我这一生中还算蛮幸运的，在不同的阶段都认识了很不错的师父。
我的第一位师父是在中学至大学的时候。他让我知道知识改变命运的道理。草根阶层脱贫的唯一出路就是努力求学，人可以穷不过不可以没智慧。
我的第二位师父是在大学刚毕业出来社会打拼的时候。他让我知道职场上在乎的不是你多会干活，而是你多会推销自己。这门学问去到哪里都一生受用无穷。
我的第三位师父是出来社会打拼几年过后。他让我知道职场上没有一个雇主会理你的死活的，工作只是让你可以过生活罢了。只有把工资拿来做适当的投资，自己规划财务才有财务自由的一天。只靠工作得来的工资就只有活到老做到老的份。
我的第四位师父是在步入三十的时候。他教会了我除了工作之外的第二个技能，怎样增加财富。须知道如今的社会只有一技之长已经不行了，只要有一天雇主不需要你的时候就会失去生活下去的能力了。不过，他也教会了我不可以为富不仁，赚了钱就要多做善事。
人生在不同的阶段都会遇到不同的师父。遇到对的师父会教会你一生受用的知识与智慧。
Monday, November 18, 2013
Thursday, June 19, 2008
My Guarding Angel
Wow...it has been quite sometimes since my last blog post. Hmm...I have been quite busy recently with my work here in USA. However, I guess everything is pretty much extablished now. Well, I feel great after a few months here, kinda like the working and lifestyle here....
In the year 2008, I consider it as a very lucky and prosperity year for me!!! According to the chinese horoscope, year 2008 suppose to be a good year for those born in the year of dog (which I was). This year, my career went pretty much smooth up the ladder and now I have been given the opportunity to pioneer in new technology and transfer back to Malaysia from USA. all the while, I have been thinking is there a guarding angel hiding behind me and bring me up all the while?
Well, to certain extend, I do deeply believe there is a guarding angel protecting me from behind ever since I was. born. Although I was not born rich (in fact I come from a middle-low grass-root family), but I was given the opportunity to complete my education right form primary till my first degree. If wasn't my parents stand of providing the best education to me by sacrifying themselves so much, I would not be what I am today. Therefore, I am always very thankful to my parents whom the one to give me all I hava today!!! Of course, they are my guarding angel...
Well, after finishing my degree, I was considering myelf very lucky to get my first job in a giant and well-known MNC. Compared to my peers, I am paid relatively high and was given a lot of opportunity to progress myself. Of course, at this point of time, I strongly believe there is another guarding angel behind me guiding me to the correct way and therefore help me to go up smoothly on my career ladder...I really appreciate this!!!
However, with all the guarding angel which I have, I still believe in sacrifying and hard work is the key success of a person. Therfore, I have always motivate myself that I can't just stop where I am, instead I should keep on developing myself to become a better person and progres further!!!
In the year 2008, I consider it as a very lucky and prosperity year for me!!! According to the chinese horoscope, year 2008 suppose to be a good year for those born in the year of dog (which I was). This year, my career went pretty much smooth up the ladder and now I have been given the opportunity to pioneer in new technology and transfer back to Malaysia from USA. all the while, I have been thinking is there a guarding angel hiding behind me and bring me up all the while?
Well, to certain extend, I do deeply believe there is a guarding angel protecting me from behind ever since I was. born. Although I was not born rich (in fact I come from a middle-low grass-root family), but I was given the opportunity to complete my education right form primary till my first degree. If wasn't my parents stand of providing the best education to me by sacrifying themselves so much, I would not be what I am today. Therefore, I am always very thankful to my parents whom the one to give me all I hava today!!! Of course, they are my guarding angel...
Well, after finishing my degree, I was considering myelf very lucky to get my first job in a giant and well-known MNC. Compared to my peers, I am paid relatively high and was given a lot of opportunity to progress myself. Of course, at this point of time, I strongly believe there is another guarding angel behind me guiding me to the correct way and therefore help me to go up smoothly on my career ladder...I really appreciate this!!!
However, with all the guarding angel which I have, I still believe in sacrifying and hard work is the key success of a person. Therfore, I have always motivate myself that I can't just stop where I am, instead I should keep on developing myself to become a better person and progres further!!!
Friday, May 16, 2008
Why can't Malaysia be like USA or Singapore?
I have been in California for almost 2 months and started to get used to the life style here. I have been sent to USA right after politic tsunami take place in Malaysia. However, I have still pretty up-to-date with Malaysia's politic news through Malaysiakini website. Thanks to the web news as I will never believe a single news reported by our local newspaper.
Well, most of the issues brought up like education quota, NEP, corruption and etc, I would like to summarize to only one question - Why can't Malaysia be like USA or Singapore? I believe most of these issues come out because of racism politics which Malaysia government used to practice for more than 50 years since Merdeka. The current govenrment never meant to change until politics tsunami comes which makes Malaysia continue to lack behind the world.
One thing I am pretty impressed here in USA is, when you ask the people "Who are you?". The very first answer they will give you is "I am an American" regardless of the White, the Black or the Asian. If you were to ask the same question in Malaysia, people will answer "I am Malays", "I am Malaysian Chinese" or "I am Malaysian Indian". Even the people here would have ask me "You are not the Malaysia native resident (Bumiputra), don't you?". What a shame on Malaysia, after 50 years of independent we still divide ourselves among different ethnics with so obvious.
Look at the education system in USA or Singapore, there is no such thing as quota system. Thos who can make it will be accepted to the varsity regardless of what is the color of your skins. There is no such thing as the class must consist of how many percentage of white...Although they does not have quota system, the white is still the dominant of the class. Why does this happen? One thing for sure is, if you want to remain dominant in the class, make sure you work hard and smart. With the affort you put in, I am sure you will still dominant the class regardless of the quota system comes into picture.
Only those with the lack of confidence need quota system to remains their dominant in a class or university. Come on, we are in the 21st century now, the world is moving forward! We can't still rely on quota system and NEP to rule the country, this will make us behind time, eventually it will be overtake by those developing countries like China and India to the most significant.
Together we as Malaysian regardless of race working together to develop Malaysia to be a fully developed country in years time. Live on "Bangsa Malaysia"!!!
Well, most of the issues brought up like education quota, NEP, corruption and etc, I would like to summarize to only one question - Why can't Malaysia be like USA or Singapore? I believe most of these issues come out because of racism politics which Malaysia government used to practice for more than 50 years since Merdeka. The current govenrment never meant to change until politics tsunami comes which makes Malaysia continue to lack behind the world.
One thing I am pretty impressed here in USA is, when you ask the people "Who are you?". The very first answer they will give you is "I am an American" regardless of the White, the Black or the Asian. If you were to ask the same question in Malaysia, people will answer "I am Malays", "I am Malaysian Chinese" or "I am Malaysian Indian". Even the people here would have ask me "You are not the Malaysia native resident (Bumiputra), don't you?". What a shame on Malaysia, after 50 years of independent we still divide ourselves among different ethnics with so obvious.
Look at the education system in USA or Singapore, there is no such thing as quota system. Thos who can make it will be accepted to the varsity regardless of what is the color of your skins. There is no such thing as the class must consist of how many percentage of white...Although they does not have quota system, the white is still the dominant of the class. Why does this happen? One thing for sure is, if you want to remain dominant in the class, make sure you work hard and smart. With the affort you put in, I am sure you will still dominant the class regardless of the quota system comes into picture.
Only those with the lack of confidence need quota system to remains their dominant in a class or university. Come on, we are in the 21st century now, the world is moving forward! We can't still rely on quota system and NEP to rule the country, this will make us behind time, eventually it will be overtake by those developing countries like China and India to the most significant.
Together we as Malaysian regardless of race working together to develop Malaysia to be a fully developed country in years time. Live on "Bangsa Malaysia"!!!
Saturday, May 10, 2008
走得远，看得多
不知不觉我在美国加州生活也快两个月了；
在加州的这段日子，真是令我打开眼界。
很多的亲戚及朋友都羡慕我有机会在Fortune500里前一白跨国大集团上班；
更有朋友感慨为什么自己没机会到海外受训及工作。
在加州工作的这段日子，我真是看多了很多事物；
从工作态度到生活方式都与大马有所不同。
美国人的工作态度是工不在于多而在于精，大马人的工作态度是工不在于精而在于多；
一个好的员工到底应该是某方面的专才还是勤于工作呢？
以我所见在科技发达的二十一世纪，专才必然是一间企业的天价资产；
勤劳的员工，都是可以用机器来取代的不是吗？
大马很多企业管层都觉得，从知名跨国企业出来的人都有一定的水准；
所谓兰船都有三根钉，给于品质保证的信心。
能从Fortune500跨国大企业毕业，必然是天之骄子；
这就如能从世界顶尖高等学府毕业的学者一样。
以我所见，在世界级大企业里也不是全精英；
名不虚传者大有人在，浪得虚名者也数之不尽。
能有幸被Fortune500大企业录取当然值得骄傲；
但背着“跨国大企业精英”名号的当儿，也要不断的自我进修。
这样才不负大众的期望；
背负欺世盗名的罪名也！
在加州的这段日子，真是令我打开眼界。
很多的亲戚及朋友都羡慕我有机会在Fortune500里前一白跨国大集团上班；
更有朋友感慨为什么自己没机会到海外受训及工作。
在加州工作的这段日子，我真是看多了很多事物；
从工作态度到生活方式都与大马有所不同。
美国人的工作态度是工不在于多而在于精，大马人的工作态度是工不在于精而在于多；
一个好的员工到底应该是某方面的专才还是勤于工作呢？
以我所见在科技发达的二十一世纪，专才必然是一间企业的天价资产；
勤劳的员工，都是可以用机器来取代的不是吗？
大马很多企业管层都觉得，从知名跨国企业出来的人都有一定的水准；
所谓兰船都有三根钉，给于品质保证的信心。
能从Fortune500跨国大企业毕业，必然是天之骄子；
这就如能从世界顶尖高等学府毕业的学者一样。
以我所见，在世界级大企业里也不是全精英；
名不虚传者大有人在，浪得虚名者也数之不尽。
能有幸被Fortune500大企业录取当然值得骄傲；
但背着“跨国大企业精英”名号的当儿，也要不断的自我进修。
这样才不负大众的期望；
背负欺世盗名的罪名也！
Thursday, May 8, 2008
First Visit to San Francisco
Well, it has been almost two months since I first landed in California, USA. I was sent to California for technology transfer by my company. To be frank, it is really a different kind of experience as an expatriate abroad. Surely homesick does come to picture. However, there are also as good opportunity for you to experience the life style and culture of people in other country.
OK, i guess that's all for my long-winded feeling of been abroad in USA...Last weekend, with a couple of friends who are also expatriate from Malaysia to USA, we organized a trip to One of the bay city in California State - San Francisco. We drove our car and bike around the city of San Francisco. This city is about 2 hours driving away from the town which we are staying in - Folsom.
Alright, I think I should have a brief description of this city. San Francisco (Shan Fan Shi in Mandarin) is among the high density chinese populated city in USA. This is also the only city with significant Asian (majority chinese) population. Therefore, there are a lot of streets so-called - "Chinatown", "Japan Town" and etc. There are a numerous visitors spot in San Francisco which we have visited, mainly The Golden Gate Bridge (one of the most magnificant bridge highway in USA), The Bay Bridge (with double decker highway), The Fisherman Whalf (it is a seafood village), Pier of San Francisco (The Habour with 43 ports), The Palace of Fine Arts (very nice view) and also Chinatown.
Well, we spent almost a whole day in San Franciso bike around. We depart from Folsom around 8.30am and reach San Francisco around 10.30am. The weather in San francisco is nice and windy but it's a bit cold...probably the temperature is at ~40F-46F The very first thing in our mind is "We are very hungry, need to look for food!!!". Therefore, the very first spot we bike to is the Chinatown to have a taste of the famous hot and crunchy "egg-tart". Wow...the first bite really feel great as for quite sometimes I never have a taste of the "egg-tart". In fact, it is kinda difficult to fine an authentic chinese cousine restaurant but in San Francisco, you can have dozens of that...After the short breafast, we starts our journey where we first visited the Bay Bridge where it is my first time seeing a double decker highway on a bridge. From there, we passed by the Pier os San Francisco where we pass-through the 41 hbour along the pier.
With about 1.5 hours of bike, we reached the Fisherman Whalf which we have our lunch there with cream of mushroom and shrimp within the "huge-bread" - something like a coconut drink...we also have the fried "sotong" as our side-dish...Then, we bike along the beach to enjoy the view and sight-seeing of bay city and finally reach The Golden Gate Bridge. We bike across the bridge while we can see almost half of the San Francisco from the top of the bridge...The view is fantastic. Across the bridge, it is the other side of the city. We took ferry back to the Pier and it almost evening time. On the Pier, we managed to visit the "cowboy town" which we saw sea-gull on the port. Guess what, within 25 years of my life, I never seen a sea-gull in life!!!
From the Pier, we headed back to Chinatown (revisited). We went to the Ginseng shop to sop for some "American Ginseng" to brought home later. The owner is really friendly and he explained a lot on the Chinatown history and treat us a few cups of Ginseng tea. Besides, they also speaks local dialects like mandarin, cantonese and hokkien with us. This really make me feel at home...haha...After that, we are really tired and hungry. The owner recommend us to a cheaper and nice restaurant - Jiang Nan for dinner. This is the very first time I have chinese food since I come to California. We have "cucumber soup", "Ku Lou Yuk", "Chao Pak Choy", "Zha Ji Kai" and "steam Toufu" for only USD 22...This is really cheap for 5 of us...
After the dinner, we headed back to the place where we park our car and drove back to Folsom...This is really an enjoying trip for me although it is tired and exhausted. The visit to San Francisco really make me feel at home seeing a lot of Asian around, hearing familiar dialects which I use to speaks in Malaysia and eating the food which I used to have in Malaysia. I really hope we will revisit San Francisco again before my return to Malaysia during August...
OK, i guess that's all for my long-winded feeling of been abroad in USA...Last weekend, with a couple of friends who are also expatriate from Malaysia to USA, we organized a trip to One of the bay city in California State - San Francisco. We drove our car and bike around the city of San Francisco. This city is about 2 hours driving away from the town which we are staying in - Folsom.
Alright, I think I should have a brief description of this city. San Francisco (Shan Fan Shi in Mandarin) is among the high density chinese populated city in USA. This is also the only city with significant Asian (majority chinese) population. Therefore, there are a lot of streets so-called - "Chinatown", "Japan Town" and etc. There are a numerous visitors spot in San Francisco which we have visited, mainly The Golden Gate Bridge (one of the most magnificant bridge highway in USA), The Bay Bridge (with double decker highway), The Fisherman Whalf (it is a seafood village), Pier of San Francisco (The Habour with 43 ports), The Palace of Fine Arts (very nice view) and also Chinatown.
Well, we spent almost a whole day in San Franciso bike around. We depart from Folsom around 8.30am and reach San Francisco around 10.30am. The weather in San francisco is nice and windy but it's a bit cold...probably the temperature is at ~40F-46F The very first thing in our mind is "We are very hungry, need to look for food!!!". Therefore, the very first spot we bike to is the Chinatown to have a taste of the famous hot and crunchy "egg-tart". Wow...the first bite really feel great as for quite sometimes I never have a taste of the "egg-tart". In fact, it is kinda difficult to fine an authentic chinese cousine restaurant but in San Francisco, you can have dozens of that...After the short breafast, we starts our journey where we first visited the Bay Bridge where it is my first time seeing a double decker highway on a bridge. From there, we passed by the Pier os San Francisco where we pass-through the 41 hbour along the pier.
With about 1.5 hours of bike, we reached the Fisherman Whalf which we have our lunch there with cream of mushroom and shrimp within the "huge-bread" - something like a coconut drink...we also have the fried "sotong" as our side-dish...Then, we bike along the beach to enjoy the view and sight-seeing of bay city and finally reach The Golden Gate Bridge. We bike across the bridge while we can see almost half of the San Francisco from the top of the bridge...The view is fantastic. Across the bridge, it is the other side of the city. We took ferry back to the Pier and it almost evening time. On the Pier, we managed to visit the "cowboy town" which we saw sea-gull on the port. Guess what, within 25 years of my life, I never seen a sea-gull in life!!!
From the Pier, we headed back to Chinatown (revisited). We went to the Ginseng shop to sop for some "American Ginseng" to brought home later. The owner is really friendly and he explained a lot on the Chinatown history and treat us a few cups of Ginseng tea. Besides, they also speaks local dialects like mandarin, cantonese and hokkien with us. This really make me feel at home...haha...After that, we are really tired and hungry. The owner recommend us to a cheaper and nice restaurant - Jiang Nan for dinner. This is the very first time I have chinese food since I come to California. We have "cucumber soup", "Ku Lou Yuk", "Chao Pak Choy", "Zha Ji Kai" and "steam Toufu" for only USD 22...This is really cheap for 5 of us...
After the dinner, we headed back to the place where we park our car and drove back to Folsom...This is really an enjoying trip for me although it is tired and exhausted. The visit to San Francisco really make me feel at home seeing a lot of Asian around, hearing familiar dialects which I use to speaks in Malaysia and eating the food which I used to have in Malaysia. I really hope we will revisit San Francisco again before my return to Malaysia during August...
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