It's Not About Driving Lorry!

Who say lorry driver is a low class job?? Darn you those who looked down upon this job! Do you know that nowadays, a lorry driver after going through various trainings could earn up to RM3k per month, and salary increase with experiences?? More than those who stuck their arse onto the chairs everyday in an air-conditioned office. Additionally, without the drivers, where are u going to get your furniture, TV-sets, and whatever is around you?? It is them that transport the things that you have, YES! Everything that u have now! But thanx to the ‘low class’ mind of most Malaysians, most companies are facing shortages of drivers.

1^st Class Infrastructures, 2^nd Class Salary, but 3^rd Class Mentality

“Welcome to Malaysia, and this year is Tahun Meliwat Malaysia 2008”

“So what do you think Logistics is about?” asked by Datuk Paul, President of FMM and flanked by 6 other directors (from various states), sitting in front of me. “Erm, it’s a service sector that sends goods to customer, no matter where they are.” I replied nervously. “That was partially correct, but still it’s good that u did not say it’s about driving lorry!!” Datuk Paul joked, and the whole room burst into laughter.

So what is Logistics about? Curious? I know you are!

Council of Logistics Management (CLM) defines Logistics as:

“Logistics is that part of the supply chain processes that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customer’s requirements.”

Confusing huh? Don’t worry if you do not understand it right away, bcos I took 7 months to understand this sentence!

Plans, Implements and controls: For example, DHL plans the fastest route for their driver to send an urgent document to the customer in Melaka. After planning, they then provide the determined route (implements) to the driver and off the driver go. When the driver is on the road, DHL keep an eye (Control) on the driver and offer alternative route if the driver is going to face a massive jam (you probably have watched an advertisement of DHL, the driver met a massive jam and then he was diverted into the woods where a plane is waiting for him.).

That’s all for now, will explain further (the bold sentences) in the time to come. Feel free to ask if you are not sure about any statements above.

I Sucks In It!!

“Instead of preparing for answers, try to be curious and ask questions”

Time & time again, I came across this word Public Relation (PR), from home,skool,college to a fren whom I hav added in friendster. I have had enuf! PR, PR, PR…it just kept floating in my mind, its kind of nuisance since I could not concentrate fully on anything that I m doing. Y? Bcos I sucks in it!!! I would gv a rating of 3/10 for my PR!

Well, what is PR in my case? Its not about liaising with working colleagues but its about with my new frens. Normally, when new people ‘come into my life’, it usually take 1 month for me to really ‘fren’ wif them. For those who has the rating of 9/10 for PR, they usually take few days or lesser! “Create a conversation” said my sister “Ask questions and he/she is yours! (Nonsense!)” But luckily, I know my weaknesses and I m taking measures to improve my PR. How m I going to improve? Well, find me, and I wil show u^^. K la, lets stop writing bout myself ald, dun 1 to make a bad impression of me in u.

Anyway, I jz get my own PROTES T-shirt from a friend..haha..as souvenir..PROTES SAMPAI HARGA MINYAK TURUN!! REFORMASI!^^(For yr information, I did not attend the protest in Kelana Jaya)

Alright, lets go into the meaning of Public Relation in business & marketing environment. PR is not customer service. Customer Service is to handle the problems of customers about products and services, responding to the customers’ FAQ and satisfying their needs. PR is to deliver the messages of the company to customers, for example: AirAsia’s tagline “Now Everyone Can Fly”(jz an example, cant tink of other msgs), which means LOW COST.

“Public relations provide a service for the company by helping to give the public and the media a better understanding of how the company works. There are certain skills necessary to work in the world of PR. These include a very high level of communication skills, written and verbal. The PR person must also be very adept at multitasking and time management. He or she may also have some form of media background or training in order to understand how the media and advertising work.”

PR worker would normally work their ass up to find and network with other people and companies, to bring sales and profits to his organization. Retaining the customers is also their job, which is why communication skills is vital, find a weak spot in the customer, hit tat spot, amuse the customer with yr wit, and a business will be created. Its really a tough job as they are dealing with HUMANS(most susah to handle one...correctx3)!!!!!

Jadi, lain kali bila kamu jumpa atau bercakap dgn orang PR, janganlah marah mereka, dengar apa yang mereka offer, dan jika tidak interested, rejectlah dengan berperikemanusiaan. Mereka hanya melaksanakan kerja mereka, bawa profit kepada syarikat mereka, adakah itu satu kesalahan? Tanyalah sendiri.

Push for a Change in Malaysia. You Can Make A Difference.

FMM 3rd International Conference On Excellence of Manufacturing

It was a hell without Internet in my life when my house experienced a 1 week and 1 day break down, from 9^th June to 16^th June. “ Tu air r, dah serap ke dalam kabel, so orang kami akan fixkannya.” one of the technicians said. It took them a week to repair it…The Malaysian Style.

Tuesday(19^th June), my modem was officially pronounced ‘dead’ at 1900 and my dad have to buy a new modem. Wth…RM 198 for Aztech router, but no choice lo, no modem cannot work at all. I was supposed to collect the ‘corpse’ and the new ‘baby’ at Desa Complex, but at that time, I was in Sunway Pyramid..haha.

I was attending an International Conference, as I have mentioned it before in the previous post. It disappointed me a little, I thought the participants would surpass 150 ppl, manatau, oni 80ppl ++. The conference started at 9.15am to 6.30pm. The best part of going to a conference is, EAT!!! 10sth break time, 1 pm Lunch- Chinese Lunch set, worth RM200++, 3 sth break time. So, is this conference beneficial to me? Yeah, it is, as I have learnt 90% of new systems, technologies and methods to solve problems, but its mostly on Manufacturing sector, little on Logistics.

(Ir Segaran & Stefan Weiler respectively)

Anyway, it’s an eye opener to me, able to listen the wonderful slangs of various countries’ speakers speaking ENGLISH!!! I must admit that when the Australian guy, Chris Geragthy, Managing Partner of Kepner-Tregoe Asia Pacific started talking, I listened 1 minute and dreamt on for 3 minutes, duno wth he is talking about. Next is a Chinese Born American(CBA), cos he was ‘manufactured’ in China and raised in US since he was a few yrs old. He is Hong Li, Vice President of Lean Enterprise China. The following few speakers are :

1)Haji Abd. Wahid Mohammad, MD of Best Practice Management Consulting;

2) Ir Segaran A. Narayanan, Regional Manufacturing Excellence Manager of Schneider Electric Asia Pacific;

3) Stefan Weiler, a German, MD of Project Engineering Asia in Thailand.

After the conference, I have a chat with Hong Li, and to my surprise, he said China is still short of labor force. He explained further that it happens bcos the industries or companies could not find the graduates with the required skills and the normal turnover rate in a company in China is about 100%. I got a shocked during that time..100%, that means anyone that work in a company will(100%) leave the company after sometime, few ppl hav stayed a year in a company & bla bla bla…We(students) chatted with him until my FMM executive Director have to pull Hong Li away from us..hahaha

We left Sunway Resort around 6.30 pm and head straight to Sunway Pyramid for a bowling game. During the game, one of my fren, Chris broke her nails(est.4cm long), she was so heart broken… As usual, I won the game with a score of 105, the 2^nd is around 80+ and the rest is 60+. . The following is about bowling..u can c my fren's reaction after breaking her nail..hehe..GOTCHA!)

Let me introduce who is in the Video:

1)Danny aka The Hulk- Clad in blue shirt, muscular, A's student, Mix(Dad-Iban, Mum- Indian)

2)Faizal-Dark Green shirt, energetic, fluent in english, humble

3)Justin- Shirt with blue stripes, laugh very loud, student representative

4)Adrian- Not in video, but can hear him say-"Her nail broke wei", cousin to Justin, love to eat burger

5)Sharmah aka Sharmah Tipu- White shirt, laugh the loudest, bombastic,loves football

6)Mira-Shy shy, golden hair, a little hamsap(me vely suci d), sporting

7)Chris-Lovely, want car pool? find her, natural intelligent, ex-SMK Kepong student(my senior)

8)Fong aka ahbing,fei bing,sei fei bing,leng zai bing,bingzai,binggor,小彬仔- capturing the video, most leng zai in class, cute, shy, yeng, cool, mou dak deng, mysterious, one kind wan la, American Born Chinese+British nascent+Hakka style=Malaysian & pro in Manglish

*AKA-Also Known As

K la..I wrote a little long ald, so I better stop here. I will write about Logistics in the next post. Ciao.

FMM? Can eat one ar?

FMM (my study place, it’s not a college but an institute) has yet again addressed the issue of the petrol hike affecting the manufacturers in today’s The Star Manufacturers worry, particularly in the Logistics and Transportation sector. Most of you would not know this institute (not until I mentioned it), but it’s normal. The following is a brief description of FMM:

FMM - "The Voice of the Malaysian Manufacturing Industry"

The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) is Malaysia's premier economic organization. Since its establishment in 1968, the FMM has consistently led Malaysian manufacturers in spearheading the nation's growth and modernization. Today, as the largest private sector economic organization in Malaysia representing over 2,000 manufacturing and industrial service companies of varying sizes, the FMM is the officially recognized and acknowledged voice of the industry.

FMM Vision
To make Malaysian industries globally competitive

Quality Policy
Total commitment to service excellence and quality.

The reason that I mentioned my institute is to create awareness upon all of you, not which by knowing this you will get richer in wealth but in your general knowledge. Wisma FMM is located in Bandar Sri Damansara (the place I study Logistics Management). It is also a place for representatives from various manufacturing companies to meet and discuss the variety of challenges in today’s market. I expect the forthcoming FMM 3^rd International Conference on Excellence in Manufacturing on 17^th June, 2008 in Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa would be exciting. Everyone (CEOs, GM, Managers, etc) would be jumping up and down over the fuel hike. I am also invited (or forced) to join the conference for FOC (each participant would need to pay RM1.5k), I guess I would be following their monkey acts if they do so.

So, if your parents, friends or relatives are in the manufacturing, logistics sectors & etc,and have yet to join FMM, then I would encourage you to persuade them(I will not be getting any incentives nor benefits of companies joining bcos of me) join this institute for strategic reasons. Some of the reasons include, sending employees for trainings in FMM and able to hire highly qualified and trained people (like me) into your/their respective organizations. For more info, you can log in to FMM or for education info, log in to FMM Education.

Have a nice day.(Piakk! Celaka u,why you slapped me? Oil increase laa,stupid! We all crying and u still say have a nice day! Aiyaa...tats y i call u join FMM looo!)

Amusing & Interesting Replies

1)written by ez24get, June 05, 2008 | 13:44:57

The word “subsidy” has been brandished by the BN government as if it has so generously helped the rakyat and in doing so incurred losses. This simple example will help to explain the fallacy:

Example:
Ahmad is a fisherman. He sells a fish to you at $10 which is below the market value of $15. Let’s assume that he caught the fish from the abundance of the sea at little or no cost. Ahmad claims that since the market value of the fish is $15 and he sold you the fish for $10, he had subsidised you $5 and therefore made a loss of $5.

Question : Did Ahmad actually make a profit of $10 or loss of $5 which he claimed is the subsidy?

Answer:
Ahmad makes a profit of $10 which is the difference of the selling price ($10) minus the cost price ($0 since the fish was caught from the abundance of the sea). There is no subsidy as claimed by Ahmad.


The BN government claims that it is a subsidy because the oil produced by Petronas is kept separated and treated as somebody else’s property (you know who). By right, the oil belongs to all citizens of the country and the government is a trustee for the citizens. So as in the above simple example, the BN government cannot claim that it has subsidised the citizen!


2)written by indianputra, June 05, 2008 | 11:11:32

"God willing I hope Malaysians will not demonstrate over this," he said, referring to fury over earlier hikes in a country where public transport is poor and most people are reliant on their cars.
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Don't bring God into the picture. No matter how mny times God tell you, you won't listen


3)written by csgcsg, June 05, 2008 | 11:19:24

1st you do stupid things like barring foreigners to spend in our country, then you take back the ruling and be a laughing jokes among Singaporean you stupid pm and gang

2nd you increase petrol by 78 cents, nice round up to rm 2.70 and you say you will review it monthly, so next month another 30 cents increase to make a better round number to rm 3?

stupid pm, you lied and corrupt your way to stay in power and what is your plan now? Are you going to raise up your oxford ape and bring down the oil price so Malaysians will think he is a saviour and vote him as pm?

So what if our petrol is still cheapest among the region? Is our car prices among the cheapest in the region? Is our benefits EQUAL among malaysians and equal among the region? Do you give our social welfare services like caring for the lower income group and retiree like Australia? How about our judiciary and parliament and police system? Are they also the lowest standard among the regions? You stupid baboon mr pm, you just play with people life as it was playing with your balls.

I am not highly educated as your top ministers mr bodohwi, but I do simple economics such as debit and credit and ROI, and I hopefully can manage my life properly without you inferring anymore. Be more transparent, when you invest our money, what are the returns. Don't keep telling we achieve growth 5% or 7% or 100%, no one gives a fuck about those numbers, unless the numbers translate to more cash incentive for us or cheaper vehicles or even cheaper petrol.

God bless your soul


4)written by EagleOne, June 05, 2008 | 11:53:33

Protest in KL!WHEN???

Dear Fak Lah, come and have a cup of coffee with me and I shall let you pay for it. Since you are in a generous mood (78cents inc.), maybe I'll let you treat me a bowl of laksa. I was back in my hometown last week(pop. 15000) and a bowl of noodle when from RM2.20 to RM2.70 (if you can't count,I'll bring along a calculator in case you think I'll lie to you if I say it's more than 20% inc.),and a plate of fried beehoon goes from Rm3.00 to Rm3.50. BTW, a cup of kopi-O is RM1.10 vs Rm 1.00...that's more than the 5% inflation rate you mentioned yesterday. Those prices in my hometown just went up only last month b4
your announcement. I wonder what it'll be the next time I goes home.
With your announcement, you've just increase the pop. of people in poverty level. Game for lunch, I'll let you buy also. try nasi campur. I wonder how much could Rm4.00 buys me. May I suggest lunch at Sungei Wang foodcourt, as Rm3.00 we can still have a small piece of meat plus two veg. of yr choice. It's still one of the cheapest in town.

I wish my boss were like you...giving me a 40% hike in salary..overnight!!!As far as I 'm concerned, I've not had that much of an inc. except from you. Now for dinner, guess I have to go to Sungei Wang again for dinner...ooops. I'll be stuck in the jam and to pay higher petrol for my motorbike...shit! no appetite already.

What am I gonna do with the spiraling prices of everything from rice,petrol, elect., oil, roticanai, pasar noodles, veg, etc...etc How am I going to cover for this price inc.? Ask for a raise from my boss? Get a second job? Join Dumno to rob the population? Sorry, can you tell me what to do to supplement my income so as to feed my wife and two school going children. Shit!. just struck me I'll have to pay more for their bus fares.

Super anyone!!! I'll have to skip this from now onwards as I must cut back on my
spending. I am really worry where all this is leading to down the road. In a few months time, not only I have to pay alot more for everything, I'll have to skimp on all my luxuries like outing with friends and even family members. The economy
is not doing well, politically, you're even worse off, the stock market is just like you...sleeping!! Sorry!


5)written by ratatosk, June 05, 2008 | 11:57:09

Lets all go out and buy a bicycle.
For family outings,lets invest in a bullock cart.
So BN, plse build bicycle lanes so we can go about our business in comparative safety.
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Yay!!! Bicycle lanes!! I second this idea!