29.03.2013 - Grave-yard Office

The saddest thing on earth is when someone you know pretend not knowing you in front of someone else. I am the lead of my division and recently someone asshole got promoted and I am forced to pass some of my clerk to assist him. Although my ranking is higher than him, he still has the power to shake my chair by back poking me in front of my bosses at KL. I was the pioneer in this company and when he join this company I lead and guide him through. I even mix him around with my friends hoping he can digest the work life and way how things works in our company. Now, he is completely successful, promoted and running his own project. He has wings and skills that he uses it to back stabbing me. I hired a new girl for him under the direction of my boss but he hinted my boss to warn me not to touch his team members including his clerks. I am an easy going person and mix pretty well with all colleagues in my company. Although I am a manager but I never draw a line that I am a manager and they are my staffs. We play equally and work happily. Until 1 day, he was dissatisfied and being jealous over my easy going with everyone, he finally show off his wing by informing my bosses that I do not act like a manager and putting myself on the ground playing with others and treat everyone equally. Worst of all, he says I influence his staffs and took over the control over his staff without consulting him. I wasn't aware of this until my boss call me personally and reminds me that I shouldn't cross over the line. I was so pissed off and started to act ridiculously with him and asked him to be a man to face me if he founds any problem that he is not satisfy with. Unfortunately he won the race by making my bosses likes him most. I was at the tremendous pressure and was mad over all this. This incidents has causes his clerks to avoid me and stop making jokes with me. Whenever their boss is not around (i mean that fellow) his clerks crack jokes with me and enjoy the working environment. When he is around, everyone seems quiet and pay more attention to work like a grave yard  environment. This has gone even far than i expected. When I met these girls (his clerks; the one I hired) outside office during lunch hours, they will smile and greet me like their brothers; but when he is around with them, I am totally an invisible person even though I throw them a smile and greet. them. I was ignored and treated not around when this asshole stand beside them. I was so mad and sad over what happened. Seriously speaking we work under the same roof, I just cannot understand why is that this bosses in KL chooses to separate the same division team to 2 teams in my office? If we work as a team, we should talk freely and work without boundaries. Why would bosses choose to listen 1 side and make moves that may hurt someone that served the company for 15 years? Is it just because he is so apple polishing and carrying balls he is the best? Seriously I cannot understand what is the main strategy my bosses planned. This has become a laughing topic in my office where same team is fighting over each other for no reason. I cannot understand this and I wish I can just find something else to do and leave the company happily. Now this office is totally like grave yard. The silence and tense working environment really makes me feel bored and irritating. I no longer talking to these clerks since they choose not to greet or talk to me even in the public or office when that asshole is around. If they choose to be such I rather let it last forever at all time. They were trying hard to talk to me last few weeks but I throw them my cold treatment. We are not totally not talking or even smiling at each other. I just don't like the environment now!

29.03.2013 - Why WOMAN lies???

I still cannot understand why some people would choose to lie just to win over someones' sympathy? My nephew decided to break off with his GF last year and took up a replacement instantly who is a good friend of his ex-GF. I was a bit uncomfortable when he visited me some times ago dating a new GF while having his Facebook profile picture with his Ex-GF. I asked him personally who is this new lady and was told that she is his new GF. I was shocked and asked what happened to the old GF? He replied it was past and they have broke off. I threw him several more question and of course about his Facebook profile picture. Dont you think it is weird to have a new GF that don't even bother that her BF posting a photo with his Ex-GF? Well, this is not my problem in fact; just a little busy body and want to get thing straight rather than assuming who is who.

Since I do have his Ex-GF in my Facebook list, it is not really a big deal to see what is happening to her throughout the time. But my surprise is she message me and tells me she is 2 months pregnant and my nephew is leaving her for someone else. I was a bit disturbed over this and keep wondering why would that little nephew do so? Don't you think he should responsible for the mistakes he has done? I keep asking myself and begin to have doubt on my nephew. I was a bit annoyed over the explanation give by my nephew and keep hoping this is not true after all. He told me his Ex-GF is good in lying and this is her tactic to make him feel guilty. To me pregnant is not a issue to be played around. This is about a new life! But she told me that she planned for the abortion because my nephew refuse to take the responsibility. I was so frustrated! Since the war is between the 2 of them, to me what I really want is to persuade her to have second thought of the innocent baby. At her young age of 23 yes I agree it is a tough to be single mother, but abortion is not a total solution after all. The risk of abortion is not a joke; it may caused permanent disability to conceive. I told her many times and try hard to make her calm. My objective is, I just want her to think deeply and planned for her future and not making an instant decision that may spoil her entire life. I just hope she can think wisely and not making a wrong move. I stop chatting with my nephew for few months because of this and my sympathy to his GF grow stronger and stronger. I even decided to support her if she decided to keep the baby.

2~3 months later, although we seldom chat, I still monitor her progress from time to time through her Facebook posting and photos. What really makes me feel mad is, there is no physical change at all on her. I don't see her stomach grows. I did asked her about the baby and she told me she planned to do abortion soon. What abortion is she talking about? after 2 months + 2 months when she told me, that will be total of 4 months. I still see nothing and keep seeing her going around having vacation, jump up and down and having all kind of food without any sign of vomiting or drowsy. Am I being cheated by her talented sympathy seeking technique. So, it is now going April 2013, that means about 5 months from the day she told me about her pregnancy. Even if she undergo abortion, I don't think she would be able to take so much wonderful food and go around with friends without having the symptom and confinement month. Well, I am not good in woman's things but I am so sure abortion process is not a simple 1.

I guess what my nephew said is the truth about her. My failure is to judge her in different aspect and assuming my nephew being irresponsible over the act. Now the one that really doing sin and throwing lies is his Ex GF. I not sure how true that allegation I am going to make but with the evidences I see now tells me she is surely lying to get sympathy from me and others. I am very disappointed over her action and kind of agree that she deserved to be dumped by my nephew for being too fucking childish. Creating a lie that involved pregnancy is not really a joke after all. I am so lucky that I was told not to get involved. Initially I planned to bring this to his parents but luckily I didn't because this is just a lie. I just realised how naive I am in this! Lesson learnt this time; not to trust woman just because of their tears. Listen no one and trust no one. Believe something with prove or evidence otherwise trust nothing even they are very close to you.

My pray goes to her; hoping that whatever she did, should be pregnant or not, she is lying or telling the truth, I just hope God forgive her sin and lies she made to hurt others. If she is telling the truth, God, please help her and give her the best path to go on.

28.03.2013 - Crazy Weather

What is going wrong with this world? The weather is so hot and it touches 32C as appeared in my iPhone application. But how reliable the weather report is? I tried this application for sometimes and most of the time it shows isolated rain but there is no rain at all. I guess the forecast is somehow a gimmick to keep everyone calm over the drastic change on the weather. When the world is talking about the end of man-kind, we never expect that the weather is more killing than the threat. As you can see here, I took a screen shot of my iPhone application, it shows consistency of isolated rain but for the past few days, there is no rain at all. Jogging was part of my daily routine but the jog is more or less similar to sauna. My sweat drops before I begin my jog! It is like dehydrating before you got yourself workout. Lunch is also another problem. The drastic change of the temperature from office to outside is really killing. How long will the weather last until it rain? Currently it is very hot, dry and hazy. I found out that there are many people that fall ill and have difficulties in breathing due to the bad weather but will that caused any epidemic or disaster? This is really torturing and I hope it ends soonest possible. 

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26.03.2013 - Weekday VS Weekend

So; everyone wish to have weekend because weekend is the only day where they are not required to report work, instead they are allowed to sleep until late morning, go shopping, etc. But if you look into it technically, weekend is an ordinary day similar to weekday. Although the count shows clearly 1 to 7th day yet they are similar days that run 24 hours, day and night, rain the same way, hot the same way, etc. Imagine if the founder of Mon to Sunday defined Monday as weekend, it makes no different after all right? Well, it is the matter of how we take it and how we make our day meaningful.

For those with luxury life, for example maid at home and full air conditioned, well weekend is really meaningful to them. They just rest like useless person, need not to do house work, need not to cook, just shopping, and of course sleep throughout the day in the fully air conditioned room / house. For those with partner, I mean gf/bf well it is even more colourful especially cuddling on the bed and making love throughout the day. Wonderful aren't they?

For me, it is just another day where I have to work out on house cleaning under tremendous hot weather. Well, yes my house do have shelter / roof the prevent direct sun glare but inside the house, it is more or less similar to microwave oven. That is the moment when I started to sweat and mood begin to turn sour and bad. Unlikely weekdays where I spend every hours in the air conditioned office and I can forget about house cleaning and by the time I reach home; it is already late evening. If you really ask me, I would say weekday is way much better than weekend. Sometimes I just feel bored during weekend. Worst of all I spend alot during weekend than weekday. Well, I am 1 and only species that think so. Weird!

24.03.2013 - Live to ...???

I am moving backwards. So, Sunday was somehow better than ordinary day. I slept in the afternoon and went for a jog in the early evening. Jogging was my regular routine; If possible, I would like to have it everyday but sometimes it is very lonely especially running the same track for years. My best friend joined me lately on weekend jog and I was amazed that he still make it every weekend. I knew him for years and all these while he'll never consistently doing something similar. But surprisingly he meet up with me at our regular jogging place without failed for the 3rd time. I am not sure what really  makes him being so consistent but my great sense tells me his ex-girl friend is the culprit behind. I tried to make him jog with me for couple of times but everytime I called him, he rejects. I did called his ex-GF and asked for her help to push him instead and after awhile he calls and date me for jog. I believe should be the ex that trigger him. Well, he is the only guy that I can talk to and we have similar problem, thought and style. We know we are not good looking guys like those appears in the K-Pop MTV but we are so sure that we are not harmful type of person. We respect others and expect the same in return disregard they are male or female. We meet up almost ever week for beer for man to man talk and weekend for a jog. We can talk anything from head to toe, happiness to sadness and even cry in front of each other. We don't laugh at each others but of course we laugh out loud when we crack jokes. We are not gay but we have the same kind of feels and attitude that may drives other girls away from us when we 2 sit together. We can talk anything including girls, dates and even family matters. We do have secret but we never allow them to be boundries among 2 of us. We share equally and listen to each others advices if we find problems.

I believe you must be thinking that I am totally a gay now... Be honest, I don't really have good friends around me. You can even count my friend with both hand finger and yet you cannot finish all the fingers. After the biggest lesson I've learn years back, I told myself trust no one except yourself. The reality in life is, whenever you are rich, everyone will stay close to you and you are everyone's best friend. When you are poor man, eagerly seeking for finanancial aid, no one will treat you as a friend. Trust me! Even the one that I have mentioned above! Life is full of obstacles, challenges and mind tricking puzzle. Like it or not, you will have to live with it and survive. Even you are totally hopeless, still you have to think of the best way to stand up and live for today and tomorrow. Like it or not, you still have to stay focus and find the best solution for every puzzle that embedded in your life. What I hate most is, you cannot turn around and say stop; similarly like a song "1 way ticket". Once you make your decision, you have to bear the consequences. Even you cry for help, the only person that laugh at you still the 'GOD'. Well, this is part of life. I am still walking and still looking for the brighter side to go on. I wish my closest sibling, family and of course the rest that is close to me walk along with me until the day I leave the world.

 

25.03.2013 - Another Week Started

The strangest in live lately is getting to know the day passes so fast until I lost track what I did yesterday and days before. I tried to recall those stupid things I have gone thru but what I can really remembered is I spent like tap water and I have no more freedom. Sometimes I do feel being over negative in my life but that is me. I keep asking why would I choose to be sad and painful for what I have chosen since it is my choice not others. However I don't have that answer either because I know I live for someone and serve as servant in this world party to fulfil what God's wants me to do. It is like working for the God; whether you like it or not you will have to live and serve the community and continue to multiply your generation and partly involved in generating the economy and damaging the earth.

It's a sleepy Monday, indeed. And of course Monday Blue. If you ask me what I want, seriously I don't even know what I want in my live. If the world could give me luxury and happiness, I would be very grateful to live life fullest, unfortunately this is all dreams. What you want and wish shall comes from how you earn them with your bare hands and legs. Brain was given to think and figure out the best way but it was not designed in such a way where it could recalibrate itself when someone diverted negatively. Well, basically; if this would to happen, I bet the world works positively and grow stronger in all aspects. Doesn't seems natural right? I think I have made a lot of ridiculous wishes but you cannot expect me to be perfect too; sometimes there are moment where I am very down, sad and lost track of what is life all about. I wish I can just disappeared but having so, it is like being irresponsible. Happy or not, you will have to live with it and embrace yourself to walk thru the nightmares and upcoming nightmares that going to haunt you for the rest of your life.

07.03.2013 - History about Sabah. (Retrieved)

Interesting reading. The majority of Malaysians have no idea of this part of the history of Sabah.   If there really was an incursion, how come I do not see our Foreign Minister flying off to the Philippines or their Foreign Secretary here in Sabah to negotiate the retreat? COMMENT I was asked to pen my views on the alleged ongoing standoff between the Malaysian armed forces and the so-called Sulu intruders at a Lahad Datu village in Sabah. I will touch on the history of Sabah followed by my arrival to the conclusion on the probability of the incident actually happening in reality. North Borneo It was written that on Jan 23, 1878, the Ruler of Sulu, Sultan Jamalul Alam leased Sabah (formerly known as North Borneo) to Gustavus Von Overbeck for an annual rent of equivalent 5,000 dollars through Von Overbeck’s trading partner Alfred Dent. It was also recorded that this amount of money (USD1,500 per year) is still being paid to the heirs of the Sulu Sultan by the Malaysian Embassy in the Philippines until today. The keyword in the written agreement was “Pajak” which if translated literally means “Lease”. It was also explicitly written that the rights to Sabah cannot be transferred to any other nation or anyone else without the Sulu Sultan’s express consent. The Spaniards in Manila eventually took control of the entire Sulu Sultanate; and in 1885, Great Britain, Germany, and Spain signed the Madrid Protocol confirming Spanish influence over everything in the Philippines except Sabah which belongs to the Sultanate. Great Britain was reminded by America in official black and white in 1906 and 1920 that Sabah does not belong to Great Britain; and was and is at all material times legally and legitimately part and parcel of the Sulu Sultanate. The British government, however as we all know, arrogantly and unilaterally did turn Sabah into a Crown-leased Colony on July 10, 1946 even though there was a declaration by Chief Justice CFC Makaskie of the High Court of North Borneo on Dec 19, 1939 in a civil suit filed by Dayang Dayang Hadji Piandao and 8 other heirs of the Sulu Sultan including Putlih Tarhata Kiram that the successor of the Sulu Sultan in the territory of Sabah was Punjungan Kiram and not Great Britain! Earlier on in 1941 the Constitution of the Philippines states specifically that the national territory of the Philippines includes “all other areas which belong to the Philippines on the basis of historical rights or legal claims” which means that the Philippines have never relinquished their claim on Sabah. Even before Sabah joined Malaya, Sarawak, and Singapore to form Malaysia on Sept 16, 1963, numerous delegations were sent by the Philippines to London reminding the British government that Sabah belongs to the Philippines. On Sept 12, 1962, the territory of Sabah and the full sovereignty, title and dominion over the territory were ceded by the then reigning Sulu Ruler, Sultan Muhammad Esmail E. Kiram 1 to the Republic of the Philippines during the Presidency of Diosdado Macapagal. The cession effectively gave the Philippines government full authority to pursue their claim in the International Court of Justice at The Hague. But until today, Malaysia continues to consistently reject the Philippines’s calls to refer the matter to the ICJ. Immediately preceding the formation of Malaysia, two commissions of enquiry visited Sabah and Sarawak in order to establish the state of public opinion regarding merger with Malaya and Singapore. However, the commissions were never mandated to address the legal status of Sabah nor were they referendums in the proper sense. The first commission known as the Cobbold Commission was established by the Malayan and British governments and was headed by Lord Cobbold, along with two representatives from Malaya and Britain – but none from the territories under investigation. The Commission found that about one third of the population of each territory I.e. Sabah and Sarawak strongly favours early realisation of Malaysia without too much concern over terms and conditions. Another third, many of them favorable to the Malaysia project, ask, with varying degrees of emphasis, for conditions and safeguards. The remaining third is divided between those who insist upon independence before Malaysia is considered and those who would strongly prefer to see British rule continue for some years to come. Indonesia and the Philippines rejected the findings of the Cobbold Commission and in 1963, a tripartite meeting was held in Manila between Indonesian President Soekarno, Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal and Malayan Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. The meeting agreed to petition the UN to send another commission of enquiry and the Philippines and Indonesia agreed to drop their objection to the formation of Malaysia if the new commission found popular opinion in the territories in favour. The UN Mission to Borneo found “a sizeable majority of the people” dubiously in favour of joining Malaysia and as expected Indonesia and the Philippines subsequently rejected the report’s findings and Indonesia continued its semi-military policy of “konfrontasi” towards Malaysia – the disputed report in effect sealed the creation of Malaysia. The whole situation in a nutshell To give the ordinary layman on the street an easier picture to digest, the following analogy best describes the whole situation: A landlord called Jamalul leased a piece of land to a tenant called Overbeck for a yearly rent of $5,000. The written agreement stated that Overbeck cannot sub-let the land or sell the lease without Jamalul’s permission. But the tenant despite the prohibition illegally sold the lease to a sub-tenant called Great Britain who later also illegally sold the lease to a sub-sub-tenant called Malaysia. And in between all the illegal transactions perpetrated by Overbeck, Great Britain and Malaysia, Jamalul transferred all his rights and interests to a new landlord called the Philippines. The new landlord now wants back the land but the sub-sub-tenant Malaysia refuses to leave. The new landlord wants to take the matter to the International Court of Justice at The Hague but the sub-sub-tenant Malaysia also refuses to go there. Can the sub-sub-tenant Malaysia claim to be an innocent victim when she took over the lease from the sub-tenant Great Britain? In my humble opinion: the law be it either international or of any civilized country is that if a purchaser acquires a property with prior knowledge that the property in question is in fact stolen or that the seller does not have a legal or legitimate title to the property at the time of transaction is equally guilty of the crime of theft. Such transaction is not only null and void and of no effect, the title to the property in question is still vested with the original owner. The ICJ only handles cases between states and nations which must agree to come voluntarily to be adjudged and be bound by its decisions; I strongly believe that Malaysia dares not go to the International Court of Justice to face the Philippines because the former foresee the high possibility of losing. For centuries Great Britain was the cause of a lot of world problems today, history will tell you the sufferings of people in the Middle East, Africa, Indian Sub-Continent, Argentine Falklands and many more. Even within the United Kingdom, the Scottish, Welsh, and Irish people are really pissed with England. Hong Kong was fortunate when the late Deng Xiao Ping told Margaret Thatcher in private that if Great Britain does not leave Hong Kong after squatting there for more than 150 years, the Chinese Army will overrun Hong Kong in one day. She was eventually returned to China on July 1, 1997 and now enjoyed autonomy. What about the voices of the population during the times of the first tenant Overbeck and sub-tenant Great Britain who agree to let the sub-sub-tenant Malaysia take over? Let me give another analogy: I am the registered legal and legitimate owner of a bus. One day someone leased the bus from me and drove around town picking up and dropping off passengers along the way for profit. Let us say that the passengers love his driving so much that they want to patronize him for life. Does that in any way mean he can sell my bus or treat the same as his property? To answer my earlier question: the passengers can choose to ride whichever bus they want to, but the sovereignty of Sabah is vested in the Philippines. And this also means that even if the people of Sabah today might still want to stay on with Malaysia, Sabah is still the legal and legitimate territory of the Philippines under international law if the same principles are applied as per the Judgments of the International Court of Justice with regards to the cases of Sipadan and Ligitan Islands, and Pulau Batu Puteh or Pedra Branca. The Sultanate of Sulu had ceased to exist when every inch of its territory was ceded on Sept 12, 1962 to the government of the Philippines and as the successor-in-title of the defunct sultanate, it is entitled to reclaim Sabah which is at all material times rightfully theirs. Article IV of the Malaysia Agreement of 1963* reads as follows: The Government of the United Kingdom will take such steps as may be appropriate and available to them to secure the enactment by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of an Act providing for the relinquishment, as from Malaysia Day, of Her Britannic Majesty’s sovereignty and jurisdiction in respect of North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore so that the said sovereignty and jurisdiction shall on such relinquishment vest in accordance with this Agreement and the constitutional instruments annexed to this Agreement. Because it was stated that one part of Sabah** belonged to the Brunei Sultanate and the other part to the Sulu Sultanate, and while Brunei had ceded her part of Sabah’s sovereignty, Sulu (now part of the Philippines) only leased her part of Sabah, does Her Britannic Majesty had sovereignty over the whole or only one part of Sabah? It is obvious that the answer is only one part of Sabah, therefore Article IV is null and void thereby rendering the entire Malaysia Agreement of 1963 illegal and of no effect…! There is a legal maxim “nemodat quod non habet” which means “you cannot give what you do not have”. Legitimate and legal independence or autonomy for that one part of Sabah that was leased from the Sulu Sultanate can only come from the Philippines. Lahad Datu It is now more than two weeks since the alleged intrusion took place and not even one piece of credible picture taken of the invaders was shown to the public. Common sense tells me that if the occurrence was real, the only reason our security forces dare not open fire on the raiders is either our boys are outnumbered or their guns outsized. If there really was an incursion, how come I do not see our Foreign Minister flying off to the Philippines or their Foreign Secretary here in Sabah to negotiate the retreat? Like the May 13 bogeyman that was used to frighten the Chinese voters of Peninsular, this could well be another “sandiwara” to scare the voters of Sabah and show us that only the Barisan Nasional will be able to protect us from foreign invasion. Note: Malaysia Agreement 1963 http://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20750/volume-750-I-10760-English.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Borneo_dispute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sabah The writer is a former member of Sabah’s faded tourism industry; loves food and speed; and blogs at http://legalandprudent.blogspot.com/ giving no quarters. While the views and findings contained in the above article belong to him, he wishes to encourage intelligent individuals to find and form their own answers and judgments in comparison with his.