Melodies of Life

The place was crowded. You were standing quietly, hands tugged into your straight cut jeans eyes locked on the wide boards over the top of the shelf. There are 2 persons standing in front of you - both larger than you. The first man at the front has been staring at that same wide board for some time now before he started speaking. Your hands began to sweat as you never done this before. You convinced yourself that you are not some hipsters that just got to have overpriced coffee and the only thing stands between you and that green maiden logo was the aroma of the coffee that draw you into the queue. Soon, it is your turn to order, you successfully blurt out a bunch of gibberish words that hipster made cool before giving your name to the cashier in front of you (which most of the time they are going to misspelled it). As you wait for the cashier to key in the last few details of your order, you noticed a small shelf in the place of cardholders at the front left of the cashier's tab...

Working for mulit-national corporation (MNC) has been an eye-opening experience for me so far. When I first started working here, I noticed the employees mostly graduated from private universities (from the likes of Monash University, University of Nottingham, UTAR etc.) rather than public universities like UM, UKM or UMP (my uni, God bless) and this makes me ponder on one question - What happened to the ones from public universities? Are graduates there really that incompetent comparatively? Or is it because of their exposure? OK so it is more than one question however, I would pretty much like to know the answers.  Communications To me, it was several factors, not only the private varsities has more exposure to better companies but better companies are more willing to hire them as well. Why? One, students at public universities has communication problems. Not only they are bad at speaking up, they are bad in English as well (when I say bad, I mean sucky). As much as I ha...

A lot of people says my thinking is different from others. I say otherwise, it is on your perspective. If only you open your mind, I think you will see the endless possibilities to thinking. You see the problem with human is LAZINESS. We are all lazy. If there's a shortcut, we take it while animals like the antelopes  when they are being chased they are not afraid to take a big round turn. Actually that's what they were hoping for - to tire the predator. See perspective, they are not stupid. They know their advantage is to run fast. Just like the story here about this smart boy. Although you think he is all smart and show off and all but deep inside himself, he's honest~ Here  how it starts~ (PS: It's a bit dirty to those who are dirty minded) Enjoy~ A Filipino boy was very sad in class. The teacher asked, “KULITS what is your problem?” KULITS answered, “I’m too smart for the first-grade. My sister is in the third-grade and I’m smarter than she is! I thi...

Admit it... You miss me blogging some random stuffs here... Well, since Chinese New Year is coming, you might wanna consider repainting your house. What's better way than to blog about it. There are about 20 tips on painting that new colour to that wall of yours. Trust me, colour is a powerful tool that is able to inspire emotions, making space illusions (like magic...) or even set the atmosphere for that particular room. Try some of these... 1) Bright colours to create illusion of space. Have a small house? Afraid of people might get too close for comfort when there's party? Try some bright and vibrant colours like yellows or eggshells to make your home look larger than it really is. Note: Although the common white colour is helpful, but it is not as effective as tinted colours. 2) For study rooms, try not to put colours that are too bright. Colours that are too bright sometimes blind the eyes of the person studying. Also try avoiding colours that are too dull like ...

Its Monday again tomorrow... The slightest thought of having a class is so demotivating.... What's more, I have a test tomorrow night and projects and assignments due date... Argh! Give me a break! Sometimes I feel like skipping class. But then again, I play by my rules? What rules? These rules...

10 months ago, I wrote about 51 things girls may not know about guys  but as I went net browsing, I came across this Russian female blogger that write 50 things guys wish girls knew and trust me she writes like a boss. Not only she knows what guys feels, she express it well. How does she do it? Here are the 50 things... Guys aren’t  psychic , mind telling them what you mean? Guys don’t like to be used as pawns in trying to make your friends jealous. Guys tend to get serious with their relationship and become too possessive. Better watch out girls. The biggest turn off for guys is to see girls smoking. The biggest turn on for guys are the girls who workout. Girls who don’t want to  listen to the  truth shouldn’t be asking any  questions . Ending a heated conversation with “Fine” or “Whatever” isn’t considered acceptable. If you want sex, just ask. Don’t expect guys to say as many sweet things as they do in  the movies . It takes 10 couples to com...

Have you ever wondered who viewed your updates on Facebook the most? Well, wonder no more, now you can know who is that person who keeps stalking be it silently or openly. Just follow this few simple steps... 1) Open your Facebook 2) Right click anywhere on Facebook 3) Select view page source 4) Press on your keyboard "Ctrl and F" together. A small bar will pop up. 5) Type in that small bar "ordered_list.top_friends". 6) Below that, contains lots of sets of numbers. Select the first set of numbers. For my case it is  1343755749 7) Then, type the URL www.facebook.com/"set of numbers" . For my case, www.facebook.com/1343755749 which leads to my best friend. Yea, he's been stalking me... 8) You can try other set of numbers too, for example the second set is your second most stalker followed by third, fourth and so on... Enjoy!

*advertorial* Ever since I came to my current universiti, my favorite pastime is watching Running Man (a Korea Reality Series so addictive that it tasted like BBQ the first time you have it again and again) There are currently 117 episodes to watch right now. So in case you're feeling bored or nothing to do, watch it! I highly recommend it. They gives lots of laughter and ideas for outdoor activities. The famous one was the nametag tearing games. The favorite 7 characters consists of Jae Suk, Suk Jin, Jong Kook, Gwang Soo, Gary, Ji Hyo and Haha each have their own unique nicknames. Plus let's not forget that every episode consists of your favourite Korean stars. List of episodes and stars can be found here . Everytime I watch it really makes me feels like I want to have a piece of the action in the series. Wait a minute~ Now everyone can with these Running Man T-shirts... From now till 23 March 2013, you can pre-order these unique T-shirts for only RM 27.90* (Price af...

Here's a short post forwarded from my friend that I find quite true... 1. A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants. A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't want. 2. A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. 3. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. 4. To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot & love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot & not try to understand her at all. 5. Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to die. 6. Any married man should forget his mistakes-there's no use in two people remembering the same thing. 7. Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. 8. A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman ...

For some of you not living in Asia, you might not know this but Aluba is a famous 'offering' one MAN has to 'deal' with. This normally occurs to male high school students in Asia and not recommend to perform on a female. Origins of the name came from Japan, other parts of Asia called it differently like Aruba in Taiwan and Happy Corner in Hong Kong. I'm surprised that they even has a wiki page for this (if you can read mandarin) Here comes the definition: Aluba is a student prank where you need to gather at least 4 person on pounce on a particular victim. Grab hold of his arms and legs. Spread his legs wide and ramp his groin against something thin, hard, rod-like and able to take a beating of the groin like a lamp post, a supporting cylinder wall or even the edge of a door. Repeat the 'ramping' process until all of you (except the victim) are satisfied. Sometimes the offering does not ends here, you may offer the victim to your "Holy" ro...

Please take  some time off to look at this very important message. Recently Malaysian Parliamentry sitting just announced the amendment of Section 114A which enables law enforcement officials to hold one accountable for publishing seditious, defamatory or libelous content online, as long as the allegedly defamatory content is traced back to one's username, electronic device and/or WiFi network . It means that anything you post, create or even share anywhere in the world wide web, if the Government thinks you're wrong then you will be heading to court. Example, if you share an alleged video of a famous politician having an affair, I'm not mentioning names here but here's a picture of one of the few that supports the ammendment of Section 114A below. If the Government feels this threatens the country, then I bid you good luck. This guy can be the next Samy Vellu I tell you... For example.... Okay... Back to the topic, despite all this, like most...

Are you familiar with these?? If yes, then you probably been to Bon Odori (or Obon). Bon Odori is a fun-filled event with decent Japanese food and kawaii girls. Everything is nice there except the fact that Bon Odori is not an event. It's a dance to honor the spirits of ancestors. Bon Odori originates from the story of Maha Maudgalyayana (nice name), a disciple of Buddha, who has supernatural abilities (while meditating) to look upon his deceased mother. He discovered that she had fallen into the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and was suffering (Notice how similar it is to Hungry Ghost Festival which is also on the 7th month of the calender). Any food that she touches burst into flames. Disturbed, he went to the Buddha and asked how he could release his mother from this realm. Buddha instructed him to make offerings to the many Buddhist monks who had just completed their summer retreat, on the fifteenth day of the seven month (Notice the seventh month again). T...

Recently I noticed there was this banner and TV ads that displayed "Janji Ditepati" in other words "Promises Kept" in English. Is it me or is the whole picture shaped like Africa continent to you? This could only mean one thing - Election is coming and Barisan Nasional (BN) (current government) is trying to tell us that they promise what they said during last elections. However, come to think of it, correct me if I'm wrong, in Malaysia you cannot promote political parties campaign if the Parliament still have not dissolve and clearly this was one of them BN promises showing around... Worse part? It's related to 1Malaysia concept. This guy below once said 1Malaysia concept is not a politics bla bla bla Well, you get the idea.... But now... I can see it everywhere... Even in across my uni there's one big board saying that. What do you think? Is it really a political tactics? Is election coming anytime in 3 months? Hmmm???

Penang has been famous for many things, food, tourists spot, me, trading. So many, but for today's post, I'll been concentrating on it's contribution towards my country, Malaysia. From year 2010 to 2011, Penang gave the highest contribution to Malaysia's Foreign Direct Investments with RM17.7billion. Sadly, analyst predicted by 2019, Malaysia economy will go bankrupt (Please note that it's not me saying it, I'm quoting it from Star BizWeek itself). So it made me wonder, what Penang did that the country can't do it? For a brief moment, I gain nothing. Then, it struck me, that's right, Penang Chief Minister is an accountant. Whatever an accountant do, their objective is to never lose money. I got so inspired by this that I start searching for Mr. Lim Guan Eng's speech. Among speeches I came across was the recent one he gave at  ACCA Accountants for Business Forum "Finance Transformation: Expert Insights on shared services and outsourcing" at...

Not too long ago, Forbes revealed 25 worst passwords of 2011. Now if you see your password is listed below, you better change it fast. In this post I'll also be giving tips and tricks on how to manage your password better. So here you go Top 25 Worst Passwords 1) password 2) 123456 3) 12345678 4) qwerty 5) abc123 6) monkey 7) 1234567 8) letmein 9) trustno1 10) dragon 11) baseball 12) 111111 13) iloveyou 14) master 15) sunshine 16) ashley 17) bailey 18) passwOrd 19) shadow 20) 123123 21) 654321 22) superman 23) qazwsx 24) michael 25) football If you don't see any of your password above then, congratulations! You're save for now... Anyway, here are some tips to make your account more secure. 1) Try to have at least 8 characters in your password 2) Try to have mix of 4 types of characters - Capital letters, small letters, numbers and special character (!@#$%^&*) 3) Your password shouldn't be a name, a slang...