Award for Perfect Attendance

I was just told that I've received an award for Perfect Attendance. What it means is that, I never took any MC or EL (emergency leave) since December 2007.

What do I get?
1) A certificate (printed A4-sized and laminated)
2) A photoshot with the Manpower - and taken by my mgr
3) Handshakes with our bosses and mgrs, including big boss in RCC, Joey.

Anyway, it's still an honour to me and it's become part of my credit in my career. Not easy to get this anyway, at least this is the first time they presented this award and also my first time qualified for this award.

And what can I expect next?

New Change, New Hope

It's definitely a big change in the history, not only to the USA itself, but also to the world.

Congratulations to Barrack Obama, who has just been chosen to become the next President of United States of America. It's not easy for an African-American to live in USA, don't even mention become their president. But as a miracle, Obama has done it.

I'm not an Obama fan, I don't really listen to his speech either. But the thing is, he has brought us a new hope, just like what he said, everything is possible.

For a country like us, where putting signboards in other languages will get sued, should learn from them. They used to be discriminate to the black people, but now, it's their choice for a 'black president'.

How long do we still need to take, for those diehard racist to face the fact that, we are in a multi-racial country?

Time for Japanese course?

I wonder why, suddenly they become so passionate about learning Japanese, really go and take the Japanese class in a tuition center.

Actually I'm OK with it because it's good for me to learn another foreign language, the only problem is the schedule. They prefer to go during weekdays after work, and I'll rather take it during weekends. So, no deal, and they've signed up for the course before me.

I used to thought I could learn Japanese and Korean after I got these 2 colleagues in my team, but in fact it's not. You'll learn faster from drama, trust me. Watch more movies and dramas, you'll find that one day, you've learnt a lot of Japansese and Korean.

Will I still take the course? Maybe, but if I do, it'll be next year. I'm not in rush in it. The main purpose I want to learn this is to be able to communicate with the Japanese and travel to Japan... maybe? haha!

Suddenly I found that there are so many things hide behind me, is there anything I don't know?

Ba~~! Ba~~! Ba~~!

You know who is he calling? Not his father, but my father, his grandpa!

My little nephew used to can pronounce "Ma", "Mum", "Buh", "Boo", "Ba".... and some other simple sounds. But now, the only word he likes to 'shout out', is "Baah!" Either it's "ba ba", "ah ba", or "ba ba ba", in different tones, different 'combination' of words.

Everybody is his "ba ba" now, whoever he calls, he'll call him/her as "ba". Sometimes he can pronounces "Ah Bo" or "Bo Bo" (grandma) correctly, but sometimes he'll still prefer to say "ba".

Can he really differentiate if "ba" really means his father or what?

Am I too busybody?

I should have known that he doesn't like to be controlled, doesn't even like to be 'asked'.
When he replied to me I could 'feel' that he sounds not really happy about it.
It's just kind of helpin- each-other-stuff, coz I just don't want him to lose any opportunity or offers... but it seems that I was care too much and over what I supposed to be.
I think I better learn how to control myself... haha

What is Lasik?

I didn’t really know about LASIK, until some of my friends really took LASIK surgeries. When LASIK was first known by the public, many people still didn’t really trust it. Especially after some of the news about the side effects of it, people were getting more insecure about this new technology and would rather keep wearing glasses than taking the risk.

Actually you can find all the LASIK information nowadays from many resources, including Internet, magazines, books, newspapers, and so on.

After many years of research has been taken, now the LASIK technology has become more advanced, and also more secure and safe. The recovery can be up to 100% after the surgery, and therefore you don’t really need to take any risk, and you don’t even need to suffer from the pain, as long as you find a trustworthy LASIK center.

LASIK is good for those have serious shortsightedness, sensitive to contact lens or just wish to have a clearer vision. There are many LASIK center out there, and it also available in some of the hospitals, like the eye hospital where my Dad had his cataract surgery few months ago. The problem is, it’s still quite expensive for normal people. But I believe that with more advances on the technology, it’ll become more affordable in the future. So people can throw away their glasses and enjoy a better vision without barrier.

Our precious moment

After almost 3 years working in CRM team, I started to feel that we are just like a big family. It's the feeling that everyone is closed together, living happily, no matter what argument or conflicts we have in our works, when it comes to leisure time, we still can be happy together.

Like my other friends say, how many group of people so called "colleagues" can go jungle-tracking, travelling and singing karaoke as what usually friends will do?

This karaoke session is planned by our dearest TLs, for the farewell of our teammate Roz who has already left. We also gave him a Royal Selangor photo frame as a souvenior, and putting our team photo which we are holding the trophies and award cert.

In another 1 years, 3 years even 5 years, if we still can be together, it must be very great! Even if we don't, we'll still remember our precious moment together.