Chap Lap Lor ('Closing Down lor')
This is very difficult to write. I don't want to sound like a lot of people reading my blog. I also don't want to sound like a pussy.......
ok la, let's be polite lah. Thank you for visiting this blog again even though I put up a notice to say that this blog has 'chap lap' liao. I guess you guys have developed a habit to come to this site (
according to the visitor meter, many still visit this via bookmark). I guess I really have a lot of buddies online.
I am facing another decision to go Hong Kong. That is why I stopped blogging. This is again the most important decision I have to make in my career. Those of you who know me well, would remember that I flirted with an opportunity to go HK. I decided not to go, then decided to go, then decided not to go again until I forgot whether I wanted to go or dun want to go. Confused? :D
The opp came back again. This time, I have run out of excuse. I have to decide. I also need to decide whether this is God's will asking me to go and do it in HK. I think Andy Lau is in HK. HK belongs to good looking people like me.
I will have to decide. I really have to. Then I can blog again. .. . . . . .hopefully....
Junior
ehhh.....
Dear All,
I am going to stop writing this blog .eh....eh....because if I were to be totally honest with you, blogging has in a way distracted my work (
not to mention that my english is getting worse)...yes..i make blogging the scape goat. :D. I am at a stage of my career where I have to be absolutely 100% focus in the next few months...:D
I guess most of you who come here would already have my email address .... but i will publish it here anyway just in case :D If you want to flirt...no no no..i mean discuss or anything, you may email me or add me to your messenger.. junior2790@hotmail.com
Hopefully, one day, I can resurrect this blog when I have more time...:D
Cheers
Junior
Stupid Authority.....
Selangor moves to protect fireflies’ habitat
KUALA SELANGOR: Kampung Kuantan’s world-famous fireflies’ chances of survival have improved now that the authorities have stepped in to protect the insects' habitat from further degradation.Maybe I am in a bad mood today. But I am really damn pissed off with the malaysian govnt mentality. I really don't understand the local authorities of Malaysia.
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE FIRE FLIES ARE DYING, ONLY THEN YOU WANT TO SAVE THEM?It is like you beat up your wife until she is severely injured, then you cry in front of her and tell her you are sorry. WHAT IS THE FUCKING USE?
GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........
Junior
No money, don't die maaaaan...
I went to Mount Elizabeth Hospital for the medical check up. I have read many times that Singapore is the medical hub for SEA countries. Malaysia have always wanted to develop this industry and wanted to compete with them.
(Thank God, I dun have to visit the Malaysia hospitals often. I went to a few like the Subang Medical Center and Pantai. I can accept Suband Medical. But Pantai is er....er......in fact very 'errrrr' only. )
Mount Elizabeth Hospital is just a stone throw away from Orchard Road.
It is an old building but boy, the services which they offer are really complete. HEALTHCARE IS REALLY A BUSINESS ......... I mean not that I have never heard of it. But I did not know that it can go this far....
Not only they offer hotel services, they also offer special program like Weight Management Center for certain people. Not impressed? They even have PROMOTIONS... Promotion for healthcare...can you believe it?
Can u imagine this? It is like someone shouting on the street:-
"Hey mate! are you ok? Do you want to do a cataract operation? Good deal mannn, we have promotion"
"Wow, what is the discount? whoa, 25% ah....ok ok I want to do"
"Whoa, so cheap ah..I also want to do"
Mount E is extremely professional. They even offer STATISTIC information. For example I gathered that the 50th Percentile of the Colonoscopy bill is S$840 whilst the 90th Percentile is around S$1,260. If other words, average people pay $840 for scoping their colon...and 10% of the people have to pay more than $1,260 (
maybe because theirs are really tight.... )
Mannnn....... I wonder if their do analysis on these statistic. What is the Standard Deviation leh? Do I need to know the Bid Ask price?
Not happy with the above? They even have packages (
value meal??)....
check this out....
Mount E is owned by Parkway Ltd. They
CERTAINLY ARE COMMERCIAL AND THEY ARE NOT SHY ABOUT THAT. THEY ARE PROFESSIONAL ABOUT IT.
My 'package' (
in McDonald, they call this value meal) is pretty comprehensive (
when they look at your stool, it has to be kua). And the arrangement is also very smooth. The nurses know what they are doing and they dont keep you waiting. They are there to work things out for you. The only hiccup I had was in the X-Ray section where this girl had to do the 'ultra sound' (
or something like that la) on me. She asked me to take off my T-Shirt...So I did. Then she said
"Wait ah....Let me key in your data first"WTF, so I was 'topless' for 5 minutes....it was so cold in the room...... I was freezing..... I think she just wanted to see my nipple....
Junior
I have a problem.....
Junior: "Hellooeeee, my name is Junior-Most-Leng-Chai. My company asked me to make appointment with you for the annual medical check up"
Cute Nurse: "Ok, which package are you on"Junior: "What do you mean? Anything you want lor..." (
So old already also want to flirt)Cute Nurse: "chuckle....the $320 wan or the $520 wan?"Junior: "oh...let me see...ah...this one ....$520 wan"
Cute Nurse: "this one har...we will check everything bla bla bla bla bla.....so u need to do a few things before you come. (1) you cannot eat anything 10 hours before the check up (2) bring jogging shoes to run on our treadmil"Junior: "ok ok...no problem"
Cute Nurse: "ah....remember to bring your stool"Junior: "Wat? (
WT hell?) must I do that ah?"
Cute Nurse: "Better lor, otherwise we will ask you to do it here.....hee"Junior: "......................."
Junior: "...........ok. I will bring........."
Junior immediately called up a few friends who have first class honours in their undergrad.
"harlorrr, wei, last time you did your medical check up ha, u brought your shit ah?""Wei, how do you scope your stool ha?""Weeeiiiii, if you have to carry your stool, what would you put it into ha?""hey, phamacy sell container which keeps stool ah?"Tiu lor, I always tot I so clever. Now I have problem carrying my stool to the hospital......
(BTW, after I manage to put the stool into the container, do I need to put it in the fridge ah?)Junior
Oil Price Hitting $58
KLSE went down 8 points yesterday because oil price hit new high at
US$ 58 per barrel ...
I went to Shell last Sunday, they charged me S$1.68 per ltr........ I remember I used to pay RM 1.10 per ltr in Malaysia.
So, I pumped $4.50 into my car......that is 3 ltr....:D
How scary is this oil price hike? I don't know about you. But I am very scared. I am even thinking of selling all my shares and keeping only cash or gold.
In 1973, when we had the first oil price crisis, the world went into serious recession. I am not that old to live through that but i know it was a prolong recession. Eventhough the world is less relying on oil these days, but countries such as India and China still do, and they are the engine for growht now.
EVERYTIME THERE IS A OIL PRICE HIKE, RECESSION FOLLOWS.
Inflation is creeping up in US. But that is due to oil price but not domestic demand for goods. Alan Greenspan can do very little about it. I doubt he can do much by simply raising the interest rate. We are witnessing a transfer of wealth from oil importing country to oil exporting country.
I dun know what has gone wrong in our world, just when things were getting ok, we had this Sept 11 incident. Then when the world was ready to pick up again, we had the Iraq war and SARS in 2003. In 2004, we had this strange bird flu. Now, we have this oil price crisis.
I am very sure that a world wide recession is coming......it is just around the corner. I can smell it.......
I hope I am wrong.
Junior
Who Moved My Cheese?
VSS to cut workforce by 6% - A MAJOR re-branding exercise is on the cards for Telekom Malaysia Bhd as it completes its voluntary separation scheme (VSS), paying RM138mil to trim 1,898 people from its workfor*************************************************Cost-cutting to save TNB RM700m - INSTEAD of trimming its workforce, Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has initiated a major cost management exercise to rev up productivity and efficiency levels. This, if fully implemented, is expected to result in cost savings of over RM700mil for the first year. *************************************************MAS to save up to RM100m via new accounting system - MALAYSIA Airlines (MAS) expects its new revenue accounting system to add between RM50mil and RM100mil per annum to its bottom line as a result of cost reduction, efficiency gains and revenue enhancement.I am not a fan of this book 'Who Moved My Cheese?' I have been working in a dog eat dog world since I was a kid. 'Change' is nothing new to me. But I like one phrase in this 'Who Moved My Cheese?' -
Be Ready To Change Quickly And Employ It Again & Again'Who Moved My Cheese?' is a book which warns complacent people about 'change'. A change to your job, a change in the family, a change in the economy, a change in the COASTLINE! Everything can change in this world. So many friends of mine are so complacent with their current situation. They think that they could have the same job forever. They think their family will always be there to back them up. They think they have endless opportunities to come etc.
Not many will smell the cheese everyday and see if it is getting old.......
A friend of mine got retrenched recently. He is around 40 years old. A age that is very difficult to get another opportunity in Singapore. He went to see a recruitment agent after trying many job applications on his own. The job recruitment agent was very blunt with him. She said:-
'Sir, although you have been working for 15 years, you don't have 15 years experience. You have 1 year of experience, but you have done that 15 times.'
Harsh. But also true. I am sympathetic. But I am not sympathetic.
Junior
