End of First Semester...

It's another 3 weeks till the end of my first Sem in my MBA with USQ.....Hope for the best!

When Kacang Melupakan Kulit.....

It's been a see saw week and it ended pretty much as i have expected it to happen. Seen it coming 3 months or so before but there is nothing i could do. Lessons i learn in these testing time:

Always trust my instinct and gut feeling. 
It has served me well in most cases and this time i actually ignored it and it really hurts....

A leopard never changes its stripes

A massive miscalculation on my side to think that people do change for the better

Honesty is never always the best policy

Being too honest and direct is no match for ball polishing and being sneaky. Not to say i should be ball polishing or being sneaky

Trust is a limited commodity

Learning this the hard way that being to trusting is not the way to go.

Betrayal is always a doorstep away

This is the most bitter of all lessons.  

When you have given it your all from the beginning and to be on the receiving on the wrong end, broken promises, and being used by others for their own selfish means, it really hurts, it does. The pain of betrayal pierces me like a sword through the gut. Where have i gone wrong? Am i too naive and too trusting or I am just too inexperienced to handle these situations? 

All the promises of support and assurances disappear into thin air.....

My contributions being belittled....

My failures picked upon......

while others benefit from my ideas.....

while others get away with mistakes and failures.....

while others received huge rewards on minute contributions or on false pretenses...

It's been a while that i have faced this testing and severe challenge. Will i get over this and move on? Will i rise to the occasion and make the right choices? 

So at least for now a mask i shall wear and a heart of stone i have to become. Learn from this lessons i must and in the future to fail i must not. 

I always tell myself I am 33 and i have a long way to go. Dig Deep for the strength to carry on. Not for my sake but for my family. My dearest wife and my dearest son.

半斤八兩

My Son is 4 years old!!!

He looks naughty and cheeky rights?

Getting the Frust out with self humour....

Decided to write a little....again. It's been a frustrating time for me. Sometimes I am too naive to believe that honesty and 100% commitment will get me to succeed and achieve what i want to achieve. To my horror, it's not especially with political animals around us all the time.....

So today i created some meme to sum up my day:

And finally to that person.....

My little boy is 3 months old!

Yes time flies and he is 3 months old

Pork dishes in jakarta!!!!!

PORK!!!!! Hehehehhe....ramen with pork slice and pork satay. Why malaysi cannot find? T.T

Little Brendan at 2 months ++

My little boy in good mood. :) seeing this photo makes me miss him more.

Trying out blogging using iphone 4

Boo....see if this works! On the way back home in a cab from klia. Just came back from jakarta. Tired.

THE BABY IS IN THE HOUSE!

The day after delivery photo

Yes, our little baby boy is now out and 'terrorizing' my parents, choulyee and the confinement lady at Kuching. I will be back in Kuching to see this little active bunny. Well, not that small, was a 3.4kg baby and like his name, he is a prince in the house. Commanding everyone to his wants and needs.....interesting for a baby just about 2 weeks old.



Thats a photo about one week old....able to wiggle his hand out of his 'corn-wrapping'. sigh, he is going to be one that will be a handful to all of us. LOL

Travelling for work

It's kinda interesting and also can be hectic at times....in one month, i have traveled to Teluk Intan, Ipoh (Perak); Gua Musang (Kelantan); Segamat, Kukup, Benut, Kluang, Simpang Renggam (Johor). It was running from south to north to the east coast.

The fun part is to be able to see new places and meet a lot of people which will help me widen my horizon and gather more knowledge and experience. On the other hand, i am usually tired and blur after every trip.

It will be more busy from next week onwards.

WAR ON MITES!!!!

Since almost a month ago, we have declared war on dust mites! Vacuum, mop, wash, and vacuum, mop and wash....

So far so good. we probably killed millions of them....BUT they are more millions of them. T_T....

some info on them from wikipedia:

The house dust mite (sometimes referred to by allergists as HDM), is a cosmopolitan guest in human habitation. Dust mites feed on organic detritus such as flakes of shed human skin and flourish in the stable environment of dwellings. House dust mites are a common cause of asthma and allergic symptoms worldwide. Some of the gut enzymes (notably proteases) produced by the house mite persist in their fecal matter, and can be strongly allergenic.

Married Life

Well...on another note, I realized that I am married for 11 months as of today.^^ Time flies tru the year and its almost a year ago my beloved and myself got married. It was a tough time especially I was away in Johor while she was here in KL.

Well, at least now I am now based in KL so its more time with my beloved wife. I am relieved that I found a job that has the blessing of many including Mr. Chan and the rest of the GENP people and the BIG PLUS POINT is that I can go back to a place i can truly call HOME rather than the rundown place i stayed in Johor previously.

I am happy and contented even though it means more housework and more responsibilities back here in KL as my wife, sis and sis-in-law somehow works longer hours than i do. So i would have to step up and make sure the house in good condition. LOL (I can imagine my mom saying to me, "You should have been more proactive in doing housework back then in kuching and u now know how we deal with housework then....) hehehehehe....

I am truly blessed to have a wife who can tolerate my bad habits (hehehe...) and also someone who is not demanding on material needs. We can have 'fantastic' debates on issues close to heart but also someone who is caring and loving. (Of course she can be the blur queen on certain occasions) hehehehe

Wow...i am in a writing mood today LOL. Usually my blog ends up not taken care of but now i posted more than i did for a while. =)

3 weeks on....

well...its 3 weeks since i started my new job. Still need some more time to fit in. I like to the part of the job that require me to travel and meet people bcos that gives me the chance the see new places (like i was at Kukup in Johor, something u read about in Geography books in school) and also new people.

Looks to me a good start. Next week, its up north to Gua Musang, Kelantan ^^. Got to do more field visits to put theories into practice. hehehehe.... i just do not feel like sitting in the office gathering 'kulat'. T_T

Speaking of 'kulat', i keep coming over customers / clients who panicked at the word 'ganoderma'. LOL. AND many opportunists are trying to sell so-called bio-fertilizer with anti-ganorderma cure. *Sigh* Hopefully those guys never meet me in person or i will give them an earful or a couple of earfuls. and they will look like this after that ----> O_O

Yup. the cure is coming just that it will be a while before its possible to have a cure / 'vaccine' against it. And i know that my former colleagues are working hard on that one. GAMBATE! come out with something concrete and proven and i will support it. Until then, all those opportunists out there.....BEWARE....

It's Friday evening and I am in starbucks slurping my favourite Dark Mocha ice blended drink. ^^ and of course online at the same time. Traffic today is very very bad. There's probably a 10 km long jam on the MRR2 at the moment. So i am stuck in JUSCO Maluri.

Hmmm....thats all for now...hehehehe.....its the weekend and its time to rest and recharge for next week! YEAH!

A new start

Tomorrow I am starting a new job. ^^ Well, not a change in industry....a matter of fact i'm moving even more upstream in the oil palm industry. =P

Kinda nervous though since its been three years I have worked in Genting Group and now I have moved on to another company and another new environment. But i am looking forward to it also. ^^

Gearing up.....

More work expected in the next one week. Need to zz more and rest more before everything move up one gear....=)

Ways to escape toll (LEGALLY) from Tangkak to KL

Well, just to share that the toll cost from tangkak to KL is RM 20.10. O_O` rite.....it cost more than the petrol consumption which is around RM 19.00. So, being ingeniously malaysian and a bit 'kiam siap' so can use the alternative (if you dun mind the extra one hour or more drive.

Go Jasin to Durian Tunggal area to AMJ to Jalan Tampin. All the way straight to Seremban. Take the labis road to Nilai then use the putrajaya way (by the way its free) until reach UPM and then from there u should noe the way...

Above is just ONE alternative there are a few though...happy exploring

Happy Chinese New Year 2010!!!

Happy Chinese New Year to all! May you all roar to success this year!!

My parents were in KL and Malacca with my bro. So we got to celebrate together-gether in Malacca. Yeh!

Well, it's a new year and there will be many many challenges ahead. With the support of my wife and my family I will do the best for the year!

Exam coming......

IELTS test coming....did not prepare much....trying my best to find time to go through the practice papers. =(

Wish me all the best!

1st post of 2010!

Yes.....its been a looooong time since i last posted. Lazy ma....and also too busy to write.

I think one of my resolutions of the year is to write an entry once a week....hmmm....oh well.

Going to zz soon as I need to travel to work tomorrow....=(