The Summer Olympics has arrived in London and it will be held for around 2 weeks from 27 July until 12 August 2012. The Games has entered its 3rd day, and few Malaysians have completed their participation with not so encouraging results.
Some of them has completed their games and got eliminated early. However, it was encouraging when we heard the guys competed professionally and bravely to overcome their stronger opponents. Frankly, other than badminton and cycling, we are no where near the top athletes and far away from their standards. We know our limitations and I believe the fans don't blame them.
But, it was not a good thing to know that our cycling athletes for the 250km road race who did not finished the race. One of them dropped out at round 7 and the other at round 8 of a 9 rounds circuit. I don't understand why they chose to stopped in their quest to compete when their team manager has given them the task to at least complete the race.
We can't accept the reason that they are young and can be forgived. We are paying for their trip there and they are supposed to compete and come back with what ever result that they are capable of getting. But now we are seeing 2 DNF in their score card and what are they going to say when they come back to face the Malaysian public? Is this the typical tak apa attitude that we commonly see in the Malaysian athlete's?
Heard of Eric "The Eel" from the Sydney 2000 Olympics where he completed his swimming race double the time of the winner? Why can't these 2 guys persevered and did the same? This is not BOLEH, this is BOLIAU!
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Friday, July 27, 2012
They Are Mr 4Malaysia
We are seeing these 2 guys appearing in the news very often lately. One is the opposition MP for PJ Utara, Tony Pua and the other is the PKR strategy director, Rafizi Ramli. I believe they are both the most loved and most hated politicians nowadays.
It is interesting and refreshing for Malaysians, especially those on the "other" side of the politics hear and see the issues they brought up and the argument they put forward. Though many people will claim what these guys are fighting for is populist and meant to beg for vote, at least they are saying with conscience and on the behalf of the people.
From the recent episodes of the cowgate, watergate and cargate, they are alarming the Malaysian populations about what we have been through and the shortcomings we are receiving all this while from the government. On the other hand, the government side retaliated and rubbishing by rubbish reasons in the name of defending the industry and kedaulatan.
Therefore, I salute these guys and they should be nominated for the Mr 4Malaysia title. It is easier for laymen like me to accept 4Malaysia than to understand the meaning of 1Malaysia.
It is interesting and refreshing for Malaysians, especially those on the "other" side of the politics hear and see the issues they brought up and the argument they put forward. Though many people will claim what these guys are fighting for is populist and meant to beg for vote, at least they are saying with conscience and on the behalf of the people.
From the recent episodes of the cowgate, watergate and cargate, they are alarming the Malaysian populations about what we have been through and the shortcomings we are receiving all this while from the government. On the other hand, the government side retaliated and rubbishing by rubbish reasons in the name of defending the industry and kedaulatan.
Therefore, I salute these guys and they should be nominated for the Mr 4Malaysia title. It is easier for laymen like me to accept 4Malaysia than to understand the meaning of 1Malaysia.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Suspicious Logo Appearing in Damansara Jaya
I have been seeing this logo of a man wearing a hat with arrow on his back popping up around Damansara Jaya, PJ area. It looks like those sprayed ad that we often see, either on massage, flat tyre or money lender. However, since it doesn't have info other than a logo and 2 names in English and Chinese, it gives us the fearful thought that it could be link to a cult, robber group or just some itchy-hand young kids who likes to show off their design talent. However, many of these appeared on the side wall and drain, and seldom on the premise wall.
Not long ago, we read from the internet that there are some symbols in which robbers mark on premise that they have "visited" or targeted. Could this be one? Wonder if there's anyone who can correctly explain the meaning of this symbol.
Not long ago, we read from the internet that there are some symbols in which robbers mark on premise that they have "visited" or targeted. Could this be one? Wonder if there's anyone who can correctly explain the meaning of this symbol.
Logo Hari Merdeka That We Don't Like At All
I was wondering if we had a National day logo competition this year. Today is the first time we are seeing this year's logo, and similar to what has happened to the slogan, it got hammered from all directions.
The only thing I thought was OK were the colors used, meaning that the designer has complied to our standard 4 colors of blue, yellow, red and white. However, beyond that, this is really bad, lousy, amateurish and downright not reflecting our progressive country.
The above picture was taken from Malaysian Insider, and it is really good to show and compare how bad looking is this logo. It gives me the feeling that it was designed from a simple software, with possibility that Microsoft Paint was used. There is no special design elements, and the message came out directly and left no room for people to interpret. The location of the words and font are too many and haphazard.
If this logo came out top in the logo competition, I would not be surprised as we are seeing again that whenever there is a competition, the best would not win. This has been happening very frequently in government tenders.
Besides, I personally think that the slogan, "55 Tahun Merdeka, Janji Ditepati" does not fit to the occasion at all. Usually whenever or whoever refers to the independence day (Merdeka), people will think about unity and progress, and it is in a form of ushering people. But this years slogan sounded very much like a statement that needs people to acknowledge and accept. We have heard Ministers defending this crap, and soon it's time that other aligned NGOs will come forward to defend it with whatever crap reasons. The worse will be for them to freely branding those who criticize as pengkhianat negara. I fear for this day...
The only thing I thought was OK were the colors used, meaning that the designer has complied to our standard 4 colors of blue, yellow, red and white. However, beyond that, this is really bad, lousy, amateurish and downright not reflecting our progressive country.
The above picture was taken from Malaysian Insider, and it is really good to show and compare how bad looking is this logo. It gives me the feeling that it was designed from a simple software, with possibility that Microsoft Paint was used. There is no special design elements, and the message came out directly and left no room for people to interpret. The location of the words and font are too many and haphazard.
If this logo came out top in the logo competition, I would not be surprised as we are seeing again that whenever there is a competition, the best would not win. This has been happening very frequently in government tenders.
Besides, I personally think that the slogan, "55 Tahun Merdeka, Janji Ditepati" does not fit to the occasion at all. Usually whenever or whoever refers to the independence day (Merdeka), people will think about unity and progress, and it is in a form of ushering people. But this years slogan sounded very much like a statement that needs people to acknowledge and accept. We have heard Ministers defending this crap, and soon it's time that other aligned NGOs will come forward to defend it with whatever crap reasons. The worse will be for them to freely branding those who criticize as pengkhianat negara. I fear for this day...
Illogical Argument on Defending Syabas and Proton
Today we saw the argument on slashing the tax on automotive coming out from Perkasa. As usual, they with their 2 sen arguments defending what the government is doing and hammering what the opposition is saying. Earlier on, the Pakatan Rakyat revealed that they will slash the tax so that people will not be burdened by absurd and unnecessary tax on imported cars. Then, came Khairy to say that the national car maker, Proton will go under water if this is imposed.
What these people is defending is just a company, not the people of the country. They are putting focus on the wrong thing and expect people to follow suit. These are the people who always say about being nationalistic but yet they themselves not doing it. Try to see if they are driving Proton or not.
This is the kind of funny things coming out from Malaysian politicians, where there is no concrete reason behind their hoo-haa. The other issue that we heard recently was about defending Syabas and hammering the Selangor state government about the water issue. The same argument goes that they have to defend the concessionaire and transfer what ever burden to the people.
It's time we should save Malaysia from all these crapsters. No point giving out millions to foreign consultants to better Malaysia's image when in the country, we have these rascals doing the funny things to memalukan kita.
What these people is defending is just a company, not the people of the country. They are putting focus on the wrong thing and expect people to follow suit. These are the people who always say about being nationalistic but yet they themselves not doing it. Try to see if they are driving Proton or not.
This is the kind of funny things coming out from Malaysian politicians, where there is no concrete reason behind their hoo-haa. The other issue that we heard recently was about defending Syabas and hammering the Selangor state government about the water issue. The same argument goes that they have to defend the concessionaire and transfer what ever burden to the people.
It's time we should save Malaysia from all these crapsters. No point giving out millions to foreign consultants to better Malaysia's image when in the country, we have these rascals doing the funny things to memalukan kita.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Entrepreneurship Lesson : Don't Have To Be Something Big
Got a chance to have a quick read on mywifequitherjob.com, and picked up the following pointers from the author that I think everyone should learn about entrepreneurship. I'm sure he will be more than glad for more people to read and adopt them.
> Entrepreneurship isn’t really about what you do, it’s about how you do it and whether you are meeting your own personal goals and expectations.
> We all need to decide early on what our business goals are and stick with them.
> The last thing I want is to run a business that consumes all of my time with only a small chance of a big payout.
> We didn’t want to quit our jobs while our business was unestablished so we resigned ourselves to something we could create only during the weekends. We chose to open an online store because of the following benefits.
> The important thing is to get up off of your ass and do something about it. Be proud of whatever you are doing and feel a sense of purpose.
> Entrepreneurship isn’t really about what you do, it’s about how you do it and whether you are meeting your own personal goals and expectations.
> We all need to decide early on what our business goals are and stick with them.
> The last thing I want is to run a business that consumes all of my time with only a small chance of a big payout.
> We didn’t want to quit our jobs while our business was unestablished so we resigned ourselves to something we could create only during the weekends. We chose to open an online store because of the following benefits.
- You don’t have to meet with any clients during the day.
- You can work at your own pace, decide when to launch or add products at your leisure
- You can sell your products directly on the web with very little customer intervention. Of course this depends on what you are selling but we chose products that met this criteria.
> The important thing is to get up off of your ass and do something about it. Be proud of whatever you are doing and feel a sense of purpose.
I Am Not Interested Because I Can't Be The DG
I just saw this funny news, at least according to Malaysian standard. The Chairman of the Public Service Commission (PSC) is making a plea to get non-Malay to join the government. He said that only 2% of the total recruitment belonged to this group of people. He also mentioned that they are working on relaxing the recruitment ruling so that it is easier or attractive for non-Malays to apply.
If you ask any non-Malay for the reason, especially my group of people, I can say 100% of them will give the same answer. There is totally no need to revamp the recruitment and waste the money to do all those stupid studies. They just need to ask back their own people, are they willing to promote a non-Malay to higher position and what is the number? Most likely some group of NGO will make noise and threats, and it is back to the square one.
He doesn't need to put up a play and lie to us, especially when the Ramadan month is coming tomorrow. Just say you know the reason and work on it.
If you ask any non-Malay for the reason, especially my group of people, I can say 100% of them will give the same answer. There is totally no need to revamp the recruitment and waste the money to do all those stupid studies. They just need to ask back their own people, are they willing to promote a non-Malay to higher position and what is the number? Most likely some group of NGO will make noise and threats, and it is back to the square one.
He doesn't need to put up a play and lie to us, especially when the Ramadan month is coming tomorrow. Just say you know the reason and work on it.
Mi Sedaap or Mie Sedaap ?
Mi Sedaap Goreng Asli flavour is my favourite instant mee goreng. I particularly like the bawang goreng (fried garlic) that will be added into the noodle during serving.
Previously, I have seen from an advertorial published in The Star that announced Mi Sedaap has a clone by the name of Mie Sedaap. If I'm not mistaken, the clone was from Indonesia. Even on the website, the spelling should be Mi Sedaap. What surprises me was that I found one of the sachet has Mie Sedaap logo, instead of Mi Sedaap.
So, am I buying a clone product, or there is a typo error on the wording? I will lodge a complaint to the website of Gentle Supreme and see what is their response.
* Added: 24/07
Previously, I have seen from an advertorial published in The Star that announced Mi Sedaap has a clone by the name of Mie Sedaap. If I'm not mistaken, the clone was from Indonesia. Even on the website, the spelling should be Mi Sedaap. What surprises me was that I found one of the sachet has Mie Sedaap logo, instead of Mi Sedaap.
So, am I buying a clone product, or there is a typo error on the wording? I will lodge a complaint to the website of Gentle Supreme and see what is their response.
> Here is the reply:
>> For your information, Mi Sedaap is registered in Malaysia. That is
why all communication, product packing and etc are used to communicated
as "Mi". However, Mie is the original brand usage in
our Headquarter in Indonesia and others part of Asia country. We use to
communicate as "Mi" is to prevent any parallel importer that import
products direct from Indonesia. Hence, we like to known ourselves as
"Mi" rather then Mie.
In addition, all our product are produced in
Indonesia, thus, the inner sachet packs will be still using the mother
brand due to cost saving issue. Only the outer packing will be uses Mi
which has been trademark in Malaysia.
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