Brain Drain

Brain Drain is the talk of the town again.

I remembered I wrote about it 3 years ago, Click Here.

Interestingly, over the recent years, I've seen more Malaysians coming over the causeway to work. Maybe it's just so coincidentally that friends or friends of my friends are coming over there to work, in various industry in fact.

Today, I came across a article in Business times that talks about this indirectly. So the author decides to pull in some numbers.

140,000 malaysians left the country to work in 2007.
300,000 malaysians left from Mar 2008 to Sept 2009. Wow, a whopping almost 100% jump.
200,000 malaysians left from Jan 2009 to August 2009.

Is Malaysia really that bad until folks have to leave their family behind to seek greener pastures.

The writer that pull in economic data, GDP to be precise.To put it simply, Malaysia start off good at the starting line, promising with good potential of being one of the emerging countries. However, today with the pace that it is growing, it is losing steam.

Today, its growth rate at 5.8% is falling short of HK, Singapore, South Korea, China, Indonesia, India and even Vietnam.

Clearly, the brain drain has taken a toll on the country.

Oh my, I'm such absent minded. I've failed to do my 2009 resolutions and a year has passed.

It's almost a decade now since I graduated from school, and I close 2009 with one word , "Change". Yups, it's Obama's. But I guess he won't mind.

I had 2 major change that matters in a guy's life. Marriage and Job.

I got Married and I switched Jobs, all in the same year. I guess 2010 will be getting the dust settle down on my new life after much change in 2009. It went so fast, that I got little time to think of what ahead. Well, another one bites the dusts.

Those who have been through, says " its only the beginning " sure give me the puzzling, uncertain feeling.

Liken Paul's Warrior of Light, I shall brave this through. Here are my 2010 resolutions, , the 7 Bees.

1. Be Happy. - be kind, be positive, smile and laugh.
2. Be Healthy - cut down on alcohol, reduce waistline, exercise, eat proper.
3. Be focus - at work, chores and investment.
4. Be Hungry - for knowledge
5. Be generous - to give to the needy, to help the weak
6. Be fun - live each day to the fullest with much joy.
7. Be gracious - to friends and families.

2010, as the dust settles, a new decade begins.

Blog

I wonder why I ever started blogging. I'm a lousy writer. I write crap, nonsensical stuff.
Nevertheless.It was therapeutic. In my own world, I am penning my thoughts. It gets recorded in one of the bytes in the WWW unlike my countless diaries and journals where my feeble attempts to record my daily musings and frustrations left most the pages empty.
Which means one thing. My life is a bore.

Would I continue ? I asked myself. Would my life turn? Would my life story , a page turner. I guess angels and demons would sleep reading my life.

I shall wait...

Something about women

Got this from an email.

Whatever you give a woman, she will make it greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give er a house, she will give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. IF you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.

So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit.

I wonder , If I give her money, will she give me more money.

Women can never have enough !!!

excerpt from Reader's Digest November 2008.

Ask Aunty column.

Dear Aunty,

My husband is patient, lovable and caring. He packs my lunch each day with a handwritten love note, changes the kitty litter, mows the lawn, etc. But he's a slob. When he packs my lunch, he uses paper towel to wipe his hands, then wads it up and tosses it on the counter. It'll sit there forever. When he brushes his teeth, he spits all over the spigot ( the drain hole in the basin ). He loves to read the newspaper, but throws it on the couch and it lies there for weeks. I'm no Suzie Homemaker, but I'm not his mother either. How can I get him to clean up after himself ?
Help!!!

Dear Help!!!,

You want help ? Most women would love to have your husband. How about this? While hubby is packing your lunch, composing handwritten love notes, mowing the lawn, and cleaning the litter box, why don't you pick up the newspapers, wipe the counters and then leave him a note telling him what a treasure he is. On behalf of women everywhere, embrace this man !

Possible answer from the hubby, (i think)

Dearest wife !!!,

If I don't need to pack your lunch, I don't need to wipe , right. If I don't read enough, I won't have ideas to compose nice written love notes. If i don't mow the lawn, or clean out the kitty litter, it will be worse than a dirty spigot. I'm not the perfect hubby, but I am not your Wilson the butler either.

Harold and Kumar

Marijuana rocks !!!

This sequel to Harold and Kumar packs a whole bag of laughs that will leave you in stiches. This is the continuation to whats left of Harold and Kumar goes to White Castle. After gobbling up massive ammounts of white castle burgers, Harold mustered up his courage to talk to Maria, but unfortunately she got to leave for Amsterdam for a holiday. Kumar, took this opportunity to convince Roldy to take the next flight out to Amsterdam to go after Maria. So, off they go...





and who says geeks are not romantic, here is an excerpt from a poem , Kumar compose

I fear that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
A three is all that's good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath a vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I'll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
Has quietly come waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
And with a wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
And love for me has been renewed.

Caution : this show has a lot of racial stereotyping...just laugh about it.

Living your life biblically ..literally

Friends, watch this video, its funny, quirky, and insightful.

It tells about a man who tried living his life for a year according to biblical rules. It highlights his experience and the takeaways.

Click Here

if you are bored ...

If you bored, try google yourself with inverted commas... you will be surprised.

More fun, google your friends' name or nicknames.

And If i want to look for someone , www.wink.com .

Lil Korean Beatle wannabe

This kid made my day...singing evergreen "Hey Jude".

Truly a remarkable man

I read Che Det's blog..it has been one of my most visited website where Dr. M shares his views,uncovered history, his side of his story, his defence of everything that happened under his rule.

che det's blog

I must admit I once thought he is just as corrupt as all the other politicians, and dislike the special Malay rights. Well, no one is perfect, after all. Every human is subseptible to error and subcumbed to temptations.

An evidence of a man with guts and intelligence. click on the following on a man's account on how Dr. M saves Malaysia from the SEA monetary crisis.
http://jebatmustdie.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/oh-my-god-is-this-pm-stupid/

CockPuncher

Here lies the ancient martial arts, that no other arts can defeat.



That's why all martial art matches have groin guard and no-hitting below the belt rule.

China

The last time I went to China was 6 years ago during a cold wintertime in Shanghai, China was growing and was like a bud ready to burst into a blossoming flower.

This time round , I went there again, to Suzhou, Jiang Su and then Wei Hai , Shandong. China has developed into the factory of the world. 1st sign, polluted air.

Equiped with my pathetic pu tong hua, I survived the ordeal. The 2 cities, aren't english friendly. Wei Hai was more korean friendly than english friendly.

Not knowing pu tong hua, ordering food is a challenge. All I have gotten was bad, cold, oily food with myself. Lucky for me, I have friends cum colleagues over there, and I did get the taste of their local cuisine there. Good , nevertheless still oily to my liking.

And people here drives with their window winded down despite the heavy pollution. I hinted the driver by coughing loudly, yet he turned a deaf ear. I think I might get bronchitis if i stayed longer there.

Alcohol experience was good, but pubs and clubs are not so fun. To my liking, there are many good chinese beers. I tasted Harbin beer, Tsing Tao beer, and another variant of Harbin beer. The verdict, I like Tsing Tao. Fact, Tsing Tao is not commonly available in Suzhou and Shanghai. They are common in east china.

In Suzhou, I got to taste of Nu Er Hong. It is like a medically infused , brewed for many years kind of alcohol. How about that !!!, getting intoxicated in a healthy way. My verdict, I would say, it is very tonicly nice, sweet , herbally and alcoholic. I bought a bottle back...then my friend in Singapore tell me it is also available here.

Wei Hai experience was good. It is interesting as i was informed, 90% of the city tax comes from Korean factories. Hence it is very korean friendly and english is hardly spoken here. Lucky for me, I got my korean colleague there, so it was quite helpful.

Well...overall, China is not to my liking. Economy is definitely booming. The goverment is definitely building the country.People are hardworking. However, I still find people are more kia su than Singaporeans and rude in general. Talking very loudly in public, standing close to you until you can feel their breathing, impatient, and very aggressive driving are a few bad habits of them. Luckily I didn't saw anyone spitting.

Well, I have to go back there sometime for work again. Hopefully it will be a much better experience.

My korean friend and I were reminiscing the times in Bangkok.

Is Death ever accurate ?

It was a busy week, so taking a breather, I went to caught this film "Accuracy of Death"

It starred Takeshi Kaneshiro as a Grim Reaper. He has man best friend , a cocker spaniel as his companion. His task is to judge and decide whether his subject deserves to die or not at that given moment. In other words, is the death accurate at that time ?

Cool movie with a twist in the end. Nice song. Expected Meet Joe Black but turns out to be better. Instead of a grim movie, it has hilarious anecdotes too.

Cool song in the end...



With the company of 2 good friends...nice

Talented Lawyer ( MJ vs Bhangra)

Thought : Life experiences are cyclical

Just some serious rambling.

Why are we here on earth for ? I often ask myself that. To be happy? Can someone be constantly happy...I doubt. To be simple, well..go be a single cell organism, that is as simple as it gets.

Like economics, life experience is cyclical. Ups and downs, happiness and sadness, achievements and dissapointments, trust and betrayal,success and failures, advance and retreat, health and sickness, birth and death and it goes on. Gosh, this is like the yin and yang thingy. Although there is both positive and negative, but the magnitude is never balanced, hence a constant change.

My current mindset, go through all of them except death la..of course.

Be true to your goals, achieve it, be happy, cannot, then be sad. Then, wake up, and continue to seek. When it ends, it ends.

Be specific in goals too.

Life is temporary. your name , legacy and your life is what you left here when you leave.

So Henry, my life also tough...

Henry's Hard Life

Here is a different version from what I watched from Souplad's blog.

http://soupofthedae.blogspot.com/2008/04/rap.html

Half-F*cked

*This post almost non-sexual


Half fucked. A incomplete f*ck. Unsatisfied. Wanting to but Unable to. Pathetic.

Metaphorically, in a way or another , half fuck is inability to fulfil something we have committed, promises, goals, dreams...and the list goes on. Plans, schemes we had but lack execution. I wonder what went wrong.

Follow Through I lacked.

Procrastination, Distraction ,and Slothfulness are added.

I just realised, most happy and complete people goes all the way. Follow up and follow through are their personalities and assets.

I want a full f*ck.

How True ....

I got this from those emails you get from your forward-whatever-is-2b-forwarded colleagues. And I laughed the moment I saw it. And I am going to print it out and put it on my cubicle. But that would be unfair to my nice boss.

August Rush

I caught a cheesy, heartwarming, tear jerking, movie with a great soundtrack on the flight back from Amsterdam.

Running out of movies to watch, so I chose this. August Rush.

And I heard it was showing in Singapore whilst I was away.

Albeit much predictable, with some cheesy scenes, it caught me trying hard to hold back my tears. The scores are wonderful, the rojak of jazz, gospel, rock and classical were beautifully woven into this masterpiece.

It's a good movie from the romance, action, horror genres which crowded the movie scene.

Here is the last part of the movie.



Music is everywhere, all you got to do is listen.

Ah Siang in Europe

Brussels...mussels, fries...Paris, Seine river, Tour Eiffel, Notre Dame..

Dusseldorf..beerr...and lots of beer...next destination..Amsterdam

Away for a holiday in Europe..

BRrr...its very cold.