Back to Reality

It was a nice holiday up in Genting on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, my group of friends was supposed to meet up at 9.30am for breakfast but some only turned up at 10.30am..... so much for a relaxed holiday. Well, it was meant to be a relaxed holiday so we waited patiently for everyone.............hehe.

It was raining right from the morning and we took a slow drive up to Genting. We reached the Genting Skyways at Goh Tong Jaya around 12.45pm. By the time we parked our cars and bought cable cars' tickets, we boarded the cable cars around 1.10pm. Another 2 cars drove all the way up to the peak of Genting.

When we reached the First World Hotel, the whole hotel lobby was packed like a wet market. I got a waiting list number of 586 on the dot of 1.45pm and the registration counters were only attending to ticket number 296. Yeah, the world's biggest hotel has lots of customers too. We went to grab a bite while waiting patiently again. A good solid 2 hours wait till 3.45pm before we got our room keys. Gave out the keys to the gang and all in all, 6 families, were given rooms at 25th Floor of Tower 2.

Rested for a while and the whole gang walked around the amusement centre and those with kids brought them to whatever rides available. Mannnnnnnnnnnn, the queues were really long. Besides the children having to queue up patiently, the parents have to wait patiently for the kids to queue up and finish the rides (not 1 but many rides) .............. hahaha!

Then on the night itself, we walked up to Genting Hotel for our extravaganza buffet dinner at Coffee Terrace which cost RM48 per adult (kids half price). I think most of us were deprived of proper dinner while in Kuala Lumpur as most adults were filled up to the neck with the food intake, me included. A slow walk back to First World Hotel, which takes about 10 minutes, was a good way of increasing the metabolism rate in burning the food to generate the strength to walk back.

Went into the casino area with 2 other guys at 12 midnite for our cups of teh tarik and thick milo drinks. Drinks were free for casino patrons. All you need to do was to walk into the cafeteria and fill your cup. No questions asked. Enjoyed 4 cups during our chit chat and went back to rooms at 3am.

Nope, I don't gamble but it was fun watching those gamblers having a go at the casino bankers/dealers. Chances of you winning - 99% that you can't win against the casino. Otherwise there'll be loads of millionaires. There were some one arm bandits that we were trying to understand why those fellas like to pit their monies against it.
Tags: Travel, Holiday, Genting, Genting Skyways, Goh Tong Jaya, First World Hotel, Genting Hotel, Coffee Terrace, Buffet Dinner, Teh Tarik, Milo, Casino

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