Sick leave and you lucky women!

Have you ever had a staff or colleague who is perpetually on sick leave or more popularly known in M'sia as MC? Doesn't it get irritating when you have everything planned and suddenly u have to change them b'cos he/she suspiciously calls in sick?
Well, for those for really are stricken with some sort of sickness, by all means do take MC. I am talking abt those who seem to fall sick almost every other week! They seem determined to fulfill the amt of MC days allowed in their contract of employment(Ranging from 14-21 days). I have a staff who is like that and I am at wit's end trying to sort it out. She does hand in MC's so legally there's nothing I can do abt it! Grrrrr.........

I remember a fren of mine who works in Maybank telling me that her company actually allows 30 days of MC and 90 days maternity leave. She says if she plans everything out well, she could get a full year's pay for 4 month's work! How? Get pregnant twice in the same year and maximise MC days. That's 7 month's off! Add the public holidays and Saturday and Sundays, it's just 4 month's work or less!

I told her : GOOD LUCK!

PS : Do you know that in the Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Finland and Norway, husbands get paternity leave for 3 weeks to take care of wife and child? That shd absolutely be implemented here!

Govt attacking bloggers again!

Many may have noticed that over the past 2 days the PM and his cohorts have started attacking bloggers again, calling them nuisances and spreader of lies etc. The PM has asked the public not to believe these blogs and to stop reading them. My questions are :

1)Are bloggers the cause of all the hardship we are suffering now?

2)If we stop reading or believing them, will it put more money into our pockets?

3)Shouldn't the blogs be a good way for the govt to see how the rakyat feels abt their performance, i.e. A REAL REPORT CARD!

4)Why don the PM stop pointing fingers at others for the cause of our hardships and take responsibility for a change?

5)Do u think everything we blog abt are lies? Why don u spend some time checking if what you, your cronies, your son-in-law are doing is beneficial to the rakyat or just plain greed on their side?

Any responsible and caring govt would turn to blogs to see how the rakyat is feeling. It is the best way. When so many is saying the same thing, there has got to be some truth in it!

Today, another clown they call a minister had this to say abt bloggers. Well, when the head is a moron, you can't expect his followers to be any smarter, can you?



KUALA LUMPUR: Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal has hit out at blogs, saying they made the recent demonstrations worse.

He also described the culture of believing everything one read in blogs to be the truth as unhealthy and what made it worse was that the inaccurate information was passed on to others.

“One post may say a person stole RM10 and that amount might end up being RM100 when it got around. That is how inaccurate blogs can be,” he said after the ministry’s monthly assembly at the National Museum yesterday.

Shafie said the recent demonstrations were “compounded” by blogs. “These things do not bring any good to the country,” he said


Yes Mr Minister, it is all the blogger's fault. The inefficient, crony-istic, self-serving and greedy govt had nothing to do with it!

Bicycle anyone?

First, it was the bus transport companies, then the airlines and school bus drivers who increased prices. I guess it was not shocking to hear that taxi drivers have now increased charges on their own without the approval of our dear gomen. According to the gomen, prices of NGV fuel has not increased, so taxi drivers have no reason to increase prices. Really? It must be naive to believe that taxi drivers won't be affected by rising food prices, electricity tariffs and all others related to the fuel hike. They have stopped using meters and are charging fares they deem are suitable. For example, a trip from Sungei Wang to KLCC now costs RM25! Sigh! What can we do? Altho there are a few bad apples among the taxi drivers, I do sympathise with the majority of them.

If this goes on, I think the bicycle may just make a big return soon!