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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Little warlords meet

USJ is full of little warlords? Yes, that’s what they call us caring folks from USJ5, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20 & 23. Just because we care for our own families and communities and started our own security systems. The sour grapes can say what they want but what matters to us most is that [...]

In Uncertain Times, Prepare Yourself for New Opportunities

We live in uncertain times. Global financial collapse, rapid relocation of industries, emerging markets, political unrest, and just the fast pace of change in the Information Era in general all mea that things you take for granted today might be completely different tomorrow.
Now is certainly not a time for rigidity. The career you’re working in [...]

The Missing Axe

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
- Wayne Dyer, Self Development author & speaker -
The missing axe story demonstrates:
A man had lost his axe. He suspected that it had been stolen by his neighbour’s son. He looked at him closely. The boy walked like a thief, and talked like [...]

Dry cell battery

A battery has two terminals. One terminal is marked (+), or positive, while the other is marked (-), or negative. ­Inside the battery itself, a chemical reaction produces the electrons.

The electrons collect on the negative terminal of the battery. If you connect a wire between the negative and positive terminals, the electrons will flow from the negative [...]

Finance 101 for Monkeys

If you have difficulty understanding the current world financial situation, the following should help:
Once upon a time in a village in not so far away, a man announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10.
The villagers seeing there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.
The man [...]

Inflation falls to 7.6 percent in October

Malaysia’s inflation fell to 7.6 percent in October on lower petrol and diesel prices as global energy costs eased, government data showed Friday.
The Department of Statistics said the consumer price index was down from 8.2 percent in September after the government cut retail fuel prices, which also helped the monthly transportation index down.
Source: Malaysiakini

Taking a Walk

Leadership guru John Maxwell says that he who thinks that he is a leader but does not have any followers, is only taking a walk.
Syed Hamid Albar should go take a walk, if The Star report 19 November 2008 is accurate.
The Youth and Puteri chiefs are behind Syed Hamid but as things stand, he is [...]

Running out of time

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
- Vince Lombardi, a famous American football coach -
Running out of time in a football game is one thing.
Running out of time in the game of life is quite another. You see, after years of abusing their bodies, people are finally ready to do something [...]

Why not Me?

Starting today, ask yourself better questions, why not me?
This is a short motivational movie. Enjoy.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
This proverb is adapted from a line in the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
And the woman in question is none other than the axed Universiti Malaya vice-chancellor Rafiah Salim who told Malaysiakini 17 November 2008.
“Just because we [...]