New Drug
I think, computer game is actually one kind of drug.
Met up with Mary recently and found that she was very bitter with her life. She used to be this attractive lady with this 'sexy' factor and quite witty. But she seemed to be very bitter recently. She was complaining about her bosses and work all the time and basically see everything negatively.
So I asked her "What are you doing about that?". She said nothing. She was too busy and she could not do anything about it.
I found out that the only thing that she does these days is playing 'Neopet'. She came back from work until say 10pm. Then she would play Neopet until around 2 am. She wakes up around 8 am and goes to work. She will play min 8 hours of Neopet on Sat and Sun even though she might have to work over weekend sometimes.
Computer game, blogging, forum, IRC, MSN messenger, online poker etc are ALL bad for health. Computer games are like drug. It gets you away from your trouble only temporarily. It does not solve the problem that you have. If you have a problem, complain is fine. But dun day day complain. Deal with it please.
Please do not spend too much time in front of your pc/laptop. It is very bad for your health and MENTALLY.
(I am working of the Health Ministry now)
Junior
Heart Attack
My eyes are very very red now. When you stay up until 6 am for a football match, your eyes would definitely complain and 'show you some
color'.
I was very very very worried this morning because some of my online buddies are getting old. I am not sure if their heart is strong enough to take the Liverpool match last night.
THEY WERE LOSING 3-0 BEFORE HAFT TIME, THEY MADE A REMARKABLE COME BACK AND WON THE CHAMPTION!!!!!!LIVERPOOL IS THE EUROPEAN CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can I say it one more time?
LIVERPOOL IS THE EUROPEAN CHAMPION!
:D
Junior
Dog Fight (Edited and Edited Again)
Whoa!!!! It is the FA Cup final this Saturday!!!!! I am all ready for a great night of football (
ok ok, honestly, deep down in my heart = FA Cup? What FA Cup? *Yawn*.... Win it and play in UEFA Cup next season...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz) (
Nomore, you cannot blame me. This is a Liverpool site...:D)
But I must admit that this is going to be a bloody match.....there is soooooooooooo much 'Hating History' between the 2 clubs & 2 teams, between the 2 managers, and between the 2 captains..... I bet you it will be a very aggressive match as opposed to all previous cup final which were boring (
I am likely to bet OVER goal).
The odds for this match is current LEVEL ball. This is consistent with the past matches i.e. only the home team will give 1/4 or 1/2 to the visitor. This time, they are playing at the neautral ground. So, level ball is a fair odds.
Man Yooooo has beaten Arsenal in the previous 3 encounters. They certainly do not fear Arsenal. They keep saying that Arsenal is back to their best when they beat Everton 2 weeks ago 7-0. I watch that match. It was not fantastic laaaa....ok only (
Everton was crap...).Nomore, I am sorry. I am taking MAN UNITED......:D
Junior
P/S: It is too early to analyse the changes in ODDs (because I just checked and found that there is no movement......). Will update this post again tomorrow in the 'Comment'...:D
Will also have more match comments later....when more news are out...
Edited CommentsWhy am I taking Man U leh? Simple. 3 key players of Arsenal Edu (
or Etu??), Reyes and Coles do not have full 100% heart to play for Arsenal.....Etu is leaving (
I understand how he feels...me also resign ma)....Reyes and Coles want money and play for Chelsea or Real Madrid....(
I bet you...they already have the contracts.....). PLUS Henry is not playing. Berkamp is old.
Man U people feel that they under achieve sooooooooo much this season...they are very hungry.... this would make a difference in Cup Final....
My verdict
(which changes by the minute): Man U 2: Arsenal 1...:D
Edited Comments PLUSOK, ok the bet index shows that there is no sign of game fixing for this match...so it is an open play...may the better team win...:D :D
A Confession
This is a long post. You may skip it if you want. It is about a confession (
Kelly, u might be interested).
I always enjoy drinking with Mary. She is witty and pretty. She works for Morgan Stanley and is the junior economist for Asia Pacific. Not a bad achievement considering that she is only 27.
Last night we had our usual drink at KazBar (
near my office in Raffles Place) talking about Ringgit, Football, Atkin diet, holiday bla bla….. I enjoyed watching (
or peeping) her while we sip our beer. She knew that I was ‘peeping’ at her sometime, not paying attention to what she was saying. Loose white skirt and long chestnut-colored hair. she wore a tight blue tank-top that left several inches of tanned skin bare at her midriff (
casual Friday). The cut of her skirt and her position on the high bench gave me a great view of her tanned, athletic legs. Maybe I was drunk, but I felt that her tank-top was too tight for her. I looked away discreetly when she looked into my eye. I was embarrassed or shy, I dun know.
Around 11 pm, we were a little drunk and decided to leave Kazbar as it was getting crowded. I left my notebook in the office so I told her that lets go to my office to collect my stuff and I will send her back. She had no objection.
When I reached office, everyone had gone. All lights were off. I opened the door all the way, which let enough corridors light in to more or less permit me to find my way around to locate the switch. I hadn't realized that Mary was right behind me, and I bumped into her when I ‘U-turned’. There was a brief contact of bare skin as our bodies met, and I felt her breasts compress lightly against my chest. We both stepped back and made quick apologies. She stood outlined in the light streaming through the open doorway. For all the effect her dress had on her profile, she might as well have been nude. I swallowed hard but still managed to pretend like a gentleman. “Are you ok”, I whispered.
It was a long moment before she gently untangled herself and took a deep breath. We stood a few inches apart, but the scent of her warm skin filled the space between us. "Yes, I'm fine," she said. But there was a catch in her voice. I was still controlling my desire to kiss her. I felt that my pocket (
of my pant) was expanding (
guys would know what I meant). I did not expect myself to be that excited. I could not stop it. Then I heard a familiar melody. Ohh…it was not my ****, it was my phone which was vibrating earlier. I recognized that ring tone. I had to pick it up.
“Har loe….hai hai hai….hai yar, ngo you lok ju” (
Hello, yes yes yes, ya lor, I want to bet)
“Hai hai“ Man U meh yeh pun hao?“ (
Yes yes, What is the odd for Man U?)“Zhong hai peng ball ah?“ (
Still level ball?)“ok ok, ngo you 5 kok“ (
ok ok, I want to bet 50 sen (that means RM 500))“Hail or…TNS, seong chi goh zeong ball…bla bla bla bla bla bla…continue talking for 30 on Liverpool…” (
Yeh, bloody hell, the last time Liverpool also like that ma... ….bla bla bla )
* 30 minutes later *
“wei, wei wei…ng kong la…yao yeh zho gan ah…Bye bye...” (
wei wei, I have to hang up now, I am in the midst of something. Bye bye)
I hang up and realised:-
Wei, Mary leh? Where is Mary?Anyway, the point to this post is that I have placed my bet on Man U lah....:D
Junior
More actions please
Since I am going to work in HK soon, I am paying more attention to North Asia news these days. So, besides watching loads of HK series and cartoon (
do you know that most HK movies or seriers in Singapore are translated into MANDARIN....KNN), I also watch taiwanese entertainment shows....occasional I bump into Taiwanese news....this is what happened yesterday:-
張麗善掌摑 尹伶瑛索賠日內瓦掌摑事件中的無黨籍聯盟立委張麗善及台聯立委尹伶瑛，十九日清晨搭乘同一架班機回國。尹伶瑛下午隨即檢具瑞士當地醫院診斷證明，到台北地方法院提出民事侵權訴訟，訴請掌摑她的立委張麗善，應給付新台幣一百萬元精神慰撫金。
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Tanslation: Basically, one of the member of parliment (female) slap another member in Geneva when Taiwan was applying to WHO because the latter make some strong remarks against her brother corruption case) (
if you read chinese, you would know that what I translated is very different from the text. er...e.er.....this is because I dun know how to translate the above...so I translate what I know about the NEWS in full....I am like that wan hor...me work in foodcourt...no professional training)
Basically, this REPRESENTATIVE of PEOPLE
BITCH SLAP another REPRESENTATIVE of PEOPLE......
Taiwan political scene amazes me alllllllllllllllllll the time. It proves to me that DEMOCRACY does not work for the chinese......I think Kleisthenes would climb out from his grave to stop any chinese nation practising democracy...
But what I was upset about was that why did she slap her? why couldn't she pull her hair, tear off her bra, cup her breast and grab her *cat* with the other hand?
Isn't that more entertaining?
Junior
Need Help!
Dun worry, I am not from Africa. I am not telling you that I have some money in Africa and cannot take them out so I need to borrow money from you etc etc.
I am supposed to sing on my wedding to my wife. Now I have to choose one of these songs:-
1. I will be here, Steven Curtis
2. When you say nothing at all, Ronan Keating
3. You'll Never Walk Alone, Liverpool FC
4. Summer of 69, Bryan Adam (Due to Liama's comment)
whether you stumbled upon this blog or regular, new or old, please post a comment here.....ok ma? I am very serious...:D
Junior :D
To MBA or Not MBA
I finally got a taste of 'LIFE-AFTER-RESIGNATION-BUT-SERVING-NOTICE' la. It is damn boring.... they dun involve you in anything and treat you like a spy. But they refuse to let you go early. I think it is because I am the face-of-my-firm, not many good looking people in the financial industry, I guess....
So, I have no choice loh. I blog while getting paid lor...:D ...............I have been asked a question recently just slightly over 2,000 times.
"Ah Junior, should I do an MBA?"My first question in reply is always, why do you want to do an MBA? Most reply with saying 'Career advancement'. Then, immediately I behave very 'mature' and become an old man and say
'If you still believe that MBA is a passport for career advancement, then you are out-day la (outdated)'
I remember 15 years ago, if you are out of school with LCE...(
I think it is equivalent to STPM), you are damn good. 10 years ago, if you have a degree, you are damn good. 5 years ago, if you have an MBA, you are damn good. But these days, touch wood it does not happen, if a lorry ran into the mamak stall and kill 10 people, 8 out 10 probably have a master degree. The 'in' thing to do now is PHD or DBA. What is the value of MBA?
I think unless you come out from the top 20-30 schools in the world and carry the right brand, an MBA will
not get you a GOOD job.
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/04/index.html#top30To do an MBA, it must be a positive NPV decision. i.e. the cost that you are paying must be LESS than your future increment in INCOME. Say you are earning RM 5,000 a month and you are able to save RM 2,000 a month. The costs of doing a decent MBA is approx. RMB 200,000 to RM 250,000 (
if not more. i am choosing the lower end of good schools like Virginia, Carnegie etc) including costs of living and it takes say 18 months.
Your total relevant cost is say RM 225,000 PLUS the forgone saving of RM2,000 x 18 months = Grand Total of
RM 261,000. If you want to have a pay back period of max 5 years (
which personally I think is long), you need to make sure that your next job can pay you
RM 4,350 a month
MORE than your current job. (
If you chooses a cheaper school offshore, this would be around RM 2,500 a month).
If you are not able to get a job OFFSHORE, the chances are, you are losing money on your decision to study that MBA. Try walking to CIMB or ECM and tell them to pay you RM 9,350 and see. You dun have a good deal.
Some argue, well, MBA comes with other benefit like learning something, different experience, widen exposure and all those thingies (
aikksss....say 'beer' and 'girls' la........if you are lucky, you probably get to shag a spaniard...) . I would say, then dun do a MBA, do a specialised degree. Like Master of Applied Finance (
kakkaka...I did this, so I put this first), Master of Financial Engineering, Master of Real Estate Finance etc. Some good schools ranging from London Business School to University of Melbourne to Nanyang Tec University of Singapore offers
DAMN good value for money. I recently went to HK for a job interview, I am not sure but I did not have a feeling that they looked down at my Finance Master or they prefer a MBA. I got the job in the end. So, I think you dun really have to do an MBA to get a good job. A specialised degree SELL your Passion on a particular area of interest (
which sells very very well with multi national firm).
For career advancement, you must
buy low sell high i.e. choose a program that is best value for money. Not buy high and hope to sell higher like doing an MBA. It is very risky.
Just my view la. I have no professional training....:D
Junior
The G Spot
3G services launched By B.K. SIDHU
PETALING JAYA: The launch of Celcom3G services marks a new era in mobility for Malaysia, which joins the ranks of 33 countries where 77 operators are offering such services.
“Today’s launch is a mark of greater things to come from Celcom,” Telekom Malaysia Bhd chairman Tan Sri Md Radzi Mansor said at the launch of the service here last night by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
The Deputy Prime Minister urged telecommunications service providers to benchmark themselves against world standards. He said this was to ensure that the tariffs and rates offered were competitive, while the quality of service met best practices.If you ask me, I would say 3G is probably the biggest financial MISTAKE in the history. I remember back in year 2000, so many firms paid BILLIONS to the various Governments for the bandwidth. I remember Hutchison LOST EURO 2 bn just becaues there is delay in LAUNCHING (
note: not bidding. just the cost of delay) their 3G.
All those tycoons, telco professionals, executives etc, will foreverbe remembered as loser....losing sooooooooooooooo much money in the history.
Well done! You get soooo many people laughing at you.....
Junior
We have not changed......
Today, I have a very different blog. I am going to talk a bit about my religion. But this post is not about religion. It is about humanity (人性). It is about why I am not surprised that it is not easy to change one's personality.....
(please read the following patiently...)Genesis Chapter 3 The Fall of Man 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "
4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"
10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
11 And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
12 The man said, "The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it." The background of the story is simple. God created Adam and
THEN Eve. Eve was 'cheated' by the serpent and ate the forbiden fruit. God was upset and punished both of them. The relationship between mankind and God was broken.....(
something like that la ha...)When I read this passage carefully, and paid attention to those lines which I bolded. I am very amazed that mankind have NEVER changed. We really have not! If you believe that Adam and Eve are our ancestors (
wei, believing that is better than believing we were once MONKEY rite?), then this must have happened at least many many many many years ago. Even if you do not believe, but bible was written more than 2,000 years ago (this is old testament, so it should be much longer. but lets assume only 2000 years), and still
WE HAVE NOT CHANGED.
Let me explain:-
- Verse 1 The serpent went to Eve but not Adam. not because she got boobs. It was because, God did not tell Eve directly. It was Adam responsibility to tell Eve. Serpent saw through that and took advantage of Eve's feeling (which could be a bit sore.) and asked her 'Did God really say'. Well, to Eve, she was NOT told directly....so if anything goes wrong, she could always claim...'well, you did not tell me DIRECTLY...' (don't you think that this situation happens around us all the time?)
- Verse 3 Eve then added 10% to what she heard from Adam (God did not say they should not touch the fruit. He simply said do not EAT) ....(dun you think this is how we start rumour?)
- Verse 4 The serpernt minus 50% of what God said. God told Adam, if you eat, you WILL surely die. But now the serpent is planting the doubt into Eve by telling her 'well, you MIGHT die. But not SURELY. ...(dun you think this is how we start rumour? we cast doubt into someone's belief. we plus and minus something into what we know?)
- Verse 5 This is about jeolousy (Eve wanting to be GOD).......we sore about somebody's success. We do not like to be UNDER somebody and we think we are AS GOOD AS THEM......
- Verse 6 When you read the passage, you might ask...where the hell was Adam? Well, the guy who heard directly from God and given the authoriy to take care of the earth then, was all these while NEXT to Eve. What did he do? NOTHING. Why? Well, I am not Adam. But i would speculate that he was most probably CUNNING. HE let Eve START the rebel....
- Verse 9&10 When God found out. He gave them a chance and asked 'Where are you?', God gave them the chance to COME FORWARD (remind me of my childhood leh). What did Adam and Eve do? They did not have the gut to come out. They played dumb.....
- Verse 11 and 12 THIS IS MY FAV verse. Now, God cannot tahan liao. God decided to confront them directly and went straight to the point. What did Adam and Eve do? ADAM POINTED FINGER AT EVE (Eve later pointed finger to the serpent). What did Adam say? He said "THE WOMAN YOU PUT HERE WITH ME...."....Whoa this guy got gut leh...he said. 'GOD, you put EVE with me first leh...then she told me to eat...ONLY then I ate'...
Whoa, I feel like a pastor now...ahem...kakakakakkakaka Anyway, I really like this passage. When I read it, I realised that WE HAVE NEVER CHANGED. WE MIGHT HAVE IMPROVED from KNOWLEDGE perspective. But INSIDE, we are as MUNDUR (ie. backward) as Adam and Eve....
Actually, up until now, I also dun know what my conclusion is...maybe I have not blogged for a long time and dun know how to blog liao...but never mind la....I managed to write so many words...
:D
Junior
Coming Home
I have finally settled a lot of things and made a couple of decision. Will resume this blog on
"25 May 2005"
(on a weekly basis....)
:D
Junior
