The Management Story

I found this from FB, very interesting story, but in Chinese.

一天，一只兔子在山洞前写文章，一只狼走了过来，问：“兔子啊，你在干什么？”答曰：“写文章。”问：“什么题目？”答曰：“《浅谈兔子是怎样吃掉狼的》。”狼哈哈大笑，表示不信，于是兔子把狼领进山洞.

过了一会，兔子独自走出山洞，继续写文章。一只野猪走了过来，问：“兔子你在写什么？”答：“文章。”问：“题目是什么？”答：“《浅谈兔子是如何把野猪吃掉的》。”野猪不信，于是同样的事情发生。

最后，在山洞里，一只狮子在一堆白骨之间，满意的剔着牙读着兔子交给它的文章，题目：“《一只动物，能力大小关键要看你的老板是谁》。 ”

评:说的是员工的技巧，其实也可以用在那些初创企业的创业者身上，因为在市场上，相对很多大型企业来说，就是狮子和兔子的关系，如何与他们合作相处或者说不被竞争者吃掉也是一门很深学问。

这只兔子有次不小心告诉了他的一个兔子朋友，这消息逐渐在森林中传播；狮子知道后非常生气，他告诉兔子：“如果这个星期没有食物进洞，我就吃你。”于是兔子继续在洞口写文章。

一只小鹿走过来，“兔子，你在干什么啊？”“写文章！”“什么题目？”“《浅谈兔子是怎样吃掉狼》”！ “哈哈，这个事情全森林都知道啊，你别胡弄我了，我是不会进洞的”，兔子曰：“我马上要退休了，狮子说要找个人顶替我，难道你不想这篇文章的兔子变成小鹿么？”小鹿想了想，终于忍不住诱惑，跟随兔子走进洞里。过了一会，兔子独自走出山洞，继续写文章。一只小马走过来，同样是事情发生了。最后，在山洞里，一只狮子在一堆白骨之间，满意的剔着牙读着兔子交给它的文章，题目是：《如何发展下线动物为老板提供食物》。

评：这里其实谈的是一个欺骗手段，并没有讲发展动物下线去提供食物，但是这个题目应该是很有启发的，可以改成《如何发展合作伙伴为企业提供食物》。没有合作伙伴企业是做不大的，现在是竞争协作时代，每个企业不可能把所有的事情做完，必须依靠合作伙伴才能找到企业充足的食物

随着时间的推移，狮子越长越大，兔子的食物已远远不能填饱肚子。一日，他告诉兔子：“我的食物量要加倍，例如：原来4天一只小鹿，现在要2天一只，如果一周之内改变不了局面我就吃你。于是，兔子离开洞口，跑进森林深处，他见到一只狼：“你相信兔子能轻松吃掉狼吗？ ”狼哈哈大笑，表示不信，于是兔子把狼领进山洞。过了一会，兔子独自走出山洞，继续进入森林深处，这回他碰到一只野猪----“你相信兔子能轻松吃掉野猪吗？ ”野猪不信，于是同样的事情发生了。原来森林深处的动物并不知道兔子和狮子的故事！最后，在山洞里，一只狮子在一堆白骨之间，满意的剔着牙读着兔子交给它的文章，题目是：《如何实现由坐商到行商的转型为老板提供更多的食物》。

评：这里的启示是寻找自己的客户资源在哪里

时间飞快，转眼之间，兔子在森林里的名气越来越大，因为大家都知道它有一个很历害的老板。这只小兔开始横行霸道，欺上欺下，没有动物敢惹。它时时想起和乌龟赛跑的羞辱，它找到乌龟说：“三天之内，见我老板！”扬长而去。乌龟难过的哭了，这时却碰到了一位猎人，乌龟把这事告诉了他。猎人哈哈大笑，于是森林里发生了一件重大事情，猎人披着狮子皮和乌龟一起在吃兔子火锅，地下丢了半张纸片歪歪扭扭的写着：山外青山楼外楼，强中还有强中手啊！ ！ ！

评：如果做企业猖狂到自己都不知道自己是谁的时候，离死亡也就不远了，我们的企业还是“兔子”不是“狮子”的时候，不管你的靠山再强大，你都不能把自己太当回事情了，居安思危。

在很长一段时间里森林里恢复了往日的宁静，兔子吃狼的故事似乎快要被大家忘记了。不过一只年轻的老虎在听说了这个故事后，被激发了灵感，于是他抓住了一只羚羊，对羚羊说，如果你可以像以前的兔子那样为我带来食物那我就不吃你。于是，羚羊无奈的答应了老虎，而老虎也悠然自得的进了山洞。可是三天过去了，也没有见羚羊领一只动物进洞。他实在憋不住了，想出来看看情况。羚羊早已不在了，他异常愤怒。正在他暴跳如雷的时候突然发现了羚羊写的一篇文章题目是：《想要做好老板先要懂得怎样留住员工》!

评：企业再好，待遇在高，也不能忽视员工，也要善待员工，再伟大的理想、再好的项目，你一个人不可能做大的，想做大事的老板和只想赚钱的老板，那是不同的；想做大事的员工和只想求生活的员工也是不同的；如何吃人而不被别人吃，如何帮人吃人而不被别人吃-。社会就是这么现实！

Inception

The word inception mean start or beginning of something but according to the movie Inception, it means planting an idea into someone's mind through his/her dream. I love that movie, one of the best movie I ever watch. I don't know what is the correct word to use that means planting an idea, but inception sound professional to me.

The Boleh1and will going to have the general election soon. This time will be one of the most critical election moment in the history, whether the old government continue its power or the new blood is replacing them. No matter who you support, please remember to use your vote to tell the world, that is the only chance you can have what you wish to have if majority people agreed with your dream. If you watch TV news or newspaper, you will notice that the police and the government told us that the opposition is preparing to sabotage the election. I never heard about this before this election, so why this time opposition want to sabotage? If you think deeply, I believe you know the answer, to scare everyone, to tell everyone opposition is an evil party, a dirty player. It's an inception, planting an idea in everyone mind that if you don't want riot, then choose back the old government, else there will be riot.

Lets do a logic analysis. First of all, lets say existing party win the election, will it be riot? Basically, no, because all these years the opposition has lost so many time and nothing happen, so it wouldn't be any riot. Now, let say the new party win, will it be riot? Well, definitely no. Since they win, they should celebrate not riot. But will the loser make riot? Maybe, but since the new government has taken the control, it is very unwise to riot cause the new opposition will be in trouble. So, don't worry about the riot. As a resident, do what our duty is.

You will see lots of people like to use the inception technique to reach their target. A water filter salesman will told you how dirty is the pipe water, and they like to show the chlorine test demonstration and tell you how dangerous is the chlorine in the water. But we all know, chlorine is one of the solution for disinfection and EPA has limit to 4mg/l and WHO has lower limit of 0.2-1.0mg/l. I personally didn't do the chlorine residual test so I didn't know what is the limit of our drinking water. Will do it someday. Anyway, lots of people spending few thousand dollar for a filter that use to filter chlorine, which for me is extremely expensive. To remove chlorine, we only need active carbon, a hundred plus water filter will do the job. So, stay calm, our drinking water is safe to consume. Anyway, get a good filter that have been tested by NSF, not "Balakong mali" kind of expensive filter.

So, when you listen to someone talking, think about the real meaning and motive behind those wordings. Once they successfully planting their idea in your mind, you are doomed.

Gwiyomi

Another wave of Korean storm.

P.S. I'm not pervert.

The dark force

I can't recall since when this place is full with dark forces. My EQ has dropped to the lowest point in my life for the pass few months.

I'm turning 36 this year, I know it will be a fluctuate year for me. All I ask is please make me strong to go through all these.

I would like to tell you my stories but I think I just keep it for some time first. Sometime it is very difficult to explain your thought and principle to someone else, and it is harder for people to understand it and accept it.

I have tried my best to do what I can do and what I should do, although I may not be right all the time.

The never die spirit will knock down the dark force, a hard one.

Silence

Got this very meaningful quote from FB.

Soliloquize

I learn something from my renovation experience, from the screws. You noticed that there are plenty types of screws that available in the market: flat head, pan head, round head, slot drive, philips drive, pozidriv, M6 thread, M8, thread,  1/2" length, 1" length, 1 1/4" length, self-treading, non-tapered, and many many more. Each type of screw has their own usage and purpose, some type of screw can be used at multiple different situation, some are dedicated to certain condition.

Then I start to realized that friend also has many different type: friend that you can go have a cup of drink, friend that you can tell your secret, friend that you can work together, friend that you can do business together, friend that you can share happiness, friend that you can share your burden, and many many type.

Some friends can have fun together but can't work together; some friends can do business but can't share burden; some friends can work as colleague but can't talk. Each "type" of friend has their "functionality", some have multiple "functions" and some only one "function".

Lot of times, we categorized a friend by studying that person's behaviors, way of talking, through deduction, and sometime we just stop that person to become part of our friend list. The worst method that we use to categorize a friend is through failure, but most of the time when something failed, we can do better judgement and conclusion. I am very lousy in this, most of the time I start to realize after I'd failed.

If I suddenly become a stranger to you, it doesn't I hate you. It is just mean, I need to re-categorize you in a different group so that both of us have a better space. I do not know any better way to do this process, my very low EQ only allow me to use this method. So, don't worry, I am a very simple person, you can read all my feeling from my face. 

A new year wish

Tomorrow is the last day of Chinese New Year, after so many busy days, finally most of the tasks have been completed. I wish next week I can have a noon nap with my princess.

Ok, not intend to write too much today, just want to make a wish that my princess can go and watch this movie with me.

p.s. my desktop is getting slower and slower :(

Happy re-working day

Today I started to work, back to office, alone. Everyone is still having their holiday, but I just come back to office since people say today is good day to start working.

Nothing much done, just spring cleaning my table after a year, find sub-cont and have a lunch and chit-chat about the future job, tidy up some admin staff, go shopping for my house item :p

This new year is very different from my previous one cause I still tidy up my house into move in condition, the works like never end, the list are getting longer and longer when I start work on an area. Hopefully, I can settle it very soon.

Didn't go anyway this new year, hope this year I can bring my family for a vacation near by.

My princess is getting naughtier, my wife always complain my daughter act like me, but I'm not so sure about that, the only thing I'm sure is she got very bad temper. Anyway, hope she can grow up healthier and happier this year.

OK, for those start working today, wish you a happy beginning and a fruitful year, and for those still holiday, enjoy your holiday with your family.

By the way, the following movie will just cheer you up.

It's February

Time flew, and it is February, Chinese New Year is just around the conner. I have been struggle to complete my renovation since December and yet to complete.

I have been painting the room for the whole week, starting from 7am until go to work; at night continue until mid night. It's tired, bit once I think of my princess, all these are nothing. Finally I done the indoor painting, will continue the painting job for outdoor after the new year.

It has been 5 months since I start the renovation. The lesson I learned is never renovate your house after you moved in. It is a nightmare if you try to do that. And never ever try to save money by employ workers to conduct the renovation yourself. You wouldn't save much, some more there is no warranty on the workmanship. Seriously if I knew it I will suffer like this, I will sub the whole renovation to the proper renovation company.

Ok, my eyes can't open any more. Bye.

It's end of 2012

Ok, 2012 is going to end in few more hours, and as usual I try to conclude the year in few paragraphs.

Dragon year is always a fluctuates year, lot of changes and uncertainties. It's never been a peaceful year for me, but manage to pass through it, hope the coming year is more peaceful and prosperous year.

This year I managed to bring my wife and my little princess to Taiwan on my birthday, it is a very challenging trip, but we manage to have a very good time there. Although not much places we went, but it is still very enjoyable.

Then I went to Bersih with Sam, and we managed to put our foot on Dataran Merdeka, thanks to Sam's friend for all these. I hope there wouldn't be another gathering anymore cause I believe what we can do, we have done, the rest let us use our vote to tell the high one that we just pissed with them.

I start renovate my house after almost 10 years staying there. Hope my wife like her new kitchen, and my princess like her new bed room. It's not a cheap renovation, spend most of my money on that. It's still under progress, will be completed by another 2 weeks. Finally, this year, I can have a more proper Chinese New Year dinner at my house.

This year I spend lot of my time with my princess, seeing her grow up healthily and happily is the only wish that I wished for. Although I have became a father for a year, but I think I still need to learn more to become a better dad for her. Sometime, I think when she marry that time, I will definitely crying alone in the room. Everyone body said she look like me, even her temper same like me. Well, genius always have same kind of temper :)

Ok, that's all for this year, nothing much and now we know that Mayan didn't completes the calendar due to space issue :) So, for all the engineers out there, remember to put foot note if you are not able to conclude or explain some findings, don't let other to guest what you trying to tell from the hanging data.

So, wish all my readers a happy and prosperous year 2013.

It's winter solstice again

Based on astronomy data, winter solstice happen at 11.12am UTC, which is about 7.12pm Malaysia time. As everyone knew, the Mayan calendar ended today also, anyway, don't worry I believe is it a technical mistake on the calculation. So, just enjoy today.

I'm sick since Sunday with low fever and flu, didn't go see doctor since I believe they will charge you for few pieces of Panadol. I use my traditional way, which Sam didn't believe, cook a package of hot and spicy instant mee, after that take a Panadol, then do sleep with no fan, no air-cond, and balut yourself like a dumpling. Let it sweat and you will get better. Basically, I'm better now, but the bad weather really slow down the healing process. The only thing that make me feel bad is I can't go to see my daughter, she is with my wife's family since late last month due to my house renovation. Talk about the renovation, I believe it is going to complete soon, hopefully I got a new kitchen for my wife to cook, and new huge bed room for my daughter before Chinese new year.

And I got some photos for show off, hohoho

She just love me ^^

Today my mom is doing operation, hopefully everything going fine and wish her recover as soon as possible.

Yesterday I got my new fridge after nearly 3 months argues with Hitachi sales. Ok, here is my advice, never ever buy Hitachi product anymore. Their product quality is no longer like last time, and the after sale service is suck. For me this is the last time I buy Hitachi product and not for the next 10 years.

Dragon year is going to end soon, this year is an unstable year, it doesn't mean bad, but just more changes and your life is fluctuate up and down. Anyway, it is going to end soon, and the coming year is my zodiac year. Yes, I'm 36 by next year, getting old, and more and more people call me uncle.

So, end it here and wish everyone a happy winter solstice, go back home early today and enjoy a good dinner with your family.

It's going to end

Today I open my blog and I notice something. The total post per year getting lesser and lesser over these years. So I start to figure why. Within a minute, I found the reason.

Before 2010, I'm single and I got plenty of time surfing the net. I dig all info I want, whether it is useful or useless, I download movies (sorry to the filmmaker, I'm not doing this anymore, please don't catch me) no matter I am going to watch it or not, I wasted most of my time hanging online.

After I'm married, I start to give more time to my family, and this year I spend most of my time playing with my lovely princess. Now I start to realize that I had wasted too much time for unproductive activity.

Don't get me wrong, blogging is definitely not unproductive activity. When everyone give up on writing blog, I still prefer to express my thought using blog. I don't really like facebook cause everyone is eyeing on it 24x7x52. So people will think you are too free everyday posting useless info, so even will unfriend you because they don't really agree with you and your posts are polluting their holy wall. So, just use blog will do, for those really your friend will type your blog url and visit you once a while, for those that different ideologies with you will just ignore you but still friend you in the facebook.

Ok, I have been sleeping alone for a few weeks cause my house still under renovation. The speed is damn fucking slow and I hope I can still hold my patience before I start firing someone.

21 Dec 2012 is going to reach soon, trust me the world is still not end yet. So, continue working, continue to enjoy your life. Ignore those fucking unscientific post in your facebook, those fuckers are just too free and boring, so they create those illogical posts to let others lonely users to share those spams over the net.

So, stop wasting your time on the facebook, start pick up a book and read or go to the nearest garden and use your eye to look at the green and blue scenery. This is the real life, not sometime virtual in the facebook.

Thought for the day

It has been a very busy month for me since Sept., cause I finally start to renovate my kitchen after 10 years staying in my current house. Due to financial, timing, and resources, I had dragged this for almost 3 years, and finally I can't find any excuses for me to not doing it. Will upload some photos once it is done.

Along these days, I saw those workers working under the sun, carrying those construction materials, climbing up and down, and I actually part of the worker too cause I don't have money to pay for electrician, therefore I do the electrical work myself. From cabling until hacking wall, I can say its look easy but actually not that easy, anyway it is a good exercise, much much better than going to those fitness centers.

With all these tough works, those workers only earn RM75 per day. There are no such thing as holiday for them, holiday mean no work and also mean no salary. I don't know what is the market rate for Bolehland citizen, I believe it should be higher, maybe.

I remember few months back when Bolehland government enforce the minimum wage for all the labours, I saw lot of bosses came out and tell everyone that they going to bankrupt if this minimum wage act going to be enforced. It's start puzzling me, how can a company bankrupt because they pay RM800 as minimum wage to their workers. Why don't those bosses try to work for me and I willing to pay RM1000 or even more to them. I saw lot of bosses driving luxury car/cars and changing car like changing cloth, every once a year. Their house huge until you need a map to go from front to back, the number of car is more than the number of human living inside the house, and yet they are yelling like they going to die tomorrow. Blood sucker!

Have you ever asked yourself, why a construction worker, risking their health working under the sun, carrying heavy material and they are paid less than someone working in the air-conditioned room, sitting in front of the PC and looking at facebook all the time? Is there any fairness?

I'm not a communism or socialist and I don't believe those theories, but I believe the system need to be balanced. The gap of poor and rich is getting wider and wider. Some people live with few hundred ringgit a month and some still yelling poor even they got a billion in their bank account.

Budget 2013

Ok, I don't know what to say about this year Budget, although there is some good news for those low income family, but I don't think that is sufficient as compare to inflation. Anyway, I'm not entitle for any of the sweets.

But I somehow manage to get a small piece of sweet, the PTPTN discount, hohoho. I have been paying this since I graduated from uni, but still left few k loan that need to settle. Count, count, I had paid this for 11 years, time fly, getting old now :(

... the first incentive was a discount of 20 per cent from the total loan to borrowers who settle their loans in one lump sum within one year from Oct 1, 2012 to Sept 30, 2013.

First of all, it said, 20% from total loan, I hope it is true, not 20% from balance. Last time I borrow RM21k from PTPTN, thanks to this monies that let me finish my uni, so total discount is RM21k * 20% = 21 = RM4.2k.

Based on my payment schedule, I should finish paying my loan in 15 years with interest rate of 3%, now I had paid 11 years, so left 4 years,

RM21 * (1.03)^11 * 4/15 = approx RM7.7k

After minus RM4.2k left around RM3.5k.

The total interest charge to my account is around RM8k, so basically I got 50% discount on the interest. At least it is a good news for me.

So, if you getting loan from PTPTN, then it is a good time for you to pay back. I always believe one thing, borrow money, return money is high level standard human. I still remember we are queuing like hell in a small room to get the signature from an officer, although I forgot that signature is for what purpose, but at least I got help from the government.

You may dislike what the government do, but this loan is nothing to do with politic. Please don't blame anything else so that you don't need to pay back the money, for me it is just an excuse.

So get your check ready and pay the loan.

Dinstein talk about feng shui

Lot of people don't believe in feng shui, some thought they are superstition, and against their religion. First of all, I need to make it clear that I'm a free thinker and secondly I'm an engineer that believe in facts and figures.

Long long time ago, Chinese people observe their surrounding and come out with many knowledge and one of them is feng shui. Initially, it is used as a guideline to tell people what is bad or dangerous way of constructing houses and what is the correct way to build a better houses. Feng in Chinese mean wind and shui mean water, so it is all about the air circulation and water supply which is very important to health. When the resident in the house got better health, then their life will get better, that is what original feng shui is used for.

There are few examples that I can share with you all about original feng shui.

First, if there is a big tree in front of your house, it is bad. Why? Because there is a risk of tree fell onto the house, moreover last time all the houses are made from wood, therefore once the tree is fell onto it, the people inside the house mostly will get hurt. However, now when people see lighting pole in front of their house also consider bad feng shui. For me, I can't say it is free from risk but the chances is much much lower.

Second example, beam above bed is bad for health. Again it is due to risk of beam fall off and hit the people that is sleeping under it. So, please don't tell me that the concrete beam will fall off in 21st century. But again, I can't say the risk is zero but it is very slim it will happen.

Another famous fung shui myth is that house build at T-junction is bad. The real reasons behind this are because the light from the car shinning on the house almost 24 hours a days is really bad for health for the resident in the house, and the second reason is the risk of sleeping driver ran into the house just like the following photo.

If you asking me do I believe in feng shui, then I can only tell you depend of what kind of feng shui you are telling me. If you asking me to move my toilet just to have good feng shui, then it is a no for me. But if you telling me something more logical facts, then yes. So, thinking before you accept any advice from anyone, not all are truth and not all are false. 

  

Harversting time

If you follow my blog, then you sure remember I planted some pumpkin. So, finally it is harvesting time after around 4 months of growing.

Total 5 fruits from 2 pumpkin plants. I don't know why the shape of the pumpkin is different, very unpredictable for second generation plants. The biggest pumpkin has diameter of around 10" or 250mm. Didn't measure the weight but I believe something around 2kg or more.

I just chop the plants since the plants is wither away. Clean the area for the next planting season.

Guest what plants I'm going to plant.

Will show you the next project soon.

*busying renovating my kitchen after cheating my wife for almost 10 years :p

Oppa Gangnam Style

If you haven't watch it

Water filter

I want to write about water filter topic for quite sometime, but due to my laziness, until today I finally started to write something. I hope I can cover the important info in this blog.

First of all, Bolehland water filter price is way too much expansive if you compare to other country. Secondly, most of the famous water filters like Nesh, Diamond, etc are without any certificate or comply to any recognized standard. By the way, if you are those suppliers, please don't spam my blog; if you agreed with my opinion, then thank you, else, I hope you leave this blog quietly.

Lets talk about standard first. When we want to know until what level a product can performs, we refer to NSF standard. There are many standard published by NSF, but we only concentrate at few related.

NSF 42 is the most basic standard for water filter. It only cover the aesthetic effects of the filtered water, e.g. chlorine removal, taste, appearance, and odour claim. Basically this kind of filter is quite useless if it is installed alone.

NSF 53 talks about health effect of the water filter. It is used to measure how good a filter can filter contaminates that may pose a health risk. So, it is a must for your water filter system to tested or certified to this standard.

NSF 55 is for UV system. UV is used for disinfection, unless you plan to drink the water direct from the pipe, else, just boil the water will do.

NSF 58 is for RO system. RO is one of the most clean water that can be produced using filter. But one of the drawback of RO is that it waste lots of water. Usually if you input 1L of pipe water into RO system, it will only produce around 0.7L of clean water and the balance are wasted. So, if you plan to use RO, please remember to design a storage tank to keep the waste water for other usage like irrigation.

Now you understand the standard, then lets see what we can do.

Lot of people nowadays will install a whole house water filter system in front of their house. I'm not very sure about the price but I believe is somewhere around RM1k or more. If you are a poor engineer like me, then you can follow my way to install you own whole house water filter system.

First, buy one or two water filter housings like the following photo.

I personally recommend two units cause I'm a bit kiasi. Then go to your incoming water pipe, find a suitable place after the flow meter and install the filters. Please remember to use portable water grade of piping like HDPE or stainless steel, remember don't use PVC, it has been banned due to the hazardous of the material.

Once you have installed the filter housings, you need filter. There are lot of filters sold in the supermarket and hardware shop. I had tried 5um filter and it is quite useless and recently I found one of the best water filter sell by Living Depot near my house. The brand is calls GenAir, and it is a 1um filter. The unit is very solid as compare to those other filters, and the price is reasonable, RM3 per unit.

As you can see, the filter is covered with mud. And this filter only been used for 1.5 month.

I cut the filter and found that the inner of the filter is still clean, which mean the filter has done it job to filter out the unwanted substance. I strongly recommend to change filter once a month and please don't wash the filter and reuse, it is useless to install a filter system but you didn't change the filter regularly. This is most of the Bolehland people culture to pay extreme high price for a basic filter system and never change the filter until they change to a new system.

Mud from the filter, don't ask what is that.

Ok, once you have the basic whole house filter system, the next thing you have to do is to get a good water filter system for your drinking water. Panasonic water filters are good choice. The price of the unit and the filter is quite reasonable and you can get from most of the places.

As for myself, currently I'm using a filter system from USA call Instapure, but going to change to a more higher standard product from USA also. Will update you once I got the filter. 

    

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