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I have been posting too much on the ‘Stupid Job’ category lately. Maybe it is due to the fact that I spend most of the time at work and my job is kinda interesting to be shared.

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Today’s post isnt too much on stupid job anymore. Stupid job turned nicer lately.

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I just got promoted to Senior executive position. Didn’t expect it to come so late. LOL. I was in fact promised this position last year. It had never happened to other colleagues. Some work as long as 7 years, but still the same.

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Am I good? I duno. I just work smart. But there’s one thing to be certain. I’m lazier than before. Anyway, job function remains totally the same. Any idea why?

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Because since the beginning, my job function was PKL. You can check the term in Sukebe’s info in ‘About Authors’ page. Therefore, no change to the job function. So, there is no reason to reject this promotion, unless I have too much money in the pocket already. LOL
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To all well wishers, I will be owing you guys a drink…Thank you in advance. hehe.

Mr X? or Miss X? Oi? or Fat Ass? or maybe Hey Doggie2?

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I have something interesting to share here.  Nope… Its not that I address my boss using all the above.

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It happened about 2 years ago, when I just joined the company I’m now working for. Let’s give him a name before I begin.Maybe something like AhBoss would be appropriate. And for his surname, lets assume he is Chan, which gives him the name AhBoss Chan.

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I can still remember clearly, during the interview, I asked him one question that shaped the way how I addressed him. Upon giving him my name, I naturally asked him , “and you are Mr….”  in which he naturally replies as Chan.

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From that day onward I called him Mr Chan. My other colleagues are of nearly the same age as he is, therefore, they just call him AhBoss.

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I work in a small company, and with some paper qualifications, I entered the company as the  number 2 reporting directly to this boss/branch manager. I am however the youngest in the branch. The functions I perform are near if not similar to that of my manager’s.

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Therefore, we worked closely at times. After nearly a year, I slowly discovered more and more things about him that made me lose respect for him.

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Slowly day by day, I tried to avoid calling him by name, whenever possible, even in emails. .

After another a year, I managed to totally (100%)  not call him by name. Whenever I need to speak to him I normally just turn to him and start talking. When necessary, very often, the opening line would be “Errr…The” followed by the related issues.

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He realizes this attitude in me, and there’s nothing he can do about it. Can yours be better than this? LOL

…But Extremely Relaxed and Energized at Home?

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One of my colleagues asked me this question today…She has been working for over 10 years with this same company. I guess the answer is rather simple.

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Most people work because they have to. It is not so much about passion anymore. The first few days we are very passionate. This lasts for a few months up till a year, maximum. After that, everything goes downhill.

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This will carry on until one fine day, when we finally decide that we had enough of all this routine and…….

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go for an interview. After a few attempts, we get a new job, or rather another new routine. We start to become more passionate again, with slightly higher pay……and this goes on and on. Suddenly, without realizing, its time for retirement.

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It will then be the time to take alot of rest at home…But then again, comes another routine which is making the home full time and taking care of the grandkiddies. For those with enough savings, possibly travelling would become a ‘routine’ too. We may get bored of living, and without realizing, we are sick and bedridden, which is yet another lousy routine to follow.

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Looks like we, humans will never get out of this routine thing. It is only what routine we choose to follow. Agree?

    In selling, it is always good to have customers who are like our friends. It would be very much easier to get things done with this kind of strong relationship. Meals and some other forms of entertainment cannot be avoided in business. However, to what extend are you willing to sacrifice your time and money (company’s)?

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I, for one, try very hard to keep my personal time(i.e after work & weekends) for myself. At times when it cannot be avoided, I’ll oblige happily.

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There is this one case which happened quite recently. A customer requests to ‘help’ polish his superior’s’ car at a place nearby our company with the reason that he’ll be unable to get out of office during office hours. Both this customer and his superior are senior executives in this company.

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Even though I had the time, I was very reluctant inside, knowing there could be more requests later on. This customer had obviously tried to misuse our close relationship and misuse his superior to test out this possibility. He could have even ‘offered’ his superior on our behalf. He has clearly gone overboard.

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I told him politely that I will have to discuss with my management, and return him a call the next day. I also told him that I was concerned for the safety of the car in the whole process. The next morning, I discussed it over with my boss, and influenced him that it would not be a good idea. Somehow, we decided not to go ahead. At least the decision came from his mouth, and any consequences would have been understood before hand.

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Happily, I then explained to the customer that we can have meals together, but what he requested is out of our power / company’s ruling. If you were in my position, what would you do?

You must be thinking, this can only be achieved by having a nice housewife, a maid or a good mother or mother-in-law.

My house of bachelors recently started on a package for rice to be delivered to our home by 6pm, so that we can have dinner at about 7pm. Eventhough the shops are not far away, we are sometimes lazy to go out of the house after returning home, especially after a nice bath. This package comes with 3 dishes + 1 soup + rice. The cost per person will come to 130/20 = a whopping RM6.50 per meal!!

Therefore, we decided to share out between housemates, and order two shares of dishes for 3 persons. The cost came to about RM4.50 per meal per person including the additional rice. Seems reasonable, especially with the current rising standard in Johor Bahru. A standard meal is easily RM3.50 to 4.00 exclusive of drinks.

As you can see, the dishes are quite acceptable. The menu changes weekly, therefore, there’ll be not much problem of repetition. The cooking style is also quite creative. In fact, the strongest reason behind us ordering this package is because, it is sometimes just too troublesome to think of where and what to eat everyday. Therefore, we rather pay someone to feel pampered like lazy pigs.

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If you are lucky to have some a housewife at home, you can try to get her to follow the menu, so you’ll be eating that few dishes a day. That is by the way, also on condition that your wife can cook well. Nowadays are really different from those days when ladies must learn to cook to keep the husbands at home. I guess many families now have both man & woman working. Its never easy, I know.
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Are you lucky or unlucky like me or getting lucky soon?

I decided to get a new set of T-shirts(uniform) last month. Before that, I was wearing dirty and moldy T-shirts, as in the left of the picture. I discovered that the previous few months’ sales were not particularly good.

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After changing into cleaner looking T-shirts, my monthly sales increased by double compared to the average of last few months. I wonder if its mere coincidence. Brian Tracy mentioned in his book, “The Psychology of Selling” that,

A whopping 95 percent of the first impression that you make on a customer is determined by your clothes. This is because, in most cases, your clothes cover 95 percent of your body. When you are well dressed, properly grommed, shoes polished and looking professional, the prospect unconsciously assumes that you are working for an excellent company and you sell an exceptional product or service.”

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I think I have to agree. Would you not?

I still remember I had a pretty crazy Malay language teacher in primary school. As we were lazy in doing all those less intelligent homework, we came out with many reasons for not handing homework on time.

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e.g. forgot to bring the exercise book, forgot to do, mother ask me to clean the entire house, there was a black out yesterday…

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After being taught by this crazy teacher, we never used “forgot to bring the exercise book” reason anymore…!! Because she would say, “Kalau lupa bawa, mengapa lu bawa lanciao?” or “Habis? Ada bawa telur tak?” to handsome boys like me. (this only apply to boys, girls NEVER miss their homework!!!)

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Translation:

“Kalau lupa bawa, mengapa lu bawa lanciao?”

Translation: If you forgot to bring your homework, why did you bring your ’shaft of the male reproductive organ’ here?”

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“Habis? Ada bawa telur tak?”

Translation: So what? Did you bring your balls?

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As Mr Sukebe was a criminal repeating the same offense for not handing up homework, this teacher has questioned my ability to bring my manhood to school almost everyday… Until one day, I was damn tulan already, so I decided to do her homework for the first time!!

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She asked us to write an essay, titled “Satu Kebakaran” (A Fire). I can’t remember every word I wrote, but today I am going to reproduce this wonderful essay… First of all, bear in mind that my teacher’s name is Cikgu Amerah (Teacher Amerah)…

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Satu Kebakaran ( A Fire )

Pada suatu hari, rumah Amerah telah terbakar.

One day, there was a fire in Amerah’s house.

Semua penduduk kampung jadi huru-hara,

All the villagers became restless,

kecuali saya kerana saya berasa amat gembira.

except me because I was very happy.
Ada seorang telah menelefon pihak bomba.

Somebody called up the bomba (Firemen).

Selepas tiga jam, bomba pun telah sampai.

After 3 hours, the bomba has arrived.

Mereka pun nak pancut air untuk menyelamatkan rumah Amerah.

They tried to put out the fire by ejaculating spraying water.

Tetapi mereka tidak dapat jumpa pili air!!

But they cannot find any water taps!!

Jadi saya pun menunjukkan arah stesen minyak kepada mereka.

So I told them where the petrol station was.

Mereka telah jumpa satu pili di stesen minyak, dan terus pasang paip.

They found a tap in the petrol station, and fixed up the hose.

Tetapi yang terkeluar adalah minyak petrol!!!!

But what came out was petrol!!!

Maka api semakin menjilat kuat rumah Amerah.

So the fire literally devoured Amerah’s house.

Dalam sepuluh minit, rumah Amerah hanya tinggal abu sahaja.

In ten minutes, Amerah’s house is left with ashes only.

Amerah telah berterima kasih pada saya kerana telah menolong bomba.

Amerah thanked me for helping the bomba guys.

Pihak bomba pun telah berterima kasih pada saya,

The bomba guys also thanked me,

kerana mereka pun amat benci pada Amerah.

because they hated Amerah inside out also.

Namun begitu, hanyalah rumah Amerah telah terbakar,

Anyhow, only Amerah’s house was burnt,

tiada rumah yang lain ditimpa kemalangan ini.

nobody else’s houses were affected.

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So what was the outcome?

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Other than giving me a big big big big big big red, ugly cross (X) on the essay, She did nothing.

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Yes, you read correctly, she literally did NOTHING to me. I still don’t understand why she did not wallop me upside down…

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Any idea why she did nothing? Give me some hints leh, I still cannot figure out a good reason…

This is one big problem that ought to be resolved. In fact, most of drivers end up driving a car with blown third brake light bulbs over a period of one or two months, before realizing it. Sometimes a friend would realize it, and at times, it is when doing our regular service that the foreman realizes and replaces it.

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To drive without proper brake indication is really dangerous. The main emphasis here would be the third brake lights, as the other two lights light up at nite, with headlamps on, making the brake lights less visible. In fact, third brake lights are first noticed compared to the other lights.

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Therefore, without a third brake light, it is very much inviting danger. Most accidents which occur due to this malfunction would be headbutt types.

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There is one solution which I could think off. This should work with most of the cars. Firstly, remove the back cover(the cover you’ll remove when replacing bulb)

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Then, try depressing the brake pedal to see if you can see any light from the behind.

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If yes, bring the cover to your kitchen.

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You’ll need a small screw driver and a rag…Heat up the screw driver, for about 2-3 minutes, just like instant noddle. Remember, dont heat up the handle part, you just need the tip. After that, hold the screw driver using a rag, and pierce through the back cover.

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Remember to pierce from outside to inside. But if you accidently do it the other way round, you’ll see flash on the outside..You’ll just need to file it using your fingernail file.

After that, install it back to the original position. Thereafter, stick a small transparent tape over it, so dust would not enter.

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So, now, you’ll have an easily noticable brake light indicator, where you can easily test by sitting on the drivers seat and looking at the back mirror. Hopefully, this way, you’ll not get head butt-ed as often. All the best!

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Warning! Kids..you do not need to do this for your bicycle….and do not perform this stunt without the supervision of adults.

We have heard lots of stories about backstreet financiers, or better known as Ah Longs, which probably comes from the word Ah Loan.

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The normal impression most people have on them is a bad one. They are often linked to the image of red paint splashed over a debtor’s house door, endless humiliation, high interest rates, non stop pestering and some, up to the extend of threatening family members and also the guarantor.

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There have been crackdowns every now and then, but I guess the situation is still very much the same as many years back. Despite the bad image of this industry, there are still many people getting loans from these Ah Longs every day. The main reason for this is that they do not have enough documents or mortgage to loan anything from the bank. And it takes way too long to get things approved.

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There are some Ah Longs however who are trying to get away from the bad boy image. One example is this:-

Tolong- menolong” is a nice word to use. It means helping each other. But bear in mind… the situation may not be as nice after that. This time, he helps you, the next time you’ll ask cry for help. I guess this is what they mean by “tolong-menolong”.

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I have personally heard of cases where one guy borrowed 4K, and paid back a total of 4K in installments, after a year………only to find himself having to pay another 4K. Interest is kinda high, isn’t it? For this amount, should he not just consider credit cards?

Wow…Looks good. WTF is that for?? Check it out from http://www.ub50.com.my.

Looks like only two celebrities are wearing it. Lack publicity I guess.

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Anyway,happy 50th aniversary Malaysia! and most importantly, Happy Holidays to all!