8/29/2008

A good leader

There are some people who can never be a leader. Even he become a leader coincidently, he will be a lousy leader. May be he is a good leader in the eyes of his staffs (to certain extent only)and he is a good leader in the eyes of his boss (to certain extend too), he is a good leader only when everything go on smoothly!

This leader can go to karaoke, barbecue with the staffs like friends. He will help the staffs to cover up all the mistake that the staffs made, he will approve the leave for all the staffs under his responsibility, he will answer his staffs phone call after office hour to help her writing an official email.

Hey, why am I saying that he is not a good leader? He should be a perfect leader?! Of course not! He will never be a good leader.

Ya, many leaders go to karaoke, barbecue with the staffs like friends but will their girl friend being asked by the staffs to sing and being "scold" because can't sing well? Will the staffs ask the leader to prepare for food during barbecue? okok, there might be some really close team will do so.

Show me one leader who will allow the staffs to do careless mistake client's place and help them to cover up? Ya, you help the staffs to cover up without punishment to them, so they take it for granted and made the same mistake again. This time the client get crazy and shout at the stupid leader. Ended up, the leader ruined his own reputation and need to fire the staff because the client do not want the staff in his place anymore.

The leader approved the leave for all the staffs under his responsibility. Ended up, when there is a rejection, the staffs get very angry and question him "why every time can approve but this time can not?", " why you approve the leave for her but not me?", "you can cover for me, so I want to on leave!".

The leader answer his staffs phone call after office hour to help her writing an official email. "Boss, I don't know how to write the email, it's so hard." " Let me teach you, you type everything that I read to you now." In the other way, it's like this: "Boss, I'm hungry, I don't know how to cook." "No worries, let me cook for you, now you open your mouth, I feed you."

What if the staff just type the email exactly like what the leader read and didn't do any second checking before send out, then there are mistakes in the email. What do you think will happen? The staff will tell everyone, I called the leader, he is the one ask me to write like this, so it's not my fault. May be there is no mistake in the email but next time, same situation and the staff will call the leader again to teach her how to write the same email.

Do you still think this is a good leader? Ya, he is a good leader to his staffs, right? He is a good leader to the boss too, because all the staffs like him. Ya, because he can be scolded not only by bosses but staffs, he is just a doggy that everyone need in the company so that they got someone to blame on when anything happen, he has no respect from anyone when bad things happened. One day, when the boss finally feel that they do not need this dog anymore, this so call leader will be dump to the roadside....

F A M I L Y

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
'Oh excuse me please' was my reply.

He said, 'Please excuse me too;
I wasn't watching for you.'

We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said goodbye.

But at home a different story is told,
How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My son stood beside me very still.

When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.
'Move out of the way,' I said with a frown.

He walked away, his little heart broken.
I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.

While I lay awake in bed,
God's still small voice came to me and said,

'While dealing with a stranger,
common courtesy you use,
but the family you love, you seem to abuse.

Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You'll find some flowers there by the door.

Those are the flowers he brought for you.
He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.

He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes.'

By this time, I felt very small,
And now my tears began to fall.

I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
'Wake up, little one, wake up,' I said.

'Are these the flowers you picked for me?'
He smiled, 'I found 'em, out by the tree.

I picked 'em because they're pretty like you
I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue.'

I said, 'Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn't have yelled at you that way.'
He said, 'Oh, Mom, that's okay.
I love you anyway.'

I said, 'Son, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue.'


FAMILY
Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company
that we are working for could easily replace us in
a matter of days.
But the family we left behind will feel the loss
for the rest of their lives.


And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more
into work than into our own family,
an unwise investment indeed,
don't you think?
So what is behind the story?


Do you know what the word FAMILY means?
FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU

8/28/2008

My reason

Reason:

1. Relationship (all types) should be:
a. Sincere
i. No lies

b. Unique
i. Different people shared different memories, even is a group
activity, you might share some memories with certain friends
and some other memories with the other friends.
c. Belong only to each other
i. The relationship belongs to both of you only, refer to 2nd
rules.


Deep.....don't understand....:P

My Answer

My answer for part one question 1 to 3 is to tell the partners. For question 4, I will ask him/her to go to hell!


My answer for part two question 1 to 3 is to break up. For question 4, same answer as above!


Hehe, I guess those who know me will just skip this entry, because they already know my answer!

Thinking activities

Let’s do some thinking activities:

If it happens to others:

1. What if you see your friend’s boy friend hugging other girls?
2. What if you know your friend having 2 gf/bf at the same time?
3. What if you realize that the partner of the person you love have attitude
problem?
4. What if your friend is interested in someone gf/bf?

If it happens to you:

1. What if you see your bf/gf holding hands with someone?
2. What if your partner having 2 gf/bf at the same time?
3. What if you realize your gf/bf have attitude problem?
4. What if your friend tells you that she/he is interested with your gf/bf?

What will you do?

8/25/2008

Merdeka Spirit @ Penang 2008


Do you know anyone like this?

My seat is very near to fax machine. Normally many people will go to check whether they received any fax from the machine. Each of them has different ways to check it but there is one which I feel disgusting.

He will put his finger to his tongue before he touch the paper!! Just imagine, his finger is full of his saliva and he touches every single paper at the fax machine at that time!!!!!! I just can’t stand his behavior, every time when I see any fax, I will rush to check if it’s mine before he touch it, if not, I will definitely use only tissue paper before take it up….

8/21/2008

My crazy dream

Here come my crazy dream….Francis…you know what will I say, right ?!

My crazy dream after I become rich is to have my own zoo!!!! Not those normal zoos that we can see in Malaysia now….I want a zoo where the wild life can freely move around (ooo….what if the lion eaten up my ostrich?) Emmm….may be need to separate one species from another. I don’t want artificial fence and building in my zoo (how to put a penguin together with polar bear if I don’t build a “freezer” for them…..oooooo)

I want to have a real BEAR HUG (Don’t know the bear wanted to hug me?). I want to tug in sleep by a Panda (May be I am not cute enough compared to baby panda?) I want to talk to chimpanzee like Tarzan (They speak English?) I want to ride a hippopotamus (but I can’t brief in water!) I want to swim together with shark (I don’t even know how to swim other then using free style!)

I want to pet lion and tiger on their head and tell them they are good boy (after they eaten up a zebra?!) I want to study on my zebra whether it is a white horse with black stripe or a black horse with white stripe (according to Wikipedia, they are black horse with white stripes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra#Stripes) I want to sit on the giraffe head to see further (it’s neck can support my weight?) I want to race with Francis on an ostrich (I might ended up pull out its wing) I want to train a seal, a dolphin and a whale (oh my God…I don’t even have patient to give tuition to human beings!!!)

Hehe, this is the most crazy dream that I ever had, I dreamed about this more then to become like Bill Gates!

If there is Robin Hood....

If there is a ROBIN HOOD like him http://robinhood702.com/ , what will I request from him? What kind of help that I need?

Hmm….to be someone selfish, I will ask him to clear all my debts…. (before that, I will go and book for a bungalow, a brand new car, buy insurance for every one in my family, book a trip to Europe…..etc :P)

Actually I have a dream, I wanted to be rich, I want to be someone like Bill Gates, and I wanted to help the needs. Of course, I am still selfish, I want my family to have enough (that will mean, cost for my mom to start her own restaurant, cost for my father to retired, cost for my siblings to finish their study, cost for my new house renovation, cost for my wedding and cost of a overseas family trip, haha).

I wanted to set up a fund with organized committee who will help poor family to start their new life. Poor can pass from generation to generation until someone makes some changes in the family. A poor woman married to a poor man, follow by poor children and they have a poor family. Worst is, the parents are not educated and don’t know anything about family planning, so, they have more and more children. Ended up, the family becomes poorer family.

The children grow up in a poor family with siblings. They will never have time to study, may be they really lucky to have a bright brain…too bad, the parents have no money to send them for further study. The children will need to stop studying and start work at very young age…and become next generation of poor…..(Don’t make it wrong, I am not bias on poor, I am from a poor family too, I understand what it feels like to be poor)

Sometimes, it’s not that the parents don’t have skills, it’s not that the parents don’t want their children to further study and get a good job, it’s all because of they don’t have the money. I wished someone will send me money to fix my teeth, I wished someone will help me to further my study in communication at Taiwan, I wished someone will give my family some money to stop my parents from quarreling. I know…I know there are many things that money can do to help this kind of family. That is why I wanted to set up this fund and this organization…

The organization will do background checking on the family and will provide fund to the needed family to set up a business, help those who don’t know about business to get a better job, help their children to further study or learned some needed skills…..The fund is just for them to start something which will bring continuous income to them (don’t think too much, you still need to work hard to get money…you think there will be any moron who will sponsor you to sit at home?

Sounds so graceful? Not really, I just don’t want anyone else to experience those bad things that happened to me. Remember, my priority is still to help my family first, so I’m not that graceful too.

This is the serious dream...actually I have another crazy dream....to be continue...

8/19/2008

My Past 2

To make it worst, I am not pretty. I don’t know why, students in my class seems to have all good things happened in their life. They born in a rich family, they are good looking, they are good in their study, their parents know how to “bride” the teacher and they know how to make the teacher happy…..You will be surprise; not only adult but even primary students have politics in their school. Obviously, I lost in everything.

Parents need to collect the reports card from class teacher every one semester, that was my nightmare and it repeated 3 times a year since standard 3 (I have the same class teacher for 3 years). The teacher who named Lau always complained about me to my mother because she knows my mother will definitely beat me. If I quarrel or have argument with my classmates, it will definitely be my fault. There was one time my friend bite my hand until it’s obviously injured and ended up I was beaten by my mother.

May be you are thinking of beating in soft way…NO!! I will be beaten up by belt, by hanger, by cane….etc. All my neighbors know I was beaten because I can’t stop screaming (1. as objection, 2. is PAIN both physically and mentally). Worst thing is,next day,the teacher will ask whether I was beaten up IN FRONT OF the CLASS during her teaching and show everyone my wounds. Then she will PROUDLY announce to the class that this is because I’m a bad student. So, class will laugh and parents will make sure that no one can be my friend. Of course I revenge, I become “naughty”, I get more attention but I get beaten up by my mother more.

Nearer to UPSR, we have extra classes, we have more and more exam to keep us well prepared (I’m lucky that I didn’t really study but my result getting better and better so their never manage to kick me out of 1st class). In all the exam, I always get bad result, those pretty girls and handsome boys always get really good result. Madam Lau told my mother, “your daughter is useless, she can’t study, she will not have future and I don’t know how to help her.” I was beaten up for that again and that was my last time…WHY?

I get STARIGHT A’s in my UPSR, I can skip my “pre-secondary” class (this is the old system to help student adapt to secondary school easier it takes one year –for Chinese educated only)!! Tell you what, in my class, only 6 of us from middle ranking who get straight A’s and go immediately to form 1!

That’s the time my mother realized that the teacher actually bias at me…and that is the time I realized that I can do better, I am better in some sense compared to the pretty in my class. I’m who I’m now, I am independent, I am tough, I am very happy with my job….and I thank God for stopping me from turning into a gangster….I feel thankful for everything I have, I feel thankful for all the bad experience (although it still hurt me every time thinking of it) and I hope that I can do more to repair all have been broken (it broke my relationship with my father too, I was embarrassing him all the time) by the BIAS teacher named LAU SAI ENG (not sure with the spelling, but this is the pronunciation). I want to tell her that I AM GOOD and I HAVE A GREAT FUTURE now.

My Past1

I always listen to MY FM on my way to work. Today, they discuss whether some one outlook will bring any different in their life.

This make me think of my pass…AGAIN. Those new friends that I meet after my primary school will never can imagine who I was in my primary school. In primary school, I was isolated by friends and family. While I was trying hard to get closer to them, actually I pushed myself further from them and these cycles never end until I get into my secondary school.

At that time, I never understand why this happen to me. After I enter secondary school, I realize that might because of my class teacher. My primary school divided students into class according to their results, start from number 1 to 40, 41-80 and same as the rest. Obviously, all the good result students will be in the first class and only “good”, “qualified” teacher can teach the first class student. So, the competition is not only among students but among teachers too. Students in the first class will feel really proud to themselves same as the teachers.

Most of the students in first class are from rich family, only some of them like me who come from medium lower class or poor family. Too bad, my result was neither good to be top in the class nor bad to be the bottom of the class. So, I can’t mix with those top students and I can’t mix with those bad students, I am in the middle….Teachers who tough our class also the same, they are rich, most of them are pretty and there are very proud to be our class teacher….

The problem occurred here, teachers who come in my class is to teach good students, for students with not too good results will be isolated. So, some of them choose to give up. I didn’t, so I was isolated again….

8/18/2008

李宗伟vs林丹

这三天以来的心情好像过山车一样,时而兴奋无比,时而担心不已;昨天,变成忐忑不安,到最后,变成大失所望。。。

从一开始的半决赛,对上李炫一的时候,我就一直在为李宗伟祷告,我真得很希望他可以为马来西亚带来我们的第一面奖牌。 结果,他赢了,虽然是险胜,至少一面奖牌肯定到手,我对他的期望也提高了。

虽然,最后马来西亚还是成功拿下银牌,但是,我没想到李宗伟会惨败。 从一开始就被林丹控制的比赛情况, 真的让我的心一直往谷底掉。李宗伟是一个出色的选手,可惜,抗压能力实在有待改进, 尤其是对上像林丹一样能控制现场的能手。

林丹, 之所以会是中国的宝, 除了因为他的技术,样貌, 也因为他知道什么时候做什么事。就拿昨晚的决赛,他来势汹汹的眼神, 自信满满的肢体动作, 牵引了在场所有人的目光,就连犯了错,也懂得控制情绪,没有露出可恨的表情。在最后一分到手前,全场观众已经在狂叫,他也懂得收敛,控制观众。 得分后,跟懂得回馈观众,向他们道谢, 拥抱。

这场球赛如果在马来西亚进行,也许,李宗伟赢的机会比较大,但是,我敢肯定,李宗伟不会像林丹一样懂得如何控制观众,也不会像林丹一样,即使不比赛了,还会吸引众人的目光。因为,马来西亚的运动员不懂得包装,不懂得与观众沟通,不懂得制造明星效应。

也许,有人会说,打球就打球,最重要是技术。 对,当你正在努力向上爬的时候,你要技术。 但是, 当你来到李宗伟和林丹这个位置, 是什么让他们又分别?就是抗压,控制观众的能力, 当然,还有明星效应。你有技术,一开始就赢了三分,可以抗压,又赢了三分,如果你有明星效应,会吸引很多人为你加油,气势上你又赢了三分,最后那一分,是你如何控制观众,让观众为你喝彩,让观众为你对抗对手,如果,这些你都有,那你就是个冠军。

李宗伟,你是个有能力有技术的选手,我们期望你更出色的表现。谢谢你带给我们的希望,愿你有更美好的明天, 为马来西亚,为你自己争光!

8/13/2008

Women are strong

Women are strong. Why?
1) Women can tolerate with higher stress.
a. Even get scolded in the office, women can still prepare food after going home.
b. Women know when and how to release stress.

2) Women know what to bring back and what to leave in the office
a. When women leave office, they will leave all the work, problem and stress in office.
b. When they reach home, they forget everything until the next morning.

3) Women can still pay bills on time and buy groceries
a. Even when they are busy with office work, they will remember to buy stuff needed by family and pay bills on time.

4) Women think of how to be stronger and how to be more independent if she lost her husband (betrayed, divorced, died)
a. If men lost his wife, he will look for another replacement…immediately!!!

8/12/2008

Online Messenger and my friends

Everyday I sign in to my online messenger when I arrive in office but I seldom chat unless there is any issue or information that I need form someone on my list. Why I still sign in even though I do not chat? I just want to sign in to tell everyone (if there is anyone who cares) that I am fine today. At the same time, I want to make sure that everyone on my list is fine too, so I will actually check on my list after I sign in.

I will know if there is someone not there, I will know the routine where there is someone who will sign in on alternative month, some one who sign in for only 4 days, etc. For someone who usually signs in everyday, it’s ok that you do not sign in for only one or two days but I will start to wonder where you are if you do not sign in for more then 2 weeks. I will start to pay attention to you and wait for you to sign in, if there is no response, I will sms, then I will call, just to make sure that you are ok.

I have no many friends, only a few which close to me. When I say close means once in a while update some news at messenger, see some update in Friendster, may be add on some sms….no meet up, no hang out, no shopping together….(which might means normal friend to others). There are some name on my list that I never know them in person (Iris, Daniel, Derrick, Grace, Din, Vincent…), we communicate and know each other only through messenger but they has been there for years….and I still care.

To make it short, that means I never maintain my relationship with friends. But I care actually, I care if they suddenly disappear, I care if they face any problem and I care if they will still come to me when they need someone to talk to.

8/07/2008

Dragon Boat Festival

You Dragon Boat Festival passed for 4 days but I still feel the lost. When I joined Penang Tourism Penang Action Council (PTAC) for my 3 months practical training, Dragon Boat Festival is the first big project that I involved the most. I guess that is why I always like Dragon Boat Festival.

I know no one in the participating teams but I still like to be at the site, looking at them, feeling their fighting spirit while racing, feel their enjoyment when relaxing, and feel their happiness when they win.

I know some of the organizing committees, I know some of the liaison official, I might not know their name, but surprisingly they remember me even after I left PTAC for 3 years. They still remember which year I was there, we still can chat like we know each other for very long, I really make friends there, at lease I know Amos- camera man, Adrian – Photographer, Mr Geh – President of Penang Dragon boat Association, Peter, James – Committee (always have an eyes on me, worry that some guys disturb me), Mr Mok – Ex YB Assistant (very very good guy), Lydia – Assistant manager in Penang Development Centre, Lina –YB Danny Law’s secretary.

I really miss the time when we have celebration dinner, I always waiting for the dinner to come, it’s not about the food, and it’s about the fun that we all will have. Although I missed the party part this year, it’s still a sweet memory for me…………at lease I was a part of 6th Club Crew World Championships and 8th of Asian Dragon Boat Championships Teluk Bahang Dam, Penang, Malaysia 31 July – 3 August 2008.