Good Piece of Advice by Consultant

Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange. When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.

When the waiter came back to serve our soup I asked, "Why the spoon?" Well," he explained, "the restaurant's owners hired Kurt Salmon Associates to revamp all our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon is the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift."

As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he was able to replace it with his spare. "I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now." I was impressed.I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So before he walked off, I asked the waiter, "Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?"

"Oh, certainly!" Then he lowered his voice. "Not everyone is so observant. That consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we can save time in the restroom. By tying this string to the tip of you know what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39%."
"After you get it out, how do you put it back?"
Well," he whispered, "I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon."

Hehe. Good ya? Another classic one:

Who is Jack Schitt?

The lineage is finally revealed. Many people are at a loss for a response when someone says "You don't know Jack Schitt." Now you can intellectually handle the situation.

Jack is the son of Awe Schitt and O. Schitt. Awe Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, married O. Schitt, the owner of Needeep N. Schitt Inc. They had one son, Jack. In turn Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt, the deeply religious couple produced 6 children: Holie Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Giva Schitt, Bull Schitt, and the twins: Deap Schitt and Dip Schitt. Against her parents' objections, Deap Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school drop out.

However, after being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced. Noe Schitt later remarried Ted Sherlock and, because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name.

She was then known as Noe Schitt-Sherlock. Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt and they produced a son of nervous disposition, Chicken Schitt. Two other of the 6 children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony.

The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens wedding. The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Hoarse. Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.

So now when someone says, "you don't know Jack Schitt," you can correct them.


Jokes were picked from MIStupid.com

Alexis Bangsar 19 Feb 05

The night was relatively crowded - That's what was totally fantastic because too crowded would make me so paranoid. Well, the night was actually the last night for Umeng with us all and the 2nd annual Bloggers Blabbers Nite organized by Sui Lin. Congratulations for the great event!

So long Umeng. All the best in your studies, chix and Brisbane's endeavours!


U Meng kissing me farewell. Left was Jin Han


The Blabbing Bloggers blabbing

Two pictures only? Nah, more pictures at Multiply.

p/s Add me as well if you have an account.

The Cell

For the past three years, Toshiba, Sony and IBM has been working together to develop a microprocessor - called the Cell. Recently they have unveiled that the chip is so fast, even faster than the fastest rival Intel Pentium chips in the market. Efficacy wise, it can carry 5 times more computer instructions than a current Intel processors. With the expected launch of Sony PlayStation 3 in early 2006, the creation of Cell will promise a new era of computer graphics. Toshiba is expected to incorporate Cell into their television sets next year while IBM will sell its workstations with the chip later this year. Combining multiple Cell chips can rival the world's current top ten supercomputers.

Qoutes from a Cell engineer:

"It is so fast there is no point talking about the number."
"Cell, will be able to link millions of people into a vibrant, lifelike virtual community on a scale never seen before."
"It will be able to make movie-quality graphics without any of the tricky engineering stuff needed to produce such quality."

Though the chip has yet to be usable in computers, but the technology of this chip has been an eye catcher among the media and entertainment manufacturers throughout the world. The size of the chip is of this big:


Cell - size of my mobile SIM card.

Imagine playing a game that has graphics like this:


Need For Speed

What is this game. Or it's a delayed telecast of Super Bowl.


Imagine Cell is in your handphone, TV sets, PDAs, computers, cameras, game consoles etc. - how real a fake image can be in 2 years time?

Resilient From Evolution New Button Link 2

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RESILIENCE.. New button 2


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Please link me thru this button or the one above - your choice.


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Grappa.. Sounds Like Grandpa

Remember Grappa Soho? An Italian restaurant once located at Jalan Bukit Bintang? Now there's only left Grappa in Bangsar. What's Grappa anyway?

Grappa is actually Eau-de-Vie (digestive liqueur) produced in Italy as brandy made from distilling grape skin remains after wine production. It is considered a grape spirit. After wine has been made, water is added to the leftover husks, skins, pits and stalks. The mash is fermented then distilled to become grappa. Grappa is clear and colourless. Best enjoyed straight up in a cognac snifter, in mixed drinks and cocktails. Blends well with fruit juices, coffee, fruit liqueurs, nut liqueurs, cocoa liqueurs, coffee liqueurs and cream liqueurs. Dry and high in alcohol, it is typically consumed after dinner.

Grappa has been made since at least the sixteenth century in Italy. The first grappa makers were probably frugal farmers seeking a way to use up the leftovers from the winemaking process. Although grappa is basically an Italian beverage, similar concoctions are produced in other nations. In Spain it is called "aguardiente", the French call it "marc", and the Greeks named it as their "raki".

Next time you see an Italian restaurant's menu that contains the word Grappa, you should be grateful you have read it from here. =o) Do bear in mind that grappa contains 39 to 50% alc./vol. Since it's more than twice amount of alchohol than conventional wine, please drive safely and "behave" after consumption.

Gyeaappi Chainusee Gnnuee YeaH!

Our Chinese community is having a leap to another year ahead - Sun Sun Lei Lei (Smoothly). To all of the people who speaks chinese, whose blood is a chinese, who is in love with a chinese, living with the People's Repubic of China, who studies chinese tradition, history and calendar, you name it - Happy Chinese Nu Year! May the year of Rooster serve your pocket and bank account good ya! Chinese is always more advantage than the western you know why. The Chinese God of Prosperity will be with you giving its people luck and prosper throughout the year while the western's Santa Clause, gives its people gift only once every year. Alrite, at least we know both of them never exist.

Marine Fish Project

I have been developing a marine fish project about two weeks ago - a hobby I waited for the moment since I got back from Australia early 2003. Remembering that time I was just scouting for a nicest aquarium for the fish to live and for us to see. Unfortunately most of the aquariums sold were in traditional cubicle-shaped, in which I have no interest to look at. I was looking for a roundy-not-so-rectangular aquarium, but they all cost more than a hundred Ringgit Malaysia (RM).

This aquarium is a semi-glass made that cost RM59 (US$15) , most popular water filter RM30 (US$8), sand RM5 (US$1), lights RM10 (US$3), bacterial generator solution RM10 (US$3), marine salt RM5 (US$1), 3 fish RM20 (US$5), rocks and sea shells FOC from Damai Laut beach and the satisfaction of looking at the fish swimming in your room, Priceless!


Let me introduce. From left: Senior Nemo, Junior Nemo and Limited Edition Fish

People told me that putting fish and aquarium in the room might attract bad feng shui, and I wondered why. I seldom believed a believe without a reason. So I just put my aquarium inside my room and guess what, it has changed my life from "worst" to "worse" and now, it's turning to "bad". I have no idea whatsoever about the feng shui. Guess feng shui is not applicable to the entire walks of life though. What I gained from putting an aquarium inside the room is that I can see the fish swimming around, fall sleepy and hence end my day with a sweet scenery in my head - not thinking about work pressures, money woes and relationship tensions, etc.. I always enjoy a good night sleep because I guess, a good night sleep determines your dream as well. Anyway if there's anything real bad to happen to me, I'll update you guys here alright.

Sow Gung Chow @ Kim Court Restaurant 31 Jan

In conjunction with the Lunar New Year of the Rooster (2nd anniversary of my zodiac) coming by, we have already celebrating our chinese tradition - "Sow Gung Chow" (end of work dinner) to mark the ending of stress at work to celebrate the chinese new year. By right, by the name itself, this dinner should be held on the 29th and 30th of the chinese calendar before the new year, so that fellow colleagues can gather to "Lou Sung" (chinese dish that mixed with prosperity ingredients) so as to mark the end of the year and motivate ourselves for a better year ahead in business and welfare. But, in modern days, because everyone was so busy and some of them are returning to their hometowns on different days, this dinner was held 9 days earlier than usual. Even the planning was a month ago!

Alrite, the venue was relatively perfect. It's at Jalan 14/22, Section 14 Petaling Jaya, Selangor - Near Asia Jaya and Metrojaya - Not difficult to locate though. The dishes served was fantastic. Had tasty chesse mussels as one of the four seasons dish, followed by sharks fin soup, then the viet-style duck popiah, lemon fish.. exhilarating, exquisite! Everyone was controlling their sliver from dripping off when the dishes arrived on the table. =o))


the bloux - thanks to chuan maw for the wines and beers

the chix who made apperance

After the dinner, we head to everyone's favourite coffee house (especially chuan maw) - The Coffee Bean - found out it closes at 11.45 PM. So we headed to another coffee house - Starbucks. Y, a guy, has been dating S for quite some time as he always be seen together and Y always been waiting for S everyday for lunch outside her office block. Their relationship is what a normal people may think doubtfully suspicious but they have proven to us that they are just meant for one another. We wished to acquire confirmation from them and we asked:

We: (Looking at Y) Do you love S?
Y: Yes, I love her.
We: (Looking at S) Do you love Y?
S: Yes, I like him.
We: Have you commenced operations?
S: (Silent. Looking at Y)
Y: (Silent. Looking at S)
We: Already commenced?
S: (Silent. Looking at Y)
Y: (Silent. Looking at S)
S: (Smiled)
Y: (Smiled)
S: Then is Katrina's mom coming?
We: (Knowing she was trying to change topic and we answered politely) Yes, we're going to fetch her home too.
We: (Trying to bring the topic back) Since when?
S: (Hesitated. Looking at Y. Smiled and answered) Couple of monthss....
We: (Trying to act specific) Couple of months means two months .. Alrite.. Several means 3..
We: Wah Not bad at all Y! You are simply the best!
We: When did you guys commenced? When we had BBQ that time somewhere in November?
S: Yeah, that's why he did not go for the S.H.E concert.
We: (Knowing that Y is a hardcore fan of S.H.E) wooooo... (wink wink)

After 12.20 midnite, after a nice dinner, wine and chats - we called it a day! (iin fact we were being chased off by Starbucks staff #*$%&X@)

When I was a kid, I was stupified...

I was stupified by the fact that Bata (M) Sdn Bhd is a dumb local shoe manufacturer on its own. Even the name sounds like a stone in malay! Even when I was younger, my dad himself would tell me myths that Bata is a Malaysian shoe company which can hardly work locally, but in Singapore is. Somebody did tell me that. Till then, I was stupified.

Bata was actually founded by Mr. Tomas Bata and two of his older siblings in the former country Czechoslovakia in the year 1894. Later one of his siblings was obliged to serve his country for World War 1 and another sister was married. Even before the establishment of Bata, the immediate family itself already making shoes for the people in a small scale for three centuries. Mr. Tomas then glorified Bata and today, Bata has operations up to 68 different countries, with over 4,700 company-owned retail stores spanning almost every continent, and over 100,000 independent retailers and franchisees distributing Bata shoes.


Bata - Venice

What made Bata so successful for so many centuries? For some who are still ignorant, Bata is still a dumb Batu-Bata shoe manufacturer. The secret of Bata is total customer satisfaction, and each country's operation is tailor-made to suit its own country's accent. Is that a reason enough to keep anyone blurred for so many years of ignorance that Bata is a local shoe company? I would rate this company the best company of disguise ever. Multi-national companies are now having the trend to suit their operations to the country's wants and needs - HSBC for example - the world's local bank. But, I still know it's an international bank finding its fortune in our soil. But for Bata, it's exceptionally original.

Bata first established its shoe factory in 1941, in Klang. Bata reported 10,000,000 pairs of shoes sold in the financial year ended December 2004, earning RM208 million in revenues. From its own market research, Bata has captured 22% of the market share - in which is beyond my comprehension. In every 100 people, 22 of them is/was wearing Bata shoes?

Bata has done alot of market research in Malaysia and found that most of the people demands flexible, durable and of its best quality at an affordable price - that's very true in every Malaysian's mind. On its own R&D, Bata also acquired a revolutionary Acquastatic shoes - where you will no longer be electrocuted by static shocks after wearing these shoes.

Amazing... +=

Time to Relaxzz

Uhh.. Ever wonder how does it feels like when you are working under intense peak period everyday and night? The best thing is that you do not know when will this peak period ends after a week of already-going-through a peak period, unconsciously. I was trained from a realtively shy freak to become a super thick skin selling machine. It was not horrible, you just think that you already acquired the ability and skin is thick enough to pick up any guys and girls anywhere in the world. Cut it out. Time to relaxz here.

After all days of hard work, you may wish to forget everything for at least two days and enjoy the sensation of the beach and get back your actual life of its origin. For that case, Damai Laut's Swiss Garden Resort and Spa has its superiority and luxury - that's what I describe it. If you are not the kind of interested in crowded beach and resort holidays, this is the right place. Even if there's nobody else to talk to there, you can always find monkeys and other friendly wildlife such a deers as soul-companions. Hehe.

On the way there took us approx 300KM or about 4 hours plus of normal decent driving attitude. The small roads that leads to Lumut was rather long - we got conned by the internet map provided by Swiss Garden. I never believed in long distance and property developer generated maps, but there were no better choices. Along the way of beautiful scenes, you can feel that you are doing something that you already knowing that you are being cheated, but you still do it until the process of being cheated ends. How awkward it was. Nevermind, the point of going there was not to get angry, but the opposite of it.



Along the way.. Somewhere after passing through Perak border

waHLann.. this picture most captivaating

this is the pool, romantically..but, too much mosquitos
A nice beach.. at least above passing mark though

Damai Laut apartments

Damai Laut Hotels

The apartments are good for a family holiday, where you can cook and enjoy the garden eg. play football, hockey, badminton, you name it. In the hotels, the only food you can cook is maggi cup noodle. There ain't no grounds for football except the beach, but the beach is very small. But, authentic and western restaurants, the beach, spa, canoe, snorkelling and everything else are in the hotels area itself. In the restaurants, I was in hunger and looking for the cheapest chicken rice ever, RM13.00 excluding service and sales taxes. This is the best deal you can get there. Nevermind. Next time, I'ma gather my food and cook my dishes in the apartments. This would save alot for canoe, snorkelling, banana boating, etc. The fridge is provided anyway, even in the hotels.

A luxurious cozzzy resort where one can relax and play for days - but dangerous coz you may forget the tense and jams in the urban city as the place is extremely relaxing and standardized for your break free pleasure. Going back home for me did not give much of sudden change of environment coz I was already suffering from traffic jams in each R&R rest areas along the PLUS highway. =o)