Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all my Muslim friends, colleagues and everybody who see this post.

Love, Peace, Good Health and Harmony Always.

Behind Blue Eyes

Both very respectable and talented 'blue eyes' are gone now. Frank Sinatra almost a decade ago and Paul Newman 2 days ago.

I will be insulting you if I have to tell you who they were.

Behind Blue Eyes by the Limp Bizkit was very popular about a year ago enjoying regular airplays over the radios. You may or may not know that the original version was by the English group The Who; first appearing in 1971.

Who? Well, they were one of the 32 performers in Woodstock '69 and you can still hear them doing We Won't Get Fooled Again every time you watch Crime Scene Investigation. They performed an astounding 25 songs in the epic Woodstock 69, I think the most songs performed by any group.

I present to you here both versions of Behind Blue Eyes. See what you think. First The Who and then Limp Bizkit.

I seem to be having problems uploading the videos. shall try again later.

Meanwhile please follow these links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_1RqyNdzbE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pp38SR1lMU


I think the version by Limp Bizkit is better. However they have the benefits of better technology in terms of sound production and cinematography. And an existing version to build upon.

Anyway, let's remember that the song was composed by Pete Townshend and originally sang by Roger Daltrey both from The Who in 1971.

Check out the kissing scene again on the second version. Halle Berry won't get an Oscar from that take but she has my vote.

from Yong Sern's blog

I came across this from Jeradyne's classmate Yong Sern's blog.

He received news from the authorities regretfully telling him that he did not get selected for National Service. He thought the message should be worded differently. I agree with him.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Harap Maaf

RM0.50 Harap maaf. Anda tidak terpilih untuk menyertai Program Latihan Khidmat Negara bagi sessi 6/2009.

YES! AHAHAHAHA! more like.... Tahniah! Anda boleh duduk di rumah dan menonton Astro sampai mampus sementara kawan-kawan anda harus memotong rambut tersebut dengan style 'crew cut' .

For those of you who want to check whether you're selected for ns.... just type NS(ic-number) and send to 33995.

eg. "NS 910223-99-9999"

till then.. Ciaos.

Crapped -YonG S3rn- at 12:56 AM 0 comments

NS Tan, KC Han, Shereen Phua, Liew Sip Chon-Part 2

Yes, this is Part2 of a post done earlier.

Yes, the four mentioned persons and me had dinner in this place called Lan Kwai Fong. Part 1 was the story on NS Tan and KC Han. Read here.

Shereen Phua is married to Ralph Tay, another CanonMalaysian and together they have four sons. So, officially she is off the market. She was our Facsimile super salesperson and Ralph was in charge of our EDP Dept. Absolutely no special reasons for them to crave for each other but they did. The most famous rumor was that they were doing stuff to each other one day in the office at night when the guard caught them off guard. Our office was then in Jalan Semangat PJ. Shereen denied this of course saying that they were only talking. (Aiya, talking why need to be caught? Also, talk until so late meh? Also talk can be in coffee shop, shopping mall mah, why alone together still in office after everybody go home?)

Ralph currently is running a company called One-Technoniche, a distributor for Samsung.

Shereen is big time. Over the last 3 months, she spent about 80% of her time in Chengdu, China running a development company building buildings. Hotels, Housing, Recreation Areas etc. This project covers a land area about the size of Singapore Island. See, I told you, she is Big Time. (capitals B and T). She is now so used to making big bucks. Talking to her that evening made me feel so inadequate. She said to me and Liew Sip Chon "Come over to China lah, look around, I tell you, in a year you can make a million. Arrange for your own flight to Chengdu and I will take care of everything else. What you want? You tell me?. Come lah in October. Let me know? Hey, you coming or not?"

Tempting, tempting.

I can't tell if Liew was impressed. Nowadays, it is difficult to know what is he thinking. "Shereen, that's the place where they have the Pandas, right?" he asked. He could be interested. Maybe.

The only thing we know for sure what Liew think about is that performance in all Divisions in Canon is not good enough. Difficult to please God. What to do?

Actually, I've already known that Liew will become God when he came for the interview in Canon conducted by Michael Kuan in the early (eighties?). Michael Kuan told us that Liew mentioned in the interview that he can put us (Simon Tay, Peter Chong and me) in his pockets. Liew was then the top salesperson in Olivetti selling Electronic Typewriters. Of course, he knew then that Canon is certainly a much better brand and wanted to jump ship like the 31 Barison MPs now.

No regrets for him, I am sure.

Old picture. Shereen is the one in yellow.

Old picture. Can you spot Liew?

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Hahahahahahaha.....

I've got this from a person called Ken. This joke is a real silly one. But it got me laughing hard.

Ah Lek was asked to make a sentence using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10.

Not only did he do it 1 to 10, he did it again from 10 back to 1. This is what he came up with.....

1 day I go 2 climb a 3 outside a house to peep. But the couple saw me, so I panic and 4 down. The man rushed out and wanted to 5 with me. I ran until I fell 6 and threw up. So I go into 7-eleven and grabbed some 8 to throw at him. Then I took a 9 and try to stab at him. 10 God he run away.

10 I put the 9 back and pay for the 8 and left 7-eleven. Next day I called my boss and told him I was 6. He said 5, tomorrow also no need to come back 4 work. He also asked me to go climb a 3 and jump! down. I don't understand. I am so nice 2 him but I don't know what he 1.

Some Questions from Sunny Ch'ng

If you look at the things on the chatbox on the right, you may notice that Sunny Ch'ng has some questions.

Sunny was with us in the late seventies and early eighties. Sometimes I wonder how I can remember such things when I don't remember important dates like anniversaries, valentines, Jullie's birthdays etc.

Relatively I think Sunny was better educated than most of us and I still remember when he was Jack Lim's blue eye boy. Jack then was our Managing Director. Anyway I too remembered there was a pretty girl named Alice whom he 'kow tim' and married. I remembered as well that there was a jogathon and Alice did pretty well. I think she didn't know then that she was in her early stages of pregnancy with her first child. I hope they have a wonderful life together (Sunny and Alice). Wonder how many children are there?

Sunny's questions: Hey Stanley, do you know whereabout are Michael Kuan, Henry Ong, Simon Teh, Wong Kum Cheong, Esther Law and Daniel Low?

Michael Kuan is as reclusive as the then Howard Hughes. Absolutely no news except that one of his two sons was with Canon doing copier sales some years ago. Michael came down from Penang to head the Typewriter and Calculator Team in the seventies. It was about the time when the Americans were kicked out of Vietnam. He employed Liew Sip Chon.

Henry Ong was a tall fellow who used to beat everybody in table tennis. I used to see him for quite a number of years in shopping malls as he liked to walk around with his wife and young kid. He had a moustache a la the guy in Magnum. I have no chance to bum into him over the last few years although I still frequent the shopping malls.

Simon Tay should still be in New Zealand. He used to conduct the most amazing and interesting product demonstation on Canon Electronic Typewriters. Again, no sound no picture for quite some years.

Esther Law graduated from Universtiy Malaysia and joined us as a Marketing Executive. Straight as a arrow and had always been against my involvement in the 4digits business and Liew Sip Chon strong use of the English language. She fell in love with a colleague and left when it did not work out. I wonder too where is she now.

Went on a trip with Wong Kum Cheong to Haadyai and he met this Thai girl who keep insisting on being bought something and WKC keep explaining to her that he has no money. WKC wasn't lying. It was hilarious.

Daniel Low left Canon and work with Beyen for a while, then went on his own, then disappeared.

I know I wasn't of much help to Sunny Ch'ng. But I can't know everything, can I?




Daniel Low and me 2000 years ago.







Esther Law and me 2000 years ago.

Scott MacKenzie's San Francisco

I was browsing youtube and I came across this video clip.

This song sure would be familiar with most people but I bet you may not have seen Scott Mackenzie before. The images and people in this clip aroused such nostalgia in me. Watch it. It may have the same effect on you if you are above 45, a baby boomer or a kid of baby boomers.

NS Tan, KC Han, Shereen Phua, Liew Sip Chon-Part 1

Steven Tan was supposed to join us.

When I spoke to him in the afternoon then, he said he woke up and he had problems moving, said something about his back. He went for acupuncture treatments and needed to rest. Hopefully he is alright now. Looking forward to seeing him again. I think he is now with U-Mobile.





We looked like this 2000 years ago.


The rest of us had dinner in Lan Kwai Fong in the Curve. This place, the Street looked 35 times better than the LKF in Hongkong. When I arrived, KC Han and Liew were there. Then came NS Tan and later followed by Shereen Phua.

I had this question for NS but he jumped me to it. He asked "ten ngong lei wan doe cheen were". "I heard you made some money" Obviously he himself has gone up the seashore already. When he cashed out of Compugates, he cashed up. If they reported this in some newspaper in China, you will have thousands of those Chinese women coming here, wanting to be his friend.

Okay, so NS was the Executive Director in Compugates and now he has several companies in the IT industry. One of them is Aver Awards with outlets in Low Yat, Sunway Pyramid and Leisure Cineplex in the Curve. Big time businessman, this NS Tan.

You may want to know that it was NS Tan who nicknamed Steven Wong, our General Manager then "low wong qua". See even then, he knew he was going to hit big time and could not be intimidated by bosses and authorities.

He has put on some weight. How not to when you've become so well to do. A current picture? Okay.















Handsome lei? The lady beside him is not his wife. She is KC Han. I think I have said too much about this number 1 Will Writer already. National champion, this one. If I say anymore, you may think I am in love with her or I have some shares in her business or I am some stalker or all three.

Part 2 shall be posted later. Watch this space.

The Malaysian Political Oscars!

I received this today from somebody I know, Dr Wong Tuck Meng.

This piece of work is from somebody I don't know, Huzir Sulaiman. Wikipedia says:


Huzir Sulaiman (born in 1973) is a Malaysian actor, director and writer. One of Malaysia's leading dramatists, acclaimed for his vibrant, inventive use of language and incisive insight into human behavior in general and the Asian psyche in particular. His plays, often charged with dark humor, political satire, and surrealistic twists, have won numerous awards and international recognition. He currently lives in Singapore.


I hope you enjoy this piece of work done by him.

"The Malaysian Political Oscars!"

Our political situation is like something out of a movie – so here are the awards. The envelope, please…

The Wide Angle Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, headquartered for no particular reason in Skudai, presents this year’s Malaysian Political Oscars.

The most widely watched television event in Malaysia, the Political Oscar telecast reaches over 1 billion viewers, some of whom are dead, some of whom are 130 years old, and most of whom are registered at the same address.

How does it work? Members of the academy (all Malaysian taxi drivers who despite being allegedly the worst in the world at driving taxis are remarkably good at political analysis) vote on these awards, and the results are tabulated by the auditors of some large accounting firm who would rather do this sort of thing than real accounting work,which might explain the state of the economy.

Here are the nominees and winners.

Best Supporting Actor It is a crowded field this year, with many stellar performances from both veterans and newcomers.

The nominees include private investigator P. Balasubramaniam in Missing; Pusrawi’s Dr. Mohd Osman in Rear Window; Zaid Ibrahim in Gone in Sixty Seconds; and Raja Petra Kamaruddin in An Inconvenient Truth.

But the Best Supporting Actor Oscar goes to Penang Umno leader Ahmad Ismail for his controversial performance in Pride and Prejudice.

Despite his recent success, which led to him being cast in Under Siege and Raging Bull, Ahmad has flatly refused roles in the films Anger Management and Atonement.

Best Supporting Actress For her critically-acclaimed performance in Minority Report, this year’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar goes to Sin Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng.

Interestingly, immediately after that film completed principal photography, Tan was the unwitting star of Catch and Release, a film that may or may not have been directed by Syed Hamid Albar, depending on which version of the studio press kit you read.

Tan spent just 18 hours on location, before quitting, citing creative differences.

Best Cinematography For his impactful camera work in the V.K. Lingam vehicle The Conversation, the Oscar for Cinematography goes to Gwo Loh Burne.

(Although The Conversation was shot some time ago, due to his refusal to be credited for many months, Gwo Loh Burne could not be given the award earlier. When he finally came forward, this legal thriller was re-released in some markets as The Burne Identity.)

The Conversation beat out Entrapment, starring Chua Soi Lek, which also features an anonymous cinematographer.

Best Foreign-Language Film Agricultural Study Tour, a Taiwanese sleeper hit, was shot entirely by coincidence, supposedly with no director and no funding.

Nonetheless, a sequel, Exile on My Taiwanese Farm: Peeling my Taugeh might be filmed next year with some of the original cast.

Best Original Screenplay Jumper, written by Anwar Ibrahim, wins this year’s award.

Although the film suffers from a cast of unknowns, whose number seems to fluctuate from scene to scene (though always at least 31), the script is undeniably original and exciting. It also has the potential for numerous sequels, which will prove profitable for the actors.

Best Adapted Screenplay Written by a team of in-house screenwriters from the Attorney-General’s Studios, The Accused, starring Anwar Ibrahim, is allegedly adapted from instructions given by political superiors. A remake ofthe 1998 flop, but with many of the same actors and production team.

Best Actress Seputeh Member of Parliament Teresa Kok was competing against herself this year with sterling performances in a slew of releases: Election; Woman on Top; Supergirl; and, in cinemas until last Friday, the black comedy Enemy of the State.

She wins the Best Actress Oscar, however, for her most famous role, Miss Congeniality, which has earned her praise from audiences and critics alike.

Best Actor The big stars of yesteryear dominated the Best Actor category thisyear.

Nominees include S. Samy Vellu in Gone With The Wind; Dr. MahathirMohamed in V for Vendetta; and both Najib Tun Razak and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in the comedy Trading Places.

The winner, however, of the Malaysian Political Oscar for Best Actor is Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for his flawless, nuanced, masterful performance in Eyes Wide Shut.

Best Picture The nominees for Best Picture in the Malaysian Political Oscars are all gripping epics.

They include the moving story of the many members of Parti Sosialis Malaysia, The Magnificent Seven; the Khairy Jamaluddin biopic Million Dollar Baby; the Hindraf saga, Out for Justice; and the tale of Gerakan in the Barisan Nasional, The End of the Affair.

The winner for Best Picture, however, is the story of the MCA’s struggle against the Internal Security Act, Look Who’s Talking Now.

Lifetime Achievement Award For his astonishing film career spanning many decades, and including both commercial hits and small but critically-acclaimed art-house movies, Anwar Ibrahim wins the Lifetime Achievement Award.

His roles, in chronological order, include: Wild at Heart; The Young Guns; The Great Debaters; Sleeping With The Enemy; The Insider; The Sweet Smell of Success; Reversal of Fortune; Cast Away; The Accused; The Cell; Cry Freedom!; Into the Wild; Back to the Future; Mission:Impossible; The Perfect Storm; and, most recently, Eastern Promises.

Depending on the outcome of contract negotiations, Anwar’s next movies may include The King and I; Top Gun; and Great Expectations.

Alternatively, he may take roles in Crash; The Departed; and The Forgotten. That’s the thing about show business – you never know what the big stars will do next!

That’s all for this year’s edition of the Malaysian Political Oscars. See you on the red carpet next year!"

Dr Mahathir, I Don't Think So (2)

The last 2 points of his last post, Loss of Confidence are:

13. I know many who admire the West tend to support their values. They would like to interpret the disastrous performance of the BN based on Western thinking. But we are Asians and in Malaysia our basic racial differences are extreme. All we can do to avoid confrontation between the races is to allow them to form race based parties and to have them cooperate with each other. This was the BN policy and practise. And it worked for almost half a century.

14. We cannot fault the BN concept and governance. We have to look elsewhere for the loss of confidence in the party.

I just cannot disagree more.

Din Dai Fong Gardens 24/11/08

Originally Jullie, Marjorie and I were supposed to have a early lunch on Wednesday 24/11/08 at 11.15am.

The place to meet will be Din Dai Fong in the Gardens, Mid Valley.

Today, the mail that I received from Jullie has quite some other names of people invited as well. Being sufficiently sociable, I welcome them all. However I noticed that some of the email addresses could be outdated already.

I am taking the liberty to mention the names here in the hope that if they do not receive the notice from Jullie by email, they can see it here. (Gives me yet another opportunity to promote this site.)

Marjorie Chang, Stanley Cheong, Shereen Phua, Sharon Yeong, Sylvia Gan, Steven Lai, Steven Tan, Liew Sip Chon, Rubian Ho, Yan Yoke Ping, Jaslyn Goh, Esther Ho, Goh Kheng Peow, Steven Mah, Steven Lim, and Richard Yeoh. (Yeow?)

This here is the message.

Subject
Brunch next Wed (24/11)

, , Ok. Meet at 11:15am in Gardens. Venue -Din Dai Fong. Lower Ground of Gardens.

Marj and me has to scoot at 1pm. The rest can stay on.

RSVP if you can.

Jullir, ,

So guys, I hope to see you there. Knowing Jullie, I have the feeling that if the invitees should want to bring some other ex-Canon peeps along, she wouldn't mind. In case you want to check with her, her email is limjullie@gmail.com.

















You have Johnnie, Shereen, Jullie, SK Lim and Jasyln in this picture.

Fadilah Hassan

Fadilah is a very strong lady. Not that she can challenge the Chinese ladies in the recent Olympics, but she is so resourceful. You can say she is currently the Head of her family. Her father passed on not too long ago and she takes care of her mother, sister and brother financially and in other aspects as well.

Well, I begin to know her when she joined my team in Canon in the nineties as a Customer Relations Officer and then later in sales on supplies. After when I left, she too joined me in Stone-Mashe doing sales. She left after a few years. She has set sales records still unbroken today. She is one of the most self-motivated person I know.

She is on her own now and we continue to be in touch as Stone-Mashe is currently one of her suppliers.

She is a Cantonese speaking Muslim with a Chinese Malaysian mother and a Muslim Eurasian Malaysian father. Of course she speaks English and Malay fluently.

Her peers earlier include Ann, Malani, Gwendolyn, Pauline, Serena, Vivien, Tricia, Jackie Leow etc.

Najib, Is Imitation always Flattery?

You know Najib has started a website. http://www.1malaysia.com.my/v1/index.php . A typical case of Kiasu?

Currently, nothing much to shout about there.

I came upon this from Kar Hoe's blog. The logo design is almost a complete ripoff from the Formula One logo. See what I mean.










Or maybe imitation is always a high form of flattery.

I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry

If you listen to the radio, you will hear this song being played repeatedly. Nothing really special about this song.

Except you will never hear the "a Girl" in the line "I Kissed a Girl". These two words are censored. I guess they are afraid that girls here in this country may want to try and, like Katy Perry said "I liked it". And then proceed to establish lesbian relationships in big numbers.

Crappy censorship laws we have. Like the heavily denounced ISA, I think our authorities are in some kind of denial.

Hello! this is 2008. Access to the Internet is a given.

Anyway, if you want to know the rest of the lyrics.

So how does Katy look like.

Moses

If you read my chatbox, you would have noticed Moses writing in "How come no one remembered me"

Of course everybody remembers Moses.

When you were born, the Pharoah was then most afraid of you Hebrews and ordered all baby boy infants to be killed. You mom put you in a basket and place you in the Nile. The Pharoah's daughter found you but your clever mom offered herself as a nurse and what do you know, your mom brought you up as your nurse. Clever lei?

You did not forget your roots and later took the Hebrews away as explained in the book of Exodus.The Egyptian army came after you guys and chased you to the edge of the Red Sea. God whispered something to you and you lift up your rod and Walah, the sea parted for you guys to run across. You lifted your rod again over at the other side and so the bad soldiers drowned.

Still, not so easy. You guys were in the desert for 40 years looking for the land called Canaan simply because you refused to ask for directions. Well, all these while, through God, you provided them food and striking your rod on stones, you provided them water.

Somewhere along the way you went up Mount Sinai and came down holding 2 big stone tablets with 10 laws from God telling people how to live. Can you remember how did you get so strong?

While you were gone, the people started to worship a calf stature. You were very angry and destroyed the statue with the 2 stone tablets. Of course God later forgave everyone and you made another set of the Ten Commandments.

You are going to live to a ripe old age of 120.

The Quran too tells of your birth and upbringing similarly except that your name was Musa.

As the camera was not invented 3500 years ago, we have no accurate image of you. I am posting a photograph of how you should look like. Handsome, confident, lady killer, suave and IT savvy.



















A couple of favours I need to ask you, Moses. I need your email address. (please do not give me your; moses@heaven.com), your tenure in Canon, (from what to what year), lots of photos for the canonmalaysians.com album. And lastly, I have some water here that I would like you to turn into fine wine.

Sri Chinmoy Ghose

You know I am not a big fan of clever sayings "live to eat and not eat to live", "fail to plan and therefore plan to fail", "not how long you live but how well you live", "not the years in your life but the life in your years", "a girl with skirt up and a guy with pants down shouldn't be running around", and so on and so forth.

I am making an exception here. If you have watched Zeitgeist - The Movie, at the end you'll have ..

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace - Sri Chinmoy Ghose.

I kind of like this and find it a little appropriate in our current national affairs.

916

Today is 916.

I can't say I am not a little disappointed with no change in our Government.

Anwar said he has submitted the list of names of crossovers to Badawi and wanted assurances of a smooth transition without Emergency Rule being invoked possibly resulting in chaos and public disorders. If true, it sounds pretty noble.

This group that gathered in the Kelana Jaya stadium last night to listen to the likes of Anwar, Khalid, Kit Siang, Guan Eng etc was estimated by various people by different numbers. From as little as 7000 to 20000 strong. I wonder how do they count the number of people in a large crowd.

Last night, Anwar said “We, the leaders of Pakatan, jointly wrote a letter to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi - it was handed by our representatives today - seeking an immediate meeting to discuss the following: firstly, the immediate release of all political detainees including Raja Petra, Teresa Kok, Manoharan and the rest; and secondly, to discuss the smooth, peaceful transition of Power.

“We have the numbers, and tonight on the eve of 916 - and tomorrow is the D-Day - we are ready to form…(The crowd’s roars drown Anwar’s words.)

Looking at the pictures, it is indeed heartening to see the support from people of all races standing next to each other. Makes me feel good inside in spite the no Government change today.

Eric Er Shih Ying

I received this when it was dropped into the www.drop.io facility recently. The article was on Utusan Online on the 2nd July 2008. The contributor can't be credited as he/she did not identified himself/herself.

The subject was Eric Er had sex change? The pressure in HP must be very high....





















Eric Er left Canon to join Hewlett Packard and I did a post on him sometime back. Read here. I must say that the new Eric Er looks pretty attractive. I think now, men will begin to look at Eric differently. Mmm ...

There is No Stopping Pakatan Rakyat

If a General Election is to be held tomorrow, there will be no prizes to guess that Pakatan Rakyat will take over the Government.

With the successes of the March GE and then Permatang Pauh, much hope has been given to ordinary people on the streets that Change is Possible and can be obtained NOW!!!

Barison Nasional needs time to do damage control i.e. if damages so far can be controlled; and the current Tide can be rolled back. Time is currently not what they have in abundance. But they will have time if Emergency Rule is declared.

Hence I am with those who advocate that nobody takes to the streets to protest the ISA arrests of Raja Petra, Teresa Kok and Sin Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng.

Incidentally, Tan Hoon Cheng has finally been released and made history by having served the shortest detention period under the ISA, to be exact 20 hours.

Roger Federer and KC Han

The recent US Open saw my favorite player back on top of things again. With that trophy makes 13 Slam titles. Roger Federer is now one shy of Pete Sampras record 14 Slams titles. This 5th consecutive US Open win also constitute a record as nobody has won the US Open title 5 times in a row.

To tell you something you already know. There are 4 major tennis tournaments a year and together they are called a Grand Slam. They are in chronological order, The Australian Open in Melbourne, The French Open in Paris, Wimbledon in London and the US Open in New York.

Being not too keen a tennis fan, these are the only 4 tournaments I follow.

KC Han is a Will writer as you would already know by now. You could even have your Will written by her.

There are no tournaments in Will writing. And no Grand Slams either. But if there were, KC will win hands down. (I almost accidentally typed pants down, .. oops).

I've just got information that KC is now the number 1 Will writer in the country for this 1st half 2008. She has been either in the number 1 or 2 positions over the years.

By the way, she bought me lunch yesterday at KLCC Madam Kwan's.

I did a post on her earlier. Read more about her here.

Zeitgeist - The Movie

Depending on where are you coming from and your current Belief System; you could be informed, shocked, amazed, entertained, impressed., enlightened, frightened. Or you can be terribly disgusted and offended.

This is a long movie, slightly over 2 hours and would not be coming to a theatre near you if you are in Malaysia.

I recommend you watch it. Especially if you like conspiracy theories. The Da Vinci Code should come to mind.


http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Jullie sent me a Card

I receive a birthday Card from Jullie every year. It has been like that now for more than 15 years. After the third year, I realized Jullie was not in love with me because sending the Card is the only thing she does.

Here is this year's Card.



















Who is this woman?

Jullie Chin was our Assistant Sales Manager (I think) in the Fax Department on Patrick Yee's watch in the late eighties.

She was a BSc graduate. A pretty big deal then. You may be interested to know that most of our Senior Managers then were non-graduates including Liew Sip Chon, Richard Yeow, Patrick Yee, Steven Wong and yours' truly.

How does she look like?

















How does Jullie look like now? I could be meeting her and possibly Majorie Chang next week or so. Will try to capture a few pictures then.

Thank you Jullie for the Birthday Card and Wishes.

Ahmad Ismail is an Idiot

First of all, being an idiot does not mean being ignorant. It means being of subnormal intelligence.

If Ahmad Ismail wants to be noticed among the hundreds of politicians, then it may explain what he does. Otherwise, who would know of Ahmad Ismail! Both Mahathir and Anwar has gone through this way before. Being ultra, that is.

However times have changed. Times always do. Anwar has changed. Mahathir has changed. Current songs are different. To be somewhat of an extremist, move up politically and change later seemed an outdated formula.

Today, the people are more educated and more informed. The March General Election is evident of this. This is again reinforced by the By-Election in Permatang Pauh. As long as the nation has to compete internationally of which we should not doubt, then Malaysians as a people will have to be competitive. Affirmative race specific actions will just have to go! First class, Second class, Third class citizenship too must go!

We can look on the bright side though. Just like I mentioned earlier that a weak Badawi offers an opportunity for an earlier change, a person like Anmad Ismail can hasten this process as well.

Malik Imtiaz Sarwar in his blog, Give Ahmad Ismail a Break, Will You? wrote, "I think we should leave Ahmad Ismail and his merry men to do what it is they do best; reinforce the choices voters made on March 8th when they decided to hand over Penang to the Pakatan Rakyat."

Kingdom Come - Get It On

It is not very likely that you have heard of this group. I used to be somewhat of a fan of this rock group principally because they sound so much alike my all time favorite rock band Led Zepellin.

The voice and the musical arrangements are almost the same. They were even once accused of being a Led Zepellin Kingdom Klone.

Many years ago, I introduced their music to William Augustin and he mentioned that their music made him relax.

I am revisiting them after watching Jimmy Page of Led Zeppellin and Leona Lewis performed "Whole Lotta Love" during the closing of the Beijing Olympics where they did a show to announce the next London 2012 Olympics.

I am still somewhat of a fan. I think they are very entertaining.

Thanks, guys

Yes, it is my birthday today and what's left of the cake my colleagues arranged for me yesterday is what's in this picture.

Thank you guys. Christine, BeeGeok, Adeleine, Stella, Liza, Atie, Vincent, Azwani, Thina, Bob, Rizal, James, Brenda, Edmond, Jeremy and Ann.

The cake was awesomely tasty.

Serena Ong, Pauline Wong. I appreciate your SMS good wishes.

The picture below shows some of my colleagues in Canon T-shirts.

Mahathir, I don't think so

Read two blogs just.

In Mahathir's blog, he wrote.

3. When the opposition did very well in the 2008 elections, foreign observers talk about a wind of change in Malaysia; about how racialism had been rejected, how Anwar, their favourite would soon take over the Government.

4. I had differed from these casual observers because I know that it was not rejection of racial politics which helped the opposition. It was simply disgust on the part of members of UMNO, MCA and Gerakan of the Premiership and leadership of Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Talking on the ground, this was quite obvious.

5. Far from the opposition's "win" being brought about by rejection of racial politics, it has actually enhanced racial politics. We talk more about race and racial interest than we did in the last 50 years.

Members of Barisan were disgusted with Badawi's leadership and therefore the opposition took 5 states and denied the government of a two third majority in Parliament? And talking on the ground, this was quite obvious? This casual observer beg to differ, Tun Mahathir.

Racial politics can only go so far, When the people whom Barisan were supposed to help realised that it is not happening, they can and will be influenced to vote for change. It is just too simplistic to blame Badawi alone. In fact, I think he is fairer to the Rakyat than you, Tun. Just too bad that he is not a strong enough leader. Anyway, the good thing is, because he is not strong, it gives rise to an opportunity for a earlier change than otherwise possible.

We certainly talk more about race and racial issues now than the past 51 years. And it is about time too. However, we are not talking about this in the manner you think. More are talking about it and rejecting racial politics in the interest of everybody and nation. Yes, I beg to differ.



The other blog I read was my daughter Jeradyne's blog. A really important person to me. She wrote.

Anyway, my dad's birthday is tomorrow.
So












To the best daddy I know. Even though you're the only daddy I know, lol. I love you =)

I'll try to be less of a brat. I'll try my best so don't push it, lol.

See, I'm a good daughter =)

Apple 7

Apple 7 is a local band doing English numbers where my son Jeremy is the lead guitarist.

I post here a video clip of a song they did a couple of weeks ago in the event "Meet the Band" in Goldhill Club in Kepong. The name of this song is "She Made Me Smile".

I've had a girlfriend once who made me smile. She has her own car, pay for her own cinema tickets, food and drinks/beers. If she had paid for mine as well, she could have made me her slave, let alone smile.

In case you wonder, Jeremy has a day job.

Have You Ever Voted

Last evening as usual, I was having a couple of drinks in a pub. I was in Sava Damasara Uptown with two friends of mine, Chong Shean Nam and Thomas Hwang. We were joined by a Patimas person Eddie a bit later.

After all the usual mindless subjects were discussed, we turned to the subject of our local politics. Like all experts wannabees, we analysed to death our versions of history leading up to the March 8 Tsunami and what happened after that to the Permatang Pauh landslide success of Anwar. We then presented our expert views on oncoming issues and events. We were proud to predict what will happen by September 16, 2008.

We were very impressed with ourselves. It helped greatly when alcohol flows freely through your blood vessels swimming with your abundant cholesterols, the good and bad ones.

I think somebody mentioned too that Anwar has got some good looking daughters.

Then out of the blue, I was presented with this question by Chong Shean Nam, looking at me suspiciously. "Actually have you ever voted", he asked.

I have always known over the last couple of years, this embarassing moment will come. For whatever reasons, it is without a doubt highly irresponsible for me not to have done my civic duty. It is truly inexcusable.

I hereby apologise to all Malaysians and I deserve all brickbats thrown at me.

Hereon, I shall endeavour to vote in all General Elections.

Canon Goes Green

Received this from cmm.administration via email. Looks like CMMSB is going bigtime into this Corporate Social Responsibility thingy. This here is an enviromental related campaign. You can contribute in various ways, like submitting photos or volunteering to plant them saplings.

If you have ever threw away an empty cigarette box on the street, stuck a used chewing gum below a table, ask for another plastic bag in the supermarket, constructed an illegal wash basin at the back of your house with the waste water going down the back drain; this is your chance to make amends. Your confession in church is not good enough. Join the CanonGoesGreen campaign.

Read the following message.

Canon Goes Green...

Do you wish to show your SUPPORT ?

With effect from 2nd Sept. 2008, the microsite, www.canongoesgreen.com will go 'live'.

To show your support to the CANON GOES GREEN movement, kindly log onto the microsite address above and start uploading any photo. Canon Goes Green is the largest Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)environment-related campaign, organized by Canon Marketing Malaysia in line with Canon’s brand sustainability philosophy of ‘kyosei’.

Partnering with MBPJ and Global Environment Centre (GEC), Canon Malaysia will be contributing 2,500 trees at Padang Kota Damansara on 19 October2008. Every photo that you submit to the website will bring us closer to our public tree-planting event!

Show your support for the environment, please invite more friends to visit the CanonGoesGreen.com website.Going GREEN, Living CLEAN. Consider the environment before you print.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT NOW ! !

Thank you for your support.

CANON MARKETING (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD

An Email from Jack Lim

Opening my mail this morning, I came upon one from our former Managing Director in Canon Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd, Jack Lim. He has such a knack for writing well. Very funny too. I can't help chuckling on this "a lot of work and no job" thing. You may want to read the mail.


Hi Stan,

Sorry, I have not been able to communicate promptly and often enough. The trouble these days is that I have a lot of work and no job. Hope to go back to the golf course more regularly soon just for the walk. If I continue to stay away, there is the danger of my leg muscles atrophying. Most people, if not all, have not enough time to do every thing they want, but we must put our priorities right. To me health should be on top of the list. This becomes more convincing after every hospital visit or funeral of people we used to know.

You are absolutely right, we must do lunch again soon. Have been thinking of it too but never got around to doing it. Helpfully next month.

Incidentally, is it ok if I forward some mails to the ‘ canonmalaysians’ site if I find something worth sharing?

Warmest regards,
Jack Lim

Of course, Jack. Things worth sharing should be shared and I will be honored to facilitate them featuring here.

By the way, should I be expecting a mail from Liew Sip Chon? Hmm, names dropping seemed to have become an unbecoming habit of late.

Merdeka Baby Lim Kok Hin

Every Merdeka day should see our fair share of babies born. Maybe a bit more than other days as some births are delayed and some sped up so as to reflect this August 31 date in their birth certificates and identity cards. Maybe for some, it can become a conversational issue. In pubs, after the subject of girls, women, getting lucky, number of times, number of them etc, the subject on being born on this day could rank in within the top 20.

I do not know of all these people except for Lim Kok Hin. Not only was he born on this date; he was born in 1957 as well. He could be crying for the first time when Tuanku Abdul Rahman was shouting Merdeka 7 times with his right hand held up high. Save for a short period before the umbilical cord was severed, he got independent being released from his mother physically on this day.

A former colleague warned me not to write about Kok Hin as he can be a pretty sensitive fellow.

He said not to write about him liking to wear white pants with red briefs in his early Canon days. He said not to write about him during his wild days in England. He said not to write about his social hits in quite a few states in Malaysia. He had stints in Penang, Sabah and PJ. (maybe more, lazy to research).

This person said Kok Hin, as he advance in his career in Canon, he progressively became more serious in his work and outlook, and less of a brother. This I think is the correct stance to take as we can see that Anwar currently too talk and dress differently as well, as he moved towards Prime Ministership.











Lim Kok Hin is so well known that I am sure I do not have to point out to you which one is him in the pictures.