Christmas and 2008
I figured that even if I do not blog regularly, I should at least blog ONCE a year...:D
In 2007, I have a new job, a 'new' son, a new apartment, a new phone, a new laptop, a new misstress.....no lar, same one lar.
Anyway, I just want to wish you all a very blessed Christmas and a wonderful new year!!!
Junior
Blogging
If you cannot blog frequently, you should at least try to blog once a month la. If not, once a year must can la...
Okay, will blog when internet returns to normal speed...:)
......mumbling mumbling
Would it make a difference if I wear my Hugo Boss suit?
Why is she more friendly to the guailor sitting next to me? She asked him if she would like to have some wine before the meal. She gave him an extra smile as the bonus. She did not serve me the water.
She did not even ask or look at me. The guailor is not even good looking.
Here I am, sitting here with my old fake T-shirt from Thailand and reading a novel. Sure, i look very shabby and ugly. But madam, I would like to argue that i pay the same price for the ticket. My ugly look should not deter you from serving me with the same standard your airline preaches to the world.
I started wondering. If I come back with my new Hugo Boss and look 'expansive', would she be nicer? If I have done a lot of good things to the society donating money and time to help the poor, would it make a difference?
Okay, I understand. I better come back either as a guailor or dress up in suit. I have learnt.
Junior
Test Test
Just want to see if I can still use this.....:D
2005??
If you bot the newspaper this morning, you would have read so many different versions of top 10 news in 2005, sport la (
wei, remember Liverpool won the champion league...he he he), world news la, malaysia news la, entertainment news la. Now, I am giving you the Junior's version.....how nice? but I dun have that many (
ie. 10) this year ehhh....ehhh...because I dun get paid if I list 10, but I do have a couple of experience which really ehh....got me thinking, I would say...
1. Do you know this bastard call Rain? neh...the super star from Korea leh, my wife is sooooooooooooo into this bastard that she forced me to watch this scene of Rain protecting this girl from being beaten up by some mobster more than 10 times. But I am not talking about him. I am talking about the Korean farmers who demonstrated when the WTO wes held in HK. While I dont understand why they are complaining, because they are fucking making a more than 10 thousands US$ a year, and the China farmers are making less than US$ 100 p.a., I dont understand all those hoo hah about the korean's problem. Anyway, I was very
impressed with the way the demonstration was held. Few thousands Korean farmers were having this stand off with the HK police, not a single shop (
Causeway bay is one of the busiest highstreet I hve ever been and they have the highest rent I have ever heard off...) were looted and not a single passerby were involved and blamed by these farmers, THESE farmers are really PROFESSIONAL, if I may say so (
they even built their own temp toilet to keep the place clean.....!!???). The HK police were also quite amazing. They had to deal with these korean bastards (
from the HK police point of view certainly) and they were even more professional. When the korean farmers were taking a break ie. using mineral water (
will the chinese farmers use chinese tea??) to wash their eyes, the HK police did not take advantage of the situation and charge into the demonstrators and beat the shit out of them. They took a step back, got themselves organised and got ready for the next round of charge by the Korean farmer...... i was asking myself, how could they be so pro?
Can you think of a more professional ways of demonstrating? both from the Korean farmer side adn the HK police side?
Can you imagine what would happen in Malaysia? ..........We still have a long way to go despite having the SECOND tallest tower in the world........
2. In 2005, I was also quite happy with the Taiwan election. The stupid nation FINALLY woke up and vote for the right party. I am not saying that Kuamingtang is a good party. But I cannot stand the president Bien's party DPP
AT ALL. AND finally the DPP lost like there was no tomorrrow....... this confirmed my 'battered wife' theory - you know women are strange, once they got married, they think they have this obligation to serve this one man for the entire life. Even if the husband beat her everyday, but as long as one day he treats her nice ehhh...for example beat her using hanger instead of the usual belt, she feeeels that HE IS TREATING Her soooooo nicely that day and she will tell others that her husband loves her soooo much the following day. However, if one day she realllllllllllllllly cannot tahan (
ie. cannot stand it anymore), she will divorce and never look back and perhaps cut off her husband testicle. This is why the taiwanese decided to vote against them.....
The only thing which I want to tell the Taiwanese is that 'What the fuck has taken you sooooooooooooo long? Since 2000 leh!!!!'
(
they probably are thinking, Junior, what the fuck has it got anything to do with you...)3. I have no doubt of the 'waking up' of China. But I also see a lot of problems with the nation. Their legal system is very very messed up. This is the typicall 'catch 22' situation, you follow this law, you are in violation of another...... I was in Beijing and our beloved Mahathir was giving his speech on the Business Week CEO Forum (I stole someone's pass and went in to watch him...), he said exactly the same thing. Sometimes, you have to say that despite Mahathir being a weird fella, he really has brain. Somehow, you can tell the real problem of the country even though he has never worked there before.
But I hope the China dun change their criminal law implementation too fast. I dun want to lose my RMB 500 massage with a HAPPY ENDING in the Four Seasons hotel......
I want to talk about Malaysia in the next post.....but I have too much of this Carbenet wine and got high with this Robusto cigar...wahhhhh too high to write leh....
Anyway, happy new 2006. And I wish you all have a happy and healthy new year.....:)
Junior
I like my prime minister
KUALA LUMPUR: Dressed in an elegant business suit, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi apologised for not wearing batik as he started his speech at the launch of the KL International Batik Convention. “If my wife Endon were here, she would have admonished me. She would have delayed this function and told me to go home and change,” he quipped, drawing laughter from the 500-strong audienceI really like our prime minister. He let us see the 'humane' side of prime minister. At the end of the day, politicians are still human. They also need sex....ok ok I really like him. Lets not tease him.
Obviously he misses his wife. And I find that sweet.
I am really grateful that we have a prime minister like him. I really do.
Junior
Silver Lining
Sometimes, there is a little bit of sunlight on a rainy day....
Yesterday was a good day for me. Although I got a flu and had to work in the afternoon. But there are a couple of things that kept me happy:-
- Liverpool beat Wigan 3:0.....finally Couch scored!!! I quite like this guy. Sometimes, you need some luck to score. Luck has deserted him for more than 24 hours on the pitch. He has contributed so much to the club in terms of 'assist' but never quite did enough to score. He finally got a lot of luck and scored. The second goal was clear. No dispute. Good for him.
- KMT beat the shit out of DPP in Taiwan. I have never seen such a stupid president before in my life. I think even my cat can be a better president than Chen Shui Bian. He is really useless. I have no idea of what the Taiwanese have done to deserve a stupid president like him. Those who voted for him 2 years ago should really appologise to other Taiwanese
- My wife was here for the weekend...she obviously did not read my blog. So I am still alive....:D
Life could be tough. But if you sit back and take a break and start counting your blessings, you might find that it has not be that bad afterall...
Junior
Trust
A telephone operator told me that one day she received a phone call. She answered, "Public Utilities Board." There was silence. She repeated, "PUB." There was still no answer. When she was going to cut off the line, she Heard a lady's voice, "Oh, so this is PUB.Sorry, I got the number from my Husband's pocket but I do not know whose number it is."TRUST is a very important factor for all relationships. When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation.I think every man wants to marry only one woman. He wants to protect, love and take care of HIS woman. That is why it is so important that a man MUST NEVER break the trust of his woman. Therefore, pls for the sake of your wife, never let her catch you cheating....:D
That is why I never store the KTV's girls telephone number in my phone. You either remember it or you save it in your blackberry with 3 layers of password with 17 characters and 6 numerica.
That is why, when you 'roll' (eh...it means having an affair), you must emphasise on
Quality but not Quantity. Once you find some good rolling girl, stick to them.
BE LOYAL. The smaller the number, the lower the probability of being caught.
Never use your own phone to call or sms. Sms is the most stupid thing (even stupider than taking a picture of your rolling girl using your phone). Please use your colleagues's phone to call. Write letter, or release a dove to contact her. PLS
never sms.
One more thing, if you want to roll. Pls do not tell your friend and boast about it. Sex is a very special thing. You should not talk about it. ..........
Ahem.....I think after this post, I will know whether my wife has been reading my blog...:D
Junior
(BTW, baby I love you)
Human Right
Bush presses Hu on trade, religious freedomBy Caren Bohan
BEIJING (Reuters) - Visiting U.S. President George W. Bush pressed President Hu Jintao on Sunday to rein in China's swelling trade surplus and push forward currency reform after calling for greater religious freedom.I don't understand the US. Why must they force everyone to follow their way?
What is wrong if a country does not have religious freedom? Why can't I have a weird currency structure? So what?
Why can't a country has human right?
Junior
Coming home....coming home
After staying in HK for slightly more than 4 months, I finally have a chance to go back to Singapore to see my wife.
(p/s: Kinda embarrassing – I am Malaysian. Hence, strictly speaking, I cannot say I ‘go back’ to Singapore. It should be ‘go to’)
(KNN, Junior, enough with your crap preposition)I am also applying for leave from 21 Dec 05 to 2 Jan 2006 to GO BACK to Malaysia. Can you believe it, we are coming to the end of 2005…..just in case, it is already NOVEMBER.
So scary – in the beginning of 2005, I did not have a ring on my finger. I did not have to fill in my ‘spouse’ name. I was having a good time in Singapore. I could go to the beach on Sat late morning for beer. I did not have much traveling. I see my then ‘girlfriend’ everyday. I kept all my salary to myself. I could blog almost everyday. I bet on football every Saturday. I got excited when my company sent me to Thailand to look at a deal. My mum was ironing my shirt everytime she came to Singapore. I flirted with Peg, wanting to know what was the color of her bra. I could have 3 drinking sessions in a week…….
You know what I am gonna bitch about, don’t you? Life has changed. For better for worse, it has changed.
I like year end. It makes me feel very old but at the same time, I usually look back the past one year and see how well (or badly) I have done. I like to do that especially on the plane, when I can see from 30,000 ft high. It makes me feel like I am very clever…..
2005 will soon be history.
Have you done enough to give yourself a ‘pass’ for this year?
You see, sometimes, I can write something sensible too….
:D
Junior
Sky ahhh....sky ahh.....why no eye ah?
sigh...I am damn pai seh to apologize for not being able to update my blog....I really dun know what hve happened to my life....I have to travel like a bitch (
bitch run water rite..), work like a dog. Just to give you an example, I have been receiving 300+ work related emails a day....I just spend past 1 hour sorting them to the correct folder.......
Life is tough. Money is good. Girls are pretty (
my wife not reading this). Time is little.
That is my life...
NM and maria, When I have time next week, will go and visit your blogs ok? ehhh ....lockee...ehhh....my wife is doing that and I have no time to finalise it....
sigh.....
Sky ahh......sky ahh....why is my life soooooo bitter?Junior
Char Siu anyone?
MPs gear up to grill Rafidah
DATUK Seri Rafidah Aziz can afford to smile and be cheerful at Parliament on Friday for the tabling of Budget 2006 but as far as the MPs are concerned, if she doesn’t turn up this week to provide a satisfactory account of the approved permit (AP) issue, she will face their wrath.I find this soooooo funny....
Sometimes, when someone has been in power for too long. They think they are greater than the country. Deep down in her heart, she must be asking, have u guys forgotten how hard I have been serviing my country??
Well, you have been serving. But you have also been RICH. So, you cannot call that serving......not anymore...
:D
Junior
I hate plagiarism
Get ready, this is a long post and please read the fine print at the end.....
I hate plagiarism, I think plagiarism is almost equivalent to emotionally 'raping' the orginator. People who plagiarize are losers who are 'wanna-be' but never get there. But instead of admiting of their short coming, they decided to 'cheat' and pretend that they are 'already-there'. Anyway, let me continue my post ....
IT WILL be etched in my memory forever - the day Singaporeans forgot their manners.
For 10 hours two weeks ago, they made me feel like I did not exist unless they wanted me to fetch, carry or serve.
A cheery 'good afternoon' invariably fell on deaf ears. Nevermind that the people I was greeting were often smartly-dressed men or well-groomed women.
Their reactions rarely differed. They either looked right past me or seemed engrossed in fiddling with their mobile phones.
Yes, life as a sales assistant and waiter sucks, to put it bluntly. Why? Because the Singapore customer - regardless of race, language or religion - is invariably surly.
A smile is rare. Eye contact is non-existent. And for the few who say 'thank you', 'please' or 'excuse me', the words are often droned out robot-like, with no smile or eye contact.
Most awful are those who thrust the shoes they like under your nose and utter curtly the size they want under their breath.
But those who demean service staff most are the ones who crook their fingers and beckon you over. What poor breeding, but like they say, the customer is always right.
So I did as beckoned and I got her four pairs of shoes. She liked none of them and strode off without a word.
Her behaviour is typical, say the other sales assistants at the Charles & Keith shoe shop in Wisma Atria.
Of course, I had earlier tried to prove them wrong. Standing at the shop entrance, I greeted each customer with an enthusiastic 'good morning'.
After an hour of being ignored, I gave up.
It was not much better inside the shop. A 20-something woman with a whispery voice was being drowned out by the shop's music and background noise.
So I asked her politely to repeat her shoe size. She did so curtly and with a frown.
After five hours, I totalled the Greet, Smile and Thank (GST) response from customers. The result was dismal. Nine out of 10 customers I greeted ignored me. At least half did not say 'please' or 'thank you'. Even fewer had a warm smile.
I went away with new-found respect for those who serve and sell day after day. Because the work is no walk in the park.
More than 12,000 pairs of shoes were crammed in a stuffy storeroom about the size of the living room in an HDB flat.
Reaching for a box on a top shelf required the skills of an acrobat almost, as I searched for a toehold on a lower shelf and balanced a few shoe boxes in my other hand.
The aisles had room only for one person to walk sideways. At peak times, with four or five sales assistants stepping up and down the shelves, it was not uncommon for boxes to come tumbling down.
I also learnt very quickly to get more than one colour - say black and brown - and two sizes of a shoe, because without fail, the customer is going to say, 'the brown also quite nice, hor'.
For customers with one foot larger than the other, be ready to provide three pairs for every design they want to try on.
After five hours of clambering, kneeling, bending and packing, I found little to smile about as my leg muscles ached.
Waiting at tables was not any easier. I started as a 'runner', serving what people ordered.
Even though Fish & Co in Novena Square was a casual dining restaurant, the attention to detail was mind-boggling to me.
A spoon is placed on the left side of the plate for spaghetti or fettuccine because most customers are right-handed and will use a fork to twirl the pasta.
Pour a customer's drink away from him so that a spill will not splash on him.
Taking orders was traumatic, because there were so many things to remember: The soup of the day, the daily promotion, what each dish contained and how each dish was prepared.
My trainer observed that I looked tense and frowned when I was taking orders. That frown of concentration could easily be mistaken as surliness by customers, she warned.In the dining business, service was also about serving the food on time and having staff who were familiar with the menu and helpful with recommendations.
During my lunch shift, a large group of office workers complained to the manager about the table arrangement. The diners were also unimpressed that the waiter, when serving the food, could not recall their orders.
They complained their glasses of water were not refilled quick enough and that a waiter had not been handpicked to serve them.
Yet, when I went around with my water pitcher on at least two occasions, no one indicated that they needed their more than half-full glasses refilled.
It is a question of perspective, perhaps. While the waiter sees it as half-full, the customer will see it as half-empty.
But these were minor hiccups, said my colleagues for a day.
No one was 'truly nasty', added Ms Rosy Aziz, training executive at Fish & Co, recalling her encounter with a customer from hell.
The Caucasian man had called her a 'schmuck' because his food was late and despite her apology.
The way she saw it, a service job was all about 'swallowing'.
'It's swallowing your pride, it's swallowing injustice when the customer is unreasonable and bullying just because he can. It's about giving good service no matter what,' she said.
Charles & Keith store manager Jasmine Wong had been yelled at and called ugly names by customers because the shoes they bought fell apart after a few days of wear.
'Often, Singaporean customers treat you like servants and don't give you respect. It isn't surprising that nobody wants to be in customer service in Singapore.'
She has had sales assistants who went for toilet breaks on their first day and never came back. Some broke down and cried in the store room.
And the pay hardly compensates for the distress. On average, a sales assistant or a waiter is paid about $1,000 a month.
Good customer service is a two-way street, said Ms Lau Chuen Wei, executive director of Singapore Retailers Association.
She said: 'We expect the service provider to say 'thank you' at the end of a transaction because we, as customers, have contributed to his coffers. But do we say 'thank you' to the service provider because he has helped us gratify our desires, our needs?okok, I did not write it, I copy it from here http://www.asiaone.com/st/st_20050925_342906.htmlJunior
Stupid first lady...
Chen's wife causes storm in an F-cup
TAIPEI - BUSTY female group F4 - named after the girls' F-cup bras - could seek compensation from the government for loss of income after Taiwan's First Lady branded them a 'source of social chaos'.Madam Chen has been with President Chen for too long. She is now equally dumb.....
Come on...the F4 (female group) is definitely NOT 'souce of social chaos' (
I am sure!). Please do not divert the attention away, YOUR FAMILY is the source of social chaos, pls understand.....
p/s: My company server ban all unsecured sites, if someone has the pic of the F4, pls post it here...everyone will agree with me....:d
Junior
The link between Madam Lien and Junior
You see, if you have not written anything in your blog and an autie threaten to fat-lan-zha, you need a 'scandalous' title to wake yourself up.....
Madam Lien (
the wife of Mr Lien Zhan of the retired KMT Party of Taiwan) have written 2 books recently and the books were well received. She wrote about her recent trips to China after 60 years, I think. Someone asked her: 'You used to be an active writer (
she won the pageant 40 over years ago as well) and have stopped writing for so many years. Why did you decide to write again?'
She said: "I have been living in Taiwan for so many years, no matter how much I like about my country, my life is pretty stable. There is nothing to be emotional about and there is nothing which touch me normally. However, after leaving China for 60 years, the feeling was strong. I have to write them down."
You see, twinsmum, my life is about work. I cannot day day come tell you how many hours I have to work, lunch prices in Central, busy busy etc. It might sounds arogant after a while. It is not sharing anymore.......ahem, there is nothing to be emotional about (
in my life)...
But I can write about my trip to China too though :- Massage parlour (
dun let your daughter read this), KTV, Spa..etc etc....sometimes these get me quite
'emotional' ......
(
Ah Wife, I hope you are not reading this....)Junior
p/s: If I dun update my blog after 2 weeks, someone pls report to the police, my wife might have murdered me....:D
