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Stanford PhD holder is a taxi driver

Bio-chemist Dr Cai Minnjie who failed to land another research position after losing his job last year now happily prowls the streets as a cabbie.

SINGAPORE’S fraternity of taxi drivers, with its fair share of retrenched executives, has now an exalted new member – a PhD bio-chemist from Stanford University. Prowling the streets of Singapore today is 57-year-old unemployed scientist Dr Cai Mingjie who lost his job at Singapore’s premier A-Star biomedical research institute last year. The China-born naturalised citizen with 16 years of research accomplishments said he began driving a taxi last October after failed efforts to land another job. The news shocked this nation, which holds an unshakable faith in the power of an advanced university education. One surprised white-collar worker said he had believed that such a doctorate and experience was as good as life-long employment and success. “If he has to drive a taxi, what chances do ordinary people like us have?” he asked. I have met a number of highly qualified taxi drivers in recent years, including former managers and a retrenched engineer.

One cheerful driver – a former stock-broker – surprised me one day in giving me detailed reasons on what stocks to buy or avoid. “At a time like this, the taxi business is probably the only business in Singapore that still actively recruits people,” said Dr Cai. To me, his plight is taking Singapore into a new chapter. “(I am) probably the only taxi driver in the world with a PhD from Stanford and a proven track record of scientific accomplishments ...,” blogged Dr Cai. “I have been forced out of my research job at the height of my scientific career” and was unable to find another job “for reasons I can only describe as something uniquely Singapore”. The story quickly spread far and wide over the Internet. Most Singaporeans expressed admiration for his ability to adapt so quickly to his new life. Two young Singaporeans asked for his taxi number, saying they would love to travel in his cab and talk to him. “There’s so much he can pass on to me,” one said.

Others questioned why, despite his tremendous scientific experience, he is unable to find a teaching job. His unhappy exit is generally attributed to a personal cause (he has alleged chaotic management by research heads) rather than any decline in Singapore’s bio-tech project, which appears to be surviving the downturn. The case highlights a general weakening of the R and D (research and development) market in smallish Singapore. “The bad economy means not many firms are hiring professional scientists,” one surfer said. “Academia isn’t much of a help – there’s a long history of too many PhDs chasing too few jobs.”

While the image of taxi drivers has received a tremendous boost, the same cannot be said of Singapore’s biomedical project – particularly its efforts to nourish home-grown research talent. “It may turn more Singaporeans away from Life Sciences as a career,” said one blogger. One writer said: “In my opinion, PhDs are useless, especially in Singapore. It’s just another certificate and doesn’t mean much.” Another added: “The US is in a worse situation. Many are coming here to look for jobs.” “I won’t want my child to study for years to end up driving a taxi,” said a housewife with a teenage daughter. The naturalised Singaporean citizen underwent his PhD training at Stanford University, the majority of his work revolving around the study of yeast proteins.

His case is not unique. US research-scientist Douglas Prasher, who isolated the gene that creates the green fluorescent protein (and just missed the 2008 Chemistry Nobel Prize) faced similar straits. Prasher moved from one research institution to another when his funding dried up, and he eventually quit science – to drive a courtesy shuttle in Alabama. “Still, he remains humble and happy and seems content with his minivan driver job,” said a surfer.

With an evolving job market as more employers resort to multi-tasking and short-term contracts, more Singaporeans are chasing after split degrees, like accountancy and law or computer and business. Others avoid post-graduate studies or specialised courses of a fixed discipline in favour of general or multi-discipline studies. “Experience is king” is the watchword; there has been a rush for no-pay internships. “The future favours graduates with multiple skills and career flexibility, people who are able to adapt to different types of work,” one business executive said. During the past few years, as globalisation deepened, there has been a growing disconnect between what Singaporeans studied in university and their subsequent careers. It follows the trend in the developed world where old businesses disappear – almost overnight – and new ones spring up, which poses problems for graduates with an inflexible job expectation. I know of a young man who graduated from one of America’s top civil engineering universities abandoning the construction hard hat for a teaching gown.

Another engineer I met is running his father’s lucrative coffee shop. Lawyers have become musicians or journalists, and so on. Cases of people working in jobs unrelated to their university training have become so common that interviewers have stopped asking candidates questions like “Why should a trained scientist like you want to work as a junior executive with us?” In the past, parents would crack their heads pondering what their children should study – accountancy or law or engineering, the so-called secure careers – and see them move single-mindedly into these professions. A doctor was then a doctor, a biologist generally worked in the lab and a lawyer argued cases in courts – square pegs in square holes, so to speak.

Today the world is slowly moving away from this neat pattern.

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OUR FRIEND AS COLUMNIST

Ada nampak muka yang familiar dak dlm gambar kat sebelah ni?

Kawan kita Dr Heazar a.k.a Mat Yat dah bergelar kolumnis untuk mstar online.

ni excerpt from his first article, 24.08.09 bertajuk 'Sukarnya mendefinasi siapa kita...'

"......Saya sendiri ditakrif sebagai “budak MARA” , dan bersesuaian dengan identiti saya, maka di waktu petang selepas berakhirnya kelas sekitar tahun 1998 hingga 2000, mungkin para pembaca akan dapat melihat saya....." [baca seterusnya di sini]

Lesson learnt from bank negligence

An article from Harian Metro today shocked me with a story of a single mother with 3 children might lose her house due to her late husband's loan default amounting RM283k. Claiming the deceased made an overdraft loan of 58k without her knowledge, she questioned the bank negligence to acknowledge her in much earlier time.

I felt extremely sorry for her but it makes me think of how they (or we) manage our family financial system. If we were in her shoes, what would come across our mind? I know some of us might think these unfortunate stories only happen to strangers.

Financial aids are biggest help of all, but it might be the most impossible as well. We would wish her late husband told her about the loan but it had happened and no one could turn back the time. Or he should buy some insurance policies, ammortised the loan or have a secret diary about his wealth but now it's too late for anything.

For sure, it's something for us to think about since we are not late yet...

"KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang ibu tunggal hampir pengsan sebaik mengetahui rumah peninggalan arwah suaminya bakal dilelong dalam tempoh terdekat berikutan kegagalannya melangsaikan hutang pinjaman overdraf yang dilakukan arwah suami tanpa pengetahuannya.

Bagaimanapun, wanita itu, Jamilah Mohd, 47, mendakwa dia berasa teraniaya apabila pihak bank hanya memaklumkan mengenai pinjaman overdraf berjumlah RM58,000 itu dua minggu lalu sedangkan arwah suaminya sudah meninggal dunia hampir 11 tahun."

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CONGRATS ON NEW BABY!

" Alhamdulillah Gee has safely given birth to our baby boy, Harith Azfar, at Pantai Bangsar this morning. Both mummy and baby are healthy"

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OUR SALIZA IN BERITA HARIAN

....."Pengarah Eksekutif Kumpulan BG Capital Holdings, Saliza Abdullah, 31, berkata tidak boleh dielakkan dan sudah menjadi kelaziman setiap kali Ramadan apabila hari bekerja, juadah ..... [read more here]

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SELAMAT MENYAMBUT RAMADHAN

RAMADHAN MUBARAK!!!

Mutaah RM5 juta

Hari ini aku terbaca tajuk utama akhbar Harian Metro tentang tuntutan harta sepencarian bernilai RM5 juta oleh bekas isteri seorang AJK bahagian sebuah parti politik (click for full article).

Among his assets are "kondominium di Genting Highlands, rumah di Bukit Jelutong, apartmen di Hawaii dan Los Angeles, Amerika Syarikat selain sebuah Mercedes Benz, Porsche dan Ferrari".

Aku ingatkan Malaysian top multi millionaire / billionaire level sahaja yang mampu mempunyai aset seperti itu. So, aku tertanya-tanya... apa bisnes Dato' ini?

For sure for now... He must has a really serious "business" to take care of!

SEDEQAH

From Kamal @ Yeop

Assalamualaikum,

Ihsan, apa khabar? Ramadhan mubarak. Aku nak kutip derma untuk Meccaone.org melalui laman Anjung Maresmart. Meccaone is looking to raise minimum 46K USD by septemeber 10. I know it is a lot. Kalau warga anjung boleh sumbangkan 10 USD, 20 USD, 100 USD and so on, eventually inshaAllah, meccaone dapat achieve at least minimum. Radio ni can be listen to whole world. Lot oF scholars mostly from the states, give talks in Meccaone.

In this time, we need media to send the message of Islam especially in the western world. So inshaAllah kalau hang buleh advertisekan kat Anjung, I really appreciate it. Buat masa sekarang ni, donation buleh buat melalui kredit kad.

Nanti aku tanya Omair Ali, kalau donation buleh buat dengan PayPall. For more information visit www.meccaone.org

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Apabila tangan yang menghayun buaian boleh menggoncang dunia...

Ex-wife consumed with burning anger

August 18, 2009 by A Saleh

KUWAIT: The woman arrested in connection with the Jahra wedding tent fire, which killed 42 people and injured dozens more, some critically, has confessed to starting the blaze. The woman, the ex-wife of the bridegroom, made her confession during police questioning, which began at 2:30 am on Sunday morning. The questioning was personally supervised by Brigadier Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah, the Assistant Director General of Criminal Detectives for Governorate Affairs.

Asked about her motives for starting the fire, the unidentified 23-year-old woman said that she had wanted to take revenge on her parents-in-law, whom she accused of destroying her marriage. She added that she had argued continually with them, saying they wanted to "burn" her heart by making her ex-husband marry another woman. Asked by the interviewing officers whether she had experienced problems with her husband, she said these problems had increased because of his family, adding that he had begun to beat her and create problems due to believing what his family told him about her.

She said she had been considering setting the wedding tent alight since she learned about the wedding party, adding that nobody else had known about her plans. Asked if she had intended to kill those in the tent, she told officers, "Of course not. I only wanted to disturb the party.When the officers questioning her asked if she knew that more than 40 people had died due to her actions and the number may increase, she collapsed and began crying.

After calming down, she explained how she had set the tent on fire, telling officers that on the night of the wedding she had taken a taxi to the home of her parents-in-law in Jahra, carrying two bottles filled with petrol. On arriving, she simply walked up to the tent, poured the petrol on it and set it alight before fleeing. She then took another taxi and returned to her home.While on her way there, she received a text message from her in-laws accusing her of starting the fire.

She then called her brother and told him that she was going to Rabiya police station to register a complaint about the message. When the officers asked her if her brother knew that she was behind the fire, she said, "Of course not. I told him I was going out and he didn't know about the fire.The woman said that once she arrived at the police station to make the complaint, however, she said that the desk officer there refused to register it, telling her that nobody had accused her of anything. After that, she said, she had gone to her parents' home until "you arrested me and sent me to the Criminal Investigation Department in Salmiya.

A total of 43 women and children have died and 90 other people were injured in the inferno, fire chief General Jassem Al-Mansouri said, the deadliest civilian disaster in the modern history of the Gulf state. Health Minister Helal Al-Sayer said that 38 wounded women have been discharged after receiving the necessary treatment. Of the 52 wounded still in hospital, at least five are in critical condition with extremely severe burns, the minister said, adding that some others have suffered moderate burns.Thirty-one of the dead were buried on Sunday and yesterday while forensics officials are still busy trying to establish the identities of the other victims. At least seven of the dead are children.

Specialized medical teams from Germany and Britain were scheduled to arrive yesterday to treat the injured.

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Pencuri 1: Mapuh kite ni Jusoh! Takleh lari doh ni

Pencuri 2: Rilek.. rilek! Cari buah fikirang!

Orang kampung 1: Mun ada napok duo orang lalu sini bowok baju dalang dok?

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Pencuri 2: H wang N wang!

SPEECH BY KU LI

This was published in Malaysiakini. A speech made by Ku Li recently. I hope you dont mind sharing on our blog.

Thanks.

regards,
Adzimi


Race: Time for a new beginning
Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah | Aug 9, 09 8:49pm

The opportunity to study abroad is gift. I remember my days as a student in Belfast so long ago. Now as then, overseas study gives us the chance to be educated at some of the finest, best established institutions of higher learning anywhere, and to be exposed to the best that has been thought and done, and to measure ourselves against the highest standards. It is an opportunity to see the world.
MCPX

Travel and living abroad takes us far away from home, but in doing so it also brings us closer to ourselves, and closer to home. Have you experienced this? Have you felt time and distance making you more conscious of how unique and precious the places, relationships, colours, smells and yes, tastes, of home are? Distance can help us see things more clearly. Home is such an immediate, dense and total experience that we often need to go away to see its contours. Home is such an emotional experience that we often understand it better in the coolness of distance. We sometimes need the elevation of distance to see the map of our own country.

I want to use this privileged distance that we now share, here in Melbourne, to speak frankly with you today about a matter that is usually so tightly wound up, so emotional, that at a national level we have not been able to have a rational discussion about it.

I want to invite you to look across this distance at the map of the life in common that we call our country. I want to look across the distance of fifty two years of independence, across changes over my own lifetime, to understand where we have come from as a nation and where we are going. My topic is race and racial consciousness in Malaysian life, and especially in our politics.

Race in the political life of Malaysia

Our social and political life is racialised to a degree seen in few other countries in the world. There are historical reasons for this. Malaysia was, at its birth, a country deeply divided along communal lines. We negotiated and attained independence with a power-sharing arrangement between the leaders of the three major racial communities as represented by the Alliance coalition. The agreement and cooperation of these leaders ensured peace and stability while we modernised our economy. The skill and integrity of these leaders, and their clear authority among their own communities was key to the success of this model, which is sometimes described by political scientists as consociational democracy.

This arrangement lasted only 12 years. After the traumatic riots of May 1969, we underwent a period of rule under the National Operations Council before Parliament was restored. The New Economic Policy was drafted and put into action. A new coalition, the Barisan Nasional, was put together to ensure that every community had a place at the table. Once more, the idea was to resolve conflict within a consociational power-sharing arrangement. Each community was to have a place at the table. Conflicts were to be solved between the leaders of these communities, behind closed doors. This arrangement was useful and effective for its time, but we have to wake up to the fact that it no longer works.

It is important to understand why:

It was never meant to be a permanent solution. Our method of racial power-sharing is primarily a system for resolving conflict in a deeply divided society. It was designed as an interim work-around, an early stage on the way to “a more perfect union” and not as the desired end-state. Over the years, however, we have put up barricades around our system as if it were a fore-ordained and permanent ideal. In doing so, we have turned a half-way house into our destination, as if we must forever remain a racially divided and racially governed society.

Instead, our ideal must be to become a free and united society in which individuals can express their ethnic and religious identities without being imprisoned in them. We must aim for a society in which public reasoning and not backroom dealing determines our collective decisions.

The power-sharing model that we started life with is an elite style of government justified by the virtue and competence of natural leaders of their communities. It needs special conditions. It does not work when political parties are led by the ignorant and the corrupt who have no standing in the communities they claim to represent.

It needs genuine agreement and cooperation between leaders who command support in their own communities and are universally respected. It will not work if the power-sharing coalition is overly dominated by one person and the others are there as token representatives. Our founding fathers negotiated, cooperated and shared responsibility as equals and as friends within a power-sharing framework. The communal interests they represented were articulated within the overarching vision of a united Malaysia. In the intervening years, as power came to be concentrated in the Executive, we preserved only the outward appearance of power-sharing. In reality we have had top-down rule and power has become increasingly unaccountable. Each of our political parties has also become more top-down, ruled by eternal incumbents who protect their position with elaborate restrictions on contests. Umno itself has become beholden to the Executive.

Our decades under highly-centralised government undermined our power-sharing formula, just as it undermined key institutions such as the judiciary, the police and the rule of law. Our major institutions have survived in appearance while their substance has eroded. Seen in this light, the election results of March 8, which saw the Barisan Nasional handed its worst defeat since 1969, was just the beginning of the collapse of a structure which has long been hollowed out.

The end of the old, but not quite the new

The racial power-sharing model now practiced by Barisan is broken. It takes more honesty than we are used to in public life to observe that this is not a temporary but a terminal crisis. An old order is ending. Our problem is that while this past winds down, smoothly or otherwise, the future is not yet here. We are caught in between. Despite our having become a more economically advanced society, with many opportunities for our citizens to express richly plural identities, our races have become increasingly polarised. Large numbers of our electorate still vote along ethnic and religious lines. Much of our political ground is still racially demarcated. Although we have made some progress towards truly multiracial politics, both the Government and the Opposition are largely mobilised along racial lines. It is not yet time to herald a new dawn. Instead, we are in a transition full of perils and possibilities.

You are this generation caught between. You are the generation of transition. You will play a key role in determining its outcome. However well a certain kind of politics of racial identity may have served to reduce conflict in the past, it has come to the end of its useful life. We need a new beginning to racial relations in Malaysia, and you must pioneer that beginning. We need to re-design race relations in Malaysia, and you must be the architects and builders of that design.

In coming to that new design I hope you take advantage of the perspective of distance that your overseas education has given you to not take as your starting point the tired answers that are passed on as conventional wisdom. You must reformulate the questions and come up with your own answers. When it is clear that one generation may have run out of steam, it is time to generate your own. Where do you begin? May I suggest some perspectives and principles. Whatever the answers we come up with, I think the following elements are important:

Begin with our common humanity. Respect our common humanity must override all lesser affiliations, including race. One of Islam's most powerful contributions to human civilisation has been its insistence on the equality of all human beings. Islam tolerates no notions of racial superiority or inferiority. All human beings are equal before God. That same principle of equality is absolutely fundamental to democracy, and democracy is a foundational principle of our Constitution. Democracy is part of what makes us who we are as a nation. Even if we might still gravitate towards racial groupings, our allegiance to these groups must never overshadow our allegiance to the Constitution, and to the claims of equal dignity that it establishes firmly and permanently. Political parties based on race or religion must never be allowed to do or say anything contrary to justice and equality.

We must anchor ourselves in the Constitution and restore its primacy. This founding document of our country establishes definitively the equality of citizenship that is the bedrock of democracy. It gives us the framework of law and order within which we become a nation. It establishes the primacy of the rule of law, the sovereignty of Parliament, the independence of the judiciary and civil service and of our law enforcement agencies. These are the institutions which guarantee the freedom and sovereignty of the people.

We should acknowledge that while race is a category that unites people in common feeling, it can also divide, and divide disastrously. While it unites people who possess a set of social markers it often divides the same people from other communities. We should appreciate not just the fact that we are diverse but diverse in different ways. What I mean by this is that we are not diverse in the sense of being merely Malay, a Chinese, an Indian, a Kadazan, Iban and so forth. Each of us inhabits these particular identities in different ways. Each of us is not just a member of a race. There are other classifications which matter to us, such as location, class, social status, occupation, language, politics and others.

Is race the most important thing?

We would be terribly impoverished as persons if our identity was given ahead of time and once and for all merely by our membership of a fixed racial category. I would be a very dull person if you could tell who I was simply by looking up my race. We would never have unity if that is primarily how we regard one another. If you reflect on yourselves, you might find that all kinds of identity matter to you: that you are a graduate of such and such a university, that you speak these languages, support this football team, enjoy certain food or music, love to travel, can write computer code, have read such and such books, and have so-and-so as friends. Just reflect on how you identify yourselves in your facebook profiles. Is race the only thing you regard as important about yourselves? Is it the most important thing?

To expect our politics to be given by our race is to make cardboard images of ourselves, it is to retard our growth as individuals and hence as a society. Similarly to see no more of others than their race is to turn them into stereotypes and maintain a view of the world bordering on racist. I want to urge you, as the makers of the new social landscape we need in Malaysia, to reject taking race to be a unique and fixed categorisation, to reject race as a central category of social and political life.

Race is a constructed category, in the sense that people shape what they count as a “race” according to time, place and purpose. There is no unique and rigid concept of it the way there is a rigid concept of buoyancy, double-entry book-keeping, equilateral triangles and photosynthesis. I would be offended if you tried to measure and determine my racial identity, and it would tell me that there was something deeply wrong with your worldview. I am not Malay in the sense in which water is H2O.

Race is merely one among many identities we take up in life. We may not have much choice over how others categorise us, but we certainly have a choice about the relative importance to place on our own and therefore on the others' racial identity. We have a choice in how much weight we put on it, and in how high in our scheme of values we put it. The contrast I want to draw is between the view that makes race out to be a unique and fundamental category, and a view that sees race as one out of many kinds of identification we could prioritise.

If we see race as a watertight category, then you are either of race X or not, and everything else: your habits, thought-patterns, loyalties and politics must all follow from that. Then race becomes destiny. The politics of this kind of conception of race will always divide, and the ultimate solution to intra-racial problems it leads us to is, in the end, violence. It is easy to identify the practitioners of this kind of racial politics. They will rely on veiled threats of communal violence even as they take part in democratic politics.

However, if we understand that racial identity is just one of many identities we have to balance, then it becomes our duty as thinking persons to set relative priorities on all these identifications. We need to ask ourselves whether we want to draw our moral values and perspective from our common humanity or from our racial identity. As educated, reasoning people, we cannot but find our common humanity the more fundamental value. We cannot but find rationally chosen universal values more important than inherited tribal affiliations.

The ability to root ourselves in our common humanity first and foremost is the prerequisite for the development of a democratic society in which policies are decided by public reasoning rather than determined by violence and manipulation. This is because open public reasoning can only be carried out where there is equal respect for the dignity and rights of all citizens, and such respect must be firmly rooted in an understanding that despite sometimes clashing interests and identities, we are united by a more fundamental common identity: that of a shared humanity created by God. Our common humanity gives us moral obligations to one another, regardless of our lesser affiliations in a way that racial identity does not?

Time to embrace the diversity

We need to arrive at new ways of mediating conflicting claims between the races, new ways of bringing people to the table, of including everyone in the decisionmaking process.

These new ways must be based on more open conceptions of who we are. Malaysia's major races have lived together not just for decades but for centuries. Their cultures have interacted for millenia. In that time there has been mutual influence, admixture and cross-pollination at a depth and on a scale that our politics, popular culture and educational curriculum has largely pretended does not exist.

In my own parliamentary constituency, jungle covered, far inland and one of the most remote in the peninsula (it used to be known as Ulu Kelantan and covered half the state, and when I started there I had to travel to it by boat), is a six hundred year old Chinese community, perhaps the oldest in the peninsula, living in peace with their Malay and Orang Asli neighbours. Why pretend that we do not owe so much to each other that we would not be ourselves without each other? At the level at which people actually live we are already inextricably linked to each other.

It is time to embrace this real diversity in our political and personal lives. Our racial identities are not silos in a cornfield, forever separate, encased in steel, but trees in our rainforest: standing distinct but inexplicable without each other and constantly co-evolving.

While giving room to whoever wants to organise and advocate political interests according to our ethnic and religious affinities, we must now, very firmly, assert that such affinities must always recognise the priority and primacy of our common citizenship, our equal dignity, and above all, our common humanity before each other and before God. First we are human beings who are open to one another.

My young friends, I am not recommending anything novel. These are cardinal principle of our Constitution and the faiths we profess, most especially of Islam, and of reason itself. Let us have the sense of perspective to see our ethnic identities against these cornerstone principles of religion and ethics, and let us now educate our young, apprentice our youth, and conduct ourselves according to these principles. And then let us have a new beginning for Malaysia.

The above speech was delivered at Melbourne University at an event organized by the Umno Club.

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harap kawan kawan sudi buat tempahan dan buleh panjangkan emel ini kepada kawan kawan yang lain... buat masa ni, masih lagi tercari cari emel kawan kawan yang lain.

sekian, wassalam.

lina @ end july 2009
blue.cheesee@yahoo.com.my
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Bawa tangga tolong amikkan...

Alang2 kat sini ada..

Saja aku nak tunjukkan...

5 CORPORATE LESSONS

Corporate Lesson 1

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings.The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor.Before she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you $800 to drop that towel." After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.

When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, "Who was that?". "It was Bob the next door neighbor," she replies."Great!" the husband says, "Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?"

Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

Corporate Lesson 2

A priest offered a lift to a Nun. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg. The nun said, "Father, remember Psalm 129?" The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said, "Father, remember Psalm 129?"?The priest apologized "Sorry sister but the flesh is weak." Arriving at the convent, the nun went on her way.

On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, "Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory."

Moral of the story: If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.

Corporate Lesson 3

A sales rep and a administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out. The Genie says, "I'll give each of you just one wish."

"Me first! Me first!" says the admin. clerk. "I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world." Poof! She's gone.

"Me next! Me next!" says the sales rep. "I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life." Poof! He's gone.

"OK, you're up," the Genie says to the manager. The manager says, "I want those two back in the office after lunch."

Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say.

Corporate Lesson 4

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A rabbit asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long" The crow answered: - "Sure, why not." So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested.

A fox jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very high up.

Corporate Lesson 5

A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, but I haven't got the energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients." The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story : Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.

Nasib Melayu di bumi Melayu

Oleh : Dr. Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah Pensyarah Kanan, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia Disiarkan: Utusan Malaysia, 26 Julai 2009

Saya tidak menafikan bahawa kematian Teoh Beng Hock perlukan kepada pembelaan. Saya amat mengalu-alukan keputusan kabinet untuk menubuhkan satu inkues dan suruhanjaya bebas diraja untuk menyiasat dan menentukan punca kematian Beng Hock. Siasatan yang telus dan rapi mesti dijalankan tanpa rasa takut agar dapat memuaskan hati semua pihak, apatah lagi pihak keluarga dan parti pembangkang yang begitu bersungguh-sungguh dalam isu ini. Namun, saya merayu, semua parti berkepentingan, supaya bersabar menunggu sehingga siasatan selesaikan dijalankan. Di kala itu, kita akan mengetahui apa yang benar apa yang salah dan siapa yang benar dan siapa yang salah. Selepas itu juga, kita boleh bercakap dan berkokok berpuas-puasnya mengenai perkara ini. Hukumlah mereka yang bersalah, tetapi jangan jadi Tuhan sebelum sesuatu perkara dibuktikan. Saya amat takut politik mahukan jadi Tuhan yakni dengan membuat andaian pelik-pelik, yang mana hanya Tuhan sahaja yang Maha Mengetahui sebelum sesuatu perkara dibuktikan.

Dalam menganalisis isu ini, saya teramat hairan kenapa tiga parti politik Cina MCA, Gerakan (BN) dan DAP, serta parti pembangkang Melayu yang lain begitu bersungguh-sungguh membuat pelbagai andaian dengan menuding jari kepada pihak-pihak tertentu, tanpa menunggu keputusan siasatan. Saya tidak nafikan ada yang tidak kena dengan cara SPRM mengendalikan kes ini. Namun, tindakan menuding hari ini seolah-olah memperlihatkan mereka mahu memenangi hati orang Cina, demi kepentingan politik. Lebih-lebih lagi parti-parti komponen seperti Gerakan dan MCA yang telah mula hilang kepercayaan orang Cina.

Ketua Wanita MCA mengeluarkan kenyataan yang lebih ekstrim mendesak Menteri Dalam Negeri supaya anak yang bakal lahir yang dikandung oleh teman wanita Beng Hock ‘dibinkan’ atau diletakkan status anak sah taraf dan bukan anak luar nikah. Sedangkan kita semua tahu bahawa mereka belum berkahwin secara rasmi atau telah bersekedudukan tanpa nikah. Bermakna, anak itu tetap anak zina atau anak luar nikah (anak tidak sah taraf). Berapa ramai lagi anak luar yang ingin kita sahkan hasil daripada hubungan luar nikah ini.

Sedarkah ketua wanita MCA bahawa betapa ramai gadis-gadis Melayu Islam yang menjadi mangsa (bersekedudukan dengan pasangan Islam atau bukan Islam, sama ada secara paksa atau sukareala) melahirkan anak luar nikah tanpa dibinkan kepada bapa mereka? Kenapa MCA tidak memperjuangkan nasib mereka? Kenapa MCA tidak pergi berjumpa Menteri Dalam Negeri untuk mengesahkan semua hubungan sumbang ini? Apa pun jua punca kematian Beng Hock, hubungan yang haram tetap haram, ia tidak boleh disahkan, hanya kerana insiden ini?

Jika ditakdirkan Gautama Buddha (juga Konfucius dan Lao Tzu) masih hidup, sudah tentu tindakan ketua wanita MCA ini akan dicela kerana ajaran Buddha (juga agama lain, terutama agama Islam) mengharamkan sama sekali perbuatan bersekedudukan (zina) tanpa nikah, apatah lagi sehingga melahirkan anak luar nikah. Saya masih tidak faham kenapa hari ini, terlalu ramai di kalangan kita suka menjadikan wanita sebagai mangsa dengan melakukan hubungan seks (sehingga mengandung) sebelum dinikahkan? Ajaran agama manakah yang membenarkan hubungan haram ini? Saya amat mengharapkan parti-parti politik Cina bertindak waras dan jangan terlalu ekstrim. Fikirkanlah hati orang lain jua bila mengeluarkan sesuatu kenyataan, terutama orang Melayu. Orang Melayu tidak kurang yang menjadi mangsa seperti Beng Hock.

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Bengong

Bengong betul kawan kita sorang ni.

Takde ribut takde taufan, tiba-tiba dia pergi berenang kat laut.

Lepas tu dia kayuh basikal pulak kat tengah-tengah panas tu.

Tak cukup bengong lagi, dia pegi lari pulak daaahhh...

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