How can we choose NOT to bribe?

My wife just told me an interesting real life event. Her colleague's husband (let's call him K from now on) was told to drive a lorry without a valid license for that class of vehicle, but sadly for him, he was caught and the police did their 'routine' and asked for a nominal fee of just RM100. So K frantically called his boss and asked if he wanted to pay for it but in return he asked if they would lower the rate to RM50? The police refused and K accepted a summons with no payable amount written on it. This means that its for him to attend court.

So come that faithful day, the boss did not arrive at the courthouse on time. K tried to call his boss to make sure that he is able to attend the session and perhaps bail or help him if anything happens. The boss really did not attend the session and K was thrown into jail. In there, K said that 1 minute feels like an hour, its hot and dirty and smelly, you catch the drift, its not a good place to be when it shouldn't be your fault in the first place.

The boss arrived to bail him out 30 minutes later (30 hours for K). The bail was set at RM3000 and the fine was RM400. That's RM100 vs RM3400, wooters!!! What have we learn from here ladies and gentleman?

Its not that i condone bribery but seriously, if you were the boss would you let this repeat again? Would not rather pay the RM100 and work K off his ass to get back that RM100? Now they have to make up for RM3400 not to mention that they have to make up for the lost time and the trauma that K have to go through when he was in jail though it was just merely '30 hours'.

For those who said on newspaper that chinese would rather bribe to bypass all the hassle, if they were the ones who will get the asses dragged into jail for not bribing, i don't believe that they would not see the easier way out. Let them have a taste of their own words and have them eat every single letter they bullcrapped about.

Nothing is going fine!

Well i suppose this is not the last grunt that you will hear from me about work :p Well who doesn't have problems at work?

The process to upgrade our servers have begun to pave way for a new system BUT everything is not ideal and the users are pushing for some ridiculous deadlines. Well not to say that we MUST make on time which we usually do not LOL, but its kinda really stupid when the same user is repetitively asking the same question over and over and over again. Not via phone call but email cc to your boss. Luckily for me, my boss is a person whom you loved to work with, he knows our situation and of course try to help us get through the issues.

You can't even have a peaceful leave, somebody knows about bits and parts of the system more than others and therefore when that knowledge is needed during you leave, they will call you. For those who have gone through this you will know that its quite hard to explain to someone who is not familiar with the system to guide them to do what is required. But its just an "au huit" (direct translation from Cantonese : vomit blood), when trying to explain to user who is not so computer literate to do a trace route (tracert) because they can't access a certain part of the system as its located on another box (server).

Nothing seems to go well for my team here. Everytime we need to get something done, there is a great hurdle in front of us, be it a very high great wall which we need to find a way to overcome it, or a valley so wide that you can't even see the other side. My future seems bleak as what im doing is similar to what firefighters do, to rescue when there is trouble. There are more fires than our water cans.

Sigh, is there no light at the end of this tunnel? *squeezes the life out of my earth*

A supposed joke i think

May be informative for my drinking friend *hint hint* XD

Beer Contains Female Hormones:
(Pass on to friends who are beer drinkers!!!)

Last month, National University of Lesotho Scientists released the
results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of Female Hormones in beer.

Men should take a concerned look at their beer consumption. The theory is that beer contains Female Hormones (hops contain phytoestrogens) and that by drinking enough beer, men turn into women.

To test the theory, 100 men drank 8 pints of beer each within a 1 hour period. It was then observed that 100% of the test subjects:

1) Argued over nothing.

2) Refused to apologize when obviously wrong.

3) Gained weight.

4) Talked excessively without making sense.

5) Became overly emotional.

6) Couldn't drive.

7) Failed to think rationally

8) Had to sit down while urinating.

No further testing was considered necessary ................

Send this to the men you know to warn them about drinking too much beer!

And send it to your women friends to give them a good laugh! If you
think they can handle it.

See a different girl's body everytime you visit my blog :p

Don't believe me? Come back later/tomorrow/next week etc etc etc. If you are very lucky, you won't see the same girl, why must be lucky? Coz i sure as hell can't remember/keep track all the people who visited my blog what? BTW enjoy!!!

Monday Blues?

I think there is a stat report out there somewhere that says that Monday has the most number of heart attacks ie more people die on Mondays than any other day of the week. Well to most, who are working Monday seems to be a very bad day to come. Today i feel that way, perhaps because of the not-enough-sleep-from-watching-late-night-football-syndrome or perhaps the fact that my back is killing me.

Anyways, luckily in my office, i have one of those stress balls where you are supposed to use them to de-stress by squeezing them. Mine looks like the Earth muahahaha.

*background music playing "I have the whole world in my hands, I have the whole wide world in my hands!"*



Well perhaps not in my hands, more like in my grasp.

A simple and easy chinese song

I was not chinese educated so when i went to college, i was overawed sort to speak by so many beautiful chinese songs. One of the most listened song in my first semester was 張震嶽's 愛我別走 (Zhang Zhen Yue - Ai Wo Bie Zhou, direct translation : 'Love me don't go/leave'). This was because my roommate was listening to it practically daily since he had only a few CDs. It was a simple song but had a great meaning to him then but later for me.

Just the other day i had an argument with my wife and it was a pretty bad one but i managed to overcome it. This song came across my mind because i really do not want her to leave me unless she say that she does not love me anymore.

The lyrics goes something like this

愛我別走 - 張震嶽 
 曲︰張震嶽
 詞︰張震嶽

＊我到了這個時候還是一樣
 夜裡的寂寞容易叫人悲傷
 我不敢想的太多　因為我一個人

＃迎面而來的月光拉長身影
 漫無目地的走在冷冷的街
 我沒有妳的消息　因為我在想妳

＋愛我別走　如果妳說　妳不愛我
 不要聽見妳真的說出口
 再給我一點溫柔

 重唱　＋,＊,＃,＋,＋,＋,＋

What to do when you are bored in office?

Its not that i have nothing to do in office that is causing my boredness but rather slow servers. So today surfing in my most frequented forum, i found a game introduced, its called Rose around the petal. The game can be found here, http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games/roses/

Before you know how to play the game, it will make you wonder how in the world you can get the number of petals from just 5 dice? But once found out, its not so fun anymore. Anyhows it killed my time good enough to pass a few server tasks.

Then there are those long stories that requires more than a few minutes to read (basically like this boring shitty blog that you are visiting), entitled Tree, Leaf and Wind. Some may have got and read it before from an email, i think i created a thread call Chicken Soup based on this story.

TREE=====

The reason I'm called Tree is because I'm good at
painting trees. Over time I started to paint a
tree in
the right hand corner as a trademark for all my
watercolor paintings. I had dated 5 girls when I
was in Pre-U. There's one girl whom I loved a lot
but never dared go after. She didn't have a pretty
face, nor a good figure, or outstanding charm.
She was just a very ordinary girl.

I like her. I really like her. Like her innocence,
her
frankness. Like her cuteness, her intelligence and
her fragility. My reason for not going after her was
that I felt somebody so ordinary was not good
enough for me. I was also afraid that if we got
together all the special feelings I had would
vanish. I feared that other people's gossiping
would hurt her. I also felt that if she was meant to
be my girl, she would be mine ultimately and I
didn't have to give everything up just for her. The
last reason made her stay with me for 3 years.
She watched me chase after other girls for 3
years, and I made her heart cry for 3 years.

She wanted to be a good actress and I was a very
demanding director. When I kissed my second
girlfriend, she bumped into us. She was
embarrassed but smiled and said "Go on!" before
running off. The next day, her eyes were swollen
like walnuts. I purposely ignored what had caused
her to cry and instead, laughed at her the whole
day. When everyone else went back home, she
sat alone crying in the classroom. She didn't know
that I had returned from soccer training to get
something. I watched her cry for an hour or so.

My fourth girlfriend didn't like her. There was once
when both of them quarrelled. I know that based
on her character she was not the one who had
started off the quarrel. But I still sided with my
girlfriend. I shouted at her and her eyes were filled
with shock. I didn't care about her feelings and
walked off with my girlfriend. The next day, she
still
laughed and joked with me as though nothing had
happened. I know that she was very hurt but she
didn't know that my heart ached as badly as hers.
When I broke up with my fifth girlfriend, I asked her
out. After going out for a day, I told her that I had
something to tell her. She told me that
coincidentally, she had something to tell me too. I
told her about my break-up and she told me about
her getting together with someone else. I know
who the guy was. He had been going after her for
quite a while. He was a very cute guy who was full
of energy, lively and interesting. His pursuit for
her
had been the talk of the school.

I couldn't let her know how my heart ached but
could only smile and congratulate her. When I
reached home, my heart ached so bad that I can't
stand it. There was like a heavy weight upon my
chest. I couldn't breathe. I wanted to shout but
couldn't. Tears rolled down and I broke down and
cried. How many times have I seen her cry for the
man that didn't even acknowledge her presence?

During graduation, I read an SMS in my
handphone. It was sent 10 days ago when I broke
down and cried, but I hadn't read it since then. It
said, "Leaf's departure is because of Wind's
pursuit. Or because Tree didn't ask her to stay."

LEAF=====

During Pre-U days, I liked to collect leaves. Why?
Because I felt that for a leaf to leave the tree she
has relied on for so long it takes a lot of courage.
During the 3 years of Pre-U I was on very close
terms with a guy. Not the BGR kind but the buddy
kind. But when he had his first girlfriend, I learned
a feeling I never should have learnt - jealousy. The
sourness in
the heart couldn't be described using a lemon. It's
Sourness to the extreme limit. They were only
together for 2 months. When they broke up, I hid
my strong sense of happiness. But after a month,
he got together with another girl.

I like him and I know he likes me. But why wouldn't
he pursue me? Since he loved me why didn't he
make the first move? Whenever he had a new
girlfriend, my heart would ache. T ime after time,
my heart was hurt again and again. I began to
suspect this was a one sided love. But if he didn't
like me, why did he treat me so well? It's beyond
what you would do for a normal friend. Liking a
person is very heart wrenching. I may know his
likes, his dislikes, his habits, etc. But his
feelings
towards me I can never figure out. You can't
expect me, a girl, to ask him right?

Despite all this, I still wanted to be by his side.
Care for him, accompany him, love him, hoping
that one day, he will love me too. I waited for his
phone call every night, wanting him to send me
SMS. I know that no matter how busy he was, he
would make time for me. Because of this, I waited
for him. The 3 years were the hardest to go
through and I really wanted to give up. At times, I
wondered whether I should continue waiting. The
pain, the hurt, and the dilemma accompanied me
for 3 long years.

Towards the end of my 3rd year, a 2nd year junior
began to go after me. Everyday he pursued me
relentlessly. From outright rejection to a point in
time when I felt that I was willing to let him have a
small footing in my heart. He's like a warm and
gentle wind, trying to blow a leaf away from the
tree. In the end, I realized that I didn't want to
give
this wind just a
small footing in my heart. I know this wind will
bring this badly battered leaf far away to a better
land. Finally I left Tree. But Tree only smiled and
didn't ask me to stay. Leaf's departure is because
of Wind's pursuit. Or because Tree didn't ask her
to stay.

WIND=====

I like a girl called Leaf. Because she's so
dependent on Tree, I have to be a gust of Wind, a
wind that will blow her away. When I first met
her, it
was one month after I transferred to the new
school. I saw a petite girl looking at my seniors
and I playing soccer. During CCA time, she would
always be sitting there looking at him, be it alone
or with her friends. When he talked with other girls,
there's jealousy in her eyes. When he looked at
her, there's happiness in her eyes. Looking at her
became my habit, the way she liked to look at
him.

One day, she wasn't there. I felt something was
amiss. I can't explain the feeling except that it's a
sense of uneasiness. The senior was also not
there. I went to their classroom, hid outside and
saw my senior scold her. Tears were in her eyes
when he left. T he next day, I saw her at her usual
place looking at him. I walked over and smiled at
her, took out a note and gave it to her. She was
surprised. She looked at me, smiled and
accepted the note. The next day, she passed me
a note and left.

Leaf's heart is too heavy and Wind couldn't blow
her away.

It's not that Leaf's heart is too heavy. It is
because
Leaf never wanted to leave Tree. I replied her note
with this statement and slowly she started to talk
to me and accepted my presents and phone calls.
I know that the person she loved wasn't me. But I
had the perseverance that one day, I could make
her like me. Within 4 months, I had declared my
love for her no less than 20 times. Every time, she
would divert away from the topic. But I never gave
up. If I decided I wanted her to be mine, I would
definitely use all means to win her over. I can't
remember how many times I had declared my
love for her. Although I knew she would try to
divert, I still had a small glimmer of hope, hoping
that she would agree to be my girlfriend. I didn't
hear any reply from her over the phone, so I
asked "What are you doing? Why didn't you
reply?" She said, "I'm nodding my head." "Ah?" I
couldn't believe my ears. "I'm nodding my head,"
she replied loudly. I hung up the phone, changed
quickly, took a taxi, rushed to her place and
pressed her door bell. When she opened the
door. I hugged her tightly. Leaf's departure is
because of Wind's pursuit. Or because Tree didn't
ask her to stay.