Saturday, April 22, 2006

Wanna be a psychic....

Try it out, you'll be amazed;

http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf

A Sign of Stress???

In my Inbox today;
"D,
Since the session 2 of the COTS and solutions validation does not have the qourom of some critical members past wednesday at 0915 as scheduled, nor at 1030 as deferred, it did not happen.
We understand that some critical members may need to reprioritize their time due to the major projects coming onboard. I am sincere in saying I was NOT frustrated nor sore at any individual, though I was irritated with the fact that the critical members required for quorum are just too difficult to be scheduled together.

Therefore, I suggest that D pls call for the session 2 at a time of your convenience. We shall ensure our attendance where practical and inform you otherwise if not.

Now for a more difficult topic,
please clarify if Application Consultants are required to conduct all product demonstrations everytime.
My "preference is for App Consultants to conduct product demonstrations only for prototyping stage, or technical demonstrations, and sales people should eventually be fully capable and conduct standard off the shelf product presentations, with app consultants in attendance wherever required.

D's idea is for app consultants conduct All product demos becoz the so called techies are more familiar of the system since they hav opportunities to play with them whereas sales people have other concerns.

I disagree with this specific observation becoz it does not look like our sales have the capacity to focus on product sales in the near term. In such a situation, the techies will practically only play with the system(s) once to twice a year, or once in two years, as per our experience with "XX", "XY" and "XYZ". This effectively levels the playing ground and makes no difference whether it is a sales person or app consultant conducting standard product demonstrations.

However, as brought up in my many discussions, leading up to one grandmother of all discussions with D on 05 April and minuted online, should our sales direction, or a portion of our sales team, is to focus on product, or solutions with specific products, going forward, this will be more practical. Having said this, if the sales person is focusing on a range of products, or specific solutions with specific products, the sales person should be fully capable of demonstrating it out of box since it is their ricebowl.

If it is an issue of personalities instead of roles, like ZZ, in my opinion, rightly pointed out, lets develop the people and acquire the required proficiency.

i m not afraid of learning new skills everyweek and taking on additional roles, including as proposed to Daniel several times, taking on sales role fulltime; if i hav been (which i believe i hav) such a pain to and energy sapping for D running the app consulting group the way i do(not).
J has demonstrated the willingness to structure the skills required and map out development paths so we can develop people;
NN has always played multiple roles and continues to do so without complain;
OB has rightly identified one area of ELP is presentation skills and asked me to prepare and deliver presentation training as part of biz english, while he develops the rest;
p.n has volunteered to put up and administer metadot intranet portal so our body of knowledge and organizational intelligence can be preserved and mined;
SLS has been supporting us technically and volunteered to undertake ST training though it is not in his domain going forward (and knowing full well, once trained he will be involved happy or not)
in short we are all enthusiastic, we have all demonstrated our willingness to and continueto go the extra mile

my challenge to all of us senior execs, are we prepared to walk the walk, after all our save the world co mission hubris and what not. or like J wrote in one email, sometimes it feels like father crabs trying to teach our children (staff and clients) how to walk straight.

if we continue to believe that some of the people we are hiring going forward, eg. for sales, may be incapable of learning up and acquiring the proficiency to conduct an off the shelf standard product demo, i think all the things we are doing are for nought, becoz, they probably will be too thick to learn how to use our intranet portal and download the standard templates to prepare proposals.

somewhere in this pessimism, i have high hopes for the company and our team. partly becoz i turned down a job offer early this year which pays me in six months what the company pays me in three years (and i continue to kick myself in the backside for it). These offers happen, as i am sure to many of us, when we are often with high profile work like audit and consulting for big name clients. I strongly believing there is much more potential, fun, excitement, learning and future in the company. please do not burst my bubble by reducing this into a mere 10-8 job. especially when the personalities mentioned above hav all stepped up to the challenge after D's morale boosting presentation early in the year.

Father Crab, time to lead the walk.

sincerely
-baby crab "

Chill Baby Crab, chill......He,he

Friday, April 21, 2006

Saujana Impian. Voted to be THE course with the best green in Malaysia. The green's lightning fast, but soft enough to bite...roll is very true. Played there today. Started from the back-nine. Drove the first hole, a short par-4 with a 3-wood, smack down in the middle of the fairway. Hit my iron on to the green. two-putted. Par. The next two holes was quite a nightmare. On the 2nd par 4 hole, my drive veered off to the right. 2nd shot, hit a tree branch, then pitch to the apron of the green. Stupid chip and the 2-putted for a double boggie. 3 rd hole, a nice-over-the-water par 3. Hit my ball with a 5-iron over the green into a bunker....deeep in the sand....yuckie...another double boggie. 4 -over after 3 holes. Bad start. Then 3 pars in a row. A boggie on a par five. Par and a birdie on the last hole of the front-nine(back-nine of the course). Scored 40. Hey,hey,hey...not bad.

2-nd Nine. Boggie, Boggie, Par, Par,Par, Double-Boggie, Par,Par. 4 over after 8 holes. On the last hole, my drive went into a fairway bunker, 145 meters from the hole. I need a par to play 80, or a birdie to play 79. That's when I hit the best shot of the round. Hit my 6-iron, solid, from the fairway bunker, into the green. Two-putted for a par. Ahhhhhh....What a feeling. a good round, 80, 8-over, 2-under my HC of 10. Yee Haa!!!!

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Business is goooooddddd..... ASTRO Masters 2006

Zowie!!!!! the company is waiting for 3 letter of award this week... big ones. Now, we will have a different kind of headache. The kind that I like...resource scheduling, project management, implementation, bla, bla, bla. With that , the hopes of getting our "bonus" this month looks pretty gooodd.

On the bright side, I will have the "ease of mind" to enter this year ASTRO's Masters. Booked three dates, at three different courses; Templer Park, Palm Garden and Kota Kemuning, in which ASTRO "guaranteed" two tournaments to paid-entry form. My wife seems to be exited to know that I'm participating. He,he....she must be thinking that I would have a chance to get a placing in these tourney...pressure la cam ni.......macam bole menang aje...cheesh..

I hate playing with the higher handicappers when...

my game is off, as of today. Played @ Kajang Hill, with 3 of my buddies. First, gotta give 4 -4 to one guy, the other two 2-2. My game was playing havoc. Not that I played that bad, but these "damn" so-called high-handicappers were playing a game that's not supposed to be their game, all three of them at the same time. In the end... I lost...BIG TIMEEEEE.

Hello brothers, next time kita main scratch la, lu nak stroke kalu, lu cari orang lain la..ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Monday, April 17, 2006

The Highlander Golf Invitational 2006; April 15 2006

MMC, or previously known as TTC, a subsidiary of the largest Malaysian TELCO, held their annual golf event last Saturday @ Bukit Unggul. And as one of the MMC vendors, I need to sponsor the event, man!!!!. The Company splashed in a few thousand ringgit gak to the event, but it's ok.
2 days before the event , tested the course, just to familiarize myself with the green, etc. Scored decent, won big..menang keliling, partnership and individual. Cukup duit untuk pergi berurut...ahak.

120 golfers participated in the event, broken into 3 categories, the Highlanders (hadiah2 yg best le), vendors ( hadiah decent) and guest (hadiah hampeh). Event started at around 8.15am, weather was great for golf, my group started at the 3-rd hole, 1st nine, (shotgun start). Boggied the 1-st hole, sucks coz it's a par-five. At the end, my game did came together. Scored an 81, 40 on the 1st nine, 41 the 2-nd nine. 39 points ( the organizer declared me with a handicap of 12 which I "gracefully" accepted without an inch of complain,... tak pa la kot, atas dua aje compared to my current HC of 10). 2nd placing for the vendor categories, and NTP on one of the par three. All in all , not a bad outing..dapat la a new home-theatre system and a pitch-n-chip practise net, on top of the goodies.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

A - ha

Have not been updating the blog for quite some time....Been busy. Job wise , no complain. Getting the usual sales, eventhough, I really hope that my customers will use "To-the-max" the solution and services that they have bought from us...

Back to golf, at last, I REALLY believed that I"ve FINALY found THE way to consistently hit a "somewhat" solid golf shot, ball-striking wise. Make me more confident of breaking 80 everytime I tee-off...eventhough it really doesn't happen that frequent. Oh well... hopefully this revelation will last longer than the other thousands revelation that I've "so-called" found in the years of trying to improve playing this game.

During the school holidays, sent the kids to the grandma, and went off to a "relax and rejuvenate" escapade at Swiss Garden Resort & Spa, Damai Laut with the wife.

"Trying to get the feel of being young again , huh? kah,kah,kah" My mom to me, when I told her about the trip.

It was good. The wife got the experience of following me playing two rounds of golf. At least now, she knows what 15-5-5 and double up meant. On top of that, we got to experienced the Spa treatment at the resort... and other things la... " Double-Up" He,he

Friday, March 03, 2006

It's time to kick ass....saturday, tasik puteri

Thursday, February 09, 2006


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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Just finished reviewing and presenting the 2005 company's performance and the 2006 budget. Company is in the black. Able to share a bit of the profit with the personnels. Not bad. Not bad at all. Just need to improve on billing collections. Have some overflowing revenue coming into 2006. Budget to increase a bit on resources, promotions, some branding exercises, oversea expansion and of course, salary adjustment. Hope everything's okay with the BODs. Anyway, gotta work smarter and harder this year. Target revenue and PBT has gone up by 50%. In a way, I'm quite sure the company can achieve it's targets, but who knows?.....

Anyway, it's time to play golf....I'm outta 'ere

Monday, February 06, 2006

Remember my name....

You'll be screaming it later.... Kah, kah, kah

Friday, February 03, 2006

I was doing my "online" banking, paying the bills and stuff....and ....Wow!!!! I've really got to get back on track. My financial status is really in a mess. Too many backlogs. Too many "hutang" with not enough money going into the account, and yet, I've got all this tele-marketing sales personnel calling me to spend and spend....Sheeesssh

Saturday, January 28, 2006

The start of a long 1 week holiday for the kids...and myself. No expensive trip for the family this time. Been planning and saving?? to have a whole 1 week holiday to the east coast in May. Insyaallah.

For the past 3 weeks , it has been very hectic working weeks...planning wise. Feels good when as a management, we were able to give some token of appreciation to the whole team in the company this year...unlike last year...kena pileh kasih sket. Anyhow, I need to make sure this happens, coz I NEED the incentive myself. Have to work smart before April. That's when the company plan to announce the salary review. As a management, the advantage is, you don't really have to guess how much increment you wanna give yourself, you can put whatever you want as long as you can back it up with facts... , Gotta make sure I spend my time towards the high value, high profit prospects.

Golf wise... sucks. Been strugling to get the swing back. The short game is nowhere as good as before. Putting? Don't even ask. Dunno what's wrong. But yesterday I"m begining to see that my game was coming back. For the first time, this year, I shot a decent low 80 round. I was a bit in control of the golf swing...thanks to Vijay Singh. I observed his swing, especially his grip on TV, and try to emulate the guy. The result...Hey!!!!! It works.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Another year, another season for the alumni golf tour. No change of play format this year. Increase in the tournament fee. YUCKS. Still using the stableford system, with our own handicaping system. I'm playing to a hc 14 , when in reality, I'm a hc 10. Looks unfair, if I'm the only person doing this. In reality, nobody knows the real hc of the other person. It might be good and more interesting if we use strokeplay , nett and gross, with medal A, hc 0-12, B hc 13-18 and C hc 19 and above. After a few tournaments, we can gauge the most consistent players among ourself. With the gross score in line, we can eliminate the missing of 2-footer putts from the lower handicappers, usually done on purpose, to disguise their real hc from the organizer. Anyway, that's just rambling from someone's who's not really interested to be in the organizing commitee. Kudos to the commitee.

p.s. I won't be joining the game this time around, gotta play in my club monthly tournament. A helluva lot cheaper...........YEE HAA

Monday, January 02, 2006

What's new in 2006

Ah....another year, another resolution....none from me. So, what's new for year 2006;
1) Salary....no black-and-white increment; only verbal, since last June; got paid the extra salary in August; which I"ve used the mullah to purchase the new iPAQ 6515. Up to now, nobody knows what happen to the rest.

2) Have not done my claim; since January of last year; got to do that...lucky I've got every info within reach.... sync everything into the PC; just gotta get it out from there and transfer it to my claim form.

3) My handicap got worse; from 9 to a 10.

Here's to another year.

Monday, December 19, 2005

Pristin Transview Golf tournament @ PTGC

It was certainly not a tournament for the lower-handicappers. The tournament was played using the modified stableford system. Medal A was for 0 to 16 handicappers. I played quite well. Scored 82 on the stroke play; even with a 2 strokes penalty inquired when I stupidly removes some "kemuncup" around my ball, at rest. All the winners came from the higher handicappers; to be exact; the 16 handicappers. 5th place got 41 points. The winner was a guy who manage to score 46 points. I got 35 points; the only consolations, won LD....not longest drive but lucky draw. Will only take part in a stroke play tournament in the future.

Friday, December 16, 2005

In my alumni egroup today..interesting comment; ....

From Bro Prof Ahmad Puaad Osman of UKM;

"I have never said that studying Math & Science is not Good...I was in SMSS from 73-74. I took MCE, All the nine subjects were in English ( Subjective tau ) Xcept Malay and Ugama.
But when I grow up, Involved my self with education ( Not politics Ha..) and try to understand the efforts of BUILDING A NATION.. like what the Japanese, Korean, German, British, Chinese, Russians. do ..( a few more..) I now understand the need of my mother's tounge
language. Americans do not built their nation. America is the melting pot of many nations who just want to seek opportunity and fortunes. ( A researched was done by a scholar from UKM. Prof. Shahrir Md Zain...( mathematician ).. 80%of the Nobel Laureat, were educated in their own mother tounge's language, at least up to the Bachelor degree before they immigrated to the USA -the land of opportunies ). Believe me...In 20 years to come...If the present trend is to stay.. we will never again see food ingradients written in the Malay Language on food wrappers or food package. Why??? because nobody understand it.. and by the way who needs it anyway..Everybody is talking in English when it comes to science technical terms.
Remember.. We are talking about BUILDING A NATION with pride....not building a rumah setinggan. To remind again.. English is VERY important.

Just ponder: When Malaya or British were ruling before.. or may be in the 60s and early 70s...English was the main stream at that time.. (mind you I was in Malay school.. then remove class and only then English ).. were the Malays .. ( excuse me to the non-Malays )...much better of in Science and technology.. in 60s and 70s. The core of the problem is Sound Education system. Recently ( my daughter is one of them) the JPA has started sending students to Russia and Ukraine (Ukraine dah stop) and Indonesia to study medicine - to save cost. These students have to speak and write in Russian when they go to clinics. In class they sometimes have to
read medical literatures in Latin...It seems, they wre OK, and survived despite the difficulties. Believe me if most of our students have good command of English.. NO BODY bothers
to ask to teach Science and Math in English.. So logically.. English & Science and Math have VERY little correlation.

One silly question to ponder .. If we want our footballers to be like the Brazilians.. why don we ask the coach and sports teachers teach football in Brazillian (?) or Spanish for that matter.. Ini joke je..

I rest my case here for a while.. I may be wrong !!!!. But I want my future generation know that I contributed to the Nation building...

For your information... The equation F=ma is not always right... Have you ever heard about F=ma2 ( squared )"


Hmmmmmmmm....????

Aiks!!!! Budak yang kena tangkap basah ngan NFJ tu ropernyer....

Member gua la!!!!!

I was browsing through this gossip column discussing about the "close proximity" case of a popular Telecaster of TV3. Tetiba gambar member gua yang kena tangkap tu ngan NFJ terpancar kat dalam forum tu.....


Alamak, gua memang kenal brother ni. Last sekali main ngan dia kat Sri Selangor. Memang le NFJ pun ada kat situ, having lunch with all of us. I still remember my flightmates that day, Executve Director of SKALI, AA , Mr ASH and the Bro EP. Memang kerja dia main golf, everyday plak tu ..he,he.. tuah badan. Aku terus call Mr ASH and AA. "Oii yooo member main golf kiter suda jadi orang fofular la"

Anyway Brother EP...wherever you are...I hope you'll be cool... with your pipe.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Another Golf Tourney; PristineTransview; 18/12

It's about time for me to participate in another golf tournament; the PristineTransview Golf Tourney; Sunday 18/12/2005. Hope to get a good score that day. Will try. .......Another important thing, and got to remember this; .......it coincide with the wifey's birthday date la.

La, .....Melayu ropernyer....

There was this video clipping; purportedly showing a Chinese national being asked to do ear squats in nude. Everyone was shocked. From a local issue; it became a G to G issue. Bilateral relationship between two countries, China, and Malaysia was in jeopardy. A commision were set-up to investigate the case. Pak Lah scolded his minister for coming up with insensitive comment about the incident. Today, it was revealed that the lady filmed doing the ear squads naked was not even a Chinese national but a local malay. What gives????

I asked a policeman friend of mine...
" so, apa sebab budak perempuan tu bogel masa kena ketuk ketampi??"
" Aisay, Golfer Melayu, bila lu buat raid, tempat tu selalunyer dijadikan tempat menyorokkan pil-pil tertentu, ....so dari kita orang korek sendiri; baik suruh dia buat ketuk ketampi 10 kali; kalau ada apa-apa kat dalam benda tu; sure terkeluar punyer.....mana lu hendak; nak suruh kita orang korek ke, nak suruh ketuk ketampi?...."
"Mak aihh??? Dasat tu"....

Hmmmmmmm.......

maybe,..... I can make money by inventing a non-contact; non-intrusive scanning device.......