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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230 University Malaya Malaysia

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

Here is some data and figures regarding our Listed Companies performance for the past year. Since some of the companies has different closing period, thus I took the latest results that are available. Here you are the Top 20 companies in terms of Profit Before Tax and Revenue;  and Top 10 companies in terms of Market Capitalization ( as of 8 September 2009 )

 

Top 20 Listed Companies ( Profit before tax )

   

 RM’mil

1

Sime Darby Bhd

       31,014

2

Tenaga Nasional Bhd

       25,751

3

Petronas Dagangan

       24,268

4

Malayan Banking Berhad

       17,587

5

MISC

       15,783

6

MAS

       15,035

7

IOI Corp

       14,600

8

Shell Refinery

       13,086

9

UMW

       12,770

10

AXIATA

       11,348

11

Public Bank Berhad

       10,500

12

Genting Bhd

         9,083

13

YTL

         8,946

14

TM

         8,675

15

MMC Corporation

         8,545

16

Kuala Lumpur Kepong

         7,790

17

BCB

         7,741

18

Boustead

         7,030

19

Berjaya Corporation

         6,339

20

YTL Power

         6,102

 

Top 20 Listed Companies ( Revenue )

   

RM’mil

1

Public Bank

3,071

2

Sime Darby        3,379

3

TNB        3,025

4

BCB        2,716

5

YTL        2,307

6

Genting Bhd        1,735

7

Maybank        1,674

8

MISC        1,595

9

IOI Corp        1,550

10

Digi        1,547

11

PLUS        1,516

12

KLK        1,445

13

RHB Capital        1,422

14

PPB        1,401

15

YTL Power        1,352

16

UMW        1,277

17

Petronas Gas        1,231

18

AMMB        1,218

19

Hong Leong Financial Group        1,150

20

Hong Leong Bank        1,132

 

Top 10 Listed Companies ( Market Capitalization)

    RM bil
1 Sime Darby 49.99
2 Maybank 46.22
3 BCB 37.54
4 Tenaga 35.65
5 Public Bank 35.39
6 MISC 32.77
7 IOI 32.03
8 AXIATA 26.52
9 Genting 26.38
10 Petronas Gas 19.25

 

Sources from Bloomberg and Bursa

All these years I’ve been living in the ‘no confrontation’ life as much as possible. Well, I have a little experience of myself where my temper overtook me. At home, it is a norm for me as a kid. To throw tantrum. But in public I behave as much as I can. I have only one of these incident where 2 of these malay boys was teasing me for whatever reason I could not remember. Of course a fight nearly broke out. I couldn’t remember what happened after that or the outcome of it. All I can remember there were a hot confrontation between me and the 2 guys.

That is why sometimes I often didn’t pint point people’s mistake. Maybe I just don’t want confrontation. Or maybe I felt if I told them about their mistakes, they might get embarresed. Is not that I don’t care. I truly genuinely don’t want the other party to feel embarresed of their mistakes.

This goes to the extent of people doing wrong things. A lot of things and events that I’ve encountered which some of the practices or acts which i totally don’t agree. But I just let it be.

Maybe it is time for me to speak UP!!!

 

 

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Click the link on the left to the website and view the videos.

 

And check out “potong saga”. Mun Teng’s brother is the editor…teeheehee

 
Soon
Brooke Fraser
 
Soon and very soon
My King is coming
Robed in righteousness
And crowned with love
When I see Him, I
shall be made like Him
Soon and very soon

Soon and very soon
I’ll be going
To the place He has prepared for me
There my sin erased
My shame forgotten
Soon and very soon

I will be with the One I love
With unveiled face I’ll see
There my soul will be satisfied
Soon and very soon

Soon and very soon
See the procession
The angels and the elders
’round the throne
At His feet I’ll lay my crown, my worship
Soon and very soon

Though I have not seen Him
My heart knows Him well
Jesus Christ the Lamb
The Lord of Heaven

* It seems in Hillsong nowadays, only Brooke Fraser’s song that brings so much meaning and passion in the lyrics and melody. You can try their new United album. When Brooke Fraser’s song play in between the playlist, it is such a departure from the other songs. Listen. You will know.

WORD

James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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