Cool Holidays

Rest is what we need after a hectic weekend schedule................ hehe. A group of my friends (and me of course) will be making our way up to Genting on Monday morning. Genting is also known as the City of Entertainment which is about 45mins to 1 hour's drive away.

I'll be driving up to midway, Goh Tong Jaya area and will park my car there before taking the Genting Skyway Cable Cars up to the peak.

I have booked a few rooms and we will be staying at the world's largest hotel - First World Hotel (which is the building painted in rainbow colour). Will be there for a night only and will make our way back home on Tuesday night.

Pictures will be published on Wednesday. Cheers!
Tags: Genting, City of Entertainment, First World Hotel, Travel, Holiday

Corporate Strategies

Thought of sharing the humourous cartoon pictures extracted from an email.
Tags: Corporate Strategies, Management, Downsizing, Business, Sales Engineer

Another Drama Done

Phew!!!!! Another drama down and 3 more to go. The Ladder's team put up a tremendous performance despite 90% of the team members were new to stage acting.

Personally from my observations, this Ladder team is the most hardworking team. They practised almost twice a week since October 2007. Well, hard work paid off handsomely. They were willing to listen to advice and suggestions and the props team managed to put up excellent back drops coupled with our video shootings - made the whole drama a good performance. How long was the duration? Around 38 minutes of solid performance. I think next week's drama is around this timing as well but I guarantee good production too (I can guarantee because I'm the producer lah).

Yesterday morning, a few of us rushed down to Jalan Pudu to go to a pawn shop where we gotten the joint owner to allow us to do a video recording. This scene was to show the young man's girlfriend in pawning off her expensive jewelleries in order to obtain funds to post bail for her boyfriend. Her boyfriend was implicated in a corruption case that happened in his company where he kept quiet on it even though he knew about it.

It was fun at the pawn shop where we were advised not to record the shop's name or even those walk-in customers. The shop was opened and we could see people from all walks of life coming to the pawn shop to enquire on their rates for the stuff to be pawned. We were given another side of the counter and the joint owner attended to our drama's girlfriend role, played by Elizabeth.

Went back home after that and somehow the stomach was not feeling good at all throughout the whole morning. By 4pm, I went over to church for the The Ladder's full dress rehearsal. We managed to get all done by 7.45pm. Went for dinner and rushed off for another video shooting at one of the friend's bungalow house.

The scene at this house was a commit suicide scene where the main actress was to cry and tried to commit suicide but so happened a super hero long lost friend came to know about and rushed to her home. Part suspense, part comedy. It gets your head thinking on what to expect next.

You really got to see this drama, The Right Match, where we put quite a number of good video shootings, complimenting the live stage acting on next Sunday, 16 Dec 2007.
Tags: Christmas Drama, Christmas, The Ladder, The Right Match, Full Dress Rehearsal, Video Shooting

The Ladder

This coming Sunday, the drama entitled "The Ladder" will be acted live on stage and partly shot on videos too.

We are doing a last minute video shooting on Saturday and hopefully everything would be smooth so that we could have the edited video by 5pm later in the afternoon for the full dress rehearsal. Real tight schedule.

We will be in Jalan Pudu for a surprising video scene.








Print this ticket when you are coming for the drama. See how serious are we on this drama thingy. You need a ticket to enter and there will be ushers asking for the ticket.
Tags: Christmas Drama, Christmas, The Ladder

Lack of Accounting Staff

Just when I did mention that excuses could be abused if allowed for the delay in submitting financial results to the authorities was due to lack of accounting staff, another public listed company has submitted the same reason for the submission of their quarterly financial results.

Ho Hup Construction Company Bhd has now requested for additional time in order to prepare and submit the financial results. They were supposed to submit it by end of Oct 2007.

Yesterday was Gold Bridge Engineering & Construction Bhd.
More of such excuses to come?
Tags: Quarterly Financial Results, Financial Results, Ho Hup Construction Company Bhd

Ran Out of Excuses for KLSE

Gold Bridge Engineering & Construction Bhd, a public listed company in Malaysia, was unable to submit their unaudited financial report for its first quarter ended 30 Sept 2007 to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange ("KLSE") within the given timeframe.

The reason given were “loss of senior management” and “lack of accounting staff support”. If KLSE is to accept this then the rest of the listed companies will take advantage of this precedence.

Gold Bridge should have anticipated that the loss of such critical staff would have detrimental effects on its financial report submission. You mean to say their Human Resource Dept and the Board of Directors couldn't foresee such situation?

I have heard from many local human resource practitioners that their bosses' mindset are usually like this - "let them leave as we can find another replacement". Egoistic problem?
Tags: Human Resource Dept, Board of Directors, Gold Bridge Engineering & Construction Bhd, Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, KLSE, Public Listed Company, Unaudited Financial Report, Accounting Staff

Malaysian High Commissioner Summoned in India

Of late, due to the Hindraf organised demonstration, India had to keep in touch with the happenings involving the Indian people in Malaysia.

The Malaysia's Acting High Commissioner in New Delhi, Norlin Othman, has been summoned to India's Ministry of External Affairs to explain on Malaysia government's actions lately taken on Malaysian Indians whose origins are from India. The Indian government has expressed its concern on the problems faced by the Indians.

Meanwhile, Malaysia's International Trade and Industry Minister, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz, has expressed her disgust over a derogatory article published by the Daily News & Analysis of India. The article was entitled "It’s apartheid, says poet who fled Malaysia". Rafidah Aziz was alerted about the article when she was on an official trade mission trip to New Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai.

Certain points raised may be correct, which also depends on which point of view are you looking from also. But to mention the word "fled" was really way off. Nobody's running away from this country unless you have ran foul of the laws here.

The article was written by Sharanya Manivannan, who claimed that she was a writer, spoken word artist, dancer, painter, actress, photographer and journalist and has stayed in Malaysia for quite a number of years. She happens to be a blogger as well, under the name of Sharanya Manivannan (ya lah, her own name, not anonymous but is that her real name?)

Will the Indian government has anything to comment on the trial of 26 people alleged to be Hindraf supporters?

I hope that this issue will not blow over as it won't be good for Malaysia in the long run as India may send their naval force. All in all, I believed that Malaysia can resolve this issue provided the government is willing to listen and action on it.
Tags: Hindraf, India, Sharanya Manivannan, Daily News & Analysis, New Delhi, Norlin Othman, Malaysian Indian, Indian, Malaysia, High Commission of Malaysia