God is On My Side
Well ... today my organization held a "Sehari Bersama CEO".
Guess what? I won one of the lucky draw prizes. It is a way for God to show to the whole
company that I was there.
I guessed, God will always be on the side of the Right. Even if he (I meant "me") is considered by some as a "
heretic"...
Attending Training
I am attending training on Expert Forecasting System by
Dr. Ilkka Karanta from April 25 until April 29, 2005. One of his papers is
here
For My Wife
i carry your heart with meby ee cummingsi carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
A Blue Woman With Sticking Out Breasts Hanging
A Blue Woman With Sticking Out Breasts Hangingby E. E. Cummings a blue woman with sticking out breasts hanging
clothes. On the line. not so old
for the mother of twelve undershirts(we are told
by is it Bishop Taylor who needs hanging
that marriage is a sure cure for masturbation).
A dirty wind,twitches the,clothes which are clean
—this is twilight,
a little puppy hopping between
skipping
children
(It is the consummation
of day,the hour)she says to me you big fool
she says i says to her i says Sally
i says
the
mmmoon,begins to,drool
softly,in the hot alley,
a nigger’s voice feels curiously cool
(suddenly-Lights go!on,by schedule
Decided to Take Kipling's Advice
After the goin-ons in the office I decided to take Kipling's advice:
If by
Rudyard KiplingIf you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
My Commitment Was Questioned...
Yesterday late evening(April 14, 2005), my boss called me to his room and he informed me that in the Management Meeting, the CEO questioned my committment. My boss told me that he defended me and "cover" for me.
Today, I checked with others present in the meeting, they were unanimous that my boss did not explain to the CEO about my predicament. One of the Management Team members told me the comment made was "He rarely present during functions which I attended and always has the excuse of sick wife, sick children, he himself sick, but when it come to golf he always present").
The thing is I got food poisoning and could not give an unofficial briefing at one of the workshop conducted by one of the project teams under my program.
It seemed that I was charged, tried,and punished without giving me a chance to defend myself. The minutes of meeting will be a permanent record as long as the company is in existance. The charges against me was so vague that it has to be coming from complaints from one of my "boys" who tried to save his skin.
The point is I do not need defending and I do not need covering. What I need is for my boss to tell the truth.
In this case should I request for a meeting with the Top Management to highlight to him how this subsidiary is being managed? What do you think guys?
STUPID Drivers
This morning, when I was on my way to my golf game with Prof. JJ Hwang from Kunsan National University, Korea, I was stucked in the traffic jam. It was very unusual for the road that I took (Middle Ring Road 2 - MRRII) to jam on Sunday morning. I switched on the radio and I heard an announcement about the cause of the jam. It was a fatal accident involving 3 cars near Flamingo Hotel, Ampang.
After came back from my golf game, I received an email meant for my wife informing about her friend who is in the hospital due to road accident. Yeap.. she was involved in the fatal accident which I mentioned above. It seemed that the driver of Proton Wira from Cheras direction towards Gombak lost control of the car and the car literally flew and hit my wife's friend Merc from the opposite direction. The driver and the passenger of the Proton Wira died instantly. My wife's friend and the family were considered lucky and excaped with a broken leg and a son with pieces of glass embedded in his face.
While stuck in the jam, I cursed the driver who caused the accident and took others lives. "Even in death still caused others misery".
UPDATE:
The Merz's driver was the CFO of Celcom.
