tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63376852011-11-27T16:36:51.779-08:00Reality knocks..deal with it!Ramblings from an earthling whose serious attempts at confronting reality may just piss some fellow earthlings off..;)Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-92106707962149695312009-04-08T02:42:00.000-07:002009-04-08T03:15:29.423-07:00A little fund raising activity for Persatuan Kanak-kanak Istimewa Kajang (PKIK), or the Center for Special Children, KajangPKIK is an NGO which focuses on people with disabilities and operates out of Taman Kajang Utama, Kajang. They set up shop in 1995 and currently my youngest son who will be turning 7 next Wednesday has been enrolled there for the past year. His name is Imran Haziq and he's Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-21698114857036260292008-02-09T06:35:00.001-08:002008-02-10T02:32:07.945-08:00The last time I posted in my blog was more than 2 years ago, when I was still an employee of a wanna be so called high tech company, which has more or less faded into oblivion these days. If anyone mentions the name of the company, it is often for the wrong reasons. Nevertheless, I must say I did learn some valuable lessons there, not least of which is the need to maintain my humility at all Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1127442245800717242005-09-22T19:06:00.000-07:002006-12-13T09:00:43.120-08:00Two months ago, the dilemma was about this ship or the other(s). as the saying goes, the grass is always greener on the other side. Hmmm...maybe I should add to that, as in "...for now that is..". WHOAA!! Something GOOD must've happened for me to be even thinking this way, eh?Ok, for starters, the jokers who have tried to make my life a living hell have in some ways had their powers curtailed by Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1121753664156292342005-07-19T14:15:00.000-07:002005-07-18T23:14:24.163-07:00They say opportunity knocks once. Not twice, not thrice. Just once. Well how true is this? Myth or fact? Take my career for instance. Started out in retail sales, then moved to technical sales, got my big breakthrough in venture capital, then free falled into consulting before being swooped into the current engineering services company. Yup, on each occassion I had an offer on the table, ready Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1121395658612861652005-07-14T19:38:00.000-07:002005-07-14T19:47:38.616-07:00A friend of mine had this advice for me yesterday - "if it rots all the way to the top, chop off the top first, then get a new set of brains..." Hmmm...very well put indeed. Let's hope the willpower to execute will be unwavering for the next couple of months. I've had the choice of switching ships halfway through my journey but the other ships would not have taken to my intended destination. Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1119854176756590542005-06-27T14:40:00.000-07:002005-06-27T03:41:01.996-07:00I got delivery of my Toyota Innova 2 Fridays ago.I'm one of the lucky ones because my car wasn't actually due till mid October this year. You see, I made my booking only on the 28th of May and in all honesty was not prepared for the surprise when my salesman called ten days later, saying "Jeoffrey, your car is here..". I felt happy and terrified at the same time coz I am probably the luckiest of Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1119838952221327662005-06-27T12:30:00.000-07:002005-06-26T23:15:50.876-07:00It seems in life one is often confronted with people who fall short on their promises. It happened to me last weekend. Not once. Not twice. But on numerous occasions. For the life of me, I can't understand why a lot of us make promises only to break them later without even so much as a blink! Here's what has been pissing me off over the last 72 hours :1. Agony no 1 - some guy who was interested Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1119859669247166362005-06-27T01:07:00.001-07:002005-06-27T01:07:49.250-07:00My Laguna Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1119859626417332342005-06-27T01:07:00.000-07:002005-06-27T01:07:06.473-07:00imran driving Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1118205517768725762005-06-07T21:26:00.000-07:002005-06-07T21:38:37.773-07:00I never liked office politics. I think it's completely unproductive and a total waste of time. In my 15 years of working life, I have never subjected myself to anyone's beck and call and I only believe in merit. Sure I've had my run ins with former colleagues and superiors but those are simply because in every incident, I stand for what is right. Nothing more, nothing less.Unfortunately there areJabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1093507318537420552004-08-26T00:45:00.000-07:002004-08-26T01:01:58.536-07:00I've not posted anything for a long time, until today that is. Something happened on my flight from Singapore last night and I just need to blow off steam here.
It was the last flight from Singapore to KL, MH610 which left Changi at 9:10 pm. Everything was ok until midway through the flight, one of the stewardess banged the drinks trolley against the chair of the passenger behind me, and this Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1080871245149169232004-04-01T17:15:00.000-08:002004-04-01T19:34:24.763-08:00What's this thing with bullies nowadays? We've got road bullies, school bullies, kindergarten bullies, neighborhood bullies and the list goes on and on...with the latest rage off course being school bullies. That poor kid who got beaten to death last Sunday...what has happened to our school children? Are we so immersed in our worldly pursuits that we blatantly ignore the value of one's life? The Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1076578821296289102004-02-12T01:25:00.000-08:002004-02-12T01:44:54.856-08:00well...it's been a while since i posted something here...not that there aren't any contentious issues revolving in my head, there's plenty of it :) But by now probably it's old news so i won't bother raising them at all..ooooohhh...here's one i just remembered...i took a look at the new proton gen 2 last week and was initially pretty impressed with the overall design of the car, that is ...until.Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1074589549456319312004-01-20T00:39:00.000-08:002004-01-20T01:07:48.920-08:00Last week traffic was unusually horrible. I live in Kajang and what normally takes me 45 minutes to get to work just got longer...much, much, much longer. And that too despite the fact that I used the tidal flow only to discover that it's worst than going against the tide! It turned out that the traffic policeman at the end of the tidal flow was causing the bottleneck by not allowing more time Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337685.post-1074226130047448772004-01-15T19:53:00.000-08:002004-01-20T00:41:30.983-08:00Well, if it isn't malaysia's biggest bank getting on my nerves again....I was taking my wife to one medical centre when we were approached by a group of people, three of them actually each sporting the MAKNA (majis kanser nasional or the malaysian national cancer society) logo on their t-shirts. It turns out that they were soliciting contributions for the national cancer fund from the public. Jabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033416190160589193noreply@blogger.com