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.