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25

What? Another one-ah.

July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The MP was making his rounds through the Senaiwang kampung area. In Ah Beng’s kampung house, the MP noticed a pig with a wooden leg hobbling about.

“Excuse me,” the MP said to Ah Beng, “but why does that pig have a wooden leg?”

“Oh, it’s like this, sir… one night a robber entered our household, tied all of us up, stole our jewelry and was about to escape when the pig came out of nowhere, attacked the robber and saved us all.”

“Oh, I see,” said the MP uncertainly, “but I still don’t understand. Why does the pig have a wooden leg?”

“Oh, it’s like this, sir… There was a fire when we were all out to the cinema at Chong Pang. The pig alerted our neighbors, ran around organizing a water bucket system and helped the firemen put out the fire.”

The MP was getting quite frustrated. “Listen, Mr AB, That is all very interesting, but I still don’t understand why the pig has a wooden leg.”

“Oh, it’s like this, sir…” Ah Beng said. “We used to have an old well. One day, our little daughter fell down the well. The pig jumped in, saved our girl, covered the well with planks and we never had that trouble again.”

The MP shouted, “I DON’T UNDERSTAND! Why does that damn pig have a wooden leg?”

Ah Beng appeared absolutely unfazed. “Well, you know,” he said finally, “with a pig that good, how can you eat it all at once…”

Jul

24

Ah Beng’s A to Z.

July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Always must win Borrow but never return Cheap is good Don’t trust anyone Everything also must grab! Free! Free! Free! Grab first talk later Help yourself to everything I first, I want, I everything Jump queue Keep coming back for more Look for discount Must not lose face Never mind what they think Outdo everyone you know Pay only when necessary Quit while you are ahead Rushing and pushing wins the race Sample are always welcome Take but don’t give Unless it’s free forget it Vow to be number one Winner takes it ALL! ALL! ALL! Yell if necessary to get what you want Zebras are kiasu because they want to be both black and white at the same time

Jul

23

The one to watch for, Singapore GP

July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Yes,that’s right. Singapore GP. 65 days more to go before the 1st ever night F1 racing. Here’s its news flash:

1. 29 March 2008 Live Demonstration of the 2008 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix Lighting System
2. 16 April 2008 DigiFlag to Aid Driver Communication at 2008 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix
3. 8 May 2008Singapore GP launches single-day walkabout tickets for the 2008 FORMULA 1™ 4. SingTel Singapore Grand Prix Singapore
82% of tickets for the 2008 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix sold

Having successfully convinced Bernie to hold a Formula 1 race without ever building a racetrack really dizz me off. Singapore must have offered more than what Bernie could not resist.

Jul

22

What is Six Sigma?

July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Six Sigma is a business management strategy developed by Motorola that today enjoys wide-spread application in many sectors of industry. The particulars of the methodology were first formulated by Bill Smith at Motorola in 1986. Six Sigma was heavily inspired by six preceding decades of quality improvement methodologies such as Quality Control, TQM, and Zero Defects. These were based on the work of pioneers such as Shewhart, Deming (PDCA), Juran (QC), Ishikawa, Taguchi and others. To put it in a nutshell, it is a systematic approach to solve problems through DMAIC. Among others, the initial step of data analysis is Correlation and Regression:

 

 

Jul

21

Jason Mraz

July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Cool reggae…or whatever they say, or time is short

Jul

20

Socrates…the great philosopher

July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Keep this philosophy in mind the next time you either hear or are about to
repeat a rumor.

In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC) Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?”

“Wait a moment,” Socrates replied. “Before you tell me, I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”

“Triple filter?”

“That’s right,” Socrates continued. “Before you talk to me about my student let’s take a moment to filter what you’re going to say. The first filter is truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”

“No,” the man said, “actually I just heard about it and…”

“All right,” said Socrates. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?”

“No, on the contrary…”

“So,” Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about him, even though you’re not certain it’s true?”

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.

Socrates continued. “You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?”

“No, not really”

“Well,” concluded Socrates, “if what you want to tell me is neither True
nor Good nor Useful, why tell it to me at all?”

The man was defeated and ashamed.

This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.

It also explains why he never found out that Plato was banging his wife.

Jul

19

Don’t ever judge the book by the cover

July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Gingham dress & Stanford University - True story

THE GINGHAM DRESS

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston , and walked timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President’s outer office.

The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard & probably didn’t even deserve to be in Cambridge .

‘We’d like to see the president,’ the man said softly. ‘He’ll be busy all day,’ the secretary snapped.

‘We’ll wait,’ the lady replied.

For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn’t, and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.

‘Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they’ll leave,’ she said to him!

He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn’t have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office. The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple.

The lady told him, ‘We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.’

The president wasn’t touched. He was shocked. ‘Madam,’ he said, gruffly, ‘we can’t put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery.’

‘Oh, no,’ the lady explained quickly. ‘We don’t want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.’

The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed, ‘A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.’

For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.

The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, ‘Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don’t we just start our own?’

Her husband nodded. The president’s face wilted in confusion and bewilderment. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

………………………….A TRUE STORY By Malcolm Forbes

‘People will forget what you said,

People will forget what you did.

But people will never forget how you made them feel’.

Jul

18

Baby Jia Lynn

July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Jul

17

Sunway Lagoon…15 years and on

July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Still attracting tourist all over the world after 15 years, with the spanking new wings opened, visitors are spoiled for choices, especially with the on-going Mega sale…me, I’m jut taking a nap under the coconut tree

 

 

 

 

Jul

16

Tangkak braised chicken and pork rice

July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Located on the main Tangkak road opposite Hong Leong bank (if you are coming from the North-South highway), you will not miss the famous and delicious braised chicken and pork rice.