Later tonight or tomorrow Munteng’s sister will deliver her little brother Isaac. Let us pray for a smooth delivery of the baby. And lets start a party welcoming this new child to this world!!!!

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edited at 2.17 pm 19 Nov 2009

Baby Isaac was safely delivered at 10.55 am =) Thank you Jesus

Today I received a text message. From my brother. My brother is not a christian. But it seems he is looking for a miracle in his life too.

How good if he knows Jesus loves him so much =)

Jesus says He comes to give us life.

Jesus says He comes to give life abundantly.

 

Where thou art emptiness can be filled with your love Lord??

I find this life so meaningless if I have not found you. But why yet my life still felt so empty Lord.

How can i find the answer/ the manual/ the step by step way…which I’ve been all this while futilely finding. Foolishly I know there’s no manual out there for me to follow. The Bible I’ve been fasting for the longest of time I know. But I’m going to open it back today. And to read it as it intended to be.

If there is one thing that I hope Lord you will take away from me, it is my:

impatience

complacency

timidity

bad habits

laziness

unfocus

ego

..take it all away Lord.

Amen

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HoChuWei!!!!!

For so many years I’ve never had close Malay friends that I can borak with.  My primary school days was good as I had a lot of Malay friends and also partly because I can’t speak Cantonese back then and only uses Bahasa most of the time. When secondary school came, the segregation came. My school was predominantly Chinese and the Malays are few. But I’m thankful also because this is the period where I pick up and brush up my Cantonese. How can being a KL-ian and don’t know Cantonese. How to cari makan.

And now, since I work in my new company, most of my collegues are Malay and in my department I’m the only Chinese.

The funny thing was what happened last week. On Friday as all of the Muslims will go for their prayer during lunch time, I ajak some of my Chinese collegues for makan at Klang. Bak Kut Teh lar – at Mun Teng’s bro in law’s mum’s shop in Taman Berkeley.

Funnily, one of my malay collegue wanted to follow last minute. He wanted to ’skip’ the prayers and follow us. Then we thought ok lar, just go to some mamak or McD, but he says its ok. He says he has eaten heavy breakfast earlier.  He insist on going..Haha…

He was with us when we were savouring the delightful Bak Kut Teh and he enjoyed the chinese tea. This is 1 Malaysia.

HoChuWei!!

This is the ‘team’… 1 malaysia

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This is one of the interesting economics measure

 

Hot Waitress Economic Index
What Does it Mean?
An index that indicates the state of the economy by measuring the number of attractive people working as waiters/waitresses. According to the hot waitress index, the higher the number of good looking servers, the weaker the current state of the economy. It is assumed that attractive individuals do not tend to have trouble finding high-paying jobs during good economics times. During poor economic times, these jobs will be more difficult to find and therefore more attractive people will be forced to work in lower paying jobs such as being waiters/waitresses.

Farish Noot wrote some articles responding to the recent claims of “Malaysian stealing Indonesian culture”" hoo har

 

http://www.othermalaysia.org/2009/09/10/injecting-reason-back-into-indonesia-malaysia-relations/

http://www.othermalaysia.org/2009/09/10/accepting-our-common-asean-culture-and-history/

I am not a reckless driver. I seldom and almost never curse at drivers on the road. But I do admit sometimes I drive dangerously. Impatiently. However, I want to thank God that in this 4 to 5 years since I started driving, there hasn’t been any major accidents that I’ve involved in. Nor I’ve been hit badly.

 

However, my bro did wreck my car before. It was during the time when I was part timing in his firm and he was on the driver’s seat. He rammed the side of my precious Iswara, ripping off the side bumper and part of back bumper also. Apedey….

 

The other incident was in Serdang when I was finding parking along the KFC road. This car bang me, but my car nothing. Seriously nothing. You call it the grace of God of not, it is really a miracle. Because the same Iswara that bang me, his car front bumper was all crushed and drop onto the floor. I pleaded nothing. But that smart friend of mine Mr. J nearly got into a fight when he insisted of getting some compensation for the trauma he has gone through. The guy who bang me is in the wrong anyway. Luckily police came and settled the thing.

 

There are also a few times when I turn suddenly during a traffic jam without looking at the rear mirror or signal, a motorcyclist nearly hit my car, or just miss by a few inches of my car. God knows what happened if they really hit me during those times.

 

There was also this once in Jalan Gasing after a heavy downpour when I was speeding down the road and then suddenly the car which is approx 100 meters of me brake. I saw, I brake, but the brake functioned, but my car tyre didn’t have the grip on the road. I swerve and swerve and for a few seconds thinking I will surely hit the car in front. But thank God that behind me there was no car, I was able took control of the car and just misses the car in front. Walioweh………….

 

I thank God for protecting me on the road.

2008 Rank School Name Country
 

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University days was one of the best years of my life no doubt.

One of the many funny incidents that happen during my uni days is when my alma mater was announced by the QS as among the 100 Best University in the world. I was proud of my university of course. Being among the 100 best!!

The strange thing is that during that year, which is my first year, UM was celebrating its 100 years of achievement also, I mean their 100th anniversary. Slogan like UM is One (long before 1Malaysia), Cermerlang Gemilang Terbilang, and Kini UM Sudah Terbilang flooded in the campus with so much hype in the rankings. UM was ranked 80+. However reality creeps in of course. The VC who spearheaded all the hype was fired(sort of), all the banner’s was taken down, all the hype washed out as soon as the new rankings was out a year later. UM was among 200 best now. Haha….

Litlle that I know after that:

  • QS Times actually made a mistake in the rankings. One of the criteria for the scoring is International Students, and those mat salleh thought the Chinese and Indians are International Students.
  • UM actually DID celebrated their 50th anniversary few years back. The 50th anniversary is the mark when the Kuala Lumpur campus was open. The 100 years celebration was from the point when the Raffles College ( one of the earliest UM Medical Faculty) was formed.
  • NUS did so much better than us. Look at them now, Top 30 Uni in the world. Beating the like of University of Berkeley, Sydney Uni, Melbourne Uni, UNSW, Uni Nottingham, Purdue. Even NTU is at the 77th.

 

So, why go to Australia when Singapore’s University top some of this Australian universities.

 

1 HARVARD University United States
2 YALE University United States
3 University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom
4 University of OXFORD United Kingdom
5 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Calt… United States
6 IMPERIAL College London United Kingdom
7 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom
8 University of CHICAGO United States
9 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (M… United States
10 COLUMBIA University United States
11 University of PENNSYLVANIA United States
12 PRINCETON University United States
13= DUKE University United States
13= JOHNS HOPKINS University United States
15 CORNELL University United States
16 AUSTRALIAN National University Australia
17 STANFORD University United States
18 University of MICHIGAN United States
19 University of TOKYO Japan
20 MCGILL University Canada
21 CARNEGIE MELLON University United States
22 KING’S College London United Kingdom
23 University of EDINBURGH United Kingdom
24 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of T… Switzerland
25 KYOTO University Japan
26 University of HONG KONG Hong Kong
27 BROWN University United States
28 École Normale Supérieure, PARIS France
29 University of MANCHESTER United Kingdom
30= National University of SINGAPORE(NUS) Singapore
30= University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (U… United States
32 University of BRISTOL United Kingdom
33 NORTHWESTERN University United States
34= ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE France
34= University of BRITISH COLUMBIA Canada
36 University of California, BERKELEY United States
37 The University of SYDNEY Australia
38 The University of MELBOURNE Australia
39 HONG KONG University of Science & Techno… Hong Kong
40 NEW YORK University (NYU) United States
41 University of TORONTO Canada
42 The CHINESE University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
43 University of QUEENSLAND Australia
44 OSAKA University Japan
45 University of NEW SOUTH WALES Australia
46 BOSTON University United States
47 MONASH University Australia
48 University of COPENHAGEN Denmark
49 TRINITY College Dublin Ireland
50= Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LAUSANNE… Switzerland
50= PEKING University China
50= SEOUL National University Korea, South
53 University of AMSTERDAM Netherlands
54 DARTMOUTH College United States
55 University of WISCONSIN-Madison United States
56 TSINGHUA University China
57 HEIDELBERG Universität Germany
58 University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego United States
59 University of WASHINGTON United States
60 WASHINGTON University in St. Louis United States
61 TOKYO Institute of Technology Japan
62 EMORY University United States
63 UPPSALA University Sweden
64 LEIDEN University Netherlands
65 The University of AUCKLAND New Zealand
66 LONDON School of Economics and Political… United Kingdom
67 UTRECHT University Netherlands
68 University of GENEVA Switzerland
69 University of WARWICK United Kingdom
70 University of TEXAS at Austin United States
71 University of ILLINOIS United States
72 Katholieke Universiteit LEUVEN Belgium
73 University of GLASGOW United Kingdom
74 University of ALBERTA Canada
75 University of BIRMINGHAM United Kingdom
76 University of SHEFFIELD United Kingdom
77 NANYANG Technological University Singapore
78= DELFT University of Technology Netherlands
78= RICE University United States
78= Technische Universität MÜNCHEN Germany
81= University of AARHUS Denmark
81= University of YORK United Kingdom
83= GEORGIA Institute of Technology United States
83= The University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA Australia
83= University of ST ANDREWS United Kingdom
86 University of NOTTINGHAM United Kingdom
87 University of MINNESOTA United States
88 LUND University Sweden
89 University of CALIFORNIA, Davis United States
90 CASE WESTERN RESERVE University United States
91= Université de Montréal Canada
91= University of HELSINKI Finland
93= Hebrew University of JERUSALEM Israel
93= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany
95 KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Scie… Korea, South
96 University of VIRGINIA United States
97 University of PITTSBURGH United States
98 University of CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara United States
99= PURDUE University United States
99= University of SOUTHAMPTON United Kingdom

Deloitte is top now!!!!

 

Vault.com has recently published its list of 40 Most Prestigious Accounting Firms for the yar 2009, the latest ranking which was started back in 2005.

The top companies were listed according to a survey conducted by a number of participating research companies, which questionnaires to employees in the selected firms to evaluate about each of the company’s rating.

The series of questions asked the respondent to assess the life of the employees in their current firm (or previous ones) and rate their company according to some specific prestige scores. More than 1,000 respondents participated in the survey every year.

Not surprisingly, the top four of the table were occupied by the Big 4 accounting firms, namely Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young (EY) and KPMG. But this is the first time in four years Deloitte has managed to secure top spot, displacing former number one, PwC into second place.

At 5th position, Grant Thornton is the highest ranked firm coming from the non-Big-4 group. The company provides tax services, advisory, consulting and assurance to privately-held entities and public companies across the world.

The rest of the top 10 are made

WORD

Acts 20:24 However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.

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