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!

4 day week!

I read with great interest this morning about the ways various people, states and govts are using to combat rising oil prices in the world.

The state of Utah in the US has issued an order that all state govt agencies will only work 4-day weeks. This is to allow saving on electricity and employee's gasoline expenses. Employees will now work 10 hr days and get Fridays off. This trial is for a year and if successful will be implemented fully. Other states in the US are closely monitoring this event to see if it is feasible.

I started to wonder if it will work in M'sia. After 5 minutes thot, I concluded, NO WAY! Why? These are my reasons(the funny side of it) :

a)The govt employees(GE) will now treat Thursdays as Fridays and work 3 and a half days only.

b)The GE's will now decide to all go shopping on Fridays and make the jams even worse, just like if there is a public holiday in S'gor and all Selangoreans will throng the shopping centres in KL.

c)The GE's will now have another reason to be inefficient on Mondays. Phrases like, "Aiyo dah rest 3 hari, susah nak start kerja baliklah. susah nak start enjin" will be commonly heard. As opposed to before, "Cuti sabtu, ahad tak cukuplah. Baru nak rilek, dah kena start kerja! Boring lah"

Haha....Anyone care to add?

The Big Picture!

We have been swamped with news of Anwar everyday in the media for the past week. Every blog I visited seems to be commenting on this issue too. That's why I have refrained from writing abt it here cos it seems like an overdose. However, i have been writing in other blogs what I think abt this whole issue and have received many a stinging rebuke abt it. Here's what I think :

1) There are 2 schools of thot abt who is the puppetmaster here. For me, if it is Anwar, then I think his greed for power and international recognition knows no bounds. Is this what we want in a leader to steer us out of the current economic struggles of our country? If Bodohwi or Najib is behind this, it shows the rakyat's decision to kick them out on Mar 8 is correct. They are inept, self-serving, greedy, crony-centred, arrogant and stupid as well! So the question is : Who is capable of running this country? I have no freakin idea!!!

2) Me questioning the credibility of Anwar doesn't mean that I m a BN supporter. I am just exercising my rights as a citizen to ensure that the best man is elected to govern. In this case, Anwar is not even an elected rep yet! I am 100% sure that the current crop of leaders are uselesss and shd be removed en bloc. Never before has the country been in such a mess(except May 13) and the rakyat is suffering.

3) I am all for giving an opportunity to Pakatan to govern states and the country, if at all it materialises. Take away Anwar(shd anything happen to him), who in the Pakatan has the ability to run the country? Kit Siang? Azmin? Nik Aziz? I don think so. This is where my concern lies.

4) My biggest concern at the moment is all this is throwing a mask over other issues affecting the country. Rising prices, postponement of so called, "Non-people centric" projects like the Penang monorail and PORR(Still baffles me), the Altantuya murder case(In which our dear old Najib and wife has surprisingly not hit back as hard as I thot they wld at RPK) etc.

Our political situation is all like a big circus! It is shameful and has got me angry, disgusted, dissapointed(understatement), ashamed and at times tearful. When are they going to make me proud as a Malaysian. I hope I have that chance in my lifetime.

New word in dictionary!

Received this e-mail today :

There are possible plans underway to apply to the Oxford and Webster to include a new word for their 2009
dictionary:

badawi [baa-daa-wee] (noun):
To start something full of promise but end in disappointment, failure and/or disaster.

Eg:

'I'm trusting you to perform this task well; don't do a badawi, ok?'

'Whatever I do, I will always find a way to badawise it.'

France badawied their Euro 2008 campaign. England pre-badawied theirs, while Italy were guilty of over-badawification.


Haha! Really funny. Shall start using this noun soon!

Finally some transfer news for Liverpool!

Well people and success-starved Liverpool fans, there is finally some good news on the transfer front. It is rumoured that Spurs skipper Robbie Keane is on his way to Anfield. I think he would make a good strike partner for Torres and also for Gerrard bombing from midfield. He holds on to the ball well and can also score himself. Am hopeful transfer will happen.

As for Gareth Barry, it seems Aston Villa is now demanding 18mil for him. I say forget it and get someone else. David Villa is valued at only 20mil, Barry at 18m? Villa had better get a reality check!

And Chelsea : As usual, they r trying to buy the whole world again. Deco has joined them. Rumour has it that they are also after Robinho, Ronaldinho, Arshavin and the whole Spanish Euro Team! Surprisingly, the Scum team has been relatively quiet. Must be trying really hard to make Ronaldo stay! My advice, let the spoilt brat leave and make loads of money out of himlah! No player is bigger than the team!