A serious communication breakdown, as I call it. And it gets worse as it goes...

Oh wells.

I'm so tired of my work coming one after another, it always felt like i'm dealing with things all by myself.. And I'm finally so tired I feel like breaking down - physically, mentally, and emotionally.

7 more days left.

I'm surprised to see how some people at work are not any different than what i consider school girls/boys. In terms of their mentality, that is.

One is a colleague who depends on me for simple things ever since I helped her out with some of her work. For someone 4 years older than me, and more than 7 months experience than me in the field, she'd ask me for my opinion - that's still okay, but if that's not enough - followed by step by step instructions to resolve HER issues she faced when doing HER work. And when it's especially hard to explain certain things through email, I'd at least expect she get the drift from those steps i told her to do and slowly find her way out from there.

Wrong. Just after she seemingly followed my step by step instructions, she came back to me and tell me 'it did not work'.

I had to tell her to 'debug and see what went wrong', while she'll ask me 'what to debug'. And the cycle continues with me giving her step by step instructions to debug (not really, but considering i have to tell her how and where to put the debug)... Until I went over to her place (client's) to see for myself she actually misunderstood what i meant, and did simple mistakes which she surprisingly didn't realise at all. Heck. She even asked me to help her do print screens so that she could use it when she document the technical specifications later -.-

Certainly did remind of certain someone during my first year in Uni.

Another one, is a new staff which i only recently spoke with after I knew him through my sit-in training on some development tool. He is a 'senior consultant' whose mandarin is probably not even half of my half-assed mandarin (sorry i just felt the urge to highlight the latter). So anyways, I speak mandarin and cantonese in the office mostly, as did i during the training. One fine day, we were early for the training so we talked. He asked me which University am i from after i told him i'm an intern.

Following the answer i gave him, he said "Oh. I thought so." Smirk.

Wtf? I was a bit offended, knowing clearly he meant to think i'm one of those china(pronounced chee-naa)-speaking lousy england students, though i'd give him the benefit of doubt and actually be polite and clarify with him, I asked him why he thought so. He paused for a moment and said "Sorry for generalizing." 

See, i knew it.

I defended politely and told him that not every graduate from UTAR speaks poor english, especially if he were to meet those students undertaking business or social science. Sadly, he didn't quite agree still, but well enough, he did so politely.

So fine with me. I didn't quite blame him because I do feel that UTAR students' standard of england can be very the poor, but i don't deny i felt offended when he thought i was the same as them. Until later that day, somehow they came to talk about marriage between relatives, about which type is forbidden and which is not. He eventually concluded the topic by saying that marriage between blood relatives isn't good. When someone asked why, to quote what he said:

"When people marry their relatives it makes their offspring stupid, because it's between the similar pair of genes (or he mentioned blood rather than genes, was it lol?), there's no variety to it. That's why you see those kampung people, why are they not smart? Because they always marry between their own."

I swear, thank god we're in closed doors or i'll bet he would have broken a few limbs or be beaten to death if ONE malay kampung-ian hears this. Seriously. That was so offensive that i felt like telling him straight up with my so-broken-chee-na-speaking-engrand,

"So dey, which kampung are you from la?".
If you get what i mean.

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And you wonder why Malaysia is a land of goons filled with people who speak without their brains. It's not everyday in any other country that when you open the papers you'll get see a couple of them. That's why we're so speshiul :)

An ordinary Thursday evening turned out as nothing short of a lovely surprise.. :)

Helluu all.

Please meet tiger the kat! He is a gentle, cute but stoned kat. My kat.

Don't be surprised. Although he does not look like one in there, tiger is just a tad bit smaller than a real tiger and he meows instead of rawrs. After all, he does have proud tiger stripes on his back. 

And we look so adorable together!

Pardon him, he's just camera shy.

Today onwards, tiger will be my new companion through all walks of life :)!

On the other hand, do also meet the big, but authentic kat.

He ish loving, caring, understanding, adorable and handshome-est of all kats. Most of all, he sings like Michael Buble, ftw!

Thank you for getting lovely tiger for me :)

When economy is bad, throw out the NEP... again

 "....He noted that the NEP had damaged national cohesion and hindered investment. "It is timely to examine the NEP, look at how the NEP retards national unity, investments and economic efficiency and develop a new, more relevant framework for economic policy-making," said Nazir, who is chief executive officer of Malaysia's second largest bank CIMB.

The NEP was designed in 1971 after race riots to narrow the wealth gap between the majority Malays and the richer ethnic Chinese. ... "

Great. Finally someone significant who speaks for the future of Malaysia.

None other than our beloved incoming prime minister - Najib's brother.

Been meaning to write this post for quite some while.. But I got lazy. You know me. =D

When i watched Zeitgeist less than a year ago, I felt it was one of the most bizarre documentary of conspiracies in the US, revolving religion, financial institutions and war. This time they came back with Zeitgeist: The Addendum (watch here). It elaborated further on the concept of money from its prequel. This time in full 2 hours focusing mainly just that, and how it then came as WAR. If you've always been one who wonders how and where does our money come from, and if you wonder if our money is unlimited, I'll be able to tell you now, the bank prints the money, and yes it's infinite. And no, it's bringing us more harm than good. You'll come to find there are actually 2 types of hitmen, what they call the 'economic hitmen', and the real thing - oh what do you know, not mafias, but the CIA.

What caught my attention more towards the end though, was something i've not been any close to being aware about.. A utopia without a monetary system, an abundance of resources, where everyone has everything, owns everything. A utopia where petrol and fuel are not needed, let alone harvested, as everything is powered by natural resources. And more than that, a place where technology far surpasses what we see now. The Venus Project.

No kidding. Look at the website you'll find what seem like things you can only see in sci-fi movies - spacecrafts like aliens', trains running on magnetic force, underwater cities.. Dang. It looks surreal, but apparently it's under construction right now.

I'm. so. amazed.

Imagine living in a place like that!

That said, I LOVE the engineering, architecture and technology, but I don't quite agree with having no monetary system at all. As corrupt as it may be.. It seems impossible without monetary system. Although they say money is the root of all evil, I agree (who doesn't?), but can anyone imagine a world without money? Even if they say when everything is abundant and resources can be shared, the monetary system can be abolished. But then again, people are resources too. different people have different skills to offer, and some are better at something than another. So why would everyone want to be equal, or to share equal resources, eh? And not every country has the same resources as the other. You know those examples. I guess sooner or later we'll come back to the monetary system. Maybe a better idea is to revise the monetary system.. easier said than done haha!

Even so, I guess with The Venus Project, we can proudly stride in a new dimension of technology, something which have probably long been there but not implemented due to mostly economic reasons.

People! Don't we deserve a better lifestyle?

[Updated at 7/2/2009 12.53am: I've mistaken the article title ><]

There will be a reckoning.

Then again, PR or BN, "One can never trust a politician".

We have neverending tales of double standards.