The Heat is On!

Some thoughts on the Election Fever

The election is just around the corner! This Saturday, Malaysia decides!
This time around, the tides seem to have really taken a major shift, and what's more, as an eligible voter now, for the first time I'm part of that Action!

So much has been going around;
-Banners pollute the streets
-Flags fluttering in the winds of change
-People crying out for JUSTICE!
-Ceaseless hailing of manifestos
-Opportunists shaking hands with strangers
-Press prints pressing the "op-Pressed"
-Alternative news network goes free (for a week)
-Demeaning caricatures of a "Cheap Red"
-Erasing indelible inks
.... the list goes on....




(Banners, Banners everywhere! I'm sure the printing companies are making millions)























(B.E.R.S.I.H = Free and Fair Elections... at least that was what we hoped for...)


But what does all this mean to me?

Malaysia, a land that I have learned to love as I was growing up. Though I have seen its bites and blisters, even some places I wished I had not seen, yet this is the land of my origin and I believe that it will someday rise to become a great nation in my generation!

Christians, Christians, do you want to see change in your nation?
Are we concerned about what our country is going through?
Or are we only interested in the politics that only affects Christianity?



(Christ and the Ballot Box?)


I urge you my friends to get involved this time around. Read and discover what is going on! Know who you are voting for! Personally, my greatest concern is that the lower and middle class income people would get a fair leverage in terms of the socio-economical state from where they are in. Let Malaysian Taxes be for the Malaysian People! (Not getting lost in corruption at the high places!)

The votes we Christians cast isn't just done because of our responsibility as a good citizen, but a vote of wisdom that we allow God's hand to move and shape the up coming governance!
Commit the elections into our prayers!
May there be a move for the better as the reshuffling of the deck begins!

Complete Make Over

Incredible! I was offered by my own niece to have a complete make over! She asked me for S$ 1000... I curiously asked why... She said, "I need S$1000 to have a complete make over of your image!" Dazed in my mind my thougts reacted, "Why would I need a make over? Do I look that bad?" Then I came to my senses! Yes... I'm 24 this year... I still look like a teenager!

Stangely, I do find that most of the people I am around with now have changed quite a bit. In the way they wear, the way they speak, the things they like and what they want. Of course I don't see myself "conforming to the ways of the world" but I think what my little niece (who is obsessed with Taiwanese artists by the way...) does carry a point. I need to change! (At least a little bit). I'll be working soon, this Monday I'll be joining the marketplace for the first time! I'm going to have to be more matured and dress properly for work! Even when I go out, I'd probably have to change my clothes! And yes, the next point she brought to me was that its gonna cost me!

As I visit Singapore these few days, I've come to see why my niece said that to me. Here, even the teenagers act like adults. (Of course with the few punky looking kids around). What really struct me is that these people really have a diciplined healthy lifestyle! I went to the gym with James this morning and I realised its not just my wardrobe that needs change.. I need to also pump up my fitness level. I've been on the steady decline these days and today I found that my dad could even lift himself up easier that I can! Had my medical check up earlier this week, I'm scoring just a little higher on the over weight line! I used to give excuse that I have big muscular built around my chest, but I know now I'm just denying the fact that I've got lots of fats in many other regions as well!

From today onwards, I'm committed to keep myself healthy and active as God had commissioned me to take care of this Temple He has entrusted to me!

1) I have stretching exercise daily in spite of my job hours
2) I will have a fixed routine to maintain a wholesome health momentumn
3) Once a week I will climb mountain (Saga or Ketumbar)
4) Lay off the Carbs, Fats and Oils
5) Eat lightly and no stuffing myself until I feel too full
6) No sweets more than once a day
7) Fruits and vegetables the way to snack
8) No supper time
9) Sleep Early
10)Be accountable to my progress logs


Target weight : 60kg in 3 months

Employed

I'm actually blogging this because, since I've posted my nickname as "I got the Job! Praise God~!" on my MSN account, I've been bombarded with the same questions and I've repeated it over 7 times liow... so to save some typing time.. I'd best setup a blog entry:)

First of all, I want to Thank God for the Job offer! It was something that I quite eyed for even when I was doing my job search. Even when I stumbled on this company and the position that they were hiring, it was one of the 3 that I really put effort to customize my CV to fit the application for the position offered. Something clicked with me! The little experience that I have with water treatment from my Industrial Training days were of good use! I'm sure by divine purpose, this was granted to me... for how long? I don't know... but I really Thank Him who takes care of the bread and butter I need!

I've just got the confirmation letter on my Job offer today! After carefully looking through the contract and the letter of appointment, I have decided that I will take the position as a Water Treatment Engineer in Hydro K Sdn. Bhd. Its a subsidiary under Taiko Marketing Malaysia.

Ok, here is the gist of the questions...

What company is this?

HydroK is actually a chemical supplying company that builds water treatment systems for plants and mills and they also sell chemicals to service the facility they erected for their customers. There are a few specifications the water quality must be at before it can be used in milling and production processes in factories, so the company provide services to treat such water.

HydroK is under Taiko Marketing. Its an International Company that's stretched its base in several ASEAN countries.

What is the nature of your job?

The position is given as a Water Treatment Engineer. Basically it deals with some sales and services. When the water treatment facilities are provided, there must be someone who knows to manage it. I will be the one who does the training and from time to time do tests to maintain the systems in the mills.

Thus this job may require me to travel and meet clients and even go to the mills and eventually be an on-site "consultant" to our clients. It means that I may have to relive the "Gua Musang" experience again from time to time.

But as for now, as I am new, I will be based at head office and will tag along with my managers and supervisors to meet clients and get myself familiar with the 130 range wide of chemicals that the company is selling. Maybe only specialized on the ones that does water treatment.

Where will you work?

Yes, I am based in Shah Alam! I will be based there initially to familiarize myself with the work I'll be undertaking. Soon I will have to travel even further to client's offices and plants.

Oh ya~! I do seem to like the environment there:) Conducive for work!

So far? How are you traveling?

I am currently traveling on my trustee Comel motorcycle:) Eventually I may need to get a car because of the nature of my work. But until I can afford one, I will ride my Black Stallion till it has served its purpose well...

How much are they paying you?

Its a secret... no la.. wanna know.. ask me personally la.. hehe... but the bad thing is salary only reviewed once a year

What are the additional Benefits?

Standard lo... Medical coverage, Employee insurance (extended to immediate family), 18 per annum paid leaves, sick leave paid up to 28 days, 60 hospitalization days, etc...

When will you start?

Starting after CNY... 11th Feb 2008!

Any other questions... post on the comments:)

Cheers!

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Absolute Ludicrous!" -everquint-

I took 6 days to finish this little book (which could have taken only a day) and found it to be entertainingly absurd! I thought it was a good read as a whole, very enlightening and funny too! It tried so hard to cramp all sorts of scientific jargons that goes beyond all physical laws that at the end of the day brings to no logical background. It is much to the imagination of the reader to try his best to depict what Douglas was trying to say. Much of it makes no sense anyway...

One prime characteristic about this book is the advocacy of its own senselessness! The Earth was destroyed by a "ridiculous catastrophe" that at the end of the day was just a mistake the Vogons made and that the planet's destruction didn't matter at all. There was much about the Ultimate Question to Life and Existence of the Universe that in the end led to no where. Everything was meaningless and improbable. It also talks about the theory of infiniteness and probabilities (and that wildly imaginative Improbability Drive). Weird theories about God and Creation as most of all that happens in the Universe are by chance and probability. One thing that I couldn't stand reading was the argument of the Creation of the Babelfish that took the theory of the Non-existence of God.

Amidst all the cramped jargons were many carelessly-defined-terminologies that read like a child's play of Technological Fantasy. In its rich forms of description, as a reader, I found it really hard to imagine what was in the author's mind. Mysterious creatures that had no physical entity, possessing only a blue shade of light that had its own consciousness. Units of speed that is relative and circumstantial that in the end has no real physical measurements. A million years sound like something that happened yesterday... Nothing in the book really makes any sense.

In conclusion, this book carries a totally sarcastic approach to God, Meaning, Life and all the Physical laws known to mankind. Still, I'm looking forward to read its sequel "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"