New Layout

Finally, I've changed the background. Took me a little while to re-design the new layout. Pheww~~ Hey, Johny, I stole your code! Haha. Anyway, I've changed the gray sky of the original photo with a brighter, sunnier cloud. Yes it's still cloudy, but Malaysia's sky is never blue and clean.

Like it? Does it reflect something in your mind about KL life?

Random Blog

I've been reading some blogs randomly through the net. I tend to crave for more fun entries to read, so that somehow I could find myself a little inspiration to write something. But damn, I found that a blog with lotsa abbreviations, tons of unidentified emotion symbols, mixing up with unknown Malay words is really hard to read (i'm referring this to Malaysian blogs). Unlike reading an article, it's more like reading a conversation in between two MSN users in a private chatroom.

Frankly, now I totally agree that a blog is place where you can bitch about your daily life which nobody is interested in. Some people just have nothing better to do but write some shitty and dull things on the web. Somehow, a brilliant thought or an intelligent idea that brightens up both the reader and the blogger's mind is considered rare.

I even found the following entry funny:
'OH look, 8 persons actually commented on my previous entry.'

What the...

Temptation of mamak food

Nes-Lo Ice Kosong is my favorite drink in mamak. It's a mixture of Nescafe and Milo.
I was telling this to my friends in mamak last nite:
'Do you know there's a new drink in mamak? It's a combination of Horlick, Milo, Kopi and Teh...'
'What's that called?' the curious one asked.
'They named it 'Lick-Mi-Ko-teh' I said.
Got it? You're not laughing. C'mon, it's a joke~!

To digress a little, I got an advice for the fat-ass who's sitting right in front of this com screen, writing this blog:
~ Stop succumbing to the temptation of mamak food. Sigh. You're getting fatter.

Damn.

Interviewed

How did it go? Yeah, the interview. Well, basically, they'll pay more than that of my basic salary. Technically, they want someone with strong technical background. Urgently, they want someone with high sense of urgency. Frankly, i think they want someone named Frank, that's not me...

I'm truly interested in the job but I think my technical background as a production engineer isn't strong enough to make the interviewer believe that I'm better than other candidates who have experiences in machine repairing. I've tried my best. Well, still stand a chance. Now it depends on how good other candidates are.

An Interview

Last Friday evening, I received a phone call from GE (General Electric), telling me that I'm shortlisted for a job interview on Monday. Whoa..! I've been long waiting for a reply from this company that I admire.

I browsed thru the Internet for more information of this company. And here's a summary of what I've found:

1) In 1876, Thomas Edison opened a new laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Out of the laboratory was to come perhaps the most famous invention of all — a successful development of the incandescent electric lamp. By 1890, Edison had organized his various businesses into the Edison General Electric Company.

2) In 1987, GE was the United States' second largest nuclear power company and third largest producer of nuclear weapons systems.

3) In 2004, GE bought from Vivendi Universal the television and movie assets and became the third largest media conglomerate in the world.

4) Going into 2005, it was the world's largest corporation in terms of market capitalization. The company's market cap is almost $100 billion higher than that of Microsoft. As of March 28, 2005, GE had a market cap of approximately US$379 billion, leading Exxon-Mobil by $2 billion.

6) In 2004 GE was named number one company for employers and employees on the Forbes 500 Global Player list.

7) GE participates in a wide variety of markets including the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, lighting, industrial automation, medical imaging equipment, motors, railway locomotives, aircraft jet engines, aviation services and materials such as plastics, silicones and abrasives.

8) It was co-founder and is 80% owner (with Vivendi Universal) of NBC Universal, the National Broadcasting Company.

9) As GE Commercial Finance, GE Consumer Finance, GE Equipment Services, and GE Insurance it offers a range of financial services as well. It has a presence in over 100 countries.

10) It is one of the largest lenders in countries other than the United States, such as Japan.


Pheww...!! This is a company I admire at all time.

The Bat in the Dark

Ever since the last big screen Batman and Robin showing in theatre a decade ago (1996?), Batman Begins is a long-waiting movie for all the bat-fans. I'm not a fan. Just interested in knowing who will be wearing the batsuit, and of coz, all those fancy Bat-weapons that help the Bat-guy to against the bad guys..

I'd still prefer Michael Keaton who played the role as Batman. Amongst George Clooney, Val Kilmer and others, I think he is the perfect Batman ever and there's no better match. His arched eyebrows are so cool and remarkable. Haha.

Here's Batman Begins, with Christian Bale playing the role of Bruce Wayne - Batman.

P/S: I like the new bat symbol

To Be Relocated?

Had a drink with Nic at the mamak the other nite. Were talking about the boredom that might occur if we happened to work in Penang. We both presumed that we would have a dull life over there because the island is a strange world for non-local like us. I just have so many friends and things-to-do here that make my days. I'm not saying I can't start with a new life in a whole new environment. I did that before. Alienating myself from the accustomed people and places might make me a loner. The main reason is, if given a choice to choose a place to work, I would rather work in a place that i'm familar with. If you know what I mean. It makes no difference in your career path but your personal life would be distant from what you expect. With all these bloody excuses, maybe I'm not ready to give up happening life in KL. Maybe it's just me who's playing trick with myself.

However, it didn't perish the thought of giving it a try. I've turned in a resume to a friend of mine who is working in Penang. Well, as a KL local, he did mention things like 'no life in Penang', 'no kaki to hang out with' to me when I asked him about life over there. The job is well-paid and he told me it's all about money. He said it actually made no difference because we're still working in this pathetic country. BUT, if given an opportunity to work in the states or any other foreign country, I would go for it without second thought. I need a refreshing place.

Afterall, life isn't just about money. Balancing both working and social life is such a thing to learn.

New Words for 2005

*I actually do the first one at work and the last one at home*

BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS - The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

SALMON DAY - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.

CUBE FARM - An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)

MOUSE POTATO - The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

SITCOMs - Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".

STRESS PUPPY - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the cr*p out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

ADMINISPHERE - The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" needless paperwork and processes.

404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.

OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')

MILLENNIUM DOMES - The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there's actually nought in there worth seeing.

MONKEY BATH - A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Ho! Aa! Aa! Aa!".

Lack of something..

Damn, I gotta admit that I'm a poor blogger. Ideas are lacking for me to write. Even Johny started blogging later than me writes more than I do. It really makes me envy when everyone can get online during office hours while I'm seperated from the boundary of Internet at work. At night, it's tiring to power up my brain to think and blog. Try my best la.

P/S: I gotta admit that I like reading ppl's blogs more than writing. Hehe.