A Distinquish Talk by a CEO.

Initially, I was forced to attend a talk by the

Chief Executive Officer of our National Car Manufacturer, Tengku Tan Sri Mahaleel. I'm required to attend this event because we need to obtain some

marks for Briged Siswa.

The title of the talk is, 'Human Resource Management'.

The whole talk is being carried on in English,

which I expected from a CEO would do.

I enjoyed his talk especially his point of view

about the changes that we need to make.

As he mentioned, a country progress needs to have changes in

human capital not physical changes

such as economy.

To have change we must not have resistance towards changes without leaving our own morals

and Asian qualities.

Besides that, I do agree that we must not simply choose a leader

or an employee based own a short period of

time.

He or she might perform well in the interview but might not in the future.

As Rome is not built in a day, we must spend several years of

devised research to change the nation along with its citizen.

This is what most of the governments in everywhere are lacking off

which includes our nation.

I enjoyed the talk and felt that my precious time is not wasted as

most talk does.

I hope that we will have more such talks in the future with a

proper seating in the Sports Complex as I'm struggling to seat comfortably.

J.Z.Wong

Mini 210.

Yesterday I just signed-up for the Streamyx Uni Cool Pack as stated in the 2010 Budget.

I'm not fond of the wi-fi nor the internet since my hostel area is equipped with an awesome internet speed up to 100Mbps with average 30% of its actual ability.

I'm actually into this new HP Mini 210 as my secondary computer after my Fujitsu L1010.

The RRP is RM1349 but I'm paying RM1200 to get it as this package requires me to pay RM50 per month for two years which cost me RM1200 along with 384kbps internet for my uncle since I used his house's line to apply this package and an TM Hotzone ID that enable me to surf the net if the server of my campus is down.

Besides I'm getting 50 legal licensed songs per month from hypptunes.

I hope that I will be able to see my mini when I return home for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration.

With this, I do not need to bring my hot buddy to see my lecturers to view the slides that I want to discuss about.

This does not mean that I do not want my L1010 because this mini will not be able to allow me to run Microsoft Visio, Auto-Cad or Aspen.

To all local university students grab a unit of yours while the 100,000 units of Mini 210 is gone.

All you need is your Student ID, letter of entry to your university, I.C. and an endorsement to prove that you are a first year or second year student of that particular institute.

J.Z.Wong

Confusion of Words Used by Malaysians.

Last week we were informed by the press about the chaos happened in our nation due to misunderstanding of the usage of a word.
Few churches were being attacked by unknown parties due to the decission of the High Court on the 31st of December 2009 to allow non-muslim to use the word 'Allah'.
Here, I would like to comment as a non-muslim and a non-christian.
I'm confused about the definition stated in Oxford Dictionary.
As stated in the book, the word 'Allah' means God in Arabic and it is first used by the Arabians since the exixtance of Abraham by his followers.
As we know that, Abraham existed before the era of Islamic Civilisation as stated in our textbooks.
If the word 'Allah' is not allowed to be used by all, I think that the word Tuhan cannot substitute it as it means 'The Lord'. So what should say in malay when it comes to 'The Lord God', Tuhan Tuhan?According to the malay metaphore, it shows plurality in the phrase and it might caused confusion to the public that Christianity practices polytheism. In this era, no religion practices polytheism which includes Christianity.
In my opinion, the word should be allowed to be used by all God believers but I'm not in a state of oppossing our muslim friends rights to exclusive it.
If we want to exclusive it for muslims, we should ask the linguistic experts to invent a new word to substitute the word 'Allah', so the new word can be used by non-muslims.
Besides, I heard some words like 'bin' and 'binti' should be only used by muslims.
Here again, according to Kamus Dewan, 'bin' means 'anak lelaki kepada' or son of in Arabic same goes for 'binti' as for daughter.
Futhermore, Arabic names like Hussein also being used by non-muslim which includes a prominent leader, Barrack Hussein Obama. This does not means his muslim.
In conclusion, we must not make so much of fuss over words that can disrupt our nation's peace.
Thus a new word should be invented to substitute the word 'Allah'. If we want to preach 1Malaysia and unity we must not add oil to fire as history proved us that unity is important for nation's interest.

J.Z.Wong

10th Year of the Second Milenium

This will be my first post of this year.

Before that, I would like to wish all of you Happy New Year.

I hope that is not too late for it.

Since I started my new semester, I will be informing you more about my life as a university student.

Thus, stay with me.

I hope that this year will be a year like no other year that will allow me to excel my life.

May all of be blessed this year and the year after 2010.

J.Z.Wong