the problem that is child labour.

hey guys,

Thought i'd use this opportunity to create an awareness on child labour.

Wikipedia defines it as 'the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom. This practice is considered exploitative by many countries and international organizations.'...

apparently, child labour dated back to the 17th century, hence the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

Was doing some research and never thought this would ever happen to Malaysian kids. How wrong was i when i stumbled upon this video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWScbBlhP6Y

Hope you have a strong stomach before you watch this.

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get well soon..

hey,

hope everyone had a good weekend. Visited an aunt at a hospital today.. she had a stroke last week..

Felt very sad when i saw her just lying there, helpless. As i recall, this is the second time i've seen her in that state. She had a tumor removed from her skull some years back (probably about 10 years ago). Ever since then, she wasn't really the same. she can't really remember things nowadays. everytime she sees me, she'll ask 'who are you?'.. or 'are you married?'.. we do laugh whenever she does that, but i feel extremely sad knowing that she actually can't remember me.. come to think of it, i can't really recall a time when she actually had her full memory..

well, about 4 days ago while traveling with her husband in Madinah (look it up), she had a stroke.. they arrived back in kl and was immediately taken to hospital. doctor diagnosed her as having a stroke and she's now in 'recovery' mode. As of now, she can only slightly move her left hand and leg.. Her right side is slowly coming back, but it definitely requires long sessions of physiotherapy... The sad thing is that she can't even talk yet.. someone was saying that they now need to make the brain start working again so that she can restart her speech and thought process..

Hope she gets well soon.. i never enjoy (don't think anyone does) seeing someone you know just lying there in the hospital bed, unable to speak, move or laugh and smile with you..

well, thats it from me today... pray for my aunt's speedy recovery!.

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update continued... and the wonders of irony.

hey,

when i start typing, i can't stop!. hahaha.. forgot to update you on certain significant items..

Sister - my sister had her engagement a few weeks ago!.. was a tiring but satisfying weekend. she seemed very happy and i'm always happy when she's happy.. kakngah, wishing you all the best!!..luv ya sis!!!

Weird book launch - was talking to a friend of mine who recently went to a book launch. she was commenting how stupid the book launch was. imagine this... the book was about 'HOW TO RAISE KIDS'..or something... well, the author was wearing a SKIMPY RED DRESS!!!..with lacy heels.. (or something)..and a huge ribbon on her ass apparently.. and kept on promoting that she was Miss Malaysia 1990 or someting..

on top of that, the sponsors for the show - Davidoff Cigars... and a LINGERIE brand!!!!..what the.... so they actually had a fashion show to strutt off the lingerie items.!!..

is it just me or there's something awfully wrong with that!!.. seriously, here you've got this book trying to teach parents how to raise kids and the only sponsors they could think of is a cigar and a lingerie brand!!.. what happend to Toy's R Us ???.. i just find that extremely ironic!!...

imagine if the author didnt really have a kid!! (i think she does, but i dont wanna know how he / she's being raised)...

so the lesson learned from "HOW TO RAISE KIDS'" book launch would be:

1. It's okay to smoke.
2. It's okay for guys to ogle at ladies dressed in undergarments.
3. It's okay for girls to dream of growing up and strutting themselves in undergarments (some people may think this is okay.. up to you.)
4. It's okay to dress like a cough*prostitute*cough when launching a book on "HOW TO RAISE KIDS"

...i wonder what's actually in the book.

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ICT Consultancy Services - Status Report as of 20 July 2007

hey everyone...

just realised i havent updated for the past 2 months... nothing much has happened, but i'll try to summarise below..

work - sucks as usual.. see the main title??.. that's basically what my main job is nowadays.. to do bloody status reports!!.. its extremely annoyingly ridiculously boring!!!! dont get me wrong, i'm as excited as the next person when it comes to 'gaji buta'.. but then again, my brain needs to function once in awhile.!.. hahah..

love life - couldn't be better!.. nuff said. 8)

Sports - well, i got myself injured again.. surprise surprise.. kinda hurt my wrist a few weeks ago playing futsal. never knew a ball could cause so much damage (no porn jokes here k).. well, i had huge bruise on my right wrist and had to basically wear a bandage for a week or so.. i'm back to playing futsal now though... someone gave me one word to describe me.... stubborn.

holiday - went for a trip to penang about a month ago with a bunch of friends. had a very good time!!.. met up with our penang buddy (how you chris??) and basically just had lots to eat. for more details on the trip, please refer to the following site: http://chrissie-tina.blogspot.com (i'm providing free ads to you chris)

Movies - watched transformers... brilliant movie. for some thoughts on it, log on to: http://let-it-rayn.blogspot.com (i'm providing free ads for you too may!!!). also managed to watch Borat on dvd.. ridiculously stupidly funny!.. hahaha.. a 'must watch'.

Other updates - my shoe got stolen today.. yea, my working shoe. was going for friday prayers and some idiot just snatched my shoes... i cant believe someone would actually go to a mosque (where normal people need to behave at their best) and start stealing shoes!!.. that's definitely a one way ticket to h*ll!!!>.. oh well. i kinda liked that shoe as well..

guess that's my update for now.. will try to update a bit more when i have the time!.. just that nowadays my daily activities have been rather routine...

anyway, hope you guys will have a good weekend!.. i'm playing bowling tomorow.. i think. depends on how well my wrist holds up!>...

ciao..

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sick.

hey,

How's everyone?. just realised that i havent blogged for the past 2 weeks. been quite busy at work (yea right). am currently down with a cold. been sick since last week, so decided to stay home and rest today. Went to the clinic today, but wasnt sick enough to get an MC (Medical Certificate(??)), but got some medicine. So, i'm technically typing this under drug influence. hhaha

Nothing much to update on my side. Don't really like being sick. I tend to be abit edgy when i'm sick. Get annoyed really fast with whatever. Those around me would know what i'm talking about. Even my dad managed to annoy me this morning (haha), and he was just being concerned. oh well.

work's been like its usual self. full of crap. Had a few redundant meetings here and there (will save that for another day) but mostly just sit around look busy.

Managed to hang out with my nephew and niece over the weekend (love them to bits!!!). There was one part where i thought was sweet.. i was lying down on the bed with my niece (2 months old) and the brother came over (2 years) and gave her a peck on the cheek, and kinda just brushed her hair with his hand. thought that was cute. hahaha..

besides that, didnt do anything much over the weekend. just rested and watched tv.

well, gonna head off for a nap.. drugs are kicking in. yaaawwwn...

gnite!

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tired.

Hey,

how's everyone? i had a very tiring weekend. had to help out at my cousin's wedding over the weekend. i was the cameraman, driver for some relatives, the guy who puts up the signboards and overall errand boy. Very tiring but was a good wedding ceremony.

anyway, besides the weekend, last week was quite a good week. had a friend come down from penang (miss you already C). Originally she was suposed to stay for a few days only in KL.. but we kinda managed to 'convince' her to skip her flight back and just stay till the weekend. ahahha.
she even had to make a false letter to her boss saying she got food poisoning or something.

since she was around for the week, everyone kinda just adjusted their times to be with her. mostly spent the time eating (we also managed to go karaoke on one of the days).

was abit sad when we had to send her back at the busstop on Sunday. next time we'll see each other will probably be in August. oh well... (sob sob)

All in all, it was a great week. hope everyone else's week went okay!

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p/s - shall stop here for tonight. it's monday and i don't really feel like typing about anything!!

belly-filled weekend

hey people,

how's everyone's weekend coming along? mine's kinda okay actually. didnt really do anything much. spent most of the time eating good food. had some great choices of food this weekend and feel really stuffed. guess i'm just trying to enjoy the weekend as much as i can. hehe.

holiday's over, so everyone's back to work. fortunately, the previous week was only a 2-day week. hmm.. just realised that i've blogged before (on my other blog) about having 2-day weeks.. wait let me look for it.. k got it. instead of linking you people to the site.. i'll just extract it.. easier to read. enjoy.. (some of you might have read this before.. oh well) -

"If i was king, i would change the working days. We DONT need five days to work. seriously, if i total up the amount of work i do within a week, it would be about 2 days. dont believe me, just time yourself. The fact that you're reading this kinda kills off about 15 / 20 minutes of your time. Imagine doing actual work within that same time... now take that to a bigger scale of let's say.. hmm.. a week.. and you get my point.

so imagine a week where its only 2 working days. We need the country to keep on moving, so i would suggest a rotational policy rather than everyone taking off on the same days. (see? forward thinking). in the line of work that i'm doing, that would fit just nice!.. we've got about 30 people doing the same thing, so having one person off on one day wont really make a difference to productivity.

Which leads me to my next point - unemployment. Take my previous point of having more than one person handling a particular position. So companies just need to hire extra staff for those positions with only one person in it... and when that happens at a national level, imagine what it would do to Unemployment Levels.. exactly!!

Well, i guess the next thing that people would be asking is 'what about salary?'. It's simple economics!.. the reason why they cant pay employees high (or employ new staff) is because companies dont have enough income. Companies dont have enough income because the public arent buying enough! Therefore, the simplest (therefore the best) solution to this is to hire new staff or increase salary (wait, it'll make sense.. just read on)..

When you hire new staff, ur technically giving him / her a buying power by providing them with a consistent salary. This salary would then be used to purchase things. When zoomed out to a larger scale, you can see that everyone wins!!!.. people will have more income to spend, they will spend on companies, and companies will have more revenue to pay the employees!!!.. and to add to the brilliance of this, now that people only work 2 days a week, they've got more than enough time to spend on products!!!..

There are other benefits of having a 2day week. I'll just sum it up below:

• Less backstabbing in the office, you wont have a chance to meet most of your colleagues.
• Office space would be cleaner
• Companies can really implement the 'shared' cubicle concept
• Countries can cut down on public holidays (hence reducing overtime pay costs)
• Employees (including bosses) would have more time with families

Well, those are the ones that i can think of from the top of my head. But i'm sure if more time and effort is put into it, the list would be slightly longer!!

As you can see, the 2-day working week concept is just brilliant in any way you look at it. Tell it to someone, if that person argues with you (which i highly doubt it) he's just dumb. Who in the world would argue with a movement that would lead to everyone having to work less days and getting paid for it!.. ""

...well, i guess my wish did come true, even for one week out of a year. Unfortunately its back to 5-day weeks starting monday. the next public holiday's gonna be in August. crap.

gonna be sunday soon.. wonder what's on the menu for tomorow. what i ate for the past few days:

• Friday Lunch - Thai food - Tom Yam, Pineapple fried rice, spaghetti with basil and seafood.
• Friday dinner - Pizza Uno (italian, duh) - beef bacon caesar salad, deep fried mushrooms, fetuccine with meatballs. yumm.
• Saturday brunch - Paddington's House of Pancakes - had this thing called 'Full Monty', which consists of.. ready for it... mashed potatoes, beef bacon strips, sunny side up, baked beans, chicken sausage, mozarella cheese, and served on some pancakes.
• Saturday dinner - maggi goreng with fried chicken, and some of my gf's tosay masala (extremely good).

well, hope everyone's gonna have a good sunday!.. take care!

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