Hi again! It is the wee hour of morning, close to 6:00 am now ( M'sian time ). I had just read the comment from edipen ( Eddy ) and replied with my personal feeling of getting into blogs this very day. How I started is something that comes vide a kind of natural way. Well, natural in a sense that at my young age, my ambition was to become a journalist. But after school, I never had this chance though I worked with the newspaper company. I had to survive back then so I worked whatever I could find, never stopped. I am never jobless. I quit a job only after I have comfortably found another.
Worst is, at that time if you are not confirmed officially by the Company, you can be there for as long as the time permits you. They wants you to work and yet they don't make you a confirm staff so that they don't increase your salary. In that they could at their discretion terminate you as and when they feel like it within 24 hours! You are so dispensable. That's ok! But the point is you cannot leave the Company as and when you like. You had to give them 1 month's notice ( which I personally think is good for the Company ) so that they could get a replacement. Better than that, they will take the excuse on the income tax ( in those days, income-tax department are ... my god I just don't wanna mention it - they sit on their ass! ) clearance before they could release your pay. And, my goodness! You can wait for ages for that miserable letter! ( and I knew nuts about income tax! )
Or it could be the Company, not happy of you leaving them for good ( infact those days getting staffs were a headache too ) take their own sweet time to submit to the income tax dept of which those fellas will take another much longer time to clear! And how was I to sustain on the new Company that I am going to work for? No pay to feed the stomach? So, I had to find ways to do it. Get some money from home or some nice working friend ( most of them were also quite the same plight as me ) to loan a couple of dollars ( at that time still not RM yet ) to continue with life and pay them when we get the next pay. Horrandous!!
Well, I am a workaholic by nature. A self disciplined and independent guy. I discover the world without guidance from my family members. I walked out of the house and started feeding myself. I did got into the media once in 1977 but it did not work out because then they looked at me and said, "you are the guy". The guy means they see me a potential to do sales. And because I was a proven hard worker in just a very short period of time with them, they pushed me to more responsibilities. And so it seems for a green horn like me who know next to nothing of the outside sales world! Well, so I worked like a log! And never had a chance in journalism. I tried other papers but there were just too many over qualifieds. Furthermore, the media are also a stingy lot too! They try every possible way to drench you dry of your pocket! That I knew from other reporters whom I made friends with. Being a reporter too was tough at that time.
I worked and I worked, just follow instructions and mind you, I was underpaid. Practically just enough to eat and pay my transportation expenses and a place for shelter, pump some gas, had some decent food and hardly ever drink much at coffee shops. Mostly quenching away at roadside stalls. Having a bottle of coke was a rare case. Not even any other soft drinks. Fruits are of course even far reachable. And not to mention much about attire. Gee, and how are we to get on the road for sales if we are so rotten on clothings? Luckily for me our Singapore relatives were of some kind of help. My many trips to Singapore has taught me much about dressing up. For this I was more fortunate than the locals. At least I picked up some fashion. Malaysia has always been 10 or 20 years behind time back then. We were so ulu ( means very country bumpkin in Malay language ) and so "kayu" ( actually is wood, so we can say we are so blockhead! ) Haha!!
Well, those were the days. Now Malaysia has technology! With technology, comes power and comes great responsibilities! Spiderman talk, hehe!! Today, we had our guy landmarked at outer space. Successful mission brings pride to our country though he did not shoot up from our own land. We "tumpang" ( meaning hitch a ride in Malay ) to achieve that is good enough. What more do we demand? Not easy to be an astronaut everyday, you know. At least we have a compatible Neil Armstrong !
So, we can now say we are close to Future Living, yes? Our technology skills have gone far and wide too. Malaysians now can easily upgrade their tech knowledge, or else our national broadband users won't be a million! Target achieved by hook or by crook anyway. With our Multimedia Super Corridor thing on going, we are a step closer to the future. MSC status are getiing more realistic. We have much to thank LimKwokWing Institute for that and getting students with jobs abroad.
And if we do not prosper for this field, we wouldn't have given more foreigners Datukship. So true that our Datuk Michelle Yeoh who tie in her hubby, a Ferrari CEO, Jean Todt! Malaysia Boleh ( means can in Malay ) to become a Datuk ( well, a Sir to mention perhaps ). That settled the case of making Malaysia My Second Home program. Hurray! This will help promote Malaysia to the world even more. This will improve credibility to our blogging as well. Haha!!
At least people around the world recognises Malaysia. We have put a dot in the map! If not for all these happenings, we might be an unknown to many countries. Now that we have A Space Odyssey dreams come true, we are into the Future! Proud as can be! Hardly half a century from the first man on the moon ( only some 38 years ago )
We also have our former Prime Minister, Datuk Dr Seri Mahathir to thank for all the hard work that he has done in profiling us, travelling abroad and "selling" and bringing back many futuristic dreams. No matter what, he has done us proud. And so, what does the future holds for us now that we have landed in space? Of course, plus the ever involvement in technology and super wired highways, we will see a shorter link to an advanced environment. Our lives will change indefinitely.
That I have sounded in my earlier blogs somewhere.
Well, Goodbye yellow brick road !
Congrats to Malaysia on this giant leap!!
Ok. I have to take a short break for now. Will continue my blog on this again, real soon. Appreciate your invested time here. Assuring you of more time here, I wish you will have a nice fresh day! Until we meet again, see you soon!
