Corporations!!

Alot of older people are asking "how come the new generation workers keep on changing job? Why cant they be loyal to their employers like us? " Well I think I have found out why? Well during the 70s and the 80s our country are growing rapidly. There are many small or medium companies owned solely by one or two person. This bosses are brought up by the old school asian businessman style where they take care of the welfare of their workers. They may be fierce but they know how to treat their workers right. Put it in simple terms, they show appreciation and loyalty to their workers. But not now, all this company have grew up to be big corporations and the western way of employment where you are the worker and we pay you only style comes in. Too many people tend to take power and the hierachy becomes complicated. With this the workers dont know whether to be loyal to who. Their immediate manager? or their boss that never even know them at all?

This is the reason why... the younger generation also been influenced by the western way of thinking where performance and numbers are the main topic. Without even seeing the real scenario anymore. The bosses never come down and get on the field with their workers anymore. The feel of family is not there anymore just the feel of boss and worker, master and slave. No wonder there isnt any loyalty anymore!

I as a young worker, speaks on behalf!!! "all we want is some appreciation and some acknowledgement in our work! " if we do wrong... teach us and not strangle us and threaten to fire us! that is not family... and that is not loyalty!!!

Hoping for the hopeless

There was a jobfair/careerfair/a fair that fresh grads put their hopes and dreams on last weekend. My company opened a booth there for 1. publicity and 2. hoping to recruit some 'potentials'. Do you still remember that recent years there is always this issue where the unemployment rate is so damn high among fresh grads in Malaysia? Well, after this 'fair' i have come to realise why...

So let me begin my barage of views and suggestions for the young hopefuls out there. This is what i noticed during the whole 3 days of the fair.

1. YOU KNOW that you are coming for a jobfair and YOU KNOW that there will be interviews or viewing from your future potential employers, yet you wear... CASUAL! Worse off is that for guys your HAIR is unkept and you are not clean shaven. For girls, you come as if you just 'happen' to drop by from your shopping spree. Hair all one kind, make up like you are going for some punk rock concert. That is already a BIG NO-NO when it comes to first impression. It shows that you are not ready, a sloppy person and a person that is not serious for the task. If we were to hire you the image of the company will be spoiled. We will have to keep reminding you that your clothes need to be ironed or washed. We have to inform you to cut your hair etc etc.

2. ATTITUDE!!

a) There were a handful... wait i take that back. I would say half of the candidates that approaches our booth thinks that this is some sort of funfair or some food fair booth where u can come and laugh and play. There were so many of them that came to our booth thinking of dropping their resume or CV. When we ask them to fill in a form they took the form and laugh, play, joke and not even take it seriously to answer the questions. There was this group that came and took the form and took their own sweet time to answer. And the best part is i saw them sitting nearby joking and playing among each other... HELLO... you are applying for a job le! not filling in some contest form!!!

b) There are some that come to the booth as if they are god sent to save our company. Just because you 'formerly' worked in a BIG corporation that doesnt meant that you are much greater then the people you are applying your job at! Coming here all gaya and all, telling us you work for this big company before bla bla bla yada yada yada... If you are that great how come you are still not working there??!!! and stop using big names to throw on us.

my verdict... attitude reflects your character. Imagine would i want to hire someone who dont even take things seriously and instead take your own sweet time and play around? What if i gave you an important task? die la! Arrogance... if you are so arrogant then if you would have come into our company and instead question the management and your co workers on every single thing. Teamwork will be diminished. And your ability is in doubt coz if you are really that good then how come you are applying a new job at a smaller company rather then your BIG company? maybe you are just not that good after all... Being HUMBLE gets you places. WHY? coz you want a job!

3) Alertness, well when i ask the applicant to fill in the forms, there were several very basic questions being asked. Simple and direct. Such as the name of the company, what do we do etc etc... well for one they cant even answer the first question... the name of the company!!! all just blindly apply coz they see us as a media company and 'glamour' hits their head instantly!!! Without even seeing properly or reading properly... they apply. Making them look silly. For me i think that you are not up to the task. Coz no.1 you are not alert at all! Half the answer is already on the question paper itself and yet they can ask around... sigh. My verdict... you have to be sharp and alert during this events. Read, see and think properly before you apply. Dun apply just because you see it as a glamour job...

4) Knowing your ability before you step into something... Some actually come to our booth and ask for positions such as DJ and Broadcaster when you know you cant even speak smoothly. Some is so confident they are willing to do anything... Now i know why there are so many people every year applying for american idol... Wanting to get famous! there was this guy that came straight to us and started blurting out how he wants to get a job as a speaker coz he loves to talk and talk... bursting to us telling his 'skills' and 'talent'. And when ask him to fill in the form... he have the guts to ask us... What is the name of your company? That is already a big turn off! My verdict... if you dont have such a big head, dont wear such a big hat! think before you act!

5) One of the irritating thing is alot of them never bring their resume with them. All also say can i give you the soft copy? can i send it to you? its always better to bring a hard copy of any documentation... is it that hard to bring 10-20 copy of your resume? And some are trying so hard to impress they actually attach all their certificate along with their resume! wow... thick as a book!! haha. Just the top 3 certs is good enough coz in your resume itself tells your other activities... but its ok coz its better to be safe then sorry. My verdict! always be prepared! bring hard copy documentations just incase!!!

6) Some people actually came to the booth while eating some snacks and ask if they can apply! Mamee to be exact. Bad no no again! you come here with your breath and hands smelling like dry hard noodle crackers with flavouring and filling in forms... another bad first impression. What if we hire you and we need to meet a client? I already have a bad impression on our country's immigration dept when the officer that stamps my passport is eating some oily chilli thingy and took my passport and stamp!!! my pass port can see the oil prints on the cover! That is a definate BIG NO NO!!! unprofessional!! time to eat plz go to the canteen to eat! and time to work please WORK!!! my verdict has been said!!!

Well now i know why there are so many unemployed fresh grad out there! i didnt want to admit when i read it... but with what i come through and what I noticed with my own eyes! there is a huge hole that needs to be mend and improved. I am also happy to see there are also quite a number of people with really good attitude that came and apply! Not to left them aside! just that with all the 6 problems i state above... it is what i noticed! so freshies! BUCK up or get F*CKed up!

Malaysians!

Racial unity in our country? Who are we kidding? We are united in arms but not united in heart. As long as there is a special privileges then there is no balance. When there is no balance there is no unity.

Well recently i stumble upon an article that stated that we need to implement a 'special' subject to teach about racial unity in schools. Bullshit... so when did the pendidikan moral went down the drain? well since its already damn bloody hard to pass the freaking paper. Now they want the kids to study about racial unity? what are we going to teach them? We must respect other race. We must learn to love other race... We know what to do... but that doesnt mean we will do it. Tell me how many things we learn in school is implemented in real life now?

For me the way to totally imply racial unity amongst Malaysians wont need to be in the books. It have to be cultivated in the mind. The house... especially the parents and the teachers and the leaders. Simply dont acknowledge races in the country. Do not even bring up an issue about race. Malay, chinese, indian... why cant we just be labelled as Malaysians? We do have different names so what?!

If we want to segregate races might as well we go along with the dialect and origin factor. Why? Because in one race itself is already divided into so many segments, the indons, the Kelantanese, the sheikhs, the Kadazans, the Ibans, the Hokkien, the Hakka, the Teochews, the Bhramins, the ceylonese, the Singhalese, the Malayalams, the sikhs, the sakais, the babas, the portugese, the chindians etc etc etc... just look at this... there is so many segregration but how come they still stay together? because we are one... No matter how dark or how light our skin are, or how strange or how weird our customs and religions are, end of the day all of us still bleed the same colour, we still have to earn a living, nothing special about that.

So why do we need races again?

abolish race and start as one race, the Malaysians!!

US Dollar going to collapse?

Recently I have read an article from Hal Turner, host of one of the most controversial radio show in New York, USA until it was shut down under pressure for its contents. Well now he has came up with a blog where you can read here. He recently wrote a spine chilling information about the US dollar.

I would like to quote from ewoon's blog

"He is, if you like, the equivalent of our Matthias Chang who is no bigot unlike Hal himself. The only probable common trait both share is their passion for deciphering future events that are overwhelmingly negative and life-affecting. And for their honest efforts both have similarly suffered the reputation of being often called “mad man and harbinger of bad news.”

It is believed in speculation that the North American region has came up to something that can protect the country by adopting what Euro is doing by creating a new currency called the Amero (as seen in the picture above). This is to replace the US dollar IF it collapses. Do not think that the event that is about to happen to the US Dollar will not only us. The world's economy is running with it. When one goes down... a chain reaction of things will happen. We will be affected! Being ignorant means killing ourselves. This might or might not be true but the chilling fact behind the article posted by Hal send shivers to my spine. The fact that what followed after the collapse starts to look like the movie Doomsday or V for Vendetta.

Gonna take a quote from Hal's article of this

"When this collapse happens because the government is totally broke, the welfare checks will stop. Almost immediately thereafter, civil unrest will erupt and we know who will be doing that. . . . don't we? Now you know why Barak Obama is being pushed so hard for President. The powers-that-be know what's coming and they want a black man in the White House with the hope he can control "his" people. It won't work. They'll just call him an Uncle Tom or an OREO cookie and then go on their merry way to rape, rob, pillage, burn and kill. In fact, to prove I'm right about the Obama situation, check out what VP candidate Senator Joe Biden said this past weekend. Biden 'guaranteed" that Barak Obama "will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions." Telling us all that we're going to lose 90% of the value of our life savings sure will be unpopular. I wonder if the Secret Service agents who lose their life savings too, will bother protecting Obama from assassination; or might they kill him themselves? After all, the Zapruder film proves the secret service agent driving John F. Kennedy in Dallas, turned around and shot him in the head. That's why his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, tried climbing out of the back of the limo after it happened! She saw who shot her husband. It happened once, it can happen again!"

So what is exactly gonna happen? god knows! Are we gonna listen to this paranoid white supremacist? or are we going to ignore everything? All I know is that we are going to see many interesting things happening in months to come. 2009 wont be a smooth one...

Finding our roots

Its true a nation is indeed and in need to evolve and move forward. But what ever we've done we have altered and skewed our vision as a nation when we first started.

"Akan kekal menjadi sebuah negara demokrasi, yang merdeka dan yang berdaulat serta mendasarkan kebebasan dan keadilan dan mengkekalkan keamanan di antara bangsa"

Which translates...

It is said that we will be a democratic country which is independent with sovereignty. Also based on freedom and justice to maintain peace among races.

So what are we doing??? Fighting among races? we may have different skin tone but we are from the same family. What is with the grudge? what is with all this hatred? we need to wipe it off our mind. Teachers, parents and most of all... our LEADERS! Remember why our forefathers fought so damn f*cking hard to get our freedom. What we have today, what we eat today, where we stay today is fought so hard by our forefathers and we do not have the rights to dismantle the country they build.

51 years... 51 freaking years we live together... why our leaders live together? I really hope we can walk together hand in hand as Malaysians to build on what our forefathers fought for and prove to the world that we Malaysians no matter what drama our leaders are in will stand hand in hand united and harmoniously!

LETS MAKE THIS DREAM TRUE IN MALAYSIA!

Where is the justice? Where is the freedom? The famous "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King. This is the moment our country needs. No difference in race, religion and people. We are one. We can take this historic speech to apply to our country too.


"I refuse to believe the Bank of Justice is bankrupt"

"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

A little of this and a little of that

How can this happen? the fuel price dropped twice and yet nothing dropped? Well its not surprising that the price of consumer goods or foods have just stopped. Just up up up no down down down. The petrol price raise 10sen per liter their food raise 10sen per plate! incredible! So now I really wonder should I venture into my own business and start selling things with extravagant prices. Sad to see this. Really.

The cost of living in KL is just so high. How can a cup of normal coffee cost RM1.50? madness!! No wonder the mamak stalls are now sprouting all over KL. You dont see lots of mamak at other town besides KL or Penang. Why? coz ppl there wont be willing to pay crazy price for something that is not worth it. They rather go home and make one cuppa for less than half the price! The last time i had a cup of really cheap drink was 2 years ago at PJ Old Town near Jalan Penchala. One cup of 'Teh o ais' and one cup of 'teh tarik' cost me the total of... ONE cup of teh tarik at the more commercialised MAMAK. But since the government build a proper stall for them and provide them with a FIX electricity the price started to chase the others. Now one cup of 'Teh o ais' is RM1.20. In some kopi tiam, a cup of warm/ice water cost 50sen!!! wahlao eh! 50sen for warm water. They sell 3 cups already manage to cover to cost of the whole container of water. Imagine how much water is there in there. Just have to sell all of that cups of water they can generate 3-4 times the cost of it. Sometimes i wonder is the ice water even cooked?!!

Some prices of food is even more ridiculous! Normal fried rice is RM4.00. and to add a fried egg it cost an extra Rm1.50!! WTF? so expensive ar the egg? the cooking oil also use recycled cooking oil!!Madness. The food quality is not even good. Honestly, the quality is inconsistent. For one moment its too salty, then one moment too oily and sometimes... its just too crappy!

There was once I had a meal with a close friend of mine, he ordered a maggi goreng. Guess what he found in his maggi goreng? a ripped section of the flavouring packet. We told them the situation and ask the person in charge to meet us, he was like so reluctant and didnt even know how to handle the case! The only thing he said is, he wont charge us for the price. The fella that cooked the food dont even dare to come out and instead gave the look of dissatisfaction! You did a mistake and gotten angry??! We warned them but yet the service still sucks and the food... lets just not go there. Thank god I dont eat there anymore!

Sometimes I wonder should I start boycotting some of this crappy service Kopi Tiams and Mamak stalls or not. Charges extravagant prices and dont even have the slight courtesy to give at least a decent service! They kept on forgetting that there are so many other Kopi tiams and mamak stalls. U might offend one client but the chain reaction will eventually kill your business for sure! one by one... slowly all will leave.

So lets drift back to the fuel situation. I am glad that the price has dropped. At least now I can save an extra bit more of money. Just that I really hope that all this consumer goods and foods will be kind enough to look into this and drop the price! I know its going to be tough as before this most people's pay was raised and the transportation cost was raised and the rental was raised so on and so forth. But something have to be done. I hope something will be done!