HI everybody,

 

I would like to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Holidays. Drive safe and be alert...............drink a lot....of water and coffee to stay alert ok.....

 

Enjoy the holidays

 

Love

It has been a very long time since a movie has moved me this much and I am glad that this movie was nominated for several awards. It’s a bout the lives of a few families from around the world connected with one incident. I won’t tell you the story and how its ends (incase some of you haven’t seen it and for fear of verbal and physical abuse).

 

Anyway if you haven’t watch it please go and have a look. I am sure many of you who know me well, would know why I like the movie. In all aspect I believe this movie could not have been made by an American because it portrays innocently what is happening around the world at this moment.

 

Incident 1

It all started because the boys were shooting at cars and busses from the top of the hill where their goats are grazing. The Moroccan police track them down and finally a shoot out occurs. The scene of the boy dying really touched me as his father struggle to keep him alive and stop the other son from shooting at the police (both kids are aged around 13 and 11 I think). The son that got shot was the obedient and decent one. At the end the boy dies, both the father and the younger son are arrested.

 

WHO DO YOU BLAME FOR THIS? A JAPANESE DUDE

 

Incident 2

The nannies desperate attempt to go back for her sons wedding in Mexico was turn down by her employer who was stuck in Morocco hospital waiting for his wife operation to be over. In desperation she took both kids back to Mexico to attend the wedding. On her way back her nephew who is drunk ran the customs check and forcing him to abandon the nanny and the two Caucasian kids in the dessert. The nanny in all desperation took care of the kids as well as tried looking for help which eventually turned up, in the form of border patrol. She was a very good and loving nanny who loved the kids as her own.

So after 16 years in USA and looking after the kids from baby. She is thrown back to Mexico for good. The good thing is that her ex-employer didn’t press charges.

 

IF IT WAS YOU WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE? SMACK THE JAPANESE DUDE

 

Incident 3

 

Arm Pitt (Brad Pitt) and his wife are on a holiday in Morocco traveling in a bus, apparently trying to patch up things between them (aren’t they all). His wife for me is a real tight ass, the type who cannot eat in a hawker stall or drink water from a tap. The miss-goody-to-shoe-proper-to-high-up-the-crack-kinda person, anyway she gets shot while sleeping in the bus. They are then rushed to a nearby town where she is given some help by a local doctor and a elderly lady. However she has lost a lot of blood and needs to be sent to a hospital. They have called an ambulance which was on the way but was stopped by the American embassy who would prefer to send a American Helicopter to rescue them ( If it was me, I won’t give a rat ass what mode is coming as long as they get here on time)…but guess what! In all reality, the American are saying that she was shot by a terrorist…see why I like this movie (As long as it’s a Muslim country, its 99.9% an terrorist act) and they are sending in a army helicopter. Here is where it gets very interesting. The Moroccan government is refusing to allow the American helicopter their air-space because they want the American to stop saying that this is an act of terrorism. The American’s as usual (with their faces planted between their ass) refuse to do so, hence both ambulance and helicopter is stuck.............so

 

WHO DO YOU BLAME? THE STUPID JAPANESE DUDE

 

 

If you notice after each question, I blame a Japanese dude right? Ok I will explain.

 

All three incidents are related. It started by the two boys shooting at busses and cars, one of the bullet hits the bitch (brad’s wife) in the neck that happens to be in the bus. As they are sent hospital brad calls home and tells the nanny that she cannot go back for her sons wedding. See it’s all related.

 

NOW, why I blame the Japanese dude is because this dude had a hobby called hunting (I mean carrying a big gun to compensate for a overly small penis by doing a manly thing like Hunting….wooooo……what the fuck…humans are really stupid. If you fucking carry a knife or spear and go hunting for food to feed the kids, then you a man but carrying a gun and shooting at them and calling it hunting is super fucked up. When the Chinese created firecracker it was used for peaceful reasons, give it to a Caucasian he turns it into a real effective weapon. Go figure why historicaly westerners have been screwing up the earth.) Anyway after his manly hunting session he gives his rifle to his guide….see how it’s shaping up…..who later sells the gun to the boys father.

 

THAT’S WHY I BLAME THE JAPANESE DUDE

 

But overall I think the movie is asking us to reflect deeper into its meaning. In a worldly context, my interpretation is that the modern nations such as the Americans are in actual fact the reason there are so many problems in the world today. In their self styled world police mentality, they are actually the antagonizes of the modern world.

 

Reflection and understanding is needed. Many of my friends know of my view on the Middle East issues, which I would not be discussing here, would know what I mean.

 

Humans are too interested in conflicts rather than solutions. I only hoped that when we hum to the famous song named IMAGINE we actually took time to understand its lyrics.

 

 

A couple of days ago a friend of mine who was interested in taking the sport of scuba diving got scared after an idiot told him that scuba diving is a very dangerous sport and that you could die anytime from a burst blood vessels. (If any body knows someone that fits this description or says the same thing to you……..please do this…before he can end his sentence when he says scuba diving is a dangerous sport give him smack in his face for me….and if he tries to say something again smack him again keep doing that until he changes the topic……). He gave my friend a very bad impression on diving, so as any good diver will do, I knocked some sense into his head by advising him on the rules and safety aspects of diving as well as the fun part of it, because in any thing that we do, if we think we got big kahunas and want do things to show off then don’t blame god if you get your stupid ass hurt.

 

Anyway back to the topic, Scuba Diving is a wonderful sport, imagine this……………………… you are in a boat traveling from the beach heading towards the ocean wearing a black wet suite and some canggih watch and equipments, in your head you feel like a navy seal going on a covert operation to some unknown destination….the wind in your face, tasting the salty ocean water as it splashes against the bottom of the boat, everybody maintaining a dignified silence and waiting in anticipation, then as the boat slows down you can finally see the island that you are approaching and it looks deserted. In your mind you are thinking what could be hidden here. The captain (divemaster) shouts a command for you to get ready. “Lets buckle up guys” so you eagerly get ready putting on your scuba and equipments on. Then the captain gives everybody a quick briefing and asks everybody to get in the water. As you look over the edge of the boat you stare in astonishment as you are able to see through to the bottom of the ocean which is some 20 meters away. You can see colorful objects swimming everywhere. As you splash into the water you are excited as you wait for the rest to get in. Then as every body is in the water your captain says “let do it” so you quickly release the air from your BCD and you begin to sink, as your head passes the surface of the water you find yourself in a different universe, everything becomes silent, the only sound you can hear is the bubbles that you blow and your own voice talking to you (Believe me you can actually hear your thoughts talking)…. As you slowly freefall to the bottom of the ocean you are transported into another world, an indescribable place with colors’ so colorful and unique, you would not find anyway else. Then as you steady yourself you realize that you are actually swimming with fishes small and big and so colorful that you thought never exist……then suddenly your heart starts beating very fast …dud dud dud …….and it get even faster as you stare at the object in front of you….from all the movies that you have seen and all the horror stories you have read about the creatures of the ocean makes you heart beat even faster because you are now face to face with …………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………….…..………..SAMY VELLU trying to build a toll for divers in tioman…………..(sorry couldn’t help taking a pot shot at him hehehehe)…………….anyway you come face to face with a 4 footer shark, so excited that you actually swim towards it rather than away from it (errm that actually happen to me) as you slowly calm down you start getting a feeling of dissatisfaction as your gauge shows you 50, meaning its time to head to the surface for your safety stop. After hovering at 5 meters for about 5 minutes you slowly ascend to wards to the surface and your adventure comes to an end. You can’t wait for the next adventure.

 

The above is an example of the fun that you will have if you proceed with your certification.

 

Now the dangerous part as in any sport, is that you need to take precautions and follow rules in order to be safe, just like driving a car without a seat belt is dangerous. The same logic applies in scuba diving….unfortunately there are some dungu birds still don’t understand this. In diving there are a few rules to abide by (these are the layman guidelines only as you will have to learn the proper safety procedure when you go for your certification classes)

 

1)      Always plan your dive

2)      Always use a dive computer or safer use a dive planner to calculate your nitrogen level

3)      Don’t be a hero and challenge the limits by going too deep or practice agresive bounce diving ( meaning ascending and desending too far apart and unnesesary)

4)      Always check your air levels

5)      Make sure you dive with a buddy.

6)      Don’t get intoxicated before a dive

 

Now once you understand the above, you are on your way to great fun and by the way when you dive, you normally have to go islands and on these islands there are normally half naked HOT guys and gals around, so if diving itself is not the motivation then these would most likely be the bigger motivation.

 

So have Fun and Dive safe.

 

PROUD TO BE A CERTIFIED RESCUE DIVER WITH PADI

 

 

Recently I have been ask to comment on the issue of public holidays in Malaysia and the rights of the employee and the employer. You need to have read the Employment Act inorder to understand how it works, particularly S60D[1](a) and *[S.60(D)91A) EA] *of the said act.

Here a brief explanation, Every Employee is entitle to 10paid public holidays. 4 days from the national holidays list which are the Kings Birthday, Labour day, State Sultan B'day/Federal territory day and National day and the balance 6 shall be from any of the gazetted holidays.

 

However for any dumb Bosses who are getting ready to use this section to remove the number of holidays, hold your asses...oooppps sorry hold your horses. In order for the above section to apply (meaning you really dont give a shit about the goverment, the state and your hardworking staff) there are a few conditions.

The first consideration a stupid ass Boss has to consider is that if it has been a practice to have that particular date as a holiday then he/she has noted it as a public holiday. Therefore under S60(D) any departure from the common practice must be agreed by the employee. Your Boss must get the consent of the majority of employees before he can actually change the number of holidays.

 

Secondly, the same section also says that " the employer must display a notice at the place of employment specifying the 6days selected before the commencement of each calender year". This means that you have to place the memo before the new year, for example if you want it to take effect in the year 2007 then the memo must have been issued in the month of Dec 2006.

 

That is the law situation in Malaysia, however in actual pratice most decent companies that are run well normalyy don't need to resort to this kind of measures to increase productivity unless they are in a critical industry such as security, newspaper etc etc. Removing Public holidays is genereally not a good management choice to boast staff performance or company performance, if at all it normally has the reverse effect on the company. If you do not take care of your staff, your company will not grow, it is now realised that the asset of any company lies its workers. So all you Bosses think very carefully if you want to exercise your "rights" under S60 of the Employment Act.