to giggle at the fool. So did I. All in all, at the end everyone knows who won that debate. Anwar made alot of points while Shabery... well honestly, what he was saying or why he was there for... he really did not made much points, and most were personal attacks towards Anwar and his past. It seems like BN's side of a debate was to take pot shots at the other. If this was a school debate, undoubtedly... BN would have lost.

Video of the Debate brokened into 8 parts in Youtube.

Dearest Prime Minister...

This was from another blog.

It was too good to ignore... now for your viewing pleasure...

Dearest Prime Minister...

Malaysia's Prime Minister aint too popular nowadays. Which may be something of an understatement.

The following was emailed to PI's inbox from one of our Malaysian readers. It is a letter supposedly sent recently to the Malaysian Prime Minister's website. I cannot vouch for the veracity of this information, but the letter is way too entertaining to ignore.

By the way, if you are offended by 'purple' language, I advise you to read no further.

Enjoy!


Dearest Prime Minister...,

FUCK YOU!!

Since the disastrous March 8 elections, I haven't bothered attacking you much. Well, why should I when the Pakatan Rakyat, Raja Petra and your own Ministers are already doing such a thorough job. And oh, not forgetting all the salivating vultures waiting to push you down the UMNO ladder. There's also the issue of this bloody old mamak who used to be your boss... but that's a different story.

I may scorn at your intelligence (or lack thereof), amaze at the voodoo spell your Son In Law has you under, laugh at the blind arrogance of your Government and shake my head atyour cluelessness in private, but as far as this blog is concerned, I took a break from whacking you and all that you stand for.

Well it ends today.

Coz I'm fuckin'pissed.

Like REALLY motherfuckin 'FUCK YOU BASTARD' sort of pissed, you backwater retard..!

Today I spent 2 hours caught in a fuckin' traffic jam coming back from work. As I sat in the fuckin'snarl watching' the faces of other drivers who looked like they were ready to break stuff, I realised that how every single fuckin' thing that went wrong today all points at you.

Like a fuckin' Night Shymalan movie or finale of LOST, everything is related and all dots connect to spell a FUCK YOU BN. Realisation hits me that the fuckin' 2 hours of my lifethat I could NEVER get back boils down to one simple fuckin' fact: The country got it SOOOO fuckin' wrong in 2004 when they put you as the gaffer of this country.

Cibai.

How, you ask..? Shut the fuckup and listen.

It rained today. REALLY heavy. As a result, all roads in Kuala Lumpur came to a stand still. Why? Is it because all cars in the capital of Malaysia is made out of paper and will disintegrate in the rain? Fuck, no.

Everything came to a halt because any downpour more than 15 minutes causes "flash floods" in the most traffic-heavy parts of the city. As fast as money disappears under Khir Toyo's administration, water levels will rise whenever it pours in KL. Causing many parts of the big city to become inaccessible. And jammed. Filled with angry motorists and stranded commuters.

We have a SMART Tunnel. Which "supposedly" helps to drain water out during floods. We have public transportation. Which "supposedly" means less vehicles on the road. We have megacriss-crossing highways littered with toll booths. Which “supposedly" provides easy access to different parts of KlangValley.

But that's all our country is good for. Launching something and letting monkeys run it. NONE OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS WORK PROPERLY. Or at all. Is it so surprising? No. When they fuckup the basics like having a proper drainage system so that water does not accumulate during heavy rainfall, what more can you expect?

Simply put, heavy rains are beyond our control. How we deal with it is not. Or shouldn't be.

Fuck all the talk about “winning the 5 States back" when you can't even address the problems blowing up in your own backyard one by fucking one.

So with the fucking rain causing enough havoc as it is ... then came the fuckin' announcement that effective from12am midnight, petrol prices will increase toRM2.70 a litre from RM1.92.

WHAT A FUCKING JOKE. They couldn't have timed it better. Only days ago one of the lackeys from the PM's office gave a press statement saying the prices will increase by August. PM himself said before earlier this year that there won't be a price hike.

But I guess we all know this is the same guy who CONVINCINGLY DECLARED on Tuesday that Parliament won't be dissolved on Wednesday when it actually did came the day.

If he was Pinocchio he could represent Malaysia in pole vaulting in Beijing using his blower only.

So right after the Govt assured us that petrol prices won't go up, it did. And the timing of it. Announcing it will go up tomorrow. It's like a man coming into a building shouting, "HEY GUYS RUN. I HAVE A BOMB AND ITS BLOWING IN A FEW SECONDS".

The announcement, as predicted, sparked a fuckin frenzy on the roads. Every bloody motor owner drove out all their vehicles to quickly fill up their tanks while it's still pre-hike`price. This caused the laws of the jungle to quickly emerge as lines after fuckin' lines zig-zagged into jam-packed petrol stations amidst the blaring of horns and cursing of profanities in a multitude of languages.

Snarling, bustling and frenzied traffic from every petrol station overflowed onto highways and unflooded roads already under massive burden of having to carry extra vehicles as a result of other flooded roads which become the link between a tired worker's office to his home.

The result?

A FUCKING ROYAL RUMBLE OF ROAD MADNESS which lasted 2 hours for me when it usually takes me 20-30mins to reach home from office.

FUCK THE PETROL HIKE.! Unfuckin believable jam is but the beginning. Inflation is bound to hit hard at everyone's pockets.

Granted the price of oil is escalating globally. Granted the American economy crisis is having some spillover effect to world economics.

But we're a FUCKING PETROL PRODUCING NATION!!! Like Saudi. It's 40cents a litre over there. We're a fuckin nation that produces motherfuckin' oil. OIL!! And yet we're saying we can't do anything. Simple economics dictates that if you PRODUCE OIL, and OIL prices go up, you GET BIGGER PROFITS DON'T YOU?!?!

Petronas rakes in billions EVERY fuckin' year. Yet the government says it can't subsidise us without major cutbacks in other areas like healthcare and shit. FUCK YOU ALL. Just cutback onthe kickbacks and under counter money and we'll have enough to subsidise petrol to be under RM1 per litre.

This is what happens whenyou take village-like, count-up-to-10-with-fingers fuckers to fill in top postsin the Government and Cabinet. This is what happens when you have a despotic party overstaying its fat stay at the top of the foodchain.

This is a fuckin' joke I tell ya. First the price of flour. Then cooking oil. Then price of pork. Now petrol.

CIBAI KHEONG KAN LEMA KA CHAO CIBAI.

FUCK YOU, you and you. All of you.

YES BARISAN NASIONAL, UMNO and the ENTIRE Badawi Administration. This is your encore.

GET THE FUCKOUT

Equilibrium Extremist

Today the political party, PAS(an Islam for Islamist Party) has just made themselves sound like fools again. Just when you think after joining the Pakatan Rakyat coalition of opposing government party help with their image. But nooooo... they just had to go about declaring stupid bans and statements on petty social issues.

Last Monday, the PAS Youth group from Selangor submitted a memorandum to the Selangor Menteri Besar’s office to protest against plans to have Ella and Mas Idayu, two local singers to perform at the football match on July 6. State PAS Youth chief Sallehen Mokhyi said the movement felt that performances by the singers were inappropriate as it would be attended by many youngsters. The youth wing threatened to stage a demonstration at the Shah Alam Stadium if Ella and Mas Idayu were allowed to performed. Sallehen’s call came on the heels of a statement by national PAS Youth vice-chief Azman Shapawi that the party wanted all the Pakatan Rakyat states to implement Syariah laws. (The Star - Read More Here )

Yes! exactly...! Your expression right now is the same as mine when I read it! WTF is wrong with these people?? Even the Sultan of Selangor state sounded like he was fucking pissed off! He called these statements as “hypocritical” and “trivial”! As he also puts it, there are more important issues that the party could focus on!

The Tuanku of Selangor also said that the state of Selangor is not only comprised of PAS members and Muslims, but also other races, religions and political parties! He said sensitivity of other races and people must be taken also in account! What a leader! I must say, the Tuanku now has my respect! It really shows how much of a wise ruler he is! We need men like him!

Honestly, the people did not vote you into power to deal with petty issues! Why are there so many statements and memos on stupid petty issues like these?? You are trying to push racism and religion into non-Muslim people? People vote you to help the people! Not to FUCKING NAG ABOUT WHAT WE WEAR, EAT, DRINK, SLEEP, ENTERTAIN and so on! You fuckers think everyone is as sexually depraved as you?

Sigh... the political figures of our modern day... the childish mind in them just never stop to amaze me, of how stupid and ignorant they are.

This is 337 signing off with both my middle fingers up!

The Matrix of Our World

A revelation occurred to me today. It seems like our world itself is a living cyberpunk world. Now, some of you may know what I meant and some may not. For those who don't know what cyberpunk means, I will explain the basics of what it is.

The word Cyberpunk came into our languages long ago and was first used to define futuristic movie genre. Back then when science fiction movies were he buff of many storytelling, they were only placed in a single main genre which is of course Sci-Fi. But soon, a line of futuristic movie were being made and told. People started seeing movies that emphasized on a dark futuristic world, a corrupted world where people are seen to have advanced in field of technology. In that future everything is different from the way we talk to the way we walk and e

ven to the way we have sex. Examples of movies that portrays a cyberpunk society is Bladerunner, Robocop, Tank Girl, The Terminator, Total Recall, The Fifth Element, Equilibrium, V for Vendetta and the well known, The Matrix Trilogy. 

So how does one passed to be called a cyberpunk society?

1. An Ominous Body or Government that rules and controls People in that Future.

In a cyberpunk society, the citizens are being rule by an every power hungry and corrupted government entity. Sometimes its a singular being in power or a corporation that holds absolute power over the society. They control the  resources and decides who can have them and who cannot. The people of that society will constantly live

 in fear and they mostly hate their ruling power. The most common factor among most cyberpunk governments are that they will always tell you what they do or are doing is for the good of the people(doesn't that sounds familiar?). A world where the rich and powerful gets away with almost anything.

2. Technology brought more Bad than Good.

The futuristic world of cyberpunk will most prominently display a world that is advance. A world that has produced countless sophisticated technology. But the irony is that the technology that is supposed to help us made 

our society worst. The world runs wild from the misused of technology and the crime rate is ever high. A dystopian future where society is divided in several classes. The primary class will be always living in luxury and benefits while the lower class will constantly slave to survive in that world.

3. Ubiquitous access to Information.

The storytelling of cyberpunk movies always tell of an ever streaming line of information. There is always a form of philosophy used to reflect how and why things happen. The citizens are constantly being feed information randomly where ever they go and activist will constantly churn out random messages to awaken the society to stand up against the ru

ling power. (bloggers anyone? )

Those are just three points . Theres about a few more points in describing a cyberpunk society but I think this three are enough to compare with our world today.

Our country is now, as it seemed, ruled under a singular government that is near the verge of chaos. The leader of this government as we know, controls the countries resources and riches. That leader had given a false hope to us before we voted for him(as in V for Vendetta). Once he had received power, he keeps making decisions that do not seemed to be in the people's interest. He would keep making these anti-people decisions and keep telling the people 'it is for the good of all' or 'its for our future'. 

Next we find that today in our world we have and are nearly covered with technology. People everywhere have the means of communicating thanks to hand phones. We can fly to anywhere around the world in airplanes. We protect our country with counter-weapon technologies. But even with these technology, evil found ways to misuse it. Technology that helps us to fly can become a weapon. Technology that is used for medicine has been used to farm toxins for subway attacks. Technology for information has become a hacking tool. Technology made to protects ourselves have become weapons on the unprotected. Technology thats suppose to help us live longer is slowly shortening the life of our Planet.

Who will listen to the cries? Who will wake up to fight this dark future? If you believe what I believed. If you see what I see. If you know what I know... then we must change and wake up from this coma we are in and realize that as an individual, we are powerless, but as a whole, we are victorious.

Artist use lies to show the Truth while Politicians use lies to cover it.

Well well well... Its my third day at my new job and so far so good :P This morning while fiddling on my home PC before going to work, I found myself starting to use Mac shortcut keys on my PC ..zZZ Oh well... it was expected. After each long day at work using a Mac can do that to you :P

It seems like our government has gotten the big idea to cut cost by taking away percentage of our tax deductables. Things like entertainment, computers, education... yep all that getting as much as a 10% deducted from original amount. This means paying more tax each year! The statement given was that this move will help the government to save up to 2 bil. WTF is that??? You want to really save??? STOP SPENDING IT ON USELESS PROJECTS... ONE OF THEM WHICH IS SENDING SOME MALE MODEL TO SPACE!!! Why do they need to send one of our people to space?? Is there a pot of gold in space for us?? Is there a cure for cancer in space?? WTF man?? You rather spend billions on the astronaut program by asking another country to send our man to space but expect us to bow down to tax??? And then you call it trying to help the government save 2 bil off it??? Fucking mother fucker can go fuck yourselves!

Today the news tells that the governments wants us to maximize our weekends by taking part-time jobs other than our day jobs, specially for the government civil servants. This statement was release from the Prime Minister's Department. Oh wow... the man still has the guts to tell us to go fuck ourselves??? Yeah! Thats what this is! He's telling us that fuel hike is here to stay and if anyone who doesn't like it can go fuck yourself! Thats my honest opinion how this is translated. Worked part-time??? pfft! Have you been under a rock lately?? Have you ever done any real jobs??? Gawd!! People like us (who are not up there accepting money) have to work at least from 8am-5pm or 9am-6pm everyday or maybe worst! Then some of us will have to work half a day on Saturdays! That leaves us like 1 1/2 days of weekend left... and you expect us to go work part time???!?!?! WTF kind of insane statement is that???

During our day jobs we're already working our butts off to pay off our bills and tax. And now you're telling us to use what remaining off days or time to work some more?? WTF?? You want us to be like robots and work 24/7?? You think we all have no lives to live??? WTF??? Why don't you try to work and labour all day and weekends?? And I'm not talking about sitting in office all day issuing ridiculous statements like these! Fuck sake, have you every tried thinking a bit?? Are you so spoiled from all that money you're getting??? You think everyone in Malaysia fucking sits in the office all day smoking cigars???? Man... this is like worst than the statement he gave about asking people to plant vegetables in their homes to save cost! If they really still want to save what patriots they have left in the country, they best shut up. Everytime they say something, it seems to make them more stupid and disliked.

Dying is the final Adventure

Today is another boring Saturday. Public holiday and our King's birthday. I spent part of afternoon watching The Mist. Its a movie directed by the director of Shawshank Redemption & Green Mile. The story as you can guess by now, is by Stephen King.

The Mist left me shell shocked! Its fucked up... in a good way. A movie that is supposed to be of a supernatural horror that seemed to show us that the most horrifying thing is not the monsters but us humans. This is I guess among the few Stephen King stories I liked. Together like The Stand, it shows how we humans can be far worst than all the monters or zombies you can ever put together.
The things we do, the things we can or will not do seems to show how much we don't realize the darker side we all have.

Anyways The movie was very good in my opinion. The ending will leave you shocked and mouth opened. If you get the chance, you've gotta read it. It has murder, prejudice, agonizing death, insanity, mob rule and human sacrifice... and thats only from the humans. Then there is the monsters too.

Today as I was ready news from The Star's online homepage, there was a news that caught my eye. A man from Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) president S.M. Mohamed Idris said that a recent test by CAP on 18 samples of bak chang bought in markets in Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh found boric acid in all of them. He's trying to urge to restrict people from buying bak chang. WTF??? The dude is a Malay and a Muslim who has never tasted bak chang, and you're telling us to stop eating them just because you've found it contained a small amount of boric asid??? Who am I going to listen to? My self? My culture? My tradition? The years going back centuries? Or to a man like him who's forbid to eat PORK? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the Malays are bad or Muslims are bad... but really... wtf?

What if we tell them the ketumpat they make also contains boric asid. How does that feel? How are you going to react?

Get busy Dying or get busy Living

AAAaaaalllrite. Its been days since I've wrote again. Partly cos I got lots to do and secondly cos my PC had problems and everytime i try access google or any other sites and sub sites by google I will timeout in the process. Yeah yeh... I know what you're thinking... its spywares and viruses... which I have too say you're correct. Its been a while since I've formated my PC I guess those bugs from daily visits to pornsites have accumulated. This went on until two days ago when I decided I could not take it anymore and its either I re-formated my PC or download a solution. I opted for the latter. So I downloaded the latest AvG (not to be mistaken with Aliens vs Greg) anti-virus to scan thru my PC and damage control the spywares and viruses until when one day when the planets aligned and the stars are shining brightly that I decided to re-format my PC.

Anyways, many things has happened, will happen and did not happened in my short cyber-tical. Get it...? Cyber-tical... Sabbatical ...? yes? no? OKAY OKAY... my absence has left me with a short indulgence for lame jokes. Either that or someone has taken over my blog and this writing it is actually not me. Hahaha. Okay to get the ball rolling, I've already terminated my job with my company! All heaven rejoice! Joy to the World! The world is at peace once again! Well.... mine at least. Well, to make long story short, I decided it was enuff so I decided to show it practically. Thats pretty much when I wrote my resignation and waved 'adios amigo' to my old company. Strangely enough today I woke up with a strange dream I had last night. In my dream, my company... well... (ex-company now! hahahahahahahaha -insert other kind of evil laugh) was caught being a fraud and closed down! Then on the day it was closing down I went over and laugh out loud at them! Gawd! It was the best 'weird' dream I ever had in a long long time! I remember waking up looking at the wall remembering what my dream was with a smirk on my face... a very evil smirk heheheheee.

Anyways, back to topic, yeh I wrote, tendered, and left. That was last Friday. The good news is after that, interviews and offers flowed in and one left me with a decision to make :P One of my old company called me back again wanting to hire me back. Ok, a little background on this company and what happened. This was about a year ago. Back then, I was the in-house designer for the company. The company receives a deal with the government to implement a new classroom technology to the local schools in Malaysia as a way to improved both teacher and student's experience in schools. The idea was pretty revolutionary when I think now. Without letting much spoilers out, the tech basically helps improves teacher's time in teaching and marking student works. It also cuts down time to compile reports on students and at the same time gives almost instant statistic results of every student's performance. This is where you will be saying.. ''Hey... I've heard of this tech before....'' Yes! Its almost the same technology used by big player companies to keep a tab on their resources as well as their employee performance. Well, they don't really look alike but the similarities are pretty much close in that point.

Back to my old company, ok I have to correct my previous statement when I said the company was 'given' the project. Lets just say they pursued the project and which they got it! It was approved and promised funds by government by the millions for it all under our good minister Najib! Then the company spent thousands and maybe a million or two? to prepare mass production to get things done and ready for the implementation. Then it came, a new minister was appointed as the head of Education, which was Hishammudin. As far as I know, he's 'gang' and Najib's 'gang' are not in good terms and just to spite Najib, ol' Hisha decided to fucked with Najib's legacy or projects. Which in returned fucked my old company, which in return fucked me and my colleagues. A project that was supposed to be finished a year ago got prolonged till now. and due to the tons of money already spent to the commitment of the project, my old company fell into a financial downturn, which ended up having need to retrench us all. Yup... thats our so great FUCKING government! Honestly, I felt they deserved it when the BN party sucked so bad this time round in the elections. Alot of people I'm sure have experienced this with me. People are already fed up. We had enough of the lies, deceit and corruption. Its time to throw out the old hat and get a new one. This is how the rakyat (people) of Malaysia say '' FUCK OFF! ''.

Anyway, back to my dilemma, I've been called and asked if I wanted to return again (because now after the elections, I guess the project finally sees the greenlight). I was told that my old boss wanted to get old staff back cos we would know what to do and what is needed to be done. This was to avoid training new staffs. Partly the reason was also that they were given a time of 5 months time for this project. I was offered to return to the company for a huge pay increase. My dilemma is, to go for MONEY or CAREER... sigh. It's also weighted cos' my old boss was sort of an asshole... (in a good way i think.. if there was such a thing). He's a bit of a china-man style company boss dude. YES... I can hear some of you going 'oooooohhhhhhh.... that kind... nowonder...' Plus what will happen after 5 months? Anyways I am close to deciding to go for career. Friends have told me in the long run, its a better choice. As opposed to needing fast cash :P OH woes is meeeeeee...!!

Ok I think this is pretty much enough for now this early in the morning. I need to rest my brain and enjoy the sunshine and count my 'brush strokes'. Life's a bitch and then you Die.

The World Is Not Enough

Aight aight aight... I know I have not blog for quite a few days, if not for a week. I have been busy and also full of wind and piss lately. It seems like life in this new company ain't so good after all. Looks like I've landed in a real 'china man' style company. WHAT?? you don't know what is a 'china man' style company?? Afraid now that you might be a victim of one...??? Alright, Imma do a public service and explain what is a CHINA-MAN STYLE COMPANY.

1. A China-Man company tracks where and when you get to work, and maybe how too!
A china-man company will track you as much as they can and however they can! You will get this hint when the day at your first interview the boss ask, "How do you get to work?" or " How long does it takes for you to get here?". These are clear signs that THAT company is a china-man style company! The usual method they track our entry and exit is with an electronic tag card. Though you may say, this is a way for the company to track your working hours so as to correctly sum up your pay at the end of the month. Yes and No. I would agree this is a good way to provide an accurate figure for the accounts department, but if your company also uses it in every door in the office, then it's, I'm afraid, a china-man style company. The only reason they have it in almost every freaking door is to track where you have been to, and that my friends, are one paranoid company. Its more oblivious when they have a memo about it to every employee.

2. A China-Man company has CCTV cameras almost everywhere in the office.
Yup! This is very much true and is used to support the system above. A company that has a surplus of CCTV cameras inside staff space is just ... well freaking paranoid and insecure. Signs of this is when you see CCTV cameras in every corridor of the office and especially in front of the manager's / CEO office door. I guess personal secretaries are also not trusted here. If you find even your own personal office has a CCTV camera (like mine now), then its a bingo clear sign that you are in a china-man style company. Honestly... WTF?? CCTV in every corner and office rooms?? You rather spend tons of cash on those than on employee benefits?? You don't trust your employees that much? Or do you just believe everyone is conspiring against you?? It gets better when your own Manager /CEO's office is where the CCTV monitors are so that he/she can view it anytime he/she wishes. That my friend... is 100% china-man style company.

3. A China-Man company will try their best to hire the cheapest labor that can do the most work.
This is the most common and the No. 1 sign that a company is china-man style. Apparently these cheap ass china-man companies will try their best to employ the cheapest personnel and expects them to be multi-talented. It's as if they think somehow everyone is multi-talented and the job specs of every individual is just blur and unseen by them. A person who is a Accountant to them can be an Admin, or Secretary, or Courier. A Marketing Executive to them can be HR Executive, Salesman or IT Consultant. A Graphic Designer to them can be a Copywriter, an Audio & Visual Editor, Webmaster, Programmer and best of all (from personal experience) a 3D Modeler. This is very true, and if you're really overworked and underpaid... there is a high chance you are in a china-man company. It's as if a person goes through life studying every profession on the planet! To them there is no job specifications, just the Employer and the Employee.

As you can see from above, a china-man company rules with an iron fist and this is as evil as it can get. They will drain you of every single working sweat before getting rid of you. You will end up having no life. You will wonder why your bosses are walking and driving around in luxury while you who worked for 15 years still uses the the subway to work. Be aware now and get out! Don't be fooled by their lies and treachery. Get out now while you are still alive and young!

This ends today's Public Message.

Ignorance is Stupidity

Today my balls almost dropped while trying to get my junior designer to get his work done. It's been one hell to another. It seems like kid is just incapable of doing anything. His background is he's fresh graduate, studied 3 years at the some sort of institute called New Era College. I asked quite a few of my designer friends and no ONE ever heard of it! ( www.newera.edu.my/ ). To put everything flat and to the point, HE JUST SUX at designing! He has near zero creativity. Most of his artworks are just monotonously round or square. He claims using Adobe CS3 versions of the software will be much easier cos' thats what he uses at home. Ok... fine... I gave him the installer and had him installed the latest CS3 Photoshop and Illustrator. Unfortunately for me, all that was just a load of crap. Even after 3 years studying in art school, he's only familiar with less than 30% of the software's function. He doesn't even use the 'Pen' tool in Illustrator!!!! WTF!!! 'PEN' tool in Adobe Illustrator is the core tool of it! ITS THE REASON WHY PEOPLE USE ILLUSTRATOR!! Ask why he doesn't use the 'Pen' tool that much, he tells me 'because it's hard to use...'. My balls nearly dropped on the floor. WHAT KIND OF FUCKING DESIGNER ARE YOU THAT DON'T USE THE 'PEN' TOOL?!?! It's like the the tool you'd spend 90% of the time using! He doesn't even know how to use the basic stuff like 'gradient'! And gawd... his English is like that of a 12 year old! He's pronunciation and grammar is soooooooooo (with extra ketchup) POOR! How the fuck does he thinks he going to get through this horrible city with skills like that??

I think I'm gona grow lots of white hair soon... There's just too many incompetent people around lately.

Something for Young Junior Fresh Grad Designers Out There!

The Truth is Out There

This few days I'm suffering at home because my PC's graphics card has died. I am left unable to do much on my pc. Even rendering on Photoshop and Illustrator takes quite a while and the result on screen does not look that great. Anyways a good friend of mine answered my plea and have bought me a new card from e-bay and have it shipped to me. Good friends are a rare breed these days.

Anyways, papers today boast PM's visit to a Buddhist temple. Not sure if this is some sort of publicity stunt, but I bet you'll never catch any of them going to a christian church! Anyways there was a response today on The Star by PSD (Public Service Department) to the article of the Indian student who scored 10As and was not qualified for a scholarship. Apparently PSD claims that the scholarships are limited and every year students have to compete and be the best to get them. WAIT THE MINUTE! Didn't they said that all students who scored 9As and above in their SPM would be guaranteed a scholarship??? Aaaii.... this is not right... hmm... dodgy....

Today's newspaper reports of another child rape case. WTF's wrong with these people?!?! Today MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu requested RM 300 million funds to help the Indians. He said the funds will be used to help the poor Indians. Wait! Did he meant Indian or Indians with an 'S' ?? If it was me I wont give him the fund unless he gives me a plan of proposal on how the funds will be used. THe guy's SAMY VELLU! He's like a walking sign that says " DON'T TRUST ME! ". Why is he even still the president of MIC is beyond my comprehension.

Fight the Future

Today as I procrastinated and went to one of the local university's website. And lo-behold, I was stupefied when I saw it. The webby I went to was www.utm.my, the website for Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Here we are a university which focuses itself on technology, plus on the front page of the website, it boast "Malaysia's Primier University of Engineering and Technology"! But on the background of that first page is among other random things, an old mouse! The kind we used back when we had Windows 3.1! The website must have not change since the dinosaur era or something! I mean how are you going to project an image of an excellent school of technology when you don't even show it? It already shows how much good this college is. I guess being half finance by the government or fully, (godknows...) tend to have this happen. Either that or the board of directors never bother to go to the website.... or they're just very old :P

Today my junior designer asked, " what does it mean when it is writen Johor Darul Ta'zim? Is it the Johor state or something?" My heart skipped a beat. And what more, the kid's from Johor!!! WTF?!?! You're from Johor and you don't even know thats the full name of Johor state??? I am dumbfounded. How ignorant can you get??!?! I was so tempted to ask, 'do you know KL stands for Kuala Lumpur?'

I am shellshocked... Imma take a rest :P

The Good, The Bad & The Corrupted

Today as I checked my email, I received 2 emails from Air Asia telling me exactly the same stuff, their free seats promotion that had been launch an an unofficial 'cold war' respond to Malaysian Airline's Zero Fare promotion. I think Air Asia's going a bit way off here sending the same email twice?? Ermm.. sorry... I only have one brain and I don't need another copy...

A friend of mine today sent me a link to a movie poster. Apparently its of the new real life actors Dragon Ball movie that is in production. Now, we all heard that its in production and have not seen anything. I think we were better off that way. Now that I've seen the poster... I'm having my doubts... :P If you click and enlarge the picture, you can see who Chow Yun Fatt will be. Yup! That horny old man??!?! That was what my reaction happened to be when I saw it. Oh well... I guess he probably fits the role well. Looks like from this poster, there are 2 Japanese female actress and 1 English actors and 1 Chinese actor, chances are the movie will come in 3 different languages, So fret not my friends. I'm guessing this movie is going to be mostly shot behind a green screen. Bring back memories when we first watch the movie Storm Riders. CG would probably be much better now, times have changed. Oh well, I am not holding my breath on this one, but it will be interesting if they managed to pull it off. Kudos to them for trying!

Today the news reports of an Indian girl who was denied scholarship by PSD (no... not Photo Shop Data.... its Public Service Department) even when she has attained the 10As in her SPM exam. This would have meant nothing if not for the fact that PSD had issued a statement recently guaranteeing scholarships for students who scored 9As in their SPM. Here's the part where you go... "aaaaAAAHHhh......". Now I don't about anyone else who reads this, but don't your mind just suddenly think " its another money-under-the-table thing again...". Come on... here's a girl who has scored 10As in SPM when PSD said that they will award 9A scorers a scholarship! She's well qualified and isn't 10As are better than 9As. The question people will be asking is, Did PSD decided not to give her scholarship because she was an Indian, a 'minority' race and not a Malay or Bumiputera?? Wouldn't this be like a big GREEN LIGHT for the ANTI CORRUPTION AGENCY??? Stop hogging all about in the Lingam case already! There are other bigger fishes to fry! I'm making a guess that tomorrow their will be an article by PSD saying its a mistake by their computer or person made a typo... so an so.. etc damage control.

Other interesting news on The Star is: Sex Education is going the be taught in NS (National Service). Wow... i mean wow... shouldn't that like be taught in schools? Not in a boot camp? Shouldn't the kids at National Service be taught self defense? survival? Or am I just mistaken about the whole 'army-uniformed-camp-style' boot camp? Kids could have googled that up on the internet or something! On other news, BN (Barisan National) party leaders are urged to be more multi-racial thinking. Yeps.... no more keris waving please... thank you.

Riding the Waves

Last night watching Iron man was awesome! I can say it was one of the best superhero movie I've seen since Batman Begins! The movie did very well building up the character. We started off hating the character for his ego and arrogant-ness of a rich billionaire playboy... (well some of us that is heh... for those who knows him from the comics, we'll always love him! ). At the end of the movie you'll see him differently and even almost cheer him. The effects were so well done that the CG did not look cheesy or unreal! The directors stay true to most part about Iron Man too which please most fans... including me hehe. I found later that the CG was done by ILM (Industrial Lights & Magic), one of the world's best in the field of special effects and CG! The company that was formed long ago by George Lucas to do the special effects for Star Wars. Iron Man movie also has a score of good soundtracks and I guessed it was because at the ending credits of the movie I saw the name Hans Zimmer. At long last too finally I get to see Nick Fury! Acted by Samuel L. Jackson! Its like watching the Ultimate Nick Fury come alive! Was so worth it! Some of you might be asking 'where where? I did not see Samuel L Jackson'. Well unfortunately so did many of my friends. You only see this part at the very very end of the movie after all the credits! Yes, when the movie ended, I sat and waited for 15 mins of credits to see the 'hidden' ending! It was worth it! Anyways I found out this wont be the last we see Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark this year, he will be making a cameo as Tony Stark in the upcoming Incredible Hulk movie! They should put Nick Fury in all of them bleh.

Today was pretty busy in the office. I managed to stray from my work and surf the web a bit and went to Wikipedia, did a wiki on Uwe Boll. Yup! the infamous games-to-movie director! Everytime you watch a movie with his company logo appearing should be like a bio hazard warning to stay away! I just don't see why this guy is still making movies! Doesn't he know he just plainly suck?!?! He approach Blizzard and asked them to buy the rights to make Warcraft's movie to which they replied - "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you... especially not to you". WTF is wrong with UWE BOLL?!?!? As if Blizzard will sell the rights ever to him! Everyone should boycott him making any more games' movie adaptation! I found a website where everyone is petitioning for him to stop making movies. The Guardian newspaper ran an article claiming Boll had promised to retire if an online petition at petitiononline.com asking him to do so received 1,000,000 signatures. I've signed so must you! Everyone in the whole world must sign it! End the horror of Uwe Boll! I've decided to add the link to it on this blog site of mine. Anyways, even if you don't feel like signing it, you should go there and read the comments left by petitioners. Its just so fucking funny! Pretty entertaining too!

Event Horizon

Today I was almost late in reaching my office, which... starts work at 10 am :P Unfortunately for me, I spend the night watching The Man. A movie with Samuel L. Jackson in it. Its totally hilarious! The other dude everyone knows him from American Pie. Its like Samuel L. Jackson doing the same thing on Die Hard 3 but this time he gets to be the bad ass cop!

Anyways... back on the road. After watching the movie it was around 5 am and thats about what time I slept hehe. A good movie can do that to a man. This morning I woke up miraculously at 9.30am! 30 minutes to spare. I took my showers and rush down to take a cab. Managed to reached the office 6 minutes before 10 am! On the way to office, the cab driver and I had an interesting conversation. He started off by saying why is it our government's law enforcement is so inefficient( I immediately liked the guy). I at first nod at what he had to say. He was telling me how compare to the Law Enforcements agency in overseas (and by 'law enforcements agency' i do mean the police, inspectors and most of all anti-corruption agency), our country's police and agencies are always being tied up to politics. To take action against a case or someone big shot will always end up being political whereas in overseas, police officers, detectives, agents would constantly investigate and find proofs that their own respective agency can use against certain parties, or basically anyone they think is dirty. I was sort of agreeing with the guy, don't really know if overseas agencies are really that efficient heh. But the main point was that, this guy is obviously unhappy with our country's police force or law enforcing agencies. This is not the first time I hear this. There are countless people who have express their disappointment with our police force. Whether if it is corruption or lack of initiatives taken by them, it is clear that they have or are losing the people's trust. I am not going to say much about it, but I will say, in order to chance, it all has to start from the ones above. If the top change, the lower ranks will follow in example. When I say the top, I do not mean just the head of police or director of the agency, I mean people who are leading our country.

Reading The Star today, looks like Lingam is going to be a scape goat. According to the paper's source, "confidence in the judiciary and the integrity of the Anti-Corruption Agency would be affected if no action were taken." Is this fear I smell? Is this some sort of act to woo us back? In right the government should always be in fear of the people! Just as it is spoken in the movie V for Vendetta, " the people should never have to fear the government, but the government should fear the people." In a way this is so true. The people elect you to be their voice and not their tormentor.

Looks like Air Asia came through with their promise to 'head butt' with MAS (Malaysian Airlines) on 'who-has-the-cheapest-fair' promotion. It seems these bitter brothers will forever try to outwit each other in the business. Why can't they just work together? Can't they just play nice and get along? Don't they know all this is making them look bad on the papers especially MAS, an elegant international carrier that prides with their service and dare I say, hot air stewardess. Datuk Tony Fernandes said that the Air Asia's latest promotion to counter MAS' latest zero cost promotion means that the airline (Air Asia) knows what travellers want. Erm... honestly, I don't know about anybody else but, I DONT WANT TO PAY FOR HAVING MY LUGGAGE CHECKED INTO THE PLANE! NOR DO I WANT TO PAY EXTREMELY INFLATED PRICES FOR A SIMPLE MINERAL WATER OR SANDWICH ON THE PLANE! Honestly like my friend said, here is one side, MAS offering zero fare tickets, travellers only need to pay for fuel and airport tax. While on the other side, Air Asia has their latest 'sub zero' promotion, having same as MAS, travellers only need to pay for fuel and airport tax. A little extra is that they will give a RM 5 discount on fuel surcharge. Honestly, if you were to think about it, even though there is an RM 5 discount for Air Asia's package, WHO THE FUCK CARES?? This being because if we just pay a little more for MAS tickets, we can enjoy luxurious seats, service and my favourite, we DON'T NEED TO PAY FOR OUR FOOD! Honestly, if we were to pay for the same amount of good food we get when we fly with Air Asia, the ticket price is probably going to be the same or higher. Oh well on the good side, due to this open battle between these two airlines, we get at least 3 million plus seats of zero fare this year! WTF are you waiting for??? Book now!

Anyways... gotta end here now. Work in office needs to be done. Tonight gona go watch Ironman finally! Can't wait to see 'Nigga' Fury! You asked why I called this character Nigga Fury? Well originally in Marvel comics Nick Fury was WHITE DUDE! Then when they came out with a reboot in the marvel universe under the name Ultimate (Ultimate X-men, Ultimate Spider-man, etc...) they decided to change Nick Fury to a black African American. Reason? He looks cooler as a black dude... and I agree! Plus, when they created him for the Ultimate universe, Nick Fury was modeled after actor Samuel L. Jackson! So! as you can see, they've actually got Samuel L. Jackson to play the cameo part! Yep... I get excited easily over small things... :D

Day of days - port from old blog 10th May 2008

Looks like I'll have to purge any plans till July. Apparently I was given an ultimatum last night to look for a new place to bunk my hide. Well, it actually doesn't sound that way, one of my house mate told me that she'll be going to Singapore to work as I guess her new job finally found a slot to transfer her over. Anyways, told me it'll be on July and that the other 3rd house mate has no plans yet (but honestly, I have a grave feeling everyones moving out. Things aren't all 'braddy bunch' around here, but thats another tale for another time). Well thats pretty much the highlight of this month. Last month was Job hunting, this month is going to be Home Hunting. Thats my life. Life's a bitch and then you die.

Today As I viewed the news on The Star's online website, there was a news following up the Lingam case. Apparently, but unfortunately for him, the Royal Commission Inquiry has come to a conclusion(after so many moons) that the video is authentic( I bet you 10 bucks an 8 year old kid can do that in 5 mins!). Honestly... took them that long? I guess they must have really believed Lingam when he said - " It looks like me and talks like me, but I don't really think it's me...". I mean come on... wtf kind of defense was that? The video purely shows his face and voice... and here he goes saying it looks like him and talks like him but it might not be him? WoW... either the juries all have bad eyesight or they're playing a pirated VCD version of the video that is so badly recorded that you can't see or hear Jack shit on it! So boys and girls... remember now, if you're ever caught for a crime on video... just say " It looks like me, and talks like me, but I don't really think it's me!"

Another piece of news that caught my eye was that DAP leaders calling to suspend the country's infamous 3 month National Service. I say HELL YA! About time someone suggested that! It took them almost 20 deaths to realized that??? Honestly after more than 5 death that should at least raised an eye that 'dude.. this shit just ain't working...' I think the smart parents by now rather pay high price to doctors so that their sons and daughters can be declared 'unfit' for NS! Its like sending your child to a death trap obstacle course!(or a Spartan training camp hehe). I hope this gets through to the government. The NS is just too damn short(3 months) to make any difference to any kid as opposed to Singapore's NS which is 2 years(correct me if I'm wrong). Its more like a honey pot to feed someone else' pocket! Anyways, again, I do hope it is decided to either stop it or make it better and full proof (I opt for the 1st choice really...). I just don't want to see my friend's kids or younger siblings coming back in a body bag.

Anyways, thats it for now in this early morning. I'll leave you with this clip of Jay Leno, promised to leave you laughing your heads off!

Stage 1 - ported from old blog 9th May 2008

Okay... I've decided to blog. At least I got somewhere I can bitch about when I am bored in office:P

I guess this is because these days I have got alot on my mind that I want to spill out. It doesn't help that these days our goverment parties are playing catch ball with each other's legacy after the previous election. Yep... looks like things are going to change around here. But did we throw out a bad apple and bought another bad one? Only time will tell.

On a side note, I've just landed myself a new job. Yeh, my absence has left most of you out there questioning my existence. Fear not, this little naughty boy is still around. This new job comes with a new perk i liked. It seems, this company starts work at 10am.... AAaaannndd.... they still finish work at 6pm!!! Makes life a little easier to like. Well bad part about the trade off is, I gotta work half day on Saturdays (there goes my weekends). I guess its the basics in life. You can't have another without losing something else(this works only for us poor people... not you rich jerks!).

A few weeks ago as I walk to the Ampang Park LRT from my office (yes, now you know where I work hurray!), I noticed some graffiti on the walls of the subway opening down to the underground station. It was just 3 simple letters... A B U. As I got closer I could see 3 words on the bottom of it. They were, Asalkan Bukan UMNO. I laugh my pants off next. I don't really play favorites between the parties, but this kinda stuff is just fucking funny. Gotta luv random graffiti. I guess people are just fed up with the corruption, lies and slander by the government. People are wishing for a government that ACTUALLY wants to help the people! Not someone who wants to get up there so he can start bringing in the cheques! I mean look at the first assembly at they had. They started arguing and refuting at each other like lil' kids. Our PM were so ashamed that he called off the Live telecast! I mean WTF?? There's is this quote by Jay Leno in one of his shows,

" Politics are actually from two words, Poly, meaning Many and Tics meaning Bloodsuckers. Together, Politics mean Many Bloodsuckers!" - Jay Leno

Oh how so true. Luv that guy.

Open Minds Initiative - Genesis

Originally I decided to blog and started it on friendster blog but due to the limitations there, I've decided to move everything over here :)

Why Open Minds Initiative? Well lets just say what I intend to post in my blog are probably on issues that seemed too ignorant for some to take seriously. Be it on my country or the world.

Well this is a short introduction. Nothing much to say in intros, my blogs will speak for me :P

happy readings.